Two years of broken promises from the Govt
Two years of broken promises from the Govt
The two year anniversary of Winston Peters appointing a Labour Government is a reminder of the trail of broken promises and failures to deliver, National’s Campaign Chair Paula Bennett says.
“Jacinda Ardern promised to lead the most open and transparent government ever. She promised to lift children out of poverty and to end the housing crisis. Not only has she not delivered, things have got worse.
“The number of people on the dole is up by more than 22,000. The number of children living in benefit dependent households has increased by 8,000 in just over a year despite the Government’s commitment to halve child poverty in a decade. Hardship grants are higher than ever before.
“The cost of living is through the roof. Rents are up an average of $50 a week and petrol taxes have been piled on. The Government promised there would be nobody sleeping in cars this winter and yet homelessness has increased.
“KiwiBuild is the largest public policy failure this country has ever seen. Labour talked a big game on housing but has failed to deliver meaningful change and dropped all of its targets.
“Business confidence is through the floor and continues to plummet further which is no wonder when the Government has made decisions like banning oil and gas exploration.”
This is in addition to other broken promises including;
• Introducing seven new taxes despite saying
there’d be none
• Seven out of nine child poverty
indicators have increased
• Failing to deliver 1800
new police
• Failing to deliver 100 per cent qualified
ECE teachers
• The number of people in motels has
increased threefold despite saying there’d be
none
• Failing to deliver a surgical mesh
register
• Failing to strengthen the OIA as
promised
• Embarrassed into action on Cancer by
National
• Failing to increase the age of Breast
Screening to 74
• Fees free resulting in fewer
students
• Failing to reduce the Gender Pay Gap as
promised
• Cannabis referendum won’t be
binding
• Has not introduced a Volunteer Rural
Constabulary (cowboy cops)
• Job growth has more than
halved from 10,000 new jobs a month under National to only
4,000
• Thankfully hasn’t introduced a Capital Gains
Tax like it promised
• Failed to reduce teacher child
ratios in early learning
It’s not just broken promises either. The Government has displayed a staggering level of incompetence;
• Outsourcing work to
nearly 300 working groups
• Cancelling all of our Roads
of National Significance
• There’s a looming
infrastructure crisis
• Threatening to introduce a new
car tax
• Introducing a regional fuel
tax
• Elective Surgery numbers decreasing
• DHB
deficits blowing up
• Won’t release the letter from
Julie-Anne Genter
• State Housing waiting lists going
up
• Overseeing a Census disaster
• Teacher
strikes
• Junior doctors strikes
•
Emissions will keep rising until 2025 but were flat under
National
• Couldn’t keep their own budget secret
“This Government is failing to deliver on its promises and New Zealanders have a right to feel let down. National is doing the work in Opposition and we’ll be ready to hit the ground running in 2020.”