Three waters: Westland Mayor Bruce Smith
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- Jul 28, 2021
- 1 min read
Michael Bassett recently wrote a column about the government's Three Waters proposal and latterly wanted this video linked to it. To avoid it being missed in the passage of time, it has been posted as a stand-alone item.
Michael Basset are are seriously quoting facts from Bruce Smith, then that really does cast doubt on any of your opinions..
Did you even bother to, as Bruce says Check your facts folks.. If you had you would find he completely misrepresented the facts.. Go and look at his councils own Q&A section on the 3 waters..
If the 3 waters plan is so flawed why does Smith need to lie about the numbers.. The example he uses to show that ratepayers costs for water will increase threefold.. is BS
He conveniently uses only the water rate charge.. $527. and leaves out the charges for Waste water ($410) and stormwater ($275) t in total $1,213 He then quotes the governments…
Bruce Smith made no mention as to whether or not the democratically-elected Government Opposition was fully consulted on this. He did however mention the most important major stakeholders in this business - New Zealand Ratepayers and laid out commercial, social, racial and historical reasons for extensve due diligence. In my view this is simply another tactic in the Labour Government's primary strategy of rushing through radical legislation to avoid proper democratic process, They are attempting to rush through Legislation that will bind all future both National and Labour Governments while they have an outright majority in Parliament. This is an exact replica of the strategy employed by PM Tony Blair following the 1997 UK General Election, and well learned b…
I have a feeling this was dreamt up to ‘water down’ (excuse the pun) their stated aim to control 100%. The rational for 100% is that it’s a ‘treasure’. Well nothing could be further from the truth - if you read the journals you’ll see water was abundant and if anything a scourge, how to keep dry and cross rivers etc. It’s only through the prism of today do we regard it as a treasure.
Anyway as a Kiwi living in Oz I am appalled at what’s going on in NZ these days
Here in Tararua, residents are being soft soaped by a Mayor and Council who present both sides of the arguments, but in my opinion favour 3 Rivers. Escalating costs to ratepayers are highlighted as a reason to NOT go it alone. It has been suggested that because of an increase in drought conditions and our districts reliance on river water and the costs involved in suppling farming and household needs, government is best placed to handle the logistics of that.
In Pahiatua last year after more than 20 years of promises, work was finally completed on a water system which they claimed would end muddy aqua and worms ending up in our kitchen sinks.
Up to this point the local…
I think the present government needs to take a history lesson, and very quickly, before the so called silent majority starts to bark. This is a road to disaster racially, politically, and economically. The words Cuba, Laos, and other one party countries, including dictatorships springs to mind. I would like to see Bruce Smith's video on national television, prime time, instead of the 3 waters propaganda spin-doctor advertisement🙊.