CHLOE'S 'PROGRESSIVE LEFT WING GOVT' FOR NZ

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Practising the haka so she can lead NZ's next government - Swarbrick 

No matter how terrifying the Brothers Grimm stories you might remember from childhood, they simply can't compare with the Greens' Chloe Swarbrick and her scenario of leading New Zealand's next government. Scary and risible in equal parts, because the Greens have become a laughing stock here,  and socialist economies everywhere are at once a joke and a menace. 

Legacy media's NZ Herald gives the MSM's lefty game away by the length and adulatory tone of this puff piece on the Greens' darling of the left, who wants 'a progressive, left-wing Government'. She defines her party and herself as leading the Opposition, which is almost enough to make one rush to poor little Hipkins' defence. Almost.  

But it's enough to make one quote David Seymour of ACT, who says New Zealand tried a progressive left-wing government in 2017. "It wrought economic vandalism on an historic scale. Now, as we hose down the fire, (Swarbrick is) like an arsonist returning to the scene of the crime and asking for the matches back."

Meanwhile the Coalition advances the Davos 2030 agenda. And we don't dare go to sleep for fear we'll have nightmares. New Zealand must resist the political stupor that would deliver a progressive, left-wing, globalist government.

 

 

Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick says her party is the only one proposing solutions to tax issues at a time when communities are crying out for alternatives to the status quo.

 

The co-leader, who spoke to the Herald as she prepared for the Greens’ Annual General Meeting (AGM) this weekend, has also suggested her party is currently leading the Opposition in driving the political agenda.

 

Over the past few months, the Greens have produced an alternative Budget, a fiscal strategy, identified a “hole” in the Government’s books, and commissioned legal advice finding gas field contingency funding could breach an international trade agreement (the latter two have both been disputed by ministers).

 

Meanwhile, the Greens’ natural partner Labour has generalities, such as its “Jobs, Health, Homes” slogan and has indicated it would repeal some Government policies, like pay equity changes.

 

Labour is mostly keeping tight-lipped on any policy proposals, wanting to leave that to closer to the election to ensure its ideas reflect the latest circumstances.

 

Asked by the Herald whether she felt the Green Party was therefore currently leading the Opposition with its offerings rather than Labour, Swarbrick replied that she felt that was a “pretty evidence-based position, yeah”.

 

“I’m stoked with the mahi [work] that we have done to show people the issues that this Government is creating for us, but also how we would solve those issues,” she said.

 

“I’m proud of the work that we’ve done. That can only be a positive thing. We are setting the agenda, we are contributing positively to the debate, and that is exciting people. That’s a good thing.”

 

Throughout the Herald’s interview with Swarbrick, she noted it is the Green Party that is holding a consistent policy position, pointing to the wealth tax offering at the 2020 and 2023 election campaign.

 

“We’ve put it in our Budget document for 2025. People know exactly where we sit,” she said.

 

That Budget document proposed to generate about $89 billion through the likes of a wealth tax, an inheritance tax and reinstating the 10-year bright-line test.

 

While it also would have cut income tax for many workers, it was criticised by governing parties as being Marxist in nature, while Labour’s Chris Hipkins said it was “unrealistic”.

 

Swarbrick is convinced there is a need to make change, noting a recent report from Inland Revenue in June which flagged that New Zealanders would likely need to pay more tax to cover the cost of an ageing population.

 

It said an alternative could be to cut spending, but with so much uncertainty in the future, the tax system should be designed so revenue is generated fairly and efficiently if required.

So the Greens don't believe the tax system should be designed to generate revenue 'fairly and efficiently' always?  

 

The Greens co-leader said that showed it shouldn’t be a “matter of if, but how we fix the tax system”.

 

“I think that any responsible political party needs to be able to put forward a solution to deal with that issue. From where we’re sitting very clearly, the only party who has so far done that is the Greens.”

Where Swarbrick was sitting last week, in Parliament, was on a Palestinian keffiyeh. 

 

Labour is expected to unveil its closely guarded tax policy later this year. Nothing has been confirmed, but there are indications it will settle on a Capital Gains Tax (CGT).

The Greens favour a wealth tax, which Swarbrick said was in part down to how much revenue the respective taxes would generate and “fairness”.

A CGT would take several years to ramp up.

Swarbrick believes a wealth tax would allow an important “redistribution” of wealth.

