I think it’s hilarious that the woke NZ journalists are more angry at Willie calling David a ‘useless Māori’ than the abomination of horror that David’s policies would cause! –
The woke journalists are only interested in micro aggression policing identity rather than the far right the nuclear explosion that Seymour’s mutilation of the State would create!
Corin Dann’s breathless exclamation to Willie on Morning Report that he’d called David a ‘useless Māori’ was bigger an issue to Corrin than the monstrosity of damage David was gleefully promising and that’s because all NZ journalists are in the thrall of woke activists on Twitter which creates a Stockholm syndrome editorial style where the minutia of middle class intersectionist etiquette trumps all other issues.
Effectively the political commentary on Radio NZ is determined by what would make Corrin Dann blush at a Wellington dinner party.
As The Daily Blog has been pointing out since the election, the extreme hard right policy of ACT is simply not appreciated by the majority of kiwis.
But it’s there, oh sweet Jesus is it there.
That’s just the start…
- Cut and freeze the Minimum wage
- Interest back on all student loans
- No Kiwsaver subsidy
- Cancel winter energy payment
- Dump all climate crisis legislation
- no more best start payments for families with new borns
- cut welfare payments
- no tax credits for research and development
- cuts to working for families
- $7b a year cut in public services
- Abolish Maori seats
This is Romper Stomper Hard Right insanity that makes Qanon look reasonable and because there is no way National can win without ACT, every vote to National empowers ACT.
While TDB has been pointing out that the Wellington Bureaucracy certainly do control policy and have far too much influence for their own self interest, we argue conquering that requires a plan to use tasers on their most sensitive areas to advance a left wing economic policy platform. It doesn’t require taking a chainsaw to the entire capacity of the State and calling that blunt force trauma amputation surgical!
David is throwing the baby, the bath, the little plastic toys, the soap and the entire toilet out with the bathwater.
David wants to hand on heart be able to tell Satan that he did all he could to mutilate the State yet Corrin Dann is more concerned that calling someone a ‘useless Māori’, might continue the patriarchal colonists racist narrative that Māori are useless.
Middle Class Identity politics and all the micro aggression policing cancel culture nonsense that comes along with it does nothing to enlighten the public.
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10% like their policies and that’s enough to get them in government.
It’s medicine that NZ needs
When quizzed by journalists on Jackson and the finance role, Seymour simply disintegrated.
Seymour loves to stand before media ranting and raving but this is the first time he has been grilled by media and he had no answers. His sarcasm to answering questions is appalling, his policies the same.
Time will tell but I can see ACT returning to the days with only Seymours gifted Epsom seat in parliament if the public finally see through his ruse.
So true Bert as you always are but will the public in his beloved Epsom seat see through him? I think not because they espouse everything he says because it fits with their own narrow-minded far right-wing narrative.
I am not completely convinced all in Epsom think that we should do away with the ministry of Women and others to be frank.
Let’s stake your credibility on it bert and youngsuffraget.
Staking our credibility on what exactly?
If you thinking politics is absolute your crazier than cabbage.
On your claim ACT is going to be reduced to just the seat of Epsom after the next ejection, you’ve made the claim before, let’s all observe whether or not your bias clouds your political judgement.
Hint: It does.
Hint: ” Time will tell”. You need to proof read.
Your bias against both myself and the government shines through as we have all seen in your posts before.
Your dislike for my posts cloud your judgement otherwise you would have read my post CORRECTLY.
Seeya.
Hint: You made a fool of yourself, again.
Will you stand by your claim Bert or are you running away?
You seem scared of facts. Why so scared, don’t like being found out?
Your reading comprehension is very poor.
So are you claiming ACT will be down to one seat after the election or not? Quit wriggling.
As I said “Time will tell” idiot.
Lol
Ahh an admission, you finally read the original post properly.
Lol Bertie – no he didn’t. Great one liner about not responding to Steamboat Willy due to the risk of making him relevant.
Middle NZ does not want co-governance. The pile-on from the rent-an-idiot crowd didn’t lose Act one single vote in fact likely gained it votes as Te Reo played his best St Scultz impersonation.
Totally incorrect Frankie. Why, because he walked without answering the question. Actually Luxon grew a pair and would have taken votes from ACT with his forthright statement ” it’s set in concrete Willis will be my finance minister”.
Even Rimmer said ” it’s been a tough day”!
One thong I will say about Act is at least they are putting their agenda on the table for all to see. Unlike Labour and the Greens, who seem to do a lot of stuff by stealth, that has lead me to distrust them.
Willies “useless Maori” comment only serves to show he is ideologically driven.
I think you my be incorrect Martyn about cutting benefits. I read it that they would tie benefits to the cost of living rather than inflation.
