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Good morning
Did anyone get raided last night?
No all good thanks Diggy. But we have moved in with my mother-in-law just to throw them off the scent.
Apparently a National spokesman was interviewed on Magic radio this morning and said something quite robust about the police. I can’t find it, has anyone got a link please?
Wow the Labour led Coalition have really done a good job for those that voted for them over the housing situation since being installed as the Government.
Public housing waiting list hits new high of 14,500 house holds, the waiting list has more than doubled from the roughly 6,000 Individuals or families on the list after the 2017 General Election.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/407241/public-housing-waiting-list-hits-new-high-of-14-500-households
With figures like these and the economy on a downturn we have stories like this that Labour promised wouldn’t happen on there watch of elected in 2017 but have been found wanting after two a bit years with no idea’s how to fix it.
The numbers being accommodated in motels at taxpayer expense has increased four fold in the last quarter according to a report in our local paper. Tourists are being turned away.
I struggle to accept that I need to pay tax to cover some one else’s housing costs while also having to pay for our family living costs. The hand up that may be a reasonable imposition on the taxpayer has been abused to the point where it is an unacceptable hand out.
I do not expect the government to provide housing for my family. I accept the responsibility to provide for our family and have worked for over 50 years to do so. Well past time, in my view, to reduce access to the welfare being handed out by politicians seeking votes. Housing yourself and your family is a personal responsibility and a faster shift to reduce some of the public expectations in this matter is desirable.
“More public housing” is not an electoral bribe I am interested in paying any form of tax or rates for.
I agree. How do you think it can be done?
As I have said before
In Bangladesh they built houses for 600,000 Rohinga’s in two weeks
it can be done
No RMA or health and safety Dig.
Pretty much, regulations are hampering us in solving the problem. And you don’t want to create a slum – we’ve seen how that ended up with low quality state housing in the US and the UK and some parts of Auckland.
There are opportunities though. Think back to the tyres we joked about the other day? Can they be used in construction to help support walls and double as an insulating layer? Can we do something smart with the spare plastic sitting in landfills and rubbish tips?
Etc.
Yes, but they might not like a grass hut and no 20″ tv!
Tourists are not only being turned away; the ones that make it are being turned off by the behaviour of these collections of ferals. It’s embarrassing for NZ and damaging for the tourist industry. Heard from a relly about an unsavory experience they had in Rotorua recently. And this governments policies are exacerbating the issue, as evidenced by the figures.
One thing that has caused house prices to rise that many people forget is the number of split families
Eg a normal family lives in one house
If they split up or divorce, one partner needs to buy their own house or rent one.
Don’t forget the new “they are us” and their multiple families. One husband, many wives must live somewhere.
Yes and it won’t get any better until again Successive Governments decide that we have to have housing for our own before those that come with Immigration and as long as we have Immigration policies like at present the problem will always exist.
One house each.
Yet, divorce rates (# per 1,000) is trending down (as are marriages / civil unions) and are now at the same level as in 1977. Net migration over the first 9 months of 2019 was 37,215. I’d wager the 37,000 new people moving into the country in a year is the largest problem.
I would like to see more stats on what those migrants are doing. How many of them are productive and not claiming a benefit of some kind? For example, I’m working with a Chinese property developer at the moment. He has about 20 houses on the go at the moment that he’s adding to the housing stock here in Auckland, all targeted at medium income families and another 10 that he’s targeting at the higher end of the market. He’s an immigrant that’s come here and is working hard to make money, but he’s also starting to create more housing in NZ than the Labour government 🙂
E.g. a good immigrant, not a bad one. You want people like him in the country, to help build it up.
I just hope that your Chinese friend is building good quality homes and following our rules and regulations and paying PAYE and GST.
I am partnering with him for the development of some.
Bullshit Successive Governments over the years have caused this problems you can’t just blame one, if they had any intention of fixing the housing problem they would all join together and stop land banking, completely rip the RMA apart and stop the monopoly on building materials making it a easier proposition to save and purchace a house. The problem is people want mansions instead crawling before they walk
And how about stopping immigration for one year.
And making all the neets get a job.
That will fix the housing demand,
And Cut the dole to nothing
And reduce our taxes and lessen crime.
All in one go.
No work – no money.
Our first house was a small three-bedroomed box stuck on a section.
