Shane plays to petty ‘tsunami of butter chicken’ bigotry while Labour defines the real issues behind free trade deals
The India free trade deal debate is already being poisoned by race-baiting — but strip that away and a harder question remains. After the NZ fuel crisis and Fonterra’s social licence collapse, why should New Zealanders trust the same corporate voices demanding we sign another deal we haven’t even seen?
Ugh.
Shane made his ‘tsunami of butter chicken’ comment on fringe hate network, Reality Check Radio.
As anti-Indian rhetoric starts becoming graffitied in Auckland…
New graffiti inciting racial violence found in Auckland’s Royal Oak
A new piece of graffiti carrying a violent, anti-Indian message has been discovered in Auckland, heightening concerns after a similar incident over the weekend.
…we should denounce Shane but we should equally refuse to allow his race baiting to cloud the issue.
Don’t fall for the distraction — the real issue is the trade deal
The Issue isn’t Indians, the issue is free trade deals!
After Fonterra’s social licence collapse, being told to “just trust” business leaders on an India free trade deal feels less like economic strategy and more like déjà vu. The same voices who pushed us into paying global prices at home now want a blank cheque on trade — before we’ve even seen the terms.
We have just seen how Fonterra trashed their social contract with us by abandoning any pretence of value-added production, while forcing New Zealanders to pay international prices against domestic demand we were never meant to compete with.
So why would we trust Business New Zealand to sign off on an India free trade deal?
Businesses, Luxon, call on parties to ‘get on board’ with the India FTA
BusinessNZ placed the ads, featuring an open letter to political parties, in The Post and NZ Herald on Monday. The letter was co-signed by 28 other organisations, including major exporters like Zespri and representative groups such as Federated Farmers and New Zealand Winegrowers.
“The reduction in barriers secured in this FTA will directly benefit sectors such as horticulture, sheep meat, seafood, wine, honey, wood products, seeds and natural fibres, machinery, digital technology, and services, unlocking new opportunities for growth,” the letter reads.
“We call on all parties across Parliament to uphold New Zealand’s bipartisan approach to trade by supporting the agreement.”
Stuff
We’ve seen this movie before — and it didn’t end well
Why would we trust them on anything they’re claiming?
We still haven’t seen the actual terms.
Why trust them when they always ensure their interests are protected first — and not ours?
New Zealand Labour Party has every right to hold this process up until there are real safeguards in place to ensure New Zealand workers are not disadvantaged.
Because once it’s signed, that’s it. These deals don’t get rewritten when the promises fall apart — and history suggests they often do.
Because this is the trick, isn’t it?
Stir up enough outrage, enough division, enough cheap rhetoric — and no one notices the deal being signed behind closed doors.
And by the time we do, it’s already locked in.
Well done you Minister of hyperbolic (space). Of all the dishes you could have chosen for your bigoted wee sledge, you went with the gateway dish for timid western palates. Legend
Here’s the deal. A tradeoff between market access and access to immigration. The export lobby is strong so no surprises who gets the nod.
I live in Auckland – and have done so for some time on and off and during the so-called Asian invasion following the scrapping of the ‘white only’ policies and rekaxation of CCP policy. Auckland has changed big time since the new millennium. But change was occurring in the 90s.
Aucklanders felt threatened. Not only here. Too many Asians. English too tough for some. Social cohesion under threat. Indians? Policy makers thought because they learned English at school – a legacy of British imperialism in India – we’d be better off with. Now the trade deal has accelerated Indian immigration.
But here’s the rub. A day in the life of an retired Aucklander. An early morning blood test (clinitian from the Phillipines) ordered by a Chinese GP. A winter flu jab from the pharmacist, Chinese. Back home and a trip to the library to pick up some books. Librarian Korean. Stop off at the supermarket. From everywhere but supervisor from Nepal. Didn’t have what I wanted so a stop at the Indian speciality shop. No guessing who the shop assistant was. Needed some gas – ouch! Indian again. Later in the evening caught a bus into the city to see a movie. Driver Chinese. Looked out the window at some road workers. I could go on. Crickey, I’m Welsh/ English and I seem to be a minority.
And jobs across the board. GPs, health clinicians, pharmacists, librarians, bus drivers, service attendants, enginners, plant operators, labourers.
Shane Jones is a smart guy. A Rhodes Scholar no less. Travelled extensively. Works in the capital. Perhaps he’s lost some perspective after the summer in the Hokianga. But we all know. A polititian by trade. He’ll attract votes.
Looking for Indian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani and Sri Lankan individuals seeking a job following No Shame Jones around and yelling:
“We’re sick of the avalanche of WANKERS masquerading as politicians”
“I pay for my own butter chicken, Shane can’t even pay for his own porn!”
“Stop rhetorically wanking Shane, give us a demo of how you spent our money on rubbing one out”
And what was Hipkins response. He mentions appalling rascist graffitti. Ok but, he didnt go near the issue.
The Indian trade deal is India using diaspora to mine and extract billions of dollars of cash remittances out of AoNZ.
Why didnt he say he is going to protect jobs for kiwis?
Why didnt he say 40% of immigrants coming from India is unbalanced and say that he would limit immigrants from one country to say 5% or 10% per year?
Butt out, Business NZ, and put your brains into gear! The problem with the India FTA agreement is the complete lack of Transparency – we are still to see ALL the terms. So what is the devious, deceitful Luxon hiding from us? This agreement can go nowhere until all is revealed. If it isn’t passed it can be renegotiate after the election, but we will still demand openness and honesty.
Your comments as usual are pathetic politically biased rubbish with no basis in fact.
Bob…
You’ve been warned about Winnie pulling your pants down in public so everyone can see the skid marks on your undies.
“For his part, Winston Peters is doubling down on his opposition to the deal. He’s also criticised the business sector for signing the open letter to politicians. “How on earth can there be any sort of proper analysis of the FTA if they haven’t even read the agreement? This is tantamount to those businesses signing a contract blindfolded. This is an appalling image for the professionalism of New Zealand business leadership.”
https://www.ruralnewsgroup.co.nz/rural-news/rural-general-news/nz-india-fta-exporters-political-deadlock
So you’ve been proven to be ignorant and out of your depth AGAIN!
We’ll wait for you to take accountability and apologise, like an adult.
Oh wait! You never do that because you’re a foolish child.