It’s election time, here comes the Taxpayers’ Union and ACT Party self-manufactured fragile snowflake war on Farmers
Oh here we go, It’s election time, so here comes the Taxpayers’ Union and ACT Party self-manufactured fragile snowflake war on Farmers…
…so ACT are promising:
- More crime fear mongering
- Allowing Farmers to get away with more pollution
- More slaves for Farmers
- Using DOC land for free.
We are giving the Farmers MORE?
WTF?
WE ALREADY BEND OVER BACKWARDS FOR THE BLOODY FARMERS!
We created a monopoly for them, a monopoly they use to gain the highest price offshore WHICH WE THEN HAVE TO PAY!
How can we compete with 500million Chinese middle class consumers when tiger is only 5million of us living here?
We have to pay an international price for a product that steals water and poisons the land!
A Cow shits and pisses as much as 14 humans.
There are 10million cows.
That’s 140million human pissing and shitting Ito our water ways EVERY SINGLE YEAR!
Wee bend over backwards for Farming!
We sold 49% of our electricity assets to create a $400million irrigation slush fund.
We weakened the methane targets AND we are building Fonterra an LPG terminal AND we are allowing them to secretly write policy to kill off Mike Smith’s legal case against them!
We do all this and YET THE FARMERS WANT MORE!?!?
When the fuck are they going to pick up their end of the couch?
They represent 12% of the country yet have 100% control of politics, the economy and society AND YET they have the audacity to play the fucking victim like a Karen wearing gumboots!
Here’s Jordan Williams with the manufactured war on the Farms…
…Ever since the Taxpayers Union started plowing vast amounts of Dark Ag money into astroturf groups like Groundswell to corrupt due process and stir up the rednecks, NZ Farmer culture has become feral, sectarian and dominated by big money.
The Government does whatever their Farmer mates want, damn the environment and Māori interests in water!
The polling numbers don’t lie, Farmers are culturally sectarian in their allegiance to the polluters and they will never, ever, ever change…
How would farmers vote if an election were held today? The results might surprise you
National:54%
ACT:19%
NZ First:8%
Labour:3%
Greens:2%
Te Pati Māori:1%
Other:1%
Unsure:12%
…THEY CAN NOT BE NEGOTIATED WITH!
They are sectarian!
Labour foolishly (enabled by James Shaw) tried to cut deals with Farmers and Farmers turned and shat in our face!
Dark money from the agricultural industry soaks into the astro-turf Taxpayer’s Union stable of clients and enables Groundswell to stop any environmental improvements.
National disgracefully appointed a Dairy Industry Stooge as the Chief Scientist while bring back the 100% Pure greenwash tourism campaign!
Just consider the manner in which Corporate Dairy have seized control of NZ’s political right…
The Climate Change Commission recommends methane cuts of 35-47%. However, under pressure from lobby groups like Federated Farmers – whose ex-President Andrew Hoggard is now an ACT Party MP – the Government established a separate panel to review the methane target in line with this controversial tool. That panel landed on a much weaker methane target.
Larsson says, “The Luxon Government chose to sideline its independent, science-based climate advisory body by setting up a separate review panel with the very narrow task of giving it the answers it wanted. No wonder international climate scientists are raising the alarm.”
Further OIA documents show that the Methane Review Panel only met with agribusiness stakeholders, including a Groundswell-linked lobby group.
Greenpeace says this is just the tip of the iceberg. The organisation has unveiled documents showing the startling level of influence that groups like Federated Farmers, Dairy NZ and Beef+Lamb NZ have had over government policy. This includes writing draft policy and communications plans for Ministers.
…consider the criticisms of Professor MacCulloch…
Perhaps the most under-explored aspect of MacCulloch’s critique is his consistent condemnation of corporate New Zealand’s underperformance. He argues that the real drag on New Zealand’s productivity isn’t just government bureaucracy, but the incompetence of private sector leadership.
Business is too focused on getting either special legislative deals from the government of the day, or else corporate subsidies from the taxpayer. According to MacCulloch, the last Government’s Covid Wage Subsidy Scheme was a giant transfer of $18bn to some of the wealthiest businesses in the country, most of whom didn’t need it.
Pointing to the stagnation of the NZX50 and the dismal share performance of dominant companies like Fletcher Building and Air New Zealand, he suggests that cushy directorships and an old boys’ club mentality have entrenched mediocrity.
…this total policy capture by polluter interests is the reason we are being attacked on the global stage by International Climate Scientists…
Scientists accuse New Zealand and Ireland of trying to cover up livestock emissions
Leading climate scientists have accused politicians in New Zealand and Ireland of using an “accounting trick” to back their sheep and cattle industries, warning their support for methane-emitting livestock could undermine global efforts to fight climate change. In an open letter shared with the Financial Times, 26 climate scientists from around the world warned that New Zealand’s proposed new methane targets risk setting a dangerous precedent.
…that’s right!
The Corporate Dairy industry has spent millions donating to National and putting dark money into Right Wing astroturf organisations to shut down any meaningful climate emissions targets that the rest of the world has noticed the policy corruption and are now calling us out.
We are being attacked internationally for being a climate criminal all because National refuse to stand up to their Corporate Dairy interests.