How I miss the great community spirit that got our nappy valley subdivision started.
If someone saved up enough to lay concrete for a driveway, we all helped dig it out and get the boxing in, then everyone turned up with their rake for the pour, and if there was any mix left someone would nip over to the neighbours and box up a path to their letterbox so the excess could be wheel-barrowed over there.
We may have started with a tarpaulin over the clothesline serving as a gazebo for entertaining, but we were all aspirational for ourselves and for our neighbours, and the luxuries of smart decks and shaded pergolas followed the essentials of fences and garages in time. Most of us were paying 20+% on our mortgages, but we repaid them and refinanced to move on to more prestigious postcodes.
That bottom rung of the property ladder doesn’t exist any more, and I’m not sure young people would step up to the challenge like we did.
National need to pull finger. Election time is coming up, they have to be relentless and bash the living shit out of the part time prime minister ardern and the col. They have all the ammo they need, failure after failure after failure. C’mon Simon..step up to the mark.
I just noticed that Parliament sits again on February 11th!
On that day our supreme leader will make their speech.
She’s going to be a busy little girl is our Communist Cindy,
Opening parliament,
Going to maori day,
Ratana church,
Branton Tarrant day,
Davos trip.
Wedding,
Honneymoon,
Baby,
Election.
No time there to spin out of control!
How is Socialist Cindy with her limited work ethic only managing to be a PTPM going to cope with the inevitable stack of political cock-ups that will land on her plate? Being election year there are bound to be even more controversies thrown at Socialist Cindy as we all dig for COL incompetence, cock-ups and scandals. Will Socialist Cindy spit the dummy?
She won’t and we won’t know about them because the unbiased media won’t tell us, even behind a pay wall.
Ed has told us he has been the initial contact for two big political scandals in the media, the recent armed raid of a quiet conservative family man and blogger after he made a submission to the royal commission; and the judge with connections to the Labour Party who handed down a decision on the party camp pervert scandal. If YSB can receive information from two sources in such quick succession, I imagine there will be more people with information who want to pass their concerns to a free speech forum like YSB.
MH – the only New Zealand politician who seems to be working at present is David Seymour. Peters put a suit on far a day to talk about Iran and then disappeared and no one else has been sighted since Parliament shut down.
James Shaw was on the radio yesterday trying to stand up for Climate Change in schools
I emailed him and told him he was an idiot, which I do not normally do, he made me so angry.
Simon Bridges was on Radio Magic with Peter Williams and spoke out against the police raid on a family due to what someone wrote in their submission.
Got a link?
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/01/simon-bridges-fears-politicisation-of-police-after-raid-of-right-wing-activist-s-home.html
Yes, I saw that yesterday and had an e mail this morning from National head office referring me to the same. I had understood that a National spokesman was on the radio this morning but I must have mis-understood.
He has to.
His party only got 13,000 votes last election.
Or, you know this might be a radical thought for you here. Just maybe. Just maybe he could be doing the right thing and standing up to Ardern and doing his damndest to do the right thing for us Kiwis. Rather than the rest of the politicians who are still dicking around in the sun or looking out for themselves.
But then, David Seymour has principles. It seems to be in short supply.
Mike – The trouble is National have so much ammunition it needs to be handled and published carefully. Too much all at once could be seen as too negative and voting public get turned off. National need to concentrate on say 3 big things that this COL has fucked up, then concentrate on 3 big policies that they will do in Govt. Short and Sharp is the way to go.
This Government has unfunded St John’s since they have come to power even though there has been several stories published on the subject so even though NZ First want new laws on this and others like the Police and Fre Brigade they cannot be trusted going into Election Year, remember there promise to dairy owners over smokes and security camera’s is a great example especially over the latest to tax increases on tobacco.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/warkworth-paramedic-kicked-unconscious-last-night-symptom-larger-problem-mp-says.
This guy when apprehended should share a cell with one of NZ’S toughest criminals and left to defend himself without the intervention of prison guards.
I would provide that POS with a free camping holiday on Auckland Island.
Everyone wants to live in Auckland, so good choice. 😉
That is a massively incorrect statement
You say
‘This Government has unfunded St John’s since they have come to power ‘
Currently on their website
https://www.stjohn.org.nz/globalassets/180517_stj-funding-faq-document_hq.pdf
Does the Government fund St John?
