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"No other party except New Zealand First has been prepared to say the neoliberal experiment has left our country in a worse position 33 years after the experiment started."

Comment by "Jon R", 2017

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2017/02/26/hey-shamubeel-why-are-you-rewriting-our-history/

Well that's ahistorical bollox. The Alliance started saying it in 1991, while Winston was still a National MP. He served as Minister of Māori Affairs in the Ruthenasia government until 1992. By which time the Greens had left the Alliance and they've always said it.

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Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied · last month

Speaking of ahistorical bollox, I fact-checked myself and it wasn't until 1997 that the Greens agreed to leave the Alliance. So Winston First contested 2 elections before the Greens formally decoupled from the Alliance and ran their own candidate #MeaCulpa

But the Greens were founded in 1990 and they've consistently rejected Rogernomics as a failed experiment. So my point stands.

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