Brooke Van Velden was the worst thing to happen to women in NZ politics since Ruth Richardson
Brooke van Velden uses final speech to defend infamous Parliamentary c-bomb
Outgoing ACT MP Brooke van Velden has defended her infamous Parliamentary c-bomb and called for the abolition of the Public Service Commission during her final speech in Parliament.
RNZ
It would be wrong to allow Brooke to leave politics without saluting her toxic legacy as the worst Minister for Workers we have ever had!
She was so robotic and emotionally frigid that she made a wooden C-3PO look fluid and flexible. She’s the only politician in her 30’s with a wardrobe designed to look like she was 50.
That shade of pink she wears is technically called, ‘Carnation Mutton’.
She has caused more damage to working women than menopause and osteoporosis combined.
Her knee capping of pay parity literally robbed billions from the poorest workers to give to the rich – the very antithesis of what any Democracy worth its name should ever do!
The questionable amount of time it took for her to arrive at her decision was cold with an extra iceberg serving of callow.
It wasn’t just her shanking working women’s aspiration, it was all workers.
Her Employment Relations law overhaul empowering bosses.
Her Removal of the “30-day rule” for new workers to be on existing Collective agreements.
Trashing contractors to keep them weak against bosses.
Her WorkSafe downgrade to make workplaces less safe with enforcement changes that amounted to coddling bosses rather than prosecuting them!
In the end it was her idiotic ‘Road-cone Hotline’ that symbolised her ideological pointlessness best.
What was most galling was the way Brooke attempted to play the victim card about being a woman when she was called out on all of this…
Brooke van Velden: Sick of being called the wrong kind of woman
She turned on her fellow woman and crushed their economic power for political purposes and she is the one playing the identity victim?
She is an ideological stormtrooper who loves blood as much as your average Great White Shark.
She is not a good faith agent whatsoever and has proved time and time and time again that she is prepared to do things to vulnerable people that no one else is prepared to do while having the audacity to play the victim.
Best quote goes to Andrea Vance..
…last quote goes to former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright who said…
“There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women,
…Brooke’s Jacket is already there.
She was one of the most reactionary and dangerous Ministers this Government had. She weakened workers rights, her policies will see more injuries in the work place and she empowered the rich at the expense of the poor.
Good riddance to very bad rubbish!
Political legacies are ultimately measured not by rhetoric, but by their impact on people’s lives — and for many workers, those impacts will be felt long after the headlines fade.
Brooke Van Velden was the worst thing to happen to women in NZ politics since Ruth Richardson
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Pay equity. Pack a committee with feminists and wokesters, and hey presto! A librarian is equivalent to an air traffic controller!
You forgot about cleaners and caregivers Pope they deserve a decent wage.
Should never have been in a position to become a Minister…just like Seymour…..clueless corrupt immoral E graders
This is what happens when mmp is abused …and National allowed it to happen!!
Those betrayed for ideology and cruelty are as follows.
The women of Pike River.
And all the families and whanau who have lost loved ones whose lives were expendable because they were as important as the profit motive or the protection of those who are receiving huge salary packages and go home every day to their families who aren’t in danger or at risk.
” Brooke Van Velden was the worst thing to happen to women in NZ politics since Ruth Richardson and , Jenny Shipley , Maureen Pugh , Paula Bennett , Louise Upston , Nicola Grigg , and every woman member of the National , ACT and NZF parties and caucuses.
Van Velden has done what the ACT party and their donors wanted her to do.
Wage war on the New Zealand women and many in our health care , mental health support services and as a male I am one of them.
Van Velden was also preparing for her next lucrative roll in the private sector with a extremely impressive CV that AI wont be rejecting and putting her forward for her next role.
The most important thing to remember here is that all of Van Velden’s legislative changes proceeded with the votes of her colleagues in National and ACT with not one murmur of dissent despite Winston’s bullshit pretense.
Where does Hipkins and his colleagues stand ?
They will fold as they have with their support to allow landlords to continue to have their privileged existence to continue paid for by many who work but can’t feed themselves properly or their children.
Because every proper female politician needs to be empathetic and dress fashionably.
Otherwise, she’s letting females down.
ick. Know your enemy. Narcissistic personality disorder./ https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20366662
Solution. A double-dose of good MDMA then stand well back because there’s going to be a lot of hugging and crying and kitten and pup fondling.
I suspect that people like van velden are trapped within their own realm. The ‘realm’ that exists within their minds that they must wander about within without a clue as to how to get out. Especially worrying is if they don’t know they must. How do we know that we’re imprisoned in our minds if we don’t k now we’re imprisoned, right?
Are you alone? Do you have a screw driver stuck somewhere in your back? Do dogs bark at you when you go out walking. Do people urge you to stand on the edge of that cliff ’cause the view’s ‘amazeballs ‘ ! Are all your friends subservient and imaginary? There you go then. So. If we know that people like Van Velden are cray-cray with just a dash of ignorant evil then why do we vote for the fucking nutters then pay them six figures plus entitlements for three years?
One hopes the women of her Tamaki electorate have not been immune to van Velden’s policies. Fair’s fair. They should suffer too. Better insulated than their sisters in south and west Auckland of course, the ones who do the actual work, but I hope they have noticed what she did.
I guess that when you decide at some point in your life that money is the be all and end all of life and you wish to pursue this politically then there is no better party for you than ACT.
Their policies are aimed at one thing only: making money and more money for themselves.
A party of rich pricks and wannabe rich pricks.
“A party of rich pricks and wannabe rich pricks.”, you left out and racist gun nuts.