They won't take them.
National is desperate - vote National and get a side order of super right-wing activists.
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It's increasingly clear that little has changed since Judith Colin's time with the uffindel report being covered up along with catering to extremists for a few votes.
They only swapped her out for a stereotype of a national leader.
So, after a roasting in the House yesterday, Luxon comes out and says he wouldn't work with Tamaki's party.
Tries to say he was clear in that before - he wasn't.
You never know where Luxon sits on things from one moment to the next.
Maybe he'll change his mind on abortion next?
He thinks it is evil, for some reason. That position hasn't changed. The only point of contention is whether national will recriminalise it or not.
For someone obsessed with economics he sure does ignore the ruinous costs for a woman of having an unplanned for child.
The only roasting we saw in the last 2 days was the red witch being burnt at the stake with her two finance nincompoops over the KiwiSaver GST U-turn.
Caught red handed with their fingers in the tax grab cookie jar.
Fastest U-Turn in the history of NZ governments.
Just got to love how livid she was at being disrobed for the sneaky and deceitful way she tried to do yet another tax grab.
Sharma on her! 🤣🤣🤣
If Ardern was sincere about levelling the GST KiwiSaver playing field, she had a simple option but being the spendthrift tax grabber she has been exposed for all to see, she could not resist trying to sneak in a $200m+ tax grab from retirement funds!
Sharma on her!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
"The government was given four options by the IRD and if levelling the playing field was really what they were trying to do, option three in the paper that was released to Parliament, was that another way of providing certainty and consistency, was to reduce overall tax by $20 million, by making all fund managers and investment managers exempt from GST," Willis said.
"The government, faced with the choice of less tax, or more tax, went for the latter."
Sharma on 'Crocodile tears' U-Turn Ardern!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...-kiwisaver-tax
"Even in May, after Parker’s tax speech that ranged across the abstruse world of French economist Thomas Piketty and tried to lay out commonly agreed tax principles, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern gave assurances no new taxes were being worked on. In the House on Wednesday she kept referring to “evening up the playing field”.
He actually thinks it is murder rather than a more simple crime.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...abortions.html
So it's quite a serious character issue/flaw he has.
Up to the government to accept or reject recommendations. Remember CGT?
IRD quantify for the government what the tax on KiwiSaver fees mean for savers and for tax revenues. Ardern saw the $225m and her tax & spend instincts took over.
In any case, the bigger issue is that she tried to sneak the tax through - thinking that nobody would notice.
From the most transparent & open government ever! 🤣
Sharma on her.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/government-quietly-introduces-103-billion-tax-on-kiwisaver/OZTZMO6QKJJQOTUL5DG7UFEWA4/
Love the comments on Luxon's facebook page.
"Everything they criticise the government for they did themselves". Well said.
GST up to 15% causing inflation.
$1k taken away from kiwisaver.
Neither campaigned on at the time.
Mahuta is against abortion. So what the hell is she doing in cabinet?
Oh - she is Maori and therefore, everything is alright as far as Ardern is concerned.
Including Maori prayers and blessings before & after government, council and educational institutional meetings but other religions are discouraged and forbidden from such practices.
And we have Labour posters here wanting to restrict the religious practices and beliefs of certain religions - because they are not in synch with the atheist beliefs of Labour.
Sharma on Ardern & Labour.
Garbage.
National & John Key campaigned openly in the 2008 election with their proposed changes to KiwiSaver & won the election.
Compare and contrast with Ardern & her two rat finance ministers attempting to deceitfully sneak in the $225m tax grab from Kiwisavers.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/election-...ders%27-cullen
"National leader John Key said his party's proposed changes to the scheme would make it more attractive to New Zealanders, and encourage more people to remain in the scheme for the long term.
National has said if elected it would would cap the minimum employer contribution to KiwiSaver at 2% and remove the tax credit currently paid to employers."
Wasteful spending (especially on consultants by the billions of dollars) by Ardern on housing, healthcare etc is absolutely wasteful spending.
$1.9 billion to deliver on a worse outcome for mental health is wasteful spending.
