The evidence is out. Stats NZ today released survey data measuring Trust in NZ's key institutions. The previous Labour government ended its time in office in 2023 achieving all-time record lows for trust in our education system, parliament, health-care system, our courts, police and media.
These numbers are beyond embarrassing for Labour since in 2018, when former PM Jacinda Ardern had just come to power after nine years of the Key-led National Party government, many of those numbers were at all-time highs.
For a Labour government to collapse faith in practically all of our country's social welfare and education services is beyond belief. How did Ardern and Chris Hipkins pull off this feat?
Its easy to explain:
* On the police, they turned them into the bad guys and criminals into the good guys.
* On Parliament, that's an easy one. Hipkins doesn't even believe it has sovereign powers - so the Labour Leader doesn't trust Parliament himself.
* On the media, it got into bed with Ardern & Hipkins and became their instrument of propaganda during Covid and beyond, to the extent no-one trusts the Main Stream Media anymore.
* As for health-care, they bust the NZ health system by underfunding it in the middle of the biggest health-crisis the country as ever seen, being the pandemic, blew out its bureaucracy and embarked on the failed NZ Health centralization reform.
* As for the courts, Labour appointed judges not on the basis of meritocracy, but on their political beliefs, to the extent few people believe we have an independent judiciary anymore.
* On education, they dumped so much politics into the curriculum, that its hard for school children to graduate these days without having been brain-washed into believing the only parties that can save NZ, and the planet, are Labour & Greens.
The explanations for Kiwis' busted trust in "the system" is easy to explain.
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Source:
https://www.stats.govt.nz/news/new-zealanders-trust-in-key-institutions-declines/
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Source:
https://www.stats.govt.nz/news/new-zealanders-trust-in-key-institutions-declines/
Professor Robert MacCulloch holds the Matthew S. Abel Chair of Macroeconomics at Auckland University. He has previously worked at the Reserve Bank, Oxford University, and the London School of Economics. He runs the blog Down to Earth Kiwi from where this article was sourced.
7 comments:
Damn right on every count. Then they rushed through an honours Damehood on Ardern to cap it off, so, no trust in The Crown either.
What this really highlights is that unchecked power residing in the hands of a runaway PM is not a good thing.
A total dunderhead in charge and a group think subservient caucus buggered the country.
Now the brains need to create a better way to govern the country
Gosh, I was expecting something a lot more dramatic. The rhetoric was the usual stuff that BV often reprints, but the actual stats were underwhelming: only a few percentage points on most measures, and people's contentment with their lives had declined only 1%. Given the impact of the Covid period, it'd be interesting to see what similar countries could report on the same measures, if any have done similar research.
Agree with Joanne W. Despite the truth if the mater, the change is minor and very worrying - the gap should be massive if voters are thinking clearly. The brainwashing exercise still has impact.
The Left will assume that this can be turned around in 2026 - even by an alliance with National to ensure that co-Gov. and He Puapua continue to advance.
Wasn't arguing that the gap should be massive, but that the author was exaggerating the implications of what change there was. He was making the proverbial mountain out of a molehill. If people don't feel that their lives have become markedly worse over the last two or three years, you can't really tell them they ought to feel worse!
Seems significant to me, it is declining in all measures isn't it?
As the Navy used to say ‘the floggings will continue until morale improves’.
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