Thanks Bryce. It goes without saying that the squeezed middle didn't feature in the conference debates, nor the impact on them of the recession., nor the design of working for families, nor the child poverty targets. Take a sole parent earning $42,700 gross with 1 child, getting Working for Families of $241 a week. When she loses her job in the recession, not only is her benefit, once she can get on it, impossibly low, but her WFF falls by nearly $100 a week. We dont have an adequate safety net for the squeezed middle and their children in a recession.
I must add to the history of the Due Drop Convention Centre, and your portrayal of it as a bastion of blue. It was previously branded both Vodafone and Telstra Clear, and was built in the South Auckland community largely due to the passion and drive of Sir Noel Robinson and former Mayor of Manukau Sir Barry Curtis.
Tick tick tick - feels like the inevitable slide (if NZers don’t demand it stop) towards the same corrupt, corporate driven political system that the USA is the "exemplar" for...
I think we are seeing Luxon the businessman pretending to be a politician, faking it till he makes it. The real politicians are Winston and Seymour, and when we voted National in to get Labour party out, we knew it wouldnt be pretty, but it would get the job done. I wouldnt vote for someone who thinks we decide what sex we are as we grow up, and I would like to ask Hipkins how old he was when he decided he was a male, or if he has even decided yet.
" Now, they’re little more than stage-managed PR rallies." -- Run by PR people e.g. Finance Minister Nicola Willis (Finance does need PR though - nothing else will 'help').
"on the “cosy oligopoly” of the big four Australian banks"
This is exactly what the government/Treasury did in 1930 as it lied New Zealand into a central bank to distract from the real aims; debt based currency. Blamed Australian banks, a cheap shot, a lie, and a typical last refuge of scoundrels -- nationalism.
NZ Financial Resets: Part 4e: Treasury Beguiles and A Prussian's Wiles: An Orchestrated Litany of Lies - #3 and #4
Willis. A populist? Anything is possible in the world of PR I guess. A quick look at her background should disabuse any and all of that myth. She is one of the (self-named) elites for sure.
Vacuous BS from a man whose agenda has always been personal aggrandisement. It’s little wonder he seeks all power to reside with him and not the party. This is all just one more step on a long road in the destruction of the democratic process.
Unfortunately I only got through the first third because, like most pulp fiction, I knew what the ending would be. I do not disagree with your comments however your “status” as an academic would have demanded that you compare and contrast with other parties. You didn’t and we all know that your socialist sensibilities prevent you from pointing out that neither of the major parties allow power to grow from the base. I remain disappointed but not surprised at your Nelsonic approach (one eyed).
I checked out a few rich listers. Many in property. Asset inflation isn't wealth creation, it simply transfers a charge elsewhere in the economy - Kurt Richenbauer. So other people ( first home owners and renters) made them rich and now they laud it over others, looking down their noses and feeling ohhh so superior.
The days of mass party membership seem to be over, & not just in NZ. Both major parties have nowhere near the number of members they had, ever since the shock therapy reforms of a generation ago made them quit for other parties. Meanwhile these other parties don't seem to have enough members to be major parties.
Every source bar one is paywalled so the average voter has little access to access thoughtful insights from the third estate. They revert to YouTube, Facebook and other dubious sources of information run by rampant so called think tanks and unregulated lobbyists. Thank you for the article and the insights.
national is toast, if they don’t address the danger to our country, New Zealand, from WEF, WHO, and UN grand plans. not to mention ending the” Treaty” trough.
What a rousingly good article, excuse the enthusiasm. Thank you for it.
Thanks Bryce. It goes without saying that the squeezed middle didn't feature in the conference debates, nor the impact on them of the recession., nor the design of working for families, nor the child poverty targets. Take a sole parent earning $42,700 gross with 1 child, getting Working for Families of $241 a week. When she loses her job in the recession, not only is her benefit, once she can get on it, impossibly low, but her WFF falls by nearly $100 a week. We dont have an adequate safety net for the squeezed middle and their children in a recession.
I must add to the history of the Due Drop Convention Centre, and your portrayal of it as a bastion of blue. It was previously branded both Vodafone and Telstra Clear, and was built in the South Auckland community largely due to the passion and drive of Sir Noel Robinson and former Mayor of Manukau Sir Barry Curtis.
Tick tick tick - feels like the inevitable slide (if NZers don’t demand it stop) towards the same corrupt, corporate driven political system that the USA is the "exemplar" for...
I think we are seeing Luxon the businessman pretending to be a politician, faking it till he makes it. The real politicians are Winston and Seymour, and when we voted National in to get Labour party out, we knew it wouldnt be pretty, but it would get the job done. I wouldnt vote for someone who thinks we decide what sex we are as we grow up, and I would like to ask Hipkins how old he was when he decided he was a male, or if he has even decided yet.
" Now, they’re little more than stage-managed PR rallies." -- Run by PR people e.g. Finance Minister Nicola Willis (Finance does need PR though - nothing else will 'help').
"on the “cosy oligopoly” of the big four Australian banks"
This is exactly what the government/Treasury did in 1930 as it lied New Zealand into a central bank to distract from the real aims; debt based currency. Blamed Australian banks, a cheap shot, a lie, and a typical last refuge of scoundrels -- nationalism.
NZ Financial Resets: Part 4e: Treasury Beguiles and A Prussian's Wiles: An Orchestrated Litany of Lies - #3 and #4
https://craighutchinson.substack.com/p/part-4e-treasury-beguiles-and-a-prussians
This time? CBDC?
Willis. A populist? Anything is possible in the world of PR I guess. A quick look at her background should disabuse any and all of that myth. She is one of the (self-named) elites for sure.
Vacuous BS from a man whose agenda has always been personal aggrandisement. It’s little wonder he seeks all power to reside with him and not the party. This is all just one more step on a long road in the destruction of the democratic process.
While it's true that conservative parties worldwide are attracting more working-class support, Nicola Willis is more lanyard-class than working-class
Unfortunately I only got through the first third because, like most pulp fiction, I knew what the ending would be. I do not disagree with your comments however your “status” as an academic would have demanded that you compare and contrast with other parties. You didn’t and we all know that your socialist sensibilities prevent you from pointing out that neither of the major parties allow power to grow from the base. I remain disappointed but not surprised at your Nelsonic approach (one eyed).
I checked out a few rich listers. Many in property. Asset inflation isn't wealth creation, it simply transfers a charge elsewhere in the economy - Kurt Richenbauer. So other people ( first home owners and renters) made them rich and now they laud it over others, looking down their noses and feeling ohhh so superior.
The days of mass party membership seem to be over, & not just in NZ. Both major parties have nowhere near the number of members they had, ever since the shock therapy reforms of a generation ago made them quit for other parties. Meanwhile these other parties don't seem to have enough members to be major parties.
Every source bar one is paywalled so the average voter has little access to access thoughtful insights from the third estate. They revert to YouTube, Facebook and other dubious sources of information run by rampant so called think tanks and unregulated lobbyists. Thank you for the article and the insights.
national is toast, if they don’t address the danger to our country, New Zealand, from WEF, WHO, and UN grand plans. not to mention ending the” Treaty” trough.
Todd McClay is punching well above his weight isn't he, suspect it's not his animal welfare chops making the difference