Labour is in a mess: Hosking for PM

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What we need is someone to fix the mess that Mike Hosking exposes almost daily in the NZ Herald on line.  

Jacinda Adern, he says,  has failed to sack Claire Curran and  Meka Whaititi; her party can't run a summer camp, and the economy is in  a 'genuine and indisputable  mess.'   The PM needs to ' harden up and start actually being a proper leader... her honeymoon is over...'

With National being in at least equal disarray,  who better  to fix the mess than Hosking himself.  Not only would he do a better job, he's do it cheaper because he wouldn't need a number of ministries and government departments.  With the knowledge he's acquired since leaving school aged 16, there's not much he can't do. 

Immigration would go. He'd have let Canadians Southern and Molyneaux in and keep Chelsea Manning out  because she's a criminal and would make money out of her visit.

NZ uses an estimated $1.29 billion worth of plastic bags a year.

Gone too would  be  Environment.  We  all know the banning of plastic bags was a political stunt with no real effect on the environment.   He's still skeptical about climate change. 

Education would be out too.  He knows what to do about Te Reo in schools, charter schools, and the importance of calculus.  

What's more, he'd get rid of Statistics.  His radio talkback survey showed their earlier survey to be wrong.  (The ANZ survey would also become redundant as each month would show growth in the economy, leaving  ANZ with more profits to repatriate to Australia. A win-win situation.)

Gone too would be the working parties, Jim  Bolger's panel on Fair Pay Agreements and Christopher Luxon's Business Advisory Council.  All clever political stunts, he says, to divert attention from the main issues.  

 "I'm a money man",he told North and South a while back, "a capitalist. I'm to the right of Roger Douglas"  He'd know what to do about fair pay, the minimum wages, and getting business on board. He wouldn't need to consult anyone.

And as proof of his business acumen with his feet solidly planted in the 'real world',  just look at the income he receives from newspapers, radio and TV, -- not to mention the occasional Sky City Casino work.  Hosking is way up on the multi-million dollar list. The more provocative and outrageous  his comments, the more the money rolls in.

But who is this man Hosking and why does he get so much media attention?

 Michelle Langstone in a NZ Herald on line comment writes of seeing his tedious opinions on the front lines every time she opens the paper. "I don't want to see opinion pieces on the front pages of newspapers. I want proper reporting, facts and information." Dream on, Michelle.

Roll on the 2020 election when Mike could be given the chance to put his money where his mouth is, and seek a top placing on the National Party list and become PM with a little leaked comment or two.

Meanwhile, we should ask why an unofficial National Party spokesman is given so much media space,  and look around to see if there are any Labour-Greens-NZFirst journalists to provide the public with an equal exposure to their opinions.  

If this is how media should  use its freedom, I'll eat a plastic bag, knowing --thanks to Dr Mike --  that it will do me no harm. 

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