I will commence with a fun fact which will go some way to explaining the ‘Ides of Labour’. In Ancient Rome the Ides (the 15th of March, May, July or October) was a day for settling debts and balancing the books. It was the 13th in other months. It is more than a little ironic then that the election this year falls on October 14 and on the next day, the 15th, National has indeed to start the job of settling (reducing) debts and balancing the books.
The last six years have left us in no doubt that Labour does not adhere to this principle. Whether they would even be aware of the existence of the Roman calendar is debatable. Under Labour, the principle employed is the exact opposite. There has been no attempt to rein in debt or balance the books. These people have used our money like someone who sits all day at a pokie machine hoping for a windfall. Like that someone, for this government, there have been no windfalls.
The money has been gobbled up with nothing to show for it. Neither we as individuals nor the country as a whole have benefited. The housing waiting list has either quadrupled or quintupled. Labour has built or acquired more houses year on year than happened in the term of the last National Government but not anywhere near the numbers they are claiming. We don’t have a climate crisis but we do have a health crisis. We also have a law and order crisis. Then there is the cost of living.
Labour’s claim that it will rein in spending is nothing more than a hollow promise. Apart from being incapable of it, they will be beholden to the Greens, the Maori Party and their own Maori caucus, all of whom won’t allow it. Rather than cutting spending, a wealth tax will be introduced. I am unaware of how much the Greens think they will receive from imposing such a tax but I have noticed each time they announce a policy costing millions or billions it is the wealth tax that will cover it.
The Maori Party will have racism at the core of their raison d’être. All of their policies will have a race-based context to them. Labour evidently is on board with this approach. Heather du Plessis Allan made the point that only last Monday David Parker set up an advisory group to make recommendations to the government on matters such as Maori involvement and ownership when policy decisions are being made.
Considering Parliament has dissolved, it is the height of arrogance from this obnoxious little man. I was hoping to hear something of this from the equally obnoxious little woman, Amelia Wade, on Newshub. No, she was more interested in telling me how desperate National had become over some insignificant matter in what was nothing more than an unabashed pitch for her hapless friends in Labour. It would seem there are no standards in journalism these days.
David Parker is not the only one in Labour exhibiting arrogance. We are now told Carmel Sepuloni is using a Crown limo for campaign purposes. In my view that’s tantamount to fraud. She’s using our money for transportation in a futile effort to attract votes. These people make it very obvious why they’re not fit to run the country. Whether they’re scheming behind our backs or brazenly out in the open, they are letting it be known that their arrogance knows no bounds.
Current poll numbers show there is no room for complacency. This insidious bunch of usurpers must be shown the door in no uncertain terms. They, like the news media, are a blight on the country. Neither is serving a useful purpose. Labour needs to suffer a voting apocalypse from which it will take them years to recover. They have done incalculable damage to the country and should be made to pay for it electorally.
While it is every person’s democratic right to vote for who they wish, an annihilation of the sort I believe is required will only happen by electing a strong National/ACT coalition.
Anything short of a knockout punch will not suffice.
At the end of the night, the ghastly triumvirate on the left need to be picking themselves up off the floor in a semi-conscious state contemplating a nightmare that is indeed a reality.
Anything short of that and the bubbles might as well be staying in the bottle.
