02-04-2024, 02:53 PM
She may have a point. It does seem that they have no compunction about continuing to muck up the planet, allowing mining companies to virtually buy their candidate in the election, if the article in the second link has it right.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/04/02/untet...tion-plan/
[b]"In response to the announcement, Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick said there were no surprises nor "meaningful solutions" in the Government's "bingo card for environmental destruction and trickle-down economics".[/b]
“Christopher Luxon is not in the boardroom anymore. The irony is these bullet points wouldn’t even hold up in the corporate world: vague, immeasurable and untethered from reality and evidence as they are.
“What on earth does raising the energy New Zealand brings to international relationships mean? For who precisely, and how in reality, does the Government want to ‘improve the rental market’?"
She said when someone showed you who they were you should believe them and the Government had shown that its focus was "squarely on gutting environmental, climate and social gains in order to line the pockets of a few at the top".
"They could at least be honest about it."
Really - 'be honest??!' A politician?? A Tory politician?!!
I recall the Welsh politician who helped set up the Brit NHS, Nye Bevin, having some interesting - & colourful - thoughts on Tory Politicians...
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/02/23/big-co...-campaign/
"It was the 1908 miners’ strike in Blackball on the West Coast that led to the birth of the Labour Party.
So there was a rich vein of irony last year when Stockton mine management stopped work, called a meeting and told all its 310 workers to vote for its own man instead.
“That certainly pisses me off, given the advocacy that I have undertaken for the mining industry on the Coast, through all my time in Parliament,” says Labour’s Damien O’Connor.
The veteran MP is smarting at a revelation in new disclosures published by the Electoral Commission: ASX-listed mining firm Bathurst Resources donated $32,600 to 29-year-old independent Patrick Phelps to fully fund his campaign for more mining on the West Coast.
Candidate spending limits were $32,600 at last year’s election. So Bathurst, unhappy with a Labour policy banning more mining of conservation land, funded Phelps’ entire campaign – every last dollar. It gave him a far bigger war chest than the more established candidates."
https://www.1news.co.nz/2024/04/02/untet...tion-plan/
[b]"In response to the announcement, Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick said there were no surprises nor "meaningful solutions" in the Government's "bingo card for environmental destruction and trickle-down economics".[/b]
“Christopher Luxon is not in the boardroom anymore. The irony is these bullet points wouldn’t even hold up in the corporate world: vague, immeasurable and untethered from reality and evidence as they are.
“What on earth does raising the energy New Zealand brings to international relationships mean? For who precisely, and how in reality, does the Government want to ‘improve the rental market’?"
She said when someone showed you who they were you should believe them and the Government had shown that its focus was "squarely on gutting environmental, climate and social gains in order to line the pockets of a few at the top".
"They could at least be honest about it."
Really - 'be honest??!' A politician?? A Tory politician?!!
I recall the Welsh politician who helped set up the Brit NHS, Nye Bevin, having some interesting - & colourful - thoughts on Tory Politicians...
https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/02/23/big-co...-campaign/
"It was the 1908 miners’ strike in Blackball on the West Coast that led to the birth of the Labour Party.
So there was a rich vein of irony last year when Stockton mine management stopped work, called a meeting and told all its 310 workers to vote for its own man instead.
“That certainly pisses me off, given the advocacy that I have undertaken for the mining industry on the Coast, through all my time in Parliament,” says Labour’s Damien O’Connor.
The veteran MP is smarting at a revelation in new disclosures published by the Electoral Commission: ASX-listed mining firm Bathurst Resources donated $32,600 to 29-year-old independent Patrick Phelps to fully fund his campaign for more mining on the West Coast.
Candidate spending limits were $32,600 at last year’s election. So Bathurst, unhappy with a Labour policy banning more mining of conservation land, funded Phelps’ entire campaign – every last dollar. It gave him a far bigger war chest than the more established candidates."
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)