National's new "leader" wants to learn te reo, so that 96% of the population won't know what he is talking about. Smart eh?
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National's new "leader" wants to learn te reo, so that 96% of the population won't know what he is talking about. Smart eh?
Then you're going to have to fight the judiciary, you & a few others don't seem to have grasped the govt & politicians are bound by the laws & constitutional arrangements for this country.
Iwi are asserting their rights backed by the judiciary & although some politicians will try & make you think they can stop this, they won't when it comes to the crunch & many won't want to either including people like Chris Luxon.
They just want your vote so will fudge & obfuscate when questioned around these issues, just like Luxon did in Nelson, not answering the specific questions put to him.
There's no way Luxon will direct TV1 to reduce the use of Te Reo, nor for govt departments to reduce the use of Te Reo, nor diminish in any way the partnership between Iwi & the Crown represented by the govt.
Remember Luxon's wife speaks Te Reo & he wants to learn it.
"Iwi are asserting their rights backed by the judiciary & although some politicians will try & make you think they can stop this, they won't when it comes to the crunch & many won't want to either including people like Chris Luxon."
These are just your interpretations of the treaty. The treaty has never said that Maori have more rights to govern this county than anyone else. You are making that up.
It was always a partnership between all people living in NZ.
You are just making up a narrative to benefit a few Maori.
If Luxon thinks he needs to speak te reo to be a leader he is just another want to be politician.
People are getting sick of this so called "woke" BS.
Just be an effective, honest leader.
Anyone in the media not playing the woke game these days under Cindy & her Maori cabal will find their career progression stifled - that's why many are doing it but waiting for the day when they tell their spin mistress & masters to stick it up their arses.
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c...g?format=2500w
Kiwis are far too compliant.
Bloomfield at the podium of truth today spoke mostly in english. Then mid sentence he throws in "fa now" .
The he made later reference to "fa now" and siad the individuals concerned were NOT Maori. Whats wrong with the English word family, after all he was speaking English.
On the subject of lapdogs,
Here are another two. Apparently silence really is golden.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/co...ealands-greens
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Tēnā rūkahu tēnā.[/QUOTE]
You will need a better argument than that Blue Skies.
1. that's a load of rubbish, you're so wrong, you're so mistaken
https://maoridictionary.co.nz/word/11573
Important, to clear up confusion post 16030 beginning with ......."These are just your interpretations of the treaty etc ......" was posted by BDL, not myself Blue Skies.
BDL was refuting my previous post but somehow in Ynot's reply post 16030 it appears attributed to me.
I disagree strongly.
You will need a better argument than that Blue Skies.[/QUOTE]
You can fight it all you want but its not going to make any difference. It's not my narrative, its the way things are.
It's no longer up for debate, its part of the constitutional arrangements of this country & Iwi see it as a partnership between Maori & the Crown represented by the govt.
National are no different to Labour on this now.
So when do we expect translators to be needed when we discuss international matters with countries we trade with? Thinking of Australia, UK and USA here.
How many people bother watching the news or weather on TV these days simply because they don't understand the language being spoken?
We will be back in the stone age before we know it.
I was at someone's house last night where the TV was on channel 3 - which I hardly ever watch. The lady weather reader had the lower-front of her head so heavily tattooed I found it hard to look at the screen. Furthermore I had never heard most of the place names she was spouting although I have lived here all my life. I thought TV 1 was bad, but believe me, 3 is worse.
My personal situation had me ( by choice) with no option of a tv for the last 2 years.
I have not missed it at all.
I will be back on the grid soon but no way will watch local tv.
Prior to that i was in Ausi for 7 years. Wnen I came back from Aus in 2016 I could only laugh at the state of our tv network.
Ausi had its media faults but goodness me, I could not suffer watching nz tv.
Bloody embarrassing.
I only "watch TV" (mainly tv one, UKTV, Sky Sports and David Attenborough) when I visit senior family. I use a phone/tablet/laptop to access information/news/entertainment. Sometimes a TV is used as a monitor if more than two people want to watch the same thing. For news I tend to access news websites or stream Radio NZ National, ABC News Radio and BBC World Service.
Seymour (here for the Opposition alliance) is in fine form.
Writing for the Daily Mail now (why would you?).
Trying very hard to be noticed.
Thousands react to David Seymour blaming 'lockdown loving lefties' for turning NZ into 'Hermit Kingdom' in Daily Mail opinion piece
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...ail-piece.html
Seymour and ACT have been the opposition while National have been a shambles, so it’s a bit of a shame to see people bail on ACT at the first sign that Luxon might be the real deal.
Coming from you whose one source of truth is Cindy :t_up:
You obviously like your panda mate’s lie that Luxon paid no tax?
Or Hipkins spin & BS that NZ was first in the queue for the vaccine?
Or you prefer the 100,000 new homes to be built under Kiwibuild?
Or that child poverty would be eliminated under Labour?
Or the election bribes (like the $120m to create 5% of the 3,000 jobs promised to fix maraes) paid to the Maoris so they vote Labour?
Or that this government will fix homelessness?
What a loser you are, dobby41 - one big complete loser to swallow all that spin & garbage from Cindy. Get a life. A real life.
I point out facts where I see them - you just make them up, repeat them and add a dose of one-liners in a Trumpish manner.
Not so obvious at all.Quote:
You obviously like your panda mate’s lie that Luxon paid no tax?
I disagree with what he said - he doubled down on what he said while meaning something else (no tax paid on capital gains as are our tax laws).
I'm just not as rabid as you.
I've already made my views known on this - was never going to happen for a number of years.Quote:
Or you prefer the 100,000 new homes to be built under Kiwibuild?
