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Marcel Wratt
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Marcel Wratt, 35 Cricket Dad 🏏 Insurance nut 🏘️
Wellington, NZ Katılım Ekim 2012
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Dear Christopher Luxon,
@chrisluxonmp
This morning on NewstalkZB you were asked about Nigel Farage’s surge in the UK and the clear anti-mass-immigration backlash that just delivered a political earthquake in Australia.
Your response? “That’s just a grumpy few… people are playing politics with immigrants.”
As a lifelong National voter, I have rarely heard a more tone-deaf dismissal of legitimate public concern. Because the grumpy few you wave away are not fringe agitators on social media. They are the silent majority of Kiwis who have watched their country change at breakneck speed while being lectured that any unease makes them right-wing or racist.
You and your colleagues have spent years telling us how “highly skilled” the new arrivals are and how lazy and unambitious Kiwis have become. Yet your own government’s figures, and the brand-new India–New Zealand FTA, now classify Domino’s pizza workers, yoga instructors, chefs, and AYUSH practitioners as “skilled” migrants eligible for dedicated visa pathways.
Net migration is still running at tens of thousands a year, with India one of the largest sources. Housing, hospitals, schools and roads are groaning under the weight. Wages in retail, hospitality and trades are being undercut. And when Kiwis point this out, the official line is that we’re just not trying hard enough.
That’s not evidence-based policy. That is propaganda dressed up as economic necessity.
Worse, it is selective. You and your MPs have been photographed wearing turbans and paying respects at temples and gurdwaras in search of ethnic bloc votes. That’s not “celebrating diversity.” That is ethnic vote-bank politics of the kind you accuse others of.
When a junior National backbencher last week screamed “foreign political interference” because he was merely quote-tweeted by an overseas account, the absurdity was complete. The only foreign interference National seems to worry about is the kind that doesn’t deliver you donations or diaspora ballots.
Meanwhile, you lecture us about the dangers of social media while your government rushes through under-16 bans modelled on the EU’s Digital Services Act - conveniently timed before the election.
Elon Musk’s purchase of X has been one of the most significant pro-democracy acts of the past decade precisely because it broke the stranglehold of legacy media and government-aligned censors.
Yet your instinct is to regulate and restrict rather than trust New Zealanders to think for themselves. That tells us everything about where your priorities lie.
The latest Poll of Polls gives the current coalition an extremely high probability of surviving November. That is not because of any great love for National. It is because enough Kiwis still fear a return to the Ardern-era madness.
But loyalty has limits. A great many of us who have voted National our entire adult lives have reached them.
We will not reward a party that sneers at our justified concerns about rapid, unmanaged immigration from one particular country while simultaneously courting that same community for electoral gain.
We will not vote for leaders who dismiss the very real pressures on housing, wages, infrastructure and social cohesion as the whingeing of a “grumpy few.”
So here is the practical reality, Prime Minister.
Kiwis with a functioning brain will party vote NZ First - the only party in your coalition that has consistently treated immigration numbers as a serious policy lever rather than a virtue signal.
In the electorates many of us will still hold our noses and give National the local vote to keep the left out. But the party vote is no longer yours by default.
You have mistaken quiet frustration for automatic loyalty. That era is over.
The “grumpy few” you mock are the backbone of the National Party’s historic support. Keep dismissing us and you’ll discover exactly how quickly a safe coalition majority can evaporate.
Yours, in genuine disappointment,
A former National voter
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THEN STOP IMPORTING RETIREMENT AGED IMMIGRANTS WHO HAVE NEVER PAID A FUCKING DIME IN TAX.
It’s a pretty simple thing you stupid fuck.
