Sounds like it would come in useful for the bloodletting on the other side. right now they rise not based on talent but who can threaten/leak the best.
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Pretty good speech from Peeni Henare
“The Leader of the Opposition doesn’t understand our world, in his own words, he doesn’t see our world. He may not see us. He may not value our contribution. But we see him. Māori see him. We see what weakness looks like.”
https://vimeo.com/423027363
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300...riginal-target
Kiwibuild, anyone?
Promised & campaigned, Cindy did, on building 800 houses a month by now.
Instead, extraordinary BS Cindy has delivered an average of 39 houses a month! 🤣🤣🤣
Less than 5% of what she promised! 🤪
Takes a special kind of shameless buffoon to deliver such a failure!🐒🙈
Politicians religiously over-promise and under-deliver. But that's not what grates/worries me, it's the sheer scale of the miss, the complete lack of commercial realism in setting the various targets in the first place and the continued hubris of believing they've actually done a good job.
Good video of Julie anne our minister for women. repellent for some people here I'm sure hehe
https://ondemand.parliament.nz/parli...?itemId=212461
There were no extra workers or spare capacity in the construction sector (maybe there is now). The 'keynesian' stimulus from the chch rebuild and insurance income from overseas did have some interesting effects.
Thank you, Panda-NZ! :D
You have brought to all our attention yet another glaring failure by Cindy & her incompetents to deliver - Cutting Immigration Numbers!
"Prime Minister-in-waiting Jacinda Ardern last tonight said she expected those numbers to be cut by 20,000 to 30,000 per annum. Its coalition partner New Zealand First, which has also lobbied strongly to reduce immigration numbers, has set the lower target of 10,000 people a year."
The record shows:
Net migration in 1st year of office - 49,127 (Oct 2018)
Net migration in 2nd year of office - 52,447 (Oct 2019)
Oh dear, what happened?
Net migration under National was 54,535 to Oct 2017.
Another extraordinary Cindy's non-achievement. :t_up:
Where are the reduction of between 20,000 to 30,000 cut promised by Cindy?
The record shows:
Net migration in 1st year of office - 49,127 (Oct 2018)
Net migration in 2nd year of office - 52,447 (Oct 2019)
Net migration under National was 54,535 to Oct 2017.
Care to bring out another broken promise by your Extraordinary Cindy? 🙈🐒
So we have:
Kiwibuild - 95% failure rate
CGT - 100% failure rate
Immigration - almost 100% failure rate!
EXTRAORDINARY indeed! :t_up:
Going really well..... Government's former flagship policy so far behind schedule it will take more than 400 years to reach its initial target of 100,000 homes.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300...cid=app-iPhone
The much touted glossily presented Wellington Monark apartment development was due to open July 2020. Half of the apartments Kiwibuild and many more entered the ballot than apartments available. New date June 2022.
Have to wonder how much investigation Kiwibuild did before entering into this contract, and what happens to the development if signed up buyers walk away.
Great opportunity for Kainga Ora to step in and buy up some for social housing, save the project. Then watch buyers walk away.
That’s exactly what Cindy’s government has been doing - switching unwanted Kiwibuild units to social housing & buggering up the whole apartment & residential block up for other owners/residents.
All that Kainga Ora is doing now by way of new projects is social housing - the so called Kiwibuild reset to help first home buyers (huge promise in the 2017 election) is dormant & hidden behind star dust. Oops, I mean bull dust.
Kiwibuild needs to be highlighted during the upcoming election campaign - It is indicative of everything which is woeful and what NZ can expect from 3 more years of star dusted BS.
Kainga Ora reports over 27,000 complaints about antisocial behaviour in the current government's term. Good enough reason to stay well away from social housing if buying or privately renting. WPQ 1339 (2020)
The 'go easy on tenants' came in a couple of years ago.
They often end up with tenants that no one else will house.