$56m spent on a never to be built bike bridge is wasteful spending.
$1 billion spent on emergency housing (making motel owners millionaires) is wasteful spending.
Another $120m to consultants to 'Get Wellington Moving' is wasteful spending.
Especially when she is busy trying to do a tax grab deceitfully & sneakily on Kiwisavers to pay for the wasteful spending.
John Key campaigned on the changes openly and NZers voted him in. That says it all really.
Ardern in contrast tried to sneak in a multi-billion tax grab and got caught. Hence, the fastest U-Turn in the history of NZ.
No amount of deflection is going to change that fact - Ardern tried to pull a fast one and shed crocodile tears at Cullen’s funeral.
You need to go and have some words with Ardern:
https://youtu.be/PJ7Cj_6ci80
You see here's the problem, Luxon & National have absolutely no answers to the problems we're facing other than what the govt is already doing. And in fact they've caused some of the problems we are now facing.
Good interview today, with Suzie Fergusson having a proper grasp of detail so able to pull Luxon up repeatedly on his wild figures, inability to answer what National would do to fix things & waffling platitudes.
It's just constant criticism of the govt & platitudes, there's nothing of substance to offer, nothing to fix things.
e.g.
Luxon - 55% are not at school regularly, only 46% going to school regularly.
Suzie F - no thats wrong Mr Luxon, school attendance running at 83%, unjustified absence 6.6%, I have the figures in front of me.
Suzie F - did National sell off too many State houses when in govt?
Luxon - that's absolute rubbish....
Suzie F - well your deputy Nicola Willis said National sold off too many State houses when in govt, do you disagree with her?
Luxon - what I'm going to tell you, blah blah blah.....
I wish there was a quick fix, but just as the govt is struggling with them, National would only make things worse.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political...g-supply-issue
Turning problems into crises & disasters - Ardern's claim to solving NZ's problems.
Housing
Child poverty
Healthcare
Homelessness
Law & Order
Cost of Living
Inflation
Wasteful spending
Broken promises
Crime
Rotorua emergency housing
There are quick fixes - just not Ardern's fixes of recklessly throwing money at problems and turning the problems into disasters.
Most transparent & open government ever!
And of course before we forget, Ardern & Robertson trying to sneak in a retirement savings tax after promising no new taxes.
How shameless & devious can an individual & a government be?
Ardern will go down in NZ’s history as the PM who could have done great things for NZers but squandered that opportunity because she proved clueless, useless and worse of all, untrustworthy and full of spin and deviousness in the final analysis.
Disgusting woman.
Bugger off and go to the UN where they are full of aspirational BS.
Ardern - an abject study of all spin and no delivery.
Such a shame - Ardern - so young and so full of spin, BS and lies.
In the end, her true nature came through - clueless and useless, she resorted to spin & BS.
Now she has been caught out.
Fastest U-turn in the history of NZ - retirement saving tax.
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[QUOTE=Balance;974177]Such a shame - Ardern - so young and so full of spin, BS and lies.
In the end, her true nature came through - clueless and useless, she resorted to spin & BS.
Now she has been caught out.
Fastest U-turn in the history of NZ - retirement saving tax.QUOTE
Replying to your own posts now? You have lost it.
westerly
It is called afterthought - what an honest person does.
Unlike Ardern & her mob - always ready with their spin, BS & lies.
They are the ones caught with trying to deviously sneak in a retirement savings tax, not me or anyone else.
You & the likes of dobby41 may be happy and eager to support and reinforce Ardern’s deviousness and dishonesty - which is your prerogative - just don’t expect people who cherish & respect honesty & sincerity in their leaders (especially the PM) to be like you.
Sharma on Ardern & you.
Whatever they bring, it will be better than Ardern pandering to one race at the expense of all NZers - all because she wants their votes to stay in power to create more disasters than she already has in less than 2 terms in government.
Bugger off, Ardern.
The sooner the better.
Your lies, deceit, dishonesty and non delivery will be your shameful legacy, as the most useless, clueless and incompetent PM that New Zealanders have been cursed with in the history of this once proud and progressive country.
