Two arrests after NZ First conference ends with protest clashes
Two people have been arrested following the NZ First conference, after protesters and attendees clashed.
NZ First leader Winston Peters was delivering his final address to almost 900 attendees.
He had already been interrupted earlier in the speech by about four people calling “Free Palestine”.
“Genocide, what’s your policy, brother?” a protester named Catherine called out, before being removed from the hotel.
Later, protesters followed Peters from the room, calling out about the death toll.
Scuffles broke out in conference hallways as the NZ First supporters and members of the public attempted to leave. There were many elderly people in attendance. People were pushed up against walls and the police were called, arresting two people.
NZ First is so dependent on the Qanon Antivaxxer and anti-Trans movements that their policy is a mix of book burning freakishness with the glee of wilful ignorance.
NZ First doesn’t just need these culture war grievances to stay above 5%, they need it to gloss over the venal corruption of their donor class winning enormous concessions…
…when you are a right wing political party shit posting shrill hatred AND you still lose the NZ Herald, you know you have problems.
On top of Tobacco concessions, trans mining concessions, hatred of the Trans community, seafood industry concessions, polluter concessions and their Grievance Carnival masquerading as a Royal Inquiry into Covid, NZ First also want to:
- Ban fluoridation in the water FFS!
- Protect Police from scrutiny when they kill someone.
- DOC to ignore Māori.
- Weird state oversight of the internet.
- Banning begging.
NZ First is a cavalcade of corruption and political circus freak shows, they are held together by a shared hatred of Jacinda and vaccines.
NZ First is the dumber country cousin of ACT’s urbane racism and they are ensuring their donors get what they want while peddling petty ignorance for their redneck supporters.
NZ First gives democracy a bad name.
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On a positive note it looked like most of Winstonfirst members are older than Winston himself.
And most of them would probably have caught covid and died, had it not been for Labour.
I’m watching the United States situation and hoping these people who wear flags as clothes, get flattened come their election. That might take the wind out of winnie-First’s sails a bit.
The hurricanes going through the very states that have wavered in last few years, will have tipped the balance one way or the other. Trump obv. feels it’s not good news for him given the amount of misinformation he’s been spouting. The question is, are enough people still that gullible?
Just in passing I have to mention the hats that MASAs wear, MASA – Make America Stupid Again. Our own politicians love of hats, has got nothing on that lot.
Haha yeah noticed that.
So what I took from Winston’s conference is he attacked the media, Labour, TPM and the Greens.
Churlish and disinhibited as usual.
“Far too many New Zealanders have come today to view
today’s capitalism not as their friend but as their foe, and I
have to say they are not all wrong.”
W. Peters, 19th October 2017
So Winston, after that fine statement: why have you subsequently gone and sided with the most mendacious, sellout, donor-owned lickspittles to ever occupy the government benches??
Your legacy – the thing YOU will be remembered for – will be Atlas Seymour’s privatisation agenda.
So much for “New Zealand first”, eh?
I remember that speech as the best of that election night. Winnie is all about ‘the art of the possible’ even if resolves down to shooting for the wrong thing. Chris Trotter, a great ‘a of the p’ promoter, even put aside climate change because he thought nothing could be done.
My thoughts exactly!!
Also on a positive note Winston Peters wants to ensure Kiwi workers aren’t uberfied in a gig economy and takes advice from First Union on this.
And he wants $100 billion soverign investment fund for infrastructure and will run on that at the 2026 election. Given that govt investment is anathema to NAct will Winston go with Labour next election or could Labour accommodate him if he switched sides mid-term?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/530647/winston-peters-up-against-tricky-allies-on-100b-future-fund
Winston peters is an appendage of the larger 88 year old national party cult which now encompasses our entire politic. Indeed, MMP was a jim bolger / natzo initiative. The natzo party was built to steal farmer money after our exports to the UK etc started ramping up from about the turn of the last century from about 1882. In 1936 the national party formed. The gangster clan had seen the future.
