The country breathed a sigh of relief when she suddenly threw in the towel. Bottles of bubbly were cracked open and it seemed the country could now begin to recover. Labour went from riding the waves to, as Gen Z'ers say, ‘crashing out’.
Beaten down Kiwis yearned for change and positivity but the soon to be found sneaky behaviour of the National Party has undone any improvement. Both comportments – Labour’s hypocrisy and National’s sneaky behaviour – involve deception. They are as bad as each other.
The National Party does not give us confidence. New Zealanders must read the small print to find out what is hidden in the pages of the bills being brought into the House. The National Party, in coalition with ACT and NZ First, are quietly engineering woke social constructs and nonsense into legislation.
Let’s have a look at what Hobson’s Pledge call Stanford’s Sneaky Sell Out:
The demands are set out as ‘paramount objectives’ for a school board to reflect local tikanga Maori, mātauranga Maori and te ao Maori. There is no choice.
“We hear the minister is furious!” says Ikilei since his email. “Remove the clause”, he suggests to the minister.
Another underhand example of the National party policy is the Ute tax:
National campaigned in 2023 on abolishing Ardern’s attack on workers and farmers – called the ‘ute tax’. Deviously, National have left the Clean Car Standards in place. Over $7,000 in price hikes for some imported vehicles are on the cards this year. Granted, they did water down what would have added over $5,500 to the average car but the framework was left in place and the requirements become more onerous when the sales of electric cars slump.
One of the criteria for the size of the non-ute tax is…weight.
Enter the ‘ute tax lite’ as it has been appropriately named.
National and Labour are a uni party, it appears. Labour’s hypocrisy perhaps is rooted in a desire to maintain a positive public image or avoid accountability, while National’s sneaky behaviour is more directly focused on achieving a specific, often self-serving, goal or party policy.
Anger is rising. People are stating they will not vote for National, even though they may have been loyal supporters all their lives.
Eliora is a fourth-generation Kiwi is a conservative voter and has worked in health. This article was first published HERE
Beaten down Kiwis yearned for change and positivity but the soon to be found sneaky behaviour of the National Party has undone any improvement. Both comportments – Labour’s hypocrisy and National’s sneaky behaviour – involve deception. They are as bad as each other.
The National Party does not give us confidence. New Zealanders must read the small print to find out what is hidden in the pages of the bills being brought into the House. The National Party, in coalition with ACT and NZ First, are quietly engineering woke social constructs and nonsense into legislation.
Let’s have a look at what Hobson’s Pledge call Stanford’s Sneaky Sell Out:
While everyone was distracted, National’s wokest minister, Erica Stanford, quietly introduced a radical rewrite of our school governance laws – and now it has been pushed to a select committee with barely a whisper of public attention.
It’s innocuously called the Education and Training Amendment Bill No. 2, and yet the changes buried within it – specifically in the rewritten Section 127 – represent one of the boldest attempts yet to entrench co-governance and identity politics in the classroom.
Erica Stanford has slipped this radical section into the legislation – and yes, she did it quietly. No fanfare, no press release, and certainly no warning to the public. Just a quiet move that will force every school board in the country to reflect “local tikanga Māori, mātauranga Māori, and te ao Māori” in their policies, plans, and classroom teaching.
The bill even goes so far as to require that schools take “all reasonable steps” to provide instruction in tikanga and te reo Māori.
This is not a minor amendment. It is a full-blown cultural mandate.
Worse still – this comes after the coalition parties (National, ACT, and New Zealand First) all campaigned on rolling back co-governance, not embedding it.
Elliot Ikilei, 25 June 2025
The demands are set out as ‘paramount objectives’ for a school board to reflect local tikanga Maori, mātauranga Maori and te ao Maori. There is no choice.
“We hear the minister is furious!” says Ikilei since his email. “Remove the clause”, he suggests to the minister.
