@TB_inaleakyboat It started with extreme and unwarranted positive emotion.
Most early critics were content to point out her inexperience and lack of substance.
Extreme negative emotion started after some started calling her the best PM NZ ever had. (i.e. literally weeks into the job).
Then COVID.
@Bridgetpee SOME admin roles are necessary but if these 1500 were really as vital as you're pretending they are, you'd have been extremely critical of Labour.
You weren't, so stop pretending this has anything at all to do with the delivery of health services.
@nuclearkiwik If this had been the sole focus of climate campaigners, then maybe it would have more legs now.
But everybody was just so busy with their feel-good, PR-focused, pet policies that were redundant from the get-go thanks to the ETS, like EV discounts and the Ute Tax.
@EricCrampton Eric, you know those people are the most well-connected and politically active staff members.
That is the last thing they will give up on.
@_Simon_K@dan_brunskill Having actual debt to point to and a seemingly unending supply of examples of fiscal irresponsibility is just a lucky happenstance.
@NZRossVideo Oh look, someone using the death of a person in their pathetic, tragically online snark.
Why is it always the oh-so-caring and empathetic Lefties?
@Mykuhl @EerjkMcRae Those guys have a general reputation as dorks.
The other gangs have reputations that range from "violent gang-rapists" to "valued community organisers", but it doesn't pass anywhere near "dork".
@SolidAirJohn Yeah, it's NATIONAL'S fault that other people become intensely distracted by something National consistently and constantly said they were voting against after the first reading.