Labour govt 2020-23

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How can you forward think with a virus ?

You need to react quickly which was appropriate hence the good results compared to the rest of the world.

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No one needs Hosking.

Everyone needs Hosking.

He's one of the few broadcasters who still calls political news as it is, rather than how Jacinda's regime want it, since they handed out the media bribe "support' money.

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There's no murdoch press here.. only good old mike. I'm fine with that tradeoff.

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How can you forward think with a virus.

You need to react quickly which was appropriate hence the good results compared to the rest of the world.

Umm....... Maybe if those in charge had applied some logic to their decisions rather than brainless °quick reactions° we would not now be facing the slow motion train crash that is unfolding,

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After crying ‘crises’ all over the place when he was in Opposition, it’s clear why little cannot bring himself to admit he has presided and brought about a health crisis - actually a disaster.

The arrogance of this twit and incompetent Fool who showed how two faced he really is with Pike River.

First he defended Pike River company and then, he spent $65m+ of taxpayers' funds on a 'Bring the boys home' whitewash exercise to get votes.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...interview.html

‘"The reality is: we have a health system that is under major pressure - has major challenges," he said. "In the less than two years I've been minister, I've been told of multiple crises in the system - the term is debased in health, at the moment.’

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And here's the Mongrel Mob showing their middle finger to Hipkins & Ardern over their latest half-hearted attempt to crack down on gangs.

The gangs know that Ardern is soft on crime and criminals - even to the extent of giving them millions of dollars to help them sell drugs more effectively.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bay-of...FGQGLCGRFGDDU/

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Amazing how Ardern appointed a foreign minister who does not like to travel, has no idea what strategic alliances are about and is a total embarrassment to NZ's foreign affairs staff overseas when they have to host her (fortunately infrequently).

Meanwhile, Ardern is running around like a blue-arsed housefly overseas on foreign affairs matters (Mahuta's job) - escaping the domestic crises/disasters her government has created and spreading confusion over where NZ sits in the global scene!

Reason of course is this :



And here's Ardern's real agenda for NZ :

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Chris Hipkins on this weeks Newshub Nation says that because not many cars were crushed under that legislation, it was ineffective.

Maybe Chris should consider that if the deterrent is effective, not many will offend against it.

$150 fines to boy racers and gangsters with plenty of disposable income is no deterrent, and it costs the state (taxpayer) that much to process the fine.

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Chris Hipkins on this weeks Newshub Nation says that because not many cars were crushed under that legislation, it was ineffective.

Maybe Chris should consider that if the deterrent is effective, not many will offend against it.

$150 fines to boy racers and gangsters with plenty of disposable income is no deterrent, and it costs the state (taxpayer) that much to process the fine.

Perhaps Hipkins should put his Head in or climb inside one & switch it on to see if it works

We have to be certain that it's operating correctly .. no great loss if Hipkins comes out the other end
in a slightly reduced size .. invite a few of his mates - Mahuta, Davis & Very Little in for the testing process

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https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/1292...-other-reforms

Janet Wilson: Polytech merger's ills a harbinger for Government's other reforms

OPINION: The road to political change may be paved with the best of intentions but in its way lie ineptitude, mismanagement, and financial potholes aplenty. Take Te Pūkenga, the newly merged organisation due to take over the country’s polytechnics in January 2023.

Several arresting stories this week revealed that Te Pūkenga is in a huge financial hole while failing to deliver, with its leader missing in action.

Te Pūkenga announced on July 8 that its CEO, Stephen Town, was on “personal leave” for an unspecified timeframe. The term, which has morphed into a crutch of crisis management (think TVNZ’s ham-fisted attempt to cover up the Kamahl Santamaria debacle), has now become a red-flag phrase.

Yet another Co&kup at HIPKIN'S incompetent hands ..

What Hipkins will be trying to avoid at all costs is Te Pūkenga becoming Labour’s canary-in-the-coalmine of transformational change. With the canary not quite having karked it, but still crook, the pressure is on Hipkins to deliver. If he doesn’t – and failure could be defined as anything from pushing back its January 1, 2023, start date to even more financial troubles – it will be seen as a harbinger for the Government’s other major reforms, such as Three Waters and health.

What’s more, the health reforms have arrived at a time when its workforce is in despair and at risk of “catastrophic collapse”. That’s what 923 doctors this week told the Government in a signed letter to the prime minister, with an attached survey outlining a “system beyond crisis” with many considering leaving. Desperate to avoid any C words, Health Minister Andrew Little has used the crisis to explain the need for the reforms, without adequately explaining what they’ll achieve.

In again centralising power in Wellington with Health New Zealand, Little should remember the effect the 2013 NHS reforms had on England​’s health system. The creation of NHS England gave it the task of overseeing local health services, leaving the Department of Health to focus on public health and policy matters, in much the same way that the New Zealand reforms have been structured.

The results? Long surgical waiting lists, continuing postcode inequality and emergency departments bursting at the seams.

Whoever inherits the follow on of the current trajectory from Ardern Govt's Co&kup Central will certainly have a lot of fixing up to do correcting the mess that the current bunch of Incompetents will be leaving behind