One, and let’s be honest it really is all that we can cling to, one thing that is good to have come out of the Trump tragedy is that there is a clear halt now in America to free market corporate globalisation.
Trump is a ‘self made’ businessman and his economic sovereignty is more akin to Winston Peters than Hitler.
What does that mean directly for NZ?
No TPPA.
PM John Key accepts little chance US will agree to TPPA, after Trump win
Prime Minister John Key appears to have given up hope the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) will be ratified by the US following Donald Trump’s election as president.
Opposition to the Pacific trade pact was a key part of Trump’s election campaign.
On Thursday Paul Henry asked Key: “TPP’s dead in the water isn’t it?” to which Key said the chance of it being ratified in the US now was “if it’s not zero, it’s very close to zero”.
Soz John Key, no allowing American Corporations the ability to rob us of our political sovereignty for you champ. All the sucking up to Obama has been for nothing.
Trump doesn’t owe the usual Republican Corporate Overlords anything for his victory and his need to reverse the free market trans national nightmare that have hurt his huge working male electorate outweighs their interests.
Sucks to you John Key.
I still have a strong suspicion that Trump will tinker with the TPPA, declare it to be “fixed” and in America’s interest to “create more jobs” and then allow the Republican controlled Congress and Senate to pass it.
Unfortunately, Martyn, I do not share your enthusiasm that the TPPA is dead. Not by a long shot.
Let’s not forget that first and foremost, Trump is a capitalist. C-A-P-I-T-A-L-I-S-T!!!
I would like to extend my own “HA HA F**K YOU KEY AND SHOVE TPP UP YOUR A$$”.
Yay, I’d be stoked with no TPPA. Here’s my example of why I dislike it so: It’s about a corporate case in Italy (Tuscany?) where the Golden Archers Monstrossity (MD’s) are sueing a local council for not approving their application to set up shop ($26m?). The council, I believe, are protecting their region with a law requiring the use of local products within eatery establishments.
Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy eating MD’s when i do but I don’t subscribe to giving them (corporates) power over my elected representatives and I also don’t expect my elected representatives to hand them (corporates) power by agreeing to something like the TPPA either.
Poor old John. His close friends and minders in Wall St will be pissed.
But hey, Key gave it his best shot for them.
lol to this POST…yeah nah….TPPA is dead in the water!
…for the time being anyway
….thanks Donald, you just saved New Zealand from greedy jonkey Nactional , who would sell his own Grandma
Sorry, Chooky, wrong again.
Donald Trump’s position is not anti-globalisation. It is economic nationalism.
If he can stuff us to advantage the US, don’t you think he will?
Why do we oppose TPP? Yes, that’s right, because it stuffs us and advantages the US.
Look for a TPPA 2.0. One that is certainly not going to be better for us.
And the “offer we can’t refuse” setting won’t have changed.
Plus the protection racket obligation to buy more US stuff for our military will be stepped up.
Plus all the other (endless) negatives are still in place.
Don’t kid yourselves, unless Trump proves to be a Democrat in disguise – not totally impossible, although even if he is, he is likely to be prisoner of the Republican hawks – this election is entirely bad for us, apart perhaps from a few more “respite tourists”.
apparently in his younger days he was a Democrat
….why do you think the Republican hierarchy don’t support him?( eg Bushes support Clinton)
….he is NOT one of their own and he is NOT bought
…I think he is genuine when he says he does not want trade deals that are bad for USA workers…and that also means other workers
I still think that after the dust settles Key should be investigated for treason and that NZ Inc should be kicked out with new clean governance put in place.
Yes, Crooked Key needs to go, we need to “make N.Z, great again”
i think the whole national party needs to be investigated for corruption
At least it may buy NZ sometime to kick the treasonist NatZ out in 2017…unless of course that election is rigged too?
So why did the silly Members of Parliament debate this a few days ago?
Preparing for an unknown goal!!
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/86394563/nz-to-carry-on-preparing-for-tpp-despite-latest-blow
From what I can gather there is thought in Washington DC that Trump wont make it to the inauguration and will stand down before or after for Ryan who’s now “rumoured but since confirmed” to have quavered and sold out to the corporate cabal. Once Ryan took the Presidency the TPP would be pursued and perhaps this is the briefing with instructions that kept Key going down the road. Sorry jonkey but the rumoured news (now confirmed) is that the TPPA aint gonna happen whether Trump succeeds or not and Ryan will be missing from the picture. Spooky, huh, jonkey!
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