I'm personally a bit conflicted with the policy but if the state kicks them out they become homeless and the children suffer.
So keeping them houses is both a good thing (best to have the children in a home) and a bad thing (they don't learn to behave).
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12335386
"Police allowed dozens of people to gather for the tangi of a Black Power member in Dunedin during lockdown."
One law for law-abiding citizens, another law for non law-abiding scumbags - that's Cindy's government style of being 'kind'.
Having cut my property investing teeth in the residential market, I can assure you there is nothing at all in existence that is tenant proof.
For those who may have an interest in my physical and mental health, please note that I have escaped from that field, which almost made me turn to religion in an attempt to discover what I was being punished for.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...f-a-cliff.html
Socialist Cindy & her incompetents pushing NZ economy off a cliff.
Suits her agenda to breed as many social welfare beneficiaries into Labour's voter base as possible.
1968
My parents had bought a large property in London Street Dunedin and converted into 4 flats . Young Sgt Pepper helped paint the exterior. First tenants moved in to the rear flat. Two female medical students. Totally trashed it, my parents were outraged. However the first tenants were an outlier, the others in the following years were ok, perhaps we were lucky
Another month of Level 2 lockdown will crush the NZ economy - message from a top insolvency & business restructuring expert.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...ectid=12335450
Paywall article
KordaMentha partner and restructuring specialist Grant Graham (whose firm stands to benefit from insolvency work) in a social media post says New Zealand businesses cannot wait further weeks with minimal Covid-19 cases "knowing that the cost will not only be extreme but unjustifiable". He says he is dealing with people under "incredible pressure that grows day by day"
"We will simply not find replacement jobs and looking ahead, please PM, do not tell us in 2021 that the top tax rate must be increased to solve this unjustifiable delay."
Etc etc etc
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Will fall on deaf ears for sure.
Socialist Cindy has got everything she wants now with the lockdown - absolute power, adoration, tens of billions of dollars to spend and most important of all, an election in September.
Give any socialist power, in this case power and you will not get it back in a big hurry.
I owned a corner property at 33 London st; an extremely tidy seven bedroom house let to students. It wasn't particularly troublesome but sometime after I sold it, it featured on the front page of the ODT. The tenants had held a quiet little party, and every single window in the property was smashed. Made quite a photo for the paper. Although I should add that in my experience varsity students were generally good tenants - not noted for good housekeeping, but otherwise fine.
Have a listen to Jacinda's speech and tell me she is not a socialist (or actually closer to communist). Asked about this she has said her ideology has not changed in the intervening years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9rsxFaq6Ig
Moka has already answered this for you in another thread. It applies to Jacinda equally. Me too for that matter.
Quote:
Perhaps I’m a "Social justice warrior" (SJW) which is a pejorative term for an individual who promotes socially progressive views, including feminism, civil rights, and multiculturalism.
The opposite of “Social Justice Warrior” is “Neo-Nazi.” Neo Nazis fight against social justice - they fight, in fact, for social injustice.
Leopards do not change their spots. Comrade Cindy is having the time of her life, living out her wildest socialist dreams of redistributing wealth from those who work hard & take risks to those who just work or cannot be bothered working.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political...-quarterly-msd
Pumping out billions in wage subsidies but have little or no interest in how much have been inappropriately or fraudulently obtained by employers & employees out there. Typical of a socialist style government.
The Conservative government in the UK have also utilised massive wage subsidies. The Republican administration in the USA have also transferred $1200 to every taxpayer in the USA. So are Conservative Boris Johnson and Republican Donald Trump also captured under your definition of typical socialist governments??
