Richard Prebble's Muldoonist authoritaranism is laid bare in a story he tells the Juggeraut podcast, about his decision as the first Minister of State-Owned Enterprises to close a list of community post offices. He knows this list has been prepared by his officials as a way of gently hinting that he needs to think about the social consequences of his mass closure policy. With no serious expectation that the offices on the list would be shut.

He shuts them all anyway.

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