My new Anglosphere hero is New Zealand's John Key

Daniel Hannan/The Telegraph (UK) ^ | Last updated: May 28th, 2012 | Daniel Hannan

[JSDude1]

Is it possible for a Right-wing government to freeze spending and cut the deficit while remaining popular? As they say in New Zealand, ‘yih’. I’ve remarked before that, while no country is physically further from Britain, none is temperamentally closer. Yet there is a difference when it comes to public expenditure. A slowing of the rate of increase in the UK – there have, as yet, been no net cuts – is howled down as an assault on the poor directed by a clique of ancien régime aristocrats. In New Zealand, by contrast, ‘zero budgets’ are seen as prudent and sensible. Ah, you might say, that’s because Kiwis have got away from the inherited inequalities and class hang-ups of the old country. Perhaps.

[JSDude1]

A little bit to take out minds off the US Presidential election, besides I always thought it nice to learn a little bit from our international counterparts (intl, epecially British Commonwealth conservative leaders).

J.S.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks JSDude1.