Remember when Key said ‘NZs on the cusp of something special’ – What exactly?

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Remember when Key said ‘NZs on the cusp of something special’ at the election?

So what exactly is this something ‘special’ that we were on the cusp of?

Serco? A private prison with a global reputation for corruption and prisoner abuse that makes profit from incarceration? That focuses more on money than rehabilitation, that has allowed its prison to become a cess pit because 2 guards per 50 prisoners is a recipe for corruption?

TPPA? A ‘free trade deal’ that robs our democracy of its sovereignty for the benefit of american corporations? The PMs desire to sign the TPPA regardless of what it says is a thing of terrible beauty. If we still had Campbell Live – Key wouldn’t nearly be so confident on signing the TPPA

Houses too expensive to buy? A property bubble that has out speculated first home buyers because of a free market system that allows foreign speculation to warp the market? Is the Government so empty of ideas that all they have to keep the pretence of economic growth occurring is a bubble?

Not to mention killing off public broadcasting, mass surveillance, NSA & GCSB collusion, Dirty Politics, SIS working with the PMs Office to smear the Leader of the Opposition, draconian Welfare reforms designed to disqualify rather than help, borrowing billions in tax cuts for the richest while increasing GST on the poorest, eroding work and safety legislation despite the Pike River deaths?

Tell me National Party voting NZ – are you feeling special yet?

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14 COMMENTS

  1. At least Tony Abbott actually said he was happy about Sydney house prices rising because he owned property there (god, it’s pretty bad when Abbott’s more of a man!).

  2. Australia still hasn’t quite sunk to the abyssall depths NZ has, media wise, yet. There are still people willing to call Abbott out, and still media that will report it….but the Lib/Nat coalition is working on that…….

  3. “Are you feeling special yet NZ?”

    Like Dirty Harry, all Key has done is emulate that angle by saying “we have a rock star economy” so he could well had said then;

    “Well do you feel lucky people , do you?”

    This could be as he was pointing to a big graph like the excellent one you have placed up with all his failings, and no body would have connected the dots within our sleepy hollow MSM or public arena.

    The walls of Planet key are cracking and in the not to long future ahead the planet will implode, and that’s a “Beautiful thing”.

    “No plasterers or builders will be able to put Humpty Key back together again” or his motely crew, and what a sweet day that will be.

  4. Serco’s performance is Exceptional
    There is no housing bubble!
    There are so few overseas speculators why bother collecting the statistics.
    There’s a lot of affordable homes in Auckland
    We are building a kagillion bridges in Northland
    “Kiwis with concerns (over the TTPA) were acting like ‘breathless children’.
    Removing the government contribution to Kiwisaver wont make a blind bit of difference!
    Trust me (John Key)

  5. There is no depression in New Zealand
    There are no sheep on our farms
    There is no depression in New Zealand
    We can all keep perfectly calm

    But everybody’s talking about World War Three (x2)
    But we’re as safe as safe can be
    There’s no unrest in this country

    And the voters dumbed down
    With the lies of John Key

    There is no depression in New Zealand
    There are no sheep on our farms
    There is no depression in New Zealand
    TTPA is no cause for alarm

    But everyone’s talking about World War Three
    Were now as unsafe as unsafe can be
    There’s plenty of unrest in this country

    There is no deception in New Zealand
    There are no sheep on our farms
    There is no deception in New Zealand
    Obama’s Key is no cause for alarm

  6. The cusp of something special will be becoming the latest state of the US, as a result of FJK’s great sell off of NZ! His reward will be state governor for life!

    Either that, or becoming tenants in our own land … oh wait … I think we might already have reached that point…!!

