#gerry brownlee

[idvoteforthatdaddy]

Gerry Brownlee Member of the New Zealand Parliament

[rhk111sblog]

The Philippines is now surrounded by mostly Pro-China Countries in its Vicinity after the new Ruling Party that was just recently elected in New Zealand is one that is Friendly to China

[sapphia]

Can I get more info about what's going on in nz? I watch global news regularly and nothing about this has come up and I find this highly disturbing.

we elected a neoliberal nightmare of a government who are destroying our health system, water system, ferry and rail system, environment and democracy for profit. people are literally dying in hospitals because there is no doctor in hospitals in multiple rural towns and they just have a consultation on an ipad. the government are trying to frame Health NZ as having a budget deficit of 1.5 billion when in reality that deficit exists because they provided like 3 billion dollars with of tax cuts they couldn’t afford. National cuts spending to health every time they get in government and the disjointed DHB system has been unable to keep up financially with the growing population and health needs.

i personally have just been FUCKED by national as for the last two years i have been navigating our labyrinth of a health system, not working due to being intensely suicidal, trying to find therapy to get better and there just isn’t any available. so i payed for a private autism diagnosis to try and access funding for therapy through the ministry of disability and also get under their umbrella because they actually treat you like a person there and also don’t actively seem to want you dead like they do in the mental health system. but the process took so long that by the time i got my diagnosis and through the referral system, national had yoinked the funding and deemed that therapy will no longer be covered by the disability funding system. all therapies. for disabled people.

oh also they’re like trying to start a race war or something as both minor parties in the 3-way coalition government are trying to negate the Treaty of Waitangi in law, and they’re also attacking the judiciary and had to be told to stop by our attorney general, who they ignored obviously.

our prime minister answers every question with “i say to you” followed by just a literal lie, they’re all just lying through their teeth, i literally have an OIA request about when David Seymour, our deputy-PM-in-waiting (don’t ask) said that preschool education needed to be reviewed because they were being prevented from teaching phonics. they’re not. someone just expressed concern that that might be happening to him, and apparently he is basing government policy on that?? or at least using it to falsely justify it to the nation.

their ideas are all bad and disproven by evidence-based studies, despite their slogan being “we’re going to make evidence-based decisions”. New Zealand has hit a funding wall where we’ve kicked the can too far down the road on like everything and it’s all starting to collapse at once and this government are not only letting it happen, they’re actively helping it along because they’ve all got shares in private rival companies or mates they want to give contracts to (our former national PM got paid insane money to write an insanely biased report attacking our ministry of social housing) or they’ve had their careers helped along by lobbying firms or they want to work for lobbying firms after they leave parliament.

the speaker of the house (who is right now being accused of not dealing with racism within his own party because of course he isn’t, he’s gerry fucking brownlee, the most hated man in christchurch) has allowed lobbyists unprecedented unrecorded entry to parliament. the minister for conservation keeps “forgetting” to write his lobby dinners in his diary. one of them told an mp “he’s not in mexico anymore”. no one is getting in trouble for this shit while the left are being raked over the coals. there’s like so much more. no one can keep up. and nothings being done about it.

tldr; help

[tloaak]

one day gerry brownlee is going to give winston a smack and i'll have to send him cookies

[shutup-andletme-go]

okay i need help deciding where i should make ren's hometown be for the fic i'm writing

under the cut bc this is a loooooooong post team (but there's a poll!)

so in the book it's really not specific, like At All as to where he lives, but Georgia says in her letter than she lives in the other corner of the country to him.

i don't get particularly aucklandy vibes off him so even tho thats where he ends up i dont think he started there

so. also there is a strait in the middle of the country and while busses would be cheap-

wait its 1996 the ferries would probably be stupid cheap compared to todays prices

okay so we could say that georgia and ren live on different islands

hold on a minute

so his aunty's message tells us that ren lives in a city and his aunty will be picking him up and going south

so that gives us some narrowed down options

PARDON ME THE ACTUAL FUCK

okay so i googled "what places were considered cities in nz 1996"

and thats fine and dandy theres a wikipedia page that i'll look at

in the bar of 'others search for:' there was one entitled "what happened in nz 1996"

i open it

and scream in horror as the name winston peters appears

direct copy paste from the wikipedia result:

Although predicted by many to ally with Labour, on 10 December 1996 New Zealand First leader Winston Peters chose to form a coalition with National, thus preserving Prime Minister Jim Bolger's administration. The 1996 election effectively showcased the difference made by the new electoral system.

winston peters is one of the deputy prime ministers THIS YEAR

Government

Legislature term: 53rd New Zealand Parliament until 8 September, then 54th New Zealand Parliament from 5 December.

