If it was Labour in power and they had screwed up so badly that Housing NZ was in danger of running out of cash, every editorial in the country would be demanding their resignation, National do it and it’s just business as usual.
As more and more NZers suddenly wake up to this appalling legislation and its ramifications – people are going to be outraged.
Outraged that they didn’t know this bloody thing was even happening.
Outraged at the full scale assault on our democracy that it represents.
And outraged that it’s been allowed to progress this far with bugger all scrutiny.
How dare she blame parents when the housing crisis erodes wages, how dare she blame parents when Kiwis are being forced to live in cars. How dare she blame parents when 41 000 are homeless. How dare she blame parents when there are 300 000 children living in poverty.
With my environmental activist hat on, I welcome this shift. With my blind pedestrian hat on, on the other hand, I greet this trend with apprehension.
If the National Party spent as much energy on redefining language to escape having to acknowledge the poverty their policies create on actually helping the poor, then they would have solved child poverty by now.
…we can blame policy all we like and yes these services are disgracefully underfunded but there are human beings who are committing this torture.
What did Hosking say? Well, he was giving us the benefit of his deep insight and wisdom concerning the recent local government elections. This is what he said:
…Trump needs to win 7 out of every 10 white males to win the election, no US President has ever done that before, but Trump’s deplorable sexual abuse boasting is aimed at that angry white male sense of a loss of privilege.
…the Government would have known that this was about to break and so rushed around to implement a needlessly vile element of the immigration policy and cut migrants off from their families.
