Dear Beneficiaries of NZ – I’m beyond being polite – please read this & share

By
Martyn Bradbury
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Young Nat activists mocking poor people

Brothers and Sisters,

My thoughts are with you as you watch Metiria viciously ripped to pieces by Patrick Gower, Guyon Espiner, Barry Soper, Duncan Garner, David Farrar, Matthew Hooton, Mike Hosking and John Armstrong.

These rich white male broadcasters who are vilifying Metiria for courageously admitting what you all know, (that the cruel system WINZ treats you to is impossible to live on), aren’t just angry, they are frightened.

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This character assassination of Metiria isn’t just driven by naked sexism, racism and classism – it is driven by fear.

Read their diatribes and rants, beneath the anger is a genuine fear. A fear that Metiria will unleash a wave of beneficiaries who are part of the missing million voters.

The selective fury at  Metiria is disingenuous in the extreme, where were all these broadcasters outrage when this happened?

 

The hegemonic economic and cultural interests behind the voices of  Gower, Espiner, Soper, Garner, Farrar, Hooton, Hosking and Armstrong know democracy can work against them when the people rise up. They are terrified that Metiria will spark a rebellion at the ballot box because the life she described is one you all know.

You all know how cruel WINZ are to you.

You know the fear you live under from these petty tyrants. These cretinous public servants who force you to be slaves, you know the viciousness they met out with soulless joy.

You identify immediately with Metiria’s position and you are watching the orgy of hate spat at her by these rich privileged men.

You know that spite, that sense of hopelessness, the depression the system drives you to.

That is why what Metiria has done has resonated with so many beneficiaries on social media.

Brothers and Sisters – if you are a beneficiary, you must enrol and vote Green at the election.

Why?

Because what the Greens are offering isn’t just solidarity and symbolism, they intend to raise the benefit by $180 per week and dismantle the sticks with which WINZ staff beat you with.

Here is the link to enrol online right now.

I urge you to enrol, I urge you to enrol your beneficiary friends and family and vote Green.

You know and I know that $180 extra per week is the difference between life and death for many.

Do this to gain some real power, to feel counted, to feel heard.

Send those smug vicious male arsehole rich prick broadcasters an electoral punch in the face for their condescension and arrogance.

You know how hard it is to get through on WINZ overloaded and under staffed 0800 number to book an appointment.

You know how awful it is getting past the rude security guards who never seem to know what is happening and who change the rules on the day based on how they are feeling.

You know that you are dumped waiting while no one tells you anything and treats you with contempt.

You know how it feels to sit in an open planned office with zero privacy and unfriendly security staff looming over you trying to explain painful and difficult moments in your life to a staff member who doesn’t give a fuck and whose only job is to say no to you.

You know what that life feels like, those smug vicious male arsehole rich prick broadcasters don’t know, and in September when you are standing in that electoral booth they can’t stop you from voting for your dignity.

Your lives matter and the cruelty you are all forced to live under by WINZ is a horror that those same smug vicious male arsehole rich prick broadcasters will never understand.

Beneficiaries of NZ – this is your moment – seize it and enrol to vote now and Party vote Green as soon as the polls open.

Beneficiaries of Aotearoa, you have nothing to lose but your pains.

66 COMMENTS

  1. WOOOOHOOOO !!! , – Let her rip , Martyn !!!

    Hold nothing back !!! These bastards have had it bloody coming for decades !!!

    Please , Please PLEASE , – all those on benefits enroll and vote for the Green party !!!

    Send the message home and get empowered , – no one should have to put up with being treated like shit , – instead , – let fly with some of your own political shit and rub it in the faces of all these talking heads and scumbag neo liberals!!!

    Now is your chance !!! – TAKE IT !!!

    Deal to them !!!

  2. @ IM RIGHT …

    Have you not heard of the saying “There but for the grace of God (or whoever) go I”?

    Keep it in mind, because you never know … you just never know …

  3. Well said. I hope beneficiaries are watching what is going on. They can be a notoriously hard bunch to reach. I live in a provincial area and my anecdotal experience of those at the bottom of the socio-economic barrel is that they have no interest in politics at best and cynicism towards all political parties at worst. They can also have difficulty in realising who are the good guys and who are the bad ones. A lot of them support Trump for instance, thinking he stands up for the little guy. It’s good that the Greens are trying though. It might just take more than a couple of months to get the message to them.

