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Thank you, Jacinda, for saving us. The review of former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern (Weekend Herald, April 1) was not going to be disproportionate as both ...

She is already making the PM look weak and the longer it goes on the worse it will be for him. As usual, politics got in the way of what is a desperately-needed tax in New Zealand so as a result we have the interest deductibility rules which I would agree are complex and maybe a disincentive to invest. On TV I heard a man say he was too scared to say he was against the promotion of te reo because he’d be called a racist. Could Kate be included in the main body of the paper — as a straw poll among my friends and acquaintances reveals many do not read the business section of the paper? People need to remember Marama Davidson is a minister of the Crown and says she is making this evaluation as the Minister for the Prevention of Family Violence and Sexual Violence. Brown’s supporters will be pleased too, and I am pleased to see this will be a series. The reality is that we have ourselves to blame, as changes made have been in response to the inferior quality of many (but not all) rental properties, together with poor treatment of tenants, accepting that not all landlords and tenants are bad. She then went to the protest, spoke to the public, and wrapped it all up in the afternoon, when she was filmed making her comment on her way home. When a capital gains tax was proposed, the reactions from many quarters would have made you think that the world was about to fall in. Others can say what they like about her, but as an older person, a lot of us can be eternally grateful for her handling of the pandemic as it kept many of us and the vulnerable from death row. The truth of the matter is that co-governance in any form will always be unpopular with the masses as they see it as a minority having too much say and no explanation will suffice. Ardern came to power as a relatively young woman and was a breath of fresh air in politics that generally bored most of us to death.