Finance Minister Nicola Willis, mayors share experiences of gendered online abuse
Female politicians fear a normalised “toxic environment” of gendered abuse is stopping women from wanting a seat at the decision-making table.
Now, National Party deputy leader and Finance Minister Nicola Willis is calling for people to join her in “belittling the trolls”.
Willis spoke at a gathering for women in local government, ahead of the LGNZ SuperLocal conference on Wednesday.
She announced the Ministry for Women was working with Netsafe on a toolkit for workplaces supporting women in leadership positions, including for local council candidates.
No, no, no, no.
There seems to be some confusion here.
Firstly, I think you’ll find Jacinda received the worst gendered attacks and I don’t remember Nicola Willis having a problem then.
Secondly, People don’t hate Nicola Willis because she’s a woman, they hate her because she’s the Nazgul Architect of a hard right, racist, climate denying, beneficiary bashing, disabled abusing Government that is unleashing an anti-Māori, anti-Treaty, anti-worker, anti-renter, anti-disabled, anti-environment agenda that demands contempt.
Rolling up to the Local Government conference and lambasting them for rate rises that National’s own policy has generated by scrapping 3 Waters and then wanting to talk about gendered violence is eye rolling.
Well she did have to detract from Luxie hypocritically ticking off Councils for spending crimes and her own slash and burn magic maths.
The trick is to deflect blame, create fear , distract on record failures in unemployment, rising food prices, lowest
productivity and boast when 10 months into your job they’re a f#k up.
Willis was a hard right advocate for informing us all that her tax cuts were for NZer’s to decide how best to use their money. Yet here is this dictatorship government dictating to councils how and what to do with their money..
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/chistopher-luxon-had-a-message-for-councils-tory-whanau-had-a-message-for-christopher-luxon/TRMXNPTIQFCRFFE3K3UZHGSOPI/
Luxon dictating to all ministries and to kiwis to tighten their belts all the while taking a healthy salary increase.
“Firstly, I think you’ll find Jacinda received the worst gendered attacks and I don’t remember Nicola Willis having a problem then.” Hypocrisy is Willis and Nationals number one policy.
You must know that the councils money was funded by ratepayers (that’s you too) and ratepayers are getting sick and tired of vanity projects at the deference of essential services…
Just sick of government hypocritically saying we know best how to use our money then dictating to others how best to use it.
If councils misuse it it’s on their head just as it is when government wastes money on it’s vanity tax cut project, pro smoke project and axing thousands of jobs Thomas. They’re using your money for that whilst diminishing essential services.
And as a taxpayer I am sick of watching these fuckers wasting my money by cancelling everything and providing nothing .Where is all that slash and burn money going ?thats right up in smoke with nothing to show except a lot of destroyed projects and lives .
And my tax payers money is used to fund vanity landlord packages. Give us a much better example Thomas.
She’s just an ugly capitalist lol
I’d still hit it!
She’s a women??? Does she use doppelgangers?
No.
You’re wrong. Politics has given you a blind spot.
Women get a really shitty time of it simply because they’re women.
That needs to stop.
Many people dislike/hate Nicola Willis because is a National MP.
I think you will find she wasn’t exactly popular during her time at Fonterra. Nothing to do with national politics there.
More like being a self entitled chosen one.
I don’t dislike anyone due to their party affiliation – I base my dislike on policy NOT party. It just so happens that, for the most part, policy and party are correlated
Yes and on that basis no one could ever vote Labour again,based on their recent history,or Greens and TPM both of whom have no policy.
So you are happy that you voted to elect a party of do nothing except send people to live else where .Talent is now our biggest export .
That Bob the troll is a continuation of the ill informed nonsense you constantly post.
Labour saved 20,000 lives and had one of the best Covid response records in the entire world…
Built more houses, to help house the non-silver spooners and the under privileged, than any other party in the past 60 years…
Fed more children breakfasts and lunches in schools….which by the way happens as a matter of course in Australia, U.K. France, Canada, The U.S.A, Germany ,Spain, Denmark , Sweden, Norway, Singapore ,Switzerland, Italy, Holland, Greece and many many other countries that don’t have the abundant food resources that N.Z. has.
