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The Heist, on TV3 tonight featured a spectacular Swedish bank robbery.
The comment was made that it was planned at a time when Sweden had a reputation for being soft on crime, and sentences.
Sound familiar to any country you know?
Did they get away with the Peaches or the Cream ?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/shop-w...ER2CNYZWHO2NY/
must have absolutely scared the cr@p out of the robbers to have a burly bucksome
female in close pursuit and onto their bonnet for a closer look at them ..
Even the more glamorous businesses that Labour bent over backwards to encourage are getting done over
in Labour's last dance of no concern out to complete implosion in October ;)
TV journalist Daniel Faitaua's take on the NZ he returned to after 3 and a half years away.
“I think I suffered a reverse culture shock,” he says, six months after his return.
“Three and a half years ago, you could walk down the street and Kiwis would be so friendly. Now, I feel like people are just so closed off, which is not the Kiwi way that I remember.
“I feel like I’ve come back to this new world, this new era, where there’s been, I sense, a lot of tension and a lot of division. Everyone you talk to seems to be upset about something. This is not a New Zealand I recognise.
“I’m still trying to find my way to belong here, in a country I really felt I belonged to. It’s just weird.”
Quote taken from this article
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainmen...STGR0#cxrecs_s
Jacinda's legacy!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/...-a-climate-law
David Parker failed to stop NZ's 11th-biggest emitter beating a climate law
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Staff advised the Environment Minister to urgently step in to stop a major polluter getting ahead of a crucial law change. What he did next was "deeply disappointing" to some. Eloise Gibson reports.
One of New Zealand’s biggest climate polluters can keep operating until 2046, after Environment Minister David Parker rejected advice to stop a high-emitting factory beating a law change.
Parker was advised to step in “as soon as possible” to prevent Auckland’s Glenbrook Steel Mill getting consent to keep making air pollution for decades to come, without climate change being considered.
The mill’s owner, NZ Steel, applied for its permits after the Government announced it was changing the law so councils could consider climate change, but before the change took effect. Parker had the option to put the climate back on the table, but chose not to.
Sounds a bit of a large FAIL on part of Dozy Parker ;)
Too difficult Comrade ? or busy elsewhere / asleep under the desk ? ;)
Must have made Comrade Shaw real happy to see that happening ..
20 year old ‘male’ at Posie Parker protest punched elderly woman in the head.
Obviously not following Comrade Cindy’s one source of truth & advice to be kind.
Clueless Cindy’s legacy - racial, social and gender divisions.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/...AKAK76RPPC7VQ/
Report on Parliament protest.
The Police did not use armament (riot gear) for the first Police deployed on removal day, because it would look 'confrontational'.
I see.
I don't think the decent public of NZ want to see their Police bashed in a riot situation, because someone wants to be kind to the law breakers.
GO HARD, or GO HOME!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/hea...ng-for-surgery
Man discharged after six months stuck in hospital, but still waiting for surgery
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A man with an intellectual disability who was stuck in an Auckland hospital for six months has finally been discharged.
However, the operation he was admitted for is yet to be completed.
So this is the way our Health System under Labour looks after the vulnerable ?
Inflation came in at 6.7%, while the Reserve Bank was expecting 7.1%
Food prices were up.
Petrol prices were down 8%.
Robbo says the fuel taxes will go back on to petrol in June.
What does it all mean? Well according to the media / property industry (media) it means “yay, inflation has fallen big time - let the good times roll again!”
The solution though is obviously to bring in uncapped labourers from India with a free trade deal (get rid of high paying IT jobs and swap them over for fruit pickers ).
Only the best will do.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/grant-...L7JUJYLGNMMMM/
Cost of living: Fuel tax subsidy to end in June, Finance Minister Grant Robertson confirms
Cost of Living crisis over already Folks or is Robbo having a brain fade and wet dream knowing that the September 2023 Quarter will be reported when ?
