The Appalling Trump - again.

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And yet under labour, our health system was left to run down. We are ever more dependent on private healthcare in this country than ever before.

Successive governments have run down the health system, Labour unfortunately had to deal with a global pandemic that stressed the entire world's health systems.  Any other government would have had to deal with the same issues and costs...

National governments have had a track record of increasing state coffers at the expense of spending on public infrastructure.

The hospitals were run down by National and Labour then did there best to address that shortfall but were hit by the effects of the pandemic.

Roading funding was deficient and with the increase of maximum HT weights to 50T+ and disincentivisation of rail transport the condition of our national roading network has become a standing joke.

Education spending was restricted by National which reflected back into poor student achievement levels which again was exacerbated by COVID restrictions. National are now claiming that falling education standards are Labour's fault with all manner of criticisms of curriculum, cellphone use and attendance all of which are aggravating factors rather than the root cause.

Water supply and wastewater infrastructure is in a dire condition up and down the country and local bodies don't have the financial means to upgrade systems that in most cases are well over 50 years old, and the councils don't have the political spine to raise property taxes ('rates') sufficiently to do the required works. The past Labour government's strategy of transferring that responsibility and funding over to central government was a step in the right direct but National have now thrown out the baby with the bathwater by ditching the '3 waters' strategy.

All in all National's policies are focussed toward private ownership to cure many of these issues but based on privatisation strategies such as KiwiRail and water supply in the likes of the UK that is likely to generate a whole new raft of problems.