Unless unemployment goes up & wages (real terms) go down.
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Labour have screwed the country (they are economic vandals) so that is a high possibility. You can be a great racing car driver but it’s a monumental task to keep the car on the track when Labour have cut the brakes and removed the steering wheel; the country won’t forgive them for what they have done.
Try 100,000 Kiwibuild homes.
Try ‘most transparent’ government ever.
Try light rail to start to Auckland airport within 3 years from 2017.
Try hundreds of millions of taxpayers’ monies wasted on frivolous projects (income insurance) and proposals (bike bridge to nowhere).
Evidence based?
You got it with Ardern, Hipkins and the Labour government in spades! 6 years of unadulterated ‘evidence based decision’ crap from them!
Cat got your tongue and your fingers, dobby41?
Tow the government line and the government gives you the taxpayers’ funds. Just like the last lot. Otherwise, struggle to survive.
I am not bashing the Bishop (Chris) as he has to sell what is a NZ First policy (and is now Coalition policy) on amateur sports. He is out of his comfort zone.
Here’s how dumb certain woke & leftist politicians desperately courting votes have been about the transgender issue :
https://youtu.be/6OGe9RAmFWw?si=fPDvl2hRsbibq76e
Woke, leftist & clueless - a government which could not define what is a woman making gender policies which impacts on the wellbeing of all women.
Nope - obviously I have a lot more happening in my life (like living it) than you.
This new Govt is starting out very non-transparent.
This subtly (and sneakily) changing of the RMA to remove Te Tiriti and replace it with the Treaty.
Seems that you are happy for the current govt to make decisions without evidence as well - sad.
Still, no one expects you to have a balanced view.
The sports associations can do what they want. I wholeheartedly support the Government withholding funding for associations that let men compete with women in an unfair contest and I make no apologies for it.
Our young women that work hard for achieving success in their chosen sport, deserve a fair contest.
Ha, maybe its a cunning plan, to withhold funding from any Sports body which doesn't comply with our directive to repeal gender inclusion policies at grass roots level , & when they all ignore us we can redirect the sports funding to tax cuts for our landlord friends.
BTW it doesn't look like its going to happen, this govt is going backwards fast but not to the 19 century.
Even Australia has these gender inclusion policies, and this is just another of the Minor parties daft policies National has had to swallow to cobble together a coalition govt.
Chris Luxon already hosing down expectations of actually changing anything cause even he's not that conservative & repressed.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/women-...tion-agreement
Yawn - from panda-nz who wanted Ryman to do a share buyback using more debt when the company was already close to defaulting on its existing debts. Your insightfulness is as profound as that of a frog staring out of a pot slowing heating up to boiling point.
Big big yawn.
https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/r...-november-2023
Sorry if this has already been posted. Interesting as the media want to make you feel like everyone dislikes them.
Are people who have had transgender reassignment not some of your “ordinary people”? Are those with cosmetic enhancements “ordinary”? Are those with heart valve replacements or stents “ordinary”? There are so many ways that we modify and fix the body and modify the way nature or genetics has taken its course.
The Left support ‘delivering for favoured races’; helping struggling middle class battlers is a no no. Especially if they are in a family unit. You lot disdainfully dismiss them as ‘bourgeoisie’ don’t you.
Funnelling money to no hopers is the Lefts modus operandi; decent folk can drop dead.
‘James,
I heard someone
shoved a knife
right up
into the gap between
your white ribs
at Kealakekua Bay.
I’m gonna go there
make a big Makahiki luau
cook a white pig
feed it to the dogs
and F… YOU UP, B*TCH.’
- From the ‘poetry’ collection The Savage Coloniser, by Tusiata Avia
This is the sort of ‘poetry’ that can bag you a tasty $60,000 pay day from Government arts funding body Creative New Zealand.