Wikipedia.
National formed in 1936 through amalgamation of conservative and liberal parties, Reform and United respectively, and subsequently became New Zealand’s second-oldest extant political party.[9] National’s predecessors had previously formed a coalition against the growing labour movement. National has governed for six periods during the 20th and 21st centuries, and has spent more time in government than any other New Zealand party.[10][11]
Every single political party shelters under the natzo umbrella because the natzo’s tell them ” Of else.”
If we investigated the criminal underworld that is the national party then imprison and deport as required to have exports earned funds arrive directly to the manufacturers ( farmers) front door you’d see a Kiwi renaissance of vast wealth creation accessible to everyone.
Or.
We get fucked. The treaty would be toilet paper, our farmers would become employees of an elite network of exploitative corporations and anyone not able to keep up would be left to die. As can be seen beginning to happen.
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The other thing to remain mindful off is that AO/NZ with its population of 5.2 million= 29 thousand square kilometres larger than the UK with its 69 million. We’re 1900 km from Australia to the west while to the east there’s all but fuck all until you get to central South America.
We are world first farmers making world first agricultural product and we’re flat out doing so while the northern hemisphere is in the dead of winter.
We have a corrupt politic of such dimensions that for most of you with your little brains you can’t imagine just how immensely corrupt our urban criminal elite are. I, on the other hand, have a giant brain ( Nearly wrote ‘a giant brian’.) and have a working-life experience that is quite flash and diverse. I started out as a frequently bashed kid in a rural primary school then graduated to St Peters College where I was treated like a human being without prejudice. Then, I spent ten years as a high country tussock hopper learning the wily ways of sheep, cattle and musterers, and their girlfriends when they weren’t looking. My poor old dad went mad and took mum with him so I left the mountains after I developed a moth mentality, of becoming attracted to bright lights, and was soon swooning down the bra straps of beautiful women while getting stoned, drunk and delightfully flattened into bed springs. Aaah…. those were the days, so it’s said.
I have a talent with a camera which led me into the film industry as a scout and locations manager but I also drove trucks, heaved heavy things and always loved writing as a means of being able to be a killer without the unfortunate consequences of spending a life in prison.
I’ve met and had down-times with flash Hollywood royalty, I went sex-toy shopping with a very famous singers close friends for her birthday pressies and I sold an ounce of pot to Joe Strummer years ago. I’ve had lunches with Edge and Larry Mullens Jnr and I have a photograph of me wearing Bono’s sunglasses. I also met Janet Jackson once. She was gorgeous! A proper sweetie.
There is a beautiful, elegant, wondrous parallel universe just out there for us but we’re denied access to it because we’re governed by a cadre of ugly, mean, greedy little people who only want your money to spend on their instant gratifications and I believe I’m qualified in writing that it isn’t us. It’s fucking them. Hundreds of thousands of AO/NZ’ers living in hardship and poverty while there’s 14 multi-billionaires, 3118 multi-millionaires and four primary industry export competitor Australian owned banks ripping the fuck out of us @ $180.00 a second net 24/7/365 IS NOT OUR FAULT. It’s there’s. We’re looking at them. We see them everyday.
@Farmers? @ Maori? @ Down stream agricultural service industry providers? Get together then STRIKE! We need to fush the parilamentary toilet because it’s full of shit.
Listening to that con artist try and defend Costello is nauseating
Winnie, marshalling an increasingly loony, bought-off by donors, ‘Rob’s Mob’. Only he could do it.
The tobacco moves are disgusting but he is a life-long smoker. In govt he suppresses most of his nutcase voters’ issues. And still with mouldy Muldoon’s leftism.
Yeah, when truth is omnipresent, we can do without the great soaker-upperer of nonsense and converter into ‘use’, sometimes. I’d see it as a vital improvement to be without him — the sign we were addressing reality, rather than mortgage-holders.
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