Jacinda Ardern

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Ardern looks to Europe for guidance

by Suze 

 

Two globalists

Jacinda Ardern, writing for Project Syndicate, prefaces her discussion by talking about our natural landscape which she calls beautiful, unique and unspoiled and then she says that she wants to align us with the very worst of Europe’s powerbases, the EU.

The EU has decimated any European country with western heritage that will let them get away with it. It’s almost as if Jacinda were saying that the EU will destroy the remnants of our western civilisation, but, reading between the lines, we will still have our beautiful landscape. Quote.

For us, international partnerships with those who share our commitments – to human rights, open societies and economies, inclusive trade, and social justice – are neither dispensable nor optional. They are crucial to our survival as an island state and integral to who we are.” End of quote.

She lost me with the words “open societies and economies”.  Jacinda is a globalist declaring her allegiance to the rest of the world’s globalists.  She welcomes immigrants and she promotes diversity and multi-culturalism.  Someone needs to tell her that multi-culturalism is a pipe-dream that does not work. Quote.

The European Union was founded on the same principles. So, in today’s challenging times, it is no surprise that New Zealand looks to the EU as a natural partner on so many global issues.

end quote.

No, we do not look to the EU as a natural partner. For one thing they are on the other side of the world and we are in the Pacific. Our natural allies are Australia and the Pacifica countries.  I could argue the US is one too, but its president and the majority of its population are nationalists, so Ardern does not give them the time of day.

But we know who put that thought into Ardern’s woolly head.  She has just met with Theresa May who was told four years ago by voters that they wanted to quit the EU.  It hasn’t happened because Theresa May is a globalist who actually wants to stay in the EU so instead she half-heartedly attempted to make arrangements that have failed to achieve Brexit. It doesn’t matter what voters think, globalists will follow their own agenda and everyone else must fall into line; including the British voters who said otherwise.

Ardern then talks about the “many thousands of young men from New Zealand willingly travelled to the other side of the world to fight alongside our allies in two world wars.”  Where was Ardern when history was taught at school? Our soldiers died in both wars defending the Commonwealth and our British heritage, not the EU, which was founded in the aftermath of WW2. Quote.

New Zealand has never forgotten that tragic loss and the lessons arising from it. We learned that a world without rules, or with no peaceful means of resolving disputes, is one of chaos and bloodshed.” End of quote.

Let’s not forget that without that tragic loss we would be living in a very different world today. A world without rules means whose rules? When there is no peaceful means to resolving disputes, what then? She wants global governance and peace – but on whose terms? Are globalists pacifists? Quote.

Today, with global rules and norms again under threat, and cooperation in meeting the world’s big challenges faltering, countries like ours must work even more closely with those that are committed to the same core values. In this regard, New Zealand sees the EU and its member states as key partners on three issues in particular: climate change, promoting global peace and stability, and trade.” End of quote.

I repeat: Europe is not a natural ally of New Zealand but, because the EU promotes climate change, Ardern sees an opportunity to further her own climate change agenda which she ranks as “the defining global challenge of our time”.  This is simply wishful thinking from a lone globalist leader at the far end of the world.  Quote.

We work together to combat terrorism through peace support operations…”End of quote.

Newsflash: terrorists aren’t interested in talking about peace – they don’t want peace; they want war.  By all means sit down and talk, but unless you have the physical capability to defend your country, you will be laughed out of the door and over-run immediately thereafter.

Ardern’s writing makes her agenda clear, and it’s clearly wrong for New Zealand. She needs to go.

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At last something new and fresh from Simon :

National's tax plan to give the average worker an extra $430 a year

$8.27 a week if you divide 430 x 52. Thats about $1.18 a day. WOW!!!! 

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Where’s Cindy… again?

by Christie 

 

Photoshopped image credit: Luke

So our prime minister had a month long holiday, went to Europe where she did TV interviews and sat on stage with Prince William and David Attenborough and now she is back in New Zealand. She is not, however, back at work. This week’s usual weekly TV and radio interviews, done by prime ministers routinely since the days of Helen Clark, were with Grant Robertson.

One can be forgiven for thinking that, now that she rubs shoulders with Al Gore and Bono, she thinks she is too important to carry out the routine tasks of her job, such as talking to New Zealand journalists about New Zealand government policy.

Personally, I think she is afraid of being asked some hard questions, about, for example, Karel Sroubek and Richie Hardcore. Jacinda needs to learn a very important lesson. Failing to show doesn’t only make her look scared, which I think she is, it also makes her look aloof and disinterested; and that is suicide for a politician. quote.

So has anyone seen the Prime Minister lately? If anyone sees Jacinda Ardern in the flesh, could you please contact authorities so we can return her to the people.

This is an observation that has been brewing for a while. In fact Chris Trotter, a lefty, first wrote about it in the middle of December.

But it wasn’t until today that I finally thought this is getting weird.

Every Tuesday since Helen Clark’s day the prime minister has done the rounds of media in the morning. On Newstalk ZB that means 7.35am for 10 minutes and we have a quick recap of the issues of the week and where the government is at.

