John Campbell has written some of the best columns on the election and his latest grim reaction to the result spells out exactly what the bloody hell we just voted in…
John Campbell: What exactly has the tide brought in?
Analysis: His CV reveals an impressive history in brand management but, John Campbell asks, what was Christopher Luxon actually selling? Because whatever it was, New Zealand has bought it.
…because voters were spite voting against Labour or staying at home altogether, the electorate has no idea what extreme beast slouches this way from Bethlehem in the form of this ACT/National/NZFirst hybrid mutation.
It’s funny watching the mainstream media wake up to the full scale of assault this political freak show intends to implement.
The shock of how bad things for workers is going to be is clearly apparent at TVONE…
What workers can expect under a National-led government
…the right to sack, the robbing of stat holidays, the robbing of sick days, the ending of Fair Pay Agreements – it’s all there for everyone to see.
The Press are shocked at how the whole election has been rigged for landlords…
What will change for landlords under National-led government
…the right to throw tenants out, the ending state house builds, throwing Kianga Ora tenants out, the tax loops holes handed back and the entire tax cut aimed at rich landlords highlights the scale of class war that the Real Estate Pimps won.
The Environment is fucked thanks to climate change and dairy intensification that has polluted 80% of our rivers…
More than 80% of New Zealand’s low-lying lakes and rivers surveyed ‘poor’ or ‘very poor’
…and the Corporate Farmers are gleeful they won’t be forced to stop and the gang crackdown has Police State written all over it…
What will National’s crackdown on gangs look like?
…and let’s not forget the 600 000 who use food banks monthly while the rich get a $250 per fortnight tax cut…
Cost of living crisis: More than half a million people rely on food charity each month
…the magnitude of using the State to punish the weak while actively empower the rich is a sickening political vandalism of the egalitarian state but voters don’t give a fuck.
All they wanted to do was shit on Labour with no idea what they voted in.
We are about to reap what their bitterness has sowed.
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The 600000 people needing food parcels was created by LABOUR and is one of the reasons they were booted out .
Soft on crime including gangs and state house tenants not listened to when they complained about unruly neighbors were another group passed off with Labour.
Wake up Trev, the capitalist system creates community food banks. Because it is a rotten exploitation dependent on 1%ers hogging the means of production and finance capital.
The Capitalist system of private ownership and appropriation of the value created by working class people’s application of physical and intellectual labour to the world’s resources, is ostensibly administered by the bourgeois parliament–but NZ Labour created none of this. Sure, they do not intervene enough or reset the neo liberal state and property market–but…the Natzos will intervene even less for working class people. The filthy tories will indeed though intervene on behalf of landlords though! Like Mr “7 pads” Luxury Luxon.
Believe it or not the poverty before labour came in was significantly worse. National just hid it all.
Trevor you must be dreaming. The food parcel figure and the state house thing are not what got Labour kicked out. New Zealanders would have to be completely f’ing stupid if they thought National and ACT were going to do anything about child poverty. Kicking tenants out will be done with pleasure but I doubt that was a pressing issue.Did they really even campaign on that? As for gangs the latest moves on them this weekend in Ōpōtiki were nothing to do with the new government as the Ōpōtiki Mayor has pointed out. Once they see “natural glow” Mitchell in action they will indeed realise that National are very much ‘anything you can do I can do better’ when it comes to producing morons.
100% Trevor
As usual, the proudly ignorant colonial descendant can’t distinguish between fact and fiction.. Even the “facts” used are made up to fit their ignorance and bigotry.. Good British subjects all… This sort of utter fuckwittery is why all I can do is count the days until I can escape back to the real world..
Of course, I understand that for one to be able to see what is really happening, one must have both an intellect that has at least a bit of fuel in it, and a grasp of the timelines involved in the development of any given situation…
Your comment shows that you, and your fellow ignorami have neither of those things.. What is also evident that the British colonial descendants have yet to begin to grasp that mindless bigotry, and arrogance aren’t a proper substitute for adult discourse.. So NZ continues to shit all over it’s future prospects as a sovereign country, and is left with nothing but subservience to whichever of John Keys handlers has the money, and power to take ownership..
