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Mike Hunty
15 days ago

Phooooo eh! Looks like I shat the bed again.

Viking
Reply to  Mike Hunty
15 days ago

What a way to start the day.

Second childhood on the way.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Viking
15 days ago

Yer, he’s going to put his short pants on and go play in the mud.

Tarquin
Reply to  Mike Hunty
15 days ago

Cubicle 3 for that particular malady.

Mike Hunty
Reply to  Tarquin
15 days ago

‘ang on, it was C4 yesterday. What’s goin on.

Tarquin
Reply to  Mike Hunty
15 days ago

Your brother moved out.

nasska
Reply to  Tarquin
15 days ago

Tarquin is the undisputed master & recipient of the “rejoinder of the day” award. 🙂

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
15 days ago

Morning. ☀️

Another good day until someone f*k’s it up. 🤣

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  waikatogirl
15 days ago

you called?

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
15 days ago

Well played.

Alice
15 days ago

New Zealand could learn a lot from Switzerland:

On the 27th of September, Swiss voters will decide on the popular initiative “Safeguarding Swiss Neutrality.” The proposal would insert a new article into the Federal Constitution declaring Swiss neutrality perpetual and armed. Switzerland would be barred from joining any military or defence alliance and from cooperating with such alliances except in the event of a direct attack or imminent preparation for one. It would also prohibit participation in armed conflicts between third countries and the imposition of sanctions on belligerent states, with narrow exceptions only for UN-mandated measures and steps to prevent circumvention of those sanctions. The country would instead leverage its neutrality for mediation and good offices.
This is not an abstract constitutional exercise or a merely bureaucratic formality. It is a direct response to the steady erosion of the principle that kept Switzerland out of both world wars and preserved its independence for two centuries. It is one of the core foundations the country was built on and one of the main reasons for its present success, the global trust it enjoys and its economic prowess.

Tarquin
Reply to  Alice
15 days ago

Having a banking / money laundering system that asks no questions, having no scruples and basically being yodeling nazis has probably done them more good from a financial point of view than anything else. Neutrality is just a disguise only a square head could use to justify moral bankruptcy.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Alice
15 days ago

No, they are yodeling bloody Germans.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Sooty
15 days ago

Must be coming in to election time. That star studded wonder of a verile man called Nicky hagar has poked his head out of cubicle three, at least I think it’s his head. You have to look closely to make sure.

Mike Hunty
Reply to  Sooty
15 days ago

Head? I thought more like a vandalised bus seat.

Tarquin
Reply to  Mike Hunty
15 days ago

I was having a look at Stuffed a few minutes ago and even they were struggling to find anyone interested in the book. They had 2 polls running and neither of them was favourable for Hager. how terribly sad for the rat faced one after all the hype last night.

Hooker Phil
15 days ago

I am quite convinced that Canada may even be more woke than New Zealand. The fact that my very left Hillary loving daughter has now settled there only gives weight to my thoughts.
Have a look how this Auckland “young mum” teen tries to smuggle $8m of meth and in theory gets to serve one day in prison but even that is discounted because of her day in court. I suspect that if the court case had been delayed they would have probably given her a lump sum.
\Anyway, hallelujah, we are getting her back, even as we speak.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361036827/how-auckland-teen-mum-was-recruited-courier-8m-meth

Brian Marshall
Reply to  Hooker Phil
15 days ago

Disturbingly she did not know Canada was in a different hemisphere. That’s too thick to be breeding children.

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  Hooker Phil
15 days ago

Anyone who believes the ”street value” bullshit from the cops is a fool.

FJA
FJA
Reply to  Starving Artist
15 days ago

Depends on a few things. Keeping it simple:

Assuming her meth is 100% pure, that’s 23000 g of meth. Meth is supposedly around $74 per gram – I can’t find information on purity.

That would mean $1.7 m worth.