[QUOTE=blackcap;818573]Have a listen to Jacinda's speech and tell me she is not a socialist (or actually closer to communist). Asked about this she has said her ideology has not changed in the intervening years.Quote
Probably meets the US Conservative definition of a communist. Anyone not half way past centre right.
westerly
So your prescription for business support would be? Please share it with us
by the way here is a copy from UK Government websitePart of Coronavirus (COVID-19)Business support
Coronavirus (COVID-19) support is available to businesses
- Loans, tax relief and cash grants are available
- Employers can apply for staff to get up to 80% pay if they can’t work
- Self-employed people can receive up to £2,500 per month in grants for at least 3 months
Pretty basic black and white sorta thinking style there Jonu. Youve never experienced the vast and rich multitude of shades of gray in between by the looks.
And you are telling us how another unique being is responding and why.Thats pretty psychocreepy cobber.
Mate;maybe start adding diversity and shades to your life and speak for your own 2D life experience and not guess about others, they are actually different to your own unique sig. And what ever youve got under your bed well.....thats cool cause its yours , for better or worse.
Have a good weekend hon.:sleep:
Hahahaha. Calls me psycho creepy and then proceeds to psycho analyse me...someone he's never met. Cindy sure as hell didn't stick to the shades of gray in between....she opted for the out and out pinko of "Comrade".
That speech of hers is truly gut churning. A sychophantic stream of BS.
Quite so, jonu. "Comrade" only has one meaning when uttered by a polly.
;)
From Tax payers Union
"This week our analysts have been going back through the enormous volume of Budget announcements. One thing is clear: the Government's electoral strategy is to do all it can to keep the patient alive until after the election – then it'll send you the bill. Grant Robertson is spending like mad to keep New Zealanders happy... until after the election. To illustrate:
19 Sept General election
26 Sept Rent Freeze ends
26 Oct Wage Subsidy ends
30 October Eligibility for COVID job loss benefit ends
We would hope that, when politicians respond to a crisis with a spend-up costing tens of billions, they do it purely with the public interest at heart. But the timeline above does seem awfully convenient"
Comrade Jonu you sound like a natural. Its ok for you to analyse our leader but not be ,yourself. Typical.Your blindspot is your biases and agenda and Trump like fake mud are so transparent. Thats maybe what is under your bed, fear, fear of strong women. Black, white and Gold are your limited palette.Maybe the colour of mud too ehh.Psyco creepy limited.But wait theres more ,pinkOH will be squeezed in, benefit of the doubt;).
“Scenes of thousands of protesters shoulder to shoulder makes a mockery of the Government's Covid-19 restrictions and insults every New Zealander who's followed them."
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...-david-seymour
And what has Cindy got to
say about the thousands of breaches?
When Stuff asked the Prime Minister's office to respond to her parliamentary colleagues' comments, a spokesman said: "policing of the marches is entirely an operational matter for the police, the Government doesn't involve itself in operational decisions."
Bare faced Liars - Comrade Cindy & her government of the incompetents..
Exhibit 1 : https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12328183
Ardern said she had seen photos of people congregating at a BurgerFuel outlet in Auckland.
"We have had confirmation from officials this morning they have been directly in contact with the head office of that operation."
She said the Auckland BurgerFuel outlet was clearly failing to keep people physically distant last night.
Exhibit 2 : https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...-breaches.html
The Prime Minister has reminded Kiwis that New Zealand is still under COVID-19 alert level 4 as police revealed more than 4000 breaches of the lockdown so far.
"While I know there are things we are all looking forward to under alert level 3, we must not risk the gains that we have made or that many New Zealanders have made sacrifices for over the last four weeks," Jacinda Ardern said.
And on TV3, Comrade Cindy ducking and diving (her cheesy grin & big smiles) about the blatant breach of L2 by the thousands of protestors.
Anything but acknowledge that the lockdown rules are selectively applied - as long as there are big enough numbers or are thugs like the gangs, the rules do not apply.
It's up to Mr. Plod and co. Not the P.M to enforce this, and if you think back to the Queen st. riots a few years ago, you will see that in some crowd situations controlling an angry crowd is tricky stuff. As the odd Pommy soccer crowd will show it's sometimes best to just observe.
