Virtue signalling at the expense of the health of your own citizens.
We are paying this idiot.
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Another Labour volunteer has been busted delivering party advertising in breach of alert level alert level 4 restrictions.
On Sunday and Monday, residents in Auckland’s Ellerslie opened their letterboxes to find Labour-branded pamphlets bearing a smiling image of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
The pamphlets were emblazoned with messages including “our recovery is working” and “securing New Zealand's recovery”.
What the heck is going on?
If they were not supposed to be out delivering this material, why did the Labour Party make it available to them?
This smacks of all those times Cynical Cindy took selfies with her fawning supporters, when the rest of us were told we had to observe social distancing.
It's one rule for the Labour Party (and the fish rots from head) and another rule for us plebs.
Comrade, brother, sister, fellow, esteemed learned friend, colleague etc. What is in a name? Use depends on tradition. It is used outside the left wing too. However for a Right wing person perhaps its use only jars when it is used by someone on the left wing or by a unionist.
Rules for some.....
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Public access to some popular recreation areas closed
In DOC’s Hauraki district, Kauaeranga Valley Rd (near Thames) into public conservation land has been closed to prevent people entering the valley for tramping or hunting. This is usually a popular conservation recreation area.
The Broken Hills recreation area has also been closed to the public.
The department said these sites will remain closed until alert levels drop and Kiwis can get out and explore beyond their local areas again.
All DoC Great Walks, huts, campsites and other facilities nationwide are also closed, and people must not go hunting, fishing from boats, tramping, skiing or swimming, or do any water-based activities or other activities that expose them to danger, or which may require search and rescue services.
People are also prohibited from isolating in DOC huts, lodges or campsites.
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Rules for others....how do you get to the river to go whitebaiting without travelling??!! Teleport(?)
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/hea...rs-in-lockdown
Mixed messages from Government departments is causing confusion among whitebaiters about whether they are allowed to fish.
Department of Conservation media and communications manager Bronwyn Saunders told the Beacon that whitebaiting was not permitted under alert level 4, while police appear to have given it their blessing.
With the lockdown falling right at the beginning of the whitebaiting season, many people have been making use of their time off work to go whitebaiting. Up to 20 people at a time have been seen on the banks of the Rangitaiki River at Thornton with more fishing the Whakatane River.
A Thornton resident, who asked not to be named, is upset police are turning a blind eye. “There are more people turning up here every day in their cars and the police have stopped coming down here at all because they don’t want to be seen to be doing anything. I am really disappointed in the police,” he said.
“The message from Government is quite clear to stay home except to buy food or access medical help. These people are putting us all at risk of an even longer lockdown.
“I have had reports and first-hand discussions of the main excuses and it seems to be a misguided belief that tangata whenua are not restricted by level 4 rules. I was told by one whitebaiter that whitebaiting is a traditional activity that is allowed under the Covid lockdown rules. Some people have become quite abusive to some of my neighbours when they have told them they have not supposed to be whitebaiting.
According to police, whitebaiters are not breaking any rules.
Senior Sergeant Al Fenwick said the best information police had was that whitebaiting, or food gathering in a safe manner, was above board. He said police were taking a commonsense approach to the activity.
As long as there were no bubbles breached, people were staying close to home, not travelling to participate in whitebaiting and were keeping safe on land – the activity was permitted.
This would continue to be their approach, although he warned that could change.
The Thornton resident said he had been in touch with police, DOC, the Ministry of Primary Industries and Whakatane district councilors about the issue and he was aware that breaches had been reported to the Covid-19 compliance centre.
“The simplest solution would be to have the whitebait season suspended until we return to level 2, to take away any doubt and help save the country.”
Whakatane District Council communications and engagement manager Alexandra Pickles said the issue was not the council’s domain. “The government has provided clear guidance through its Unite Against Covid-19 website. Whakatāne District Council is supporting all guidance and messaging through official channels,” Ms Pickles said.