This defines stupidity, and there is no upside to it, and the “Golden Donkeys Tail” which is the award for proving to be the thickest people on the planet (The Irish are eternally grateful to us) will become a permanent fixture at Te Papa within the next 5 years… And it’s all down to those who pretend to be the “smart” ones… Remuera is full of uber wealthy inbreeds, and I know this because I had to go to school with them.. Without their “old money” origins, most of them would be factory workers, if they were lucky…
Trev but we all know the national party sell the state houses and labour party build them, I know caused I lived in one for many years.
And motels were national’s emergency housing policy for the nine year they continued to deny we had a housing problem. And when national get in power the wealth gap and every other gap opens like a scab.
Gang problems increased thanks to John keys 501 policy. How come you don’t listen and how come you repeat the same old lies are your ears and eyes painted on Trev?
Trev but we all know the national party sell the state houses and labour party build them, I know caused I lived in one for many years.
And motels were national’s emergency housing policy for the nine year they continued to deny we had a housing problem. And when national get in power the wealth gap and every other gap opens like a scab.
Gang problems increased thanks to John keys 501 policy. How come you don’t listen and how come you repeat the same old lies are your ears and eyes painted on Trev?
People like those in our new govt. seem to run the world at the moment. They naturally float to the top because they are willing to say and do anything and cozy with anyone, to get there. Eventually the majority realizes what’s happening and boot them out.
For a few years sanity rules but slowly people become too trusting and forget how easy it is for psychopaths to sneak in and sound convincing.
Yes, hundreds of thousands of NZders were cross with Labour and throwing a little tanty about it all. Poor wee things. How easily upset they are and what fools to think that the Right would be the answer to anything.
So, we come full circle again and are in the position of having to get rid of the greedies once more.
When will people learn? The Right wing is NEVER in govt. for our benefit.
As for all the people requiring food parcels Trevor, get real. There have always been poor people, people who cannot manage money well and people who don’t get enough money to manage. They haven’t just arrived.
That will never be fixed by a NAct/Winston First govt. Those people will sink or swim. You will have to keep helping them because conditions will worsen almost immediately for them.
I find it astonishing that you cannot remember seeing this before.
There’s no aspiration on the Right to improve the lot of ordinary people. And certainly nothing for those labelled bottom feeders. The Bottom-Feeder-in-Chief has said he has no time for those who cannot manage and look after themselves. He thinks they only have themselves to blame.
Labour has become very laissez-faire about them too but not quite as disinterested as the Bottom Feeder Party.
The fact that they’ve won the election speaks to how shit Labour were / are.
Cricklewood: Evidently most people weren’t voting for a wealth tax, or a tax exemption from the first $10,000 to $30,000 of income, because more would have voted for Te Pāti Māori or the Green Party if these were the main policies that people supported. Clearly many people voted against their own interests.
As you would be fully aware, huge donations assisted National with a relentless attack campaign against Labour. “If we subtract negative posts from positive posts, about 63 percent more Labour posts included positive self-presentation than negative attacks. In comparison, when we do the same for National, it had a net positivity score of just 5.5 percent”. https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2023/10/negative-campaiging-in-the-2023-new-zealand-election
Resentment towards Labour seems to have originated from the COVID-19 pandemic. Some media colluded with National and manipulated people into feelings of anger and resentment at being expected to comply with Labour’s Covid minimisation strategies, for the safety of themselves and others. Constant commentary that people felt angry resulted in more people feeling angry. Media repeatedly gave entitled individuals opportunities to complain about their individual circumstances, to try to whip up anti-Government sentiment. Despite this, Labour’s Covid management strategies were very successful.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/499516/new-zealand-s-covid-19-response-saved-20-000-lives-research
National, ACT and NZ First also appealed to many people’s deep-seated racism, by falsely insinuating or overtly claiming that Labour’s policies advantaged Maori at the expense of other NZers.
