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so... is this an example of racist scaremongering,or a reason to panic?
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12th July 2015, 00:55 | #43 | |
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YELLOW PERIL MOTHERFUKKAS!
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12th July 2015, 10:51 | #44 |
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Incoming own goal from the constant cluster fuck of the Labour Party.
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It's too bad there's no one in a position, no kind of organisation of authoritative resourced individuals who could find out explicitly the drivers of Auckland's home prices are.
What we even call such an organisation?
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13th July 2015, 12:59 | #46 |
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Why do you hate Hard-Working Kiwis so much Lightspeed?
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13th July 2015, 13:26 | #47 |
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Bit of a lol http://howkiwiareyou.nz/
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Recently uncovered Labour Mouthpiece Anne Gibson isn't giving up
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Aside from the yellow peril angle, we shouldn't overlook the fact that Labour has used stolen commercial data to back up their assertion that people with chinky sounding names are out buying their Anglo sounding counterparts (who have a birthright to local property). Barfoot & Thompson reckons the data looks a lot like theirs and they're not happy. They reckon it's been taken illegally.
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13th July 2015, 19:41 | #53 |
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They're trying to play National's game. Which really only works when you're at the top. Unlike National, Labour can't threaten anyone's position.
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13th July 2015, 19:49 | #54 |
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I look forward to Labour's hard-hitting inferences based on crime stats and the Maori percentage of the population.
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Even Reuters doesn't think NZ has a problem with Chinese property investment:
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I think National are more at risk with this issue than they'd like to believe. Racism claims aren't really holding water.
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14th July 2015, 14:25 | #58 |
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Nonsense. There is no substance to the claims and anyone who isn't rabid National isn't picking up National's lazy narrative.
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One guy having a whine doesn't really account for much. But hey, I can't deny that you've actually produced something to back your point of view for once, kudos. Labour might have flimsy data, but it's real data and the best we have. It's lazy and convenient to write off Labour's claims simply as racism. There are real world events occurring that could explain why what Labour claims might be true. Will we see those in the position to fund more serious research do so? Time will tell, but I don't think so.
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National doesn't have a narrative, that's the best bit. It doesn't have to. All it has to do is what it always does in situations like this - shut up and let Labour keep digging.
YES there's a bubble in the Auckland property market. It's caused by a shortage of houses because Auckland's zoning regulations and NIMBY residents won't allow the city to expand upwards or outwards. So the only people who can afford to buy property in Auckland are people who got rich elsewhere or existing homeowners who bought houses when they were cheap and who have leveraged that into multi-property portfolios. Right now* there's a lot of Chinese money entering favourable real-estate markets all around the Pacific Rim because China has a fuckload of rich people who want to cover their arses in case of government intervention in the Chinese economy. These people (generalising here, etc) tend to gravitate towards business-friendly governments, because working hard and succeeding in business is good, and they fucking hate communism with a passion because China, so they won't go near any political party or movement or person that has ever been in the same room as communism, ever. Strangely enough 21st-century National does not have a large problem with people who hold such beliefs. Mid-20th-century National would have lost its fucking mind at all this, but that was a different party. Prediction: National will sit back and let "totally not racist" Labour haemorrhage on this for a while then introduce a new business-friendly Auckland housing policy of some sort - say non-resident/non-citizen buyers can only build new properties, not purchase existing ones, and there won't be any sort of "racial profiling"** built into it, and the Auckland city council will fold in the face of overwhelming pressure and free up land on the fringes, and the construction industry will boom and all that money will flow into the local economy, and there'll be more houses and National saves the day, yaaaaaaaaay. The usual for Key's National in other words. Let Labour flounder around trying to find something to campaign on, let Labour fuck it all up completely, then identify the bits that could actually work to National's advantage, polish them up, and announce those as National policies. * when the average Auckland house price increased from 300K to 600K under Labour between 2001 and 2007 that wasn't a problem, but now it's 755K? Holy shit, must be the fucking Chinese! ** the fact that Labour has allowed these words to be published anywhere near each other is evidence once more of its total incompetence at communicating. |
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14th July 2015, 15:50 | #65 |
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Well that's the problem with no reliable data. It's anecdotal but there really doesn't seem to be many people that don't agree with the gist of Labours conclusion ie, that Chinese foreign investors are a significant driver of the Auckland housing market.
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The irony is that Labour's FTA with China has allowed this to happen (if you believe Labour's racist narrative) and may well make it difficult to prevent the yellow peril from buying all our houses.
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National are the ones in the best position to confirm this. They're (and you) are telling us Labour is being racist. Do they have facts to back this? If they have done this research that allows them to be so sure, where is it?
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It ain't expensive. Coupla grand would get you good data.
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It couldn't possibly be that lovely Len Brown!
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Soaring demand in Auckland for housing drives prices into the stratosphere so that only those that are rich can afford them. A significant amount of those people have foreign sounding names.
In other news, water is wet when in it's liquid form.
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