NZ Government have turned the State upon us the people (Remember, Remember the 5th of November)

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Martyn Bradbury
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The jackboot of the State should always be on the throat of the Billionaires, Organised Crime, Big Tobacco, the booze Barons, gambling, the speculators, the banks, the polluters and the corporations.
 
But this Government have turned the State’s jackboot upon us the people
Their draconian welfare sanctions that are aimed at disqualifying you from welfare rather than helping you find you a job. 
 
 
500 kids were abused in State care last year.
Our suicide rate continues to soar.
 
The $2200 fees on those who are official property managers for people unable to file with the Public Trust
90 000 are too broken to function.
 
Stopping local communities from complaining about bottle shops opening in their community.
 
Knee capping Pay parity, literally robbing working women to afford tax loop holes for landlords. 
 
We used to mock Jacinda’s kindness mantra, but when a Government department was caught being unkind, they could expect media coverage with demands of, ‘Is this Kind Jacinda’? and whatever the issue was, the Department would suddenly find an exemption and the person not treated like shit. 
 
Under  this Government however, it seems like a weekly competition by Government Departments on who can be the biggest arsehole to Kiws.
 
This Guy Fawkes Day:
 

Remember, remember, the 5th of November,

Gunpowder, treason and plot.

I see no reason

Why gunpowder treason

 

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People shouldn’t be afraid of their Governments, Governments should be afraid of their people.  

 

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17 COMMENTS

  1. And the bullshit just keeps flowing from their mouths…

    That is…all of what they do is supposed to be for the betterment of New Zealanders…yeah right!..what a load of codswallop..

    So figures out today show that is unemployment is continuing to rise…Willis and Seymour have driven the economy straight off a cliff and there answer is …here have a boot to the head and another dollop of austerity because our rich mates need more money.

    Do they have any idea how long it takes to fully crank up the construction industry again?… clearly not!…Green shoots?.. bullshit!

    Luxon …Fran O’Sullivan’s love child, thought it was a good idea to put this clown in charge …what a fucking disastrous move for N.Z.

    Whilst he’s ‘chunking things down’… ‘leaning into things’… ‘picking the low hanging fruit’…’placing ideas on the top shelf’ and ‘siloing thought processes’..N.Z is going backwards at an alarming rate…’going foward’, of course!

  2. The members of this govt. will come to sticky ends, one way or another. Ex-prime ministers aren’t usually forced to leave the country once their term is over. This one will be. He’ll want to go anyway. He knows he won’t be tolerated here. The notorious ones in parliament will need to make themselves scarce too, very fast. Probably overseas as well, where they will be little fish in a big pond.
    People can google anyone these days and luxon’s unearned knighthood will not be respected abroad any more than it will be here. Only the sycophants at The Herald ever refer to Key as sir. There’s no respect.
    Compared to Helen Clark who chose not to have a knighthood and Jacinda with a knighthood but having dealt with several rather catastrophic events, they are nothing. Poor Luxon can’t even cope with a portfolio of his own. He’s only doing half the job.
    They have taken us backward and as with USA, it’s frightening to see how quickly it can happen.
    Decades of progress down the drain because the govt. is so badly in the pockets of big business.
    Yes, they should remember 5th. November. They don’t really want to be the ones to set off something like that. The warning still applies, even to them.

  3. And the irony of government (Winston) now moving to ban fireworks, and public cheering for it.
    “Please! Take our freedoms! We don’t deserve them!”
    Brainwashed fools.

    • The ‘public’ you refer to are also the people who have to get up and go to work, to pay tax so that you can have public services. Their nights are disturbed by idiots, with too much money, who think it’s funny to let crackers off all night. Round here they’ve been saving them from last year and we had several bursts at 3-4 am., two nights.
      If it was only one night stopping by 11, it wouldn’t be so bad but we do not appreciate the 3-week extravaganza we get here. We won’t be the only ones.

      It’s not a ‘freedom’, it’s an intrusion on peoples’ lives and health.
      A ban on public sales of fireworks would be the only decent thing Winston has done this time in govt.
      We’re not the ones who are brain-washed.

  4. “People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people” ~ ‘V’.

    We have been far too gentle and too generous with our MPs. Spare the rod…

  5. Most of us try to be decent people. We naively thought this govt. would consist of people like us, decent people. It does not.
    They have turned against us. It started the day they entered parliament. They had no intention of governing for us.

  6. NZ Government has turned on the people because its a government of the rich for the rich and they don’t like sharing more of their speculator’s gains and grossly overpaid salaries than is strictly necessary! Just look at Double Dipton’s hit for $500,000 on housing New Zealand. And luxury Luxton’s fraudulent claims from the tax payer. They’re a white collar organised crime.

