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If we needed further evidence of Labour’s obnoxious behaviour after Dr Sharma’s recent mind-blowing revelations we got it – from Labour themselves conniving a tax on people’s savings in KiwiSaver. This was ‘true to life’ Labour on a number of fronts:
- They are hell-bent on implementing their hopelessly flawed socialist ideology
- They don’t take advice
- They don’t listen
- They are lazy when it comes to doing their background work on legislation
- They never think through the implications of the proposed legislation
- They never think through the consequences of the proposed legislation.
The good news is that because of the six points above they are potentially booting themselves out at next year’s election.
They’re there to implement Ardern’s UN-driven socialist agenda but their problem is that they can’t implement it.
This is for two reasons: firstly, they lack the know-how, and secondly and more importantly, the voters don’t like it. We have seen this with Three Waters and now again with the KiwiSaver tax grab. David Parker can split hairs all he likes by calling it a tax on high-end providers but at the end of the day, it was a tax on everyone’s savings.
To the NZ Herald‘s credit, on this occasion they got stuck in, did the hard yards and produced the figures which immediately scuppered the Government’s ignominious piece of legislation.
Only three things would have mattered to David Parker and his friend Billy Bunter the finance man when they dreamed this up:
- Implementing their ideology
- Going after the ‘rich pricks’
- Adding more money to the government’s coffers.
They don’t want to see beyond that. They’re not interested in implications and consequences. That is precisely why they don’t like the consultative process; why they don’t like experts presenting evidence at Select Committees; why they rush legislation through under urgency or, worse still, as in the KiwiSaver case, try and sneak it through.
David Parker expects us to believe that in the consultation that they had prior to introducing the legislation the smaller providers were pretty much for it and then when news of the legislation was announced they revealed they were against it. There goes that pig flying past the window again!
Labour has been stretching their trust with voters their entire second term. People are now well and truly over Covid (the sole reason Labour got re-elected), and inflation and the cost of living have now taken centre stage. (I note our money is still being wasted on Covid propaganda.)
The paltry cost of living payment was another example of Labour not taking advice when told by Treasury not to go ahead with it and also being lazy when implementing it. We all witnessed the resultant shambles.
This latest debacle with KiwiSaver – the secretive way it was being implemented and the misleading way it was being sold – will have alarm bells ringing around the electorate as a whole. Even those prepared to give Labour the benefit of the doubt up to now will form the opinion that Labour simply cannot be trusted. Many will be the swinging voters who determine election outcomes.
The way Labour are behaving, Ardern and Robertson are fast looking like the Two Ronnies. It will soon be “Goodnight from me and Goodnight from him”. Good riddance to boot.
