Two years and what have we got?

Incompetents led by a show pony

Homepaddock

The Labour, NZ First, Green government has just passed its second anniversary in power and what have we got?

• Fee-free tertiary education which hasn’t had a positive impact on participation, and a third of those who got the help failed or withdrew.
• KiwiBuild turned into KiwiFlop.
• Higher fuel taxes for all to pay for public transport in Auckland which includes the stalled project of rail to airport about which officials can’t get direction from the Minister.
• Two Ministers resigned/sacked.
• Thousands of hectares of productive land converted to forestry.
• Subsidies that incentivise forestry over farming.
• Foreign ownership of productive land encouraged by much less rigorous requirements than for purchase for farming, horticulture or viticulture.
• Business confidence in the doldrums.
• Interest rates heading towards zero and below.
• DHB deficits growing.
• Polytechs that are working well to be sacrificed for those that aren’t.
• Virtue-signaling environmental policies that come at a high economic…

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