LATEST ROY MORGAN POLL – Inequality, climate change, more war and child poverty – things NZ voters don’t care about

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The latest Roy Morgan Poll is out and once again, National are on 49%.

Consider that for a moment – despite all the deeply divisive crap this Government have managed to do, despite the appalling abuse of political power, the failed ideological experiments, the economy set for their rich mates – despite all that – they are polling higher now than they were on election day. Yes we can claim the polls are rigged, yes we can argue about methodology,  but the cold simple fact is that out there amongst the masses, they love John Key as much as a shark loves blood.

Perhaps the ease with which NZers are manipulated is the blame of a vacant and subservient mainstream media or perhaps the property speculating middle class are prepared to tolerate anything for untaxed capital gains, but today there are 4 classic examples  of issues that NZers should be deeply concerned about but aren’t…

1: New data out next week will show this is the increase in Child Poverty…

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…15% in 1984, 29% now. Once upon a time 305 000 kids in poverty would have horrified egalitarian NZ – 30 years of neoliberalism and we blame the parents for not being able to feed kids from the pittance they are paid in welfare.

 

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2: America asks us to enter their new war, and instead of outrage, we get conned by ‘Jihadi Brides’ into believing we need to keep bombing for peace. The idea of a US warship visiting NZ would have us on the streets, now NZers turn up for selfies.

 

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3: Key tells the world to stop subsidising fossil fuels while doing it himself. Climate change threatens the very model that neoliberalism survives on and Key who did all he could to kill off 100% Pure to avoid being seen as the greenwash hypocrites we are is doing nothing.

The country’s ranking has fallen from 35th to a lowly 42nd out of 58 this year – just five places ahead of China.

While New Zealand scored better for renewable energy, it ranked in the bottom five for climate change policy. 

The ranking list was released at the Paris climate change conference.

It measures factors such as emissions levels per capita, deployment of renewable energy, and the energy intensity of the economy.

4: and while we are in denial about all the issues facing NZ – inequality soars...

The elite and high-income earners of New Zealand have increased their wealth by almost $200 billion while debt among the poorest has climbed to $7b, a new study of inequality says.

Since the 1980s, inequality has drawn closer to levels seen in more unequal countries such as the United States.

Researchers Max Rashbrooke, Geoff Rashbrooke and Wilma Molano set out to update the the data used to inform the picture of wealth here, burrowing into official statistics.

30 years of neoliberalism has robbed us of the political awareness to understand what is occurring around us. The vacant aspiration of success that National sell has become an immovable cultural force in NZ and a mainstream media that simply regurgitates the myths means we can’t progress.

It will only be when the property bubble pops that all our baby boomer and middle class friends who think they are millionaires will suddenly remember Key rules for the 1% – not them.

The higher National’s poll ratings go up – the longer the lines outside City Mission & food banks grow – what have we become?

Let’s hope 2016 changes our media landscape.

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  1. As always, thanks for telling it how it is Bomber.
    Enjoy the season , have a good meal with friends and family and take the whanau out into the beautiful NZ outdoors for a break. You deserve it.

      • New Zealand owes $250 billion. And our debt rises faster than income. That’s socialism for the rich, and rugged individualism for every one else

        • NZ has $540 billion debt total, (in July 2015) similar GDP to debt ratio as Greece (is or was). it is impossible to pay that back as the banks do not create the interest when they create the loan money. The only way to pay it back is in assets when the bank comes calling….the only way out of this is back to social credit, or as it is called these days to get away from the stigma of ‘funny money’, Positive Money. If you are in the area, there is a talk in Whakatane on Positive Money, this Sunday. go to their facebook page for more info. you can also check out http://www.democrats.org.nz for info on socail credit. the stupid thing is that money is actually the easiest thing to deal with – banks have shown us how easy it is to make – what people really need is ‘stuff’ – food, shelter, water, clothes, a clean safe environment – money is meaningless paper…..the other thing that people might be interested in is http://www.libertytrust.org.nz which will give people interest free loans once they have contributed a donation of $50,000 over a period of ten years. (this might be flexible) this saves you money on your loan if interest rates are at say 5 or 6%.

          • It’s higher if you add in inter bank bank lending and a whole lot of other fluf, that isn’t payed by New Zealanders but would magically reappear if for instance a bank went belly up a la Pacific finance.

