Labour govt 2020-23

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Is it worth commenting?
Some people will complain about everything just because it involves Labour.
Some are very unbalanced.

I see Luxon has now said that the tax cuts may not be policy for the next election.

Comment back then on the housing disaster and child poverty - topics which you Labourites & Ardern devotees suddenly seem so shy about.

Or you can comment back on law and order & how the correction service is short of 800 prison guards.

[dobby41]

Comment back then on the housing disaster and child poverty - topics which you Labourites & Ardern devotees suddenly seem so shy about.

Or you can comment back on law and order & how the correction service is short of 800 prison guards.

Really not worth engaging with unbalanced people.

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Really not worth engaging with unbalanced people.

No sweat, Ardern devotee. I know when you losers know you have no defence or argument to put forward.

Kiwibuild mark 3 & reset policy on the way apparently for election 2023. Or so my sources in Labour tell me. I nearly fell off my chair lmao!

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$250m in this year’s budget for lunches for school kids.

Increases year after year in the budget by Ardern but the waiting list of hungry kids grows longer and longer and longer.

Exactly like in housing.

Clueless and incompetent - like a lousy wife who has never earned any money (as in creating wealth & jobs) but only knows how to spend spend spend - Ardern is her name.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/...n-waiting-list

[Blue Skies]

Comment back then on the housing disaster and child poverty - topics which you Labourites & Ardern devotees suddenly seem so shy about.

Or you can comment back on law and order & how the correction service is short of 800 prison guards.

Fair enough, good prompt & look what I found.

On housing, NZ now have the highest number of building consents on record, heading for 50,000 this year & consents usually mean homes being built, people don't go through the process without intending to build.
Policy changes like stopping foreign speculators now mean home buyers are out numbering speculators in the market.
Scrapped the need for consents for low risk buildings like sleep outs.
Built more than 12,500 public housing
Excluded the Bright Line test from New Builds to encourage increased housing supply
Targeted free training & apprenticeship schemes to increase the skilled building & construction labour force
A $3.8 billion Housing Acceleration fund to help housing developments by funding infrastructure like roads & water pipes to new developments.
Repealing & replacing the RMA to simplify & speed up the planning & consent processes

On child poverty, Labour have,
extended free doctors visits to children under 14,
Working for Families Package the biggest boost in household income for thousands of families in decades
largest ever funding boost for primary maternity services
introduced Healthy free lunches in schools
rolling out free period products in schools
extended paid parental leave to 26 weeks
Best Start payment helping parents with costs of new born children
Warmer Kiwi Homes program helping low income families with insulation & heating
The Winter energy payment helping with power bills.
lifted minimum wage for low income workers helps family income.
lifted benefits & linked them to minimum wage to stop low income families falling further behind
Introduced Healthy Homes standards to ensure rentals meet minimum health standards for low income families forced to rent. (NZ had a shameful record of 3rd world respiratory diseases with children forced to live in damp mouldy freezing rental housing).
Childcare Assistance income levels now linked to increases in ave wage.
Reinstated Training Incentive allowance to help solo parents to get back into employment
Expanded mental health support in schools
Introduced measures to stop all that awful predatory lending by unscrupulous finance companies on vulnerable low income families
Funding more Out of School Care program to help low income parents get back to employment.

Lots happening & lots more but this is a good start.

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Yes the trades training is good too.

The last lost were fine with NZers in poverty while importing nearly 100k "skilled" workers.

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Yawn - usual spin with zero delivery.

[whatsup]

C'mon mate, that's ridiculous!
It was just a By election for Tauranga, a solidly safe Blue seat.

Just exactly like when there was the By election for Mt Albert (a solidly safe Labour seat) when then National PM Bill English, 'was so gutless' to use your words, he didn't even stand a National candidate as would have got such a drubbing.
Just standard practice, relax.

Ski & hospitality industry in the S.I. sure appreciated Adern's support over the weekend.

Get your facts right, in todays Herald she said the she chose to go to Queenstown on Saturday ( by election day ) instead of giving support in Tauranga, -- still gutless IMHO ( and others Im picking ! )

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Get your facts right, in todays Herald she said the she chose to go to Queenstown on Saturday ( by election day ) instead of giving support in Tauranga, -- still gutless IMHO ( and others Im picking ! )

Same Ardern (good time Cindy) who avoided visiting Auckland like the plague during the Omicron lockdown because she knew she would have received an earful (and eyeful) from peeved off Aucklanders.

It’s all about the optics with good time Cindy.

Good news is that the majority of NZers have seen through her BS optics which is reflected in her rapidly dropping polls.

[Panda-NZ-]

It’s all about the optics with good time Cindy.

& lots of good news there is.

More support with cost of living than National would ever have given.