You could safely bet that the people screaming and making death threats against councillors are the same people who furiously opposed Three Waters. They're stuck with the bad solution they loudly demanded. www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/571...
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Insert the meme of that sweaty guy looking at two buttons where one says "pay lower rates" and the other says "do a racism"
sep 1, 2025, 8:30 am • 4 0 • view
sep 1, 2025, 9:00 am • 26 2 • view
But also please give ME a bigger slice of the rates pie to fix my problems (disclaimer obviously I don't know for sure how these people voted) www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/571...
sep 1, 2025, 9:04 am • 6 0 • view
That's a fairly large generalisation, for sure there would be some. However I bet a lot more feel like they didn't have proper representation regardless, national issues being properly communicated at a rural level is very tricky because the numbers always seem to have rural people losing
sep 1, 2025, 5:02 am • 0 0 • view
There is absolutely no local benefit to LWDW other than if you live in an area that has cut back local Govt to the bone already and doesn't have water infrastructure issues, then you can 'take the win' at the expense of your neighbours.
sep 1, 2025, 5:41 am • 1 0 • view
It's highly debatable if this is 'fair' as a lot of the people who paid their way for those councils to avoid pipes issues are dead or have moved since.
sep 1, 2025, 5:42 am • 0 0 • view
I do think councils like Grey District and Gore have been put in a poor position by central government – they're expected to do a lot off a limited rates base. But LWDW made that *so* much worse. Under 3W, they would not have been orphaned like this.
sep 1, 2025, 7:52 am • 4 0 • view
Also worth noting that while 3W 'took' their water assets where well managed, it also promised a desperately needed capital infusion, including a fair one for those with well managed assets, in return. The only thing achieved here was to lessen reasonable iwi influence over water governance.
sep 1, 2025, 7:58 am • 0 0 • view
Even councils in a good financial position at are doing so by abandoning things many residents consider core services. Kāpiti crows about their water fees solving infrastructure issues, but they don't collect rubbish at all, for instance. 🙄
sep 1, 2025, 8:00 am • 1 0 • view
The stupidity is astounding. But the relentless path to privatisation is almost unstoppable now. Nanaia and Grant specifically wanted Co-governance to prevent privatisation.
sep 1, 2025, 8:39 pm • 2 0 • view
It was shocking how that idea became twisted by the right into anti Maori fervour
sep 1, 2025, 7:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Definitely not the sharpest tools in the shed that lot
sep 1, 2025, 5:20 am • 2 0 • view
How come RW lies are so effective? 🤯
sep 2, 2025, 11:15 am • 0 0 • view
....and we all know that's what would happen
sep 1, 2025, 8:12 am • 1 0 • view
It's also the central government's spin rebounding on their allies in local government, as it should, and sadly also onto those of us who wanted a cheaper option, too. Local Water Done Well 🙄is not about 'savings,' it is about moving a larger bill than 3W and putting it all on local Govt. 🙄
sep 1, 2025, 5:38 am • 11 1 • view
Oh geez. Stupidity killed the cat etc
sep 1, 2025, 5:51 am • 1 0 • view