Labour govt 2020-23

[Balance]

Unless you were an idiot you would surely have to say Jacinda Adern.

You seem to have forgotten or simply don't realise, John Key's National govt stopped all payments to NZ's Superannuation Fund (also known as the Cullen Fund as was introduced by Labour) for 9 years while in govt, at a time when interest rates were low & as a result our Superannuation fund lost out on $ billions of potential returns.
It's been Grant Robertson who re started payments into the fund thank goodness when Labour won in 2017.
(Goldsmith, National's financially illiterate finance spokesperson wanted them stopped again).

Only a moron would say Ardern.

100,000 houses to be built
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[Panda-NZ-]

Only a moron would say Ardern.

100,000 houses to be built
Most transparent government ever
Affordable housing

How are tax cuts going to fix it?

Or going through line by line with spending, whatever that means.

[dobby41]

How are tax cuts going to fix it?

Or going through line by line with spending, whatever that means.

What it means are good sound bites - and it seems to be working for National for now.
It means cuts all over the place - set us back again.

[Blue Skies]

Panda, The real question that you should be asking yourself, is " who would I trust with my hard earned life savings with ( bearing in mind that the proceeds of which will have to look after you in your old age, Jusinda or John Key" ? ) easy answer wouldnt you think !

Obviously Labour has made mistakes but if you kept an open mind & look at the screw ups National made while in govt, you might not be so trusting of Nationals credibility.
Just a few that readily come to mind,

1) suspending contributions to the NZ Super fund for 9 years which cost our retirement fund $32.2 billion in lost gains according to independent Treasury reports, & has put every Kiwi retiree miles behind Australian retirees.

2) the Sky City debacle where National Ministers were made to look like a bunch of amateurs in front of the business community. Sky City entertained govt Ministers in their Corporate Box while taking the govt to the cleaners. The Auditor General was scathing of National's handling of the negotiations, it was said they couldn't negotiate their way out of a wet paper bag.

3) the Serco disaster, the National govt's experiment (they were confident ) with handing the running of our prisons to private for profit company Serco. Result, Fight Club happening weekly even put on social media, prisons out of control, failures on a large scale with prison violence soaring, teenagers being forced to share cells with hardened criminal adults, a complete disaster.

4) Serious flaws in the PPP model (public private partnership) in planning, governance & oversight of Transmission Gully project set up by National in 2012, leading to massive cost over runs & delays.

5) It was called the biggest scam ever played on NZ, & under National govt. HNZ spent $100 million on unnecessary testing & thats not including the private sector. . Thousands of homes vacated, tens of millions of dollars spent on stripping & cleaning perfectly safe homes where some meth had been smoked. Peoples entire possessions being bagged up & taken to the dump, tennants being evicted, landlords ruined, suicides caused by the stress, a whole industry built on a scam while all the while the govt knew or was being advised by its science advisors no one ever got sick from the residue left over from someone smoking meth.

Got to stop here, but there's plenty more. So as I said Labour have certainly made mistakes but if you look a National's screw ups, & look at the serious lack of depth & talent in their current caucus, it might give you pause to think about being so trusting in their competency.

[nztx]

Who is the little mistake responsible for this:


https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/focus-...BUP4NZXRJBC6E/

[nztx]

EV Owners soon to get RUC'ed Over by Govt ?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...VADHSSW3G3EQY/

Another Govt / Green's disaster ?

[nztx]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/claire...SXPHSFOQ473ZU/

Claire Trevett: The warning to ministers as Jacinda Ardern signals a mother of all reshuffles


More little mistakes to get swept under the mat (in the Name of Ardern's 'Save thy Spinning Dish' ?

Ardern's forewarning a larger reshuffle is nigh is effectively a signal to ministers to weigh up whether they have the appetite to stay – and engage in some frank self-assessment about whether they think Ardern has the appetite for them to stay.

Could be all gone instead .. hope Joe Public misses the shuffling of backsides on sets thereby failing to notice
the presence of fresh even more incompetent talent on the pews .. but Joe Public isn't that stupid..

Some things are incapable of being hidden - has Ardern not learned anything ?

The way things are shaping up - the majority will likely orchestrate the mother of all reshuffles
in 2023 and Ardern will have no say in the final result, aside from waving goodbye after the
job is complete, and hoofing off in to the sunset, never to be seen again

[nztx]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/jacind...D3B6QWURVS4CQ/

But there seem to be better things to do .. like run away from and ignore the blinding obvious

Jacinda Ardern visits Queenstown skifield to mark start of ski season

[westerly]

Panda, You talk just sooooooo much B S, the reason that Auckland is in a mess as its been the dumping ground for failed Labour lackies , Goff, Len Brown and Tizard and now they want to foist another failed Labour mayor canditate on us, give us a break please, please give us some real brains and there would be a chance for Aucklands future.

The Auckland voters must vote them in. Probably worried the National candidates will be far worse?

westerly

[777]

Why should council elections be Labour or National? It is the city we want administered, not the country.