Finance Debate in Queenstown Review
Queenstown’s reputation at risk after revelations of workers living in cars
Queenstown is the jewel in our tourism crown but revelations some out-of-town workers are living in their cars is putting its reputation at risk.
Every. Single. Year. it’s the same bloody story.
Queenstown is so expensive and elite that it can’t house the workers those elite require and that even in Queenstown, the entire town is reliant on the low wage economy!
If Queenstown – rich, snobby, elite Queenstown can’t build houses for their crucial workforce, doesn’t that highlight how warped the market has become?
If Queenstown – rich, snobby, elite Queenstown is reliant on the low wage economy, doesn’t it highlight the addiction throughout the country?
If Queenstown – rich, snobby, elite Queenstown is endlessly trapped in this cycle, what hope for the rest of the country?
Queenstown has become a symbol of just how weak our social infrastructure reliant on free market myths has become.
Holding a Finance Debate in the heart of Aryan Coloniser Capitalism like Queenstown really tells you everything you need to know about the shallowness of our political debate and .
National’s tax plan is nothing short of a disgrace and even the rich white and wealthy of Queenstown groaned over Nicola Willis and her stupid answers!
The crowd at the ASB Great debate in Queenstown also clearly didn’t buy some of Willis’ claims, with the audience making a large noise of disapproval when she suggested her party’s policy wouldn’t lead to house price growth in the region.
National 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 fuck are these rich real estate pimps 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!
James grumbled, David did eveything to look like he isn’t as extremist as his Candidate selection and racist rhetoric suggests he is (and which is leading to a drop in the polls), Nicola was arrogant because she is banking on everyone hating Labour to get elected and Grant reminded everyone just how fucking good he is as a debater.
The problem for Labour after such feckless incrementalism on the issues that matter and insane political capital burnt by the woke and their middle class identity politics bullshit, this election has 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 co-governance and Trans cult issues.
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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At least they all agreed to extend the housing allowance ( I think it’s called) boundary s for the workers, which is one positive.
Grant and David seemed to agree on some things and Grant is still sad about Chippie taking his wealth tax away.
Willis got slaughtered in every single aspect of that debate.. She just ended up making a fool of herself …
… as shallow as a puddle..
Has she thought about the ramifications of selling vast amounts of houses to the Chinese year after year after year after year after..
Of coarse that is unsustainable but also….
what will that do to our culture as a nation..as a people..
Housing effects …everything…i mean everything
Grant Robinson and James Shaw were giants..
There breadth of economic knowledge and deeper thinking was what made that debate so compelling to watch
Get our Country Back on Track..
I don’t think so..
Taking Our Country Backwards..
Far more appropriate…
Sad to say, I fear that too many of our voters are even shallower than a puddle. I am 77, and have seen voters vote in really dumb too many times for me to have any hope about this election.
You only need to read rat in a cage/ Krautus Klaus and Bob/ John/ Bob the first to see how really shallow and really dumb people can be.
I’ve been saying the.same thing for months. Some on the left haven’t realized it yet, but it doesn’t matter what Labour say or offer.
People have just had a guts full of both Labour and all their dramas and are completely over covid.
Thats why they want change. The staunch left supporters need to wake up to that reality.
Why should staunch left supporters do anything of the sort?
If people are so stupid that they think voting for the blues will improve anything, anything at all, they really shouldn’t be allowed out alone.
Grant Robertson has been keeping the wolf from the door, just, for a few years now. How is he expected to perform miracles in the current world situation? At least he has a plan which is basically ok, as long as we stick to it.
Why does letting an amateur take over and completely change the plan sound like a good idea? It only sounds good to greedy people who feel hard done by. They have survived, some have made money. They are not hard done by at all, they simply haven’t had the special treatment and access to influential people that they have come to expect.
If you don’t like dramas, why would you vote for the rag-tag remains of Key’s govt. with a few prima donnas tossed in. Luxon ran an extremely small airline in good times. It ran itself really in spite of him. He’s not qualified to run a country. There will be dramas aplenty in the next 3 years with those inepts running things. All because, you say, people have had a gutsful of Labour. Better the devil you know, I think.
Queenstown will be the no.1 target market for foreign buyers. Let’s face it,they won’t be flocking to Invercargill or Westport. So if a good chunk of the housing stock is gobbled up by purchase that potentially don’t live there, or will only be occupied a fraction of the year, then how exactly is that improving the accommodation situation in the town?
Also, you can guarantee it will drive up already exorbitant rental rates.
Obviously 7 Houses and NatCCP don’t give a flying fuck about the overall situation in Queenstown. 7 Houses just seems obsessed with selling off our houses to his foreign influencers.
Coz WTF else have we got to vote for?
The least of several evils. Quite simple.
Most kiwis have been duped by the BS Neoliberal propoganda of the right since 1984 – initally under a “Labour” government which included Richard Prebble and Roger Douglas (well known “sell outs” to their party), and progressed by National between 1990-99 and 2008-2017 (and Nat-lite Labour between 1999-2008). Only the most recent Labour government have started to move away from the Neoliberal paradigm – although Grant R is still enamoured by this failed philosphical position. Neoliberalism is now accepted hegemony despite the lack of evidence of it’s efficacy – and this continues to destroy NZ. Nothing will change until this paradigm is first challenged and second, usurped by more progressive approaches,
I think Nicola is up the shoot with her Tax Calculations.
What, is she pregnant AGAIN!
I know right? She screams Narcissist to me, everything she talks another porky.
I think she knows it and doesn’t give a damn.
All too complicated for most people, and the dumb majority will vote for a tax cut..
Nicholas Willis’ public performances, with the notions she spouts, meet all the criteria in the DSM5 for NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER!
(sorry about the shouty caps).
Engage at your peril.
Do you really want a Narcissist as Finance Minister? Or any minister?
Seriously scary stuff!
Nicholas Willis’ public performances, with the notions she spouts, meet all the criteria in the DSM5 for NARCISSISTIC PERSONALITY DISORDER!
(sorry about the shouty caps).
Engage at your peril.
Do you really want a Narcissist as Finance Minister? Or any minister?
Seriously scary stuff!
in my opinion, allegedly
Nicola knows better than 3 economists?
Willis was born and raised in Point Howard, Wellington. She is the eldest of three children.[4] Willis’s mother was a journalist in the Parliamentary Press Gallery,[4] her father a partner in corporate law firm Bell Gully.[5] After a “privileged childhood”, she first attended Samuel Marsden Collegiate, a private school for girls, before asking to spend her last two years of high school boarding at King’s College in Auckland – a decision she regretted.[5] Her first job was as a cashier and server at a Wholly Bagel Café in Wellington, later working in retail stores selling clothing.[6]
She was privileged( typical of the right) and she worked selling bagels?( come back Jacinda)
Leader Simon Bridges appointed Willis National’s spokesperson on early childhood education.
She should have stuck to making babies.
If only Jacindas caring smile and concerned brow was genuine, this shit would not be happening.