NZ had plenty of trouble with this sort of protest during the Muldoon era, '81 Springbox tour.
I don't think anyone would want to see that carry-on again.
We are not in disagreement about the police being the party to enforce the lockdown rules.
We are in disagreement about the fact (refer exhibits 1 & 2 - post #4353) that Comrade Cindy & her government of incompetents had been very quick to comment & chasticed NZers over lockdown breaches (eg. Burgerfuel) but ducked & dived over the wholesale breach yesterday by thousands of protestors. Why?
If she did you would be criticising her for cracking down on protesters to 'her illigitimate government'.
As do you. Now that was childish wasn't it. To an extent we all use any excuse to advance our agenda's whatever they may be. Some more than others and some with more conviction etc but we all do it in whatever form that takes. Be it writing on forums, going to protests, helping our friends move house. There are always agenda's and motives for any action we take. Some good, some bad, some indifferent.
Slippery Cindy was extremely reluctant to be critical of the protesters in the interview I saw. Why might we ask? Because she doesn't want to alienate the Maori vote that she relies on to form a government. And yet she maintained religous gatherings were too dangerous and couldn't be trusted to manage social distancing. She grows more cynical the more arrogant she becomes.
I see she still thrives in the daily glow of the limelight at 1pm....weeks after she said she would be cutting back.
Not playing the gender card at all. Just pointing out that neither you or Balance ever seem able to say even one good thing about our PM. She isn’t perfect but she is also not the conniving, manipulative monster you both make her out to be. You have both closed your minds to the possibility that at least some of what she has done/is doing, is good. I am not convinced that underneath your angst, there is no gender bias.
I find this statement very curious. Why does one’s online moniker have to reflect their gender? My nickname is the one I use in various places. It is intended to reflect where I live, not what gender I am. I am not pretending to be anyone I am not. In fact, I have probably openly shared significantly more of my personal life, than anyone else here.Quote:
Even your moniker belies you, it doesn't denote a gender.
Your forum nickname is just as gender neutral as mine. It feels like a “male name” but it could simply be a name you’ve chosen to make us assume you are male. For all we know you’re a woman. I guess that means your moniker belies you too then.
Such a ridiculous comment to make.
I was pointing out that you had a gender neutral moniker whilst playing the gender card.
I don't believe anything I've said could be construed to giving a rat's arse whether Ardern is male or female, let alone being threatened by her gender. When Ardern stops being a cynical bullshi.... doubtless I'll be in a better disposition to appreciate her better qualities.
Hey there Commierad Jonu. what colours have you discovered lately, looks like buul****e black is becoming a fave hey, well done extending your palette my pinkoH! friend. Any commie mud throwing today ehh lol?. You been copying trump style again. You and trumpy need to get under a good woman and get a bit of balance back. Even better walk 10 steps behind her and learn who's boss ehh, good for your over blown self adulation. Just too much old boy HIStory stuck in your veins, thats dinosaur country boyy and you know what happened to them ehh ;).
You have hit the nail on the head.
Comrade Cindy does everything with an eye on the forthcoming election - nothing more and nothing less.
She just could not help herself today - had to grab the limelight to announce that L2 is likely to be eased to L1 next week.
And that's after she had no choice - after being showed up yesterday by the blatant and huge breach by thousands of L2 rules.
Seems like all that hard won battle against covid-19 by the 5m NZers is not nearly as important as not offending the Maoris indeed!
The rest of us are dispensable if a second wave hits - she can always move NZ back to L4, and blame it on 'unforeseen' circumstances.
You forget my "floating anchor shoals" theme Jonu.The only tightness i ever feel is from the ebb and flow of natures tides and being under a great woman.
While Ms Ardern is the face on the front line I would suggest she is just that, the front person. She is the #1 asset of the Labour Party and being front and centre with the right talking points is the key to returning her party in September. Behind her are the party strategists including her kitchen Cabinet. They know exactly what they are doing and so far it is working despite insufficient talent in her Cabinet and caucus.
