A Brief Review of the Week

This is a brief review so it leaves some things out, but here is a summary of the past week.

Indira Stewart put together a great segment about a South Auckland school who had found free school lunches were vital and their academic performance and attendance was up. Seymour could not be bothered visiting or sparing an hour so he was called SeeLess - and the school discovered hot food has no waste - way less than soggy sandwiches.

Jack Tame interviewed the Israeli Ambassador about Gaza and asked how killing 34,000 Palestinians, 13,000 of whom were children would help to stop more terrorism against Israel.

TVNZ 1 News ran a story featuring National and National - leaving out all Opposition voices - as National sold us a line about how they were freeing up lending conditions. Shortly afterwards the real story came out that they were unleashing loan sharks on vulnerable people again.

Fran O'Sullivan praised Luxon's overseas Jolly - saying he had made a great debut on the world stage despite him having nothing tangible to show for the visits and media praised "the pep in his step" and his "energy levels" and how he was bringing "Big Business Energy" and loads of rubbish like that.

Audrey awarded Luxon a bouquet for being so dazzling overseas, so busy and getting around and about - when Luxon himself said activity is not outcomes.

Luxon doled out $41 Million to a foreign bank in a massive U-Turn against his own opposition to Corporate Welfare and naturally the Press Gallery turned a blind eye and nobody said boo to a ghost.

CPI Inflation fell to 4% thanks to Monetary Policy at the Reserve Bank but the sticky non tradable inflation stayed high at 5.8% - and once again - media went very quiet about that - where once there were screaming headlines about it. Both Willis and Luxon slid up to that 4% and associated themselves with the result on social media. Credit was not due - and of course media turned a blind eye to this behaviour.

Australia's CPI Inflation came in at 3.6% below New Zealand's 4.0% but because Nicola Willis was now the Minister of Finance and not Grant - well the media ignored what would have once been a big negative headline comparing us to Aussie.

Christopher Luxon did a massive porky pig when asked what evidence he had that his revised Three Strikes Legislation will reduce reoffending or crime ih general and he made a massive hospital pass to Nicole McKee who said crime was up so that was the evidence.

Luxon had a shocking round of media interviews, especially on TVNZ Breakfast with Anna - where he evaded answering the question about evidence three strikes will work. On RNZ he did the same thing and eventually told Corin that the evidence was in California, but when asked to name the study - he could not. There was no evidence but that did not stop Luxon claiming there was and then failing to front up with it or point to it.

RMA changes so farmers can ignore Freshwater standards made Federated Farmers joyful as all regulations and science is red tape and a hoax and farmers always know best so cows can stand in rivers of mud again. What a fail.

It was discover by OIA that Willis had asked Treasury to look into scrapping the $6 Billion resilience plan against future flooding and natural disasters - letting future roading and bridge projects slide so she could pay her tax cuts - something like that. So far nobody knows what Willis is planning as it is all a secret in her Budget.

28 Key roles at DIA that protect children from exploitation online, roles that protect us from financial terrorism and roles that protect us from money laundering all had to go to pay for Nicola Willis' tax cuts. ( Three chuppa chups a week )

78 Roles at Customs to help mange the border and stop meth coming into the country also faced the axe and Luxon hid behind how some roles were vacant.

Ironically while allowing crime to flourish Luxon said he was restoring law and order - and the stupid Gang Patch law was exposed by numerous experts at select committee - like the Law Society, The Human Rights Commission, the Freedom of Speech Union and various people who had been in gangs and spoke with experience. Both Goldsmith and Mr Plod said they can fill their boots and democracy can get stuffed cos this Government is going ahead anyway or words to that effect.

Anzac Day was respected and honoured all over the country and even overseas. My Son gave a speech in Lower Hutt in full Naval Uniform ( I have a photo ) and Chippy was very respectful as were most people. But not Luxon, Luxon was showboating and it was all about him as he waved to crowds for photo ops. The main gig in Wellington was called off cos of the high winds.

Luxon was late to announce he was reshuffling his cabinet and for a guy who says he is rebuilding the economy - he shoved Econonic Development out of Cabinet along with Melissa Lee.

Luxon made a burke of himself saying this was how he rolled and this is how he leads and X went cray mocking him. The Office memes flowed - and everyone agreed he was a self praising twat caught up in his own disaster legend.

Chippy bagged Luxon for being far too slow to act - and how it also showed he lacked judgment in the initial appointments - and he referred to how the Government has left media up a tree - and we don't know what Winston is doing?

Audrey Young saw red at her favourite PM being criticised fairly and she gave Chris Hipkins a brick bat for making Luxon look slow and tardy and a pile of crap...which ran counter to the spin about Luxon acting early and showing strength that NZME had adopted. Clearly when Labour sack people it is weak and slow and when National do it - it is strong and early.

The High Court put aside the summons made on Karen Chhour to present evidence about section 7AA of the Oranga Tamariki Act - saying it had to be necessary - a higher test - but the High Court also said Chhour was to blame and it was on her that all this bother had happened. An Appeal was lodged by Annette Sykes and we ain't seen the end of this yet - as Luxon foolishly told media this was a win for the Government.

Multiple recipients of Chris Bishop's fast track consenting invitation to apply for the express list of projects included donors to the National Party. Worse a distant relative and donor to Shane Jones was on that list and everyone yelled "Corruption", while the Neoliberals skulked about in the shadows and Chris Bishop tried to deflect attention onto homes and renewable energy projects - anything but mining and the Jones money trail.

Hospitals were told to make savings as Doctors decided to strike and once again this was all for Nicola's tax cuts. The central health agency is asking hospitals to save more than $80m by July as part of a nationwide cost-cutting drive, according to figures sourced by RNZ.

The May Day Protests on 1 MAY were spread around social media and there was a mood to make some noise.

Damien Grant was smacked by the media council for bare faced lies in his opinion article on Stuff.

Jimmy Peters Seymour was blocked and we all had some asparagus rolls and cups of tea.

People are sick of Act and the Neoliberals attacking everything to do with Te Tititi.

Jo Moir and Claire Trevett made up cool stories to blow smoke up Luxon about firing Lee and Simmonds on RNZ Morning report. They suggested Luxon had gotten in early when he took months to act and they also fulffed up Goldsmith - just like Audrey did later in the day - affectionately referring to him as "Goldie". This was all part of a general right wing PR team promoting Luxon.

There was no Talbot Poll this week - it is missing for April.

NewsHub published some misleading crap about NZ taxes rising in 2023 more than most - but failed to mention this was about wages rising - so of course taxes increase too - and this was not about income tax increases - but through careful omission and failure to explain - morons were misled - and Willis jumped in on the media bandwagon using the fake news as a means to justify her tax cuts again.

There was much more - but this is just a brief summary.

A Brief Review of the Week

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