Labour govt 2020-23

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https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...-taiwan-strait

Mahuta tells China's top diplomat 'de-escalation' needed in Taiwan Strait

Likely response ?

Go jump back in your waka and wish for smooth waters for return to your hangout in troubled cloud forest ?

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More successful Policing under Labour:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-sta...in-levin-house

80 people asked to leave homes as man barricades himself in Levin house

A standoff with armed police was unfolding on Bledisloe St, Levin, on Thursday evening.

Nearby residents have been asked to leave their homes as a precaution, police said. The Armed Offenders Squad was at the scene.

Easily solved .. bullet between eyes from the Law = No further problems

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Just one thing, just one, give us your defence of why the billions have been well spent, achieved something except disempowering our nations people and businesses, just one thing. What would that be. That one thing?

NZ can afford it given our massive increase in net wealth.

https://www.stats.govt.nz/informatio...%20from%202019.

We don't need real terms cuts to health and other "back of the napkin" poorly thought through ideas.

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Some welcome perspective from a regional mayor and doctor with frontline experience:

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...rvey-says.html

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The thing I don't get, maybe you do, is why the defenders of the the Labour faith never have anything to say that actually defends or justifies the litany of failures this Government has wrought upon us.

Nothing, ever. The only thing that ever comes from them is deflection and diversion to what the opposition are saying. This in itself is an admission that the Government failures to achieve anything from their idealistic policies in unrealistic implementation timeframes, despite the obscene amounts of tax payer money thrown at them, is indefensible.

Just one thing, just one, give us your defence of why the billions have been well spent, achieved something except disempowering our nations people and businesses, just one thing. What would that be. That one thing?

Yes, Jacinda's stooges are here to prey on the apolitical types, and defend the indefensible waste of taxpayer money.

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Some welcome perspective from a regional mayor and doctor with frontline experience:

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...rvey-says.html

LOL - spouting garbage as usual.

Bob Harvey - ex President of the Labour Party.

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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...GVCYVSZ5MEGTU/

Nation of Debt: Govt and Reserve Bank no longer rowing in the same direction

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Who didn't see that coming ?

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Some welcome perspective from a regional mayor and doctor with frontline experience:

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...rvey-says.html

formerly part of today's Auckland which finds itself in this situation after a series of Left leaning mayors ?


https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...XEOGT73SFVEAU/

David Schnauer: Auckland Council finances in a very deep hole

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[Blue Skies]

Cringeworthy

Just got an email from NZ Labour Party signed by Rob SalmondÂ…Â…started off like this -

Yesterday I was incredibly proud to be a Labour party member. IÂ’m sure you saw the news - more than 2 million New Zealanders received $116 from the new Cost of Living Payment.

Winner, if you were proud of this initiative, too, please consider chipping in $10 today. Your contribution will help Jacinda and Labour prepare for next years election, so we can keep working towards a fairer and more equal Aotearoa.

Blah blah blah

Mate got asked for $24 ..IÂ’m gutted

Yep got to say this was a real doozy of a policy. The intention was good but should not have ignored IRD advice about the practical difficulty of implementing it & should have shelved it.
Looking like a policy conceived & pushed through in response to National overtaking Labour in recent polling.
Since it went to individuals rather than households, even went to partners (who filed a tax return for less than $70,000) who may be married to wealthy high income earners.
e.g. possibly people like Clarke Gayford or Amanda Luxon although am sure if they got it both would return it.

Compare the increase in funding for Pharmac, $191 million over 2 years, versus $814 million budgeted for the CoL package.

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formerly part of today's Auckland which finds itself in this situation after a series of Left leaning mayors ?


https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...XEOGT73SFVEAU/

David Schnauer: Auckland Council finances in a very deep hole

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Cost of Living Crisis only getting worse. It’s all good though because according to panda we are ‘rich’ and cos ‘credit rating’.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckla...RFSU42FTZ3I6E/

‘One Auckland single mum says she had a "panic attack" when opening her new council rates bill this month, while another ratepayer says she plans to leave the city because of its "poor" services.

Other ratepayers have described receiving new bills up to 30 per cent higher than last year at a time when Auckland's creaking infrastructure is battling to keep up with new housing developments.

The single mum, who works as a high school teacher while also picking up a second job after hours to make ends meet, told the Herald her bill had not only jumped about $200 a quarter, but that she was also hit with two bills back-to-back totalling almost $1400.

"I had a panic attack looking at the email from Auckland Council," she told the Herald.

"I called them and cried, they put me through the credit control team and asked me to pay it monthly."

The rate hikes come at a time when homeowners are also facing other cost of living pressures and interest rate rises facing homeowners.’