But we haven’t had one this year. Firstly she was on holiday, which I didn’t resent because she does have a child under one who hasn’t seen a lot of mum. Then last week the PM was in Davos, Switzerland but apparently was unable to use a phone.

This week’s excuse was a doozy. Apparently she couldn’t talk this morning because today she had Cabinet. Grant Robertson filled in. He also has Cabinet. Cabinet is not an excuse.

The suspicion is rising that Jacinda Ardern likes to be a spokesperson for a Government and a figurehead for the world but when it comes down to the nitty gritty of being a leader the job is a little difficult. end quote.

Yes, I think she finds it all too hard. Talking is what she is good at, which is why she had so much fun at Davos, talking about climate change and wellbeing. When it comes to turning all that talk into action though, Jacinda is coming up well and truly short.

The cornerstone of all of the government’s ‘wellbeing’ policies is housing. Whether it is private housing or state housing doesn’t really matter. There is no ‘wellbeing’ to be found living in a car. This government is failing on housing. They cannot keep accusing the previous government of ‘nine years of neglect’ if they can’t do any better themselves. quote.

Then there is the plethora of working groups. At first I was tolerant but now the whole thing seems to be taking an age. Other people are charged with doing the thinking rather than the government.

There appears to be a leadership vacuum.

The Prime Minister we have seems happiest when selling other people’s ideas and I’m starting to wonder what her ideas are.

And further to that there’s the fear that she might not have any ideas at all. end quote.

Andrew dickens

This government had ideas. It came into power as a ‘transformational government’, but they have been anything but transformational. Talking about what you are going to do is easy. Turning them into reality is another matter, as this government is now finding out. That is why Jacinda is not fronting to the public. She knows she has no answers for those who expect her to deliver on her promises. Expect to see much less of her in the future.

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Jacinda goes back to her communist roots

by Christie 

 

Socialist Cindy. Photoshopped image credit: Luke

Jacinda and the government have refused to recognise the interim government of Venezuela led by Juan Guaido. Instead, by default, she has put us once again at odds with our allies by effectively backing the government of Maduro… with all the misery it has wrought upon the Venezuelan people.

I thought Jacinda was a champion of human rights? Here she is, supporting a government that refuses to stand down while starving its own people. quote.

Last week, opposition leader Juan Guaidó declared himself Venezuela’s interim president in an intense acceleration of efforts to force out Nicolás Maduro, who has overseen the country fall into an economic crisis.
While Mr Guaidó quickly gained the support of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and even Australia, New Zealand has chosen not to take a side in the leadership debate, instead remaining neutral.  end quote.

It is not remaining neutral. It is backing a hard left socialist regime that is causing misery and deprivation to its people, as all such regimes inevitably do. quote

“It is not New Zealand’s practice to make statements of recognition of governments,” Foreign Minister Winston Peters said on Monday. 

“Venezuela needs to decide its future through free and fair elections. This Government expressed concerns about Venezuela’s elections in 2018, and these concerns remain.” end quote.

Venezuela has descended into chaos, and the current president has turned the armed forces against his own people. As a civilised country with a strong human rights record, we should not be condoning what is going on there. I am surprised at Winston being prepared to support such a regime. Then again, nothing surprises me about Winston these days. quote.

Mr Peters’ statement was picked up by world media, with The Guardian‘s article on New Zealand’s refusal to back Mr Guaidó among its most viewed stories on Tuesday.

  newshub end quote.

I am no more surprised at The Guardian showing support for our government’s disgraceful stand than I am by Jacinda continuing to back Maduro. The fact that Venezuelans are in crisis does nothing to change the mindsets of those on the left who want us all to live under similar regimes. The hypocrisy is sickening. quote.

Prime minister Jacinda Ardern later justified her stance…
“What we do do as a country, and rightly so, is call out human rights abuses … it is absolutely clear that people are suffering under the current regime and that they deserve access to their democratic rights and freedoms.” end quote.

See what I mean about hypocrisy? We call out abuses of human rights, but continue to support a regime that takes them away from its own people?

We are in good company though… quote.

Maduro retains the support of Russia, China, Cuba, Bolivia and Turkey and still has the backing of the military, although his defence attache to the Venezuelan embassy in Washington defected to Guaidó on Saturday.

End quote

I’m so glad that we are in the company of countries that uphold the human rights of their citizens. quote.

In May last year Peters said he was “extremely concerned” about “the continuing erosion of democratic norms and institutions,” in the country following the presidential elections, including widespread reports of election irregularities and Nicolás Maduro’s banning of the main opposition leaders from participating in the poll.

At the time, Peters, who is also deputy prime minister, said New Zealand supported “any regional and international efforts to facilitate a national dialogue in Venezuela that would allow truly free and fair elections to be held”.

the guardian end quote.

So Winston expressed concerns about the last Venezuelan election. However, he still supports the regime that rigged that election?

