Hipkins Auckland Policy Answers The PM Question
Chris Hipkins needed to show Auckland he wasn’t just ready to oppose National, but ready to govern again. His Auckland policy speech did exactly that.
Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown has commented on the “stupid” and “sensible” of governing New Zealand’s largest city, and says he thought Labour leader Chris Hipkins sounded “quite sensible” on some issues.
Brown was speaking after a speech by Hipkins to a business audience on Thursday morning, outlining Labour’s vision for Auckland should they win this year’s election.
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If there was any question over whether Chippy has the mustard to be PM, it was answered with his conclusive Auckland announcement where he thanked Auckland for doing the heavy lifting over COVID in his stand-up and was categorical in denouncing racism even when one journalist attempted to frame Labour talking about immigration was capitulating to National, ACT and NZ First tactics.
“I will never stop calling racism out” was his response.
Hipkins Auckland policy showed spine and values
It is that kind of clarity on values that a bruised and beaten electorate will be hungry for after the galling weakness of Luxon.
Auckland gives Labour its route back
Labour’s Auckland policy is the heavy-lifting, top-management stuff, and it leaves room for TOP, the Greens and Te Pāti Māori to push harder on free public transport.
Deindustrialization has hit New Zealand hard. Unlike COVID-19 stimulus packages, the go hard go early rate hikes started at 0.25% peaking in mid 2023 at 5.5%. Today the OCR is at 2.25. Anyone who attempts a COVID style stimulus package is going to get slaughtered. Amazingly slaughtered and for absolutely no reason other than guessing.
Because New Zealand is starting from a higher floor of 2.25 you’ll run straight past 7 on your way to 15%. Just because The Reserve bank raises rates doesn’t magically make the oil ships show up or solve an illegal war. This is a supply side shock which falls under the reserve bank mandate it’s a demand side shock. Restoring economic buffers as is the current policy doesn’t address the fact that the oil and security shock has already hit.
Don’t care who the Prime Minister is 6 months’time. In the hundred days after we are going to see several things.
A 2%-3% financial transaction tax maybe even 10% spike for a limited time to create stress on speculators. Speculators can keep the rest gained throughout the golden years. And stop thinking that the government is a warehouse for cash. All a surplus means is money got taken from tax payers for absolutely no reason at all. Just stop the virtues signals it does not make sound economic management.
Immigration reform. Every year the population of Dunedin emigrates to New Zealand without the corresponding services appearing roads, hospitals, schools, police and all that. Stop kidding yourselves that you are aware. And double the rate of U.N. refugee intact and double the climate refugee intact from the south pacific.
RMA reform. Central government had everything in its favour to fix the housing crises and blew it big time.
Solar on every roof. The incoming AI data centres is going to require every watt of hydro power.
Electrify the motor pool. Rail and aviation can use biomass to fuel locos and aviation fuel that utilise forestry slash but shunting carriages/planes around can be electrified. Heavy transport and defence will be almost impossible to abate not in the allowed time New Zealand’s oil reserves are going to have to be refined in New Zealand for New Zealand.
Purpose built hospitals, schools, polytechs and Universities are going to have to be built outside of the scope of the liberal progressive.mega brains taking New Zealands health and education statistics into hell yes Hell, in order to engage New Zealands entire GDP into rebuilding the machine where trade flows, streets are safe and a future that stays afloat no matter what the shock.
Age restrict the internet I’m sick of these punks grifting the internet for social media fame.
Ban abortions. 23% of all pregnancies end in abortion. In the tension between life and death, exceptions are made. Doctors choose between life and death not the mother. This puts New Zealand first (excuse the pun, or not).
Bring back fire places for the winter and gas during the dryer parts of summer. New Zealand has plenty of both banning has exploration was just dumb when the data shows it’s cows and cars pumping up immisions. Refer to paragraph 8.
Fold New Zealands carbon credit regimen into the Reserve Bank mandate that gives the Ice Queen (Res Bank Gov General) real ammunition. This 3 year electoral cycle just can’t coup.
And stop treating NZDF Vote budget the same as NATO. Easiest financial trick to pad defence spending so no decisions have to be made by folding veterans pay and benefits into the budget. That in my humble opinion should come out of Superannuation and ACC. And people around here rate the Defence Minister and the opposition defence spokesperson seems to be showing bipartisan support it’s everything else that needs to be addressed in conjunction with increasing defence capability. It’s New Zealand you can’t raise defence spending while everything else is stagflating sliding into recession. We haven’t even gotten to the deep bits of the recession which would make this comment un readable.
Give superannuation fund managers a new mandate to increase levage by 5:1 and hey presto a sustainable superannuation scheme. Shove your raising the age of retirement guess work. We have to clear out the old to make way for a new leadership to this is go hard and go early demand side style. A high-tech manufacturing base or automation that the elderly can retrain in. And stop with the Protestant work ethic without the Christian brains.
WINZ benefits are going to have to be raised significantly so quiet signing immigrants up to WINZ. Lower the age of eligibility for the student allowance to 15. At least $400 a week for single males and 600 a week for mothers and quiet with the per child punishment regime. We want another atomised generation of fatherless kids so WINZ have to be told harshly to keep families together with the same zeal as when they tear families apart. Then you won’t need immigrants to fill the low wage expections of the virtous Protestant sewing circle brigade. Business won’t be able to lower wages with immigrants and when you withdraw woman from work and make moves towards a one income households wages “boom”. And don’t think that sacred cows have a hold on New Zealand domestic policy.
Businesses need teared rate hikes not one off spikes of doom in order to adapt deliberately, buy technology, automate, higher staff, renegotiate contracts moving from floating to fixed rates.
And New Zealand needs political enforcers. Private citizens. People who can rip policy apart as it comes off the docket and find those corrupt cronies selling New Zealand out not placing New Zealand second but putting New Zealand in a good spot.
We can watch New Zealand slide into hell on a bed of cheap imported labour and high interest guess work. Go hard, go early or get slaughtered.
So …. Aucklanders will now forget and forgive Chris “NZ is front of the queue for vaccines” Hipkins?
yes yes yes yes most Aucklanders are not stupid and Wayne Kelvin Forrest Brown says so.
Fuck is that all holding you back from voting Labour?.
You are very shallow given Nationals promise to turn the ship around?
About time someone, already in the spotlight , recognised Hipkins’ as a sensible, seasoned politician. Of course, as with Jacinda Ardern, the spiteful, vile Right are again trying to do a hit job on him. Hipkins has consistently said he won’t be releasing his budget until the CoC show theirs, although some out there just can’t grasp this – DER. And of course he will be unable to show his tax policies until he sees who his coalition partners are. He also realises there’s a huge mess to clean up with half-baked policies and changes to so many pieces of legislation. The current “headless chook” approach is way out of control and much will need to be rescinded or reworked. So bad the dumb-asses out there just can’t see it.
Yes Patrize Hipkins knows it’s no good promising NZers the world and not delivering.
We have Winstones new policy saying he wants to buy back the BNZ, yet I thought we had no money and to say we want to get our country back yet his party supports foreign companies mining for gold, minerals, black sand and dredging and destroying some of our coastal areas and pristine evironments whilst putting some of our native species at risk . Why don’t they put more money into our kiwibank so it can compete with the Aussie banks. Winstone is talking with a fork tongue saying one thing while doing another.
If the CoC get in again our assets will be sold, more governments jobs gone, more privatization, higher unemployment. Also our beautiful environments are at risk of being destroyed. And how come our media hasn’t mentioned the 14$ million paid to consultants to get our new Chinese built Ferries .By the time we get our new ferries Winstone could be gone who knows we’re been sold so much spin.