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Post by eri on Jun 7, 2022 20:20:19 GMT 12
ACT's David Seymour asked the Prime Minister,
"does she stand by her statement on Stephen Colbert in relation to dangerous firearms 'so we got rid of them';
if so, is she aware there were about 20 gang shootings... while she was out of the country?"
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Post by OLD ROPE š on Jun 7, 2022 21:27:59 GMT 12
How does anyone know " we got rid of them" when we don't know how many of them there are in the first place!!!
Another blatant lie by Stalinda .
I reject the premise of her!!!
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Post by sloopjohnb on Jun 8, 2022 8:07:54 GMT 12
Loveit
"I reject the premise of her"
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Post by eri on Jun 10, 2022 8:28:33 GMT 12
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Post by fish on Jun 10, 2022 12:11:36 GMT 12
NZ First up 0.5 to 3%
Te Parti Maori, currently has 2 MP's, was down 0.5 to 1%
But far more relevant, while National + Act are 50%, do to the undecided and minor parties, Labour + Green are on 43%.
That is a fairly big deal.
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Post by eri on Jun 22, 2022 8:12:03 GMT 12
In effect, National is promising to be a Labour government under new management. No matter how good the management, if the policy is flawed, it will fail.
A major reason why Labour's policies are failing is Labour is placing at the heart of government a radical and unworkable reinterpretation of the treaty as a partnership. Luxon says he also believes that the treaty "means partnership".
Luxon has tried to have it both ways. He has also said he does not believe tino rangatiratanga meant co-governance. But he is not opposed to co-governance on a local level just in national policies. Luxon then complains Labour has not explained what co-governance means.
National could set the agenda for the next election by explaining exactly what co-governance means.
Either the Treaty ceded sovereignty, protected property rights and gave everyone, MÄori and non-MÄori the same rights of citizenship, or the Treaty is an agreement to co-govern the country in partnership with a self-selected elite.
The Crown is everybody, MÄori and non-MÄori. It is totally unworkable to have MÄori on both sides of a partnership. Minister Willie Jackson says we have a new form of democracy where he negotiates in secret co-governance just with iwi leaders. Who represents the country?
When only half the partnership is accountable to the electorate, New Zealand is no longer a democratic country. Instead, one partner is like a New Zealand House of Lords with its only qualification being birth.
If National adopts Labour's reinterpretation of the Treaty as a partnership, then in government National will be just as paralysed as Labour. The Treaty zealots in the civil service will destroy the Government.
National's great boast was its claim to be the party for all New Zealanders regardless of class, race, religion or gender. Every previous National leader would reject the idea that Queen Victoria agreed to co-govern New Zealand in partnership with 500 odd MÄori chiefs.
Luxon believes that he can fudge the treaty issue. Jacinda Ardern avoids the issue too. Both Luxon and Ardern come from marketing backgrounds. He was a brand manager. Her degree is in public relations. They both believe it is the sizzle not the sausage that matters.
Marketing can win elections. It worked for Ardern twice. It has worked for Luxon in Tauranga. If the next election is just a battle of the brands National will win. National then just needs to agree the Treaty is a partnership and Luxon/Willis can lead a Labour-lite Government in coalition with Te PÄti MÄori.
If National wants to be a government that promotes free enterprise and personal responsibility then the party needs to issue policy that reflects these principles. A good place to start would be declaring that the Treaty settled sovereignty, protects property rights and establishes equality of citizenship.www.nzherald.co.nz/business/richard-prebble-national-can-win-but-can-it-govern/5DNIRUCGOXRRWSXHHBSUFGDITM/
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Post by eri on Jun 29, 2022 13:55:23 GMT 12
One tax idea Luxon is proposing is a policy from Act that the income tax thresholds should be adjusted for inflation.
It is a sensible proposal. If the thresholds are not adjusted eventually everyone who works will be in the top tax bracket.
Already people like school teachers and tradesmen are paying the top tax bracket.
I am sure the Treasury has already advised that the income tax brackets need revising.
The only reason Labour has revised the tax thresholds is so Jacinda Ardern can run her attack line that she uses every day in Parliament.
She keeps saying that National's tax proposals will give more money to MPs than to beneficiaries.
This is a criticism one can make of virtually every tax reform. It is hard to give tax relief to people who in effect pay no tax.
If National can resist changing leaders, issuing too much policy and keeping well away from divisive social issues, inflation will win them the next election.
Inflation is a government killer. Every time voters go to the supermarket, fill their cars' fuel tank or pay their mortgages, Labour's support slips away.
Last week with his captain's call to rule out abortion as an issue Christopher Luxon took a major step towards the ninth floor of the Beehive.
