The Ghoulishness of National

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Selwyn Manning paints a damning timeline of National’s use of the Covid Karens to generate a scandal to attack Labour with.

The conclusion is that National withheld vital information about a possible spread of Covid inside NZ for pure political point scoring.

As disgusting as that is, expect a lot more of it.

As TDB has been pointing out since day 1 of the new political reality of the pandemic, the only way National win now is by seizing on a public servants incompetence and nailing that onto Jacinda.

The electorates psychology has changed so much so that only outrage and backlash at their sacrifice being squandered is the only means to victory for Todd Muller and his team of cowardly MPs who only joined together to roll Simon Bridges because they feared unemployment.

That means between now and the election, National will be a Party of Ghouls, always wanting the country to fail and become plague ridden so that they can blame Jacinda and win power, even if all that meant was that they ruled an economic plague wasteland swollen with grief and ruin.

National will do anything to win power, the naked gleam in their eyes should disgust not be rewarded.

I’m unhappy with the quarantine screw ups, we all are, but let’s not for one second pretend National in power would have been better.

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I think they would have been far, far, far worse.

 

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24 COMMENTS

  1. National may or may not have been worse but that is no defense.
    This government has displayed a level of incompetence not seen since Muldoon and deserves to be punished by national for it.

    • No, the ‘system’ has displayed incompetence not the govt. The govt inherited a broken system that will take a generation to rectify. National was and still is a major factor in the incompetence of the system(s) they underfunded and neglected for nearly a decade. Latest poll results show the majority of the electorate back Jacinda Ardern and this govt with economic recovery. The reforms will come along with the mandate.

      Roll on September 19.

    • What do you think of National’s decision to hold onto such important information for so long, thus putting kiwis in jeopardy of contracting covid Jays?

    • Is that the same National that was promoting every sob story from any person delayed or refused entry to NZ along with supporting acts from the media & business? If National had been in charge the only profitable business in the country would be undertakers. I see no effort from the National party to identify the people making the wrong decisions which is as good an indication as any that murky things have been happening.

    • Well, now you see the “deep state effect” in New Zealand. After nine years of National’s paternalistic management style, their appointees left over in the public service is causing mayhem on every level in the public service. Classic example the PPE debacle (they could not even give account of stock or distribute it effectively). They cant implement quarantine guidelines as nine years of National government impaired their ability to manage and the paternalistic culture is present on all levels of management. Don’t ignore the strong National party affiliation of the current management and they will do anything to derail Labor’s success. The leaks to National is confirms this culture and It will take years to repair the damage.

  2. Totally agree, and in fact the public need to be reminded of that – all the campaigning to get borders opened up. Yes it was a stuff up but the reality is everything has an error rate so if it’s (e.g.) 1 in 10,000 after Woods and Military tighten things up, if the borders were opened to the extent National want, we’d still see folk slipping through regularly. The virus is a tough adversary, in reality you need a very low error rate AND a very low number of folk going through the borders, or you are just asking for trouble. I think only letting in returning NZers and a minimum of other strategic arrivals remains the only way to go – sorry for those losing their jobs in tourism and export ed but it will be the rest of us too if we go more open when the virus going what it’s doing in the rest of the world.

  3. Agree! In fact National, with Woodhouse as their Health Minister, would be much worse than David Clark has ever been. Woodhouse would wait for 24 hours, “verifying his facts and checking individuals’ confidentiality” etc etc before acting on any information that portends serious and immediate consequences for the nation’s health (as he demonstrated this week). Then he might act – slowly. But don’t count on it. He does, after all, come from the management in the private health sector ( which is where his predecessor Coleman has gone)so he has no real priority for the public health sector.

      • Yes and we should remember that it was Andrew Little and Winston Peters who gifted both Adern and this COL govt.

        All we need now is big govt, a regulated economy via dismantling the Reserve Bank Act, a few well placed tariffs to protect our own industry’s, and the re nationalization of core infrastructure such as electricity and water supply. Which will pave the way for the dozens of other assets and utility’s stolen from us by the neo liberal criminals to be re nationalized.

        Oh ,… and kicking out the Aussie bank leeches.

        That’d be a good start.

        • Join you on that Wild Katipo.
          Back to egalitarianism again and the golden 1950’s I miss so badly.

  4. Every thing that National says, does and claims will must be taken with a pinch of salt.

    National has chosen to demean itself to the lowest level of credibility and ethical value in order to achieve a sense of Upmanship and political point scoring.

    If anyone takes whatever National says in the biased towards National mainstream NZ media as unquestioned Gospel according to St National Party then it shows how stupid and naive a number of voters in NZ are.

    No amount of diversion by mis-information by the mainstream NZ media will change my decision on which political party I will be voting for this year.

