Petty Partisan Party Politicking by Simon Bridges & Co Over Government's Covid-19 (Coronavirus) Action Plan Likely to Go Down With Your Average Kiwi Like a Cup of Cold Sick - Pun Wholly Unintended
The New Zealand National Party better watch itself, as thus far it seems to be wrong-footing itself bigtime over this unprecedented global health crisis...
...otherwise it runs/stands the serious risk of majorly coming unstuck as a result...
Some of the(ir) criticism may well be - indeed most certainly is - valid: just refer to my own blogpost the other day (upon this blogsite!)...for example folk not being tested (at our borders) when they clearly ought to have been...
No matter, what NZers will see is only a typically, predictably partisan and party political, petty point-scoring 'oppose at all costs and under all circumstances' Dis-'loyal Opposition' seeking to make a meal of each and every questionable - or perceived - permutation of the crisis, attempting to make traction at a most inopportune moment upon a wholly unsuitable issue...
Fair enough points indeed - i.e. re 'permanent-izing' the beneficiary boost (and possibly the winter energy assistance) - but completely sabotaged by a complete lack of nous...
SB should've front-footed his and National's formal response in Parliament yesterday to the Government's Plan by declaring emphatically and convincingly and sincerely that the National Party had come to the House fully prepared to back the Govt's 'good intentions and reasonable efforts (etc)', but due to the highly political character of the Govt's actual moves found itself simply unable to progress this approach...
...but was reluctantly impelled to take the opposite tack,
prefacing his subsequent remarks with something along the lines of: "It's with great reluctance and sadness that we simply find ourselves, as Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, unable to support the Government's approach as outlined (both today and over preceding days)...
Hey, it's really rather simple, Simon!
...otherwise it runs/stands the serious risk of majorly coming unstuck as a result...
Some of the(ir) criticism may well be - indeed most certainly is - valid: just refer to my own blogpost the other day (upon this blogsite!)...for example folk not being tested (at our borders) when they clearly ought to have been...
No matter, what NZers will see is only a typically, predictably partisan and party political, petty point-scoring 'oppose at all costs and under all circumstances' Dis-'loyal Opposition' seeking to make a meal of each and every questionable - or perceived - permutation of the crisis, attempting to make traction at a most inopportune moment upon a wholly unsuitable issue...
Fair enough points indeed - i.e. re 'permanent-izing' the beneficiary boost (and possibly the winter energy assistance) - but completely sabotaged by a complete lack of nous...
SB should've front-footed his and National's formal response in Parliament yesterday to the Government's Plan by declaring emphatically and convincingly and sincerely that the National Party had come to the House fully prepared to back the Govt's 'good intentions and reasonable efforts (etc)', but due to the highly political character of the Govt's actual moves found itself simply unable to progress this approach...
...but was reluctantly impelled to take the opposite tack,
prefacing his subsequent remarks with something along the lines of: "It's with great reluctance and sadness that we simply find ourselves, as Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition, unable to support the Government's approach as outlined (both today and over preceding days)...
Hey, it's really rather simple, Simon!
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