MEDIAWATCH: Q+A review – Willie Jackson & ACT
Willie Jackson is on explaining why he as a Minister met over Zoom with gang leaders to get them to vaccinate.
Willie has the mana to get them to commit to the vaccination program and if it succeeds, we can shut down underworld transmission.
This is a public health issue, it’s not a pearl clutching exercise in morality! Shutting down Covid transmission via the underworld to combat a pandemic is for the sake of NZ, spreading anger and hate towards gangs misses the point!
You don’t ban Gangs from using condoms because you hate gangs!
Jackson acknowledges that there have been roll out issues on the vaccination front for Maori but he points out the majority of Maori are young and so have only just become eligible.
He argues that despite the pain and frustration we have a means of navigating this.
Jackson is one of Labour’s best media performers, he just saved them once again!
Middlemoore Hospital’s success at preventing Delta transmissions hints that the worst case scenarios might be less gruesome than feared.
If Labour can balance hundreds of cases of Covid a week while reopening the economy as we sprint to 90% vaccination, it will be a political and public health policy victory that will see them likely to win 2023.
Everything matters this summer as we race towards that vaccination goal, that’s why Willie Jackson is meeting gangs. Labour knows this is the summer that matters most in our battle against Delta.
A brief history of ACT reminded us all of the cavalcade of political circus freaks the Party has spawned. Its latest enormous jump in the polls has been driven by them mutating into a right wing values party. The woke fed ACT all the ammunition they needed to reignite dead political fault lines with the crazy cancel culture.
ACTs far right crazy policies are all being glossed over as ACT keeps cannibalising National vote.
ACT will finally catch National once the Hate Speech legislation starts and the woke scare the bejesus out of the middle by what they consider hate speech.
Great to see Jack rip David to shreds over David’s refusal to acknowledge the Covid deaths ACT will tolerate in their sacrifice for the economy.
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Better preparation and planning aside, Delta was always going to get in so really, what would any other government have done different?
We know National and ACT would have a far higher tolerance for death and serious illness vis be a vis, be like the UK.
We know lockdowns are not the entire answer anymore.
We know some people, for whatever reason, would never comply with any lockdown.
We know now that a vaccination rate of less than 90% won’t end well.
I note Jacinda and her Ministers are out there trying to use whatever pull they have to get the vax rate up.
Its not ideal losing ones freedoms but it’s the only way forward. I think the way Covid management is going is about as good as it can get.
Agreed… The only other method they could have used is to actually do what the chicken head factions are already accusing them of already, which is to use the full force of the emergency powers they have at their disposal.. The current govt should be given the credit for treating us like grownups at least.. It’s more a reflection on our lack of maturity that we keep getting outbreaks that needn’t have happened..
The pandemic gives Ross Meurant’s recent column on getting gangs to engage at a political level in society a profound and urgent dimension.
Jack rip David to Shreds?
We must have been watching different show.
I saw Jack getting pissed off because he could not elicit the answer he wanted while David (I don’t support Act) calmly sidestepped the question .
Bomber, I have a few acquaintances who are “liking what Seymour is saying”. Could you please put that list of their policies you did in an earlier post so that I can copy their vile proposals down and present them to these ignoramuses ?
Good thinking Martyn. Your metaphor? of not a pearl-clutching exercise – brilliant.
This morning I put on a CD 40 NZ Number Ones 1970-2013. I think in 2021 we need to resuscitate the bright mood, and forward planning that emerged in that time.
Now we could be devising a haka aimed at the Covid19 virus – that is our enemy to be rejected.
Let’s get the spirit of the Patea Music Club with Poi E. Dalvanius’ skilla helped to bring that to excellence and in their solidarity to make something good out of bad economics and difficulties for them.
Original video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5l-NUKYGaU
Later inside with lyrics – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5l-NUKYGaU (Can’t now gather in large numbers but what could be done to bring forward Maori mana and solidarity?)
Now – music competitions on the internet, even if we can’t hold concerts? Prizes of real money, not vouchers, and non-benefit reducible- take note bean-counters
Deane Waretini Jr with a song written for him by Te Arawa elder George Tait, called The Bridge – ‘and in 1981 it became the first Maori language song to become Number One on the NZ charts. ‘
https://www.folksong.org.nz/te_piriti/index.html
(Sung in Maori with these inspirational words spoken in English:
“My concern is for the piles of the bridge,
constantly pounded by the strong tides.
The tears well up in my eyes
They are like the waves that break without.”
Then there is Split Enz – ‘I Got you’. The words are particularly right for our feelings under lockdown. This version is a cover by Shihad with lyrics and very colourful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulogTRPkOqg
If like Dalvanius, John Tamihere and Hone Harawira and other Maori spokespeople can gather up the positive spirit that can still be found in the Maori groups trying to cope and bring them together in mind, and brighten their day and their vision, and perhaps have some internet, or tv experience and voice, there could be good memories to look back on and tension could be eased.
Denis O’Reilly from Black Power should be listened to amongst others. He is straight and to the point.
https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/early-edition/audio/denis-oreilly-lifetime-black-power-member-has-concerns-about-covid-19-spreading-within-gang-communities/
Newstalk ZB, Thu, 16 Sep 2021, 8:00AM
‘”We are many in number, highly mobile and disobedient. Just like certain Aucklanders going to Wānaka.”‘
Also : https://www.facebook.com/TeAoWithMoana/videos/a-black-power-members-unlikely-partnership-with-rob-muldoon/391368499235611/
On National Party – https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/06/gang-rep-denis-o-reilly-accuses-simon-bridges-of-stirring-fear-over-tauranga-hospital-fight-claims.html June.14/21
On ACT – https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018804804/act-s-gang-policy-absurd-denis-o-reilly Jul.20/21
Also read this for understanding POV – https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300306383/black-power-life-member-thinks-police-officers-need-guns
Since when did gangs use condoms?