[Closed] Jacinda Ardern NZ PM

I’d be interested to see how they will pay for it as the income and taxation regime doesn’t add up anyway.

Jacinda is amazing. But having left NZ two years ago don't lose sight of the racism and lack of racial harmony despite what she would say. The Asians and Pacific islanders were victims of casual racism. Prior to her tenure but I am not sure it's improved that much.

Please could we import her over here to sort things.

Nahh ... 🤔

As what NZCol said. Its alright to have all these great ideas, but living here in NZ I do get the impression it is a lot of hot air and spin. I thought the previous conservative govt was good at spin, but these guys take it to the next level.

While it is refreshing having a younger new mother as PM, the govt as a whole is a coalition split between the greens, labour and a conservative/moderate group who all pull different ways. Seriously I don't know how they get anything done as they are always negotiating
between each other. Labour itself put Jacinda in charge when it was clear they were going to loose the election, but she turned around their fortune and has one commentator said, it was like putting lipstick on a pig. The labour party MPs are extremely inexperienced and pretty damn underwhelming in what they have achieved in their lives (many former govt advisors, Union official and ex local body councillors) and they are pretty out of their depth and have a poor connection to 'middle NZ'. Their coalition partner the Greens are as mad as snakes (that is what they labour party has said about them) and seem to think money just grows on trees.

So after the previous govt ran zero increase budgets that got govt debt down, these guys are going the opposite way and spending like crazy. That would be great if it is wise spending, but it is a bit all over the place and my major criticism of them is they have no real plan to grow and diversify the economy, something that has been the same in NZ since WWII and not tackled by successive govts. Recent growth in the economy has relied on mostly low-moderate skilled people from China and India and no real structural growth in the economy.

SO while it appears all lovely, be careful what you wish for. Bizzarely NZ is an expensive place, with milk 1.50 pound per L and butter 3 quid for 500g which is crazy in this land of milk and honey!!

From the outside ( i.e overseas) it might look like it's great place to be but the Teachers are paid appallingly and are striking, the Nurses were forced to accept a disgraceful pay increase after several strikes, The Doctors are currently embroiled in an unresolved dispute over pay and working conditions. The countries major cities have astronomical rent prices which leaves little disposable income so it's very hard to get ahead. People can't buy as the average (house in Auckland) is around $850,000 ($600,000 in Wellington) with the average salary still only $49-$50,000.
It isn't by any means entirely the current governments fault. Jacinda has inherited years of massive under investment in the public sector from the National Party who sat on Billions of dolllars in Tax surplus for years and years. Many issues around the Christchurch Earthquake are still unresolved and that was nearly eight and a half years ago and the National party also dragged their heels disgracefully over it's management of the Pike River Mining disaster in 2010.