We are funded in part by Government and community contracts with the Ministry of Health (to respond to medical emergencies) and ACC (to respond to personal injuries).
From 2018 this will fund about > 74% < of our ambulance service operating costs. To help cover the remaining shortfall, St John relies on donations from generous people like you, revenue from commercial activities(such as first aid training and medical alarms) and a patient part-charge for non-accident related emergency ambulance call outs of $98 (incl GST).
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1911/S00119/ambulance-unions-concern-over-st-john-ambulance-funding.htm
There are several other stories about the Government promising funding that St John’s has not recieved.
St John Ambulances in Wellington are painted with rainbow flags.
Finally a tally for the cultural enrichment that seems to have become traditional in France for more than a decade.
France saw 1,457 vehicles set on fire across New Year’s Eve, surpassing the previous record of 1,290, ……
….. French police allegedly attempting to keep the number of burned cars under secrecy so as not to “create an escalation”,…..
….. Ministry only counted cars that were directly set on fire and not those that had received damage as a result of fires. ……
…… president of the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service, describing the youths as “ultra-violent, in organised bands”.
“We are dealing with very mobile groups that light fires for the sole purpose of seeing the firefighters and the police arrive and confront them. We have reached a milestone: they no longer target vehicles but men. They act to hurt them,” he said. ……
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/01/12/france-2019-saw-record-1457-cars-burned-new-years-eve/
That is just one night of diversity celebration.
The French seem to accept this as the new “normal” 🙁
What do you expect with milions of black and muslim guys in a western country with nothing to do all day.
They need to send them all back
To be fair
If they are French cars I don’t see a problem here
too soon?
Do we all have an unconscious bias against brown skin, because we do not want to be seen as peasants working in the field, like Koreans apparently do?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/118711463/the-curious-case-of-the-korean-sunscreen-one-pkeh-kiwi-goes-beyond-the-pale
Some Natonal Mps are “working”
From Stuff
“Faafoi added that Budget 2019 had included $197 million to strengthen and expand the Housing First programme.
That funding would be able to support up to 2700 homeless whānau across New Zealand, he said.
However, National’s Associate Housing spokesperson Simon O’Connor said: “Labour was too quick to meddle in the rental market when it should have been focused on building houses”.
“The reason we’re in this mess today is because KiwiBuild tanked, Labour’s new rental standards scared off landlords at the affordable end of the market, and its decision to end tenancy reviews increased pressure on social housing supply.”
If National were to get back into government at this year’s election, it said it would “prioritise our most vulnerable Kiwis by throwing our weight behind community housing providers and introducing a target to reduce the time it takes MSD to house Priority-A clients on the social housing register”.
Well Mr O’Connor, As long as the government lets in 5000 people a month the problem will get worse.
My view is these whanau need to be clear the problem of housing themselves is not one for any government to be expected to solve. The government may assist those in dire need through unavoidable circumstance to get reestablished, and Simon O’Connor refers to community housing providers.
A community rethink seems necessary. Housing your family, and dependents, is for the individual to accept responsibility for. Any expectation the government, local or national, will provide housing is not sustainable or realistic as a burden on taxpayers and ratepayers. Community providers may step up and provide housing at a price to cover costs but a free or cheap option funded by rates or taxes paid by others should not be an expectation as a solution to a personal responsibility or problem.
Iwis have received a lot of money to address historical inequalities. Maybe some of that needs to filter down to improve the lives of their people struggling to house themselves?
What a radical idea Pascal! Surely you aren’t suggesting that those at the top of the Maori greasy pole should hand over some of the treaty settlement cash to the underclass who would only waste it on booze and fags and pokies instead of investing in silk under ware and Rolex watches and Range Rover Vogues are you?
Why Alice, how astute. Yes, that is exactly what I am suggesting.
That came across snarkier than I intended. I was merely trying to play along with the “What a radical idea … surely you aren’t suggesting” tone 🙂
As the picture at the top of YSB depicts, I do hope Harry and Meghan enjoy living independently
Boris Johnson refuses to comment on ‘royal showdown’
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/01/boris-johnson-refuses-to-comment-on-royal-showdown.html
The head of state announced there would be a “period of transition” with Harry and Meghan – who have said they want to be financially independent and step back as senior royals – living in Canada and the UK.