    • @ ESOTERIC PINEAPPLES … I’m hoping Meteria Turei’s recent statements will fire up beneficiaries and the low paid in NZ, making them realise “hey we have a voice out there … she’s on our side,” get out, register and vote. If that did happen, then there’s a possibility it could make a big difference to the election results.

      • yeah well….

        Say this message gets the missing million out to vote and the Greens gain a few more seats and also gain the House with Labour.

        Labour (cravenly terrified of the business sector) will continue in their neolibtard course and never agree to anything like the generosity promised here by the Greens.

        Careful what you promise, if it isn’t delivered fully you lose those missing voters all over again and they’ll be even more disillusioned than before, perhaps forever alienated

  4. Notice how Bill English , A.K.A ‘ The Double Dipper From Dipton’ , is choosing his words very carefully saying he doesn’t condone criminal behaviour and what Metiria did was wrong, but sometimes people do make mistakes …….let me give you the sub text and interpretation…
    What Metiria did was bad and wrong but what I did was just a mistake….
    I would love to know if the sycophants you listed above Hosking , Hooton etc have ever cheated on their taxes , paid the cleaner or lawn mowing guy under the table to get a cheaper price, not declared ‘gift’s’, misrepresented ‘business holidays’ etc …Rodney Hide’s been very quiet on this one …I wonder why???
    The sycophants, who are actually quite dumb, have fallen for the bait so cleverly laid by Metiria .
    Knowing full well that these fools would not be able to help themselves taking the moral high ground, they have now unwittingly opened up a huge can of worms which will now expose just about every member of their precious National Party .
    Morally they now don’t have a leg to stand on…
    Kati Bradford , Corin Dann , Gower should be in the foyer of Parliament asking every National M.P and each other ,”Have you ever cheated on your taxes” ?
    That’s what a proper journalist would and should do.
    Do we have any proper journalists?

    • Or if ANY of them have ever cheated WINZ…..and double checking THEIR back stories. Cos some of the Nats are lying

    • The ‘journalists’ you mention don’t ask questions of the likes of Bill English, when standing in the foyer of Parliament such as “Why are you standing there lying to us?”

    • Yep the double dipton is not silly he can see that the greens could attract many of tbose lost voters hence his very light response to Turei. I believe the Nats are Scared right now. They know they usually poll 5 points less than the polls. So they can expect somewhere around 40% and would need Winnie who won’t necessarily play there game. Interesting times ahead.

  5. We are all beneficiaries, anyone one with a commonwealth birth certificate anyway. We are all not aware how to get access to our trust monies or appoint oneself the executor of the trust or what to do when the trustee will not payout on your return for credit invoices.

  6. No one is debating that it’s a tough life on the benefit but Metiria committed fraud. This can’t be okay. She will be investigated and charged.

    Once again the left has shot itself in the foot with its own stupidity.

    • From the time of notification of a fraudulent claim by a taxpayer, it has been reported that the IRD has twelve months in which to act.
      Because Metiria Turei has made a public voluntary disclosure of her behaviour, with her full cooperation with an investigation and prompt settlement in full of the amount determined, it may be highly likely that no further action will be taken.
      Otherwise, a very large can of worms may well be opened, for example in the so called ‘black economy’ which may result in ‘blue murder’, so widespread is the practice of ‘less for cash’!!

    • Yes she did, she admitted it, if that was her stupidity, then it makes Paula Bennett and a large number of National ministers “clever” for keeping quiet?

    • Awanderer, have you ever considered the philosophical question of whether it is justified fir a starving person to steal food in order to survive?

      The highest court in Italy has ruled that a young homeless man, Roman Ostriakov, did not act unlawfully when he stole a sausage and a piece of cheese to feed himself. Instead, the court found that Ostriakov had acted out of immediate need and desperation, so his theft did not – and should not – constitute a crime.

      ref: http://theconversation.com/is-it-really-criminal-to-steal-food-when-youre-destitute-59190

      For Metiria, this was not a philosophical question, it was her life.

      I trust you ate well today?

  7. Most of your comments here indicate that we as beneficiaries are not interested in media or don’t bother with voting etc. Will you are wrong we do listen and we do care, but most of us won’t comment or have our voices heard in social media as the media keeps publishing all the terrible things beneficiaries do. Yes we struggle but in our struggles we care for our fellow human. Do we get any recognition on how we give the shirt of our back to help another out there to keep warm. Do you recognise how we support big corporations in paying for cheap and unhealthy food because we cannot afford to pay the high price for healthy food. ( yes I do grow my own veggies and more for the older people and young whom can’t). Good on Metiria for telling us she had struggles and had to feed her family the best way she could. I read plenty of comments about how she should repay etc.. I don’t care if she pays back or not, what I care about is that she survived the best she could and is alive, are you Glade that we are alive !!!

