The wealthy, the billionaire Class and the richest 1% have donated $12million to ACT and National since 2021 and they are getting their money’s worth.
The anger many feel towards Labour post-Covid means National and ACT can stand any policy up and barely anyone will scrutinise it in their rush to punish Labour for every sad thing that has happened to them since Covid.
We are all now as unforgiving as the woke.
Because we are hate voting this election, we are going to accidentally elect the most far right Government since Roget Douglas.
I say accidentally because I suspect the vast number of voters who voted Labour in 2020 and who are now voting National or ACT have very little idea what their policies are, they just want to say ‘Fuck you’ to Labour.
National have promised to give rich Landlords a $250 fortnight tax cut funded by stealing from 2 year olds, mutilating public transport and literally stealing from the climate change fund.
The obscenity of this turns to farce when you consider the foreign buyers tax won’t generate anything close to what National claim it will!
Normally National have to hide their blatant self interest the way you trick a dog into taking its pills by hiding it in something tasty, but National are so convinced that hatred of Labour is all they need, they haven’t even pretended to dress the venality of their tax cut for the rich funded by the poor as anything more than it is.
Which it isn’t.
It’s active state sanctioned vandalism of the egalitarian society.
Orgy of Privatisation and Crony Capitalism:
You know the only winners in National’s road, road, roads policy?
The oil companies.
By moving away from petrol charges to miles driven, National hand the petrol companies a huge win and when you consider the early signals of the vast crony capitalism National are about to embark upon…
…we face an orgy of privatisation and crony capitalism!
Dr Bryce Edwards devastating critique into who is donating to National and the disgusting level of self interest is remarkable and shocking!
Alongside this orgy, National are lining up Public Private Partnership scams, removing foreign buyer bans and opening the immigration floodgates.
National’s only economic plan is to open the country to foreign buyers, slash the State and privatise the rest.
The Crony Capitalism National will unleash will make Labour’s sins look childish in comparison.
National will hack at the State to carve out deals for their mates while ACT will hack at the State for ideological purity.
The number 4 on ACTs Party List, that pale faced former Pharmaceutical Pimp Candidate. The steam off a sadists glasses vibe guy, the sort of person who would be found with an unexplainably large amount of children shoes, him – tell me that guy ain’t there to privatise Pharmac for his former industry?
Union Busting:
National and ACT will dump the Fair Pay Agreements and give Bosses the right to fire before 90 days.
This is a direct assault on the Union Movement and empowers the low wage economy National donors have become addicted to.
Expect migrant worker exploitation to explode throw the roof.
Class War on Renters:
Real Estate Pimps have donated millions to National and in return National have lifted the Foreign Buyers Ban and will give landlords the right to kick tenants out with no notice. National and ACT will also role back Tenants rights while reopening Landlord tax loop holes.
There is a class war on renters but we don’t have the political vocabulary to articulate it.
Speculators Paradise:
By opening NZ up to foreign speculators while reopening landlord tax loops holes, National and ACT are opening NZ up for sale to their overseas wealthy mates.
Environmental Bonfire of the Vanities:
National and ACT will reverse oil and gas bans and steam full ahead at the Climate Change Iceberg. They will allow Agriculture another 5 years of doing nothing (that will be a total of 25 years of doing nothing) while slashing public transport and climate change budgets.
They will greenwash everything and lie about the rest.
The planet will burn and National and ACT will pour petrol on it.
Amputation of the State:
National and ACT have promised 14 000 job cuts and the amputation of 5 ministries and the Human Rights Commission. They will slash and burn the State and hack away at it with the ideological fervour of self-flagellating puritans.
Race War:
As a bottom line, ACT are demanding a referendum to renegotiate the Treaty with Māori and then just foist that upon Māoridom!
What in our 184 year history makes anyone believe that Māori will just accept that?
This referendum will generate an enormous social backlash and the hikoi to Wellington will become our largest protest march. Parliament Lawns will be Occupied, the real possibility of civil disobedience will erupt and all because ACT want to play race baiting games unleashing the worst angels of our nature.
Gun Fetishist Fantasies:
The Gun lobby have deep control over ACT now and the killing off of the Gun Registry (an act the Police Association says is crazy, which really is saying something coming from the Police Association), and allowing the sociopaths submachine gun of choice back on the streets is truly the foreplay of a charmless man.
