Ia Taylor finally sees through the glimmer and glitter

[Oh_hunnihunni]

Dick Emory I believe...

[harm_less]

Dick Emory I believe...

Got it in 1

[Lilith7]

That was it, I'd forgotten. I think he may have had Diana Dors on his show at one point.

[SueDonim]

the people who love ardern are sheep and are getting what they deserve as this government trys to fix her mess, its a pity labour didnt win the last election and were having to clean their own mess

You've been asked to expand on your claims that the Labour government Jacinda led "effed" the country (crickets...) and now you're bleating on about the country being a "mess". Do we have to take your accusations as worth considering or are you actually going to provide some substance to your ramblings? And if you're commenting on the state of our economy or our social cohesion, have you taken any notice of the finances of most other countries presently?

I used to do the members of this forum the courtesy of looking up facts and providing evidence to be sure that whatever I was saying was as credible and factual as possible but it made no difference. Eventually I just gave up and largely went away. As most newcomers seem to do.

Jacinda Ardern as Labour Party leader and PM got a lot of blame that should be assigned more collectively as she was just that - the leader - and was only the figurehead for the party policy. But i have to admit that right from when I first saw those teeth I thought "wolf".

As far as the state of the country goes, it's a matter of "where do you start?". So I'll start with the Covid response.

The country needed to shut down to enable people to stay home and stay alive. That was well done at the beginning when the virus was so dangerous, and there were a lot of good aspects to the way it was all handled. Then things started to go downhill. We were far too slow getting vaccines and RAT tests, to the extent that private companies started importing their own RATs, only to have them confiscated (ie stolen by the government) at the border on the way in. And then there was the MIQ fiasco. Again, necessary but appallingly badly managed. At the very least the incoming flights should have been coordinated with the MIQ beds but weren't. Etc. Then allowing for partial shutdowns of specific areas was a good idea, but why was the Auckland motorway closed for so long? Business transport that had no intention of stopping in the city couldn't even go past it so Northland became totally and unnecessarily isolated.

Then there are all the other things Labour Did - eg vilifying landlords and pushing many out of business with the very foreseeable result of pushing rents up and creating a rental housing shortage. Again, a lot of well meaning but misguided rule changes that could have been done so much better and achieved a better result if only those who actually knew what they were talking about had been listened to.

It doesn't take much of a Google search to get a list of the rest of the muck ups.

So now we have a different government trying to clean up as much of the mess as we can and slowly - too slowly - making headway. They are having to fight a biased (or is it ignorant) media every step of the way. A media who instead of explaining what proposed legislation is about just takes the "anti" line and winds everyone up with comment from the ignorati.

[king1]

RAT tests and vaccines were in short supply world wide if I recall, you can't just magic them up...
Immigration caused the rental housing shortage over a large number of years and successive governments.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing - the reason we have enquiries is to learn from the mistakes of the past (yes there are always mistakes) and do better next time... They were all very unique circumstances...

and then there is the whole issue of what you see as a muck up, others see as necessary. Right now I see the (lack of a) Ferry debacle as a big National muck up

[Oh_hunnihunni]

And yet Labour built a heck of a lot more housing than the current lot. Albeit tickytacky stacks of boxes in inappropriate places, but they are all filled now.

This government though is cutting subsidies, with the end result homeless people cannot even get on the list for available safe dry homes.

That is really sad, and soul destroying for those of us already blessed to have such homes, watching neighbouring flats stay empty.

[harm_less]

Very much in the vein of 'Yes Minister' the restrictions enacted during COVID were actioned by MBIE, and that department still very much exists and malfunctions in the same way under the current government than it did back then.