Yesterday I had a very wide ranging and interesting discussion with Farmer James and Jono Frew.
You can view it on Farmer James’ FB page. I realised how important it is to offer ideas about a way ahead in the vacuum created by Ardern’s abrupt departure. We are facing Chris Hipkins as PM, who is firmly identified with Ardern’s failed policies.
More importantly, we are living in a broken society. Our health system is overwhelmed. Excess all-cause mortality is at record highs. Our school system is in crisis. Social cohesion is at a low ebb. Crime is rising. The cost of living has skyrocketed. More of the same policies are not going to solve these crises. If nothing is changed, the coming year will bring a harvest of bankruptcies and mortgagee failures.
You may feel like me that we don’t need more government, we need less. With some trepidation (I know that many will differ with good reason) here are a few suggestions to kickstart a debate:
Housing: Repeal the Resource Management Act and amend building and planning regulations. We live in a country the size of the UK but we only have a population of five million (UK has 60). Why are planning regulations herding us into inner city multi-unit dwellings known to breed crime and pollution? Why can’t we build our own houses on our own land? Why can’t farmers provide dwellings for their children? Why can’t groups of young people buy land, subdivide and build for themselves? This single measure will enable Kiwi enterprise to solve the housing affordability crisis, soften the impact of Labour’s interest rate rises, and stimulate the economy.
Cost of Living: Remove GST on primary produce, fruit, and vegetables. Come to think of it, why is the US economy more flexible than ours? They don’t use the European taxation model at all. They just have a retail (end-user) sales tax, removing at one stroke the huge bureaucratic nightmare of GST. GST is a burden on every enterprise and a disincentive to start ups, investment, and economic resilience. GST pushes up prices of staple commodities across the board as they pass from hand to hand in the supply chain taxed at each transaction point.
Youth Crime: Jail time has to take on an educational and aspirational character. We have among the highest rates of imprisonment in the developed world, but it is not working. Prisons are turning out hardened criminals. There are models of reforming success in Scandinavian countries for example that we can adopt. They really do reduce crime.
Education: One size does not suit all, especially in our rapidly changing modern world. Educational achievement is falling. Children are not inspired. Mastery learning schemes will help children to acquire the basics, no child will be left behind. At the moment, only those able to afford private education have a choice. Consider instituting an education voucher system which would give all parents, teachers, and pupils a choice of content, providers, and systems. We should explore good practice.
Health: Mandated health workers should be allowed back to work. The scientific evidence is overwhelming. A July 2022 study undertaken in Qatar found that natural immunity offers long term 97.3% protection against reinfection, higher than the protection of mRNA vaccination which in any case wanes rapidly. Over the longer term, more proven complementary preventive approaches to health should be co-opted into our health funding system. They work. In contrast the present government is planning to regulate and restrict availability of Natural Health Products. This Bill should be abandoned.
Politics: The NZ Bill of Rights should be entrenched. Reduce the MMP threshold to one per cent. Remove parliamentary privilege—MPs should be held to the same standards as the rest of us. Use modern electronic communication systems to make MPs and Parties more closely accountable.
These are a few ideas. You will have lots. We have always been a can-do country. It is time for a positive new direction.
Guy Hatchard PhD was formerly a senior manager at Genetic ID a global food testing and safety company (now known as FoodChain ID). You can subscribe to his websites HatchardReport.com and GLOBE.GLOBAL for regular updates by email.
Guy is the author of ‘Your DNA Diet: Leveraging the Power of Consciousness To Heal Ourselves and Our World. An Ayurvedic Blueprint For Health and Wellness’.
Check this out:
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Thanks again Guy.
I would keep parliamentary privalge as it is away to snitch on the powerful and protect the whistleblower, unfortunately it is not used enough.
Kelvyn Alp
Counterspin Media said he was going to quote “blow that fukr out of the water too” unquote
Referring to the Christchurch Mosque attacks false flag
Which has been debunked utilizing online forensic tools and analysis as a complete fabrication and lie
Which like covid nobody including politicians seem less willing and reluctant to touch with a ten foot bargepole
Only to use such as a vehicle for propaganda and self preservation purposes
In which Ardern was a main protagonist
State terrorism cannot exist without State participation
Is it possible that this being part of the reason for Ardern throwing in the towel
In addition to being caught in the deer headlights of an incoming tsunami of vaccine attributable deaths and injuries?
Problems do not go away
And the truth cannot remain hidden
No doubt.
Everything was a fake. Her election promises, her election win, her husband and the wedding to be, her pregnsncy, her baby, the Pike River Mine quest, the Christchurch Call, / mosque attacks, plandemic, the vaccine, the second election, the all turned labour south Island. Her deep concern, her troubled furrowed brow, her tears. All of it fake, a lie, terror, just so we would all swallow the lot.
I like your proposals Guy they are no brainers all. Kiwis, New Zealanders, Tangata Whenua, all are pragmatists and creative, practical people. I agree that ‘Parliamentary Privilege’ should be dropped, right down a bottomless pit, as it means in effect that any old lie will do. We need deeds not words.