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100 000 new houses, a ban on foreign land buyers, re-entering Pike River, dumping the ridiculous 3 strikes law and a possible sugar tax on soft drinks.
The new Labour led Government which has been written off by right wing corporate media pundits as a diet version of the National Party has hit the ground running hard with a slew of u-turns on draconian Government policy.
I have said it once, I’ll say it again – pundits still don’t understand how radical this Government intends to be.
Quashing that god awful TPP agreement should be added to that list!
Yes we had better put TPPA in the watse paper besket jacinda and please work with us to make our country more self reliant again & not a puppet of the elite as we would be under TPA and use Jane Kelsey as your chief advisor please she is an awesome lady and very wise we need you to work with her please.
Ditto cleangreen. I am feeling very uneasy about Labour waltzing in to this TPP. “Free Trade” be damned, it’s all about screwing the workers.
Agreed. This is leadership, and it stands in stark contrast to the sorry, do-nothing timidity of the previous government.
I’m quite enjoying it so far, and the squawks of ‘WTF?’ emanating from various predictable quarters only add to the entertainment.
Refined cane sugar is not a natural food for Homo sapiens and many of our ‘troubles’ can be traced back to the establishment of sugar industries in the Caribbean in the seventeenth century; tooth decay and obesity immediately come to mind but the rot goes much further, of course.
The purpose of government in the 17th century was to keep the monarch in a state of opulence and to organise national defence.
Over the following centuries the purpose of government was gradually morphed, and the purpose of government is now to facilitate the agendas of global corporations and provide opportunists with opportunities to rort the system while they loot and pollute the planet we live on.
I really cannot see the new government even attempting to turn the basic purpose of government around and making the welfare of the populace its prime concern because to do so would put it into direct conflict with the international banking community and all the hangers-on who make their living out of exploitation, looting and polluting.
When we see sugar taxed heavily at the point of importation (along with petroleum fuels being heavily taxed at the point of importation) I will be convinced the government is serious about fundamental change. And while they are at it, the government needs to abandon GDP as an economic indicator because GDP is a load of bollocks.
Until such policies ARE implemented I suspect it’s all ‘rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic as the Titanic slowly sinks’ -that sinking being a consequence of extremely bad policies implemented decades or even centuries ago.
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