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“Police night is Wednesday” just about blew my fuse!
https://x.com/cmaa726/status/2067765516245086441
The piece someone posted yesterday about “chestless men” comes to mind.
Need to go Sri Lankan on the ruling classes and their enforcers, the British police.
Five minutes of Rupert Lowe’s report.
…… Legacy media refuse to cover it. ……
https://nitter.net/i/status/2067232174869279151
5 mins 02 secs : June 17, 2026
@ 2 mins 07 Wednesday nights are told.
The media reframe the narrative where they can into another “Believe it or Not” fabrication, or by omission, whilst claiming journalism is an honourable job. …..Yeah right ….
And in France, the same.
….. Tomorrow, the courts of my country, France, may decide to send me to prison for daring to say on television that “the main danger to women in France is Black African and Arab immigrant men.”
Meanwhile, my own attacker, a Tunisian migrant, is still at large. …..
https://nitter.net/i/status/2066933891676483840
1 min 42 secs : 16th June.
A communist polity is criminalizing the victims of actual crime, when they speak the the truth that is in opposition to state narratives.
FJA made me a racist.
FJA made me racist too and cleared me of my natural empathy after her FAKE “be kind” bullshit. She really is an 😈 abuser
Morning Troopers, I haven’t worked this out, so can someone explain in a nutshell what it is the the government’s doing with the conservation estate. It sounds incredible. Once it’s gone, it’s gone. This is one of NZ’s greatest resources.
Doc inherited a lot of land of linz , doc has a remit that land cant be grazed or quarried or mined , some of this land is one of these things , they need to be able to sell it off. Effectively it is a fuckup by political and civil servant types that needs fixed.
nats selling out nz to the rich. what else do they do?… nothing thats good for the average kiwi thats for sure
Makes a change from giving it to the Maori along with a bucket of money!!!
The first offer is to be is too the iwi, that will be richly resourced by the tax payer.
Remember how important recycling, reselling in Aaooteeaarooaa has been built into the psych as the new & acceptable ‘normal’
Then it may be sold to the silly rich “investor”, as after all they may have to keep on continously buying if they build anything.
For example, the “investors” may put like the water in pipes, tanks, through pumps & whatever, but do remember, they will have to pay continously for the mauri in the water.
Where-ever, what-ever taniwhai, mauri, mana can be recycled for ongoing koha.
Well Saggy, the first thing you have to understand, if the name “Potaka” is linked, mentioned, included or associated with this Legislation, then you the Taxpayer and the Country as a whole is about to be rodgered, royally, and IWI are about to benefit, greatly.
Ask yourself, if the Government is going to sell any State Asset, be it a School, Box of Choclates or shudder, a Conservation Reserve, who must they offer it too first.
Ooohhh, that’s right, Maori, And if Potaka is involved guess what!
Just bend over saggy, like the rest of us are expected to do and take it like a Man.
Personally, I think this may be the thing that swings this Nation against National and the Coalition, come November.
Potaka is a snake in the grass, not to be trusted !!
Mr Nuts, he is an absolute Snake that has evolved from a Weasel. I do not understand how the good people of Hamilton West can keep Voting this Benedict Arnold in.
The town hall meeting that was posted (last weekend??) of Winston in Cambridge I think – Winston asked them why people in the area kept voting National when it is abundantly clear that National are fucking them in the arse (paraphrasing there).
And it’s a valid question. Are they mentally challenged?
Old habits die hard. You could ask the same question of all the voters in Manchester who voted labor yesterday
Would have been much better to have retained Dr.
Guarav Sharma who was exposing Labour’s deceitful tricks & bullying ways.
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Sharma said said he formally emailed the prime minister’s office in December with detailed complaints against McAnulty, but nothing was done.
“Instead a few months later Kieran was promoted to a Minister of the Crown unfortunately sending a message to caucus members being bullied that their wellbeing and concerns didn’t matter.”
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/politics/473451/timeline-of-gaurav-sharma-s-allegations-and-the-labour-party-saga
So a great match is made when McAnulty switches to Winston Peters’s NZFirst.
Just more deviousness, a doubling down for NZFirst as well.
Thanks to MMP the good people of Hamilton West no longer have any real say. Potaka will have an unassailable list ranking.
It must be piss if the Scot’s don’t like it
🔥🤣 THE SCOTTISH ARE DRINKING ALL THE BEER IN BOSTON LOL
“We have never seen anything like it. The White Bull Tavern… they drank the place dry… all that was left was BUDLIGHT” – Bar Managers
Even the Scots won’t drink Bud Light. It’s true they are assimilating to America perfectly.
https://x.com/JMacreany/status/2068098947172724959?s=20
Wasn’t me
https://x.com/gugi263/status/2067948510868385870?s=12
It’s the monkeys!
Did you notice them hiding?
Look at the second dog’s shifty eyes and its paws.
You actually need to stop the video to see them
Reading the oh so relaxing “body language”.
Muslim Prayer time.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1521602416348842
Just toying, as is in their nature, until the latch on & ‘take down’
The EU Acted. Hungary Acted. The US Acted. Britain Signed Hotel Contracts Until 2039.
