Well he actually didn't ask a question. He just came across as a complete dick.
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He tried to ask a question in Te Reo, he won't be the last either if Te Reo use is being encouraged.
I don't think he's come across as a complete dick, I see the point he was trying to make. Health isn't the only place these racist practices are being utilised either.
The point was obvious, most people don't speak Te Reo including David Seymour, who couldn't execute a question in Te Reo & after being corrected, just repeated the same blunder.
I do wonder if any of you who are triggered by these policies were ever outraged by the existing obvious racial inequities that many of these policies are trying to address? Perhaps a question for your own motivation of outrage.
Personally I do think there is over reach in some areas and I am against co-governance as I believe in democracy. However I do see many of these policies being similar to what has been done to address the inequities women had & still have. I.e gender imbalance in management, company boards etc.
In my own career in finance, 10 years ago if I was up for a senior role / promotion and in competition with a woman of similar expertise, I knew I was unlikely to get the role, as the banks were trying to redress the very low number of women in senior positions.
Did I make a song & dance about it? No
Was I happy about missing out? Yes
But I also knew it had been a boys club forever & unless there was affirmative action by the management, the inequity would take decades to be addressed. So I accepted the situation as a short term measure to get the genders are on an equal footing.
Not to ACT supporters and to the increasing number of potential ACT supporters.
Hipkins and Marama Davidson are the two who came across as clueless, political and racist.
Read and learn :
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/...st-questioning
You show them, David! :t_up:
Posting from the Labour government's stock BS and spin booklet as per usual, Daytr?
Let's do a fact check on your claims, shall we?
1. $1.9 billion allocated to mental health is being spent and as usual, being squandered with bugger all to show as usual .
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/mental...MFLUBXORFLIRM/
2. 12,000 additional state houses built? Unadulterated hogwash - the type that comes out of Dame Cindy's mouth.
Facts :
When Labour came to power in late 2017 there were 61,351 state house rentals. Today, five years later, there are 65,654 state house rentals – a net increase of just 4,403 state houses over five years.
If emergency or transitional housing are included (where the government takes out short term leases) and local community housing providers (where the government assists CHP’s to provide housing) the total income related rental housing has increased from 63,315 to just 70,397 – an increase of just 7,082 over five years.
Meanwhile, the housing waiting list is up 350% from 5,353 in 2017 to 24,010 in 2023!
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2023/04/1...state-housing/
3. Nobody spends on consultants like this government - even while the civil service ballooned (up 28%) and communications staff (Spin doctors) increased by 50%!
Why are all you people butchering your quotes? it's very difficult to follow the discussion when it's not clear who said what. When it looks like you're quoting yourself but your aren't.
It's very simple, the boards use HTML (a website language), and a post that quotes something, must start with this --> [ quote ] with (no spaces) and end with this ---> [ /quote ] (no spaces). I can't remove the spaces or the website will interpret them as a quote.
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like this
Fix your posts, this has become unreadable.
Labour has demolished or sold State Houses that weren't fit for purpose & quite often empty.
How many State Houses did National add in nine years? So despite selling and demolishing unsuitable State Houses that have still manged a substantial increase in the State Housing stock. Could they have done better? Sure but they have done a hell of a lot better than the previous Government.
One of the biggest issues in the rental market is AIRBNB which over time as taken up quite a bit of the rental market. It would be interesting to see what impact charging commercial rates would have on this. If nothing else it would raise money for cash strapped Councils.
What I said about the mental health budget was quite correct. The $1.9Bln figure was allocated not spent.