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4 hours ago, rdytdy said:

Christie:

Yes. By shooting her mouth off when she was trying to board a plane and escape, she created an expectation that the government will intervene. That gave the protesters hope, and so they stayed. Now she is going to have to take responsibility for what happens next, and my prediction is that it will not be pretty.

If this report by Duncan Garner is true, then this should be the end for this government. Yes, Jacinda wants to be praised and hugged at Waitangi celebrations next week, and she will do almost anything to achieve that. But giving away the property rights of all New Zealanders because of a baying mob will surely see this government voted out. Even current Labour supporters do not want to see their property rights eroded so that Jacinda can feel comfortable on Waitangi Day. Because yes – the timing is critical. That is how shallow our hopeless prime minister really is.

She hasn’t thought it through, of course. She couldn’t solve it with a hug, so she has caved in to a bunch of motley protestors, who have no rights at all to the land they are claiming. But that is Jacinda for you.

I hope Duncan Garner is wrong. New Zealanders deserve better than to be trampled on like this. But then again, in some ways, I hope he is right. If that is what it takes to get rid of this hopeless government, then it is money well spent.

We had better not write off Winston Peters quite yet though. His political career is on the line here, too. If Winston does not step up and stop this deal from going ahead, he is finished, and he is a better survivor than that. So, the next few days will be interesting. But Duncan Garner would not come out and make a bold statement like this without being fairly certain of his facts. Of that, you can be sure.

Let the games begin.

Looks like he has.....

Those comments come on a day when the Cabinet is expected to debate a proposal to repurchase the Ihumatao land from Fletcher Construction. The company had permission to build a residential subdivision on a site that the occupiers and heritage experts agree is historically significant as one of Auckland's first areas of cultivation following Maori settlement. Fletcher's plans had excluded and protected land of particular significance to Maori.

While Labour Party ministers are understood to support such a deal, the party's formal coalition partner, New Zealand First, is opposed. The Greens, as a support partner rather than part of the formal governing coalition, are effectively excluded from those discussions.

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Labour’s Posturing on Well-being EXPOSED by Mike Yardley

Labour’s year of delivery ended with way more welfare beneficiaries than when it began. Mike Yardley destroys the Prime Minister’s posturing on well being in just one article:

As election year dawns, one of the biggest credibility challenges this government faces is their failure to combat some of our biggest social ills.  Hence the catch cry that Labour is soft on crime, gangs and soft welfare. With all these stats heading in the wrong direction, they are complicit.

The MSD’s latest quarterly update on benefit numbers is a sobering read. You’ll recall what grabbed the headlines last week was that total benefit numbers are up five per cent year on year. And Jobseeker Support benefit numbers have jumped ten per cent.

Labour isn’t working.

But it gets worse.

In the two years since Labour took power, there are now 15,000 more children being raised in benefit dependent homes.

And there are 7,000 more young people parked up on the dole, compared to two years ago. So much for Mana in Mahi.

But, but, we’ve eliminated child poverty, haven’t we? Oh wait, the Minister for Child Poverty Reduction seems to have made matters worse.

Over the weekend I dug deeper into MSD’s December data.

Just look at the growth rate in the number of people parked up on the Jobseeker Support Work Ready benefit, since December 2017. It’s a horror show.

Taranaki, you’re up 19 per cent. The North Island East Coast, up 19 per cent. Northland, up 20 per cent. Bay of Plenty, up 28 per cent. Take a bow Southland, you’ve got the lowest increase, up 10 per cent. The Auckland region, up 47 percent.

And in Canterbury, the number of Jobseeker Support work ready beneficiaries has exploded by 55 per cent, since Labour took power.

Not only are these numbers through the roof, but the proportion of people who’ve remained on the work ready benefit for over a year has also jumped by 20 per cent.

Rapidly expanding welfare is Labour’s record. It flies in the face of all of the posturing on well-being. Hard metrics don’t lie. Entrenching dependence and sapping the will to work by surrendering on sanctions and failing to enforce work-test obligations is simply indefensible.

NewstalkZB

If Jacinda Ardern is going to have a robust, fact-based election campaign then these facts are rather inconvenient.

Based on those figures I could see National running the famous Tory line from their 1978 election, “Labour isn’t working

labour-isnt-working.jpg The BFD.

And there can be no one else to blame other than the Minister for Child Poverty Reduction. She stated that she was taking on that role as it was her reason for entering politics.

…where seeing “children without shoes on their feet or anything to eat for lunch” inspired her to eventually enter politics.

By all of the aforementioned measures, she has failed those children. By all of those measures she has made a lie of the so-called “well-being budget”. By all of those measures, she has shown that Labour isn’t working.

Instead of delivering houses to the homeless like they promised and better prospects for the poor from the “well-being budget”, the government is delivering higher unemployment and the resulting misery and increased crime rates that lack of work brings with it.