“That redistribution of the burden of our tax system also unlocks all of that resource necessary for that investment, but it also deals with that rapidly growing inequality if we’re applying the wealth tax instead of the capital gains tax,” she said.

For a laugh (or a good cry): Jack Tame interviews Swarbrick on Greens' alternative budget. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Sl1slr5sXvk5sXvk

 

She said the Greens were offering “solutions” to respond to a “very clear need from communities”.

 

“[Like] so many people across this country, we are angry. We are not happy with the status quo. We are not happy with what this Government is doing. But we need to have an alternative.”

 

The co-leader believed it “would be great if every political party could come to the table with some evidence-based positions on anything”.

 

One of her clear frustrations with the current Government is it going forward with proposals despite risks being identified by officials.

 

That isn’t new to Governments, but there have been numerous reports showing concern from agencies about various policies. Ministers say they’ve been elected to push the agenda New Zealanders voted for and to cut through bureaucracy.

 

Swarbrick said: “They’ve taken that legislation through select committee and had overwhelming opposition, and they’ve still decided to go ahead with doing that stuff anyway”.

 

She believes any future Government her party is a part of would be the most progressive or left-leaning New Zealand has seen under MMP.

 

“I think that that’s obviously desperately what we need. You look at the socioeconomic political history of this country and every 40 or so years, we have a form of economic transformation.”

 

Economic transformation looks like moving away from “man-made metrics” such as “the likes of GDP” and instead focusing on policies that “support the wellbeing of people and planet”.

 

Swarbrick is a Thunberg enthusiast

 

 

She said we are about four decades on from the “era of neoliberalism” beginning in the 1980s and “we can see the wheels are falling off”.

 

“A new system is desperately being cried out for.”

 

The Herald asked whether she would push Labour left, away from a political centre ground.

 

“This takes me back to the core proposition that I have been harping on about since I first got involved in politics, which is, I don’t just think it’s a matter of what the political parties are saying and doing. It’s what New Zealanders want and need.”

 

As for the AGM this week, Swarbrick appears confident the party has moved on from the troubles of 2024, which included MPs resigning and a walkout from their conference. She said her current party was “forged in fire” through that experience.

 

“Here we are stronger than ever, putting out tangible solutions to the issues that New Zealanders face.”

 

She spoke about the “new alliances” the Greens are trying to develop. They include coal miners on the West Coast of the South Island, which also happens to be the birthplace of the Labour Party.

 

“I think it’s really important for people to understand that the Green Party and the actual coal miners on the ground have a lot more in common than you might otherwise think.

 

“What these coal miners really want at the end of the day is a decent income to be able to stay in their community and to feel a sense of pride. Those are things that we can work together on.”

 

Wouldn’t that just take votes away from Labour, who the Greens would need to enter Government?

 

“It’s something that I’ve said for time immemorial (sic - ed) that I’ve been doing this gig, is no politician and no political party is entitled to anything. It is New Zealanders who get to decide the direction of travel for this country.

 

“I just actually want all of us to take a step back, take a deep breath, and challenge the assumptions that we make around who by default gets access to certain voters. That’s just not the way that I think that things should work.”

 

Jamie Ensor is a political reporter in the NZ Herald press gallery team based at Parliament. He was previously a TV reporter and digital producer in the Newshub press gallery office. In 2025, he was a finalist for Political Journalist of the Year at the Voyager Media Awards.

Jamie Ensor's CV is a showcase for his credentials in socialist propaganda.  

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/chloe-swarbrick-reckons-green-party-leading-opposition-only-party-offering-tax-ideas/23VK67JATNA5JOXSQWMBSAEAKM/

 

Christ Driving the Money Changers out of the Temple
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"It is written: 'My house is the house of prayer.' But you have made it a den of thieves." 

-Gospel, Ninth Sunday after Pentecost 

+LEO ACCUSED OF COVER-UP; NZ TRAD ORDER EXPELLED

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Critics of pope favorite Robert Prevost allegedly received $150,000K to remain silent 

+Robert Prevost with Bergoglio, author of Traditionis Custodes which suppressed the Latin Mass (EF) 

In a move which may be the strongest indication yet of Pope Leo XIV's position on the Traditional Latin Mass, the Vatican confirms that the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer (FSSR) have been stripped of their priestly faculties and ordered to leave New Zealand's diocese of  Christchurch. 

