What National showed us during this fuel crisis was that they will serve us all up to the free market
The fuel crisis New Zealand government response has exposed something far more uncomfortable than rising prices — it’s shown exactly what kind of help you can expect when things go wrong. And who you’re expected to rely on when it does.
National have shown us what they think ‘protecting the people’ during crisis looks like from their point of view and it is…
“Fuck you, stop being weak”.
When New Zealand fell over during COVID, Jacinda and Grant were there to help us to our feet, dust us off, give us a cuddle while reassuring us all that the cost would all go on the credit card.
When New Zealand fell over during the fuel crisis, National, ACT and NZ First were all there to kick us while we are down, curse us for being weak, yelling at us to get back up or we would get two for flinching while sneering the free market will decide our fate.
Charming.
This is what “the market will fix it” actually looks like
In a crisis we get National Jesus.
…National’s entire election narrative is that we are in the terrible economic situation we are in not because of their ideological free market vandalism of the economy, but because Labour borrowed so much during COVID.
If that were true, why is National borrowing more than Labour did?
The myth they need you to believe
Yeah.
New Zealand deserves better than their political paralysis!
What National showed us during this fuel crisis was that they will serve us all up to the free market!
FACT: National borrowed, in 2 yrs, more money to “gift” to their gentry, than Labour did in 2 terms, to successfully fight a one off global pandemic- not of their making! Bad enough but National never seem to learn, and has created an economic “shambles”, failed in their handling of the fuel crisis, and backed the wrong ‘horse’! If you can’t see that, you have been conned. Of course you don’t want to know the truth as it doesn’t fit in with your bigoted and greedy rhetoric. NZ should never have such a large gap between the haves and have nots and this needs to be rectified. Some very harsh lessons coming for those who have ‘selfishly’ buried their heads in the sand for so long.
National has handled the fuel crisis in a calm way and while there has been pain at the pump they have not splashed the cash and put the economy at risk. Personally I would have paid the care workers more of an allowance but obviously they government knows what we can afford.