Last Straw

Oh New Zea­l­and, what have you done? Roger Douglas on elec­tion night fan­tas­ising about the man­date he thinks he has:

We have to make some changes and there’s going to be a lot of hurt for a lot of people.

What a cheek, com­ing from the scoun­drel who lied his way into gov­ern­ment in the eighties, unleash­ing an eco­nomic revolu­tion without a demo­cratic man­date, selling off New Zealand’s resources and dev­ast­at­ing our demo­cracy by strip­ping away gov­ern­ment con­trol over the flow of cap­ital, effect­ively hand­ing over the keys of demo­cracy to private investors who can choose at any time to sink the country’s eco­nomy by mov­ing cap­ital out of the coun­try if gov­ern­ment policy is not con­du­cive to their “busi­ness needs.”