@Smudge said in NZ Politics:
@nzzp said in NZ Politics:
@Smudge not sure you understand - this is Dirty Politics or a right wing conspiracy.
Some of the whataboutery from Teatowel Twitter is a sight to behold.
`"release the Uffendiel report"
@Smudge said in NZ Politics:
@nzzp said in NZ Politics:
@Smudge not sure you understand - this is Dirty Politics or a right wing conspiracy.
Some of the whataboutery from Teatowel Twitter is a sight to behold.
`"release the Uffendiel report"
@MN5 said in NZ Politics:
@booboo said in NZ Politics:
Repeated reports that
a. The Dec 23rd incident was the second of two
b. A second prominent Greens member, well known in Auckland Central, was in attendanceDoes Marama pay for her own dresses or steal them ?
Or maybe the almost as ghastly Chloe Swarbrick ?
Second tag for @jegga @paremata….I always love his views on this stuff
she may well be the perfect woman, smoking hot , terrible taste in men , capable of terrible lapses in judgment and keeps the household budget in check in creative ways.
From the river to the sea
Her high end fashoin will be free.
@Dan54 said in Car/ute advice please.:
@Snowy Thanks mate, I meant to be having a look today, and will take notice of rust etc, fella I getting it off says there is a smidgen of surface rust, etc, but obviously I need to look myself.
If its a diesel take it to a diesel mechanic for a look first .The 5l engines last a long time with proper servicing but the cost of getting a fuel pump replaced for an electronic injected version is pretty eye watering.
@Snowy said in Car/ute advice please.:
@mariner4life GFYs.
I miss @jegga He was a hiluxophile and would not have stood for that sort of shit either.
Actually, you saved yourself a very nasty stay in the cellar with the last bit because I agree with that (although you are out by about a year. 19 would be better).
You're not wrong. Last year the local toyota dealer somehow got the impression I have money and gave their hilux demonstrator for the weekend while my van was getting serviced. Compared to the 78-05 models they are incredibly fat and soft now.
You should look into the legality of towing your digger. The police lost the money from speed cameras to Waka NoMahi so they are looking for new revenue streams and a crackdown on trailers and towing is on its way. The tow rating of a 2wd lux of your era is surprisingly low but if you've got a winch and bullbar you might be over the towball rating .
@Nevorian said in Car/ute advice please.:
Are Landcruisers a thing in NZ. Perfect vehicle for the OZ environment, latest models with a few extras now well over a 100k though
Yeah, the 24 valve 80 series really hold their value here . Shame the 70 series goes back to four cylinder next year.
To be fair these clowns are beyond parody now , the photo of dear leader in this article barbecueing with her coat on and all the dials turned off says more about them than that song
Well done whoever put this together
@dogmeat said in NZ Politics:
@jegga Interesting Question. Here are their 2017 Election promises
Health
From July 1, 2018, Labour will lower the cost of GP visits by $10; provide increasing government funding for all practices that lower their fees by $10; lowering the average non-VLCA fee from $42 to $32 and the maximum fee from $69 to $59; increasing funding for GP training places, taking the intake to 300 per year Done the fees not sure about rest
Immigration
Ensure businesses are able to get genuinely skilled migrants when they need them. This will include introducing an Exceptional Skills Visa for highly skilled or talented people and introducing a KiwiBuild Visa for residential construction firms who train a local when they hire a worker from overseas. Strengthen the labour market test for work visas so they are not being used for jobs Kiwis can do, and make the skills shortage lists more regional so migrants coming in under them can only live and work in areas where there is a genuine skills shortage.Pretty hard to judge as Border came down but suspect this is a fail
Trade
Expand New Zealand's export markets through trade agreements; preserve regulatory sovereignty, including the right to ban foreign buyers of New Zealand homes and farmland; diversify the export base; support exporters to add value to exports.Too long term to judge. Pretty anodyne policy targets
Conservation
Establish a $75 million annual Tourism and Conservation Infrastructure Fund to pay for projects that will improve the experience of visitors to New Zealand and enhance the natural environment. The $75 million a year will come from a $25 per visit levy on international visitors who are not citizens or residents of New Zealand.Did they do this? Can't remember. Window dressing anyway
Transport
