The podcast critiques Business New Zealand's call for government loans to transition from gas, highlights rising energy costs and supply chain issues, and questions political economic literacy and accountability in both New Zealand and the UK.
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Hello again, Heather. Yes, it was. You know, there were there was no room, obviously, to throw money around, and that was made quite clear in the lead up to the budget. You can imagine the temptation must have been great. I mean, here we are, six months out from an election. And um, you know, put a bit of money in people's pockets, and they tend to like you as finance minister, and therefore they like the government. Yeah. So you probably could be assured of a vote. So this will, I think, neither win nor lose the government, uh, the treasury benches. I think that they, under the circumstances, uh acted quite responsibly, and uh they could have done nothing else. Very hard when you consider this year, a few months back before Trump uh did what he did in I in Iran. Uh it was looking okay. We were starting to sort of come back from a very long period of uh difficult times for many people, and then suddenly tariffs went on, Iran war, and um so what she did yesterday, I think was the best that could have been expected under the circumstances.
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