Grant Robertson: Retiring former finance minister on achievements and regrets

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Q+A with Jack Tame

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@arnedomi 5 ай бұрын

Must be awesome to live with no regrets

@shanedevlin6714 5 ай бұрын

The impact of his tenure will be evident for generations.

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

Thats for real.

@greggiles7309 5 ай бұрын

What, John Key left more debt than in NZs history, so take a seat camper.

@shanedevlin6714 5 ай бұрын

@@greggiles7309 read the balance sheet again

@mattheweden-pc5pk 5 ай бұрын

No he didn’t 5 billion from John key Robertson 100 billion can you do the maths on that @@greggiles7309

@kennethmorgan7245 5 ай бұрын

@greggiles7309 funny how lairbour came out saying if it wasn't for keys leaving the surplus behind that new zealnad would have been financially fucked from get go with covid. An that was after all their rampant spending prior to covid. How do you get a surplus and leave the biggest debt ever at the same time. Sit down clown an go back to school

@pradeepmagan6951 5 ай бұрын

The main issue was there was no accountability, no tax changes like capital gains taxes, no sharing of gst with the councils,to much PC,to many contractors and no outcomes

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

Nothing new.Big promises and no delivery. eg Kiwibuild.

@tessaflatt7026 5 ай бұрын

I wish he had said much of this when he was in government

@localmo88 5 ай бұрын

Went to Alternative monetary policy tools with Adrian Orr during covid, pumped house prices to an extreme in total opposition to Labour's promises. Interestingly, he also had no formal qualification of recognition in finance, which puts him in common with our current finance minister. He literally wouldn't have been able to get a job as an accountant in the real world. Our political system is seriously flawed.

@cpnurseries 5 ай бұрын

It's "Goodbye" from Grant Robertson, and "Good Riddance" from New Zealand.

@bubbagump3793 5 ай бұрын

Thank you Hon. Grant Robertson for job well done to get the country thru Covid and the aftermath the WORLD suffered from. Ignore the badly behaved uneducated anti-vax nut jobs. NZ honours and appreciates your adept leadership and dedication sir! Thank you for your service to the country!

@bubbagump3793 4 ай бұрын

Troll!

@user-ek1sq3bj4z 5 ай бұрын

He was a a total financial disaster for New Zealand , along with Jacinda & Hipkins. One bad decision after another.

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely, nothing new.

@davidholender6855 4 ай бұрын

What exactly were they doing in their 9 years of opposition? Clearly not planning.

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

Good riddance. His and Reserve Bank monetary policies have stuffed NZ

@LabourPartyFan 5 ай бұрын

And yet we have a AAA credit rating

@MrHart450 5 ай бұрын

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj I think the facts speak for themselves and it was the pervious john key national govt that stuffed up the country? When he came into office the national debt was 29b.... when they were voted out the national debt was 117b. That is a fact.... and his idiot theory was that interest rates were low so, it was the best time to borrow.... WRONG, He gave tax cuts to the wealthy and paid for it by raising GST. That is a fact. He also denied for 6 YEARS that New Zealand did not have a housing crisis until they were about to be voted out. That is a fact Failed to spend enough money on just the basic of maintenance for public hospitals, schools, roads and infrastructure. Sounds like they had good monetary policy back then? Fast forward to this government.... Tax cuts to wealthy land lords while offering the police a substandard pay offer. A roading plan which has a 24b hole. They took away the "Auckland petrol tax" good on them. But I have a sneaky suspicion that they will be raising fuel tax across the whole country to fill the 24b hole as the $100 hike in vehicle rego will not cover it. Cut spending to schools so they can not build additional classrooms etc, etc Sounds like good monetary policies?

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

@@LabourPartyFan Not sure of that ?