  7. Wild Katipo. 1000%

    That ditty should be sung to the 1970 Jimmy Hendricks song “All along the watchtower”

  8. Good points Martyn. In regard to the graphic supplied by Labour, I have to say everytime I see Labour complain about National, I find it a bit rich. Not breaking with the ‘Neoliberal Project’ is a bit like the Pope saying sorry for the Vatican’s involvement in the colonization of the Americas, condemning capitalism and claiming to care about the Earth, while not giving back the gold, not naming the dynastic families of Europe that still benefit from the genocide and promoting carbon markets that the global banking cartels will make a windfall from trading. So, I wish ‘lefty’ parties and politicians like Grant Robertson would stop saying and writing that ‘National is failing”.

    National’s policies are working very well. They are hurting the vulnerable, stressing the middle class and luring the upper middle class and the fairly well-to-do of the 1% into a nice trap. That trap is inherent to the Neo-Liberal-Neo-Con Project. It’s economic warfare or the Shock Doctrine. Sovereignty and wealth is being transferred, as I make clear in my most recent article, “Almost Fully Operational: The Mega Cartel Death Star” at: https://criticl.me/post/almost-fully-operational-mega-cartel-death-star-3595

  9. ..maybe jonkey thinks he is going to strike oil…because it doesnt make sense otherwise …he has taken New Zealand up shit creek

  10. I feel we are on a cusp of something special, on a “cusp” of a perfect economic storm, a financial and social disaster for New Zealand. I feel as we live in “special” times, where history is in the making, new “history” so to say, and where this country and its people are being pushed to the brink.

    While some are so damned deluded, they live in their own mental and emotional space that is in reality as distant as planet Mars from where I am, and rest on their false sense of security, while the book values of their homes in suburban Auckland and some other places go up over $ 500 a day, many others (I included) face extremely grim times ahead of us.

    So we had another one of those “global dairy auctions” last night, which used to be watched with great interest, and which two years or so ago delivered the “good news” that Key, English, Joyce and Groser used to celebrate as proof of a “rock star economy”, but these days, the ever dropping dairy prices make for nothing to feel great about. That is probably why the otherwise Nat friendly media hacks, the chatty hosts of talk back, the “boredcasters” and so, make only brief or no mention of it.

    We had the lowest prices since these global auctions started about 8 years ago, some say dairy prices are for some commodities the lowest for 13 years, and there is no sign of them bottoming out. Sean Plunket talks about something else today, on Radio Live(ing Dead), and even Kathryn Ryan on RNZ National has chosen something else to broadcast and discuss.

    People out and around me also go about their usual work and activities, many with the heads stuck deep in the sand. Only some, like Professor Jane Kelsey have warned about the future risks.

    So here we are, 7 years into a John Key led government, the “laissez faire” gang running the show, Bill English was using calming words again on Morning Report. But get real people, FFS, wake up, we are heading into a perfect storm. Auckland’s housing crisis is set to continue for another ten years, reaching its worst situation in three years, as new builds do not keep up with the immigration and investor driven non abating demand.

    Stay Calm, they say, stay calm, and face the drop from the cliff, it won’t hurt, I guess, just “stay calm”.

    Prepare for the worst, I’d say, this is NOT going to end well, and farmers and mortgage holders will hit the wall, and overseas buyers will line up to buy the rest of YOUR country, folks. Well, that is for those that actually may care, as some do not give a damn, they are happy to sell, and move on or out. That is the better off and middle class, with some “equity”. Those at the bottom have gained little or none, after years of promise and empty talk. Many more are becoming tenants in their own country!

    I personally am damned furious, ready to take action, what about others? Here is just some stuff to read and think about:

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11492002

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11491810

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11491893

    http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/regional/280507/housing-shortage-%27set-to-worsen%27

  11. Of course the people who vote national are feeling special because they are proud to have been part of implementing everything Martyn has outlined in this article.

  12. Heard today that NESARA has started.

    The TPPA architects will apparently trumpet a victory but the
    Brics and AIIB have struck the death blow to TPPA and the trumpeting by the architects lackeys is illusionary and these illicit agreements will be overriden.

    Almost time for the “Dear John” letter to be written with, of course, an inclusion of the Greek PM’s comment about …”for whom the bell tolls” …

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