Today’s face of the day, current National leader Simon Bridges is moaning about crime going up. It’s because Bill English and Steve Joyce wouldn’t listen to Judith Collins and put more police in fast enough.
This is a legacy of Anne Tolley not demanding more for police from Bill English, and a lackadaisical approach to the job of police minister by a grandstanding Paula Bennett.
Bridges can’t complain, he was in cabinet under Key and English who signed off on that lack of funding.