Have to admit that is impressive.
The Herald reports today (with photos) of both the PM and Dr Bloomfield in multiple "selfies" with restaurant staff etc all around the place. The PM says it was simply too hard for her to follow social distancing rules because people wanted handshakes and hugs.
Utter hypocrites and fools.
Plenty of photos too - not from Comrade Cindy but put together from all those who shared their photo ops with her.
Guess David Clark has got his get out of jail free card.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12336504
Paywall article
So it seems Cindy could be a super spreader! Our bullshi..er in chief has been outdoing herself. Bit hard for her to tell anyone to social distance isn't it? Perhaps she'll just pull out her grumpy face, or maybe her sad face, before finishing off with goofy grin face to make sure we are all luvvy dubby again.
Slippery Cindy's virtual signalling BS further exposed. Be kind....She would expect landlords to be compassionate
https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/...a-for-kindness
Cindy. The do as I say not as I do PM
You know who I feel sorry for most of all through this lockdown?.... Mike Hosking.
Poor bugger I usually only read the headline of his herald opinion pieces for a giggle but his efforts to try and portray Jacinda in a poor light currently looks like he is pissing in the wind. It must be incredibly frustrating for him.
Therein lies the difference between him and you - in a big way.
He has a platform to article & voice his views and he is using it very effectively to reach his audience - cementing his media presence and ratings support.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12327056
‘Mike Hoskings & 1ZB #1’
How Comrade Cindy’s Supporters & the public with star dusted specs react & respond in the interim is irrelevant to him.
He also has what is often callEd ‘F U money’ or ‘Drop Dead money’ and he could not care a stuff!
I appreciate that and I don't question his financial success or popularity but he is starting to sound like a whiny bi*ch.
I suspect he also needs to play to his constituency to ensure people keep calling in and keep ratings high.
I am just saying I feel sorry for him that everything in NZ is not going his way as his displeasure comes through in his opinion pieces.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...ectid=12336999
8 weeks into the lockdown, still fluffing around with zero help for SMEs re rental issues.
Comrade Cindy is kind indeed - to her growing beneficiary voter base. Everybody else can get stuffed as far as compassion & help are concerned.
Welcome to North Korea. Now we have an illustration book with pictures and story about the PM, IN OUR PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
There is no limit to this ridiculous abuse of power.
From the Herald:
Fan fiction or political cynicism?
"The Schoolastic Book Club flyer arrived home in the kids school bags this week and I just about spat my Weetbix out!" writes a reader.
"' Taking the Lead - How Jacinda Ardern Wowed the World is an illustrated and inspiring story for children about Jacinda Ardern. Prime Minister of New Zealand and the world's youngest female leader'.
"Ugh…Nothing like a cloying picture book about a political leader being flogged to school kids leading up to an election… Its enough to make the PM herself cringe."
Nobody is asking the government to pay the rent but to do what the Australian government did with its first relief package from the word go:
1. Recognise that businesses are under severe stress when the lockdown kicked in,
2. Rent normally represents the second highest business cost after wages,
3. Put in place mandatory code of conduct for landlords and tenants to negotiate & provide clear direction & certainty.
https://www.business.gov.au/Risk-man...cial-tenancies
In contrast, it has taken Comrade Cindy & her incompetents 10 weeks to come out with the same solution! Talk about nincompoops in charge!
Kiwibuild, anyone to relieve housing pressure?
Of course they can arbitrate now. Other than assessing fair market rental, as in a normal valuation-arbitration, what do they arbitrate? Is it who should take the loss i.e. lessor or lessee?
Do they want to consult the lessee's creditors, or the mortgagor's bank?
What about an unencumbered lessor? Does he or she not need the rent?
And you are right about interfering in a legal contract. Very unwise.
The details of this will be fascinating, to say the least.