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Post by eri on Dec 13, 2022 12:44:31 GMT 12
like english's national party
if they lose the election there'll be a flood of senior mps leaving
as labour try to work out how long it will take for the electorate to forgive them over the massive bait'n'switch they've tried to pull
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Post by eri on Dec 13, 2022 14:04:16 GMT 12
The latest Taxpayers’ Union-Curia Poll has National extend its lead over Labour, rising one point on last month’s poll to 39 per cent, while Labour fell two points to 33 per cent.
Those results are the equal highest for National and the equal lowest for Labour since the poll began in April last year.
The Act Party was steady on 10 per cent and the Green were steady on 8 per cent.
Te Pāti Māori and NZ First were on 3.5 per cent and 2.9 per cent respectively.
Those numbers would give National 51 seats and Act 13 - enough to form a Government.
Labour would lose 22 seats, falling to 42 while the Greens would have 10. Te Pāti Māori would get 4 seats provided it won an electorate seat.
Christopher Luxon has also closed the favourability gap with Jacinda Ardernwww.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/national-and-act-in-government-on-latest-poll/GQ3QPZBNUJAQRKEEFDXAUPMW6I/... seems the halo's getting a little tight as her head swells Seymour had been asking Ardern a series of questions relating to senior Labour MP Nanaia Mahuta’s performance, hate speech reforms and other policies.
After answering, as Ardern takes her seat, she can be heard saying to Grant Robertson, who sits beside her: “Such an arrogant prick.”
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Post by eri on Dec 14, 2022 13:17:51 GMT 12
Their only good news is Ardern is polling ahead of Luxon. Her polling is falling, his is rising. The gap is just six per cent.
As the Opposition leader gets more equal coverage in election year his support will rise. Voters already think Luxon is more economically competent. Hamilton West confirmed he can campaign. She cannot. Ardern is electorally toxic. Next year Luxon will overtake Ardern as preferred PM.
When both the leader and the party trail in the polls they go on to lose the election.www.nzherald.co.nz/business/richard-prebble-what-we-learned-from-hamilton-west-election/UOICCKB6RFCXNCYYZWXTWXH24E/
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Post by eri on Dec 16, 2022 18:22:26 GMT 12
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Post by eri on Dec 17, 2022 11:42:56 GMT 12
There is no doubt that distraction is a major enemy of productivity
The end of a year gives us the opportunity to review what’s happened in the 12 months just gone, and to look forward to what might happen in the year ahead. In doing so, I find myself lamenting the state of most of the things that we once took for granted. To me this will be remembered as the year that this appalling, tyrannical and racist Government got found out.
As I’ve observed the efforts of our Government over the last couple of years, I’ve seen a group of people who are distracted by things that are less important to the needs of the country and its people, instead of focusing on the tough stuff that we need to get on with.
Those distractions include a desire to be seen leading on the international stage. Some call it virtue signalling. Taking a position on climate change or cracking down on freedom of speech, and the global headlines that go with it. We seem to be fixated on ideology, historical grievances, and even mythology. All leading to an apparent desire to change the way we do things.
As a result, it’s the year that we finally lost trust in many of our core institutions. These include our belief that the health system, our education institutions, our police and indeed our government, were actually there to help us and to carry out a set of initiatives and obligations that are designed to help us become better.
As a result of 2022, we should be questioning the performance of our key institutions such as the Reserve Bank and the Supreme Court.
our heroes of the year are our farmers. They continue to grow food more sustainably than ever, and are more environmentally friendly than any of their overseas counterparts.
www.nzherald.co.nz/business/govt-has-fiddled-as-big-issues-festered/BZO75VPRJ5A2XIBZWY3ZP6SG7M/
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Post by ComfortZone on Dec 19, 2022 7:29:31 GMT 12
thebfd.co.nz/2022/12/19/welcome-to-the-new-normal/a few quotes This past weekend has been an absolute shocker. This Government clearly has no idea what they are about and the police have even fewer clues. Here are four headlines from Saturday....
