"The quarter acre dream has evolved into the quarter hour paradise"
Opportunity party leader Qiulae Wong gives her vision of New Zealand if she and her party are the govt over the next 24 years.
In 2050 we will live in compact co-operative housing projects where, as native birds sing happily, we grow cheap food in community gardens.
We will "build strong connections with our neighbours" and the country will be "far less divided".
There will be "respectful dialogue" (of course) around issues. Any rebels in govt (and elsewhere presumably) will have to answer to "citizen's assemblies".
It a speech that sounds very like those given by communist party officials in Chinese villages during Chairman Mao's murderous and blood thirsty "people's" revolution.
In its fanciful approach to 15 minute cities, climate change, the environment and doing business Ms Wong also sounds eerily similar to the WEF.
"You'll own nothing and you'll be happy."
Remember- when politicians tell us who they are, we should remember it.
IMHO Ms Wong is a Marxist/ communist subversive. No one with a working brain would give up traditional western liberties for her absurdly unrealistic scenario.
Millions of Chinese citizens fell for it. Most of them ended up starving to death.
If National think it’s a good idea to hold a referendum to “check-in on democracy” why doesn’t National support NZFirst’s legislation to “check-in on democracy” by having a referendum on the continued existence of the Maori Seats now that so many Maori are in Parliament with out them?
Going by Swarbrick's interview on Breakfast this morning, the Green Party has decided to forgo any concern for the environment. Instead they're going full tilt Marxist. They need to change the name of their party.
ATERRADOR: La policía británica le dice a un ciudadano que baje la bandera israelí porque el musulmán que sostiene una bandera palestina se siente ofendido por el símbolo judío.
Londres ya no es un lugar seguro para los no musulmanes.
Do we REALLY think that RNZ's drop is to do with "political pressure" or do we think perhaps the resurrection of John Campbell has just had the predictable result?
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@MichaelAArouet Here in NZ the previous far left government under Jacinda Ardern was pushing the Equal Pay Act.
They argued a librarian should be paid the same as a transport engineer, admin staff the same as a mechanical engineer, etc.
It is insane.
It is hardly surprising the media is lashing out at me. I’m outspoken about how much damage the current crop of journalists have done to trust in the profession and that I think they’re negligent and biased.
They are attempting to gatekeep the dissemination of info but that train has already left the station. Kiwis are looking elsewhere for news. And the more we offer alternatives, the more they will try to cast us as illegitimate, audacious, and having political biases. That last one cracks me up given how completely politicised and partisan our media has been for some time.
I’m right wing? And that’s a problem. Okay. This from a media class that was polled as being almost entirely far left or left. Their anger is entirely predictable.