The no-to-apartheid message maybe is getting through

At last the National MPs are paying attention.  They've probably noticed that they are haemorrhaging potential voters with inaction over endless Maorification and co-governance.

We are now consulting with Iwi leaders before introducing legislation

WTF?  Does Parliament not legislate in New Zealand?  These slippery bastards are still asking permission to proceed.  Parliament is sovereign in New Zealand, not the ancestry challenged elite.   There is no partnership or co-governance.

Just get on with total removal of any references to the treaty in any legislation.

The no-to-apartheid message is finally getting through.  There must be  an election soon.

Shane Jones tries to retract...

From The Good Oil, Shane Jones has tried to retract using a FaceBook post.

FNDC, “Pork & Puha” committee must not undermine local growth and democracy.

It would seem that my free rhetoric given in a media interview yesterday has stirred the political dust.

The Far North District Council have a new ‘pork and puha’ hapu committee. This creation is being distorted by mischief makers.

NZFirst does not support co-governance in any form, full stop. Our party has been consistent and vocal about fighting against co-governance.

My rhetoric is aimed at councils who cannot work together locally. It has been my view Northland must sort out local issues locally.

Getting Wellington to come North and intervene every-time a Council drops the ball means local democratic representatives are not serving their local communities.

Come on, far North, we live in Godzone. Our economic challenges are vast, our infrastructure is creaking and iwi priorities need to be aligned with the broader community.

An example is the need for a region wide Northern water infrastructure entity. A self evident innovation.

The suggestion that there should be hapu representation on that Board is cultural escapism. Our Party will never consent to such wokism!

Furthermore the offensive suggestion that hapu still have their constitutional sovereignty is delusional. It will never be accepted or agreed to by us.

The depressing Nga Puhi claim is a blight upon the local leadership. It will be fixed however in the first 100 days of a future government that we maybe privileged to serve in.

FNDC elected officials have a duty to all ratepayers. Sadly local issues can be manipulated and have a negative impact on a properly functioning council for our entire community.

The corrosion of democracy can easily emerge without vigilance from Papatoetoe to Kaikohe.

But do not forget this situation all stemmed from when the Independent Maori Statutory Board was put in place with the Auckland Super City in 2010 by the National/Act/Maori Party government, where unelected Iwi representatives where given a seat at the table - and this is something that NZFirst has been fighting against since day one.

Too late, your first post showed NZ First's true colours.  Your leader's actions of pandering to voters over his three-decade career with zero actual action on such matters is confirmed.

Those that run with the hares and hunt with the hounds are definitely not to be trusted. 

Shane Jones says the quiet bit out loud

Once again Winston First's boy mouths off saying the quiet bit out loud.

Shane Jones has labelled an Act councillor’s complaints that a co-governance “takeover on steroids” was happening in the Far North as “perverse” and “pathetic”

This confirms what we have known since forever that NZ First is only there for the bros.  We now know why removing co-governance has not occurred during this coalition.  Both Winston and Luxon support co-governance.

He then proceeds to shoot at the messenger.  Obviously not the 'right' kind of councillor.

Smolders’ complaints are a “bad look for the north” and shows she’s “probably not worthy of being a councillor”

Voters beware: If you are thinking of NZ First as your panacea at the ballot box, think again.  Mr. Jones just told us that like National, NZ First will not support ending co-governance.   

Smolders: Māori influence was “infiltrating every single decision” and was a “complete takeover” resulting in “two systems, two rules”

Act remains the only choice as they do not support stacking council committees with the unelected.  Perverting democracy may currently be legal, but any representation gained because of your ancestry is utterly wrong.

Clayton's apology from arrogance personified

You always know it's a Clayton's apology when you get:

I apologise ... but ...

The FNDC mayor has apparently seen the error of his ways - read cornered by the minister.  He has issued a Clayton's apology "to all those I have disappointed" over his two-word formal written reply re sex and travel to Duncan Garner the other day.

As is normal in such apologies, he continues to double down on related matters.  Festering un-elected personnel directing council policy and co-governance matters do indeed require urgent democratic discussion. 

This mayor continues to make it clear he is not willing to address such matters within his fiefdom.

Arrogant prick.

Colour me surprised

Rawene Hospital is broke and looking for more funding.

The makeup and name of the outfit running the shop was changed in recent times.  Change was needed to be more inclusive of the local bro.  Some might say a HePuaPua trough in the making.

We locals were sold such changes as being necessary, to include things such as the ancient art of witch-doctoring.  A big increase in staff to administer such schemes.

Subsequently a couple of years on, the balance sheet went from positive to negative in a big way.  Well, colour me surprised.

By the bro, for the bro doesn't seem to work anywhere.  All those make-work treaty courses deemed necessary for staff, ki oras in every communication from Mr./Ms nga mihi eat dollars, but do nothing for the bottom line.

Standby for more extreme negative health statistics from the area.  Soon it will only be multi-hour trips to  Whangarei, Kawakawa or Kaitaia hospitals for the sick north of Auckland.

Today's Wx lesson

A nice day in the Tasman and environs.   Screenshot Windy.com/Satellite.