But… powdered meth in NZ is apparently only 5-17% pure, so taking the higher end and making it 20% for ease, you get $8.5 m, which is the estimate in the story.

nasska
Reply to  FJA
15 days ago

The cops supposedly value their seizures by street price but reality suggests that they must shop in the upmarket parts of town. Purity probably doesn’t influence the price greatly as sellers will “cut” it with other substances to the extent they can get away with.

But the price of meth is falling. $330/g is the going rate for a gram going by recent MSM reports but the street price will be somewhat different. A “point” bag (1/10gram) in 2025 sold for a NZ average price of $74.
Source:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59152c88b8a79bdb0e644f2a/t/69604d5cba39ac3277670015/1767918966538/4-Meth+availability+bulletin-2025-final-release.pdf

Starving Artist
Starving Artist
Reply to  nasska
15 days ago

The government declared ”war on meth” when was it, over 10 years ago. It was such a success that the price has fallen hugely while supply has increased. But at least crooked ex pig Mike Sabin got rich out of anti-meth scaremongering.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Starving Artist
15 days ago

any war on drugs has been lost before it even started

nasska
Reply to  Starving Artist
15 days ago

In 1971 US President Richard NIxon declared the “War on Drugs”. Fifty-five years later despite the combined efforts of every Yank law enforcement agency & the NZ Police Department the war continues unabated though victory has never been in sight.

To put it in perspective current Commissioner of Police Richard Chambers was born in 1972.

At https://drugfoundation.org.nz/news-and-reports/does-history-repeat there is an exceptionally well written concise history of drug use & availability in Godzone.

A doctrine from a time long gone dominates our attitude to drugs. Nothing has been learned.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  nasska
15 days ago

That was certainly a family affair and done on the cheap, wth no spending money, unless she invested it in the casino!

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Sooty
15 days ago

No pictures in the article. Do you think she’s a native?

Mcduff
Reply to  Sooty
15 days ago

Her mother was Maori and her father Tongan.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Hooker Phil
15 days ago

to be fair its very clear she vulnerable and was being exploited big time but still there should be a bit more consequence for it but somehow i dont think shes gunna do that again… although jail in canada is better for us paying her to be a dole bludging meth head here.

in the past year here in nz theres been heaps of vietnamese folk busted opperating huge weed farms generating millions per year, most of them get held a few weeks then sent back to vietnam. only the ringleaders stay to face charges.

Alice
15 days ago

I’m sure you will be glad to know this. I’d like to know why there has been no investigation of her unexplained wealth?

https://x.com/IfindRetards/status/2102369861221683551

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Alice
15 days ago

unexplained?
are you dumb as fark???… theres a thing called a mortgage, theres is probably pretty big. then she gets paid mega bux to deliver short speeches at woke gatherings… paid hundreds of thousands per appearance , and theres the book and the doco.

nasska
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
15 days ago

Agree. No-one is sufficiently dumb to use tainted money to buy an asset like a house. That money will be traceable & squeaky clean.

The Covid/Comirnaty backhanders will be held somewhere in an untraceable trust as a retirement fund.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Editor
15 days ago

she didnt get that money tho, she was just the face of kindness that chose the causes and ngo that got a dividend of that 26mil.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
15 days ago

Bet she siphoned some off. She’s Labor!

Tarquin
Reply to  nasska
15 days ago

Don’t know about that, this is the woman who banned oil and gas exploration on a whim, told everyone she was going to eradicate child poverdy, told us all she never lies and was the one source of the truth. She also brought in a truck load of D.J’s while we cowered in our houses and lets not forget the wiggles for Neve. Definitely not Mensa or university challenge material. The arrogance and narcissism were the real giveaway and a cover for her ineptitude. Those kind of people never change and is why she’s married to a dullard like Clarke.

nasska
Reply to  Tarquin
15 days ago

……”Definitely not Mensa or university challenge material”….. BUT

“Dame Jacinda Ardern completed a Bachelor of Communication Studies in Public Relations and Political Science at Waikato University.”

