So agree! Chloe & the Greens are absolutely on it. The Shanes, the Winstons & the Nicolas seem so very uninterested in the lives of real New Zealanders who are finding life very difficult. It’s chilling that NACT is somehow so distant from reality. While they are busy defining gender, people are going hungry. While they are changing fonts & putting English above Te Reo on dept headers, while they are sacking civil servants, & ignoring the homelessness issue!
Not exactly ignoring the homeless issue Nact first increased the homelessness by reducing emergency housing and then became concerned about the perception tourists visiting from overseas would take of our main streets, wanted the police to shoo them away to suburbia or possibly Kirikiriroa.
Interesting how lobbyists, the good old boys and industrialists seem to have open door access to the PM and MPs, yet when folk from the disabled community repeatedly request meetings with Upston they are treated with contempt and ignored. For the sake if NZ, this needs to be a one term govt.
Another good humorous Korero Nick! The reason Chloe always prevails in these attempted gotcha moments is her honestly and transparency. The truth never alters according to who's telling it, and with Chloe and The Greens this is their strength
All thanks to Chloe. So dynamic and unafraid. If only Labour could be as forceful, or at least give some credit to the Greens with whom they must go into coalition. However, if there is a Labour/Green coalition in November, I doubt if they will allow themselves to be as much in the shadows as they were with the Ardern government.
Labour didn't have much choice from 2017-2020 with Winston applying the handbrake, but I think the two worked well together in the second term, even though Labour didn't need the Greens. Of course, the more votes the Greens get, the more influence they will have.
Brilliant interview with Chloe, and Tova was unable to butt in. These are the real facts and the government is hiding because they know they’ve been found out. Let’s hope the ombudsman can nail them!
Yes, I watched Marama's speech at the Oxford Union Debate - after Don Brash's insipid speech about independence Marama focused on becoming more inclusive - "Accountability, redress, and a reset of power back to the people is the only way that we will repair our connections back to each other and for our collective grandchildren." - she earned a standing ovation.
Your comments Nick encouraged me to find today's Chloe interview and what an outstanding performance! If you haven't seen it, check it out, you won't regret it!
Go Chloe.Love the Budget of Misery label, how apt. This coalition government is destructive, cruel and uncaring unless you are wealthy and sorted. Fix the economy- what a bad joke.
Brilliant summary of the pre-budget circus, Nick. The image of the Atlas Family choking down meat pies while the Prime Minister plays a continuous game of hide-and-seek tells you everything you need to know about the current state of governance.
The $1.4 billion fiscal hole that Chlöe exposes is the smoking gun of this entire administration economic philosophy.
Let's look at the absolute irony of the mechanics here:
The market myth is they came into power, took a wrecking ball to structural climate transitions and independent environmental policy, and told the public not to worry because the market—the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)—would handle it efficiently.
its a total collapse but as the Climate Change Commission pointed out, because this government acts like a drive-thru lane for corporate lobbyists, the market completely lost trust in their policy signals. Eight out of ten ETS auctions failed. Companies refused to buy the permission to pollute because they realized they could just wait for the fast-track approvals act to give them a free pass anyway. I mean come on
The cheques bounced, the $1.4 billion in anticipated revenue vanished, and Nicola Willis quietly went behind the curtains to borrow more debt to cover the gap.
I've said it before and here it is again. This isn't sustainable management; it is a structural transfer of near-term paper deficits into compounding, long-term systemic social and ecological liabilities.
They are lecturing working-class Kiwis to tighten their belts, freezing care-worker pay, and cutting pediatric clinics to half capacity under the guise of austerity, while quietly accumulating billions in debt to subsidize the complete failure of their market-worshiping ideology.
Swarbrick hit the nail on the head: merciless cuts are not how you build a country; it’s how you break one. But they aren't trying to build a country—they are running a liquidation sale. When regular New Zealanders face double-digit rates hikes and deteriorating infrastructure while multi-billion-dollar corporate polluters can hand-deliver unrecorded text to the PMO to alter laws in their favor, the basic question of who this government is actually working for has already been answered. And its not us, if you haven't been following along.
They didn't show up to the TVNZ breakfast couch because you can't run corporate spin when the actual data on the floor shows your financial policy is a house of cards. They are balancing the books by bankrupting the physical reality of our future, and they know it. I will also add they must think we are stupid, or have no memory or both. one more thing to add is the way our system is set up there really isn't much we can do about it so they just sit there thinking we have to suck it up.
what are you going to do about that?
Phenomenal write-up fas usual Nick. The fog is lifting.
Well said, Ian. Also -there was at least one paua pie - not cheap mince! I suppose they thought eating pies might signify how close they are to the common citizen!
I really don't know where there heads are at Liz. Maybe they think we are all stupid or have bad memories or don't care what's going on. Time to let them know
So agree! Chloe & the Greens are absolutely on it. The Shanes, the Winstons & the Nicolas seem so very uninterested in the lives of real New Zealanders who are finding life very difficult. It’s chilling that NACT is somehow so distant from reality. While they are busy defining gender, people are going hungry. While they are changing fonts & putting English above Te Reo on dept headers, while they are sacking civil servants, & ignoring the homelessness issue!
Yes focusing on the things that only a tiny percentage of Kiwis actually care about- while the country collapses around them!
Not exactly ignoring the homeless issue Nact first increased the homelessness by reducing emergency housing and then became concerned about the perception tourists visiting from overseas would take of our main streets, wanted the police to shoo them away to suburbia or possibly Kirikiriroa.