We now have all the trappings of a sad, angry, little third-world nation, bordering on a banana republic, but without the bananas. We have the endemic violent crime, a corrupted media, a next-to-useless police force more intent on hounding fit and proper persons and ignoring the criminal classes, corrupt officials filling their pockets with taxpayer funds, nepotism and cronyism, graft, bribery and astonishing systemic incompetence in the civil service.
Instead of focusing on fixing things, her Government headed us down the path of racial separatism, state control of almost everything and creating an even more divisive society.
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Post by ComfortZone on Dec 21, 2022 9:24:11 GMT 12
Chris Trotter reflecting on 2022 and looking ahead to 2023 bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2022/12/a-new-government-but-no-change-in-2023.htmlcouple of excerpts: A Distinction Without A Difference: Labour is likely to lose next year’s election because it has become little more than New Zealand’s alternate governing party. New Zealanders lucky enough to live in their nation’s comfort zones will turn to Labour when National appears to have exhausted itself, and to National when Labour fails to impress. The only task which mainstream voters set themselves is determining which of National or Labour is more likely to administer the status quo efficiently and effectively.I would be remiss, however, not to reference to the most jarring political event experienced by New Zealanders in 2022 – the occupation of Parliament Grounds. The full significance of this episode has only become clear with the benefit of hindsight. It intensified a prejudice against ordinary New Zealanders that, already strong, has since become a badge-of-honour among a distressingly large percentage of the political class. Before the Occupation, ignoring the wishes of the Great Unwashed could still elicit feelings of unease among “progressive” MPs. After the Occupation it became a positive duty.
How else to explain the outpouring of official concern at the amount of misinformation and disinformation coursing through the veins of the body politic. So swollen had these “rivers of filth” become that the Security Intelligence Service was prevailed upon to issue a booklet identifying the tell-tale signs of potentially lethal radicalisation in the boy next door. Concerned citizens were even given a number to call. 0800-STASI perhaps? It was all of a piece, however, with the melodramatic “Fire and Fury” documentary produced by Stuff’s Paula Penfold. In it, the time-honoured traditions of journalistic balance were jettisoned in favour of journalism which travelled in (if not at) the direction of the Government.
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Post by eri on Dec 27, 2022 20:28:36 GMT 12
There is never a bad time to sack a poor minister.The firing of Poto Williams who was struggling as Police minister is a case in point. What matters is not whether a minister is retiring but whether the minister is up to the job.Here is the problem. Reshuffling the responsibilities of junior ministers like the Minister for the Community and Voluntary sector, who is Priyanca Radhakrishnan, will not change anything. She is not responsible for Labour’s low polling. She can’t be. She has done nothing.Jacinda Ardern is not going to sack the senior ministers who are responsible for inflation, runaway government expenditure, rising crime and co-governance.
We the voters will have to do a real cabinet reshuffle by sacking them all.www.nzherald.co.nz/business/richard-prebble-shuffling-the-deck-chairs-but-ministers-responsible-for-worst-problems-likely-to-stay-put/2274IY454ZHY5C5MSZXH5PSYFU/
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Post by ComfortZone on Dec 28, 2022 8:24:28 GMT 12
most open and transparent government ever, yeah right! More of the same BS. Just like hiding He Poohy poohy in 2020 From Kiwiblog Govt decides to keeps it co-governance plans secret until after the electionNewsroom reports: www.newsroom.co.nz/co-governance-plan-kicked-down-the-road-to-2024 The Cabinet agreed on Monday that ministers wouldn’t receive any further reports on developing a draft plan in response to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples until 2024, Newsroom can reveal.
This doesn’t mean they do not plan to proceed, it just means they want to wait until after the election before they star up again. We already know they are in favour of giving people on the general roll only 39% of the vote of people on the Maori roll. We already know they are in favour of having unelected representatives on local Councils having the same vote as elected Councillors. The only way to safeguard equality of suffrage in New Zealand, will be to vote the Government out.