Joseph Mooney MP@JosephMooneyMP
There are around 2.3 million full-time workers in New Zealand supporting a total population of 5.3 million. New Zealand’s total dependency ratio, combining children, retirees, part-time workers and non-workers, already exceeds 50 percent of the working age population. Total Crown expenditure accounts for over 42 percent of GDP. On current Stats NZ projections, almost one in four New Zealanders will be aged 65 or over within 20 years, a share that continues rising steeply beyond that point. NZ Superannuation already costs $23 billion a year and is forecast to grow by 25 percent to $29 billion within just four years. Treasury’s own long term fiscal statement, He Tirohanga Mokopuna 2025, is unambiguous: on current policy settings, government debt is on track to reach 200 percent of GDP by 2065, driven primarily by the rising costs of superannuation and healthcare. The OECD’s Pensions at a Glance 2025 reinforces this, projecting that across OECD countries there will be 52 people aged 65 and over for every 100 working age people by 2050, up from 33 today and only 22 in 2000. National has twice taken a responsible policy to the electorate: lift the superannuation eligibility age from 65 to 67, with more than 20 years of lead time so people can plan. Twice it has been blocked. The result is a demographic and fiscal problem that has been deferred, not solved, and is now substantially harder to address than it was a decade ago. This is not a distant risk. The fuse is burning and it’s getting shorter fast. New Zealanders deserve an honest conversation about it. newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather…
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🚩 Breaking: 3 Indians who came to NZ on student visas used homeless people to scam 28 kiwi elderly out of $833k, with the explanation the money was sent back to India to help family. No money will be retrieved.
Pargat Bhangu, Gurwinder Singh and Harmandeep Singh targeted vulnerable elderly victims in phone scams, and homeless people to help launder money
The money was sent offshore, mainly to associates in India, using a sophisticated money transfer system. The same platform that the India FTA requires NZ banks to plug directly into.
The group was found in possession of a fake driver licence, and an iPhone with 13 different sim cards.
Banghu previously had convictions for money laundering and was on bail at the time of the offending which spanned 2019-2024.
These are the people Luxon tells are ‘better than us’ we do not want these people here, and Acts little questionnaire to weed out the crooks from the flood of Indians coming is a joke.
Stop the India FTA it’s a scam.
(Read the quoted tweet on more information about the Indian FTA & Money transfers, which includes CBDC’s of all things!)
Holyhekatuiteka@2ETEKA
🚩Surprise. Not really. NZ has Agreed to implement a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) with India with interoperability between countries. The lead negotiator for Luxon’s Indian FTA just happens to be on the steering committee for the WEF’s Climate change net zero initiative. Explains a lot. Also in clause 8A Annex : Financial services, NZ has agreed to ensure we can transfers of remittances to India in real time, to suck money out of our country as quickly and cheaply as possible (read quoted posts below). NZ will also build interoperability of financial surveillance measures, and open our electronic systems to India’s digital payment system - NPCI National Payment Corp of India and the Unified Payment Interface (UPI), which is the largest channel and platform for financial fraud in India. It is also linked to India’s Digital ID system (called Aaghaar). Reading the related digital, finance clauses it’s obvious that National have agreed to let India deeply imbed themselves in the digital trust services framework aka build and then administer our digital prison. Wow. Who would have guessed! You are welcome. mfat.govt.nz/assets/Trade-a… mfat.govt.nz/en/about-us/ou…
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New Zealand's immigration policy is deeply problematic even before Act and National agreed to import infinity Indians.
It actively discriminates against Caucasians.
Once again I'm going to retell the story of my friend Francesca, an Italian who moved to France to take a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Toulouse.
Fluent in four languages (Italian, French, Spanish, English) she worked in NZ as a project manager in health technology on a two year visa. At the end of the two years her employer supported an application for a visa extension.
Which was declined by Immigration NZ and because of that, her employer were forced to let her go. Francesca was 30 years old.
No-one could believe it. Certain this must be some sort of bureaucratic mistake myself and others -including our constituency MP Nikki Kaye- intervened on Francesca's behalf.
To no avail. Immigration NZ was absolutely insistent that a 30 year old multi-lingual European with a PhD, work experience in NZ and job offers did not have enough "points" to remain in the country.
So she left.
Until this happened* I believed "The Great Replacement" was a conspiracy theory or at best, overblown. Having now observed it up close I know it to be actual policy.
(*) there was one other incident. A high-flyer recruitment agency scoured the world to find one suitable applicant for a very specific position. He is English. When asked about remuneration during the interview he said he was independently wealthy so it could be nominal. Immigration NZ rejected him for his age: 65.
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They've got 7 points from their last 3.
And knowing what that team bus will be like on the journey to Spurs Lodge, I'm not thinking, I'm telling you they will.
For the first time this season they will be happy, confident, players on the treatment table will rise like a phoenix, and they will be aching, gagging to play at home again.
It's called confidence.
It's called renewed belief.