Interesting how lobbyists, the good old boys and industrialists seem to have open door access to the PM and MPs, yet when folk from the disabled community repeatedly request meetings with Upston they are treated with contempt and ignored. For the sake if NZ, this needs to be a one term govt.
Chloe was great. Tova showed how useless she really is when she's not talking about ducks and horses.
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I love Chloe. She needs to be in government.
November can't come soon enough.
Another good humorous Korero Nick! The reason Chloe always prevails in these attempted gotcha moments is her honestly and transparency. The truth never alters according to who's telling it, and with Chloe and The Greens this is their strength
I rate her intelligence honesty and determination above anyone else in parliament
All thanks to Chloe. So dynamic and unafraid. If only Labour could be as forceful, or at least give some credit to the Greens with whom they must go into coalition. However, if there is a Labour/Green coalition in November, I doubt if they will allow themselves to be as much in the shadows as they were with the Ardern government.
Labour didn't have much choice from 2017-2020 with Winston applying the handbrake, but I think the two worked well together in the second term, even though Labour didn't need the Greens. Of course, the more votes the Greens get, the more influence they will have.
Yes, I forgot about the seemingly immortal Winston, and his indomitable ego.
We have had an act led national party for almost 3 years. To fix that destruction, it would be nice to have a Greens led Labour party post November.
Damn, aren't we so lucky to have her co-leading team green.
Brilliant interview with Chloe, and Tova was unable to butt in. These are the real facts and the government is hiding because they know they’ve been found out. Let’s hope the ombudsman can nail them!
Great stuff Chloe! Got the giggles when you wrote Nick that the interview was over and Chloe had to ask the next question and then answer it!
More "Tough Love" for the Bottom Feeders - when will the Tough Love extend to the Rich and Sorted? Never under this Coalition
Nor Labour for the most part, sadly 😥
Not so sure about that Mike, they have their CGT, and I don’t think they will be continuing with the corporate welfare we see from this lot.
Hopefully the Greens have learned from ACT and NZF exactly how much you can extract from thr major coalition partner
Saw Chloe and Marama on One News last night. Chloe was magnificent, steely eyed and focused on the ineptitude and corruption of this government.
She is intellectually streets ahead of most parliamentarians. She has to be our next PM.
Marama also focused on the shit show dished up daily. She also deserves high office in the next government.
Those 2 give me hope for genuine change .
Yes, I watched Marama's speech at the Oxford Union Debate - after Don Brash's insipid speech about independence Marama focused on becoming more inclusive - "Accountability, redress, and a reset of power back to the people is the only way that we will repair our connections back to each other and for our collective grandchildren." - she earned a standing ovation.
Here here to that
Your comments Nick encouraged me to find today's Chloe interview and what an outstanding performance! If you haven't seen it, check it out, you won't regret it!
I intend to after hearing all about it 😊
Go Chloe.Love the Budget of Misery label, how apt. This coalition government is destructive, cruel and uncaring unless you are wealthy and sorted. Fix the economy- what a bad joke.
Chloe is always on point . FYI today’s herald slamming Labour in its editorial for daring to suggest NZME is right biased….
Brilliant summary of the pre-budget circus, Nick. The image of the Atlas Family choking down meat pies while the Prime Minister plays a continuous game of hide-and-seek tells you everything you need to know about the current state of governance.
The $1.4 billion fiscal hole that Chlöe exposes is the smoking gun of this entire administration economic philosophy.
Let's look at the absolute irony of the mechanics here:
The market myth is they came into power, took a wrecking ball to structural climate transitions and independent environmental policy, and told the public not to worry because the market—the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)—would handle it efficiently.
its a total collapse but as the Climate Change Commission pointed out, because this government acts like a drive-thru lane for corporate lobbyists, the market completely lost trust in their policy signals. Eight out of ten ETS auctions failed. Companies refused to buy the permission to pollute because they realized they could just wait for the fast-track approvals act to give them a free pass anyway. I mean come on
The cheques bounced, the $1.4 billion in anticipated revenue vanished, and Nicola Willis quietly went behind the curtains to borrow more debt to cover the gap.
I've said it before and here it is again. This isn't sustainable management; it is a structural transfer of near-term paper deficits into compounding, long-term systemic social and ecological liabilities.
They are lecturing working-class Kiwis to tighten their belts, freezing care-worker pay, and cutting pediatric clinics to half capacity under the guise of austerity, while quietly accumulating billions in debt to subsidize the complete failure of their market-worshiping ideology.
Swarbrick hit the nail on the head: merciless cuts are not how you build a country; it’s how you break one. But they aren't trying to build a country—they are running a liquidation sale. When regular New Zealanders face double-digit rates hikes and deteriorating infrastructure while multi-billion-dollar corporate polluters can hand-deliver unrecorded text to the PMO to alter laws in their favor, the basic question of who this government is actually working for has already been answered. And its not us, if you haven't been following along.
They didn't show up to the TVNZ breakfast couch because you can't run corporate spin when the actual data on the floor shows your financial policy is a house of cards. They are balancing the books by bankrupting the physical reality of our future, and they know it. I will also add they must think we are stupid, or have no memory or both. one more thing to add is the way our system is set up there really isn't much we can do about it so they just sit there thinking we have to suck it up.
what are you going to do about that?
Phenomenal write-up fas usual Nick. The fog is lifting.
— Ian
Well said, Ian. Also -there was at least one paua pie - not cheap mince! I suppose they thought eating pies might signify how close they are to the common citizen!
I really don't know where there heads are at Liz. Maybe they think we are all stupid or have bad memories or don't care what's going on. Time to let them know