      • More than 50%
        Add Labour votes.

        Really it was only the Greens and InternetMana that offered a form of social democracy in 2014

      • @ Gosman. I know ! And isn’t that terrifying ! ?

        And have you heard of this tricky little fellow ? Was he contracted, by our rich and privileged ‘ back in the day’ , to infect us with the parasitic, Neo Liberal mandate?

        Meet Edward Luttwak. Who knew this mysterious fellow even existed, much less be so powerful and influential? And Jewish .
        http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/09/edward-luttwak-machiavelli-of-maryland

        The last 30 years does certainly showcase just how vulnerable we are , as a people of a country, to being manipulated and overpowered by stealth if one understands the workings of the psychology of the human mind.

        Teaching people to stand up and fight instead of lying down and whimpering at the feet of their masters will take quite the effort. Perhaps we need to give Edward Luttwak a call. He can , after all , be bought so that should make it relatively easy for us. A $ – million a year ? That seems like good value to me? Cheaper than a jonky .

          • Because anti-semitism is okay here. Haven’t you noticed? But if you see a vast capitalist conspiracy the Jews are always there-abouts. I find it disgusting that anti-semitism is so tolerated on left-wing blog sites.
            The ugly underbelly exposed.

            • Cuddling up to Muslim dictators and terrorists for decades during the Cold War because they were pro-Soviet and anti-capitalist, they now find themselves out of step with the reality of the 21st century: Those terrorists turned out to be anti-western and anti-progressive fascists who are now railing against the very essence of what the movement used to stand for.

              What a mess!

      • Hooray, More than 50% of the voting population DOES NOT favour Key and his lot! Just depends on the way you look at it!!

        • Of course I do. Just as I have endorsed the recent legislative elections in Venezueal where the Socialists have got trounced by the opposition who won over 2/3rds of the seats as a result of the Socialists screwing up the economy by implementing policies you support.

        • And how did that work out for them Frank? Chavez could indulge his polices when oil was over $80/barrel – not so much now. 200% inflation and a lack of basic necessities is not a positive legacy.

        • Yes he did Frank, but he will only serve one term and based on current polls will be thrown out at the next election. It seems to me Frank you are not seeing the shift back to centre and right in South America and in Europe. And the working-class hero Corbyn has ensured a Conservative government will be elected for 2020 if he doesn’t get thrown out by his fellow MPs.

          What always bothers me about this 30 years of neo-liberalism rant is how historically inaccurate it is in ignoring what went before in the decade preceding 1985. Do you not remember Frank the UK joining the EEC, the dramatic rise in oil prices in the early 1970s? The comfortable system this nation enjoyed until 1972 was torn asunder from then on and things would be, and can never be the same. Changes to technology, development of the third world economies all have an impact but for some reason these do not seem to be taken into consideration and it appears to be willfully ignorant to blame governments from 1984 onwards – Muldoon tried to hold back the tide but progress [aren’t you all supposed to be progressives?] cannot be stopped – there has never been an alternative proposed that deals in the reality faced over the past 30 years.

      • The truth hurts eh Gosman? 😉

        This tiny clique of misfits go through life assuming that they’re right and the majority of the rest of us are wrong.

        This is a particularly deluded approach when taking into account that this 50% are the more intelligent, educated and mature section of society.

  2. And there are the intangibles like the overall tone of society in New Zealand ie how pleasant do we make life for each other in New Zealand. There is a deep strain of F… Y….. running through society these days.

  3. Yes. All of the above plus more.

    Mark Twain summed it up a major component of the predicament over a century ago:

    “If you don’t read a newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read a newspaper you are misinformed.”

    The corporate press and corporate broadcasting media churn out a message of ‘everything’s wonderful and John Key is doing a great job’ on a more-or-less continuous basis, even as everything starts to collapse…. which is not surprising because it’s all about advertising revenues, commissions, deals, and screw thy neighbour these days, just as the neoliberals (a terrible term) want. Sadly, the uninformed masses believe the bullshit because it’s constantly repeated in the ‘newspapers’ and on television and radio.

    We can liken Key and his mob to the wayward grandson who spends and gambles away the family fortune, built up by previous generations, until it’s all gone. And we are not too far off that point.

