2020 New Zealand general election & referendums (17 October)

[Secretary of State Liberal Hack]

Shows you the potential election gains a party could have reaped from competent handling of Covid(Gazes at most of Europe and the US in particular). It'll be NZ's first majority goverment for a long-time so high risk of failure with labour unable to deflect any failures onto collations partners. Thinking either this will be a high-water mark for labour or it'll be blown back to earth next election. NZ terms are incredibly short at just 3 years with no upper house to restrict them so Labour has pretty much a blank check to implement their policies.

How successfully they will be at solving the housing problem is another matter?, they have made good moves towards removing NIMBy restrictions in terms of height and parking limits but they haven't had much appetite for taking on NIMBYism heads on. Kiwibuild has turned out to be an almost total failure in comparison to what had been initially promised. A little worried that labour will instead continue it's a streak of blaming nebulous foreign* investors for the housing problem despite every economist having told them that they are not to blame and banning purchases by them have made little difference to housing prices.

Kinda interested on how the referendum results will go but those won't be out until the end of the month. Congratulations to all Kiwis on your election and best of luck to your governments when it comes to delivering on their promises

*dog-whistle for Chinese, there's a reason that both Indian and Chinese immigrants in New Zealand are strong National voters(While elsewhere they align themselves with centre-left parties) and part of that is xenophobia from labour that