Private Prison Empire and Prison Riot:
National are promising to throw State Tenants onto the street while ACT promise a billion dollars to build more prisons!
You know the ‘Private prison’ solution is around the corner.
Our current publicly funded prisons are close to snapping point and the incompetence of technology and staffing of the home monitoring system that can be tricked by fucking tin foil are all red flags that the system can’t manage the prison popualtyioin they have, let alone pouring thousands more into it!
The recipe for an enormous prison riot is building.
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Given Labour Green are the parties obsessed with race, this is a bit rich isn’t it? Who segregated the health system? On race? Who’s would have thought this even possible in 2023? I’ve not seen division in this country worse than now thanks to this government.
ACT, if I’m not mistaken have an issue with these out of nowhere “treaty principles” that seem to have unofficially superseded the “Treaty” as that document was not helping the agitator cause. Not been publicly debated of course, just foisted on the rest of us by Maori academia. So when garbage like this is snuck in as if it’s everyday law, ACT are absolutely correct this want rid of it!
As I’ve repeatedly said on this blog: NZers don’t vote in new governments, instead we vote old ones out.
But in order to start the process of forgiveness maybe Hipkins should apologize to us all, instead of just lying and covering up. Because there are a lot of things that require forgiveness.
Oh, and if you believe anything that liar Cahill says, the bigger fool you are.
Coming from the person who argues less guns in circulation equals more guns in the hands of criminals.
Who says that? Not me.
Labour’s “success” speaks for itself.
You are correct in telling of the problems with National/ACT however as almost all people know any organisation is only as good as its staff & Labour have managed to select some of the worst people possible which has caused problems for them now. Giving the same failed people another chance would seem to meet the definition of insanity so there needs to be a better reason to vote for them than pointing out how bad the opposition is.
But the National-ACT clone IS unleashing chaos on us all. Because ACT is National’s little plaything as has Labour been since roger douglas sabotaged Labour with milton friedman’s neo-liberalism thus behold The Beast AKA ACT. You’s all really need to get your heads around that one because it’s important to comprehend. If people fail to comprehend the nuanced criminality of what happened in 1984 or thereabouts and has echoed through three decades we’re all to be doomed to repeat the mistakes they’ve Pavlov’s dogged us into turning a blind eye to what they keep repeating. Like voting for what must be the ugliest Mafia members since mafias began. Example. Luxon’s already got the stupid hat. Imagine a flea wandering about under that hat ( No pun intended.) It’d be like being lost on a lunar landscape.
What we need, indeed have paid for via our taxes, but not you rich crim’ scum. You don’t need to pay taxes because that’s what you have us politely enslaved to do for you, is a public Royal Commission of Inquiry into the political years between, say, 1974 and today. Also a documentary of, and running in parallel with, would be nice too. And don’t forget our farmers? It’s their money remember, just sayin’.
Imagine 68 year old graeme hart trying to explain his savings account with 14 billion dollars in it? ” Ah…yes… well! See? I smelled it. There it was right behind that car I towed in and was panel beating. There it was just lying there. Amazing, right? I asked around my media minions but no one wanted to know anything about it.
Yep…Who is going to work in these prisons when we can’t get anyone to work in them now ?
We’re going AI that will sort out our problem? They’ll just be locked down more problem fixed that National & ACT solution to crime & homelessness the same solution when they were govt 6 years ago.
Labours longstanding flagship policy is to reduce the prison population by 30 per cent…..
“in the broader Eastern District, which encompasses Hawke’s Bay, the number of people on the police gangs register has risen by 71 per cent in six years and the ratio of gang members to police officers is the highest in the country, at 2.5.
Violent crime is up by 35 per cent since the end of 2017, according to official police data, while retail crime such as theft and ram-raids has jumped 43 per cent.”
‘I thought New Zealand was safe, but kids are ram-raiding my shop’
Spiralling street crime, recession, the fallout from a cyclone and the souring of Jacinda Ardern’s liberal dream have made the opposition favourites for next month’s election
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/i-thought-new-zealand-was-safe-but-kids-are-ram-raiding-my-shop-wz29mp3bn
You’ll get a job as a political reporter asking the hard questions of the right bloc Vengence.