And 60,000 Spurs fans, who chatted bollocks to me 3 weeks prior about not getting another point, will now greet them like the 1961 double team when they run out at home.
And that, my friend is why the English football run in, when respected and not shit on, can pay you back just by sticking with it, in the blink of an eye.
And long may it continue that way.
You play the game in front of you, never one or two ahead.
This is England, not Spain.
Alan G@alan1878
@StanCollymore They've got 11 points from 17 home games. And You think they are getting another 6 out of 2.
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I suspect this is looking horrendous in their internal polling.
National looking like they are trying to convince themselves they have done the right thing and ACT launching a hard line on immigration in an effort to distance themselves from the mess.
NZ National Party@NZNationalParty
And there’s a lot more than this. This deal means we can sell more of what we’re great at - seafood, forestry products, wool, coal, iron & steel, industrial products, mānuka honey, and bulk infant formula. It means more jobs on farms and orchards, more money coming into local communities, and more opportunities for Kiwis to get ahead. Fixing the basics. Building the future.
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OMG. National are losing the plot big time. Not surprising as their own internal polling has shown them the FTA is electorally a disaster.
Backbencher, Southland MP and longtime mass immigration enthusiast J. MOoney Mo0ney has descended into absurdity.
Last night he started an ambitious gaslighting thread, where he misrepresented the facts of the FTA but also, and incredibly he claimed:
* Critics of the FTA have been radicalised by social media (cue social media ban)
* Overseas based X accounts should not be commenting on NZ immigration issues, as “They don’t know anything about the policy or country” and yet here he is cheerleading for a hoard of immigrants to move here.
* He replies to one commenter “This is not your country it’s MY country and I fight for it (and for generations) every day so take your attitude somewhere else”
LOL, he’s using OUR argument against foreign values.., it’s just so berserk that he’s attacking us for saying this exact same thing.
* He denies that there is an immigration issue in NZ and provides a picture from his ivory tower somewhere out in the bush (LOOK NOT OVER RUN BY IMMIGRANTS). Good lord.
* While having a spirited strawman argument with an overseas account (who did make a derogatory comment about Maori) he warns the poster “Don’t come here and say that OUR Māori will deal to you” just incredible. I’m Māori does that mean I’m MoOney MO0ney’s attack dog?are Māori his pets? a NZ MP inferring Maori are violent? Maybe that’s why National are so intent in flooding us with Indians as “Indians are ideal kiwis”
* And the beauty of all beauties, Joseph has gone full Ardern “Seems imported”.
He got into a slanging match and was rinsed by an overseas account and now is claiming we have FOREIGN INTERFERENCE in the election. Umm who’s the one who has signed away our sovereignty in this dogshit deal? And who has thousands of Indian based accounts busily trying to upvote the Nats shit posts?
This from a Party who tells us day in and day out that Kiwis are a failure and we should all be like Indians, live 10 to a house and work 3 jobs and STFU.
National hates us, they are intent on destroying our way of life and overwhelming us with a new low trust culture. And are now arguing its interference and ‘imported culture wars’ that is fuelling kiwis to speak out against — IMPORTING A FOREIGN CULTURE.
National/Labour/Act are typical global managerial elitists, they will not accept that kiwis don’t want mass immigration. Our opinions are to be disregarded and attacked.
Because quite frankly, they hate us.
Joseph Mooney MP@JosephMooneyMP
An extraordinary - and blatant - foreign influence campaign to interfere with New Zealand politics using social media as a vector - this account with over 122,000 followers (describing himself as being based in England), began a sustained attack less than an hour after I published a post calling out the nonsense being stirred up about our FTA with India.
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This is the fundamental fallacy of the leftists and the modern immigrant mind. They have no historical literacy and no perspective.
Australia has never been a nation of immigrants, and modern mass immigration isn’t the same as early British pioneers building and creating an amazing anglo nation from scratch from the harshest continent on earth. Immigrants arrive 230 years late, when the hard work is done and often receive great financial benefit from doing so.
Australia as a nation state didn’t exist prior to British anglo exploration and conquest (Terra Australis was an ancient greek term used by European explorers): the Aboriginal tribes numbered about 700,000 people across the continent, in approximately 100 disparate and warring tribes. They did well to survive the harshest environment on earth for tens of thousands of years, but had no common tongue, no civic institutions, no written language, no recorded history, no bridges, no roads, no domesticated animals, no agriculture and lived a nomadic tribal existence.