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Post by DuckMaster on Dec 28, 2022 10:40:07 GMT 12
The Cabinet agreed on Monday that ministers wouldn’t receive any further reports on developing a draft plan in response to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples until 2024, Newsroom can reveal.
National also have not released their plans for how they are going to honor UNDRIP - which is an even a worse position, given they signed the country up to it. We already know they are in favour of giving people on the general roll only 39% of the vote of people on the Maori roll. We already know they are in favour of having unelected representatives on local Councils having the same vote as elected Councillors. Where do you get this from?
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Post by armchairadmiral on Dec 28, 2022 12:12:55 GMT 12
Yep. That's what I mean from previous posts. Labour Govts are devious ;(Kirk Lange,Clark Bimbo) they have very clever back room stategists who weave legislation so cunningly that a change of govt results in very little change. Nats rarely have the guts to upset an applecart that 80% of voters have got used too. To most of those voters they are just so relieved to be shod of a nanny state govt. ( e.g.dictating light bulbs) that they don't look any further. Marry are now in control and very unfortunately it's only a chosen few. Some ordinary maori have told me they aren't happy with whats going on in that grass roots don't see any change. Nats won't change that.Just look at the Key govt. prostituting themselves to accommodate marry party to stay in power. Lot of good that did for R T Rower
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Post by ComfortZone on Dec 28, 2022 12:24:07 GMT 12
The Cabinet agreed on Monday that ministers wouldn’t receive any further reports on developing a draft plan in response to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples until 2024, Newsroom can reveal.
National also have not released their plans for how they are going to honor UNDRIP - which is an even a worse position, given they signed the country up to it. We already know they are in favour of giving people on the general roll only 39% of the vote of people on the Maori roll. We already know they are in favour of having unelected representatives on local Councils having the same vote as elected Councillors. Where do you get this from? UNDRIP does not require any of Labour's Co -governance nonsense particularly as Maori are not indigenous to New Zealand Its the quote from Kiwiblog, that's why it's in ItalicsGo do some research on the way the government is trying to force the introduction of Maori wards on councils and other authorities with appointed members, eg Nga Tahu get seats on EnviroCan
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Post by OLD ROPE 👀 on Dec 28, 2022 12:50:44 GMT 12
National also have not released their plans for how they are going to honor UNDRIP - which is an even a worse position, given they signed the country up to it. Where do you get this from? UNDRIP does not require any of Labour's Co -governance nonsense particularly as Maori are not indigenous to New Zealand Its the quote from Kiwiblog, that's why it's in ItalicsGo do some research on the way the government is trying to force the introduction of Maori wards on councils and other authorities with appointed members, eg Nga Tahu get seats on EnviroCan and give yourself an upper cut while you're there. Bloody Jacinda lover!
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Post by OLD ROPE 👀 on Dec 28, 2022 12:53:09 GMT 12
National also have not released their plans for how they are going to honor UNDRIP - which is an even a worse position, given they signed the country up to it. Where do you get this from? UNDRIP does not require any of Labour's Co -governance nonsense particularly as Maori are not indigenous to New Zealand Its the quote from Kiwiblog, that's why it's in ItalicsGo do some research on the way the government is trying to force the introduction of Maori wards on councils and other authorities with appointed members, eg Nga Tahu get seats on EnviroCan and give yourself an upper cut while you're there. Bloody Jacinda lover!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2022 15:51:03 GMT 12
UNDRIP does not require any of Labour's Co -governance nonsense particularly as Maori are not indigenous to New Zealand Its the quote from Kiwiblog, that's why it's in ItalicsGo do some research on the way the government is trying to force the introduction of Maori wards on councils and other authorities with appointed members, eg Nga Tahu get seats on EnviroCan and give yourself an upper cut while you're there. Bloody Jacinda lover! Speaking to number of people(randoms in shops) and they fear horseface will get back in as baldy has offered nothing and puppet mouth Seymour saying right things then contradicts himself. So who do you vote for?? not a lot of confidence out there.
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