Even though economists criticised as unworkable National’s plans to cut taxes and sell houses to overseas buyers to pay towards the tax cuts, people’s resentment overrode their willingness to accept National’s tax plan for the con job it was/is, despite the evidence.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/election-2023/497974/economists-analysis-rubbishes-national-s-foreign-buyers-tax-numbers
After repeated challenging of National’s tax plan, Nicola Willis admitted the following, which was widely publicised: https://thespinoff.co.nz/live-updates/05-10-2023/nicola-willis-confirms-only-3000-households-will-get-full-250-a-fortnight-tax-cut – This shows many people knowingly voted for a party that lied by omission and implication, about the supposed benefits of a major policy – an example of resentful, oppositional voting behaviour.
Chris Bishop had earlier claimed that Labour was playing “gutter politics”, because Grant Robertson stated fact about National’s tax plan and called it a scam. https://thespinoff.co.nz/live-updates/05-10-2023/labour-calls-national-tax-plan-a-scam-after-claims-of-gutter-politics
It seems that to maintain support, National relied on peoples’ resentment, prejudices, spite and (wilful?) ignorance.
As Chris Trotter commented prior to the election: “That so many of us are willing to see so much pain inflicted upon our fellow citizens, strongly suggests that there is a fair amount of sadism mixed in with all that masochism. Hardly a pretty picture of our national character, and even less so of those NZ First voters bounced so easily into abandoning their nobler impulses by the prospect of a second election”. https://democracyproject.nz/2023/10/09/chris-trotter-reckless-speculation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chris-trotter-reckless-speculation
This is a very useful and clear piece of writing. You’ve said it exactly as it is. Thank you #Vienne.
I agree. People like Vienne go to a lot of trouble to write informative comments only to have others come along and say their comments are rubbish without offering anything to explain their opinion.
They have nothing useful of their own to say and too lazy to justify their comments, they just want to criticize. Pathetic.
“The fact that they’ve won the election speaks to how shit Labour were / are.”
Sometimes governments have to do things which make them unpopular, but that doesn’t mean they’re a “shit” government.
Labour were proper shite mate. (unless you are rich).
Well, soon you’ll be able to find out what not being rich is like, with this new govt. Have fun.
I think I would consider them a mediocre govrnment, but as the song says, “mediocrity is not a mortal sin”.
Cmon even the article lays out that the Labour govt were shite. If they were any good and having a majority surely half a million people wouldnt be relying on food banks…
Tell me, will wee Davy’s jackboots have elevator heels, Ted?
This is worse than feudalism, the Tory scum are sucking on their masters phallus so hard, they going to break the economy.
Do we have to keep making mistakes to learn, is that our destiny? Why can’t we simply reinforce what we feel is productive or not, without responding dramatically (through voting) to those who deceptively propose the solution?
Upset, all these newbees, what sort of hammer, they ever swung, farmer browns yes, most never. Our land, now controlled by, biz all, ONLY profit marg, us doing, who those, eh!, stroppy, no worry, our labour import, shall insure our profit.
Fool, six months, eh another dare say.
If National’s promises are kept in the same way Labour’s were then workers will have nothing to worry about at least in the first term. If they follow Labour’s lead they will form a committee, engage consultants and have a few hui with Maori which will then result in a report which will be taken to the people at the next election
Election.
If you want to blame, blame Labour.
Why do people defend what a bunch of arseholes National and Act are by blaming Labour? They could come up with policies that actually make the country a better place all by themselves. Or may be they can’t because a lot of their money came from a few self interested groups. Either way that’s not Labours fault.
And their wash, will be.
Who, just care, and got a grasp, knowing.
A survey of the NZ media showed they predominantly swing left so no surprise they are upset. This is the same media that excitedly created Jacindamania.
I’m going to give the new government time and judge them on their actions rather than get triggered by the opinions of MSM doomsayers.
Good call CeeJ. I am looking forward to seeing how the new team do. IMO they can’t be any worse than the last 6 years of Labour
Everything in the title of this story Martyn and so, so much more. People can slag off Labours tenure but it will pale into insignificance to the abomination that Nact First will bring . It will revert us all back to the previous appalling 9 years that left most of the country’s population behind. Labour at least attempted to correct this, it was only the greedy selfish bastards complaining. Just look at Bob the first idiot for the evidence.
Still waiting for the carnage.
Good call CeeJ. I am looking forward to seeing how the new team do. IMO they can’t be any worse than the last 6 years of Labour
Well they were in their previous 9 years so yes they are much much worse.
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