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PM compares NZ businesses to whiny kids
PM Christopher Luxon told struggling small business leaders in Rotorua on Friday to take responsibility for their own businesses, saying it wasn’t his or the Government’s role to stimulate the economy.
The comments comparing business leaders to whiny kids wanting handouts from the ‘adults’ in Government haven’t gone down well, prompting the Editor of The Post-$, Matthew Hooton, to describe Luxon’s comments as “corporate gibberish” and “inauthentic”, suggesting there was still time for National MPs change their leader. (See more analysis, charts and detail below, and in the video above.)…
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