Don’t let anyone be fooled this Christmas dinner by what National is setting out today.
This National-led coalition are transfixed by tax cuts and are cutting everything they can find to get enough cash together to prepare their May 2024 budget over the next 2 months.
There will be a list of projects and programmes that are saved for entirely irrational reasons from the butchers’ block.
There will be, as we saw this morning, recounting of Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr’s railing at the spectre of inflation from the bad old days of Muldoon, but as with Orr yesterday at Parliament yesterday, no idea of why the country’s economy is performing so poorly and no accountability for what the Reserve Bank has done to us all, and no useful plan to change it.
Some agencies will be targeted for “back room bureaucrat” cuts, others like the Polytechs will rapidly expand, and there is zero rationality in it at all.
The mini budget will remind us that they are gutting your worker rights, stalling our economy with legislative and project handbrakes, and targeting every single person who is in the public service or who supports the public service.
Their programme will stay popular until the results of their decisions hit home.
The Prime Minister is in Australia so we will get Winston to respond to Hipkins, but today this is the Willis show.
This will be updated once the full text is released at 1pm today.
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