Ha, well the news was pretty grim tonight & Luxon, Willis & now Mitchell all keep saying what a bad state things are.
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That is so wrong it's bordering on funny. Labour had a $9b deficit in their final financial year:
https://www.interest.co.nz/public-po...revenue-slowed
Big ups to the MSM for widely sharing that and providing wall to wall critique of such fiscal irresponsibility. /s
Probably more like a surplus of deficient Skillsets, large Potholes & other humungous holes under the previous mob
A surplus of large projects ready to collapse in on themselves and collection of clowns trying to work out what
imaginary fiddle with higher taxes could be dragged in to fill the hole so it didn't look so bad.
Let's not forget a large Surplus of paid Consultants bills & Empire building costs than anything tangible to show for another bunch of bottomless pits that Labour took a shine to, with a further pipeline of large costs to follow, likely reflecting little better in way of tangibles or something achieved..
COL rearing up ready to kick Robbo into a large hole as well .. any guesses what 6 months further under Labour would have seen, with out of control 3 Idiots on Water, Little's hopeless Health Mess, Transport reduced to a trail of potholes, the anticipated chase the tail on Wage & Salary catch ups in fast pursuit and Robbo's previous Dream on an Economy that wasn't a shade of what he dreamt about showing all the signs of badly stalled about to fall off it's skids and crush him, with the bottom etchelons floundering around on the receiving end of the ungodly mess Labour had landed them in - about to start screaming loudly again, undoubtedly to be followed by legions of State Servants starting up a further round of loud belly aching ;)
No wonder all that was seen was pet projects quickly thrown on the fire by Chippie and an erie silence from Robbo on the looming mess approaching not far infront of him ;)
It must have hurt that the King of the Money hole even got denied opportunity to hoist in an insurance scheme to cover his broken ass among others, paid for by everyone else .. before the defective talent got flushed ;)
We shouldn't be flippant about this, the Police are absolutely furious with the govt's pathetic pay offer, with officers struggling to pay the rent or mortgage & some having to resort to food banks, while the govt says it will find $3 billion for a tax cut to landlords.
It's a stark revelation about priorities, which is more important, supporting our Police with enough to live on, or giving $3 billion to Landlords & property investors.
How are we going to make our cities safer as Luxon promised, if we have our police officers forced into heading in droves to Australia because they can't afford the rent or food on their pay?
Police Minister Mark Mitchell looked sheepish & embarrassed when questioned tonight, as so he should.
Labour did well on this while the COL was starting to run riot - didn't they ? ;)
https://www.policeassn.org.nz/suppor...ayround-2022#/
Let's not forget how well Labour did with Nurses salaries etc ;)
COL = Look no further than Labour who allowed this to run riot
(They even patted the Supermarkets on the head after what earlier ? )
Housing = Look no further than what Labour did
(How many new houses ? Jump on anything private & rip out deductions worked well
didn't it ? Increased Homelessness Poverty etc .. what a caring bunch Labour were )
Interest Costs - Look no further than the backend of what Labour did
(Let's play little games with Adrian Awesome to see how far the OCR can be bashed
northwards on pretence of draining the goldfish bowl.. not one thought for those exposed
who could lose everything out of the bureaucrats silly little games)
And now we have some twit who thinks a Govt in just 4 months is responsible for what arose from the tenure & policies of the previous lot of clueless halfwits ;)
Shame on Labour - the Labour Fill-In Ministers responsible - Ginny, most recent who allowed this to happen ? ;)
This one who no-one will have forgotten from her recent clueless splat:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political...urity-overseas
and before that-
Nash, Williams, HIPKINS, Nash, Woods
Enough said :)
From September 2023 when Labour was in power :
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/cri...ving-the-force
"Police HQ blasted for 'insulting' pay offer, cops considering leaving the force"
https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/i...h678_fmax.webp