After ruling out the initial Ferry replacement deal for political virtue signal purposes AND to fuck over KiwiRail for the Trucking Industry, watching the Political Right attempt to run defence for this shambolic decision has been extraordinary.
Here’s Meme Agent Performance Artist Chris Penk…
…or 13 new cancer drugs to sell you eh Penky?
This Government’s priority are their rich landlord mates with a $2.9billion tax break and $14billion in borrowed tax cuts, NOT the infrastructure we need!
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This is a Government whose only value is to their donors interests, watching Right Wing Trolls trying to defend this is jaw dropping.
You voted this in Kiwis, you own their venality!
And what has Penk delivered other than mountains of bull shit
Chris Penk, even your name is laughable and YES Labour would have delivered the ships just as they did pay equity. Fuck Chris and I thought you were one of the few better ones in the national party, it appears not.
As Farrar said on X, Bluebridge has managed a fleet of eight different ferries since 1992. They managed to replace and renew them successfully before they break down, and have done it without costing taxpayers a cent”. Time to sell off the Interislander perhaps.
“But political commentator Liam Hehir says it’s going to be difficult for the Government to avoid the link between the grounding and its jettisoning of the $1.45b iRex project to acquire new Interislander ferries.
The Aratere grounding is “another damning episode” where NZ “had big aspirations and ambitions” to do things but eventually failed to see them through, he said.”
“Just saying,” tweeted former prime minister Helen Clark, “didn’t someone cancel the order for badly needed new NZ inter-island ferries?”
Michael Wood, a transport minister under the last Labour government, says it’s been known for a long time the ferries are at the end of their useful lifespans.
“What today’s events throw into relief is that the decision to stop those ferries being built isn’t one that results in a quick replacement – we’re looking at years and years before we have the security of new vessels.”
Time to vote out this outrageous cut at all cost government perhaps.
No country in the world has a privately owned ferry service on such a vital maritime corridor.
A ferry is a public good, not a private commoditiy.
yes well lets see Blue bridge stump up a couple of billion for the new ferries then .We want ferries to move more freight in a day than Blue bridge does in a year .Then there is the small question of how many million people a year which is growing
National will look to reduce the embarrassment willis was to quick to dismiss the new ferries she showed her lack of knowledge and experience in purchasing decent ferries she thinks it’s like buying a car. If we introduced performance pay she wouldn’t get paid. We need to invest in new ferries and we need to maintain public ownership to ensure such and important public good is sustainable and accessible for trade and tourism. Luxon said during the election there would be no asset sales.
I would vote conservative for the right reasons. one, for the environment. and two, for humanity. neither of which this lot are doing. Neo-Liberal Conservatives – Capital Conservatives – the worst kind. Nepotists and Oligarchs.
I would vote left if they ever ever ever ever ever got past hui, other talk fests, discussion groups and accounting firms claiming to give advice.
Correct Bambino.
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