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5:30 pm, November 24th, 2025 - 7 comments
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Daily review is also your post.
This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
Shit stirring from Lloyd Burr but having listened to both Renney and Edmonds, I would prefer Renney as Minister of Finance in 2026. Not going to happen but he's a left wing economist, she's a tax lawyer. As expected, Hipkins backs Edmonds. Not surprising, they both seem to be centrists.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360897437/will-craig-renney-push-out-barbara-edmonds-labours-finance-role
Lloyd is exactly what you called him. He is deflecting from the quality of the candidates by presenting their choice as a problem, rather than riches.
Deborah Russel is more assertive on tax policy and better qualified than Edmonds despite Edmonds public sector experience… but Deborah has been consistently relegated to deep policy grunt for years by Chippie.
This is a brutal time of the political cycle, no doubt.
Russel is also an ivory tower intellectual. Which may not matter when in government, but does matter in an election campaign.
Having a lot of well-qualified economic experts – with different perspectives – is a good problem to have. But you need to have strong leadership to ensure they are working together, rather than at cross-purposes.
Oh, wouldn't it be loverly? But you need to have strong leadership… 🙂
Do you have a comment to make? Or just a lot of copy/pasta to share.
A comment? "Nicola 'No BS' Willis" – "the GDP disaster". Made you look 🙂
The NAct1 CoC is government by and for the sorted, imho.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2019014049/low-income-earners-biggest-losers-in-kiwisaver-changes-economics-expert
Careful now RNZ.