@apexclaimadjusters5816 5 ай бұрын

Reserve bank is tory thing govt has limited control over it

@bubbagump3793 5 ай бұрын

@ducker09 4 ай бұрын

The saddest interview I've ever seen . This man genuinely believes he has done well. UNBELIEVABLE 😮

@bubbagump3793 4 ай бұрын

Troll

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 2 ай бұрын

Yes, the poor fool.

@mrmyers91 5 ай бұрын

Grant and co left NZ in massive debt , divided and broken. Never again

@LabourPartyFan 5 ай бұрын

Saved us from covid, saved jobs, saved businesses - National left us 150 billion in debt in 2017

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

@@LabourPartyFan You are a Labour Party apologist.A complete disaster.

@LabourPartyFan 5 ай бұрын

Just facts - I know your party doesn't like, or tell, the truth.@@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj

@LabourPartyFan 5 ай бұрын

Sorry if you don't like facts@@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj

@JGNZ616 4 ай бұрын

@@LabourPartyFansure gave away a lot of money to the warehouse group and co where they don’t actually need it, another typical example of how wasteful labour can be, it wasn’t labour who saved the business, it is at the tax payers expense! And still tax payers are paying an increasing amount of tax money to recover for the debt that labour has done in the past 6 years… enough is enough, the gist of labours policy is to redistribute wealth from the ‘rich’ to the ‘poor’, however… you didn’t get that from the rich instead it is the average middle class people who are suffering the most…

@predatornz.5493 5 ай бұрын

him and Ardern and Hipkins really stuffed up this country big time , we all now living there nightmare and National trying to pickup the pieces what a disaster took them only 6 years to do it too . Roberson and Arden have ran to the hills .

@LabourPartyFan 5 ай бұрын

Saved 20,000 lives, saved jobs, saved businesses - National left us 150 billion in debt in 2017

@YouRohb 5 ай бұрын

@@LabourPartyFan That queen of woke left NZ in chaos.Time will tell that last Labour government will be the worse in NZ history along with the worse finance minister.

@petepaton828 5 ай бұрын

Thank goodness he has gone. I cannot believe he really believes what he says.

@bubbagump3793 5 ай бұрын

@bubbagump3793 4 ай бұрын

Troll

@mattheweden-pc5pk 5 ай бұрын

What good did they deliver on education,health and crime all worse

@laifone21 5 ай бұрын

Grant did a great job as Finance Minister albeit the challenges that government faced- could have done more to address child poverty.

@YouRohb 5 ай бұрын

Just happy they only stayed 6 years or the damage would have been irreversible.He is NewZealands worse finance minister, so much waste and no real results all those social engineering ,changing names and ideological centralization put NewZealand and WORKING NewZealanders backwards.

@LabourPartyFan 5 ай бұрын

Got us through covid by keeping unemployment at a record low of 3.4%, kept businesses afloat, saved 20,000 lives, gave our economy a credit rating of AAA and had the debt to earnings ratio at only 20% of GDP

@Me-ui1zy 5 ай бұрын

Insane how short your memory must be if you think he is the worst finance minister lmao Also, the current one has changed more names than any other NZ govt (Over turning both Key and Ardern changes)

@rJBowker007 5 ай бұрын

Wasted 60b of money. Useless finance minister from the least transparent and most authoritarian govt nz has seen.

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

@@Me-ui1zy excellent move.Too woke and PC.Glad they have gone.

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

@@rJBowker007 Yes, no idea of economics.Glad they have gone.

@cavinshakesheave9938 5 ай бұрын

Cut and run but justice will get him eventually.

@greggiles7309 5 ай бұрын

John Key added more debt than any PM in our history.

@rotofotonz5150 5 ай бұрын

Time you joined him Jack

@expelleddux 5 ай бұрын

Man will destroy Otago Uni's finances next

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely. Look what he has done to NZ.

@TeWakaOAoraki 5 ай бұрын

Otago Uni's finances are already beyond fucked.

