- cross-posted to:
- newzealand@lemmy.nz
- cross-posted to:
- newzealand@lemmy.nz
Gap between left and right blocks has opened up, but NZ first seems likely to make it to parliament, which could make coalition negotiations interesting.
Labour is the big loser, and they should be asking serious questions about their campaign. Most of the other parties are fairly stable, with departing Labour voters seemingly moving fairly evenly among the other major parties.
It is their fault, because they didn’t do enough to mitigate it.
Ignoring my other point? Ok, sure.
The government didn’t cause it. In fact, practically every country around the world is having a cost of living crisis right now. New Zealand is even fairing pretty damn well compared to many countries. By your reasoning, they didn’t have anything to do with it so they aren’t to blame.
Or to put it another way, the government has the same responsibility to the cost of living crisis as it does to the building of houses. They have had some input and guided things in a certain direction.
Housing - you claim they have no hand in it, so you blame them for not building any of the houses that were built during their tenure.
CoL - they had nothing to do with it, but are blamed because did something but didn’t do enough?
Do you honestly not see the hypocrisy here?
Not really, in both cases they didn’t do enough. Pretty simple really.
But that isn’t what you said. You said they did nothing, but now it’s “they didn’t do enough”.
While we are on not doing enough, what should they have done regarding the cost of living crisis? Surely, if you claim they haven’t done enough, you have an idea what more they could have done?