NZCPR Newsletter: Six Years of Failure

It’s customary in the run up to an election for voters to ask, “Do I feel better off today than when this Government first took office?”

Since Labour is a second term government, let’s turn our mind back to 2017.

NZCPR Podcast: A Big Idea

The government is the answer to our problems, at least that’s what the politicians would like us to believe. 

Since Labour took office in 2017 there has been a seismic shift towards greater state intervention and socialist control. But it is also true that all of the major parties have moved to the left. 

NZCPR Newsletter: A Big Idea

“The bedrock of any successful democracy is that it delivers government of the people, by the people, for the people. In the case of our current government, and too many other western democracies, this once abiding principle has been subverted. We now have government of the people, by the government, for the government.”
– Sir Roger Douglas 2023

How on earth has a fiercely independent nation like New Zealand, with its number eight fencing wire heritage and strong pioneering spirit, reached a point where The Government is doing almost everything for us – including feeding our children?

JC: ‘In It Because of You’ Is More like It

The Labour Party election slogan could easily be turned against them. The majority of voters are probably thinking ‘In It Because of You’ would be more appropriate. It, in this case, referring to the proverbial pile. ‘In It For You’ is at best highly misleading and at worst a falsehood. The most honest slogan they could have chosen is ‘In It for Ourselves’. They, through their weekly ill-deserved excessive pay packets, are the only ones to have seen any benefit from their six years of incompetence.

The rest of us have had to look on helplessly while a bunch of ‘out of their depth’ MPs and ministers, intent on instituting profligate policies, put the country on a path to economic ruin. The Minister of Finance, oblivious to this fact, keeps banging on about how strong our economy is compared to others in the OECD. But the numbers tell a different story.