Unfortunately New Zealand's MSM is in the thrall of fear-ridden doom-mongering today with over-cooked red-infused Wx reports. And dodgy reporters propaganda-merchants in barely-wet plastic macs.  The supposed cyclone has passed us in the upper north with about 20mm of drizzly precipitation since 1900 last night.  Accompanied by a mere draught normal for these parts guesstimated to be 25 knots max.  Too much boy who cried wolf.

The pic taken a short time ago has all the traits of a typical 5-seasons in one day.   Wrt to the centrally featured ex-tropical cyclone depression one can observe at 12 o'clock as nice day with some light cloud  between here and Fiji.  A bit different the other day when said depression was wreaking havoc as a Cat 3 on the plane passengers vomiting in the aisles up there.

At 4 o'clock we have the still blocking feature (speckled area)  pumping cold air northward from the freezer.

Over NZ, there's some dark grey rain clouds.  Nelson and Coromandel to Tauranga.  Normal for the surfers in a stiff easterly.  Bit draughty in the back of Otago - that hard line is wind shadow - it must be fairly  steaming over the Southern Alps.  The rest of the bright white depression cloud is drizzle with some wind.  Hard wind on western edge from Northland to the paradise that is the Auckland Isles - a weather system 2000 Km across transiting through your day may have adverse effects.

At 7 o'clock, we have winter approaching from the Aussie Bight (more speckled clouds = cold shitty showers) having dipped into the lower freezer on the way through.  Probably the remains of Cyclone Narelle that was in Perth a week ago having done an unusual full circuit of Oz starting at Brisbane in the weeks before.  

At 10 o'clock we have the ever present Brisbane River streaming toward the Far North.  Warm tropical air, laden with moisture and in this case as is normal, wracked with active thunderstorms.

At 11 o'clock we have the next cyclone forming.  Nov-Apr is the duty-frigate's worst time of the year.  It's cyclone season and they may have to put to sea at short notice to rescue some errant mariners or the like who do not regularly peruse present Wx or forecasts.

See kiddies, you need to learn how to read a weather map.  And what also is an analog clock.

Have a nice one.

Picking at the scab?

After Moko's two-word FNDC formal reply in writing to Duncan Garner's request for a 10 minute radio interview the other day, the ensuing crap has exited the fan spraying all over the Minister for Local Government, one Mr Simon Watt.  A man seemingly with a long reputation for inaction.

Kerikeri Act Local councillor Davina Smolders recently made claims of governance issues at the council

Well done that woman!

And the Minister's response?

Local Government Minister Simon Watts has asked his officials to “engage with” Far North District Council after a local councillor called for the appointment of a Crown Observer

Will he rip the co-governance scab off?  I think not,  His boss, Mr Luxon and the National Party is donkey deep in matters tribal.  There are no end of fifth column tribalists in their party ever ready for the co-governance money streams.

As witnessed by his earlier Treaty Principles farce, co-governance is definitely a scab not to be trifled with in his book!

flogged from NZ Herald

ps.  Herald - you really need to get a new up-to-date photo of the arrogant FNDC Mayor at the gates of his fiefdom.  

Are you listening Mr Luxon?

Fresh from X:

IRELAND IS IN FULL REVOLT Thousands of truckers, farmers and business owners just shut down the country over the government’s INSANE fuel taxes and Carbon Tax GRIFT. The FRAUDULENT Green Agenda is destroying their livelihoods. THE IRISH PEOPLE ARE DONE.

and from here:

Major anti-Government protests have brought the entire Country to a halt for a second successive day, with protesters vowing to ESCALATE if the Government doesn’t meet their demands.

Ireland is about to EXPLODE…

Seems the Irish do not like high fuel prices with ever more rapacious taxes for Net Zero and  climate change grift, couple with forced population replacement via open borders.  

Meanwhile the globalists have sent in the Defence Forces to clear the protestors.  That'll end well knowing the Irish!

Are you listening Mr. Luxon?

Far North councils about to waste more of my rates???

I see a group of 'local businessmen' are 'circling' the soon-to-be-closed board mills in that most dangerous town Kaitaia.  Otherwise known as the murder capital of the Far North.  Always feels unsafe when in the area.

Anyway read that as "The local FNDC council and the NRC regional council are expressing an interest in circling the drain with your hard-earnt local body rates aka council taxes in another doomed-to-failure venture".

a combination of ongoing structural and market pressures affecting operations, including declining demand in key export markets ... also singled out higher operating costs

Really?  What part of "Juken ... had not been able to make them sustainable" not you understand?  A global company has tried to make the operation work and is failing, yet the councils think somehow they can do better.    'Higher operating costs': - read that as 'directly is the cost of having a highly unionised workforce with minimum wage ethos in play'.

Anyway, it will be OK, other people's money will fund this venture.  Just like the now failing super-expensive museum to some artist in the SH1 backwater that is Whangarei and with the recent FNDC payment of bribe koha to keep the uneconomical local airport open, both now council-run business ventures that we ratepayers are being soundly fleeced over.

bits flogged from NZ Herald