Thank God for Winston Peters, who is actually doing his job.
He is out there on Facebook demanding why neither National nor Labour is being grilled on what the Indian government itself is openly bragging about. Because India’s Minister of Commerce and Industry has already laid it out in plain English: a fast-growing Indian population here, hundreds of thousands already, hundreds of thousands more on the way. More students flooding in because, apparently, we have a shortage of people.
Add in visa rules that let them work, stay on, and bring the whole family, all on top of a weak job market, and tell me, hand on heart: who the hell is this actually working for?
We don’t need more curry chefs and Uber drivers. We need engineers. We need surgeons. We need people who build this country up, not add more pressure to an already creaking system.
Young Kiwis are scraping by in a brutal job market. Wages are stagnant. Housing is a national disgrace. Infrastructure is groaning. Yet the geniuses in Wellington insist the solution is to import even more labour. It is completely deranged.
And then there is the part they really hope you won’t notice.
India is touting a 20 billion dollar investment commitment. Not from them to us. From us to them. Over 15 years. And their own Press Information Bureau confirms there is a rebalancing clause. Miss the target and the deal turns on us like a loaded gun. Clawbacks. Penalties. The works.
We signed up for a massive, long-term financial obligations with automatic punishment if we fall short, all while being gaslit that this is some glorious win.
National happily waved it through with zero scrutiny, the usual corporate buzzwords about growth and opportunity. Trade deals should serve the people who actually live here. They should lift wages, build real industries, and protect our long-term stability.
This one does the opposite. It is a liability dressed up as diplomacy. A one-way valve sucking in pressure on jobs, housing, and infrastructure while we write big cheques to India with penalties attached if we don’t pay up fast enough.
New Zealanders are not idiots. We can smell a stinking deal from a mile away.
And this one reeks of a sh*tty butter chicken that has been sitting on the bench for a week.
Add in visa rules that let them work, stay on, and bring the whole family, all on top of a weak job market, and tell me, hand on heart: who the hell is this actually working for?
We don’t need more curry chefs and Uber drivers. We need engineers. We need surgeons. We need people who build this country up, not add more pressure to an already creaking system.
Young Kiwis are scraping by in a brutal job market. Wages are stagnant. Housing is a national disgrace. Infrastructure is groaning. Yet the geniuses in Wellington insist the solution is to import even more labour. It is completely deranged.
And then there is the part they really hope you won’t notice.
India is touting a 20 billion dollar investment commitment. Not from them to us. From us to them. Over 15 years. And their own Press Information Bureau confirms there is a rebalancing clause. Miss the target and the deal turns on us like a loaded gun. Clawbacks. Penalties. The works.
We signed up for a massive, long-term financial obligations with automatic punishment if we fall short, all while being gaslit that this is some glorious win.
National happily waved it through with zero scrutiny, the usual corporate buzzwords about growth and opportunity. Trade deals should serve the people who actually live here. They should lift wages, build real industries, and protect our long-term stability.
This one does the opposite. It is a liability dressed up as diplomacy. A one-way valve sucking in pressure on jobs, housing, and infrastructure while we write big cheques to India with penalties attached if we don’t pay up fast enough.
New Zealanders are not idiots. We can smell a stinking deal from a mile away.
And this one reeks of a sh*tty butter chicken that has been sitting on the bench for a week.
Matua Kahurangi is just a bloke sharing thoughts on New Zealand and the world beyond. No fluff, just honest takes. He blogs on https://matuakahurangi.com/ where this article was sourced.
12 comments:
Is this perhaps National's way of ensuring that Treaty settlements to Iwi ( expected in perpetuity) will continue - namely by securing the workers to service these payments?
At least the Indians want to work. How about a one in, one out policy? Swap our entitled slobs for their best talent? Plus, butter chicken beats chops n' veg any day.
Years ago, my war amputee uncle commented about selling our souls to China for a bowl of rice. Are we now selling it for a bowl of curry?
My office in Auckland is approximately 80% indian They are fabulous, university educated, christian, all black loving, fully westernised kiwis. They were literally saying yesterday that they don't want indians coming here due to the trade deal, as they may be the lower caste, lower value indians who will offer nothing and not want to assimilate. On the other hand, if the plane loads of western kiwis moving to australia accelerates, who else will replace those leaving?
How could anybody be this stupid or destructive. I can see now why full disclosure was kept from the NZ public. This deal appears to be the final nail in our country’s coffin where there will be no escape from losing our historical identity forever. Matua is right to point out the silence from the toothless and corrupt MSM not challenging this treasonous folly. Is it time for Hosking to stop asking Luxon what his favourite colour during his fireside chats on Monday mornings? Winstone appears to be the last man standing to either reverse or modify Luxon’s naive FTA with India.
It's not just young Kiwis who are scraping by in a brutal job market, Matua, a lot of older ones are too.
the investment demanded is small by any measure and likely to be part of the distribution of NZ products.
India has a surplus of very capable doctors engineers etc why would we no attract those rather than taxi drivers who are close to gone with driverless cars within a year or two.
As they always say, 'the devil's in the detail' and none of 'us' (the public) have seen it. I do have my concerns that the purported economic benefits will be more low-end mass arrival demand-driven and that there will be significant costs down the track on welfare, superannuation, education, and our health services. Yes, we are expanding our export opportunities, but at what cost also to our existing infrastructure, housing, and culture? Do I trust our politicians to get it right - more especially without open and frank disclosure - not on your Nellie.
On that, Luxon will be desperate to promote economic growth and immigration is an easy prod - just ask his mentor, John Key.
Hmmm, based on this information the India deal looks just like a continuation of the Labour/National plan to destroy NZ’s cultural and foundational base. But I could be wrong!
well if youre not achieving replication rates of 2.1 then whats the option - theres no undoing the damage the UN has done - UN 1 NZ 0
Since when was the UN responsible for people choosing to have fewer children, Anon 414?
If you must blame someone, blame Paul Ehrlich........... but the real reasons are the change to the two-income couple as a norm and commensurate increases in property values.
Luxon making it unaffordable for kiwis to populate ourselves so he turns to Seymour to import people. We’re getting what we voted for.
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