5 years of Jacinda, 1 policy achievement and the last two reasons left to vote for her in 2023

This week marks 5 years of Jacinda as Prime Minister and in half a decade we have so little transformative change to celebrate.

There are only so many Wellington Union and NGO press releases proclaiming a ‘great first step’ by Jacinda before you suddenly realise that you are just jogging on the spot.

And that’s been Labour for 5 years, jogging on the spot.

27 000 are on emergency housing wait lists, more children living in cars than when Labour entered power in 2017 and a million a day spent kettling beneficiaries in dangerous motels.

A total lack of transformative change on welfare, poverty, inequality, climate change and housing is all due to Jacinda’s refusal to intimidate the Wellington Bureaucrats and Labour’s middle class addiction to the Professional Managerial Class (who are all petty property speculators now) has led to failures in forcing the self serving public service to actually do something for the people who voted Jacinda in hope.

Labour oversaw the largest transfer of wealth to the wealthy in NZs entire history and they spend a billion a year on consultants so that Neale Jones, Clint Smith and Davey Cormack can pay the mortgage.

We believe you Dave.

Isn’t there a cheaper way top keep Neale, Clint and Dave off welfare?

Labour has been a failure due to a lack of true leadership to genuinely challenge the neoliberal interests be they in the Ministry or in the economy.

I’m not looking for socialism any more Labour, just basic regulated capitalism, and you can’t even do that properly.

The great policy success of this Government has been the Fair Pay Agreements which will finally put into place procedures where NZ workers can finally use collective bargaining to force bosses to pay them better and give safer work conditions, obviously the Right are screaming about it because the Right are addicted to the low wage economy which they exploit mercilessly.

Let’s be very honest about the only two reasons you should vote for Labour next year.

The first was the masterclass in leadership Jacinda performed in defying the feral QAnon antivax lunatics and death cult capitalists by protecting us from 32 000 Covid deaths!

Was the personal sacrifice steep?

Yes.

Was the economic cost steep?

Yes.

Do the recent revelations by Pfizer that the vaccine didn’t stop transmission suddenly prove all the anti-vaxxers right?

Not at all…

Fact Check-Preventing transmission never required for COVID vaccines’ initial approval; Pfizer vax did reduce transmission of early variants

Social media users are circulating video clips of testimony by a Pfizer executive, who is said to “admit” that the company and its partner BioNTech did not test whether their mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccine reduced virus transmission prior to rolling it out – which is something the companies were not required to do for initial regulatory approval, nor did they claim to have done.

To get emergency approval, companies needed to show that the vaccines were safe and prevented vaccinated people from getting ill. They did not have to show that the vaccine would also prevent people from spreading the virus to others. Once the vaccines were on the market, independent researchers in multiple countries studied people who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and did show that vaccination reduced transmission of variants circulating at the time.

As these results on transmission were emerging in early 2021, national health authorities in many countries implemented or proposed vaccine-passport-style regulations that prompted ongoing debate (here) over the ethical and legal basis of the rules.

The misleading posts imply that national restrictions such as vaccine passports were based on a promise of vaccines blocking virus spread that neither the companies nor EU regulators made before the vaccines were marketed.

…Jacinda’s courage to go hard and go early caused deep societal anger and dislocation, but so would have 32 000 dead!

We all sacrificed, some more than others, but we all paid a pound of flesh to get through this horror and while the response wasn’t perfect, the truth is we were running blind through a once in a century pandemic and Jacinda saw us through that better than most.

Labour deserve a gratitude vote dammit!

The second reason to vote Labour in 2023 is the reality that while Labour have failed us on almost every promise of transformation, their failed promises will still be a far better outcome than what National and ACT will do if they gain power!

Taking a chainsaw to the face of an Underfunded State that barely has the capacity to do the things we require from it is not a solution, it’s ideological vandalism!

Sacking 14 000 public servants, tax cuts for the rich and amputating the political Māori, youth, women, Pacifica and ethnic voices while cutting off the Human Rights Commission is a recipe for conflict politics the likes we haven’t seen before.

You honestly think Māori will have all the gains of the last 182 years simply stripped from them do you?

Can everyone remind everyone else that Liz Truss is a libertarian and her crazy free market bullshit is the same neoliberal mythology that ACT and National want to implement if elected in 2023?

I know that a resented gratitude vote alongside a lesser of two evils vote aren’t reasons to get excited, but that’s why democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others that have been tried.

Labour gives socialism a bad name, but National and ACT will be so much vastly worse.

Don’t even start me on the bloody Greens!

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