Yesterday the European Parliament voted 418 to 218 to pass the strictest returns legislation in EU history. The lead negotiator described it as the final missing piece of Europe’s migration system. After almost twenty years of standstill, he said, Europe finally has effective return measures. The vote followed the Chișinău Declaration of 15 May, signed by all 46 Council of Europe member states, pushing back against the European Court of Human Rights’ increasingly expansive interpretation of migration law. Europe’s governments, operating inside the ECHR framework, have decided they have had enough of judicial overreach. They are acting anyway.
Britain’s removal rate for illegal arrivals stands at 4%. The EU’s removal rate, the number so catastrophically low it triggered yesterday’s emergency legislation, stands at 20%. Britain is removing at one fifth the rate of a system the EU itself just declared broken beyond tolerance. While announcing it wants to stop the boats, the Home Office has signed accommodation contracts for asylum seekers running until 2039. A government that intends to remove people does not contract for 15 years of housing them.
The standard explanation is the ECHR. Ministers have cited it for years as the primary obstacle to removal, the external constraint that ties Britain’s hands regardless of political will. It is worth examining that claim against the Court’s own published data. Of more than 430,000 applications processed by the ECHR in the past decade, fewer than 2% concerned immigration. Of those, over 92% were dismissed. Fewer than 450 cases, one in every thousand applications to the Court, resulted in a finding of human rights violation on immigration grounds.
The obstacle is not in Strasbourg. It is in Chancery Lane. The domestic immigration tribunal system, staffed in part by judges whose documented backgrounds lie in open-borders advocacy, produces rulings that no democratically elected parliament ever intended and that the ECHR itself would not require. And the institutional machinery surrounding it ensures that challenging any of this carries consequences. A new Islamophobia definition, opposed by the government’s own former anti-extremism adviser and by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, is being embedded across every school, hospital, broadcaster and public body in the country. Two-tier policing, documented in Hampshire’s own Race Action Plan and in the College of Policing’s guidance, conditions officers to treat a racism accusation as the primary fact requiring response. The framework does not just permit the embedding of mass migration. It is designed to make objecting to it a disciplinary matter.
The EU has now demonstrated, within the ECHR framework, that effective returns legislation is achievable. Hungary has demonstrated that a 4% removal rate is a political choice, not a legal inevitability. The United States has demonstrated that border crossings can be reduced from 1.6 million to under 240,000 within months of a government deciding to act. Every external constraint Britain’s government cites as the reason it cannot act has now been dismantled by other governments operating under comparable or identical legal obligations.
Mass immigration is not an act of nature managed by people smugglers. It is a policy choice sustained by successive governments across thirty years, maintained by an institutional framework that classifies concern about it as extremism, and defended by a legal excuse that the EU just voted 418 to 218 to stop hiding behind.
The smugglers did not build this system. The government did. Yesterday, 418 members of the European Parliament decided they had had enough of pretending otherwise. Britain’s government has not.
“Mass immigration is not an act of nature managed by people smugglers. It is a policy choice sustained by successive governments across thirty years”
The EU fools finally realise they got it wrong with open borders. It is quite surreal to see them chanting “SEND THEM BACK”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyxiaFUrze0
Send them back’ chants in EU Parliament after anti-migrant bill passes
Right-wing members of the European Parliament led chants of ‘send them back’ after lawmakers approved the controversial ‘Return of Migrants’ law by 418 votes to 218. Left-wing MEPs protested the chants by chanting ‘shame on you’ while raising their fists.
…
Slow the tide. Stop the tide. Turn back the tide.
It’s taken far too long
Now to see what actions are more than just voted on to be enacted but the actual system is in place, & the initial flow turns into a torrent in very short time, like Trump time.
Julie Anne Genter MP
Anyone who knows me knows that I disagree with National’s Chris Bishop on many, many things.
At the same time, Minister Bishop was part of something that happened this week that is good for the country and deserves recognition.
This week, almost all of Parliament backed the 30-year Infrastructure Plan, which sets out a pathway for improving how Aotearoa New Zealand plans and delivers infrastructure.
The plan was prepared by the NZ Infrastructure Commission, an independent Crown entity, and sets out 16 recommendations and 10 priorities for the next decade.
Fundamentally, it flags the need to shift focus to maintaining existing assets, rather than rushing to build new ones.
To be clear, some of the things I strongly disagree with Minister Bishop on include his government’s approach to how those recommendations and priorities are advanced – don’t even get me started on the Roads of National Party Significance!
However, I do believe the Minister has done the right thing by including the Greens and Labour in the government’s response to the plan. I think it shows good intentions. I was pleased, as the Green’s infrastructure spokesperson, to be invited, along with Labour’s infrastructure spokesperson, Kieran McAnulty, to write a foreword for the plan. It was also good to be able to use that foreword to highlight our concerns about the government’s approach to parts of it.
The plan’s message is actually pretty simple: when it comes to investing in long-lived assets, we need commitment to long-term planning and evidence-informed decision-making.
All parties should be able to agree with that.
You can read the Infrastructure Commission’s report here: https://tewaihanga.govt.nz/national…/foreword
Still got a Maori name it seems.
The Greens and Labour are stuffed by this. Their agreement binds them to the Infrastructure planning. But there is always a big Butt. They will change it when their turn comes if they want to and don’t agree.
Would you trust McNutty the slime?
Even if he is Naaskas ‘ favourite MP?
