So why isn't the National Party releasing any significant policy? Voters need time to come to grips with it and make up their minds about whether to support it or not. No one wants to have to choose 'the money or the bag'. What's in the National Party policy bag?
For democracy to function properly, we need to know the answer to that question.
National aren't saying. Either they have no policy, or they are placing the voters' need to know second to some other consideration. Not good enough.
The idea may be to release a blizzard of policy late in the cycle when the media has turned its focus to the "leaders" and has little time for policy. Voters will thus have been kept in the dark and fed either nothing in the way of policy or the 'proverbial'.....and they will go to the polls in a poll-driven, policy-free vacuum and expected to do the Right thing.
[UPDATE: In an "Oops" moment, National MP Kate Wilkinson, accidentally released a policy fragment. Many employers have already been anticipating this policy anyway by ignoring their legal obligation to contribute to Kiwisaver.]
Daily review 15/09/2025
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