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David Farrar has provided a handy list of Labour’s massive policy and delivery failures from the past three years.

The promise	The delivery
Build 100,000 affordable homes over 10 years	548 built (0.5%)
Fund the planting of one billion trees over 10 years	36.8 million trees funded (3.7%)
Govt vehicles emission free by 2026	108 (0.6%) of 15,473 government vehicles are electric
End homelessness	Priority A housing waiting list has increased 331% from4,054 to 17,493
Net zero emissions by 2050	Net emissions in 2017 were 56.9kT. Projected 2020 emissions are 66.6 kT – a projected increase of 17%
Reduce net migration by 20,000 to 30,000	Net migration gone from 54,150 in Oct 2017 to 81,240 in Feb 20 (pre Covid) so increased 27,000
Reduce child poverty	The proportion of children in material hardship increased from 12.7% in 2017 to 13.4% in 2019
Start construction of Dunedin Hospital in 1^st term	0 bricks laid
Complete light rail from Auckland CBD to Mt Roskill by 2021	0 metres done of 13,000 metres
Relocate Government functions to the Regions	In 2017 41.9% of public sector in Wellington, in 2019 43.8% so fewer staff in regions
100% renewable electricity by 2035	Share declined 1.2% from 83.4% in Sep 2017 to 82.2% in Jun 2020
Free tertiary fees to lead to 15% enrolment boost	1st year enrolments dropped 3.2% from 63,890 to 61,790 from 2017 to 2019

This is gross incompetence from the Government. They didn’t narrowly miss a few targets, they missed them by a proverbial country mile. In shooting parlance, they aren’t even on the paper. Some metrics have actually gone backwards.

It makes a mockery of their campaign slogan, “Let’s Keep Moving”. In many regards, it would have been nice if they’d actually put the vehicle into gear and depressed the accelerator. Instead, they had the hand brake on as well as a few sacks of cement on the brake pedal.

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