The sheer joy of watching Casey Costello, former leader of Hobsons Pledge, publicly humiliate herself on a national stage is almost too much to bear. Her ludicrous attempt to equate nicotine to caffeine, suggesting a latte could cause lung cancer, is just the tip of the iceberg. Her claim that a document, clearly written by tobacco lobbyists, simply "turned up" on her desk, and her subsequent decision to hand it over to tobacco officials, is the epitome of dishonesty and a blatant disregard for her position as Associate Minister of Health.
Then, she submits reports to cabinet advocating for a $216 million tax break for Phillip Morris, while simultaneously denying any lobbying for the tobacco industry. The sheer audacity of her lies, coupled with her nonchalant appearance on ZB talkback, where she feigned ignorance about the controversy, is truly comedic gold. Ayesha Verrall, please stop asking for her resignation Casey Costello is a liability and our best hope this is a one term government.
@TaxTaxTaxNZ@pearce_murray Not forgetting how many lives were saved. I would rather my business failed than being actually dead. They did everything they could to help business during lockdown and beyond.
@David_Cormack Mitchell is as dumb as a bag of rocks. Everyone knows that Operation Cobalt has been years running and was only tweaked recently for him to pretend it was ‘new’. There are tens of million$ recovered and hundreds convicted. This operation today will have been part of that intel.
@AnnetteConroy3@LeoMolloyNZ I think it is more important that they show respect and a sense of ‘us’ amongst their followers actually rather than conform to some bs standard.
Hipkins: If you're the Prime Minister and you're on top of your brief, and know what your government is doing, then answering questions shouldn't be a problem for you. https://t.co/zI4z67sqmX
Is Reti incompetent or making things up? Chippy says he finds it very difficult to believe that MoH refused to share information with Reti and Treasury and I trust Chippy.
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This is how the coalition government propaganda works they fire the existing board and replace them with one of their mates normally a former National party MP.
They then blame the previous administration with accusations of overspending or mismanagment and then slash that departments budget with bombastic claims these budget cuts will improve services.
Jobs for the mates by an unethical government hell bent on enriching the real estate industry.