“There is always a bug Butt”. That’s a bit unnecessary about Genter’s derrière.
Hating the rich for the sin of succeeding isn’t helpful; try this instead – Nick Stewart
Nick Stewart is a financial adviser and CEO at Stewart Group.
Last week the NZ Herald reported, plainly, that Elon Musk had become the world’s first trillionaire after shares in SpaceX leapt as much as 30% on debut – the largest initial public offering in history. That is the news.
What happened next is the story.
Canada’s Globe and Mail ran an opinion piece headlined: “SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Here’s how to properly hate him.”
After a day of ridicule, the paper swapped it for the blander “Is that a bad look for capitalism?”, conceding the original “did not meet The Globe’s editorial standard”.
The mask slipped, then was hastily refitted. But we all saw the face beneath.
Closer to home, the chorus is familiar. Oxfam Aotearoa tells us four New Zealand billionaires hold more wealth than 1.8 million of their countrymen, and calls it obscene.
Polls are cited showing most want the ultra-rich taxed more, and we are reminded that Musk alone is worth almost as much as every New Zealander combined.
The sentiment is always the same: someone has too much, and that is a problem to correct rather than a phenomenon to understand.
I want to make the unfashionable case.
Not for Musk the man, he hardly needs my help, but for what the exception represents: the rare individual who turns the stuff of science fiction into things we use every day without a second thought.
Consider the funnel.
Many people have ideas. Fewer act on them. Fewer still build something that turns a profit.
And a vanishingly small number, statistical outliers, take an idea and deliver it at scale.
New Zealand has produced our own precious few: the Mowbrays’ Zuru, now the country’s wealthiest at an estimated $20 billion, alongside Trade Me, Xero, Rocket Lab, the family-owned Gallagher Group and Fisher & Paykel Healthcare.
And the same pattern holds inside the companies we reduce too easily to a single famous name.
Gwynne Shotwell joined SpaceX as its 11th employee in 2002 and helped build it, as president, into the company that just floated, with her stake now estimated at around US$2.5b ($4.34b).
The builders are plural, and the rewards often follow competence more than celebrity.
Here is what the zero-sum brigade misses: the same listing that minted the world’s first trillionaire also turned more than 4400 staff into millionaires, by the New York Times’ reckoning, among them a welder who joined in 2015 on about US$28 an hour and took part of his pay in stock.
The trillionaire and the welder came from the same event. The pie did not get carved up. It got bigger.
The NBR Rich List has swelled 23-fold in 40 years to a record $129b, with Rocket Lab’s Sir Peter Beck alone leaping from about $650m to $11b in a year.
And yet our productivity has barely moved in 30 years. We are very good at debating how to carve the pie, and strangely uninterested in baking a larger one.
None of this is new. Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller were the titans of their age, reviled as robber barons. Carnegie made his fortune in steel and gave much of it away, seeding more than 2500 free public libraries across the world, 18 in New Zealand alone.
The resentment faded. The libraries remain. The wealth was temporary, but the institutions it built endured.
Great fortunes gather, crest, and in time disperse through families, philanthropy, taxation and the passage of generations. Marriages fail and heirs quarrel; Jeff Bezos parted with roughly a quarter of his Amazon stake in a single divorce.
No one takes it with them. They are only ever the custodian of their wealth for the span of a life.
ewart is a financial adviser and CEO at Stewart Group
As for taxing such people into their place – success is already taxed, and handsomely.
A culture that treats achievement as a crime to punish rather than a feat to study will simply get less of it.
There is a fiduciary truth here, the same one I return to with clients:
tearing others down builds nothing.
The job – mine, yours, the nation’s – is stewardship: to grow what we are given, to think in decades rather than headlines, and to leave more behind than we found.
So, before we are told, yet again, how to properly hate someone for the sin of succeeding, it is worth asking the more useful question.
Not how do we cut them down to size, but what will we leave standing when we are gone?
Winter never lasts; the snows always melt.
And before all the whingers start, yes i copied it and that is for thoise that don’t want to pay.
carnegie only gave it away through guilt tho after his and his business partners involvement in the deaths of thousands of people.
personally idgaf about how much money someone has, what i gaf about is how they obtained it. many are via being buddies with politicians and getting cushy contracts allowing them to socialise the cost of r&d then privatise the profit.
another aspect that really fucks me off with the envy of the rich is those that do so via selling products everyone wants the haters likely use said products and forget they willingly handed over their money to buy them… just like many millions of other humans have done, starlink, iphone, zuru toys etc
The other problem is the definition of rich. In a communist mind that means anyone with one bread crust more than they have.
Yes Iaasb;
Creating or making wealth, can be a two-edged sword that can be swirled by both left & right.
Just as Nasska’s progeny are waiting, and then later nasska awaits in purgatory for the indulgences to be paid, in full, for the delayed & very lateness of his philanthrophy.
While he gained his wealth, for all the pine trees & slash to be rebalanced.
Of course if nothing is left, then that is a life that has been well spent when the cheque for the funeral director bounces.
If I can’t take it with me I’m not going! 🙂
Satan has your timeline.
He’s awaiting.
Fire is on.
There’s no virgins for you, old chap, but he might find a brown blonde in there somewhere.
