The leftist parties in parliament are exhibiting all the reasons why we voted them out and should not vote them back in. They either can’t recognise or don’t understand that the coalition Government is doing what we voted it in to do. A failure to comprehend this is tantamount to giving the electorate the middle finger and that is the reason they find themselves languishing in the polls.
The Government is largely acting on its promises. Tax cuts have been enacted and inflation has not gone up as Labour predicted but instead has continued its downward trend. This has proven once again that those on the right are better managers of the economy. In education, a back-to-basics approach is being implemented while at the same time socialist nonsense is being removed from the curriculum. The regions are being given a priority that was missing under the last administration. The gangs and crime in general have also been been prioritised, but more needs to be done.
In foreign affairs we are starting to align once more with our historical partners. In agriculture this Government is proving far more farmer-friendly, through having a better understanding of the agriculture sector. Red tape across the board is being reduced, as is the public sector. A lot of what we wanted repealed, particularly in the Māori space, has happened. Welfare rights and rules have been tightened. The Government is promoting a truism that we are all one people, that decisions will be based on need, not race. This is in line with most people’s thinking, including Māori.
Roads of national significance are back. Speed limits are being increased to enable people and transport companies to get around faster. The odd cyclist is being denied a cycleway, except in Wellington where businesses are closing as a result. Luxon, Peters and Trade Minister Todd McClay are ensuring our voice is heard on the world stage. All of this is going a long way to getting rid of a third-world mentality imposed on us by the Labour Government. This Government is all about reducing taxes and raising productivity: the essence of raising living standards.
The reaction of the left to all of this is, predictably, shock/horror. The unions are up in arms, supported by the left in parliament. Teachers apparently are unable to cope with the new curriculum. Those on welfare are being victimised, as are Māori. Politicians on the right are advantaging themselves by having ties to or an interest in the areas they are promoting. The prime minister, according to the left, changed the rules so he could start selling off his houses and make obscene profits.
The left are all about raising taxes and spending like drunken sailors with no accountability as to what or how much has been spent where. Again, this is not in line with public opinion. Taxpayers want – and have a right to know – how much of their money the government is spending and on what. Due diligence means work; something politicians on the left have an aversion to.
Labour are tone deaf to reality. At the moment their objective is to get Andrew Bayly demoted, with large dollops of help from their friends in the media. It won’t happen of course. The Greens have spent the past few months agonising over Darleen Tana. Having made the mistake of putting her into parliament, they compounded that by the method they used to get her out. They finally succeeded but showed themselves to be first-class hypocrites in the process. Governing by consensus of party membership is the equivalent of death by a thousand cuts.
The Māori Party should take a leaf out of the Greens’ playbook and, due to their support of victimisation through colonisation, should maybe come to parliament in grass skirts and armed with historical weaponry. There appears to be no dress code in the House these days and it would add an extra layer of colour to proceedings. Again, we have a political party engaged in an agenda that is of little or no interest to the voting population. That’s a favourite pastime for the elitists, though.
If this triumvirate of species wants to have any hope of winning the next election they will have to change their specious tactics. The man sporting the colonial hat is calling going after gangs in Ōpōtiki ‘police terrorism’: it is this sort of fanciful nonsense that will ensure the seat he now occupies in parliament will be the same one after the next election and likewise for the rest of his mates on the left. As of now, they represent a frightening alternative to a government that, while not perfect, is at least trying to get the country back to something resembling a first-world nation.
