Politics 🗳️ NZ Politics

[Inruin]

Should be Jack Tame.

Gets a bit stuck in the detail but yes he would be Mutch better

 

[defensivebomb]

How is she even moderating the debate? Surely better options out there.

She seems to have a monopoly on any political commentary on TVNZ

TVNZ bosses are clearly unaware that the nation has tired of her, after we had to listen to her spoonfeed us the government's press releases during covid

 

[Possum11]

The next government should legislate for a election term of four years in office

 

[Bay39er]

The next government should legislate for a election term of four years in office

Would require a super majority I would think

 

[kos]

Should be Jack Tame.

He is impressive this guy Jack
I think he surpasses any political interviewer here in Aus Tray Li a.

 

[Rick O’Shay]

He is impressive this guy Jack
I think he surpasses any political interviewer here in Aus Tray Li a.

The Betoota Advocate have a couple of good investigative reporters

 

[John Nick]

The Betoota Advocate have a couple of good investigative reporters

Not a patch on the Humptydoo Herald.

 

[John Nick]

He is impressive this guy Jack
I think he surpasses any political interviewer here in Aus Tray Li a.

Yeah. He certainly prepares well

 

[Possum11]

The next government should legislate for a election term of four years in office

Probably a referendum at a future election .

 

[wizard of Tauranga]

Facts:

Labour 2017 election: Labour’s 2017 election spending promise was exceeded by $16b (based on pre covid figure.)
Labour 2020 election: Labours 2020 election spending forecast was exceeded by $23b.

Nationals total tax plan is being argued over by amounts less than the drop in current forecast business tax revenue… insignificant.

Based on history over the next term, National might stuff up by $1b, Labour will stuff up by $30b.

So do we have 30x the articles about Labours incompetence from the media . Instead there has been a deliberate smear campaign against National and ignoring of Labour from the media. Agenda?

If Labour return to power the media has failed in their job of holding the government to account. More that that, they have enabled it…. Which is corruption in a democracy in my eyes.

Why is the media pushing BS? We need an independent media in NZ detached from government funding. And even worse, the fact people believe their BS shows how stuffed NZ is.

 

[miket12]

Not just Act candidates with conspiracy theories. Just goes to show how weak the caliber of candidates are from all sides…..

Labour candidate railed against HPV vaccine on social media

A Labour list candidate who said the vaccine was "f***ing poison from big pharma" is the latest person running for office to have controversial social media posts come to light.

www.1news.co.nz

 

[juju]

Facts:

Labour 2017 election: Labour’s 2017 election spending promise was exceeded by $16b (based on pre covid figure.)
Labour 2020 election: Labours 2020 election spending forecast was exceeded by $23b.

Nationals total tax plan is being argued over by amounts less than the drop in current forecast business tax revenue… insignificant.

Based on history over the next term, National might stuff up by $1b, Labour will stuff up by $30b.

So do we have 30x the articles about Labours incompetence from the media . Instead there has been a deliberate smear campaign against National and ignoring of Labour from the media. Agenda?

If Labour return to power the media has failed in their job of holding the government to account. More that that, they have enabled it…. Which is corruption in a democracy in my eyes.

Why is the media pushing BS? We need an independent media in NZ detached from government funding. And even worse, the fact people believe their BS shows how stuffed NZ is.

Just another bonkers media rant from a poster that says he's main media source is the NZ Herald.
There is a ton of articles and opinion about the under performing Labour government.

It's actually Nationals job to hold the Labour Government to account.

If we wanted to actually talk about corruption of democracy and not be hypocrites on here - You would be talking about people like Graham Hart donating $700k to parties.

