He's just facing up to the inevitable.
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Labour at 27% and still falling, and at least one MP saying ‘vote for whichever party you like, but please give me your electorate vote cos I’m a great fella’. Trying to distance himself from the sinking Labour ship that Chipkins is going down with. It’s every man and woman for themselves….
If it's Labour vs National on purely policy then labour wins (for me).
20 bucks a week compared to inhumane cuts to prescription fees and raising the super age to 67...
But on the labour side you have Ministers resigning one after the other and one defecting to a bunch of radicals.
I don't like not being able to read govt communications either, because its all in Te Reo.
You've left it very late to see sense - Labour might be announcing next week that they will be selling naming rights
to their vast trove of large Pot Holes .. would that change things ? ;)
The lucky ones in the draw might also be in with a chance to buy Chipster's soul which comes with a FREE 5 year supply of gingernuts so the lucky winner will always be reminded of a well earned dunking ;)
Jones, who has a fairly good political nose, has an interesting comment re Act.
https://nopunchespulled.com/2023/09/...ate/#more-5567
What is inhumane about a small charge for prescriptions? The charge has been there until about six months ago. The total an individual or family had to pay was limited to $100 per year. What % of the population would have a problem with that? Surely those that have could be catered for with the likes of community service cards.
And 67 is a much more realistic age for the pension for a good portion of the population. Those that are retiring from very physical jobs would have to an earlier access if required.
i also agree with your opinion on the Te Reo.
However I have enjoyed your posts from the last day or two. Quite a surprising change.
Factcheck. The mass burial is not a lie. They did not invent historic grievances. Their grievances were confirmed by Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. CNN article below.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/28/world/children-remains-discovered-canada-kamloops-school/index.html
….. the confirmation of the remains of 215 children who were students of the Kamloops Indian Residential School,
The Kamloops Indian Residential school was one of the largest in Canada and operated from the late 19th century to the late 1970s. It was opened and run by the Catholic Church until the federal government took it over in the late 1960s.
Chief coroner Lisa Lapointe issued a statement saying that her office is early in the process of gather information.
In 2015 Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission released a report detailing the damaging legacy of the country’s residential school system. Thousands of mostly indigenous children were separated from their families and forced to attend residential schools.
The report detailed decades of physical, sexual and emotional abuse suffered by children in government and church run institutions