MEDIAWATCH: Nicola Willis comes across like a ghoul on Q+A trainwreck interview
Wow.
I’ve always argued that Jack Tame is one of the best TV Political Interviewers in the game, despite his terrible Israeli Ambassador Interview which was pretty shocking, DESPITE that, he is still excellent and his interview with Nicola Willis post her first budget is a stark reminder of just how good he can be.
He eviscerated Nicola Willis whose ghoulish performance on Q+A has to be seen to be believed.
The first mainstream bite of the budget claimed this was ‘vanilla’ and ‘moderate’, when the truth is the total opposite, it’s an incredibly radical right wing budget dressed up as moderate!
9000 families are worse off and only 3000 families will get the full $250 tax cut that National repeatedly promised over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over over and over and over and over and over again during the election!
You’ve been scammed NZ!
Her certainty that simply because it’s a ‘philosophical’ belief of hers that people shouldn’t get more money on welfare justifies pushing 13000 kids into poverty is so freaky, you can’t un-see it!
Once you’ve seen the weird glow that came into her eyes as she effectively argued that hunger was a perfectly legitimate punishment, you can’t look at her the same.
It was ike Gollum looking at his precious.
The idea of punishing the poor via hunger was so morally certain in her view that banging the table and proclaiming it was her philosophical belief that poor people should get less to inspire them to the greatness of the ubermensch was all a bit much before brekky.
You could hear NZers mouth opened staring in disquiet at her fervour punishment fantasies.
The disgusting truth that they gave to the rich landlords but couldn’t provide the money for cancer patient medicine DESPITE PROMISING IT is so fucking ugly!
That’s a value statement if you ever needed one, National stand with Landlords and Cancer!
The outrageous truth is that she has borrowed more than Labour did!
You right wingers screamed and screamed and screamed at Labour for borrowing and here is National borrowing MORE!
When Labour borrowed, they did it to save us from Covid, when National borrow, it’s for fucking tax cuts!
COME ON!
Comrades, you have had your post Covid bitterness manipulated by these right wing pricks who are passing legislation for them and their rich donor mates.
Come on.
The truth is this budget is a nightmare.
$3billion cut from the climate change budgets!
Cancer Patients thrown to the vagaries of budget calculators despite promising to hear their pain and save their lives!
13000 kids pushed into poverty!
No new funding for Māori, with $300million less!
Less state houses built
Less money for everything when population growth is taken into account.
NZ has made a terrible, terrible mistake by electing this hard right, racist, climate denying, beneficiary bashing Government.
It’s perfectly ok to regret your 2023 vote Comrades, it’s what you do now after you’ve seen how they duped us that matters.
All in the name of greed
Yes …pure greed…
When she ran the line during the election campaign that she wanted to help ‘ the squeezed middle,’ so that they could go out to the movies and treat themselves to ‘Ben & Jerry’s icecream, rather than having
to stay home and watch netflix, you just knew she was completely out of her mind.
Add to that, the fact that her economic ineptness was on full display during the pre-election Queenstown Debate, when Grant Robertson and James Shaw rang rings around her, highlighting the complex understandings that they had on the subject, and she didn’t.
It was a night and day, chalk and cheese, comparison.
Willis is inept and naive…a very very very bad combination…and it’s clear that neither Luxon or Seymore, or Peters, are ‘good with numbers’, as they have all claimed to be!
The warning signs were there for all to see. The thickos CHOSE to ignore them!!
But hey…that’s how the thickos roll.
I didn’t vote for them
They would have to have a social conscience for me to ever vote for them and I’ve never ever voted for a corrupt government such as this National one.
Personally I’m surprised to get any tax correction, usually these are hollow pre-election promises that are almost never delivered. I certainly won’t be donating my extra $20/week to the Labour party, you can if you think it will help.
Thanks for allowing me to donate to Labour. I won’t either, Erik.
