(The one who denied taking sides in the recent flag debate and who is propping up the NZ economy by importing thousands of Chinese.)
‘John Key’s secret flag donor luncheon
Prime Minister John Key was the star guest at a private fundraising lunch for the Change the Flag lobby group in a last-ditch bid to raise cash from wealthy Chinese donors who supported a flag change.
….(Change the Flag chairman) Mr Holden confirmed the event to the Weekend Herald but would not say who the donors were or how much they gave. He said a little more than $100,000 was raised for the entire Change the Flag campaign – some from the Chinese donors, who wanted the Union Jack gone from the New Zealand ensign.
“We talked about the treaties the British signed with the Chinese, the Boxer Rebellion, all those sort of points of Chinese history. It’s interesting because that sort of thing still comes out. Obviously, the colonisation of Hong Kong.
….”We knew there was support in the Chinese community because of the Union Jack,” Mr Holden said….’
(bold mine)
Doing the bidding of his new colonial masters?
The “Chinese” in Hong Kong like their British heritage – they perceive it to have given them much in the way of integrity and ethics that is counter cultural to the Chinese across the border. Hong Kong is the fantastic place it is because it has that something China does not
Yes indeed. Problem is, NZ is importing a hell of a lot of Chinese from communist mainland China, I suspect very often without adequate vetting.
“John Key – Treason One – Book’em Danno!”
BTW, Mr. Key attended ruling class Harvard in the USA, so you know he’s a traitor to New Zealand on that basis alone.
Indict – Try – Execute!
Death to traitors!
This has confirmed what I thought for a long time. Key said he’d be neutral about it. If we wanted a new flag, we’d have one. If not, he’d leave it as it is. That was his original promise. Yet they have done nothing but push and pull, about this new flag. Now they are even saying we need to do it again, as the numbers should have been done different.
And what does the union jack mean. It means the Queen’s coronation oath is keeping this country in order. She has sworn to uphold the law of God, and the true gospel of Jesus Christ.
http://www.royal.gov.uk/ImagesandBroadcasts/Historic%20speeches%20and%20broadcasts/CoronationOath2June1953.aspx
So now you know what they are really out to do. What are you going to do about it?
$100,000? Like my grandfather used to say”it’s not that politicians can be bought that’s the problem,it’s that they can be bought so cheap.”
Darin it has cost us millions of dollars, so that someone can pocket $100,000. That’s just not right.
And that is the shame of it,it’s almost impossible to pin down the true cost in dollars of SJW bullshit.
I suspect the conversation went something like this.
Key: Greetings esteemed guests. I’m glad you could be here today. You know, ever since the Boxer Rebellion against the British Emp…
Chinaman: Ding bao che cheng?
Translator: Cheng mai shao Yihequan lao tse.
Chinaman: Gung mai ling tao shen deng. Guai meng laifung pon shao.
Translator: My employer would like to convey his wish that you cease wasting his time and simply take the bribe.
Key is utterly despicable, as usual. Slippery, dishonest, smug, arrogant.
Nothing surprises me about him and I trust nothing he has to say. He believes in nothing and advocates for nothing. Wishy washy, weak, petulant. I don’t get why Joe Bloggs doesn’t see through him. why don’t they get it
Lara, its because of people like David Farrar. This is a recent case in point.
http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2016/04/let_private_groups_sponsor_refugees.html#comments
You know how its difficult to find a call centre job currently. Why pay you $20 an hour, when I can pay someone who doesn’t even know what the minimium wage is. And Farrar says we ought to have more of it. Now if you look further down, ‘The Bangles’ says that dairy and tourism creates wealth. And just about everything circles around that, if you work in IT, its because of dairy and tourism.
Well ‘the Bangles’ is not the normal kiwiblog voice. Farrar is advocating for more refugees, and people think of him as the voice of reason. He’s also been pushing for a new flag, and calls those concerned about the union jack, barking mad. And if you even mention that when someone does something they might have someone backing it up, a conspiracy nutter. As long as there is Farrar, people will put up with Key.
Oh Bo Chandler, that’s close, but you forgot one thing. John Key worked in finance, and was given that opportunity on condition that he would do a number of things. One of them is take off the Union Jack from our flag, and once he’s done that to take the queen of our $20 bank note. So at the meeting their would have been an or else.
Then again, I wasn’t there, so maybe they didn’t need to mention that. So you could be totally right. The other thing is to get this country deeply indebted. When he came into office the gross national debt was $10 billion, now its getting close to $100 billion, and then sell our assets, to just pay the interest. Already they need to sell a piece of kiwibank. And it will be able to be sold to overseas in 5 years time.
“…When he came into office the gross national debt was $10 billion, now its getting close to $100 billion..”
And there you have it. The core of the massive con-job surrounding NZ’s “rock star economy”.
When you say ‘Rock star’, Obviously our image is why they are lending to us. They aren’t lending to us on our substance.
Central government debt is already over $116 billion. Monetrey inflation is 7.7% according to the RB. Because of all the money printing. Tax is going up and up making us all poorer, except for the elite at the top. I hope they do sell the communist Kiwi bank.
Oh Mike Webber, if only you were joking. The gross debt is as you say it is:
http://www.nationaldebtclocks.org/debtclock/newzealand
Of course the net debt is a little different. The net debt means the government has a few assets:
https://www.google.co.nz/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiaqbTUv4PMAhXKEpQKHQBJClwQFgglMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fcontent%2Fglobal_debt_clock&usg=AFQjCNHvjMNpSf6HW8EbYs89UGDbK5Plpg&sig2=oEjKuwyJ5JJc5OeFKOPteg&bvm=bv.119028448,d.dGo
Even so its much bigger than $10 billion. One of the ways that they’ve tricked people is with OBERAC and OBEGAL. If you have a business that has appreciated its land by $100,000, and your debt has grown by $50,000, you have a surplus of $50,000, and with OBEGAL, if your revenue is below usual by $20,000, you can add that $20,000 on to your surplus.
Bill English has used these tricks to say we have a wafer thin surplus. That’s a part of the problem. They use these terms which most people have no clue of to trick us.
I’ve just had another look at the links, and its $116 Billion if in NZ dollars, but less than $100 billion if in US dollars. Still its a huge amount of money.
For a population of less than 5 million, its enormous, Warren. And relatively few of those are in productive work.
It is around 45 % of GDP which is bad. Sure some nations are worse, like Japan about 200 %, but that level of debt which has to paid back by tax payers will lower our standard of living for a long time.
It surely will, Mike. There has to be a limit to how much of the farm Key can flog off and still have a functioning independent country.
Oh, wait…
Another aspect to the worry. Suppose, everything we had was sold for $20 billion. We’d still owe, and then our profitable businesses profits wouldn’t be going to us. That’s a huge worry.
Yes, KG, that was the point ‘the Bangles’ had about the refugees in kiwiblog (located in my response to Lara). We have two industries tourism and farming. 10,000 refugees is not going to increase our farming or tourism by much. Its going to mean another 10,000 people looking for service jobs, or working under the table, or work as volunteers. My point being that if half of the population was wiped out we’d still have the same amount of people in tourism and farming, the service providers would be wiped out.
$100 billion/5 million = $20,000 per person. At 3% interest that’s $600 a year just in interest, and that’s presuming a low interest rate of 3%.
And Mike Webber 45% is something to worry about. In 2005, our net debt was a surplus of $1 billion. We were coveted in financial prudence. We were the third least indebted nation when looked at in proportion to our GDP. For us to get back to where we were in 2005, is going to easily take 20 years. And that money could be used by businesses to develop new products, so we aren’t stuck in farming and tourism only. It is a big, big problem.