@LabourPartyFan 5 ай бұрын

Left us with a AAA credit rating, low unemployment and a debt to earnings ratio of only 20%@@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj

@shanedevlin6714 5 ай бұрын

100 percent

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

@@TeWakaOAoraki Just the man for the job.Robertson will stuff it up further.Nothing new.

@squashum778 5 ай бұрын

It’s all about big government and social engineering with this guy ( because THEY KNOW BETTER )

@pinkybar7328 5 ай бұрын

they dont know better,thats socialism/commie thinking for u

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

No they dont, at any cost.

@squashum778 5 ай бұрын

The guy’s deluded.

@markelliott6112 5 ай бұрын

Far too kind

@mattheweden-pc5pk 5 ай бұрын

He’s must be on something or else he’s stupid

@bubbagump3793 4 ай бұрын

Troll

@johnnygoggles6427 5 ай бұрын

This crook should be locked up, surprised he's done an interview

@geoffgathercolesmith8440 5 ай бұрын

What a load of tripe

@bubbagump3793 5 ай бұрын

@erwerwewerwer4575 5 ай бұрын

NZ literally went Woke and got Broke under his economic regime

@adsdft585 5 ай бұрын

Interesting how Labour grouped high level departments with a common focus to help create better us of money.

@W_Bin 5 ай бұрын

Robertson's knowledge, honesty, awareness is top. Will be sorely missed.

@dan_iam 5 ай бұрын

What an innings, what a contribution. Thank you Grant.

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

You must be joking ?

@DossNZ 5 ай бұрын

I thought that I was ready to listen to this. I'm not. I'm still ropeable.

@jeff230394 5 ай бұрын

He was terrible good riddance

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely

@bubbagump3793 4 ай бұрын

Troll

@jeff230394 4 ай бұрын

@@bubbagump3793 nice try grant

@stevehughes1510 5 ай бұрын

He's arguably the worst finance minister the country's ever seen. Now off to put Otago Uni under.

@davidholender6855 4 ай бұрын

No argument. The facts speak for themselves.

@bubbagump3793 4 ай бұрын

Troll!

@peterbishop1933 5 ай бұрын

So he is proud of absolutely ruined this country

@bubbagump3793 5 ай бұрын

@bubbagump3793 4 ай бұрын

Troll

@CS-cp2pp 5 ай бұрын

He was a low achiever at school with mediocre grades especially in Maths thus only managing a useless Arts degree and unable to gain a degree in Accounting and Finance or any job experience in finance, he was incredibly given the job of Finance Minister which he was GROSSLY INCOMPETENT and unfit as the economy and its books have revealed 6 years on. Father was a thief who stole 120K from the law firm that he was an accountant for and jailed for 2 years. Guess the apple doesnt fall far from the tree

@johnhillyer6305 5 ай бұрын

When one believes their own lies as much as this conniver, the world is doomed.

@bubbagump3793 5 ай бұрын

@LabourPartyFan 5 ай бұрын

Luxcon believes his own lies.

@jamesmartin4500 5 ай бұрын

Wow, compare this with the Dr Shane Reti interview. This one is a puff piece for Labour and Robertson. The other is an aggressive, unprofessional interrogation

@twinning1944 5 ай бұрын

You may be right but Hon Robertson is in opposition, is leaving politics after a 15 year career and this is a reflection on his career. Hon Reti is a current minister implementing health policy changes at this time. The context is very different for these interviews.

@jamesmartin4500 5 ай бұрын

@@twinning1944 even so, my point is about the interviewer and not the interviewee. Jack gets all hot under the collar when he doesn't get answers that fit with his world view. Interviews are an exchange of information and not supposed to be an aggressive and badgering confrontation.

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

No surprises.Thats Jack.His interviewing style depends who it is .

@jame2433 5 ай бұрын

What are you on about, grant robertson is leaving politics and isn’t a current minister… if you want jack takes previous interviews of Robertson during his time as minister you’ll find it comparable to the reti intervene. Franklyi didn’t think he went far enough with reti

@papaphilmargaret 5 ай бұрын

Yip after leaving a disastrously finsncial mess

@bubbagump3793 4 ай бұрын

Troll!

