After being soft on crime and being pro-crims, Hipkins and Labour decided to let Nash loose with his mouth to talk tough on crime.
Result?
He shot himself in the foot and shot Labour in the head!
LOL!
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And the sentencing Nash was so critical of?
Not gang or criminal related - basically a farmer who refused to surrender his firearm as he wanted to protect himself!
So it’s clear - Labour supports gangs and crims but be careful if you are not related to gangs or crime, this government will come after you.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/the-so...GSUKWIJ4S24AI/
An own goal in a moment of unbelievable stupidity by announcing on radio he had once questioned the Police Commissioner if he would appeal a judges dismissal, but would anyone seriously believe previous Police Ministers like Woodhouse, Collins, Bennett or Tolley had never out of interest had the occasional confidential chat with their Police Commissioners about various Court decisions.
I mean you just would wouldn't you, we question them so why wouldn't a Minister, but so stupid to state it publicly.
Good to see Hipkins taking immediate & firm action though & a shame Luxon does nothing about National MP Barbara Kuriga who used her position to interfere & intimidate MPI officials & even attempt to get one fired, for investigating her son & husband for animal cruelty.
Nash played ‘big dick’ politics with crime & order, and got his dong shot off - that’s what happened.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...gdick-politics
Does every farmer really needs a military stye AR-15, a 12 Gauge shotgun, a couple of AR-15 magazines, a couple of Ruger magazines, plus thousands of rounds of ammunition to protect themselves?
How much ammunition do you need?
And you need a licence to have these weapons.
AR-15's are the weapon most commonly used in mass shootings in the US & not the sort of weapon hunters use.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/the-so...GSUKWIJ4S24AI/
Good to see the media picking up on the hypocrisy of Hipkins ‘punishing’ Nash :
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/nashs-poo...half-the-story
When Hipkins says Nash has paid the price, he’s only been punished for the first part – making the phone call – and the conflict that creates as the minister in charge of police.
By not stripping him of his other portfolios, Hipkins has done nothing to respond to Nash’s inability to identify that his actions were unwise, unprofessional, and made him unfit for any ministerial role.
If after almost six years as a minister, Nash still doesn’t know what breaching the Cabinet manual looks like how can Hipkins trust him not to do it again?
Meanwhile, here’s what Labour’s healthcare reform is delivering :
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/...surgery-delays
The usual BS spin from Labour and no delivery with heathcare getting worse and worse.
And remember the pulpit of truth?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/486042/te-whatu-ora-still-checking-health-data-after-ed-figures-revealed-incorrect
Te Whatu Ora is still checking whether it has published any more incorrect data, a week after emergency department figures were revealed to be seriously wrong.
All performance data was taken down from the health agency's website last week to check whether it also contained mistakes.
Labour's be lenient on Crims & let'em out fast and early coming back to meet everyone:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-dai...-in-bell-block
Give police 'extra eyes' community leader says after four businesses burgled in Bell Block
What did everyone expect with such braindead policies coming out of Labour's Meathead contingent on Front Benches ? ;)
Holy h4ll .. not another large Crisis ;)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/teache...MF2A2BTXSDGPI/
Teachers strike live updates: Tens of thousands take to the streets demanding better pay and conditions; schools closed
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...G4TEKSZJW5FJM/
Stock Market: NZ shares, Kiwi dollar, interest rates fall as recession looms
It's safe to come crawling out now - Gobbo Robbo ;)
NZH have seen the balloon going up (or more aptly deflating) and have now called it ;)
You wont get kicked too hard for breaking & smashing things ;)
5.5 years in power and all that Labour can show is a broken education system - and a lot of Maori words.
Bloody disgrace.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/edu...-strike-action
Parts of the system 'absolutely broken': Tinetti
Tinetti told the crowd it was hard to be in the position she was today as a former teacher and principal.
“I know the last few years have been horrific across the country … particularly for you in the classrooms.
“I know there are parts of the systems that are absolutely broken and we can do better,” she said to boos from the crowd.
