Simeon Brown has blood all over his hands and must acknowledge his Government’s role in ED death
Witnesses describe chaos as man collapses at Waikato Hospital emergency department
King said the ED waiting room was “packed” with around 30 to 40 patients. She didn’t blame staff who, she believed, “did their best”.
“It’s not their fault because they’re understaffed,” she told the Herald.
“I feel for the nurses having tried their best and not being able to succeed, and I also feel for the whānau that had to answer that phone call.”
Earlier in the night, King said she saw the man in pain and speaking to staff.
“He was asking for help. He was complaining about how he’d been waiting for such a long time. He was asking staff for some type of medication because he was in pain,” she told the Herald.
The Herald revealed on Tuesday concerns from a hospital worker who said the man spent “nine hours waiting” to be seen.
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There is no way you can seperate the cutbacks Simeon Brown has overseen alongside all the complaints from Nurses, Drs and Unions on the impact of those cutbacks inside Emergency Departments with this terrible situation of a death at an Waikato Emergency Department.
Simeon has underfunded public health for the benefit of private health interests, and the death of someone waiting 9 hours is the outcome of that policy decision.
This is the exact same situation we had with Simeon cutting back office funding for cyber security and then getting hit by a cyber attack.
Politically National will be frightened by this because Waikato Hospital is Farmer land and when Farmer’s feel angry, National panic.
Simeon’s nickname inside National is ‘golden balls’, because they believe everything he touches turns to gold.
You’re not so shiny this week are you Simeon?
You have blood all over your hands.
There are some observations I have made over a long period of time in regards to Simeon Brown.
One of them is his eyes are practically “Darting All Over the Place” when speaking to the Press. It gives me the impression that he is Lying and trying to do a Luxon i.e Find an Escape Route/Path to make a hasty exit once his Lies have been spoken.
He also comes across as very sycophantic of whomever is National Party leader at the time. And so to please Luxon he does what he is told to do.
There are a number of nicknames I give Brown. They are: Slithering Brown(due to his sycophancy). The Runt of the National Party Litter. The Miniature of Stealth and Potholes.
Overall he is as Untrustworthy and Self-serving as Luxon.
Our health system is under attack.
” the Government’s broader agenda reinforces this punitive logic. Homelessness is treated as a nuisance to be swept away rather than a crisis requiring housing, mental health support, and income security. Beneficiaries are treated as burdens rather than citizens. The poor are framed as a threat to social order rather than victims of an economic system that has failed them. This is not accidental—it is ideological. It is easier to wage war on the poor than to confront the interests of those who profit from inequality.
What makes this war particularly insidious is that it is cloaked in the language of responsibility and fairness. Politicians insist they are simply ensuring taxpayer money is used wisely. They claim they are encouraging ‘better choices.’ They argue that tough love is necessary to help people back into work. But beneath this rhetoric lies a simple truth: punishing the poor has become a substitute for addressing poverty. It is cheaper, politically safer, and more palatable to donors than confronting the structural causes of inequality.
The war on the poor is not just a set of policies—it is a moral project. It seeks to redefine poverty as a personal failing and the poor as undeserving. It aims to shift blame away from an economic system that enriches a few while impoverishing the many. And it relies on the silence of those who should know better but benefit from the status quo.
https://nzagainstthecurrent.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-governments-war-oin-poor.html
This confirms what many have surmised. They are trying to take us back a hundred years or so when poverty was considered a personal choice and those who were poor were naturally, undeserving.
In the film ‘My Fair Lady’ Eliza’s father, Mr. Doolittle, expresses this exact idea. He is one of the undeserving poor and he knows it. He’s always up against ‘middle class morality’ because he has flaws, such as drinking heavily, but he’s honest about them. His needs are the same as anybody else’s but he gets nothing from anyone because he is considered undeserving.
Others have flaws too, but either hide them or have enough money so that it doesn’t matter. (The middle class and upper class).
The film depicts the Edwardian era when the same views were held by those at the top. That THEY were there to judge and with-hold help to those they saw as undeserving. They ‘aimed to shift the blame away from the economic system that enriches a few while impoverishing the many.’ And ‘it relies on the silence of those who should know better but benefit from the status quo.’
The middle-class morality exhibited by members of the National Party with their claims of being various stripes of Christian fall flat because they SHOULD KNOW BETTER!
