David Seymour ACT Party Leader Once again the Prime Minister has made an announcement about an announcement, leaving us waiting an Ardernity for a decision. “Cabinet made the decision about restrictions today. Jacinda should treat us like adults and tell us what it is. “Instead, our staged managed Prime Minister
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Government has staged a quiet, Friday afternoon backdown on vaccine mandates, updating the MBIE website so that unvaccinated citizens and residents can re-enter the country without isolation. As recently as Thursday, unvaccinated citizens and residents were required to go through MIQ upon returning to
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Newshub Nation this morning reported that vaccine passes will be gone by April 13th, why not just do it now? ACT was the first party to say it’s time to move on. Last month we released a cost benefit analysis on all of the
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Prime Minister is holding on to Covid-19 longer than the saga of whether Ross and Rachel were on a break. We know Jacinda Ardern loves standing at the podium and making announcements. We know she needs Covid-19 to keep voters in a state of
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Labour’s Covid-19 response has always followed the science – political science. Three days after a TVNZ poll found 75 per cent of voters believed we should open the borders to negative tested travellers immediately, Labour has brought its reopening date for visitors forward by six
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Chris Hipkins and Ashley Bloomfield couldn’t answer basic but critical questions about the COVID response Health Select Committee this morning. How many people are being admitted to hospital with COVID? How will the Government define that the wave has peaked? What is the public
David Seymour ACT Party Leader As New Zealanders continue to be squeezed from every direction, Jacinda has this morning shown she has no plan to ease the pressure they face. On Newshub Nation this morning the Prime Minister blamed global factors for the highest inflation we’ve seen in three
David Seymour ACT Party Leader With 12,000 cases in the community and just 19 at the border ACT has all the rapid advice the Prime Minister needs about isolation and MIQ. Jacinda told Newshub Nation this morning that “We’ve actually asked our team of advisers we’re using,
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The High Court has agreed with ACT’s call to move on from Government vaccine mandates, pointing out that vaccination is doing little to reduce spread. The Judge finds: “COVID-19 clearly involves a threat to the continuity of Police and NZDF services. That is because
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Jacinda needs to start answering questions about what advice she has received about whether mandates should continue. Jacinda Ardern has always been the master of avoiding questions and answering with waffle, but she took that to the next level, even for her, on AM this
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Speaker of the House is one of the most important constitutional roles in New Zealand and it’s time for Trevor Mallard to behave like it. But we can’t really blame Trevor. He is simply filling a void left by the absent Prime
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Labour’s mandates are causing huge disruption and division and we need an alternative way forward. The good news is that the Government’s small business officials at MBIE, Joe Biden, Denmark, and Air New Zealand all offer alternatives. Right now, some school kids are
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Today’s announcement of a slow, staged and uncertain border reopening is all about Jacinda, instead of New Zealanders. This will be Jacinda’s third announcement about the same thing. As usual it forecasts another announcement for next month. New Zealand is not short of
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The mask of kindness has fallen off Jacinda’s Government. Chris Hipkins‘ use of Charlotte Bellis’s personal information to publicly attack her is reckless and nasty. Hipkins released a statement yesterday in a desperate effort to save face over the Bellis saga. Charlotte has
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The saga of Charlotte Bellis should be a turning point for the Government. It should cancel MIQ today, as there is no justification for waiting another month. Bellis is far from the only case. The cruelty of MIQ has created many like hers. The absurdity
David Seymour ACT Leader Once again the Government has been caught taking a nap as it takes seven long days to identify close contacts of Omicron Jacinda should use her time in isolation to ask herself if her policy of contact tracing and isolation is not actually a costly but