And who was minister of Education while the education system went into decline and spiralled into the mess that it is?
None other than Hipkins!
Don't worry. One thing certain is the voters who vote for Labour would not have a clue. They can't even recall what happened 2 or 3 years ago.
How intelligent are the teachers in genearl? The norm is teachers typically side with the left political party or 'Labour', and would they choose to vote for National instead knowing how much of a con job the Labour has become?
Local Government Minister McAnulty wants Mayors to come to the Beehive to thrash out 5 Waters reform of the reforms. How short does he think their memories are?
They were told by his predecessor participation in the then 3 Waters was voluntary...until it wasn't. Then that same Minister tried to sneak through embedding legislation (apparently even the PM and most of the Cabinet didn't know about that stunt...pass the Tui).
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...-waters-reform
This government is morally and ethically bankrupt.
Leopards and spots!
Media 4th estate bias looks to be similar to previous Australian election. Total 90° left hand down.
Completely unrealistic approach.
The word pragmatism is to be banned by Labour cabinet, as they deem it highly "O"ffensive.
FFS
‘The world's largest credit rating agency, S&P, said New Zealand's credit rating could be pressured by "the persistently weak and worsening current account position".’
Looks like Stuart Nash is gone burger as a minister.
As one of the leadership aspirants, it will be so convenient for Hipkins to sack him so Nash does not represent a leadership threat post labour’s October election loss to come.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...CVJK5KR6BGNOE/
“If I make the same mistake again, the prime minister will have to take further action - but we learn from our errors.”
But it was just a day later when Newstalk ZB revealed the Solicitor-General considered prosecuting Nash for contempt over public comments he made after the arrest of Eli Epiha in the case of the killing of Police Constable Matthew Hunt.
Nash not a gone burger but ‘demoted’ to lowest ranked minister.
LOL.
How pathetic can Hipkins & the Labour government be?
All spin and no delivery as usual.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...arning-pm-says
Hipkins looks weaker by the minute. Yet another example of Nash not having the intellect or judgement to be a Minister and Hipkins still keeps him in Cabinet. We all know Labour is short of talent but this is indefensible.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...CVJK5KR6BGNOE/
Labour lurching from one shambles to another....oh, and by the way we have a recession to look forward to that has been engineered by the Reserve Bank, who along with Grant Robertson were castigated in a report from a former RB Governor earlier.
It is interesting if you look at the specifics of each of Nash's indiscretions.
The final one was in his capacity as the electorate MP contacting a senior official MBIE to request they look at the immigration case of a health professional (doctor ?) who Hawkes Bay did not want to lose. He did not follow the established procedure to do this.
Earlier ones were saying he hoped the killer of a Policeman would get a long sentence in jail, & criticising a judge as being too lenient in a case of a man found with military AR-15 & thousands of rounds of ammunition & no gun licence.
I absolutely agree Nash had to lose his Ministerial portfolios & be demoted, & Hipkins has quickly removed any target for the opposition.
But Imo the opposition didn't want to over-egg this as generally the public probably think judges are too lenient, & he was trying to assist a doctor who otherwise might be lost to his electorate, with their immigration case.
RBNZ forecast 0.7% GDP growth and it came in at -0.6%! You cannot get it more wrong than that!!!!
And the current account deficit has been blowing out, showing how the labour constraint/immigration engineered by this incompetent & clueless government is severely impacting on production and the economy.
Heading towards the day when NZ cannot pay its way in the world.
But hi - there will be more Maori words being used and what a great achievement to crow about! Never mind the best and most able of NZers will all be in Australia.
Battle for the white middle class voters - where 2023 real battle ground really is.
The brown vote will be with Labour so they will be taken for granted. So it is to be expected that Act & NZ First will play that up to scare the white middle class to NOT vote Labour or the Greens.