My partner and my tax cut will give us $2.31 a fortnight to share amongst ourselves. We’ll top it up to $5 and on my way to work, I’ll give it to one of the homeless men on the corner near the supermarket in our city.
Good on you.
Of course this is an issue too…
https://www.thepress.co.nz/nz-news/350240089/urgent-action-needed-aggressive-begging-christchurch-leaders-say
Give it another year till the effects of this budget really bite home, and for the full effects of the shrinking of our public services to fully impact, and for Winston to near the end of his tenure, then we’ll see a sudden collapse of this coalition. Followed by a snap election. As the year progresses and throughout next year, the polling will really hit them on the goolies, then the panic will set in. They’ll try for a “nice” budget next year, but they’ll be so deeply unpopular, the writing will be on the wall. Labour and the left should start making plans NOW.
The cancer drug funding, pre-election promise; post-election budget not delivered. Even Steven Joyce calls it an ‘inexplicable’ omission.
Current cancer-sufferers will, very sadly, die before they get any drugs that this Coalition will deem to make available to them.
Put alongside their rescinding of the smoke-free legislation that Labour put in place, this Coalition of Killers will have the blood of the deaths of thousands of NZ citizens on their hands.
What a terrible legacy they have so far engineered – and they have only been in office 6 months!
What disastrous, deathly policies will they foist on the innocent citizens of Aotearoa/New Zealand in the 30 months or so they’ve got left? Be very afraid, A/NZers!
Well we’ll what a cold hearted bitch tricola is. She actually believes her own bullshit she’s borrowed billions to save face as she would have to quit. Many NZers are going to died prematurely with health systems becoming a bigger basket case under her watch. Bullshit bishop promised us river link in the hutt valley another fucken liar who can look you in the eye and lie through his teeth. We are fucked under this shit arse government. Prisons will be full of our people, courts worse than they are now and Tricola will get rid of more state jobs. So what are we paying our taxes for. And if we have a disaster or epidemic we will be up a creek without a paddle. Fucken dummies who fell for all these dicks lies and they have only just started. Lux-on is out of his league.
The dominatrix Willis probably gets off on It’s way home singing Jesus I was Evil.
It’s one VERY ugly specimen.
Oh how I wish I’d kept some Uber driver’s in-cabin conversations. It could probably be resurrected somewhere except I wouldn’t piss on It if It was on fire
Jack Tame drops the ball again.
When Nicola Willis pointed out that National believes getting people into work is the answer to poverty (similar to Labour) Jack failed to point out around 50% of children currently in poverty come from working families.
When Nicola Willis pointed out that she didn’t want people staying on benefits for years, Jack failed to point out that many with illnesses do. Further, nor did he ask her what was she going to do for them?
Stupid woman didn’t understand that jobs need to exist for people to work in them, skills need to exist and that requires training. These stupid fools seem to think people will pay for training when they have no certainty of getting a job. Idiots.
Yes, Nick. There first needs to be a significant number of available jobs.
And going forward, unemployment (for lack of a sufficient growth plan and alternative means to address inflation) is projected to increase.
Education and training need to better align with the demand side of the labour market. With more responsibility taken to ensure people aren’t left in debt via obtaining skills that don’t align.
she is just plain shit and thats all .
she is just plain shit and thats all .
I looked up arrogance in the dictionary and it said “Nicola Willis “.
Seriously Tames intellect is wasted on Willis’s inexperience.
Hardly unexpected or nothing new. National promising a three course dinner, then handing you a wrapper of fish and chips, all the whilw trying to convince you its crayfish and whitebait patties.
And then put you into debt with prescription fees, increased rents, student loans, scrapping free transport for children 5 to 12 and half-price discounts for ages 13 to 24 also gone etc etc etc.
The wealthy and unintelligent right wing supporters won’t care.
The following is a question for the Greens.
Where is your alternative Budget?
I’d ask the same of Labour, but they have yet to form any policy.
So Greens, here is your time to shine and show the nation you have a better plan.