National refuses to own failed Jobseeker target – Labour
Louise Upston is refusing to take responsibility for National’s collapsing Jobseeker target, despite her own Government’s forecasts showing it will miss the mark by more than 60,000 people.
“Today National had an opportunity to front up about why the target they’ve created is falling apart on their watch,” Labour social development and employment spokesperson Willow-Jean Prime said.
“Instead, Louise Upston refused to take responsibility a failure of her own making.
“National’s target wasn’t sabotaged by officials or inherited from a previous Government. They set it, they promoted it, and now they’re failing to deliver it.
“The Government’s own forecasts show they are set to miss their target by more than 60,000 people – around the population of New Plymouth – yet they still won’t admit that their approach isn’t working.
“You can’t talk tough about getting people off benefits while presiding over an economy where 1,200 people are applying for a single cleaning job. That’s not a failure of job seekers. That’s a failure of a Government that has not created enough opportunities.
“The least National could do is acknowledge reality. The fairytale target she sold to New Zealand has collapsed, and refusing to take responsibility for it won’t help a single person into work,” Willow-Jean Prime said.
National has failed to “own” any of its stuff-ups! They are the most egotistical, arrogant and irresponsible govt. this country has ever had at the helm. They have failed miserably with Job Seeker, housing, our environment, crashed our health system, caused massive homelessness, caused a huge gap between the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’, taken bribes – disguised as donations, and simply run amok with our money supporting their RW enablers who strut around like they own NZ. There is no empathy or fairness, just wanton greed. All this under the guise of Christianity. Do they not realise Heaven is not two-tiered?