ACT have criticised the payment, saying as follows:
“In her recent book, The Savage Coloniser, Avia makes the case for violent, vigilante justice to be dealt out against individuals based on their whiteness. The book is about murdering James Cook, his descendants, and white people like him.”
ACT also asked the media to print an excerpt from the book. Click on the text where the excerpt is mentioned, and astonishingly it takes you to an unrelated article about comments made by Invercargill mayor Nobby Clark. If you wanted a crystal clear example of the disgusting Leftist media bias now prevailing in this country, then look no further.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/act-pa...GTNRK3OIOAZ5U/
58% for the government vs 36% for the Coalition of leftist Losers.
A resounding rejection of the Labour/Greens/Maori Parti coalition of losers :
Support for National was virtually unchanged at 37.5%, down 0.6% points from the election, while support for ACT increased 3.9% points to 12.5% and support for NZ First was up 1.9% points to 8%.
In November support for the defeated Labour-Greens-Maori Party Parliamentary Opposition was at only 36%, down 5.6% points from the election.
Support for Labour dropped 5.9% points to 21% (the lowest ever recorded in a Roy Morgan Poll). However, support for the Greens increased 0.9% points to 12.5% while support for the Maori Party was down 0.6% points to 2.5%.
This simply can not be correct. According to the Lefties on here and the so-called mainstream media, the Coalition Government has done it all wrong in the couple of weeks they have had their hand on the steering wheel. Supported by the minor minority of maori and union activists and their pathetic demonstrations.
Go Luxon, Seymour and Peters. You have NZ behind you. Leave the complaining losers behind and get on with fixing NZ
There goes your tax cuts.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2023/12/21/th...mCMh7O7jEv9sII
Labour weren't listening unfortunately.
It was a very unpopular policy and yet everyone agrees something needs to be done.
They should have just centralized to a regional council level with local councils still owning the assets and an injection of funds from Central Government.
Meri Kirihimete / Merry Christmas everyone.
On, Three Waters Reform / Affordable Water Reform, many councils proved unreliable & incapable of providing clean safe drinking water for their local populations.
It's no joke when the water coming out of your tap unknowingly is contaminated with E.coli & arsenic & nitrate.
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I know National Party Voters who have complained about at least one Coalition policy. Of course we never voted for the Coalition platform, we voted for the individual parties. The NZ Westminster system has a Loyal Opposition. Complaining about the government’s actions is part of it! Vocalised and expressed Complaints celebrate our democratic freedom.
Also not all National MP’s are part of the government but they are whipped into voting for it in parliament. Sometimes opposition and complaints about government policy come from within a party, which helps form the government.
The Lefty whingeathon continues. Months after the people voted to boot Labour out, still the howling and braying goes on day in and day out.
This will be a govt where the deputy PM's hold the power, an NZ first (pun intended).
Exhibit A: Winston being "acting PM" and taking the lead for the govt agenda.
The PM is a job with no duties being led around by the "deputy PM".
There has been more howling and braying and crowing about the results of the election and the media and the left and and and and ..... from you in particular than from any other poster.
You could reduce the volume of posts and raise the general tone of this forum by taking a rest.
Repeated comments I've been hearing around Christmas social gathering are Luxon panicked under time pressure in coalition negotiations & caved in to way too many demands from the minor parties.
Winston esp played him like a fiddle, ran rings around him in negotiations.
Luxon should have drawn a line in the sand at repealing Smokefree 2025, threatened Winston he would walk away from negotiations & force another election rather than agree to NZF demands to repeal it.
Shane Reti was asked to swallow a dead rat & may even be struck off for this as repealing Smokefree2025 will harm so many people, breaking the hipocratic oath.
He's doing his best to put as much distance between himself as Minister of Health and repealing it as he possible can, to save his own reputation & in private apologising for this appalling concession to Winston & NZF.
No matter what they do, cancelling Smokefree 2025 with the deliberate resulting thousands of avoidable deaths & huge future costs to the health system that will cause, will become Chris Luxon & Shane Reti as Minister of Health, future legacy, its so shocking & disgraceful that's what they will be remembered for.
