Labour Party MP Angela Roberts was attacked at a political event.
Hana Maipi-Clarke’ had her home targeted in a politically motivated attack while the right claimed it was a lie.
ACT are promising to bring back submachine guns.
Winston is threatening Jack Tame for asking him hard questions.
National will stop building State Houses.
ACT want to rob you of January 2nd stat holiday.
National can not fund their foreign buyers tax but will allow foreign speculators to price the next generation out of home ownership.
NZ First just dumped a candidate who compared Covid vaccinations to Nuremberg trials.
National will give Landlords the power to throw tenants out without notice.
NZ First will misuse the Terrorism Suppression Act to designate domestic groups for paramilitary policing.
National will start riots and bloodshed at Funerals attempting to take Gang Patches from funerals.
National will rob 2 year olds, mutilate public transport and literally steal from climate change funds to give Landlord’s a $250 per fortnight tax cut!
ACT will start a race war with their racist referendum.
National and ACT will steal 2 years of our pension from Gen X.
Winston claims Māori aren’t indigenous.
ACT want to spark domestic meth cooking so they can pimp for big Pharma.
National will give bosses the right to sack after 90 days.
National, ACT and NZ First will all punish beneficiaries.
National, ACT and NZ First have used Māori as a punching bag.
National, ACT and NZ First will slash the public services while claiming they aren’t slashing public services.
National, ACT and NZ First will abandon all climate change legislation and allow the planet to burn.
National, ACT and NZ First are taking millions in donations from the mega rich.
National’s ‘plan’ isn’t trickle down economics, it defies political gravity and demands trickle up! They are taking $2b from the poor and giving it to the rich! This isn’t a plan, it’s Egalitarian vandalism!
In the first 100 days, redneck knee jerk left tough on crime rhetoric will be imposed that will cause an explosion in violence by the State which will shame kiwis!
National, ACT and NZFirst will throw thousands out of state homes with no where for them to go, while cutting 14 000 public service jobs while cutting 140 000 off welfare with sanctions!
If this is honestly your political preference because you are embittered Jacinda protected NZ from a mass death event and saved 6000 lives; have had your co-governance ignorance manipulated; and fear of crime exploited – then you are the problem!
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Of all their so-called “justifications” that the right wing trolls have desperately chucked around the TDB in recent weeks, the “I hate Jacinda” one is the most pathetic.
She only has to appear in a photo, and suddenly things like the fact National’s fiscal promises don’t even add up is somehow not important.
But that’s Tory’s for you. There’s deeper puddles after a shower of rain.
Peters has the gumption to address the gender ID ideology, transgender ideology, and premature sexualisation of school children foisted upon kids by the current flaky government. Excellent.
Make no mistake, this issue is keenly felt in households with primary to secondary age children and that is thousands of voters, the majority of whom are aghast at the gender indoctrination being formulated and pushed by activist groups like InsideOut.
100% and I have 6 kids currently in school.
Why do you have 6 kids?
A hot wife + a lack of long-term planning.
Winston will say anything if there is a vote in it.
Woke bullshit of which this is, is entirely within NZF’s orbit of electioneering policy.
To his credit he is the only one fronting where everbody else has either been captured or is too scared to confront this toxic agenda.
He will reap the rewards as a consequence.
He will do bugger all about it Jack.
Winston’s campaigning for years has been all about picking up on the ‘subjects too hot to handle’, but he never changes/overturns what he champions on the campaign trail.
He is fortunate that most of his voter base is elderly, they forget too easily why he disappointed them last time they voted for him.
What utter bollocks. Everybody else is not focusing on it because it’s not a concern for the vast majority who are concerned about actual problems. Winston Peters tries to mop up the fringe. ACT (and National to a degree) have been happy to race bait so I don’t think they would be “too scared” to campaign on transgender issues if they thought it was a real problem. They haven’t been “captured” either.
Last election Winston Trump had the gumption to call out neoliberalism as a failed ideology.
The failed Nact Government during their 9 years let neoliberalism run rampant. It will happen again with the flaky Nact coalition.
Ahhh Squeaky/Bert….still going back to the Key years and forgetting 6yrs of this useless Govt.
Always ignoring this Labour govt failures and broken promises with ‘whatifs’ and ‘whataboutisms’ awwww bless, your deluded, we all should pity you really.