Then, there’s all the other issues which will bring the ‘Winter of discontent’ to NZ:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/1315...the-inevitable
Cost of living crisis
Crime
Housing
Rising interest rates
Current account disaster
Education
Health
Race policies
Snap election coming up …..best chance Labour have
Maybe even June before we know we are in a recession and employment still high
‘ Ratings agency Standard & Poors has warned that New Zealand’s credit rating could be reduced if the current account deficit does not improve and government interest costs rise substantially to more than 10% of revenues.
The current account deficit is the amount that spending exceeds revenues.’
Maybe you need to stop being so dismissive of the damage the Atmospheric Deluge plus the Cyclone (as well as the Covid pandemic) have had on the economy.
Im sorry but its insulting to all those around the country who have lost their homes, their farms, their business machinery & equipment, their roads, bridges, State Highways, land washed away etc from Northland to the West Coast of the South Island. Tauranga may have escaped but so much of the rest of the country didn't, even in Auckland there is a massive amount of damage to be repaired, let alone Northland & Hawkes Bay & Tai Rawhiti, Marlborough Sounds, Nelson, West Coast.
It's going to cost billions to fix, or do we just forget about the Coromandel, or Hawkes Bay etc because it might affect our credit rating?
Or do we raise taxes to pay for it?
Or do we just complain & do nothing?
For some reason this doesn't even rate a mention in your potted appraisal of the NZ economy.
Besides, prior to these catastrophic weather events, the NZ economy was running so hot we were one of the first countries to raise interest rates to cool it off.
And our economy was in a much better state than most OECD countries even including Australia.
Yes unfortunately there has been upheaval & some businesses have really struggled, but others have done really well making record profits. This always seems to be ignored.
Hey can I politely ask, if people are going to "Reply with Quote" they include the whole Quote & don't do their own editing of someone else's post ?
It may not seem important, but context is everything & sometimes context is lost or at least diminished by editing.
Many thanks.
More skulduggery coming through David Parker's RMA reform. As was feared by many, he is creating a far worse framework capped off by co-governance arrangements. See the below extract from the Taxpayer's Union and their exposing of the concerns from the Chief Justice.
But because the bill leaves so much to negotiation between councils, iwi and the minister, it is difficult to know exactly where things will end up. The likely answer is in the courts.
But the courts aren't too happy either. In a very unusual move, the Chief Justice made a submission on the Natural and Built Environment Bill. She warned that many of the provisions contained within the proposed legislation were things that were likely to be challenged in the courts. This means that the true implications of David Parker's bills are very uncertain and these court battles will be expensive.
In an even more staggering intervention, however, the Chief Justice raised concerns about the role of the proposed new National Māori Entity. She said that the bill as currently drafted includes the Environment Court as an entity whose decisions would be independently monitored by the National Māori Entity and would be required to respond to their reports.
The Chief Justice said that such a set up "would be inconsistent with New Zealand’s constitutional arrangements" and that "Court decisions are appropriately challenged by way of appeal, not by way of review by a statutory entity". She was so surprised by this that she said that the Supreme Court "assume[d] this is an error in drafting or an oversight."
Tell us how Ryman, according to you, should be loading up with more debt to do a share buyback, ignoramus peasant. You have zero credibility.
When in a hole, dig deeper - that’s Labour Party economic and fiscal policy.
Keep spending by using ever more debt - that’s the bankrupt economic policy of Robertson, Ardern & Hipkins.
Same Labour Party policy & logic which delivered NZ it’s worse current account deficit since records began in 1988 :
New Zealand’s annual current account deficit last year was $33.8 billion, or 8.9% of gross domestic product — the worst ratio since measurement began in 1988.
The deficit was $12.7 billion wider than in 2021, making the ratio to GDP worse than the previous record of 7.8% during the global financial crisis in 2008.
Statistics New Zealand said a current account deficit shows we are spending more than we are earning overseas, and the ratio to GDP shows its significance to the overall economy.
Nobody wants the Police minister job - hardly surprising after the screw-ups by Hipkins, Poto and Nash.
