This is a good election campaign for her. The money will continue to pour in and there is no need to make any political speeches any more.
Sure win for her even without Winston or Green.
National will not be able to make any noise. If they make any noise it will be touching someone's cheese.
Spend the money, keep employment, screw up the landlords. After all, it is a State emergency, they can do whatever they want and make their voters happy and think about the debts in the future.
There is a saying, "if you give people free things, they will all come and get it even if they don't have the needs" Just like free first-year university.
She made her decision to continue to open up the border and not willing to look closely to China, Singapore, Taiwan etc, now panic and use the money to keep people happy.
Many people might not see it that way and grateful to her especially people who come back from UK, Australia, Canada and foreign countries, they might be NZ citizens, PR, but they were not taxpayers. They come back to shelter and will be gone once the pandemic is over.
All the money suppose for infrastructure are all gone. Just one week, the light rails, roads fund are all gone and were paid to beneficiaries.
Whole NZ population will soon be beneficiaries.
Once Pandemic is over, wealth tax, capital gain tax might soon on the table, somewhere, somehow, the government will need to dig for more money.