@paulkingeu 5 ай бұрын

He should not be proud of what they did. Taxing and spending does not solve problems, especially for Labour voters because it is the poor who are paying the most in taxes. Labour acted illogically and wasted money everywhere they could.

@bubbagump3793 4 ай бұрын

Troll!

@greggiles7309 5 ай бұрын

PAYE is the noose around workers productivity and hard work, and punitive PAYE on overtime and bonuses. GST is charged on the full amount of the Supermarket recipe, its not on individual items. Migrate to Australia if you have any skills. I am ready to retire in four more years.

@apexclaimadjusters5816 5 ай бұрын

yes, I left years ago. Kiwis inside the fishbowl don't get what NZ is, which is a tax haven for foreigners masquerading as an extractive economy owned by oligopolies for its day job. People that work there are no different to other resources being extracted, they're there to be extracted too. The govt provides the environment and protection for this process and always has. There is no free market, every sector is dominated by one or two participants producing a high margin duopoly in nearly every sector. The too small argument is trotted out, but that doesn't seem a problem for others, like say, Ireland. It's one big ripoff for the locals, one big holiday for the foreign rich.

@greggiles7309 5 ай бұрын

@@apexclaimadjusters5816 Americans can take unlimited funds out of NZ. John Key nearly made NZ a Tax Haven. Ruth Richardson buggered workers productivity with her punitive PAYE taxes. So the Three Horsemen are talking a load of Bull about wages rising. I retire in 4 more years.

@hallowedground4101 5 ай бұрын

@@apexclaimadjusters5816 Aussie is too hot, and I dislike using air conditioning to keep cool. That, and the Aussie accent is very grating. Otherwise I'd leave tomorrow

@love_always9206 5 ай бұрын

People were being invested on. People makes a country. The biggest asset we have. Germany does this and they always win nobel prizes and flourish so well. NZ shouldn't expect a wealthy economy from second hand investment on NZ people.

@perryanderson9103 5 ай бұрын

What a rip off kick him out of nz

@brendonlaw1078 5 ай бұрын

Piss weak interview

@rickeetewini 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for your service. The decisions you took as a government kept people safe and in work in the face of a global pandemic that could have killed 10s of thousands of kiwis.

@ducker09 4 ай бұрын

You sir are in ko ko land . Coupled with the evil that is jusinda. They have set us back 50 yrs. In that time their friends the Chinese will take full control . 😮

@feesullivan3439 5 ай бұрын

Again. Note how softly Jack interviews the left compared to the rude interuptive gotcha style he does on the right. Bloody disgusting behaviour Jack

@damobdaking 5 ай бұрын

Piss of snowflake - what a load of crap from a partisan hack.

@user-fi6fq9yb5c 5 ай бұрын

I would never let my grandchildren go to Otago university while Grant Robertson is on the staff . He was not qualified as finance minister and what would he know about education .

@bubbagump3793 4 ай бұрын

Troll!

@peterbishop1933 5 ай бұрын

What a lot of rubbish he talks

@sunset5927 5 ай бұрын

Lot of comments here saying Grant did a terrible job. Would these commentators be able to or have the nous to do a better job? Yeah right!!

@johnnygoggles6427 5 ай бұрын

Doing nothing would have been a better job, NZ is now 5.9 billion in debt thanks to this fuck wit

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely

@ducker09 5 ай бұрын

No one could have done worse . He leaves us broke , devided down lines of race . In short he's left us ruined .😮

@kiwi792 5 ай бұрын

Another politician that gets to walk away, leaving a mess with no consequences. Off to applause and pats on the back. Off to a high paying job. With plenty of ex politician perks. Cheer Grant

@DanielleA2023 5 ай бұрын

Observing from afat between Australia and America he is a hugely respected admired successful politician❤❤

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

You must be crazy.What are you smoking?

