DON’T VOTE EARLY – The foundations of our Nation are in ruin and there is no political courage for tomorrow

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Martyn Bradbury
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Nationals 3 biggest donors (Hart, Mowbray and Bolton) have a combined net worth of 15 billion!

The Bottom 50% of NZ has 23 billion.

The top 5% of NZers own roughly 50% of NZs wealth, while the bottom 50% of NZers own a miserable 5%!

IRD proved NZ Capitalism is rigged for the rich and Bernard Hickey calculates that if we had a basic capital gains tax in place over the last decade, we would have earned $200billion in tax revenue.

$200billion would have ensured our public infrastructure wouldn’t be in such an underfunded ruin right now!

There are 14 Billionaires in NZ + 3118 ultra-high net worth individuals with over $50million each, why not start start with them, then move onto the Banks, then the Property Speculators, the Climate Change polluters and big industry to pay their fair share before making workers pay more tax!

Culture War fights make all the noise, but poor people aren’t sitting around the kitchen table cancelling people for misusing pronouns, they are trying to work out how to pay the bills!

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Bread and Butter cost of living pressures are what the electorate want answers to, and that’s where the Left need to step up and push universal policy that lifts that cost from the people.

The Commerce Commission is clear that the Supermarket Duopoly should be broken up and the State should step in and provide that competition.

We need year long maternity leave.

We need a nationalised Early Education Sector that provides free childcare for children under 5.

We need free public transport.

We need free breakfast and lunches in schools.

We need free dental.

We need 50 000 new State Houses.

We need more hospitals, more schools and a Teachers aid in every class room.

We need climate change adaptation and a resilient rebuilt infrastructure.

We need all these things and we need to fund them by taxing the rich who the IRD clearly showed were rigging the system.

That requires political courage and there is none!

No one is willing to fight for tomorrow, they merely want to pacify the present!

Just promise me one thing.

Don’t. You. Dare. Vote. Early. In. 2023!

I can not urge this enough from you all comrades.

Don’t vote early in the 2023 election.

I’m not going to tell you who to vote for because this is a liberal progressive democracy and your right to chose who you want in the secrecy of that ballot box is a scared privilege and is your god damned right as a citizen.

But what I will beg of you, is to not vote early in 2023.

Comrades, on our horizon is inflation in double figures, geopolitical shockwave after geopolitical shockwave and a global economic depression.

As a nation we will face some of the toughest choices and decision making  outside of war time and that means you must press those bloody MPs to respond to real policy solutions and make those buggers promise to change things and you can’t do that if you hand your vote over before the bloody election!

Keep demanding concessions and promises for your vote right up until midnight before election day AND THEN cast your vote!

We only get 1 chance every 3 years to hold these politicians feet to the fire and they only care before the election, so force real concessions out of them before you elect them.

This election is going to be too important to just let politicians waltz into Parliament without being blistered by our scrutiny.

Demand real concessions from them and THEN vote on Election Day.

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38 COMMENTS

  1. Voting early denies the Government the opportunity to announce at the last moment another absurdly generous and hugely expensive policy – like reducing the superannuation age to 55 if re-elected.

    The announcement will sound great, and be generous, and the cost will be for future generations to pay back through borrowing.

      • “.. costing future generations zero” will be included in the announcement.
        If you are going to lie in the last week of the campaign, lie big – large scale complexity, and the lie should be something people want to be true.

    • ADA. Voting early frees us from having to worry about these useless clowns, so that we can sing and dance in the streets, and grow spuds, kale, leeks, tomatoes and beans, while pondering how to usher children through government inflicted gender crises, and whether it’s possible to home school and retain a reasonable sort of mental equilibrium, and how to reduce electricity bills, and why car batteries conk out the day after their guarantee does, and whether the dreadful dumbing down of the education system and MSM and Beehive debating chamber is a conspiracy or what.

  2. “like reducing the superannuation age to 55 if re-elected.”

    Bloody great idea. As a brickie my back’s fucked!

  3. I doubt any of these corrupt clowns will promise much of anything. Austerity budgets all round, to keep the donors happy.

  4. “force real concessions out of them”

    Amusing. Or you could vote for new blood (e.g. TOP), or vote on incumbents track record (e.g. smear feces on the ballot paper).

  7. Labour party :
    We need to plant productive carbon neutral sheep farms in noxious fire prone pine trees

    We need gender woo in primary schools

    We need bilingual road signs

    We need a cycle bridge in Auckland for nearly a billion dollars

    We need to give the mongrel mob 2.8 million dollars

    We need co governance in everything even though it’s clearly not in the treaty

    Looks like they’ve got this one in the bag eh

    • Keepcalmcarryon You forgot about clamping down on free speech, ensuring the Commissioner for Vulnerable Children never reappears in human form, whacking miscellaneous biological persons and declaring it a celebration of diversity and lovey stuff.