Create a passenger rail service linking Auckland, Hamilton and Tauranga and, if justified by demand, upgrade it in stages to a rapid rail network throughout the Golden Triangle; build light rail from the CBD to Auckland Airport as part of a new light rail network to be built over the next decade with routes to the central suburbs, the airport, and West Auckland, which will later be extended to the North Shore; commit an additional $100 million from the National Land Transport Fund in capital investment to Greater Christchurch multi-modal public transport, including commuter rail from Rolleston to the CBD as a first step.LOL
Employment
Labour's workplace relations package includes increasing the minimum wage to $16.50 an hour; replacing the current National Government's "fire at will'' law with fair trial periods that provide both protection against unjustified dismissal and a simple, fair, and fast referee service; introducing Fair Pay Agreements that set fair, basic employment conditions across an industry based on the employment standards that apply in that industry; promoting the living wage by paying it to all workers in the core public service, and extending it to contractors over time; doubling the number of Labour Inspectors. I'd say - unsurprisingly - they have a pass here. Hard to believe minimum wage was less than $16 only four years ago
Housing
Building homes people can afford to buy, and restoring the Kiwi dream of owning your own place through the KiwiBuild programme and the Affordable House Authority; A three-point plan to crack down on speculators by banning offshore speculators from buying houses, taxing speculators who flip a house within five years, and ending the speculators' tax loophole; ensuring homes are healthy to live in and building state houses for families in need.Well they did expand the Brightline test but Housing has been another failYou can also add in the most transparent government ever, the climate change is our nuclear moment and the war on child poverty as high profile fails.
It was only election promises. Not many governments live up to them and Labour can say that they went out the window when they had to enter a coalition, but there is no denying they have over promised and under delivered on most things.
Ardern campaigned on reducing homelessness in fact in 2018 she claimed she’d have the homeless housed within four weeks
That didn’t go well https://borgenproject.org/homelessness-in-new-zealand/
Their biggest promise was kiwibuild which was supposed to increase our housing stock and bring down property prices . The policy itself has been an abject failure and property prices have soared under labours watch .
There’s fuck all for them to look back on and point to as a success apart from the astounding feat of isolating one of the most isolated countries on the planet which they have now managed to fuck up
Really, fuck these people. The idiots in National who backed Muller and reduced the party to a shambles can get fucked too
@dogmeat said in NZ Politics:
@jegga getting ready for the backlash over an ultimately fucked up Covid response? After all they were neck and neck with Bridges NP until Covid intervened.
Can you think of a single policy they campaigned on that’s actually been a success? Labour fanboys bleated about $27 mill on Keys vanity project but these clowns just blew $54 million on a bridge that didn’t actually get built .
They campaigned last time on covid and that’s turned to shit now we have gas prices going up which means inflation is on the way and already businesses going broke .
If it’s any comfort to you NZ going into recession it traditionally the first sign labour are about to lose an election.
@jc said in NZ Politics:
@jegga So a 16 year old is old enough to decide who runs the country but not old enough to decide whether to drink alcohol or smoke / vape?
Not old enough to choose a tattoo but old enough to choose who runs the country.
Pathetic really cynical , they must be assuming that National won't continue to be a joke in two years and they'll need every vote they can get.
@kirwan said in NZ Politics:
@dogmeat said in NZ Politics:
@jegga while the optics are terrible I can actually see a point to getting a gang leader to tell gang members to get jabbed. As long as that's what he did and all he did.
The Panel on National Radio had a listener poll on lowering the voting age to 16 and apparently 60% were in favour.
I reckon they misheard and thought the moot was "should the voting age be changed to 60?"!
In an environment where peope are not allowed to see their relatives die in hospital, special treatment for criminals can go and get fucked.
I was being sarcastic when I branded them the Labour Mongrel Mob, now I have to wonder if I was on the money. Literally.
Its now two gang leaders not one. One of them was Harry Tam , after all as he says Jacinda Ardern trusts him why don't you?
