Who Else Is Fed Up?

Via Philip Conroy on Facebook

I’m fed up. Six years of Labour left New Zealand buried in debt, divided by race, and drowning in broken promises. Now the same people who caused the mess are touring the country moaning about how bad things are and that it’s the current governments fault. Let’s get the facts straight, once and for all.

When Labour took power in 2017, annual core Crown spending was $76 billion and net core Crown debt sat at $60 billion. By the time they were booted out in 2023, spending had hit $139 billion—an extra $63 billion every single year—and debt had more than doubled to $155 billion. That’s not “kindness”; that’s a mortgage on every taxpayer’s future. National has already stabilised the debt track and cut the fat, but unwinding a decade of reckless borrowing isn’t an overnight job. Every dollar we pay in interest is a dollar Labour stole from schools, hospitals, and roads.

Capital gains tax 
In 2017 Labour swore blind there would be no new taxes for 95 percent of Kiwis and repeatedly ruled out a capital gains tax. Now, in 2025, they’re openly campaigning for a 28 percent CGT on rental properties, shares, and family businesses to pay for their latest wish list. Once they break a promise, they never stop.

Covid cowardice 
The 2025 Royal Commission laid bare the lockdown disaster—$200 million wasted, small businesses crushed, mental health in tatters. Yet Jacinda Ardern, Chris Hipkins, Grant Robertson, and Ayesha Verrall all refused to front up in person. They sent written notes, dodged the hearings, and kept classified documents locked away. The public paid the bill; they won’t even face the music.

Division by stealth
Labour quietly signed us up to the UN’s indigenous-rights action plan and rolled out a secret 2040 roadmap for co-governance—parallel systems in health, water, justice, and local government based on race. Three Waters gave unelected tribal appointees 50 percent control of water assets—National scrapped it. The Maori Health Authority swallowed $1.5 billion and delivered longer waiting times for everyone—National shut it down. Bill after bill was amended to entrench division. Labour split us on purpose.

Climate cash black hole
Billions blown on dodgy overseas carbon credits while power prices soared and emissions barely moved. Handing our sovereignty to UN climate funds was the final insult.

Labour now screams that everything is “falling apart.” They’re right about the symptoms, dead wrong about the cause. National is cutting the waste, restoring one law for all, and steering us back to surplus. The job is nowhere near finished.

If you’re as angry as I am, share this. Never again.