Larry Williams Drive

The Prime Minister and Chris Hipkins should just apologise to the people of Northland. Of course they owe them an apology. They let three women cross the border from Auckland to Northland.  They gave them permission. And those women took Covid with them and Covid - back then - equalled a government lockdown. Yes, it wasn’t Jacinda and it wasn’t Chris who signed off on the permission for those women to go over the border. It was some faceless bureaucrat in MSD. But it was the system that Jacinda and Chris designed and they are more than happy to take the credit for all the times they think their system worked, but they are not happy to take the blame when their system didn’t work. That region went into an 11 day lockdown. And that was on top of being cut off from the rest of the country by Auckland’s border for months.  Chris and Jacinda’s refusal to apologise to Northlanders for what they had to go through says to me these two have no idea what Auckland and Northland and parts of Wakiato went through.  They s