For the leader of the National Party, Bill English, that is, for announcing yesterday that if his party is in government after September’s election it will seek to
(a) lift the residency requirement from 10 years to 20 years, starting some way down the track, and
(b) lift the age of eligibility for New Zealand Superannuation from 65 to 67, but not starting until 2037.
It is a topsy-turvy political world in which at the last election the National Party was campaigning on, in essence, no changes to NZS ever (talk of everything being “affordable” for the next 50 years), while the Labour Party was campaigning on a rather faster move to age 67 than the National Party is proposing now. But now the Labour Party appears staunchly opposed to any increase in the eligibility age. Perhaps if Bill English and David Cunliffe had held the reins at the same…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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