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Post by eri on Dec 1, 2022 11:51:05 GMT 12
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Post by fish on Dec 1, 2022 12:33:20 GMT 12
So, the whole problem is kids in stolen cars. And the govt wants to target licensed drivers who own cars? Of course.
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Post by eri on Dec 6, 2022 7:58:14 GMT 12
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Post by armchairadmiral on Dec 6, 2022 14:31:42 GMT 12
Proves how stupid voters can be. In the face of this govt absolute incompetence and dishonesty how anyone cannot see beats me. Same goes for greens who are not an environmental movement and NZ1 who caused all this ? NZers can't be trusted with democracy !
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Post by DuckMaster on Dec 6, 2022 17:58:53 GMT 12
Proves how stupid voters can be. In the face of this govt absolute incompetence and dishonesty how anyone cannot see beats me. Same goes for greens who are not an environmental movement and NZ1 who caused all this ? NZers can't be trusted with democracy ! I don't understand? Which result are you referring to here?
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Post by fish on Dec 6, 2022 21:11:58 GMT 12
Proves how stupid voters can be. In the face of this govt absolute incompetence and dishonesty how anyone cannot see beats me. Same goes for greens who are not an environmental movement and NZ1 who caused all this ? NZers can't be trusted with democracy ! That is a very ignorant comment armchair. It sounds like you are getting a bit blinkered. There are many groups that have a lot to be thankful for this Labour Gvt for. 1) Prisoners. Kelvin Davis is letting them all out. 2) Pfizer shareholders. 3) Cultural advisers, never had so much work, Willie Jackson is paying them $6k/week, when everyone knows the going rates is $2.5k 4) Criminals. Never had it easier 5) Tribal elite. If they can pull this off, they'll never have to lift a finger, again, ever. 6) Wellington based bureaucrats. Their numbers have increased by 50% since 2017, bigger pond, bigger salaries 7) Constitutional law experts. They are so damn boring, but all of a sudden everyone wants to interview them and put them on the 6 o'clock news 8) the gullible, who believe or the spin from the 9th floor. I'm sure there are many more sections of society that think this govt is great. Just because you want to actually generate wealth, earn a living or be responsible for yourself doesn't mean everyone holds those same views. Get over it man.
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Post by DuckMaster on Dec 6, 2022 21:25:09 GMT 12
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2022 6:23:21 GMT 12
Delivered the largest ever Police workforce to keep communities safer??still cant find one when needed
Cut fuel tax and introduced half-price public transport fares, as the war in Ukraine drives up fuel prices globally,tempary
Taking action to ensure New Zealanders get a fair deal at the supermarket?really
Upgraded roads, schools and hospitals through the New Zealand Upgrade Programme,which rds or hospitals?
Introduced the Families Package, the biggest boost in household income in a decade for thousands of families,im not entitled so my taxes should be reduced
Invested in vital infrastructure like pipes and roads needed to jump start housing developments, to get more homes built faster,no houses are putting septic tanks
Biggest load of lies I have ever read by the Labour Party.
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Post by muzled on Dec 7, 2022 6:51:50 GMT 12
Interesting. As a previous left leaning voter who will never ever vote left again because they've proved utterly devious and untrusworthy, I've often challenged myself to come up with 5 good things that Labour have done (mainly because I wanted them to do well). I always find it a struggle, and when I ask others they also stuggle but there is some good stuff in there. The forgeign buyer ban was a good start and filled me with hope they'd get lots of shit done after doing what Sir Juan Key said that ban was impossible for many years. Extended paid parental leave from 18 to 26 weeks. That's excellent, it's also nice they've put it in there twice. Sums the party up nicely actually. Duplicitous.... Permanently halved the price of public transport for Community Service CardholdersIntroduced our Healthy Homes Standards, to ensure all rentals are safe, warm and dry. Excellent, we should have had that years ago. Although I think it was a Green initiative not Lab. This seems a stretch at best! - Invested significantly in rail, public transport and walking and cycling infrastructureDidn't know this, excellent - Rolled out the National Bowel Screening Programme to the whole countryExtended the bright-line test to 10 years, to crackdown on speculators and tilt the balance towards first home buyers. Excellent, we should be buying a house to live in not to rip off the next buyer. Then holy shit, they're proud of this one! Led the Christchurch Call, working internationally to eliminate extremist content online. That's JA starting The Disinformation Project, the one that wants to curtail free speech. That's the one where she stood up at the UN and said dissinformation is the biggest threat to society and we need more monitoring of what his happening online. Don't even start me on Kate Hannah who choses who she will and won't talk to. And def don't get me started on having an extremist like Joanna Kidman running the National Centre of Research Excellence for Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism, that women is a walking freak show. Check the first two tweets out in this article - www.thedailyexaminer.co.nz/who-is-joanna-kidman/ And that is where I stop reading their blurb. Labour seem to have become all about group obedience and 'we know best so you shall comply'. But don't go thinking the blue team will be any better, they're just a different cup of cold sick imo.
