About
Contact
Advertise

Facebook
Twitter

November 3, 2022 8:00am by Kokila Patel

General Debate 03 November 2022

Like this:

Like Loading…

Email
Facebook
Twitter
Comment290

Uncategorized
General Debate

Comments (290)

Login to comment or vote

Yvette

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has confirmed that public consultation on co-governance with Māori will begin later in 2022.
“Phase one of consultation is going out to all New Zealanders and that’ll be happening over the course of this year,” Ardern said [March 29, 2022]
… Jackson said. “I will then report back to Cabinet mid-year with the draft Declaration Plan for approval before embarking on a wider (full) public consultation process on the draft Declaration Plan.”
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/03/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-confirms-public-consultation-on-m-ori-co-governance-will-happen-in-2022.html

Some tribal leaders meeting in Taupō are slamming a proposal by three mayors to replace the Government’s Three Waters plan.
The National Iwi Leaders Chairs Forum in Taupō. Seventy iwi members who’ve come together to tackle various issues, including the call by the mayors of Auckland, Christchurch and Waimakariri to replace Three Waters with a new plan – which hasn’t been received well.
“I don’t know which world they belong to, this is 2022 Aotearoa New Zealand, this is about partnership,” Waikato-Tainui chairperson Tukoroirangi Morgan said.
… “We will never be denied, we will never go silently in the night, our voice must be heard at the table and we must take our place, end of story,” Morgan said.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/11/tribal-leaders-slam-mayors-three-waters-replacement-plan.html

■ So far the “wider (full) public consultation process on the draft Declaration Plan” is starting to look like the “nation-wide ‘conversation” that we didn’t have on the Capital Gains Tax” where Ardern’s Labour Government never stated a clear position to really discuss. So media and “interested other parties” filled the void, for a few frantic weeks, and then Ardern decided she had no mandate, from Parliamentary Parties or general New Zealanders, and kicked Capital Gains Tax out of the ball-park for as long as she is in it.

■ So, with Tukoroirangi Morgan demanding to be heard, “we will never go silently in the night”, many ordinary New Zealanders will not want to do that – go silently – either.
Jacinda needs to send Willie Jackson out with a precise definition of “co-governance”, and do it soon already.

■ Some have started the “conversation” without Jacinda –
Tuku Morgan (Waikato Tainui), is a member of the Three Waters working group who in March dismissed claims that Māori would own the country’s water infrastructure under the reforms. “There is a view being promoted by some of the councillors around the country that this is a Māori grab for power, that we are interested in owning these water assets,” he told 1News. “It’s absolute nonsense. We have always said, that we’re not interested in owning the water assets. What we’re interested in is the proprietor rights over water, and that is a discussion to be had with the Crown, not with councils.”  www.1news.co.nz/2022/04/29/iwi-involvement-aims-to-further-safeguard-water-assets-robertson/

■ … “I don’t see it as the final destination. I don’t see co-governance as the answer. But I think it’s the next bus stop in a journey that has to be made. It’s everyone’s journey. It’s like gravity, you can’t defy it. It’s on its way.” – Tāmati Kruger (Taneatua), the chairperson of Tūhoe Te Uru Taumatua and was the tribe’s Chief Negotiator for the 2014 Treaty settlement … [in which] … the former Te Urewera National Park was returned to Tūhoe to run in partnership with the Department of Conservation.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/04/09/co-governance-tuhoe-on-what-is-and-isnt-working-in-te-urewera/

■ “Personally, I believe you don’t need two systems to deliver public services, you need a single system that has enough innovation to target for people on the basis of need.’’ – Luxon
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/co-governance-firmly-on-top-of-political-agenda

It will be very interesting to see how Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern defines “Co-governance”.
And this time it will have to be a bit more substantial than “When you see it, you will know it”.
By the time you see “co-governance” it may be a little late, depending on your view of it.

And if “co-governance” is the next bus stop in a journey that has to be made, what is the real destination, and can Ardern confirm and define that as well?
80 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 8:05am
- Tricati
  
  Clearly the mayors have struck a nerve, and the subversive agenda of Mahuta et:al is being exposed and those pushing this secretive agenda are spitting the dummy.
  If anyone can pin Ardern down, she needs to explain in simple language what her view of co-governance is. There seems to be numerous distractions appearing, but I get the sense wider public interest is growing and people aren’t happy so pressure going to rise on Ardern, Robertson and Mahuta.
  
  75 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:17am
  - rouppe
    
    Like hate speech you’ll know it when you see it //
    
    66 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 8:26am
    - slightlyrighty
      
      I regret that I can only give One uptick for that one!
      
      35 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 9:09am
      - Don Beckett
        
        No-on e Owns Water. It’s time for a nationwide campaign stating that “NO-ONE OWNS WATER”
        These radical Maori claim that they own the water in the lakes & rivers because the riverbeds of a couple of rivers have been given over to them, which should never have happened.
        
        NO-ONE OWNS THE WATER. lOUD & CLEAR.
        
        47 0
        Report
        November 3, 2022 10:12am
      - Albert_Ross
        
        “No one owns water” is simple and powerful, but not actually very helpful. Ownership establishes rights and responsibilities which cannot be assigned to “no one”. Somebody’s got to decide who’s allowed to use it and under what terms, who has to keep it clean, stop it doing damage, who can move it from here to there, for what purposes and under what conditions, who can add other substances to it, how much and when, etc etc etc. These are not roles for which “NO ONE” is a credible candidate.
        
        2 17
        Report
        November 3, 2022 10:53am
      - Tony Stuart
        
        John Key, February 2012 – “No one owns water”
        
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/key-on-waitangi-claim-no-one-owns-water/W2J2MKAIP5QLXNGSVRUV2JVMIU/
        
        11 0
        Report
        November 3, 2022 2:04pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      No sarc, she said that
      
      12 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 9:53am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    In Ardern’s mind she has explained everything – she has stated that democracy needs to become more sophisticated.
    
    What more needs to be said?
    
    45 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 8:51am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      What she means is ̶d̶e̶m̶o̶c̶r̶a̶c̶y̶ socialism needs to become more sophisticated.
      
      8 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 4:21pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Ardern – simple language?
    Like that’s going to work sure!
    
    21 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 9:52am
- RockyJ
  
  We are being assured by politicians on the left, academics et al that we have nothing to fear from cogovernance. Also that if we fear it it’s because we don’t understand it.
  
  When we get an explanation on what it is we are fobbed off with platitudes like “it’s about sharing power, or, collaboration, or, consensus”.
  
  Ardern will not define it because she knows the uproar would become deafening.
  
  At the beginning of this year she asked “what is wrong with cogovernance?” She must live in a bubble. Usually in the absence of truth people will invent fiction. In the case of cogovernance the truth will be stranger and more alarming than fiction could ever be.
  
  56 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:26am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Thanks to Mr Robertson and his constant handouts, NZ Inc will run out of money long before Ms Ardern can cobble together a plan for co-governance consultation – let alone actually doing something to achieve it.
    
    24 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 8:46am
    - Paulus
      
      Nah, Robbo will just print more money.
      QED
      
      13 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 9:16am
  - david
    
    One could say as a dispassionate observer, that the Labour Party and current Government are both experiencing co-governance with regard to their own affairs.
    How is that working out for them? (and us)
    We see disfunction and contradiction on a daily basis, re-definition of what is “proper” constantly, inability to deliver even on earnest promises and forcing on the population of things never promised, campaigned on or even mentioned. We see the nations financial base under threat, its export industries being savaged, future energy security options put aside for spurious reasons (but personal gain appears the most likely) and vast sums of future wealth being squandered and misappropriated.
    Crisis is too small a word to use but it is the best one that fits.
    
    18 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 11:25am
  - Rusty
    
    RockyJ – If Jacindas reply is “what’s wrong with co-governance?” then someone should ask her “whats wrong with co-governance with the National party?”
    
    I wonder what her answer to that would be?
    
    13 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 1:35pm
    - Nickc2
      
      Good call!!!
      
      7 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 1:52pm
    - RockyJ
      
      I have wondered if the Labour caucus is run on a cogovernance basis or if big decisions are made by a vote. Any bets?
      
      8 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 2:34pm
- Stellaboxer
  
  Will the last person to leave NZ please blow the candles out.
  
  23 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:38am
- Mobile Michael
  
  We have co-governance. It’s one person, one vote. So our Parliament is charged with representing all New Zealanders.
  
  New Zealand also has guaranteed representation for Maori in Parliament through the 7 Maori seats.
  
  46 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:48am
  - kowtow
    
    With universal franchise and MMP those seats are an outdated , colonial relic ,and we all know that all things colonial must be cancelled , innit .
    
    30 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 9:44am
- Sofia
  
  “Co-governance” is simply not in the Treaty of Waitangi.
  
  And, on a much more minor level, nor is the word “Aotearoa” which in the nation’s so-called “living document” would be something you could expect.
  
  50 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:53am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    I have searched my memory but can’t seem to recall any mention of co governance in the run up to the last or any other election. Come to think of it I can’t recall any mention of three waters or the Māori health authority and their veto. I do recall the PM stating that she had no policies because it was a Covid election and I also recall her saying that she hadn’t seen or read the He puapua document. You don’t think she’s a liar do you? I mean surely she wouldn’t deceive the New Zealand public and take advantage of the trust placed in her government during a pandemic to ram through policies that would render her unelectable? I’m Confused.
    
    53 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 9:13am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I don’t think our PM has many clues as to the power-grab that is unfolding on her watch.
      
      She’s not the brightest button; she has bugga-all knowledge of Te ao Maori, let alone the Maori Political and Financial powerbases.
      
      She’s been a gift to the Waikato-Tainui-Auckland Urban Maori elite…. They’ve used her as a smokescreen to effect a political and financial takeover of numerous entities in NZ.
      
      49 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 9:33am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I guess you have been reading my comments regarding Co-Governance.
        
        14 1
        Report
        November 3, 2022 10:05am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Jaspinda knows she is going to lose badly in 2023.
      She wants an “out” to deflect blame. That ‘out’ is Co-Governance, and 3 Waters, something she has no control over
      
      16 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 10:03am
    - RockyJ
      
      To be fair to Ardern I have tried to read He Puapua and it is truly awful. A mish mash of gobbledygook, charts, sections and waffle.
      
      23 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 11:18am
      - Nickc2
        
        I agree. I read it and it seemed like it had been written by a bunch of Kindy Kids who had graduated directly to Uni having mastered a few words of Te Reo.
        IMO, it’s BS founded on BS.
        
        17 0
        Report
        November 3, 2022 1:59pm
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        I got to about page 10.
        Nonsense trying to educate you and brainwash you.
        
        8 0
        Report
        November 3, 2022 4:28pm
    - Groggy
      
      Flip that around, did John Key mention increasing GST in the leadup to his election victory? My recollection (backed by a google search) is that he explicitly ruled it out as tax cuts, not increases were on the agenda. So was he also a liar and deceiver? Or just a politician. They ALL lie or at best omit to tell the full story then backflip once they have the cabinet benches. it goes with the territory. You just need to open both eyes (lol on this Blog) to see that it’s not a left or right issue, it’s just how politics is done.
      
      2 12
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 2:15pm
      - Sarkozygroupie
        
        You are being disingenuous or you don’t understand.
        
        The GST increase was simply a way to more fairly distribute the tax take across society. Income tax rates were reduced commensurately to make the GST increase revenue neutral.
        
