Winston Peters announces $1 billion investment in oil and gas to secure our nation’s future, meanwhile Luxon is investing $20 billion into advancing India.
The government should not take over parental decisions about what kind of phones or technology our kids have just to try and solve social media issues.
Banning smartphones for under 16s won’t solve anything apart from making our country sound like it’s turning into some sort of totalitarian state.
Why are some parties thinking it’s now an acceptable option for the government to take away parent’s rights to make decisions for their children?
Where has the expectation of parental responsibility gone?
Winston Peters : “ Luxon will look back on his behaviour during the Modi visit with embarrassment.. obsequious subservience.. you know NZ does have its own culture, we were the hosts not the guests! it was just bizarre”
“He’s out of touch with New Zealanders, that FTA is only worth 1/10th of 1% by 2050…that was a gathering for Indians … he’s failed to read the room socially and economically, i’m sick of CV politicians and PM’s who just want it on their CV”
Totally correct. Luxon is an embarrassment and is frankly detrimental to NZ. National need to be watered down in the election with more votes to NZ First or we are in for more of this Clown Show.
The secret behind why so many Indians are coming to Australia is a geopolitical demographic gamble. This is why I protested for Australia’s relationship with India to end.
Chris Hipkins has told NZ businesses there are “risks” because the Indian government has a different interpretation of what is in the FTA.
Hipkins is now putting all that responsibility and risk onto NZ businesses.
Why is Hipkins not taking that responsibility? He’s the one that has foolishly supported this agreement.
Why wasn’t the interpretation clear before the FTA was signed by National and before Act and Labour supported it?
National brushes it off saying ‘India is wrong’ and Labour is washing their hands of all the risk they have both created.
This is a recipe for disaster.
Winston was right again.
Modhi today in Auckland reconfirms that the deal is conditional on NZ sending billions to India.
“I warmly welcome NZ’s commitment to invest 20 Billion USD (NZ$33B) into India, which allows NZ to be part of the India growth story” to which Luxon nods along like a nodding bobble head in a cars rear window.
One news showed Luxon at a presser denying that Modhi meant we had to pay it.
Meanwhile this below is on the Hindu front page in india - one of the largest newspapers in that country :
“PM Modhi welcomes $20 Billion NZ investment”
Alert: LUXON JUST SOLD THE FARM - FTA 🚨🚨🚨
No secret birdie. Luxon chased this deal for years and signed it with Modi on 27 April 2026.
Here’s the brutal truth folks:
India gets immediate duty-free access for EVERYTHING it wants to dump into New Zealand.
NZ gets immediate duty-free on logs, coal, wool and sheep meat✅
Kiwifruit and apples get some quotas✅
Dairy ? Our biggest export by far ? Mostly blocked. India protected its farmers. We got crumbs.✅
Immigration ? Capped temporary skilled visas (~1,667 per year, max 5k at once).
Not open borders, but still more bodies into a housing crisis while Luxon’s coalition partner NZ First is screaming it’s a shit deal.✅
NZ has been SOLD OUT !!
@AntVenom I'm not part of either any more, but I feel like the ESA is being incredibly scummy by pulling this. I've never liked them, but even less so now.
I did not wish for my work to be used against people. This is borderline evil.
The Indian FTA lacks balance, or any sense of equal proportion of sharing benefit between two nations.
Why do we say that? Here are some examples.
We remove tariffs on Indian goods on day one. India keeps exclusions, phase outs, quotas, and price thresholds into the distant future.
So we give India a clean concession, and we get back a mixed package.
There is no progress for our dairy products at all.
Apples, kiwifruit, honey, albumins are quota limited – wine remains subject to high residual tariffs. What does that mean, if not huge commercial constraints against success.
Apples, kiwifruit and honey access is linked to “economic cooperation action plans”. What does that mean? It means market access can become dependent on ‘government to government’ delivery, not business or export performance.
SPS and sustainable development are not subject to normal disputes settlement.
It means, New Zealand exporters have no strong remedies if they come up against regulatory barriers.
Are you now seeing why New Zealand First has been against this deal since we were belatedly given the fine details?
Ladies and gentlemen, we stand for export led domestic economic recovery. How will we do that whilst we are providing $33 billion to India over the next 15 years.
What is even more crazy, is that under this deal New Zealand can export apples to India for two months in a year – the two months that this country doesn’t even produce apples. So which horticulture expert thought this was a great idea?
But here is their best expectation, in cold hard facts – this deal of which the Prime Minister has made so much, alongside obsequious business leaders, is expected to lift our GDP by the staggering amount of 0.1%, or a tenth of one percent - by 2050.
Today “Rainbow Action Tamaki” sent me a letter threatening legal action against my previous post calling them a self-important, egotistical, bunch of rent-a-crowd protesters when they protested about NZFirst’s definition of a woman bill last Sunday.
