Ardernism Oct 2019
#ardernism #parttimepm
Two Very Long Years of a Complete Utter Failure Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern
The list of failures goes on & is very much longer than this brief series by Geoff Booth.
WELFARE REFORM:
- Poverty at record levels
- Homelessness at record levels
- No homeless were housed in the promised 6wks
- Motel use doubled now over $1M/week
- Food assistance & accommodation needs at record highs
- Youth homelessness at record highs
- Myriad of taxes on poor
CLIMATE CHANGE:
- No longer a "nuclear moment"
- Now synonymous with fraud
- Hate & Blame poured on farmers
- No new recycling schemes
- Ban on Oil & Gas exploration, all resources have to be imported from countries with no environmental standards
- In breach of Paris Agreement
TRANSPORT:
- ALL new roads cancelled
- Ban on new road infrastructure
- Roads in disrepair
- CRL massive cost blow out & not ready by 2021
- Tax payers to fund environmentally detrimental E-Cars
- Bans on older cars to effect the poor
- Skyrocketing fuel taxes hitting the poor
- Hefty New Taxes on a selected range of 2nd hand vehicles purchased
HOUSING:
- KiwiBuild a total failure
- No change in house affordability
- Rents sky-rocketed causing higher homelessness and living in cars
- No new State houses & waiting lists never been longer
CHILD POVERTY:
- More kids in poverty than ever before
- None of the 10,000 mental health workers in schools
- Oranga Tamariki crisis
HEALTH:
- Hospital rebuilds not started, hospitals in such disrepair some are hazardous
- DHBs in record debt
- Waiting lists never been longer
- Unchecked measles epidemic
- Immunisation targets scrapped
- Closed maternity wards
- Long cancer waiting lists
LAW & ORDER:
- Worst terror attack in NZ history
- 100% failure of gun buyback
- Gang membership up 30%
- Meth/P more prolific & cheaper than ever
- Record Drugs epidemic
- Crime rates up
- No 1800 new police each yr, only 839 in 2yrs
- Police attrition rates at record levels
EDUCATION:
- Full failure of Free First Year scheme
- Tertiary enrolment rates drop
- Tertiary drop out rates a record highs
- Endless teacher strikes
- Destruction of successful polytechs
- No funding for rural institutes
- No teacher number increase despite thousands promised
PLUS
- 2 major sex scandal cover ups
- Needless holidaying
- Endless lies
- Multiple IT info scandals & faked Treasury hack
- Business confidence at record lows
- Incompetent MPs
- Sroubek Scandal
All of this while Jacinda Ardern averages 19hrs/week has a reputation as a #parttimePM & has lowest attendance record in her job in history