Wednesday, 25 March 2026 10:25

What A Choice!

Written by  The Hound

OPINION: If you ask this old mutt, the choice at the next election isn't shaping up as a contest of good ideas, more like a choice of who's the least bad option.

The incumbents haven't delivered on a lot of stuff they promised reversing the ban on the $500 million live export trade; cutting the civil service overspend; reducing Crown debt on any measure; and stamping out the kind of nonsense besetting farmers in the deep south who are wondering how the hell to assess, for council, if their earthworks affect the 'life force' of their soil.

Sure, the coalition was left a steaming pile to clean up, but that excuse wore out a while ago.

Luckily for them, the Covid Inquiry has cast a cloud over Chris Hipkins and his mates, proving they mishandled the pandemic response even worse than we suspected at the time!

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