Joining the Queen at Sandringham was Prince Charles – Prince of Wales – and Prince William – the Duke of Cambridge – for the face-to-face talks with Prince Harry.
The Queen has described the talks as “very constructive”.
Fafai says that the increased funding will fund up to 2,700 families.
He thinks that is great when there are 14,000 on the list.
That will be good ammo for National when we get close to the election.
2,700 is almost half of Nationals total. So National would have just about solved the problem by now.
Is this the norm for our pass there used by date Jounalists like Vernon Small when they move on and become press secretary for the party they are aligned to. While I can’t prove that Johnathon Young is 100% right it what he has quoted I am less inclined to agree with David Parkers opinion and don’t have a lot of trust in his politics.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/118747312/modelling-used-by-national-mp-to-condemn-freshwater-proposals-misinterpreted–environment-minsters-office
Davd Parker Bill’s passed in Parliament will end up like a previous Labour Prime Ministers Bill’s Geoffrey Palmer not fit for purpose and need to be rewritten sooner than later
Did Goeffrey Palmer give him a habd to draft it?
Petition circulates in US counties to protect civilian gun rights
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6121872316001
Legislation surrounding gun laws looks set to be a key issue in the 2020 US presidential election as petitions regarding the contentious topic have been circulated and signed by those seeking to protect their Second Amendment rights.
Several counties in the state of Kentucky are taking steps to try and prevent their rights to weapons being limited.
In amusing stories for the day, Nicholas Baldeck messed around with CES by creating the worlds’ first smart potato.
Maybe some 3d chess moves here?
,,,,,, Iran pays $3 billion annually to Pyongyang for various forms of cooperation—about 10 percent of North Korea’s gross domestic product. ……
….. The missiles launched by Iran on Jan. 8, which targeted but didn’t harm any U.S. forces in Iraq, meanwhile, are widely believed to be of the Qiam model, which Chang says is “based on a North Korean design.” ……
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us-strategy-of-deterrence-with-iran-sends-message-to-north-korea-experts_3198959.html
A 2 for 1 throw, and so will there be a hiccup in the flow of funds as probably arranged by Soleimani to N Korea, 🙂
Did we see this? Won’t everybody want to bring their dogs, saying that they are therapeutic?
A therapeutic Pitbull?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/406703/national-party-calls-for-courtroom-dogs-for-victim-stress-relief
Good to see National focussing on the big stuff.
Is there any doubt that this is where a lot of large donations would have originated from to fund NZ Firsts secret Foundation. Racing supporter Graham O’Brien said the bill was the biggest land grab since early Colonial Days. A section in the bill has proposed the Minister of Racing to be able to use the money from the sale of small Racing Clubs towards funding improvements in other venues.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/118762109/proposed-new-racing-industry-reforms-will-take-money-from-sale-of-stratford-freehold-track
So Winston gets to give money to other Clubs for improving there venues, I wonder what he will want in return your guess is as good as mine.
Brown paper bags, of course!
The small clubs have every right to be annoyed. But they are fighting back –Hokotika has done a deal with the local and sold their track for a nominal fee to them so Winston’s gang cannot get their hands on it. I’m not sure of the fine details but if the Stratford Club lawyers think it is OK they should do the same.
You have to say one thing though,
When Whinestone is bought, he stays bought!
Anyone think he would love for the money to disappear ti to his slush fund?
Is he a snowflake?
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/sport/2020/01/cricket-spectator-banned-two-years-after-racially-abusing-england-star-jofra-archer-at-mt-maunganui.html
Slap on the dick with a wet bus ticket!
Every turnstile gaurd is to be issued with a photo of the man, in case he tries to sneak back in!
Who gets to choose who lives longer, and do we need to? Be down to money I guess.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/01/mutations-could-let-humans-live-for-500-years.html?ref=ves-nextauto
Shit, they look like tadpoles. 🙂
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2020/01/why-hundreds-of-baby-sharks-were-seen-sunbathing-at-great-barrier-island.html
I am enjoying using my new macbook Pro 16 ”
The big screen is handy for all the pages I have open.
Running 2 websites plus other stuff, takes up space.
One thing I have noticed is with 5 or more tabs open on the Firefox browser, the laptop was getting very hot.
A quick search as to why this was happening and the problem was all the open tabs, makes the CPU work overtime. and heats up. So I closed all non used tabs.
No more overheating.
