"Key and his Finance Minister-designate Bill English have said they will not release their response to the financial crisis till next month.
But New Zealanders who are worried their jobs might go in the flurry of pre-Christmas layoffs want to hear reassuring statements now, not wait until Key has concluded a series of offshore trips beginning with next week's Apec meeting."
She thinks New Zealanders will panic if they don't hear something from their new leader before the end of the month. Goodness me, that's only two weeks away. If Labour had won the election Fran, we would all be waiting until December for their disastrous mini-budget.
"Your job is here. Use the videophone unless you (also) want to be dubbed the "Prime Tourist".
John Key's visit to the UK and meetings with people of his choosing will take how many days? Two, possibly three at the outside? He might as well use the videophone to keep in touch with his lieutenants. (Leftenants, if you don't mind)
"Outgoing Finance Minister Michael Cullen did us a favour by breaking convention and releasing Treasury's highly preliminary forecasts which paint a grim picture of diminishing tax revenues, burgeoning cash deficits and rising unemployment as economic growth shrinks. The figures are on a no-policy change basis but they provide an indicator the new Cabinet will have to make difficult choices if it is to arrest the decline."
Michael Cullen did nobody any favours Fran, least of all New Zealanders. He maliciously released a confidential report based on Labour's policies, after National had won office, with the sole purpose of panicking New Zealanders.
So far he's succeeded with one senior journalist who should know better.
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John Key is entirely correct to go on his tour.
This is a global crisis and as such will need a global solution.
Thus, John Key needs to meet up with other world leaders.
Seeing Gordon Brown in London is party of this.
As is seeing Britain's likly next PM David Cameron eho is most likely to be leader in the next year or two.
John Key will also need to see other banking/ finance industry contacts who no doubt will be most keen to see what happened to the fornmer money trader, now in charge of a small pacific country.
We are fortunate in having a PM with real-life experience and contacts to help us deal with the financial crisis, so we should encourage the \pm to spend time in London. It is the world's global financial capital after all.
But New Zealanders who are worried their jobs might go in the flurry of pre-Christmas layoffs want to hear reassuring statements now,
You don't get it. Labour fucked the counry.
there can be no "reassuring statements"
perhaps he could say: take a 20% pay cut now and cancel your holidays and maybe you'll keep you job for another year.
perhaps he could say "we are asking all public servants - including teachers - but not cops & prison guards & the army" to take a 30% pay cut starting now.
perhaps he could say: "to address NZ's productivity problemes we are moving back to a 6-day, 50-hour week as standard"
that would not be reassuring - but it would be honest.
and that is what is required to fix NZ's economy.
Leave it alone it is not your problem,none of us voted for you.
If he makes a dick of himself you can and will continue to play the bame game as you do and always have done,
Why not try wishing him the best of luck and trust his judjement as all of us others have and who voted for him you Pathetic SAD COW.
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