National’s new farming policy is everything wrong with NZ in one Party.
I honestly couldn’t have come up with a worse policy if I wanted to.
Exploiting migrant labour by legally reducing what they can be paid per hour is a recipe for disaster.
Doubling the number of migrant workers that the agricultural industry can exploit is a recipe for disaster.
Restarting live animal exports is a sickness not only for the animals but our global reputation.
This last one is just a joke. On one hand National are screaming they will cut red tape, but the it comes to live exporting animals (something that accounts for a tiny percentage of our exports) they are promising MORE red tape.
Well which one is it?
Less red tape or more red tape?
Why risk our international reputation to gain. tiny amount of money?
How beholden is the National Party to Farming interests to risk this?
Hilariously, as National were launching this stupid policy, news came in over night that the planet now has more carbon in the atmosphere thanks to human pollution than at any time in the planet’s history for at least 15 million fucking years!
So let me get this completely straight.
The planet has not been like this for 15million years and National’s solution is to double the exploited migrant workers, pay them less and start live animal exports?
It’s like th planet is burning, and National want to throw a petrol can on it as a solution.
Honestly NZ – if you vote for this fucking bullshit policy – you deserve everything that comes with it you fools.
National’s farming policy will exploit the workers, the animals and the planet!
Allowing National to win and implement such counter productive environmental policy because the woke are fucking pricks isn’t an adult response.
Don’t tell me this is the Left’s fault with their alienating woke bullshit, if you are seriously going to elect these maniacs because Trans activists and allies are anti-free speech arseholes, then this is on you.
That said, I still can’t vote for a Green Party with Marama Davidson and James Shaw as co-leaders and I sure as hell can’t vote for a Green Party with Dr Kerekere and Ricardo as co-leaders either.
Isn’t it weird? If only we had an actual Green Party that wasn’t lost in identity politics dogma to challenge National’s environmental vandalism with some mana.
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I would say that I am guess if National win next year, then New Zealanders will be locked out of farming jobs by 2030.
Not like you to exaggerate millsy.
“The woke” – you managed to get the word into an article about farming. Great work! They are every where and responsible for nearly every problem discussed in TDB. I’d be disappointed if I read an article that didn’t find a way to blame the woke.
Heh, well said Peter, stuck record.
Matters I would like to see farmers and horticulturists seriously address other than cheap wages are…
• Animal exploitation
• Water hogging for industrial dairying (South Island) and monoculture crops (e.g. Avocados on Aupouri Peninsula Far North)
• Expanding plant based production including Cannabis and Hemp.
• WATERWAY QUALITY
Just been driving around Southland the last few days definitely a lot of brown rivers, tells you something IMHO ?
Hey – if you don’t like it Peter – fuck off
Ok – fair point.
Lazy immigration seems to be the only think that NZ parties want to do.
Clearly before lazy immigration not only did the crops and farms seem to function without cheap labour but the prices for produce were also affordable for Kiwis to buy.
Before globalism most Kiwi farmers did the labour themselves with their families and communities, it was not owned by foreign billionaires and private equity and did not create intensive farming pollution the way we see farming is going today.
Under Labour and Greens the number of workers arriving on on temporary visas has already exceed the number that were arriving pre-Covid – $20,000 a month – around quarter of a million a year.
We have immigration at 195% and still not jobs filled. Something seems to be very wrong with how all political parties are using immigration to bring high numbers of people into NZ but they are not working here in recognised jobs.
Spot on!
Employers need to start training their staff and creating an environment to encourage employees rather than screwing the shit out of them, like they have been over the last 100 years.
Good article Martyn.
We the voters don’t have much to choose from.
National/Act are stuck in the past and the left is morphing into something hard to understand.
Yuck I can’t abide cruelty to animals.
Down with those plans for horrible live cattle exports.
Yes.
When you have a mass immigration policy while not engaging with the next generation to actually do the jobs, the next generation find other ways to spend their time…. and much of it is not good.
