Hear no child poverty, see no child poverty, speak no child poverty

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Martyn Bradbury
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Hear no child poverty, see no child poverty, speak no child poverty

The level to which the National Party do poverty denial is actually more draining than the energy needed to solve it. The fact that the UN are deeply critical of our ridiculous Ministry for creating Vulnerable Children should embarrass National…

New Zealand child poverty a source of deep concern, says UN

The UN has said in a damning report that it is deeply concerned about New Zealand’s persistently high rates of child poverty.

Unicef says 300,000 children – a third of New Zealand’s child population – now live below the poverty line. This is a rise of 45,000 in a year.

Government representatives travelled to Geneva last month to present the country’s progress on its commitment to protecting the rights of the child to the UN.

The UN committee’s report acknowledges widespread public debate and media attention on child poverty in New Zealand, but expresses serious concern about the government’s failure to address the issue systematically.

“The committee is deeply concerned about the enduring high prevalence of poverty among children,” the report says, highlighting “the effect of deprivation on children’s right to an adequate standard of living and access to adequate housing, with its negative impact on health, survival and development, and education”.

…sadly it does not embarrass National at all. Key had the audacity to claim human rights activist and Green Party MP Marama Davidson being illegally arrested in International waters ‘was not a good look’.

The UN criticising his Government’s appalling record on Child Poverty however is a promotion of us is it?

The reason National allow children to rot in poverty is because the issue cuts right across one of their greatest neoliberal myths – that society isn’t made up of hegemonic structures and success is a personal achievement.

If you succeed in life, it’s because you are wonderful, if you fail at life that’s your fault and that’s because you are a loser.

This mentality has been allowed to spread like rot throughout our social services so that CYFs, Corrections, Housing NZ, WINZ, Ministry for making Vulnerable Children and Ministry of no Development etc etc etc.have now become part of the problem, not the solution. The appalling manner in which these so called public agencies denigrate, damage and hurt the most vulnerable is critical to the success of these neoliberal mythologies. If you have fallen so low to require their help, the needy are given the stick to force them to find help elsewhere.

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It’s economic darwinism.

But National can only get away with such cruelty as social policy if the sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind let them and we can see the exact same poverty denial expressed by voters. The mentality that it’s the parents fault for not being able to feed their children and it has nothing to do with the draconian welfare reforms is wide spread and accepted.

National can get away with poverty denial because the voters who are gaining hundreds of thousands annually from untaxed capital gains on their property portfolio allow them to ignore inequality.

This isn’t National’s fault any longer, it’s ours for allowing them to do this to most vulnerable.

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15 COMMENTS

  1. Yes agree with you Martyn but hopefully we will have a change of government 2017. The trouble with the gnats is they believe their own spin and so do some NZers.

    • 100% Micelle and the Government controls the media through controlling what they send us in programming so we need a “fifth Estate ” benefactor to step forward to help fund our own Bradbury “free public media TV channel” now in time for the 2017 election.

      • Hehehehe…. by that I hope you don’t mean fund our own ”Bradbury – free public media TV channel” now in time for the 2017 election.

        Sorry CLEANGREEN , couldn’t resist – the English language is so full of nuances… and sorry to you too also Martyn ,… I just saw the funny side of it… I guess this will go down like a lead balloon…

        🙂

  2. So people standing up for what they believe in in a non-violent way is “not a good look” is it John?
    What isn’t a good look John is your weasel words over child poverty, grandstanding in the UN over Syria, failing to practise what you preach to others, having state visits from Pacific Island despots and sidestepping the homeless in your own country.
    Now THAT isn’t a good look.
    The man has exceeded any previous limits in the hypocrisy scale. Only the National Party would think that is a good thing.

    • Never mind , mate – the little fella got booed publicly at two large events , once at a rugby league match and again at the LGBT festival.

      And THAT wasn’t a good look either,… people are waking up to the pretentious little fella. It wont be long now before planet Key gets a seismic tremor that cracks it in two… a bit like Humpty Dumpty.

      • Maybe they will come into Jonkeys back yard and frack the oil and gas out of his property and pollute his drinking water causing a large sink hole that swallow’s him up one fine day eh!

        Ya ya ya.

  3. Sure, they’re all into economic Darwinism..except when it was them in need of subsidised housing, benefits and education.

  4. The three Stooges … what policy have they implemented that has been successful?
    None! They’ve failed in everything they’ve done!
    Its such a long list I can’t be f..k’d writing the list but I do think FrankMackasy got a list??

  6. Martyn;

    I have had a comment on eugenics taken down before,elsewhere, but you have just implied it here. Good on you.

    “It’s economic darwinism.” = eugenics in my mind.

    The photo above is brilliant. Just look at the arrogance,especially on the face of
    that s…. Bennent.

    And to think of how and where she came from. Her parents should be ashamed.

    Cheers.

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