Max key is now in property development while documenting his jiu-jitsu story (which the media insists on telling us).
The current National leader has 7 houses in his collection while their former leader makes a fortune putting his house on the market for a chinese buyer too.
National has announced so far:
- They will scrap the bright line test.
- Restart the interest deductions on investor loans.
- Axe the new rental regulations.
- Let foreigners buy houses and land.
That's nice & all, but is there anything for the productive economy?
Coming from the supporters and followers of the ultimate mistress of spin and BS, straight into the garbage can (as usual).
Meanwhile, those who persist in aiding & abetting Ardern to promote mis-information, spin & BS better be aware that there are consequences :
Labour’s response to widespread objections is to dismiss them as ‘mischief-making’. However, a legal opinion commissioned by the Taxpayers Union stated bluntly that, ‘Ministers appear to have cold-bloodedly decided to confuse councils and ratepayers with false statements’ – that claims ‘have been calculated to deceive parliamentarians, and, when it becomes law, to deceive New Zealanders generally.’
While people making false statements would normally face prosecution, the defence applying to politicians does not apply to those assisting ministers in a professional capacity, who can be held complicit in making untrue claims.
Out of touch Luxon, master of spin blames food prices on government spending:
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...uxon-says.html
RBNZ agrees government spending feeding inflation.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/128...isks-recession
Food, feul and rent - nothing to do with the govt.
Why don't these expert journalists take businesses to task for their internationally high domestic prices. Oh they're entirely funded by them through advertisements.
National obviously doing most things right - going up and up in the polls while Ardern & Labour drops and drops.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...IUOCBPS36BCCM/
National could govern with the support of Act in the latest Taxpayers' Union-Curia poll, winning the support of 37 per cent of voters, up three points on last month's poll.
Support party Act was also up, rising one point to 12 per cent.
National's rise coincided with a record number of people saying the country was heading in the wrong direction.
Fifty-four per cent of people say the country is heading in the wrong direction, but just 32 per cent of people thought it was heading in the right direction.
A curia taxpayer union poll of wealthy pricks.
Sam Uffindel faces the music at 2 pm today.
Will it be the Last Waltz or I'm All Shook up?
National cynically released the report on the day of The Queen’s funeral, no doubt hoping the people and the media’s attention would be elsewhere. Such disrespect. If there are any monarchists in that party, they should question the sincerity of their leaders’ respect for Queen Elizabeth. Personal ambition trumps old school respect.
Contrast the two responses:
Expel sharma for bullying 3 staff members.
Reinstate Sam and bring him back...
What smokescreen?
The media is covering it.
Report was received on Thursday so are you suggesting that National keep the report under wraps until tomorrow?
Is there really no room for any other news to be covered, except the funeral?
Is that fair on Sam to stretch it out when he is cleared?
If you want cynical, try Ardern releasing the He Paupau report 3 months after the election and that’s after withholding it from the then government’s DPM, Winston!
If the report was not leaked, Labour would have continued to keep it under wraps while implementing its recommendations.
Most transparent and accountable government? Kiss my arse.
I can't be bothered checking because it's not relevant to me, but wasn't the decision date announced before the Queens passing?
Regardless, @ 35 journalists were in attendance, so no one was going to sweep it under the carpet.
Posters can write whatever takes their fancy, but I reckon the side show is over.
Now what's happening with 3 waters and He Pua Pua and the racialisation of politics in NZ by Labour?
Just watching the above mentioned funeral of Queen Elizabeth II which is apparently of huge significance to Maori, much more so than ‘Pakeha’ - should be a good night of coverage on ‘Maori TV’ (TVNZ Channel One).
Another contract awarded to Mahuta Whanau - without proper process.
The thin end of the corruption wedge - courtesy of Ardern.
Something National must hold a proper inquiry into when it gets into power next year.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...RWQ6IQCEXG6IM/
A third government agency is reviewing the process by which it engaged a consultancy wholly owned by Gannin Ormsby, the husband of Government minister Nanaia Mahuta.
