How bad are things when all National have left are asset sales?

Christopher Luxon calls for ‘mature’ conversation on asset recycling, as Chris Hipkins pledges to hold onto all state assets

“What would this government do when they’ve run out of things to sell?” Hipkins said, after Luxon spoke positively of a new Treasury report that calls for better management of the country’s $571 billion portfolio of assets.

Oh he wants a mature conversation now does he?

When you consider all the immature things he has said in 2 years, when you consider the contempt he has shown poor people, when you consider how he demanded a rates relief for his holiday home on Waiheke Island.

Now he wants a mature conversation does he?

Unemployment has reached a 9-year high of 5.3 percent, it’s 10.5% for Māori, 12.1% for Pacifica and 15.2% for 15-24year olds while an increasing number of disillusioned job seekers are opting out of joining the workforce altogether.

600 000 need food banks monthly.

Our suicide rate continues to soar.

And 73 000 have fled the country.

How bad has shit gotten that all National have left is selling our public assets to cover up the disaster of their austerity program?

They have underfunded public services while borrowing billions for tax cuts, landlord tax loop holes, gas and oil subsides, tobacco subsidies and Michelin Star programs.

Their decision to destroy Labour’s infrastructure pipeline has had a cascade effect throughout the economy that has seen 73 000 flee the country and the destruction of 30 000 jobs in the construction sector.

National’s response to this is mass importation of cheaper labour from exploited migrant workers while allowing multi millionaires to buy $5million mansions.

How bad are things when all National have left are asset sales?

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