A whole quarter's Fuel Tax pain before elections on Robbo's Road to Political oblivion ;)
Might be a few bribes in Gobbo Robbo's upcoming Smoke & Mirrors Money Fudget to try to fool many .. :)
Probably only suffering fools with empty wallets, eroding equity and dreams of Aussie out there,
aside from the preferred beneficiary breeder class firmly attached to the Govt's tit for everything ..
But he might be hoping like h3ll it doesn't come back to bite him hard on his pimply white b*m
before then .. what's Robbo's exit date from Parliament again likely taking the unfortunate
frequently embarrassed and short on answers Dipkins with him ? :)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/2023-c...IEAMHMN5FMPYI/
2023 Census: More than 17,000 Rotorua people have yet to return their forms
What % of Rotorua population is that ?
What were all the extra Govt Census Papershufflers doing to miss all those ?
Perhaps many of the 17,000 have all reverted back to their previous names before leaving to go back to Auckland
after their Rotorua Holiday break in flash motel on the taxpayer .. ;)
I think the issue is much more widespread than Rotorua. I spoke to a census worker during the week that said the amount of pushback and mistrust of the government is huge. The gender based questions, linked to the latest identity politics nonsense also annoyed many.
Two census undertaken under Labour, both looking to be huge failures. Sound familiar?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-time...-rural-economy
'There’s cancelled orders everywhere' - Squeeze goes on rural economy
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After not selling a single tractor over the quietest summer months he’d seen in his eight years in business, Steve Elgar’s March sales suddenly went off the chart.
It was good news for the Morrinsville second hand farm machinery dealer, but it points to rough weather ahead in the heartland of New Zealand’s rural economy.
As times get tougher for farmers, they start looking for second hand gear and tractors, says Elgar, owner of AgParts NZ.
She's in the ditch mate .. a bit like this Labour Government ;)
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/300...m-to-creditors
Ezibuy owes $101m to creditors
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Ezibuy Group owes creditors about $101 million, administrators say.
Earlier this month, Ezibuy’s owners Mosaic Group said the brand’s sales had declined and administrators had been appointed.
Total sales in the first half of the financial year were down 51% compared to the same time a year earlier.
Boom and Bust - the familiar tone usually every time Labour hits the Government Benches .. sound familiar ? :)
Be lots of casualities coming out of this one, with Gobbo Robbo and Adrian ORR-SOME having their nice little
tail chasing exercises chasing mythical & imaginary inflationary ghosts all over the place .. they don't give a continental on who the unforseen road kill will be along the way either, flattened for no other reason than minding their own business ;)
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp...ree-Waters.pdf
Exposing the lie at the heart of labour 3 waters con job.
Nothing but a greedy maori takeover (small font intended, I have no respect for this nonsense)
https://www.oneroof.co.nz/news/43444
Mortgagee sale: South Auckland ‘family’ home suffers near $500K loss
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Property bought for $1.22m 18 months ago sells for fraction of the price at auction this week.
A run-down home in South Auckland has taken an almost half-a-million-dollar hit in less than 18 months after selling at auction this week for $773,000.
The Manurewa home is just of a handful of houses with development potential that was snapped up in the housing boom and is now being on-sold 18 months later at a hefty loss, as experts warn more forced sales are likely.
Lots more of this on the way, under a Government which came out batting for everyone having their own home
and in past year has effectively knifed all those who bought on low interest rates through it's own incompetent
and wasteful policies, now seeing a RB Governor ensnared in the funny money creation tricks pulling the rug ;)
Trust Us - you will pay very dearly later ..
and Labour still think NZ would want this incompetent clueless Govt back ? ;)
Looks like the ‘brain drain’ to Australia is well and truly kicking into high gear, the young & the skilled are set to leave in droves while the government tries to paper over the cracks with a mass immigration drive. Our structural problems are getting worse with every passing day: an ageing population, ageing and inadequate infrastructure, an ongoing obsession with basing the economy on the property industry / boondoggle, a worsening balance of payments deficit, a focus on mass immigration to ‘solve’ complex issues….Labour has given up and is reverting to failed policies which only accentuate the boom - bust cycle.
