The piece critically examines Chris Luxon's Budget 2026 priorities, highlighting perceived fiscal inconsistencies, political credit claims, parliamentary clashes, and symbolic electoral dynamics, particularly around a meteorologist candidate in a bellwether seat.
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This is a very old political trick. Muldoon used to always say the deficit was going to be uh four point five billion dollars. Come the budget, it'll be two point five billion dollars, and you'd say, Oh, we've done better than you ever thought we'd do. And this there's a bit of that sort of play in this because um cutting the spending, it's not going to be clearly a lolly scramble election year budget. Uh and normally you'd see, you know, more um booty being handed out um uh this side of an election in an election year. So there won't be any lolly scramble um in this budget, that's for sure. So uh who's taking the credit for tightening the belt? Well, here's axe, David Seymour.
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accuses parties of inflating credit for modest policy shifts
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