If elected, Labour will build the new Dunedin Hospital to the level that was promised at the 2023 election before the coalition Government said it would downsize the build, blaming cost.
They really hope voters have short memories. In 2017 they promised to have construction start before 2021. They of course didn’t. In fact after six years they still hadn’t signed off a final business case for the entire hospital (only the smaller inpatients facility).
If they had kept their word in 2017, the hospital would be almost complete by now. But their inability to even decide on a final business case after six years speaks volumes.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
If they had kept their word in 2017, the hospital would be almost complete by now. But their inability to even decide on a final business case after six years speaks volumes.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
3 comments:
Unfortunately Labour do get away with fooling a lot of fools. People believe what they want to believe in, and ignore all the evidence to the contrary. That is what both Lange and Jacinda played on.
Agree anon. I’ve run into people who seem 100% convinced that Labour was better for the country & national will only benefit fatcat landlords.
Utterly convinced of this wild, unsupported fantasy. Debt growth and inflation are “explained” as “worldwide” therefore not chippy or the horse he rode in on’s fault. Every other calamity 6 yrs of labour visited upon us is “explained” in equally fact free glib ways. That js if they bother to defended their indefensible positions of labour good national bad at all 🤦♂️🤦♂️
And there’s upto 30% of these people walking among us
The average voter doesn't look past the free stuff on offer by the different parties. Possibly the most egregious example of this was Labour offering an election bribe of a £100 tax rebate for every worker and then campaigning on the slogan "Do you want the £100 or not?" The electorate didn't have the wit to understand it was their own money they were being bribed with and duly voted Labour back into office in November 1957. Bad move, because when Labour found they couldn't afford to fund the rebate, along with a lot of other stuff, Nordmeyer's Black Budget was presented in June 1958 and, bye-bye rebate. And bye-bye Labour in 1960. So remind me again how Chris Hipkins say's he is going to fund that hospital. This is deja vu all over again.
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