How many among us here have NOT got increasing numbers of young family members and friends with highly sought after skills who have migrated to Australia in the last 5 years, despite the restrictive access to Australian citizenship?
Watch the migration to Australia continue irrespective of who is in power in 2024 (legacy of Ardern’s clueless leadership) but the flow will become a torrent in the next 3 years if Labour and its racist & divisive beneficiary breeding policies is allowed to continue.
Those who can, best leave now so you get a good head start into the 4 years’ citizen requirement.
The ones left in NZ (frogs in coconut shells) will happily suck the country dry of initiative, enterprise and skills. NZ by 2030 will be a forlorn and pathetic place populated by ever increasing number of beneficiaries, unskilled workers and ever declining living standards.
NZ as Ardern, Hipkins and Labour wants it to be. A land of dependent & reliable Labour voters.
Last person with intelligence to leave NZ, leave with our best wishes for a better and brighter future.
Hey Dame Naida,
Goodness knows why it took until Friday for you to pop a Census form into my mailbox.
Talk about putting the cart before the horse, with all your TV ads, before giving me the tools to do the Mahi!
Too much tax payers money eh?
Anyway, I've sped it up by doing it online, so please stop harassing me.
They must be giving poor cousin Panda stuck over in the long white cloud of much debt and poverty
the fingers, laughing jeering, cracking all sorts of jokes, while wondering why cousin so backwards by now ;)
Any sign of a bit of their tax free cash gift for you to skip over to join them, or are they enjoying the new hangout and Aussie lifestyle too much to be bothered ? :)
Sure it was yours and not for the fella down the road whose mailbox is now situated
firmly stuck upright on the beach out Waipatiki way ? ;)
Need special sort of Wises map interpretation skills to track down wayward mailboxes,
a bit like trying to detect very faint signs of any intelligent life on Labour's front bench :)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/more-i...GBJJTDSPOYLPE/
More industrial action for secondary and primary teachers as new term begins
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As a new school term begins, so does further industrial action by both secondary and primary school teachers as they continue to fight for better pay and working conditions.
Must be Robbo's COST OF LIVING Crisis coming home to bite .. ;)
Better give him a break .. He must be all tired out after dishing out all those Covid
Billions and then another huge pile more, with little to show for any of it :)
Then Adrian ORR-SOME will pull out his magic stirring stick, and none of the eager peasants anywhere
will be any better off even after much screaming and yelling .. ;)
Quote:
On March 16, tens of thousands of primary, area, and secondary school teachers participated in a historic one-day walkout, but unions say it wasn’t enough to get the Government to listen to their pleas.
it wasn’t enough to get the Government to listen to their pleas
IT's Labour's Election Year BIG IGNORE trick .. anyone surprised ? ;)
To teach the the deaf Politicians a lesson - the more that IGNORE Labour the better - pretty fair deal, isn't it :)
They probably wont learn though ..
Wheels falling off Labour’s coalition partner, the loony Greens.
Internal fighting spilling into the open.
Good to see that Kerekere’s use of her Maori heritage to fend off criticisms as ‘racist’ is not working - she is just a plain nasty power hungry piece of shxt.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political...maori-pasifika
One of the five people who initially spoke out has since contacted RNZ to request that future coverage identify them as Māori to dissuade the narrative that Kerekere's critics were all Pākehā.
"That suggestion is a huge slap in the face… I've witnessed her corrosive behaviour to other people of colour, and that includes myself."
Does anyone know what Labour's position is on the monstrous plans the WHO has as part of its binding pandemic treaty plans? See the speech from a UK MP to a select committee in the UK.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3jnoQeTW2E
Another spat of ram raids overnight with the police unable to prevent or catch the culprits.
