National fails hungry Kiwis – Labour
National is making life harder at the supermarket checkout and harder still for Kiwis who turn to the Government for help.
“With tens of thousands more hungry Kiwis being denied emergency food grants, New Zealanders cannot afford another three years of National,” Labour social development and employment spokesperson Willow-Jean Prime said.
“At a time when one in three households are struggling to access enough food and food banks are under great pressure, National is missing in action.
“This is not an accident. It is the consequence of National making life more expensive and now turning their backs on those feeling the pain.
“National bungled the Winter Energy Payment for 15,000 pensioners and veterans, botched benefit payments without telling us how many were affected, and now tens of thousands more hungry Kiwis are being denied emergency support.
“No one chooses to go hungry. Food is a basic necessity, and it is shameful that so many Kiwis are being left without enough of it.
“Louise Upston needs to front up, take responsibility and explain why her Government is making it harder for hungry Kiwis to get the help they need,” Willow-Jean Prime said.
This is an easy one to comment on. Upston should have been “sacked” by now. She isn’t just uncaring she is totally inept and not up to the job, as is the Health Minister – they both should have gone by now! Of course Luxon will not do anything about this as he isn’t much better. He has stupidly sacked the very best MP he had, Penk! Of course there are countless people out there who don’t have three meals per day and some only one if they are lucky! The horrible meals provided in most schools are way below par but I guess better than nothing[?] Healthy food is a basic necessity, this last 3 years will see many more have to go into our health system as a result. Shame on this government for their treatment of our workers and for continuing to ‘feed’ their wealthy enablers! The Greens’ new supermarket plan is great. At least the profits will stay in NZ. Again wake up people, we need our workers to be healthy, have jobs and be paid fairly.