Waikato! PR & PS! You’re onto it. As you were.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  nasska
15 days ago

How many parliamentian’s leave without some rort going on in the background.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
15 days ago

At his speech at the UN President Trump announced new architecture for the world with the US at the centre. “There will be no world govt nor international court of human rights while I am president.”

https://rumble.com/v7fub24-trump-makes-the-biggest-move-in-american-history.html?e9s=rel_v3_rs
Trump Makes the BIGGEST MOVE in American History!!!

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I am a stupid boy
Reply to  waikatogirl
15 days ago

lucky for the UN he most likely wont be president for much longer if dems have the numbers to impeach after the midterms… which is looking increasingly likely every passing day

Mike Hunty
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
15 days ago

You need to get out of ya wardrobe. 🫵😉

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Mike Hunty
14 days ago

And stop dressing up in ya wife’s pretty things

Dougal10
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
15 days ago

They would need 2/3 of the senate for that to happen , you really are watching some fucking weird podcasts or shit at the moment . If it was that easy clinton wouldnt have got his 2 terms.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Dougal10
15 days ago

yea cuz all republican senators love trump
there will be a fair few there that would much rather vance step up.

Curious
Reply to  Dougal10
15 days ago

Quite correct they would need 67 out of 100 senators to remove Trump. Highly unlikely.

“Convict and Remove (The Senate): This requires a much higher threshold: a two-thirds supermajority (67 out of 100 senators if all are present).
Because a simple majority is not enough in the Senate, an official can be successfully impeached by the House but still acquitted and remain in office if the Senate does not reach that two-thirds threshold. This is exactly what happened in both of Donald Trump’s impeachments, as well as those of Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton”

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
15 days ago

Yep, they spent like drunken sailors while killing off many businesses banned from trading.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7bcaISiOyM
Review finds Reserve Bank’s Covid-19 response went “too strong for too long” |

“Too strong for too long” – that’s how an independent review has described the Reserve Bank’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

It noted the Central Bank’s financial stimulus initially “gave the New Zealand economy a timely and much-needed boost”. …

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Ross12
Reply to  waikatogirl
15 days ago

What about the blame that should have gone to Robertson. He had Adrian Orr in his pocket and would have been pushing the RB all along.

FJA
FJA
Reply to  Ross12
15 days ago

Orr should have done his job and told the fat poof to fuck off.

Mike Hunty
Reply to  Ross12
15 days ago

Robbers son was/is a thief, just like his father who got done for fraud a loong time ago.

Ross12
15 days ago

Hager is already admitting some of the stuff in his latest book is not correct !! He said it on Ryan bridge’s show.
I hope someone successfully drags him through the Court this time.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Ross12
15 days ago

Everything from cover to cover is made up, untruths.
Hope someone takes him to the cleaners.

rightoverlabour
Reply to  Ross12
15 days ago

Drag him through an industrial mincer would be preferable. ….

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  rightoverlabour
15 days ago

Might improve his looks!

rightoverlabour
Reply to  Sooty
15 days ago

Only problem is repairing the mincer afterwards…..

Tarquin
Reply to  Ross12
15 days ago

You will be pleased to know I have done a book review on the latest Hager tome, it goes right is wrong and left is right. Anyone who disagrees is a horrible person who will be sent to the gulag. Jordan Williams is the devil, Chris Hipkins is a saint. I’m a trust baby who never had to work. The end.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Tarquin
15 days ago

Of course you and your twin brother did a deep dive into that book and he came up smelling like roses!

nasska
15 days ago

Readers & commenters will recall the fiasco late last year when Manage My Health’s gross incompetency threatened the privacy of nearly 100,000 Kiwi patients. From https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361037084/nearly-100000-patients-had-health-data-exposed-now-two-agencies-have-been-ordered-fix-security

#. “Manage My Health and Health NZ have been ordered to improve their security protections after the Privacy Commissioner found they failed to comply with requirements to safeguard sensitive patient information at the time of a major cyberattack.”

