This week ACT celebrated 25 years as a political party.
Birthed from rich pricks who didn’t want MMP, they scaremongered the electorate with spooky TV adverts about unelected interests dictating democracy, so you can imagine everyone’s surprise when after losing the MMP fight they formed a political party to immediately exploit the very fears they had just promoted.
It’s been an interesting 25 years, crazy scandals and batshit mad right wing reactionary policy, but right now ACT is at the edge of true power.
National will need ACT to form a Government, and I don’t think that people fully appreciate that when David Seymour says he will sacrifice the Ministry of Youth Affairs, the Ministry of Māori Affairs, The Ministry of Ethnic Affairs, the Ministry of Pacific People, The Ministry of Womens Affairs AND the Human Rights Commission on the Milton Friedman altar of small government – Oh he’s 1000% serious.
The NZ Political Left need to spend less time on cancelling people for pronouns and more time on policy that will materially benefit kiwis because if we don’t, a National/ACT Government are going to go romper stomper.
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ACT – love or hate them – are the ONLY thing standing in the way of NZ going full ethno-state which is going to end very badly for everyone.
If you really didn’t want ACT near the levers of power, then the time to do something about it was was when Hepuapua was released and the crazies decided that everything had to be Maori-fied. That document should have been quietly binned before the it saw the light of day. The left are going to reap what they have so ignorantly sown with this CRT insanity.
So Exclamation Mark are you essentially saying National have the same ideas as Labour on Māori “issues” You must be if ACT are the only handbrake.
Yeah bro god forbid that 17% of the human population of New Zealand have some extra representation. Let’s have some soulless ghouls from the top 1% in control instead.
Have to agree with you John White. All these people go on about/freak out about race based policies without acknowledging that land confiscation under the Public Works Act tended to work that way. No, don’t attempt to right any wrongs let’s just all hold hands as one people. Tough on crime and justice are great themes……when it suits.
If National form part of the next government, which looks likely, I hope they do carry on with some of the measures they actually started but at present find it politically expedient to pretend they didn’t.
The founding members of ACT certainly went romper stomper on the country.
Seymore has hit the raw nerve of country and will now be hard to stop.
WHY
He is decisive.
He believes in one nation one people
He presents as competent
He is a good orator
He has a sense of humor
And he presents well
All that wrapped up in a single politician! Rare indeed.
People will support and vote for him because of those qualities irrespective of his policies.
One nation one people, David Seymour, the Pauline Hanson of N.Z.
Yep Bert and give he puapua, seperate this that and other for Maori and the rest of us his time is now. Never before here has one nation one people rung true as a rallying cry.
He is on to the right message
Think Epsom and Seymour’s NO to state housing Clifford His message is way off! Two levels of society Seymour wants, the haves and the have nots, whereas He Puapua is inclusive.
@bert, Seymour is a twerking fool and Seymour, National’s Luxon and all those who support them want to get rid of Ministry of Youth Affairs, the Ministry of Māori Affairs, The Ministry of Ethnic Affairs, the Ministry of Pacific People, The Ministry of Womens Affairs AND the Human Rights Commission
He’s already gone after older, sicker kiwis, what he considered ‘burdens on the State’ with his ‘successful’ Kavorkian Referendum. Now he’s proving his Party is racist against Maori by abolishing (MMA); racist against Immigrants and Refugees by abolishing (MEA); racist against Pacific People by abolishing (MPP); misogynist by abolishing (MWA) and cancelling the rights of young and every New Zealander (except white men) by abolishing (MYA) and (HRC).
Time to shut this fool and his white male supporters up, by putting out the call to every affected group Seymour plans to throw on the scrapheap – namely youth, diverse ethnicities, Maori, Pacifica, women and non-white males.
Make Seymour and his neoliberal, white men scared to share their tripe on any media except scratched on a toilet wall, or scribbled in crayon on toilet paper.
Seymour’s a disgraceful excuse for a politician in any democratic society. Worse than Farage. Worse than Trump. He’s a mouthpiece for the likes of Bannon and Slater. https://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/features/2583835/Internet-warrior.
Once Luxon finds out how toxic Seymour has made himself in New Zealand’s mainstream, through his uber-right-wing toxic cancel culture, no amount of praying, or advice from the Upper Church will get Luxon to touch Seymour with a ‘golden barge-pole from God’.
Expect a few more U-Turns from Christopher as far as Seymour’s white, pale, stale male plan for Aotearoa in the 100 days after the 2023 election.
Or, Christopher might even resign as Leader of National in favour of Chris Bishop and Mark Mitchell, and Luxon’ll go back and rescue Air New Zealand after a ‘mare weekend’ at the start of the school holidays.
Call ACT and National’s white, male racist misogyny out from the rooftops!
Speaking of National’s misogyny, remember this guy, another high caliber MP…
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/129218356/aaron-gilmore-needs-to-pay-his-bills-before-running-for-council-parents-say
Most of Nationals MP’s are of similar ilk.
