Labour govt 2020-23

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So what happened?

Why has the health system under Ardern become such a disaster area?

A good synopsis :

‘The pandemic reminded us how much we need the health system. We looked around the world as Covid swept through unguarded countries and overwhelmed their health systems and felt grateful we had time to prepare for it.

And yet we are unprepared. And actually worse off now.

The Government should've brought in more staff. They said they would. But health workers found they couldn't get spaces in MIQ. When spaces were set aside for health workers it was woefully late and far too few. Only 300 MIQ spaces a month and only from October last year.

Nurses are still not on the highest priority migrant list. They're on the B-list, forced to work two years for residency when civil engineers get it the minute they land. It's an unnecessary obstacle for globally in-demand nurses who are being offered sweet deals by other countries.’

A government of spin and non delivery - Ardern & her team of nincompoops.

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Dr Do-Little - that’s the nickname from the medical & healthcare profession now for the little one.

The one who tried to cleanse his hands with taxpayers’ funds over Pike River.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...the-government

“The health system is in meltdown. Call it a crisis, or don’t. It is collapsing around us.

As the system buckles, there is incredulity that Health Minister Andrew Little is pushing ahead with a bureaucratic overhaul. Doctors are being asked to work – unpaid – on groups advising the ministry on how to bed in the new regime. No-one seems to know how it will work – the changes are yet another burden that the workforce cannot absorb.

Instead of prioritising a flow of overseas healthcare workers, or returning normal care to reasonable timeframes, his Ministry is pre-occupied with an administrative rejig.”

So Up Yours, Ardern & Little. The two of you are not only useless but increasingly, destructively so by creating one disaster after another.

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Government was warned of the healthcare & hospital crisis a year ago by the DHBs - but as usual with Ardern & her team of incompetents, nothing was done to prepare NZ for the chronic problems now besieging our hospitals and healthcare providers.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...ges-a-year-ago

‘The Government was sent a letter by all district health boards a year ago, warning of “considerable pressures” and outlining “critical workforce issues” being faced by DHBs and exacerbated by the immigration settings at that time.’

“The Health Minister is failing at his core responsibility of ensuring New Zealanders have access to healthcare, all because he is distracted by his ideologically driven desire to restructure the health bureaucracy.‘

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Too busy with MIQs and lockdowns & Maori votes - only things that Ardern & Dr Doo-Little care about.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/...-numbers-climb

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New York Times article :

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/abroad...355ZVTUMCW7N4/
paywalled

"The problem has intensified under Ardern's Government, with average home prices rising 58 per cent from 2017 to 2021. Last year, the average home price passed $1 million.

The country has also battled persistent child poverty, which causes rates of rheumatic fever and lung ailments that are surprisingly high for a developed country. In 2017, Ardern declared reducing child poverty a core goal. Currently, 13.6 per cent of New Zealand children live in poverty, a decrease from 16.5 per cent in 2018 but more than the Government's target of 10.5 per cent.

And despite Ardern's promise to treat climate change like her generation's "nuclear-free moment", emissions have increased by 2.2 per cent since 2018."

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“The Health Minister is failing at his core responsibility of ensuring New Zealanders have access to healthcare, all because he is distracted by his ideologically driven desire to restructure the health bureaucracy.‘

This government is ideologically driven to restructure all systemically failing sectors, but starting with the government layer of bureaucratic controls in the ministries and the administrations, they have also failed to realise it takes far longer to implement real change anywhere, than the time they have in government.

And, by initiating those changes backed by untold billions of tax payers money, they are only making and tolerating the front-line delivery problems across all sectors worse. Creating a much larger mess for the sectors and the next government to repair.

This government will go down in history as the most ideologically ambitious, misguided, largesse government ever who has thrown enormous amounts of money at problems that cannot be solved or implemented in any unreasonable timeframe, let alone their term in government.

The fish rots from the head. The fish heads are rotten, rotten to the core.

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Yeah but John effectively gave billions to the maori party to buy their votes.

Though given there's almost zero chance of a national/act govt, how much would luxon throw at them?

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Govt Revenue Creep on (Addended: NOT ON) Bracket Creep:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...WIALIL3CLOGK4/

Fortunately come along 2023 might see a different sort of Creep dealt back to this sort of hopeless talent

In the mean time the most successful aspirations appear to be in digging the hole deeper around himself


Must be fairly stupid to boot to even consider attempting a further try .. after his last blundering releases.

Don't worry - the prancing Head Parrot away busy squawking 'Look at Me's' in Europe wont have missed it - could be demotion to the cheaper seats for naughty Socialists on return - Little Master Nosy Parker

And as for what's missed - it is surprising Govt missed putting the unfortunate poor performing Parker on the recent list of stand in portfolio warming talent swiftly upended off their portfolios back into irrelevance

Perhaps a more capable suitable monkey couldn't be found at Wellington Zoo in time for the changes
or all the potential Zoo candidates were strangely enough named Trevor

I read this and couldn't believe a sane person would actually be able to say something like this in a situation where people are struggling to pay for basic needs. So it's not a big problem that we're being robbed by inflation for 11 years? Not a problem GOVT is making record tax revenue while people don't have money to get to work? Not a problem 30% tax bracket is almost at minimum wage level?

What exactly is the plan then, to have everyone on benefits?

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$1.2 billion spent so far by Ardern on emergency housing grants - mostly to motels.

What a damning indictment of her promise to solve the housing ‘crisis’ which is now a full blown disaster under her reign.

4,000 household and families living in emergency housing!

Meanwhile, waiting list for state housing has grown to a record 27,200 with no relief in sight.

And how many of the 10,000 a year Kiwibuild homes promised have been built? Less than 2,000 at the last count after 4.5 years in power!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...V34HCE5KSJIVM/

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And now they are keen to spend billions to help the WCC put on a train to Island Bay in Wellington