The news follows the admission that, contrary to its policy, the agency followed no formal conflict of interest process in procuring the work.
Housing Minister Megan Woods has confirmed that Crown housing agency Kāinga Ora was deficient in its conflict of interest processes in awarding Ka Awatea Services a $66,846 (excluding GST) contract.
Luxon doesn't trust his MP's enough to show them the Uffindell report (despite this they vote to welcome Uffindell back) but asks us to trust him!
Sam Uffindell obviously back from suspension & out representing the National Party at a function during last weekend, but Luxon says he couldn't release his decision publicly until the day of the biggest event in world history since the end of WW2. Don't ever accuse Labour of dropping reports on a Friday again.
The report doesn't clear Uffindell at all, (unlike Nat' MP Woodhouse's false claim) it simply says events at the flat "did not occur as reported in the media".
Renowned ex TVNZ reporter, Mark Sainsbury says on RNZ the Panel yesterday, he knows the women & her father well & knew of the incident at the time, & seems to very much support their story. There is no doubting their integrity. It started over the women in the flat wanting some sort of cleaning roster.
Mark Sainsbury talks about how people (women) must have felt being shouted at," hit the road fatty" by Sam Uffindell.
Luxon today admitting they are not saying the women or her father lied & admitting harm was done.
Luxon won't release any details on the Terms of Reference so we don't even know what questions were asked or who & what was excluded from the inquiry.
Number of National voting friends furious about this cover up, esp women & fathers with daughters.
Just another botched candidate selection to add to the growing list of disgraced & disgraceful Nat's who've been caught sharing details of others medical records, impersonating others online, txtng porn, etc.
Hamish Walker, Andrew Falloon, Jake Bezzant, Jamie lee Ross, Aron Gilmore, Richard Worth, Maurice Williamson, Pansy Wong, Woodhouse, Todd Muller, Harete Hipango, Michelle Boag even Simon Bridges caught up in electoral fraud probe.
And they trust him - unlike the spin mistress Ardern now acknowledged as not only untrustworthy but clueless and useless by even some Labour insiders.
Try comparing :
Clare Curran
Lees Galloway
Poto Williams
Phil Twyford
David Clark
David Parker
Mahuta
Andrew Little
Megan ‘Rotorua Emergency Housing’ Woods
Chris ‘Charlotte Bellis’ Hipkins
Trevor ‘rewarded for bullying behaviour’ Mallard
Most transparent & accountable government ever.
LOL
[QUOTE=Blue Skies;975735]Luxon doesn't trust his MP's enough to show them the Uffindell report (despite this they vote to welcome Uffindell back) but asks us to trust him!
Sam Uffindell obviously back from suspension & out representing the National Party at a function during last weekend, but Luxon says he couldn't release his decision publicly until the day of the biggest event in world history since the end of WW2. Don't ever accuse Labour of dropping reports on a Friday again.
/QUOTE]
hmmm, 5 years of Labour govt x 52 Fridays = 260.
1 96 yr Royal death X 52 Fridays = 4992.
260 vs 4992, yeah, most people would say that was fair...
That means National have to wait another 4992 Fridays before they can release anything.
As for whats in the report, when people ask me whats in vaccine, I say, Pigs Bum!
99% still go ahead, because at least they 'know'.
As for knowing, reminds me of the wholesale tobacconist who placed a large order with Camel cigarettes.
He was invited to the factory, and when he went in, there was 2 piles heaped on the floor.
What's in that one he enquired?
Camel S***!
What's in the other?
Tobacco.
Oh he exclaimed, I better double my order then, I thought it was ALL Camel S***!
Which leads onto Isaac the Jewish butcher who displayed a sign outside his shop;
Chicken sausages, made with 50% real chicken, $6.99 kg.
Saul was driving past, and had to stop.
Isaac, everyone knows sausages are mostly horsemeat, how can you afford to do this?
I'm very fair with my customers Saul, they are definitely half and half.
That is 1 horse to 1 chicken!
So yep, it pays to 'know' eh?
Those with integrity like Nikki Kaye and Amy Adams leave but people like this get to stay as their extended frat party.