How bad would the conflict policies of a National/ACT Government be?
I don’t believe for one second that the vast majority of Kiwis have any true comprehension of just how radical a National/ACT Government would truly be.
Luxon can’t even get his own tax policy straight and David Seymour is already bullying him into backing down!
If it’s a National/ACT Government, it will be Seymour calling the shots.
The quick yellow fox will jump all over the lazy blue log and David Seymour will get all his crazy policy passed without Luxon caring.
- Māori going to the Waitangi Tribunal over cancellation of 3 waters: The moment the National/ACT Government scrap 3 Waters, Māoridom will go straight back to the Waitangi Tribunal, win the Court Case and force Luxon into his own Helen Clark moment and be forced to pass law to simply confiscate the water. This will cause an enormous eruption of violent protest.
- Mass immigration: National will simply implement John Key’s pump and dump policy of open door immigration to inflate growth rates while causing enormous stress on the groaning underfunded infrastructure and send rents soaring. This will cause enormous social dislocation and a rise in race relation tensions.
- Expansion of Oranga Tamariki Big Data Experiment: National created the Oranga Tamariki Frankenstein and wants more welfare decided by algorithm as a means to de-invest welfare. Luxon has already championed this model.
- Mass Dairy intensification: It’s all National have as an economic policy.
- Mass Property Speculation: They will remove any of the bare tinkering Labour did and help the speculators spin prices higher.
- Mutilation of the State: ACT are serious about wanting to amputate the Ministry for Women, Youth, Māori, Pacific People and Ethnic Communities while slashing the Human Rights Commission. The resulting Public Service strikes will gridlock Wellington. If there’s one thing the Public Service can do well, it is protesting for their own interests.
- War on Crime: Expect the paramilitary police expansion to occur quickly with a whole dump of new civil liberty breaching powers to supposedly keep us safe but will almost immediately be abused as they increasingly get used on the protesting Left.
- Prison riot and explosion in numbers: The war on crime will see far more in prison and National prefers puritan counter productive prisons so expect them to be crammed full and explode in a seething chain reaction of prison riots once National grant Corrections new powers to beat prisoners with. Corrections are very corrupt and once they gain new powers to bash prisoners with, they’ll be some prisoner who gets beaten within an inch of his life which that will trigger prison riots.
- Rise of more Mass Surveillance & Political violence: The protests such a radical agenda creates will demand the State turn its attention back on the Left while National supporters clutch their pearls appalled at the aggression the Left are protesting with and rally around Luxon rather than criticise the policy. They will call on Luxon to spy on the radical lefties.
- Higher Government Debt: Luxon is no free marketeer, he believes he has 7 properties because Jesus loves him, if debt goes up to pay for the extra prisons, extra Police, extra dairy intensification, extra welfare experiments, extra fake growth, then so be it, he doesn’t care. Oh David Seymour will hate it, but he’ll be so fat and full on his amputation of 6 State agencies that he’ll only be able to mount a burp as a protest.
We have lived through a political period of time since MMP that has managed to dilute and temper the idealogical extremes of Left/Right politics in NZ. The need to compromise and pull punches is fundamental to the MMP dynamic HOWEVER that completely gets thrown out the window if there is no political centre left.
The political centre has been hollowed out so much under MMP that Labour and National are almost indistinguishable in their acquiescence to neoliberal mantra.
The far left and far right have enormous pent up political tension that will rupture once Labour or National are dependent on their numbers for a majority.
ACT’s rise is fuelling a toxic polarisation of politics.
The Far Right Hate Think Tank run by the ghastly Muriel Newman spawns for ACT and they are already using inflammatory language like ‘Tribal Coup’ to describe Co-Governance, and it’s getting local election traction in the more cross burny parts of Nu Zilind…
…the inflammatory language of ‘Tribal Coup’ calls on those fringes to go over the edge in any response.
