Labour getting played by National over Child Poverty legislation
Sigh.
Labour are getting played by National over Child Poverty legislation….
National leader Bill English has continued to slam a “pathetic attempt at bipartisanship” from the Government on child poverty but acknowledged today a briefing was offered in 2017.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Tuesday that she had written to English on the 13th of December outlining the bill and offering a briefing on her new child poverty measure, which the Government intends to write into law.
She was responding to English’s criticism on Monday that the Government was talking up bipartisanship around the issue but didn’t offer a briefing on the measure until Wednesday, when the legislation was due to be introduced.
…by playing up the bi-partisanship desires, Labour have opened the door for English to criticise Jacinda for effectively lying and not being genuine in her offer.
Here is the actual timeline…
…instead of championing a new Child Poverty legislation while flaying National for implementing failed right wing experiments that hurt those kids in poverty, we are arguing about whether Jacinda is being honest with Bill English!
This is not the debate the new Government should be having! Their desire to be inclusive only works when you have an Opposition that is genuinely constructive, at what point will the Labour leadership team comprehend that National are vicious power hungry born to rule pricks?
When does Labour learn you can’t work with National?
How many times does National need to spit directly into Jacinda’s face before someone realises that bi-partisianship simply makes the new Government look weak?
When National lied directly to the country’s face about the $11.7billion budget hole? Was that a good time to appreciate National aren’t constructive?
When National tricked them into believing they didn’t have the numbers to elect Trevor Mallard as Speaker simply by Simon Bridges having a puzzled look on his face? Was that a good time for Labour to appreciate National will deceive and manipulate to win?
When National forced Labour to give them more seats on select committees dooming any legislation to being roadblocked through the process, was that a good time to realise National are the danger?
Instead of championing the new Child Poverty law we are arguing about Jacinda’s offer of bipartisanship.
It’s time the new Government started getting a tad more ruthless and direct with its agenda and looking like winners rather than looking weak with all the bipartisanship virtue signalling.
Perfectly said Martyn.
This prick Billl English keeps sending out messages that he can walk on water, and i think he has a massive ego problem so he should be ignored.
Quote Martyn; “This is not the debate the new Government should be having! Their desire to be inclusive only works when you have an Opposition that is genuinely constructive, at what point will the Labour leadership team comprehend that National are vicious power hungry born to rule pricks?
When does Labour learn you can’t work with National?”
We need a Revolution..
in politics ‘Let’s Just Do This’ pragmatism, compromise and inclusiveness doesn’t work for the average struggling Man in the street.
Not when you are dealing with people like National and National voters who would appear to have no heart and no desire to even flirt with honesty.
Never has, never will.
Just ask the average Briton how they fared under the Pragmatism of the UK Labour Party when in Government..
Or Americans under the slickest pragmatist of all, Obama.
Even better, don’t ask them, just look at the statistics for wealth distribution, job security, employment security, housing…
Children are not impoverished…their parents are.
Ardern is not naive..after all wasn’t she one of Blair’s advisers, he of WMD let’s bomb the shit out of Iraq fame as a cover for taking the spoils?
Children are not impoverished…their parents are.
The new govt is simply incompetent and shambolic, and it shows. National play them every time, and it’s only that fact that our MSM is leftie biased that more of the Coalition govt’s ineptness does not see the light of day.
‘Born to rule pricks.’ whatever. Jacinda and co are pretty darn arrogant for a selected govt, rather than an elected one. Even in the House today, Labour Ministers made simple mistakes at Question Time. There’s a reason National won more votes.
Your a dreamer Miles …… our media is right wing and pro war.
Our media kept quiet when Key was turning us into a tax haven … covering Keys and Nationals crimes …
Our media also kept quiet when Key was bailed out and took money from American tax payers when his old company merrill lynch was going bankrupt … his about to be worthless merrill shares were swapped for Bank of America ones ….. this non reporting and effective cover-up by our media preserved his myth of being a sharp investor …. Instead of a greed blinded one
And our media was a big part of Nationals ‘dirty politics’ ….. They still are ….. as their continual printing of ‘ The Tax Payers Union’ demonstrates.
It isn’t called the ‘corporate media’ for nothing ….
Corporate ….
Reportage this morning that there are rumblings around English’s leadership. No smoke without fire, as the saying goes.
He’s been in Parliament too long, as have Gerry Brownlee and Nick Smith. It’s past time the three of them went. But I’ll settle for English in the first instance.
Well, that is one take on it. But many ordinary kiwis see it as a genuine offer that National have turned down, which makes them look petty and vindictive…. which of course, they are. I think that episodes such as this, when the nats reveal themselves for the self-interested bunch of entitled elitists that they are, have the effect of turning more people off them each time it happens.
Well, that is one take on it. But many ordinary kiwis see it as a genuine offer that National have turned down, which makes them look petty and vindictive…. which of course, they are. I think that episodes such as this, when the nats reveal themselves for the self-interested bunch of entitled elitists that they are, have the effect of turning more people off them each time it happens.