    It is only the incessant lowering of interest rates, frantic money-printing that creates ever-higher levels of debt, and the collapse of international oil prices that allow the present travesty to continue, both here and in other nations infected with the same disease of economic-social-environmental insanity.

    I see Canada is now hinting at negative interest rates to try to prop up Canada’s house-of-cards economy.

    Still expecting it to be ‘all over’ by 2020, with a major jolt before the end of 2016.

  4. Thanks Martyn for saying it exactly as it is.

    Indeed a very sad reflection on the social and economic tragedy NZ has become, courtesy of thirty years of neo liberalism.

    • Yes Mary, very sad…….. It appears people are into the ‘possibility of wealth’ and sod everybody else……… this won’t change until they fall flat on there face and see the short sightedness of there greedy childish ways. Plus factor in this is not the NZ of the 70’s with 1.5 ish million imports who would appear to have money as the main motivator.
      Wake up NZ 10% rich – 60% illusion of wealth and 30% poor is not a long term ‘happy’ mix ……….. In my opinion till the Greens hold the balance of power (around 20% of vote) we are stuck with this Neo Lib Bullshit

  5. The reason the sheeple don’t give a toss is because they are to lazy to find out the facts, and we are being lied to by everyone from primary school teachers to the prim minister, look pandas

    • I agree and the fact that your comment got so many negative ticks just proves how asleep most sheeples are and take offense the truth of their ignorance and the fact that they really do not ” give a toss “.

  6. Thanks Martyn for giving us the truth of the state of our country. I know first hand the poverty in inner Auckland, see it often with young people begging on the streets and people lining up at the Mission with their tattered clothes and the crushed lost looks on their faces. Sickens me to the heart when we once were a egalitarian country where most people had a roof over their heads and food in the bellies. Granted our goods we bought were expensive but at least they didn’t fall apart within a very short time and we valued what we owned and looked after these goods.

    I shall this year as I do throughout the year be donating to the Mission with a supply of Christmas food to help them with their Christmas food parcels. We also supply them with produce from our garden for their food boxes as well. I do it gladly and wish this situation didn’t exist here in NZ. I am so glad my parents are no longer alive, they would be fretting and so upset at how cruel and vindictive this Government has become.

    Have a great family Christmas Martyn and thank you for your comments throughout this year. Keep up your good work, at least we get the truth from your blog site.

    • Excellent Kate and good on you. I wonder if you will be voted down as I have been for expressing the same view. Paid trolls? Or just regular selfish kiwis.

    • Tattered clothes? They have the pick of the donated clothes , all of which are in perfect order and better than anything I had as a kid. And handed over for nothing. Just like free breakfast, lunch and dinner, snacks, free medical care and a free bed. Throw in a benefit and zero debt, it’s no wonder these people, many of whom are alcoholics, drug users (and mentally ill as a result) choose to live on the street. They harass people for money and commit crime, all proceeds are spent on booze. They bully people, flog food off tables at Macdonalds, and steal drinks from burger King. It’s all just a big have. Just ask any South American, you won’t see obese “homeless” on the streets there, they think our homeless are a joke and having been to Colombia twice, so do I. Nz is paradise on earth for the lazy. This is a welfare state there is nothing to stop them finding a decent place to live. That they now suffer from self-inflicted maladies is hardly my fault or John Keys. If you feel so sorry for them why not try renting out your spare room to one? I bet you don’t though, making you lot a pack of hypocrites. At least I’m honest when I say that if they choose to live under a bridge I simply don’t care, and have no intention of wasting my time and money trying to “help” able bodied people who have not the slightest interest in helping themselves.

        • Jay, it’s no wonder we have a country with a division miles wide rent right through the middle of it with the fortunates and unfortunates, when it is littered with the likes of you – you miserable piece of ….. so full of anger and bitterness – have yourself a Merry Christmas if you have room in your heart for it.

      • Sense of humanity and compassion are not your strong suits is it Jay? Everything is so cut and dried in your cold hearted bigotry and ignorance that rules that black heart of yours. Things like draconian punishing legislation over the last 7 years by a self serving corrupt National government and the resulting changes in circumstances for many don’t factor into your way of thinking does it? So you think homelessness therefore, HAS to be a choice and therefore everyone HAS to be drug addicts and alcoholics to justify that “you deserve it” in that kick in the guts attitude of yours. Sounds like you get off on it Jay. Makes you feel all justified and powerful and most of all, superior does it? Why don’t you tell the thousands of children living on the streets, in cars and in garages that it is their fault that they are homeless, because they must be drug addicts and alcoholics. Blame the homeless parents too just for good measure, that’s the COP OUT narrative of the dirty treasonous National Corp, (and it’s supporters like you), who are more concerned with giving National’s elitist uber rich mates and their uber wealthy foreign corporate friends free tax payer handouts, while our people starve and are made homeless, while our country burns, and our assets, land and homes are systematically sold off in National’s fire sale to international speculators.