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/abortion-debate-richard-prebble-christopher-luxons-captains-call-ordering-simon-oconnor-to-delete-facebook-post/SKLFYLDFSZ4K6LOSB5646MTKPY/
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Post by eri on Jul 13, 2022 11:12:14 GMT 12
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Post by eri on Oct 11, 2022 13:09:55 GMT 12
from ACT's #2 "Could Labour decide to follow Joe Biden and write off existing student loan debt? They've done similar election bribes before.Could National try to cut taxes but not spending, leading to a massive deficit and a collapse in the currency? Nobody thought the UK Tories would do that, either, but they have, and the Nats have not produced an alternative Budget since the disaster of 2020's "fiscal hole".Neither of the above scenarios will happen. We no longer have a two-party system, so neither party will govern alone. In the case of Labour, reliant on the Greens, and possibly Te PÄti MÄori, things could be much worse. Both those other parties have ideas that make Truss look responsible.In the case of National, things look much safer. No poll in the past two years has shown National governing without needing Act for every vote.
Act is the only party that has produced a fully-costed alternative Budget. That alternative confronts reality while others are doing their best to wish it away.
There is a resource crunch all over the world - economic survival will require doing things better and smarter with less."
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/brooke-van-velden-what-liz-truss-led-economic-turmoil-in-uk-can-teach-nz/ITEIUTVEFWMTLUUGNZ2GGVUZAM/ |
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Post by eri on Oct 28, 2022 14:31:44 GMT 12
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Post by sloopjohnb on Oct 28, 2022 15:21:52 GMT 12
Has she actually answered any questions in the house?  |
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Post by eri on Nov 7, 2022 13:01:00 GMT 12
Seymour said Labour is ignoring the issues New Zealand is actually facing, such as crime, cost of living and a labour shortage.
"There is a cost of living crisis for five million Kiwis. Labour's big answer today is to help 10,000, when the need is felt by millions," the ACT leader said in a statement.
"If Ardern really wanted to help with childcare, she'd let more teachers into the country. Instead, by giving subsidies to a few, they'll push up prices for everyone else.
"Where were her solutions for the wider cost of living crisis? Where were her solutions for rising crime?"
www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/11/david-seymour-christopher-luxon-pan-jacinda-ardern-s-cost-of-living-package.html
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Post by eri on Nov 7, 2022 17:08:48 GMT 12
having ignored roads for 5 years but with an election in 12months and a crumbling country for all to seelabour now want to be seen to be doing something...... so it'll be orange cones blocking roads all over the country such a pity we ended up with such a hopeless bunch of "no-experience student radicals" out of their depth and sinking the country through willful ignorance a few million $ short
and 4 years too late www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/11/waka-kotahi-map-shows-roadworks-planned-on-majority-of-state-highways.htmlmeanwhile jacinda criticizes the banks for being too profitablebut refuses to condemn the criminals the public really want tamed for; killings, shootings, rapes, drug-dealing and theftshe's prime minster for the whole country not just the bits she feels most compassion about
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Post by eri on Nov 7, 2022 17:48:07 GMT 12
"Labour and the Greens have certainly shown enormous rhetorical dexterity in selling a better vision but at the end of the day government is a kind of service industry where you take a certain amount of tax and you need to deliver services that work in return.
"In so many areas, whether it's law and order, education or health, they've certainly done the taxing part but they haven't done the delivering part."
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Post by fish on Nov 7, 2022 18:59:04 GMT 12
Seymour said Labour is ignoring the issues New Zealand is actually facing, such as crime, cost of living and a labour shortage.
"There is a cost of living crisis for five million Kiwis. Labour's big answer today is to help 10,000, when the need is felt by millions," the ACT leader said in a statement.
"If Ardern really wanted to help with childcare, she'd let more teachers into the country. Instead, by giving subsidies to a few, they'll push up prices for everyone else.
"Where were her solutions for the wider cost of living crisis? Where were her solutions for rising crime?"
www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/11/david-seymour-christopher-luxon-pan-jacinda-ardern-s-cost-of-living-package.html I got a big ad on my FB that made me gag. It was a Labour ad saying they are making child care cheaper. Well that is wrong. They are not reducing the cost of child care, they are subsidising child care for a narrow band of select few. Subsidising isn't making cheaper. Reducing rules and operating costs is making cheaper. Subsidising is socialist re-distribution. Kind of like theft but with more administrative burden. Oh, and they say the money is going to the kids. Nope. The money is going to all the leeches that have set up exploitative child care business, the baby farm types, because there is very good money it it. Note, I'm not referring here to the legit owner operator types here. It is overall a very cheap policy that makes no systemic difference. Good for PR and fuck all else. |
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