The best trick the National Party ever pulled was to fabricate their reputation as the responsible ones.
This would be the National Party that denied us the New Zealand Superannuation Scheme that—Brian Gaynor wrote back in 2007—would be worth more than $240 billion today and would have transformed the New Zealand economy into a world beater over the past 30 years.
This would be the National Party that diminished Kiwisaver from full strength to a watery decaf under the direction of John Key and Bill English, and also denied the Super Fund the chance to make about 19 billion.