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Post by ComfortZone on Dec 8, 2022 11:14:31 GMT 12
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Post by ComfortZone on Dec 9, 2022 8:55:29 GMT 12
Chris Trotter's latest on the inept government bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2022/12/jacindas-manic-ministry.htmlhis closing paragraphs Only Labour’s steady decline in the opinion polls offers the slightest hope that the almost manic quality of its parliamentarians’ behaviour might be recognised for what it so clearly is: electorally suicidal. If not, then Roger Hall’s description of the Labour Party in his 1977 stage play, Middle Age Spread, may yet be applied to the bizarre mixture of febrility and fortitude that characterised Jacinda Ardern’s manic ministry: Honestly the Labour Party remind me of a documentary I saw on television about sleeping sickness. All these people who’d been half asleep for twenty years were given this new wonder drug and they all came alive and sang and danced around for a bit … and then the drug wore off and Zap! Back to sleep for another twenty years.
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Post by ComfortZone on Dec 11, 2022 13:24:50 GMT 12
as always, a thoughtful opinion piece from Karl du Fresne karldufresne.blogspot.com/2022/12/why-social-cohesion-should-be-no-make.htmlquoting a key section Almost as disturbingly, a status-conscious, consumerist culture celebrates conspicuous, ostentatious displays of wealth – in everything from clothes to food, cars and houses – in a way that was unthinkable 50 years ago. I find it hard to reconcile this new New Zealand with the country I grew up in. But economic inequality is only one contributor to the worrying decline in social cohesion that Edwards wrote about this week. At least equally insidious, although far harder to measure, is the pernicious effect of identity politics. This encourages us to think of ourselves not as a community with shared interests, values and aspirations but as a collection of minority groups with disparate and often conflicting goals. Identity politics promotes a neo-Marxist view of society as inherently divided between the privileged – for which read white and male – and a plethora of aggrieved groups struggling against oppression and disadvantage. These include women (even though they make up half of Parliament and occupy the country’s three most powerful positions), Maori, immigrant communities, religious minorities, people with disabilities or illnesses (including some that are avoidable, such as obesity) and those asserting non-mainstream sexual identities. We are told these perceived disadvantages are the result of structural imbalances of power that can be remedied only by a radical reconstruction of society. It’s effectively a zero-sum game in which power must be transferred from those who are perceived as having it to those who feel excluded. This creates conditions in which society runs the risk of going to war with itself.
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Post by eri on Dec 11, 2022 17:45:01 GMT 12
ouch! karl rips them a new one
What I resent is the disproportionate influence wielded in New Zealand affairs by vociferous, highly assertive relative newcomers – in academia, the bureaucracy and politics – who see New Zealand as a perfect ideological blank space on which they can leave their imprint. I suspect they can’t believe their luck in stumbling on a country with a population that’s either too passive, too naive or simply too distracted by other things – jobs, mortgages, sport, bringing up kids – to realise their country is being messed with. We have always been suckers for articulate, confident voices from overseas; it’s part of our national inferiority complex.
The news media’s role in all this upheaval should not be underestimated. Social division has been promoted and magnified, deliberately or otherwise, by media outlets that relentlessly focus on issues that highlight perceived differences and supposed inequities.
The mainstream news media formerly served as an important agent of social cohesion by providing a public space in which issues could be civilly explored and debated.
They have largely abandoned that role in favour of one where they constantly promote ideological agendas and hector readers, viewers and listeners with their own radical, unmandated vision of what New Zealand should be like.
In the process they have alienated much of their core audience, betrayed their trust and driven them to online channels that serve only to accentuate, and in some cases exploit, the deepening stress fractures in New Zealand society.