@thomothompson7875 5 ай бұрын

Good Riddance

@bubbagump3793 5 ай бұрын

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

@@bubbagump3793 no thanks

@andreatodd3095 5 ай бұрын

Being clearer to people should have been something at the top of your to do list when you were in power, too late now, we can't get the time back, nor do we want to ever!

@apexclaimadjusters5816 5 ай бұрын

Jack is a world class interviewer. Always prepared. Good luck Grant, nice job.

@williamconnell6541 5 ай бұрын

And you Sir are a deluded Twit!

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

No thanks, good luck to you.

@apexclaimadjusters5816 5 ай бұрын

@@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj really, you went to all that trouble??? Troll me thinks, why else would you care

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

@@apexclaimadjusters5816 Robertson completely cocked it up.

@apexclaimadjusters5816 5 ай бұрын

@@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj how so? NZ didn't suffer the death rate or econ damage the US did. Do peoples' life's matter in this calculation? Or is life cheap in your neighborhood?

@steveosullivan4211 5 ай бұрын

tell us about our overseas debt....Have a good look at what Otago owes now...and when this clown leaves.... the children will be paying for his time in govt for years and years and years. thanks for nothing...you should be charged as a traitor...

@fergusbyett8088 5 ай бұрын

Sword of Damocles!

@tdwilliam27 5 ай бұрын

Proud to be a Labour and proud to what you did, Mr Robertson. You did great. Kia Kaha for your next endeavor. ❤

@bubbagump3793 5 ай бұрын

@greggiles7309 5 ай бұрын

Jack Tame, all Government spending is a debt lien, our taxes pay the debt, its on a 10 year cycle. Anything extra is never used to lower any taxes, any. Luxcon plans to make foreign online gambling legal to tax that activity.

@deano5052 5 ай бұрын

oxygen thief

@barryhicks6513 4 ай бұрын

Thank you Jack. A well researched interview from someone on their way to being a 4th estate pillar. Learnt a lot from Grant. As a man in the street I could never fully understand the finer workings of economy and commerce, so for the life of me, I can't understand why much of the comment on here bags Grant for his work. If they know as much as I do then they have a bloody cheek.

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 2 ай бұрын

If you dont know, I cant tell you.

@johnfrancis4563 5 ай бұрын

Lifted kids out of Poverdy??????

@adsdft585 5 ай бұрын

Cost of living payment! Easy for people to return the money but N Willis made politics.

@peterbishop1933 5 ай бұрын

The most useless finance minister ever What a lit of rubbish he is talking

@user-yb9zb1oc4h 5 ай бұрын

Good riddance, just about ruined the country. Rock star economy to rock bottom

@honewhetstone1732 5 ай бұрын

Respect. Plus, he seems like a cool guy to hang out with. Hey Grant I'd love to get a hot chocolate with you sometime at the Octagon if you're in to that ☕🤎

@user-fi6fq9yb5c 4 ай бұрын

Bit late now !!! You have blown this country apart! No you weren’t investing in anything at all! Prove all the fabulous outcomes that were achieved

@fabianfisken 5 ай бұрын

Thank God he’s gone!

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

Absolutely.Never again.

@heathfairweather896 5 ай бұрын

GRANT SHOULD BE IN JAIL

@sunset5927 5 ай бұрын

Refreshing to have an MP answer questions directly & to talk straight. Not just here but also in previous interviews. Same with Chippy. Current govt just talks in riddles, no straight answers. Hang on, actually no answers. Luxon: let me be direct, followed by waffle, waffle, waffle. Same for Willis

@cameronlabone6050 5 ай бұрын

Red vs blue back and forth bs used to work until it didn't about 10years ago and no adjustments were made except a scape goating coverup which was a flu rebranded into something useful for them. Now look at the cultural and economic mess that has to been cleaned up

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

Rubbish

@ducker09 5 ай бұрын

Cant say sorry to see you go grant . You have created and left a mess that will take others YEARS to sort out.😮

@LabourPartyFan 5 ай бұрын

Covid created the mess - Labour saved us from the worst of it

@brendan31415 5 ай бұрын

0:46 I'm not well aware about what Grant thought of the GST policy. Good or Bad? It's not clear. Why talk in riddles?

