Dame Jacinda also worked for Tony Blair, a man that Dame Maggie took credit for!
Her leadership was a lot of excellent crisis management, but changed little in terms of our economic or democratic fundamentals. This current government is a lurch to the right in the way it is passing laws under urgency with minimal community involvement and the way it has cut back voting registration and run roughshod over conventions of parliament on occasion, but in others it has just continued a transfer of wealth to a property owning oligarchy at a much faster rate, from public property and those less fortunate.
But left and right are less useful labels. We have a leader in the US who favours authoritarian tactics, but also likes protectionist tariffs. I’d say there are maybe 2 or 3 politicians in the NZ parliament who would question the orthodoxy here that free trade is good.
Her leadership was a lot of excellent crisis management, but changed little in terms of our economic or democratic fundamentals. This current government is a lurch to the right in the way it is passing laws under urgency with minimal community involvement and the way it has cut back voting registration and run roughshod over conventions of parliament on occasion, but in others it has just continued a transfer of wealth to a property owning oligarchy at a much faster rate, from public property and those less fortunate.
But left and right are less useful labels. We have a leader in the US who favours authoritarian tactics, but also likes protectionist tariffs. I’d say there are maybe 2 or 3 politicians in the NZ parliament who would question the orthodoxy here that free trade is good.