The British at the time were beginning the process of birthing the whole modern world and began the industrial Revolution and agricultural revolutions. Britain became the first Industrialised nation on the planet, the first nation to have modern technology and they invented the seed drill, the steam engine, the telephone, the telegraph, undersea cables, modern steel and iron smelting, and modern glass manufacturing and many other innovations. No other nations outside of Europe were at all developed, and the entire planet was in a period of European colonial expansion and vast competition to become the global hegemonic power. Britain came out on top and was the most powerful and largest imperial power in history.
Australia was founded in 1788 and since then, every single thing taken for granted here had to be implemented, invented and developed from literally nothing: The civic institutions, the English common law, property rights, parliamentary democracy, habeas corpus and equality before the law, the British postal and education systems, the English language system, the vast land clearing and pioneering cattle stations, development of the first farms, the creation of all of our ports, all of our airports, all of our roads, our dams, our power lines, our railways, our mines, our telephone cables, our power and water stations, our sewage systems, our cities, our churches, our cathedrals, our ship yards, our factories, our victorian sports like Cricket, Rugby, Rugby league and Football - Everything was made by pioneers from the ground up. By 1850, only 11% of Australians were convicts sent here to labour and to atone for their minor crimes, and 89% were free settlers looking to build the nation and to carve out their own destiny here with the growing new colony.
For another hundred years, Australia remained racially homogenous and in 1945, at 98-99% Anglo-Celtic it was completely culturally British Australian. That is who settled and built the nation. The modern age of air travel and modern ships, has migration so easy to do and millions and millions of people have moved here for a better life. The modern migrants are so arrogant to the achievements of our ancestors and feel entitled to a slice of what they built and created. They revise themselves in to our national story and constantly peddle the line “we were always a nation of immigrants.” We weren’t. Our intrepid and brave ancestors built this land and the ignorance and arrogance is breathtaking.
Modern migrants after the war from Europe worked well, as they came in very small numbers from culturally proximate Christian nations, and they aimed to assimilate and to marry in to Australia culture. The modern migrants aren’t doing this, they want to keep their own cultures and to arrogantly just economically benefit from living here, whilst also denigrating our past and trying to revise our history to safeguard their existence here selfishly.
maddy catgirlprostate@catgirlprostate
Literally every white person in Australia was an immigrant
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🚩Wellington Lawyer John McLean wrote this morning:
“National, Labour and Act are sneaking United Nations Declarations of Indigenous Peoples into NZ law via the India FTA.
The 2021 Labour Government’s ministerial He Pūapua report advocated for full implementation of UNDRIP by 2040, the bicentenary of the Treaty of Waitangi, and the Government secretly began work on a plan.
UNDRIP is cited by race activists - including in the Waitangi Tribunal – in support of a separate, self-determining Māori nation.
The awkward reality is that, by working to embed UNDRIP in New Zealand’s legal fabric, through the backdoor of the NZ/India FTA, the National Party is breaching its coalition agreement with NZ First.”
The Indian deal is NOT a free trade deal.
It is an undemocratic, sovereignty destroying take over.
Read his substack here:
open.substack.com/pub/mcleanj/p/…
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How embarrassing.
Nationals post last night accusing others of spreading ‘misinformation’ about the dodgy Indian deal, the one they deleted to get rid of negative comments, only to repost it to get rinsed again has been community noted - ‘The OP’s claims are all lies’.
🤡🤡Clowns. And no one is buying this BS.
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🚩 The India FTA has 11 immigration pathways, with only 1 channel capped.
This has been done on purpose, classic Political double speak.
National are lying, and along with Labour are attacking the only Politician raising the alarm and smearing anyone who supports him as racist.
Ryan Henderson 🇳🇿@RyanHendersonNZ
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If saturated fat causes heart disease, why did heart disease barely exist before 1920, when saturated fat consumption was at its highest in recorded history?
Why did it explode after 1950, when saturated fat consumption fell off a cliff and was replaced with industrial seed oils?
Why is the country that consumes the most butter per capita (France) the one with the lowest cardiovascular mortality in Europe?
Why did the Inuit, eating 80% fat by calories, have functionally zero coronary disease?
These are not gotcha questions. These are the questions the entire foundation of the lipid hypothesis was supposed to answer, and never did.