The Sixth Labour Government, elected in 2017 and 2020, then the Sixth National Government elected in 2023.

Speaker of the House – Adrian Rurawhe until 5 December, then Gerry Brownlee

Prime Minister – Jacinda Ardern until 25 January, then Chris Hipkins until 27 November, then Christopher Luxon

Deputy Prime Minister – Grant Robertson until 25 January, then Carmel Sepuloni until 27 November, then Winston Peters

Leader of the House – Chris Hipkins until 25 January, then Grant Robertson until 27 November, then Chris Bishop

Minister of Finance – Grant Robertson until 27 November, then Nicola Willis

Minister of Foreign Affairs – Nanaia Mahuta until 11 November, then Grant Robertson until 27 November, then Winston Peters

christ almighty when is he going to die in a hole i hope its soon <3

oooh shit ren might have been old enough to vote in that election

and idk if he'd vote by himself but i feel like georgia would have encouraged it

okay back to the list of cities. we have:

auckland (still do not agree he's from auckland)

christchurch

wellington

hamilton

tauranga

okay cool so technically there might be others but im sorry palmerston north is not a city

making myself reread the book gave me a new perspective bc i was gonna say he's from like levin or somewhere

obscure like that

te puke perhaps

but no! he's from a city which means i can't take the angle of "ren didnt think places looked like this in 1996. not even wellington." but thats okay!

i'm leaning towards hamilton myself

just obscure enough

but still a city

pretty far up in the north island

oooh i kinda wanna write georgia as living in wellington she would thrive in wellington i think

@antisocialgaycat tagging u as always <333

[latest-breaking-news-video]

Watch Gerry Brownlee on being elected Speaker - New Zealand News Headlines

[mortimermcmirestinks]

MERYL STREEP AND MR BEAST

oh really now? easy. easy as pie, my friend.

MrBeast was in this video with Marques Brownlee

who of course played a starring role in YouTube Rewind 2018 alongside world-famous YouTuber Will Smith

who of course co-starred with Meryl Streep in worldwide smash hit "The Earth Day Special" (1990)

that's three. give me a difficult one.

[bartinchristchurch]

Building a stadium in its current location is a joke. The location was chosen at the time (post earthquakes) by Gerry Brownlee to prop up property values by creating fake land shortage. It is a large area near the centre of town that will sit idle for most of the time. This is ignoring the traffic and transport issues during and between the time the stadium is being used.

[maturemenoftvandfilms]

Gerry Brownlee Member of the New Zealand Parliament

[idvoteforthatdaddy]

Gerry Brownlee Member of the New Zealand Parliament

[tloaak]

I hate having to root for Gerry Brownlee shutting down Winston Peters

[geekariffic]

Gerry Brownlee is getting a hiding in Ilam... Let's cross to him now

[jordanas-diary]

ok but is gerry brownlee going to lose ilam? 

[dogsliampaynedoesntinstagram]

I'm also watching the NZ results because you said that and I am LOVING it!!!

Happy to bring joy anon! So many fuckwits are losing their seats - it's amazing. For those who don't know much about NZ politics the following people are losing and are particularly vile: Nick Smith, Gerry Brownlee, Chris Bishop, Jonathan Young, the entire NZ first caucus (particularly Tracey Martin). I'm very happy to answer any questions people have - but generally it's all good news.

[bartinchristchurch]

Worst politician NZ has ever had. (Gerry Brownlee)

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/101713605/eqc-chairman-sir-maarten-wevers-resigns-independent-adviser-to

[sweetdreamspootypie]

Wtf wtf wtf

So not only are they anti social supports to help progress the country

They are anti even acknowledging systemic health issues exist in the context of NZs inequality issues

OK ok ok.

Sure.

What could possibly go wrong.