The Prime Minister was just on the AM Show defending her Government’s record of child poverty by pointing to a recent MSD that claims child poverty is improving.
This simply isn’t true.
As the Daily Blog’s own Professor Susan St John pointed out in her must read blog last week, MSD left out huge numbers of children from that report which questions all of the assumption made!
You can’t pretend child poverty is getting better if you leave out the poorest must vulnerable children from that report!
Labour have capitulated to the neoliberal Wellington Bureaucracy and refused to implement universal provisions to erase child poverty in favour of bullshit targeted welfare.
We should have free breakfast and lunch in EVERY school, not just a few of the poorest.
ALL public transport should be free, not just for the old.
ALL beneficiary debt incurred via overpayment should be wiped.
The self serving Public Service don’t care what Labour demands now because they aren’t frighten of Labour and that’s the fundamental difference between Labour and National.
National take their pool of candidates from upper management and they are all sociopaths who beat their workers with whips connected to tasers, that’s why the self serving public service jump when National demand it.
Labour on the other hand want to have a hui and a cuddle which the self serving Public service aren’t fearful of.
Because Labour had no 100 day plan in 2107 and no 100 day plan in 2020, they missed the opportunity to ram radical progressive change through and defend it against the self serving Wellington Bureaucracy.
That’s why we’ve ended up with meaningless bullshit rather than transformational change.
Combine this lack of material change in the lives of the poorest with the middle class woke activist pursuits of cancelling for pronouns, militant Te Reo pronunciation and labelling everything hate speech, and you can see why the Left are going to get slammed in next years election.
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Reaping the whirlwind.
Kids Can just put out an urgent appeal for more donation with 10000 more meals needed for kids since the start of the year.Nothing to do with Key he left 7 years ago the real culprit is the present government causing rentals to increase with no e d in sight.
So in 7 years time it will be whoever the government of the day is, right?
Are you 5 years old?
BS – while the current lot have to take some responsibility, the 3 terms of nil action by the previous administration meant the current lot were left with a very large amount to do. It is a disgrace, especially given the mandate from the last election, that they have been so ineffectual in doing so.
Most of the NZ Nation did well under National’s 9 years and if Winston had gone with them in 2017 then it would have been 12 years. I admit a section of the public did not get included but now everyone is feeling the pinch and it is getting worse .
More bullshit Trev if most of NZ did so well why did Labour end up with such a large majority. Public services were fun down, immigration high, more Maori incarcerated, more inequalities, public schools run down, leaking hospitals gees Trev who did you say did well under National, most NZers utter rubbish.
You are such a myopic right-trite wing tosser, Tory Trevor.
Change your name to 3-T, or 4-T.
If only we could have an Alex Jones style trials to bankrupt you morally bankrupt right-wing Tory Trolls for your lies, misogyny and racism.
Look is all National & Labours fault, they are as bad as each other.
if they are going to have tax cuts it should only be at the bottom end!
Why won’t she abolish gst on food anyway ? And on toiletries ? They’re hell bent on abolishing the Commissioner for Children who actually helps children, but they won’t cut the gst which directly benefits all low income families. The well- heeled who barely notice the difference are not the people who rob food banks, they don’t even use food banks. It’s well past time to see kids simply as government department stats.
Never say Never in politics. Change can take for ever, or it can happen very quickly.
While various grey beard political pundits wank on like it was 1989, the future is younger and browner. In the Far North District Council elections we got a new Mayor and Deputy Mayor. I never thought I would see a Māori Mayor in my lifetime, but put a “Moko for Mayor” sign on our gate anyway, and now 31 year old Moko Tepania IS Mayor! and in an admirable unity attempt, Labour endorsed Kelly Stratford is his Deputy Mayor.
The Nats in Northland are spewing, particularly the previous Deputy Dog from bourgeois Kerikeri Ann Court. The thing is Moko ran a professional campaign and went to tiny settlements and tauiwi enclaves alike and won it popularly from the front. Previous arseholes like John Carter won on split votes.
Anyway with Jacinda–expect no change until we have a more militant central labour organisation, and there is a popular political campaign to boot Rogernomics.
Jacinda is a true blue tory.
Nah, a classic neo liberal, mixed with social liberalism and a smidge of reformism i.e. minimum wage hikes and Paid Parental leave that ACT and Natz want to roll back. She will go further for gays than a sheep shagger ever would, but will not challenge the power of capital in a meaningful way, apart from the first year of COVID when she almost did.
Did you notice the whinging from tories? open the borders! open my cafe!
There are so many categories of political streams these days–Natzos have always had the problem of trying to reconcile neo libs, urban conservative reactionaries, country boys, and religious nutters in their own ranks.
You wish she was a Tory like you and your ilk dilbrain.
You wish that National and ACT could produce someone of Jacinda’s world recognized ability and mana.
What have your NACT lot got, in the female department, that would blossom on the world stage like Jacinda has?
Jenny Shipley?
Nicola Willis?
Brooke van Der Velde?
Susan Kuriger?
Judith Fucking Collins?
Maureen Pugh?
You throw every misogynist epithet and vile nickname her way, threaten her and her family, make up stories about her partner. You are just abhorrent right wing fuckers, like Alex Jones and Donald Trump. Liars and arsehole keyboard bullies. You Tories make me sick!
Fucking Cameron-Slater-Alex-Jones-Steve-Bannon acolyte-soles.
\You make me sick dillbrain!
Correct with every comment.
If her rich mates second or third homes where under threat in Tairua she would throw cash at protecting them. Seeing as its only poor mainly brown kids that are under threat she simply deos not care. She has shown us that by allowing house prices and rents to explode and to allow price gouging by scumlords in Rotorua who are farming the poor for immense profit and ruining these kids lives forever. She just does not give a fuck. It is quite frankly evil what I am seeing coming from this faux Labour party and I and Jacinda know that National will be even more cruel, but even that won’t make her change things.
Magit, Agree, I saw the UK comments, and also incredulous comments from Australian media about her advocating global censorship to the UNO.
“ One may smile, and smile, and be a villain”. Hamlet.
“ One whose hard heart is buttoned up with steel…pitiless and rough…”. The Comedy of Errors.
We all know the crippling effects of poverty, often permanent effects, and not necessarily the fault of the impoverished, and certainly never the fault of the children. This constant dismissal of them as
figures and stats is dehumanising and unacceptable.
If your interested in race based policies you should watch ‘No Maoris allowed’ channel one @8.30pm 18 Oct. Winstone Peters should watch it so he can see apartheid in NZ. Our country has a bad track record of racism, discrimination and we still do and who have benefitted from these racist policies and practises.
The Sallies’ shop in my large suburb is now selling bins of kids’ clothes reduced to $1 a piece.
The PM didn’t lie about the numbers. The PM had been incorrectly told by officials the data included “children living in non-private dwellings”. Child poverty has still substantially reduced under Ardern’s government.
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