This is so dumb…
It is hard to imagine the election battle between Bunnings dad Chris Hipkins and Christian dad Christopher Luxon will be the dirtiest fight ever seen in New Zealand politics.
But on Monday at a media conference on the black and white tiles in Parliament, National Party campaign chair Chris Bishop – a Park Run dad – said the campaign had descended to never-before-seen depths.
“It’s become very clear that thanks to the Labour Party this has gone on to become the most negative election campaign in New Zealand history.”
Firstly – Telling the truth about National isn’t an ‘attack’ advert.
Secondly, the Millennial Newsrooms have no idea what the fuck Dirty Politics actually is.
Let’s remind the kids what Dirty Politics looks like again.
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It may or may not be true that “Millennial newsrooms clearly have never read Nick Hager’s Dirty Politics.”, but they have had the advantages of having gone through the Great New Zealand Education System.
The ACT billboard is pretty slimey, but Bishop has a nerve, when many will never forget the pathetic spectre of his own elderly father driving around looking for sausage rolls while Chris stuffs himself at Bellamy’s.
Forget dirty politics – read dumb politicians comments of the week.
Chris Hipkins in the last two days;
“We’re not going to discriminate against people based on the fact that they earned a lot of money, they pay more tax, and therefore they should still be able to access the same amount of public services,” he said.
This was in regards to Dental.
How stupid is he when he has done exactly this all the way through his services to NZ and not done a CGT.
It could be worse, you could have Chris Luxon saying $2 a week tax cuts for the poorest will fix everything whilst he gets $18000 a year and reduces the burden on his 7 properties with his reversal on landlords.
Now that’s stupid.
It’s kind of like Luxon saying people who can afford an EV don’t need a subsidy. Well Mr Luxon, people who can afford more than one property don’t need tax breaks on their capital gains.
The sickly, over-cuddly phrase ‘mum and pop landlords’ gives you away as a propagandist. The truth is that property investment has now had a foul, negative effect upon our economy. Money has been diverted away from productive investment, property has become ridiculously over-priced, and if your innocent mum and pop investors cannot understand the damage they are doing they need a damned good kick up the arse.
Pay people decently so that they can afford the rents your ‘nice’ mum and pop investors are charging.
The right love ‘targetting’ benefits. It gives them the ability to deny benefits at a personal whim, leads to unnecessarily complex hoops to have to jump through and lets them get away with discriminatory behaviour.
The true Left go for universality every time. It circumvents discriminatory practices and removes power from the 9% enablers.
All state benefits must be universal.
Natzos knocked out in the first few seconds, of the first round, via Martyn’s reprise of the infamous Slater–Oil period. SirKey as he admitted in Parliament, therefore on Hansard, was that the fat freak was a late night confidant of his–pillow talk between Keysie and Slates. Key also admitted to running what was called back then a “burner” phone, i.e. out of the Parliamentary system.
They were the dirtiest of dirty fuckers. Nicky Hager’s only mistake was not titling the book “Dirty NZ National Politics”. But, Nicky is no Labour fan either which a lot of people seem to overlook“ remember Corngate?
Get real, a mild, factual, rebuke from the centrist NZCTU–aimed at its members by the way, not trying to convert any tories–is not anywhere near the same league as NZ ruling class dirty politics.
Totally agree Bomber especially with items 1, 2 and 3.
However if we are talking dirty politics there have been many examples on all sides in days of yore.
For the sake of balance I think it’s worth mentioning the infamous Labour debacle of 2005? or thereabouts. When right before the election the Labour Party wrote to State House tenants and told them to get out and vote because if Don Brash got in, they would be kicked out of their state houses so they turned up in droves and grabbed the election at the last minute out from under what was looking like an almost sure Nats victory. The best bit is that the Nats didnt have any plans to throw state housing tenants out!! This was also the election where Labour took $450K out of parliamentary services money to roll out a big anti Brash publicity campaign in the 2 weeks before the election. They got strongly censured for it and rules were changed but they got away with not having to pay it back.
There appears to be more than a passing resemblance between Christopher Bishop and Cameron Slater, so no surprise they fight as filthy as each other.
Where IS Jason Eade these days? He famously (and anecdotally) stayed up all night in the Beehive shredding documents and deleting files when Hager’s book came out.
National’s outrage in response to the CTU stating fact about the negative effect of National’s policies on lower and middle income earners and beneficiaries is pathetic. National is using the classic defence mechanisms of projection and deflection. National and ACT MPs and their supporters have spent years attacking Labour and Green MPs with lies, threats and personal insults.
Are the media going to be objective and challenge National and ACT about the negative impact of their policies on the majority of NZers, and their on-line abuse and lies about the Government and individual MPs? Or will some media continue to give Opposition MPs opportunities to deflect from their unworkable and unethical policies, by claiming that they are victims of attacks and bullying by the Government and the CTU?
Hipkins himself caused a diplomatic incident when he dug the dirt on Barnaby Joyce for Aussie Labor in Australia didnt he?
That’s next level international dirty politics.
In saying that Key was the lowest of the rung and I mean the lowest.
I wonder where the article is with the results of yesterday’s poll by the post/Freshwater. Labour have slide to the worst result in 6 years .
The same results that showed National/Act not having the numbers to govern?
Mondays Roy Morgan poll showing ACT at 18% has been kept totally secret by MSM, they only release Left polling favorites.
The only poll that counts is 14/10/23
Can’t bare ACT but they are defending democracy. So get my vote.
Politics is dirty by default. Some sling mud, some manure, some slime.
We voters let them shake our hands and kiss our babies before elections and piss all over us after.
7 Houses Luxon really cares about New Zealand and Kiwis.
That is why one of his main policies involves allowing foreigners to by our homes.
Simeon, over talk, the numbers exploit of our humanity, dare . not, you Simeon, shallow our knowing of you , Simeon, your shallow say, the numbers, explain those hidden numbers.
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