Takes an especially incompetent and clueless government to appoint Poto ‘head in the ethnic sand’ Williams to be police minister, to be followed by Hipkins with his Ardern spin and then, Nash to do chest beating with no substance.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...on-after-hours
Kieran McAnulty, currently busy with the cyclone response as emergency management minister and the Three Waters reforms as local government minister, has been more upfront.
He told reporters on Thursday he was “absolutely certain” he didn’t want the job.
“If the PM offered me whatever I’d say yes, but I just don’t want it.”
McAnulty hadn’t told Hipkins this, as he hadn’t had a chance to speak to “Chippy” in recent days. Presumably speaking publicly about his lack of enthusiasm was one way of letting his boss know.
Unprecedented - armed robbery of school children.
The result of the policies of this pro-crims and pro-gangs Labour government. Be kind and release criminals back into society as fast as possible to make the crime stats look good, but NZers know now what is really happening out there .
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckla...DVHMD7GTTPPOY/
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/an-ode-to-stuart-nash
An Ode to .. Stuart Nash
Bard Billot on the Labour blatherer
The hypocrisy of Hipkins in full display :
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/...rs-at-election
White middle class voters - that’s where the election will be won or lost in 2023.
They have been waking up to the fact that their core values (honesty, education, hard work, self reliance, respect for law & order and good morals) are under attack as privileges (!!!) by this racist and divisive beneficiary breeding Labour government.
Study hard, work hard and save hard so Labour can take from you to give to those who don’t. As true as it gets.
Where was I reading that Govt Covid Support was proposed at one point in $5K blobs loaded
on Plastic or was that Prezzy cards - dished out to everyone in papers now released? ;)
The only issue was .. couldn't get the cards from China :)
This was back when Ardern was leading the current Goon Show spin extravaganza ;)
Now we have the schoolmaster pushing special Lotto draws for Cyclone affected
areas while the clueless sit on their laurels in glass towers watching but doing very little,
aside from firing a few minor instalments into a pool and the poor suckers in the regions
do clean up missions on their own ;)
What happened those surplus billions left over sitting in the Covid Support Fund ? :)
The Woody's & Nash's travel expenses cant have swallowed all that was left over - surely ;)
or was it Robbo's Belamy's bill for fine parliamentary dining that cleaned it out ? ;)
"Mate," says Lord of Punishings Stu,
"Can we get a bit more enthusiastic
With the floggings and beheadings?"
I have always thought that Stuart Nash’s values were aligned more with those of the National Party, than the Labour Party. It seemed to me he was in the wrong party.
More food for thought on the 3-5 Waters proposal: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/...ee-waters-plan
You know labours depth and quality of MP's is bereft of talent when G Anderson is the POLICE MINISTER.
How useless does hipkins think Greg O'Connor is?
Maybe hipkins has got one thing correct!
I am sure little Moana will be much better of because her whanau, that totally failed her and mistreated her as a baby, have lead years of legal harassment against the couple that wanted to love her, look after her and give her the upbringing she deserves.
Her unexplained "cultural needs" are obviously much more important than her health and safety. What a ridiculous country we have become https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/131...Dql93eQKRInKGI
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...PIX7SCHQ6G6V4/
Fitch Solutions downgrades New Zealand GDP outlook
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Formal Confirmation that "the Job's b&ggered up - mate" ;)
Where are the two now silent muddlers and meddlers - Finance Fiddler Gobbo Robbo and
Adrian Just ******* Orr-Some from the RB hiding now ? ;)
It had to happen, didn't it with the trajectory things were headed, with worse to follow :)
Welcome to New Zimbabwee - the newest Banana Republic of the South Pacific
coming at everyone real soon :)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...EIDKE23DGFKCM/
Cyclone Gabrielle impact - PM Chris Hipkins announces six new bridges; Ginny Andersen new Minister of Police
Good grief - now HippoDipkins has assumed the new role of Minister of New Bridges :)
Probably wont help them appearing on the scene any faster - will he be first to walk the plank
across each of them ? ;)
I didn't know her either, but give her a chance. Just looked her up & she's obviously v bright, & has significant police experience, worked for NZ Police for 11 years from 2006 -2017 on policy around gangs, organised crime & meth, & married to a former Police inspector.
