Daily review 10/07/2023

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  1. Bearded Git 1
    10 July 2023 at 6:05 pm

    An ACT voter, commenting on Seymour's RNZ Checkpoint interview tonight supporting 17 year olds being treated as adults in criminal justice proceedings, said (paraphrasing) "all the 50 year old people I know are talking about jumping the ditch if there is no change of government".

    Good old Piggy Muldoon would have said "that will raise the IQ in both countries."

    • Kat 1.1
      10 July 2023 at 6:15 pm

      He might only know one or two 50 year olds……..

      • In Vino 1.1.1
        10 July 2023 at 7:30 pm

        But be fair. It was NOT plagiarising Muldoon who first coined that great phrase.

        Tom Scott first wrote it, then scumbag Muldoon banned Tom from any of his interviews, but had the utter hypocrisy to steal Tom's IQ Tasman witticism.

        • Bearded Git 1.1.1.1
          10 July 2023 at 10:25 pm

          Thanks in vino….I didn't know that. But a good poli steals things and makes them his own.

    • Ad 1.2
      10 July 2023 at 6:53 pm

      Act are a beautifully led, highly funded, media savvy party tracking for double the Greens.

      Just 2 elections ago Act had 1 seat and are on track for 15 seats.

      • Muttonbird 1.2.1
        10 July 2023 at 8:23 pm

        One of the many difficult outcomes of the pandemic. ACT's support will wither over time.

        It's important to make sure they are not part of government this year.

      • KJT 1.2.2
        11 July 2023 at 11:43 am

        Like Peter Dunne's mob, we need ACT to get enough power for the voting public to get a good look at them and a sense of what they are really standing for.

        Then, also like Dunne's mob, they will be consigned to electoral obscurity.

  2. Dennis Frank 2
    10 July 2023 at 6:15 pm

    Pasifika calling the govt racist was deemed such hot news it even bumped the EU Free Trade deal off the lead slot on both our tv news channels tonight.

    We saw Andrew Little saying he "very much regrets" the dawn raid operational policy has been allowed to continue. Not sure why. Illegal overstayers still have to be deported don't they? Maybe they just got the window-dressing wrong.

    Anway, another Labour screw-up for the media to feast on seems to be the gist of the situation. Official report points finger, minister apologises for dropping ball. But it was not him who dropped it! Competing interpretations will be the thing for a while…

    • Bearded Git 2.1
      10 July 2023 at 6:25 pm

      This has to be seen in the context where there are 100k immigrants coming in legally each year at the moment.

      This is the equivalent of 1.3m in the UK, and over there some people are screaming at 500k being allowed in each year.

    • bwaghorn 2.2
      10 July 2023 at 6:32 pm

      I have no problem with dawn raids on overstayers, I have a problem with only brown overstayers being targeted! Then it's racist.

      • Belladonna 2.2.1
        10 July 2023 at 7:47 pm

        I have a problem with the Government formally apologising for a historic policy of dawn raids, and then turning round and continuing the practice.
        Profoundly hypocritical.

    • Muttonbird 2.3
      10 July 2023 at 8:26 pm

      It appears the media are happy for anything to bump the EU free trade deal off the lead slot.

      Wet, whiney, inward-looking, anyone?

  3. Ad 3
    10 July 2023 at 6:47 pm

    Anyone wants to know why Labour's vote stubbornly hangs at 30+%.

    In 2020 there were 2.9 million actual voters, and in 2022 1.4 million beneficiaries got a pay rise.

  4. tWiggle 4
    10 July 2023 at 7:57 pm

    Of that 1.4 mi, only 360k or so were on non-super benefits. That makes superannuitants the largest part of the pie by a long shot.

    Blame Piggy Muldoon for shooting down Labour’s proposed NZ Super fund, and for those of retirement age then who voted for a few dollars more for themselves, and billions less for their kids and grandkids.

    Blame rogernomics for privatising NZ Telecom, whose profit then covered the cost of super.

  5. Patricia Bremner 5
    11 July 2023 at 10:55 am

    Act are the wealthy billionaires’ party of choice. Their lies about liberty, their elitist approaches, supported by a sycophantic media group, are woeful, and would harm communities. They are funded to "steer" the National Party further right imo.

    What we see is a slick presentation package which has little honesty about goals.imo.

    Issues such as guns and crime are just click bait.

    Their manifesto says what they will remove/do, but gives no explanation of what they hope for.
    (which is an even greater share of the commons)

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