Tie a string on it before you go, just so you can call the nurse to pull it out for you when the brown blond wiggles her tit at you.
here’s another one worth a read.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/inside-nzs-mega-philanthropy-what-drives-richlisters-and-millionaires-to-donate/premium/C3E73W6375HVZMJ2LOGH4DP6NQ/
Many a true word…etc. etc.
Too late for that. He has already acted, and they have been.
About time. “Just an idea” FAFO time.
DOJ arresting military styled ANTIFA groups being rounded up for domestic terrorism, conspiracy with a major Labour Union. Funding streams being investigated.
https://rumble.com/v7bhk6e-trump-cracks-down-on-antifa-terrorists-in-minnesota.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
Trump CRACKS DOWN on ANTIFA Terrorists in Minnesota!!!
Dr Steve Turley
**TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD!!!!!! **
The automatic number plate scanners plus the automatic weighing scans being done in New Zealand.
One Police Sign Changed Our Day | VanlifeNZ • S1E72
https://youtu.be/1n6eLA28UNE
7 mins 38 secs : 17th June, 2026 :
Set to start on the issue.;—-
https://youtu.be/1n6eLA28UNE?t=158
So if a bit more weight then a $350 fine as nearly over the “lee-way”
Also could have been fined if they did not notice the sign.
I think nasska may know where this?
South Island I think S1 so a bit out of my territory. Most rigs carrying logs or aggregate have onboard electronic weighing equipment so they don’t cop overloading fines. Same with linehaul.
Going by the screeching of the unwashed you would expect every truck in NZ to be running ten tons over. In practise the fines are so draconian & the repercussions to operators’ TSLs so severe that few risk it.
Just as well I sold my camper when I did. I was always overweight. Fill up with water, fuel and wine, all adds up. Plus all my toys, metal detector, prospecting gear, tools, and of course Mrs Holy.
the setup near rakaia has pits and near full time inspectors to go over heavy vehicles with a fine tooth comb.
mate got an inside peak before it opened, every single driver is on camera bigly. they are through many stretches of road in nz, big brother loves you//////
The long buildings have the pit.
Wait till they put emissions testing gear in there. Coming to you soon.
All those clever dicks deleting will be off-roaded.
yup, they told my mate the emissions testing is coming soon.
We have been hearing that but no one from anywhere will even go near the subject, from the Ministers down to NZTA, nor will the greens.
Even investigative reporters can’t get any answers. We have some friends there.
All we know is that it will come. No clear tests, off the road
As the rules currently stand; ‘If the equipment comes in with the gear, then it needs to be operating”
A little more we know.
The new testing machines are around 12k.
The rules will apply to all diesel engines. cars, trucks, off road construction machinery and boats as well.
I guess the issue is: who will be responsible for the off-road bits and the boats? Currently, the regional councils’ responsibility, not that you would know it, just like keeping rivers clear.
Will there be a period of grace to fix?
All the big operators know, but some still delete. Argument is the cost of new. We can fix that, so we expect to be busy later this year.
The other issue is that there are operators out there buying older gear and running it for a project of a couple of years, then trashing it. Undercutting to get the work because of lower overheads.
Some of these new rigs cost upwards of a million dollars.
Many are making the mistake of buying too big for the loads they haul, so buying 700hp and hauling light loads, which is not good for the engine. Diesels need to work hard to be efficient and look after their own health.
At the end of the day, they are not allowed to go faster, so all they gain is bigger bills.
The new Volvo is 780 HP. Already been one wrecked. OUCH.
If you think you can cheat the computers, forget it. Some have tried buying a second-hand one, but they know which vehicle they are from, so not swapable normally.
One of the side effects of all these new rigs is that there is a huge increase in volume capacity. The big new trailers are 30+% bigger than the older ones. So they can carry more in terms of volume but not in terms of weight.
Nett result, freight companies are cutting rates to fill trucks.
I get a sense of your priorities.
Sounds like last on would be first off. 😀
There are many advantages to marrying a svelte woman & not letting her run to fat. For example:
1) Not having to change entire wardrobes because she has nothing left that contains the blubber. Mrs Nasska still fits her wedding dress which is very handy in case we go out somewhere.
2) Have you seen the cost of a packet of Tim Tams?
3) More room for the toys in the Land Cruiser & caravan when we go walkabout.
4) Aesthetics.
Miserable sod, you just never fed her well.
Bet the dogs got better fed.
The rule holds for dogs & women. Unless you don’t intend to feed them again tomorrow they don’t need stored energy.
All the fat does is slow them down. 🙂
Sounds entirely rational as long as my wife doesn’t find out. You may have noticed women have no sense humor and in my case even less if I think it’s funny.
I lose my sense of humour if I get “hangry”. Frequent ‘grazing’ sorts that. Luckily my weight ratio is like a greyhound rather than a bovine. 🦌🐄 😅
mrs sb gets very hangry aswell, god help anyone who gets in her way about 1130am if she hasnt had a snack.
So far, in “God’s Zone” we do not have to pay a capital gain tax for shifting to the “Lucky Country” unlike Canadians.
But the nooses will be put in place, then tightened as being just a cog in the furthering a capital gains tax.
….. difficult meeting with my accountant, I just found out how much it is going to cost me in terms of an “exit tax” to leave Quebec and Canada.
