Labour govt 2020-23

[Balance]

I'm surprised you think he's perfect.

No one is perfect except Clueless Cindy, according to the 'overwhelming' mandate given to her in the 2020 election - that's how the supporters and some of the posters here (especially the females) want her to be perceived.

[fungus pudding]

RadioNZ headline, "Government to give Amazon over $100m boost for Lord of the Rings filming"

Let me see if I have this right? A socialist government is giving one of the richest men in the world a subsidy which will be paid for with workers taxes earned while sweating in shearing sheds or wiping residents bottoms in rest homes.

Boop boop de do
Marilyn

Socialists have always been fond of redistribution. And just think - some of the sweaters and bottom wipers could become film directors or actors.

[macduffy]

What's the old saying about candy and babies? Or am I thinking of fools and their - or rather, our, money?

[Balance]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...VT63PJKLH36OY/

Paywalled

Despicable and totally irresponsible repugnant behaviour by Clueless Cindy’s lapdogs and bottom wipers to shut down and frustrate accountability & responsibility for the cock-ups at border controls.

Disgusting display of incompetence & arrogance - worse possible combination in any person, let alone in government MPs and ministers charged with overseeing the health needs of the 'team of 5 million'.

Excerpt :

1. "Did you know returnees spend 14 days in MIQ after they arrive in New Zealand? Or that Covid-19 can be transmitted via air particles as well as droplets?

The Labour MPs on Parliament's health committee apparently have such an insufficient grasp of such issues that they needed a 20-minute "idiot's guide" presentation from the heads of Health and MBIE this week."

2. "When it was finally his turn, Bishop's line of questioning was broken up by Labour's Ginny Andersen asking about the benefits of giving vaccines to border workers first.

And when Bishop tried to resume his questioning, Craig declared that time was up, noting the committee had already agreed to the 20-minute presentation in the first place."

And here's why Cindy's bottom wipers panicked and shut down further questioning :

" ..... committees are also invaluable opportunities for any MP - not just the Opposition - to grill officials on key issues, and there is none more important than the Covid response.

Bishop's first question elicited the big reveal that an infected Grand Millennium security guard - who should be tested fortnightly - had gone untested for five months, and that MBIE didn't know how many MIQ workers were missing their regular tests."

[RGR367]

This gov't re CoVid19 response is all just about "we will keep improving our procedures". Clueless to what they're doing actually but very concerned to put up a press con just to look good for their voters.

[westerly]

Whats it like being perfect Balance?

He is not perfect, more obsessive.

westerly

[Balance]

He is not perfect, more obsessive.

westerly

Obsessive maybe ....

.... but not regressive like those who support the inability of Clueless Cindy & her team of nincompoops to learn from past mistakes (one after another after another)

And

Certainly not repressive of the truth and accountability by using spin & bull headed frustration efforts to hide mistakes and putting lives & livelihoods at risk.

[Bill Smith]

When Mallard rules labour has indulged in despicable behaviour, surely it is truly despicable behaviour by the committee.

[Balance]

When Mallard rules labour has indulged in despicable behaviour, surely it is truly despicable behaviour by the committee.

Not only despicable but increasingly desperate as this government shows itself clueless in the post lockdown world.

Good summary here (albeit not objective) :

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...VQY7VDVPO5NOU/

There is an emerging sense that New Zealand is drifting along post-Covid while much of the rest of the world cranks up.

There is no momentum around vaccine rollouts,

no obvious plan for economic recovery (in fact the reverse),

nor

any sign of a plan to open up to the world.

Some days we seem stuck inside a never-ending loop of plugging holes in the border that we were previously led to believe were already plugged.

[artemis]

When Mallard rules labour has indulged in despicable behaviour, surely it is truly despicable behaviour by the committee.

Yes, but the responsibility lies firmly with the Select Committee chair, Liz Craig. Copybook well and truly blotted.