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National Deputy Michael Woodhouse described Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern as “Robert Muldoon with slogans and kindness” during the heat of a parliamentary debate on Tuesday afternoon.
Parliament urgently debated the public health response bill COVID-19
2020, which allows to set alert level 2 but gives the Government a wide variety of powers.
The bill contains broad powers for the government in the implementation of level 2 with which groups of national and civil liberties have had problems. National and ACT voted against the bill in their first two readings.
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Jacinda Ardern is “Robert Muldoon with kindness and slogans”, according to a national deputy.
Woodhouse, a national health spokesperson, compared Ardern unfavorably to former national prime minister Robert Muldoon, who left office in 1984 after a period of near-total control of the New Zealand economy as prime minister, finance minister and leader of the camera.
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He said the government was involved in a serious executive rapprochement on par with the Muldoon administration.
“I would go so far as to compare the prime minister to Rob Muldoon. She is Rob Muldoon with slogans and kindness,” Woodhouse said.
“I am old enough to remember car-free days, wage and price freezes, reducing the highway speed limit from 100 kilometers to 80 kilometers per hour (SMP) by an executive who faced this parliamentary process,” he said. Woodhouse.
“They even pale in comparison to the influence and executive mandate that this bill is wielding in this country. Frankly, I am amazed that a government that aims to be open and transparent, to be kind and to give the country, the public, credit Because of the incredible work they have done, they are still increasing their freedoms and lives. “
New Zealand’s first MP Ron Mark was next to speak, and he spent a considerable part of his time defending Muldoon, suggesting that MP MP Brett Hudson take Woodhouse aside to give him a “talk about the country” about “Robbie Muldoon”.
The bill remains in the commission stage on Wednesday afternoon as the government moves to soften some of its provisions, more specifically limiting the time the powers the bill gives the government in three months instead of in two years.
The law would still give the police the power to enter a home without a court order.
