I have read this blog for a long time and never posted however I take a major issue with the fact that anyone seriously believes our GDP growth has much to do with Helen Clark or John Key. It has a lot more to do with global dairy, meat, forestry prices in NZD terms. Any accurate economic analysis of the past 9 years will see the growth as the result of a weak NZD (in Labour's first term) and very high commodity prices.

I mean what did Bill Clinton do to really maximise the tech boom? More the case of right place right time for him (and in this case Helen Clark).