The result is that what was previously a unified and, by world standards, generally contented country is now a sour, rancorous babel of competing voices. Distrust, fear, resentment and sullen anger have displaced the broad consensus that sustained New Zealand for decades regardless of which political party was in power. Where all this could lead is impossible to say and frightening to contemplate.
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Post by ComfortZone on Dec 13, 2022 8:08:45 GMT 12
Dr Muriel Newman hits the nail on the head thebfd.co.nz/2022/12/13/if-labour-was-a-horse-it-would-be-off-to-the-glue-factory/some excerpts Labour seems to lack the ability to do even the basics well. This is exemplified by the fact that New Zealand’s cost-of-living crisis is largely of their own making.
Then there’s the disaster of falling education standards and rising truancy rates, the escalating crime wave, the crisis in health care, the increasing homelessness and poverty, a seeming inability to address the country’s critical shortage of workers – and so it goes on. Almost every area of government touched by Jacinda Ardern’s administration has failed. In addition, major reforms have been undertaken to benefit iwi leaders without any mandate from voters – as the Three Waters debacle shows only too clearly. They lied to councils that the scheme was optional when it was always going to be compulsory. They claimed councils would still own their assets while confiscating them without compensation. They promised massive consumer savings that will never materialise. They used a model that independent analysis exposed as faulty. They engaged in an unconstitutional attempt to entrench policy to bind future Parliaments. And they failed to disclose to the public that the primary objective of the reforms is passing control of all water in New Zealand – freshwater, stormwater, wastewater, coastal water, and geothermal water – to Maori tribal leaders. Only Labour voted in favour of the Bill – all other parties were opposed. And now two more Three Waters bills have been tabled – the Water Services Legislation Bill HERE to transfer assets from local authorities to the Water Services Entities, and the Water Services Economic Efficiency and Consumer Protection Bill HERE to establish an economic regulator. More significantly, Three Waters has exposed the fact that New Zealand is now being co-governed by Maori. Nanaia Mahuta has assumed the mantle of a de-facto Prime Minister, blatantly flaunting Cabinet rules and acting as a law unto herself as she pursues her legacy project of delivering control of New Zealand’s water – along with all the financial benefits that will flow – to iwi, including to her own Tainui tribe.The scale of this transfer of power and wealth through co-governance is eye-watering. It amounts to an effective mass privatisation of key New Zealand assets, as control is stripped from the public and passed into the hands of some of the biggest private businesses in the country. Instead of elected officials being in charge and acting in the public interest, unaccountable tribal representatives will be driven by self-interest.But after two years of the Ardern Government, we have now learned that they have no respect for New Zealand’s core values of freedom and democracy. With their jack boots, they have trampled over our traditional culture as they attempt to divide our society and crush our spirit.
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Post by ComfortZone on Dec 13, 2022 10:47:25 GMT 12
from Kiwiblog
Six Labour MPs rats flee sinking ship Stuff reports:
Cabinet Ministers Poto Williams, David Clark, and Aupito William Sio will retire from politics at the 2023 election. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the resignations on Tuesday morning. Stuff reported last week Clark was expected to resign, and Ardern had forecast other ministers would be headed out the door in the coming year. MPs Jamie Strange, Marja Lubeck((no loss to see her go), and Paul Eagle would also resign at the 2023 election. Eagle, the MP for Wellington electorate Rongotai, recently ran for the city’s mayoralty but was unsuccessful. Clark will be a bit of a loss to Labour. He didn’t do well in health (but Little is making him look better every day) but was competent in other portfolios. Nonsense, stuffed up everything he touched The real surprise is Jamie Strange as he is a first term electorate MP. I can’t recall the last time an electorate MP retired (as in voluntarily, not due to scandal) after one term, but he is honest about it: Strange, speaking to Stuff about his resignation on Tuesday, said he was “better suited for government than opposition if you look at my personality type, so it was good timing for me coming into government” That is an extraordinary thing to say, as it is all but an admission that he doesn’t not expect Labour to win. No doubt he also looked at the result of the Hamilton West by-election and figured that he has a fair chance of losing his seat and is unlikely to be given a winnable list place. This is probably not the last announcement of retirements. I expect at least one more, and you may also have some senior MPs go list only, so they can bail after the election without causing a by-election.
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