As a women I don’t mind seeing the Min of Women going. It has been ideologically compromised by now including trans women (who are male bodied). This too was done by stealth when JuliAnn Genter was Minister.
I would happily give up the Ministries Act mentioned if it meant we could pay and retain more nurses and Drs. I think Act quote the increase of staff in the Min of Ed and their increase in salaries (more than teachers who do the real work) get paid. Yes please let’s cut bureaucracy!
What will Seymour’s tax cuts do for the poor?
Interesting analysis Martyn – like the Stockholm Syndrome idea seems right from what I see.
I think Anker you might think three times before even mentioning ACT and their policies. Not to be secret ive about them but just to avoid giving them oxygen. If women provide a soapbox ACT will stand on it but
any goodies supposed to be passed on to women will be found – wanting. Mother Hubbard will find her cupboard is bare. I can’t bear to think of people who think they are good getting sucked into this bad lot, in any way.
Thanks Grey, let’s face it Willie has just given Act oxygen, by calling Seymour a useless Maori……me putting a comment on the DB, not somuch
Willie is perhaps thinking old – fashioned Maori. They had the right originally to pass judgment on each other without being called out for being iwi-ist.
He means a useless Maori politician as most Maori go into politics to try and help their people and make a difference as we are at the bottom and being at he bottom is largely due to colonisation and assimilation.
Maori did not create the Maori seats Pakeha created them to stop us from out voting them. Now as soon as we get a bit of governance or power or included in decision making, out come all the knives and the nasty racist Maori bashing shit.
Whatever you do, don’t criticize Willie because your comment will be moderated. TDB is like Russian TV when Willie is involved.
Seymour to me represents a back-to-basics approach.
Lately I’ve been thinking about a piece by Peggy Noonan titled; “Be Careful What You Celebrate”:
“We have all had a moment when all of a sudden we looked around and thought: The world is changing, I am seeing it change. This is for me the moment when the new America began: I was at a graduation ceremony at a public high school in New Jersey. It was 1971 or 1972. One by one a stream of black-robed students walked across the stage and received their diplomas. And a pretty young girl with red hair, big under her graduation gown, walked up to receive hers. The auditorium stood up and applauded. I looked at my sister: “She’s going to have a baby.”
The girl was eight months pregnant and had the courage to go through with her pregnancy and take her finals and finish school despite society’s disapproval.
But: Society wasn’t disapproving. It was applauding. Applause is a right and generous response for a young girl with grit and heart. And yet, in the sound of that applause I heard a wall falling, a thousand-year wall, a wall of sanctions that said: We as a society do not approve of teenaged unwed motherhood because it is not good for the child, not good for the mother and not good for us.
The old America had a delicate sense of the difference between the general (“We disapprove”) and the particular (Let’s go help her”). We had the moral self-confidence to sustain the paradox, to sustain the distance between “official” disapproval and “unofficial” succor. The old America would not have applauded the girl in the big graduation gown, but some of its individuals would have helped her not only materially but with some measure of emotional support. We don’t so much anymore. For all our tolerance and talk we don’t show much love to what used to be called girls in trouble. As we’ve gotten more open-minded we’ve gotten more closed-hearted.
Message to society: What you applaud, you encourage. And: Watch out what you celebrate.
RNZ’s approach to this issue is indeed regrettable, and would indeed be better to focus on the substance of Act and Labour policies.
I think they probably had to take this angle for a practical and a tactical reason.
Practical: they only got Jackson on, so could only focus on the comment. Tactical: They know their own trust with the public has tanked owing to perceptions on the “Team of $55 Million” issue. So I am sure there will editorial direction to take opportunities to “combat that narrative”.
Agree 100% Stephen
Corin Dann – really? He was sticking up for RE parasites this morning too.
I used to be an ideological libertarian when I was 16 – then I grew up. The world isn’t only about me and if people and groups want to advocate for themselves and gain ministerial representation – all power to them however I think Rimmer does have a point about some of our bureaucratic institutions.
I heard the Dann/Jackson thing this morning. I wondered at Dann going on about “playing the man not the ball.”
I thought down the rugby analogy lines. If some player eye gouges another is it unfair to describe the attacker as a “dirty bastard”? You can complain about the deed but not him as a person?
From a different angle is saying Seymour is a “useless Māori” as bad as it can get? I can imagine many others besides Jackson describing him that way, as in useless at being a Maori and seeing things from a Maori perspective. Is Seymour not a useless Māori?
Now is Willie a gang associate or not?
Just to lighten up the discussion, otherwise apropos of nothing in particular, and quoting a ‘news’ headline from a Stuff story today…. how’s this for media profundity:
Kelly Osbourne is pregnant, expecting first baby
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