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Part 1, Section 4.
This is beyond preposterous. Isn't it? Jacinda Ardern reveals herself definitively as a psychopath who cares nothing for this nation. She believes she can do anything she wants to advance her interests in Klaus Schwab's World Economic Forum and the Great Reset. Starring herself, of course.
Like psychopaths in general, she believes she can get away with any amount of lies, as long as they are told with smiles and charm and charism. She treats the voters with contempt. As well she might: having voted her in, they could quite fairly - if unkindly - be considered as deserving of contempt.
But she's running out of facial expressions and bodily posturing, and she's running out of good will. Surely it's only in Christians that as far as Ardern is concerned there is any of that commodity left, and Christians must expend that good will in prayer for her conversion.
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The speed at which the government is attempting to ram through the Water Services Entities Bill into law is exposing Cabinet's lack of grip on the details of these reforms.
As the government prepares to push the controversial Water Services Entities Bill through its third and final reading in the House under urgency, it has become shockingly evident over recent days that the Prime Minister and her Cabinet have lost their grip on the details of Five Waters.
Megan Woods: could she EVER have had a grip on Five Waters? The first cracks emerged last Wednesday when Mike Hosking interviewed Megan Woods on his breakfast show. Hosking had picked up on public commentary on the select committee report that had aptly renamed the reforms ‘Five Waters’ to acknowledge the report’s recommendation to expand the Te Mana o te Wai mechanism to include geothermal and coastal waters (in addition to freshwater).
The cheek of it is simply breathtaking.
Hosking labelled the development “just an idea that hasn’t been signed off, when it is, come back to me and we’ve got a scrap on”. He seemed totally unaware that the Bill was scheduled for its second reading later that day and that Cabinet had in fact signed off on “the idea” months earlier.
Hosking doesn't have to work for a living though, does he? Isn't he on Ardern's $55m payroll?
When Woods joined Hosking for an interview a little while later, he checked his understanding with the Minister who agreed with his earlier assessment and stated, “The select committee report was the first time I’ve ever heard of the thought of including any more waters into the Three Waters bucket. So this hasn’t even been talked about by Cabinet …
"The select committee report has to be turned into a Cabinet paper. As the Minister of Energy and Resources, I’d probably have some views on geothermal! … It’s not something we’ve even considered.”
Woods observed that geothermal water was similar to hydro in that it was “non-consumptive” ...
Woods is saying, in fact, that geothermal water isn't wasting away from tuberculosis. That's how much of a grip she has on her portfolio. About as much as she has on the English language.
... and would therefore raise a number of issues that would require careful consideration were it to be introduced into the Bill. Like Hosking, she appeared to be blissfully unaware that the second reading was scheduled to occur later that day and had seemingly forgotten that she had participated in the Cabinet meeting on 19 April that had approved this specific recommendation.
So whilst in the morning Hosking gently derided the Five Waters moniker as simply a description that his listeners had read “on your strange wee feeds”, by that evening it was the description being used in the debating chamber by National’s Simon Watts and Act’s Simon Court to describe the government’s ill-fated reforms.
How does Thomas Cranmer know they're ill-fated? He doesn't say, but we'd love to know.
And despite a number of opposition speeches delivered that night which highlighted the sudden expansion of the Te Mana o te Wai mechanism as being a major concern, at 8:23pm the Chief Government Whip, Dr Duncan Webb, stood up and delivered all 64 of Labour’s votes in favour of all of the select committee’s recommendations.https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/thomas-cranmer-cabinet-loses-grip-of-five-waters
So for some background, let's go to that rara avis, the BFD's Cam Slater, as a journo who's conserved his integrity, who was already so angry at Labour's Three Waters version of this scam that he and other influential people of like mind have launched a petition which every Kiwi who loves his country needs to sign.
Four days ago he was calling Three Waters a 'con'. So what will he call Five Waters? Something unprintable ...