Following an Apostolic Visitation and trial by socialist media, Bishop Michael Gielen has kept secret any reasons for expelling NZ's first home-grown religious order. The FSSR and their flourishing EF (Extraordinary Form) community are left in the dark, to assume their offence is celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass and that unlike them, Pope Leo is privy to the Visitation's report and agrees with its conclusions. https://juliadufresne.blogspot.com/2023/11/vatican-investigates-sons-of-redeemer.html?spref=tw

However. As soon as he was elected in May, +Leo was accused of mishandling or covering up sex offences in Chicago and Peru, and a Peruvian woman has repeated allegations that as bishop he failed to investigate her allegations of abuse against two priests in his diocese.  A report in Madrid-based InfoVaticana alleges that before his election, three Peruvian girls who had publicly blamed their former bishop, Robert Prevost, for covering up their sexual abuse by a popular priest, were paid $150,000 to silence them. ttps://globebanner.com/stories/671154673-report-critics-of-pope-favorite-prevost-received-150k-to-remain-silent

Traditional Catholics and celibate priests in the post-Vatican II Conciliar Church are inured to vile, inveterate clerical sex abuse, sodomy and hush money, but that doesn't mean we must put up and shut up. We can't all be bought. 

At a July 31 SNAP press conference in Chicago, Ana María Quispe Díaz, center, repeated allegations that Pope Leo XIV, as a bishop in Peru, failed to investigate allegations of abuse she and two sisters reported to him against two priests in his diocese.

From Complicit Clergy:

 A Peruvian woman has repeated allegations July 31 that Pope Leo XIV, as a bishop in Peru, failed to investigate allegations of abuse she and two sisters reported to him against two priests in his diocese.

The Diocese of Chiclayo, Peru, has repeatedly denied that then-Bishop Robert Prevost did not investigate the allegations. 

Ana María Quispe Díaz said that Prevost lied to her about investigating allegations of abuse that she and two other women made against Frs. Eleuterio Vásquez Gonzáles and Ricardo Yesquén Paiva. 

Quispe has said Yesquén touched her inappropriately and kissed on the mouth when she was 9 years old, and that Vásquez shared a bed with her and fondled her during a service trip when she was a minor.

Quispe made the public remarks, her first since Pope Leo XIV's election, at a news conference in Chicago, the pope's hometown. She said her two children were her motivation to go public with her allegations. 

National Catholic Reporter viewed a video of the news conference made available by the organizer, Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, a victims' rights group, which provided NCR correspondence between Quispe and the diocese.

NCR does not name people who say they were victims of sexual assault unless they consent to being identified or tell their stories publicly, as Quispe did at the news conference.

"Prevost never investigated, Prevost never offered us psychological support," Quispe said in Spanish at the press conference.

Then-Bishop Robert Prevost distributes Communion during Mass in Chiclayo, Peru, in this screengrab from a video obtained on social media and released on April 11, 2023. (OSV News/Lambayeque Regional Governor Jorge Perez Flores via Reuters) 

The Chiclayo Diocese has flatly denied Quispe's version of events. 

In statements, the diocese has said that Prevost commissioned a preliminary investigation into the allegations raised by the three sisters, and that he submitted its findings to the Vatican's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on July 21, 2022. 

The diocese said Prevost also sent to the dicastery on April 3, 2023, the results of the local prosecutor's investigation, which found that the case lacked corroborating evidence and exceeded the statute of limitations. Because of the local prosecutor's decision, the dicastery closed the case.

Quispe has previously alleged on social media that the diocese mishandled her case. Members of SNAP said they spent time with Quispe in Peru after the conclave that elected Leo.

In March, almost a month before Pope Francis died, SNAP sent a complaint against then-Cardinal Prevost to Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, and the heads of two other Vatican dicasteries. It alleges that Prevost "intended to interfere with or to avoid a civil or canonical investigation, whether administrative or penal, against certain clerics of the Diocese of Chiclayo."

Prevost, who became Pope Leo May 8, led the Diocese of Chiclayo from 2014 to 2023. In April 2022, Quispe and her sisters met with Prevost to present their allegations against the priests. 

In November 2023, Quispe wrote on Facebook that in their meeting, Prevost said he believed the women, encouraged them to file a case with the civil authorities and said he would ask Vásquez to leave the parish where he was ministering. 

The diocese said that it has acted in accordance with church guidelines since receiving the allegations and had enforced a "prohibition on exercising priestly ministry in public." Social media posts, however, showed Vásquez concelebrating Mass with Prevost in March 2023, and leading in a Eucharistic procession in the diocese while surrounded by children in June 2023. 