No human being in a free society should have their hard-earned money stolen in this manner. ……
https://nitter.net/GadSaad/status/2067711140658909421
A part of an AI response:–
When you cease to be a Canadian tax resident:The CRA treats most of your assets as if you sold them at fair market value on the day before you leave.
You pay capital gains tax on the unrealized gains (only 50% of the gain is taxable, but at your marginal rate — which in Quebec for high earners can be around 50%+ combined federal/provincial).
This applies to things like:Non-registered investment accounts (stocks, ETFs, mutual funds)
Cryptocurrency
Private company shares
Collectibles, art, jewelry, etc.
Exemptions (important ones):Principal residence (your home)
RRSPs, RRIFs, TFSAs (tax-sheltered accounts)
Pensions and certain other registered plans ….
…. Defenders say it’s reasonable: you benefited from Canadian infrastructure, education, healthcare, etc., while building that wealth — so pay tax on the gains before taking it elsewhere. ….
[Never mind if you paid high taxes during that time, which the government spent.]
….. (US, Australia, Germany, France, etc.) have similar rules …..
Another facet of “The Eagles” “Hotel California”
…. But they just can’t kill the beast ….
….. You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave” …..
Nothing more sure in the final stabbing, of “death & taxes”
Just to make sure, there are no pockets in the shroud.
Tax and spent governments are rife. Which of these socialist luuvvie Western countries with previous stable economies will be driven over the financial cliff first? I’m picking the UK.
“Diversity is our strength” 🤮 💩
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MQgFFSEkGD8
short
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FJGnPF4lxHw
Cover for muslim gang activities rife with vape shops, etc
short
Thanks. Worth watching!
Q. What’s the best thing about AI ?
A. South Aucklanders learning another vowel.
Yes, better some artificial intelligence than natural stupidity.
Not here
https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/2068092126705955156?s=20
Should be not any where ! ! !
https://nitter.net/TRobinsonNewEra/status/2068092126705955156?s=20
1 min 29 secs :
Some great comments & memes.
Talk about gaps in the system, for student studies / workers plus temporary workers, then the exemptions etc.. etc… not going to be properly monitored in Canada.
Guess which country will supply the largest number?
Will it be any different in New Zealand?
The Immigration Crisis is About to Get Much Worse…
https://youtu.be/q9TEmV48-3k
10 minutes 20 secs : June 20th 2026 : Rebel News.
Tamara Ugolini examines the International Mobility Program, the overlooked policy that is fuelling Canada’s mass immigration crisis along with the more widely known Temporary Foreign Worker Program.
Note how the supposed opposition slides along sounding like they oppose this but, by answering, that we need every tool in the tool box to build more homes.
So all our NZ parties operate the same way, all to be in compliance with UN Global Migration Pact that NZ signed up with.
All works well as DEI can be used too as why the “new hires” are exotic.
Gross Domestic Productivity, to be divided up more, and will per capita of growth really be the result?
An increased size of market for the hospo, arts, creative plus festivals & event t be cooridinated with more cell phones, emitting emergency squawks, plus ev’s & systems to be sold.
In the mean time note how the costly regulatory formulas of building new houses, of now planned obsolescence & disguised as expensive maintainance & upgrades.
Plus the connived “healthy homes” regulatory permits, fees, levies etc..
Cabinet ministers have told Sir Keir Starmer he must stand aside for Andy Burnham.
The Manchester mayor’s decisive by-election win in Makerfield, where he secured more than half of the vote, has led to a fresh rebellion among Sir Keir’s top team.
In his victory speech, Burnham all but called for the Prime Minister to go, declaring it was Labour’s “last chance to change”.
He said: “We are going to take that opportunity, and we are going to lay out a new path for Britain.”
Boris said:
She told Sky News: “Well, I hate to quote Boris Johnson, but do you remember when he said when he realised that he had to leave government? He said about his ministers and his MPs, ‘the herd is moving’.
“Well, I have to say that it’s not only that the herd is moving – they are stampeding.”
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/360995555/cabinet-ministers-tell-starmer-stand-aside-burnham
Lots more in this article.
Seems that there is division in Labour, the donors, will they do it again & support Keir Starmer?
Which way will the Unions push?
A war-chest to payoff parts of the herd in hay? or is it lemmings?
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/keir-starmer-war-chest-burnham-streeting-5Hjdbnb_2/
So does it come down to who has & follow the $money?
…..”In his victory speech, Burnham all but called for the Prime Minister to go, declaring it was Labour’s “last chance to change”……
It won’t be much of a change. Burnham is a member of the Fabian Society, same as Starmer & every Labour Party leader along with half of the current Cabinet.
…..”“We are going to take that opportunity, and we are going to lay out a new path for Britain.””……
Nothing will change except for the PR. The agenda is set in stone & the herd is stampeding into a brick wall.
The Fabians are “dedicated to advancing the principles of social democracy and democratic socialism through gradualist and reformist means rather than revolutionary overthrow. Gradualist and reformist methods include imposing socialism using instruments of the state, such as legislation and statutes.”
https://expose-news.com/2026/05/15/andy-burnham-or-keir-starmer-makes-no-difference/
So far everything seems to be on track & heading to a successful conclusion.
Yes, over the fiscal cliff. The UK financial demise will be quicker if “mad Ed” Milliband gets to hold the economy’s reins as chancellor, controlling funding his beloved Net Zero nirvana.