So Cliff J he is, according to you at least, all those things ( one nation, one people seriously?) and ACT are at 9.5%. Some may argue the Greens are the opposite of your list and they have 10%. I am not sure he has hit the nerve you suggest.
Everyone is saying Seymour is serious ( and he might be now) but it’s easy to say whatever you like when you are at 9%. It’s not like he can act with total impunity. The other day he was interviewed and he made it sound like being small was part of the plan almost, rather than only being able to find 9% support. Positions also mean nothing apparently but then he is gagging to be the Finance Minister.
Slash all those useless ministries and we can spend the money we’ve saved on:
MRI machines
Cancer drugs
Elective surgeries
School dinners
Etc
Your choice Martyn…
Give me a break Andrew. What makes you so sure Nat/ACT will fund all these cancer drugs? John Key did with one as a flat out bribe for female voters, then continued to say how wonderful PHARMAC were once in power. Labour made the same noises in opposition then did nothing until finally at least reviewing PHARMAC and throwing another inadequate sum their way.
A pity ACT and NZ First can’t see sense and merge into one party.
Not enough room in one party for both their egos
The reality is that ACT are the only politicians who are publicly against an ethno state. Luxon just wants to be prime Minister and if that means doing the usual John Key response of nothing he’ll do it
People vote ACT because they actually mean what they say.
There is a majority out there have no voice at present.
Going to be an interesting election!
Grow up sheep shaggers–ACT comes from the ideological tradition of the Chicago Boys–they are totally a party for the 1%ers. Nasty voracious bastards in other words that support dog eat dog capitalism.
Other references to longevity of useful combative instruments to gain advantage. ACT pretends that it stands for something but everyone knows it is privilege and money so there are plenty of good dinners talking about their policies and whether they really need to have principles. The financial side of economies is so absorbing that it sucks up nearly all the juice! ACT mightn’t know all about that below, but the rest of us lack information weapons to put paid to their ashpirations.
First poison arrows may have been loosed 70,000 years ago in Africa. Hunter-gatherers in Africa may have been using poison-tipped arrows for more than 70,000 years, according to a new analysis of ancient arrowheads.4/08/2020
First poison arrows may have been loosed … – New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com › article › 2250799-first-poi.
Capitalism – The Golden Age of Capitalism spanned from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the early 1970s, when the Bretton Woods monetary system collapsed. It was a period of economic prosperity with the achievement of high and sustained levels of economic and productivity growth.23/08/2017
golden age of capitalism | Department of Economic and Social Affairs
https://www.un.org › development › desa › dpad › tag
When was the golden age of finance?
17.1 Three economic epochs
Name of Period Dates
Golden age 1948–1973
Stagflation 1973–1979
1980s and the great moderation 1979–2008
Financial crisis 2008–2015…
Unit 17 The Great Depression, golden age, and global …
https://www.core-econ.org › the-economy › book › text
Development along rail lines of thought about capitalism:
What are the three theories of capitalism?
There are three elements to the argument for capitalism, and while they connect in crucial ways they can be separately defined. Those three elements are (a) division of labor; (b) impersonal exchange based on prices; and (c) economies of scale based on knowledge.24/04/2019
Capitalism in Three Principles | AIER
https://www.aier.org › article › capitalism-in-three-princip…
Who started finance capitalism?
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Rudolf Hilferding
Rudolf Hilferding is credited with first bringing the term finance capitalism into prominence, with his (1910) study of the links between German trusts, banks, and monopolies before World War I.
Finance capitalism – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Finance_capitalism
What countries currencies are backed by gold?
France. When it comes to the Gold Standard, France is famous for having led the Gold Bloc. When most countries were abandoning the Gold standard, France, along with Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, and Switzerland, were determined to remain on the Gold Standard.
Which Countries are on the Gold Standard? 2022
https://worldpopulationreview.com › country-rankings
What countries are using the gold standard?
No major country is currently using a gold standard. However, many countries do keep gold reserves. Some states keep significant reserves, although it is not enough to completely back their economies. The United States still holds a sizeable gold reserve, as do Switzerland, Germany, and Australia.18/06/2020
What is the Gold Standard? – 2020 – Robinhood Learn
https://learn.robinhood.com › articles › what-is-the-gol..
What is US dollar backed by?
Why Is Fiat Money Valuable? In contrast to commodity-based money like gold coins or paper bills redeemable for precious metals, fiat money is backed entirely by the full faith and trust in the government that issued it. One reason this has merit is that governments demand that you pay taxes in the fiat money it issues.
Fiat Money Definition – Investopedia
https://www.investopedia.com › terms › fiatmoney
Jaysus I am sorry you have returned to this plane and find us muddling around win a mess after all these years. The priests found that they can keep on promulgating large words and new cabals of bureaucrats to avoid doing moral things. Not much change since Herod et al sorry. We sort of keep on trying, but have to put up with new groups formed like the ministry you refer to.
I have always wanted to see that election material that showed voters with paper bags over their heads. Is the image at the top that? Could we have a full image of it, perhaps for the caption competition?? Was it MMP time that brought it up?
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