  8. Not that it needs to said here – but let’s all, beneficiary or not, vote this greedy, arrogant lot out come September. The country needs to breathe again.

    • Bang on Kim Dandy. 100%

      Every time I come in from the outside and my hands are frozen, I think of those poor souls braving it outside without a warm place to live I feel shamed that I have a small heater to keep warm.

      I wished the Ministers were also placed in the same situation then they would see how grim life is at there.

  11. There seem to be ~276k on a benefit currently according to the MSD website. I guess the potential for extra votes is a % of these 276k who didn’t vote last time. I assume those who did vote last time voted for parties of the left last time anyway. The ~276k is 10% of the working population. It would only take a tiny % of the other 90% of the working age population who pay for the benefit system to shift there vote to the right and the Green’s policy could backfire badly.

  12. Mrs Turei has been in parliament, on a decent income, since 2002. Fifteen years.

    I heard Sue Bradford fighting on behalf of. I even answered her questionnaire about life as a beneficiary. She absolutely walks her talk.

    But I never heard Mrs Turei. Not until this year. She’s been quietly inactive for too long to be credible.

    She does not speak for me. There is no way I’d vote for this incarnation of the Green Party. To me, they lack integrity.

    • Maybe it is election campaign panic, having scared her into action, seeing Mr Shaw was going to run the show his way, which would make her redundant at some stage.

      Indeed, for may years Metiria and the Greens in general never pushed welfare issues like this ever before, it seems unreal like a sudden awakening.

      Time will tell how genuine it all is.

  13. Metiria’s corageous call never to use poverty as a weapon against people is bitterly ironic for those who know that Bill English’s big data program is chock full of former RAF and geospatial spooks, many imported from the U.K. via drone wars in the Middle East – as one might expect seeing that the U.K. sees the NZ experience as a trial for its own implementation.

      • On that, hat tip to Raybon Kan and Metiria Turei for engineering my favorite photograph of the 2017 election:

        https://twitter.com/JudithCollinsMP/status/890089853504892928

        Maybe Judith could give a speech about her evil-eyed Twitter banner photograph instead?

        A bit biased, but Julie Anne Genter’s is my favorite at the moment.

        Gerry, don’t walk through a door you can’t close. I thought you would have learned your lesson after your embarrassing airport experience.

  15. We learned about this a day or two ago:

    http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/335978/firearm-found-at-whangarei-killer-s-property

    Think about the power balance between tenant and landlord:
    http://raywhite.co.nz/5745/Property-Management

    “Landlords come to Ray White because they recognise Ray White as a market leader. Simple.

    Our focus is on ensuring that our landlords receive the optimum benefits from their investment portfolio through our attention to their property needs.

    As the largest property management portfolio in New Zealand we are proud to have many happy investors confirming we’re doing it right.”

    So get that right, the optimum benefit is to extract the maximum profit out of a tenant, for the landlord’s gain. The same was what the man up north faced, when his supposedly caring property manager (I am yet to meet such one individual) called to sort things out.

    FFS, we have a divided society, a hatred filled society, where increasingly the property owners extract the blood out of a stone of a person. FFS fight this shit, fight the liars, that now cry tears, oh so their property manager died, ffs, they may have engaged in a type of business that extracted blood out of a soul of a vulnerable person, perhaps?!

    https://www.barfoot.co.nz/landlords/our-services

    • if your right then nact are repossible for the murders just like the winz shooter people who have been disenfranchise lashing out if your going to treat people like shit what comes around goes around .

  17. they better back her and give her the power to change things ,if they don’t they can expect national to double down on the victimization and blame game as they look to cover up there incompetence especially as some of us expect the nact engineered housing bubble to pop nact will blame the poor in the fall out from a financial crash who do you think they will cut to clean up the mess it wont be the people who caused it.

  19. This phenomenon is ALSO HAPPENING IN UK

    “Job Centre Whistleblower Tells of Culture of Cruelty to the Jobless”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNbj0KPdoi4
    “Claimants ‘tricked’ out of Benefits Says Job Centre Whistleblower”

    The Tories over there = National & Act in NZ .
    Rich people with no conscience.

  20. Can’t tell if this is genuine or a piss take? Seems very sarcastic and condescending anyway lol

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