National - FFS!

[Balance]

Ha, yep Simeon's another one of National's creepy MP's.

Not as creepy as Ardern :



Same Ardern who basked in the accolades of zero COVID to now keeping totally quiet about the daily death toll from COVID.

No votes in COVID deaths so Ardern & her all care & all kindness have dissipated as well.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-...MTUIVJ4LBY5ZQ/

Excerpt :

"I can't quite get over how blase we seem to have become over Covid deaths", she wrote on her @MaryWomble account, seven minutes after the Ministry of Health's daily Covid-19 update - including 11 new fatalities - was released.

"If this were car accidents 11ish [dead] per day, there would be a call for changes to speed limits, road improvements and so on. We just seem to be accepting these numbers!

[dobby41]

Steve Braunias sums Luxon's week up well with his
The secret diary of Christopher Luxon
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/steve-...U7JMR3TEGEGEY/

[Blue Skies]

Looking very dodgy & current National MP Judith Collins right in the middle of it.
It's galling, how do these people think they can get away with this sort of unethical behaviour your average citizen wouldn't even contemplate?


https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...2W7UNBRPN7K5I/

[Balance]

Change to the DHB structure so that Ardern & Little can put their political
Woke appointees in position of power - no other reason for Health NZ.

Just like Kainga Ora replacing Housing NZ - a huge mistake and creator of the unfolding housing disaster, Health NZ will do exactly the same with the healthcare sector.

There is no crisis according to Little & Ardern even as the hospital system is overwhelmed and near collapse.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/john-r...RO3QJFEF5ITNI/

Today, if you can believe it, our public health system has been reformed. Don't believe it. District health boards disappeared yesterday and the Ministry of Health was divided, its policy advisers remaining the ministry while its administrative apparatus is now called Health NZ.

This is merely a restructure, not a reform. There is a big difference. As the chairman of Southern Cross Health, Greg Gent, put it this week, "Structure follows strategy and I can't clearly see yet what the strategy is."

Nor can professionals in the public sector, from what I hear. They are going to work for a nominally different organisation on Monday but they don't know the point of it all. They don't know what, if anything, they are supposed to do differently.

Restructuring without a clearly stated practical purpose causes only uncertainty, confusion and needless stress. Staff in the health services will have been attending meetings and seminars about this "reform" since it was proposed two years ago.

[Panda-NZ-]

Steve Braunias sums Luxon's week up well with his
The secret diary of Christopher Luxon
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/steve-...U7JMR3TEGEGEY/

Interesting to note that obtaining the National leadership is done through shady backroom deals.

While labour's is a primary election.

[Balance]

On TV3 now, surgeons and GPs have never ever seen the healthcare system in such bad shape.

As one surgeon said ‘surely the first step to solving a problem is to acknowledge that there is one’

But the Little one and Ardern say everything is fine and there is no crisis. It’s just the onset of the winter flu and it will pass.

Like the cost of living crisis, Ardern says there is no crisis that $350 cannot resolve!

Never mind the fact that the winter flu is an annual occurrence - so should have been planned for.

Meanwhile, surgeries and cancer diagnosis are pushed back further and further - endangering lives and putting all patients at risk.

Useless and clueless = Ardern & Little.

[Panda-NZ-]

Useless and clueless = Ardern & Little.

How does 50 cents a day sound.

Indexing the tax brackets to account for only one year of inflation.

[Bill Smith]

Who knew that the Te Reo spelling of corrupt was M-A-H-U-T-A or T-U-K-A-K-I.

[nztx]

Who knew that the Te Reo spelling of corrupt was M-A-H-U-T-A or T-U-K-A-K-I.

must be a fair few more millions in further undiscovered feel good payments so no-one misses
out on the gravy train speeding through .. before the wheels fall off

[Panda-NZ-]

I don't think animal rights are high on national's priority list despite it being about "protecting life".

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...gh-heatstroke/