Under Neo-lib dogma they will become self regulating, ie the gangs will have to look after their own wings.
Jacindas inaction is going to burn NZ down. Let’s do this Act!!!!
I think I would prefer what you call inaction to the destruction of the NatAct clowns.
Have you learned nothing from history.
Recall Muldoon, Richardson, Douglas as examples of the sort of shit these people are going to impose. Just think about the cuts they suggest. Even Civil Defence is on the block in a time when natural disasters are becoming more common.
For fucks sake put your mysogeny up your arse and maybe the pain will make you open your eyes and kick your brain into action. That’s if you have one.
Do you mean, by doing nothing, she is responsible for people voting ACT who, if elected, will burn everything down?
Why would you destroy the country because you’re unhappy about a former Prime Minister??
Shouldn’t we be voting for positive, nation-building change, rather than ACT’s privatisation sell-offs & public service destruction?
NZ Wars II 🙂
Getting rid of fair pay agreements this is one policy that should put many hard-working fair minded New Zealanders of voting for either National and Act, and this needs to be highlighted during the election.
Getting rid of fair pay agreements this is one policy that should put many hard-working fair minded New Zealanders of voting for either National and Act, and this needs to be highlighted during the election.
And people need to think is it right for the rich to heavily influence our democratic processes by donating millions of dollars, is this fair and ethical.
Martyn – Again, 100% Correct…yet, Labour is going to lose due to them not connecting with most voters
If Labour were even a little bit competent, they wouldn’t be tanking in the polls.
The flood of rich wealthy donors to National is doing it’s job. Wall to wall negative coverage of Labour. Congratulations, N.Z. has been paid and bought for by N.Z.s wealthy elite.
The horror inflicted on New Zealand by Nats and ACT will be the dismembering of the brown gravy train, or trains , as it has become…A train engine can only carry a certain amount of dead freight….Imagine those Iwi high flyers having to get a real job like the people they pretend to represent…the Maori battlers….
Who does the handicap belong to?
It’s often most informative to look at someones past to predict what they will do in the future ….
On that basis we can see the last Nact party ignored the largest drivers of crime ,,,, and worked for (took donations/bribes?) from those engaged in crime generating activity’s.
The largest single driver of violent crime which also includes child abuse and sexual assault is the misuse and abuse of the drug Alcohol…. National and Act worked on behalf of this drug selling industry, sabotaging any meaningful Alcohol law reform …. effectively stopping measures to lower Alcohol abuse,,,, which would be the single most meaningful step to lower rates of violent crime.
Watch old episodes of our police shows ,,,, ‘Psycho Bob and Police dealing with Dickheads’ https://youtu.be/wQi1II5rZmk ,,,9 out of 10 arrests for violence shown on them were for boozed people
Act/National work for the booze pushers ………. who like other drug pushers do not care about the victims or the harm to the community they sell into.
Inequality and poverty are also drivers of crime ,,,, Act and National work on behalf of the rich and multi-national tax cheats ,,, starving the Government of revenue to combat poverty and inequality.
Seymour in particular thinks tax havens and their white collar crimes of corruption are good fun and amusement.
So National and Acts work in the past has kept violent crime rates high ,,, and ignored or protected white collar crime…..
…. and now they pretend to be tough on crime,,, what a bad joke.,,, being played on AoNz
Win? It’s not first past the post. The best the Nats and Act could do is a troublesome deal, more a madhatters tea party than a cozy cuppa. The Nats are not that desperate are they? But then they’d do anything for control. But not really control is it with the projected Act numbers. Wouldn’t last. The Nats would distance their core conservatives. Seymour offered the role as Deputy PM? Probably not. Seymour is ideologically driven, not likely to be bought so cheaply. And not over Nicola Willis’ dead body!
Time to get out of reverse gear.
Turkeys shouldn’t vote for Christmas!
Vote ACT and this is the perfect example of what you get…
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/132915998/far-right-activist-arrested-on-firearms-and-ammunition-charges
I rather see private prison as per Act than no prison as per TPM
They”ll need to import more prison guards, but I guess that’s all they know, rampant immigration, after all Prebble had a male order bride.