Hard Right Free Market Think Tank, The NZ Initiative, applauds its former acolyte Nicola Willis that’s more cheerleading propaganda than genuine media release…
…Willis was the director of the New Zealand Initiative from May 2016 until February 2017, meanwhile another former NZ Initiative acolyte, Political Report Luke Malpass who was a Researcher for the Initiative is an investment that just keeps giving for the Hard Right Free Marketeers…
…Hard Right Free Market Think Tank, The NZ Initiative, is linked to the Harder Right Free Market International Think Tank, The Atlas Network who are funded by dark money to promote the interests of the radical Billionaire clique and polluters.
Most people have no idea the Finance Minister and Senior Political Editor are part of a Free Market Network working as corrosively as possible before anyone notices.
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As it may not be fully clear in the article, the reference is to Atlas handpuppet Luke Malpass being the Political Editor at Stuff keeping any criticism of the pedophile defender David Seymour out.
so thats why the recent poll results were hidden on stuff ,Malpass would not like the people to know his buddies are flushing them selves down the toilet .
Martyn – I hope the 3rd Supermarket chain works out for everyone’s sake.
Don’t be too hopeful, nathan. There are 5 or so banks, and how has that worked out?
The system works the way it works – well for only a little while, then to our disadvantage.
In Vino …Correct.
what 3rd supermarket chain ?For fuck sake people we are a small island wit only 5 million people who in their right mind come here and invest 1 billion setting up a nation wide supermarket chain then only have a third of the market after 10 years and no profits .
I do believe, and i know it sounds a bit whack, but we need space and minor funding for a network of urban farms all over Auckland, plus street tree orchards, and verge veggie planting for our local food production – mental health improves, community is generated, some local control of food and compost (waste) systems and we take a bite back from the superduopoly.
Good try, water that idea and keep it standing and we may see it flower.
Thanks for outing Malpass. I’ve always had my suspicions about his ‘writings’.
The supermarket chains are too powerful for any competition. Probably donators to the national party who don’t really care whether bottom feeders can afford food or not
NICOLA: I’m saving money by not even owning a car!
I did try and get a car, and handed over funds to a world leading car maker, to get a state of the art hybrid, that would see me happily motoring long into the future.
But when I found out what building a carport would cost, well I couldn’t go ahead with it on my budget, so I canceled the carport, and then I had to cancel the car as well. But I’m happy with my decision, it was only 0.5$billion, which isn’t much in the great scheme of things, I mean how many school lunches is that?
I would argue the NZ Initiative is at least as far right as the Atlas Network if not even more extremist.
Economically, NZ is the most right of any country in the world. We are the global leaders in the implementation of neoliberal policies designed to channel all wealth into the hands of the elite.
Of course we have some left wing social policies, but these have always been mere tinkering at the edges with the sole purpose of quelling any dissent. The whole NZ economy is like the NZ ecosystem, unbalanced and overrun with pests and pollution from industries who can’t stand on their own 2 feet with taxpayer assistance.
Now, however, as the western world begins to implode, all the surveillance systems and underground bunkers are in place, and it is every man and woman for themselves and corporations and political leaders don’t even bother with social nicities or the pretence of caring about the people.
The people are now officially the enemy.
A truth unfolding rapidly every minute of everyday in Trump’s/Musk’s Amerika. No hiding anymore. I find it interesting the hard right in NZ keep denying their Atlas Network connections and Project 25 song book.. Why bother, the Trump admistration certainly isn’t. Tho they still tell some blatent lies…
Unless Willis has the gonads to regulate and enforce the Supermarket cartels profit margin (communism) there will be no chance of cheaper prices.
They have to buy, transport, market, administer etc then make a profit for the shareholders.
I can’t imagine their supplier, transporter, staff etc are going to reduce their prices so why would the retailers be expected to reduce theirs.
In our town of 45000 we have 7 fuel retailers and still pay the same as we did when we had the 4 so called major brands.
Willis and her mates are doing a great job of sending NZ to the wall .I see another top person has resigned from health today .Wow Brown moves in and the exodus becomes an avalanch .Levy clearly will be gone soon as he has failed at the first hurdle with his first so called plan 6 months late in being delivered and looking like it wont be delivered any time soon .
Health will be rudderless very soon with the dweeb left sitting in the corner rocking back and forth sucking his thumb .
Willis is a success alright she sunk 2 brand new state of the art ferries and now is adding health to her bow .First she has under funded health and now she has Brown in place to finish the job .
We are in big trouble here folks .
REPENT THE END IS NIGH. Saw that on a sandwich board in London in the 1970s. Time is relative. Seems like yesterday.
We desperately need an early election, the country like a rudderless ship is now at the mercy of the elements, a pretend captain with a navigator that can’t read a map let alone set a course and a motley crew of numbskulls.
Maybe Winston will spit the dummy once Seymour is debuty and bring the whole playhouse down. It’s a faint hope
Settle all Treaty claims.
Maori pool resources and set up iwi/rohe based supermarket chain…sorted.
Bring back the good old four square
I’ve got a tea towel covered with names of NZ towns and presume they are all ones where a FourSquare store was. Life was simpler then. Talked to the postman today. Good chap. NZAO for ordinary people, not a stopover for computer nomads, or holiday mads, or any mads. Let’s be poor and whiny and forget about being rich and never being happy – sort of ends the same it seems?
Utter nonsense from Willis who has no idea how to bust up a monopoly and even if she did she would have no intention of doing so. A complete incompetent who thinks digital nomads will be the economic saviour of NZ.
Attention Luke Malpass.
Instead of your fright motivated brain fart, we need an urgent public royal commission of inquiry up and into every single element of our primary industry and the extremely dubious relationships that were developed between that industry’s money and urban wealth creation.
Ban all foreign owned banking here immediately and write off all mortgage debt until the royal commission findings are fully analysed and the outcome of that analysis is released. Return all public resources and assets back into the steerage of public i.e. government ministries who will focus on efficient supply without the need for private investment to return profits to private individuals. All multi-billionaires, multi-millionaires and the senior management of the AO/NZ banks, who are now Australian owned and who are the second most profitable banks in the world, are to forfeit their pass ports pending a public police inquiry. Then, we have a cup of tea, a wee lie down then back into it.
If we don’t do that, or at least something extremely close to that we’ll be traded out and our AO/NZ will become someone else’s to hide the crimes of the past.
As you are from the farming mob the first thing you need to do is stop the stupid subdividing of great farm land .The bigger farms have become the less profitable they have become so the shit business /farm owner then sells it off piece by piece while pretending they are great farmers and making a massive profit .All the while they are running at a loss and when the bank calls in the over draff they sell off another couple of acres and on it goes till they them selves are left with a life style block and no income .I have seen this with my own eyes within our imeadiate family .Just take a drive around the small village of Ohaupo on the outskirts of Hamilton and see the mass carve up that has happened there in the last 20 or 30 years .I did this earlier in the week as I used to work on a farm there and went back for a look it was devestating to see the sad sight of once beautiful farms now just covered in houses with the odd sheep or pony ,now completly unproductive in any way .No wonder agriculture is falling in its contribution to the NZ economy .50 years ago the waipa district council only allowed one acre to be subdivided from a farm ,usually when the farm was taken over by the next generation and then you had to jump through many hoops .Over time the council was taken over by the next generation of farmers and their entitled mates from in town who the created open slather on cutting up farms .The rest is history .
Clearly, Nicola moving on proves she is now without Initiative.
Nah just a stupid thick Tory
No they pushed her because they realised how fucken usless she is