Labour govt 2020-23

[Balance]

Labour promised to extend breast screening in 2017. Would cost $10m more per year.

Well, Labour has not delivered on this promise.

1 woman has died per day from breast cancer since Labour took office in 2017 due to the delays and lack of breast cancer screening.

Same government who spent close to $1 billion on consultants and squandered hundreds of millions of dollars on failed projects like the cycle bridge to nowhere, media merger and light rail.

https://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/article/u...disappointment

[Logen Ninefingers]

Leader of Labours partner the Watermelons, James Shaw, just stated on TV that “we are one of the richest nations in the world”.
The amount of delusion that exists in this country is almost indescribable. We are a country that has built its ponzi economy on massive borrowing.
Debt does not equal Wealth.

[nztx]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/car-dr...PYEFOZOA6D274/

Car driven straight at North Shore Hospital emergency department

A man has driven a car directly towards a packed North Shore Hospital emergency department (ED), crashing into bollards right outside the door.

RNZ understands he had been at the hospital’s ED a short time before on Saturday night.

Sarah Dalton, executive director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, said there were a lot of patients waiting by the door when the crash happened.

They said the ED was at “critical overload” and unsafe, warning that patients and staff could be harmed if it was not urgently fixed.

Part of the same Health System that hopeless LITTLE said was "managing" before he got shoved ?

Where is the fill in that replaced him ? asleep ?

[nztx]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/budget...N6KZE4CJI4GCA/

Budget 2023 live updates: Sausage rolls, cheese rolls and a special tie for Finance Minister Grant Robertson

How opportune .. the special Tie that will ultimately symbolise one to hang himself and to eventually be Rolled out only to be remembered for on a hopeless job of mass squandering - the country's future generations will pay dearly for, with nothing really noteworthy achieved

Could have just been honest Robbo - the Tin is near on empty because your incompetent mob have squandered all but a tiny bit around the edges, and now the storm clouds are nearing, with hefty borrowings represented by little tangible


No wonder there are so many across the land thoroughly "Cheesed Off" on what this Govt havent delivered on, all the promises not performed on, lies, deceit, backside covering and back pedalling

[jonu]

Classic response from the Nats to the sausage rolls.

https://twitter.com/NZNationalParty/...default%3F1000

The "cheesy" grin of Hipkins says it all really.

[Logen Ninefingers]

Classic response from the Nats to the sausage rolls.

https://twitter.com/NZNationalParty/...default%3F1000

The "cheesy" grin of Hipkins says it all really.

It’s this kind of thing that is a satirists dream, ripe for lampooning. But the cartoonists employed by the NZ mainstream media aren’t interested in ‘cheese roll Robbo’ - they are too busy attacking the opposition.

[Logen Ninefingers]

‘The Government has spent up large to tackle rising living costs ahead of the election, with a scrappy, bread-and-butter Budget 2023 throwing up policies for young parents, public transport users, the sick.

Families with 2-year-olds will be up to $133.30 better off a week through 20 hours of free childcare from next March, while the $5 prescription fee at pharmacies will be scrapped in July.

Extending free childcare will cost $1.2 billion from the public purse over four years, Finance Minister Grant Robertson said.

“The backdrop against which we are putting this budget together is anything but simple.”

“Cost of living pressures are being felt across our communities.”

Meanwhile, dropping a $5 prescription charge for medicines at pharmacies is set to save about 3 million people a year money, and in particular 770,000 people aged 65. It will make most prescriptions in New Zealand free.

Free access to medicines is also hoped to ease pressure on the over-burdened health system by helping people get medicines sooner.
The scheme will cost $618.6 million over four years.

Permanent, free public transport for under 13s is also being introduced, along with half-price fares for under 25s, community service card and total mobility users.

Overall, "cost pressures" were mentioned 52 times in the outline of new spending, double the number of last year.

"When I became Prime Minister I said I would focus on the bread-and-butter issues Kiwi households are facing," Chris Hipkins said.

"It's tough for families right now."

However, drivers still looking down the barrel of higher costs if petrol subsidies finish by the end of June, as is currently planned.

The other group facing a bigger bill will be trustees.

The Government on Thursday announced it would be raising the tax rates on trusts from 33% to 39% from 2024, putting it in line with the top personal income tax rate - although there will be exemptions for some.

While it’s being framed as “aligning” the tax rate or closing a tax loop hole, it is an increase which opponents are likely to describe as a tax hike. Robertson said prior to the Budget that there wouldn't be any ‘major’ tax changes.

Elsewhere, as much as $322 million will go to early childhood education providers to boost pay for staff to bring them closer in line with kindergarten teachers. Urban bus drivers base wages will also be lifted to $30 an hour, or $28 for regional drivers.’

[Logen Ninefingers]

‘The Budget is expected to account for 32.5% of New Zealand’s $394 billion economy in the next year.’

[Logen Ninefingers]

‘$10.7 billion has been poured into infrastructure and $6 billion for a ‘National Resilience Plan’.’

[Logen Ninefingers]

‘$34 million increase in funding for Te Matatini (over two years) - up from $3 million a year now. The festival will get more funding than the NZ Symphony Orchestra for the first time.’