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He'd be, you know, when the Prime Minister is doing all that shake and hardy at the investment summit today and tomorrow, I bet he will be feeling like an harassed parent who despide all the chaos behind the scenes. Somehow manages to arrive at a family wedding with the kids in toe, looking cool, calm and very happy to be there, even though one of the kids had been refusing to leave the house and you all had a big bust up in the car on the way to the church. Were here now, guys, Smile everybody. I bet you that's how Christopher Luxen is feeling right now. And what will be making it worse for him internally is the fresh criticism coming today from the Briscoes Group Managing director Rod Duke, who's telling Luxon and the rest of his government to quote get their a n to gear, get your a int g and quote actually do something to help the economy. And I agree with Rod Duke, because here's a question, are you really doing any better now than you were were a year or eighteen months ago. Bet you're not. And this isn't the first time Rod Duke has made these kinds of comments. I remember him telling Mike would have been a few weeks ago that he was prepared to give the government until this month to deliver some results, and if he didn't see results, he'd be putting a rocket under them. And that's what he's doing today. Talk about timing first day of the investment summit. He's obviously had a guts full of the government blaming everything on the last government and he wants more action. Let me give you a couple of quotes from Rod Duke. He says, quote, I think they're of a view that up until now they've been able to blame the prior government, which is typical of a lot of governments, I guess. But you know, the time has just come where you're going to have to make your own mark. That's what Rod Duke is saying to the government. He goes on to say, you've had enough time to study to Titan to understand what the books look like, and now you've got to put some policies into place. I'm with them. He says that everyone's aware of the situation the current government inherited from the previous government, But they've had enough time and they should be able to show more for the efforts of the past fifteen or so months. Of course they should. Now Rod Duke doesn't seem to be doing what Luxen would probably want them to do. You know, the old CEO thing, don't come to me with problems, come to me with solutions. But I think Rod Duke is right. The government hasn't delivered when it comes to the economy, and it does need to get its a into gear. Problem is, though, and this is how I say it, problem is the government. It's fallen into the trap that pretty much every government falls into, especially first term governments. It's fallen into the trap of trying to do too much. You know, when you're in opposition, it's very easier to sit there and have all these big ideas because when you're in opposition, that's all you have to do, to set around all day come up with big ideas. Different story when you get into government though, Now for starters, you realize that the things you promised to do well not quite so easy to do in reality, so it's going to take way longer to achieve them. And also when you get into government you have to deal with all the stuff that blows up in your face on a daily basis. You know, you can be lurching. You can find yourself lurching from one crisis to another, and while you're doing that, you see all your quarterly planned targets disappearing in front of your eyes. So if Christopher lux And said to me, all right, don't come to me with problems, come to me with solutions, and here's what I would tell him. I tell him to decide what his government is actually going to focus on and stick with it. If it's the economy, like Briscoe's guy Rod Duke obviously thinks it should be, then make that your priority between now and the election, and be honest about it. This laser like focus that the Prime Minister likes to talk about all the time, you can't be laser like in all directions. And so I tell the PM to be upfront with us and say that if we want better health services and better education facilities and everything else that governments get lost in, as this government has, I would tell the PM to be courageous and tell us that we're going to have to wait for all of those other things, because for now, it's the economy and only the economy that we're going to worry about. Now. That might sound simplistic, I might sound like those opposition politicians I talked about before, And it probably is simplistic. Well, hold on, it definitely is simplistic. But unless the government ditches this idea that it's going to fix everything asap, then it's going to fail in all of them. And the signs are there, and people like Rod Duke won't just be telling the government to get its aim to gear, he'll be telling it to get its a out of here. But what do you think? Do you agree with Rod Duke's view that the government is floundering and needs to get itself sorted and start delivering solutions.

He'd be, you know, when the Prime Minister is doing all that shake and hardy at the investment summit today and tomorrow, I bet he will be feeling like an harassed parent who despide all the chaos behind the scenes. Somehow manages to arrive at a family wedding with the kids in toe, looking cool, calm and very happy to be there, even though one of the kids had been refusing to leave the house and you all had a big bust up in the car on the way to the church. Were here now, guys, Smile everybody. I bet you that's how Christopher Luxen is feeling right now. And what will be making it worse for him internally is the fresh criticism coming today from the Briscoes Group Managing director Rod Duke, who's telling Luxon and the rest of his government to quote get their a n to gear, get your a int g and quote actually do something to help the economy. And I agree with Rod Duke, because here's a question, are you really doing any better now than you were were a year or eighteen months ago. Bet you're not. And this isn't the first time Rod Duke has made these kinds of comments. I remember him telling Mike would have been a few weeks ago that he was prepared to give the government until this month to deliver some results, and if he didn't see results, he'd be putting a rocket under them. And that's what he's doing today. Talk about timing first day of the investment summit. He's obviously had a guts full of the government blaming everything on the last government and he wants more action. Let me give you a couple of quotes from Rod Duke. He says, quote, I think they're of a view that up until now they've been able to blame the prior government, which is typical of a lot of governments, I guess. But you know, the time has just come where you're going to have to make your own mark. That's what Rod Duke is saying to the government. He goes on to say, you've had enough time to study to Titan to understand what the books look like, and now you've got to put some policies into place. I'm with them. He says that everyone's aware of the situation the current government inherited from the previous government, But they've had enough time and they should be able to show more for the efforts of the past fifteen or so months. Of course they should. Now Rod Duke doesn't seem to be doing what Luxen would probably want them to do. You know, the old CEO thing, don't come to me with problems, come to me with solutions. But I think Rod Duke is right. The government hasn't delivered when it comes to the economy, and it does need to get its a into gear. Problem is, though, and this is how I say it, problem is the government. It's fallen into the trap that pretty much every government falls into, especially first term governments. It's fallen into the trap of trying to do too much. You know, when you're in opposition, it's very easier to sit there and have all these big ideas because when you're in opposition, that's all you have to do, to set around all day come up with big ideas. Different story when you get into government though, Now for starters, you realize that the things you promised to do well not quite so easy to do in reality, so it's going to take way longer to achieve them. And also when you get into government you have to deal with all the stuff that blows up in your face on a daily basis. You know, you can be lurching. You can find yourself lurching from one crisis to another, and while you're doing that, you see all your quarterly planned targets disappearing in front of your eyes. So if Christopher lux And said to me, all right, don't come to me with problems, come to me with solutions, and here's what I would tell him. I tell him to decide what his government is actually going to focus on and stick with it. If it's the economy, like Briscoe's guy Rod Duke obviously thinks it should be, then make that your priority between now and the election, and be honest about it. This laser like focus that the Prime Minister likes to talk about all the time, you can't be laser like in all directions. And so I tell the PM to be upfront with us and say that if we want better health services and better education facilities and everything else that governments get lost in, as this government has, I would tell the PM to be courageous and tell us that we're going to have to wait for all of those other things, because for now, it's the economy and only the economy that we're going to worry about. Now. That might sound simplistic, I might sound like those opposition politicians I talked about before, And it probably is simplistic. Well, hold on, it definitely is simplistic. But unless the government ditches this idea that it's going to fix everything asap, then it's going to fail in all of them. And the signs are there, and people like Rod Duke won't just be telling the government to get its aim to gear, he'll be telling it to get its a out of here. But what do you think? Do you agree with Rod Duke's view that the government is floundering and needs to get itself sorted and start delivering solutions.

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