From the Bassett, Brash and Hyde Blog.
GARRICK TREMAIN: By way of explanation
A recent column published here brought much positive comment. Some readers approached me for clarification of my reasons for assessing the merits of the eleven Prime Ministers I served under in 35 years of daily cartooning. I had stated that in my opinion Muldoon, Key and Ardern left the most damage in their wake. I am happy to add my reasons.
Possibly Muldoon’s worst mistake was scrapping Douglas’s Superannuation scheme, a faux pas for which we will forever pay dearly. He also played the sad spectacle that was the 1981 Springbok Tour for own his political advantage, some of the wounds of which will take another generation or so to heal. And he did the country no favours when stripping his caucus of the bright independent thinkers (Waring, Quigley, Minogue etc ) preferring to replace them with a strongly religious line-up, raised to pay blind loyalty to dubious ideas, without engaging reason.
John Key’s time in office saw all economic and social indicators decline. His most disastrous folly was slipping Sharples away to the UN to sign us up to the UN Charter on Indigenous Rights. This proved an invaluable aid to Ardern in implementing her Marxist and racist agendas. As I said earlier, in trying to determine the worst of the three we can only note that neither Muldoon nor Key became so detested by New Zealanders that they no longer felt safe dwelling within our borders.
I also nominated Kirk as possibly the best, but I felt he could not be judged by such a short tenure. For that reason, Luxon still has another year of inactivity before being included with the first three.
Garrick Tremain’s website
There was one comment related to his Tremain’s last para and it is worth including.
19 minutes ago
“For that reason, Luxon still has another year of inactivity before being included with the first three”.
A perfect way to end your precise article.
No Minister 
I refrained from commenting originally but won’t this time.
The comment on Key re the economy is utter bullshit. Fashionable but bullshit none the less.
Bolger (GST) comes very close to the communist cunt when talking damage to NZ.
Palmer did far more damage in his short tenure than Muldoon did in 9 years.
As an aside dumping the “Super” scheme was the main election plank of ’75 so the Country, not Muldoon, must take that blame.
Sorry, senility got me at the wrong time.
Should have read “Bolger (MMP)”.
None as blind as those that cannot see. Wears his cloak of Leftist invincibility so tight it blinds him to his own bias, further exposed by a bad case of childish TDS. Yet to rise to the level of other great cartoonists produced by NZ. My guess he wont make it.
However I do agree with his analysis of Key, but we don’t need another year of Luxon as the verdict is in after a couple of years in opposition and as prime minister. An individual who gave up looking for a vision to believe in. Like Key its just another tick on the CV but Luxon wont be going to chairman of ANZ, that’s for sure. He’s bound, like Adern, to the WEF speaking circuit for services rendered.
MT like your brutal analysis. Amazing that America and Britain can now throw up true leaders but I guess nobody fucked their electoral system like Bolger managed here.
As my German friend here in February said , there is no return for Germany, its economic decline is permanent and irrevocable, and for ordinary Germans no escape. There is no return for New Zealand, but it is easier for ordinary New Zealanders to escape.
rossco I thought QT yesterday was enlightening.
Seymour was a class above what Luxon usually is.
rossco, I tend to agree; hard to see New Zealand recovering, particularly until The People, rather than a small group of deluded fuckwits, get to choose their leader.