People are getting so used to their excesses now that gang members killing someone with an axe on a towns main street barely occupies the news cycle any more.
Labours shills have been busy today trying to pretend that there was no problem waiting six weeks to talk to Pfizer because they didn’t have their vaccine ready . That of course ignores the fact that pretty much every other nation that went with Pfizer didn’t see any problem doing a deal at that stage and we went to the front…..,sorry back of the queue.
This is another story that’s aged well
Once again , fuck these people.
Or this , i am shocked, shocked I tell you that this the same people behind the enormous success of Kiwibuild which has built to date (checks notes) …...1000 houses? Wtf ?
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has defended New Zealand’s slow roll out of the Covid-19 vaccine, insisting its not a level playing field between countries.
New Zealand is well below fellow OECD countries when it comes to our vaccination rates per capita.
That’s compared to the likes of Israel with 60.97 per cent, France at 13.58 per cent and Ireland with 12.90 per cent of people vaccinated on a per capita basis.
Ardern bit back at criticism, highlighting the importance of ensuring nations hit hardest by Covid-19 have access to the vaccine.
This aged well
In New Zealand, we're in a special situation. We don't have to give emergency approval. We can take a step back and look at all the evidence before we make a decision on whether this vaccine is safe and effective enough. It's not a foregone conclusion ... and it shows we're doing our own homework, and not relying on other countries to do it for us.
"The situation in New Zealand is such that we can wait, if we have to.
"No one is dying if we wait. Whereas in other countries, even if the vaccine was less safe, they may give authorisation because it would save more lives in the net."
Daalder points out the moral imperative too: the whole world wants to get their hands on Covid vaccines. But, to put it simply, other countries need it more than New Zealand at this point.
@dogmeat said in NZ Politics:
@jegga while the optics are terrible I can actually see a point to getting a gang leader to tell gang members to get jabbed. As long as that's what he did and all he did.
The Panel on National Radio had a listener poll on lowering the voting age to 16 and apparently 60% were in favour.
I reckon they misheard and thought the moot was "should the voting age be changed to 60?"!
The chances of that being all he did are about the same as a one legged cat burying its turd in a frozen pond . He’s a gang member.
Anyone with teenage kids understands the insanity of giving 16 year olds the vote , it reminds me of the when we voted for out proportional representation system . The people that stood to gain the most like the greens were right behind it , unfortunately for them Winston Peters was ultimately the winner there. This is them trying again to tilt things in their favour because most of the country finds them so unpalatable
@kirwan said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@jegga if someone isn’t fired over that it will be a disgrace
I stopped expecting competence or accountability from these people along time ago . I just wish they looked after the rest of us like they look after the gangs
Remember when the government said we would be at the front of the queue for vaccines?
Then when it was obvious that we were no where near the front of the queue they tried to pretend that it was because they were being benevolent to other countries and we’d done so well we didn’t need to get to the front of the queue ?
This bullshit was actually in a vaccine pamphlet when the vaccine rollout was proceeding at a glacial pace
Now it turns out we were never at the front of the queue and we didn’t bother talking to Pfizer for six weeks which was after everyone else got their orders in and made our procurement late and therefore more time for our failure of an MIQ setup to let Delta in .
Seriously, fuck these incompetents and the people that themselves out trying to make excuses for them .
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - New Zealand:
@crucial I read it, maybe you need to read what I said, again?
You were right , I read it .
National released a plan . Labour and their online shills-like Clint Smith And Neale Jones have spent the week deriding it and next week the government will adopt most of it as they have been doing recently with most National ideas.
We are now 39th on Bloomberg’s covid response, along way from when Arden and co were getting high off the international praise for the incredible feat of isolating one of the most isolated countries on the planet .
Australia have announced they are lifting all travel restrictions next month while our largest city is sealed off from the rest of the country. We will be one of the last to open up and hopefully before the next election we get a chance to look at the real toll this has taken with delayed surgeries and screenings , mental health and suicides. I guarantee it’s going to be ugly reading .
I’n the meantime if Clark Gayford could shut the fuck up that would be great ,