Why do I find this funny?
https://x.com/best_clips__/status/2068037345954386028?s=20
only you and your best friend know te answer to that question.
“Stand & Deliver”
From the Did you Know files.
‘This election will be tight’: National kicks off 2026 campaign at party conference
The National Party’s 90th annual conference kicked off in Lower Hutt on Saturday, with the Prime Minister calling the event as the start of the election campaign.
“Get organised,” he told attendees. “Because elections aren’t won in this room. They’re won on door steps … and that work starts the moment that we all walk out of this door.”
But the speakers, who included Luxon, party president Sylvia Wood and deputy leader Nicola Willis, spent far more time looking to the past than the future.
“It’s about the next decade and beyond,” Wood said, before turning her comments to the previous government.
“Our Fast Track Act has supported many major new developments that would otherwise be tied up in court. … We’re taking on the local government behemoth; we’re advancing plans to reduce its many layers, and mark my words, Winston Peters, cap the rates that it charges.”
Party president Sylvia Wood appeared to acknowledge why.
“We all know this election will be tight,” she said, before outlining three things that will matter for November.
“First, we must remain true to the values of the National Party. … Second, we must win the party vote, because a strong party vote means a strong National lead government.
yeah well they have a long way back then.
“Because elections aren’t won in this room. They’re won on door steps …
Really? Don’t come knocking here… We’ve been watching the election promises you failed to deliver, so won’t believe what you say you will deliver. Future behaviour directly correlates to past behaviour.
Talking of which, I was out last Saturday at work, and when I arrived home, there was a pamphlet on the door.
Sorry I missed you
Jan Tinetti
If you would like more information, contact me.
Well, her hubby was a building practitioner that I used several years back for some alterations. Nice guy, loved fishing over the beach. Haven’t seen him since she buggered off to Whangarei.
You can have her back Tarquin.
Bloody usless at the shool down the road. sucked up the the rag bag tanata who what was.
National MP Andrew Bayly is leaving politics.
The former minister announced he would not stand for re-election in his Port Waikato seat earlier this year, but told Stuff at the time that he was “exploring the option of applying to be on the party list”.
On Saturday, a party spokesperson confirmed that Bayly had informed the party “some time ago” that he wouldn’t be seeking a place on the list.
Bayly told The Post that his decision was personal. “My wife and I have decided to pursue a different path,” he said.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360995616/national-mp-andrew-bayly-leave-politics-after-12-years
Another who didn’t fit the Catholic mould.
Should have been finance minister.
I would love him to go to NZF. I know someone who worked under him and rated him extremely highly on multiple aspects.
Yep even Sam reckons he is good. Like Sam, commercial operators, both from banking and finance.
Emboldened by the success of overturning his Law Society complaint, lawyer Stephen Franks is on a campaign to stamp out activism from professional bodies.
He’s proposing a law change so that regulatory bodies focus on the consumer, protecting the public from practitioners who are incompetent, lazy and dishonest.
His Regulated Professions Neutrality Bill also ensures that these peak bodies must not misuse their disciplinary powers to advance or oppose politically contentious views.
The proposed bill makes clear that members should be free to hold and express their own views on political, historical, social, cultural and other contentious issues.
In short, Franks believes people should be free to express their own opinions, and professional bodies should be politically and ideologically neutral.
Regulatory bodies that ignore the law and fail to act with neutrality risk being sued.
“If they do misuse their powers and that’s established in court, then they have to pay all the costs of the people who’ve challenged it.
“At the moment, of course, it could cost hundreds of thousands to challenge this stuff, and you’re out of pocket, even if you win. So one of the ways to make it less likely for these bodies to ignore it is to make them liable.”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellington-lawyer-stephen-franks-pushes-law-change-to-curb-activism-in-professional-bodies/PJTAHUQPMRHU5GHUFRIWH7RVAY/
there is a copy of his proposed bill on the herald.
I could put it all up but someone will complain for sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai0oEwgK4eM
David Seymour: Why Bureaucracy Keeps Creeping Up In New Zealand
Deputy Prime Minister and ACT leader David Seymour joins Duncan to discuss his new legislative push to eliminate forced woke compliance training within regulatory bodies like the Medical Council and Real Estate Authority. Inspired by similar laws in Alberta, Canada, Seymour argues professionals should not be forced to affirm politically contested positions or identity politics just to do their jobs. …
Julian Batchelor ( Stop Co-Governance ) has a short video which has popped up on my phone that talks about a report, which looks like it was written by Richard Preeble, which talks about Maori been given $5billion a year since 2004.
Anyone seen this report or where it is reported ?
Thanks Ross12 & nasska, which was written by some journalist critiquing Prebbles article of the 6th Jan. 2004
6 Jan., 2004 by Richard Prebble.
Act has produced significant research that shows there is a $5 billion Maori tax-to-benefit gap.
For every $2 Maori pay in tax, Maori receive $7, a net gain of $5.
Last February, the Government published research that claimed Maori households contributed more in tax than they received in benefits and other …..
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/irichard-prebblei-vast-benefit-gap-gives-maori-more/3MLMXK3UVAO6N636RJZ7NVENPQ/#:~
Premium paywalled.
as per nasska’ comment;—
7th Jan., 2004 : By RUTH BERRY, political reporter
Act says Maori get $5 billion more a year from the state than they contribute in tax, a result of “race-based” policies that reward dependency and penalise working people.
