Crooke Van Velden is on trying to defend the gutting of WorkSafe in the same week the Pike River Mine movie is out.
Crooke Van Velden shows no shame and Jack smashed her so early.
She’s claiming Worksafe sanctions don’t work and so she’s dumping the prosecution focus (because bosses are so scared of prosecution apparently) yet as Jack points out ACT are using for extreme sanctions on the poor.
You can see the panic in her face as he drops the hypocrisy hammer – why dump sanctions on bosses if they don’t work, yet increase them on the poor.
Oh he sank her battleship!
Her exposed hypocrisy makes the rest of the interview a joke.
She then starts shitting on the kindness and says we should use more stick for the poor but less for the bosses!
She is drowning live on air, it’s glorious!
Jack challenges her on how a gutted WorkSafe will save NZers dying at work each year, she can’t explain it.
Jack brings up how other government agencies have been critical of her gutting Worksafe, she can’t answer that.
ACT are stooges for Boss interests, gutting WorkSafe will see more workers die.
Crooke Van Velden is a dead eyed acolyte for the free market while pretending to care about workers.
She refused to meet the CTU for a year, she doesn’t care about workers!
We have twice as many deaths as Australia and 3 times as many as the UK, Jack dumps this fact on her:
The advice is we need 10.7 work inspectors per 100 000 workers, he asks her how many do we currently have:
She claims using a ratio doesn’t work despite more labour inspectors bringing down deaths.
Jack puts to her that there is a Māori programme to reduce Māori worker deaths and argues why do they have that when ACT are against race based funding.
Watching her try to answer is the best thing you’ll see on TV this week.
The insanity of the road cone bullshit is pricked by Jack.
This is a point TDB has been making, the orange road cones protect workers and drivers around road works and demanding they are removed will cause more injuries!
Jack argues that there were 42 fatalities and over 300 injuries around road cones and asks why will removing them make those road works safer.
Brooke can’t answer but claims that ether are so many orange cones that people become blind to them.
That’s her actual answer.
She claims road management costs too much money, so effectively she’s doing it to save money damn the human cost, which is funny because that’s the exact next question Jack puts to her.
A human life is worth $12.5million dollars, how many road cones need to be removed to justify the cost of 1 human life.
Brooke answers honestly by saying, ‘she doesn’t want to get into the numbers’, which of course she doesn’t want to because that would expose the sociopathic nature of these changes to the NZ electorate.
Jack challenges her on not wanting to ‘get into the number’ by asking her – “Isn’t that your job”?
The reality is Brooke is weaponising our impatience damn the loss of human life.
Jack Tame remains the best TV interviewer we have. This was real holding power to account.
Jack grills her on the pay equity knee capping. He uses her own Regulatory Standards Bill mantra that all legislation must be discussed with groups who are materially effected by the changes.
Brooke can’t answer the question!
Even by HER OWN PARTY’S VANITY PROJECT, she didn’t do what she was supposed to do.
Why aren’t the Regulatory Standards she is pushing applicable to her own policy???
She’s a double hypocrite!!!
That’s 2 hypocrisies in 1 interview!
She tries to claim she hasn’t knee capped equal equity legislation.
She’s lying.
She robbed workers of their future payments and she has changed the thresholds that make them near impossible to obtain.
Jack keeps grilling her on how awful the pay equity changes are and she keeps drowning.
Jack invites her to explain how those impacted by her changes should respond and she says she’s not here to help advice them!
She can’t answer the question at all, and says it’s not up to her to compare the jobs and Jack looks to camera and says that’s why we needed Pay Equity in the first place!
THAT’S 3 HYPOCRICIES IN 1 INTERVIEW!
Wow.
She was roasted.
Next up Willie Jackson on the punishment handed out to the Māori MPs.
Willie makes the point that the right keep trying to paint a Labour/Maori Party Government as the end of Western Civilisation when it is really ACT who are the threat!
He argues that he loves the Maori Party even when they are fiery and calling him a traitor because Labour supports free speech but makes it clear they needed to apologise because the Tikanga of Parliament demands that, but that the punishment was racist.
Labour Mandarins clutch their pearls every time Willie speaks, but his entire career has been about working together and that is the message Pakeha working class and pakeha middle class want to hear.
Willie is trusted on the Left because of his message of working together and the passion of the Maori Party doesn’t have to frighten middle NZ is he is perceived to be influencing that relationship.
Chippy has made much of how weak Luxon is and he can’t be seen being like that with the Maori Party.
Willie points out tikanga is important, but what’s more important is Jobs, Health and Homes.
Willie’s working together message is the one that the left wants to rally around, the Maori Party must decide if they are just here for the political theatre or to make a material change in the lives of the poorest.
Jack Tame did a bloody good job of holding the powerful to account this week.
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Willie Jackson should be one of Labour’s new leaders. Chloe Swarbrick should be co-leader because this nightmare’s gone on long enough. Far too long actually.
…And Van Velden needs to be gone from N.Z….
She should take herself off overseas
and work at become more worldly, because such is her naivety, ignorance, and lack of knowledge, let alone lack of morals, that her mind
appears to be wrapped in a strait jacket of which there appears to be
escape.
She should set herself free …go and do some waitressing in Aussie, some rest home nurse aiding in the U. S., some barmaiding in London, some forestry work in Canada…maybe even do some
builder’s labouring in Poland or even take up a ship building apprenticship
in Turkey.
For her own good she needs to meet new people …develop a new circle of friends… get out of the rut she’s so clearly in …because Seymour’s toxicity is fucking with her head
and trashing her life faster than she realises.
That interview was a trainwreck, a plane crash and a ship sinking all rolled in to one…terrible!!
Yes Grant and the fact Van Velden has the maturity of a 14 year old thinking her devastating policy on pay equity is good for women shows once again why the horrid ACT party should never been allowed to exist by National.
NaSC I blame the parents! Cliche, I know but true, the parents brought the child into the world and can’t follow dreamy, poetic advice in rearing it, must teach some values to hopefully form the basis pf a good human with fair attitudes and practical, towards others.
Poetry from Khallil Gibran comes to mind. I have thought about it and don’t agree that it is anything but an airy fairy distant approach. In the material world we are bombarded with thoughts and words and must have a basis of screening and understanding that we have learned when our ideas were forming. If we have not this basis, we may wish for it later and acquire it with much hard work but it usually takes some personal disaster to make us embrace a change. We must know how to control our thoughts like fresh horses, rein them in, and set them on a new route. Poetic eh?
This is from Kahlil Gibran On Children
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts….
But we must help the child to shape their thinking, not precipitate but to think twice before action and be a bit guarded in speech, how to withstand mocking with a laugh or to question why. How to accept criticism and see how to make necessary changes, some to accept, and some to avoid being caught out again eh!
Such a combination is too much for Right Wing non Maori majority, it would see an unprecedented election landslide for the Right.
Bob the racist troll, on display for all to see.
Sounds like Crook van Veldon is a complete fool. She’ll ban Jack now because he’s embarrassed her so badly. Girls from leafy suburbs don’t like being embarrassed. They have their steely images to maintain, you know.
Crook, what a good name. Wonder if she likes that better than the other C word used recently.
That name will follow her now, like ‘bottom feeders’ follows Luxon.
So Australia, with all those mines, has half the work-place accidents that we do. That’s not a good figure. Reflects very badly on her, that she has no aspirations to improve on that. Wasn’t that another of Luxury’s favourite words? ‘Aspiration’. Looks like van Veldon isn’t listening to you, Luxon. Does anyone?
One part of the new pay equity regime I don’t see mentioned very often is that the employer now has the right to determine wether presented evidence has merit or not.
Game over.
“We didn’t remove pay equity, workers can still make a claim” is technically true but functionally irrelevant.
Jacks last name should be Fierce not Tame.
Fräulein Von Velden’s brainwave on social housing – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H42zWaD4A4s
Some might like to support this poor deluded reporter who wants to lift the veil on the monetised material world and visits and videos things that aren’t glamorous or that Prince Harry and Megan have yet to visit. Oh dear, let’s keep trying amd hope we can do something good lasting longer than a generation, about the length of today’s world.
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I wish Willy was the leader of the Labour Party. Why isn’t he?
” I wish Willy was the leader of the Labour Party. Why isn’t he ”
He is to left wing for the management.
na its because he is brown and we can all see what happened at the last election ,race hate won the day .
This is the problem for the likes of Van Velden when people ask actual questions. They have no answers. It’s like smarmy Seymour having his arse handed to him in a debate. Put them in front of people with half a brain and they fold like deckchairs. Why? Because a lot of the time they are speaking for their sponsors, it’s not like they have a personal belief in their argument.
This is the problem for the likes of Van Velden when people ask actual questions. They have no answers. It’s like smarmy Seymour having his arse handed to him in a debate. Put them in front of people with half a brain and they fold like deckchairs. Why? Because a lot of the time they are speaking for their sponsors, it’s not like they have a personal belief in their argument.
Spot on Bomber. And right on cue, the premiere of Pike River was showed in Sydney with Sonya and Anna attending. I will never forget the first memorial with John Key and Kate Wilkinson standing up on stage with Whittal, and all the workers and families down below. That is why we have the H & S regime now because 29 men still lie dead in that mine. As for Willie, I see some people trying to talk this up as a feud between TPM and Labour. It is not. Willie was a meat worker, a President of the union, then an organiser with Uncle Syd in the clerical workers union; then an organiser for the SFWU, after the two unions amalgamated. Being a union organiser means you are allowed to be a bit stroppy! He was always headed for politics ; did a bit with the Alliance etc. I am glad he is in Labour and I agree, the interview was great.
Van Velden is totally clueless and Pike River should be the catalyst for any health and safety policy. BVV was still in the womb when PR occurred and is far to young to be given such an important portfolio. She has proven her immaturity on pay equity, now this.
Expose, of lip service, is all this young Lady, has done on what here chosen or said ,do.
Out of depth. outside her real knowing, about the truth of most maybe only 1% OFF BOSSES, COMPLY, with health care in markets like leather production, that are total unregulated, then the reeping of Timber, not harvesting, reeping of death, for those workers, when the last time Health and Saftey arrived, ask Farmer brown,text books and profit care and fear, of the exploiter, is not that of the producer the worker.
AND, DARION, Pike River, is a endelable stamp, on non Unionism, and Unionism, that cared.
” It is not. Willie was a meat worker, a President of the union, then an organiser with Uncle Syd in the clerical workers union; then an organiser for the SFWU, after the two unions amalgamated. Being a union organiser means you are allowed to be a bit stroppy! He was always headed for politics ; did a bit with the Alliance etc. I am glad he is in Labour and I agree, the interview was great ”
Sounds like a real Labour leader of old.
I think he has conveniently forgotten all of that which begs the question why join LINO. I think he worked out that he and LINO could deliver for Māori and he did in the last government. And that’s where it stopped when it came to all of the other pressing crises that LINO played only lip service to and nothing has changed.
Van Welden will come out of that utter trouncing by Tame even more convinced that she is right. It’s a demented ideology impervious to facts or human feeling. It will take us to a very bad place unless it’s stopped