Those are pretty conclusive figures. 75% are positive about the governments response To Covid 19 and 3 out of 4 people continue to support the governments approach. Thats impressive :D
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12358858
Du Fresne's argument about the border testing failures is worth reading at length: "On one level this can be dismissed as simple incompetence, but it goes far beyond that.
People might be willing to excuse incompetence up to a point, but they are not so ready – and neither should they be – to forgive spin, deception and dissembling.
Misinformation can't be blithely excused as a clumsy misstep, still less as "dissonance" (to use Bloomfield's creative English).
On the contrary, if misinformation is deliberate then it raises critical issues of trust and transparency."
I find it a bit ironic that David Seymour who advocates free speech complaining about an update on the Labour Party Facebook page, described as an ad in the article, but as an update by the spokesperson.
"The video is an update on the Government's Covid response and specifically the work ESR and the national contract tracing team has been doing," she said.
Act leader David Seymour described the ad as scandalous and said no public servants should be used to help political parties campaign.
We still have photos, videos in the news media of the Jacinda (politician) and Ashley (public servant) show so where does it cross the line? He is nit-picking in my opinion. Politician' visits to schools, hospitals, and government departments are generally considered news, not advertising. And it wouldn’t matter if Jacinda was trailing in the polls, it would be just business as usual.
ACT says the Government should use the Ministry of Health to fight Covid-19, not an election campaign. It is a Covid election.
This from Bryce Edwards
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been both blaming the workers themselves for not being tested (“We have picked up on reluctance among staff”) as well as saying that the Government hadn’t been kept informed of the problem. According to Tim Watkin, “Both can’t be true. If the Prime Minister was being briefed about reluctant staff, she knew that not everyone on the border was being tested and that the statements she and her ministers were making about all frontline workers being tested were false. For a politician whose reputation is based on trust and who has said she would never lie, it’s been a damaging week” – see: Test Fail: Is Labour bordering on trouble?
The drums are beating. The lies being exposed.
I suspect HEAPS of people out there have never heard of Bryce Edwards. I also suspect HEAPS of people out there never read that sort of stuff, nor will they, ever.
I suspect whats more important to people is what they see with their very own eyes and what they hear with their very own ears. It appears from the polls a large majority of people like what they see and like what they hear
The drums are silent.
Boysy was refuting his arguments by pointing out his background - an identity that wouldn’t expect to see him singing Jacinda’s praises. And Damian Grant doesn’t sing her praises – “Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern used her bully pulpit to issue a slew of orders that were outside her remit.’
Very strong language, when the court said there is no question that the requirement was a necessary, reasonable and and proportionate response to the Covid19 crisis at that time.
The article starts out “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. The article is a personal attack against Ardern, because he sees her as too powerful, and in his opinion she needs to be cut down in size and know her place, and he will twist information to prove his point.