(12-09-2023, 12:30 PM)Wainuiguy Wrote:(12-09-2023, 11:43 AM)Lilith7 Wrote: They do. Heaven forfend they should put aside petty differences & actually work together for the good of everyone - which is what they're supposed to be doing. In theory. Once upon a time.
The last thing needed now is a wealthy businessman in charge; they've no idea what the hell they're doing when it comes to consequences for ordinary people. And don't appeaqr to care.
I think he's untrustworthy & unreliable, interested only in helping the already well off rather than those who are struggling to cope thanks to 40 odd years of their Neo Liberal bullshit.
They apparently don't mind kids going hungry, having homeless people & desperate people begging in the streets, as most of us do.
And I really don't think Luxon has much of a clue & its quite likely Seymour will run rings around him.
Yeah because the homelessness and begging has gotten SOOOOO much better under this Labour government ?
Which is rather the point is it not.
NONE of the previous govts regardless of whether left or right, have done anywhere near enough to address that bloody great gap between rich & poor. And because they haven't, we'll be having to deal with the consequences of that for probably decades.
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)