In December 2023, Bishop Guillermo Antonio Cornejo Monzón, then-apostolic administrator of the Chiclayo Diocese following Prevost's promotion to the Vatican, reopened the case and said he had again asked Vásquez not to celebrate Mass and that the priest was being investigated. 

Read this next: Pope Leo XIV and the abuse crisis: What happens next?

A letter provided by SNAP network showed that the diocese wrote to Quispe July 1 this year stating that Vásquez had requested to be removed from the clerical state and "is suspended from all priestly functions." It said that his laicization would take "around six or seven months to complete."

Quispe and the other women, in return, asked for public clarification on why Vásquez requested being removed from the clerical state since it "prevented a real investigation from being launched."

The diocese had said that a case was not opened against Yesquén, who was unable to defend himself due to a "degenerative psychiatric illness." He had not exercised his priestly ministry in years, the diocese said. 

In the letter, the diocese said it "remains available to cover the costs of therapy" and noted that therapy that had taken place since April had stopped and not resumed.

In the Chicago news conference, however, Quispe said the diocese's claim that she and the other accusers were offered psychological support from the moment they brought the allegations to the diocese was "absolutely untrue."

She said that in the meeting with Prevost they were urged to report the case to civil authorities "because in the church there was no form to investigate, to denounce." Thus, a civil case "could function so that they could maybe do something within the church."

That, Quispe said, was untrue. 

"He lied to us," she said. She noted that Prevost had previously investigated allegations of abuse involving the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, a controversial lay-led society of apostolic life that Pope Francis officially suppressed in January.

Prevost's advocacy on behalf of numerous Sodalitium victims of physical, psychological and spiritual abuse is largely credited with triggering a Vatican investigation into the once powerful Peruvian group and ultimately toppling it. 

In an interview following the conclave that elected Pope Leo, Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, said that reports of abuse received by the heads of dicasteries while they were diocesan bishops were handled "according to applicable norms, and they were sent from the diocesan bishops to the competent dicastery for review and evaluation of the accusations." 

Though Parolin did not explicitly mention him by name, Prevost was then the head of the Dicastery of Bishops after serving as a diocesan bishop in Chiclayo, where he was presented with the allegations of abuse.https://www.ncronline.org/news/woman-rebuts-peruvian-dioceses-assertion-future-pope-investigated-sex-abuse-claims

Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us

SOCIALIST ENVY: NZ'S TE PATI MAORI

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What drives New Zealand's Te Pati Maori (TPM, the Maori Party) is - sadly - the politics of envy. Which is to say, the politics and gospel of socialism. They're outraged  by the FBI opening an office in Wellington as 'a breach of Te Tiriti' and 'Donald Trump’s South Pacific Spy-base'. They're upset about 'white-washing' New Zealand passports by naming them as New Zealand's, not the mythical Aotearoa's. They're cross with changes to voting enrolment which mean you have to think ahead, which is hard for their whanau (family).

But the frequently bruised, bashed and battered-to-death babies in their whanau apparently bother the TPM not one whit. The idea that the FBI might assist our beleaguered police force - whose deputy-commissioner Jevon McSkimming is currently charged with bestiality and child porn on his work devices -  in bringing the Maori infanticides to justice, seems not to occur to them.

Like the US Democrats and socialist parties the world over, TPM wants what it doesn't have, and TPM's rants suggest that for them it's a white skin (co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer being a peculiar outlier). Socialist covetousness and materialism drives the 'have-nots' to ignore or mistreat what they have, by abusing their children and by disfiguring tattoos.

 

As political insiders whisper that Labour/TPM could win in 2026, New Zealand needs to reflect on socialism and its condemnation by successive popes, with the exception of the self-confessed Communist, Antipope Francis, surely soon to be contradicted by Pope Leo XIV.

 

 

 

From Dr Taylor Marshall: 

I posted “Catholic Condemnation of Socialism in 5 Papal Quotes (Pope Leo XIII Puts the Smack Down on Socialism)” and as expected, folks came out of the word work saying things like “Aha! But the Church doesn’t condemn Christian Socialism, but only condemns Marxist or atheistic Socialism.”

