Tuesday, 26 August 2025 14:25

NZ's handbrake

Written by  The Hound

OPINION: Your old mate gets the sinking feeling that no matter who we vote into power in the hope they will reverse the terminal slide the country is in, there will always be a cohort of naysayers determined to hold us back.

Exhibit A: no amount of evidence that NCEA has failed a generation of kids will stop politicised union hacks, principles and teachers arguing against improvements.

Similarly, the green lobby, not just in the activist Forest & Bird or Greenpeace, but also in parliament itself, are equally determined to block any changes a centre right government might try and make to unshackle economic growth.

Now we see Greenpeace, never ones to let the facts get in the way of a story, sensationalising the risk of glyphosate, running a misleading campaign titled 'Stop Luxon poisoning your porridge!'


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