 

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On 1/23/2020 at 8:13 PM, tripple alliance said:

Remember when cindy signed up to the UN refugee pact  .

 The UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a commitment to eradicating poverty worldwide, the Compact was drafted to address all aspects of international migration . Reality is take immigrants when told  to , this is what happens when you try to protect your country , your heritage . 

" French intellectual Renaud Camus has been given a 2 month suspended prison sentence for stating that mass immigration in Europe represents an “invasion.” , Camus will only avoid jail by paying 1800 euros to two “anti-racist” organizations, SOS Racisme and the LICRA (International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism).

The writer, who is the author of Le Grand Remplacement (The Great Replacement), was charged with “public incitement to hate or violence on the basis of origin, ethnicity, nationality, race or religion.”

The conviction stems from a November 2017 speech in Colombey-les-deux Eglises to the National Council of European Resistance in which Camus declared, “Immigration has become an invasion.”

“The irreversible colonization is demographic colonization, by the replacement of the population,” said the author, adding, “The ethnic substitution, the great replacement, is the most important event in the history of our nation since it has existed; as with other people, if the story continues, it will not be that of France.”

 

And here it is .

"" UN Ruling Says ‘Climate Refugees’ Cannot Be Returned Back to Their Home Country 

It is unlawful for governments to return people to countries where their lives might be threatened by the climate crisis, a landmark ruling by the United Nations human rights committee has found.

The judgment – which is the first of its kind – represents a legal “tipping point” and a moment that “opens the doorway” to future protection claims for people whose lives and wellbeing have been threatened due to global heating, experts say.

Tens of millions of people are expected to be displaced by global heating in the next decade. ""

So there you have it ,  comrade cindy has opened up our country to anyone who claims it's a bit hot in the country where they come from and if we obey UN laws then we have no say in how many or who arrives here .

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Worth remembering . Oct 2019

"" Record numbers of people are asking the government for help to pay for their food and accommodation, and frontline community workers are labelling the situation a ''crisis''.

Latest figures from the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) show the amount of money being paid to motels to house the homeless has more than doubled compared with the corresponding time last year. 

That translates to 29,000 emergency housing grants being given out in the three months to September.

The grants, which cover motel stays for those with nowhere else to go, were at 15,000 the same time last year.

The average value for each grant has risen  from $1100 to $1400.

More than $41 million has been spent over the quarter - up from $15 million in September 2018. 

It's not just accommodation that people are struggling with - the figures paint a picture of soaring demand for the basics.

The number of Hardship Assistance Grants handed out has climbed to more than 570,000 over the September quarter, at a cost of $167 million.

Included in that is Emergency Food Grants, with $26 million has been given out, up more than 90 percent on the same time last year. We're reaching record levels of food poverty in Aotearoa and it is reaching crisis levels. ""

SO , anyone who votes for cindy should  be charged a surcharge of $100 ? a week to help out those who are suffering under her failed policy's , they clearly enjoy watching more and more people endure hardship .

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More Kiwi kids living in low-income households, suffering hardship - report

09/12/2019

"" More needs to be done, Andrew Becroft says. 

More than a quarter-of-a-million Kiwi kids still live in low-income households despite efforts to lift incomes, according to the latest Child Poverty Monitor report.

And almost 150,000 are in families that can't afford the basics, prompting calls from the Children's Commissioner for "big, bold changes".

"We are in danger, as a country, of marginalising a group of kids and reinforcing generational disadvantage," Andrew Becroft told Newshub.

Some of the shocking figures in Monday's report include: 

254,000 Kiwi children - 23 percent - live in households which have less than half the median income after housing costs (up from 21.4 percent the year before) 

148,000 (13 percent)  live in households experiencing material hardship - that means going without six or more essentials for a decent standard of living, such as heating, food and decent clothing (slightly up on last year)

65,000 live in households experiencing severe material hardship - going without nine or more essentials (slightly down on last year) 

children living in areas of high deprivation are three times more likely to end up hospital than those living in wealthy areas

they're five times more likely to be hospitalised with bronchiolitis due to substandard housing

174,000 (15 percent) live in homes that can't always afford to put healthy food on the table (a slight improvement on last year's report when it was about 20 percent), including 56 percent of kids whose parents receive income support 

more than 30 percent of low-income households spend more than half their income on housing costs (slightly up).""

CINDY performing right up to expectation , just hopeless .

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Pike river stupidity .

An operation to re-enter the Pike River mine is on track to exceed its $36 million budget and require a taxpayer top-up. Pike River Recovery Agency forecasts show the project running out of money mid-2020 . The Government originally budgeted $7.6m a year for three years, totalling $23m. It then topped up the budget to $36m.  

Minister Responsible for Pike River Re-entry Andrew Little said the recovery of the mine drift was going well. 