Being smart & experience in the field are key attributes.
Lets just give her a chance rather than default straight to complaining about everything.
As Sam Neil says, we're becoming a nation of complainers, constant negativity.
A lot of people of people think Christianity and socialism are closely linked, but I heard a very succinct and wise comment describing the difference.
"Christianity demands charity of the individual for the needy, whereas Socialism demands someone else's money."
Or to put it another way, "Socialism is great until you run out of other people's money."
Well, here's another thought to ponder.
Capitalism is about extraction of wealth, whereas Socialism is about reciprocation of wealth i.e. helping others & being helped in return if needed.
Those contrasts are often used to describe Colonialism (e.g. the English in India, West Indies etc, & France, Belgium, Spain etc in Africa ) extraction of resources/ wealth, compared to Indigenous Cultures reciprocation e.g. ensuring sustainability.
Perhaps generation of wealth is a term more in line with modern economies. Industrialisation and tech have changed the game. References to Colonial Monarchies may suit the grievance industry, but they have little relevance in the explosion of the generation of wealth created by modern capitalism in the 20th Century, enabling the lifting of unprecedented numbers from poverty and resulting in the wealthiest and most educated era humanity has ever been.
Not to say it's perfect, and that there isn't inequity, that there isn't waste, but it's led to better quality of life than anthing we have had before.
????? Many indigenous cultures would burn vast swathes of land to hunt their food. Many indigenous cultures knew SFA about sustainability. There just were not that many of them so sustainability was never an issue.
Maori and Moa?
The whole indigenous culture B/S and how great it was and how bad colonial cultures were is just modern crap. All cultures have their good and bad.
If it wasn't for some white priviledged English yobs, slavery would still be a thing globally. I am thinking in particular of Wilberforce. It was him and his allies that put an end to slavery in all forms, be it black on black, black on white (yes Newton also was a slave), or white on black or white on white.
O'Connor was a serving officer and Andersen is married to a dog handler. So that explains why she gets the gig!
In reality Andersens main claim to fame is that she is related to SUP Bill Andersen.
Hmm... should I listen to Mr peterson or pope francis (the latter being somewhat of a critic of capitalism).
Maybe Labour should follow how NZRFU do things and appoint the next PM for 2024 onwards now and just let Hipkins roll on until the big day
Except Chippy is too busy doing ‘Emotion’ just like his predecessor, which Labour think is the way to get re-elected. Go to flood affected towns, do sympathy and do nothing meaningful.
Whoaaaa! Hold the presses - a tornado on the west Coast today - expect Chippy to be on a plane and down there to express sympathy, oh. Yes - and do nothing.
But wait, 6 metre waves expected in Wellington. He could nick down there at lunch time and view damage - and express sympathy - and do nothing.
Emotion is the key to re-election - who ever said politicians were elected to run the economy of this country.
Hippocritter is determined to let us know he's from the same sty as Cinders.
He's trotting out as many porkies!
He appoints Ginny as Minister of Police, yet it seems he had not read her CV.
What a Cop out!
What will save his bacon?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...HRO3FTNUSJAAI/
Police Minister’s pie plunder: Ginny Andersen accidentally steals pie from PM Hipkins’ favourite shop
Quote:
New Police Minister Ginny Andersen may be feeling slightly awkward as she spearheads the Government’s crackdown on retail crime after she accidentally nicked a pie from the Prime Minister’s favourite pie shop on her first day in the job.
