While Jacinda Ardern battles white supremacy and hate crimes, Simon Bridges has started a fight with a slushy
What?
Why is Simon Bridges picking fights with bloody slushies?
Simon Bridges lashes out at ‘slushie fund’ for prisons
National Party leader Simon Bridges has slammed the Ministry of Corrections for spending over $1 million on slushie machines.
Corrections bought 193 ice slushie machines for their staff with the intention of improving “their health and wellbeing during the summer months”, documents released to the party under the Official Information Act show.
Corrections say prisoners and staff were exposed to uncomfortably hot conditions during the summer of 2017/18 that could have led to unrest within their facilities.
That year, Corrections responded by providing staff extra breaks, access to cold water, fans and flannels while also allowing prisoners more cold showers and time outside of their cells.
Despite the fact no significant unrest occurred that summer, further measures were deemed necessary the next year.
…for the love of Christ, is this what our political debate has been reduced to?
Slushygate?
Let’s unpack this shall we?
1 – Rather than bitching about slushy machines at Corrections, perhaps we should consider how these old prisons won’t cope with the extreme heat conditions climate change will bring infrastructure like jails?
2 – It turns out from Arthur Taylor’s blog this morning that prisoners weren’t getting access to cold water or slushies at all and it only happened after he started making complaints! Shouldn’t we get an explanation about that inconvenient truth?
3 – This is just bash a crim stuff, and is being pulled out right when there is debate about Simon’s failed leadership.
If we are going to play the ‘spending pointless money game’ and complain about averting heat exhaustion in our under ventilated prison network, can someone mention the cost of the flag referendum vanity campaign?
The Leader of the Opposition picking a fight against a slushy is one thing.
Losing that fight is another.
Maybe Simon needs to start with a less formidable beverage, how about a weak cup of tea? Start there & if you beat it it, then move up to a Milo
#slushygate
Martyn;
Today useless ‘simple Simon’ Bridges states on ‘Newshub’ AM show’ that his government will have an ‘environmental policy’!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah right; – if so – why did he kill our regional rail under his leadership while in the last Government???????
Simon Bridges – ‘he is a vacant brain’ waiting for a transplant and should not be trusted at all.
Mr Bridges; – Bring back the regional rail freight and passenger services you killed again to save our road deaths and then we will listen to you.
Yes, Bring back the mass haulage public rail system and screw the private trucking firms. The only contacts the trucking firms should be getting is small transit routes from the point of docking of the railroads.
This country should be leading the globe in rail transport.
Instead , – after Key and co it is a truckers paradise.
Keep it up , Cleangreen.
100% Cleangreen.
+1 to CLEANGREEN and WILD KATIPO for their commitment to bring back useable rail to NZ!
We don’t just need cheap, clean, reliable, frequent public transport via rail, for industry we need it for commuters too!
NZ has high rates of imprisonment which I would guess goes merrily hand in hand with growing inequality fostered by decades of capitalism.
If we want this to change then in my opinion we need to vote for parties who are willing to dump neo liberalism in favour of fair more inclusive forms of government.
Indeed.
Agreed, just a whinge really, though why anyone would want to drink/eat coloured (blue?) ice is beyond me. For $6k they could have bought a top notch ice making fridge, beverages for a year, a proper barista unit and still had change. Politics did go soft and slushy last week. On Newshubs The Nation they didn’t discuss the dropping of CGT, plans for hate speech censorship, National’s tanking poll, dropkicks stealing guns from a fuc#@g police station, or international events such as police breaking into a country’s embassy to arrest a real journalist. No the big item on the agenda…insurance. Should have stayed in bed.
Oh boy! He’s really got the measure of Judith Collins now… [sarcasm]
Something more worthwhile to think about
Half of all land must be kept in a natural state to protect Earth
New science says land conservation must double by 2030 to prevent dangerous warming and unravelling of ecosystems.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2019/04/science-study-outlines-30-percent-conservation-2030/?fbclid=IwAR0eQkOy1mps6J_SUefAfRl79g2Bu5Q-Oxumt2BQoZJdq99whPdUhJ5Ct4M
If climate change is NZ ‘nuclear free moment’ what is our government doing about it?
Greens need to dump the identity politics because no mater who you are you are probably going to be effected by our lack of conservation efforts and lack of interest in the natural environment, in relation to survival not just ‘nice to have’ but economy more important speak….
The only question here is who will win?
The slushie has the numbers 🙂
Si picking a biffo with slush machines. Now there’s real leadership for you!
New Zealanders know what he’s like, this is evident from the poll numbers.