Other comments were that due to so many reckless & irresponsible concessions to NZF & ACT they can't possibly fund them and tax cuts, hence Willis & Luxon now trying to shift responsibility & paint the economy in a far bleaker state than they supposedly realised.
And repealing so much legislation so quickly is going to leave massive holes which they will struggle to fill, esp while slashing the Public Service & contractors, leading to inevitable failure of this govt.
New govt's don't usually slash & burn because you can't just leave a vacuum & replacing legislation takes time.
And that's if Winston doesn't sabotage it first.
Hense Hipkins and Robertson deciding to stay around to rebuild Labour & pick up the pieces in 3 years time.
I can see from your post the Smokefree legislation is not something you're really interested in & taken the time to understand properly as you repeat the mistake its only aimed at current smokers.
But if you want to be informed, ask any doctor, Public Health expert or GP or medical professional, you would hear it is world leading health policy which is now being copied in the UK & seriously looked at in other countries.
So to repeat the basics there are several main components to it which will help current smoker quit (remembering 70% of smokers want to quit but fail because of the addiction)
AND, stop a new generation of new smokers starting. i.e. not just 1 but 2 completely different target groups.
1) the de-nicotinisation of tobacco removes the addiction for current smokers enabling them to quit & means no new smokers can ever become addicted.
2) the slashing of available outlets where tobacco is sold
3) banning sales of tobacco to anyone born after 2009 means a whole generation who are younger than 14 years today should never take up the habit.
On all the evidence this will prevent approx 8,000 deaths that will happen under the status quo.
There's also prevention of the countless heart operations, emphysema, amputations, partial strokes, carcinomas of the tongue & mouth etc to take into account and the future costs to our publicly funded health system & lost productivity estimated to be in the $billions.
So yes, by deliberately blocking & repealing this world leading Smokefree2025 legislation, the govt & Shane Reti are complicit in all this totally avoidable mortality & chronic illness.
Luxon should have stood firm & never agreed to Winston's demands and Reti should resign over this rather than let this happen under his watch as Health Minister.
Thank goodness this is a free country, not some totalitarian Left wing hell hole where free speech and democracy have been ended.
Yawn.
Woke leftist BS.
How many NZers’ health and well-being have been destroyed by Labour’s clueless and incompetent management of the health system?
How many tens of thousands are suffering and dying from Ardern’s healthcare failures?
If the great unwashed are so insistent on poisoning their lungs, let them suffer.
https://otaihangasecondopinion.files...ugust-2022.jpg
And the Leftists who cry huge crocodile tears about tobacco have been pushing for legalising cannabis.
https://norml.org.nz/wp-content/uplo...Ardern-Yes.png
Both parliamentary privilege and the ability to express opposition outside parliament were hard fought (against Government) aspects of NZ's inherited tradition.
Even Chris Bishop does not like the use of the rushed through Henry VIII clause in the RMA, which avoids debate when altering primary legislation. He defends by claiming Labour also had such clauses. So they are aiming to be no better than Labour in avoiding debate.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...J4MYPIE35VHVQ/
ACT's Deputy Leader Brooke van Veldon's personal view is not only cannabis but ALL drugs should be de-criminalised. There goes your theory/belief up in smoke!
And a number of National MP's privately supported the de-criminalisation of cannabis, just as a number of Labour MP's were privately against it.
Okay, so Dr Shane Reti resigns at your request BS.
Who do you nominate as his replacement?
You yourself have stated the repeal of Smoke-free is a coalition compromise, rather than a Minister of Health policy.
So will your nominee fare any better on that matter?
Is there any chance Shane Reti brings way more to the table than the previous Labour Minister of Health?
No crocodile tears from ACT if they want all drugs legal.
Plenty of crocodile tears from the woke leftists who ‘weep’ over tobacco but want cannabis legalised. Hypocrisy supremo.
