What the fuck was ACT thinking lecturing women on benefits to use Menstrual cups…
ACT MP suggests women use menstrual cups to save money
ACT MP Simon Court asked a woman, concerned about benefit sanctions on women, if she was aware of menstrual cups during a select committee hearing.
…and then David Seymour not bothering with halal certified school food…
Seymour defends non-halal certified school lunches, saying certification expense ‘not justified’
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- Lunches provided as halal to Muslim children are not halal-certified, they are “halal-friendly”.
- Seymour has defended the lunches, saying they are halal and he did not believe the expense to go fully halal-certified would be justified.
- Compass boss says he “sincerely appreciates the sensitivity” and wants to “further improve”.
…Jesus wept!
Sorry.
Allah wept!
So much to unpack here:
1 – Where the fuck does a man get off lecturing beneficiaries on using menstrual cups as a cost cutting measure as a response to benefit sanctions? Only a very special kind of right wing fuckwit can manage that.
2 – I don’t believe in God or the magical rituals you need to perform to eat meat, but many Muslims do, and providing school lunches that are not Halal would be as offensive as serving bacon sandwiches at a synagogue , that David just shrugs off the issue highlights a deep anti-Muslim resentment on ACTs behalf.
3 – Thirdly, doesn’t this go to the heart of the problem with ACT? It’s just fuckwit right wing malice posing as social policy, they are all insufferable arseholes who are actually dangerous in power.
If this is all amusing to you, and you love to ‘own the libs’, then you are part of the infection.
This isn’t funny, it’s cruelty and if you ar celebrating that, then you are the problem.
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Like most political parties, ACT is a cult, because none of their ideas have basis in reality. Your life has to have been very comfortable for a long time, and you’d have to have complete faith it could continue like that for the foreseeable future to be interested in ACT.
Well said
Yes, the very comfortable find it very easy to feel superior and imagine their opinions are the only truth.
To the rest of us they appear deluded by their own hubris.
Living in Epsom and Tamaki electorates it must be easy to pretend the serfs don’t exist.
Good to see a couple of commenters here using the term ‘bottom-feeders’ correctly. Poor old Luxy still doesn’t get it, and he’s one of them.
You’ve heard of the Ministry of Funny Walks. Well, he’s the Minister of Stupid Comments.
They think they’re experts on everything and end up looking like the buffoons that they are. This wouldn’t matter if they didn’t infringe personal spaces. Court’s buffoonery here may also be part of an ACT dialectic to undermine the Select Committee process.
What a male chauvinist pig, Simon Court is, asking a woman about menstrual cups. How many periods has he had, that’s assuming that he is a real man ?
This impudent creep, Simon Court, transgressed majorly doing this in select committee, and Simon Court, who I’ve never heard of before, should be remembered forever for his disrespect of boundaries and for being a bounder of the type who should not be in Parliament at all. Simon is too iffy and dumb to be a politician, IMO. He could benefit by chatting to his mother as well, i.e if she’s still talking to him.
Doubt he has a mother
Supplier should have thought of this when doing quote. They do not seemed to have thought thinks through like on time delivery A A real disaster .
Actually this is the true face of ACT and National and I sincerely hope they continue in this mode (‘by their works shall ye know them’.)
This is disrespectful, I am staggered that Simon Court’s comments haven’t been in the MSM. This is truly a man who does not know anything about boundaries.
Simon Court is an idiot, period
Yep.Yet another product of the woefully dumbed- down New Zealand education system. Te Pati Maori and the Greens can also be idiotic, but they’re not part of the coalition.
Yes Wheel. he’s a sanctimonious idiot, like all Act politicians and supporters, period!
The appropriate protest would be to male Simon Court some used products.
Joseph, If I were not who I am, I’d say an appropriate response would be to horse-whip this creep, or put him in stocks in market place and walk on by. No biffing of tomatoes or eggs, just shun him.
One can guarantee that David the kosher handpuppet will be making sure that any school lunches provided to jewish students will be kosher certified.
Many thanks to all the good men speaking up for the dignity of our girls and our women. Gratie.
Men and women in the background behind King David must be desperate for their 15 minutes of fame in the spotlight. Something achieved, to boast about!