Empathetically dealt with 8 x 1 in 100 year catastrophic climate change weather events in the space of 6 years…
Got rid of single use plastic bags in supermarkets …. that National were too gutless to do, and also …
Dealt with the fallout from the worst mass shooting in New Zealand’s history.
There are none so blind than those who choose not to see !
Let’s not get into mine is bigger and better than yours with the political parties. None of them have a decent record of capable administration, financial sense and suitable development, and social services that are practical. We just have to encourage those who are trying. And show up the others.
Many people dislike/hate Jacinda Adern because was a highly intelligent Labour PM and many males were threatened by that.
The same cannot be said about Willis and her shambolic policies, that much is clear.
Her devotion to New Zealand?She is now resident in the United States.
And world respected. You need to look outside your eco chamber and climb out of the rabbit hole Bob the troll.( another male who was threatened by that)
Nicola Willis and Chris Luxon who?
“Her devotion to New Zealand?”
Who said that Bob the troll? Oh you did. Well she was until her child’s life was threatened because of thick fucks like you whose only life is to troll these sites to “play games”
Let’s play identity politics with Nicola. What a joke. Fair enough that criticisms should be restricted to her policies and rather regular dishonesty, but that’s the root of the feedback surely. It’s not because of her gender
Two catastrophic policies by Willis stand out, tax cuts and ferry cancelations. Insular and costly. The modern era Ruth Richardson.
She isn’t really qualified for the job. There again Muldoon was and that was no help.
Muldoon built infrastructure. Willis is a destroyer, paid for by alien foreigners.
and sent the country bankrupt .The fuel factory in taranaki was 50% efficient at best .We could have converted every car to LPG and never imported another liter of petrol again .Imagine how much money that would have saved over that 50 years .
Martyn – Not sure…women on the Left and Right face death threats…Jacinda, Helen Clark, Judith Collins…and more received serious death threats against them, and their families.
Nathan. Ok, but responding abusively isn’t necessarily the best approach, it feeds them. Ignoring them might work better. It’s not as if men invented the term “ toxic masculinity” about themselves, or “ the patriarchy “ became an inane verbal weapon. Pollies should have algorithms to weed out the nasties, and engaging in social media is a bit of a waste of time. I was amazed that Golriz and friend even had time to pop out and do shoplifting, I certainly didn’t when in the paid workforce…
Hollyhock of the Valley – Good points
I see she has invested in a new suit because she has grown up a bit .Note that it is green ,dose that mean she is jumping into another waka .
For these far right extremists, who used pure hate on social media against Jacinda as part of their election strategy, to now bleat about it takes the cake!
Is there no depth these shameless creeps won’t stoop to?
I guess lying to people dying of cancer to get their votes was one of the early signs.
Some of the women MPs of the Natzos, NZ First and Act do resemble characters from a 70s Hammer Horror movie–“Dracula’s daughters”…particularly when you see them lined up together.
Martyn is right though, Nicola is criticised for her policies not her sex as far as I can tell. How many scores of death threats logged by security agencies has she had? How many thousands of personally abusive social media comments?…because that is what Jacinda Ardern got.
Mrs Willis is pushing a nasty austerity programme that is basically a war on the poor and shovels the wealth “upstairs” as per NZ National’s usual modus operandi.
That Tiger Mountain is a continuation of the ill informed nonsense you constantly post.
Clearly 100 % spot on Tiger given Bob the trolls continual nonsense responses.
The truth in Tigers post has hit a raw nerve in you Bob the troll.
So Bob how is tiger mountain ill informed, is it that Dame JA and her family didn’t have death threats remember pretty little communist ,only worked in a fish and chip shop etc.etc. The list is lengthy. Or is it that Nicola Willis is supporting the rich at the cost of the poor, or is it her austerity budget,or is it her constant squawking in parliament. She has the cheek to talk about women in parliament when she is the absolute worst offender. Have you seen the way she treats Barbara Edmonds with utter disdain how Barbara Edmonds can keep so calm is an absolute miracle.
It’s interesting your first comment is slagging off women mps appearances.