Seymour’s idea that everyone should be looking after themselves also falls down here. He assumes everyone starts with the same resources and some use them wisely (like him) and some use them unwisely (like the poor).
Most people look after themselves as far as they are able. They may reluctantly seek extra help eventually, but most have had a good try at being independent.
His ‘middle-class morality’ fails to let him see that. He sees less than he thinks. He’s always been insulated from poverty and has no imagination whatsoever. He can’t imagine poverty. In My Fair Lady, Eliza has a job selling flowers and her father does various jobs like shovelling coal. So they are helping themselves as far as they can. Robot-Boy strikes again.
The whole idea is that Eliza can go from being a street flower seller to perhaps having a flower shop, if she can learn to speak better, fit in with the middle class.
She does this with aplomb but then it creates a challenge to middle class, how do they class her now? So, they are still sitting in judgement on everyone.
Middle-class morality is a very untrustworthy system.
Had an ED experience in Wellington 2 months ago. Not too long a wait -4 hours- but I was in the ED 20 hours (clogging up the place on my IV antibiotics), waiting for a bed. Ended up in some sort of holding pen of a ward – any bed emptied was filled in literally minutes.
In my 20 hours in Ed I was in the corridor as the place filled… and filled… Nurses on the run.
‘Ambulance code 3’
‘Ambulance code 2’
‘Ambulance code 3’
etc,
you get the picture.
And they keep building public hospitals with fewer beds.
I don’t need to tell you where the beds are being built…
If Brown and his colleagues actually gave a shit then they would be investing in our health service not running it into the ground to prepare it for privatization.
This entire regime is culpable with its polices from cutting our public services to its removing work place safety with legislation moving through parliament to ensure the next major corporate slaughter can proceed and be covered up like Pike River and concreated in as Key wanted post 2010.
That is what the NZ National party oversees is the wholesale corporate slaughter of our people.
Exaggerated shocking comment ?
The evidence and history speaks for itself.
Kiwis elect these cruel , evil corporate sycophants into government and are then shocked when they treat Kiwis as expendable victims of their donors and the corporate free market.
Brown is just the next generation of the monied class that see’s no value in the throw away working slaves of New Zealand.
There will never be acknowledgement by this evil regime of the lives they are destroying all in the name of austerity , self entitlement and profit despite the human loss of life.
I believe this is in alignment with the Coalition’s actual health policy, which is to simply let people expire naturally by depriving the health system of the resources it needs to save them. On a positive note, government coffers will be flush with cash that would otherwise have been frittered away on the pointless lives of mewling peasants who can’t afford private healthcare. I mean, really, is the loss of a few grubby bottom-feeders even a loss at all? No. Cost savings for the win! It’s what Jesus would do, right, Simeon?
Luxon-like MP, Simeon Brown, definitely has blood all over his hands. He presents a perfect ‘little boy lost’ face and protests way too loudly. He is responsible for our Health system being in such disarray and going to the dogs. Many of our best health workers are now living in Australia and I doubt we will ever see them come back! Brown has stuffed up everything for his privatisation “dream” and it is a dream – it will never happen! To quote: “New Zealand’s health system was once a global pioneer and highly revered. In 1938, under the first Labour government, it became one of the first countries in the world to introduce a fully universal, tax-funded national health service.” This apology for a human-being, Brown, needs to own his actions – they are deplorable.
Simeon Brown is like the love-child of Winnie and Seymour.
Smarmy gits
I went to the same ED last year at 1 am with stroke symptoms .On arrival I was triaged and asked to wait and informed I would not be seeing a doctor till after 8 30 am because there were no doctors in the department that night .I said I would leave and return after 8.30 then if that was the case .I was advised not to leave in case I become more unwell .I eventually saw a doctor at 10 am and was admitted smartly to the cardiac ward .I guess I was extremely lucky .Clearly there has been no improvement in that time .
More bull shit from Brown daily has done nothing .
And while I was there a male nurse had his arm broken after he was attacked by a person waiting in an ambulance .Even he could not jump the cue and had to wait in cattle class along with the rest of us .Because there were no doctors on duty .
I think its time for Simeon to go. He has no understanding of the Health system, people’s health needs and aging generation. People has no money or time wait 3 or more weeks for an GP appointment and then their conditions would deteriorate and ED has not resources to save or treat them. Nurses was begging for help for a long time and have not been heart. Simeon has not be able to look at that earlier he should get justice for that !
Unqualified minister
Exactly, he only counts beans.