Take the beam from your eye, BS before you see the speck in the eye of your opponents.
I don't see this as an adversarial or partisan issue, its a health issue.
The facts are long term smoking of tobacco kills up to two thirds of its users, around 5,000 New Zealanders every year, that's 13 every day are dying from smoking related causes.
Smoking is a major cause of blindness - about 1,300 people each year in NZ have untreatable blindness caused by present or past smoking,
1 in 4 cancer deaths due to smoking,
40% of strokes & 40% of heart disease in people under 65 due to smoking
& smoking during pregnancy harms the unborn baby.
Alcohol causes more harm than meth, heroin, cocaine, LSD & ecstasy combined,
its estimated almost 20% of the police budget is spent on alcohol related problems,
half of all violent offences & one third of family violence offences are alcohol related,
between 600-800 people die each year from alcohol related causes,
between 18%-35% of presentations at our hospital ED's are caused by alcohol, rising to 60%-70% at weekends.
and again alcohol during pregnancy is hugely harmful to the baby
The harm costs us many $billions in health, crime, & lost productivity.
Neither smoking tobacco or alcohol both of which are addictive are criminal offences,
Yet possessing cannabis is a criminal offence.
The main risk from (long term use ) of cannabis is to a persons mental health.
De-criminalising it which is not the same as legalising it, would seem to be rational.
You can still exercise strict controls around its use with penalties & fines but its not a criminal offence, in the same way minor traffic offences are not criminal offences.
Personally I'm not in favour of legalising it due to the risk to young peoples mental health, but its no where near as harmful as either alcohol or tobacco.
With a caveat that more research is needed:
- “Smoking marijuana clearly damages the human lung, and regular use leads to chronic bronchitis and can cause an immune-compromised person to be more susceptible to lung infections.
- No one should be exposed to secondhand marijuana smoke.”
- https://www.lung.org/quit-smoking/sm...%20not%20more.
Put here as worth a listen. Only two and a half minutes.Some here won't like what she says but the majority of positive posters here will admire her stance.
https://twitter.com/AuntyHeihei/stat...422925454?s=20
She is bang on of course with her assessment of what the 'new Maori Party' TMP is all about - putting on stunts and behaving like clowns but where has been the benefits to Maoris from their stunts and clowning around?
As James Meager, part Maori (like the vast majority of 'Maoris' in NZ) and National MP said at his maiden speech - nobody owns Maori, the workers, the poor or the disadvantaged.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...-maiden-speech
And for all his very well-articulated & universally highly praised efforts in showing how a part Maori, brought up by a solo mum in a state house, can make good despite the disadvantages and how Māoris should embrace him as a role model for every Maori kids out there, he is being decried by some as an Uncle Tom and a race traitor.
That's why Maoris will never progress as a people - the woke leftist politicians in Labour, Greens and TPM want to keep them permanently backward so they are reliant upon state handouts and are faithful voters for them.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...-backlash.html
The definitive narrative on what & who the Maori Party represents - definitely not Maori but only themselves.
https://plainsight.nz/no-mandate-to-speak-for-maori/
It seems we have come full circle, where those who claim to be oppressed are now trying to be the oppressors.
Where those who claim to despise colonisation, have used the system they hate, to line their own pockets with putea at the expense of the people they claim they would die for in the house.
Racism in NZ?
Absolutely. And Te Pāti Māori lead the way in perpetuating it.
He who laughs last, laughs the loudest.
The last laugh in 2023 belongs to :
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GCI7H6EaEAAI6pq.jpg
Jessica Much-Maligned has quit the rotten media and jagged a plum corporate spin doctor role with banking monolith ANZ. Predictably the churlish anti-free speech NZ Herald won’t allow comments on their Facebook page on this story. The wheels are falling off, the hated Leftist media are on the skids.
Act will sort it - they'll ban free speech unless they agree with what is being said.