Or, you know. Use it for it’s intended purpose – open 400 tabs, flip the damn thing over and cook some eggs. And when you’re ready to buy a device that doesn’t choke and melt when you open 5 tabs, I can introduce you to a few nice PC based laptops 🙂
(Is that the response you were fishing for?)
Here, here Pascal
Now using my :-
HP Probook Win 7; 8 Gb RAM; Running 1 TB spinning hard disk
Google Chrome with over 50 tabs open incl 6 YouTube (on pause; not playing) tabs
15 Word Docs
5 Excel docs
and more
CPU use 10- 27%; Physical memory 70 to 85%
it sits on a CoolerMaster brand cooler fan which I only use when the air temp gets to about 26 Deg C.
With our global cooling that has not been necessary for over 9 months.
My HP Probook Win 10; 500 Mb SSD; 16 Gb Ram handles way more
Perhaps the heat is from the Hell that Buddhist Steve Jobs went to and a bit is escaping as the zombies try to make a prison/hell break
or,
The heat building up where Tim Cook will go to Hell for being a homosexual (or negligible innovation in the last 8 years) 🙂
Anyhow, if I can find my old Apricot F10 computer from 1985 I’ll ship it down.
I don’t use it as it is a bit underpowered but probably bedda than what you have !!
Wait for the renaming of Glink’s Gully, in……3, 2, 1.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/118765216/whale-stranded-off-glinks-gully-near-dargaville
I don’t consider them narrow minded at all. Why should drag queens need to interact with children. What behaviour (from the left) caused him to suicide?
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2020/01/brisbane-student-who-protested-against-drag-queens-at-children-s-event-found-dead.html
Piers Morgan clashes with a journalist in fiery debate over racism against Meghan Markle
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2020/01/piers-morgan-clashes-with-a-journalist-in-fiery-debate-over-racism-against-meghan-markle.html
“I would argue Camilla Parker-Bowles, Princess Diana and Fergie all got 10-times worst coverage in the media,” Morgan said. He said the media had just recently left Prince Harry and Meghan alone while they were on their six-week Canada holiday.
He asked whether Hirsch believed he was racist, to which she said: “The narratives you are perpetuating, yes they are racist. Where have you been racist? I came on here to discuss debates, but you take the position on the side of racism”.
Bill English getting into the Health sector?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/407272/disability-body-keeping-500k-fund-in-case-ministry-of-health-wants-it-back
The news is filled with negativity. But we should remember and celebrate achievements. Bill Gates recently shared the “Beautiful News” website and it’s quite uplifting.
For example, in the 25 years between 1990 and 2015, nearly a billion people were lifted out of poverty. That’s a sizeable chunk of the worlds’ population and I’m betting it’s not going to be because of socialism or communism 🙂
And even better, click through to the Data and they give you the Google docs + source URLs for the data used, so you can check and fact-check to your hearts desire.
Love it.
Great Site, thanks Pascal
I saw an interview with Bill Gates, and he said there is no way renewables will ever replace fossil fuel in the next 30 years.
OK, Then
The co-founder of MicroSoft has the Foundation’s data displayed on opposition’s Google Docs.
Noice!
He doesn’t run the site; he just shared it.
The New Year continues with puff pieces on Jacinda, Clarke and Neve which some of the “sheeple” lap up. The compliant MSM will continue this right up to the day before the election. The MSM have negative stories on National and in particular Simon Bridges trip to China. In the meantime poor old Winston 1st is left with no oxygen. It won’t be long now before fucking Whinestone tries to make himself relevant by creating some scandel or other for the media to latch onto. You know…….. the usual Whinestone Way!
yes its a disgrace
But as I said in the Taiwan election post…
She won the election, even though most of Taiwan’s media are Chinese owned or controlled.
So it shows the people are not always taken in.
I think many people (and even non bloggers) and ordinary people are starting to wake to the fact the the MSM is very left wing, anti Trump, anti Bridges, pro Left and pro Jacinda, pro Climate Change and pro Maori.
They dislike being fed propaganda.
Evil Bastards
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/01/new-climate-change-curriculum-lessons-on-greta-thunberg-and-dealing-with-scepticism.html
I think this will back fire on them
Great Turnberg is already being laughed at by some famous people.
And what right have they got to tell our children or Grandchildren to eat less meat, parents pay the Bill’s for food not schools or there teachers. Sounds like they are hell bent on crippling farmers.
