Jabberwokiwi🦎

Yep it was awful watching excellent submitters being thwarted by the 5mins talk time. Terrible but deliberately thwarting a democratic process.

Live feed day 2 select committee here⬇️

Why do Airports limited get 10mins of select committee time to support the #RSB but Iwi, Unions and others opposing get 5mins? What's the rule difference?

Very confusing or is that the purpose.

#RSB
Imagine having to employ security to escort you into a Parliamentary Select Committee to present your Oral Submission on a Bill, thanks to the behaviour of a Deputy PM.
#TanyaWaikato
#nzpol

Dr Jane Kelsey #ManaWahine #RSB #SelectCommittee totally agree with her that it's all a farcical parody of the whole legislative process from the bill to the min speaking time at select committee stage. This is the demolition of our democracy by the 8%er.

Here's the best description this morning of David Seymours bot whinge:

"having a fucken sook" 😂

#nzpol

Arrrggggghhhhh.

David Seymour suggested 'bots' drove 'fake submissions' against his Regulatory Standards Bill The ACT leader claims 99.5% of the submissions received on the Regulatory Standards Bill were created using "bots".

Who let the bots out... 🎶🎶
#nzpol

www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3607...

That Brooke Van Velden piece on RNZ has a paragraph about how WorkSafe shouldn't be focused on "safety at all costs"

UM YES

YES IT SHOULD

IT'S IN THEIR NAME YOU TRUE-BELIEVING FUCKSTICK

#nzpol

How did banks pump in so much new credit $? Easy, we got banks to print obscene amounts of $ so that we could pump up house prices and shower older, wealthy kiwis with tax-free capital gains. The 1990s provided the template for the 2000s & 2010s (when racheting down interest rates helped). [5/n]

It's worth pausing here to see what's going on. Public debt (pink) was whittled down through to 2008 but private debt (blue) growth more than compensated. The expansion of the private sector balance sheet fueled our growth. Weird that this obvious 'structural deficit' gets no press, ay? [5/n]

Fuck this Govt and it's Sherriff of Nottingham bullshit! Wake the fuck up working AoNZers! They don't give a shit about you and your Whānau, they only care about increasing wealth for the 5%ers.

Hold MPs accountable from all parties if you want change! #nzpol

All from wiki so sharing as a GenXr who lives thru this soul destroying period of watching friends and Whānau lose jobs, homes and the beginning of increasing MH and DV rates. #Ruthanasia the period of free-market policies 1990 to 1993.

10]Coughlan, Thomas (20 May 2021). "Ruth Richardson calls Jacinda Ardern and Grant Robertson's budget attack a 'cheap shot'". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 20 May 2021.

Richardson responded in defence of her budget’s legacy, saying, "Grant Robertson's budget is overtly driven by politics and the desire to pay off Labour supporters", as opposed to her budget, which was "...driven by a desire to lift economic growth and to make employment attractive."[10]

stating that the benefit increases were to "right the wrongs" of Richardson's 1991 budget and would "address the most inequitable of the changes made 30 years ago"...

Benefit payments remained at low levels for the following three decades, across successive governments, until a large boost in the 2021 budget by the Sixth Labour Government. The finance minister Grant Robertson referenced the mother of all budgets in his budget speech...

"A 2015 review of the changes in income in New Zealand between 1990 and 1993 concluded that the income of welfare reliant households fell from 72% of the average national income to 58% in just three years.[4]" 4]Coughlan, Thomas (17 May 2018). "How not to budget". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 17 May 2018.

"The effect of her policies has had a profound effect on New Zealand. During her time in the finance portfolio, she implemented a radical shakeup of the healthcare system in New Zealand, which resulted in severe financial strains on hospitals"

Ruthanasia-the downfall of provinces like Southland and rural Otago who continue to vote in National MPs. How dumb can you be? Her double down on Rogernomics impacted severely on working NZ.. and still they vote blue😞
#nzpol

They are both so smug and truly believe they really made a positive difference to people's lives. Ruth Richardson destroyed people's livelihoods, wellbeing and out communities in 1991. Shame on this Govt for thinking this person is a fit example of an Honour!

A Jacinda Ardern, NOT a Chris Luxon...

I watched some footage of Jacinda pre covid and thought "was this a dream?"

How the fuck did we end up in this dystopian nightmare where we went from "He eke waka noa-We're all in this together" to "let's give Ruth Richardson a Royal honour" & make that "little prick" Deputy Prime Minister!
#nzpol

I *am* generally of the view that the country couldn't have continued on the trajectory 9 years of Muldoon had set it on.

But we didn't have to become the country Douglas and Richardson made us, either. Douglas drove people out of work & Richardson made sure those people lived in poverty.

‘We figured out how much money it cost to keep a person alive, so we could set benefit levels below that on purpose’ is a hell of a legacy

Distinct Aurora rays extending up from the horizon in a starry sky with waves breaking on rocks in the foreground.

Nearly gave up after just sitting staring at a very static green arc for two hours, and then suddenly it was all go, send visible to the naked eye.

Sorry NZ is closed right now, we’re all busy looking up #aurora

Omfg 🤣

You’re telling me this guy was on drugs? I’m not buying it.

Wind has dropped right away to normal pre winter westerly and it's rained on and off over night. Still no word if roofers will be here today to repair. Continual checks on wall and ceiling tiles looking for the water damage but nothing showing yet.