Alex Holland: Labour's spending

In 2017 when Labour came to power, crown spending was $76 billion per year. Now in 2023 it is $139 billion per year, which equates to a $63 billion annual increase (over $1 billion extra spend every week!) In 2017, NZ’s government debt stood at $112 billion. Today, excluding an accounting trick, that debt is now doubled at $224 billion or $115,000 per household. Meanwhile, in 2017 individual tax payers paid the government $33 billion. By 2023 this had gone up 67% to $55 billion to help fund Labours spending. 

Here is just some of the wasted spending (which most media swept under the carpet):

Alex Holland: Race Based Division

Race based special treatment rather than treatment based on need (for any ethnicity) is becoming a real issue. Two out of every three voters believe NZ has become more divided. Here are some of the rights & funding ring-fenced by one human attribute (ancestry), many of which have been introduced under this Labour government:

Alex Holland: A compiled list of Labour's failures

Labour is attacking the person rather than playing the ball, maybe to distract from their achievements over the past 6 years:

* Multiple recessions under Labour in this term of government (2020 & 2023) and another forecast now for 2024.

* 30,000 more people on surgery wait list than when Labour came into power.