He may not have any nous either...
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Granted she stands up for what she believes in. But I dont think she is a lost soul, or an insecure woman and she most certainly is not “a poor thing”. And I am not playing the galant knight, I am just standing up for someone who probably has you on her ignore list, for good reason, and is unaware of your personal insults. You are better than this Balance you dont need to stoop this low
Agreed ynot.
Furthermore, broken promises do not equate to mistakes. Broken promises equate to political cynicism and incompetence. Government is no place to be learning at the taxpayer's expense.
Still no defence from Cindy supporters regarding her list of shame. Her cabinet brimming with incompetents. I wonder if Phil Twyford has got around to visiting his latest embarassment at Transmission Gully yet? His cabinet post's biggest project, on his governmental doorstep, and he had never visited the site!
More of a light hearted poke. The following article is an interesting read. Imagine how they are rolling in the aisles at the election of Comrade Cindy!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300...e-labour-party
This stuff will still be going on across all fronts. Have you seen the amount of communications equipment on top of the US Embassy...a stone's throw from the Beehive?
A good summary here which provides the likes of Joshuatree, westerly etc an opportunity to reply :
Which posters here have confidence Comrade Cindy & her bunch of incompetents are capable of managing the economic crisis and deliver growth and economic health from the nose diving economy?
So far they have only done one thing - throw money at growing the beneficiary voter base.
PS. I know some less left-leaning journalists read ST so here's hoping that they will start asking Comrade Cindy the tough questions above.
She has achieved an NZ which is now open for business now while Australia will have to lockdown in two months because elimination was never their goal. another achievement to add to the list. :)
Restarted NZ super fund contributions
lowest debt in the oecd
lowest comparable unemployment
record low migration - promise delivered.
Credit where it is due. I think some just don't like a woman in charge which is unfortunate and explains a bit.
It's relatively easy to lock down a small isolated country like NZ compared to Australia. But due credit to her for having the guts to do so. Now on to the hard part, rebuilding a decimated economy.
On the other points: Yes definitely - credit where credit is due.
Credit previous labour and National governments for the low debt and unemployment,
Credit the current Labour government for borrowing to fund super, and
Labour party promise on migration: https://www.labour.org.nz/migration (oops this page doesn't exist)
Nothing to do with a woman in charge but THIS woman & her incompetents in charge. If only NZ has an Angela Merkel.
And thank you for highlighting another huge failure by Comrade Cindy to deliver - Cutting Immigration Numbers!
"Prime Minister-in-waiting Jacinda Ardern last tonight said she expected those numbers to be cut by 20,000 to 30,000 per annum. Its coalition partner New Zealand First, which has also lobbied strongly to reduce immigration numbers, has set the lower target of 10,000 people a year."
The record shows:
Net migration in 1st year of office - 49,127 (Oct 2018)
Net migration in 2nd year of office - 52,447 (Oct 2019)
Oh dear, what happened?
Net migration under National was 54,535 to Oct 2017.
Another extraordinary Cindy's non-achievement.
Not wanting to stoke the fire, but while on the topic... I seem to recall during the election campaigning there was something Jacinda promised and said that 'if she couldn't deliver, she would resign'. From memory it was around child poverty or something like that. Does anyone else remember that or did I completely make that up?
I just wanted to check in on how that promise was going (if it even happened).
Why stop at Child Poverty, fill your boots on broken promises and failed public policy and this from 9 months ago.
Cindy's response to job cuts at the Warehouse.
She's angry! Surprise, surprise....Retailers who were shut for 5-6 weeks are badly hit. I thought Deb Morris was possibly an outlier, but Cindy's just confirmed she has no idea of the real world either.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/121...-1080-job-cuts
They did receive large amounts of taxpayer money so some commentary is justified. The lacklustre alternative would have been worse since they would have given them more for no results or delivery.
Exactly she has been the most HIGHLY rated leader of the most inept GOVT. we have ever had in this country the amount of people here in NZ and around the world that put her on a pedestal of greatness purely on human kindness ? that and having a Baby in office and being younger women than the mean age of leaders around the world.. that is so rare so she must be amazing ..but the facts of where we are as a nation and are forward outlook is bleak..
Hitler was loved by most Germans during the 30's
A well-respected German historian has a radical new theory to explain a nagging question: Why did average Germans so heartily support the Nazis and Third Reich? Hitler, says Goetz Aly, was a "feel good dictator," a leader who not only made Germans feel important, but also made sure they were well cared-for by the state.
To do so, he gave them huge tax breaks and introduced social benefits that even today anchor the society. He also ensured that even in the last days of the war not a single German went hungry. Despite near-constant warfare, never once during his 12 years in power did Hitler raise taxes for working class people. He also — in great contrast to World War I — particularly pampered soldiers and their families, offering them more than double the salaries and benefits that American and British families received. As such, most Germans saw Nazism as a "warm-hearted" protector, says Aly,
Now I'm not saying Jacinda is hitler like or anything like that ....but many see Jacinda as our protector
Somehwt better than a dairy farmer I'd say (todd something?). What did john deliver really since we had no per capita growth for a long time. Years after the GFC.