NZ the way that Ardern & Hipkins want you to have, 4 police ministers in 1 year!
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckla...LKJTWWO3QR3AY/
Rental property completely trashed … thanks to Labour’s targeting of landlords as enemies.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/papaku...H2WOPAQQRUK6Q/
More NZ cops to head off to Oz.
4 Labour police ministers in 1 year - what a great job they have done in promoting crime and marginalising our police force.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300...-in-first-year
Really??
Im quite sure I'm not the only one who had a rental property trashed during the Key National govt, but never thought for a moment to blame the government.
And despite giving the Police the culprits contact details, & Judith Collins being Minister of Police at the time, they did nothing because they were too overwhelmed with dealing with violent crime to bother with damage to property.
But the real kicker was the destruction of Landlords property & wealth overseen by the National govt with the meth contamination scam. Over $100 million was spent stripping & decontamination properties if the slightest trace was found, totally unnecessarily & despite scientific advice & even medical advice, because the National govt did not want to look soft on crime. It even had to be registered on the properties LIM report.
Was a total nightmare for landlords.
It was Phil Twyford who taking advice from Professor Gluckman & other experts who tossed out this reckless & incredibly damaging meth contamination policy.
Ross Bell, Exec Director of NZ Drug Foundation, slammed the out of control meth testing industry which caused so much damage to landlords & tenants & wondered why the National govt had let things get so out of control.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...GJKI7QCKMP4MQ/
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/hawkes-ba...LILDEJC22LWQA/
Budget 2023: Chris Hipkins torpedoes capital gain tax, Cyclone Gabrielle response levy
Lots more Lotto Draws instead to rake in the dough - Chippie ? ;)
Will one of them also decide your leadership prospects ? ;)
The torpedo must have instead been a peashooter up the back of the class which scored a direct hit on hapless hopeless Hipkins but it still didn't wake him up :)
Would be funny if they slashed and burned consultants and most other things not related to core areas.
The opposition would be like a deer in the headlights. :)
The nearest thing to a deer caught in the headlights is HIPKINS :)
Who will deliver the knifing first ? .. the factions within Labour front bench who realise he
is easy meat as fall guy or Joe Public who will have finally had a guts full of Labour's
repeatedly coming out low achievers on anything they touch aboard the little red
submarine sprouting large leaks and rapidly sinking to the bottom ? :)
So disappointing his speech and a lot of LIES!! Why are so many of the skilled labour have left NZ??? He says NZ ranks highly in the OECD but never talks about the top 5 nations killing NZ from all angles?
Talks about the inflation focus but blames on the gov't "doing too much" which translates to 'spending too much' (printing $) YET he was there next to Jacinda throughout the entire Labour Party watching the $ go out the door? He's a disgrace and I can tell by the way he speaks, he will admit no wrong doing just like Trump does.
"A range of reprioritisation ???" That sounds like the financial advisers I see that actively manage funds from year to year. They perform poorly 1 year so the next year they reprioritise thing just so "it does not make themselves look bad" because they don't want to make it look like they "don't know what they're doing".
Study hard, work hard and save hard so we can take from you to give to those who don’t.
As true as it gets when it comes to Labour & Chris Hipkins.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...NK3ZLJ3VXJAK4/
Business confidence flat - ANZ survey
A bit like Robbo's cushion .. no surprises there ;)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...DGU74XYZA4KW4/
Simon Botherway: Three Waters a risk to NZ’s investment reputation
Simon .. there are now ten idiots on water .. not the original three :)
(Some of the extra Waka must have been behind the front most visible ones)
Haven't Robbo & Adrian ORR-Some already stuffed NZ's Investment Reputation with their
Funny Money Creation exercises on a grand scale ? ;)
The Kiwi Fiat is a standing joke globally now courtesy of the clueless policies and
wriggling of just a couple of high level prize idiots ;)
Anyone who would even be wanting to invest here from offshore must either be chasing
windfall gains then fast exit with the prize, or have rocks in their head while the current Govt
are orchestrating their clueless stupidity across the land ..
