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Caravans
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David Cunliffe
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Phil Goff
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Russel Norman
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Winston Peters
Just imagine it. It's Easter 2021, and Prime Minister David Cunliffe watches the traffic on the Auckland Harbour Bridge from his Herne Bay "mid-range do-up".
PM Cunliffe is still basking in the glory of his election win. Written off after Labour's annihilation in 2014, David Cunliffe reassumed the Labour leadership after the 2017 election when the Grant Robertson/Jacinda Ardern combination was unable to stop John Key winning a fourth term as Prime Minister. Together with his young and enthusiastic deputy leader Phil Goff, Cunliffe was able to cobble together a coalition with the Greens and 75-year-old Winston Peters' Winston First, Second and Third Party, enjoying the slimmest of majorities. But already the cracks are appearing, and there have been calls for a new election due to allegations of vote-buying.
But that's all in the back of the PM's mind as he watches the caravans roll over the bridge. Every New Zealander now owns a caravan, thanks to the Government's extravagant election bribe on the back of a $25 billion surplus delivered by outgoing Finance Minister Sir William English. Cunliffe has tasked Executive Finance Minister and Co-Deputy PM Russel Norman with the task of spending the entire surplus within twelve months, and Norman has approached his role with relish. Better still, they don't have to register them.
And then it happens; is this a taste of things to come in David Cunliffe's New Zealand, the Caravan Capital of the World?
