NATIONAL
The National Party presented an alternative Covid -19 economic plan today with a number of press releases.
The main thrust of the plan is to have tax cuts for small businesses, $100 hospitality vouchers for fully vaccinated adults and a boost to the wage subsidy.
National wants the government to end lockdown restrictions when 85 to 90 per cent of the eligible population are vaccinated or by December the 1st
Judith Collins presented the National Party policy document from the Foxglove bar on Wednesday morning saying “we must move beyond lockdowns and alert levels” that “support is needed for small businesses that are suffering” as she believes they won’t survive.
Judith Collins said “that any region with 70 per cent vaccination status should be able to move down to Level one immediately”.
We “in the South Island with no Covid -19 cases and none for over a year should be moved to level 1 immediately” it was stated at the press conference. “The South Islanders are owed an explanation,”and “why have they been ignored” it was also said, “If one person gets Covid-19 in Dunedin don’t close down the South Island or Dunedin” the “South Islanders have diligently followed the Government Covid-19 rules but have had no relief.”
During the press conference question time one national MP stated that “ the South has been unloved and places like Nelson and Tasman need tourism back.”
OPINION
There is a lot more to in this Alternative Covid -19 Plan by National but as an opposition party it has no bearing on the Governments Policies but it offers suggestions to the Government.
When Judith Colins said “we are all adults” unfortunately we are human beings some people will get vaccinated, others won’t. No one has checked that all people in rest homes are vaccinated when they are not, so whether the country can open up by the 1st of December is a question unanswered.
For the South Island though we keep clicking into shops and wearing masks with everyone feeling uncomfortable, life is not normal, we can’t dance either, it feels as though we have been forgotten.
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