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Post by fish on May 4, 2022 12:08:00 GMT 12
When I first read about there being no financial viability verification undertaken I couldn't believe what I was reading. Imagine trying to run a business like that. Good luck with the bank. That is nothing. FY 2021, core govt expenditure was $108 billion. There year it will be $127 billion. That is an 18% increase. Fuck knows what they spent it on, Wasn't on new cops, and wasn't a payrise for the nurses. Or teachers. Or any more teacher aids. Could any business increase their core expenditure by 18% in one year? |
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Post by fish on May 9, 2022 17:56:53 GMT 12
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Post by ComfortZone on May 11, 2022 20:31:53 GMT 12
release from David Seymour, sure hope he is correct. Note Stalinda is in hiding again this week
Three Waters dead in the water?
“Reports that Labour’s caucus has voted to abandon the co-governance aspect of Three Waters is a sign that New Zealand has seen right through their anti-democratic agenda,” says ACT Leader David Seymour.
“I brought the topic up in Parliament today and Labour MPs’ hysterical reactions from across the aisle confirmed what is going on.
“Labour’s MPs have read the electoral tealeaves and know their electorates will be telling them not to let the door hit them on the way out if they don’t change the policy. The Caucus has voted to change the policy and remove co-governance aspects in a desperate bid to hang on to their jobs in 2023.
“Three Waters was never about solving infrastructure problems, it’s about co-governance. New Zealanders realised this and they have wholly rejected the Government’s plan.
“All of the good political movements of the past 400 years have been about ending discrimination on the basis of race, religion, sex and sexuality to treat each person with the same dignity. We are the first country in history that’s achieved equal rights and has division as its official policy. It’s nuts.
“Labour has received a rude awakening that the jig is up and voters don’t want their antidemocratic ideology.
“ACT says every child born in New Zealand, and everyone legal immigrant, has the same rights. Those are the rights of a citizen. Nobody should get an extra say because of who their great grandparents were. Nobody should have to be treated differently because of who they are.”
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Post by fish on May 11, 2022 21:44:51 GMT 12
Seymour is doing some fantastic shit stirring. The response he got from Willie Jackson is absolute gold - Willie calls Seymour a 'Useless Maori'. The entire narrative around that is priceless. Seymour asked what the purpose of many of these race and gender specific ministries are, Jackson gives a personal insult. Seymour replies that Jackson had a chance to justify the benefit of Te Puna Korkory (ministry or Maori affairs) but couldn't say what they actually do, or why we should keep it... The bald white guy is sitting on the fence, doing fuck all. ACT is the primary opposition now. I rather suspect he is right on Labour dropping the Co-Governance thing. I've had random comments from random people about how pissed off they are with the Labour govt. People at work who wouldn't normally mention politics. I'm a little surprised at the depth of feeling coming out about this govt. And that is outside of the people I know that have been vaccine injured or lost their jobs due to Labour's stupid rules. The extra taxing and spending, the blatant PR spin. The PM hiding every time there is bad news. The complete lack of competence. The inability to deliver anything they said they would, and the advancement of co-governance in stealth. The fundamental disassembly of "one person, one vote". www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/05/m-ori-development-minister-willie-jackson-defends-calling-act-leader-david-seymour-a-useless-advocate-for-m-ori.htmlJackson yesterday made the comment about David Seymour, who is of Ngāpuhi descent, saying Seymour claimed to be Māori but "he's just a useless Māori, that's all". |
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Post by ComfortZone on May 11, 2022 22:45:00 GMT 12
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Post by ComfortZone on May 12, 2022 10:37:17 GMT 12
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Post by eri on May 13, 2022 8:20:06 GMT 12
from the above
All this has a wearying familiarity. Labour governments tend to come into office bursting with grand ideas but lacking the ministerial talent necessary to convert their missionary zeal into effective action. Their ambitions consistently outstrip their ability to deliver, resulting in reliance on obscurantist jargon and slogans (Powell cites the empty vow to end the “postcode lottery” in health care) and promiscuous spending binges as a substitute for good policy. Little, who should have been one of Labour’s more competent ministers, has turned out to be anything but.
When it’s plain to everyone except fervent true believers that the wheels are falling off, Labour collectively squeezes its eyes shut, crosses its fingers and hopes everything will magically turn out okay.
That’s what Mahuta and Little appear to be doing now, metaphorically speaking, and by the time voters are able to do anything it will be too late. The damage will have been done.
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Post by ComfortZone on May 15, 2022 10:07:52 GMT 12
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Post by GO30 on May 18, 2022 17:47:25 GMT 12
Holy crap, the family are like everywhere and milking it hard. |
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Post by ComfortZone on May 29, 2022 19:12:26 GMT 12
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Post by fish on May 29, 2022 20:03:52 GMT 12
I didn't realise it was legal to marry your first cousin. That is serious hill billy stuff. Wonder if she's had any children...? |
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Post by sloopjohnb on May 29, 2022 21:30:36 GMT 12
its known as "keeping it in the family"
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Post by eri on May 29, 2022 21:56:29 GMT 12
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Post by ComfortZone on May 31, 2022 23:52:53 GMT 12
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Post by eri on Jun 1, 2022 11:24:12 GMT 12
from there
the widespread assumption among Pakeha New Zealanders is that co-governance and representative democracy are fundamentally incompatible, Labour’s willingness to be presented as co-governance’s friend runs the risk of being cast as democracy’s enemy.
Of even greater concern is the inevitability of this anti-democratic characterisation being extended to an ever-increasing fraction of the Māori population.
Statements from Māori leaders appearing to discount the importance of, or even disparage, the principles of democracy
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