They want me to delete my post, apologise, and donate money to their ‘charity’.
My post is now passing 1.7million views on Facebook. So no. I won’t be deleting it with all the positive responses it is receiving from kiwis with common sense who are backing our stance.
We also won’t be donating any money to their cause mainly due to not knowing which kind of flag it will be spent purchasing seeing as they can’t make their mind up what protest they are at.
And as for me saying I’m sorry:
I am sorry. I am sorry that you have proven us right. Your egos know no bounds.
I called you a bunch of egotistical mouth-breathers who think the universe revolves around you – and this threat of legal action, thinking that you are the most important thing in this whole conversation, is precisely why ordinary kiwis have had a gutsful of you and your rent-a-crowd.
If you want to take me to court, go ahead, we will ensure we use discovery to read all the emails and communications you had with the Green Party and whomever else you coordinate with and find out who is really behind all of this.
And for the last time, this isn’t about you. We couldn’t give a rat’s derriere about what you do in your private lives, what colour you want to dye your hair, or whether you want to identify as they or them or a lamppost.
Our stance and our bill is about the rights, safety, and protection of women and girls who want safe spaces and bathrooms, fairness in sports, and to protect their rights as women. If you seriously want to protest against that cause then you will find yourself on the wrong side of history.
We would wish you luck in your journey to figure that out, but it seems you would be too stupid to know what to do with it.
Labour just wants to hand out “free stuff” like Oprah.
It took two and a half years, a bonfire of useless old policy, a lame excuse to wait for the budget, and all Labour could come up with was ‘capping public transport costs’…but just for some people…just in some areas…just for some things.
Labour says public transport will only cost up to $20 a week then it’s free. Newsflash: nothing is ever “free”.
“Free” actually means taxpayers pay for it - because whether Labour understands it or not, money doesn’t grow on trees. And guess what. People who are riding on public transport are the taxpayers who are going to pay for it.
Labour’s big plan is to move $65m from the National Land Transport Fund to pay for it all. That automatically means something else that money was already allocated to will now not be paid for - or they have to either borrow more or tax you more.
They already said they want everyone to get three “free” doctor’s visits as well.
It’s starting to sound like an Oprah Winfrey episode where everyone gets free stuff handed out. You get one, you get one, everyone gets one!
Just in the last few months NZFirst has already announced policies on breaking up the power companies, splitting the supermarket duopoly, establishing a competitive state owned bank, returning royalties to the regions, creating a KiwiSaver generation for newborns and increasing contributions, establishing a NZ Future Fund…and there are many more coming.
Those are what you call real policies that tackle the cost of living issues for kiwis and start to build a country we are all proud of.
Labour just wants to hand out “free stuff” like Oprah.
The BNZ buy-back policy is about economic sovereignty.
It has seen the expected frothing from the ill-informed commentators expecting kiwis to just ‘accept the status quo’.
The status quo isn’t working for ordinary kiwis who are struggling.
How can we as a country sit back and accept our banking system taking billions of dollars from hard working kiwis every year and siphoning it into another country - all based on a failed neoliberal experiment started four decades ago which promised a “fair playing field”. Who is it fair for now?
Multiple reports from the Commerce Commission highlight this.
The proposal to buy-back BNZ will keep the added-value banking profits and capital in New Zealand, it would give the large state-owned bank the capital and structure to service more kiwi customers, it would also then have the capability to hold all of the central and local government accounts, which all ensures New Zealand money stays in the New Zealand economy. It would create real competition in the New Zealand banking system to drive prices down for kiwis.
The nonsense screaming that this is somehow an extreme concept or unaffordable begs the question as to why there was no such commentary when Kiwibank was proposing to buy BNZ just six years ago.
NZFirst policies to break up the power companies, split the supermarkets, and ownership of a large scale sovereign bank is not about hostile nationalisation - it’s about changing of the status quo.
They are bold policies. But bold policies are needed to create a fair playing field in the power, food, and banking systems so we can make real change to kiwis lives, force cost of living down, give kiwis a fair go, and take back control of our country and our future.
Singapore thinks so, Norway thinks so, and so should we.
Chris Hipkins has said today that “The kiwi dream should not be reserved for the few, it should be delivered for everybody who calls New Zealand home.”
He has just called New Zealanders “the few” and that “everybody” should be delivered what we have built.
The ‘kiwi dream’ belongs to kiwis who have worked hard for our country, invested time, sweat, pride, and belongs to the generations who share in our country’s history. It is not for just anybody around the world who decides to come to our great country that we have built for their convenience.
Politicians like Hipkins use “diversity is a strength” to shut you down, but the choice is in your hands, not in the hands of retail globalists like him.