What National and ACT represent is a full scale assault on the Egalitarian State of New Zealand
The above graphic is the true economic comparison between National vs Labour and Labour always protect the people while National always use the people to subsidise the wealth of the rich!
With ACT’s attack on the mentally ill and drug addicts alongside their pledge to build a new prison empire for all the State Tenants that National are about to throw out onto the street plus Nationals plan to rob 2 year olds, public transport and climate funds to give rich landlords a $250 per fortnight tax cut is an affront to the very egalitarian state these fuckwits claim to champion!
They want to take from the poor and give to the rich!
They want right wing revenge fantasies as social policy FFS and voters seem more than happy to allow that because they can’t stop being angry at Jacinda and the Covid lockdown!
3 things as we implode into this election.
National are deceiving you:
Their tax plan is nothing short of a disgrace!
They will steal from 2 year olds, mutilate Public Transport and literally rob climate change funds to pay rich landlords $250 per fortnight in tax cuts using revenue from foreign buyers which economists say will never eventuate!
National have taken millions from the real estate pimps, will give Landlords back their tax loopholes and give them the right to throw tenants out onto the street and you stupid sleepy hobbit will allow them to do it!
This is a class war for Landlords being waged against renters and owner occupiers!
Look at how easily you have all been conned here?
Rather than screaming, ‘why the duck are these rich real estate [imps being allowed to flog NZ houses off to overseas speculators, we are all instead arguing over how much tax take that will generate.
You are having your nation sold from under you, you sleepy stupid hobbits!
ACT will start a race war:
National’s class war enough for you? Wait, there’s more!
ACT’s bottom line with National is a racist referendum that will redefine the Treaty of Waitangi and force it upon Māoridom with nothing more than a 1% basic majority.
What in our 184 year history makes you think Māoridom will ever accept that?
The backlash ACTs racist referendum will generate can’t be calculated.
It will make the Hikoi to Wellington for the Foreshore and Seabed look like a polite gathering of babies.
If ACT ram this racist referendum through it will provoke a race war. Can sincere citizens vote for conflict policies like that and still look at themselves in the mirror?
Attacking drug addicts, the mentally ill, the unemployed, amputating all the Ministries that aren’t white and male plus killing off the Human Rights Commission is crypto-fascist.
Voters need to accept Labour saved 6000 lives from Covid:
The Government’s borrowing requirement is set to dwarf pre-Covid levels. Over the five-year forecast period, Westpac sees the Government raising $140b in bonds, $12b higher than the previous forecast of $128b.
Westpac is now pointing to 6% OCR because of huge immigration pressures, that’s the umpteenth time in a row the economists have been wrong about an OCR peak.
Yes our economy has been malformed and warped by the Covid response, but all those screaming at those ramifications ignore why we had to take on that debt in the first place!
COVID!
It’s bizarre that Covid which has shaped all these symptoms in our economy and society, from debt to crime, is not mentioned at all!
It’s like it is Taboo to even speak of it!
This silence damages the Left because we are unable to explain why we are facing the symptoms of the cure we took to protect life in the first place!
We faced a once in a century novel pandemic. We had to make decisions that hurt and damaged many lives.
We all sacrificed for the greater good because that was the best means of dealing with a novel virus.
Were there mistakes?
Of course and there were consequences, and those consequences were worth the alternative which was tens of thousands of dead in a mass death event altho would have mutilated this nation.
Critics pointing at the lack of a mass death event as proof that there never was one ignores what we had to do to ensure that didn’t happen!
It’s the most idiotic argument!
The ease with which we rewrite the recent past, to determine with the luxury of hindsight that Covid was just a cold when it has killed tens of millions around the globe is sophistry.
3283 – NZ (population 5m)
24755 – Sweden (10m)
9162 – Ireland (5m)
191211 – Italy (59m)
Those are the numbers.
That’s how many died from Covid and the population of each nation, compared to Ireland we are talking about 6000 lives difference.
That’s the price we sacrificed to protect as many people as we could, to leave no one behind.
There were sacrifices made that generated unequal consequences in an unequal society.
Labour’s mistake was believing society could just go back to how things were when things were so unequal, we needed the transformative change Jacinda promised but couldn’t deliver.
But the decisions made were courageous and righteous and saved 6000 NZers lives.
That’s a price that was worth paying then, and it is a price that any honourable leader would implement again if faced with the same situation!
Too often we ignore what was saved to rage against what went wrong.
Labour need to rouse that universal shared experience that was Covid and remind us all what we saved with those decisions and that the duty now is to see those challenges through.
New Zealanders leaned into Labour in crisis, because they see in Labour someone who wants to help them, where as in National and ACT they see someone who will kick them when they are down.
Chippy is likeable, Luxon wants you to like him.
