Sometimes I find the Prime Minister’s claims about the New Zealand economy, and Auckland, almost breathtaking. There is an insouciance about them that almost defies belief. They certainly defy data.
In a speech to an Auckland business audience yesterday – there is a report here, and also video footage – the Prime Minister repeated his breezy claims that Auckland’s “challenges” around housing and transport are “a quality problem”, and a “sign of success”, and that both the city and the country are doing “incredibly well”.
Perhaps that is how it appears when you are already wealthy, live in a large house in a prime inner suburb, and have a taxpayer-provided chauffeur at your constant disposal. Neither housing nor traffic problems must impinge terribly much.
I’ve commented on a lot of the detailed issues previously, including the Prime Minister’s apparent vision of New Zealand as a Switzerland of the South Pacific, and…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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