KIWIS' ASSETS STRIPPED BUT DO WE CARE?

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Tremain nails it again. Prime Minister Lippety Hipkins is not just stupid but a not-so-covert communist who can't come out of the closet - yet.

While his Government keeps belly-aching about 'climate change' (which is God's chastisement for sin, for which Hipkins' Government can largely share responsibility) Hipkins takes two planes and 80 journos and media to China. Let's hope he loses the latter there, or better still gets lost himself. 

But one's blood truly runs cold at the thought of our Prime Minister, who's messed up as minister of education (kids at school for three days a week), the police (think Parliament protest) and public service (get more to do less work), negotiating anything on New Zealand's behalf with Xi Jinping, the scariest man on the planet.

Sorry but the word 'gormless' springs to mind 

Despite claims of a policy bonfire by Chris Hipkins, the Government is pushing ahead with its divisive race-based water policy. Auckland and Northland will be the first casualties, after new legislation was introduced to parliament this week.

Auckland and Northland will be the guinea pigs in a revised three waters model, becoming the first to form one of 10 water entities in July next year, with the remaining staggered out to mid-2026.

Local Government Minister Kieran McAnulty confirmed the timeline today while introducing new legislation into the House for its first reading to cover recent changes to the water reforms, including expanding the initial four water service entities to 10.

The boundaries will be established roughly along the lines of New Zealand’s 16 regional councils. The 10 entities will be owned by councils via a shareholding and allow more direct engagement with the water entities that will manage water services on their behalf.

The expanded number of proposed entities came after strong opposition from some coucils and organisations about losing local control over water assets, and after the Government consulted up and down the country.

McAnulty said it was a compromise in terms of ensuring there was a level of representation while still delivering economies of scale to ensure cost savings.

The new timeline confirms the Auckland and Northland entity will be in place by July next year. The remaining will be “staggered” out until July 2026.

NZ Herald

Don’t you love how the NZ Herald just shills the Government lines,

We think Cam meant to write 'Government lies' 

especially over shareholding. The shareholding is essentially meaningless without a commensurate level of board control. Auckland Council is nowhere near being represented on the controlling entities at a level that would reflect its shareholding.

Control of these water entities is split among Maori iwi elites, who also get a say on who else is on the boards. This is nothing short of a slow-moving coup that removes control of council and ratepayer assets, giving it to unelected race-based operatives. The co-governance agenda is still in full swing and the apathy of Kiwi voters as their assets are being stripped from under them is astonishing.

The Three Waters reforms were meant to help local councils deal with the cost of investment in water infrastructure – estimated to be about $130 billion-$185 billion over the next 30 years.

Modelling commissioned by the Government reckoned those costs would push up household water and rates bills to as much as $9000 a year by 2051.

McAnulty previously said his model would deliver savings to households of $2770-$5400 per year by 2054.

McAnulty said they would be speeding up the process to have the bill reported back to the House at the end of July, effectively shortening the submissions process, and giving more long-term certainty to councils going through long-term plans.

He said the need for reform was highlighted by recent cyclone damage.

“The damage we have seen from severe weather events is a stark reminder that the resilience of our water system will continue to be tested.”

NZ Herald

Oh, now we see absolutely heroic claims that the recent cyclone damage would have been prevented by water reform. Really? How? By appeasing the Maori gods?

Reminds one of the 'Matariki' overhead that preceded Holy Mass at a certain church in Palmerston North Diocese last Sunday. The ensuing liturgy was simply disgraceful. Worse than merely Protestant. How could it have been otherwise? Thank God this diocese has now, after going on for four years, been given a bishop. 

China welcomes Chippy - "come into my parlour," said the spider to the fly

None of the amalgamations, since Noah was a boy playing with boats in his bathtub, have delivered any of the claimed benefits promoted by the dishonest politicians pushing these agendas.

McAnulty is typical of these politicians. He claims to be a Mass-going Catholic and refuses to lend support to repeal of Ardern's infanticidal abortion legislation. Maybe he is Mass-going, which makes his lie even worse as in presenting for Communion he commits sacrilege and so does the priest who administers the Sacrament. 

The energy reforms of Max Bradford are a case in point. Rodney Hide’s super city plan for Auckland is likewise a complete dog with none of the savings or benefits that he pushed. The polytech reforms of Chris Hipkins are an abject failure, and so too are Andrew Little’s health reforms.

None has worked as intended. Yet they still plough on with boondoggles, blithely insisting we are all wrong when even Blind Freddy can see the water reforms will fail.

Just as the Catholic Church ploughs on with the Novus Ordo, continuing with the same lamentable liturgy when even Blind Freddy can see the pews emptying Sunday by Sunday. 

But by the time we realise it, those responsible will have gifted themselves royal honours and jogged off to high paying sinecure positions, and they will never be held accountable.

Jacinda Ardern and her damehood, 'dear Dr Bloomfield' and his knighthood being the most egregious examples of royal honours. But we hope and pray that their day in court will come and prove most uncomfortable.

 

The Martyrdom of Saints John and Paul
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Saints John and Paul, Martyrs, on your feast day please pray for us