He's admitted today his Government should've done more to crack down on state house tenants terrorising their neighbourhoods.
And he’s said- “I have some sympathy for some of the changes that they’re making, there should be further consequences”.
If even the guy who led the Government that stopped the evictions now admits he’s on board with starting up the evictions again, then that tells you it’s the right thing to do.
Look, I admit it's a tough policy, because people are gonna get punished.
If they tear up a house, if they terrorise their neighbours, or don’t pay their rent repeatedly- they will be punished by being kicked out of the house.
But this isn't introducing punishment, it's just changing who gets punished.
Because people are being punished already. The neighbours are being punished, the taxpayers are being punished by constantly having to fix up houses that are being ripped up, and the families waiting in motels for homes while those homes are filled with people who aren’t respecting the privilege are being punished too.
But the neighbours and the taxpayers and people waiting in motels shouldn't be the ones being punished by this behaviour, because they aren't the bad guys here- the guys tearing up the houses are the bad guys.
And it is only right that if someone is being punished, it should the people doing the bad stuff, not everyone around them.
I think yesterday's crackdown was well overdue, because we need to start looking after the right people in this country.
We've spent too long now bending over backwards for the delinquents. The unruly tenants, the gang members demanding rights to wear a patch, the criminals demanding discounts because of tough childhoods.
We have to change who we look after here, including the neighbours, the citizens who don’t want to be intimidated by gangs, and the victims who want the offenders locked up.
This looks after the right people instead of punishing them- and it’s about time.
Heather du Plessis-Allan is a journalist and commentator who hosts Newstalk ZB's Drive show.
4 comments:
- and it only takes one photo of these bad guys standing on the footpath with their furniture for the change to begin. The State does not need to rush in and find them somewhere to go, as all the luvvies will then wail. That has already been tried. Now it is up to them to act like civilised human beings.
All the people crying 'Why won't somebody think of the children!?' - Any children in a house with adults who will be affected by this policy should be removed by OT anyway. These are not people who should be taking care of children, these are thugs and criminals.
The bad guys are those that introduced laws such as no fault divorce and decriminalised vices of all kinds. They have corrupted the morals of the people and families have suffered as a result. The results are intergenerational failure and now the failure of the next generation to reproduce which will result in the failure of the country within a generation or two.
I like the comment anonymous 1.01 PM. We have a very broken society caused by neo- liberals who have approved licentiousness, freedom without discipline , schools that don't teach a work effort with correction ,nor responsibility, nor morality like the Golden Rule because of Progressive child -centered ideology. This is added to what Anonymous said. Without these how can you expect a civil society to function.
We need to return to traditional values in schools and homes.
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