JUST another cindy stuff up .

And this .

A woman who lost her son in the Pike River Mine disaster says enough money has been poured into its re-entry.  Marion Curtin, mother of Richard Holling who never came home after the tragedy, said too much taxpayer money had been spent for no clear reason .

"The whole thing is ridiculous anyway, so this [possibly asking for more money] is ridiculous," she said. 

She questioned what they would find by entering the drift, when the men were in the mine when the explosion occurred.

"A lot of the public think they're going into the mine itself, which they're not.

"They're just re-entering the 'road' [the drift] up to the mine.

"The mine is where the men were when the explosion happened, that's where any remains would be.

"The Coroner's finding explained in good detail the affect a blast of that degree would have on a human body, there'll be nothing but ash to retrieve.

"They're not going to retrieve the bodies. Let them rest in peace. They're not lost, we know where they are.

"When will I hear someone say 'enough is enough'? "  .

CINDY doesn't care , it's only tax payer money , but it's money that should be spent on the living .

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Comrade Cindy has given up , this government flattened the rental supply with their crazy policy's that  drove many small time house owners , landlords out of the business .,

The result , long term living in emergency accommodation , clearly she has no idea what to do to help the situation but hey , she now accepts she can't provide a solution so this is what she has done .

 "" Government defends charging rent for emergency motel stays . It announced Thursday, as part of a $300m homelessness package, that those who stayed in motels as a form of emergency housing longer than seven days would now be charged rent equivalent to 25 per cent of their income .

The package itself is focused on reducing the amount of motel stays necessary, which have doubled since late-2018 to a point where between 3000 and 4000 people are staying in motels.""

Now , nothing wrong with charging but from comrade cindy's  perspective it must go again the grain and this change confirms her initial assessment of how to help those struggling to find accommodation was hope less .  (doubled since late-2018 to a point where between 3000 and 4000 people are staying in motel ) . 

Once again it's the less well off who are comrade cindys worst effected victims .

 

 

 

 

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More Slogans from Jacinda

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If you know of anyone considering studying for a communications degree, try to talk them out if it. Tell them to study law, engineering, architecture or medicine. Advise them to study something that contributes to the society we live in. Because, if Jacinda is anything to go by, a communications degree delivers nothing more than hot air – a commodity we could certainly do with less of on a supposedly warming planet.

Being able to communicate well is one thing. Just making stuff up year after year is quite another.

Her 2017 election campaign was headlined – “Let’s Do This”. It all sounded very positive and trendy. Then in 2018, while they were appointing working groups to report back on everything from the taxation system to Women’s Institute knitting circles, the mantra became “Nine Long Years of Neglect”. This mantra completely ignored, of course, the rebuild of Christchurch, the GFC, and also the roading projects – the Roads of National Significance – that were all dealt with, or started, by the previous National government. “Nine Years of Neglect” continued in her speech in parliament on Tuesday, but these days, nobody believes it, except Jacinda.

2019 was the “Year of Delivery”, implying that they had talked enough, and now they were going to get all these ambitious projects started. Kiwibuild was going to solve the housing crisis, the mental health sector would be funded and massively improved, the taxation system was to be given a major overhaul, and after “Nine Long Years of Neglect”, it was time to sit up and “Do This”. Except it wasn’t. A few hundred houses were built under Kiwibuild, and the entire project was then scrapped. There is little to see by way of improvement in the mental health sector. There are more homeless people than ever before, and the waiting list for state housing has grown to an unprecedented 14,000 or more. The “Year of Delivery” delivered nothing, other than a lot more hot air.

Now it is election year, and this government has done just about nothing in its two-and-a-half years so far. This has not deterred Jacinda though – not one little bit. On the back of the reinstatement of roading projects originally planned and consented under National’s “Nine Long Years of Neglect” (which were scrapped as soon as this government took power), Jacinda now has the absolute gall to claim that she leads “The Government of Infrastructure”. Here is a snippet from her tedious speech in parliament this week:

“After nine long years, there may not have been a blue smoke, but there was plenty of denial. There was denial that we had a housing crisis. There was denial that kids were doing their homework in cars. There was denial that children in this country—an affluent country—did not have all that they needed to thrive,” Ardern said.

Ardern then described her government as a “government of infrastructure,” a “government of health and mental health,” and a “government of housing,” the latter receiving loud jeers from the Opposition benches thanks to the failure of KiwiBuild.

Stuff.

Honestly. What an absolute joke. How can this woman stand up in front of our House of Representatives and spin such absolute codswallop! The government has built nothing yet. Not a road, not a bridge, nothing, other than a measly few houses under Kiwibuild. If that makes them the “Government of Infrastructure”, then I would love to know what we should really be calling the last government, who achieved more in their last 3 years than her government will in decades.

Let us correct her slogans for her, shall we?