This government hits new lows just about every day. Once again, we are at odds with our allies who are all countries that want to see an end to the suffering in Venezuela. Our government refuse to condemn a communist regime. That tells you all you need to know about the thinking of the people in our government.

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Where’s Dowie… again?

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Successful business owners fail residency test but drug dealer passes

by Suze 

 

© RNZ / Eva Corlett La Vista owner Nataliya Shchetkova.

The difference in the treatment of residency applications for the owners of a restaurant and the drug dealer Karel Sroubek leaves most of us scratching our heads. quote.

The owners of a popular restaurant in Auckland’s St Heliers are facing an uncertain future after Immigration New Zealand rejected their application for residency.

The Ukrainian Shchetkova family arrived in New Zealand six years ago on a long-term business visa to develop a large restaurant.

That required a detailed plan, with specific targets to meet – it must be worth at least $500,000, turn a profit and employ a minimum three full-time staff.

But the restaurant they had their eye on was sold before they arrived. Still, they came with their three children, and found another worth $700,000 – La Vista. Soon after, their twins were born.

Nataliya Shchetkova said she notified Immigration NZ of the changes and asked what they needed to do to make a new plan for their visa.

The immigration officer asked for new figures but told her a new plan was not required. Their accountant supplied the new figures.

“Straight away, two weeks later, we got our passports back with the label and it was written La Vista restaurant, so we supposed our visa was approved.”

However, Immigration NZ (INZ) declined their residency saying their new business was not approved and was not considered to be of “significant value to New Zealand”.” End of quote.

RadioNZ
 

What is going on at Immigration NZ? Public perception is that drug dealers and wife beaters have an easy ride while hard-working immigrants, who run successful businesses and who provide employment for Kiwis, have nothing but barriers put in their way.

While we are on the subject, what about the drain on our tax system by elderly immigrants who come here, not to work and pay taxes but to be supported by their families who have achieved residency. It does not matter that they have made no personal tax contributions; after 10 years they collect the pension. This is a loophole in the immigration law that needs attention. In the meantime this income producing family is shown the door after six years of paying taxes.

Dollars to doughnuts, Sroubek’s accountant, if he has one, could not produce figures that justify his “significant value to New Zealand”, but Ms Shchetkova’s family know how to run a successful restaurant. Quote.

Over the years, the family has worked hard to extend the restaurant from 40 seats to 70, employed more staff and plans were in the works to expand it further.

It turned over $1.6 million last year and employs 26 people – 17 of which are full-time.” End of quote.

Is there something that Immigration NZ is not telling us or is this yet another Iain Lees-Galloway stuff up?

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Mike Hosking: Three threats to the economy may come crashing together

 

I have been trying to work out which one of three serious threats to our economy is going to hurt the government most.

Two of them are of their specific doing, so perhaps they're slightly blinded to the pending trouble.

One is a direct result of their actions although at least in part affected by matters beyond their control.

One is the Fair Pay reforms to our workplaces. Two, the capital gains tax. And three, our economic growth.

Now one and two are policies they deliberately and presumably enthusiastically promoted.

The Fair Pay recommendations are just that, it's possible the madness drummed up by the committee led inexplicably by Jim Bolger, could in part be rejected or watered down, you would hope so, but don't hold your breath.

But if this government thinks New Zealanders want a return to the 70's and 80's in terms of sector wide agreements, and a banning of individual contracts, then they need their heads read.

When given the choice in 1990 by the Bolger government, we embraced choice, we opted for individuality, we backed our own talents over the Victorian shackled views of the unions who'd held this country to ransom for decades.

The professions that remain heavily unionised are there in 2019 for all to see.

All troubled, all aggrieved, all involved in ongoing industrial action ... 2018 was full of their plight.

The capital gains tax though, might be counteracted to a degree with the promise that overall, the tax system and its changes would remain fiscally neutral.

If labour go into election year offering most workers a personal tax cut to offset the CGT imposed on comparatively a few, they may get away with it.

But the bit to watch, that few if any seem to have picked up on, is at what rate are they pinging you on CGT. The suggestion seems to be the marginal rate which means 28 or 33 per cent. That is a spectacularly high rate, Labour before they dumped it in campaigning on it last time, had it at 15 per cent ... good luck selling it at more than double that rate.

But it does play to Labour's base, how many traditional Labour supporters have shares and investment homes, the sort of thing a CGT will capture.

If the Labour voters see the "rich pricks" (Michael Cullen head of the committee making the recommendations) getting taxed and they get money in their pocket then the wider fall out may be able to be managed.

And then three, growth.

Most people have missed this, given the number came out just before Christmas.

Our Q3 GDP was 0.3 per cent, which is abysmal.

Add that to Q1 at 0.5 and Q2 at 1 per cent and you have the calendar year ending September at 1.8 per cent growth.

You would need Q4's number to be 1.7 per cent to get us to the international average, to even get us within range of our major trading partners.

Will we get 1.7 per cent in Q4 ? No we will not, nor indeed anywhere close to it.