You’re vastly overestimating the impact these things have on people’s personal lives. But that’s what happens when one spends too much time on YouTube, Twitter or Facebook
I’m voting for the Green Party today.
Not my cup of tea, but certainly a great way to get a personal license to complain.
Race based fishing restrictions imposed ad hoc by Environment Court with no public consultation for next 10years.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/133043164/new-adhoc-nofishing-area-spoils-plans-for-summer-of-sailing-and-fishing
“Exceptions to the no-take rules include kina harvest, and activity involved with restoration, research and tikanga, such as customary fishing.”
https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/130772549/environment-court-forces-new-nofishing-zone-in-northlands-bay-of-islands
These are not race-based regulations. There are some carveouts for customary practices. As someone who has fished the Mimiwhangata area recreationally during summer for 50 years, I can say that as long as there are limits on the carveouts, transparency around the process and adequate policing, I’m fine with that. The reserve may inconvenience me in the short-term, but in the long run* it will improve the fishing in adjacent areas. I won’t be round for the long run, but others will be.
* it will improve the fishing in the long run, provided climate change doesn’t damage the oceans so badly that there is ecosystem collapse. I would suggest we focus on that, rather than manufacture imaginary grievances in the here and now.
I voted ACT today, because we actually need to deal with the problems, not just wring our hands & do nothing.
Politics is an argument about what the problems actually are. Because you voted ACT, I know that you and I fundamentally disagree about what the problems are. By blathering only about “fixing the problems” you sound like the moron Luxon and his “laser focus on delivery”. The right will deliver a sh…t sandwich for the many, and plentitiful opportunities for looting for the few.
Well he’s to you Mr Robinson, democracy loves you more than you will know.
My issue is ACT are potentially creating more problems than they are fixing. A huge prison doesn’t scream public safety, it says a lot more crime is coming your way.
The choice between a shit sandwich and a dead rat sandwich is purely academic
Respectfully, that’s not really the choice. The left may be infuriating at times with its timidity, infighting and excessive focus on minority concerns, but it will cause much less aggregate harm to poor and vulnerable people, and the planet, than the the right.
That depends upon how long the rat has been dead, and how it has been prepared for the sandwich.. You could be on a dead loser there, Jack
Its a competitive world bomber…time to grow up
A very fair and accurate summery from what I’m hearing out here.
DHADHA whi peop in nz are basic Nazi and woman too
Perhaps learn to type before posting Tabitha….that’s what 6 years of a Labour govt education has got you it seems! Lol
” I voted ACT today, because we actually need to deal with the problems, not just wring our hands & do nothing. ”
Yeah well your political choice of party will use the votes of yourself and other wing nuts to enforce economic cruelty that goes to the real lives of so many who ACTS policy to deny them fair pay and agreements as one example will bring democratic brutality and its well known effects since 1991 with the ECA a continued nightmare when it comes to denying not free speech that your party of choice has said they support but workers rights are not to be protected and will be enslaved like so many including the coming immigrants who have left one form of slavery to be part of their next one in neo liberal NZ.
I expect that Michael you have your retirement fund all set up so that you can retire before 67 and ACT’S new age to receive that long long awaited pension is pushed out even LONGER for people like me and so many others because we are slaves and don’t enjoy the privilege of wealth and influence in their own country Michael Robinson.
At least the next domestic terrorist or mistreated serf under your ACT party will have access to a military weapon when they decide they can’t take the injustice anymore.
ACT will not deal with the REAL problems only worsen them but at least you have done your part in consigning so many to the brutality of making you rest easy knowing that the stats and figures NACT will use to make you feel like they are solving problems by their austerity measures will be bloody good and will help to enrich the donors who have supported ACT to carry it out.
Damn Michael I hope for your sake you are financially secure and won’t ever have to be in the position that so many of the serfs that make this country run for you will suffer more under the party you have just said you voted for than you will ever be exposed to in this country you I presume inhabit most of the time.
There are two types of free market individuals…. those who take without a second thought and spit on those who give regardless of the brutality of their economic enslavery.
I believe you are one of those who hoik your spit at those beneath you by voting ACT.
This election for almost all voters whether they realise it or not is nothing more than choosing between whether you want to be repeatedly punched in the face by the red guy or the blue guy. Only real variation is which ‘minority’ (i.e. TPM / the ‘top 1%’ / Chinese nationals / the alphabet people etc) are on the sidelines laughing at you while they enjoy the show . .