Labour govt 2020-23

[Baa_Baa]

‘Criminals are also victims of crime’ - Ardern, Hipkins, Kelvin Davis & Labour government.

Well, that's not working out so well is it. Tell us about the policy to reduce incarceration numbers by releasing the crims into the community, or not punishing them at all, and why we seem to have an explosion of criminal offending across all ages and offences.

Bloody beggars belief, in six short years we've gone from feeling safe in our communities to afraid to even leave our homes, that some low life is going to accost us, steal our stuff, or worse hurt or even murder us.

[nztx]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/will...AFEU2T3JBOWTI/

Election 2023: Willie Jackson says David Seymour is Aotearoa’s most dangerous man

Māori Development Minister Willie Jackson says in his opinion Act leader David Seymour - who he once described as a useless Māori - is the country’s most dangerous man, and if he gets into power will make life a misery for more than Māori.

Poor Willie .. how's the Parliamentary track record over past 6 years again ?

All sweet nothings much to write home about with prescribed large dallop of handwringing, BS and Hot Air
and a ton of polish to apply to the shiny dome for the odd appearances ?

Broadcasting a raving success or an unmitigated shambles and large failure .. like all else Labour have touched ?

The standard of Broadcasting programming doesn't seem to have improved much over the period
for anyone across the lands, other than the 16% privileged splinter mob


How much wasted on failed Merger again ? That went well - didn't it ?


Maybe Willie need some misery with the new day job to wake him up properly back in real world again ? .. No polishing likely needed for that though

Joe Public may be very happy to oblige on that and deliver up some finitem on the most clueless hopeless and Dangerous Govt of Incompetents ever seen across the lands


Was Seymour was right after all ? He's not usually far off the mark ..


Of course Willie wouldn't be making a complete Ar$e of himself now if what Seymour stated earlier
hadn't made some lasting impression, even if it got lost along the way as intended possible wake up call

Maybe Willie has proven Seymour was right .. and on realising it and large landslide on the way - Willie got some bad diarrhea & hurty b*m now ?

A shame that our Health System in bad shape now and Doctors don't want to know..

The bad news is that few can see any benefit or improvement for all Willes posturing and yoddling into the wind, leaving many wondering how many more jumped onboard the now foundering red submarine just for the free lunch, the ocassional leap in the air, the odd burp, fart & yoddle .. so they are seen still there relaxing in the deckchairs

[Balance]

Another day, another poll showing support for this useless & clueless racist & divisive Labour government crashing to a 6 year low of 26%, 10 points behind National.

National/ACT 36%/11% (47%)
Labour/Greens/Maori 26%/12%/3% (41%)
NZF 6%


At this rate, Labour will be lucky to have 20% on election day.

And to rub salt into Hipkins’ wounds, he is but 2 points only ahead of Luxon in the preferred PM stake!

Takes some kind of clown government and leader to be polling so badly after winning the 2020 election by a landslide - but we know this government is indeed a bunch of idiots and jackasses.

Arrogance and incompetence - thy name is Hipkins & Ardern.

https://www.thepost.co.nz/a/politics...r-some-comfort

[Aaron]

If you have a herald sub, this was an interesting opinion piece that sounds a lot like Balance, but more reasoned and less emotive.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kathy-...OGMW2N4E6PTTI/

But unfortunately, the ability to develop good policy - and successfully implement it - has been lacking for some time.

Since 2018, a lot of time and money has been spent on working groups that developed policy advice for the Government, only to have much of it discarded. It is hard to excuse this wasteful activity given the people on the groups were chosen by the government of the day and included former Labour luminaries like Sir Michael Cullen and Heather Simpson as chairs.

If a government doesn’t take advice from its own hand-picked former colleagues, after specifically asking them for it, what was the point?

The Tax Working Group, headed by Cullen, a former Labour Deputy PM and Minister of Finance, produced a very thorough and well-considered piece of advice. The group, or a majority of it, recommended “a broad extension of the taxation of capital gains” and backed it up with details on how that should be done.
....
It’s clear I’m not alone in thinking Labour’s promise to remove GST from fruit and vegetables is one of the worst bits of policy-making we have seen for some time. It flies in the face of all expert advice and contradicts earlier statements by both Hipkins and Finance Minister Grant Robertson that it’s a bad idea. The Tax Working Group had also recommended against removing GST from particular products because such measures are complex, poorly targeted and involve large compliance costs.
.....
We need much better policy-making from whoever leads the next government. How good would it be to see policies that are underpinned by evidence and expert advice, clearly explained and thought all the way through to their successful implementation.
Kathy Spencer was a Deputy Director-General in the Ministry of Health, a general manager in ACC, and a tax manager in the Treasury.

If Michael Cullen hadn't wanted to stick it to the wealthy people and suggested a much less scary tax rate for the capital gains it might have got more traction. I think he suggested it was at the same rates as income tax but he needed to make it politically palatable. I wonder if a focus group poo pooed the idea. They are apparently running govt policy at the moment.

Labour sounding desperate to stay in power. I doubt they are putting all the effort in for us. "In it for us" ... yeah right. That is not to say that Chris Luxon and David Seymour aren't a couple of total bell ends who are only concerned about those earning over $180,000 a year. It makes choosing someone to vote for very hard.