No more sausage sizzles?
or cake stalls. Sugar, meat and dairy are off the menu. Poor kids will be fed on gruel and borsch (Russian beetroot soup) under Socialist Cindy and James, ‘I lie about climate change’ Shaw.
Mmmmmm Borsch…yum
Wait for the fucking wedding down Queen St Auckland coming up about 4 months out from the election.
Peters will be throwing that much shit around to attract the attention that he thinks he deserves, his pin stripe suit will need drycleaning every day along with a truckload of fucking mouthwash !~
I am far from being anti Maori. They are the indigenous people and this is their homeland. They have a right to exist. We are the guest cultures.
However, some of the legal changes, and utterances of the Chief Justice, are deeply concerning. Under Labour we are seeing the formation of institutional apartheid.
Maori have always done poorly under Labour regimes. These divisive politics of hate and entitlement will be a disaster for Maori and all other Kiwis.
Kea it is there own fault they except it without a fight and as soon as it time for the next election they can’t wait to vote Labour and hope Labour will honor there promises this time. Maori have been given billions in treaty settlements but it stays at the top never trickles down to those in need. It is easy to blame others than to except that you are to blame for your own stupidity.
“It is easy to blame others than to except that you are to blame for your own stupidity.”
That my friend is the way lefties operate. Always someone else’s fault. They live in a different world to those with practical minds and who take personal responsibility for their actions and beliefs.
For those of us focused on outcomes over ideology, the left are the worst thing to happen to maori in the contemporary setting.
My personal opinion on this matter, for what it’s worth, is this.
I’ve watched the slow and painful dying of, what used to be, proud races.
In my youth, Maori and European used to be friends, good friends.
Play together, work together, party together, grow together.
Something, both disturbing and profound, happened.
Entitlement agendas sprung up, out of nowhere, and now, as a consequence, incessantly plague us.
All of us.
One party, with the aid of ne’er dogooders have cemented our fate. Labour.
Labour promote racism and disharmony.
You cannot take from one group and give to another and expect equality.
They know this and they don’t care, they really don’t.
Labour bring all the nastiness and vitriol to the forefront every time they are voted in.
They are expert projectors of blame.
They tell everyone that we, are responsible for lighting the fire, while pocketing the matches.
They treat us with contempt.
Maori are now dependent on the state, to such a degree, that not even those at the top are aware they have been bought and continue to be bought.
They owe Labour big time and, Labour being Labour, shove that fact, in their faces, time after time…..election after election.
They are prisoners, addict’s of false hope, the hope that some day they will stand on their own two feet and be a proud people again.
Labour will not allow it….ever.
Labour foments dissent, in the quest for complete control and to ultimately achieve a broken society, on it’s knee’s, begging in the streets, with no choice but to succumb to pitiful hand outs laden with debt, that will be paid back, in full, with interest.
Socialism has no place in New Zealand, ever, full stop!
PS: I love my country.
One name to counter that Labour Only POV:-
the Catholic homosexual Christopher Francis Finlayson QC
What about Doug Graham and Doug Kidd? They sold this country out more than Finalyson could ever have dreamed.
Excellent post Braybots
Extra upticks for you ☑️ ☑️ ☑️ ☑️ ☑️
They are the indigenous people and this is their homeland. They have a right to exist. We are the guest cultures.
100 years ago, maybe. Now? We’re New Zealanders. They represent our history, our past and what is our unique heritage. But that includes the descendants of the European settlers, the Chinese that came for the gold rush, etc. and what they brought to the country. It’s not a static thing.
Maori have always done poorly under Labour regimes. These divisive politics of hate and entitlement will be a disaster for Maori and all other Kiwis.
Very true. When I first started reading about NZ politics, I recall a story of a West Coast family of European decent. They were poorer than a Maori family in Rotorua, but received a lower subsidy in terms of medical costs. (Was Doctors visits or something like that – too many years ago to find the actual link). They were poorer, but because they were white and not Maori, they received less. Even though they needed it more.
That’s why the desire to move to need based, rather than race based funding is such a good idea. Unfortunately it makes it impossible for Labour to cry victim, so … yeah.
Will it ever happen?
I don’t believe Maari are indigenous. They may have killed off any indigenous peoples that were here when they arrived.