129 ram raids since May, ‘almost of all of them’ committed by people under 18, Police Minister Chris Hipkins reveals
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/129-ram-raids-since-may-almost-of-all-of-them-committed-by-people-under-18-police-minister-chris-hipkins-reveals/G5DMLFGUS3NMLAPTH3VSULKMYQ/
Road-rage horror, two teens charged with murder: ‘Precious life, violently extinguished’
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/national/beach-haven-road-rage-fatal-knife-attack-stabbing-teens-charged-with-murder/
Many members of the next generation are not being recruited properly – all media and government and hangers on seem to see foreign youth doing the jobs. Thus NZ youth fail to see a future in a country they seem to be written out of in terms of real employment fore real jobs. The ‘ceremonial jobs’ and woke ‘victimhood’ that woke like to create are not real jobs that create real outcomes or lead to good mental health.
UK after a period of mass immigration, followed by backlash of Brexit, are getting youth attacks too. Not just ram raids on property, in the UK they ram raid people too.
Richmond Park: Men armed with machetes targeting high-end bicycles
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-58892191
Maybe decrying all local youth as being too lazy to work and not good enough, is not a very good strategy for western countries, more youth crime as well as constant unemployment drives of countries and always the countries are always in need of workers and have housing, health and inflation problems to boot.
No consequences for young people today, they are being encouraged by their parents and the gangs, and we have a soft judiciary.
SO you think they should be gunned down by police then? Or perhaps beaten by then. Or raped and shanked in prison?
Yup. And then there’s David Parker’s ‘as you were’ for Australian owned NZ Steel. Good one Dave. Where can one take one’s centre-left, environmentally terrified, progressive vote these days?! I wish it were TOP, but they betta gotta get a raft of serious MP propositions sorted in the next week for that to be an option.
David Parker lacking gonads worried about getting re-elected.
That’s why you need the Handbrake elected. Just like Labour did well in the first term with a political handbrake.
Alot of the farmers are old. They need foreign national s to work the land.
Winston has lost his bearings and is chasing the fractionalized and diaffected red necks.
Seems like a great platform to me: it just secured the rural vote.
We also need to end carbon sequestration by planting invasive pines.
I think that, to reduce the minimum wage for entry level positions including those available in the farming sector, would enable our post covid era country to grow more, develop faster, employ more people including migrants and those on working holidays. However, anything less than $21.00 per hour would be unacceptable because the difference between anything less than that figure and the living wage which currently stands at around $26.00 per hour, would be too high. We wouldn’t want a situation a few years down the track, for example, whereby migrants are working for $19.00 per hour and yet the living wage is $28.00 per hour.
Excellent comment saveNZ
Awaiting Countryboy’s sensible comment as an ex farmer.
It’s as if National handed Federated Farmers a blank sheet of paper and asked them to write their farming policy, oh wait…
NZ is stuck in the American cotton fields of the early 1800’s. Instead of a highly modern, mechanised, automated industry we import cheap exploitable labour to drag ladders around the orchards, and charge them horrendous amounts to be locked up in prisoner of war style barracks.
I watched t.v 3 news last night, the white maggot came on along with horrendous footage of which I only glimpsed through my fingers as my hand was covering my eyes. Cows belly deep plugging through mud, a ship exporting cows that sunk,…. OMG what a fucken disgrace. People are willing to do anything for money in this country. Cheap as Fuck!
Correction. CO2 levels were much higher 12,000 years ago. Closer to 1080ppm. It is why they were able to grow grapes in Scotland. Milankovitch cycles have more to do with the heating and cooling cycles of Gaia than a trace gas.
I am not bothered by CO2. Humans can adapt. I’m more bothered by the plastic pollution which is arguably far worse. At least CO2 is taken back out by a cooling ocean, and eaten up by plants. Plastic on the other hand? Not recycled into anything unless it’s dumped into Mauna Loa volcano to melt down back into its component particles.
National always back to their corporet debt freind!s the Farmers, we will care for you, ask Shiply, and that other uncaring selfish EX,pm and our nations structure of care, Brash, sell us all out for capital and its uncaring profit, only for them.
I intend to improve the literacy of NZ children by going into their houses and replacing every one book I see with two books, because the content of the book does not really matter.
I’ll start by replacing Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” with a copy of “Splish Splash Spot” and “Spot goes to the Zoo”.
The problem with you New View is you don’t know what you’re talking about.
You clearly didn’t see the footage of the cattle about to be herded and the mud only enclosure they were being housed in on TV one news last night, A picture tells a thousand words. “They are expected to arrive in top condition and do so” Evidence of this to support your quote would be greatly appreciated otherwise you lose credibility. And no, I don’t take your word for it.
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