HUGE congrats to you and your fine fellow countrymen. I’m glad there are still countries with largely European heritage in their populace who haven’t totally succumbed to the bullshit “gimme gimme gimme, take care of ME” mentality that has seemingly swept this country.
God bless.
Don’t pop out the champagne just yet. My experience with people around is that a lot of the same people who voted out Labour cheered for Dear Barack just a couple of days before. These people voted Helen out because she was there too long rather than because they want free market policies.
John Key is a centrist, and no conservative apart from limited economic marketism, even by the standards of the National Party (which is described by the Auckland University Students Association as sandwiched between US Democratic and US Republican Party). This comes from Rodney Hide (leader of the free-market ACT Party): “On some areas, John [Key] is to the left of even Helen [Clark]”.