Chippy and Grant will help you up on your feet and dust you off while Chris would lecture you about not falling over as David kicks you for being weak.
These are the choices in front of us this election.
This election is become a grudge fuck election. Voters are voting not on policy, but for malice, to hurt the ‘other side’ for all the imagined crimes of Covid, 3 waters and co-governance.
We are being tested this election on who we really are as a Nation.
One that fights for the people vs one that rules in the interests of the Banks, Corporate Farming and property speculators.
There are 4 weeks unto the 2023 Election.
It ain’t over until the Fat Blogger sings.
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Wasn’t that what Labour’s been doing?
With ACT, we get our rights back.
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I hate to break it to you, but the way debt influences gigantic government budgets is a little bit different from the way human rights influences your average and wonderful human rights activist individuals in the comments. The risk associated with debt is directly related to your capacity to convince a lender you will be able to repay it, short of the richest billionaires, nobody has anywhere close to as much of that capacity as Samsung.
egalitarian
/ɪˌɡalɪˈtɛːrɪən/
adjective:
believing in or based on the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.
So where does co governance and He Puapua fit into this scheme?
A rereading of Orwell’s Animal Farm to remind us?
We don’t mention that again until after the election.
You keep going on about how Act’s policies on Maori issues are going to start a race war.
What makes you so sure that Lab/Green/MP incessant Maoirification of everything isn’t going to start a race war?
No, everyone loves that & feels included.
Its only a matter of a cigarette papers difference how this country get screwed over by whom but I would much rather be screwed over by an anti woke government than a woke one.
Unfortunately there is not even that option with the current offering.
We aren’t and have not been egalitarian for decades.
Labour seem to think only they know best and only they can tip the scales away from equality towards their preferred causes, they’ve done it with one person one vote, they’ve done it with Maori ethno nationalism and now they want to tip the scales of justice in favour of the accuser. Big time.
TPM want to bring in a segregated justice system to go with the segregated health system and the currently hidden segregated education system agenda.
I just ignore the Greens deep wokery because whatever they propose is pure conflicting misery.
As Chris Trotter so rightly pointed out, the progressive left are joyless and to vote for them continues the relentless cultural warfare. Why would anyone want to continue that?
It’s more that the Left’s interpretation of “egalitarian” is utterly incompatible with merit. You sort of knew everything would go south with Labour when they announced that 50% of their ministers had to be women – which potentially forces the hiring of women that are unfit for a job vs men that were. Imagine if corporations were to adopt a similar policy. How about police, army, forestry, builders, etc? It doesn’t work because it can’t.
Yep, the gender balance policy was the start of the problems. We were assured just how forward thinking and deeply progressive it was and it’s proponents getting that through got that warm feeling in their tummy’s they are so addicted to. Trouble was, it was bullshit! We just ended up with incompetence.
Chrome Dome Christopher Luxton is another Snake Oil Salesman the same as his Mentor Honest John Shonkey who was not going to Sell State Assets or Raise GST to 15%.
While I always thought this idea that National are the better economic managers was just mythology but that first comparison image is wrong about National starting the housing crisis in 2011. .
This blog should know the foundations for that were laid by Roger Douglas and Ruth Richardson. I remember house prices rising faster than inflation in the 90s and things were really going up heaps under Helen Clark too. It just got really bad under Key and it was apparent National didn’t care about the consequences and now this current crop seem to revel in creating policies that will make it worse.
To be clear, Labour does care but they just lack the balls to do anything about.
Well, the Natzos first and foremost represent capital and international finance capital, they are all about shovelling the wealth upstairs to the parasite class. Exhibit A–Sirkey’s offshore trust scam–10,000 of which dissipated virtually overnight once IRD required more than an A4 page of bonafides.
Their usual trick is enlisting the petit bourgeoisie, new gen aspirationals and self employed (including sheep shaggers) to vote for them. So they wish to shrink the state and introduce more contracting out and transfer of the peoples infrastructure to private capital.
But…there is a flaw in Baldrick’s masters cunning plan…a finite planet, and capitalists need customers–don’t they? Which is why the Greens plan for a Basic Income for all citizens makes sense, it would at least preserve some purchasing ability for all.
Greens want another weeks holiday .Shows they are really concerned about businesses surviving. They cannot see power if we don’t want to see a country fail
Yes, agree Queeny that would equate to at least 20 – 30 thousand votes as we all know 15 thousand job loses is the warmup.
Yes, agree Queeny that would equate to at least 20 – 30 thousand votes as we all know 15 thousand job loses is the warmup.
Yes, agree Queeny that would equate to at least 20 – 30 thousand votes as we all know 15 thousand job loses is the warmup. Too many NZers are very politically naive they are being fooled by Nationals deceitfulness and the rich are trying to buy our election.