Murmurs of CGT, Change the Rules on Interest to suit Govt's own shortsighted goals wont have helped,
and stuffing just about everything that this Govt has laid eyes on wont have helped .. Outsiders
don't need to look far to see a Backwards facing Labour mob intent on digging the ditch deeper backwards
in time and ignoring reality sitting right in front of them, even with the newly installed nodding puppet
busy posturing away the faked up 'everything's changed' spin to anyone stupid enough to swallow it ;)
At the behest of David Parker, the tax department spent two years and $3.2 million investigating the financial affairs of ‘the richest’ 311 families.
Is this ‘Parker probe’ legal?
What happened to privacy in NZ?
How were these ‘311 families’ identified?
Our shady media has presented to the public not a saga of ‘311 families’, but a sweeping generalisation that ‘wealthy Kiwis’ aren’t paying their fair share of tax.
The cartoon is the NZ Herald today presents a sad and angry horde of ‘ordinary Kiwis’ protesting outside a National Party Palace of Versailles.
These ordinary Kiwis with downcast faces hold placards calling for Capital Gains Tax and ‘tax fairness’. Chris Luxon - as Louis XIV - casts a displeased eye upon the mass of ordinary Kiwis, while Nicola Willis as Marie Antoinette croaks “let them eat tax breaks”.
Are these ‘ordinary Kiwis’ showing up in polls?
Are there marches on parliament - or anywhere else - calling for a CGT and ‘tax fairness’?
If no, what on earth is the Herald cartoonist smoking?!
The Left Wing rags spend all day, every day attacking the opposition in this country. Just look at the cartoons which get served up as evidence. A truly bizarre situation.
The 311 were asked to participate with a questionnaire - others were too but declined.
So no issues on legality or privacy.
Are the ordinary kiwis showing up in the polls - yes hence the continued support for Hipkins and Labour (lower than 2.5 years ago but still there).
The right-wing media spend all day, every day attacking Labour (and trumpeting National (have a listen to NewsTalk ZB sometime)). During the election period, they may have to declare their donation in kind.
The media keeps saying National will deliver tax cuts but they don't say that it's almost nothing for low income earners or pensioners. 100 bucks.
Credit where it's due though, some media do state that it is unpaid for from the party of economic management(tm).
Minister of Justice without a clue about why violent crime has gone up 30% over the same time that prison population has gone down 20% :
https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS83K9YFN/
4 police ministers in 1 year - heck of a track record of incompetency!
‘TVNZ announced the show Ten 7 Aotearoa - previously Police Ten 7 - will end with three one-hour specials planned from April to highlight its run.’
Another victim of these PC times….crime is going through the roof - and this show is getting binned.
Tha latest thing in the litany of incompetencies from this government. The Erebus monument that was due to be started in 2021 is now looking for a new home. Cindy's old Ministry of Culture and Heritage in charge. And they have the cheek to say it's due to recent weather events when it's obvious they have caved to community pressure. They couldn't lie straight in bed.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/natio...e1629c10&ei=23
This government couldn't deliver pizza!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK7l_IhtKNU
Christopher Hitchens.
Ardern has the "Mother Teresa" syndrome too I think.
Oh no, I can guarantee you the decision was a result of the cliff face collapsing after the deluge & Cyclone Gabrielle just exactly where they were going to put the memorial.
Just go and have a look, you can see the cliffs & tons of earth have come down into Hobson Bay & there's no way they could put a couple of hundred tons of steel & concrete near that cliff edge now. It's really unstable & exposed to the elements & more will likely come down in the next big weather event.
It was a poor choice anyway as the cliff isn't very stable & the huge earthworks involved so close to the edge would be asking for trouble. Trouble was none of the other options offered it wanted it. The proposed memorial was also facing north when really it should be facing south towards Antartica.