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

[iceman]

Now we have an "ED assault crisis" where the few medical workers we have left in this country don't feel safe to work at anymore

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/senior...IXSZVHFQ6YEGE/

[Balance]

Now we have an "ED assault crisis" where the few medical workers we have left in this country don't feel safe to work at ED's

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/senior...IXSZVHFQ6YEGE/

What a damning indictment on what a lawless & violent country NZ has become - that those who are there to save lives (& bodies) are assaulted in their line of duty.

This is what happens when lawlessness is allowed to take hold in a country - thanks to the pro-criminal policies of Hipkins and Ardern.

One of the legacies of Ardern, the Queen of Woke for sure.

It is going to take a concentrated and tough approach by the new government to turn around the lawlessness out there for NZ to be a safe place again.

Meanwhile, this government continues on its woke ways :

[Logen Ninefingers]

Another day, another vile ‘attack cartoon’ aimed at National on far left ‘news’ site Stuff. This time it’s Jim Hubbard joining the pile on, with an ugly swipe at Chris Bishop who has been drawn as a giant slobbering man-baby, complete with rattle and diaper and teddy bear. He is sitting in a puddle of his own urine. “Labour nasty, Labour nasty, Labour mean & nasty” gurgles the crying man-baby. Really sickening from the cowardly Hubbard: you can sense the media fear is almost palpable, with their Labour gravy-train set to come to an end in October.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/opinion/114832...bbard-cartoons

[Logen Ninefingers]

MICHAEL BASSETT: BOGUS ELECTION MEDIA COVERAGE

‘This election campaign has degenerated into a media circus with endless trivial claims and counter claims, many of them driven by the media. As a result, we, the long-suffering voters find ourselves dependent more and more on the integrity of the journalists who are reporting the parties’ policies.
Sadly, many aren’t doing the job. We know the Herald’s Simon Wilson of old. On Tuesday Professor Robert McCulloch in his Down to Earth Kiwi blog showed Wilson up once more, this time because of his attack on National’s tax figures. Wilson claimed Chris Luxon’s figures regarding the 15% levy on foreigners purchasing houses didn’t add up, when the real problem turned out to be Wilson’s own shaky sources. I hope Robert McCulloch doesn’t stop here: little of what Wilson thinks is journalism ever seems to pass muster. Several other Herald journalists also peddle their personal politics, although not as blatantly as Wilson. The others dress their stories up as reporting. Claire Trevett, Audrey Young, Michael Neilson and a couple of others slant their reporting towards the left. This isn’t surprising: a majority of reporters from time immemorial have been Labour supporters. Some, like Newsroom’s Jo Moir, just can’t help themselves. But they need to remember that in a tight campaign, slanted journalism can damage a perpetrator’s reputation for life.

The owners of the Herald, NZME, also need to exercise more care. They should have thought twice before letting the Council of Trade Unions, in the middle of a campaign, take over the front cover last Monday for a personal attack on a major political party’s leader. The Council of Trade Unions has a shady past, going back to the days of Fintan Patrick Walsh. Starting 83 years ago, the then FOL and its affiliates began playing games with the Labour Party, sending union bosses to its conferences armed with card votes and voting up or down on issues they’d never bothered to consult their membership about. The current Labour Government has over-empowered the unions once more, and until this is rectified the CTU are indulging in what resembles corrupt practices in defence of their newly-found privileges. The one thing we can be absolutely certain about is that the wider membership of trade unions, whom the CTU purports to represent, weren’t consulted before those front-page adverts. Shayne Currie and Murray Kirkness at the editorial level ought to have known that, and blown the whistle.

These days, of course, we get more of the news from television and radio than newspapers. Varying levels of professionalism are evident on the two main TV channels. Mike McRoberts and Simon Dallow are reliable performers, but TV3’s Amelia Wade shows her colours more than she should. Jack Tame does his job, but is more interested in avenues of attack than discovering the background to the issue. Despite its excessive, untranslated Maori verbiage, RNZ succeeds most of the time in straight reporting. Of course, blogs like this one, are a different matter. We don’t pretend to be unbiased, and nor do we charge for our stories. We don’t get money from the Public Interest Journalism Fund that Labour established in 2020, purportedly to assist media outlets adversely affected by Covid, but in reality, to exercise more control over the media. At the time the fund was created, many commentators smelled a rat and criticised newspapers for accepting what looked like a government bribe to journalists paid for by the taxpayer. The Herald’s editors haughtily dismissed those fears, but right now, in an election campaign, those assurances can be carefully scrutinised and, in several cases, have already been found wanting.

In a free country, journalists and the media in general need to be trusted to “speak truth to power” on their readers’ and viewers’ behalf. Prostrating themselves before Mammon, in the form of the Public Interest Journalism Fund, should be beneath them. Television and radio editors and communicators have considerable influence. They should use that power honestly. When interviewing, it isn’t necessary always to find fault with the interviewee. Teasing out a policy, its origin and its possible effect can be revealing. Constant negativity is the way our media succeed in blighting all politicians, giving the triennial election process in our lives a bad name. Why not leave trolling to social media?’

[Logen Ninefingers]

‘Labour leader Chris Hipkins says he isn't worried about Labour reaching a new low, polling at just 26% in The Post Freshwater Strategy political poll, released this morning.

"That poll was taken a few weeks ago before the campaign had even launched," he said.

The poll isn't quite weeks old - it was taken just last week.’

[jonu]

Oh dear, where is the "Disinformation Project" when you need them? Ardern's pet project seems to be asleep at the wheel when it comes to Labour telling fibs about National and Act.

Not a hint of an apology from the Chipster to the Nats either.

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other...f964c6697&ei=7