It'd be great if you could refrain from polluting this thread with this conspiracy theory dross

 

[miket12]

What did people think of the debate last night? I thought it was pretty even, and like the whole campaigns, pretty boring. Hipkins had trouble defending the last 6 years of government while Luxon failed to land any real blows.,

 

[juju]

What did people think of the debate last night? I thought it was pretty even, and like the whole campaigns, pretty boring. Hipkins had trouble defending the last 6 years of government while Luxon failed to land any real blows.,

I thought Luxon was well prepared and got the better of Hipkins.
Although some of what Luxon said was hilariously wrong (National invented "By māori, For māori" etc)

Good the panelists even got a reference to Saturday's game

 

[miket12]

Facts:

Labour 2017 election: Labour’s 2017 election spending promise was exceeded by $16b (based on pre covid figure.)
Labour 2020 election: Labours 2020 election spending forecast was exceeded by $23b.

Nationals total tax plan is being argued over by amounts less than the drop in current forecast business tax revenue… insignificant.

Based on history over the next term, National might stuff up by $1b, Labour will stuff up by $30b.

So do we have 30x the articles about Labours incompetence from the media . Instead there has been a deliberate smear campaign against National and ignoring of Labour from the media. Agenda?

If Labour return to power the media has failed in their job of holding the government to account. More that that, they have enabled it…. Which is corruption in a democracy in my eyes.

Why is the media pushing BS? We need an independent media in NZ detached from government funding. And even worse, the fact people believe their BS shows how stuffed NZ is.

Mate, we have one prospective PM telling as to trust the assumptions they’ve made on overseas buyers while the other says we can trust supermarkets to pass on all the GST reductions on fruit and vege…. While saying that there’s a grocery commissioner in place because we can’t trust the Supermarkets.

Personally, I have a huge lack of trust in either of them.

 

[Noitall]

Mate, we have one prospective PM telling as to trust the assumptions they’ve made on overseas buyers while the other says we can trust supermarkets to pass on all the GST reductions on fruit and vege…. While saying that there’s a grocery commissioner in place because we can’t trust the Supermarkets.

Personally, I have a huge lack of trust in either of them.

Watching the breakfast show and as a homeowner, find no cause evictions alarming for renters. Some deserved, but I don’t think this is the way to go.

 

[Possum11]

In my opinion Luxon was more concise and to the point

 

[defensivebomb]

What did people think of the debate last night? I thought it was pretty even, and like the whole campaigns, pretty boring. Hipkins had trouble defending the last 6 years of government while Luxon failed to land any real blows.,

Luxon won, though it certainly wasn’t a walkover. Having said that, we’ve had 6 years of great debaters. That skill doesn’t translate to moving the country forward unfortunately

It’s hard to debate anything on Labour’s record, so Hipkins couldn’t really back up his policies. Or if he had new ones, he was criticised for not doing them sooner

Hipkins isn’t a prime minister. If you came in cold, not knowing who they were, you would pick Hipkins as being the prime minister

 

[miket12]

Watching the breakfast show and as a homeowner, find no cause evictions alarming for renters. Some deserved, but I don’t think this is the way to go.

One of the major problems in this country is how parties are more concerned about appealing to their voter base than actually picking "middle ground" policy on things like removing/evicting renters. Labour went too far and now National are going to go back too far in the other direction.

Personally, I'd like to see an approach where the landlord has to argue while a tenant needs to be removed and prove that there is the potential for major damage to that property requiring the removal to be less than 60 days. Evidence of anti-social behaviour to neighbours or neighbouring property should mean 30 days to be removed. I'd like tenants who fall behind in their rents to be sent to budgeting courses and to be able to negotiate arrangements to be able to catch up with rental arrears. Then look at removal after other avenues have been explored.

Both landlords (to prevent damage to property) and tenants (to be safe guarded from bad and/or greedy landlords) both need protection.... just not one of the other depending on which party has the numbers to form a government.

 

[miket12]

Luxon won, though it certainly wasn’t a walkover. Having said that, we’ve had 6 years of great debaters. That skill doesn’t translate to moving the country forward unfortunately

It’s hard to debate anything on Labour’s record, so Hipkins couldn’t really back up his policies. Or if he had new ones, he was criticised for not doing them sooner

Hipkins isn’t a prime minister. If you came in cold, not knowing who they were, you would pick Hipkins as being the prime minister

Sorry but your last paragraph doesn't seem to make too much sense.