Ummmmm.
These seems a tad spiteful doesn’t it?
Y-e-a-h.
People in trauma and shock reacting violently to Fire Fighters and Ambulance staff is a terrible thing, but THEY ARE ACTING IN TRAUMA AND SHOCK aren’t they?
This is bullshit pandering to the tough on crime brigade to deflect from the fact the Economy is sliding it the trash because of this Government’s Free Market Ideology!
The latest Stats NZ figures show in the past 12 months food prices have gone up 4.4 percent – the highest increase since December 2023.
RNZ have been comparing supermarket shopping and found that In May 2022, their first shop at Woolworths Greenlane cost $238 dollars and $217 at PAK’nSAVE Royal Oak.
But in 2025, those same items at Woolworths have shot up to $305 dollars – an extra $67 dollars at the checkout where as the PAK’nSAVE shop, was now $270, an extra $53 dollars in cost.
Despite promising to tackle the cost of living crisis, the Government has failed us.
But it gets so much worse than that.
The Government’s privatisation austerity agenda is part of the problem, as Bernard Hickey points out…
758 construction businesses have gone into liquidation in the last 12 months, thanks in part to the Government’s freeze on transport, housing and hospital investment spending at the beginning of 2024, Centrix reported this morning. Construction jobs have fallen by 12,723 in the last year!
Worker and employer expectations of real wage deflation are worsening as the economy slides back into a mid-year stagnation, and as administered prices such as Government and council fees and rates rise faster than inflation, as do prices in the monopoly-bound food, insurance and electricity sectors.
…this Government’s pro-growth agenda has gone no where other than propping up their donors mates interests at the cost of the poor…
…this Government doesn’t care about you unless you are rich!
National want you focused on tough on crime bullshit to distract from the cost of living crisis and believe they can do that with a range of crime virtue signals to an angry and reactionary electorate without explaining how these new crime laws will actually work because:
1 – We already have laws against assaulting First Responders.
2 – They can’t tell us how many Coward Punches occur each year.
3 – The Vigilante Shoplifting Law by Paul ‘Mad Max’ Goldsmith will lead to a Vigilante wonderland where you can GET YOUR BASH ON!
You can’t all possibly be this easy to manipulate can you?
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That picture of Luxon looks like trumpoop on his way to surf the S bend
We may have laws to protect First Responders but incidents have increased. Perhaps the message needs to get through to the judges to pull back on the soft sentences that Labour seemed to push.
“incidents have increased…” Gosh I wonder why, can’t be anything to do with our wonderful brilliant fantastic coalition govt can it. Only a complete moron would push that bullshit.
Yes, Trevor truly is a Moron.
Said no one ever. Assaulting first responders has never been used to justify mercy as you weirdly claim.
So Trevor you are now saying that in addition to making the economy worse, crime is increasing under this coalition. So they have failed at yet another issue they claimed to have an answer for.
Woolworth inflation rate 8.6%
Paknsave inflation rate 7.6%
I can see ute loads of right wing male voters in their 30s driving around the streets bashing any brown person eating food or well dressed ,BECAUSE THEY MUST BE A SHOP LIFTER .
gordon walker – Really? This is a Fairy Tale
@ Gordon walker.
Yep. Me too. I’m a white farmer and that’s exactly what I’d expect of the moron rural class to do.
Fall into the trap laid for us as expressed by street level in-fighting and hating without thinking.
luxon’s a manipulative sociopath without hair to get in the way of his dull, common beliefs.
Any manipulator or exploiter will tell you that the best way to dominate is to start street level ructions. Have the hoi polloi at each other while the few make off with the wages.
The very fact that luxon’s embarking on bashing the poor is an indication that he’s not a fit person for the job.
Luxon is now going to use violence to hide behind because he has failed NZ so needs a deflection till he can engineer his exit and make it look like someone elses fault .He has the ferret Goldsmith legalizing vigilante mobs to take the attention away from the tanking economy and the growing poverty that he cant acknowledge because it shows he is the most useless person to have ever been PM of nz
Dont forget to add the 100k plus that have left NZ TO THOSE FIGURES and the picture would be a lot worse because those people would be unemployed had they stayed .
lol, yeah dole bludgers go to aussie. our best and brightest leave so they wouldve been employed dickhead
Ya need more wax on the board trumpoop
People should realise that a mere money dole is only a patch up and is not enough. But money handouts alone still does harm inducing: anomia, shame, odium, stigma, alienation, and disengagement for many of the recipients. That usually leads to; sleeplessness, depression, drug use, alcoholism, self harm, vandalism, suicide, shop-lifting, crime, gambling addiction, violence, and arson.
Employ the un-employed so they can live and let their time be utilised instead of wasted.
Come on even the standard agreed this guy is a worshiper of Mammon.
Their religion comes second to their real beliefs, so fkn shoddy. Except they don’t know that — so thickwits all the way down.
Their religion comes second to their real beliefs, so fkn shoddy. Except they don’t know that — so thickwits all the way down.
I’m okay with more prisons until the message gets through to the slow learners. Steal shit & bash people = go to jail. I was listening the NatRed-Radio the other day and the kiwi woman in Tokyo said “it’s safe to walk alone at night in Tokyo. “
who cares if it dosent work as deterance, derramged pieces if shit will get locked up.
Trumpoop the super articulate S bend surfer splutters more skitters from the treatment plant