Opposition leader Chris Hipkins is dismissive of Prime Minister Christopher Luxon saying the country needs a “mature” conversation around the potential sale of state-owned 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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It’s not a case of “all National have left are asset sales,” because that is all they EVER had.
This CoC shower couldn’t, as the saying goes, organise a piss-up in a brewery!
But Amanda’s organising his head at home and I wish her to be in The Sisterhood with me and Economics is Everything. Simple.
Yes…and to think, that they think, that god created Luxon, Willis, Bishop and Seymour as economic saviours for New Zealand… that we should all be grateful for…
….Such is their delusion…hopelessly flailing around with such naive ill thought through policies….
Even Winston Peters has called them out and he’s part of the CoCk!!
NOBODY HAS DRIVEN N.Z. OFF A CLIFF FASTER THAN THIS LOT…
Luxon needs to read this slowly so it sinks in. “Recycling is the process of collecting and ‘reprocessing’ used materials to create new products, which conserves natural resources and reduces waste”. So where does the reprocessing bit come into Luxon’s understanding of recycling our assets? He simply wants to SELL OFF our assets, including our souls, until there is nothing left and we are easy prey for a takeover. So please someone tell Luxon to stop the BS as no-one with a brain can’t see he is desperate and deadly. He doesn’t give a sh&t about NZ or its future – it’s all about ME ME ME and what HE wants personally, ie a KH! He’s a horrible, greedy, simpleton, pretending to be a PM – FGS can’t he simply go away and give us a break!
Liability sales applies equally here.
Liability sale?….Then we should sell the whole Coalition of Clusterfuckery for 10 cents …and even that’s too much.
Bob, I answered you but it’s too hard for TDB with Martyn and Jack still up te pou.
Shouting down, from up here —
PETERS RESIGN!
Hark, the echoes
He’s said so many immature things, in fact that’s his only sort of comment. Immature, shallow, derisive, petty, whiny, ignorant, condescending, self-serving, selfish, self-righteous, disinterested and childish…have I left anything out?
He gets excited about the likes of Ms. Swift and ‘rump like a stupid, sulky teenager.
He’s not capable of mature, good-faith conversation. EQ is rock bottom and he makes it clear he’d rather be anywhere but here, being our prime minister.
However, it was the only route to a knighthood that he could see, so of course he wanted it. Immature.
The sooner we are free of him and his bullying and tanties, the better.
You can’t have a mature conversation about asset sales because it’s such a stupid, immature and lazy idea.
Yup pretty much an admission of failure – not only are we not ‘back on track’ but the Nats are proposing to rip the rails out with asset sales.
Last I heard they just sold the track !!!