So it was a poor choice of location and designed wrong in the first place? Sounds about right for anything Ardern and the Labour government has been anywhere near.
This from the Ministry of Culture and Heritage website (which says it will soon be updated to reflect recent changes. https://mch.govt.nz/erebus-memorial
The memorial site
The memorial will be located within Auckland’s Dove-Myer Robinson Park, overlooking Taurarua Judges Bay and the Waitematā Harbour.
Several options were considered before this site was identified as the most suitable location. Its central, accessible, park-like features reflect the preference of the Erebus families for a setting of that nature.
The area is of significant cultural and heritage value to mana whenua and the community.
The park is also home to some significant trees, including what is thought to be the largest pōhutukawa in Auckland. Preserving the cultural, heritage and environmental values of the site is central to the memorial design.
The memorial design
Te Paerangi Ataata – Sky Song was announced as the design for the National Erebus Memorial in April 2019 following a national design competition. It was designed by Studio Pacific Architecture in collaboration with artists Jason O’Hara and Warren Maxwell.
Te Paerangi Ataata reflects the enormity of the Erebus tragedy while also acknowledging the adventurous spirit of the crew and passengers.
Designed specifically for the site in Auckland’s Dove-Myer Robinson Park, Te Paerangi Ataata sits lightly on the landscape. Its location overlooking Waitematā Harbour allows for a strong visual connection to the ocean and the distant horizon.
So they spent a bundle of money on the wrong site and the wrong design. Who was Minister for Culture and Heritage? Jacinda Ardern.
Cindy's Legacy. Stuff that doesn't get built! Let's not do this!
Cinders couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.
Now Anna Lorck on the other hand, could drink one dry...
So after 5.5 years of Ardernisation which have delivered nothing but spin and failures for NZ, Hipkins embark on the de-Ardernisation of the Labour government.
5.5 years of NZ down the dunny.
And Hipkins, who was an integral part of the Ardern government, wants NZers to forget the last 5.5 years and give him a chance to hoodwink them, just as Ardern did.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...GNLIUGQ5TFXTU/
“It is part of his wider de-Ardernisation, a deliberate shift away from the style and priorities of Jacinda Ardern to his own and an attempt to rebuild bridges that Covid and Labour’s reforms agenda had destroyed - bridges with business and the voters.”
Like I mentioned before, Hipkins is like these financial advisors that manage people's portfolios year after year. Clients find out why they underperform, so they sit in their office and give another spin saying maybe we need to invest in this instead of that (because they ALWAYS have to do something different from 1 year after another, or else they would look like they didn't know what they're doing)
But the voters in NZ are dumb. They hold no accountability of fault. They'll say oh we had Covid to deal with or some excuse to give the Labour another chance.
Excellent analogy, SBQ.
Allow me to add that like fund managers, this Labour government is very adept at taking credit for anything half positive and blaming others & other things for anything negative.
Plus, just like non-performing incompetent fund managers, they will urge voters to focus on the long term and continue to keep them in power - never mind the fact that they were elected in the first place by making huge promises and undertakings which they have not delivered.
‘Study hard, work hard & be successful and save hard so we can take from you to give to those who don’t.’ Labour Party motto
Timely:
“The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."
CICERO - 55 BC
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/kiwira...NMO6BT3Q5LN7U/
Kiwirail bosses called into Beehive to explain major disruptions to Wellington rail services
Terrorised by Woody Wood Peckerisation .. the distraction is bound to produce a lot ;)
Has Woody finished filling in all the Pot holes nationwide or too difficult for Michael the Hopeless ? ;)
He could try pushing the broken down Rail cart if he was really worried, up the steepest slope possible :)
The Platform doing good work again. Exposing what this Labour government is quietly planning for gender education for our children.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jwmp3HnsxI
Beggars belief.