Mike Hosking is very blunt about Three Waters. He calls it a con. But this Government is hell bent on stealing your water assets, using a complex shell game that ends up by vesting control into the hands of the unelected Iwi elites. We need to Just Say No to this and any other form of co-governance. Three Waters is also based on a series of lies.
The main one is that our water is no good and only a centralised system can bring it to a standard we could find acceptable.
That simply isn’t true.
I have been drinking the water in this country for 57 years in all the main centres I have lived in, as well as smaller places like Gisborne where I lived as a small child, and none of the glasses I have had killed me or made me sick.
Havelock is the Government’s poster child for how bad the water can be.
Havelock North: of all the places to be contaminated. How embarrassing, dahling! The reason they cite Havelock (North - ed) is because that’s it, there aren’t really any others, and Havelock was six years ago, and was not an example of how mass reform would have saved the town.
The reality is the water in this country in general terms is fine. Yes, there are issues with major infrastructure work in small places where the rating base is small but the bills are big – but that is not a reason to roll into town, as the Government has, with a dangerous ideology and a few billion in bribe money to nick control.
NZ HeraldIt is a dangerous ideology. Quite how vesting control and veto powers with Maori will fix the water supply issues in the small number of places that it is needed is beyond any logic.It is wholesale asset stealing, degradation and abrogation of voting rights, all in favour of one race of people, based entirely on a heroic re-writing of a nearly 200-year-old piece of paper.
In fact, the maddest thing about the whole idea is the premise that somehow the Government believed that, in taking assets off councils for next to no compensation, we would go along with it.
What idiot, having owned and invested in infrastructure for decades, hands that over, loses control, gets nothing back and thinks they haven’t been stitched up?
Idiots who voted for Ardern, that's who.
The next part of the fallacy is when they tell you, if you don’t do it their way, your rates will go up.
That may well be true for those who need upgrades in their systems but it isn’t for those many areas that have done a decent job over the years and don’t in fact have any sort of problem at all.
But consider this: name one major reform in any sector in New Zealand that has led to lower costs for anything…go on, just one.
Bradford power reforms? Nope.
Auckland Super City? Nope.
Changing from one Ministry of Health to multiple Health Boards, and back to two massive Health organisations, again race-based? Not even remotely true.
There isn’t one. Politicians the world over just outright lie about perceived and theoretical benefits, and the end result is the opposite of what they promised.
But more importantly, since when did central government start worrying about local rates? Rates go up every year everywhere … I’ve never heard a peep from Wellington.
When was the last time central government was in angst about rate increases?
It’s not their business, that’s why we have local councils, local authorities, who make local decisions.
So what we have is a bad idea, badly sold, trying to solve a problem that for many doesn’t even exist, using a mechanism that pretty much rips off anyone who is foolish enough to buy into it.
NZ HeraldThe liars in government are threatening us with the prospect of rate increases if we don’t do this restill, there are material and real accounting issues with stealing these assets. They are actually propping up council debts…and the government certainly isn’t going to expunge those, are they? Councils will see a loss of assets from the balance sheets, which will result in them breaching their lending covenants which will necessitate the rapid injection of capital that the lenders will insist on, which will be paid for by higher rates.
Why are we doing this again? But nowhere have they said that because they are now looking after it rates will go down. Worse Also, never forget that this policy was never part of the Labour campaign in 2020. Show me where Nanaia Mahuta or Jacinda Ardern told voters that their local water facilities were about to be taken off them and handed to a centralised authority with Maori appointed to run them.
We weren’t told, and by the time we were post-election, the disingenuous stench was overwhelming.
The policy is a dog, and if Labour had half a brain they would bin it, especially given their polling troubles.
But how beholden to the Maori caucus is the wider party? And do they hold so much sway that they are prepared to sink their re-election chances on one of the most divisive policies in decades?
NZ HeraldThis is why we need a referendum on this. We need to tell the politicians that we aren’t happy with it. We need to Just Say No!
https://thebfd.co.nz/2022/11/18/three-waters-is-a-con/
St Cecilia, on your feast day please pray for us.
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