Which means we will in all probability be growing annually at little more than 2 % per cent which is an indictment on this government's performance.

They have taken a rock star economy and strangled it.

They will look to blame international uncertainty, don't believe them.

The IMF forecast for global growth is an average of 3.5 per cent. We should be doing that or close, we are not.

And having ended the calendar year with anaemic growth, chuck in a capital gains tax and see what that does to investment intention. And lock our workplaces back up in a way Jim Knox and Ken Douglas would have been proud of.

And the three issues calamitously and spectacularly come crashing into each other.

On the upside, that may make Kiwibuild look like a clever idea that's a raging success.

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EU votes to reduce NZ’s export rights

by Christie

 

Jacinda Ardern cracking Photoshopped image credit: Luke

Jacinda’s gushing letter begging for a free trade agreement with the EU has gone down well. Only a few days after reminding everyone that our soldiers died in combat alongside their European counterparts, the EU has voted to reduce New Zealand’s existing export rights… even though it would appear that it has no right to do this. quote.

The European Union’s parliament has taken a decisive step towards unilaterally reducing New Zealand’s rights to export specified quantities of tariff-free sheepmeat, beef and dairy products to the trading bloc if and when Brexit occurs.

The move has been slammed as “outrageous” by former trade negotiator Charles Finny in a Tweet and “disappointing” by the Dairy Companies Association of New Zealand.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade said the proposed moves risk compounding “growing international economic uncertainty and rising trade tensions”. end quote.

If it wasn’t so tragic for our agricultural exports, it would be funny. Jacinda wrote a letter only earlier this week begging for a trade deal, and brazenly told everyone on her return that the EU was falling over itself to do a deal with New Zealand. Once again, her inexperience and incompetence is showing. Brainstorming at Davos with billionaires doesn’t count. This is the real world. quote.

Another former diplomat and trade negotiator, the International Business Forum’s Stephen Jacobi, stressed the EU parliament’s adoption of a European Commission recommendation to reduce tariff rate quota access for a range of agricultural products from several countries was simply the latest step in a process that began in 2017.

At that time, both the EU and the UK indicated they wanted to change preferential market access which, in New Zealand’s case, was negotiated as compensation for Britain entering the then European Common Market in 1973. Sheepmeat is the most affected trade, although butter, cheese and beef access rights would also be trimmed.

“They haven’t implemented this and they won’t until Brexit takes place,” said Jacobi. “But the bigger picture is that it’s completely unacceptable for them to act like this. These quotas were negotiated and bought and paid for in the Uruguay Round (mid-1990s global trade agreement) and they cannot simply be adjusted at whim through a change in circumstance like this.

“It’s a deeply unhelpful move. Not helpful in our relations with post-Brexit Britain and certainly not helpful in our FTA (free trade agreement) negotiations with the EU. It seems extraordinary, after all of these years, that we have to go and back and renegotiate these bloody things.
“We’re not paying twice – for Britain going in (to the EU in 1973) and leaving,” Jacobi said.

a newspaper. end quote.

It is certainly not helpful for a free trade agreement with the EU, but exactly who did Jacinda think she was, expecting them to fall for the story of fighting wars side by side? In the world wars, New Zealand soldiers went to support Britain. They most certainly did not fight alongside Germany; they fought on the opposite side in both wars. How could Jacinda possibly be so stupid and naive?

Jacinda obviously thought this was going to be easy. Splash a bit of fairy dust around and everyone will fall at her feet. Well, it hasn’t happened this time. It seems her rising international profile doesn’t impress people in all circles.

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Kiwifail

by Christie 

 

Photoshopped image credit: Pixy

The government has basically given up all pretence of building houses for first time buyers ‘locked out’ of the housing market. At their retreat at an exclusive Martinborough vineyard, they have decided to remove all the ‘interim’ Kiwibuild targets and concentrate only on building 100,000 houses over 10 years.

It is a startling admission of failure. quote.

Interim targets for the Government’s housing scheme KiwiBuild have been dropped, as Jacinda Ardern and Phil Twyford say the program is being “re-calibrated.”

 

The programme has hit a bump in the road, with the Housing Minister admitting the Government would fall well short of 1000 homes by the end of the first year, instead building just 300.

On Wednesday, Mr Twyford and the Prime Minister addressed media and said although the interim targets are no more, the original goal of 100,000 houses in 10 years remains the same. end quote.

This government treats voters as if they are stupid. It goes without saying that if they can’t build 1,000 houses in the first year, they are not going to build 100,000 in 10 years. All the problems that exist in the first year, such as a lack of land, a lack of builders, and slow consent processes, are not going to magically disappear. The cumulative balances outstanding each year will just get bigger and bigger. If they had started by addressing some of those problems, they might have had a chance, but they didn’t. They just tried to build more houses in an already stressed market. It was never going to happen. quote.

“Interim targets haven’t been a useful way to demonstrate our delivery program,” said Ms Ardern.

end quote.

