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Post by kj on Oct 26, 2017 10:41:20 GMT
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Oct 26, 2017 10:53:25 GMT
Altogether:
RAAAAACIIIIIIST!
XENOPHOOOOOOOOOOOBIC!!
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Post by cato on Oct 26, 2017 11:09:33 GMT
The new Prime minister does seem a bit of a lefty fire brand blaming homelessness purely on capitalism.
In Ireland over 40% of the cost of a home goes to the government in tax costs ie the ever expanding state. State regulations and bureaucracy delay construction zoning etc by months. I wonder does New Zealand have a similar housing disaster to ours?
I do believe letting the market solely provide housing has been a colossal failure here and we should have a mass state funded building programme as we had in the 1930s and in the 1970s. As the state is broke perhaps Irish pension funds, savers and investors could be given a stake in the value of new building in return for their cash.
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Post by Séamus on Oct 26, 2017 12:14:06 GMT
From what I've been told, it would sound like a typical policy of the New Zealand First party which has sided with Labour in coalition.
They certainly won't agree on everything. While not giving a definitive opinion, NZF leader and founder, Winston Peters, was against NZ's same sex marriage law for the one reason that the New Zealanders themselves should have had a vote while Ardern has renounced her Mormon upbringing because of it's opposition to homosexuality. She also wants to drop all legal restrictions to abortion(although, already, it's probably on the criminal code in NAME only... One lady told me that as far as she knew two doctors referrals were OFFICIALLY required). Labor had already promised a building spree for the homeless. But taking her socialist past into account perhaps they'll avoid that business-fuelled property bubble-burst that Ireland had to go through?
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Post by Séamus on Oct 26, 2017 12:21:22 GMT
The ... we should have a mass state funded building programme as we had in the 1930s and in the 1970s. As the state is broke perhaps Irish pension funds, savers and investors could be given a stake in the value of new building in return for their cash. I think my mother's family should always be grateful for bring given a house from the Irish Government after the North Strand bombing. From what I've read it was a housing scheme that the State had already started on. They seem to have been given ownership, although even my mother probably knew little of terms and conditions. Her father was definitely owner of the home at his death. |
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Post by cato on Oct 26, 2017 22:21:58 GMT
The ... we should have a mass state funded building programme as we had in the 1930s and in the 1970s. As the state is broke perhaps Irish pension funds, savers and investors could be given a stake in the value of new building in return for their cash. I think my mother's family should always be grateful for bring given a house from the Irish Government after the North Strand bombing. From what I've read it was a housing scheme that the State had already started on. They seem to have been given ownership, although even my mother probably knew little of terms and conditions. Her father was definitely owner of the home at his death. In the 1980s the Irish government (and the UK) sold huge amounts of council houses to the tenants at discounted rates . This was immensely popular and created a large property owning working class block. The unfortunate thing in both countries was that the money raised wasn't invested in new stock. Government stopped building houses and left social housing to the free market. The North Strand bombings were carried out by the Luftwaffe and the West Germans later paid damages to Ireland for the destruction caused.So perhaps it was Reichmarshal Hermann Goering sucessors who indirectly housed your mother's family. |
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Post by Séamus on Jun 24, 2018 7:29:44 GMT
PM Jacinda has named her first baby Niamh, but will spell it NEVE. It's hard to see this as just a coincidence and not a nod to a "new Ireland". The anglicized spelling is probably just a practicality, but, coming from someone who left Mormonism because of the church's moral standings, the symbolism of "we like Ireland 'done' our way" if unintentional is hard to ignore.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Jun 24, 2018 8:00:44 GMT
PM Jacinda has named her first baby Niamh, but will spell it NEVE. It's hard to see this as just a coincidence and not a nod to a "new Ireland". The anglicized spelling is probably just a practicality, but, coming from someone who left Mormonism because of the church's moral standings, the symbolism of "we like Ireland 'done' our way" if unintentional is hard to ignore. I'd never even heard of this lady. She sounds awful. I think "Neve" is becoming the standard spelling at this stage. |
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Post by Séamus on Jun 24, 2018 8:14:35 GMT
PM Jacinda has named her first baby Niamh, but will spell it NEVE. It's hard to see this as just a coincidence and not a nod to a "new Ireland". The anglicized spelling is probably just a practicality, but, coming from someone who left Mormonism because of the church's moral standings, the symbolism of "we like Ireland 'done' our way" if unintentional is hard to ignore. I'd never even heard of this lady. She sounds awful. I think "Neve" is becoming the standard spelling at this stage. Apparently only the second prime minister in history to give birth during office, after Pakistan's Mrs Bhutto. Interestingly, A New Zealand lady told me, that their acting pm and junior coalition party leader, Mr. Peters, part-Maori, is generally on the pro-life side, whatever difference that will make for the span of a maternity leave. |
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Jun 24, 2018 8:17:11 GMT
I always think of New Zealand as the Canada of Oceania.
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Post by Séamus on Jun 24, 2018 9:11:51 GMT
I always think of New Zealand as the Canada of Oceania. From the life of Clare-born Redemptorist Patrick Joseph Clune 1864-1933, "in both Rotorua and Tauranga he found the Maori Catholics to be the most receptive to his message, the Irish the most resistant." And interesting claim:"the church (Clune built in NZ) was the first in the world to be dedicated to St Gerard Majella"... Interesting trivia about the day of the church's consecration "invited guests sat down under a marquee for a gala lunch of roast turkey, duckling, lamb, beef, ox tongue, salads, trifles, jellies and meringues" (cf, biography by Chris Dowd op) |
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