Its called a trade off Marc you cant get your way all of the time unless you have the numbers that is why the RMA changes weren’t passed the gnatties didn’t have the support to get it passed as Cullen and the Maori party would not support the changes.

Don’t worry, they will get the soft former Nat voters, or swing voters, primarily females from the middle class suburbs will vote for them, mainly because of ‘Jacinda Dear’.

Labour have again betrayed their activists, who they always appeal to for help for when in crisis, and before and election. Conveniently used and abused, again and again, it seems.

The call could be to repeal Quinn’s under 3 year imprisonment bill. But why stop there; why not give all prisoners the vote? That would take away any drive to lock up people for political reasons.

What annoys me about the Czech is that he seems to be a highly privileged kick boxer star (therefore deemed to be a person of great importance in the eyes of politicians) person who screws up repeatedly into criminal behaviour and our bungling immigration system and poor judgement from our government ministers, gives him another free pass at the expense of the taxpayers struggling in NZ and when he has ABUNDANT other options once deported, where is exactly he should be and never allowed in NZ again. Will the NZ government get it right, or are they going to rub people’s noses in it, again, by allowing this guy to stay on humanitarian grounds or being a nark! What a crock!

Any migrant who ends up in jail should have their assets seized like the do to Kiwis and that pays for their stay. Aka his share of that 2 million Remuera mansion paid back to the justice system and then he be deported with his own assets paying for his deportation.

The courts seem to have no issue taking from Kiwi criminals but then are happy allowing migrant criminals to profit from living here, even if they are costing hundreds of thousands in prison and stealing from others or illegally speculating on property.

Why is our government so interested in supporting rich migrant bludgers and giving them the red carpet treatment for residency while throwing away the key to their own people, who some of in jail never knew a day of privilege in their entire lives and the state probably has a lot of blame in the situation if they were in care during their youth????

How do you reintergrate prisoners into society if you completely cut them off from that same society? Any ideas?

Come on Andrew Little, GET SOME GUTS!!