Wow – How much does Louise Upston hate women? Why sacking the Minister for Women shouldn’t be the only Minister to go

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The contempt for women that the Minister for Women Louise Upston seems to have for women is extraordinary but when you think about it, not that unique within the National Party.

Her silence over the Chief scandal, her silence over the touching of a young female employee by the Prime Minister, her gleeful denial of feminism and even more gleeful support of beauty pageants suggests a women who has always hated the intellectual superiority of her peers. Her latest blunder has been to not even bother speaking at the 125th Council for Women.

It’s like we have a Minister who relishes the dismantling of the very Ministry they oversee.

We have a Minister for Women who hates women. We have a Minister for State Housing who hates state housing. We have a Minister of Housing who hates affordable housing. We have an Education Minister who hates Education. We have a Minister for Christchurch who hates Christchurch. We have a Minister for Public Broadcasting that hates public broadcasting. We have a Minister for Health who can’t eat the food in public. We have a Minister of Youth affairs who has gutted the department by 50% while youth suicide and unemployment soar. We have a Environment Minister who hates the Environment and we have a Minister of Welfare who despises beneficiaries.

Overseeing this Government of Spite is a Prime Minister who doesn’t seem to give a flying toss about the poor, the vulnerable or anyone who doesn’t own property.

How have we ended up with this Plutocracy of Misery? Because we have an electoral system that actively keeps the poor from participating….

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Rousing typically apathetic voters from three key demographics could swing next month’s local elections.

Young people, ethnic minorities, the poor and uneducated have been staying away from the polls.

But they are not alone.

Voter turnout in local authority elections has been steadily falling across New Zealand since the 1980s.

the Herald claims it is apathy, but it’s far more structural than that.

In June I sent the Electoral Commission an open letter highlighting how their own systems prevented the poor from enrolling on an unpublished roll…

I’ve spoken to many people on the fringes of society and asked them why they don’t vote, the answer is always the same, some fear that their details will be used by Government agencies hunting them down, some fear debt collectors hunting them down, and some fear abusive ex partners hunting them down.

Currently your conditions to get on the unpublished roll are quite frankly disgraceful.

First you refuse to even include the fears of debt collectors or the ever increasing mass surveillance of our State Agencies as even a reason to get on the unpublished roll, and secondly the hoops you make the survivors of abusive relationships jump through to get on the unpublished roll are too severe.

I honestly wonder based on the difficulties you place in front of abuse survivors  to get on the unpublished roll how many NZers actually even use that feature.

I demand a change.

If you want to raise the level of participation so that it’s not just rich prick boomer property speculators turning NZ into a de facto Plutocracy, you should change the rules to allow anyone to go on the unpublished roll to eliminate the fears from the poor of being chased by debt collectors and State Agencies and you should make that process as easy as ticking a box.

Without removing the fear of retribution towards the poor you have inadvertently created a system that favours the wealthy and the white.

You’ve managed to make the one person one vote principle of Democracy meaningless.

…to date the Electoral Commission have not responded.

It is no surprise we get the results and Ministers that we do if those most impacted negatively by their policies can’t enrol.

12 COMMENTS

  1. Yes but…. why do we have so many MP’s that hate their jobs? and the people they are there to serve?

    Why don’t they all take a wee break and ,… I dunno ,…. drink chamomile tea and attend a detox clinic to purge all that neo liberal toxicity from their systems or something?

    Do we really need them and their spite?

    Is that what we elected them for?

    • Has the government heard of democracy?
      Mike, watch parliament T.V for 5 minutes when Upston is speaking, diplomatic she is not. Horrid women, but adores power.
      Does not speak in public because she is a puppet for the National party and lacks intellegence.
      Remember, Key IS the National party as advertised by Saatchi and Saatchi and marketed by Crosby/Textor and finally funded by dirty foreign Chinese money.

  2. Fortunately we have a Minister of Defence who loves the Navy. Mr Brownlee is buying a tanker for the NZ Navy that costs $493 million , at the same time those cheapskate British and Norwegian Navies are only spending $204 M and $218 M for larger vessels. I am sure for this cost our sailors will each have luxury suites with gold plated fittings ,spa baths and a choice of restaurants to dine in. Good on them they deserve the best. Ron Mark is questioning this expenditure ,what does he know ? He is only an ex army officer of many year experience and not a member of the ” senior service”.

  3. I don’t believe it is a case that she hates women. That is actually illogical anyway.
    Louise Upston is clearly another member of the National government adhoc ministers club – the club for government ministers who are given their portfolios on the understanding that they are only faces – the real power behind their portfolios is John Key, John Key, John Key. Except of course when they committ hari-kari and then honest John forgets they were even born.

  4. Lots of hate and a ___ kissing going on in the — ” out of touch ” Natzi govt.
    Louise Upton, a sad and fat little girl just wanting to be loved by her
    psychopathic lying leader. She stood by and represented woman about as well as a fox will protect the hen house. ” Chapped lips Louise ” ? ? ? ?
    Good riddance to “want to be” elitist phonies who, as per the usual, puts
    profits; status and her love of John Key ahead of people and women and sanity.

    This present govt. is so embarrassing and we deserve so much better.
    We need more intelligent and ethical feminists and not more cheer leader type beauty pageant Auckland housewives. Put on some more make-up and more phony smiles.
    WAKE – UP VOTERS.

  5. “Overseeing this Government of Spite is a Prime Minister who doesn’t seem to give a flying toss about the poor, the vulnerable or anyone who doesn’t own property.”

    Or more accurately, a Prime Minister who doesn’t in fact care about New Zealand. It all makes perfect sense, when you think about it.

  6. What does a ministry for womans affairs actually accomplish under a National led government.
    It has a budget but what does it actually spend it on ?
    Upton and her ministry has certainly been silent on a number of issues when it should have been leading the charge on behalf of the woman they are supposed to represent.
    Where was Upton on the following
    1 Equal pay for woman
    2 Ponytailgate
    3 Better pay and conditions for women in the aged care sector and in other employment
    4 Woman living in deprivation trying to raise a family
    5 Roast busters
    Your right Martyn Upton does a disservice to woman in general with her lack action and non attendance at the 125th womans council meeting.
    The ministry for woman is a oxymoron in a National Government.

  7. Yep, all the ministers we have right now are like real life versions of Ron Swanson from Parks and Recreation. Only that it’s not funny when none of them actually care for the reason their departments exist.

  8. A good piece and letter with one exception. I cannot agree with your statement

    “Without removing the fear of retribution towards the poor you have inadvertently created a system that favours the wealthy and the white.”

    It is not inadvertent. Please make a formal request for the numbers on the unpublished role, the number/percentage who apply and are turned down, and the reasons why having people on an unpublished role countervail the need of voter’s personal security concerns.

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