Post by Kiwi Frontline on Dec 22, 2016 5:37:12 GMT 12
Northland Age 22/12/16
BUCKLE UP
On the question of Key's sudden departure, I will go with Peters' assessment that the timing is simply not credible and something's amiss.
All the eulogising about Mr Key is nauseating. He's basically achieved nothing as leader in eight years at the helm, other than exude a 'warm fuzzy feel-good' day-dreaming philosophy.
Immigration rates a fail, education and health are stuttering, and housing policies are a mess. Key's National government's race-based initiatives on fresh water, marine and coastal, RMA amendments etc, and compelling councils to kowtow to vested Maori interests with the push for unelected race-based representation, are palpably wrong and will ultimately lead to the destruction of racial equality if unchecked.
Frankly the list of underachieving is endless. And as for balancing the country's books, that's just a joke based on creative smoke and mirrors stuff and inevitably the false consumption and services-based New Zealand economy will tank sooner rather than later.
So, when the going gets tough, when all the rhetoric no longer works and justifiable criticism starts hitting home, then just before everything turns to custard, he's riding off into the sunset!
Parliament breaks up for two months mid-December, and surely common sense tells us nothing will be done over that time, so why couldn't Key's announcement have waited till the New Year? Unless of course he is aiming to make the honours list?
Whatever the conspiracy theories might be, it's starting to look like they may have some merit.
Mr Key is no loss, but those who will replace him now and after the 2017 elections could be scary stuff, so fasten your safety belts.
Put in a nice way, Key's departure is a welcome relief.
R P
Matapihi
REVEALING INSIGHT
A big thank-you to Rodney Hide for, in his recent Herald on Sunday article, giving us a reflection on the mind and character of 'multi-dollared, political aspirant' Gareth Morgan.
What he may lack in finesse he certainly compensates for in his knowledge of excoriating expletives and vindictive vernacular.
A man of many talents, he studied the Treaty of Waitangi, (`Are We There Yet? ...'), and to enlighten an ignorant public wrote a book on the subject. Its title should have been Munchausen's Guide to Te Tiriti, for its wealth of fanciful conclusions.
B J
Omokoroa
TE VINO?
Now here is something hard to swallow — wine. Yes, you heard right — wine.
Our guilt-ridden race-orientated legislators have issued a Wine and Spirits Amendment Bill that allows Maori special rights to control the proposed names of wine.
No doubt this is a "right" bestowed upon today's part-Maori by the imaginary `Principles of the Treaty,' invented by Sir Geoffrey Palmer. (Mr Palmer must have seen a different Treaty from the one that I have read, as the only obvious principles that I could see were that Maori ceded sovereignty to the Queen in return for the rights of British citizenship and that all New Zealanders were now united as one people under one law.)
But really! Maori approval having to be sought to name a wine? I had thought that our appeasers had reached the ultimate heights in insanity, but apparently I was wrong.
So what might the future hold? Parents beware — if you want to name your child other than Rang! or Moana you may have to appear before a Maori select committee to seek their ok. James and John, Janet and Jacqueline may no longer be politically correct.
Winston — please get the balance of power in the next election. I think I am going to throw up.
MITCH MORGAN
Kaipara
BUCKLE UP
On the question of Key's sudden departure, I will go with Peters' assessment that the timing is simply not credible and something's amiss.
All the eulogising about Mr Key is nauseating. He's basically achieved nothing as leader in eight years at the helm, other than exude a 'warm fuzzy feel-good' day-dreaming philosophy.
Immigration rates a fail, education and health are stuttering, and housing policies are a mess. Key's National government's race-based initiatives on fresh water, marine and coastal, RMA amendments etc, and compelling councils to kowtow to vested Maori interests with the push for unelected race-based representation, are palpably wrong and will ultimately lead to the destruction of racial equality if unchecked.
Frankly the list of underachieving is endless. And as for balancing the country's books, that's just a joke based on creative smoke and mirrors stuff and inevitably the false consumption and services-based New Zealand economy will tank sooner rather than later.
So, when the going gets tough, when all the rhetoric no longer works and justifiable criticism starts hitting home, then just before everything turns to custard, he's riding off into the sunset!
Parliament breaks up for two months mid-December, and surely common sense tells us nothing will be done over that time, so why couldn't Key's announcement have waited till the New Year? Unless of course he is aiming to make the honours list?
Whatever the conspiracy theories might be, it's starting to look like they may have some merit.
Mr Key is no loss, but those who will replace him now and after the 2017 elections could be scary stuff, so fasten your safety belts.
Put in a nice way, Key's departure is a welcome relief.
R P
Matapihi
REVEALING INSIGHT
A big thank-you to Rodney Hide for, in his recent Herald on Sunday article, giving us a reflection on the mind and character of 'multi-dollared, political aspirant' Gareth Morgan.
What he may lack in finesse he certainly compensates for in his knowledge of excoriating expletives and vindictive vernacular.
A man of many talents, he studied the Treaty of Waitangi, (`Are We There Yet? ...'), and to enlighten an ignorant public wrote a book on the subject. Its title should have been Munchausen's Guide to Te Tiriti, for its wealth of fanciful conclusions.
B J
Omokoroa
TE VINO?
Now here is something hard to swallow — wine. Yes, you heard right — wine.
Our guilt-ridden race-orientated legislators have issued a Wine and Spirits Amendment Bill that allows Maori special rights to control the proposed names of wine.
No doubt this is a "right" bestowed upon today's part-Maori by the imaginary `Principles of the Treaty,' invented by Sir Geoffrey Palmer. (Mr Palmer must have seen a different Treaty from the one that I have read, as the only obvious principles that I could see were that Maori ceded sovereignty to the Queen in return for the rights of British citizenship and that all New Zealanders were now united as one people under one law.)
But really! Maori approval having to be sought to name a wine? I had thought that our appeasers had reached the ultimate heights in insanity, but apparently I was wrong.
So what might the future hold? Parents beware — if you want to name your child other than Rang! or Moana you may have to appear before a Maori select committee to seek their ok. James and John, Janet and Jacqueline may no longer be politically correct.
Winston — please get the balance of power in the next election. I think I am going to throw up.
MITCH MORGAN
Kaipara