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"Maybe a NatLab government would turn out to be stable. Almost certainly though, for that to happen, it would be because it adopted only the policies they both agreed on.
This is not a better option. We’d have a government with a supermajority doing very little: 'managing' the status quo but not improving it. A stable government where nothing much changes."
#SimonWilson, 2026
https://simonwilsonhopetown.substack.com/p/the-silliness-of-a-natlab-coalition
That's effectively what we've had in the decades since the mid-1990s.
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"[The government] is paying 4.7% interest on 10-year Treasury bonds right now, while the private sector is paying upwards of 8%. Largely because of this disparity, a British parliamentary study in 2011 found PPPs were likely to end up costing twice as much as other comparable projects."
#SimonWilson, 2025
#HatTip to Gordon Campbell, who quoted this pithy fact in his own piece on Public Private Partnerships;
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Our Prime Minister, Mr Potato Head, is a classic example of hilariocracy. I don't know if he realises what a clown show he's putting on. But I suspect his party chose him precisely because he's such a clown.
As #SimonWilson of the Herald put it
"The value of what looks like ineptness is that is actually stops debate. He doesn't say anything sensible and therefore you don't have a debate about the ideas."
https://omny.fm/shows/the-working-group/2024-a-year-in-review-guests-simon-wilson-jordan-w
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"[PM Christopher Luxon] cannot have this both ways. He cannot be the person who wants to lead as a statesman in this country, and at the same time, indulge the racism."
#SimonWilson, 2024
https://omny.fm/shows/the-working-group/luxon-blames-mmp-speed-limits-trump-vs-harris-gues
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"[Nicola] Willis says she's not an austerity minister, but cutting taxes, holding down wages and slashing government spending are austerity measures. There is no evidence they will reduce the wage gap: Australia is doing the reverse, which is why people are going there.
Britain, meanwhile, has spent 14 years doing very much what Willis has introduced. The result: Gross National Income per capita is on track to be eclipsed by Poland within about 10 years."
#SimonWilson, #NZHerald, May 30, 2024