Good work from Privacy Commissioner Michael Webster who managed to put a bomb under those involved in under nine months especially when compared to the efforts of NZ coroners who regularly take ten years to do less.

And the bomb was needed. Despite the adverse publicity & threats from hospitals & doctors to withdraw their custom, even now Manage My Health have addressed only three issues outlined in a 19-point action plan released in July following reviews of the breach.

They’re fucking hopeless. Burn the building with the business & start again!

FJA
FJA
Reply to  nasska
15 days ago

Compare that to at least one of the major banks, which when quietly notified of an exploit identified by Mythos, had the vulnerability patched within days.

nasska
Reply to  Editor
15 days ago

My guess is that it’s because it would require staff & the new corporate owners of what were formerly doctors’ practises don’t believe in the concept of employing, or more to the point, paying people.

A related instance is covered in today’s copy of Pravda (formerly known as the Wairarapa Times-Age). Six staff of the Pahiatua Medical Centre, most of whom it seems were nurses, have resigned en masse after a non productive meeting with their Yank employer’s representative over staffing.

Matters medical are not too flash in the centres but in rural townships services are bad & getting worse.

Tarquin
Reply to  Editor
15 days ago

All worked out well in the end, my new Nigerian doctor is wonderful and can get me any drugs I want. He’s working on the doll at the moment.

Dougal10
Reply to  Tarquin
14 days ago

Tell him to stop working on the doll he bloody got angry anderson rather than ginny.

Viking
15 days ago

M.A. Rothman
11 hours ago  ·

𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐓𝐎 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐘 𝐈𝐂𝐂 𝐌𝐄𝐌𝐁𝐄𝐑 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐀𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐔𝐍—“𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐍 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐔𝐄 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐔𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐌𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐋𝐘”
Standing at the UN General Assembly podium Monday, President Trump didn’t just criticize the International Criminal Court — he called for its member states to abandon it outright. “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘵-𝘰𝘧-𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘭 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵. 𝘞𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘜.𝘚. 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘳 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪-𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘯𝘰 𝘫𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘶𝘴.”
He went further than any American president has on the record: “𝘠𝘰𝘶’𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘭 𝘨𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦. 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘊𝘊 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘶𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺.” The administration is reportedly preparing 𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭.
Then he turned the same floor into an indictment of the UN’s own selective outrage. He noted the UN’s human rights apparatus spends its energy attacking America for 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐧 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 and enforcing its own immigration laws — while staying nearly silent on Christians being persecuted worldwide. “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘺𝘱𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘙𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘭 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴. 𝘐 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯, 𝘊𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has separately vowed to dismantle the ICC “𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘬 𝘣𝘺 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘬”, calling it an “𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘜𝘚 𝘴𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘵𝘺”. Coming from the same podium in the same speech, the message to the institution was unmistakable.
𝐀𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚.

Viking
15 days ago

Do you have Givealittle?’: Labour halts election ads as it doesn’t have Nats’ rich donors, claims Hipkins
Chris Hipkins says Labour has had to hold its campaign advertising as it doesn’t have National’s budget – which he claims is fuelled by “millionaires wanting to further their own interests”.
In recent weeks, the National Party has heavily increased its election campaigning, with Labour yet to follow suit.
The Opposition leader was asked on Ryan Bridge TODAY when the party planned to kick off its advertising as National had “been going hard”.
“Yeah, we don’t have the same amount of money that they do,” Hipkins told Bridge.
“So we’ve saved most of our advertising revenue to the actual campaign period because, let’s be frank, we don’t have the big budget that they do.

