Minister Simon Bridges has killed a few of my favourite things.

By not granting tiny, low-risk iPredict an exemption from Anti Money Laundering regulations designed for the big banks, he helped to strangle it.

Flying drones for fun in your backyard used to be fun and easy, but the same rules that have been laudable on the commercial side for drones have terminated urban recreational use.

And now he’s mulling over capital punishment for Uber.

If it’s of any help, here are a few of my other favourite things about New Zealand that I absolutely hope Minister Bridges never changes. Cabinets shuffle occasionally, so it is worth preparing for contingencies. Please do not throw policy into these briar patches.

I hope the Resource Management Act’s red tape never goes away – I love it. Sure, people are living in cars. If central government fixed the RMA and provided Councils with incentives to allow growth, the housing crisis would disappear, but the value of my house would not keep going up. Homelessness and overcrowding are clearly trivial relative to that.

It fills me with joy that Education Review Office reports on school quality are so opaque that only people with PhDs can tell good schools from bad schools. That means it’s easier for me to get my kids into good schools.

While I am saving for my kids’ eventual tertiary education, I love that they will be able to borrow at 0% and put the money into term deposits. It is free money for my family covered by taxpayers who don’t send their children to university.

I love that New Zealand lags America and Canada in legalising marijuana use.

I absolutely love that film festivals and streaming content providers have to jump through costly hoops to get films rated by the Censor’s Office rather than just saying that the Brits think some film is R18. It makes New Zealand a much better place for reasons too obvious to enumerate here.

I should probably end the list here. There is some risk that more of my favourite things would be killed, and it is better to err on the side of saying too little.

But, more seriously, dark clouds sometimes have silver linings. I really do love that my next Uber ride will come with the thrill of civil disobedience.