That is because the government has not delivered, on this or on anything else. So, instead of trying to address the problems, they remove the measurement system: meaning that no one will have a clue how many houses, if any, they have actually built.

They won’t be around in 10 years to be measured on their final target either, so in other words, it is all just hot air. Again. quote.

“Yes, we still need to be transparent and we still need to demonstrate to the public what we’re doing – but our 100,000 goal hasn’t changed.”

end quote.

Having clearly defined targets was a way of being transparent. All they have done is to remove the method by which they can be measured. Now they can’t be criticised for failing to meet their targets, because they don’t have any. Disgraceful. quote.

Mr Twyford said a paper will be delivered to Cabinet in the coming weeks that will “recalibrate” the policy. Ms Ardern says that recalibration will then be shared publicly.

“We’re looking at how we can make Kiwibuild a stronger incentive for developers, and how we can make it better for first home buyers,” said Mr Twyford.

“The idea is to provide a package of assistance for developers that will be enough of an incentive to get them to commit to serious volumes of homes over a number of years.”

Newshub end quote.

This is the end of Kiwibuild. It will simply vanish; every time they are questioned about it, the answers will just be some vague claims of building all these houses at some point in the future, with no hope of ever actually achieving anything real.

This government should not have made promises it was never going to be able to keep. This is just more proof that they never expected to be in government, because they never had a clue how they were going to build all the houses they promised. Make no mistake though. This is an enormous backdown by the government, who are trying to save face… and failing miserably.

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Performance Review: 2018 Jacinda Ardern PM NZ

 

 

By George
 

WHALEOIL PERFORMANCE REVIEW – 2018
JACINDA ARDERN

JOB KNOWLEDGE:

It has become apparent that you were clearly unaware of the magnitude of the commitment and the maturity required for the position of prime minister of New Zealand. You have, on several occasions, clearly exhibited your inability to comprehend the complexity of your appointment. The evidence of this is that you, and those in your cabinet, continue the practice of outsourcing responsibilities in search for policy guidance.

This has exposed the lack of expertise and capabilities in your cabinet and has subsequently led to unnecessary and considerable expense. We are rather concerned that many decisions are being made by those who were not given a mandate by the electorate.

Another concern is the evidence that the personnel within your cabinet, those who you had selected and appointed to oversee these tasks, are lacking suitable qualifications or experience. This identifies a substantial weakness in your ability to recognise appropriate talent. This fragility in your leadership is a concern.

Another indication of your inexperience is your lavish enthusiasm for setting unrealistic goals and targets. This has become a source of embarrassment for you, your ministers and the country. It is not unreasonable for the citizens of New Zealand to expect realistic forecasts. Your inability to grasp this fundamental expectation suggests a considerable vacuum in your competency to identify what is practical and what is not. This is a disturbing development that can only lead to adverse outcomes.

WORK QUALITY:

This is difficult to measure. If your quality of work were exclusively measured by results, then there is considerable evidence that you have fallen well short of expectations. It must be acknowledged that you have exhibited admirable enthusiasm, but it has become evident that such enthusiasm masks your many shortcomings that have been exposed during the last year.

To measure your work quality is problematic because many of those who you entrusted to deliver have let you down. As prime minister, it is your responsibility to respond accordingly. There is evidence that you have a reluctance to address your ministers’ shortcomings and that is why your quality of work, when applied to effective action and decisive leadership, is questionable.

ATTENDANCE/PUNCTUALITY:

It would normally be absurd to include an assessment of the prime minister’s attendance and punctuality under normal circumstances but unfortunately, in your case, it has become necessary. A major disappointment to the electorate was to be informed that you had planned, and had succeeded, to fall pregnant prior to your appointment to the role of prime minister.

This fact was a deliberate concealment which can be interpreted by some as deceitful. The issue is not that you chose to have a baby but rather your selfish expectation that the country could be governed at your convenience. The unprecedented expectation that a newly appointed Prime Minister would require six weeks maternity leave within the first year of their appointment suggests that your priorities were not focused on your job.

Your insistence that you can perform your elected duties may be well-founded in theory but in practical terms would be a stretch too far for a mother of a new-born. As this is an appraisal of your performance, our feedback has to reflect the facts which cannot be concealed by a politically correct response. Your external parental commitments can only be made possible by a reallocation of your responsibilities to other members of the coalition. This is not ideal and this is reflected on the rather flawed outcomes that have occurred under your watch.

INITIATIVE:

Your planned strategic programme is driven by your entrenched ideology which supersedes the country’s desire to maintain a healthy and functional society. Your socialist agenda has been forced upon the electorate without due consideration of the consequences of your many loose and irresponsible declarations.

Your “captain’s call” regarding the oil industry highlights your inability to engage in a consultative process and identifies an arrogance unbecoming of a prime minister. This is unacceptable to those who are accustomed to a rational and inclusive process of governance. The consequences of declarations such as this will have far-reaching negative impacts on many people’s lives and will, potentially, be very damaging for the economic stability of this country.