Just new in the job & the replacement Police Minister already has PIE splattered on her face :)
How the heck does one accidentally nick a pie ? Was she asleep, sleepwalking or on prescription drugs ? ;)
How about - Credibility blown on Day One in new Police Portfolio spot :)
Why did the Parliamentary plastic decline ? ;)
With talent like this onboard, everyone will be wondering whether the current Labour fill in will come in any better than previous occupiers of the Police Portfolio ;)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...BEMJIXCVDT4E4/
Government policies blamed for record rents in new survey from Housing Ministry
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But most will have already seen that this was the case ;)
Any of this Govt's Core Policies still standing which aren't sitting in a disarray ? ;)
How's the Sound Economy spiel going - Robbo .. or is it sit and hide time until it's kicked out the side door
never to be seen again ? ;)
How's Child Poverty going ? .. or should that be renamed to just a wider "POVERTY" title ?;)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/the-fr...OTPU4RFKW6Q3U/
The Front Page: Why the cost of living will be critical this election
$2 Bills bandaid thrown at it in election year .. then go back to sleep and ignore other areas hit ? ;)
The Labour way isn't it ? ... if it's too difficult - go back to sleep and pretend no problem exists
unless you can make a beneficial CRISIS issue out of it for some added limelight :)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...KY7CBOSXFE3SI/
Dunedin’s Clan Construction building firm collapses owing $2m, eight projects in limbo
Yet more smashing & crashing going on out there
How's Unemployment going ?
I see Michael Wood hasn't progressed far from his "river of filth" comments when referring to anti-jab mandate protestors.
Now he's saying a Womens Rights activist has "vile and incorrect views".
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/131...to-new-zealand
Interesting how NZ media are framing Posie Parker as anti-trans when she is a woman's rights advocate. She just doesn't want people with penises sharing women's only areas. This is where Scotland's former First Minister Sturgeon got all tangled up over a male inmate raping a female inmate in a Womens prison. Will we see Wood get similarly tangled up? Sturgeon was off out the door shortly after, following a public pile-on of ridicule. Get out the popcorn as the Emperor's New Clothes is about to play out here.
"But,but,but...you can see...he has a willy. What's he doing in the Ladies?"
"Oh he's OK, he self identifies as a woman. Doesn't need any treatment. Even his passport and birth certificate say so shortly" So he's a she....take a walk on the wild side"
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...D5DPZWFZXK3LY/
Cost of living: Household expenses could increase by $150 a week this year - ASB
A further little Gift on it's way to all - courtesy of your favourite Labour crew ;)
Time for a further $5 billion hand out from Gobbo Robbo & Chris Hippocritter as a fix it soon ? ;)
After all there are still billions sitting in the Covid Recovery Fund .. well supposed to be .. isn't there ? :)
This is the awful dilemma this Identity politics alphabet soup nonsense creates for its adherents. It was enough to end Sturgeon's career. Who will be keen to follow in her footsteps here? Do they go along with the Emperor's New Clothes lie, or do they acknowledge the willy being waved under their noses....so to speak.
Who in our woke media will confront Wood? Who will grill Hipkins? What is a woman?
Remember how Labour & Ardern prioritised the eradication of child poverty?
How Ardern & Robertson were ashamed to live in a country where children lived in cars?
Well, here’s the results after 5.5 years of Labour’s pathetic efforts :
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/...-living-crisis
All spin and no delivery - that’s Labour and now, it’s all about resetting targets!
Most transparent government ever!
Funny how the usual Labourites are quiet on this issue. Will they tow the party line? Does a Womens Rights activist hold "vile and incorrect views" about not wanting willys in women's private spaces? Will they fall into the Sturgeon trap? Poor old Nicola couldn't decide whether a man who raped a woman in a women's prison was a he or a she. What is Chipster's position? Does he hold "vile and incorrect views"? Will he protect women's rights?
Do either National or Labour have a party line on this ?
In the absence of further evidence, I'm in agreement with Richard Dawkins that sex is a biological & scientific fact, i.e. male or female based on the 2, X & Y chromosomes.
However, Gender is a personal choice referring to the socially constructed characteristics & behaviours associated with men & women, non-binary, whatever.
The difficulty is Gender has legal status so we run into problems over whose rights take priority.
Obviously it's complicated.
