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The disaster of Thatcherism and Rogernomics:
The UK is cursed: how finance destroyed our economy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUy_Hl-sD6Q&t=54s
@Toastfacekillah87
9 hours ago (edited)
Thatcher and Reagan have probably privatised hell already
@scottburns2671
8 hours ago
‘The problem with Thatcherism is you run out of other people’s stuff to sell’ as it were…
@rogerparker4468
9 hours ago
The wealthy need to kick their addiction..to hoarding wealth
@Jay…777
9 hours ago
What Thatcher did with the oil money was criminally insane.
She left the country broken & bust.
@JSmith19858
7 hours ago
Yeah. Thatcher removing controls on currency exchange so the £ could be freely traded by the city wiped out our exports pretty much overnight. She then blamed British industry for being inefficient and that the failure of companies was their own mismanagement, rather than her setting them up for failure by kickstarting the current Ponzi scheme. You forgot to mention her allowing corporate raiders to destroy solvent and robust manufacturing companies for profit, the worst example being Singer
As is usual with this gummint, they have it all arse about face, and in favour of the few, NOT the many.
Latest cluster f^ck: Local Gummint.
– Keep the Regional Councils
– Merge the Councils within a Region
– FIX the Post Office (return street post boxes; re-establish post offices making them all-of-gummint and banking service centres; etc.)
– Have the Electoral Commission run local elections
This might bring some votes back to National if they did this – and they would be following the UK so wouldn’t be a stand-alone target, so uncomfortable standing up all alone as a timorous weak little country like us (now).!!!!!!!!!!!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/580385/uk-bans-wet-wipes-containing-plastics-but-nz-won-t-government-says
Despite this, Minister for the Environment Penny Simmonds said the government was not considering a ban…”Wet wipes are part of the broader issue of plastic waste entering the environment, and there is still work to do in addressing blockages and microplastic release.”.
Ie It’s too big for me to be able to make a firm decision and commitment, I’ll just concentrate on the good old saw of reminding people to wash their hands to prevent the spread of nasties or something not too venturesome.
Why is it all women giving voice on this matter – can’t men be trusted to cope with major domestic plumbing issues? They could if they weren’t farm boys used to dealing with washing effluent down on the farm (to the rivers). In town that is a bigger problem, same cause that’s not hard to understand is it? Do we need someone like Bazalgette who in the 1800s could understand more than the shallow wet-wipes we have stepping up to take on tasks they are obviously unfit for now.
Sir Joseph Bazalgette Engineer par excellence – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bazalgette
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/lr2dkm/til_joseph_bazalgette_the_man_who_designed/
https://heritagecalling.com/2019/03/28/the-story-of-londons-sewer-system/
https://www.history.co.uk/history-of-london/sir-joseph-bazalgette-and-londons-sewers
https://monthlyreview.org/articles/cesspools-sewage-and-social-murder/
I think that our government and hangers-on should have a quick video session on British history and many of its high and low points to get some idea of the myriad problems that can occur especially in conurbations. Philomena Cunk could be good at explaining everything to our politicians in a way their simple minds might comprehend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUM89s4N2BQ 29.18
Middle class monomania. The belief that they should have everything they consider they deserve.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/580239/erebus-victim-s-daughter-furious-memorial-will-be-in-christchurch-instead-of-auckland
Meanwhile people who didn’t get to be crew members in planes at their own wish, are dying just for being in a place that is being bombed in Palestine and other countries.
My father was shot down with his crew in WW2 and is buried in France which is a long way away and he was flying because he was serving the good of the nation, not on a tourist flight, as most of those who died were. Be happy and hope that you might get a decent memorial that enable the names of those to to be enclosed in a gazebo type structure arched overhead and not stark and upright as the Auckland one looked. Somewhere with seats that enable people or family members to sit and talk about it and remember. Perhaps there would be a set of moving screen shots of the area going round or just photos of the mountain and the incredible icescape they flew to see.
And perhaps a notice board with reference to joining a special charity ‘Friends of Erebus’ that explores and reports on the climate effects down there and looks for way to assist the inhabitants of that area which have been formed by the creator and aeons to live in such harsh surroundings. Do some good and not just complain, and it would help to feel more positive.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/580409/government-trialling-new-drone-tech-in-push-to-eradicate-bovine-tb
Will it be used to track farmers who shift stock from cordoned off areas?
Will or was it, used in the Tom Phillips hunt? Was he a guinea pig for the force behind the ‘kid’ gloves?
