Ummmm, should The Faff be making enormous geopolitical decisions for NZ without an adult present?
Look.
We all love The Faff.
He’s the person Chippy and Robbo put into a Ministry when they want nothing achieved.
The Faff’s nickname is ‘The Blocker’ and he’s been great at that.
His inability to get any reform done on anything unless it’s been subcontracted out to Tracey Martin, his handing of vast sums of money to media for ‘journalism’ and his remarkable talent of not being able to answer basic questions over legislation he is pushing all mark him out as a great bloke you’d have a beer with in the safe knowledge that nothing will ever get done.
Now I’m not suggesting for one second that The Faff is our most hopeless Minister, Poto Williams and Carmel Sepuloni are locked in a death cage match for that honour, but The Faff ain’t our sharpest tool in the shed either eh, and that’s why we are all universally concerned that he is the last person to sign off on a geopolitically destabilising decision that will have profound global ramifications, and if you aren’t worried that Chris’s name is appearing in a sentence that includes the words ‘geopolitically destabilising’ and ‘profound global ramifications’, you aren’t paying attention…
New Zealand faces global pressure over move to let resident be extradited to China
New Zealand is under international pressure to stop the extradition of a resident to China, after a landmark supreme court decision allowed the government to send a man accused of murder to Shanghai to face trial.
The decision was a reversal of previous court rulings, which blocked extradition on the grounds that Kyung Yup Kim, the accused, would be at high risk of torture or an unfair trial.
Now legislators and members of parliament from around the world, including the UK, Australia and Europe, have now written to prime minister Jacinda Ardern and justice minister Kris Faafoi, saying the case would set “a dangerous precedent” and could open the door to other extraditions. If it proceeds, Kim’s case will be the first time New Zealand has sent a resident to face trial in China.
…how the fuck our Supreme Court came up with this brain fart of a decision is a debate for another day, but that it’s been left to The Faff is deeply alarming!
I appreciate Grant, Chippy, Nania, Willie Jackson, Andrew Little, Kiri Allan and David Parker are all very busy, buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut surely this is a decision that the Immigration Minister shouldn’t be making on his own here eh?
Like, there should be an adult in the room while Chris makes this enormous geopolitical decision right?
Right?
Someone tell me there will be another Cabinet Minister (not Poto or Carmel) in the room when he makes the decision.
A decision that could plunge NZ into turmoil with our allies or start a trade war with China at a time when geopolitical tensions are rising as China moves a military base directly into our Pacific neighbourhood.
We aren’t going to let The Faff make this call on his own eh?
Right?
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You missed Megan Woods off the terminally useless list. Don’t let her near it either. There’s just so many to choose from!
I think it’s time, a long time coming in fact, where NZ gets its head around deports, both ways, sets a clear path for citizenship and how you retain that, and overhaul who comes here and with what entitlements that carries.
Deports to despot run countries, I.e. dictators, is always off the list but can they be tried here? We don’t want dangerous people walking our streets and a carte blanche rule to say a paedophile or murderer is safe in NZ is insanity simply because they now live here cannot apply.
And 501’s. Australia itself lends its political culture toward kiwi’s failing because there is no support whatsoever if something goes wrong. John Howard saw to that, the same John Howard loved by the National Party. That policy in itself magnifies what may have been an smaller issue into a major one.
Signify an end to the trans Tasman visa arrangements. I strongly suspect their access to cheap similarly educated non union labour suits them nicely but it is causing us more harm than good. Go to a stock standard visa application like going to any other country. So, you leave to settle there, you sign a waiver acknowledging your citizenship expires as you must take up theirs, or you fail to return and contribute to the PAYE system for a continuous 2 years every 5, and you’re persona non grata to us. Then when Australia tries to ship out “their rubbish”, we reject it! And if Aussies throw their toys out of the cot, so be it! Personal decisions to migrate to high risk low reward zones like Australia that amplify failure should not haunt the rest of us when it goes wrong.
Our inconsistent, complex and politicised immigration system is harming good people here, daily. Time it changed!
We have so much more to lose vis a vis he relationship with Australia. They can as easily import cheap labour from other nations and I really don’t think they’d even notice let alone care if there were less Kiwis going there to be drivers, miners, chefs or whatever.
Ok, it is great for some who want to get rich quick. However, factor in the social costs for the rest of us who have to deal with criminals who learned their trade in Australia, and whose families were excluded from the welfare citizens got when times were rough, and who have no support network when they get here apart from gangs.
Then factor in the effects climate change is starting to have there. We do not need their future refugees anymore than Australia needed the Tampa refugees.
The shit libs are dying in a ditch for a murderer deportation from New Zealand but have nothing to say on Assange, an Australian locked up in Britain for years for bail violation awaiting extradition to America, a country he is not a citizen of, for exposing their WAR CRIMES using journalism. There are no adults in charge.
We should be offering him and his family permanent refugee status (should he ever somehow escape), for the shortened time he may have left on the planet.
What next, extraditing a permanent resident for crimes against NZ copyright?
locked in a death cage match for that honour,
My money’s on the Sep.
Best Blocker Ever.
Here is something that really needs to be unblocked:
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/04/10/overstayers-affected-by-tonga-volcano-eruption-seeking-work-visas/
Their island homes have been destroyed by the eruption.
Sending them back there now is inhumane.