The party has not sought to analyse figures for other groups and Act leader Richard Prebble admitted yesterday ….
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/maori-getting-best-deal-say-act/WEIYUJIJXUAVUN6VDUDS4ITI2Y/
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So it seems that report, and at this stage I do not know under whose auspices, was ACT?, came through in February 2003 if you are looking to find that report.
Act has produced significant research that shows there is a $5 billion Maori tax-to-benefit gap. For every $2 Maori pay in tax, Maori receive $7, a net gain of $5.
Last February, the Government published research that claimed Maori households contributed more in tax than they received in benefits and other Government transfers.
Labour commissioned the race-based research to justify its race-based approach to social spending and its preference for Maori in spending programmes. An Institute for Economic Research study appeared to validate this approach.
But Act’s research demonstrates that the Government’s published research is wrong. Maori households do not contribute more in tax than they receive in benefits; the reverse is true.
The Institute of Economic Research finding is false because the researchers left out non-cash benefits received by households. Non-cash programmes, such as health and education, are the bulk of Government spending.
Act has debated whether to release these findings because, as a party, we do not support race-based policies. We also realise that those who are the beneficiaries of race-based programmes will attack Act as racist. This has already happened.
The Prime Minister, Helen Clark, has called Act “fanatics” for having done this research, and claimed we intend to use our research to promote racial division.
The Minister of Maori Affairs has also claimed this research shows Act to be Maori-bashing, ignoring the fact that his department commissioned the original research.
It is a deliberate strategy to attack anyone who questions the effectiveness of spending on Maori as being racist. In a multiracial country, to be called racist is a serious matter. Fear of being so labelled has prevented open and intelligent debate on Maori issues.
Despite the Government’s pre-emptive attack, Act is publishing the research. We are satisfied that our research is professional and accurate. We publish in the hope that intelligent New Zealanders will go past the personal abuse and examine the facts.
The research needs to be published, not just to keep the Government honest or because the taxpayer paid for it; these are significant findings.
Some $5 billion a year is a huge sum. It is about what the Government spends every year on roads, defence, police, courts, prisons regional development, conservation and the arts.
It is more comprehensible to look at the money in individual terms. Maori, on average, receive each year in benefits from the taxpayer $8000 more than they pay in taxes. Over a lifetime, the average net benefit for each Maori is $560,000.
Put another way, on average the Government will take from every non-Maori over their lifetime $120,000 to give to Maori.
These transfers do not include Waitangi settlements, the allocation of radio wave bands, the fishing settlement or the foreshore claim. They are all extra.
The taxpayer transfers put the Waitangi settlements into context. The fiscal envelope for total Waitangi claims is $2 billion, less than half the annual transfer to Maori.
This research raises important questions over the Government’s priorities and approach. Act’s first concern is over the value of this type of racial research.
Racial research implies that all Maori adults are receiving a subsidy of $8000 a year. Not so. There are many successful Maori. There is a growing Maori professional class who earn good incomes and pay the 39c income-tax rate.
Racial research implies that all Maori fail. Despite Government programmes, there is growing evidence of increasing Maori success. There are more Maori at university than ever. There are a growing number of Maori-owned and operated businesses. There is a Maori renaissance in the arts that is helping to redefine how we see ourselves.
Racial profiling is not needed and it is dangerous.
Most New Zealanders are willing to pay taxes to enable a Maori child on the East Cape to have an education, just as we are willing to pay for the education of the child of a Christchurch skinhead, whose life chances are just as challenged.
The Institute of Economic Research study was commissioned to justify the Government advantaging Maori at the expense of other groups in society.
Act rejects this view of politics, of society, of race and of government. We believe it is possible to have policies that advantage all sectors. We believe that the Government should govern for the good of society as a whole and not just for the benefit of a sector.
The Government should treat people as individuals and not as members of some collective sector interest group. To treat a sector of the population differently because of something we have no control over – our race – is bound to lead to racial disharmony.
A race-based approach is at the heart of the Government’s policies. The size of the Maori tax-benefit gap raises important questions. What return is the country receiving from this enormous investment?
It demonstrates the paradox: you do not cure poverty by giving away taxpayers’ money. As Government spending has gone up, it has not helped. Violent crime is up. Despite low unemployment the number of working-age, able-bodied adults on benefits is now around 360,000.
The relative position of Maori under the Government appears to be getting worse. Last July, there were more 18 and 19-year-old Maori on the unemployment benefit than non-Maori. (Just 19 per cent of 18 and 19-year-olds are Maori).
For the first time, in November, there were more Maori children in DPB households than European (79,173 compared to 74,233). It is a poor return on a $5 billion a year investment.
Act’s finding of this tax-benefit gap raises questions regarding Government priorities. Ideally, the tax paid should equal the benefits received.
The priority should be reducing the $5 billion Maori tax-benefit gap but instead it is Treaty of Waitangi claims, the foreshore claim and the $200 million “reducing inequalities” programmes.
One year’s taxpayer transfers to Maori are worth eight times the total Waitangi settlements paid to Maori to date.