      • CONFLATION derives greater threats to NZ society than  INFLATION .

        HOW to make a hill to die on.

        The release of the newer movie is driving up the rise in number of merfolk.
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/experiences/water-sports/300841178/cheat-sheet-whats-the-deal-with-the-rise-in-mermaid-diving-in-nz

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        Aquatic mammals, such as the dugong and manatee, that suckle their young in human fashion above water are considered by some to underlie the evidence of mermaids. Encylopedia Britannica .

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        You can Register as a merfolk.

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        They have an International Mermaid Day. There are globally and in NZ  – Meet a Merfolk – sessions and there’s  World Mermaid Championships. “There’s a strong feminine energy to it….. Saltwater runs in my blood… Sincerely, it’s changed my life,” says Tasha in the Guardian.

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        There is a Mernet. They have forum discussions.

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        There is a MerTinder.

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        It’s derogatory that mermaids are called sirens.

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        A self made ” You tube ” where a merman aquires a mermaid costume to swim in the pool with a mermaid.
        https://youtu.be/7A0felspsW0

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        I’ll be selective and ignore Netsafe.org.nz advice and tools for keeping safe in spaces.

        • Video-hosting websites such as YouTube were the most popular online platform amongst New Zealand kids followed by search engines like Google and photo and video sharing apps like Instagram.
        • Googling Mermaid is currently trending up 60% in the the Manawatū-Whanganui region

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        Here is a meme of a person who is a merfolk in Eketahuna .
        https://imgflip.com/i/3ufqt4.

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        Subversive drop of my merchandise link here.
        I will make money https://www.etsy.com/nz/listing/1391783859/disney-the-little-mermaid-villains?ref=share_v4_lx

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        Oh look over here…Check out the men’s costumes at the 1928 games in Amsterdam. ( Insert abusive terms here – vile or over/misuse words like ‘ gaslighting’ )

        https://showpigeon.tumblr.com/post/29129077262/xmercenary-olympic-swimsuits-1928-male

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        Here is a postcard showing the existence of the Eketahuna mermaid pool in 1916
        https://www.ebay.com/itm/255584774803. Those en masse Scandinavian immigrants recruited and brought as virtual slave labour by the British are to blame for bringing their beliefs.

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        Eketahuna means ‘ to run a ground on a shoal bank’. Mermaids lured sailors to do this .

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        The Lorelei poem shows mermaids are dangerous.

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        Ariel killed Ursula’s baby fish. According to eTimes Ariel has disposophobia. Merfolk gatherings are called Pods.

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        I’m going to the movies to see the new release to film evidence of “Melissa McCarthy Channeling Her Inner Drag Queen”

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        They are all a violent pod.
        It’s not safe at the Eketahuna public baths.
        We need to visit the library and ban The Little Mermaid, book by Hans Christian Andersen.

        Tourism New Zealand is in on the act to promote mermaiding to highlight fragile ecosystems ; so let’s boycott because climate change is not real.

        Random drop of merchandise again.
        https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/YOU-RULE-YOU-SUCK-Stranger-Things-by-BaileyPerson/82578456.EJUG5

        Whilst outside my window are real struggles, …. yeah, nah.. where merfolk go to shit is my hill to die on .
        I’ll just re-quack my evidence/theory ad nauseam to @nzlabour.

      • So Act are the party of free speech but want to do away with the Human rights Commission?

    • You forgot: We need maatauranga Maori in science classes, because … diversity, equity and inclusion.

      And: We need Te Ao Maori and Pasifika perspectives in maths classes, otherwise iMaaori and Pasifika students won’t be able to relate to maths.

        • Misinformation? You’ve posted links to the defunct 2014-2016 curriculum, now replaced by the current government’s social engineering program. Even if you didn’t notice the date, there are plenty of clues – I can’t see any mention of “Te Tiriti o Waitangi”, “Aotearoa” or “akonga” anywhere in those pages you’ve linked to.

          In documents about the new curriculum, you’ll find such gems as “Being numerate in Aotearoa New Zealand today involves an understanding of diverse cultural perspectives, privileging te ao Māori and. Pacific worldviews.“ https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=0CAIQw7AJahcKEwio5PP96pj_AhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.education.govt.nz%2Fpublic%2FDocuments%2FMinistry%2FChanges-in-education%2FELS-0778-Insights-that-informed-LCMS_web2.pdf&psig=AOvVaw0xP8RSVYwBomIz1KZi_Gmu&ust=1685391565217717

          • Very mischievous Pope. The publication dates were 2014 and 2016. Just like the current Crimes Act’s origin is 1961.