  7. People shouldn’t be afraid of their Governments,
    Governments should be afraid of their people.
    I amend this and word it slightly differently.

    People should be watchful and concerned about their Governments.
    Governments should be concerned and afraid of turncoats amongst their people,
    and always concerned and watchful, for the people.

  8. If those who don’t vote actually cared enough to vote the government would have to take a lot more notice of what people think. Elections have consistently failed to give us the best government possible as the media and advertising combine to make sure that we get the best government that money can buy.

  10. Pike River film whitewashes Labour Party and union’s role in New Zealand mine disaster
    ” Overwhelming evidence was uncovered that Pike River Coal cut corners, broke numerous health and safety laws and built a mine that was essentially a gas bomb waiting to blow up. It had no adequate emergency exit, its main ventilation unit was dangerously installed underground, and it had grossly inadequate methane gas monitoring and drainage systems.

    As the film shows, a 2012 royal commission of inquiry found that the company ignored many warnings from workers about unsafe conditions because it was fixated on the pursuit of profit and production. Yet nobody has faced any charges over the tragedy, and the remains of those who died are still sealed within the mine, along with crucial evidence.

    On Radio NZ’s website, film-maker Gaylene Preston hailed Pike River as “a perfect film.” The Post’s reviewer Graeme Tuckett called it “a damn near-perfect film.” Newstalk ZB’s Francesca Rudkin said it was “a very uplifting film about friendship, about advocacy and what you can achieve,” even while noting that there has been no justice for the victims. ”
    https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/11/04/eooy-n04.html

  13. The saying, THE ROT STARTS AT THE TOP is alive and well in NZ and this is being clearly demonstrated in many areas, e.g. Police falsifying breath tests! Who gave this instruction? How come they still have a job? How come the Police Minister still has a job! Had Labour done this the media would be in overdrive! The ‘massive’ corruption, continual lying and bullying shows how easily the corruption at the top filters down to become the ‘norm’. The CoC’s arrogance, incompetence and inability to see the damage they have inflicted on NZ and the majority of its people, seems to be so easy to pretend away when you have a roof over your head, abundance of food, a good job/income or are ‘sorted’. I doubt many of you ever think about those who spend much of their day cold and hungry. Way over time for a complete NZ RESET. Time for the greedy to start to share the load and the spoils. And as if that isn’t enough now Akl council want to ban the homeless from our city streets – could they not have put in a homelessness shelter as has New Plymouth? Where is Mayor Brown’s heart – does he actually have one? We have discussed suicide from the hopelessness that so many at the bottom of the pile feel. But let’s not go there – it may be too uncomfortable for some of you who so greedily grasp at any little extra bit even when you don’t need it – e.g. having a CSC card while owning two multi-million$+ properties so claiming cheap doctor visits, rates rebate etc! An UGLY, GREEDY trait isn’t it?

  14. l thought this juxtaposition of news items was telling about our present societal conditions. RNZ giving us necessary information. ‘In case you missed it’.
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/icymi 6/11
    * ‘Can’t keep doing everything for everybody’: FENZ aims to save millions…
    (Haven’t they been tasked with being first responders at traffic accidents? They probably are overwhelmed, and also have extra fires from lithium batteries.)
    * ‘People learning to manipulate the system’: Call for Kiwisaver changes…
    (We have to try and keep up with government using us for their benefit.)
    * Extent of police falsifying breath tests ‘unfathomable’ lawyer says …
    (Trained in USA or Israel or ? – not the old-style keepers of the peace I think.)

    And a parallel to how our once loved society is after the depredations of crazed neoliberals.
    * Scouts battle defecating, littering carpark campers…
    Hawke Sea Scouts group leader, Reuben Jackson, said the organisation had been operating out of their hall on West End Road, by Cox’s Bay Reserve for almost 100 years, but in the past two or three there had been increasing problems with people camping outside of designated spots in the carpark.
    The carpark had three designated freedom camping spots, but Jackson said there was often campers using all of the available parks, preventing scout families from being able to stop and drop off children as young as six.

    (The Sea Scouts has been going nearly 100 years and is under pressure from really disadvantaged people just of late – tells us about our society being uncoupled from stability with an attempt at fairness not to be found under neolib equality and lack of concern for people’s needs. We’re well along the road to Hogarth’s cartoon of a drunk mother with baby slipping off her lap into river under sign ‘Drunk for 1d – Dead drunk for 2d. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Street_and_Gin_Lane)

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