@maggigee6867 5 ай бұрын

Pretty easy to look that up... But I think in this wording it's pretty obvious that he didn't agree with it. It was well documented that he didn't agree with it, and Chippy was questioned about this multiple times.

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

Nothing new

@kahukura5154 5 ай бұрын

He thinks it was a bad idea but doesn't want to attack Hipkins.

@lorrainesummers780 5 ай бұрын

What time and channel for tv speech please

@johnfrancis4563 5 ай бұрын

Invest in raised crossings at $450k a pop!

@chakshuchopra3993 5 ай бұрын

Already many years late..

@peterbishop1933 5 ай бұрын

Garbage

@Alex-it5ej 5 ай бұрын

A man who cant count calories let alone dollars. Good bye you leave behind a mess not legacy. Achievements nothing but being in a place in time..

@jame2433 5 ай бұрын

The fat comments are so weird given our current PM is also overweight?

@Alex-it5ej 5 ай бұрын

@@jame2433 good reply james we are all proud of you.. now clean up your toys

@jame2433 5 ай бұрын

@@Alex-it5ej ?

@lesleywallace5748 5 ай бұрын

Short memory ,he has watch for the book now

@stevenbrown8157 5 ай бұрын

Green MP suspended over migrant worker exploitation claim TV 1 turns the comments of Labour greens an them maaris

@imrananis6826 5 ай бұрын

Why not u r inviting jacinta ? Now

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 2 ай бұрын

DONT come back.

@Joseph-wo3tr 5 ай бұрын

Good cos the state of nz is disgraceful

@mustardtiger5080 5 ай бұрын

the comments on here say it all really ....

@arnedomi 5 ай бұрын

The journey to social justice never ends specially when Labour are in power.

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

They believe in pennies from heaven, with the money permanently turned on. No problem.

@ducker09 4 ай бұрын

Go home grant , and stay there. Your wife Alf has got your dinner prepared 😮.

@brianmooney2654 5 ай бұрын

James Shaw working a budget? He can't even understand the gas percentages in the atmosphere.

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

Laughable

@mattheweden-pc5pk 5 ай бұрын

No wonder Nz now in the shit

@joecoolnz1 5 ай бұрын

Best finance minister for the time

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

You must be joking ?The worst NZ has ever had.NZ will be paying for his stewardship for years.

@joecoolnz1 5 ай бұрын

Like NZers will be paying for every govt's stewardship. The "we'll be paying for it for years" is a meaningless argument without context. We pay for it with either under-investment (like we've had for generations), overspending (how much is overspending?), protecting jobs/businesses or not... how do we compare to other countries with similar resources???

@mattheweden-pc5pk 5 ай бұрын

Robertson will be knighted for his incompetence

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

@@mattheweden-pc5pk I bloody hope not.What a disgrace.

@adsdft585 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for giving your time.

@adsdft585 5 ай бұрын

He and the government should not have subsided business during covid 19. As now see business want drive down protection for people.

@waynewright5571 5 ай бұрын

National, Act, represent business. Both parties made it clear they were going to repeal policy that is advantageous to workers. IE. Fairpay agreements being one.

@ShirleyZhang-bt4dj 5 ай бұрын

@@waynewright5571 You are a another nanny stater.Free pennies from heaven.Its all over.The tap has now turned been turned off.

@adsdft585 5 ай бұрын

Great to see the positive reflect on sport.

@adsdft585 5 ай бұрын

Political Capital! ACT and NZ First make this choice.