This week, Martyn drops the political pretence.
He’s done arguing about Labour’s caution, the Greens’ wokeness, or Te Pāti Māori’s radicalism. Because no matter their flaws, they are miles better than the cruelty we’re living under.
This Government is anti-Māori, anti-worker, anti-disabled, and anti-environment — strangling the common good to serve its donors.
The next election isn’t Left vs Right. It’s Old Zealand vs New Zealand.
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In solidarity, the revolution continues.
As an old white farmer, and by farmer I mean an actual, proper Swiss Army pocket farmer, one who can [do] rather than to passively acquiesce to the demands of our common, rich, urban exploiters for their exclusive wealth creation from mono-cultural brain-fart exploitations. IE The dairy ‘industry’ . Herd of? Pine Trees? NOT edible by humans I’m afraid.
Aotearoa / New Zealand has been so deliberately disadvantaged that I could be forgiven to think that, that position might be able to be used to our greatest advantage.
We lot, all of us. Maori and non Maori need to get in the cleaners. We AO/NZ’ers need to ask, politely at first, for a public, royal commission of inquiry up and into every crack, crevice, orifice, hole and politely covered two way traffic in’s and out’s to come to see, to come to understand and to then repair the damage that’s been done to us under the guise of them knowing better than us so, according to them, we should just eat our porridge and be quiet. Well, fuck that.
You always have something worthwhile and in touch to say kwtc. How can we clear a way through the zombies, some being our friends and relations? The supposed concerned can be zombie-ish like the Green Party dropping Metiria Turei because she was trying to survive and be a capable parent, and be wise, but petty class rules are more important than people trying to live equitably. My church seemed more concerned about the colour of its seating than actually doing what has become a good samaritan need, most were on pensions. The complacency is cloying. I’m trying to pull my weight, getting informed but not just about one thing – everything, environment, Maori rights, Israel some, USA a little, UK with horror, and stay sane and help family and local, and support people doing good practically. Also help creative things to keep spirit alive. Not enough I think but I write here and inform, learn and dream up things, bring a bright spot, and come back to last bit of WH Auden 1 September 1939.
.…And no one exists alone;
Hunger allows no choice
To the citizen or the police;
We must love one another or die.
Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
https://poets.org/poem/september-1-1939
One of Auden’s best – thanks!
Old Zealand for me. But I mean the real Old Zealand, before the Lange-Douglas revolution.
Easy. Old Zealand it is.
ew inflation data from Stats NZ shows the cost of living is increasing faster than incomes, leaving workers falling behind, the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi says.
“Wages are rising by less than inflation, meaning all workers, regardless of sector, are now falling behind average living costs. The Government need to go to Specsavers for its laser-like focus on the cost of living,” said NZCTU economist Craig Renney.
“The prices of things that New Zealanders can’t avoid are rising quickly, putting more stress on already overstretched household budgets.
“Electricity prices are up 11.3%. Gas prices are up 15%. Fruit and veg prices are up 7.5%. Contents insurance is up 9.3%. Going to the GP costs 10.3% more than last year. Rents are still rising faster than wages (2.6% vs 2.4%) – which is often the biggest cost working families face,” Renney said.
“This data shows the pressures that working families are facing when they in their day-to-day spending. Cuts to government investment – particularly water infrastructure – have helped drive higher local authority rates bills.
“The Government’s failure to regulate the electricity market is leading to the highest annual cost rises since the late 1980’s according to Stats NZ,” he said.
“At a time when the Government is taking away jobseeker benefits from 18- & 19-year-olds, Stats NZ recorded a 22.6% increase in the cost of tertiary education. We know that the Government has already halved its support for apprentices, yet we have a huge youth employment problem. It is another symbol of a government that is out of touch with the public and what New Zealanders and the economy really need.
“There is an urgent need to make sure that working people and their families don’t continue to bear the brunt of the Government’s failed attempt to manage the cost of living.
“Workers pay is now actively going backwards, and pay deals proposed by the Government would almost certainly make that worse. It’s time for a different approach so that workers don’t see living standards falling even further in the future,” said Renney.
Yep real easy. Jonzie promotes slave labour. But then Jonzie is a numbskull.
dont for get they have stabbed women as well as all the others on the list above .Having destroyed the jobs and sending a couple of hundred workers off shore to make employment figures look good they are now attacking the people they have sent to the scrap heap here be cause they have not joined the exodes because they can not afford the air fares .That will be the next move they will be paying the fares for those bottom feeders who wish to leave .