· by carlblatro.bsky.social ·23h ago · view on bsky.app ↗

Opportunities lost: Learnings from a big political week (substack.com)

Luxon and Stanford both still standing, Opportunity up, Paul Henry up, but the parties that learned all the wrong lessons from Keir Starmer are struggling

Simon Wilson... "And worse again, they’ve just reminded us that the thing they do best is nothing. Winston keeps his job, they keep their leader, and we keep a cost-of-living crisis, an ED crisis and a GP crisis, ... and unemployment and inflation are rising." substack.com/home/post/p-...

#nzpol

3 comments — live from bluesky

Jim Marr · 2 · 18h ago

Just about sums it up

Michael · 2 · 20h ago

Act putting up Paul Henry is simply an acknowledgement we are in the age of Idiocracy.

Carl B Latro · 1 · 19h ago

For a second there I thought you meant Act had put up Henry for tonight's #BHNLIVE debate! (Act has actually chickened out.)

Pounamu 🦜 · 3 · 20h ago

I wish they had done nothing. We would have new ferries and a good water plan and a functioning health system. Luxon and co have thrown molotov cocktails at every function of government