Liking Michael Wood more & more
Minister Michael Wood has lashed out at NZME’s talkback station’s use of an inorganic collection day photo as the main image on a story about a new Kainga Ora development being built in New Plymouth.
Newstalk ZB host Heather du Plessis-Allan shared a piece on-air and online about the new development, titled ‘I don’t think they are being judgemental. I think they’re being realistic’.
In du Plessis-Allan’s piece, she said locals “have very good reason to oppose it and should continue to oppose it and should definitely insist that it’s not in my backyard”.
“Anyone who supports a Kainga Ora/Housing NZ development in their neighbourhood at the moment is being foolish and naive as long as Kainga Ora/Housing NZ continues to run its no evictions policy,” she added.
But it was the image attached to the article that Wood had an issue with, as it showed a street of state housing with piles of rubbish on the front lawn. The photo was actually from Getty and depicted an inorganic collection day in Mt Roskill in 2011.
“I recognise this image. It’s a street I know well in the middle of Mt Roskill,” Wood tweeted.
“Proud, decent people who now have an image of inorganic collection day being used to create an impression that they are lazy, messy, and anti-social.
“Of course genuinely bad behaviour needs to be managed by the landlord, but this sort of inaccurate scare-mongering is just about stirring nasty class politics and clicks. We’ll keep building the houses our families need.”
Firstly, what a politically sleazy thing for Heather du Plessis-Allan and the property speculation pimps at NZME to falsely smear state house tenants with this classist bullshit and think they could get away with it!
What scumbags!
Secondly, how righteous is Michael Wood?
I had doubts when he was Nazi Hunting during Parliament’s Dumb Lives Matter protest, but his courage to stand up for a higher minimum wage in Cabinet and push for better public transport while denouncing these sorts of lazy right wing smears keeps marking him out as a politician of genuine conviction and value.
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Hopefully he’ll give some of his colleagues a slap around their lug holes. He could start with the Faff, then the Sep and work his way up
@OnceWasTim
You advocate giving Carmel Sepuloni a “slap around the lug holes”.
So, let’s read between your right-wing assumptions and suggestions?
Advocating physical violence to a woman is yet another Eggstein and Rummadummass piece of right-wing misogyny. Don’t you right-wing trolls like women (apart from Mrs Palmer)?
Kinda like Key pulling the waitress’s hair?
Like Eggstein et al tormenting and harrassing female politicians.
Like your Nuremberg NZ site threatening women and anyone that doesn’t agree with your outdated right-wing tripe. https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/04-04-2022/inaction-on-nuremberg-site-prompts-calls-for-overhaul-of-a-system-not-fit-for-purpose
Kinda like BFD’s misogynistic T-shirts.
du Plessis-Allan looks more than just politically sleazy to me, she looks downright dishonest. It’s a rotten thing to be doing to locals who may not deserve it. Wood is right to call her out on graphically dirty politicking. Looks to me like somebody put her up to this. ‘Realistic’ transposing one town with another ? No, batty.
Politically sleazy, well she is married to a sleazy political reporter and also from a time in South Africa where class and racism was prevalent.
More dirty politics. Misogynist names for the PM. Eggstein and Donnadummass trolling of female politicians. Nuremberg NZ. More Dirty Politics filth and cesspit politics.
Disgusting.
The actual story was Kainga Ora are such an atrocious landlord under this government that they will hand National and ACT the excuse they need to dispose of them.
Michael Wood, being the politician he is and all he knows, deflects that rather uncomfortable reality to Newstalk ZB’s casual negative stereotypes photo. Fools some I suppose.
And his public transport efforts are superbly limp, still to do a damned thing with Stephen Joyce’s problematic Public Transport Operating Model, do really he operates in the best traditions of any other National government.
On the subject of Stephen Joyce, nothing like a well-aimed low-flying dildo wouldn’t fix.
National Party’s new slogan for 2023 “33 politicians, badly in need of 33, low-flying dlidos!”
ACT’s new slogan for 2023 “10 politicians, badly in need of 10 dildos, plus 20%, or 12 low-flying dildos!”
Heather dPA can be a female version of Tucker Carlson at times. She and Barry probably have a collection of Fox News’ greatest moments to sauce things up. “Ok Barry I‘ll be Tucker and you be Laura Ingram….in three, two, one…..cueing”
Most kiwis have total contempt for renters, they look down on them. Look at parliament, so many landlords whose sole job seems to be reward landlords, the whole filthy neuvo caste system needs to be dismantled.
No surprises there!
H dP-A has never anything good to say about the government.
It was always thus, with her.
… as with her partner Mr BS! Their pillows must reek with vileness and hatred, though they have a child now, so there must be a merest smidgen of love on the pillow.
Sadly, it’s typical of Newstalk ZB who promote themselves as ‘news you can trust’, among other other ludicrous, exaggerated claims.
And…. Mr and Mrs Hoskings, the morning jock/ette -vileness and hatred of the government seems to really turn them on. Poor Mikey, he’s never really got over Jacinda turning him down. Sad!
Yes but the reality is with the Govt policy of not kicking anti social, threatening tenants out of Kaianga Ora, HDA is right for the wrong reasons.
Both she and Woods are scoring political points here
I would protest against Kainga Ora building houses in my street because I wouldn’t trust the Govt (who were so quick to scream out about the “river of filth” on their workplace lawn) not to place anti social tenants in my neighbourhood and then refuse to evict them.
Before I get any sort of pile on here, I grew up in a State Housing area, in the days where people behaved decently to their neighbours. I also now live in a ethnically diverse neighbourhood (which I don’t tout as some sort of left wing virtue signal. I really couldn’t care a toss who my neighbours are as long as they are civil and don’t engage in any anti social activities
as someone who has lived in a “mixed” community, it’s great. Takes the edge off the smell of disinfectant if you ask me.
Surely the media and identity brigade should be complaining how Woods is a stale, pale, male while du Plessis-Allan is a wonderful female, migrant who deserves to denigrate and sneer at Kiwi’s due to her superior identity and media presence?
Notice, two young men in the Herald took their lives, who seemed to have a lot to live for, and be well liked and supported, but maybe constantly being told their identities as white, male in NZ, which they can not easily change, is part of the problem.
Multiple school shootings from both ethnicities towards the other in the US, part of the soft power, race division tactics, to destable the west.
Time to celebrate people for who they are and their contribution to others, not their identity.
What happened to equal rights for citizens of a country and tourism/OE a temporary way to learn about other countries without becoming a permanent resident or citizen to fuel wage/skill competition?
Seems to have gone out the window with globalism and neoliberalism with job skills getting cheaper and less skilled to keep people poorer and more desperate.
Michael Wood has the ability to think independently, beyond neo liberal orthodoxy.
The return of NZ operated Coastal Shipping is another one on the board for him-and the unionists and industry lobby that never gave up over many years.
The state sector snake pit seemingly can’t stand over him to the extent they do with other ministers.
Agreed Tiger he is articulate and intelligent, the opposition and a few of his own could learn a lesson.