Yeah, seeing the back of those blokes would at least make the pain mean something 🤞🤞
Sadly, I fear that it'll only help our Liberal/National coalition that started out conservative enough but is now racing off to the right-most horizon as fast as they can, and I don't think the current PM is up to the fight that'll be needed to fend them off next year. 🤷♂️
Sounds like we're in the same boat. Luxon can't control either Seymour or Peters (how unexpected 🙄).
They're kicking a hornets nest with the Treaty Principles Bill.
If those f*ckers get it passed first reading I'll be on the streets with whatever hikoi goes through my town.
Seymour & his racist, backward looking cronies trying to drag us back to full blown colonialism faster than the Melbourne Cup gets run. 😡
They can just recycle the 'NO' case that the Coalition and their Murdoch masters used in our referendum to recognise an Indigenous Voice to Parliament last year.
The proposition was as close to the least we could possibly do as you could get without actually doing nothing, but they demagogued against it with all the racism they could manage without actually reverting to 50s-style racist language. They got what they wanted, though 🤷♂️
It was disgusting, IMHO.
@DyDave it's going to affect us harder. we border them.
we are so fucking fucked.
Especially when they let Bobby Jr take the fluoride out of the water and ban vaccines.
My uncle in NFLD is livid but glad he lives on an island.
@DyDave sorry to say, your uncle won't fare well on an island in the midst of climate change & sea rise. 😬
He’s a science teacher and jokes that he knew it was coming decades ago and it was why he bought a house on a hill. He’s always been a staunch advocate for CO2 reduction . Used to argue with my dad (who worked for an oil company) as far back as the 80s.
@DyDave your uncle sounds like a hoot!
He is. Almost 90 now but still energetic. His view:
@DyDave
Yeah, that was the upshot from a local guy who writes on this sort of stuff - for us too.
Since we're a housing market with some tacked on industries, the whole jump in wholesale interest rates potential is gonna bite *real hard* on top of the recession our austerity-determined govt is deepening and extending.
Roll on 2025 when maybe people will kick Luxon, Seymour & Peters out if we're all still feeling the pain. 🤞