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It beggars belief that for so many years, Labour leaders have failed to see that everything Do Little has touched has turned into a pile of excrement. Even before that.
Remind us Balance, from the disgraceful abhorrent Pike River to today, the litany of screw ups that Do Little has orchestrated.
It is truely appalling, if it wasn't legal for union leaders and politicians to seriously feck this country and it's people, they'd be behind bars!
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/electi...JR4HUBHPNONQU/
As the week has progressed so have Labour’s false claims
By Barry Soper
8 Sep, 2023 07:21 PM
'They’ve been out on the hustings for a week now and there are a couple of things that have stuck in my craw.
As the week’s progressed so have the porkies, coming from the self-proclaimed most kind, transparent Government we have ever experienced. Labour cares about wellbeing and it’s become apparent that applies only to themselves in their desperation to retain the baubles of office.
It seems they’re willing to say anything that will keep the centre right wolves from their door, like Willie Jackson screaming in a debate that National’s planning to get rid of the minimum wage, which was clearly wrong and dismissed by his political betters.
And then we had Andrew Little, the leader who handed the reins over to Jacinda Ardern, telling anyone who was silly enough to listen, that National and Act were going to sack all the teachers and close the schools - preposterous.
If that wasn’t bad enough, we had Labour’s Shanan Halbert telling his Facebook followers that National planned to reduce sick days to five a year which was again simply untrue.
Is there any wonder then why Labour’s now languishing in the psychological opinion poll vortex?
The media have reason to be reflecting on the high dudgeon expressed in some quarters about the email correspondence between National’s health spokesman, Shane Reti, and the Vice-Chancellor of Waikato University, Neil Quigley, over a third medical school.
We were told Quigley went to considerable lengths to help National develop its policy to establish the school. He even made the observation to Reti that the new school, scheduled to take its first students in 2027, could be a present for National to begin its second term in Government.
Now that was seen by some quarters in the media as some sort of clandestine, sinister cuddle-up between professors and power.
What it was in fact was the chief executive of an academic institution, rightly lobbying a politician to extend the university’s offering.
And why not? National had been in talks with Waikato University a year before Ardern limped to power only to see the idea canned by her government the year after she had settled into the Prime Minister’s chair.
With the idea being resurrected, why wouldn’t the university boss embrace it? There were suggestions our universities should be politically impartial which defies any sort of logic.
All of them have political studies professors who are always expressing their views, without fear or favour, and no one has a problem with that.'
Thoroughly disgusting how low Labour is stooping to, spreading lies and misinformation to try & retain power.
If ever there was any doubt as to the sort of characters Hipkins and the senior Labour MPs/ministers are, their recent behaviour should now leave no one who is decent and truly care about NZ, in any doubt.
Desperation can bring out the best in some but the absolute worse in others - we now see how truly grubby, deceitful and vindictive Labour MPs are.
Disgusting.
So much hypocrisy in this thread. Regardless of which side of the fence you sit on, all the main parties are doing the same thing with their campaigning. Making promises without providing the proof that their "calculations" are correct. They are basing their campaigns on attempting to convince you that the current government is ****e, instead of working to convince you of why they deserve your vote. They are all tarred with the same brush in this respect, but of course, the "ranting and raving brigade" here, are incapable of even seeing that.
So much time and energy wasted on the politicians part, and so much time and energy wasted on the voters' part. Why the hell can't we all just cut the crap. It is no freaking wonder that voters get turned off at election time, especially this time round. Go read public comments on social media and other public platforms. Many, many people are expressing the same sentiment - "I don't need you to tell me what's wrong with Labour. I can see that for myself. I need you to tell me why you deserve MY vote." So many people have already thrown the towel in and have decided not to vote - even some people here have indicated that. Its not apathy. It is sheer frustration and tiredness, which the pointless political sparring is contributing to. Most of it is nothing more than "noise" - and we, as investors, know all about the "noise."
Has anyone set up a poll on this site for 'Which party will you vote for with your LIST vote?'
I've lost you here JAK. "all the main parties are "trying to convince you that the current Government is ****e"
When you say "main parties", I assume you include Labour and the Greens/Reds ? Are you saying they're trying to convince us the current Government is ****e ?
Yes, by all the main parties, I mean Nat, Lab, ACT, The Greens.
I am saying, they don't need to waste time and energy attempting to convince us that Labour has let us down. We can figure it out for ourselves. Very similar to this place actually.
It is time that political parties just cut the crap, and ran their campaigns based solely on their merits. There is literally no need for National, for example, to even mention Labour's name. Spend that time, telling us what you stand for, what your philosophies are, what your plans for NZ are, and convince us that you have what it takes to put your plans into action. Give us the detail, not just the flowery "carrot" stuff. Present your case so well, that there is nothing left for a reporter to ask you, because you're dotted the I's and crossed the T's from day one. Don't base your sales pitch on trashing the opposition, because it is not necessary! If I go to buy a car, the salesperson is going to do his damnedest to sell me a car on his lot - he's not going to waste his time telling me, the car sales down the road's cars are inferior. Sell me on what you have got to offer me.
Yeah, I realise this is "whacko" thinking but I'll tell you what. Parties would gain way more credibility, and trust, from potential voters, if they did things differently. Voters would get the info they needed without all the background "noise" and would stay engaged. Isn't that what parties want?
NZ sucks at thinking outside the square.