New premier Bill English has a troubling record on public services and privatization

New premier Bill English has a troubling record on public services and privatization. “As finance minister … English has been responsible for eight budgets that drastically underfunded health and education, cut welfare entitlements and increased the goods and services tax, while slashing taxes for corporations and the rich. He also oversaw the partial privatization of power companies and devised the government’s plan to sell thousands of state-owned houses.”