            What you tried to do Pope in your pile on was to mislead and deceive people with your reckons.

            Those links I posted ARE still the current Achievement Objectives at every age and level of the Science and Maths curriculum that students must have their learning outcomes and attainments measured against.

            The document you link to is NOT the Curriculum. It is a formative summary of a body of work, explored over time and expertise, discussing ” Insights “, findings on how to best have children reach those very same Achievement Objectives.

            The discussion work explores adressing the mediums to enhance learning such as having relevant contexts for students to relate to rather than isolated, piecemeal or – one modality for all is good enough ; having effective strategies and supportive environments for diverse learners, communicating effectively and engaging family, improving and having accessibility to more meaningful modes for differing learners,  having resources and learning and teaching methods that include all NZ students such as effective strategies for those with disabilities; and no surprises adressing the number one factor for more effective student achievement,  the teachers knowledge and competencies.

            • My original comment alluded to the current government’s introduction of maatauranga Maaori into science classes (co-equal with “Western” science, dontcha know?), and a similar intrusion of ideology into maths teaching.

              As you are well aware, these are both facts. Your sleight of hand above doesn’t directly deny those facts, but rather tries to shift the argument onto different (more defensible) ground (motte and bailey tactics). I never said anything about Achievement Objectives, and I’m not sure why you’re talking about disabilities. We get enough gaslighting from The Disinformation Project without you joining in.

              Here’s a gem about “Critical maths” from the Common Practive Model document:

              “A critical maths pedagogical approach uses maths to develop critical awareness about wider social, environmental, political, ideological, and economic issues. Critical maths recognises the importance of understanding, interpreting, and addressing issues of power, social justice and equity in the community and the wider world. Ākonga are encouraged to interrogate dominant discourses and assumptions, including that maths is benign, neutral, and culture-free.”

              How is telling kids that maths is a cultural construct going to help anyone?

  9. Taxing more to get all those billions is a waste of time without a strategic Spending PLAN, for the good of all citizens. What party is proposing that !

  10. If you vote in the clowns again you’ll get more clowns. As for the oppo, you’ll get a whole bunch of newer clowns.

    We’re fucked whichever way you look at it. Theyre all schooled in Neoliberalism which means more of the same ole same ole.

    A 6 month or longer hung parliament is the only way out. Bring in governance by referendum. No need to let politicians make the decision! Theyre just functionarys and no more. The same goes for bureaucrats.
    Get rid of list seats and have 120 local representatives who are contractually bound to the constituency they are elected to represent.

    Time for real change cause WWIII is knocking on the door and we don’t need to be a part of that nightmare.

  11. “We need the left to…”. But they haven’t bloody done it. They’ve had nearly six years.

    Time to give up on them. They have managed to make John Keys govt look good, which is their one achievement

    • Ah Anker, you read my mind. I remember how desperate I was to get rid of Key …

  12. Nearly 6 years and Labour have made almost everything they touch worse.
    It’s more than obvious they don’t know what to do.
    They have to go before they inflict more damage.

    • “Bob Bot”, were you an early trial for AI text generation or something? Non sensical contributions like yours add zero to political debate. Try developing an argument–oh that’s right–Torys are born to rule…explaining is losing for aspirational “toffs”.

      The irony of Natzo attack lines on NZ Labour is that Baldrick Mark Luxon and Mr Seymour if they ever slithered into Govt. would actually make things way worse for the lower 50% of NZers–unapologetically too the bastards.

    • Bob the first. Always look on the bright side. Pommie songbird Ed Sheeran got Prime Minsterial baked scones from JA when he came here and the new King Charles got our sausage rolls, while Chris Bishop’s starving old father roams the streets looking for them. That’s politics. Look after the haves, and the nots will look after themselves. Something like that. Let’s try Winston.

  13. 14 Billionaires! Jesus! I thought there were [only] nine. What a big sticky poo ball. ” … 3118 ultra-high net worth individuals …” Does anyone know how? How does one gather about themselves that kind of money legally? That’s staggering and more than a bit depressing. Are those stats not worth investigating?
    Where do they get the money from..? I don’t know about you who are not part of the criminal element but I’d like to know. Can we crowd fund a team of forensic accountants to make public a report? We need to try something, anything, because that’s outrageous.

  14. ‘$200 billion over the last decade..’ that’s $20 billion per year in a CGT?? Love to know how Bernard Hickey has worked this one out.

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