Powerful broadcasting on Q+A.
Jack sat down with Harry Tam who coordinates the Mongrel Mob meth rehabilitation program.
My issue with this was that if we have $2.75 for this, we should have money for Mike King.
That aside, I salute the focus on helping gang members off meth because we need hundreds of millions in rehab if we want to dampen down supply.
Harry Tam proved how essential it is for him to be part of the debate. He reminded us of how poverty and alienation generates gangs and powerfully laid down a real challenge to the never ending get tough on crime rhetoric.
Following the true insight and wisdom of Tam with the Police Minster Poto Williams was terribly confusing as the Minister scrambled to justify her get tough on crime rhetoric with funding the program.
If the Minister had spent less time saying she wanted to be clear by actually being clear it wouldn’t have been so painful.
All that interview highlighted was shallow Labour’s talent pool is.
Next into the water returns. The truth is local government are too underfunded to prop up safe water and the State needs to step in. We must protect our water supply and we need better technical capacity and expertise.
We should also ban water bottling for overseas companies.
Debate with mayors on the rural-urban divide. Same boring talking points – blah blah premium prices blah blah sustainability blah blah. No mention that Dairy is a sunset industry once synthetic milk becomes cheaper than real milk powder.
The madness of the UK experiment to create a new hybrid mutation of Covid that can bypass vaccination protection by reopening early for ‘Freedom Day’ is discussed.
Personally I think we should indict Boris Johnson for possible biological war crimes against humanity.
Tokyo Olympics is up next. I’m not sure how this doesn’t end badly in the middle of a pandemic.
Good show.
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A Labour Party hack who was helicoptered in when Lianne Dalziel resigned as MP to run for mayor.
Poto’s selection caused a lot of controversy in 2013 because she was tyre-levered in above a brace of local Christchurch candidates.
Yes, Labour was rotting away back then…
Arguably the best debater that the right had to offer was Simon Bridges. Obviously not in his prime though defeated to early by Covid19.
At this point you not know that a Jacinda gone rotten will be, the best debater not only the leftbhas to offer but also the best debater that the Aotearoa New Zealand debate community has to offer.
Specifically though I consider a Jacinda gone rotten to have the most potential in becoming the best debater that the Kiwi debate community has to offer, after the defeat of neokindness.
None of you should be surprised by this answer. Jacinda mania should be considered one of the most gifted election campaign that New Zealand has to offer or atleast among the left.
For 3 decades Jacinda relied on her superior gifts and superior communications skills to make up for her lack of competence, many believe including myself that if Jacinda truly works hard then she could become the most powerful debater, ever, and that her competence would progress much more rapidly.
Instead though Jacinda is filled with conflict trying to remain in the path of kindness while constantly hearing the songs of neokindness in her ear.
A Jacinda gone rotten though has no such conflict.
At least during Crusher Collins reign Jacinda has been forced once again to sharpened her fighting words as Jacinda can no longer rely on her superior communications skills. She is no longer the clearest, Judith serverly hampers Jacindas communications skills and it us because of this Jacinda must work, and develop a brand new hybridised communications skill that can defeat hatespeech, not to mention a new communications skill set that can toy with Crusher Collines and make dozens of David Seymour’s seem like a whinging child.
This new communications skill set would be a variation of all of the emotives of communication put into one. Although Jacinda will predominantly use kindness to her advantage this hybridised system must make up for a lack of mobility and presence among the community.
Her heart must become stronger, her skin tougher to damage, and her iron will is something that can be inside of a loving heart.
A Jacinda gone rotten is, in my opinion, Someone who could not be defeated in life.
What is the point and relevance of this diatribe Sam?
Are you losing the plot, as nothing in your comment relates to the Q. & A. Review,
It’s just Jacinda waxing lyrical after a heavy night questioning the damage she has done to her ‘historical’ core voting block, ignore her.
In this situation Sam is not alone. Often the article has responses that are turned into a rant on Labour or Jacinda when the article has nothing to do with them. Clearly many respondents have got no interest in the article, but their anti left pro right wing ideals ignite an attitude that you can’t debate, no matter facts or evidence or topic. I call that lack of critical thinking or a specific part of the brain that has shut down.
It’s not about Trump.
Yes, – the troll-like infestation makes actual discussion or debate difficult.
Your whinging would only makes sense if you believe in Poto Williams debate skills. Did you even watch the interview? You like that? You want some more of that quality relevance and plot? All you relevance nerds are amazing.
She is Not Your Rehab, Sam
Yeah. Major break through, big things there, great things, just wonderful. Amazing quality stuff. Keep going.
It’s important that patched members aren’t on the product they sell or the fiscal implications on the gang as a whole are quite negative.
Plus members who are users become horrendously unreliable and this is bad for business and in short they become high risk and a liability.
It just goes to show gangs can be just as sensible financially as any other organisation albeit they don’t pay tax. But they get financial assistance from the money and assets taken off them. Win win for them.
The 3 water scheme is a mechanism for passing control of water to the Maori by stealth . They should be at the table but not given control. Listening to reports very few mayors are on board with the plan even though they were offered a bribe . Even ex Labour ministers cannot be convinced . This could lead to another protest as I for one would hate to lose local control and have my water chlorinated through rules made in Wellington.
Oh Trevor a little bit of racism there. Honestly don’t be ridiculous that has absolutely nothing to do with it at all. It is about the government taking control, perhaps privatising water..
It is about the government taking control, perhaps privatising water
Yes! That is the concern.
And, that it’s happening so fast, without discussion.
Individuals wanting to choose a certain medical procedure or to munch quietly on a particular weed?
“Must have a referendum.”
The govt take all the Nation’s water and put it into the hands of a very few greedy bureaucrats who are in no way accountable to voters or the general population?
— Instant GRAB & Snatch.
…By the same people who SOLD OFF OUR AQUIFERS!!!!
There needs to be limits placed on this or ANY OTHER government as to what they can and cannot do. Once in power, they all seem to lose the ability to set reasonable limits – ethical or otherwise – for what they think they can and cannot do to the whole country.
Allowing the govt to take control of our water is equivalent to allowing your mother to be placed into the care of organ harvesters.
Tin-foil hats will fix chlorination.
Q+A isn’t a very accessible show. Lots of hoops for my generation to jump through to watch. Besides, Q+A features low quality guests and seems to be propaganda targeted at older generations.
Many NZ-talking-heads are the BIGGEST Welfare Queens in the country. The NZ Government propping up dinosaur media and directly funding propaganda is doing horrendous damage to the 4th Estate.
New ‘Hate Speech Laws’ seem aimed at stopping the rise of a stronger 5th Estate. Seems Labour want to have it both ways; to have an in-the-pocket, milquetoast, MSM happy to push propaganda AND to disallow alternative views/the truth.
Totalitarian tiptoe?
Mere trivia on the road to extinction, I’m afraid, Martyn.
Let’s not over state Tam’s and Willians bedate skills
Based on many of the comments above I can see most of you know f… K all about rehab for meth addicts. And forget the money comes from meth and crime proceeds so its being used for what it should be used for.
The police are not experienced in rehab of drug addicts or rehab of gang members better to utilise those that can relate to those seeking help. Have we not learned anything in this country still trying to do the same shit and wondering why it doesn’t work.
It’s not about militarising The New Zealand Police Force.
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