not a kiwi, but from what i've read, ardern has done a ok job handling covid and the economic fallout and is expected to win the upcoming election. She's fine for a succdem (who interned for blair, no less), certainly better than the ghouls in charge of the other anglos. However, new zealand's other major party, the nationals, have become rather trumpified. Their leader, Judith Collins, has taken to pandering to the evangelicals and basically scaremongering them into voting for her by lying about Ardern's positions, stating that she would legalize all drugs (there's a ballot on election day that is only about legalizing marijuana), legalize full-term abortion and other nonsense. That hasnt improved their polling, tho the poisoning of discourse is still a worrying development. More here: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/10/11/new-zealand-elections-4/
Serious question, how's NZ doing?
not a kiwi, but from what i've read, ardern has done a ok job handling covid and the economic fallout and is expected to win the upcoming election. She's fine for a succdem (who interned for blair, no less), certainly better than the ghouls in charge of the other anglos. However, new zealand's other major party, the nationals, have become rather trumpified. Their leader, Judith Collins, has taken to pandering to the evangelicals and basically scaremongering them into voting for her by lying about Ardern's positions, stating that she would legalize all drugs (there's a ballot on election day that is only about legalizing marijuana), legalize full-term abortion and other nonsense. That hasnt improved their polling, tho the poisoning of discourse is still a worrying development. More here: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/10/11/new-zealand-elections-4/
What are New Zealand first like? Are they a piece of shit nationalist party? And how come they are in a coalition with labour?