Exactly the type of people women MPs complain about.
What’ev…do you support the Natzos war on the poor or not?
Higher rates even for me that get fuck all utilities or services from our local council in our area our roads are gravel and we have no water pipes but what we get from the creek. Our real foe is our government not some boogeyman atm using Maori as the scapegoat blind fucken cunts!!
Fine. When insulting the effortlessly-unlikeable Nicola Willis, we just have to stick to generic insults instead of gendered ones.
Right let’s get the rules sorted out so we can express how much we dislike even abhor her? approach – it is such an important role. The situation shows how unsatisfactory our system of choosing a limited number of people to supposedly represent us. These politicians and would-bes are not graduates of a wide ranging education that taught all that people need to know about humans and our living systems .Despite working for a while when young,..
* …Her first job was as a cashier and server at a Wholly Bagel in Thorndon, Wellington, later working in retail stores selling clothing. ,,,[NZ Uni good degree in English literature,
then post-graduate journalism. Debating interest.] …
After graduation, she worked as a research and policy advisor for Bill English and as a senior advisor to John Key in 2008.
] In 2012, Willis joined dairy co-operative Fonterra in a lobbyist role. She was later a general manager of Fonterra’s nutrient management programme, and sat on the board of Export NZ, a division of lobbyist group Business New Zealand.
Willis was a director of the New Zealand Initiative, a pro-free-market public-policy Atlas Network linked think tank, from May 2016 until February 2017…
Apparently going to university and getting some general degree that has universal appeal and showing prowess, then some time practising business skills with some time at political elbows gives enough opportunity to be assessed as easy to steer. Nicola has done well, with four children to fit in somewhere. If she cuts them off in mid-sentence as she does with us hoi polloi, I think they could have a stunted personality at the end and join us dwarves and trolls. Willis doesn’t know enough to be in charge of more than the Poor Box at her local prosperity church, or other ersatz group!
Those wishing for the occasional light relief amongst dwarves and trolls could start on Terry Pratchett’s Disc World series
The Colour of Magic
The Light Fantastic
Equal Rites …..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld
Eat the rich; there’s only one thing they’re good for
Eat the rich; I take one bite now, come back for more
Eat the rich; I gotta get this off my chest
Eat the rich; I take one bite now, spit out the rest!
Eat the rich; there’s only one thing they’re good for
Eat the rich; I take one bite now, come back for more
Eat the rich; don’t stop me now I’m going crazy
Eat the rich; that’s my idea of a good time baby
Good movie eh!
You’ll like ‘Idiocracy’ then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy
20 years on I could see Seymour in this movie as the ‘Minister of Breeding Regulations’.
At the weekend we will see a fluff article in Herald and Stuff about Ms Willis telling us how much she loves her husband and kids and her desire to see all NZ thriving and being the happiest people in the world.
The poor bugers
I see she is pretending to be tough and spouting at us all .That is a sure sign she is shitting her self .Silence is the best defence in these cases .Just like all the ram raids that were done just to post on tik tok and face book ,as soon as they stopped people posting such shit they stopped ram raiding .However in this case critisisum of her is totaly justified
Threatening someone with rape, death or other harm or intimidation is of course unacceptable, and shows how both right, left and centre have their fair share of knuckle dragging cavemen types and should be fully condemned.
Having a minister of finance that tells hungry people to use it as motivation to get a job, ignoring the plight of children and the sick who can’t, is similarly a toxic position to air publicly and it doesn’t matter to me what sex the fat arse fuck is who says it, ’cause unless they’re also eating the same cheapest, filling, ultra processed bollocks on special that we are while waiting for all the associated long term health consequences that will surely follow, they certainly don’t have the right to just waddle away crying about abuse instead of just fucking all the way off while attempting to fit her tail between her legs in shame.
Willis is just plain thick.
Thick chicks rule!
Derek Yep. She has to be thick to be advising women to engage in school yard behaviour. Most women are better than that.
I am sure Willis aspires to be Margaret Thatcher “ the lady is not for turning “ “ get on your bike “ or as Luxon said you can always get a job as a digger driver.