In the next 7 days …
Just let Dr Reti do the talking. Assured, bicultural, medically qualified, and with a dignified mana that is already providing welcome calm. And the rest of you just shut up.
In December …
Elect a white guy over 50. Either Bayly or Luxon, with Maori deputy. That’s the unrepresented political market at leadership level. Commit the leader to every seasonal barbeque with such eagerness that he steps out the car door beer in hand. Give everyone in caucus a meaningful portfolio and task to complete. President to arrange $100k bonuses for caucus MPs who are mistake-free for a year.
In January and February …
Get your parliamentary staff researching and structuring the fight against Labour’s 2022 legislation with every stalling tactic at their disposal. Frustrate any chance Labour might have at turning around their lack of delivery outside COVID. Rehearse your shadow cabinet and surprisingly deep bench to attack Labour’s weaker caucus under Little’s rank. Make clear no-one is paying attention to the pollsters, by sacking your pollsters.
Reconnect with your core funder-supporters in farming, finance, local government, insurance and real estate. With the Party President, prepare the scale and attack lines to take you into election phase. Replicate the MSM proxy war run so successfully against the Waitemata Bridge Cycleway. Reconnect business with the party of business small and large.
Underscore the emotional damage done to those who can now fly back. Weep a single meaningful manly tear on tv for their pain and loss caused.
In March and April …
Take every tv news appearance you can manufacture. Dawn to dusk. Get your team to organise conferences with businesses using a prepared Alternative Budget that involves big corporate and personal tax cuts (bring in the bank economists and EY), no water restructure (bring in dairy and irrigators), no health restructure or huge redundancy pay provision ( private insurers), no minimum wage increases (bring in small business owners), and portray an assured air of being rich and stable. Seek to outplay Robertson.
In May …
Remind New Zealand on how many poverty measures haven’t been achieved.
Ask us what we’ve got for all that debt.
Steal Seymour’s speechwriter and key staff. Gut them.
After the budget, launch an authoritarian policy attack on gangs, similar to Western Australia. Whistle for the dog.
That sets 2022 up well.
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