This was a rookie mistake more aligned to a dictatorial administration. To declare a “captain’s call” is an outrageous abuse of the power entrusted in you. Your initiative would be well served by doing what is right for New Zealand and therefore your obsession to engage in programmes of social engineering must be abandoned forthwith.

COMMUNICATION/LISTENING SKILLS:

You have excellent communication skills but your ability to engage with those above the celebrity belt is questionable. Children and the young find you fascinating by virtue of your status. The media, women’s magazines and various other lightweight publications see the novelty in a young recent mother becoming prime minister. Your many photo-shoots and lengthy interviews afforded to such publications suggest you are at your most comfortable whilst in this environment. What is clearly missing is your ability to comment with maturity and with knowledge on matters that are important to New Zealand.

Your attempt at projecting leadership on economic matters is superficial and shallow. What is clear is your reluctance to engage in serious debate on such topics. As prime minister the expectation from the electorate is for you to have a sound grounding and knowledge in this area. There is no evidence of this.

One glaring weakness, which can only be described as your selective listening, has emerged. You have ignored the electorate’s concerns on several occasions, the most recent being immigration. Your determination to make policy against the will of the majority was clearly highlighted when you committed New Zealand to the United Nation’s Global Migration Compact. Your reluctance to engage in open debate represents a closed mind which alienates the people whom you were elected to serve.

This raises the issue of trust and honesty. You appear to be more committed to those who embrace your ideology outside the politic landscape of this country than to those who will inherit the results of your flawed agenda. You can’t be trusted. Without trust and honesty, there can be no respect.

OVERALL RATING:

Unfortunately, the position of prime minister is not “a learn as you go” appointment. You were thrust into a role you were ill-equipped to handle and therefore some of the blame has to be laid at the feet of your party. One assumes you had the option to turn down the appointment; but you didn’t. Your political portfolio identifies you as a radical socialist. Your first comment as prime minister was to denounce the advantages of capitalism.

You have a very significant blind spot when declaring your alliance to socialism and that is very clearly evidenced by the collapsing economies of countries which share your like-minded ideology. Your political views have alienated many of our historical and trusted allies. Finally, your declaration of “being the most open and transparent Government we have ever had” was a phrase of fantasy. The combination of your many glaring shortcomings, as outlined, can only result in an over all rating of “fail”.

After a very short consideration we have decided that, in the best interests of our country, its citizens and our trusted allies, we have to recommend that your appointment cannot be allowed to extend beyond your current contract.

The New Zealand Electorate.

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Now Twyford finds his communist roots

by Christie

 

Kiwibuild is a failure. The government has decided to stop interim measurements, saying that they are not ‘helpful’, which just means that they have been unable to meet their targets. The scheme has not been abandoned all together though. Twyford has a cunning new plan. He wants to seize land for housing. Private land. quote.

KiwiBuild is seriously struggling to gain momentum, and Housing Minister Phil Twyford has a trick up his sleeve that he hopes will bring the scheme back to life: an Urban Development Authority. 

But his officials have warned it will have a detrimental impact – made worse by the fact private companies or people could make money off the land grab. 
The minister is working on legislation to give the Urban Development Authority powers to build quickly – including the ability to force landowners to sell up if they need the land for housing. end quote.

This has an ugly feel to it. Yes, the government has always been able to do this, for roading projects for example. Instead of forcing councils to rezone land, or allow more land to be released for housing, Twyford wants to seize it from private owners. Instead of converting conservation land, which is often nothing more than scrub land in some areas, Twyford wants to seize it from private owners. The government has lots of options to consider to release more land for housing before it needs to think about seizing it from private owners. But guess what? That is his first thought. quo

“We expect that compulsory acquisition will be the exception rather than the rule,” Mr Twyford said.

 
But Newshub can reveal his officials have warned the law he’s drafting will increase the frequency with which these powers are used. 

end quote.

See what I mean? It doesn’t sound as if seizing land will be the exception rather than the rule. It sounds as if it is likely to be the first resort. quote.

 

Property commentator Ashley Church says the agency will be too powerful. 

“The scary aspects of it are that it’s going to be able to do much more quickly things that we’ve either expected to be able to consult on or which impact on our private property rights in a way.” end quote.

This is very worrying. Up until now, seizing land has only been for infrastructure projects. Never housing. quote.

Officials have warned that a drop in public confidence in property rights would be exacerbated by the fact the model proposed enables private actors to make a financial gain – that means developers profiting from Government land grabs. 
“I think this is the key issue, and I think it’s why there is no history of doing this in New Zealand until now,” Mr Church said.  end quote.

Absolutely. Until now, the rights of private landowners have been sacrosanct, except in a very few, special cases. This may be coming to an end. quote.

Mr Twyford is looking at new ways of compensating landowners the Government forces out, including offering up shares in the new development.

Of course, the government could always compensate landowners by paying them the market value of the property? Even that will not be good solution for everyone, as people hold land for lots of reasons, but technically at least the owners would not be out of pocket. It does not appear though that this is going to be the standard approach.

