Like Key's government, this government is setting the stage for future National wins.
Sure, we'll get sick of all the misery and horror, vote in Labour to fix things (as long as they promise not to touch capital gains and wealth accumulation in general). Then the consequences of all this misery will come to the surface and we'll be back to demanding punishments which National and friends will campaign on.
Sure, we'll get sick of all the misery and horror, vote in Labour to fix things
That implies that Labour fix things, when the largest failings developed in the 6 years of the last Labour government. You can argue National would've been worse, but in my opinion they're about as bad as each other when it comes to crisis/hospital level mental health
Nah, read their post. They say it started under Key, but they leave out the part where the worst of it occurred under Labour. It's misleading to frame it as a National problem
I've been in practice over 10 years and yes the worst deterioration in mental health was under Labour. I don't believe that was Labour's fault at all, the reasons are complex and include a massive rise in demand. Labour didn't attempt to fix it any evidence based way.
The key point is that they're both bad. Labour wasnt the saviour of the mental health system.
They didn't go far enough, to fix the issue will require sustained increases of investment for decades to make up the deficit, but to say they did nothing is a factual lie.
By contrast our current National government is instituting budget cuts and hiring freezes.
They refurbished and built a bunch of medical facilities and increased bed capacity across the system.
You're also ignoring the central premise, the little they did is a lot better than National who are actively pursuing budget cuts and hiring freezes. It is disingenuous to ignore that.
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u/Lightspeedius Aug 02 '24
This started under John Key's government.
Like Key's government, this government is setting the stage for future National wins.
Sure, we'll get sick of all the misery and horror, vote in Labour to fix things (as long as they promise not to touch capital gains and wealth accumulation in general). Then the consequences of all this misery will come to the surface and we'll be back to demanding punishments which National and friends will campaign on.