Labour / NZ First Government

[westerly]

Still blaming past decisions and governments.

No wonder NZ makes bugger all progress.

Like I wrote before, the half-blind leading the blind is a recipe for disaster - that's Kiwibuild. Don't blame others for failures.

With your expertise you should be in parliament. Or are you ? Either way your talents are wasted,
or are they ?

westerly

[blackcap]

Labour are toast.

Gag orders on ministers. Open and transparent? I think not.

"If you do get a media query on this please provide a written response," it reads. "I would like to sign off and see all written response (sic). Do not put Minister up for any interviews on this."

The documents were released at 2pm - after the Government's only press conference of the day.

Newshub requested an interview with Health Minister David Clark - it was declined.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...-response.html

[jonu]

Labour are toast.

Gag orders on ministers. Open and transparent? I think not.

"If you do get a media query on this please provide a written response," it reads. "I would like to sign off and see all written response (sic). Do not put Minister up for any interviews on this."

The documents were released at 2pm - after the Government's only press conference of the day.

Newshub requested an interview with Health Minister David Clark - it was declined.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...-response.html

The good old Friday afternoon media release. Cindy knows her media management alright.

I noticed today that for the first time reporters weren't so easily fobbed off by Grant Robertson on the Taiwan situation. Robertson, somewhat deviously suggested a journalist was playing with words, which was in fact exactly what Robertson was doing. Various other journalists asked follow up questions to nail him down. They collectively smelt blood...and no doubt were pissed off with his dismissal of their colleague. It's about time. The Press Gallery has been far too passive these last 6 weeks.

[jonu]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/hea...eges-committee

David Parker referring to a committee he would normally Chair. Priceless. Labour really is running scared on this. The more they doth protest, the more it smells like they have gone into this half arsed. No wonder the police were cautious in their early policing around level 4.

[justakiwi]

Yes, part 2 is “silly” which is exactly my point. We have three parties of any real significance in this country. Only two of them will ever have the ability to form a government alone. Neither party gets it right 100% of the time. They never have and they never will. No matter which party is in power there will be decisions we disagree with. I don’t agree with every decision Labour has made, but they have made enough good ones, and have handled more than a few unexpected crisis situations over the last few years. National would not have handled them any better in my opinion. Balance and some others here, are hell bent on trashing Jacinda and Labour (but mostly Jacinda) and ignoring any of the positive/good things she/they have achieved. National have been part of the decision making around the coronavirus situation, and up until now, they have supported pretty much every decision made. They are now putting pressure on re level 2. Fair enough but I am damned sure they will be be the first to bitch if we go to level 2 and have an explosion of cases. As Jacinda has said, it isn’t them who will bear the brunt of a bad decision.

Some people are simply never happy, and there are more than few of them in this forum.

Two different things entirely. As far as delivering on promises - I don't think Muldoon, for all his weird ideas, ever failed to do what he promised. Pity.
Part two is silly - Even Santa can't satisfy that one.

[Balance]

Labour are toast.

Gag orders on ministers. Open and transparent? I think not.

"If you do get a media query on this please provide a written response," it reads. "I would like to sign off and see all written response (sic). Do not put Minister up for any interviews on this."

The documents were released at 2pm - after the Government's only press conference of the day.

Newshub requested an interview with Health Minister David Clark - it was declined.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...-response.html

Confirms Cindy as a grubby politician - worse actually given her promises of open & transparent interaction with NZers.

Cindy obviously believes in the mushroom approach - keep us all in the dark and feed us horse manure.

Well, not all of us are dumb enough to fall for her star dust (really bull dust).

Looking forward to the next media briefing when she can be grilled on such a cynical direction to her ministers.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12330745

"There's no real need to defend because the public have confidence in what has been achieved and what the Govt is doing. Instead we can dismiss."

[nztx]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/121...omestic-travel

"Coronavirus: Tourism minister warns high prices could dampen domestic travel


"A Tourism New Zealand marketing campaign will try to persuade Kiwis to spend up large on domestic travel, the way they did on overseas trips.

But Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis said operators would also need to come to the party over pricing to attract customers.

“People in tourism want visitors, but if they price themselves out of the market, they simply won't have that.”"


It seems that Kelvin is still fumbling around & hasn't woken up that he should be talking to "Cheque Book Grunt" just down the end of the same pew he is squatted at about what AIR ROBERTSON thinks it's playing at extracting more dimes out of Kiwi Travellers in difficult times..


Yet another fail by Davis it seems on this..

How has this fellow even managed to stay a Minister ?

[nztx]

Labour's next Disasters coming up real soon -

1. More Business Carnage here:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/ind...uring-lockdown

"Coronavirus: 70 job losses and more than $4 million owed by 13 businesses that fell victim to Covid-19 during lockdown"


and more likely to come



2. What's coming up after the Wage Subsidies end:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...ectid=12330623

"Covid 19 coronavirus: The new jobless..."

"Equally, she said, at the moment the government wage subsidy is masking the true impact of Covid-19. More than 1.7 million people - an astonishing 60 per cent of the workforce - are receiving the subsidy - but once it ceases there are likely to be more layoffs.

"There's going to be a long tail," Bradford said. "Where it really takes time is with people who have never been out of work before, they will usually borrow money and do anything they can because of the feelings around registering for welfare, the stigma.""


As was posted earlier on here about was seen in Australia - the same is here:

"Young people appear to have been the worst affected."



more at the link

[fungus pudding]

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/121...omestic-travel

"Coronavirus: Tourism minister warns high prices could dampen domestic travel


"A Tourism New Zealand marketing campaign will try to persuade Kiwis to spend up large on domestic travel, the way they did on overseas trips.

But Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis said operators would also need to come to the party over pricing to attract customers.

“People in tourism want visitors, but if they price themselves out of the market, they simply won't have that.”"


It seems that Kelvin is still fumbling around & hasn't woken up that he should be talking to "Cheque Book Grunt" just down the end of the same pew he is squatted at about what AIR ROBERTSON thinks it's playing at extracting more dimes out of Kiwi Travellers in difficult times..


Yet another fail by Davis it seems on this..

How has this fellow even managed to stay a Minister ?

How did he even manage to stay a school teacher?

[Joshuatree]

Yes its come out of nowhere and rocked the world,Hopefully change from all this over consumption based world will come for the better of peoples and the planets well being. But the marketing campaign is about to start up and spin."You have to have the latest this and that".Over spend and over eat, buy stuff that you have to throw away shortly after because one part breaks and no spare parts are made etc.
They have to try with tourism, Aiussies and kiwis make up the bulk of them after all, but alot ofpeoples finances just wont be able to stretch that far for a while.

Thanks this govt has reacted fast to an ever changing situation and thanks to them speedily getting money out to the people that was so important to do.