William McGimpsey🇳🇿
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New Zealand Political Commentator | Public Policy Professional | Free Speech Advocate 🎙️ https://t.co/XvwzYk9xhu
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US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has criticised New Zealand’s defence spending - currently 2% of GDP - as “freeloading” on the US. I think this criticism is mostly fair. The US does basically underwrite much of the international security on which we depend, and we ultimately rely on them to defend us if under serious threat. They have every right to demand we pull our weight. If NZ has any rebuttal it is to point to the large number of pointless and counterproductive military escapades the US has involved itself in (Iran, Iraq, etc), which are not in NZ’s interests, which we are right to stay out of, and which the US should stay out of too.
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![The Free Trade deal with India has been announced. They’re claiming to have achieved just as good if not better trade access than our competitors - Australia, the UK etc, but have failed to achieve greater access for our dairy products. The concern is migration - the deal would establish a process for 1667 three-year work visas a year, focusing on doctors, nurses, teachers, ICT and engineering jobs, and 1000 places on New Zealand's Working Holiday Scheme. [For context, we’re currently bringing in over 100,000 immigrants per year.] NZ First is saying they will oppose the deal citing no access for dairy and the migration concessions.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2003007527953576442/amplify_video_thumb/2003007170410151936/img/aXsauEnGfxIvsKFr.jpg)
The Free Trade deal with India has been announced. They’re claiming to have achieved just as good if not better trade access than our competitors - Australia, the UK etc, but have failed to achieve greater access for our dairy products. The concern is migration - the deal would establish a process for 1667 three-year work visas a year, focusing on doctors, nurses, teachers, ICT and engineering jobs, and 1000 places on New Zealand's Working Holiday Scheme. [For context, we’re currently bringing in over 100,000 immigrants per year.] NZ First is saying they will oppose the deal citing no access for dairy and the migration concessions.
William McGimpsey🇳🇿103,795 görüntüleme • 6 ay önce
When the point of your “protest” is to shut down other people’s events and prevent their speech, then YOU are the authoritarians. Posie Parker was reportedly egged, prevented from speaking, and evacuated, as trans protesters stormed the stage at Albert Park.
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WATCH: Luxon promises to introduce legislation on an under-16 social media ban before the election.
William McGimpsey🇳🇿49,928 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce
New Jacinda Ardern documentary. Clueless woman somehow gets to be Prime Minister. Ruins country. Goes on to get high paying, high profile jobs travelling the world. Has award winning documentaries made about her. Whole life is gravy. This shouldn’t happen. You should have to succeed at something or make some sort of contribution to society for this to happen. Article -
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Iconic Kiwi food producer Heinz-Watties plans to close down production of frozen veggies and Gregg’s coffee, costing 350 jobs. It says manufacturing is becoming too difficult in NZ. It’s really important we get on top of cost pressures like regulation, energy and labour so we don’t lose these firms. Read more -
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A complaint is being taken to the UN by the Council of Trade Unions and the NZ Human Rights Commission over the government’s changes to pay equity laws - the complainants argue NZ is no longer fulfilling its international obligations to provide women with equitable pay and is engaging in systemic discrimination. 1News article -
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I back Kiwi farmers as much as anyone, but there is a real issue with the reliance on Filipino workers in the dairy industry. It isn’t a good look - it is transforming our rural communities in some areas into something resembling a feudal arrangement with the white farm owner and his Filipino serfs. The whole thing should be ended. The industry and NZ as a whole need to focus on getting Kiwis into these jobs.
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Butter Chicken enthusiast Chris Hipkins uses all the classic lines here discussing Shane Jones migration comments: - They’re “racist” - “We are a nation of migrants” - “Diversity is our strength” - “They are us” (almost) Played all the hits - just like the old days!
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Erica Stanford says we need more migrants because Kiwis aren’t having enough babies. A few thoughts: 1. Falling birth rates are a real public problem that we need to solve - if that goes on forever the population dies out. No bigger fail than that. 2. Replacement migration doesn’t solve this problem, it makes it worse - now not only are we not having enough children, we’re losing our country to foreigners. There is even some evidence that migration depresses native birth rates. 3. The Ponzi scheme that is superannuation, and our house-price driven economy are important economic drivers of this problem - we need to move toward retirement being self-funded and growing our wealth through the real economy rather than buying houses. 4. To the extent that we need migrants “to help the economy” they should only be truly highly skilled, and temporary so they go home when the job is done. If you let them stay and pay their super/healthcare etc you haven’t solved the Ponzi scheme issue, you’ve just kicked the can down the road. The permanent residence pathway should be closed off. 5. New Zealand already has at least a million people here who have arrived in recent decades and aren’t Kiwis in any real sense. In the long run this will tear our country apart. We need to be thinking about voluntary return incentives and other measures that countries like Sweden are implementing to address this problem.
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Brendon Pascoe, former owner of Lone Star New Lynn.
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Outrageous bias in the way 1News covered the the falling crime numbers tonight. What should have been a good news story about significant drops in violent crime was somehow transmuted into a bad news story about rising gang numbers. Attention: BSA New Zealand!
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WATCH: The US State Department has recognised mass migration as an existential threat to Western Civilisation and has ordered its NZ embassy to collect data on crimes and human rights problems caused by our migration policies. For anyone still unclear on why mass migration is an existential threat, you have your terror attacks, rape gangs, rising ethnic tensions and so on, but at root the problem is this: a nation is not its geography or its institutions, it is its people…and if you replace the people, you have destroyed that nation.
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Two timber mills might be about to close in Kaitaia, costing the Northland town around 200 jobs. Japanese owner Juken is exploring options to fully or partially sell the mills to keep them open. 6 timber mills have closed around New Zealand over the last two years, with high electricity costs being a big driver. More -
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🧵 Good big picture speech by PM Luxon today, which included promising comments around immigration. He began by saying the world was at an “Inflection Point”, changing in three important ways: 1. Moving from being ordered by rules to being ordered by power. 2. International relations is moving from being primarily concerned with economics to security. 3. A primary concern with economic efficiency is being replaced by one of national resilience.
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WATCH: Prime Minister Christopher Luxon discusses the possibility of increasing immigration with India as part of the free trade agreement. One of the biggest issues appears to be making it easier for Indians to get student visas to study in New Zealand. Currently about 10% of student visas NZ hands out go to Indians. India wants us to take more. NZ currently rejects quite a high proportion of applicants from India because we want to make sure they have enough money to provide for themselves while they’re here, and want to ensure they’re really going to study rather than just use it as an excuse to sneak into the country - some of the homeless people in Aucklands CBD are apparently international students, so it’s important to get this right. MBIE data suggests that about 70% of students from India get a work visa after studying, and about 40% get residence - this is quite a high proportion of students staying on. What we want to avoid is a situation where we train up hordes of Indians and they end up taking the place of our own best and brightest in the future NZ economy and society. No point having an FTA to make us richer if all the benefits flow to Indians in both countries.
William McGimpsey🇳🇿40,010 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce