In this very cold weather, our energy supply is is overloaded. Simeon Brown said this morning that Transpower might have to instruct suppliers to turn off hot water tanks for a while to lessen the power drain. Seriously! This is ludicrous in a country so full of natural resources. The limp left, especially the faux greenies lose their minds if anyone mentions using our resources for human good. A frog might die, or a mountain might end up with a hole in it.
FFS! We have to be reduced to third world status power supply due to hurty feelings. Forget it. Screw them. Mine the fuck out of this country on land and sea, generate wealth and stop importing dirty alternatives!
@gaye_ess I dont know whether this is a good or bad deal BUT the population of India exceeds 1billion & 55% of the populationnis under the age of 25. Expect a large influx!
@gaye_ess Everyone seeing this should repost Gaye's Msg immediately!
The fate of NZ hangs on this
Election,like never before!
Most roads lead down to 3rd world oblivion & large scale Indian migration to NZ.
If we all Party Vote NZ1st,there is some chance the country can be
saved? DO IT
@gaye_ess@Mark47723848 This is critically important and should be at the forefront of everyones thinking. DO YOU SERIOUSLY WANT NZ to turn into a 3rd world shithole like the UK? Forget all the usuals, think about daggers,rivers plugged with filth, everywhere you look an indian, scammers,rape-NZ GONE
Some very wise words from Don Brash:
"Too many New Zealanders no longer know what Christopher Luxon’s National Party stands for.
In 2023, voters gave the centre-right a clear mandate to reverse the direction of the Ardern Government. That mandate was not merely about inflation, government spending or administrative competence.
It was also a rejection of the relentless attempts by Labour to divide New Zealanders by ancestry.
New Zealanders had watched as co-governance was inserted into public institutions, democratic accountability was weakened, and the principle of equal citizenship was increasingly replaced by racial preference.
They voted for a change of direction. Yet, nearly three years later, National remains strangely reluctant to articulate a coherent position on some of the most important constitutional questions facing the country.
On many issues, I consider this Government a considerable improvement on its predecessor. But when it comes to racial division and co-governance, its problem is not simply that some of its decisions are wrong. The deeper problem is that nobody can be entirely certain what National believe."
Labour approved shutting it down and called it progress towards net zero.
I call it one of the biggest strategic failures in modern New Zealand history.
A country that can't refine, secure, or control its own energy has handed part of its sovereignty to the rest of the world.
We can spend all day looking back at how the Jacinda Ardern Government damaged our economy and weakened our energy security.
However, It's time to rebuild.
New Zealand First has a vision to turn Marsden Point into a Special Economic Zone that drives New Zealand's future.
That means cutting red tape, fast-tracking investment, expanding Northport into a world-class freight hub, building a dry dock, strengthening our road and rail links, growing manufacturing, generating more energy, and creating thousands of high-paying Kiwi jobs.
As a construction worker, I've spent my life building things. I know you don't create wealth with bureaucracy.
You create wealth by building infrastructure, backing industry, and giving Kiwis the opportunity to succeed.
For too long we've exported our industries, our jobs, and our opportunities. It's time to reverse that.
It's time to start building again.
That's why I back New Zealand First.
They believe in less bureaucracy, more industry, more jobs, more energy, and a stronger New Zealand.
It's time to build New Zealand again.
Authorised by Billy Brown, New Zealand First candidate for Rotorua.
@gaye_ess Politicians are sly,devious foxes & Luxon's no exception.He'll probably work with anyone who can get him back in as P.M.
The FTA's pretty useless & the Immigration Fishhooks it contains are worse,so I won't be voting for Luxon or National! Winston's the last honest man standing!
@BasilTheGreat It really should not matter what is between someone's legs or what colour their skin is, the only question is are they the best person for the job?
If the answer is no, then get someone better.
On Saturday, Andrea Vance at The Post ran a big story pushing Labour's claim that National isn't hiring nurses. What she didn't tell her readers is that the facts and figures she had before she published said the exact opposite.
So here are the numbers The Post had in its hands and decided readers were better off not seeing.
When Labour left office, there were 2,632 nursing vacancies. Just two years later under National, there were 1,344. That is 1,288 fewer empty positions, a reduction of nearly 50%.
The nurse workforce has grown from 31,739 to 35,342. More nurses are on the wards, fewer are walking out the door, and there is no hiring freeze.
And the party shouting loudest about it today – the Labour Party – is the very party that owned every one of those worse numbers. They left the vacancy problem nearly twice as bad as it is now, and here they are calling the clean-up a scandal. You could not make it up.
Then there is Labour's favourite line of the whole story, that the Government "saved" $200 million by deliberately leaving health jobs empty. It sounds shocking, until you find out what that money actually was.
It was money already set aside to pay nurses and doctors the moment their new pay deals were signed. The deals had not been signed, so the money had not gone out the door. It was not saved and it was not pocketed. It was sitting there waiting to be paid, exactly as planned.
Calling that a "saving" is like pocketing an unpaid invoice. The money is committed, it just hasn't left the account yet.
We spelled all of this out for Andrea Vance before she published. She published Labour's disinformation anyway.
Then look at what Andrea Vance reported. Labour's framing led the story, right there in the headline where every reader's eye lands. The figures showing things are better under National, the ones handed over in writing, were left out altogether.
That cannot have been an accident. That was a choice.
Let me be clear about one thing. There are still vacancies to fill, and we even pointed Andrea Vance to my Letter of Expectations directing Health New Zealand to move faster to fill them. But leaving out the improvement and telling readers things are going backwards is not balanced reporting. It is the version Labour is selling, and The Post chose to run it.
New Zealanders deserve to know the healthcare system is improving. What they do not deserve is a scare story the facts do not support. Facts The Post had in front of it the whole time.
☆☆ All the New Zealand I.R.D. seems to be able to do efficiently , is to put formerly-successful companies into liquidation , thereby making ever increasing amounts of ex-employees unemployed, and unable to provide for their families, & draw job-seekers government allowance 😡
@gaye_ess@YouTube Gaye, all of our politicians bow down to the maori mumbo jumbo. They opened the Auckland light rail this week and the station was full of iwi, waving sticks and leaves to their gods of who knows what. Ask mayor Brown how much that cost the ratepayers.
@gaye_ess@YouTube Deeds show what is truly inside a person, whereas words can be used to mislead. By observing someone’s consistent behaviour you can distill the truth about them. NZ has been observing Luxon for several years now.
@gaye_ess@YouTube As you say if Luxon was a devout Christian he would never pray to anyone but the one true God ! He hasn’t been a good ambassador for New Zealand in my opinion, especially after bad mouthing Kiwis and promoting Indians, Kiwis won’t vote for that !
I want to defend Stuart Nash.
You can believe something wholehertedly for years until you can't and you stop.
People change and evolve over time. I did. A Labour voter all my life until they left me so I had to leave them. They changed so I had to change. I was vaccinated initially but saw the deaths and injuries and I stopped because I wanted the truth. I left them in 2022 because seeing that changed me so radically that I made the most radical change I could - from left to right. I did it in a heartbeat and never looked back.
Once you make a change that is so drastic, you are changed. Life is about growth and evolution and people deserve to be respected when they make a change and distance themselves from all that they believed in previously. I think this is what Stuart Nash has done. Listen to his speech from the convention. He went into detail about it. He hasn't just changed parties, he has changed from left to right.
If you go through life with no changes ever, you have stagnated. When truth hits you in the face, you either examine it and make a change, or turn away from it and carry on. Stuart Nash has had the courage to confront it and make huge changes. I say welcome on board Stuart.
@gaye_ess He was formerly a crap CEO , and now unfortunately for NZ , he's a MEGA-CRAP Prime Minister.
There must be a worldwide surplus of 'wannabe' country-leaders, who are clueless idiots ; ......
I give you Trump ; Starmer ; Burnham ; Macron , to name just a few glaring examples