William Felt

Apart from Jacinda Ardern’s dress sense there are many, many other Labour party fails:

  • Kiwibuild – fail
  • Child Poverty – fail
  • Immigration – fail
  • Transformative Government – fail
  • Open and Transparent – fail
  • Economic Growth – fail
  • Business Confidence – fail
  • CGT – fail
  • Trains – fail
  • Regional Development Fund – fail
  • Trees – fail
  • Road toll – fail
  • No more taxes – fail
  • Pike River – fail
  • Oil and Gas Industry – fail
  • Free Speech – fail
  • No Strikes – fail
  • Fees Free – fail
  • Elective Surgery – fail
  • Understanding America – fail
  • Claire Curran – fail
  • Mega Fightery – fail
  • 2019 Budget ‘Hack’ – fail
  • Trevor Mallard (rape) – fail
  • Phil Twyford – fail
  • Kelvin Davis in the House – fail
  • Grant Robertson 2019 Budget – fail
  • Golriz Ghahraman – fail
  • Ian Lees Galloway – fail
  • Sroubek affair – fail
  • Winston Peters asleep on the job – fail
  • $10 visits to the Doctor – fail
  • Kermadec marine sanctuary – fail
  • Russian FTA – fail
  • Kiwibuild recalibrate/reset/retreat/resign – fail
  • World-class cancer treatment centres – fail
  • DHB 2019 deficits – fail
  • Gun buy-back/confiscation – fail
  • Information leaks: 1800 police, Waikeria Prison, three strikes, legislative programme, govt priorities, cannabis referendum, tertiary education reforms – fail
  • Charter schools – fail
  • Fuel taxes -fail
  • Labour Youth Camp – fail
  • Police numbers – fail
  • Chief Technology Officer – fail
  • Speaker of the House – fail
  • Education reforms – fail
  • No lies – fail
  • Homelessness – fail
  • NCEA Results – fail
  • Mental Health Inquiry – fail
  • Hugspass
  • Magazine Photo Ops – pass
  • Budget Responsibility Rules – fail
  • Crime Stats -fail
  • Bullying and Harassment Report – fail
  • Dunedin Hospital – fail
  • Transparency – fail
  • Repeal of criminal three strikes policy – fail
  • Firearms buy-back – fail
  • Road Safety Budget – fail
  • NewsHub Poll (June 2019) – pass
  • The “Rape” in Parliament that wasn’t
  • Marsden Point Pipeline – fail
  • Appointment of speaker on Day 1 – fail
  • Airforce $1B purchase of Hercules with no tender – fail
  • Twyford and Parker meet with Goff in a ‘secret meeting’ – fail
  • Jenny Marcroft attempts to blackmail Mark Mitchell -fail
  • Shane Jones’ Northland Province Growth Fund trucking magnate connections – fail
  • “Good looking” race horses – fail
  • A lobbyist in the PM’s office who does not declare his clients – fail
  • Education – fail
  • Health – fails (pending) – measles, vaccination, spending, statistics,,….
  • IRD Kiwisaver tax issue – fail
  • Police Commissioner making statements relating to the activities of a political partner – fail
  • Census 2018 -fail
  • Abbey Hartley (RIP) – fail
  • Tasman region after Cyclone Gita – fail
  • Nelson Region after Fires – fail
  • Surgical mesh register – fail
  • Inquiry into Operation Burnham – fail
  • Taking govt jet for a one day hui – fail
  • Chinese relations – fail
  • Facebook hate speech etc – fail
  • Hardship grants – fail
  • Gun register – fail
  • Wore a Scarf – pass
  • USA Trade deal – fail
  • JAG car tax – fail
  • Criminal Justice Summit spend $1.5M ($20k table assembly) – fail
  • The Ihum?tao land occupation Ardern insisted on involving herself in, despite her saying over and over it’s got nothing to do with government – fail
  • The public housing crisis. Numbers setting another record – fail
  • DHB debt, as of last week it has blown out to hundreds of millions – fail
  • Oranga Tamariki baby snatching allegations and the department under siege – fail
  • Confidence surveys numbers. Still falling, business at decade-long lows – fail
  • The JobSeeker benefit numbers. Once again at record numbers -fail
  • National Cancer Agency they promised and yet were beaten to by National? – fail
  • Ministerial Advisory Group which resolved at its first meeting not to keep minutes so as not to have its proceedings subject to the OIA – fail
  • JAG Ministerial letter? Or was it? – fail
  • Kelvin Davis not knowing what CPI represents – fail
  • PTPM not knowing that the new bill on Abortion was a Government Bill – fail
  • Not knowing other party policies – ie) NZ First regarding referendum – fail
  • PM still thinks a 737 is a 757, or a 757 is a 737, she just is not too sure. – fail
  • First day in Parliament – couldn’t count their numbers and then lied about doing so – fail!
  • Measles outbreak – fail
  • Sexual predator in PM’s office – fail
  • Roading Projects – fail
  • West Coast hydro dam – fail
  • Question time attendance – fail
  • Food parcels – fail
  • House waiting list – fail
  • Cost of living up – fail
  • Electric vehicles for Public sector – targets abandoned – fail
  • Inner City speed limits – fail
  • Shane Jones target practice – fail
Photoshopped image credit: Boondecker

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