“100 years ago, maybe. Now? We’re New Zealanders.”
Funny how many of the people advancing that argument are also the strongest supporters of people returning to claim Israel 2000 years later.
Give it up Kea. One does not mean the other. 🙄🙄🙄
The fuck? Who pissed in your Kugel? Stop trying to put words into my mouth.
What an inspirational speaker, he seems to sum up perfectly what is going wrong in our western countries these days. I wonder who he is, we should certainly hear more from him. 😉
https://twitter.com/wordstogrowby/status/1213874013010743298
yes I think I’ll join his party, never mind the New Conservatives.
He has a few very telling phrases
42 secs “It was imposed on our people by a subversive press
“Already the assault begins against the education of our children begins”
The following is a talk between James Shaw and Sean Plunket yesteday. It appears the the government is hoping to lock in the young vote.
New climate change curriculum: Lessons on Greta Thunberg and dealing with ‘scepticism’
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/01/new-climate-change-curriculum-lessons-on-greta-thunberg-and-dealing-with-scepticism.html
The inside info is that Labour and the Greens are planning on lowering the voting age to 16 in the near future.
Now consider the ‘Climate Change’ propaganda that our kids are being fed daily in School.
And consider that beaming pictures of Jacinda Ardern have appeared hanging in classrooms in New Zealand Schools- This is propaganda and appalling political brainwashing that Joseph Goebbels would have been proud of….
yes, we’ve al known that is their desire.
But can they do it?
Are they allowed to?
Does it need a referendum or 75% of the MPs votes
Or can Ardern and Liddle just wave their wand
This evil Socialist Regime really marches onwards!
Recall early in December, I warned that Ardern and her colleagues are pushing through a meaningless change to electoral law to test the waters and see if they can get away with it?
They introduced the cap on foreign donations, despite it making no different to donations. Under urgency. And with the coalition outvoted National to get it through.
Law change noted here.
I still believe that was just a test and that before the election we’ll see a change that seems reasonable, but that will give Labour a massive advantage. Either by dropping the threshold (To 3% or something like that), thus guaranteeing a NZF return or introducing a Youth Vote (14 / 16+) or something similar.
It will be reasonable enough that if you argue against it they’ll call you “racist” or “agist” or “far right” so the majority of NZ will swallow it. But it will screw any non-socialist / communist party and ensure they get in again.
Pascal, I do not think it will happen. If they did National will have to get elected some time and they could change the voting system so they would get in for 5 terms.
It would happen because Winston bloody Peters is only worried about getting himself back into parliament. Peters will demand whatever needs to be done to ensure his return. Stuff the country, stuff the election laws, it is all about Winston.
You are making the assumption they won’t use their 2 or 3 term government to dispose of the opposition, elections, etc.
But we will see, I would be happy to be wrong in this case.
just have to share this one –
This should be on a giant billboard in every city in the US:
“America does not need to see the tax return of a billionaire who became a public servant.
America needs to see the tax returns of public servants who became millionaires while being public servants”
Applies equally in NZ?
Especially true of public servants who become millionaires while on holiday.
We thought Communist Cindy was only bringing memories and Jethro!
Thanks freethinker, I ‘duck, ducked’ “America does not need to see the tax return of a billionaire who became a public servant.”
and got the original.
Better with the flashing lights!
https://tolleystopics.com/2019/11/17/this-should-be-on-a-giant-billboard-in-every-city/
Too true, how did the Clintons get to be so rich, when they left the White House poor!
What about Obuma were’s all his money come from, Africa?
Interesting look at the not so bright offspring of the Washington swamp gaining placement at top Ivy League universities. Chris Como, the obvious idiot on CNN who went to Yale – daddy was governor of NY. Hunter Biden, the Biden family money magnet went to George Town. Chelsea Clinton who does not show much intelligence and works for the Clinton Foundation went to Stanford. Neither would have got there under their own steam. Al Gore sent 4 of his offspring and Obama’s, daughter of course.
