One of the great sadnesses around Ellis is he got successful in business and, as a result, disappeared.
I miss people like him in public life.
What made him successful was that he was himself, no matter what he did, whether it was rugby, TV, or orange juice, he was himself.
It's actually a skill. And that’s why too many people morph into what they perceive they should be.
Anyway, he is part of what we saw last week in the immigration numbers, of which there are several concerns.
One is that the surge of arrivals has petered out, which is a shame because we are still well short of the people and skills we need.
Two is that the departure to Australia is now alarming.
And three is the tourism part of the data, which indicates that the holiday maker is not coming back in the way we hoped, or need.
Ellis is leaving the country as well. He is going to live in Italy and he is going because we have lost our mojo.
That’s what I like about him. Others might suggest the same thing in a more PC way, that it's not the place it was, it's being torn apart. These are his words, by the way, not mine.
Although, they are my thoughts as well. And from ongoing correspondence, it's the thoughts of a dangerously large number of New Zealanders.
That’s the trouble with the migration numbers. It's all very well the people arriving, but who are they and what do they bring?
The people leaving to Australia, tragically, will be the bright and adventurous. People like Ellis are needed here. But, to be blunt, who can blame him?
That, in many respects, is what this election will be fought on.
Do you like what we are? Do you revel in what we have become as a country?
That’s why Labour will lose.
Yes, they have buggered the economy and been inept in delivery of basically everything.
But they have also divided us and made us angry and when the Marc Ellis' of this world leave for better places and better days, that division and despair has to be brought to an end.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
It's actually a skill. And that’s why too many people morph into what they perceive they should be.
Anyway, he is part of what we saw last week in the immigration numbers, of which there are several concerns.
One is that the surge of arrivals has petered out, which is a shame because we are still well short of the people and skills we need.
Two is that the departure to Australia is now alarming.
And three is the tourism part of the data, which indicates that the holiday maker is not coming back in the way we hoped, or need.
Ellis is leaving the country as well. He is going to live in Italy and he is going because we have lost our mojo.
That’s what I like about him. Others might suggest the same thing in a more PC way, that it's not the place it was, it's being torn apart. These are his words, by the way, not mine.
Although, they are my thoughts as well. And from ongoing correspondence, it's the thoughts of a dangerously large number of New Zealanders.
That’s the trouble with the migration numbers. It's all very well the people arriving, but who are they and what do they bring?
The people leaving to Australia, tragically, will be the bright and adventurous. People like Ellis are needed here. But, to be blunt, who can blame him?
That, in many respects, is what this election will be fought on.
Do you like what we are? Do you revel in what we have become as a country?
That’s why Labour will lose.
Yes, they have buggered the economy and been inept in delivery of basically everything.
But they have also divided us and made us angry and when the Marc Ellis' of this world leave for better places and better days, that division and despair has to be brought to an end.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
3 comments:
Marc Ellis' words were in fact "I thought we were egalitarian and unified but some people who feel slightly disenfranchised use that to exacerbate rifts for political reasons."
IMO he was being very kind by using an obtuse description of how politicians, acadmeics, media and treatyist activist have used ethnicity as the tool, not to exacerbate rifts, but to rend them wide and probably now unfixable.....all for their sad backward thinking unmodern intersectional identity and critical race theoryist ideology....
New Zealand of 10 years past was once a lauded democratic multicultural nation high in the OECD ranking across all metrics but with some known societal problems.
Today New Zealand stands on the cliff edge about the abyss of failure as a nation driven by people who see their ideology as absolute, refuse to countenance reason and do so in the knowledge they drive a wedge between every citizen while crying about oppresive racist failures from their hallowed positions of success and wealth.
The people who wrote the He Puapua document about how badly New Zealand and colonialism have treated them and theirs are also the ones bathing in the ability to say, think, do and live the way they do because of the thing that they scream harms them.
Hypocracy is easy if you ignore reality.
If they're not physically leaving the country they are more than likely moving their assets offshore. If our
investors are no longer prepared to invest in New Zealand the poorer New Zealand will become. This all be reflected by a permanent outflow of our best and brightest.
Anyone as objective and frank as Ellice used to be is in enormous danger from cancellation in NZ, so is well advised to leave. from his gaurded words he is obviously smart enough to realis his fragile position here.
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