What worries me is that people are exhausted with battling post Covid and are also pre-occupied with keeping their heads above water to take much notice. They are messing with our children's minds. They started in the universities and are now going for our infants. The "long march through the institutions" continues and is gathering pace.
Back to the future for NZ under Labour.
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c...pg?format=500w
If a whitey gets a 6am knock on the door by Police, it's a start of shift visit.
But if a Pacific Islander gets a 6 am knock on the door from Immigration, it's a dawn raid.
So says Carmel, acting PM.
The message to government departments is just get sloppy at your job, and back off, just like the Labour Government.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...AS6YDYEEJU3TQ/
Labour Cabinet minister Meka Whaitiri jumps to Māori Party in shock move
What's that sound of deserters rushing to escape Hippocrit's floundering ship headed towards the rocks ahead of a storm ? ;)
She has obviously seen the writing on the wall for Labour
How many more will desert the ranks ? :)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...LT2E6LES2R22M/
Company liquidations are climbing as Covid support wears off
Economy must still be robust where Robbo's window looks out .. probably across a stormy Cook Strait :)
Got your life jacket prepped - big boy ?
and your paddling lessons up to date for when your lot get tipped into the drink ? ;)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...JGQGW5SKSB66Q/
Cyclone-hit communities to wait longer for consultation on rebuild or red-zone future
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Conversations with residents of cyclone and flooding-hit communities about whether they can rebuild their homes are being delayed amid requests from Hawke’s Bay mayors for more certainty from the Government.
About two weeks ago, Cyclone Recovery Minister Grant Robertson said he was hoping to initiate consultation on the Government’s plan for regions impacted by Cyclone Gabrielle and the Auckland floods from the start of May.
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“Grant Robertson needs to act with much greater transparency and urgency than we have seen so far.”
Transparency - Chris ? ... Labour wouldn't know what the word meant :)
and October might be their only urgency ..
That's big news
l haven't been able to read the article, just the headline, but would be a backward step to move from being a minister where she can do something, to a back bencher to do little.
Is there room for Dr Sharma in the Maori party, or is he the wrong colour?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...zh&&ref=topbox
Fees go up, rebates go down as Government rejigs feebate EV scheme
Too much paid out for Tesla's = It gets Woody Woodpeckerised by the Master of Pot Holes ;)
Real Transparency that can't see Wood for the Trees .. as exists on Labour front benches :)
The same mob of hopeless blind knobs who meddled in the Carbon Credit Scheme which lost altitude recently ? ;)
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/131...t-by-years-end
Reserve Bank: Mortgage holders paying 22% of income in interest by year's end
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Homeowners with a mortgage can expect to be paying 22% of their disposable income in interest payments on their home loan on average by the end of the year, the Reserve Bank says.
That would be up from a low of 9% in 2021, and the increase will be much higher for many recent home-buyers with hefty mortgages.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/mon...t-record-level
Consumer debt crisis: Buy now, pay later loan arrears hit record level
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A record number of buy now, pay later loan account holders are behind in their payments, credit reporting company Centrix says.
At the end of March 10.5% of all buy now, pay later (BNPL) loans were in arrears, Centrix managing director Keith McLaughlin said.
“Buy now, pay later is breaking a record every month,” McLaughlin said
The Local Economy still Robust - Rockstar Min of Finance - Gobbo Robbo ? ;)
or getting a bit shaky and trembling more by the week- which puts you into hiding mode under the desk ..
until the inevitable October 2023 "getting kicked out down the road" ? ;)
Labour's Cyclone Damage Financial Support Goon Show at Work:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/haw...fered-just-15k
Orchard wiped-out in cyclone denied financial support, then offered just $15K
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An orchard wiped out in Cyclone Gabrielle was initially told its application for support funding was declined because funding was only going to the “most severely impacted businesses”.
Later the owners were told they could get a grant of $15,000 – less than half the $40,000 maximum that other businesses had received.
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They were one of numerous families in the valley to have lost all they own.