Too much time and effort is going into Waitangi settlements. It is obvious, from Act’s research, that claims that these settlements will give Maori an economic base to close inequalities are nonsense. If $5 billion a year has not worked, why should $600 million over four years work?
The grievance industry is absorbing too much time and effort of the leaders of Maoridom. The lesson of Act’s research is to speed up and finalise the Waitangi claims.
All the above must be doubly true regarding the priority given to “reducing inequalities” spending. Government departments are required to give priority to this programme and to give special reports. Lifting annual taxpayer spending on Maori from $5 billion to $5.2 billion is not likely to make a difference.
The evidence indicates that the Government spending is not the solution, but a large part of the problem.
By AI
… published in 2003 was commissioned by the Labour government and conducted by the Institute of Economic Research (NZIER).
It estimated the size and composition of the Māori contribution to the national economy, including how much Māori households paid in taxes relative to the amount they received in social benefits. [1, 2]
This research—and subsequent analysis by economist Simon Chapple—prompted significant debate.
The conclusions were highly contested by political groups like the ACT Party.
Critics argued that the findings were fundamentally flawed because the economic modeling omitted “non-cash benefits” (such as free public healthcare and education) that heavily influence a household’s net fiscal balance. [1, 2, 3]
It was purportedly the subject of an article by Richard Prebble written for the NZ Herald in 2004. He alleged wrote that “ACT says Maori get $5 billion more a year from the state than they contribute in tax, a result of ‘race based’ policies that reward dependency & penalise working people”.
Locked behind a Herald Premium paywall for those who waste their money on biased socialist drivel.
Or are broken-arsed and who deny paying others for their labour and whinge when they don’t get paid themselves.
So they remain ignorant of other news and options.
Remain unable to be objective about the content they criticise, and make wild statements that show how stupid their argument is.
Another top day here in paradise. The thermometer outside is on 36deg. I’m sweatin like a maori learnin English. Very quiet here as Phuket sits in low season. The bonus being the filthy Russians have departed. Don’t like ’em.. those filthy Russians. Bit like Corp Jones in Dads Army and his dislike of the Germans. “They don’t like it up ’em, Capt Mannering”
Enjoy the sunshine. Chilly, grey day here in the socialist republic on the arse end of the world. Southerly about to hit the country. 🥶
You’ll be interested in this then. The doors to Hell have opened on the Village of the Damned:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360995450/heavy-rain-and-130kph-gales-set-batter-south-island
damn shame that…*slurps on another beer singh while perving at the err wildlife
24 in Christchurch today, people collapsing from heat exhaustion and sunning at Brighton beach. I kid you not.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Cft8AMxPZQ8
Because she loves you 🍺 😎
The resemblance is uncanny 😂 😂 😂
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New Zealanders deserve the facts.
Conservation land includes sacred places, habitats to many taonga (treasured) species, and many of the most iconic and majestic landscapes and heritage sites across the country. We have huge responsibilities for these places for our generations and those who follow us.
That’s why I have been so dedicated to supporting conservation through recently announcing the massive increase in marine reserve space off Otago, the $10m support for Predator Free 2050 Auckland alongside NEXT Foundation and Auckland Council, and over $120m further investment in getting rid of wilding pines and predators especially down South.
Over the last week, some groups have asserted that through the Conservation Amendment Bill the Government is planning to sell off large areas of conservation land. If this was true, I would be the first person to raise serious concern.
However, that is not what the Conservation Amendment Bill proposes. The Bill does not create a programme of land sales. Neither the Department of Conservation – Te Papa Atawhai (DOC) nor the Government is seeking to sell large areas of conservation land.
In fact, DOC can dispose of certain categories of conservation land right now and has had the ability to do this for decades. I didn’t hear much noise from these groups when small parcels of land were returned to Iwi or transferred to Councils or other arrangements.
The Conservation Amendment Bill clarifies very stringent tests for any disposing land. Many areas will simply remain ineligible for disposal including lands under Treaty settlement arrangements unless Treaty partners support the idea in writing. Engagement with various organisations and people will be required as well as a public notification and engagement process. The Director-General of DOC will need to make a recommendation for disposal to the Minister who in turn must consider various matters before coming to a decision.
New Zealanders care deeply about conservation land, and so do I.
The purpose of proposed conservation reforms is not to sell land. It is to fix a conservation system that is not fit for purpose for us or our tamariki and mokopuna. We need to change the conservation system to achieve far better outcomes for native species, habitats, recreation, and public access.
I encourage New Zealanders to look at the facts, take the time to read the Bill, and make a submission to the select committee
One of my favourite memories as a child was building sandcastles with my granddad……. until my mother took the urn away.
Why California is broke, and Texas is not.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/JjnagMZT-kw
Vance and Kelly.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jgjFJjDSH44
Ted Cruze.On the Democrats’ record
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a9MK7RiIcxs
One for Naaska to decide on.
An atheist asked a Christian.
Where did God come from?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Vi_Hll8Fues
Anyone watching the World Cup via TVNZ? The footage is fine but the commentary is crap. Rather thye just shut up than offer their pompous opinions. Jus tell us whats happening. “Bill passes to Tom who fucks it up and scores an own goal”, …. type of thing. We dont need to know that the last time someon tripped over the ball while facing east when the moon was risng happened in 1932 after some hooker shagged his opponent…kind of crap.