National’s latest backdown shows Kiwis can’t trust them – Labour
National have failed three times this week to keep a promise, and it’s only Wednesday.
“We’ve seen National’s approach to government on full display this week: big promises, big headlines, then failure to deliver,” Labour campaign chair Kieran McAnulty said.
“They promised to fix the health system, but after two years they’ve added just 54 nurses while hospitals are understaffed, graduate nurses can’t find jobs, and patients are being left in soiled beds.
“They’ve backtracked on promises to mayors and regional deals they signed on the dotted line.
“And now they are backtracking on legislation they themselves said was important enough to urgently introduce.
“National spent months telling parents how important a ban on social media for under-16s was. They said they would act to protect kids online. But after three years in Government, they haven’t delivered.
“That’s becoming a pattern with Christopher Luxon’s Government – lots of promises, lots of headlines, but when it comes to actually getting things done, they fail. People have had a gutsful of broken promises.
“If protecting kids was really the priority they said it was, they would have made it happen. We’ve offered our support at first reading. Parents needs to know that we can get this done before the election, but National is the one holding it up.
“Because for National this was never really about getting legislation done, it was about getting headlines. We said we’d support it to Select Committee but the bill has been left sitting on the shelf.
“That tells Kiwis everything they need to know about National’s promises. You can’t trust National to do what they say they will do.
“So Kiwis should keep a filter on when they hear a National promise.
“Take it with a grain of salt. Ask when it will actually happen. Ask how it will be paid for. And ask why they didn’t do it when they had the chance.
“Because National will say anything to get elected.
“We can’t have three more years of broken promises. Kiwis can’t afford three more years of National,” Kieran McAnulty said.