  7. When economies are generally going okay or improving governments tend to remain the same.

    When economies are declining then governments tend to change.

    And so it depends what our economy is doing when the next election rolls around.

    Looking at leading indicators in Europe it’s not looking good.

    It depends how long it takes for things to turn around.

    You’re right about the property market bubble here in NZ though Martyn, it’s a classic bubble. I note less talk about a bubble in MSM and on social media. A great number of people are invested in the bubble, but that number is declining as prices rise. It’s not possible to pick the high, but it looks pretty damn like a classic bubble and so it’s possible to pick that it will burst. And leave a bloody mess when it does.

    The thing is, if your house you live in is valued higher it doesn’t mean you are richer. If you sell that house you’ll still have to find somewhere to live, and other houses will have increased in “value” too. So you only actually get rich off rising values if you cash up and exit the market, then re-enter at lower prices (after the bubble bursts). Middle NZ seems to not understand this simple fact, but I suspect it’s because they’re borrowing money against rising property values (to buy crap like jet skis and to “invest” in more property, leveraging themselves to the hilt). Which is insane, seriously over leveraging and leaving them exposed to any downturn.

    And a downturn there will be.

    I have zero sympathy for the chattering classes when it happens, because they did it to themselves out of sheer greed and stupidity.

    When it happens is when Key will get voted out.

    • Key will probably go before the bubble bursts, he doesn’t seem the type who would want to preside over that. He is a currency trader and banker – he will know exactly what the state of things are and will get out in time. I can’t imagine him retiring to Hawaii to play golf all day though. More likely an important job in the new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank.

    • And so property will be protected and manipulated just like our over inflated currency. Too many foreigners will get stung otherwise. It’s not about kiwis, we don’t count. It’s about our economy being a football for the financial power elite to kick around. The class the douche bag Key inhabits.

      • I don’t think so.

        The other thing about bubbles and resulting crashes, is that when markets crash there is not a damn thing anyone can do to stop it. Governments try to step in and regulate to stop prices falling, it may have a temporary effect, but in no historical example ever has it worked.

        Not once.

        Once fear sets in it takes over.

        Prices will fall for everyone, those over leveraged will be forced to sell and social mood in NZ will be so negative towards foreign owners I would then expect NZers to force whatever government is then in power to legislate them out of the market.

        I’m guessing foreigners will get the blame for the coming crash.

  8. this is what annoys me so much about the National Party – they say that they support business and farming because that will make it better for all New Zealanders, but if we keep destroying the environment for this profit that will make things better for all New Zealanders, where are we going to live and how are we going to stay healthy? Money is the easiest thing to come by – thats how the Labour Party in 1935 created the Monetary Authority to create our own money supply, pulled NZ out of the ‘great’ depression, created NZ Housing Corp, roads, hospitals, public buildings, 100% employment (with a living wage to support them and their families) etc etc. how come USA gets to create $16 trillion dollars out of thin air and we have to borrow it from them at 5% interest? ARGH!!!! its doing my head in!!

  9. To those visiting from the right wing sites, giving their thumbs down to just about every comment posted here, I wish you all a good Christmas. At the same time I sincerely hope you are able to find something more constructive and meaningful to spend your time doing next year. Merry Christmas.

    • Thanks for that Mary_A – We agree.
      When you speak the truth, the asleep get defensive so you have hit the right nerve. The right wing Jonkey Donkey zealots are afraid right about now because their BS is getting exposed and they can run but hiding may be a bit more difficult in 2016. Let us keep up the good work to shine the lights directly on the greedy; the corporate criminals ; the banks and their upper 1 % buddies in crime ; political crooks and all the bought and sold puppets on strings.

