Chris Luxon’s lust to punish doesn’t seem very Jesus does it?

Ummmmm.

These seems a tad spiteful doesn’t it?

Y-e-a-h.

People in trauma and shock reacting violently to Fire Fighters and Ambulance staff is a terrible thing, but THEY ARE ACTING IN TRAUMA AND SHOCK aren’t they?

This is bullshit pandering to the tough on crime brigade to deflect from the fact the Economy is sliding it the trash because of this Government’s Free Market Ideology!

The latest Stats NZ figures show in the past 12 months food prices have gone up 4.4 percent – the highest increase since December 2023.

RNZ have been comparing supermarket shopping and found that In May 2022, their first shop at Woolworths Greenlane cost $238 dollars and $217 at PAK’nSAVE Royal Oak.

But in 2025, those same items at Woolworths have shot up to $305 dollars – an extra $67 dollars at the checkout where as the PAK’nSAVE shop, was now $270, an extra $53 dollars in cost.

Despite promising to tackle the cost of living crisis, the Government has failed us.

But it gets so much worse than that.

The Government’s privatisation austerity agenda is part of the problem, as Bernard Hickey points out…

758 construction businesses have gone into liquidation in the last 12 months, thanks in part to the Government’s freeze on transport, housing and hospital investment spending at the beginning of 2024, Centrix reported this morning. Construction jobs have fallen by 12,723 in the last year!

Worker and employer expectations of real wage deflation are worsening as the economy slides back into a mid-year stagnation, and as administered prices such as Government and council fees and rates rise faster than inflation, as do prices in the monopoly-bound food, insurance and electricity sectors.

…this Government’s pro-growth agenda has gone no where other than propping up their donors mates interests at the cost of the poor…

…this Government doesn’t care about you unless you are rich!

National want you focused on tough on crime bullshit to distract from the cost of living crisis and believe they can do that with a range of crime virtue signals to an angry and reactionary electorate without explaining how these new crime laws will actually work because:

1 – We already have laws against assaulting First Responders.

2 – They can’t tell us how many Coward Punches occur each year.

3 – The Vigilante Shoplifting Law by Paul ‘Mad Max’ Goldsmith will lead to a Vigilante wonderland where you can GET YOUR BASH ON!

You can’t all possibly be this easy to manipulate can you?

 

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