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Govt Banking Should Be Done With Kiwibank

Tuesday, 3 January 2023, 7:43 pm | Social Credit Party

Social Credit is calling on the government to change all its banking business to the now fully owned Kiwibank. It took full ownership of the Bank in August yet almost all its banking business is done with Westpac or ANZ. Westpac handles all deposits ... More >>

Govt Should Pay For Marlborough Road Rebuilds

Thursday, 15 September 2022, 5:37 pm | Social Credit Party

Social Credit is calling on the government to come up with the money to fix the Marlborough roads seriously damaged by the recent devastating floods.Grant Robertson's claim today that his government’s good financial management is responsible for ... More >>

Government Funds For Disaster Relief A Disgrace

Thursday, 25 August 2022, 5:24 pm | Social Credit Party

The government needs to get serious with the financial support it provides for those areas of the country hit hard by the storms of the last week. The support it provided for those affected by the floods in Ashburton was abysmal, especially when compared ... More >>

Huiarua & Matanui Farms Sale Border On Treason

Saturday, 16 July 2022, 6:23 pm | Social Credit Party

The government’s failure to stop the sale of Huiarua and Matanui stations on New Zealand’s East Coast to foreign buyers borders on treason according to Social Credit Party leader, Chris Leitch. More than 6000 hectares, including a significant area ... More >>

Hospital Crisis Demands Mandates On Health Care Professionals Be Dropped

Monday, 27 June 2022, 6:57 pm | Social Credit Party

In the face of the greatest health crisis the country has ever faced more than 3000 health care professionals are sitting at home twiddling their thumbs. Hospitals are paying GPs ridiculous amounts to moonlight for emergency departments to cope with ... More >>

Refinery Petition Handling Labelled Corruption Of Democratic Process

Sunday, 12 June 2022, 6:14 pm | Social Credit Party

The 18,300 signature petition calling for the Marsden Point oil refinery to remain operational has been buried by Parliament’s Petitions Committee. The committee has dragged its heels on addressing the petition in what could be construed as ongoing ... More >>

Fire Rescue Mandates Should Be Scrapped

Sunday, 15 May 2022, 5:27 pm | Social Credit Party

Fire service commanders should immediately scrap the mandates for fire service personnel, before more are sent off the job. Keeping those mandates in place poses more risk to the public from having insufficient resources to attend fires and motor vehicle ... More >>

Controversial Westland Milk Decision In Court Of Appeal This Week

Sunday, 24 October 2021, 5:09 pm | Social Credit Party

The Government’s involvement in the controversial decision to approve the sale of Westland Milk Products to Hong Kong Jingang, a company wholly owned by Chinese conglomerate Inner Mongolian Yili, will be under the spotlight in the Court of Appeal ... More >>

Call For Doctors To Be Barred From Practicing Is Insanity

Saturday, 11 September 2021, 4:26 pm | Social Credit Party

The call by New Zealand Medical Association chair Alistair Humphrey for medical professionals who have not been vaccinated to be barred from practicing smacks of the Dark Ages thinking that called for witches to be burnt at the stake. At a time ... More >>

Call For Banks To Drop Interest Rates

Friday, 20 August 2021, 3:26 pm | Social Credit Party

The move by banks to pre-empt a rise in the OCR and increase interest rates is just cynical profit gouging, preying on customers who have borrowed at the record low interest rates the banks have been offering. The banks should immediately bring them ... More >>

Scrap Cycling Bridge Proposal

Sunday, 27 June 2021, 5:04 pm | Social Credit Party

The government should scrap plans to build a $750 million walking and cycling bridge across the Waitemata Harbour and instead commission a continuous electric ferry service to transport pedestrians and cyclists across it instead. Apart from the cost, which ... More >>

Money For War But Not For Nurses

Wednesday, 9 June 2021, 5:53 am | Social Credit Party

If America declared war on China and called on New Zealand to assist, the government would immediately find the money necessary to provide the guns, bullets and other equipment our armed forces required. If we were at war, there would be no limit to ... More >>

Highway Decision A Kick In The Guts For Northland

Saturday, 5 June 2021, 1:08 pm | Social Credit Party

Lame excuses for cutting the Whangarei to Marsden Point Highway off the government's infrastructure agenda is a clear example of the Labour government's disinterest in one of New Zealand's most depressed regions. It's another kick in the guts for Northland ... More >>

Suggestions That ANZ Action Is In Best Interests Of Customers Is Laughable

Wednesday, 16 December 2020, 6:30 am | Social Credit Party

Suggestions by former ANZ Economist Cameron Bagrie that his former employer’s move to implement 40% Loan to Value restrictions shows it is thinking of the best interests of customers would be laughable if it wasn't so tragic. The last thing ... More >>

Treasury & Reserve Bank Suggest Social Credit Solution

Thursday, 26 November 2020, 6:09 am | Social Credit Party

We challenge the government to take up the Monetary Financing option presented to it in an aide-memoire, titled “Quantitative Easing and Monetary Financing Compared”, back in May. The report, jointly written by Treasury and the Reserve Bank, was presented ... More >>

Robertson Not In The Cheerleading Squad

Wednesday, 18 November 2020, 8:14 am | Social Credit Party

Hardly any of them will admit it (apart from Richard Prebble, David Seymour and the Taxpayers Union, who claim we already have a Social Credit economy, but who are wrong) but a growing majority of the notable people in New Zealand's economic sphere More >>

Labour Signs Another Lame Duck Agreement

Monday, 16 November 2020, 8:41 am | Social Credit Party

Just as it did after the 2017 general election Labour has signed another lame duck agreement following years of behind closed doors negotiation. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is a lame duck agreement for several important reasons. ... More >>

ACT Should Invite Billy Te Kahika To Join

Friday, 6 November 2020, 5:34 am | Social Credit Party

ACT Leader David Seymour is taking up the mantle of conspiracy theorist Billy Te Kahika with his latest pronouncement that “Labour’s latest plan to expand the role of the government in the economy is communism by stealth”. The two are clearly ... More >>

Ban Junk Food Advertising On Television

Monday, 12 October 2020, 8:08 am | Social Credit Party

Big spending announcements by the major parties have ignored the real problems the country needs to front up to, Social Credit Party Leader, Chris Leitch says. One of the biggest heading our way is the freight train of obesity.  Successive ... More >>

Four Year Term Self-Serving Power Grab By National & Labour

Thursday, 1 October 2020, 5:40 am | Social Credit Party

Suggestions by the two J’s on the Leader’s Debate that they both favour a four year parliamentary term are simply a self serving attempt to further entrench the two party dominance of New Zealand’s political scene. This is a classic example ... More >>

 

 
 
 
 
 

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