      While eating your turkeys and lambs think a moment about all those who have no homes, no food and enduring abuse and poverty and growing suicide rates. —–
      All you neo-liberals – job well done – now pour yourselves another glass of wine and laugh it all off.

  10. I see Shell is contemplating pulling out of NZ completely. I suppose it must be something to do with the ‘rock star economy’ and everything being so fabulous with John Key at the helm.

  11. The opposition has, until recently, been completely terrible. Now they are just mostly terrible. Expecting to get ahead in the polls whilst struggling with internal divisions when the incumbent has more PR staff than politicians is wishful thinking at best. Couple that to the train wreck that was Internet Mana (they were utterly fatal) with their screaming conspiracy theorists and it is clear that recovery will take years. Andrew Little has little charisma and appears unlikely to be able to lead the left to victory.

      • Some ” conspiracy theories ” are very true.
        The term – conspiracy theory was invented and coined by the TAVISTOCK INSTITUTE – look at why they did it and how it was meant to confuse the masses and sell their agenda.

        Martyn, if you do not let this comment through – WE WANT TO KNOW WHY.

  12. Thank you Reagan and Clinton for ushering in the explosion of your buddies orders. Trumped up fake wars ; taking away human rights ; devastation of economies ; destruction of the climate and environment all so you can drill a bit more oil and rape a few more countries of their other resources and profit from your trumped up wars — and so much more ugliness.

    Now, here in NZ we have our own drivers license with a very symbolic spiders web on the back. Would make you shiver to know why it is there.

    These bankster ( upper 1% ers ) attorneys/judges and their buddies and corporate lacky politicians run the show and we have to dig and dig for the truths. They intentionally keep us numb and dumb. Agenda 21 and NWO in full swing.
    NATO AND UN ARE NOT OUR FRIENDS.
    We talk about change, but do we not need removals and replacements ? ?

    If Iceland and others can do it, we can too. This govt. is supposed to serve us, the NZ people, first and foremost, instead of kissing up to these big oil and big pharma and big-agri biz greedy criminal corporations. Banks at the top of the heap.
    Say no to the upper 1% and always QUESTION AUTHORITY.

    Make them pay for the agent orange damage etc. and compensate ( ALL WORLDWIDE VETS AND THEIR FAMILIES ) properly and cut the military budget.
    56,000 approx. US vets died in viet nam and that many more vets have committed suicide since ! ! ! Millions of Vietnamese died and none have received any compensation for their losses and deaths and agent orange damage etc. The US sent over some people and some small resources to help clean up a bit but only in a few places.
    Neo-Liberalism has devastated the world and has to be stopped.
    Bring these elitist criminal idiots to justice finally – that is if we can find any ethical unbiased judges.

    • Not to mention the millions of deaths and the suffering caused in Cambodia by Pol Pot, which was a direct result of stupid US foreign policy. Now the Idiots have moved on to creating hell on earth for the people of the middle east.

  13. I hit a depressive phase the last two days, and this does not lift my hopes, but it is at least true, what Martyn describes.

    Listening to Jim Mora on RNZ this afternoon also once again made me ask, how far can RNZ decline, to hit rock bottom. The public broadcaster, the last one on the block, is gradually sinking, it is becoming a silly and boring broadcaster. We get silly after noon chats by do well and educated middle class academics, who do not relate to many living on the breadline out there. They chit chat and crack silly jokes about what social media gossips about. They get a few hours for that kind of stuff, every day.

    We get Midday Report, which is increasingly becoming a dull report on finance and new crime, accident or weather incidents. We once had an excellent Checkpoint program with Mary, where the hard questions were asked, no longer so now. We are desperately waiting for John Campbell, who was supposed to start in September, then December, and we are now close the Christmas, so maybe next year, I suppose?

    What else there is is utter shit, total shit, I say, and Paul Henry does not convince me one bit for being “social”, trying this morning to get the Minister of Health to commit to a new anti cancer drug. Good try, Paul, but most of your performance is biases nonsense, and silly, trivial crap, none else.

    Hosking can ride his show after 7 pm, I never watch it, as it is more drivel and a bit of emotive story here or there, and that ‘Story’ program by Duncan the Garner and his colleague Heather, the over rated, get a life, I am over that show, it is desperately trying to look hip and important, which it is mostly NOT.

    As for these polls, they are run every few weeks, and ask the usual questions, I had UMR phone me a couple o f times over the last month, they even combine surveys and tie you up for 15 or more minutes answereing endless questions, not just politics.

