TPPA Dairy deal already signed – National Government playing NZ voters again

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National are playing the NZ media again by downplaying a Dairy deal when they in fact have already signed the dairy deal off. This is the astounding conclusion Gordon Campbell has come to in todays must read blog...

For five years, the public has been denied any meaningful information about the content and progress of the TPP – on the bogus excuse that for the government to do so would jeopardise its ability to conduct the negotiations. Yet in other countries, far more information is publicly available than is the case here. As a result, the public is being made vulnerable to political manipulation – as information is drip fed by the government primarily for its own political ends. We are not North Korea, but a five year blackout amounts to a near- totalitarian abuse of information on matters of crucial public interest.

Currently a classic example of this process is under way. For the past week, the government has been actively downplaying the likely deal on dairy access to overseas markets that New Zealand may achieve via the TPP . Prime Minister John Key has warned that the dairy deal outcome will not be ‘gold-plated’ ; and on Friday Trade Minister Tim Groser told RNZ that if a better deal than the one hitherto on offer wasn’t available, it would hardly be worth his time attending the upcoming ministerial talks in Atlanta this week, which are expected to conclude the TPP deal. It was a peculiar remark. Surely if the dairy deal is on the ropes, shouldn’t Groser be rushing to help push it over the line. Surely five years of negotiations deserve no less than 110 per cent effort at the finale. What’s going on here?

The likely explanation is that the dairy deal, has in fact, been done. Over the weekend, evidence has emerged that a new deal for NZ on dairy – and a solution to the previous impasse – has been reached, and is being reported on in North America. What our government has done is to talk down the likely outcome, so that it can maximise the gains of pulling the rabbit successfully out of the hat. Secrecy breeds the opportunities for this kind of spin.

…we are being set up by the Government who have been down playing a deal on Dairy all week and with the media chasing pandas, flags and sterilisation of the poor, the Government will slip this past and claim the deal is a massive win for NZ.

We are being conned. No amount of extra milk or cheese we can sell the yanks makes up for the loss of economic and political sovereignty we risk if Key signs this off.

We are being set up to see the hype of an agreement on dairy as some sort of victory when it will be nothing of the sort.

We are being played.

16 COMMENTS

  1. Yep. It is a big con,and we are being, as usual, played as suckers by the Key Regime.

    They always were going to sign off on this DUD of a “treaty” come what may. It is in their ideological DNA, nothing to do with the good of NZ, just blind dogma.

  2. If the TPPA gets signed, the next government should Introduce a new tax, call it the National Party/JK tax which ONLY applies to the top earners. This extra tax would be used soley to fund all reasonable challenges against stupid, unfair & undemocratic tppa rules. That prospect will put the City of God into the top earners who invariably vote for the corporate fascist, John Key

  3. Get all opposition Parties to a “Democracy Forum-conference” to discuss choices of Options to protect NZ citizens against over reaching Controls from Corporations & present Government undemocratic policies forcing TPPA secretive agreements upon us all.

  4. Key is rushing to sign the tppa because hes probably heard of the court case to allow the public to see the details the Key government is hiding.
    The Greens must know of the outcome of tpp but show token disapproval.
    This country dosnt seem to have any parliamentary strength to oppose tpp maybe Winston Peters,but he clears off to rugby at a crucial time.

    Who can we trust?wish we had a Jeremy Corbyn.

    Key is attempting to get TPP signed off before any judgement by NZcourt , he will then ignor the judgement.
    A Lein on the TPP signing should be put on Key ,bind his hands and feet . Can we do that?
    Jane Kelsey has probably thought of all angles,she is a very smart and caring lady,in my book NZer of the year,if not the decade.

    In Wakeup New Zealand Russia and Jeremy Corbyn are declaring the 9/ 11 world trade centre an inside job , Wake up New Zealand provides proof. that’s the reason UK and USA governments are against Russia and Jeremy Corbyn.Israel is implicated as well.
    Usa big businesses are storing a trillion dollars .and keeping it out of circulation.
    So much going on in the secret World Government circles.we need eyes in the back of our heads to keep up with it.
    We are in the grip of evil people.
    Our hope is Russia who USA is always trying to pin blame on to make people turn against Putin,Ukraine wasn’t Russia’s doing it was USA.
    Keep up people Read Wake Up New Zealand,also Scoop and all praise to TDB for giving us a forum to put the news out there.