Another underhand example of the National party policy is the Ute tax:
The ute tax is back; it’s charged as the clean car scheme CCS it’s called at NZTA. This week I imported a vehicle so found out about the increase first hand.
Every vehicle has a rated CO2 grams per kilometre. Then there is a threshold. Any excess is charged to the importer at 26$, iirc, per gram. So on a 3 litre petrol SUV rated at 99 grams over the threshold that’s about $5100 who adds to the sticker price. Jan 1 this year National increased the CCS by legislation from 36$ to 54$ per gram effectively replacing the ute tax with the same value as a charge to the importer who adds it to the sale price with GST on top. Every vehicle is subject to this with used imports getting a 50% discount. I hate these lying btards.
Commenter on the Good Oil.
National campaigned in 2023 on abolishing Ardern’s attack on workers and farmers – called the ‘ute tax’. Deviously, National have left the Clean Car Standards in place. Over $7,000 in price hikes for some imported vehicles are on the cards this year. Granted, they did water down what would have added over $5,500 to the average car but the framework was left in place and the requirements become more onerous when the sales of electric cars slump.
One of the criteria for the size of the non-ute tax is…weight.
Enter the ‘ute tax lite’ as it has been appropriately named.
The Gene Therapy Bill also came sneakily out of the blue onto the country:
The Gene Technology Bill allows exempted and unregulated genetically engineered organisms (GE) into NZ with no assessment of risk. This bill threatens the employment of 360,000 people who rely on the agricultural sector and will be directly affected by a billion-dollar downturn in demand. The bill places costs and liability for GE contamination on the GE Free sector, destroying the livelihood of farmers and rural communities.
Comments at the end of the year from the coalition government by Minister Judith Collins show that they have little awareness of the global demand for GE-free food in 2025 or the historical failed genetic engineering trials in New Zealand.
GE Free NZ
National and Labour are a uni party, it appears. Labour’s hypocrisy perhaps is rooted in a desire to maintain a positive public image or avoid accountability, while National’s sneaky behaviour is more directly focused on achieving a specific, often self-serving, goal or party policy.
Anger is rising. People are stating they will not vote for National, even though they may have been loyal supporters all their lives.
Eliora is a fourth-generation Kiwi is a conservative voter and has worked in health. This article was first published HERE
4 comments:
National is a very divided party. It has been warned.... will it listen?
There never has been a great difference between Labour and National. People voted out the fourth Labour government with Roger Douglas, and replaced him with Ruth Richardson. Basically the same thing in a different package. The John Key - Bill English government was replaced by the Adern government which had basically the same policies pushed to a ridiculous extreme.
The difference today lies not in the Labour and National governments themselves but in who their coalition partners will be. National's woke agenda is moderated by ACT and NZ First. Labour's is made worse by TPM and the Greens.
So voters need to use their brains. If they voted National in 2023 because they didn't like the damage Labour was causing, then the answer to National's failings isn't to vote Labour again. However, that is what most are intending to do.
"Anger is rising. People are stating they will not vote for National, even though they may have been loyal supporters all their lives."
People are angry. Many have arrived at the conclusion that all the major political parties no longer represent their interests. Politicians should take heed of the following quote -
"We enter into a tacit social contract with one another, which obliges us to “submit to the determination of the majority.” A decision by majority vote isn’t necessarily an “act of the whole,” but it’s made on behalf of the whole, and furthermore proves necessary given the need for governing bodies to act despite contrary individual interests." - John Locke
Luxon has placed National in a precarious position, teetering between success and failure. What Luxon fails to comprehend is that Appeasement Road is a no exit road and at the end of this road, maori activist are assembled eagerly awaiting Luxon’s arrival and Luxon will have no option but to hand over the keys to our country!
It is well passed the time where Prime Minister Luxon began to think about the people who built New Zealand and more importantly, the people who will continue to build New Zealand in the future.
Because it will not be the maori activists, those who continue to demand, and receive, more and more from the taxpayers purse; they will destroy New Zealand!
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