What a stupendous job the Government is doing at getting the country back on track. “What I would say to you”, is that the government cares deeply about us all, and is prepared to cut off both its own feet, to go with the arm and a leg it has already cut off, and to leave the bloody stumps and decaying flesh to one side as Willis and Luxon sail off into the sunset, never to return. “We, the people” does not concern them one bit. No one ever wins an election in the middle of a self-engineered recession, and this recession can be squarely laid at the feet of our gaunt Minister of Ozympic, the MP for List, Nicola Willis, who has brought this all on herself, and unfortunately also on ourselves as well.
Starting off as she intended to carry on, on day one she cancelled the Ferry contract, losing NZ about a Billion dollars and about 5 years in progress, and she and her bitch protege Luxon have succeeded in screwing us royally ever since. This week’s proposed sacking of another 8700 civil servants (check out the story on Scoop of how many people that really means over here), with most of those (all of them?) in Wellington, they have at last fulfilled the prophecy of JohnKey who proclaimed Wellington dead. “They thought it was all over – well, it is Now!!” Worst. Finance. Minister. Ever.
So – it is clear that the jobs won’t be coming back – Kaitaia is now also completely fucked – so is Tokeroa – and Wairoa – and Dargaville – and everywhere. It is also clear that the Housing Market is fucked as well – having successfully engineered a housing price crash. So I too am now looking for a new job, a new house, a new town, a new life, because there is no point in staying here in this town. Shit still flows out to sea on all sides (Porirua, Moa Point, Sludge factory, Hutt Valley etc), and now that the wonderful Predator Free has got rid of all the small mammal pests, there is only one more mammal to get rid of, which Nicola is working on fast as we speak. It is clear that she will get voted out at the election in a few months time, and in the meantime she has evidently got plans to screw us all on the way.
Where to go next then? Auckland? Sydney? Perth? Hong Kong? London? Kazahkstan?
Sorry to hear that, Nemo
I blame Orr for the recession but keep in mind the great quote from some bloke on Aus TV when a chipper anchor doing a voxpop asked him how he felt about unemployment coming down x percentage – He looked straight down the barrel of the camera and said
“I’m a hundred per cent unemployed”
Aus has some infrastructure funding and the states are building a few public works still but it is still at time of writing chock-full of Australians
HK is a non-free speech zone and that would end up rustling your jimmies
London is too damn cold half the time
While Auck may seem tempting I can recommend looking at the regions and the one going gangbusters is down South
Dramatic landscapes, good skiing, expensive houses to build (unfortunately with some difficult clients)
Queenstown traffic is a bit shit but the regions are pumping away even as your beloved Capital is left to rot
You can always move back in a year or two, think of it as a sabbatical
Aaaah, bless you 60. Thank you for your uplifting words, and as always, a good story. Yeah, I’ve had a bit of a weird week, and I’m getting a bit over the eternal wind and rain, so I think I honestly need a holiday with sunshine and sangria, somewhere on a beach.
But it’s the political news that’s getting me down at the mo – especially from the US (never going there again!), and the UK (probably not there either), and I’m thinking that maybe I should just go on a repeat of what I did when I was 18 – the Peloponnese. Great memories of warm beaches and simple food. But in the meantime I’m still here, just need to find some time….