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Good Ol' Days

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OPINION: NZ First knows its market and feeds it a constant diet of how ‘good’ the good old days were, promising to resurrect policies and icons of a bygone era.

And yet this old mutt wonders if Winnie overreached with his call to “buy back the BNZ” – a folly that even Peters’ most ardent admirers can see for the political marketing ploy it is.

BNZ is not for sale and, even if it was, we couldn’t afford it.

Also, why would we? We’ve already got Kiwibank – trouble is, hardly any Kiwis use it.

If Winston wants to take us back to ‘the good ol’ days’, why not promise to re-bundle Spark and Chorus and rebrand it Telecom, buy the remainder of the loss-making Air NZ and rename it NAC, then go for broke, literally, and reform the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand Limited!

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