    The rest is misinformation, bias, endless spin and the government doing all to take advantage of its power and opportunities, while opposition parties have to go around appealing for funds.

    The world of commerce has found its political friends, that is Nats and ACT, and they feed them well, so they have NO worries. If that is democracy, you are an idiot to believe that. It is a mockery of democracy, demockeracy, I call it, it is a disgrace what this country has come to.

    I will keep fighting on, despite of anger eating up my heart at times, I will reflect and refresh and rethink, and continue to show robust opposition to the sell out and betrayal of this country, and the society of people living in it.

    Screw John Key and his lot, screw them up, rip them up, they are only a temporary disease, the power will in the end be in the hands of the ordinary people, we just need to wake and shake enough of them up from their sad slumber or feeling of powerlessness.

  14. A few weeks ago a report said that Blenheim is a depressed area. So I decide to fly to this depressed area to have a look. First thing I discover that I can fly into Blenheim from Wellington on a choice of 8 flights which I thought odd for a town of 30k. I then find out that they also have 3 return flights to Auckland direct and two direct return flights to CHCH. Thats a lot of seats to fill. So I try to book a flight to suit my time table and discover the Q300 is fully booked. So I choose the next avaliable flight. On boarding the flight I see its close to full and I look around and I see people from all walks of life and I think how can this be for a flight to a depressed area. Arrive at Blenheim airport and here is this new terminal building complete with ANZ start terminals. Then there is the crowd. Other Q300’s are due in and about to depart so the terminal is full of people getting ready to travel or to meet arriving passengers. Again how is it possible for a depressed area to have so many forking out 100’s of dollars to fly into and out of Blenheim. As I head out in the taxi I note the car park is full of cars indicating there are a lot of people flying. How odd for a depressed area. Try to have lunch at a winery and discover that it’s fully booked so they cannot take casuals. How is it that a depressed area has full restaurants at the many wineries. End up at a cafe eating a pie along with I suspect others who could not get lunch at a winery. How is that possible for a depressed area. So head into town and saw a brand new Ford Mustang. The owner turned up and I asked if he imported the car. He said no I brought from the local Ford dealership. I thought wow that’s odd for a depressed area so I headed to that dealership and sure enough thy are selling Ford Mustangs. Not the cheap V6 models these were V8’s so I asked could I buy one to discover they have not been able to keep up with demand so you have to order and the que is long. How is this possible for a depressed area buying Ford Mustangs. I then venture out into the suburbs and discover new houses been built at an amazing rate and I thought how is it possible for a depressed area having such housing growth. That was it I headed back to the airport and returned home depressed from seeing what a depressed region looks like. My advice don’t visit Blenheim seeing an identified depressd region is so depressing.

    • All very interesting Mr Schmidt. And your point is? Blenheim has lot of foreign expatriates who happen to be millionaires and a large foreign owned ( by and an large) wine industry. Also this is the time of year when the foreign land owners pop down to their NZ holdings to reside as the weather is shit in the Northern Hemisphere. This phenomenon is repeated all over the rural regions where there is beautiful coastline and grapes and fishing etc etc. Lifestyles of the rich and not so famous. In Northland we have a city of 80 thousand people that’s lucky to get 4 overpriced flights a day. None to the Far North except to the glorified and dangerous aero club of Kerikeri ‘cos that’s where the arsehole NAtional PArty voters are clustered enmasse.
      Pop up to Kaitaia or Kaikohe sometime ,service centers for some of the richest and most productive farmland in the country ( 40% of NZ beef production 78% of NZ Avocado production). Depressed run down covered in graffiti with untrained underfed desperate young people everywhere. People begging in shitty little rural towns who aren’t capable of coping in an urban environment but whoare hard workers honest labourers who give you a fairday’s work. WHen the opportunity is offered. Trouble is there is fuck all work. The benefit is NOT enough to live on and there is no training. If you are a John Key supporter the funding magically appears. It sucks!

      • Fly in fly out isn’t that great for the local economy as it puts a drain on local skills and services, mostly by making housing unaffordable

        All Schmit is talking about is an economic boom. Because of what? Wine, restaurants and mustangs? That’s hardly sound economic fundamentals. The unless your trying to create a retirement village for mid life crises.

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