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/politics/chris-hipkins-on-lack-of-advertisement-budget-says-party-doesn-t-have-multimillionaire-donors-to-help/?utm_medium=Image&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawUgIBxwZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMVZQdkI5bzQ0Wm9pbldzVHRzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEevCVZFJvMBS3Qnk9QSCFAkhE3FTO857MVlami03m6QkJnEpTB9nRgTlDbigE_aem_mvoil8RcMhPLu46sLkPu2w#Echobox=1790126096

Dougal10
Reply to  Viking
15 days ago

And Hipkins hanging around is a big reason they have no money , fecking tone deaf he is .

Viking
15 days ago

America’s Last Line Of Defense
President Trump is, needless to say, very disappointed in Fox News for including itself in the little temper tantrum the press is throwing over having some basic rules enforced.
In response, Trump has canceled his weekly call-in to Fox and Friends, as well as a planned 90-minute exclusive on Iran and the economy with Sean Hannity.
The president is making it clear that the press is free to write whatever they want, but that doesn’t mean he has to give them special, privileged access to do it.
The White House is rescheduling the exclusive with a friendlier outlet.

nasska
15 days ago

Polynesian kid comes home from school. He proudly exclaimed “Mum my cock is three times the size of all the other kids. Is it because I’m Maori? ”

“No son, it’s because you’re 23”

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  nasska
15 days ago

HHHHHHAAAAAAA. Good one.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
15 days ago

Private property rights and upholding contracts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8nSTXBv5_I
This sends the wrong signal to the world’: 51 businesses call on Government | Ryan Bridge TODAY

High-profile leaders’ open letter to political parties, asking to consider private property investors in New Zealand.

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rightoverlabour
15 days ago

Hope they sue that Cunt Hagar for every cent he owns. Piece of shit.

Curious
Reply to  rightoverlabour
15 days ago

I would have thought the claim about Jordan Williams would be actionable but then I am not a lawyer.

Viking
15 days ago

Sadly for naaska the fact are agin him.

Joseph Darby says rising costs have widened the gap between what a tenant pays and what their house costs to provide with the owner paying the difference. Why does the shortfall exist, and what’s the return landlords need to justify it?

Few New Zealand financial beliefs are as persistent as the idea that rent is dead money. As an investment claim, current numbers tell a different story: the tenant pays for only part of what the house costs to provide, and the owner pays the rest.
Take the median Auckland house, for example, which sold for $950,000 in August. Rent one and you pay about $650 a week on MBIE’s bond data.
Now examine what the owner pays each year. Council rates, insurance and upkeep have all inflated rapidly in recent years. The pressure on them remains upward: local authority rates rose 8.8 percent nationwide in the year to June. Home insurance premiums have risen 40 percent in the last two years and grown at three times the rate of general inflation since 2011, according to Treasury analysis. For the purposes of illustration, rates are taken as $3,800, a little under Auckland Council’s average residential bill of $4,378 because the median house sits below the average value. Allow another $2,700 for insurance and $4,750 for maintenance, 0.5 percent of the property’s value. Together they come to about $215 a week.
The larger cost is capital. Readers of this site are aware interest rates are rising again and sit closer to long-run averages than to the record lows many had come to treat as normal. Owning $950,000 of property means either borrowing the money and paying interest, or tying up savings which could be earning a return elsewhere, or a mix of the two. Paying cash for the house removes the mortgage and leaves the cost of capital in place as forgone investment return. Either way the capital has a price, and current mortgage rates are the market’s price for it. One-year fixed rates at most of the major banks sit just under five percent, so at five percent the $950,000 costs $910 a week, regardless of how it is supplied. Every figure from here is before tax, for ease of illustration.

https://www.interest.co.nz/investing/140379/joseph-darby-says-rising-costs-have-widened-gap-between-what-tenant-pays-and-what

nasska
Reply to  Viking
15 days ago

There seems to be a gulf between Joseph Darby’s world & the one the rest of us reside in. In any case his premise is based around around Auckland costs, Auckland rents & the higher incomes of Auckland renters.