“We are hands down the single most impacted property in the Esk Valley. There is literally nothing left standing,”
What was that Robbo ? - more red tape needed while you lot rest on your laurels making excuses ? ;)
C'mon Meka, give us the bully...
What's happening to the Cabally?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...NCZHL42Q2YWAU/
Acting PM Carmel Sepuloni reacts to Meka Whaitiri’s shock resignation from Labour
Quote:
Whaitiri may have inadvertently resigned from Parliament under the waka jumping provisions in the Electoral Act - a step which will require Parliament to vote on whether or not to have a byelection in the Ikaroa-Rawhiti electorate.
The Speaker is yet to confirm it, but the waka jumping provisions can be triggered by either an MP or a party leader in the Electoral Act. It states that their seat becomes vacant if the MP writes to the Speaker to notify him either that they have resigned from the parliamentary membership of the political party for which they were elected, or that they want to be recognised as either an independent or a member of another political party.
Whaitiri said she had written to the Speaker this morning to say she had resigned from the Labour Party and joined Te Pāti Māori, effective immediately. She also stated her intention to be seated with her new party when they returned to Parliament.
If the wording of that letter meets the criteria of the legislation, she will have quit her own seat. That will mean Parliament will have to vote on whether to have a byelection - no byelection is necessary within six months of an election as long as 75 per cent of Parliament agrees.
Any further Waka Jumpers - feel free to join in this free for all, while Chippie tries to play possum on Coronation Avenue far far away ;)
The more the merrier .. no sense in riding the battered sinking Labour ship down to the depths when everyone can jump off now en masse across to newer waiting waka ;)
The opportunity to save face, walk away tall and proud and jump well clear of the Ardern/Chippie shambles destined to plaster all the co-conspirators in the failed reign wont last long :)
Where's Willie Wonka ? .. still chirping away, trying to further stuff up the Broadcasting shambles ? ;)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...BFZGKZRICNUUY/
Cost of living: 300,000 more New Zealanders worrying about money weekly
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And another class of sacrificial lambs emerges - courtesy of the current clueless mob on Govt front benches
to join those who default on mortgages, which Robbo has declared Govt wont assist
from the most caring kind mob of excuses to hit Parliament ever ;)
Even if Labour did get into government at the next election, there is no doubt that it would not achieve the unprecedented number of seats in parliament that the previous landslide election gave them. For this reason, it is almost certain that there will be less seats = less ministers. Anyone that is ranked below the current polling number of seats will be considering their future. The single biggest risk to Labour is 'flight risk' of concerned ministers leading up to the election, who don't want to wait to find out they don't have a job anymore. I expect this is just the beginning of the exodus prior to the election.
Meka has jumped the waka, but may return as a minister anyway in due course as part of a Labour / Greens / Maori Party coalition regime.
Between the solid Left / special interest groups / environmental watermelon types bloc & the apartheid ‘special Maori electorate seats’, the Left / Maori grouping pretty much have a lock on power.
NZ is in a shambles, let’s be honest. Young NZers are leaving in droves and this trend will only continue.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...ORNJZ6DZZC4C4/
Reserve Bank: House prices remain overvalued and risk falling a lot more
"With these hands I try to prescribe a FULL BLOWN RECESSION " ? ;)
Just to egg on the other fella Robbo to come out with what he wont do .. )
Guess who the sardines getting squashed in this game will be .. :)
In the wake of the Meka waka jump, Kelvin Davis was asked by one of our woke journalists whether Labour had “failed Maori”. He must have been absolutely gobsmacked: Labour have spent their entire time in government since 2017 ‘delivering for Maori’.
Well who will be next? Willie?
Serious question. If you are so disillusioned with life in NZ, why have you not made a move to somewhere else Balance? I imagine you have the ability to do that, from a financial and work related skills point of view, so why not do it?
I am not stirring. I am genuinely interested to know your thinking behind staying in a country where you are clearly very unhappy.