  5. Lien on future Government rights to renegotiate TPPA membership.

    Or better to call for a National strike like 1951 Wharf strike folks that will force a vote of no confidence in NatZ?

  6. Yes, well no surprises there surely ?
    NZ is a food producing country . It does nothing else worth the trouble of debating . I.e. cooked figures re tourism ? And Technologies’ ( Try eating ‘technologies’? ) Hyped bullshittery to keep your eye off the ball.
    Jonky and his buddies know very well the agricultural importance NZ represents to the rest of the soon-to-be starving world and I’m sorry Auckland but it aint no ho hum latte in Ponsonby.
    It’s our fertile lands the size of the UK but with only 4.3 million morons scratching out a living from what ever crumb the Banks drop of their coke and hookers stained board room tables .
    The only way forward from this shitty situation is for Farmers to come over from their True Blue National Party abusers and embrace the mentally well side of politics. Farming is an holistic and complex profession and jonky knows well that by that very premise farmers are hugely vulnerable to market variations. Hence the farce that is the ‘ down turn ‘ in on – farm returns re dairying. It’s a play fools ! They drew you into debt and are now scaring the be-jesus out of you and you’re all falling for it like schmucks . And now, after the toilets have stopped flushing at 4.00 am ? You dumb cockies will be ever more thankful that jonky and his cronies committed fascist manoeuvres to out flank you and draw you ever further into their traps. Honestly ? Nothing new here at all.
    Farmers die drowning in debt after a life time of being demonised and ridiculed to deflect attention to their enslavement and their financialised capitalist abusers make billions from their blood, sweat and tears. Literally . Oh My Ghod ! The surprise ! Wow ! I Mean WOW .
    ( Ugh. )

  7. Tuesday morning news there was another feel good story about the creating of a marine reserve bla bla by Nick Smith – another softener like pandas and deflecting topics of CYFS etc to steer us away from the probably already signed TPPS. It seems there is a dairy concession for us which Groser is playing down because the US farming community are up in arms by it. Obama has stated he wants it signed by the weekend. Watch out for the announcement early next week. You are right Martyn we are being played right down to the wire. Meanwhile NZ ex-prisoners in Australia are in transit centres awaiting deportation. What I can’t understand is why, when the prison sentence is finished they are not put immediately on a plane home. Key isn’t in the slightest bit interested in sorting this situation out , too busy poncing about over in the US with the so called big boys.

  8. As much as I respect Gordon Campbell for his perceptive writing, his conclusion that something has already been signed/agreed to is just his take on it. I haven’t heard that from anywhere else, and he got to it by a joining-the-dots approach, and it is a perfectly reasonable, if scary, conclusion. But it might not be true. Which means we have another week to get out on the streets, occupy offices of your local nat mp, demonstrate and let’s cause some disruption. We are far too polite. We need to block roads and bridges, a swarm of people needs to march on parliament, get inside and refuse to leave. Just sayin.

  9. Key and the Natzi’s appear to be in a rush to sign anything and to push laws through under urgency, why do we have to rush everything, why not do it once and do it properly.

    Government in NZ have not acted in the best interests of New Zealamders in the past 40 years.

  10. What I want to know is, do Labour, the Greens, Iwi etc have a contingency plan? Surely if it is signed and National lose power, people will try and roll it back somehow.

  11. As a lot of the leaks etc have shown this thing is signed off line by line, clause by clause and chapter by chapter. As Groser has said it is 95% done deal and he has just slowly woken up to the Dairy sentence which Key now says is not going to be a very good one. Well we knew that all along as there is such a Dairy surplus outside Russia and China. The US and Key have blocked Russia from buying from us over this Nato fizz and China has enough to play around with while they build a mega dairy farm in cohorts with Russia. EU has no shortage of milk so we have about run out of countries rich enough to buy our over priced dairy.
    TPPA was never about Dairy. The chapters that involve financial markets will be the ones with the worst fish hooks for us. Making money out of money has always been the the cheapest $ you can get for input, resources, transport etc. That will be big crunch for us. US is desperate to be the only currency of new world global economy and TPPA TTIP and all this other shit is to help get the US across their imaginary line of world domination, they need it to support their crazy number of bases which attempts to gain world military domination and they will and are using their military to do it.
    Key thinks he is so smart being entrenched in “Team USA”, he assumes will be the winning side. Have my doubts the planet can support us that long, long enough to see a clear winner, and is a clear winner what we need? I doubt it.

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