The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday – 2nd September 2021

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  1. National party supporter response if Govt HAD built stand alone MIQ facility. Why did it take so long to build? Why is it in the wrong place? Why is it struggling to get staff to man it? How many houses did not get built due to builders being used instead on this project? How much did it cost? Why so much? Why did the Govt not use the many empty Hotels up and down the country? Do they care nothing for the hospitality businesses losing money from no tourism? Should have been built at Auckland Airport. should have been built at Ohakea. Should have been built at Burnham. Should have been built on a former Quarantine Island(s). Should have been built in Wigram. Should have been built at Waiouru. Why not just use a campground? Heartless and a shambles! Labour just throwing away MY money. Hosking is right, they’re useless. Tomorrow the national supporters response to an open border policy with Australia.

  2. six foot four of empty shell – fill in, pour your knee-jerk anti-Labour opinions through slot at top!

    Now something else to consider.
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/country/450620/five-more-overseas-companies-approved-to-buy-forestry-or-farm-land
    Is NZ a tasty dish for overseas investors? For sale, parts of small country, looks green, with sparkling waters, people bemused, slightly literate, add to your portfolio of interests and bolt-holes around the world.

    • Greywarbler, I think you misunderstood my intent. Merely my take on what a national party supporter would be saying if the Govt HAD built MIQ facility. Damned if they did and damned if they didn’t. Unlike some on this blog, I’m not anti Labour. In fact, I count ourselves lucky we don’t have a National Govt at this time. I don’t buy in to the war on the woke as I believe in generational change which has had me banned for short stints. That’s fine as it is up to Bomber what views are published. I also believe that the National party will say anything (factual or not) to regain the treasury benches. I shudder to think what a Nat/ACT govt will do to the poor and am grateful to this govt for the work they have done so far (covid response, minimum wage increase, heating allowance, school lunch program, emergency housing etc etc, but I also don’t think of myself as blind to the work that still has to be done.

      • six foot four – We are in a sorry state in NZ I think and need to keep chivvying for better as you did in your earlier comment. But I think it is important to praise what is going right as well, even if by good fortune. We can keep each other’s spirits up to carry on for another day, maybe we can get more good things happening!! If we can keep our heads up we might be able to steer NZ in a good direction. I hope.

  3. Small question re –
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/450638/community-braces-for-bad-news-as-church-cluster-grows-to-332-people

    Once we entered delta conditions why were gatherings not restricted in numbers? Some consultations with church leaders and entertainers. It was a new difficult ballgame. Or don’t governments have the capacity for sustained practicality and reasonable precautionary measures any more until their hand is forced by events?
    A reasonable query I think.

    • damned if they do, damned if they don’t. Hard to have the population buy in to stuff on the basis of what ‘might’ happen. The fact that this govt is reactionary to events might turn out to be it’s strength. Nationals proposal of a 70% vaccination rate being a case on point. Could shoulda woulda is right wing mantra and the majority of people aren’t buying that product at the moment. What would be the point of ‘change’ if you can’t take the majority with you and end up in opposition as a right wing govt takes apart the covid response, minimum wage increases, the winter heating allowance, school lunch program, emergency housing etc and sacrifices NZers lives to the money god, all while the left shout coulda shoulda woulda? Small steps are sometimes all that can be done. I remember when the Govt banned single use plastic bags. “empty headed virtue signaling’ was the cry with david seymour going as far to say that the new bags would kill people. Years later, I doubt any business could or would entertain the idea of a single use bag which has also led to innovations in packaging and recycling with plastic bread tags and cutlery also being phased out due to NZers ‘buying in’ to the idea. If the Govt had tried to do this all at once, the opposition would have declared a ‘nanny state’ with the same result as the Clark administration and their lightbulbs and shower heads moment. Small steps. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater just seems shortsighted to me.

  4. You make a good point 6×4. But all the same Delta changed the pattern, what was sensible. I suppose the scientific watchers who do so well for us would have pointed this out. The gummint could have reacted to that, and taken the churches along with them. We had a precedent before with their big gatherings resulting in a a big lockdown, bad for business and bad for the working people who caused it. Could a, would a is gone now – but thinking people expect gummint to learn and avoid further lockdowns that are driving people stressed by past poor government going back to the 1980s – towards crazy. Can gummint pass the ‘fit for purpose test’?

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