The ability to own property has been a right of New Zealanders ever since the country was colonised by the British. Now it seems the rights of property owners are going to be diluted. Make no mistake, New Zealanders. Our new communist government will make sure we are all equal in the eyes of the law. Soon, no one will be able to own anything.

Comrades.

 

[jack 429]

On 1/31/2019 at 6:01 PM, jack said:

Where’s Dowie… again?

 

[rdytdy 5,341]

Matthew Hooton: Divorce looms for Labour and NZ First

Jacinda Ardern has declared 2019 the "year of delivery" but for NZ First it must be the "year of divorce" — or at least an initial move into the spare room.

Policy-wise, the Coalition is clearly failing. KiwiBuild is a joke. Only with the most audacious creative accounting can Shane Jones pretend his billion trees programme is doing better.

His Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) has so far paid out only $27 million, creating just 54 jobs, plus the 118 bureaucrats hired to administer it.

There is no obvious progress on health, education, poverty, homelessness or mental health.

On economics, incumbent governments get to take the credit, deservedly or not, for low unemployment and strong fiscal surpluses.

Equally though, they are blamed for the local effects of factors beyond their control, and storm clouds are now clearly on the global economic horizon.

There is no advantage to NZ First in being associated with such policy failures or deteriorating economic data.

Already, the party is under MMP's 5 per cent threshold and well below the 10 per cent it polled this time in the previous cycle. Winston Peters has even managed to get on the wrong side of his core supporters by backing the UN's Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration.

Moreover, even were Ardern to achieve "delivery", the polling benefits would flow to Labour, not NZ First. Electorally, the NZ First brand demands Peters be an outsider rattling the establishment.

Even more important, NZ First's true power lies in coalition negotiations after an election. They require both Labour and National to at least perceive that Peters is open to the best offer from either side.

Senior NZ First figures are thus pondering how to conduct the necessary distancing from Labour. They say there is no longer any direct working relationship between Peters and Ardern, with Coalition business being carried out by ministers and senior staff.

They are conscious that distance must be achieved ahead of when Simon Bridges might rule out working with NZ First, allowing National to tell provincial New Zealand that a vote for NZ First is one for Labour.

Ardern will be pleased NZ First insiders say flouncing out of the Coalition has been ruled out. That did nothing for Peters in 1998 when he faced an even worse predicament in Coalition with Jenny Shipley.

The following year, his party scored just 4.26 per cent of the party vote and squeaked back into Parliament only after Peters won Tauranga by a mere 63 votes. No NZ First candidate has any chance of winning a seat in 2020.

However, nor is staying loyal to the end an option, as in 2008 when NZ First crashed out of Parliament altogether with just 4.07 per cent of the party vote. A middle ground must be found.

One option is to operate relatively loyally until after the 2020 Budget and then gently resign all the party's ministerial positions, allowing Labour to operate as a minority Government for the 90 days before the election.

The downside is not so much the pay cuts for Peters, Jones, Ron Mark, Tracey Martin and Fletcher Tabuteau, but the loss of ministerial staffing and resources which are used by governments for electioneering.

In any case, that risks being too little too late, with NZ First associated with Labour's failures and declining economic outlook in the meantime. It gives too much time for Bridges to rule out working with Peters but not enough for NZ First to demonstrate genuine neutrality.

Consequently, the current plan is to begin a slow, steady but ever-growing undermining of the Government from within.

On more occasions will Labour ministers be forced to publicly capitulate to NZ First demands, as Fisheries Minister Stuart Nash did this week on cameras on commercial fishing vessels. NZ First will more readily take the credit for such Labour embarrassments. Grumpiness with Labour will be expressed more often in public.

Most importantly, the boundaries of the PGF will be pushed to within a millimetre of what would risk drawing attention from the Auditor General. The lion's share of the cash will be dumped across the country in the 12 months before the election.

If the Labour Party, media or wider establishment kick up a fuss publicly, so much the better.

As a political strategy for NZ First, this all makes sense. It is Ardern we must pity over the next 18 months.

And it is Bridges who has major decisions ahead about National's relationship with New Zealand's perennial king-maker.

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[rdytdy 5,341]

Woken up from your Grandpa nap Jack. 

2019 the year of delivery is it? Well nothing positive has been delivered yet. Kiwi fail. Tree planting fail. Kids poverty nothing happening there unless you mean more of it. Have a look around the world Jack instead of just your little pond. The socialist globalists are on the retreat, the latest in Spain. Nationalism and sovereignty are now being defended. Cindy's two little luvvies Macron and, Trudeau are just another two under the pump from their citizens. 

Your socialist globalist girlfriend who is a UN disciple , will meet the same fate.  

We don't need a group of unelected tyrants from the UN running a world government telling countries how things should be run and dismantling borders. Take lessons from Europe as some countries have turned into shit holes after mass immigration from third world countries.  It's even started happening across the ditch.   

BTW. How many illegal country shoppers have you got staying with you? 