“Let’s Do This” turned into “Let’s Pretend We Can Do This”.

“Nine Long Years of Neglect” turned into “Three Years of Slogans and Empty Promises”.

“The Year of Delivery” turned into “The Year of Non-Delivery – Just like the Last One”,

and the “Government of Infrastructure” needs to be changed to “The Government that Hopes to Build a Few Roads, but Like Everything Else, it Doesn’t Have a Clue How to Do it”.

This government is great on slogans though. Slogans it can do really well. Clearly, Jacinda is trying to get people along for the ride; trying to persuade them that this government is achieving things when it clearly, hopelessly, is doing no such thing.

Obviously, a communications degree teaches students to do one other thing. It teaches people to completely ignore the truth and spin the outcome for everything you’ve got. That is how the poorest performing government in decades suddenly became the “Government of Infrastructure”. There is not even a glimmer of truth in the slogan. But that is not important to Jacinda. If you keep saying something for long enough, it will become true. That has been the modus operandi of her government all along.

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And you can thank those minority of kiwi voters who voted NZ First above 5%. What a joke. Instead of the steady hand of the proven Bill English, you got the non-performing Socialist Ardern. Everyone knows what happens when Socialists are in control - the joint goes backward. True Labour people like Bob Hawke and Paul Keating knew that and that’s why Aust did well when they were leading Labour. A Socialist Govt achieves nothing and unfortunately, that’s what NZ has got - and why Bill Shorten (Labour) and Malcolm (look at me!) Turnbull (Part-time Liberal) both got the arse in Australia. I hope NZ wakes up this year. It’s too small a country to be even remotely mixing up with Socialism. 

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7 minutes ago, Trump said:

And you can thank those minority of kiwi voters who voted NZ First above 5%. What a joke. Instead of the steady hand of the proven Bill English, you got the non-performing Socialist Ardern. Everyone knows what happens when Socialists are in control - the joint goes backward. True Labour people like Bob Hawke and Paul Keating knew that and that’s why Aust did well when they were leading Labour. A Socialist Govt achieves nothing and unfortunately, that’s what NZ has got - and why Bill Shorten (Labour) and Malcolm (look at me!) Turnbull (Part-time Liberal) both got the arse in Australia. I hope NZ wakes up this year. It’s too small a country to be even remotely mixing up with Socialism. 

Hopefully all those ex Nat supporters who defected to NZF ( the over 60’s ) see sense and come back to the fold. If they do, NZF is gone.

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8 minutes ago, shodsie said:

a vote for winnie is basically a vote for the rotten greens i can't see many retirees/farmers/racing enthusiasts liking that scenario.....

does anyone out there think that they can win northland???  

Shane Jones does....:rolleyes:

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3 hours ago, shodsie said:

a vote for winnie is basically a vote for the rotten greens i can't see many retirees/farmers/racing enthusiasts liking that scenario.....

does anyone out there think that they can win northland???  

Is Northland part of NZ ?? I thought it was another world!

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3 hours ago, Ohokaman said:

Careful......it is actually, a bloody nice one if you’re not too fussy.....;)

Only joking - I like the area around Kawakawa bay. I took a few mates from Oz up that way to play golf on various courses. We stayed in various houses on the ocean bays and they could not believe the beauty of the place. On one trip, we called into Matauri Bay (spelling) where the former Minister in the Labour Party lives. Forgotten his name but he’s the one that urinated in the Hotel corridor - Dover Samuels! Anyway, we ended up having lunch with him and his family, fresh fish etc caught that day, looking out to the Cavalli Islands, drinking piss and playing guitars. The only thing out of place was the big black S600 long wheelbase Merc we arrived in ! Fortunately, we got out with all tyres intact and no missing wing mirrors! Dover was a great host! :) 

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8 minutes ago, Trump said:

Only joking - I like the area around Kawakawa bay. I took a few mates from Oz up that way to play golf on various courses. We stayed in various houses on the ocean bays and they could not believe the beauty of the place. On one trip, we called into Matauri Bay (spelling) where the former Minister in the Labour Party lives. Forgotten his name but he’s the one that urinated in the Hotel corridor - Dover Samuels! Anyway, we ended up having lunch with him and his family, fresh fish etc caught that day, looking out to the Cavalli Islands, drinking piss and playing guitars. The only thing out of place was the big black S600 long wheelbase Merc we arrived in ! Fortunately, we got out with all tyres intact and no missing wing mirrors! Dover was a great host! 

A bit further on next time Trumpy...to Doubtless Bay...Coopers Beach and Mangonui for fish and chips at the pub.....;)

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33 minutes ago, Ohokaman said:

A bit further on next time Trumpy...to Doubtless Bay...Coopers Beach and Mangonui for fish and chips at the pub.....;)

Then on to Houhora,Pukenui after a few colds at Waipapakauri :rcfe-smile:

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