MEDIAWATCH: Q+A Review – Crooke Van Velden gets roasted, Willie Jackson proves why he’s Labour’s greatest asset

Crooke Van Velden is on trying to defend the gutting of WorkSafe in the same week the Pike River Mine movie is out.

Crooke Van Velden shows no shame and Jack smashed her so early.

She’s claiming Worksafe sanctions don’t work and so she’s dumping the prosecution focus (because bosses are so scared of prosecution apparently) yet as Jack points out ACT are using for extreme sanctions on the poor.

You can see the panic in her face as he drops the hypocrisy hammer – why dump sanctions on bosses if they don’t work, yet increase them on the poor.

Oh he sank her battleship!

Her exposed hypocrisy makes the rest of the interview a joke.

She then starts shitting on the kindness and says we should use more stick for the poor but less for the bosses!

She is drowning live on air, it’s glorious!

Jack challenges her on how a gutted WorkSafe will save NZers dying at work each year, she can’t explain it.

Jack brings up how other government agencies have been critical of her gutting Worksafe, she can’t answer that.

ACT are stooges for Boss interests, gutting WorkSafe will see more workers die.

Crooke Van Velden is a dead eyed acolyte for the free market while pretending to care about workers.

She refused to meet the CTU for a year, she doesn’t care about workers!

We have twice as many deaths as Australia and 3 times as many as the UK, Jack dumps this fact on her:

The advice is we need 10.7 work inspectors per 100 000 workers, he asks her how many do we currently have:

She claims using a ratio doesn’t work despite more labour inspectors bringing down deaths.

Jack puts to her that there is a Māori programme to reduce Māori worker deaths and argues why do they have that when ACT are against race based funding.

Watching her try to answer is the best thing you’ll see on TV this week.

The insanity of the road cone bullshit is pricked by Jack.

This is a point TDB has been making, the orange road cones protect workers and drivers around road works and demanding they are removed will cause more injuries!

Jack argues that there were 42 fatalities and over 300 injuries around road cones and asks why will removing them make those road works safer.

Brooke can’t answer but claims that ether are so many orange cones that people become blind to them.

That’s her actual answer.

She claims road management costs too much money, so effectively she’s doing it to save money damn the human cost, which is funny because that’s the exact next question Jack puts to her.

A human life is worth $12.5million dollars, how many road cones need to be removed to justify the cost of 1 human life.

Brooke answers honestly by saying, ‘she doesn’t want to get into the numbers’, which of course she doesn’t want to because that would expose the sociopathic nature of these changes to the NZ electorate.

Jack challenges her on not wanting to ‘get into the number’ by asking her – “Isn’t that your job”?

The reality is Brooke is weaponising our impatience damn the loss of human life.

Jack Tame remains the best TV interviewer we have. This was real holding power to account.

Jack grills her on the pay equity knee capping. He uses her own Regulatory Standards Bill mantra that all legislation must be discussed with groups who are materially effected by the changes.

Brooke can’t answer the question!

Even by HER OWN PARTY’S VANITY PROJECT, she didn’t do what she was supposed to do.

Why aren’t the Regulatory Standards she is pushing applicable to her own policy???

She’s a double hypocrite!!!

That’s 2 hypocrisies in 1 interview!

She tries to claim she hasn’t knee capped equal equity legislation.

She’s  lying.

She robbed workers of their future payments and she has changed the thresholds that make them near impossible to obtain.

Jack keeps grilling her on how awful the pay equity changes are and she keeps drowning.

Jack invites her to explain how those impacted by her changes should respond and she says she’s not here to help advice them!

She can’t answer the question at all, and says it’s not up to her to compare the jobs and Jack looks to camera and says that’s why we needed Pay Equity in the first place!

THAT’S 3 HYPOCRICIES IN 1 INTERVIEW!

Wow.

She was roasted.

Next up Willie Jackson on the punishment handed out to the Māori MPs.

Willie makes the point that the right keep trying to paint a Labour/Maori Party Government as the end of Western Civilisation when it is really ACT who are the threat!

He argues that he loves the Maori Party even when they are fiery and calling him a traitor because Labour supports free speech but makes it clear they needed to apologise because the Tikanga of Parliament demands that, but that the punishment was racist.

Labour Mandarins clutch their pearls every time Willie speaks, but his entire career has been about working together and that is the message Pakeha working class and pakeha middle class want to hear.

Willie is trusted on the Left because of his message of working together and the passion of the Maori Party doesn’t have to frighten middle NZ is he is perceived to be influencing that relationship.

Chippy has made much of how weak Luxon is and he can’t be seen being like that with the Maori Party.

Willie points out tikanga is important, but what’s more important is Jobs, Health and Homes.

Willie’s working together message is the one that the left wants to rally around, the Maori Party must decide if they are just here for the political theatre or to make a material change in the lives of the poorest.

Jack Tame did a bloody good job of holding the powerful to account this week.

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