05-07-2022, 10:44 AM
(05-07-2022, 08:33 AM)king1 Wrote:Childish name calling...like calling someone a troll?  Or referring to "National Overlords"  that kind of childish name calling?(04-07-2022, 10:44 PM)Wainuiguy Wrote: Well surely you can defend poor Andy?  I mean he spent $60 mil to recover a burnt loader and a few bone fragments from a mine he declared was safe to enter.  Except it wasn't.  I really don't care that much, but we are living in unique times so not surprising there is pressure on systems.  I certainly don't feel the need to defend him, but resorting to name calling seems just a tad childish... 
And now he is making a hash of health.  Blasts GPs, blasts nurses and their union, blasts DHBs, blasts doctors - been working on Pike River too long - thinks blasting is the best way to go.  Goes on TV and declared things are settling down - they weren't.     
But hey you deflect to your but, but, but National! argument.  If you get tired of that you can always roll out the Nine years of neglect or sewage running down the walls options.
But seeing as you bought up housing - if Labour declared housing in Crisis in 2016 what would you call it now?  Housing Armageddon?  Housing apocalypse?
At the risk of opening up another avenue of emotive blasting, there are health reforms in the pipeline, as you are aware - I know I couldn't do a job of this magnitude so I will refrain from criticising those that take on the role.  I have first hand experience of the delays and problems in the health sector, so I do agree that change can't come fast enough...
As for housing I would still call it a crisis for now, but from what I gather things are settling down on that front as well.  Although there has been less in the news about homeless living on the streets so that has to be a good thing.   Things are definitely changing, but what is 'normal' is also changing, more people renting etc
And sure not many stories in the news about homeless.  They are still there just take a walk around the CBD of any city. 
Or they are in motels - the same motels that Labour blasted National about - but they have now 10 times the amount of.
Or the waiting list for accommodation- 5 times the amount under National.
And the health reforms - done right during a critical health crisis because let's change everything now rather than wait.  Not that they will change.  Nothing will come from the health reforms except a bigger more expensive bureaucracy.  Ask Auckland how much cheaper things are under the super city....