The Carbon Capture ‘technology’ that National have banked all our emission offsets on doesn’t work…
Carbon capture: Pivotal project for cutting greenhouse gas emissions looks shaky
A critical part of the government’s plan for cutting greenhouse gas emissions over the next five years appears to have fallen over.
…and in the last budget National cut 50% to climate finance, barely any cuts to emissions, all while slashing foreign aid for our Pacific brothers and sisters by cutting climate aid by $100m.
This Government is a Climate Denial Government who are refusing to do anything about the coming adaptation because they are paid by the polluters.
That’s why they lowered the methane target, that’s how they have been caught out writing big polluter policy.
So how does the Left respond?
Let them hang!
World’s highest court sends shot across bow of NZ’s climate policy
A landmark ruling from the International Court of Justice has found increasing fossil fuel production could breach international human rights law, said all nations must tackle climate change even if they are not parties to the Paris Agreement, and renders polluting states responsible for climate reparations.
The advisory opinion, released early Thursday morning at the court’s headquarters in The Hague, had the unanimous support of all 15 justices. Legal experts said it had serious implications for developed countries’ climate policies, including New Zealand’s.
“It’s an incredibly powerful and important judgment. It’s the first time the ICJ, one of the world’s highest courts, has clarified states’ obligations on climate change. This has a particular importance and relevance for New Zealand and it raises real questions around whether New Zealand’s climate approach actually accords with what’s required of us under international law,” Jessica Palairet, executive director of Lawyers for Climate Action New Zealand, told Newsroom.
…radical legal punishment for climate change is coming and there’s nothing these Right wing Farmers are going to be able to do to stop it!
Fonterra have desecrated their social contract with us by forcing us to pay the same price as 500 million middle class Chinese!
They pollute our environment while price gouging us!
LOOK AT THOSE NUMBER AGAIN
- National:54%
- ACT:19%
- NZ First:8%
- Labour:3%
- Greens:2%
- Te Pati Māori:1%
- Other:1%
- Unsure:12%
You can’t negotiate with a sectarian culture like that, Federated Farmers thought they were being clever promoting this poll, what they have in fact shown us is the Farming community are slaves to the polluters interests and will never ever take their climate change obligations seriously.
Send in the lawyers, use the law to force the polluters to change, no more negotiations!
They were commenting about how there wasn’t a Labour booth at the field day. Why bother? Any farmer who voted Labour would be ostracised, and probably driven off the land. It’s embedded in their DNA.
Agree. They won’t even talk to anyone who’s not a farmer.
Do they think others somehow know how they vote? Don’t they realise it’s a secret ballot and they have privacy for a reason.
I’d hate to feel so constrained but I know people who are.
I was present in Munich, Germany, in November 2023 when the New Zealand Ambassador to Germany Mr Hawk presented the NZ EU deal to mostly a German audience. The agreement emphasises New Zealand’s commitment to climate change adaptation as well as upholding the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi. With this agreement NZ farmers have gained shelf space in EU supermarkets.They take climate change very seriously in Germany and a number of other EU countries. Many countries in the EU produce dairy products and want as much shelf space as possible When french, italian and greek farmers find out the NZ government is pissing on its commitments to climate change they will eventually demand NZ products and produce be removed from EU supermarket shelves and be replaced with EU produce and products until NZ changes its policy. When Ireland, which had a long history of resisting and fighting colonial occupation by the English, finds out about the current racist policy the NZ government has towards Maori by breaking the NZ EU trade agreement; by undermining the Treaty of Waitangi in legislation and in education; by attacking the use of Te Reo Maori in schools and cutting funding for iwi climate change initiatives, the Republic of Ireland too could easily demand NZ produce and products be removed from EU supermarket shelves until there is a change of policy by the New Zealand government. Peter Marra, Master of International Development (Massey). Former resident of Munich, invited by the New Zealand Embassy in Berlin to attend the New Zealand ambassador’s presentation of NZ EU trade deal
Farmers, in the form of Federated Farmers really don’t want the rest of us to like them and they’ve been like that for years.
They love to play the downtrodden underdogs, the poor little victims.
The unappreciated hard-working sons and daughters of the earth.
Then they go and get another Ranger to make themselves feel better.
I didn’t grow up on a farm but my father worked supplying equipment to farmers, milking machines. He always thought they were the backbone of the country too but he also saw their weaknesses at that time, dirty polluters and not too good with animal welfare. That was the ’60s.
Next time we have catastrophic weather of some sort and predictions make it seem imminent, drought OR flooding, farmers will have their hands out wanting relief. They’ll show some skinny sheep on TV and we’ll all say, yes they need relief.
What we don’t see is the new tractor, the flash Ranger and huge house, behind the camera operator.
We don’t see the huge money they got from Fonterra and the nasty looking water draining from their drought-stricken land.
Farmers would say they are too busy working to read much about politics but maybe they should forgo the usual sources and look at who really works hard for farmers.
Thinking the right does because Luxon scuttles past in his brand new red bands and a swanndi at field days, is dumb.
Just from the TV news I detected a level of discontent with this CoC govt. Farmers aren’t all fooled by Luxon’s talk. Some have been thinking harder and can see the truth now.
A lot of farmers now vote ACT .I wonder if they know that ACT dont like corporate welfare which means they wont be getting any drought relief from them .I guess the other two parties will suck up and give them a few billion .