COVID-19 impact on upcoming elections

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  1. kierank

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    Seems to a lot of that going on.
     
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    To quote a family member, who is not a fan but was a very highly positioned politician during their career, so knows what they're talking about ... "she hasn't put a foot wrong ... dammit"
     
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    so what if the article is a month old, so was she not prime minister during that month??

    its nice that you think she’s nice. I saw the 60 minute interview, very nice.... but seriously you and I dont live in NZ, clueless really

    voters will be the judge of her performance . The rest is just speculation and we all have an opinion

    i think she did well with corona, however the battle has just begun. As per article ..... will corona save her, who knows??
     
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    So she was not prime minister last month? :eek: Now I am confused
     
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    The majority of my family live in NZ and we are in daily contact.

    And ... in the current situation ... a month is a long time

    P.s. I don't watch 60 minutes as it's nothing more than a longer version of the pitiful A Current Affair
     
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    You never know: Winston Churchill lost the 1945 UK general election. Re some of the previous comments here, when I first came here as a tourist in the mid/late 1980s I'd read newspaper pieces full of admiration for Mrs Thatcher. By then that was far from the majority view in UK.
     
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    Look what happened in Oz recently

    Labor lost the election it could not lose
     
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    Suspect Thatcher was very much like our Keating. Despised at the time, internally, but in hindsight did the best thing for the future of the country
     
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    I am way more concerned about the US economy, especially when one reads articles stating:

    “In the United States, the wave of stimulus spending could push debt as a share of the economy to levels not seen since the end of the World War II.”

    “Spending increases and tax cuts have already pushed U.S. government debt up to $17 trillion, doubling the country's debt to GDP ratio to nearly 80% since 2008. According to Commerzbank, the coronavirus relief packages approved so far will push that figure to 96% by 2022.”

    "Should Congress pass further aid packages and should the economic damage be greater than previously assumed, the previous record set in 1946 (106%) could be surpassed," Bernd Weidensteiner, one of the German bank's economists, wrote recently.”​

    Analysis: Coronavirus stimulus will take national debt to wartime levels
     
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