'I’m expressing a personal truth': Award-winning poet Tusiata Avia responds to ACT MP's 'race baiting' claim
A bit of a threat - do as we say or funding gets cut
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/133...id=app-androidQuote:
He said her poems were “racist rants” and the decision to give her the prize was “sick”.
He also said Creative NZ might soon lose some of its funding. “With a new Government looking to make spending cuts at low-value departments, Creative NZ is tempting fate.”
Her rant is most certainly racist and if it isn’t “hate speech”, then I have no idea what that term stands for.
She absolutely should not been given taxpayer funds to write such racist rants, nor should anybody else.
It beggars belief you support such nonsense. I can only imagine your response if somebody wrote similar filth about maori.
If her poem had been about killing brown people, would it have been publicly funded? I doubt that....
The left has tried to paint this as a free speech issue, (desperate dumbness by the left), instead, it is really about does it do the "public good", (ie. does it do the general public good?), as it involves public money.
Not likely.
It was bonanza time for all manner of woke leftists under Labour - money was freely available and grants were made to any number of 'artists' or those professing to be in the creative arts (poets & rappers included).
Another example of how taxpayers' funds were simply thrown around like confetti :
"Carmel is Minster of Arts Culture and Heritage
Creative NZ (An organisation funded by her ministry) awarded her husband Daren Kamali $73,208 to do a tour about a wig made from his hair.
What he has basically done is cut off his own hair and decided to create an art form from it."
https://www.thecoconet.tv/coco-talan...making-custom/
https://www.thecoconet.tv/assets/res...g?k=180a10ae37
WTF? Really? That was under Ardern's watch - not me.
https://i0.wp.com/indiannewslink.co....91%2C419&ssl=1
An interesting read, Dame Anne Salmond expressing opinions on the current state of politics, making some salient points including,
"Faced with these challenges, our leaders often seem adrift, grasping at strategies that are both ideological & self defeating - tax cuts, a small state & free markets that are supposed to deliver personal liberty, but in fact generate collapsing infrastructure, precarious employment & financial insecurity for all but small elites, or top down managerial bureaucracies that are supposed to deliver social services but sometimes seem self serving instead."
"....the new coalition Govt has laid out a 100 day manifesto that also exceeds its mandate on a range of ideological issues - flirting with climate denial & ....Treaty of Waitangi for example while decentralising health, water services, polytech education & repealing environmental legislation without providing workable alternatives ....."
"In the process of building a coalition under MMP, those at the political margins won concessions unwarranted by their level of electoral support......also places the new PM, a relatively inexperienced politician in a difficult position."
"When a global pandemic delivered the last Labour govt an absolute majority, however they exceeded their mandate on a range of issues....."
https://newsroom.co.nz/2023/12/30/an...middle-ground/
That does seem a bit harsh given she did say she thought Labour exceeded their mandate on a range of issues....
And I certainly don't agree with all she says, but she isn't the first to say we have some dysfunctional issues & distortions which no govt seems interested in fixing as the dysfunction suits their voter bases.
The huge concessions Luxon made in coalition negotiations are out of all proportion to the electoral support of minor parties NZF & ACT. Luxon should never have agreed to some of those policies, some are absolutely ridiculous & internationally embarrassing for us as a country.
Remains to be seen how well this 3 headed coalition will work.
This isn't Winston's first rodeo apparently & the metaphor of a bucking, headstrong difficult to control horse trampling on convention seems highly appropriate.
And more on how the government of Ardern, Hipkins and the Maori Cabal squandered taxpayers' funds - after dumbing down NZ's brown population to be dependent on the state (read Labour government) :
"$32 million measles vaccine rollout only reached a mere 7 per cent of the targeted number of people putting the cost at $1300 per person.
Labour was forced to destroy $8 million worth of expired measles vaccine due to their inability to manage vaccine demand. $3 million went towards ‘equity group' but only 28 kids in Tairawhiti vaccinated in those 2 years of the campaign."
