Amazing isn’t it?
The National Government can send Gerry Brownlee to offer $20 million for 2 pandas.
They can spend $27million on a vanity project for the PM to change the flag and waste months of time bickering about it.
They can re-write the law and allow Sky City to build a larger gambling den not caring about the social harm it does.
They can spend $11million to bribe a Saudi to try and get a free trade deal with a country that crucifies people protesting for freedom.
And they can drop everything to meet Warner Bros Executives and pay them millions more in corporate welfare to screw over the Unions.
National can’t move fast enough when it’s Pandas, flags, sky city scams, Saudi bribes & Warner Bros corporate welfare, but when it’s 200 of our own citizens being kept in a draconian Australian detention camp – suddenly they can’t do a bloody thing…
Kiwis held in Australian detention centres are facing worse conditions than those of a regular prison, says an Australian politician fighting for her Government to change deportation laws.
Australian Greens’ immigration spokeswoman Senator Sarah Hanson-Young has visited the detention centres and told TVNZ’s Q+A that the one on Christmas Island, where almost 200 New Zealanders have been sent, is one of the worst.
“It takes about six hours to fly from Perth to get there. It’s away from lawyers; it’s away from advocates. It’s very much built like a high-security prison, but you don’t have the access from the outside world that you would normally have in a prison on mainland Australia, or indeed, I would imagine, in New Zealand.”
When it’s 200 of our own citizens, Key has to beg Australia like a snivelling child to have our citizens treated with basic dignity. Has our hatred towards prisoners been so twisted that we refuse to stand up for our own people when they are treated appallingly?
Just to add to the list of flags, pandas etc,don’t forget the $11m pad in New York! Then there is the $6.5m state funded “consul” residence recently purchased in FJK’s home state of Hawaii!
Look here. These 200 criminals deserve what they get, and they are lucky that they aren’t sterilized as well. And let’s face it, they aren’t going to be the sort of people that would be the ACT, Dunne , or even National demographic for that matter.
Mr Key has enough on his plate at the moment to worry about without dealing with issues that clearly do NOT concern mainstream right-wing voters, or even right-leaning centrist voters.
These criminals will probably end up in the NZ prison system here after their Christmas holidays, so they will be “guests” of the minister Sam Lotu-Iiga, soon enough.
We believe that, to save money, it should be a two-way process in the end and that all non-resident criminals should be returned to THEIR respective countries. Quid pro quo and criminals beware is our policy.
Money saved in looking after other countries’ criminals would be better spent on properly funding charter schools.
What Planet are you on See-More? One that orbits Planet Key obviously.
How come you right-wingers can blinker-view issues like the rights of kiwis? You make me sick, the us-and-them attitude and a holier than thou rich-prick attitude to rights. No money equals no rights? Is that it See-more?
Whatever has happened to this once egalitarian paradise that it now has callous neo-liberal scum like you in charge.
*woosh*
Whoosh!
Doh! You beat me to it Him-See
Well played David. A suggestion though – irony appears to be lost in these woods. It’s probably a really really good idea to preface with a ‘trigger warning’. Dear Reader: Beware of irony.
I think a little giveaway at the end is OK (e.g. the charter schools above). Otherwise where is the joy of the garden path? That’s like starting with the punchline, doing the set up and then explaining why it’s funny. Oh yes, that is funny, yes.
Or, are you pulling a fast one and suggesting Trigger Warning Irony upfront and then being literal? That could really cause some mayhem.
sorry my suggestion of trigger warnings was pure sarcasm. I’m just so disappointed that there is such widespread irony illiteracy in the neighbourhood and a pandemic of gullibility. The initial irony of David See-More, ironically needed no improvement.
pandemic of gullibility
Nice – and you got me, god i hate that.
The real worry isn’t that National has this cynical culture of “pragmatic” policies – but that 47% of voters see nothing wrong with it.
That scares me.
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