Sixty years on, we're still pretending it did.
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Please. If you do nothing else today, read Annex 8K to the FTA. It isn't complicated. If you're ok with this as a New Zealander, I don't know what to say to you. The number of people who can enter under this Annex will dwarf the number of capped categories by orders of magnitude.
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📣India runs the worlds largest Ponzi scheme, it’s a by product of their largest export - People.
Remittances are the key strategy India has to grow its economy. It has hit $250 Billion NZD a year, it finds half of Indias trade deficit.
The NZ govt has estimated that the India FTA will add a measly 0.7% GDP over 20 years to our economy. Unfortunately this is near identical to the amount Indians in NZ will send home, shrinking our economy.
Australia has seen a 15% year on year increase in remittances, which is now $7.3b AUD - or 0.5 of their GDP. Australia has an Indian population of 5.2%, we have 5.8%. Expect 2.7 Billion a year to leave our shores, that is on top of the $35 billion National have committed to promote investment from NZ, to India in the parasitic FTA.
Why is Winston Peters the only Politician who is identifying this as another major issue ? He spoke to Laws about this last week.
New Zealand will be an empty husk of the FTA goes through.
*quoted tweet has additional information about Indian remittances.
Holyhekatuiteka@2ETEKA
🚩Luxon proudly boasts that the India FTA ‘could’ grow exports to India by 1.1 to 1.3 bn over the next 20 years. Wow. Not. If you are one of the mongs who think this is a good deal - read on. As part of the garbage deal NZ is forced to invest 20 Billion into India - over 15 years, which means 1.3 billion a year. Luxon is going to set up a govt dept that will aid NZ investors specifically into India. Just a reminder that India’s Stockmarket, and money markets are amongst the most corrupt in the world. India’s economy also still relies heavily on slave and child labour. Sounds like Luxon’s new department will be major spin doctors. Now let’s talk about remittances. India has long used remittances (money sent home) from their “mobilised workforce” as a device for building their own economy. Last year India hit a record - 145USD BILLION was sent back to India by expats. It is also a key funder to get more Indians ‘globally mobilised’ Australia signed a much more watered down version of the disaster FTA that Te Gimp has negotiated for NZ, but already their economy is showing signs of unintended consequences. Last year a record 200,000 Indians flooded into Australia via the study Visa ponzy scheme. Students will take a part time job in Australia (reducing entry jobs for Australians) and again send a portion of that money home. That portion has now hit $15 billion dollars a year, Australia is having $15 billion a year (and forecasted to be larger next year) drained from their economy via remittances. Luxon also doesn’t mention that the Indian Govt has announced that this FTA includes “uncapped student visas”. This is what you call hollowing out an economy. This is what will happen here. Currently in NZ remittances to India is estimated to be over $1 billion a year. This will undoubtedly continue to grow, Australia remittances has DOUBLED since their FTA with India, a number that has tracked the increase in student visa’s . NZ could quickly be seeing $2billion a year drained from our economy and sent to India, add that to the 1.3 billion we are forced to invest into one of the most corrupt economies going (is he going to invest our kiwisaver in India?) and we are already in a very bad situation, not to mention the social and cultural disaster along with the failing health system and infrastructure disaster that hangs over the heads of New Zealanders. This is the prostitution of New Zealand.
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No one should be surprised but what he left out is that this turbine costs an estimated $50-80 million to build and install. It only produces power 35-45% of the time because wind is intermittent. Its output degrades 12-16% over its 20-25 year lifespan. It requires hundreds of tons of steel, concrete, fiberglass, and rare earth minerals mined largely in China (his favorite country). The other 55-65% of the time you need backup power, which comes from natural gas. And it exists only because of massive government subsidies.
A natural gas plant of the same 26MW capacity costs $26-39 million, produces more than double the effective output, runs on demand 24 hours a day regardless of weather, and lasts 30-40 years. Half the price. Double the output. No weather dependency. No subsidies required.
But this was never about the environment. If it were, you would care that rare earth mining for wind turbines devastates landscapes across China and Africa, that thousands of birds and bats are killed annually by turbine blades, that the blades themselves are non-recyclable fiberglass rotting in landfills, and that natural gas produces half the emissions of coal with none of these problems. You ignore all of this because environmentalism was never your goal. It is your vehicle. The destination is what it has always been: government control of energy production, which means government control of the economy, which is socialism. Rand identified this decades ago. The green movement is not a scientific movement. It is a political one, and its target is not pollution. It is capitalism.
