Political inconsistencies Abound, Especially When it Comes to Corporate Profiteering...

How else can one explain the Jacinda Ardern-led Labour Government *privileging the same - i.e. NZ's supermarket duopoly - during the nationwide lockdown?

Just as others might - and indeed oftentimes have - levelled a very similar criticism vis-a-vis selfsame Government's broadsides the one moment against the petroleum cartels, demanding they move to reduce prices at the pump, whilst the rest of the time handily enjoying and revelling in patrol tax largesse...

*Whilst now finding their price gouging just a little too rich by far...

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