Spot on Grey Warbler. Minor parties seem to be the worst here; Elizabeth Kerekere was pretty bad to a young guy at Select Committee. Simon’s performance sounds rather adolescent show-offy, and if it was intended to embarrass or discomfort the lady in question, that’s unacceptable. People won’t present at Select Committee if they’re likely to be chopped down, and that might be what these jerks want.
Menstruation issues are private and personal. Any discussions should only take place between a woman and a family member, nurse, doctor, or friend. This is not the territory of strangers or of supposedly-male politicians.
It is shocking that Simon Court assumes that he has the right to question anybody in this way, more so in public, and in front of other people. It was bullying.
Health professionals preserve a modicum of privacy in these situations and this arrogant oaf from ACT should face professional censure for his inappropriate behaviour.
It makes you wonder what other women’s issues these creeps will get themselves involved in ,maybe a sneaky change to the women’s right to choose aka. abortion laws. I wouldn’t put it past any of this government with the good old jolly hockey sticks women cheering them on. Plus where are the women government MPs in all this not one has come out in support of women against this creep
Yes. One Sth American country has charged at least one woman experiencing a miscarriage, with procuring an ( illegal) abortion. As someone who has had several unwanted miscarriages, and been hospitalised in the aftermath of one of them, I find this terrifying. I think National’s Bill English was opposed to abortion per se, without any consideration about the effect of an unwanted child on either the mother, or the baby. Sadly, New Zealand has a shocking history of how we treat unanchored children.
Expecting National to support women may be unrealistic when Louise Wnatshername, Social Welfare Minister, was Minister for Women when John Key was outed for continually harassing a young pony-tailed waitress, and Louise refused to even speak about it.
Women wouldn’t want a male politician querying them about eg breast self-examinations at Select Committee, and I doubt that creeps like Court would dare to question a man about his prostate or chronic constipation. This is very much a women’s issue.
There is little more unsavoury a spectacle than coots in suits opining on women’s issues, particularly reproductive health ones.
Tiger M Could be a perverse Freudian jealousy in the mind of a man who knows he can never birth a child.
Dung fify
Hasn’t been mentioned here yet but I may as well, while we’re discussing personal subjects.
This govt. has reached a new heartless low.
They aren’t guaranteeing funding for palliative care for dying children. Young cancer patients, heart patients and those with rare syndromes. This will add to their family’s stress and heartbreak.
Paddy Gower has done a podcast. Sorry I don’t know how to link.
stuff, bless their little rotten socks, won’t even allow us to read the full article, it’s behind their pay wall.
How much more, of this Gerry Anderson, clone, do we have to suffer.
Halal certification is just a rort by the Saudi embassy. We shouldn’t be paying them a cent and the faux outrage by some (not all) Muslims just demonstrates why we need to keep their numbers down to avoid going down the same path as the UK and Germany.
Saudi Arabia only came into existence in 1932 but the rules about halal food goes back to the formation of Islam in the 7th century..
.If you take up a contract to supply food to a variety of people from different backgrounds and religions it should be allowed for and included in the price.To think you could do anything else is a bad business model and shows lack of thought by both parties
Luxon et al make me want to vomit.
Our children are innocents, why are they being punished for the possible failings of adults?
Our education system is being taken back years rather than looking to the world s leading countries eg Finland for answers and inspiration,
And as to what the arrogant bastards are doing to our children lunches—–
Bob the Fart thinks they are lovely
Eating a free lunch is not compulsory is it?
An issue with insisting on halal certification over free school lunches, is that makes the meat unpalatable to other religions – which have many more followers than Islam in NZ.
Our NZ (reportedly) secular Government shouldn’t deliver any religious practices in providing lunch for children.
Any parents determined to indoctrinate their children into same religion they follow, are at liberty to feed their own kids.
Taxpayer funded services ought not bend the knee to any religious practices, when they directly contradict other religious practices.
Besodes anyone objecting to how animals are killed and butchered can take the vegetarian option. What’s wrong with a marmite, peanut butter or jam sandwhich like I had for lunch about 12yrs.
Does this Minister, not telly tea spoon, let him, his cronies, them, eat this processed, slop, for a week as they pontificate, in the house, of their, our, fiscal care, as our Parliament State funded kitchen, provides the best of health, in food and brain food, for our sustenance
our foils can rise get in the our lane and ,,what . Corporate lingo, that turns on what, investors in our education, or those others, jis slop, if their parents cannot provide like we can, slop is ourr judgment.
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