BladeoftheSun@BladeoftheS
The World's largest Wind Turbine 26MW. In its lifetime it will produce the same energy as burning 750,000 tons of coal. That's 44,118 truck loads. And that's just 1 Wind Turbine.
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In the early 1980s New Zealand was a textbook socialist failure: one of the most regulated economies on earth, with exploding public debt, double-digit inflation, rising unemployment and a slide from 6th to 19th richest per capita in the OECD. Then came the libertarian revolution known as Rogernomics.
In 1984 Finance Minister Roger Douglas and the Fourth Labour Government slashed farm and industry subsidies overnight, scrapped tariffs and import quotas, floated the NZ dollar, deregulated finance and banking, abolished wage and price controls, and cut the top tax rate from 66% to 33%. The next step was privatisation: Telecom NZ, Air New Zealand, energy firms, ports, forests and banks were sold to private owners.
Short-term pain was real, but the results were spectacular. Inflation was crushed. Productivity in privatised firms soared: Telecom NZ transformed from creaky monopoly into an innovator with collapsing prices and exploding services. Air New Zealand went from chronic losses to profitable global airline. Real consumer prices fell, investment boomed and public debt was slashed. By the late 1990s New Zealand was running surpluses, enjoying a long growth boom and climbing the global economic freedom rankings.
Rogernomics proved what free-market advocates keep saying: government is a terrible steward of resources. Restore private property rights, kill political meddling and let markets and incentives work. Free people and free markets deliver the growth and prosperity the state never could. Freedom works. New Zealand proved it.
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National are in full blown damage control.
They deleted the first version of this denial because they were getting hammered in the comments, they’ve tried to change it slightly and just got wrecked all over again.
They are finding out this is electorally a disaster. How about they delay the passing of the bill until after the election and let the people VOTE on it.
NZ National Party@NZNationalParty
There’s been a lot of misinformation about immigration under the new Free Trade Agreement with India. Much of what’s being said is spin rather than substance. Here’s the facts. This FTA does not open the floodgates on immigration. It allows around 1,700 temporary three‑year work visas per year - less than 3% of all work visas. And they can’t be renewed. Total numbers are capped so there can’t be more than 5,000 at any one time. The temporary work visa is targeted at skills New Zealand already needs - like doctors, nurses, teachers, ICT and engineers. These are roles that help keep hospitals staffed, classrooms open, and businesses productive. Claims about family migration are simply wrong. The FTA does not grant automatic rights for family members to enter, work or study in New Zealand. There is no back‑door pathway. The FTA is about lifting incomes for Kiwis, not importing labour from India. It means we can sell more of what we are good at to 1.4 billion people. It’s about bringing money into local communities, and helping Kiwis get ahead.
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🚩 Todd McClay just fell apart on Sean’s show, and Luxon’s dodgy Indian deal has descended into farce.
⚫️ He does not know how UNDRIP & Paris clauses got into the agreement
⚫️ He cannot say who put it In
⚫️ He says not to worry about it
⚫️ He then says we cannot amend or remove the clauses
⚫️ He says he couldn’t release the deal details before it was signed - as was too busy
⚫️ He says while it’s going to parliament with Labours and Acts support it’s basically a done deal
What a mess. Listen to this Turkey talking himself into knots. While over in India he’s obviously picked up a bad case of verbal diarrhoea.
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There has been a lot of commentary since the FTA was released around the ludicrous immigration implications and the USD$20 billion investment commitment over the next 15 years from NZ into India.
But what also needs to be highlighted is the fact that there is a clause in the agreement which acknowledges and affirms New Zealand’s obligations to UNDRIP - this is the UN Declaration of Indigenous Rights which spawned He Puapua.
It also includes a specific clause about the Treaty which states “nothing in this agreement shall preclude the adoption by New Zealand of measures it deems necessary to accord more favourable treatment to Maori in respect of matters covered by this agreement”.
This whole FTA is a clear compromise of principles and values for the obsession of ‘getting a deal done’.
We are standing up for New Zealand’s future and our principles and not supporting an agreement that will sell our country out for a handful of beans.
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