Public Transport snobbishness and double standards attack Labour’s capped Fare policy but commuters will love it!
The attack on Labour’s public transport $20fare cap has been a mix of snobbishness by the critics and a level of double standards over Labour costings that you never see used on the Right!
Frustrated by the intensity of the interrogation, Hipkins has pushed back on this double standard.
He argued that when the National Party proposed its multi-billion-dollar tax cuts, the media did not scrutinize their fiscal plan to the same degree, nor did National release their exact fiscal plan until just weeks before the election!
And this is true!
The mainstream media didn’t give the same level of scrutiny to National’s claim that people would have a $250 a fortnight tax cut!
The mainstream media didn’t give the same level of scrutiny to the $300m Tobacco subsidy!
The mainstream media didn’t give the same level of scrutiny to the $200m Oil and Gas subsidy!
Yet Labour promise to do something for the poorest commuters in our cities and all of a sudden it’s the end of Western Civilisation as we know it!
This policy is ALL gravy!
It saves Auckland Commuters $120 per month. It saves Wellington Commuters $160 per month and it will save Christchurch Commuters $40 per month.
For those being hit by a cost of living crisis, those are amounts that are difference between paying a bill and not being able to!
For those who don’t use public transport they win because more people out of their cars and into public transport means less gridlock.
The argument over the full costings are semantics and as for the claim it doesn’t help rural NZ, the ENTIRE FUCKING COUNTRY bends over backwards for the bloody Farming Community.
They are only 12% of the country yet they have total control over the entire economy and political class.
We’ve done enough for the rural Volk, it’s time the people in the cities started seeing some love!
winner winner chicken dinner .Willis is becoming a screaming banshee every time Labour release a policy because she has none of her own and her being brain washed by the atlas net work stops her thinking of any thing to put foward .
I for one welcome the subsidisation of inner- city knowledge and NGO workers commute into the office (when they actually go into the office) and also the subsidisation of ferry trips to Waiheke Island and across Wellington Harbour to the rich enclave of Eastbourne.
And who cares if it’s $65 million or $650 million – it’s money spent on highly deserving people.
I am one of Hipkins harshest critics but on this issue he is right on the money.
The corporate media attack Labour who are one of the gatekeepers of the neoliberal system they support.
There is this crap still out there because our adversarial system demands a socialist bogeyman to ensure the Nasty Natz are in a position of authority because back before the rich mans revolution pre 1984 thats they way the two party system worked.
The NZLP is no more socialist than Luxon’s front bench , ACT NZF !
The double standard is down to lazy , unprofessional dumb individuals who think they are serious journalists representing their magazine news services.
The death of our fourth estate is down to the general dumbing down of the content they produce quite deliberately and is a result of the hijack by corporate interests.
Top marks Bomber on pointing out the hideous hypocrisy here.
Mainstream media have not said peep about the very expensive failed miilitary boot camp experiment either….an experiment that The Coalition Of The Economically Illiterate were warned and warned and warned would fail….but still went ahead with it anyway.
Where’s the Cost/ Benefit Analysis on that for us all to pour over.
Why are the media and The Coalition of the Hopeless trying desperately to create negative false narratives and gas-light the public about the capped fares …. why?…Because the Labour public transport policy is genius..
This is political envy playing out before our eyes….It’s a win win win policy and the government only know how to do loser policies.
What do spoilt loser silverspooner types do when they are losing…they knock over all the chess pieces and up-end the table.
Your everyday Kiwi doesn’t like that behaviour…. This is why National and ACT are tanking in the polls.
Again, our slack, biased RW media are largely to blame for not doing their job in a fair manner for all Kiwis! They have no idea of what professionalism means so run mainly with their personal ugly, self-absorbed views. The Left has always been scrutinised way harsher than the Right but strangely, few seem to notice that. NZ is run by a bunch of dishonourable, lying, cheating, money-hungry scoundrels and we have allowed that to happen. The atrocious greed out there is unacceptable and ordinary Kiwis are embarrassed. Shame on those who allow this. It will lead to the destruction of NZ if not fixed now! Way over time for those in need to receive some help.