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29/10/2025

I never considered reading Jacinda Ardern’s magnum opus, A Different Kind of Power. 😬

Let’s not forget here that she was the President of the International Union of Socialist Youth in her youth. Her subsequent career moves are entirely consistent with this early ascent of the career ladder for hard-left types.

You will be pleased to know that Jacinda’s memoirs are already available at a deep discount. Copies are currently gathering dust on remainder tables, particularly in the land of the long white cloud.



Article | https://www.spectator.com.au/2025/10/jacinda-jacinta/

29/10/2025

13/10/2025

NOW KIWIS PAY.

New Zealand’s left-wing media continues to mislead the public about the true state of New Zealand's economy.
Kiwis are now bearing the financial burden created by the policies of Jacinda Ardern, Grant Robertson, and Chris Hipkins. This government piled on more debt and printed more money than any other administration in the country’s history. In fact, Ardern, Hipkins, and Robertson borrowed and printed more money than the previous six NZ governments combined!

What’s missing from the conversation is an honest breakdown of how these leaders used debt and money printing to prop up the public sector and inflate employment numbers. For example, billions of taxpayer dollars were allocated to projects that paid political favors and helped keep employment numbers high. Projects like creating a Māori version of Pokémon. Yet no one in mainstream media is holding them accountable for these decisions, or explaining where all the debt has gone, or why the NZ economy is in so much trouble. All we hear from the media is a lame excuse about a fictitious 'cost-of-living crisis'

The silence is deafening when it comes to explaining why New Zealand’s health and welfare system is collapsing. Ardern and Hipkins used mass immigration to manipulate the economy and keep Kiwis employed, building houses. (Total mortgage debt has now skyrocketed to an all-time high of NZD 383 billion — the highest it’s ever been.)
NZ's health and welfare system never had the capacity - nor the money - for the hundreds of thousands of migrants Hipkins brought to NZ ( while he shouted racist at anyone who objected.)

Debt, money printing, and immigration were used by Ardern and Hipkins in an attempt to create the illusion of economic success and job growth, while the reality is far bleaker.

In 2025, Kiwi taxpayers will have to borrow another $ 8.8 billion just to pay the interest on the $200 billion of government debt accumulated under Ardern, Hipkins, and John Key.
Which media company is explaining this?

The welfare system, already stretched thin, is now more unaffordable than ever before, as New Zealand’s wealth must now be shared across a larger population. Worse still, the long-term effects of massive debt and money printing are becoming a drag on the economy and the affordability of all government services. The only way out is large increases in tax to pay back the debt and/or massive adjustments in welfare and government services, or something unlikely like finding oil.
Which media companies are explaining this?

Yet, despite these undeniable facts, much of New Zealand’s media — many of whom took millions of dollars from Ardern and Hipkins, continue to downplay the crisis. Instead of offering a critical analysis of the economic disaster unfolding, they push for more of the same failed, disastrous politics.

New Zealanders deserve to know the full story, but NZ media isn’t delivering that truth and Christopher Hipkins will go down in history - along with his party - as NZ's greatest economic disaster. Just look at the data from Treasury.

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29/10/2025

23/10/2025

DEBT ON TOP OF DEBT.

The economic ineptitude and recklessness of the Jacinda Ardern-led Labour Party was glaring for anyone who follows New Zealand's economy. ( Ardern's popularity is an indictment on the financial awareness of her followers)
Billions upon billions of dollars seemed to vanish into projects and expenses that no one seems able to account for. Around $140 billion dollars (it cannot be overemphasized what a staggeringly large amount of money this is) was borrowed by Jacinda Ardern, Grant Robertson, and Chris Hipkins, the most debt ever borrowed by a NZ political party.

(Remember that Ardern, Hipkins, and Robertson printed around $71 billion dollars, again the most in history, to cover the cost of COVID-19, which, according to Treasury, cost $66 billion.)

On a live radio interview before the 2023 election, Mr Hipkins was asked where the record amount of debt had been spent. Hipkins hesitated, then stumbled, stating that they had been busy building roads!
When pushed by the interviewer for more details, Hipkins again hesitated, then changed the subject, referring to the need for spending.

NZObserver has been trying for years to get a breakdown from Treasury on where the historic $140 billion was spent. We know that projects like 3 Waters - where Willie Jackson tried to seize ratepayer-owned water infrastructure, to give to friends of Labour - cost $92 million dollars in lawyers and consultants' fees, (now all wasted) but $140 billion is a huge sum of money. Where did it all go?

