Andrew Dickens: We’ll never forget you 2024, but frankly we’re sick of the sight of you

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

This is my last editorial for the year.

What a year it’s been, we started in January with Golriz shoplifting, we watched 10,000 jobs go from the public sector and the private sector follow suit as cash stopped bouncing around the economy.

National blamed Labour for everything and Labour blamed National.

We watched Scott Robertson fail to be the second coming but when the All Blacks were good they were very good.

The Treaty Principles Bill debate came, saw and divided. The hikoi invaded parliament, but didn’t set up camp.

The entire Newshub newsroom disappeared and others seem vulnerable so that’s less eyes on the game.

Construction crashed, power surged in price, mills closed and towns pondered what their citizens will do next.

The snow fell late, a football team landed on the ground running, we found out state care was not caring.

A war in Ukraine rolled on, a war in Gaza started, a country finally expelled it’s dictator, Iran bombed Israel and Israel bombed Iran and world war 3 seemed closer than ever.

China eyed Taiwan, China eyed the pacific, the States eyed China and we were asked to choose sides more and more.

Then Donald Trump won America by saying we’ll keep it simple and keep America first, and tariffs are back.

We’ll never forget you 2024, but frankly we’re sick of the sight of you.

It’s time to go to your family, go to your favourite place, watch another sunrise, rest and recuperate because in 2025 we’ve got a big job fixing all this shit up.

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