National’s magical 4th term
Tax Havens and budget holes – the only things National can build
Jami-Lee Ross: Labour’s new roads a ‘re-announcement’ of National’s plans
National’s transport spokesman Jami-Lee Ross is slamming the Government’s Auckland new roads revelation as just a “re-announcement” National’s plans.“In the continuing saga of Labour re-announcing National policies, [Transport Minister Phil] Twyford’s comments simply reaffirms what we said would happen in the August 2017,” Ross said on Twitter.
To date, the National Party have behaved like a spoilt child convinced that somehow they were tricked and robbed into losing the election.
As more and more evidence is released of the shear scale of the hollowing out of every public service imaginable so they could get their budget surpluses and tax cuts, National keep braying that somehow they would have all tied these loose ends together in the 4th term and funded everything they had promised to fund but didn’t.
When Steven Joyce claimed there was an $11.7b hole in Labour’s budget, what he was really meaning was that there was an $11.7b hole in National’s budget that they hadn’t even conceived of how to fund.
There’s $20b in the NZDF budget they never fixed!
If we are to believe the rhetoric of the National Party, their fourth term would have…
- eradicated all poverty
- built 1million homes in 12 months
- 6 lane motorways connecting every house
- solve all climate change
- cure cancer
- all drivers never paying any petrol taxes ever again
National still don’t understand why they lost the election. They lost the election because they only looked after property speculators and those who want to be property speculators with a property bubble propped up by mass immigration. By leaving everyone else behind, there was enough of a democratic majority to over trow them.
National governed for the banks, the farmers and the property speculators, that’s why they lost broad appeal and were replaced. Refusing to acknowledge the fecklessness and divisiveness of their 9 years in power means they will make the exact same mistakes again if ever allowed near power.
hooten sold that pup to key but give him his due key knew it was never going to fly.
It would be easier to get a Protestant turn Catholic than a dyed in the wool Kiwi farmer voting Labour. Maybe next century.
Farmers have always been looked after by national I remember when we had subsidized mutton and milk. And they ( the farmers ) always use trade/gdp to justify the help they have received. This is what happens when we put all our eggs in one basket and this is what happens when we don’t diversify and rely on one source to provide our food source they end up with a monopoly. The same has happen in other industries like building/construction like Fletchers.
When it comes to our farmers if there is a drought or disease outbreak in jumps the government to bail them out but do they help other private businesses, no not really not to the same extent. The farmers have had it pretty good in our country despite them polluting our waterways. Its no surprise they are now a very strong lobby group and we saw this with the Morrinsville protest.
Perhaps NZ could borrow a bit more money from overseas to dig the holes [that National were digging] a bit deeper. Things are surely not looking at all good at the moment:
‘UNWELCOME SURPRISE
There was an unwelcome surprise in our goods trade balance today. Markets were expecting a surplus in March of +NZ$275 mln, but in fact got a deficit of -NZ$86 mln which is a swing of more than one third of a billion dollars.’
https://www.interest.co.nz/news/93440/review-things-you-need-know-you-go-home-friday-first-floating-rate-rise-long-time-goods
Maybe if National showed a little humility and contrition they might find the general populace more prepared to forgive their trespasses. But no… it’s hubris and arrogance all the way. It’s nice to know they’re so consistently obnoxious.
And Jami-Lee Ross is an obsequious toad whose natural habitat is John Key’s colon. Nobody deprive him of his play-lunch. You know how upset he gets, the poor wee mite.