This week, Hipkins unveiled his party’s first economic policy before the 2026 election. It's called the New Zealand Future Fund, and Hipkins intends to take $200 million taxpayer-owned dividends, from some Crown assets and redistribute them into New Zealand businesses in the hopes of creating new jobs.
Mr Hipkins was unable to provide details of which companies would receive the taxpayer funds, thereby implying that he didn't know which jobs he was trying to create.

But the far more pressing and serious issue that no one is talking about is the plan to pay back the record $200 billion the NZ taxpayer now owes, thanks to Ardern, Hipkins, Robertson, and John Key. Or the plan to pay back the $70 billion that was printed by Ardern and her party.

At the moment they are leaving it to their children and expecting them to sort it out.

29/10/2025

28/10/2025

THEY WANT MORE OF YOUR MONEY.

Hipkins and Swarbrick Push for Capital Gains Tax, While Luxon and Seymour Fear for Their Investment Homes.

Wellington, New Zealand — A fresh political storm is brewing over calls for a capital gains tax (CGT), as Labour leader Chris Hipkins and Green MP Chlöe Swarbrick renew their push to introduce the long-debated levy to help pay back what critics are calling “the Hipkins-era of debt.

”During their last term in government, the Labour–Green coalition borrowed a record $140 billion and printed an additional $70 billion — the largest combined fiscal expansion in New Zealand’s history. While the money printing was initially justified as a COVID-19 relief measure, critics argue that Chris Hipkins and Chlöe Swarbrick have little to show for the unprecedented level of borrowing.

Both leaders have been accused of presiding over an era of economic mismanagement that inflicted more damage on New Zealand’s economy than any previous event. Now, they are calling for even more taxpayer money to fund what opponents describe as ideological “pet projects” that will further erode living standards for ordinary Kiwis.
Detractors say Hipkins and Swarbrick’s track record demonstrates a lack of economic literacy, warning that their return to power would be disastrous for the country’s financial stability.

However, National Party leader and Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has been quick to push back — reportedly alarmed by the potential impact such a tax could have on property investors, including many within his own caucus. Luxon, who owns multiple homes, has dismissed the idea as “economic vandalism,” warning it would 'discourage investment' ( for whom? property speculators and investors?) and hammer the housing market.

Political observers say Luxon’s strong reaction reveals just how sensitive the issue is within National’s ranks, where property ownership is common and often a source of personal wealth.

Critics of the government’s past borrowing and money-printing say the debate exposes years of financial mismanagement, while supporters of a CGT argue it’s the only realistic path toward reducing the debt without slashing public services.

Bill Jeffery, a senior economist at ECONZ, has advised that capital gains taxes have no effect on property prices when looking globally. 'The biggest driver of house prices is immigration; it's a simple supply-demand equation.' 'A capital gains tax is simply more revenue for politicians to spend, and the public, who will provide the wealth, have to decide whether that's a good use of their money.'

As both sides dig in, the capital gains tax debate is shaping up to be one of the most heated economic battles in recent memory — pitting calls for fiscal recklessness and irresponsibility against fears of political and financial self-interest.

28/10/2025

September 2025

WHAT INTEGRITY ??

The old saying that 'a picture is worth a thousand words' has never been more applicable.

She has defended shoplifters, racists, terrorists, and Benjamin Doyle. For years, she has lectured the public about saving the planet and burning fossil fuels. She, along with Jacinda Ardern, shut down oil exploration in New Zealand. This economically disastrous decision was worsened when the Green Party she leads joined with Ardern to borrow more debt than any other government in New Zealand history.
For years, she has campaigned for catastrophic immigration. The most disastrous thing that can be done to the environment.
Now, Chloe Swarbrick has come under attack from environmentalists who are shocked that she is globe-trotting in business class.

True conservationists and environmentalists see no need to use air travel in today's high-tech world, where communication by either voice or video has never been better. 'Celebrity tree huggers', who jet around the world, are often viewed as exploiting the planet to earn cash, or for personal reasons.

Business class travel is an even bigger insult to the environment, with the carbon footprint far greater than economy class due to the larger seating, bed configurations, and amenities.

Those who step forward to protest or fight for a cause have one thing that determines whether they will be listened to or ridiculed. It is a quality they must protect if they want to be taken seriously. That is their integrity.

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