The Appalling Trump - again.

[C_T_Russell]

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.

What tosh. Under Labour our health system stood up to an assault by a massive international pandemic, a pandemic that shook every health system in place around the world. Frankly ours stood up to it better than most, and right now it is still frantically trying to catch up with all the procedures, treatments, and programmes forced to be suspended or limited by that pandemic. Everyone within our health system deserves a medal, I know, I and many others have been up close and personal with it very recently.

Left to run down? Wake up CT, you should be congratulating Labour for doing as well as they did under those circumstances... I doubt this lot would manage half as well under similar circumstances.

Its not me that needs waking up...
The same rhetoric with the Covid pandemic is not a good enough excuse.
Especially here in NZ where we were isolated long enough to avoid the alpha strain in the community.
We only had covid from delta and omnicron onwards, both strains not enough to kill anywhere near as much of the population.
We could have injected all that money blown into the health system and had a first class health system.
Tons of money blown away on 3 waters for what? Would have been better to simply distribute that money across councils in need of it.