Where I call home a quick look at Trade Me Property reveals several stand alone houses in average areas with three bedrooms between $420,000 & $450,000. The type beloved of private investors because they’re the house people want to home families. They would be well tenanted quickly at $500/week

Average rates in NZ are about $3400 so maybe a little higher as Masterton Council have long been wastrels. Earthquake risk is considered high so insurance about $4000 plus. No landlord worthy of his/her master key spends anything on maintenance unless they confiscate the unfortunate outgoing tenant’s bond so no allowance needs to be made. Outgoings less than $125/week plus cost of interest.

Added to the fact that taken over a medium/long term, property only ever increases in value along with the potential for higher rents it’s a nice little earner.

The average NZ renter is farmed like livestock with none of the protections afforded by the Animal Welfare Act.

Viking
Reply to  nasska
14 days ago

No, you just filed the reading and maths.

There’s another good summary of the facts here for you to read, and it blows your bullshit right out ya back gate.

Rising mortgage rates are more than offsetting falling prices at the affordable end of the housing market

A couple of well-informed tables to peruse.

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/140360/rising-mortgage-rates-are-more-offsetting-falling-prices-affordable-end-housing

I am a stupid boy
15 days ago

NZs shameful track record of kid killing continues….
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/361037349/toddler-who-suffered-traumatic-brain-injury-dies-homicide-probe-launched

utter fucking scum, mate knows the father of the toddler (its mummies new root shes been arrested with). apparently the poor kids been getting the bash for quite some time, even the cops charges state the injury that lead to the death took place over a month.

fuck the courts, these type of scum need dealt with by prison justice, kid killing scum should be ended the same way and same duration the poor lil victim was killed.

Dougal10
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
14 days ago

Im sure the copper in charge wouldnt disagree with you.

nasska
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
15 days ago

The general prison populace won’t even see him.

He’ll be segregated along with the kiddie fiddlers, narks & bent cops.

Curious
14 days ago

Stuffed are running a poll asking are you interested in Nicky Hagars new book. there’s been 32000 votes and 77% have answered not at all. maybe there is some hope for kiwis afterall.

Viking
14 days ago

things are changing for the better in Labour.

better-tarts-now
waikatogirl
waikatogirl
14 days ago

The west is desperate if this is an indication of imports

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TNtmYAqLugE
I am here to rule you.
short

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Viking
14 days ago

what to get the MRs for her birthday.

wet-knickers
Viking
14 days ago

Here ya go naaska. no more need to feed your hungry kids. these guys will do it for you.

An iconic local pub is being converted into a space where no one goes hungry, thanks to the Wairarapa Sikh Society

What local group in your town deserves a shoutout?

https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/361079206/no-one-goes-hungry-country-pub-community-hub?fbclid=IwY2xjawUgaE5wZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMTF5OEVqbkFjWjN4YlZUSWZzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeYXQ45n14DZqG6ycgyvPQ1P_TJ4MlgD2R9yNpNF3rwl28twZyItc5lSYwH3o_aem_JlqcEEwvQRXVyDgChBF1oA

nasska
Reply to  Viking
14 days ago

The bulk of the article is behind a paywall but I concede that it’s an interesting new use of an iconic Wairarapa building.

The East Taratahi pub on the northern fringe of Carterton survived & even thrived because of wowsers. In a local poll held during the 1908 general election, the Masterton electorate voted to ban the production & sale of alcohol in their district. Note that this only applied to the sale of alcohol within Masterton & the town’s brewery kept brewing. Residents would drive south over the Waingawa bridge & transfer Burridge’s bulk beer from the brewery trucks onto trailers & haul it back for consumption on private property.

Ten kilometres south down SH2 the East Taratahi as the nearest house of the healing waters flourished. No breathalysers in those days but for those worried about taking out a few chain of a local cocky’s fence buses were laid on.

This continued to 1946 when Masterton voted to go wet with trust controls.

tnuC
tnuC
14 days ago

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