    And whilst National in their childish temper tantrums similar to the antics of their beloved Donald Trump will try to manipulate the votes of most NZers I think and I hope most NZers can see through the stupidity that National love to behave in i.e schoolyard temper tantrum bullying because they just don’t know how to behave more intelligently.

  5. There is nothing the Gnats wouldn’t do to get their greasy paws on power, including letting Covid into NZ. We forget that at our peril. You know how they would have managed things – same as mycoplasma bovis – loose in the country to this day.

  6. Geez, are we really more concerned about the Kovid Karen’s than the massive escalation of violence in this country? Bloomfield has told the truth from the beginning- healthy people can generate a false positive, get over it. And it is not the Spanish flu.
    An unarmed cop was gunned down ruthlessly in the streets of Auckland. This country supported massive protests and stood in solidarity with violent rioters in America who carried signs that read, “KILL POLICE.” You want to stand in solidarity with American violence then you will import it, Now you will see a militarized police in this country like you have never seen before. Shame.

    • Angie – Well said. No-one, police officer or not, deserves to die shot like a dog on the street, and as usual, the media are avoiding the hard questions. This man’s mother raised him without a dad, which is so hard, but she clearly did it very well – and now she, and the whole country, have lost the sort of person who we can ill afford to lose. My heart breaks for her.

      I suggest that this is a time for silence from activists like Marama Davidson, Matthew Tukaki, Julia Whaipooti and co castigating the police, sometimes just to score votes from the punters, but maybe careless about the effect of their utterings on the young and the dumb, by portraying the police as the enemy.

      The clip I saw of some television female crying at Whaipooti’s explanation of why Maori women stay in abusive relationships – fear of the police and of the state – I thought a cynical simplification of the tragedy of women’s lives; I’ve been involved in this issue more than I ever wanted, and the New Zealand police are infinitely more switched on about domestic violence than they used to be; they did not deserve to be portrayed as a worse alternative than violent abusive partners, because it is not true.

      Worse, Whaipooti, in my opinion, does battered women a major disservice by seemingly implying that perhaps they should not seek police help in dire circumstances. As you probably know, the dynamics of abuse are complex, and television chat shows can minimise the horrific reality of living in an on-going fear, and capitalise on raw emotion for juicy viewing.

      Only the non-wise would see the aborted armed police squads as specifically aimed at people of colour – excuse my pc cliche. They were established to deal with people who the cops have reasonable grounds to suspect are criminal, or involved in criminal activity. It is not the fault of the police if they turn out to be mainly Maori. That’s a societal issue – and another massive issue. At the time these armed squads were established, I remarked to a senior police officer that they should only shoot Pakeha, otherwise it’s racist.

      The American BLM movement appears to have a divisive racial element which we don’t need here, and NZ politicians who indulge in anti-Pakeha and anti-police rhetoric need to also consider their social responsibility to the whole community, and whether they are nourishing the odious far-right white extremists who flourish in their own little cess pits of mad hatred.

      I’m crying for the cop who was shot, and I’m angry that it happened, and want no racists in Parliament. The time is long gone when folk like me thought that the police were used as a weapon under the previous regime, and if political figures now want to portray cops as the people’s foe, then they tread a dumb and dangerous path.

      • I had no idea that this man was raised by single Mother. Seriously, only makes this more tragic. So do Kiwis want to stand in solidarity with Americana and de-fund the police, and “kill police…” Or not.? Nice wall of words, but you stand for violence or against it.

        • Jack – Yes, I was off topic, and so are you.

          Nowhere do I state policing is dangerous work, although it is; so are construction, forestry, and worm farming. And in the latter occupations it’s not usually bad or mad humans who create the dangers.

          My concern is that there are activists, mainly female, and certainly not among older Maori, trying to deliberately portray the NZ Police as the enemy, thereby creating a danger for them, and thereby also giving dumb brain-addled comic book characters justification for fighting, and killing police officers.

          It’s likely racist, and maybe part of the hating on all Pakeha for historical and current Treaty infringements, who may not be even remotely connected to any of it; or it may just be screwed-up people lashing out, but it’s a form of violence which begets other violence, and politicians have more of a duty than other dimwits not to carry on in a socially divisive way – half them are hopeless.

  7. Yes, let’s blame National for our sides incompetence. God the left are pathetic, we used to be better.

  8. The government stuffed up big time. Own the mistake and fix it. What we are hearing now are more details of the failure coming out of the woodwork with the media doing their jobs and reporting it. Meanwhile the government is trying so desperately to pin this on National firstly wit Chris Bishop and now more generally. Where is the Minister in charge in all of this. This absolutely stinks and I am sure will come back to haunt them.

    Well I’m sorry but when you are in control you also accept all responsibility of what is happening at the operational level. Own it and fix it.

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