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5:30 pm, November 4th, 2025 - 11 comments
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Daily review is also your post.
This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
The Maori Party this year is facing up to its central dilemma.
The distinction between the Maori people and its concerns and the Maori Party in parliamentary politics.
(UNDRIP provided an opportunity for this to be addressed – consultation with Maori on the government programme as the UK PM does with the Crown)
There has been the need for hikoi against this coalition governments agenda – the threat to Treaty of Waitangi in legislation, to the Waitangi Tribunal (as to is role) and to the Treaty itself (ACT's unprincipled legislation).
This is bigger than the Maori Party and it has been reduced to being a participant in an existential conflict.
Which includes all of us. The coalition's proposition, that international capital is the agent of our national economic salvation and requires of us sacrifices to be worthy of their dominance, is a threat to democratic nation rules based governance – thus is wider than the Maori concern.
The Green party was once questioned for being more than an environment party, after earlier being dismissed as an activist group that did not belong in parliamentary politics.
It came to be at the centre of the struggle, were we a nation that had common principles that were not expendable on the altar of mammon. Social justice, environment and conservation values, worker rights in a sustainable economy and society.
It then got the same attention as the TPM does now – are its MP's worthy of their party idealism, as if that could be challenged by focus on individuals.
I'll quote from Edwards of the Integrity Institute – but first remind people of its own issues.
https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360719692/academic-ruffling-feathers-political-lobbying-world
https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360847040/mysterious-unravelling-high-profile-transparency-project
https://www.politik.co.nz/dirty-politics-and-the-integrity-institute-and-the-media/
There is a pattern of those who might pose a problem to privilege being subject to investigation of their credentials and standing.
The relevant quote
The argument of Trotter is not from the left, but from the 21st C Trotter who writes about the left as something buried in the past.
This is the same approach as used on the Green Party.
This sort of commentary is worthy of derision.
How much have the Labour Party or Green Party achieved while in opposition?
He is participating in not just the unfair perception but cultivating a narrative about what its critics – (citations – who and when?). Was that really said about Tariana Turia?
If the Integrity Institute was to also focus on the lives of those on benefits or the unemployed to question the value of welfare provision or right to access to welfare, just maybe the charitable status of the II would be restored, trickle down wealth to the deserving (sarc).
https://theintegrityinstitute.substack.com/p/integrity-briefing-the-emptiness
The "Integrity Institute" is a misnomer.
Edwards always takes pro-Right positions while pretending to be neutral-not much integrity in that behaviour.
You might want to take a look at the coverage from someone with impeccable left and Maori credentials.
https://www.kuraconsulting.co.nz/media-and-publicity/the-mori-party-belongs-to-the-people-not-one-man-substack-article-written-by-amokura-panoho
Make it as simple as possible, and even simpler still, and expecting a good result is insanity.
https://theconversation.com/the-doorman-fallacy-why-careless-adoption-of-ai-backfires-so-easily-268380
The appearance of doing something.
https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360875030/government-doubles-local-government-lenders-financial-backstop-3b
There will be concern on councils that credit agencies do not see the water done well methodology as creating any separation of water body financials from council debt
(at some point water charging costs will go up exponentially as rates are held down)(thus councillors can be re-elected while the public pays more and more each year).
https://www.thepost.co.nz/politics/360870037/water-entity-debt-weigh-council-credit-ratings-sp-warns
Cunning accounting that’s trying to obfuscate real financial liabilities – sounds like something cooked up by the Coalition.
https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/09/17/newsroom-candidates-survey-alarm-as-councils-breach-debt-ceilings/
The Water Services Authority (established by Labour and kept in place by National) also contributes to higher water costs via operational levies (totaling over $20 million in 2025 exc GST) and by the substantial investment required by water suppliers (councils or council-controlled organisations) to meet the new, stricter national standards set.
The cost of water (AFAIK) has been touted to double for some. Therefore, far longer loan terms (than those suggested) will be required to keep ongoing repayments, thus consumer cost lower and sustainable.
Currently, (AFAIK) around 300,000 households in New Zealand are struggling to afford their power bills. Expecting them to now pay high water bills is totally unrealistic
The NAct1 Coalition of Charlatans (govt by and for the sorted) don't really want to keep a lid on unemployment, but credit where credit is due – without the record exodus of Kiwis to Oz and elsewhere, unemployment stats would be even worse.
Yes, highest unemployment rate in nearly a decade.
And guess what?
A new report says households living on JobSeeker Support or NZ Super alone spend more each week just to cover the basics than they have coming in
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/577525/beneficiaries-pensioners-don-t-have-enough-money-for-basics-report
No doubt Willis will do nothing to sort it.
Do you think Labour will?
Willis – sort it? Of course not – the NAct1 CoC is govt by and for the sorted.
Don't know, and don't party vote Labour. Do you think Labour can / will sort it?
JobSeeker Support and NZ Super alone no longer enough to cover the basics is a crisis in the making.
Yet, there is little talk of it.