        It was a move designed to stop punishing those who had achieved higher salaries through hard work, often personal financial risk and effort.
        
        13 1
        Report
        November 3, 2022 3:42pm
      - Groggy
        
        Apologies Sarkozygroupie I reported you by accident as there is no reply button on a reply. Lol. Who is being disingenuous? And clearly the point went way over your head,
        
        [from 2008] “Mr Key’s response to the question was: “National is not going to be raising GST. National wants to cut taxes not raise taxes. We acknowledge the point [made], which is that there is a decade of deficits facing New Zealand. But that comes back to our core point …the fastest way to eliminate those deficits and get New Zealand back into surplus is to get New Zealand growing again.”
        
        Mr Key went on to say that if a National government was doing “a half decent job” it wouldn’t need to either raise GST or raise taxes.”
        
        no mention of redistribution at any stage PRIOR to the election – which is the point. The reasons trotted out for changing tack are irrelevant, the point is that all politicians lie. It happens every time they move their lips.
        
        1 5
        Report
        November 3, 2022 5:31pm
  - kowtow
    
    Nor is partnership.
    
    18 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 9:44am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    3 Articles. Anything after those 3 Articles are just fairy tales – made up shit.
    
    25 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 9:58am
  - virtualmark
    
    A form of co-governance is in the Treaty of Waitangi, in Article Two. But it is nothing like the co-governance that Labour and the Maori academics and elite are pushing for today.
    
    The Treaty was agreed in an environment where Maori chiefs had control of their own tribes. In terms of their tribes the chiefs were political leaders, judges, police etc all rolled into one. This was their rangatiraranga that the Article Two of the Treaty said they could “collectively or individually possess so long as it is their wish and desire to retain the same in their possession”.
    
    But collectively the chiefs could see that (a) they could not control the increasingly lawless European settlements, (b) they didn’t want to have to control the increasingly lawless European settlements and thought that was a problem for the European powers to solve, and (c) they could see the Great Powers manoeuvrings between Britain, France and the USA and needed to either pick a side or get carved up. Hence Article One of the Treaty.
    
    So the Treaty reflects the 1840 reality on the ground where there were distinct Maori tribal settlements and European settlements. It sets out a balance where Maori chiefs continue to be responsible for governing the Maori tribal settlements (rangatiratanga), and the English become responsible for governing the European settlements and dealing with the international issues (kawanatanga).
    
    But today Maori and European are intermingled, under English-type structures (ie modern life in cities under English type law). There aren’t any distinctly separate Maori settlements. Maori chiefs no longer govern their people or lands in the same way as they did in 1840 … basically their people have chosen with their feet to leave the Maori world and live in the European world (presumably because it delivers better outcomes).
    
    So the Article Two co-governance in the Treaty is an obsolete relic. Despite that, there’s a lot of academics, elites and politicians trying to breath life into it again, in some new mutant form.
    
    14 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 10:54am
    - RockyJ
      
      I thought the chiefs wanted British law to apply to them as well owing to the devastation of the musket wars. Didn’t they realise there was no future in continual inter tribal war?
      
      15 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 11:21am
      - virtualmark
        
        The closest (English) analogy of how the chiefs saw themselves in 1840 is as feudal Dukes like as in Tudor England or earlier.
        
        They weren’t schmucks. Several had been to England. Some had met the King. Several had passable English. They had a fair idea of what English society, culture and law meant.
        
        But they were from a feudal tribal culture, and that’s how they thought about the world.
        
        So the cleanest comparison for them in engaging with the English was that they were Dukes. They had their own land that they controlled. They could allocate the resources of that land across their tribe members/peasants. They could command their people to arms.
        
        Importantly … a feudal Duke was basically independent lord and master and lawgiver. They only got in trouble if they (a) stole from or rebelled against the King, or (b) fought with another Duke. Other than that they were independent.
        
        So Maori chiefs saw the tension between rangatiratanga and kawanatanga in large part as like comparing a Duke in feudal England vs the King.
        
        7 2
        Report
        November 3, 2022 11:41am
      - virtualmark
        
        Important note: Even in 1840 English Dukes had largely lost those powers. And nowadays a Duke in England (and there’s hardly any, especially any outside the immediate royal family) has no special powers and basically just has inherited wealth.
        
        Oh … note that another aspect of duke-dom that aligns with chief-dom is that hereditary aspect. There was a lot about English dukedom that aligned with Maori chiefdoms, and they saw their post-Treaty relationship with the English crown in those terms.
        
        8 0
        Report
        November 3, 2022 11:43am
    - Justitia
      
      Article 2 reflects the well-established British practice of the time, modeled on the Roman Empire, of co-opting the local elites rather than trying to overthrow them. A course Bush should have perhaps pursued in Iraq in the wake of the 2003 invasion.
      
      Article 3 made clear that British law was extended to all the inhabitants of the colony, Maori and European alike. Serious crimes by Maori like murder were indeed dealt with under British law.
      
      10 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 11:42am
      - virtualmark
        
        Although, at the time of signing the Treaty in 1840 the chiefs would have expected that any crimes committed within their tribe (ie tribe member on tribe member) would be dealt with by the chief under Maori customary law.
        
        But any crimes in the European settlements were for the English police (ie the chiefs wanted nothing to do with enforcing English law on the English settlers).
        
        Not sure how they thought Maori-on-English or English-on-Maori crimes were to be treated.
        
        7 0
        Report
        November 3, 2022 1:36pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      ‘There aren’t any distinctly separate Maori settlements’
      
      Not quite. Have you been to Ruatahuna or Maungapohatu?
      
      In principle I have some sympathy for Tuhoe. They didn’t sign the Treaty, have had limited investment in their tribal rohe & as a group live closer to a traditional lifestyle than anyone else.
      
      Having said that, it’s hard to see a meaningful alternative to NZ being a single country.
      
      3 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 7:26pm
      - virtualmark
        
        Agreed.
        
        0 0
        Report
        November 4, 2022 8:54am
- hmmokrightitis
  
  “It’s like gravity, you can’t defy it. It’s on its way.” – Tāmati Kruger (Taneatua)”
  
  Ohhh, that Maori science is getting really good!!!
  
  26 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 9:29am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Nek minit you can count to ten using Moari Science
    
    17 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 10:07am
- Its only I
  
  “And if “co-governance” is the next bus stop in a journey that has to be made, what is the real destination, and can Ardern confirm and define that as well?”
  
  Most replies to the questions asked to the MSN about the 55m with a clause were the same as the first part of the text above. Also they often have Making Aotearoa (north island) a better place in their begging banners.
  Maori spoilt child like elders slamming their fists in table screaming “We will not be denied this is not a request”. Bratty, entitled, little shits.
  Labour and the MSN seem to be one big single minded gelatinous organism slowly covering everything red….war of the worlds?
  
  19 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 10:30am
- In Vino Veritas
  
  “We will never be denied, we will never go quietly into the night”. Yes, you actually will, on both counts. You will go back to being New Zealanders, same as everyone else in the country. You already have a place at the table. You are the Calimero of NZ, “it’s an injustice, nobody likes me”.
  
  18 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 10:40am
- backster
  
  No doubt Jacinda will wish to start her co governance model by appointing a co Prime Minister.
  
  11 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 11:37am
  - Paulus
    
    Already got a co governance PM called Mahuta !
    
    8 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 1:32pm
Warren

Grant Robertson against shows what hypocrites this Government are after spewing his hate for the National Party by saying you can’t trust them, well that’s the pot calling the kettle in anyone’s terms.
After getting caught out doing the same in 2021 when swiping millions out of the same fund to finance promises to the Housing Excellaration Fund, Camera’s on our Fishing fleet, School Lunches in every school and every other whim or need for this Labour Government to bribe the voter he now taken 70 million dollars from the Covid-19 fund again to fuel the controversy Three Waters spend up.
The Government has tapped some $70 million of covid response and recovery money to bolster its dwindling coffers of its Three Waters Reform Program.
Robertson says you can’t trust National with their Tax cut programs but it looks and seems Grant Robertson can’t be trusted to use the money from the Covid-19 fund for what this Country set up this fund for.
74 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 8:05am
- Simon
  
  Labo govt has been captured by outside entities who are just milking this govt. Labo dont come up with anything. Proposals on spending on put to them, via govt departments, and they tick it off. The minister in charge is given bullet point list of talking points. But beyond that Labo in its offical capacity know nothing. The money is spent and forgotten quickly.
  
  The Labour cabinet are empty figure heads. They box ticking vast amounts on spending on well connected private consultants who achieve nothing with no accountability.
  
  32 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:30am
- Lance
  
  Good grief, Labours specialty is gross hypocrisy. I have come to expect nothing else from them
  
  18 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 11:07am
Paulus

See Dotcom is still here now with his fifth child !
34 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 8:06am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Who would you prefer….Richie Hardcores mate Karel Scroubek?
  
  26 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:18am
  - cmm
    
    Why do we have to choose one of them? Send them both.
    
    40 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 8:26am
  - igm
    
    Isn’t the Czech best man for the Liar’s wedding?
    Seems he is in the preferred fold.
    
    21 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 8:51am
  - RoboRob
    
    I believe we have been waiting on the Minister to make a decision to overrule his deportation, for almost two years now. I guess not helped because until recently Chris Faafoi was the minister in charge.
    
    23 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 8:57am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Neither Maggie. Tho Kim Bim Jim Tim has a bit more about him. In terms of shape. And money.
    
    9 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 10:42am
- G152
  
  Well hes bought some form of citizenship by now
  
  19 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:25am
  - RoboRob
    
    The dollar cost to NZ from his 10+yrs of court battles far outways the money he has spent trying to get into parliament.
    
    17 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 8:58am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Sixth, I think. And the first for the current Mrs Dotcom.
  
  20 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:27am
  - kowtow
    
    Cripes , any more and he’ll automatically qualify for a motel room in Rotvegas.
    
    13 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 2:09pm
artemisia

Excellent to see some (a lot) unneeded covid bucks are being redirected to New Zealand’s top priority. Taxpayers will be delighted.

” … Cabinet agreed to drawdown and redirect $72.3m to help cover considerable unfunded DIA Three Waters work including $21m for policy and communications work; $14.6m to increase iwi/Māori understanding of the changes and their capacity to contribute to them and $32.8m to cover councils’ costs in working with the “transition unit”, situated within DIA, to hand their assets over to create the proposed four new Water Services Entities.”

Herald today, paywalled.
59 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 8:06am
- alex Masterley
  
  I hope the Auditor General will have something to say about the use of the covid slush fund in this way.
  
  56 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:12am
  - kevn
    
    @alex… So many mouths to feed at the 3 Waters trough.
    Even though 3 Waters must be one of most rejected ‘policies’ ever.
    
    45 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 8:20am
- cmm
  
  The bastards: an emergency fund is not a slush fund.
  
  In Africa this would be called corruption.
  
  65 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:13am
  - emmess
    
    The only difference is that here, the corruption is institutionalised.
    
    34 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 8:48am
    - alloytoo
      
      So no difference then.
      
      20 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 9:49am
      - emmess
        
        Not quite, here we don’t get cops asking for bribes, for example
        It is purely only state sanctioned, at the top levels.
        
        11 0
        Report
        November 3, 2022 11:30am
  - RoboRob
    
    Sadly its not even the first time either. The fishing boat camera were also paid for from the Covid relief borrowings.
    
    25 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 9:00am
- Bridgenag
  
  Depressing start to the day……sigh
  
  39 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:14am
- kevn
  
  @art… Thieving from NZer’s.
  Trust is long gone.
  
  32 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:17am
  - Swifty
    
    But because it’s borrowed money it’s actually thieving from our children and grandchildren.
    
    28 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 8:35am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      And he does not care
      
      14 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 10:28am
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        That’s because he’ll never have kids of his own
        
        4 0
        Report
        November 3, 2022 7:29pm
- septic skeptic
  
  This is part of the scorched earth policy. Labour know they are out next year so are busy siphoning off money to their mates. I reckon Mahuta Corp will be doing well out of those first two items.
  
  48 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:28am
- Swifty
  
  Borrowing to pay the housekeeping.
  
  That’s no way to run a home.
  
  22 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:40am
- Yvette
  
  “$14.6m to increase iwi/Māori understanding of the changes and their capacity to contribute to them”
  
  Willie Jackson has consulted targeted Maori over at least a six-month period, and so far has taken more than four months to “water down” their response to something acceptable to take to Cabinet – then they may get around to addressing the 83 percent who are non-Maori
  
  But, if “iwi/Māori understanding of the changes and their capacity to contribute to them” has resulted in the response to be taken to Cabinet why is extra funding required for “iwi/Māori understanding of the changes and their capacity to contribute to them”? – if you get the drift.
  
  Why is there a “Let those who know, tell those who don’t” situation?
  
  And is it partly that no one has defined what they are talking about.
  And that Willie consulted only Maori ēlite – not all Maori, including those who never see any “trickle down” – be it consultation, access, or funding. Are these the “iwi/Māori understanding of the changes and their capacity to contribute to them”
  
  So what about the “83 percent who are non-Maori”?
  
  25 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 9:42am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The 83% is the golden egg that keeps giving.
    
    18 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 10:30am
cmm

Aotearoavlot is now banning activated trackers like Apple airtags.

The regulation they have used to ban them is the ICAO dangerous goods regulations for lithium batteries which bans batteries with more than 2g of lithium or 100Wh energy storage.

That makes no sense at all because:
* They say it is OK if the tracker is off, but the battery regulations apply whether the device is on or off.
* The CR2032 cells typically used in these devices does not contain anywhere near 2g of lithium. The whole cell weighs just over 3g of which some is the inert metal case. The active contents is LiMnO2 – maybe 2.5g of the stuff. Lithium makes up only a tiny fraction of LiMnO2 (3g of Lithium per 3+55+2*16 = 90g of LiMnO2). There is around 0.1g of Lithium in a CR2032.

There is a solid reason for not allowing the air tags: the air tags use Bluetooth LE and when hundreds of BLE devices are in close proximity their equipment gets confused. That’s really a design problem with the baggage handling equipment.

But no, they don’t want to admit it, so lie instead.

Lufthansa had a similar ban but backtracked on it, most likely because they were told they were talking bullshit.

I really don’t have a problem with them banning AirTags, but be honest.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/air-new-zealand-lists-airtag-baggage-trackers-as-prohibited-checked-items/UA6JOUXT56TZVKKTMJVJHPIJAI/
25 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 8:10am
- RoboRob
  
  I would have thought the simple solution was a lining on the cargo bay that blocks bluetooth. I suspect there is a light weight coating that would do the job.
  
  8 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 9:04am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Ban ban ban ban ban,
  What are we going to ban today? There must be something.
  
  15 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 10:34am
kowtow

Another day another Ferald anti Luxon/Nats cartoon .

Where’s holding power to account ?

Our so called fourth estate , not fit for purpose.
51 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 8:11am
- Simon
  
  “Another day another Ferald anti Luxon/Nats cartoon .”
  
  And you can bet Luxon the meek is all worried about how he portrayed by MSM and working on new ways to prostrate himself before MSM.
  
  18 9
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:36am
  - Ruawai
    
    Yesterday in the media news they were saying Luxon won’t back down on his tax policy, even though he hasn’t even released his tax policy yet.
    
    10 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 1:36pm
    - Roberta
      
      Come to think of it, Jacinda hasn’t released her tax policy yet either. Maybe the media should be asking what her what it is, after all she is in the Government making these decisions. Luxon is only in opposition!
      
      9 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 6:19pm
slightlyrighty

I see that Sky TV a corporate supporter of Starship Hospital.

Given that they broadcast the sport that people bet on, I wonder if their status in that regard is under threat?
41 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 8:14am
- Simon
  
  Some woke leftist clowns calling the shots. They should all be fired by National next year. But they wont be.
  
  20 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:38am
Warren

How can you be proud of of the figures for the unemployed at a all time low of 3.3% according to Grant Robertson when it only counts those on the Jobseeker benefit, especially when there is around 349,000 other people getting a benifit that doesn’t count those that are on the pension or solo parents benefit.p
Now I know that all Government’s do this but it seems Labour like to skite about it more than the others, but why should we keep being given manipulated figures when they are not correct.
32 1
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 8:19am
- amospicton
  
  I see Biden’s been caught out overnight trying to claim credit for the greatest increase in pension payments for years. Turns out the payments are indexed to inflation and the increase is nothing to gloat over it’s just a by-product of economic mismanagement.
  
  36 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:35am
  - RoboRob
    
    The left seem to have a very tenuous understanding of economics. Remember these are the very same guys that claimed that printing money would not cause inflation and that the US (in particular) was able to print an unlimited amount of money. Financial imbeciles with this union ‘economists’ to provide authority to their lies.
    
    25 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 9:09am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  In a time when employers are desperate for staff, it seems this Government and its agencies haven’t got a clue how to shift 100,000 “work-ready” folk on a benefit into the arms of an employer.
  
  A few suggestions of how our Government could assist folks who want to work but lack the basic wherewithals..
  
  1. Make primary and secondary school free for all ages. (so if folks in their 20s. or 50s want to learn how to read or pass NCEA level 3 qualifications… they can return to school gratis).
  
  2. Run school classes in Evenings and holiday periods. (Why use a decent resource for only 8 hours/day, 9 months/year).
  
  3. Run HT-licence practicals free of charge
  
  4. Offer transport-free chits to work places for first 3 months of employment.
  
  33 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:39am
  - RoboRob
    
    In addition to points…
    
    1. Fix the education system so that kids are engaged and actually learning the skills required. Remove the underperforming teachers.
    
    3. No offensive to bus drivers, surely this is a job that almost any muppet can do. How can someone be unemployed in Akl when 500 jobs are available for bus drivers? Surely you could train someone and get them an ht license in a week? We could even pay the training costs and give them the license for free, it would be cheaper than having them on a benefit.
    
    23 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 9:14am
    - ldypen
      
      You would not want to be a bus driver, old mate of mine did it for two years, for his efforts he received daily verbal abuse not to mention threats of physical harm when he outed scum bags that never paid to get on. He stated that if you want to see some of the worst of NZ drive a bus!
      
      21 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 9:36am
      - RoboRob
        
        Sounds likely 🙂
        
        That said, if you are unemployed and there is a job available you should be doing it. There are lots of unpleasent jobs around. Be a bus driver and look for a better job, being in work helps get those better jobs.
        
        15 0
        Report
        November 3, 2022 10:18am
    - Paulus
      
      The Teacher’s Union will say emphatically that there are NO underperforming Teachers only underpaid, and we need their subs anyway.
      
      14 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 1:36pm
    - Groggy
      
      Maybe in Auckland, but no way would I fancy driving a bus round most of Wellington’s goat tracks. Massive respect to those that do it.
      
      10 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 2:21pm
  - Its only I
    
    I can’t remember what the reason was for ending night classes but I could imagine industry partnerships with schools working well.
    Not just for those starting out but also for those looking for change or post retirement.
    
    12 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 9:38am
    - Ghost
      
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/stratford-press/news/government-takes-axe-to-night-classes/GAL2RGE2F4HNCXTFJKXKU6QBCU/
      
      But that said it looks like some schools still run them
      
      12 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 9:40am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      The reason was to penalise working-class folk who could only get to classes after work…and to subsidise the folks running Polytechs… forcing young folks into expensive (and often irrelevant) courses… bum$ on $eat$…as opposed to being paid whilst you train from accomplished practitioners.
      
      How’s that polytech vision working out?
      https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/471749/polytech-system-a-national-disgrace
      
      19 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 9:47am
      - Its only I
        
        Hipkins said the system was no longer sustainable, and change was necessary.
        Ker agreed change was needed, but said the problems the system faced were not being addressed.
        “The so-called reforms are basically a solution for the wrong problem.
        “Actually, I think they were simply an ego trip on the Minister of Education’s part, to be frank.”
        
        I see what your saying. Another swing and a miss by Labour.
        
        The last 3 years of kids being out of school, because reasons, will probably see a much greater need for job specific industry backed training at night school or some version of it. That’s assuming opportunity instead of benefit money is chucked at these kids by Gov.
        
        12 1
        Report
        November 3, 2022 1:20pm
      - Groggy
        
        mmmm Night Classes were axed in 2009 under Anne Tolley. But don’t let facts get in the way.
        
        2 4
        Report
        November 3, 2022 2:24pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Groggy..
        
        Some background:
        
        Labour transferred Adult Community Education into the hands of the Tertiary Education Commission in 2006.
        
        In 2006 responsibility and funding for ACE classes was transferred from the Ministry of Education to the Tertiary Education Commission. This resulted in a flood of bureaucratic stipulations and requirements, such as Quality Assurance, Policy and Procedure manuals, Investment Plans and the like,
        
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/stratford-press/news/government-takes-axe-to-night-classes/GAL2RGE2F4HNCXTFJKXKU6QBCU/
        
        The scene was thus set for the user-pay merchants in National to cancel the night-school scene.
        
        8 0
        Report
        November 3, 2022 4:55pm
      - Jack5
        
        Groggy (2.24 post), I don’t understand. I did years of night study at the buildings of a State high school after 2009.
        
        Classes in the subject I was studying ended with Covid.
        
        The night classes and day-time classes of earlier years were great for the working class, as Maggie W. points out.
        
        For example, you could have a paying job at an accountant’s office, and study part time.
        
        People would joke about the “bike-clip accountants” – office boys who forgot to take bike clips off as they returned from university or polytechnic-equivalent.
        
        One class at Canterbury University started at 7.30am to suit office-employed students.
        
        An advantage was graduation with little or no student debt, though some did full-time study for the final year.
        
        Accountants themselves drove the move to full-time study, presumably to lift social status.
        
        5 0
        Report
        November 3, 2022 4:56pm
      - Roberta
        
        Groggy is wrong. I taught night classes until 2015.
        
        6 0
        Report
        November 3, 2022 6:25pm
    - Ehlana
      
      I think a lot of night classes ending up being nice-to-have hobby classes, rather than proper educational pathways for people who missed out first time around.
      
      I also suspect many of those who would most benefit from additional learning are either working all hours so can’t attend, or not interested in learning.
      
      11 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 10:25am
      - Bridgenag
        
        Maybe a condition for the ratbags on home detention could be that they must attend day or night school [especially to learn to read and write]
        
        Still prefer the army take them and sort them . What does the army do all day anyway …………
        
        7 0
        Report
        November 3, 2022 11:32am
      - Jack5
        
        Night schools seemed a good use of resources – school buildings and facilities.
        
        Wellington bureaucrats are killing them off while pushing part-time study of Maori language. Woke idiots.
        
        9 1
        Report
        November 3, 2022 1:48pm
- rangitoto
  
  The official unemployment figures have nothing to do with the numbers on the dole (job seeker benefit). It is estimated from the household labour force survey.
  
  18 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 9:04am
  - RoboRob
    
    I know this is true but can someone explain the difference? Surely the unemployment figures should have everyone on the ‘Job seeker’ benefit AND all the other people unemployed and not looking for jobs (that do get a benefit of some nature).
    
    17 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 9:16am
    - rangitoto
      
      I was recently called up for the survey. You are only counted as unemployed if you tell them that you don’t have a current job AND are currently looking for work. Shane’s nephews aren’t considered to be unemployed.
      
      17 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 9:27am
- Stellaboxer
  
  Wellington region will be well sorted for hospitality staff after the next election when the sackings in the civil service commence and I can’t wait
  
  16 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 10:43am
- rouppe
  
  It doesn’t count anyone on the job seeker benefit per se. The rate comes from the Household Labour Force Survey.
  
  If someone surveyed is on the dole and answers “no” to “looking for work”, they are not counted as unemployed
  
  10 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 12:21pm
rockape

The nurses equal pay resolution delayed again. The ERA guy heading the discussions has Covid ! I hope he takes his turn in an ED waiting room !
31 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 8:21am
- Blackbob
  
  And the funny thing is the EPR amount has increased due to the delay from Dr do-Little reneging on the original agreement. The benchmark occupations they used have since shifted upwards which means the Nurses demands have also now shifted upwards to match. If he’d stuck to the original agreement it would have turned out cheaper in the long run.
  
  17 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 9:01am
  - rockape
    
    Yep and that back pay, the major sticking point is increasing each day.
    
    9 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 9:38am
    - Blackbob
      
      It’s that Union background that allows one to ignore contract law apparently…
      
      11 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 10:54am
Cassandra

A recent poll in Scotland shows most Scots favour increasing taxes, more government spending and redistribution i.e. Scots want people who earn more than them to pay them some money, indirectly but nevertheless that what they’re voting for. By “increasing taxes” they don’t, of course, mean on them! Lot of Scots came to NZ. But we got the adventurous ones, leaving behind a lot of bludgers.
35 1
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 8:22am
- GJM
  
  Sounds the same as NZ and Australia. The ones with get and go have got up and gone, leaving g those unable to leave, those planning on leaving and the bludgers.
  
  20 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:47am
  - kevn
    
    @GJM… We all know people who moved to Aussie. How many that you know, have returned? Very very few except for the 501’s.
    
    13 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 8:58am
    - Hebe123
      
      How many will leave Aussie in the next 10 years as it goes down the nz path of indigenous rights and socialism?
      
      15 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 9:37am
- Blackbob
  
  I think if they ran a referendum in England to kick the Scots out they’d have more luck in getting independence…
  
  18 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 9:02am
  - rockape
    
    I agree, and I am a Scot !
    
    11 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 9:40am
- Tom Hunter
  
  This is why I fully supported Scottish independence and still do.
  
  Unfortunately it seems their are enough Scots who are canny enough to know they’d fucking drown with the rest of Britain. What a comedown from the Scottish Enlightenment.
  
  9 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 10:42am
Maggy Wassilieff

Seriously, if these Government-funded folks want to hold disinformation seminars then hold them openly… or if they want to just have a “select” gathering, then have zoom sessions.

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/disinformation-seminar-cancelled-amid-threats-harassment
35 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 8:22am
- kowtow
  
  Plunket on the Platform is taking them apart right now.
  
  ” The disinformation project has scared itself into cancelling itself ”
  
  Plunket is the only journalist calling the emperor has no clothes while the rest of the journos are dancing to the Pied Piper’s tune . But they aren’t about to do any harm to the goose that lays their golden eggs .
  
  38 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:36am
  - Harry Knuts
    
    ” The disinformation project has scared itself into cancelling itself ”
    that’s what you get when you live a life of paranoia.
    
    21 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 9:34am
    - kowtow
      
      Paranoia would give them the excuse that they are nutters , they’re not . There’s an agenda and a play book .
      
      They are creating the moral panic they want which then proves they are right and justifies their witch hunting , hand wringing , pearl clutching .
      
      The media will go along with the script .Indeed we’ve seen very senior reporters scowering the country in search of the monsters under the bed , which actually proved to be very elusive and indeed non existent.
      
      In a pathetic little New Zealand way , this cancellation’s a bit like our Reichstag fire moment .
      
      20 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 9:53am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Maggy – this is extremely concerning. No, not the “threats and harassment”, that’s bullshit. What is concerning is this clearly coordinated narrative that is being manufactured to label anyone dissenting with the government as a “threat” or a “domestic terrorist”.
  This is Orwellian and it is another step towards totalitarianism by this government and the people they fund. They are creating a false landscape by promoting this idea that there are “dangerous” people out there. Basically anyone who doesn’t agree with the government will be put into this category.
  
  Have a look at this re Kate Hannah at the government funded “Disinformation Project”. It is only a minute or so long.
  
  “They use Pinterest and Instagram to draw in other women who are interested in interior design, childrens’ clothing, knitting, healthy food for children, and it does draw people in towards a set of white nationalist ideas. I mean it’s relatively easy to see, if you see a very beautiful, fair-skinned blonde or red haired child with beautiful braiding in her hair and some flowers, just step back a little bit (laughs) which is really distressing, because that’s my heritage”
  
  https://t.me/CoronvirusPlushie/5218
  
  She is our Goebbels.
  
  Then this from the head of NZ intelligence services, Rebecca Kitteridge. How to identify potential “domestic terrorists”.
  
  https://t.me/CoronvirusPlushie/5214
  
  This is chilling. This narrative makes the covid circus pale into insignificance.
  
  33 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 9:07am
  - herb1
    
    I wonder if those wanting to label any opposition views to the Governments , will take the same position when the Government is National
    
    23 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 9:20am
  - Taieri
    
    it does draw people in towards a set of white nationalist ideas.
    ——————-
    
    It seems that brown nationalist ideas are OK. Since they are actively promoted by the current government.
    
    16 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 10:53am
- Harry Knuts
  
  This whole project and group need to be cancelled and for National to declare they will close this down if elected.
  
  25 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 9:35am
  - Tom Hunter
    
    Shhhhh…. That’s a policy decision and they’re still working on policy in little National Party groups until then.
    
    You’ll find out in 2023 in good time, Sir. And not before!
    
    13 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 10:44am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Here’s another great analysis and evidence that we are being take into an Orwellian world of narrative control by Ardern and co.
  
  In February, government sponsored research body Te Punaha Matatini designated a range of Covid-19 topics as conspiracies. These included:
  
  Herd immunity,
  
  Close comparisons between flu and Covid-19 fatality rates,
  
  Severe adverse effects of Covid-19 vaccination,
  
  Benefits of vitamins for Covid-19 treatment,
  
  High prevalence of asymptomatic infection,
  
  Overestimates of deaths because many people are dying ‘with’ the virus not ‘because’ of it
  
  Bioengineered lab-leak origin of Covid-19
  
  Involvement of foreign powers in its development
  
  Crucially all of these topics have since proved to be within the range of scientific investigation and verification.
  
  ALL of them turned out to be stone cold facts, but these people are going to label anyone who dared speak the truth as a “threat” or a “domestic terrorist”.
  
  https://thebfd.co.nz/2022/11/03/are-we-being-pushed-over-the-disinformation-cliff/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=are-we-being-pushed-over-the-disinformation-cliff
  
  23 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 9:42am
NeverMindTheBollocks

Bike lanes & stripped out car parks for the Aro Valley. For once, the headline says it all.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/wellington/130331213/will-one-of-nzs-greenest-suburbs-be-yimby-or-nimby-on-bike-plan?
19 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 8:24am
Tony Stuart

Labour Party acolytes are praising Hamilton West candidate Georgie Dansey for showing up at a protest against Education Minister Andrew Little. They are saying how wonderful it is that the Labour Party allows diversity of thought and opinion. Anyone for turd-polishing?

It does however make me wonder where all these lovers for diversity of thought and opinion when Whanganui-based List MP Harete Hipango when she posted a photo of herself with Voices for Freedom protesters back in January. Many of these same people saw Hipango’s FB post as nothing more than an opportunity to attack National’s then-new leadership. A number of them, including trade unionists, called for Hipango to be sacked. That in itself raises an interesting point; why are unionists, who are supposed to fight for jobs, always so keen to see those on the right get sacked?

Whilst this is an embarrassment for Labour, for Andrew Little and for Georgie Dansey, that embarrassment will pass. Georgie will lose the by-election, and can get back to her job as an organiser for the Tertiary Education Union. But it’s delightful to watch Labour Party supporters, few in number as they still may be, dancing on the head of a pin to try and paint the candidate as some modern-day heroine, standing up against the party which only the day before had given her an opportunity. Desperation is indeed a stinky cologne!
53 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 8:25am
- artemisia
  
  Ms Dansey will have been promised a higher List place for 2023. Good luck with that.
  
  Meantime maybe she offered to resign to avoid Labour and unions being the butt of innumerable jokes this time round.
  
  23 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:29am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    She’d need to be promised a position in the top ten to have any chance of getting in next year. On current polling, so many MP’s are going to be scrambling for one of those elusive spots that all hell is likely to break loose.
    
    36 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 8:37am
  - Paulus
    
    On present poll projections there will almost be no Labour List members.
    Hooray !
    
    21 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 9:23am
- Benedict Yu
  
  “They are saying how wonderful it is that the Labour Party allows diversity of thought and opinion. ”
  
  🙂 Too funny.
  
  53 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:37am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Seems that message bypassed the Labour leadership when Gaurav Sharma and Louisa Wall were in their midst.
    
    43 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 8:45am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    BY – That’s the Labour Party who fund the “Disinformation Project”, has a leader who said she would be our “single source of truth” and publicly stated she was deliberately creating two classes of people. “That’s what it is, yep, yep…..”
    
    It really is clown world. 🤡🤡🤡
    
    35 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 9:11am
    - Clownworld
      
      Disinformation Project should be renamed Sustained Propaganda.
      
      There is only the truth and lies and in some cases information that is mistakenly made.
      
      Disinformation is the latest woke favored word to make themselves seem superior to all others. Academic orwellian 1984 speak.
      
      Suggest to people who use it to correctly state is it a deception aka as a lie or is it the truth?
      
      Return from postmodern transhuman linguistic sophistry to the simple words, truth or lie?
      
      6 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 2:49pm
- kowtow
  
  It’s reported she fled the scene when the media turned up.
  So much for having the courage of her convictions .
  
  btw have the media gone after her , like they would had it been a “right winger” at an anti mandate protest .
  
  35 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:38am
- Tricati
  
  I see Little is now throwing the union under the bus by saying they mislead Dansey into believing the protesters where there to support Little, but when she realised they weren’t, Dansey left.
  I’m calling BS on that, and it doesn’t matter how they want to spin it, the damage has been done.
  
  40 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:40am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  I hope Ms Dansey has taken leave without pay for the duration of the byelection campaign. She’d be rorting the Union Members, otherwise.
  
  19 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:56am
- slightlyrighty
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/11/labour-hamilton-west-by-election-candidate-georgie-dansey-denies-protesting-labour-minister-andrew-little-day-after-selection.html
  
  She’s obviously taken the lessons from Gaurav’s treatment!
  
  You could not make this shit up!
  
  19 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 9:25am
I remember when

The AM Show:
Auckland Council Animal Shelter on this morning showing some of the 62 puppies available for adoption.
Appears they already have names – Pipi, Tui…..
Stop me when you get the idea.
26 2
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 8:39am
- emmess
  
  Thats fine
  People are free to change their pet’s name
  
  10 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:51am
- Blog-aholic
  
  If you adopt, choose the name you want. Surely most of the dogs may have already had names so……..but point is taken.
  
  12 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:52am
- Nickc2
  
  I’m sick of it already eh.
  
  8 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:56am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Are they all Staffie-based mongrels?
  
  12 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:57am
  - MCōs
    
    Pretty good percentage
    If you’re interested you can look at the lineup here
    https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/dogs-animals/lost-adoptable-pets/Pages/view-lost-adoptable-animals.aspx
    
    4 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 9:32am
    - Ehlana
      
      It must have been a very successful appeal. That page is currently showing 0 animals available to adopt.
      
      4 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 11:02am
  - Hebe123
    
    I work at a shelter. The “Staffie based mongrols” as you call them tend to be the best family dogs. Farm dogs are often a total shocker – Need far too much stimulation, dig up your garden, and often have too much voice and a high prey drive.
    
    I have one of each. The 2 year old 40 kg bull breed is so compliant it’s ridiculous. But he has a big head which apparently means he wants to eat children. I’ll be glad to have him with me for his look if we get to food shortages etc.
    
    12 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 9:43am
    - Matt Long
      
      Working farm dogs are bred to work, so need plenty of exercise and like to round things up, but it is the arsehole feral’s dogs that maul domestic animal in my experience.
      
      13 1
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 10:31am
      - Matt Long
        
        But the dogs that maul children and animals are always “lovely friendly” ones who wouldn’t hurt a thing according to their owners.
        
        8 1
        Report
        November 3, 2022 10:33am
      - Hebe123
        
        We have homes thousands over decades with no issues. Probably 50% of them bull breeds. Equating staffies with “arseholes feral dogs” that maul others is as ignorant as calling Maori uneducated or feral.
        
        Also a statistic and a fact or two for you. The dog statistically most likely to bite a human is a Labrador (yes there are more labs than most breeds). The pitbull performs way better on American Kennel Club temperament t tests than the border collie (and many others). And the being most likely to be involved in a dog attack is a 5-10 year old male child… the likelihood well exceeds any breed that is involved.
        
        9 0
        Report
        November 3, 2022 11:40am
      - Jack5
        
        I agree with Hebe123 in that Staffies can be great family dogs, especially in towns.
        
        Owners are the problem with dogs. As well as under control, dogs need to be on sections with secure fencing, and must have regular exercise.
        
        Pet dogs I feel sorry for are town Collie types on tight leads getting sparse exercise and little mental stimulation.
        
        Neighbours can force town owners to “de-bark” big Huntaways, and only the best owners give urban Collies enough exercise and mental work.
        
        9 0
        Report
        November 3, 2022 2:08pm
I remember when

Hoodwinking over forestry: Stuff.
An article questioning the government’s regulating of exotic forestry, particularly as it affects Maori but also farmers.
The carbon forestry estate’s role, it states, continues to be kicked about between elitist climate change commissioners, mercurial ministers and muddled officials.
Or, in other words, everyone except the people actually involved and with indepth local knowledge.
16 1
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 8:47am
Maggy Wassilieff

David Seymour suggests a method to encourage work-ready folk off the benefit:

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/11/david-seymour-says-act-would-put-beneficiaries-refusing-jobs-on-income-management-to-tackle-labour-shortage.html
27 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 8:51am
- MCōs
  
  It’s like this.
  There will always be a certain percentage of any population without the motivation to work; even if there is no money coming in from the government.
  
  12 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 9:40am
  - cmm
    
    There will always be a percentage who do not want to work in a welfare-backed population.
    
    Darwinian forces take care of them elsewhere.
    
    11 1
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 10:02am
  - kowtow
    
    yep but the size of the that percentage depends on how much largesse the taxpayer is prepared to dispense .
    
    Couches , dope and shelter still cost money.
    
    11 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 10:14am
Maggie Pie

“Banks have a ‘social license’ and part of that is making sure they look after their customers in tough times”

– Grant Robertson. Min-of-Finance.

LOL!! What f**ing planet is that guy on?
38 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 8:54am
- Ghost
  
  The planet where he just keeps dishing ~~lollies~~ money out with no thought of who is going to have to pay for it
  
  17 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:58am
  - Paulus
    
    Robbo and Labour do not care about paying back – they will not be around for our children and grandchildren who will suffer sadly – and we oldies let this happen over a number of years – mediocrity let loose like a cancer.
    
    9 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 9:29am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Robbo sees the banks as an extension of IRD & MSD – taking in money from the hard working/ financially responsible; handing out to the profligate/ financially reckless.
  
  At least, that’s the way I read his statement.
  
  12 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 8:59am
- Nickc2
  
  Remember, he’s preaching to his followers who are of a fairly low decile.
  
  16 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 9:04am
- Nickc2
  
  These are Australian Banks. I doubt they have a ‘Social License with us.
  Remember the underarm bowling incident.
  
  11 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 9:16am
- Paulus
  
  Robertson on the Banks is like the saying:-
  “you can kick my arse I have the Foreman’s Job at last “
  
  10 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 9:26am
  - Alwynn
    
    And there was I thinking, as I have ever since I first got my degree, that it went –
    “The working class can kiss my arse, I’ve got the Foreman’s job at last”
    We of course had the second line as being “I’ve got my BSc at last”
    
    10 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 10:19am
- kowtow
  
  I wonder if that ‘social license” is mentioned in the Act that regulates banks .
  
  If not he’s just making stuff up.
  
  But I’d suggest his regime operates under a social contract with the electorate and part of that surely is to raise and spend tax revenues wisely ,honestly and in an open and transparent manner.
  
  Innit.
  
  12 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 10:23am
  - Ehlana
    
    “wisely, honestly and in an open and transparent manner”
    
    kowtow, we’ve now reached the next bus stop on the journey. We’re more sophisticated and kind and have begun to decolonialise. We’re on “a journey that has to be made. It’s everyone’s journey. It’s like gravity, you can’t defy it.”
    
    So no more of your “wisely, honestly and in an open and transparent manner” talk please.
    
    9 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 11:27am
- Harry Knuts
  
  Robbo is the last person to be giving social and financial responsibility advice.
  
  11 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 11:16am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Or any other.
    
    6 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 1:44pm
Rusty

New Zealand is a constitutional monarchy with King Charles 111 as our monarch.

Maybe some constitutional expert can explain how this Maori co-governance proposal can exist under this system unless we become a republic?

What Jacinda and her cohorts are proposing is highly illegal and treasonous.
23 1
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 8:58am
- MCōs
  
  Tell that to the judge, Rusty.
  
  11 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 9:41am
Swifty

“Those people over there, yes those ones, they offend my sensibilities – let’s confiscate their lawfully earned assets and give them to our political supporters….”

“Yes, let’s! Lets make them out to be evil bastards, sub-human, let’s turn the masses against them, and use the powers of the state to steal what they’ve got and share it amongst our friends!”

https://i.stuff.co.nz/opinion/130351229/morgan-godfery-the-big-banks-are-making-obscene-profits-lets-tax-them

“And let’s not forget to make out like we’re the good guys while doing the thieving!”
23 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 9:00am
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  Morgan Godfrey is so odious on other matters, that I can’t agree with him – even though I have to wonder if the Commerce Commission should not be setting maximum allowable profit and/or making sure that they are making investment in NZ (i.e. benefits society) and this is balanced against their operating expenses in a way which is applied across the industry consistently.
  
  Rather than just a blunt ‘$ TAX TAX TAX $’ there are already existing models of regulation, such as network utilities work under, which might be extended to supermarkets and banks so that they can make a good return to shareholders, expand domestically, be successful, but not take the piss around how much money they make compared to services they offer.
  
  I think something is worth considering here, as in a nuanced response to such excessive profits, but I cannot expect Labour to either roll anything out anytime soon, or not make it a shambles/fail on striking balance if they ever do.
  
  5 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 1:25pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    The nuanced approach to excessive profits is to free the market up to competition.
    
    7 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 1:50pm
JJ56

For those of you who follow the Climate Change issue there is a new post at Judith Curry’s Climate etc blog https://judithcurry.com/2022/11/02/the-climate-crisis-isnt-what-it-used-to-be/ that starts:

“Growing realization by the climate establishment that the threat of future warming has been cut in half over the past 5 years.” and spells it all out from there.
20 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 9:01am
- Justitia
  
  JJ56: Yes, it’s good to see the UN IPCC’s extremist predictions being exposed for the bulldust they are. Even Greta realizes the game is up and is jumping ship to promote hardline Marxism instead:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/11/02/greta-thunberg-time-overthrow-wests-oppressive-racist-capitalist/
  
  The UN’s climate science will eventually be exposed as a massive fraud perpetrated on the public. Hopefully that will lead to its dissolution as the UN has long ago given up on its principal purpose of maintaining international peace and security to promote Woke enthusiasms instead in the vain hope of remaining relevant.
  
  There is NO scientific basis for an emissions tax on New Zealand’s agriculture. It is an empty and deeply immoral gesture in a world facing imminent food shortages. It has to be stopped.
  
  17 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 10:34am
- All_on_Red
  
  Yes, they have canned RCP 8.5 as being unrealistic and far too high a prediction.
  Of course that’s the one NIWA and Wayne Mapp believe.
  
  11 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 11:39am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    The real disgrace is empowering ignorant local governments to get on the panic bandwagon and do severe damage.
    
    11 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 1:53pm
    - JJ56
      
      Yes, unfortunately MfE is still clinging to its “implausible” RCP8.5+ projections in its advice to local government. So ratepayers are facing the costs of imaginary risks, along with taxpayers dealing with the over baked stuff coming from the Climate Change Commission and the Government’s Emission Reduction Plans.
      
      8 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 2:07pm
- Justitia
  
  I hesitate to promote a book but this most recent publication is a must-read if you’re interested in climate change. Judith Curry has published argumentation from the author over the past year on her blog. The title is “Climate of the Past, Present and Future, by Javier Vinos. Here’s the reference: https://www.amazon.com/Climate-Past-Present-Future-scientific/dp/8412586700.
  Vinos shows conclusively that climate change is overwhelmingly related to natural causes and that the UN’s modelling predictions are “wildly extremist” (his words). You can get it on Kindle. Along with Stephen Koonin’s “Unsettled”, this book marks a turning point – the tide is going out on climate catastrophism.
  
  10 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 11:57am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/what-exactly-is-co-governance-here-is-a-great-definition/
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Is-New-Zealand-a-nation-under-invasion.pdf
12 2
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 9:20am
ClanMcleod

The recent call for an “amnesty” for those (mainly on the left) who were the harshest in their demands for more punishments for those who dared oppose the covid narrative is dissected beautifully in this post.
It is US based and the author is interpreting this plea as a desperate action by the Democrats to cauterize the potential upcoming bloodbath in the midterms.

Recently an article began circulating stating that the pandemic pushers deserved amnesty for their actions over the last two years. This article was repeatedly shared in our community as a way of politely saying “How About No” to the author, and to illustrate that enough consequences from the vaccine are starting to emerge that the government has realized they may need to pivot to a new approach (which suggests additional issues from the vaccines will emerge in the future). From having thought this article over, my best guess is that this article was primarily targeted at assuaging the guilt of the left leaning voters who trusted their leaders on these vaccines and are not the most motivated to vote for them in the midterms (as the polling data presently indicates a landslide for the Republican party).

https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/dissecting-the-deceptive-plea-for?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web

Will this be a Labour strategy if their polling continues to tank here in NZ? Or is Ardern too narcissistic to ever admit she might have been wrong? I reckon the latter. She doesn’t have the capacity to admit fault, and that is beyond dangerous. It is psychopathic.

As this video shows, we know who the potential “terrorists” are.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/kwDZJzN8FW1j/
15 2
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 9:21am
- ClanMcleod
  
  The “covid is over, let’s move on and forget about all the shit things we did to people who didn’t do what we told them to do, locked them out of the country, stopped them seeing their elderly relatives, shut them out of society, smeared, slandered and abused them, wished them death and no access to medical care.”
  Those like Aunty, Ross, Milkey and others on this site. Those we know among our friends who were the most brutal in their condemnation of a fellow human being because of their own fear. So frightened they would happily hurt another person physically, financially and mentally because they were afraid.
  This them now.
  
  “Let’s not bicker and argue about who killed who…..”
  
  Classic Monty Python. lol
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aiel3MHpFhU&feature=emb_rel_end
  
  16 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 9:28am
  - surfing
    
    Yes, you should move on.
    
    You’ve really been proven quite wrong.
    
    The vaccine did become less effective over time, as did the severity of covid.
    
    The first lockdown was arguably justified, the subsequent lockdowns were due to government incompetence. In fact, our government was supremely incompetent .
    
    6 2
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 2:54pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      What was I wrong about?
      No, no lockdown was ever justified.
      The vaccine passes and mandates were as unjustified as they were immoral.
      The “vaccine” had extremely limited efficacy before it eventually becomes negative efficacy.
      It injures and kills people.
      That’s some list of incompetence.
      How about this. An immediate halt to the vaccination program. All who lost their job via mandates to be reinstated with compensation for lost income plus damages. A genuine apology for the horrendous damage done to families and friendships. A genuine apology for the businesses destroyed.
      Do that and I’ll happily move on.
      
      1 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 4, 2022 3:55am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Surfing – just for you.
      
      https://www.zerohedge.com/political/you-murderous-hypocrites-outrage-ensues-after-atlantic-suggests-amnesty-pandemic
      
      2 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 4, 2022 4:16am
Warren

It seems Jacinda Ardern and Naiana Mahuta have already sold out our water to Maori if you listen to Tuku Morgan.
Tribal Leaders slam Mayors Three Waters Replacement Plan.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/11/tribal-leaders-slam-mayors-three-waters-replacement-plan.html
Why would Maori think that they have a Co-Governance agreement if they haven’t been given the the right to the water.
I can see Three Waters getting pretty nasty before this ends and could do irreparable damage and division to our Country.
26 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 9:23am
- Nickc2
  
  could do irreparable damage and division to our Country
  IMO, that’s exactly what the UN want. Then, they will issue their One World Govt and World Without Borders mandates.
  Cindy, Albanese, Biden, Trudeau, and Sunak are merely the enablers.
  
  13 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 9:48am
  - Taieri
    
    Cindy, Albanese, Biden, Trudeau, and Sunak are merely the enablers
    ———–
    
    No. WE are the enablers, because we put these people into their positions. And only WE can kick them out. Why don’t we then?
    
    12 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 10:56am
    - Nickc2
      
      Partially correct. In NZ’s case, Winston put her in the position she now finds herself.
      WRT to the second election, a sick dog on a chain if in power at the time could have won that election. The introduced Wuhu flu (deliberate or not) played right into Labour’s hands IMO.
      I do however agree, we gotta get rid of her and her merry band of crooks before it’s too late to retrieve the situation.
      
      8 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 12:07pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Greedy pigs fear loss of swill.
  
  8 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 1:42pm
Maggie Pie

RANDOM IMPERTINET QUESTION

When somebody says “I identify as”…..
is that the same as saying “I pretend to be” ?

https://twitter.com/ReduxxMag/status/1587526414420520961
22 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 9:26am
- mandk
  
  No, it’s the same as saying: “I am a dickhead”
  
  16 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 9:33am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    It might mean “I am a nutter.”
    
    9 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 1:41pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  And They wonder why we don’t take them seriously. Reminds me of the gay community now feeling highjacked by the now alphabet group. Bet the disabled community is feeling the same disappointment by this clown.
  
  13 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 9:45am
- Ghost
  
  Hmmm. If you dress up as Jacinda, identify as Jacinda, when they turn you away from entering parliament to carry out the job you identify has having is that discrimination
  
  13 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 9:47am
- graham
  
  In addition to gender dysphoria, Alme claims to have a Body Integrity Disorder (BID), citing a “dissonance” between how he perceives himself and how his body functions. “I have struggled with this every day my whole life,” Alme told Vi, a Norwegian outlet, earlier this year.
  
  “It is a cognitive dissonance: in the same way that I experience being a woman in a man’s body, I experience that I should have been paralyzed from the waist down. This is not a desire to be a burden on society. It is about the wheelchair being an aid for me to function in everyday life, both privately and at work,” Alme stated.
  
  In the current mad environment we live in, this makes perfect sense.
  
  • Someone says: I was born a man, but I feel like I should have been born a woman
  • Someone else says: I was born able-bodied, but I feel like I should have been born paralysed
  • And yet someone else says: I was born human, but I feel like I should have been born a wolf, or an eagle, or …
  
  Welcome to the brave new world. I only wonder how long it will be before people wake up, shake their heads and start to ask, “What the hell is wrong with us?”
  
  16 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 10:25am
  - Taieri
    
    Welcome to the brave new world. I only wonder how long it will be before people wake up, shake their heads and start to ask, “What the hell is wrong with us?”
    —————
    
    The other day I was asked “what sex are you?”
    First time in my 63 years on this planet. A few years ago I’d have laughed at such a question as I definitely look and sound a male. Not anymore it seem…
    
    6 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 5:28pm
- Paulus
  
  I identify as 1/425 as a Maori – where do I sign ?
  
  7 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 1:44pm
CAKE FACE1

I suspect that a massive recession is coming to New Zealand next year.

I believe that the government have created a wage-price spiral. $30 an hour for truck and bus drivers is just the start. Every other industry will follow, under the new Kommissar diktats. These insane employment laws will result in “essential workers” such as supermarket checkout staff receiving huge wage rises. Of course, all these increases will be lost with price increases. Benefits will also be increased, fuelling still more inflation.

This means interest rates will continue to rise, and the housing market will collapse.

By the next election, in October 2023, the economy will be a train wreck. Labour should be polling around 25%, I suspect.

My hope is that Cindy stands at the next election, and she is completely and utterly humiliated.

If Cindy resigns now, Labour will use the trick the Nazis used after WW1, where they claimed that they only lost because they were “stabbed in the back”.

Labour supporters will try claim they would have won with Cindy at the helm, and they were cheated by the legendary “far right”.

Cindy’s electoral demise must be public, categorical and complete. Socialist tears must flow in floods. The humiliation needs to be total. A new generation needs to be taught about the practical consequences of socialist dogma.

If this comes to pass, for the first time in my life, I will looking forward to watching Cindy’s expressions.

I’ll get the popcorn in.
32 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 9:37am
- Hebe123
  
  My mate owns a sizeable chunk of one of our NZ wide trucking businesses. They work in the business also. Asked her yesterday – they pay $35-45/hour to truckies.
  
  18 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 9:52am
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    70-90K pa for a Truckie!!!
    
    8 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 10:56am
    - All_on_Red
      
      More than that given the hours they work.
      Seems low to me though.
      
      10 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 11:40am
  - Close Hen Counters
    
    I am pleased they earn that much – horrible roads and mental drivers in other vehicles … it is a not a job I would want to do 🙁
    
    7 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 3:10pm
  - GJM
    
    That is more than a friend of mine. $25 per hour, went up to $27 per hour recently, and he left to go to a new job (not driving) at $37 hour
    
    1 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 7:49pm
- Cinematic
  
  Cake, the NZ economy currently resembles a thumping shore break. I’m thinking the wedge in California. Looks amazing until you try to ride it, get smashed into the sand with body and board in bits.
  
  A recession is locked in and we couldn’t have a bigger bunch of incompetent fools at the controls.
  
  16 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 11:01am
- Tricati
  
  The whole immigration reset has been purely to restrict immigration to drive up wages by the government. When you see wage growth around 7% and now a supermarket offering 12%, you can see the effects.
  The supermarket union now saying the increase of 12% sets the benchmark for Fair Pay Agreements across the sector – Watch this space for some real cost increases in the near future.
  The unfortunate consequence of the governments plan to restrict immigration is the likely demise of a number of businesses, and that coupled with a likely recession next year, will bring many issues home to roost in election year. Serves them right.
  
  14 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 12:29pm
- Clownworld
  
  NZ and the globe is on the brink of manufactured financial and societal collapse. Just a matter of time.
  
  The great deception has started.
  
  9 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 2:55pm
ClanMcleod

The covid narrative continues to crumble everywhere in the world, apart from NZ of course. Here in Jacindastan it is business as usual.

It is of course important to recognise that the Scottish Government has taken a very positive step in acknowledging that mask-wearing polices are detrimental to the health and wellbeing of those both giving and receiving care and support.

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/11/02/scottish-government-finally-admits-that-mask-wearing-is-harmful/
20 2
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 9:45am
Ghost

No, really, labour have failed to deliver on election promises, who would have guessed…..

Promises that fell flat could have benefited thousands of school-leavers, critics say, after the Government did not fully implement a suite of policies it pledged before coming to power.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/130342561/critics-say-governments-promises-to-schoolleavers-fall-flat
13 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 9:52am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Shocked, I tell you, Shocked.//
  
  14 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 10:25am
CAKE FACE1

Spare a thought for the Plan B guys.

At the height of the Covid mass hysteria, their reputations were trashed by “experts” such as Baker, Wiles, Hendy and Jackson.

It is beyond question now that our supposed “experts” were in fact charlatans, and the Plan B team were correct all along.

Anyone with half a brain now knows that New Zealand got its Covid response completely and utterly wrong.

However, since most people collaborated at the time with these policies, they are somewhat sheepish about calling out our politicians and our clown “experts”, for their illegal and vandalising approaches.

Plan B are owed an apology by the government, but Cindy will never give them one. She is a narcissist, and the prospect of losing face would be more than she could bear.

We shouldn’t move on from Covid, because we need to learn from our mistakes. The first step is to concede that we collectively got it all wrong.

For my part, could I have have done more to stop the mass madness?

I was extremely vocal in my opposition to the Covid fiasco from the beginning. I even donated to krazykiwi for the protest in Wellington.

Still, I could have opposed it all in even fiercer fashion. I take my share of the blame for perhaps the darkest period in our history. I failed to convince enough people that our zero Covid policies were actually insane.

If you had written a dystopian book before Covid predicting our governments policies, I would have probably said it was so far fetched as to be impossible. Yet it happened.

No one wants to own it any more. I can understand that. However, humility is important, or we will repeat the same mistakes again.

The absence of any mea culpa’s from zero Covid nutjobs is concerning, but unsurprising. Foolish pride prevents it.

After all, foolish pride is the deadliest of the deadly sins.
22 4
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 10:21am
- mawm
  
  I suspect that the majority of those who enthusiastically backed the disastrous covid policies are still in denial about how wrong these policies were and how much harm they have done…. and still look at Jacinda with slack-jawed admiration.
  
  14 2
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 12:50pm
- Clownworld
  
  Agreed Cake Face1, in similar position although my integrity meant I lost material things due to my refusal from. the beginning to engage feelings over uncertain facts.
  
  Am now an exile from NZ for now.
  I pray for better days but it doesn’t look like it will get better.
  
  Keep your integrity. If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
  
  7 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 3:00pm
- krazykiwi
  
  Chin up, CAKE. You stood up, and that puts you head and shoulders above the many, many beige people who grumbled yet did nothing. I still appreciate your support for the cause. It make a difference.
  
  10 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 4:00pm
Maggie Pie

We were given VIP packages to see Dua Lipa at Spark Arena tonite.

Wonder if Mayor Wayne has tickets 😎

https://twitter.com/max_tweedie/status/1587686880820178945
6 2
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 10:37am
- Don Beckett
  
  Who the hell is Dua Lipa ? Some-one with swollen botox riddled lips? 😆
  
  10 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 10:56am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Still a few ‘standing-only’ tickets available if you’re keen to go Don?
    
    https://twitter.com/duadior/status/1587750866647666689
    
    5 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 11:14am
    - Don Beckett
      
      No thanks Maggie – strange looking woman. My 75 y/o wife is better looking than her – in a mature sort of way.
      
      11 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 12:29pm
Tom Hunter

Oh Dear, over in the USA it’s Knives Out for Biden as the Democrats watch the Red tsunami approaching the shoreline, with even the NYT now admitting the obvious.

And if that’s not good enough here’s TDS-sufferer George Will (RINO) in the WaPo stating what’s been fucking obvious for three years now:

During this autumn’s avalanche of political news, an enormous boulder bounced by, barely noticed. It demonstrated why Joe Biden should not seek another term. Democrats should promptly face that fact, and this one: An Everest of evidence shows that Vice President Harris is starkly unqualified to be considered as his successor.
The boulder: Meeting recently with some progressive activists, Biden said his $426 billion student loan forgiveness was accomplished by “a law” that he had “just signed”: “I got it passed by a vote or two.” No. He. Did. Not.
…
It is frightening that Biden does not know, or remember, what he recently did regarding an immensely important policy. He must be presumed susceptible to future episodes of similar bewilderment. He should leave the public stage on Jan. 20, 2025.

Fuck you George. Biden should never have been there in the first place, but TDS fuckwits like you put him there.

Let’s hope that nuclear command and control system is working well.
18 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 10:52am
Ghost

Oh for goodness sake, you lost, move on. You lost because you were in bed with Jacinda and labour. Stop trying to dirty the election by making it racial

Efeso Collins says his skin colour cost him 20,000 votes in Auckland mayoral race

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300728561/efeso-collins-says-his-skin-colour-cost-him-20000-votes-in-auckland-mayoral-race
35 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 11:10am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  He has a full pack of 52 race cards
  
  24 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 11:54am
- Bob
  
  Let this be a lesson to those politicians who continually play the ‘RACE’ card!
  
  17 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 12:07pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  The headline should read “Efeso is still crying that he didn’t win the Mayoralty, looks like a poor loser”
  Jacinda photo op was his final nail in his coffin of losing the election.
  
  19 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 12:59pm
  - Ghost
    
    I believe nick smith was right when he said that this years local election would see mayors/candidates that support 3 waters voted out.
    
    12 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 1:03pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  I am sure there are exceptions, but I do not recall any Chinese person in public life in New Zealand claiming they had some bad outcome because of their race.
  
  He lost because he had bat shit crazy policies.
  
  16 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 1:45pm
Jack5

Ardern’s subsidised media has begun a diversion on the mortgage-rate squeeze.

The object: swing blame to banks, and away from those who caused the interest rate surge by their money printing– the Ardern Government and the Reserve Bank.

Stuff today has Morgan Godfery calling for a windfall tax on banks.

Otago University employs Godfery, a former trade union official, as a lecturer in entrepreneurship.

Here is Godfery in Stuff:

“If ANZ [the Australasian bank]is conscious about maintaining its social licence during a cost of living crisis it could deploy its profits to keep interest rate rises in check. It won’t do that. That means it’s up to the Government to act.”

Does Godfery know that a “social licence” is a theoretical construct, not some pass that an institution qualifies for?

What does Godfery want? Nationalisation of the NZ branch of an Australian bank? A targeted tax on Australian banks in NZ? Would he exempt the State’s own Kiwibank and other small local banks?

Meanwhile, Ardern’s finance wizard, Robertson, is also in Stuff talking social licences.

Stuff reports Robertson claiming banks’ social licence requires them to support borrowers if times get tough.

Where can we study details of this licence?

How about the “social licence” of a Government or a Reserve Bank? Do riotous printing of money and neurotic spending of taxes comply with their social licences?
21 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 11:33am
- kowtow
  
  ‘riotous printing of money and neurotic spending of taxes’
  
  That’s socialist licentiousness.
  
  11 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 12:15pm
- JerJer
  
  How dumb these people. Banks have a pretty simple core business model.
  
  The borrow money at x and they lend at x + margin.
  
  There have been many stories in the media highlighting the fact that the banks have squeezed their margins and not charged borrowers as much as they should have. However those margins are now being pushed out to what they have historically been, and thats fine. It will get worse when the cheap govenment funding (FLP I beleive) is removed in December.
  
  Banks have shareholders that want their dividends. Bank shareholders did not gamble in an inflated property market, the general public did, so why should banks subsidize gamblers.
  
  Or….should depositors who provide funds to banks to lend take a haircut so people can have cheaper mortgages.
  
  The answer is no to both. Banks have no obligations to borrowers of any kind to be nice when times get tough. Just like savers have no obligations to provide funds cheaply to banks to provide cheaper mortgages.
  
  The market is the market. It comes back to govenment borrowing fueling inflation. The banks are just getting the same percentage margin as they were before on the back of a higher interest rate (caused by inflation), and a much bigger pool of lent money (caused by stupidity and greed).
  
  12 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 12:34pm
  - cmm
    
    It’s easy.
    Anyone listening to Robbo is not a depositor. Therefore their interests are irrelevant to him.
    
    Robbo is flailing like mad to paint the banks as the meanies so that people with upside down mortgages vent at the bank rather than at Robbo and CIndy.
    
    10 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 1:04pm
    - JerJer
      
      Oh, I see now. The banks have no idea what is going on and are just being mean just cos….well cos…..but Cindy (Ngati No Idea) and Robbo (Ngati No Idea Neither, Zippo Nada) have all the clues.
      
      Sounds perfect.
      
      I wonder when people will start seeing through this.
      
      8 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 1:49pm
  - Paulus
    
    In simple terms, like me,
    a Bank has only one Job, and that is to lend Money !
    Was how they started thousands of years ago.
    
    6 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 1:48pm
    - MCōs
      
      The bank borrows money at lends it on again.
      However
      It’s not much good to them if enough of the poor sods who bought the houses can’t make the repayments that they start foreclosing on mortgages and wind up with overvalued houses on their hands.
      Everyone knew the ultra low mortgage interest rates wouldn’t last, but that was probably the main reason people could afford the outrageous cost of buying a house.
      The banks had to be restrained from making conditions too easy for people to get a loan plus increasing their buffer against bad debt.
      
      1 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 9:34pm
  - spryte
    
    I thought the banks’ core business model was to borrow $x and then lend 9 times $x at higher rate?
    
    4 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 2:18pm
Libertarians are right

Sonia Sotomeyer in the current affirmative action case:

“De jure to me means places are segregated. The causes may be different, but places are segregated in our country.”

That is absolutely not what De jure means (more like De facto). The other justices actually tried to help her and correct her stupid statement but she doubled down on it.

This is one of the Supreme Court Justices. If she doesn’t know the difference between De jure and De facto, how is she supposed to rules on the Constitution?
13 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 11:57am
- kowtow
  
  That’s what you get with a diversity hire.
  
  Seen what the top brass have done to the police in the UK ?
  
  11 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 12:16pm
Surely Knott

Media Headline Food Blogger Julie Powell dies at 49 of cardiac arrest. 1 news leaves out all the key relevant scientific facts. And also her nasty comments

They don’t report:
1. When she was last vaccinated. Did she recently receive a 4th booster after being sick in June and then again in October. Did she also recently receive a flu vax. When?
2 She had covid symptoms which the media don’t report in NZ.
2. Nor her really mean and nasty texts. On Oct 2 2021, She tweeted “I would argue that COVID does kill some of the right people. The anti-vaxxers/maskers are dying in legions.”
3. In Jun 16, 2022 She tweeted, “So, as a vaccinated, boosted person, I’ve not been tested for Covid. Is it possible for me to be at this point? The Long Covid thing worries me, but also keep in mind that I’m a hypochondriac.”
4. In October 22 she posted, ” So I woke up with something that’s literally Black Hairy Tongue. People, including my doctor, seem to think it’s no big deal, and will go away soon, but it certainly is gross,” Powell shared in early October. Unfortunately, it seems that Powell’s doctor had dismissed her symptoms.” Apparently black hairy tongue is a covid symptom. So had she been having covid symptoms since june til october? But no test reported.
5. A series of tweets in early October shows she was really sick with covid like symptoms.
7. Didn’t the vaccine stop severe disease and death? Did she have another vaccine recently after catching it in June.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/11/02/julie-powell-food-writer-of-julie-julia-dies-at-49/

https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/author-julie-powell-dies-from-cardiac-arrest-one-year-tweeting-speculation-vaccine
12 2
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 12:56pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  “Didn’t the vaccine stop severe disease and death? ”
  
  No
  
  13 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 1:38pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Addendum – we were told so, but the data shows that any benefit wanes quickly. 6 months post booster you may as well not have bothered. Which now applies to nearly everyone world wide.
    
    Still pfizer made a fortune.
    
    I had not checked the New Zealand data for months. Took a peek.
    
    https://www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-vaccine-data
    
    Child (5-11) vaccinations are up to 50 percent first dose and 28 percent second dose. Higher than I had expected.
    
    11 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 1:42pm
    - Clownworld
      
      Child abuse.
      
      10 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 3:03pm
  - kowtow
    
    The lockdowns didn’t either , if the UK figures are anything to go by.
    
    Higher excess mortality now than during the actual scamdemics.
    
    9 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 2:02pm
cmm

The Woodend fire is pretty busy – 6 choppers and a spray plane going flat out.

https://www.flightradar24.com/ZKMOT/2e134655
6 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 1:00pm
- Benedict Yu
  
  It is very windy in Christchurch today.
  
  5 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 1:43pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    and it’s very close to Guy Fawkes night.
    
    prepare for a few more out-of-control fires over the next week or so.
    
    6 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 1:49pm
    - kowtow
      
      Guy Fawkes will have to go the way of Shakespeare .
      
      Neo paganism and the Warehouse festival of sweets and ghouls is the future.
      
      4 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 2:00pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Guy Fawkes will have to go
        
        Yes, we shouldn’t be commemorating political terrorists.
        
        4 0
        Report
        November 3, 2022 2:09pm
      - cmm
        
        Aren’t we really commemorating the capture and defeat of a terrorist?
        
        That’s why Guys get blown up and chucked on fires etc.
        
        5 0
        Report
        November 3, 2022 2:48pm
      - kowtow
        
        Yes , a celebration of the defeat of yet another Popish plot .
        
        4 0
        Report
        November 3, 2022 4:55pm
    - Tony Stuart
      
      Indeed; the Police have confirmed that it is highly likely the fire was started by fireworks, and they are speaking with two “persons of interest”…
      
      4 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 2:08pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Well, of course they are
        
        1 0
        Report
        November 3, 2022 7:53pm
      - MCōs
        
        The fire was caused by fireworks.
        Totally unbelievable said nobody in New Zealand
        
        1 0
        Report
        November 3, 2022 9:08pm
Benedict Yu

I missed this. New Zealand providing $1.3 billion over four years to developing countries to adapt to climate change.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/130342582/climate-minister-blames-court-delay-for-inaction-on-tougher-climate-pledge

There is also this court case awaiting a judgement. A bunch of activist lawyers is seeking a determination by the courts that the Climate Change Commission is required to do more to meet “net zero”.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/127874852/why-the-climate-change-commission-is-being-taken-to-court

So we are in a situation where the Government has legislated for net zero by 2050. It is impossible to achieve and because current policy settings are insufficient, the Government is being sued for not complying with its own law.

And the National Party signed up for this! This thing has just started. Wait until 2030 when it will be obvious that net zero cannot be achieved. Even if we did it using international emissions trading, has it been costed?

So in summary, the Government is:

– adopting policies across the board to make New Zealand poorer (see farmers as exhibit #1)

– shipping $1.3 billion to developing countries

– considering signing up to a pledge to “compensate” developing countries for climate changed

– pledging net zero but being sued already for not being on track to meet the target.
17 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 1:36pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  No need to wait until 2030 before it becomes obvious – it’s obvious right now.
  
  9 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 1:46pm
- Nickc2
  
  I sincerely hope an incoming Govt can cancel all this crap.
  
  10 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 1:48pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    How? National supported the legislation and targets.
    
    11 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 2:05pm
- kowtow
  
  HDPA was on about the climate billions a cuppla weeks ago .She expressed surprise that there was so little said about it.
  
  She’s part of the NZME stable.
  
  There’s a platform to deplatform this scam ……..not.
  
  One of the reasons we’re in so deep is msm compliance.
  
  7 1
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 1:57pm
- Jack5
  
  Climate extremism a new strain of nihilism – the madness that swept Russia and was made famous by Dostoevsky.
  
  Will the following accusation soon be enough to take a person into the slammer? Climate extremists are insane and dangerous.
  
  7 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 5:14pm
Maggie Pie

There goes the neighborhood 🙁

https://twitter.com/NZStuff/status/1587948185083076608

SHEESH!!
5 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 1:59pm
- kevn
  
  @Maggie… Years ago I was looking at buying a red Falcon wagon. My car service workshop owner said NOOO, don’t buy it, mongrel mob will just steal it.
  He knew about these things, I didn’t.
  Bought a green one, pounamu green. Much later on, it was very easy to sell with that colour noted in the ad 🙂
  
  5 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 2:13pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Rubbish.. makes a nice change from street after street of grey sludge.
  
  8 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 2:15pm
  - kevn
    
    @Maggy… You might have missed the word Ford ‘Falcon’. Not a Hyundai or others of similar ilk.
    
    6 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 3:20pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      My comment was to maggie pie and was in reference to the predominantly grey houses in the Mt Maunganui Street (and elsewhere)
      
      https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/300728611/pohutukawa-or-shades-of-mob-neighbours-see-red-over-bright-bach-in-flash-street
      
      4 0
      Log in to Reply
      Report
      November 3, 2022 5:13pm
      - Ghost
        
        Drive past any new development and they are cold and lifeless, sad.
        
        5 0
        Report
        November 3, 2022 5:14pm
- cmm
  
  That’s not Mob Red.
  
  6 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 2:50pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  Reminds me of a house out the back of A-von-da-le years ago – off Canal Rd – red and black pained front fence. Just yelled out gang house. LOL.
  
  5 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 5:53pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    ‘Denis the Menace’ lives here?
    
    2 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 7:55pm
- MCōs
  
  Crusaders colours in Chiefs area.
  
  That street looks like it needs a kick in the arse
  
  3 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 9:02pm
cmm

$55M only goes so far…

Mallard is getting a bit of a caning from the Herald.
So far we’ve paid $330k + $55k in legal costs + whatever else for this scrote and he gets rewarded with a cushy job overseas.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/former-speaker-trevor-mallards-final-sting-in-55k-bill-over-winston-peters-trespass-case/62C6TXCMUNFRVKWSLDOEAPYOPI/
14 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 2:07pm
Surely Knott

One Stop Shops Auckland Local Election community group post says,

” REGISTER TO VOTE TOMORROW
Come along tomorrow whānau and register to vote. Facilitated by the Electoral Commision. Koha voucher included for your time.
Date: 30 Sep 2022
Time: 1pm
Venue: Te Ata Hāpai – 44/18 Lambie Drive, Manukau
Light snack supplied”

I wonder how much the Koha Voucher was? Is that what the red envelopes in the white bag are sitting on the election post box.? Labour party candidates brochure open on table.

https://www.facebook.com/MaTeHuruhuru/photos/a.103749011494458/620241933178494/?__cft__%5B0%5D=AZX1kAdRLb5UESaT1Od3O7ap10rRoN9eVzfZfMrwHRgPYRaCrj7xSKzZPH7sbFqbI3imuiQDrxO15vhimzXLyDkfS9wZuLZiSpqzmbiVl311YMIC22VWF7s2CqUuBP5USA7R5nAe2Gj0-DzU5jsza3J9pBJgMQfvFo6gm39MZQ8vtZR9MOwG2m2I0orbCYDwd50&__tn__=%2CO*F
5 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 2:28pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Kelvin still in lockdown..

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/labours-deputy-leader-put-behind-closed-doors
12 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 2:28pm
- Bobba Fret
  
  Even Labour know they can’t trust him not to say something stupid. Clearly only appointed as deputy due to his Maori heritage, certainly not based on skill.
  
  16 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 2:42pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Looks like all the Labour Maori MPs have been locked down….
    
    The open session has no contribution from the Māori caucus or the Māori branch of the party.
    
    9 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 2:49pm
  - kevn
    
    @Bobba… Token maori, is the term to use.
    
    4 0
    Log in to Reply
    Report
    November 3, 2022 5:08pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING….

Elon plans to terminate 3700 jobs at Twitter Inc. this Friday, about half of the current workforce….and will reverse the company’s ‘work-from-anywhere’ policy, saying remaining employees must all return to the offices.

– Bloomberg

The shitz about to hit the fan 😀
21 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 2:33pm
krazykiwi

No recession in the death business. One of my investments (NYSE:SCI) is doing well. Service Corporation International is an American provider of funeral goods and services as well as cemetery property and services. It is headquartered in Neartown, Houston, Texas. SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries. Up 10% today on bumper earnings.
10 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 2:34pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  I wonder why…..
  
  2 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 4, 2022 4:00am
Justitia

Hot off the press, a brilliant commentary in today’s Australian Spectator, “Jacinda Just Go”: https://spectator.com.au/2022/11/jacinda-just-go/
24 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 2:49pm
- krazykiwi
  
  This is what happens when you put socialists in charge. They smile. They play-act at ‘kindness’. They suffocate democracy with their mothering until there’s nothing left but orders barked from loudspeakers.
  
  Socialists reward bad behaviour with government hand-outs, punish the working class with taxation, and then act surprised as crime, delinquency, unemployment, drug addiction, and abuse permeate society. ‘Why doesn’t free money work?’ They cry, writing the next set of blank cheques.
  
  True, that.
  
  17 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 4:16pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  That was quite vicious on our Queen of the Nation.
  I think when her advisors tell her about these sorts of things she just says “fuck it, go away. Next please. Oh no, I have to catch MY plane, bye”
  
  10 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 5:00pm
Don Beckett

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8wG49Xd024

This is alarming. New Zealand, or East Germany ?
Sean Plunket nails it on The Platform.
12 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 3:22pm
- emmess
  
  We are worse
  At least, East Germany’s Olympic cheats were actually biological women
  
  7 0
  Log in to Reply
  Report
  November 3, 2022 5:51pm
kevn

@Justitia… Cool. The Aussies are onto her. You won’t read that article in ANY NZ media.
13 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 3:56pm
Ghost

Polling commissioned by the ACT Party and released exclusively to Newshub shows the National candidate – whoever it may be – in pole position.

It asked 400 Hamilton West voters, ‘while candidates for the by-election haven’t been announced yet, which party’s candidate are you most likely to vote for?’.

The results show 44.7 percent said they’d vote for the National candidate, 36.6 percent said they’d vote for Labour’s and just 2.5 percent said they’d vote for Dr Sharma.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/11/exclusive-hamilton-west-poll-results-revealed-as-dr-gaurav-sharma-levels-accusation-at-labour-candidate-georgie-dansey.html
10 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 7:06pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Past 7.30, so normal people are still here.
Bill Maher Snowflakes.
https://rumble.com/v1qzmo2-lib-bill-maher-hilariously-roasts-snowflake-generation-with-halloween-costu.html?
4 0
Log in to Reply
Report
November 3, 2022 7:36pm

Add a Comment Cancel reply

Login to comment or vote

« Starship turns down $570,000

Nick Smith shows how to unite »

Donations

You can now donate to Kiwiblog

Exclusive content from DPF on Patreon

Become a Patron!

Never miss a post

Email Address

Join 13K other subscribers

Highlights

Target achieved II
Good progress on attendance
Health Target 5 – elective treatments
Health Target 4 – Specialist appointments

Links

'The Myth of Authoritarian Efficiency'
Not PC
No tears for Starmer
The Standard
NRL Predictions for Round 17
Stats Chat
Word of the day
Hompaddock
The Story of Lola, Ruth, Mayah and the Strolling Bulgarians
No Minister
How Chlöe is taxing our credibility when she says flawed figures flowed from a “typo”
Point of Order
8pm LIVE TONIGHT The Bradbury Group with Labour Leader Chris Hipkins, NZCTU President Sandra Grey + Political Panel – Matthew Hooton, Fran O’Sullivan + Max Harris
The Daily Blog
The Partition: Ireland Divided 1885 to 1925 by Charles Townshend (2021)
Utopia
Time to tax the rich
No Right Turn
Media Link: “A View from Afar” on Systemic Change.
Kiwipolitico
Alex Berenson on Fatherhood Manifesto, Marijuana & Biden’s COVID
Bob McCoskrie's McBlog
People Power
NZCPR
Levies as end-runs around the Generic Tax Policy Process
Offsetting Behaviour
A central banker’s fiction
Croaking Cassandra
THE WORKING FROM HOME RACKET BY PUBLIC SERVANTS
No Punches Pulled (Bob Jones)
The Accidental Engagement
Imperator Fish
Legal Beagle: Election '23: The Special Votes
Public Address
Get Vaccinated Tomorrow Or Shut Your Pie Hole
Cactus Kate
Making this movie might have been a mistake
Liam Hehir
Why I am retiring from political blogging
Kiwi FireWalker

[email protected]

PO Box 12270, Thorndon, Wellington 6144

Facebook
Twitter
FourSquare
Instagram
LinkedIn
Google+

Archives
Disclosure Statement
Editorial Policy
Privacy Policy
Complaints Policy
Comments Policy

Design by cre8d

%d

Share this:

Like this: