Not at all - just saying it how it is.
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No, Bennett has turned on the very people from where she came from. A very questionable history and a loose unit imo ; does any one honestly think she is deputy pm material; a backbencher at best imo; a liability to national; note her most recent stuffup.
Off to vote today - mainly to avoid being swept away by the tsunami of young voters in red closer to the day
Hmm - who will get the ticks
Well Labour appear to have put themselves out of the race. Taxcinda sticking to her non disclosure of tax policy, so that drops Winston out as a coalition partner. Going to make it difficult to hit 50%. Especially as it will likely raise Winston's prospects of gettting over 10%
Keep that in mind when tick tick ticking.
taxridefungustaxter if you support lies and deceit vote national. a party with No DETAIL on how to build 30,000 houses year when it can only achieve 7200. Check out the number of houses in Auckland under $600,000 tataxtaxfungus for first home buyers hardly any for first home buyers . Have you got a clock that goes tax,taxtax 60 times a minute.
I agree but don't tell me its JUST labour who haven't provided details and plans. I believe ,going on her integrity that they will get there or close to it.National have lost integrity down a hole for just one example.
you cant raise her integrity. She hasn't had a decent job in parliament yet to test her.
Her most challenging role was shadow min of justice and im blowed if i can remember what impact she had there.
She was only in parliament because of list - she couldn't even win a seat until gifted safe mt albert in 2017.
The destruction of health under bill english.So many details and facts, its shocking, leading right up unto todays negative effects. and ahead
Bill English: The Forgotten History
English’s response to anger over cuts was to insist that taxpayers couldn’t keep “feeding the monster,” and that if hospitals couldn’t reduce their deficits fast enough, they would have to be restructured or have “someone else” run some of their services.55 When Kirton [pictured left] publicly released information showing layoffs, amalgamation and closed services were planned for five North Island CHEs, English complained that it showed “total disregard for the democratic procedures of Parliament and Cabinet,” and claimed it was irrelevant, months-old advice. Kirton called that “a complete lie.”56
Glenda Alexander, then an organiser for the New Zealand Nurses Organisation and now an industrial advisor with the union, believes the health sector has never recovered from the cuts and layoffs under English and his predecessors. Nurses left the country, became educators or even real estate agents, and it became harder to recruit new nurses. The net effect was to drain the health sector of its organisational intelligence.
“We were predicting in the 1990s that we were going to suffer by 2020 a significant shortage of health professionals,” she says. “It’s no comfort to be proven right.
The Health Gravy Train
While English demanded ongoing cuts and layoffs, the health sector transformed into a bottomless hole for money — so long as you were a bureaucrat. The extravagant waste of the health care bureaucracy contrasted with the austerity imposed everywhere else.
English took a $24,353 trip to Calcutta to attend Mother Teresa’s funeral.57 A new health agency paid a PR firm $18,750 a month despite employing 13 full-time communications staff.58 The number of bureaucrats more than doubled between 1993 and the end of 1997, even as health workers lost jobs, reaching a ratio of one manager or administrator for every five medical staff by March 1998.59
English claimed this was justified by greater community consultation.60 Yet that claim was undermined when later, one fellow minister and others were surprised to find out a hospital in his electorate was being closed down.61
It wasn’t just the number of bureaucrats — it was their price. Personnel costs at the HFA nearly doubled to $30 million between 1994 and 1997.62 Twelve Health Funding Authority (HFA) managers had salaries over $120,000.63 The debt-ridden Capital Coast Health paid five consultants, some part-time, close to $300,000 for less than five months work, while its chief executive at one point received a salary of nearly $500,000, which the Dominion called “preposterous.”64 Absurdly, its own executive chairman was paid consultant’s fees for advising on its restructuring, receiving nearly $200,000 in fees that had been personally set by English.65 (By contrast, as prime minister, Jenny Shipley received $199,000 a year).66 By 1998, the cost of running the Health Department had quadrupled since 1992 to $105 million.67
English said he was fine with this.68 Yet he also argued against giving health workers a 1 percent pay rise, calling them “inflated pay packets,”69 and insisted that nurses’ pay rises be fiscally neutral.70
[QUOTE=minimoke;683398]you cant raise her integrity. She hasn't had a decent job in parliament yet to test her.
"Her most challenging role was shadow min of justice and im blowed if i can remember what impact she had there".mm
She has all the honesty and integrity above and beyond any politican i can remember (in recent history)until she doesn't. No way can she maintain 100% in the gladiatorial sport of politics , but hey if she hangs in anywhere near helen clark thats way above the bar which national are currently standing on , pressing into the ground..