The Finance Minister has confirmed claims by Winston Peters that the fees-free university scheme, which covers the final year of tertiary education study for students, will be scrapped in the upcoming Budget.
The New Zealand First Leader made the comments to Newstalk ZB Friday evening.
In a statement this evening Nicola Willis confirmed the comments.
“Ongoing coalition negotiations have led to good Budget policy decisions that further the immediate and long-term interests of New Zealanders.”
I liked this bit:
The long term interests of NZ are served by reducing access to education, somehow.
The long term interests of conservative governments’ donors is a less educated workforce: that way they accept what they’re told without critically thinking about it.
The idiots think that means lower wages for lower educated workers, without to thinking it through to to he productivity of lower educated workers.
That aside; they’ll just say “good decisions that benefit [voters]” about anything they do, regardless of fact. It manufactures consent in the lesser educated populace.
That’s what makes it such a great quote, it works on so many levels. It’s so honest and so dishonest at the same time!
Yeah that’s true, but I’m still going to enjoy the humour of the situation!
Reduce access to education, eliminate the media standards. This can only go well…
It’s an election year, so it will be interesting to see if they feel this is wanted by their voter base (or more importantly, swing voters).
It doesn’t seem like it would be popular, but they must think it will be because they are doing it in the lead up to an election.
they’ve conflated NZ with conservatives.
a lack of education helps conservatives.