Brendon J Monk

Sportsman, Architect, sci-fi fan, astral traveller ….

[Brendon J Monk @BrendonJMonk]

Nothing to see here ….

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@ScootFoundation Actually no, that’s not what the diagram means at all. You haven’t a fucking clue. Do you live in Auckland? If so I would like to meet to set you straight on a few policy things. Surely you’re not this antagonist in person, just merely ignorant.

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I think all current and past (within last 20 years) Prime-ministers, finance & housing ministers should face a Royal Commission into serious negligence around tax & housing affordability issues. In the private sector such negligence would face criminal charges, not knighthoods.

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@JulieAnneGenter Greed - one of the two worst human traits, responsible for almost all the worlds problems. The trait being racism of course.

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@votedalready @TawhaiMoss @bernardchickey Well, 98.5% voted for more of this. Seriously, only one party has the policy & will to end the madness and meanness that is our property market. However all but 1.5% of people voted on false “values” and media driven personalities. Worse than 3 years ago. Well done Aotearoa

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@pocock_naomi @craigmcculloch @top_nz I’m sure they know that TOP tax reform is what’s needed. But they’d rather allow the continued harm to the wellbeing of NZers than admit it, let alone work toward that kind of change.

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@NewshubNZ But let me guess - house prices are rocketing up there anyway, right? Root cause of the property pyramid scheme remains ignored by govt ....

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@MadasMyth @guywilliamsguy @NZGreens You mean TOP? Different people involved in each policy development. 7 people plus independent peer reviewers for just the one I worked on for a start.

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@koffe_a @bernardchickey Yeah, I had some older figures from when I was working on policy stuff. And earlier this year checked against those by multiplying median dwelling value (just over 3m sek) x the number of dwellings (4.8m). Worked out pretty close to what I was expecting for total market value

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@koffe_a @bernardchickey Pretty sure your figures are not total value of housing market relative to GDP. Sweden GDP $529bn. There are 4.8m dwellings. Your figure would put median dwelling price at US$1.9m! It’s actually US$347k

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@koffe_a @bernardchickey Hmm, not according to figures I have: Swedish housing market US$1.7tn, GDP US$529bn = 3.2 x GDP

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@NewshubNZ Like no one has been screaming this for the last 20+ years! Just that our successive governments have very selective hearing on the issue, and no will to do anything about it

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@MarkStewartNZ Labour have been giving a “mandate” for MORE OF THE SAME. Ie no action on out of control housing costs and inequality, no real action on climate change issues etc. BTW until we deal with the drivers of inequality, we won’t be able to make inroads into the climate change issues

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@guywilliamsguy @NZGreens You mean actually talk about expert policy on the big issues that will work? Just like TOP do? But voters don’t want to hear about actual solutions let alone vote for it, right? I mean do/did you?

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@bernardchickey @farmgeek @phil__vine NZ, once again, just voted for another 3 years of:

• Steeply rising house prices.
• Rising rents
• Stagnant wages
• Worsening inequality
• environmental degradation
• increasing carbon emissions
• Reduced ability deal with climate change

It’s business as usual.

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@awbraae I play at one of the clubs, but also go along to casual/social play at unitec as it’s just down the road from me.

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@Chris_Luxon Bombing out worst in the policy development area ....

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Our last Policy in a Min: Our Vision. It shows us what we need to change now to reduce inequality & thrive in the future. The only thing left to do is get out & vote. Encourage others in your community to vote too. Don’t leave change to change. #VoteDifferent #PartyVoteTOP #NZPol

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@nickdaleburns @bernardchickey Yeah, well this over investment in housing at the expense of productive areas of the economy has been a concern for a long time. That’s why there have been OECD reports on NZ with graphs like these:

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@garethmorgannz @thatbennyguy @NZGreens @top_nz Yeah I know - you’re amused to see how bad it can get! I have similar evil thoughts for the US, ie vote trump to see just how bad it can get there ....