I'm Glad The Right Wing Coalition Won

Plus: the Covid impacts NZ didn't experience and some were never grateful to avoid

Dame Jacinda Adern would not accept “acceptable death rates” during Covid. But in the UK the Tory government said “Let them die”.

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Yesterday, when I saw the news that a Timaru factory with hundreds of jobs on the line was going to close, I couldn't help but think:"I'm so glad this lot won the election."

After all, look at what’s been happening:

• 23,000 - 26,000 more people on jobseekers since this government got into power

• Liquidation numbers are soaring all over and businesses 'can't hang on’

• Winstone Pulp International mill closures will be 'catastrophic' for Central North Island

• They just closed all West Coast urgent care GP clinics and can’t guarantee people won’t die from that

• We have pregnant women who need urgent care waiting in EDs with hundreds of others who sleep on floors and walk outside with medical tubes, while the part time $320,0…