As communists assume more authoritarian ways, will freedom-loving democracies find their systems attractive till we are all joined at the hip? I was just reading a old report of the Nuremberg trials by a NZ observer who heard about hundreds of women herded to their gas death, all naked, being the more efficient way owhen dealing with the corpses and the clothes could be recycled.
We have to remember that today’s tech, the drone users will be able to extend their machines use to anything really
beyond the original use It’s all in the mind eventually, we play them on television, in cinemas, and call them fiction.
I feel for the people making a claim, when they get treated as media fodder it further enforces the cruelty of authority on the vulnerable.
Shocking Privacy Breach As MSD Publishes The Names Of Survivors Of Abuse In State Care Online
Tuesday, 25 November 2025, 4:58 pm
Press Release: Cooper Legal
‘Shocking’ is the first word that lawyers working with survivors of abuse in State care can come up with after they were alerted to a serious privacy breach perpetrated by the Ministry of Social Development (MSD).
Cooper Legal Principal Partner, Sonja Cooper and Principal, Lydia Oosterhoff say they were absolutely flabbergasted to find MSD had published the names of five Cooper Legal clients who were abused in State ‘care’ online.
Lydia Oosterhoff says she was looking for a recent article about the firm’s work when she literally stumbled across an Official Information Act (OIA) response that MSD had published in full online.
“This response was highly sensitive. It contained the full names of five individuals who are seeking redress, or have sought redress, from MSD for serious physical and sexual abuse that they were subjected to in the ‘care’ of the State” says Cooper Legal Principal, Lydia Oosterhoff…
We seem to be pinballs in a game. Perhaps Seemore sees himself as The Pinball Wizard. How does it make you feel fellow pinballs being pushed around?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHc7bR6y06M
Too many of the wrong and swingeing regulations affecting Kiwi entrepreneurs and businesses at all levels?
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2511/S00057/dunnes-weekly-new-zealand-or-no-zealand.htm
Dunne’s Weekly: New Zealand Or “No” Zealand?
Thursday, 27 November 2025, 8:23 am
Opinion: Peter Dunne
For more than a century New Zealanders have prided themselves on their “can do” mentality. Our “number eight wire” approach to problem solving is legendary. It derives from the ability settlers developed in the early days of colonisation to utilise number eight-gauge fencing wire to fix all manner of things for which parts were either unavailable or too expensive. It was an ingenuity and resourcefulness necessitated by the country’s geographic isolation.
Over time, it became an important part of our national make-up, signifying an approach to resolving issues that was both practical and innovative. New Zealanders became very confident of and content with their ability to deftly and efficiently resolve difficult problems this way…
Use cash when you can. Get receipt perhaps would be good, basic, date day, amount signature.
Thanks to the banks association for trying to protect us. But are we better off with tech services in the long run? Just pondering.
In the meantime as we have them these are the latest rules – but you may find if you do something different than usual the transaction is delayed.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/580404/banking-code-updates-focused-on-scam-prevention
New Zealand Business
7:28 am today
Banking code updates focused on scam prevention
Jeffrey Halley, Business Reporter
Jeffrey.Halley@rnz.co.nz
Pretoria Gordon, Journalist
pretoria.gordon@rnz.co.nz
Consumer confidence is up heading into the holiday season.
Payments NZ reported about $265 million had been scammed out of New Zealand bank accounts in the past year.
The Banking Association is criticising social media, technology and telecommunications companies for not doing enough to prevent scams.
Payments NZ reported about $265 million had been scammed out of New Zealand bank accounts in the past year.
The Code of Banking Practice was updated on Sunday, with new protection measures introduced, including:
* pre-transaction warnings
* a “confirmation” of payee service
* identification of and response to high-risk transactions or unusual account transaction activity, and the ability to delay or block transactions in some cases
* providing a 24/7 reporting channel for customers who think they’ve been scammed
* sharing scammer account information with other banks to help prevent criminal activity, and freezing funds where appropriate.
Banks will be forced to compensate all or part of the loss for customers if these are not followed, and will also continue to compensate losses for customers whose banking was accessed without authorisation….
Some ponderings on consciousness from Martin LeFevre to be read in Scoops on Scoop.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2511/S00060/an-adequate-explanation-for-the-sixth-extinction.htm
…That’s true as far as it goes, but the real problem of humanity is that the human mind has not changed since Paleolithic times. It’s the lack of insight into symbolic thought that has produced the rampant individualism and rapacious capitalism of our time that has polluted and deadened our feeling, and given a few billionaires godlike technology that humankind is unable to use wisely….
If one has not started to think along such lines, and we should to admit and embrace the present, perhaps two should dip into it and discuss. And both grow exponentially!