 

This isn’t true. Simply read Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum and you’ll discover that he condemns Socialism as an economic error contrary to natural law and social justice. But if that does not convince you, here are some quotes from subsequent Popes further laying the smack down on Socialism and even on so-called “Christian Socialism”:

 

Pius XI against “Christian Socialism”:

Here is a quote form Pope Pius XI on the 40th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum showing that “Catholic Socialism” or “Christian Socialism” is condemned by the Catholic Faith:

“Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true Socialist.” (Pope Pius XI, Encyclical Quadragesimo Anno, May 15, 1931. n. 120)

 

You cannot be “a good Catholic and a true Socialist.” It just doesn’t get any clearer than that! In that same encyclical, Pius XI also teaches:

We make this pronouncement: Whether considered as a doctrine, or an historical fact, or a movement, Socialism, if it remains truly Socialism, even after it has yielded to truth and justice on the points which we have mentioned, cannot be reconciled with the teachings of the Catholic Church because (socialism's) concept of society itself is utterly foreign to Christian truth.” (Quadragesimo Anno, n. 117)

 

The important distinction made by Pope Pius XI is that even if Socialism is modified to “truth and justice on the points” of error, it “cannot be reconciled with the teachings of the Catholic Church.” Socialism is inherently broken and motivated by covetousness. Socialism is, they say, the Gospel of Envy.

 

And one extra quote from Pius IX on Captitalism as not fundamentally flawed as is Socialism:

“Capitalism itself is not to be condemned. And surely it is not vicious of its very nature, but it has been vitiated.”

 Socialism is inherently flawed and condemned. Capitalism is not condemned. Capitalism is instrumentally neutral. It can be used for virtue or it can be used for vice (“vitiated”).

 

Pope John XXIII against “Moderate Socialism”:

 

And I’ve heard it said by some Catholics: “Yeah, but Leo XIII and Pius XI didn’t live to see later moderations of Socialism, so what they were condemning was an earlier form of Socialism.” In order to refute this objection, we have have Pope Saint John XXIII’s reiteration and approval of the previous papal condemnations of Socialism [the comments in red are my own]:

 

Pope Pius XI further emphasized the fundamental opposition between Communism and Christianity, and made it clear that no Catholic could subscribe even to moderate Socialism [Catholics cannot even try to modify Socialism!]. The reason is that Socialism is founded on a doctrine of human society which is bounded by time and takes no account of any objective other than that of material well-being [Socialism is fundamentally materialistic and closed off to the spiritual]. Since, therefore, it proposes a form of social organization which aims solely at production; it places too severe a restraint on human liberty, at the same time flouting the true notion of social authority.”
(Pope John XXIII, Encyclical Mater et Magistra, May 15, 1961, n. 34)

Pope John XXIII teaches us that:

 

• Pius XI was right on Socialism as being opposed to Christianity
• Catholics may not subscribe “even to moderate Socialism”
• Socialism is materialistic
• Socialism restrains human liberty

Pope Paul VI on Socialism as Corrupt Ideology:

And Pope Paul VI also condemned Socialism in 1971 on the 80th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum against Socialism:

“Too often Christians attracted by Socialism tend to idealize it in terms which, apart from anything else, are very general: a will for justice, solidarity and equality. They refuse to recognize the limitations of the historical socialist movements, which remain conditioned by the ideologies from which they originated.” (Paul VI, Octogesima Adveniens, May 14, 1971, n. 31)

 

  

Pope John Paul II as Reaffirming Leo XIII’s original condemnation of Socialism:

On the 100th anniversary of Pope Leo XIII’s condemnation of Socialism, Pope John Paul II issued the document Centesimus Annus reiterating the Catholic condemnation of Socialism:

“It may seem surprising that Socialism appeared at the beginning of the Pope’s critique of solutions to the ‘question of the working class’ at a time when ‘socialism’ was not yet in the form of a strong and powerful State, with all the resources which that implies, as was later to happen. However, he correctly judged the danger posed to the masses by the attractive presentation of this simple and radical solution to the ‘question of the working class.’” (John Paul II, Centesimus Annus, May 1, 1991, n. 12)

 

John Paul II lived under Socialism and understood its corruption of the working class. He perceived Leo XIII as a prophetic voice at the turn of the century.

 

The Popes of the 20th century explicitly teach that whether we modify Socialism in the shape of “Moderate Socialism,” or “Christian Socialism,” or “Theistic Socialism,” it still doesn’t fit into Catholic teaching. Socialism is not Christian and never will be Christian.

Godspeed, 

Dr Taylor Marshall https://taylormarshall.com/2017/09/can-christian-socialist-popes-say-no.html