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-z...nd-jacinda.jpg
Nobody gives a hoot whether you “don’t agree with everything she says” or you do. While you might have a very high opinion of your own opinion, the reality is you are just another anonymous poster in an online forum. As to my own equally unworthy opinion, I can’t see any ‘salient points’ at all. The whinge about “flirting with climate denialism” is unjustified and downright stupid. NZ contributes 0.17% of global emissions and is literally powerless to curb the behaviour of the big polluters. China and India put their own national interests first, they are not deluded hand wringing ‘globalist Leftys’ like you and Salmon. China and India are ramping up the use of coal fired power stations, as they believe it is their own national interest to do so - and they don’t give a hoot what you, or Salmon, or Chris Luxon, or anyone else thinks about that, they will do what they will do. So if anyone is ‘denying climate change’ it is them.
At least you first acknowledge the irony of what you are about to post & then go on to ignore it.
You don't speak for everyone, so there is the high horse irony.
Dame Anne makes some very saliant points.
When are you going to deliver on your promise and stop posting?
Well, if that was the campaign and this is the reality at least you are displaying the consistency of the new Government.
There we go, the standard Left wing mindset of trying to silence opposition. We see it every day. Pure evil. The KGB thought the same way. I said I’d post a lot less, and that’s what I’m doing. You and red skies are able to post here all day, every day so shouldn’t throw stones at anyone.
I'm not trying to silence anyone, most of what you write is schoolyard slagging off people that have different views to you, something that is easily ignored as childish rants.
Haven't you been one who has been saying all msm is left and should be shut down? Or something along those lines. If you are going to say stupid things, at least be consistent.
I am asking if you have any integrity at all?
Or did you lie when you promised on many occasions that you would stop posting after the election?
John Campbell shown up for the political activist he is. A journalist he is not and certainly shouldn’t be employed by TVNZ https://karldufresne.blogspot.com/20...tting.html?m=1
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...LSQAI6QDVEHJE/
A good round up above by Bryce Edwards of the current liberal vs conservative debate going on out there post the 2023 election which saw Labour decimated.
And Labour decimated is something which the liberal commentators & supporters are still anguishing over, and going through the “classic five stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance”.
Bryce Edwards' take on Anne Salmond : "Anthropologist Anne Salmond is probably in the “bargaining” stage, worrying about the polarising impetus of the new Government and New Zealand’s political system."
Very strange how Anne Salmond never once in the last 6 years wrote of the polarising impetus of the Ardern government which resulted in the worse racial & social divisiveness NZ has seen since the Muldoon era!
And if you want an idea of how wrong Salmond was in her assessment of Adern, read this :
"Last night, Jacinda Ardern and the Labour party won an historic victory. In a landslide, they’ve been given our trust to guide us on a dangerous and unpredictable journey. In these turbulent times, Aotearoa is lucky to have a leader who has vision, and the capacity to inspire collective goodwill, courage and determination." Unadulterated woke leftist BS. And she was rewarded by Ardern with a Damehood for that garbage!
And more woke leftist garbage written by Anne Salmond in 2017 (in preparation for her Damehood from Adern in 2020) :
https://newsroom.co.nz/2017/09/03/an...end-of-an-era/
"These millennials are astute and free-thinking, with a refreshing optimism and generosity of spirit. Jacinda Ardern is one of this new breed of Kiwis. They make the neo-liberal die-hards seem moribund, stuck in an ideological morass."
Turned out that Ardern was a manipulative clueless and useless politician who quit when confronted with how NZers woke up to what a wretched leader and selfish politician she really is.
New government prioritising spending in the right area, protecting frontline healthcare workers and getting results. $6m to be spent - compare with over $100m spent on consultants & fat cats by Ardern, Hipkins and Labour for ???
Labour - all talk, spending taxpayers’ funds frivolously without a care for those who are on the frontline.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/...buse-incidents