Common sense? You and your mates are embarrassing
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Meanwhile, in the real world where the 'feel good' policies of Ardern, Hipkins and Labour were implemented with lots and lots of fanfare, the carnage continues.
The new government truly has its work cut out but it can count upon the goodwill of the majority of NZers who know just what a mess Labour has left behind on all fronts.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2023/10/18/co...alth-projects/
"In October 2019, the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced $100m for a new mental health unit in Waikato. It was to open in mid-2023.
But four years later, the contractors haven’t even broken ground, and board papers released to Newsroom reveal that Te Whatu Ora has gone back to Cabinet this year for another $20.5m – a second funding increase for the project.
The costings for the mental health unit and neighbouring regional renal centre blew out to $155.1m in last year’s business case, and the start date was pushed back to mid-2023.
Now it’s late 2023 and officials are still quibbling with quantity surveyors over costings, which have now increased to $175.6m. No substantive start has been made on construction – though it’s understood construction firm Naylor Love has won the tender and has begun preparing the ground.
Te Whatu Ora proposed to fund the blowout from the wider health capital envelope, provisioned to cover just this eventuality of cost escalations in infrastructure projects"
How many people have died as a consequence of Labour's false promises and failures to deliver?
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Oh, good one 777
Yep absolute failure by Labour, one of many.
However your last question is uncalled for.
Labour squandered & wasted a lot of money sure, however they also were responsible for the new Dunedin hospital, extensions of many existing regional hospitals.
National in their nine years gutted the health system and left buildings to rot. They have also dropped the rebuild of the hospital in Whangarei which is of dire need. The new Minister of health's electorate I might add, at least we know there is no pork barreling going on. Oh but wait, instead of a hospital they will get out their Tonka toys & build a four lane highway at about 10 times the cost.
NAF just overturned Smokefree NZ & you ask how many lives the Labour Government cost?
You really haven't thought this through.
Nga Mihi
How many will die to get a bit more tax money to make up for National's bad maths?
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Calm the farm dobby41. The smoking situation is the same as it was for Labour's 6 years in power, when they managed to bugger up pretty much every aspect of government in this country, as well as leave it broke for the people tasked with fixing the mess.
The Left losing it before Parliament had even opened is just getting silly. You would think everyone had done wonderfully well under Labour. That the health system was coping. That there was no housing crisis. That crime was low. That education was delivering. That child poverty had disappeared. That outcomes for Maori had improved in every measurable statistic (don't mention the census). That government departments hadn't bloated their staff numbers and yet spent billions more on consultants.
Luxon and co. have a fair bit to clean up. Perhaps letting them get on with it as the public voted for would be the responsible thing to do, rather than listening to the petulant and frankly pathetic bleatings of Hipkins and his sorry cohort of incompetents.
Labour saved thousands of lives, estimated 20,000 lives which would have been lost during the first years of the pandemic if National / ACT had been in government.
Its on record, you can look back & see National got it wrong so many times.
NZ was one of the only countries in the world where life expectance actually increased during the pandemic .
During the first years of the pandemic, incredibly we had spare capacity in the Health system as there were far fewer motor vehicle accidents, assaults, accidents & injuries die to alcohol, ACC claims etc.
For the first time the A&E departments of hospitals weren't overrun.
If you had an ACUTE condition or a cancer patient, generally you were treated without delays.
Certainly some routine annual checkups were missed, but if anyone presented themselves with symptoms, there were few delays.
Also remember Labour also increased the PHARMAC budget by a record 40%, showing how desperately underfunded it had been under National.
Key's govt was a govt which did nothing and didn't spend any money, while allowing massive numbers of immigrants into the country.
Hospitals were run down, maintenance deferred, same with school buildings, they closed around 30 Police stations or Kiosks, underfunded PHARMAC so we got further & further behind Australia in what was funded, & so on.
I just hope & lets see if this coalition govt matches or exceed the increase in funding for PHARMAC which we got under Labour. That will be telling!
Wow BS. That is genius. Close down the country and ban people from leaving their homes and go to work, school etc.
Then A&E suddenly is not busy. Incredibly clever that Jacinda