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Like Obama almost destroyed US, Jacinda is taking NZ down for the globalists.

Remember she marched against this bloke.....Jacinda would be one of those to remain sitting.

 

[hedley 1,900]

Here in NZ, the Tory National party have been the 'globalists'..the current Labour govt is merely perpetuating the programme

[Ohokaman 5,824]

They just like handing out money. When you read articles like this you have to wonder :

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/business/382048/iwi-becoming-a-growing-financial-force-report

1. Why are the hands still out ?

2. Why can't they look after their own people ??

Now Labour are going to give them another $100m to help improve returns from the land...???

Are they kidding.....???
 

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42 minutes ago, hedley said:

Here in NZ, the Tory National party have been the 'globalists'..the current Labour govt is merely perpetuating the programme

You tell who are being controlled by the corrupt globalists....the ones who donated to the Clinton Foundation ...therefore both

JK resigned a week after Trump was elected.

A Grand Jury is investigating the CF in Arkansas as we speak.

It will have huge ramifications to governments worldwide when all is done including NZ.

I would bet on the New Conservatives to fill  a void when the SHTF.

 

[jack 429]

16 hours ago, Ohokaman said:

They just like handing out money. When you read articles like this you have to wonder :

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/business/382048/iwi-becoming-a-growing-financial-force-report

1. Why are the hands still out ?

2. Why can't they look after their own people ??

Now Labour are going to give them another $100m to help improve returns from the land...???

Are they kidding.....???
 

We Maori would rather have our stolen  land given back to the rightful owners , This so call $$$ is for the shame/guilt that ALL governments are guilty of. Maybe they should give the $$$ to the Hillary Clinton Foundation.

[Ohokaman 5,824]

1 hour ago, jack said:

We Maori would rather have our stolen  land given back to the rightful owners , This so call $$$ is for the shame/guilt that ALL governments are guilty of. Maybe they should give the $$$ to the Hillary Clinton Foundation.

How much money Jack ? How many millions for something no one understands...it's the biggest rort ever.

We keep paying out, and you keep wasting it or investing it badly. Ngai Tahu are the only ones with half a clue.

And still Maori are "underprivileged"......the tribes are fucking useless if they can't look after their own.

 

[chevy86 2,703]

7 hours ago, jack said:

We Maori would rather have our stolen  land given back to the rightful owners , This so call $$$ is for the shame/guilt that ALL governments are guilty of. Maybe they should give the $$$ to the Hillary Clinton Foundation.

Well the bill so far is about $4 billion Jack and sweet FA has found it's way out of the pockets of the Maori elite.

And let's not forget that back in the 1830s and 1840s  the majority of Maori welcomed colonisation and the Treaty as marauding tribes, led by Te Kooti et al, had been eating their fellow Maori faster than a KFC family pack! Those were the good old days eh Jack?

[jack 429]

On 2/9/2019 at 12:20 PM, Ohokaman said:

How much money Jack ? How many millions for something no one understands...it's the biggest rort ever.

We keep paying out, and you keep wasting it or investing it badly. Ngai Tahu are the only ones with half a clue.

And still Maori are "underprivileged"......the tribes are fucking useless if they can't look after their own.

 

I`ll take your house , car and all your belongings ... And give 10 cents for compensation ... I`ll bet you`ll be unhappy .

Theft is theft no matter year it happened !  

So call looking down at people with your guitless opinions.. Makes NZ what it is today RACIST!!!

[jack 429]

21 hours ago, chevy86 said:

Well the bill so far is about $4 billion Jack and sweet FA has found it's way out of the pockets of the Maori elite.

And let's not forget that back in the 1830s and 1840s  the majority of Maori welcomed colonisation and the Treaty as marauding tribes, led by Te Kooti et al, had been eating their fellow Maori faster than a KFC family pack! Those were the good old days eh Jack?

Where were you when pakeha elite were robbing and raping  and pillaging  Maori owned Land ... Not ALL Maori welcomed  colonization , It was taken at the end of cannons and muskets ... RE Queen Elizabeth Apology to Tainui .

https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/32507/royal-apology-to-tainui-1995

 

[Ohokaman 5,824]

46 minutes ago, jack said:

I`ll take your house , car and all your belongings ... And give 10 cents for compensation ... I`ll bet you`ll be unhappy .

Theft is theft no matter year it happened !  

So call looking down at people with your guitless opinions.. Makes NZ what it is today RACIST!!!

You have no idea what they agreed to back then, or whether they were happy with the agreement as signed or not. It has been hijacked by maori activists and money grabbing elitists who have milked it for all they are worth...and successive Governments have just bent over.

No doubt there were bad things done and some apologies and reparations necessary, but there has to be an end to it somewhere. That has been true in many countries around the World....try America and Australia for starters..

Maori have been given back thousands of acres and billions of dollars, yet they still cry "foul".

They might ask their leaders why then large chunks of their population are in poverty, are in bad health, continue with domestic violence and killing their kids, and make up 50% of the prison population...that's not racist Jack, those are facts........