There you go again - you love to call people names - play the person rather than the issue.Quote:
What a loser you are, dobby41 - one big complete loser to swallow all that spin & garbage from Cindy. Get a life. A real life.
It is not I who is a loser.
Fortunately, you said it yourself.
I think David Seymour is in favour of increasing health spending. After all an unhealthy society without vaccinations checking epidemics and contagion runs the risk of checking many an individual’s liberty. I see no conflict between libertarianism and an emphasis on robust public health, including an emphasis on vaccinations.
I think Seymour believes in driver licences and other restrictions too.
Only a full-blown anarchist would be actively against society having any rules & regulations in place, e.g. the use of drivers licences.
It seems many folk don't understand, or perhaps misunderstand, the distinct differences between anarchists & libertarians and hence tend to think they are cut from the same cloth. Far from it!
Yes, libertarians aspire to having a free society and certainly not one that is leaning towards authoritarianism. Anarchists too want "freedom" from authority, but without any restraint and certainly without individuals being responsible for & taking responsibility with their actions. An anarchist is happiest when an environment of chaos, confusion, randomness, and 'no consequence" reigns.
The irony is that when anarchy is allowed to reign in a country, its society is only a corrupt politician's heartbeat away from losing all liberties that they previously cherished (and likely took for granted).
On the other hand the libertarian understands that for individual & societal freedom to successfully flourish, it needs to be balanced & checked with individuals being responsible. Taking responsibility for their actions, or as it may be, lack of actions. Sadly NZ has been walking (and in more recent times starting to jog) down the dangerous authoritarian centralised STATE controlled path - under both Labour AND National majority run parliaments.
Why? Simple, most politicians think they are in a supremely better position to know better about what is best for you, me and society.
What does Luxon really think? Even if he did think distinctly differently than the rest of the pack, does he have the willingness, skills, understanding & tenacity to navigate "the system" to successfully make the necessary paradigm shifts to that system of governance? Or will he just get consumed by the bigger machine and eventually be homogenised along with most of the other politicians?
True, they're often for business subsidies too.
Cindy's chickens coming home to roost :
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...in-the-country
A new approval rating poll has reached an unprecedented conclusion – Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is not the highest-scoring leader in the country.
National leader Christopher Luxon has pipped Ardern in the latest 1News Kantar Public Poll, with an approval rating of +22 versus her own rating of +15.
It is the first time the Prime Minister hasn’t scored higher than the Opposition leader since the poll began asking approval ratings in 2019.
Cindy's https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/c...pg?format=500w
Slight bump is often called a honeymoon period and is normal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ydxz_YhZWs
Whānau ora became part of government policy in November 2002, when the Ministry of Health published a strategy for Māori health.3 In the strategy, whānau ora meant, briefly, "healthy families". In their foreword to the strategy, the responsible Minister and Associate Minister said that achieving whānau ora would need an approach that recognises and builds on the strengths and assets of whānau to encourage whānau development.
It was set up under Helen Clark.
Something astray - what I quoted came from the wiki article.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wh%C4%81nau_Ora
A Herald article from 2011 (after the election of National)
Developing Whanau Ora, a Ministerial Committee on Poverty and a new focus for Te Puni Kokiri are the centre-pieces of the National Party-Maori Party confidence and supply agreement.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/nats-a...ectid=10772529
Luxon wants only the finest of Maori in his cabinet.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...criticism.html
While keeping hold of talent like chris bishop and gerry brownlee.
Latest April Taxpayers' Union Curia Poll show continued rise of National and Luxon. Labour will be running scared as the party and Aderns' favourability continues to decline, especially with their farcical budget next week when it will become obvious to anyone who still has their head in the sand, that Labour is screwing the country and who knows how many future generations who will have to pay for their deeply flawed ideology.
The one which standard and poors gave an AA+ towards (after being downgraded during the National term)
Sounds like National's offering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-bsAzpvLnE
We can't afford a wage increase at this time but can afford tax cuts to the wealthy.
A man of principles - not!
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Both Christopher Luxon & Nicola Willis out of their depth.
Nicola Willis refusing or just most likely unable to say what she would cut from the budget, to pay for National's proposed $1.7 Billion tax cuts, which would give the "squeezed middle NZ" around an extra $2 per week, but Luxon an extra an extra $18,000/year if he becomes PM, while taking away the Winter Energy payment, & the $100/month Cost of Living Payment, which covers over 80% of working NZ'ers.
They don't have a clue, no solutions, no fresh ideas not even a grasp of the complexities of some of the issues, just vacuous slogans. Really disappointing.
And unfortunately now there's no one in National that has an intellect anywhere near Grant Robertson.
Good grief - you do not have to be so harsh on Ardern, Robertson & her team of nincompoops - remember their vacuous slogans of :
Kiwibuild
Plant 1 Billion trees
Eliminating Child Poverty
Home Affordability
Reduction of Greenhouse Gases
Equality
Provincial Growth Fund
Auckland Light Rail
Auckland Cycle Bridge
Most transparent & accountable government
Takes a special kind of intellect to describe Grant Robertson as having any intellect besides spend and tax!
And on eliminating child poverty, here’s the damning verdict :
This budget will be remembered as the first to demonstrably leave poor children behind.
- Kate Prickett, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-in...r-labour-wants
Are Labour still not doing both ? Nothing like huge consultant fees on how to best try to pull the wool
on how Inflation in eyes of the M of F will suddenly stop happening as a result of the general $350
flash in the pan ;)
Perhaps they will suggest making the coins smaller - so a few might believe that inflation has stopped ;)