Fast Track Powers are the tools of an authoritarian regime – don’t pretend you weren’t warned

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Martyn Bradbury
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Who farted?

TDB warned you that this new hard right ra ist climate denying beneficiary bashing Government were going to bend over backwards for their donor class and were focused on vast environmental damage for the Trans National Mining Industry.

Lo and fucking behold we have this egregious fast track power process where 3 of the most stupid Politicians we have, Simeon Brown, Chris Bishop and Dr Pork, Shane Jones will have the power to over ride the experts and over ride any environmental concerns whatsoever to fast track their mates projects…

Quarry connected to $55,000 donation to NZ First and Shane Jones, approached over fast-track

One of the firms approached about the Government’s new Fast-Track consenting bill has a part-owner and director whose other company has donated $55,000 to the NZ First Party and MP Shane Jones.

AJR Finance donated $50,000 to NZ First and $5000 to Shane Jones at the last election. AJR Finance’s sole director is Andrew Ritchie, who owns the company along with Mark and Elizabeth Markovina.

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Ritchie is a director of Kings Quarry and, along with the Markovinas, owns 50 per cent of the company. The other 50 per cent is owned by Alexander and Stan Semenoff. Stan Semenoff donated to Jones’ campaign in 2008 and is a distant relative of Jones.

…the Auditor-General is scathing of the damage this will cause…

Auditor-General concerned about fast-track bill’s lack of transparency, protections for conflicts of interest

The Auditor-General John Ryan is concerned the Government’s fast-track consenting bill, which will give three ministers broad powers to consent certain developments, lacks transparency and effective ways of dealing with real or perceived conflicts of interest.

The bill allows three ministers to consent a range of nationally significant projects, with an expert panel having the ability to impose certain conditions on those consents.

Ryan wrote that the bill needed a stronger mechanism than just the Cabinet Manual for dealing with real or perceived conflicts of interest, given the extent of the power the legislation would grant to ministers.

…we have 3 Politicians as power crazed as Muldoon on Meth running the entire infrastructure plan of NZ.

Do you honestly trust these fucking Muppets over the advice of actual engineers and people who have to build the infrastructure?

If Labour had pulled a stunt like this, you’d all be screaming about abuse of power, but Shane Jones, Chris Bisho[ and Simeon Brown are doing it, it’s suddenly ok?

The Right are hypocrites!

Allowing 3 of the worst Ministers to have the power of God over our economy is a terrible;e idea that will produce a harvest of self interest.

This hard right racist climate denying beneficiary bashing Government is an Authoritarian one.

That Authoritarianism  seems to excite the Right Wing Media trolls and The Democracy Project, but it should terrify the rest of us…

The NZ Herald whenever National do the most basic level of governance

We have a Prime Minister who won’t even bother informing the people if we are entering a new military arrangement with America…

Watch: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon won’t say if government will consult public on joining AUKUS

…they are throwing 50 000 beneficiaries off welfare into a sea of rising unemployment caused by a technocrat Bank Governor no one elected, who is crashing the economy to save the economy while this Government wages a war on renters, workers, Māori and the environment to fund tax cuts to the richest!

This is a very Kiwi fascism. Laid back and casual.

Don’t pretend you weren’t warned.

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77 COMMENTS

  1. Unions support Labour businesses support National . Red tape and regulations that are over the top has held NZ back. While these ministers have the power to make decisions they know they need to have considerable public support in a country as small as NZ otherwise they will be voted out .Laboursremed to forget this with 3 Waters and paid the price

    • I think we need to rename 1ZB to 1ZT.

      You just say whatever (Trevor) now. What do unions have to do with this?

      Rather than just correct the RMA these arseholes are throwing any form of safe guard out the window. What are the actual numbers for consenting and delays? We already have Shane Jones lying (at least he is consistent) about coal purchases/importation and people like you Trevor just believe it as fact.

  2. NOTE the skin head gang leader has not put his hand up to do the hard yards because he knows its going to be fuck up and he will be able to say it wasnt me .
    What acctually is he minister of ?sweet fuck all

    • He is the excellent leader of the country and is where the buck stops if his minsters make mistakes .His previous background as CEO has prepared him to make the tough calls which was the Achilles heal of both Jacinda and Hipkins

  3. Interesting how the right leaning commentators on here have all gone wah wah about guns on an article that had nothing to do with guns.

    Funnily enough when developments start happening over the fence from them that affect their property negatively, “but MUH FREEDUMS!” will be their catch cry.

    Well, where were those commentators when the basic rights and responsibilities under the R.M.A., etc were being erased? That’s right. They were harping on about guns, which had nothing to do with the R.M.A.

  7. I get the feeling it is less due to conventional authoritarianism than frankly massive incompetence – the Troika have no plausible explanation for 90% of what they do. Even when it’s not corrupt, it’s so stupid that corruption is the natural and inevitable conclusion.

  9. The Nat/Act voters are a little stunned at the pace of change and the austerity in a country which is financially sound. No one gives a shit about tax cuts, its a gimmick, you can keep on sacking incompetent cabinet ministers but the reserves on the bench are like Trump “they never thought they would win”

  10. Luxon took on debt by buying new aircraft on tick …. this made the airline weaker and bailout more desperate when Covid hit …. he also laid of maintenance staff…..

    Oh and he bragged about changing the brand of jam saving the airline I whopping $200,000 per year ,,,, perhaps could also have reduced his salery from $5 million to $4 million eight hundred thousand at the same time ,,, doubling the savings to the airline to $400,000 per year…. $200,000 represented a hardly noticeable 4% of his pay….

    But Luxon would no doubt claim he was ‘entitled’ to it….

    Trev would probably agree while kissing his f …..

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