But I don't think we should unnecessarily be cruel towards people who are already facing enough challenges, by being flippant about a rape & using that single isolated case to base a position on this whole issue, or condemn someone like Nicola Sturgeon who after all was only trying to advocate for tolerance & accomodate those in society who don't fit the norm.
God hope that doesn't sound too preachy! Anyway I'm all for tolerance & letting people be whoever they want to be, there's far more important things to worry about.
It's a quagmire, was discussing with my daughter today this in relation to sport.
What's your take?
A Labour Minister certainly has a position on it. "Vile and incorrect" was Mr Wood's response to the Women's Rights campaigner. I really hope someone in the MSM has the guts to press him on his misogynist views. Sturgeon dug her own hole with her ridiculous woke views. Wood has got the spade out. Dig Michael, dig.
My take? You can't change your sex. Male is male is a man. Female is female is a woman. Not really that complicated. Women should not have to put up with men in their private spaces. Simples.
Maybe Michael Wood needs to watch this.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5nZ3qZENRYw
Who holds "vile and incorrect views"?
The World Athletics Council gets it.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/wor...PSMGU3XTL4G34/
They have followed the common sense of the Swimming authority.
Do they hold "vile and incorrect views'?
Oh dear, Michael Wood is now being taken to court by the alphabet soupers for not blocking Posie Parker's entry to NZ. Will he double down? Will he do a Nicola Sturgeon? Where will the Wood worm turn?
Really Father Christmas? Please expand. What is wrong with her? Would you want your daughter to be using the same changing rooms and toilets with a male? What is wrong with women wanting their safe spaces protected? Let us know.
How about males in women's prisons and the example of the rape in a Scotland prison of a female inmate by a male? Nicola Sturgeon got herself tangled up in that one enough to kill her career. Let's see Michael Wood spell out the strength of his convictions on this. Let's have him spell out what he sees as "vile and incorrect views". Let's see the Emperor's New clothes play out.
Jono I don't think you realise Posie Parker is a trans phobic who courts neo Nazis & white supremacist groups & incites hatred & even violence against trans & rainbow communities. You only have to see the neo- Nazi groups who turn up at her rallies to support her & the violent rhetoric to understand that.
Just because she describes herself as a womens rights campaigner, doesn't mean she is, any more than as Trump describes himself as a practicing Christian, Brian Tamaki is a real Bishop, or Putin as the liberator of Ukraine. That's just twisted.
Michael Wood has said some of her views are vile & incorrect & hopefully most would agree with him.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/...decision-looms
Which of her views are "vile and incorrect'? Do you support males in Women's spaces? Would you want your daughter put in that position. Why is it that you are parroting the MSM view of her as anti-trans when she is a feminist? She (yes, she is a she) didn't invite or court neo-nazis, they hijacked her event. The photos I saw showed hatred and vile gestures towards her from those protesting her.
I'm looking forward to Michael Wood's verbal gymnastics to avoid a Nicola Sturgeon repeat. What is a Woman Michael?
Emperor's New Clothes here we come.
Yay, Posey has arrived!
When will the Rainbows stop showing their true colours, with their intolerant and biased behavior?
Just a clarification re the Scottish case you referenced, because its important to get the facts straight.
Adam Graham was found guilty of rape as a man, not in prison & before transitioning to a woman. The rape didn't happen in prison like you think & was before they transitioned to become Isla Bryson.
On finding this out, after an intervention by Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Bryson was moved from an all women prison to a male prison.
Sturgeon said, it was not possible to incarcerate a rapist in a female prison.
Based on the correct facts, you might reconsider your criticism of Nicola Sturgeon.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...rison-sturgeon
Trying to rewrite the narrative, BS?
Fact is that Adam/Isla Bryson transitioned into a 'female' and was placed in a woman's jail.
There was an outcry and Sturgeon went back on her commitment about transgender rights and transferred Adam/Isla to a man's jail.
So what is Sturgeon's real position now on transgender? She is clueless - just like Ardern.