This doesn’t just impact the far right, the extreme rhetoric by ACT and National against co-governance starts to pull non-voting Māori across to the ballot box in a way that will only amplify Far right fears of an existential threat as the Labour/Green/Māori Party likelihood of a win becomes more possible.
This is the level of friction 15 months out from the election, imagine how much more severe this will be next year and with the looming economic depression?
The true economic damage from Russia for our collective defiance to Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine has barely begun and China will feel obligated to ratchet up tension before the November Conference.
Add to this the evolving Covid variant and extreme climate events, and I think we can make the possible predictions:
- This will be one of the highest turns outs because politics has impacted everyone regardless of who you vote for.
- The Polarisation will become obscene.
- ACT will cannibalise National vote because Luxon won’t be able to be as openly race baiting as ACT will be.
- The political spectrum will shatter and fracture with NZ First and possibly some Qanon anti-vaxx anti-abortion Christian Fringe both crossing 5%.
- An act of political violence is possible.
The naked hypocrisy of the right to twist ‘One person One Vote’ into a negative egalitarian garrotte around the throat of Democracy while screaming ‘we-are-saving-democracy’ is performative art for Fascists.
Because MMP has always brought in moderating forces like NZ First, the pent up political expression of the Right and the Left has been building for almost a quarter of a century and will finally be expressed next year and with the amplification of anger will result in an election that will see resentment whichever side wins.
When you dog whistle up the worst angels of our nature by manufacturing existential threats to democracy, you generate a confrontation that you are ultimately responsible for.
I think the Conflict Policies of a National/ACT Government would be disastrous for this country.
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Humpty Dumpty is a child in the political world, why have a threat in Epson (enemy at the gates) sucking votes…hes a child Humpty
Mutilation of the state is real populist territory and it is flying under the radar now everyone is contesting with Idpol.
Your first point is completely wrong. The people in my area, apart from the older landed class, will not bother to vote because there really is no one for them to vote for. This will also be proved by the local body elections. It will be the lowest turn out in ages.
You will see this trend throughout NZ.
And I shall be doing that too.
I can understand the turn off of normal hard working people to backing either of the main parties but if they do not get your vote you stand the risk of the election being taken over by those led by fanatical anti science anti human rights brigade.
such as Tamaki or Grey.
We have tolerated bad leadership and lies from both sides for so long why stop now when the alternative is far worse
Seemore was in Samoa being nice yet he wants to get rid of the Pacific Ministry the two faced little creep
The Taxpayers Union should be taking David Seymour to court to pay for his hypocritical joyride at the taxpayers’ expense.
But, Zippy Williams won’t take on Seymour, because Seymour and Williams are two branches of the same right-wing attack dog tranche of Right-Wing Dirty Politics.
Probably no worse than current Government.
Can’t defend this shit show of a government, so you scaremonger about what a potential NACT government will achieve.
No one is listening, this government has been an absolute disaster for our most vulnerable. That alone means a change is needed.
Poor Mickeyboyle always on the attack, so nothing new here.
If that elitist prick did not have 7 houses and did not vow to bring back tax cuts to landlords like himself then I may give him the time of day. As it stands enriching himself with his policies feels corrupt.
We can probably forget about any pay rises between 2023 and 2030. Or probably ever. We might even lose our sick leave, paid holidays, leave etc.
People tend to forget that as far as jobs and wages go, workers have never had it so good. Anyone who wants a job can probably get one, and get one that pulls in a decent wage. The fact that National, ACT and the business sector have a big issue with that underlines, that despite Labour record, we need them back in for another term.
“Corrections are very corrupt and once they gain new powers to bash prisoners with, they’ll be some prisoner who gets beaten within an inch of his life which that will trigger prison riots.”
Correction largely outsources this to the gangs. Both National and Labour have allowed the gangs to take over our prisons to make prison as an unpleasant place as possible. Garth McVicar, the SS Trust and their sockpuppets in National and ACT openly condone tougher prisoners being able to rape, beat and shank weaker prisoners to ensure that offenders are ‘punished’. This is what happens in the US prisons.