March 14, 2024
100 day plan lays ground for crime surge
Former Mana Motuhake and Alliance leader Sandra Lee-Vercoe says Māori need to be the resistance in responding to the agenda laid out in the Government’s 100 day plan.
She says the policies rammed through are disastrous in every sector, in health, education justice and especially the environment.
She says Prime Minister Christopher Luxon comes into Government with little parliamentary experience, and he and his coalition partners are about to get some strong lessons on the difference between theory and practice.
“The so-called law and order Government that wants to put our young ones in boot camps, when you take away school lunches from New Zealand’s poorest, many of them our young ones, do you think when they are really hungry they are going to be able to resist the temptation of sneaking something from the local dairy so they can have something to eat at lunchtime. They are creating and exacerbating all the scenarios they claim they are wanting to change,” Ms Lee-Vercoe says.
She says the resistance needs to be both big and small, with Maori challenging decisions at school and community level as well as the higher political level.