Tucker Carlson: Elite College Admissions for Dem Children ‘Quid Quo Pro,’ ‘Unregulated Lobbying’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2019/07/08/tucker-carlson-elite-college-admissions-for-dem-children-quid-quo-pro-unregulated-lobbying/
Close shave for National MP Nikki Kaye’s cat Charlie
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/01/close-shave-for-national-mp-nikki-kaye-s-cat-charlie.html
Best wishes Charlie. At least you’ll be cool over the worst of the summer heat but you may need to snuggle up to Nikki on these cold nights to keep warm. The worst of it is looking like you have an oversize head that gives you the look of “pencil neck, shifty Schiff”. 😊
Who give a fuck about this Nats cat. There are much more important things she should be commenting about, like disgusting education changes and the police raids on innocent citizens. Their failure to even comment shows they must agree with the COLL
……”Their failure to even comment shows they must agree with the COL”……
National march in lockstep with Labour & the Greens while offering little other than slightly saner administration. I think it was David Lange who first used the phrase “poll driven fruit-flies” but it sums them up well.
Yet I confess to taking a fleeting interest in the welfare of Nikki’s pussy. 🙂
I gave you an uptick because there are more important issues than her cat but 2020 is going to be a marathon not a sprint to the election so don’t get your knickers in a knot too early in the game! 😵 😉
Bioluminescent plankton brings enchanting blue glow to Auckland beach
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/bioluminescent-plankton-brings-enchanting-blue-glow-auckland-beach
Marine scientist Daniel Ward said the “glow” was caused by an oxidation reaction within the plankton organism’s body to produce light, to distract and evade predators.
He said it could be difficult to predict when the blooms of marine plankton would show up, even in their preferred warmer water temperatures.
“For the best experience of bioluminescence, the water needs to be disturbed, [through a] wave action or simply a swimmer splashing about as this triggers their defence mechanism,” Ward said.”
Isn’t nature amazing!
Is diversity our strength? Another powerful video just uploaded by OGW.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx4PgJqN1XQ
No
Diversity is strength if done right.
Diversity is what enabled us to share technology and information. Sharing of genetic material also has benefits and breeds stronger people.
What we have now days is not diversity. It is conformity and survival of the weakest.
Rest assured Kea. Humanity is no different from the rest of nature. The weak never survive for long. You wait and see.
SC, I was going to point that fact out myself. We agree.
Much leftist thought runs contrary to nature. That is why it fails and why the left are so bitter and twisted.
The benefits of diversity are limited. Selective breeding is the basis of animal husbandry & is responsible for breeds of eg. cattle & sheep. It also provides what we poor subsistence farmers call “hybrid vigour” which is the tendency of a cross-bred animal to show qualities superior to those of both parents.
But it only lasts for one generation. Mate those hybrids & the results usually disappoint.
As a cocky you have the luxury of turning your mistakes into dog tucker. Society generally frowns on culling its non performers. 🙂
Nasska, but look at the appalling result of inbreeding and a lack of genetic diversity.
As a chronic race mixer, I am ensuring the survival of the species.
Anything, so long as it doesn’t scare the horses. 🙂
Down my way, we generally tried to restrict our romantic encounters to the same species. Though I’m aware of cultural differences in the scrub choked hills of the North Island.
We encourage ours to breed, same as sending the fittest to war, the men that didn’t go ended up being the breeding bucks, so could that have affected current generations?
We encourage our weak to breed, same as sending the fittest to war, the men that didn’t go ended up being the breeding bucks, so could that have affected current generations?
It’s a manipulative abuse of altruism. Altruism being another thing that can be a strength done right.
How many here are intending to vote ACT?
➡ Up vote: Yes
➡ Down vote: No
And for every 10 likes you send somebody a Sparkly Pony / $5,000?
You go in the draw for a copy of Mein Kampf. The most enlightened book ever written by a politician.
At least he could write a book. No one in this lot could even write a letter of apology to the public of NZ about how they have fucked up our country in 2 long years.
Some of the authors methods were a bit dreadful, but he understood the interaction between money and power.
The left are regressive and primitive.
Led by the stinking animal Obama they shut down the US space program while spending trillions on war. The vile war monger Obama signed the US tax payers up to a Trillion Dollar nuclear modernization program, using his restarting of the cold war with Russia as justification.
The funny thing is that the US had to catch a ride on Russian rockets to get to the space station as they had none of their own. All the while preaching anti slavic hate not seen since Nazi Germany.
https://capitalresearch.org/article/nasa/
NEWS FLASH
Archaeologists working on a dig in on the Kaipara Harbour have found the house Winston Peters grew up in.
Was it a fossilised Blue Whale’s anus?