Why would anyone trust anything Chris Bishop has to say? National are manufacturing housing crisis for Landlords
Bishop announces no mass sell off of state house, next day Luxon refuses to define what ‘mass’ is.
Bishop has a track record of saying one thing and then being unable to back it up.
He claimed a renters rights group loved his plan to allow Landlords to throw you out onto the street but then refused to give anyone the name of that organisation.
He claimed he understood the pain of renters because he was a renter, when asked if he was renting from family, he said no, only for it to turn out he was renting it from his in-laws and he didn’t consider them technically ‘family’.
He has this habit of lying to deflect criticism even when the lies can be easily discovered.
By attacking Kianga Ora, he is manufacturing a housing crisis for the benefit of landlords!
National don’t have $60m for first time home buyers but they do have $2.9b for landlords!
This is what we are now, this is who we is.
We are witnessing a class war but don’t have the political vocabulary to describe it in a country blinded by its egalitarian pretensions.
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This government does not hide its agenda. If you paid your donation pre election you get what you paid for. Big Money and the real estate industry made their donations so landlords get eviction rights and tax relief.
I’m sorry struggling first home buyers, your association didn’t really support us so here’s a kick in the teeth for you.
We are witnessing a class war but don’t have the political vocabulary to describe it in a country blinded by its egalitarian pretensions.
I don’t think you can say this any longer. The demographics of Aotearoa New Zealand have changed so much in the last 40 years that any previous ‘pattern’ of sociological connectedness, fairness and communal responsibility of any kind has been trashed by neoliberalism and its (me first, gimme gimme gimme) individualist adherents. Margaret Thatcher’s famous “there is no such thing as society” was the start of the end of social justice and egalitarianism. Given the current hegemony of neoliberal dogma I wouldn’t expect much change anytime soon.
well put Bob
This!
Bob Breakdown in community maybe began to begin with the advent of television, tho’ initially it was quite exciting going out to a cafe to watch it. Now it’s unwatchable. A universal breakdown in electronic devices could bring about more social connectedness in the way that any cataclysmic event can, but the brutality of neoliberalism is the only dialectic that most of our own politicians know, and the deliberate insecurity of housing and jobs, and acceptance of corruption as norms is bad, and they know this.
John Key and maxy and the two pimps will own all the state houses next year .That why key sold his shares in the tech company so he could free up the deposit and now he no longer works for ANZ they will stump up the rest at 3% .
Bishop is supposed to be a lawyer…
He therefore should not be trusted.
I know 5 lawyers…4 of them are lying untrustworthy overcharging petulant manipulative psychopaths…the other one is a good honest trustworthy bloke.
I think it’s obvious what camp Bishop slots into…However it should come as no surprise!
National draw in people like Bishop like moths are attracted to a
lightbulb….it’s the way they roll!!
He’s a tobacco company rep ergo intrinsically compromised.
As a lobbyist for big tobacco the buffoon has become a skilled liar and frankly dose not know he is doing it so cant tell reallity from the lies