TV REVIEW: Breakfast TVNZ – Jacinda flushes away election & defends right wing experiment in welfare
Jacinda was on TVNZ Breakfast this morning and astonishingly stated that she wouldn’t consider doing an electorate deal with NZ First and the Greens.
Cue shocked reaction now.
After Bridges ruled NZ First out, Labour has the strength to negotiate a far better deal with Winston, and watching Jacinda simply throw that realigned power dynamic out suggests two things.
1 – She believes the current murkiness around NZ First donations is an issue and she’s putting distance between her and them.
2 – She doesn’t understand the strategic importance of what Bridges has gifted her.
Put that to one side, the truly appalling part of the interview was her slavish devotion to the right wing experiment in Social Welfare that is Oranga Tamariki. The latest report is out showing armed police involved in the theft of Māori babies and highlights a despicable orgnaitsion using lies, manipulations and naked racism to steal as many babies as they can get their hands on.
Here is what is utterly bewildering to me.
Oranga Tamarki is a brown-washed right wing experiment using Big Data to decide future crimes so as to step in and uplift a child before it costs the State too much money. It has limited the legal rights of parents, it streamlined the 0800 number using gossip as evidence and it removed the parents right to legal aid to challenge the State when they steal babies and remember there are NO checks or balances whatsoever in this fucking process.
Why the fucking Christ is the Prime Minister of a Labour Government prepared to die in a ditch for a right wing experiment in welfare???
Unbelievable!
The most coercive power of the State is their ability to kick in the door and steal your child in front of you.
Brothers, Uncles and Fathers bleed and died on foreign beaches to stop states with that kind of power.
How dare the Prime Minister defend this!
Oh dear. Looks like we can kiss Labour goodbye. Hello, Simon!
No. Hullo some fresh, new , on the ball party …. that listens to the people of New Zealand and implements the majorities wishes and directions for this country. Democracy.
I did love how, on RNZ this morning, Jacinda made mention of the fact that Oranga Tamariki is ‘just 3 years old’ (or something to that effect)…as if the organisation and its staff were just the new kids on the block, trying to get their heads around a situation they new nothing about, learning the ropes as it were..ah, the magic wand of a name change!!
Cleans the slate, clears the conscience, and allows for years of further procrastination..
So time for some new political parties perhaps? Why not stand yourself? Personally I could never vote for the current govt or the opposition. I’m tired of blanket neo liberalism and want a return to the kind hearted practical Socialism that once made NZ great.
With regards to Labour my instinct tells me they will get back in but I doubt they will see a third term and in my opinion its their own fault. The public told them what they wanted and in my view they failed to listen.