Air Combat Wing

The Dom Post reports on National saying it is unlikely to reinstate the air combat wing of the RNZAF if it wins office.

This has been a near certainty since National failed to win office in 2002.  The longer one is from a decision, the harder it is to over-turn it.  In the case of the air combat wing you have real personnel problems as many have gone off to work overseas, and are most unlikely want to come back to NZ if their job tenure may only be six or nine years until Labour gains office again.

This is why parties are so keen to avoid being one term Governments.  Most of your policies can be over-turned if you have only been in for three years.  It is much much harder once they have been in for six or nine years.

For example Labour removed choice and competition for accident compensation insurance in 2000 after National introduced it in 1998/99.  Now if National had done it in 1995, then there is no way in hell Labour would have been able to remove the choice that people had got used to.