Bill English not quite the invertebrate PM John Key was

English deserves credit for some guts in attempting to deal with NZ’s massive superannuation problem. A problem his spineless govern-by-opinion-polls predecessor refused to face up to. When Treasury forecast govt debt to rise to 200% of GDP (from the 25% it is today) by 2060, John Key scoffed that they were talking nonsense. Because he’s never…