I'm not sure if you're aware, but there's a significant problem within our farming community that needs to be addressed, and that’s this whole belief that Labour is anti-farming. The reality is that the current Government loves farmers. From free trade agreements that open up new markets to keeping farming largely out of the ETS and making trades training in critical industries like farming free, Labour has in fact done more for farming than National could ever have dreamed of.
The incorrect belief that Labour opposes farming couldn’t have been more evident than when a few farmers decided to have a protest this week. And despite all their bravado, the reason for the protest was as confused as the rabble that attended, who couldn’t write a good protest sign to save themselves.
These signs are in fact the crux of the matter, so without further ado, here’s a sample of some of the more messed up messages that were on display:
This is not fantasy Island
We are at regulation saturation
David Parker hates farmers
Let farmers do what farmers do best - feeding our nation
You hug the mob and just leave us to growing food
What happened to being kind Jacinda?
Without farming you would be hungry, naked and sober
What does Jacinda & toilet paper have in common? They are both full of shit!
No! To the land grab!
No! To car tax No! To three waters No! To gangs
No farms No growers No food
Over ploughing through red tape
I am a proud NZ farmer NOT a Pakeha farmer “James Shaw”
Black Utes matter
Jacinda Kiwi’s do NOT want Communism
Fish + chips + Communism = your worst nightmare
You can buy my mongrel for $2.75 million
Minister Shaw will make us all poor
Farming is not an experiment
Aotearoa… the land of the long list of bullshit bureaucratic regulations
We want Democracy not Dictatorship!!
Cindy = Stalin
Taxinda is Uteless
Jacinda is a Communist bitch
Tanked economies ruin lives
Food for thought Less BS! More science
MAGA Make Ardern Go Away
Climate change happens every time it’s cold weather
Stop
racialrural discrimination!!Try milking a pine tree
Dump loony rules let us farm
No Utes No gas stoves No cows & sheep Just pine trees
Dirty coal = electric vehicles
Eat this Good intentions don’t excuse bad policy
We may be just some Pakeha farmers James Shaw, but guess what? You’re only an MP
We live in New Zealand not Aotearoa! Stop ramming Maori language down our throats.
Parker your tax up your arse!
No to Comy bitch
No farmer no food
We support Famers Labour Greens don’t
Don’t bite the hands that feed you
Us farmers love our land and love our animals. We are not rapists
Labour+Greens Policy Agenda = Systemic Genocide of NZ Famers
Judith Collins was even photographed posing next to that last sign in what could only be described as unspoken support for a claim that is clearly entirely incorrect! In fact most of those signs are well off the mark and make me wonder if there isn’t some sort of mass hysteria event going on?
The Government clearly isn’t trying to get rid of farms and no one is trying to ethnically cleanse farmers either. There’s also no comparison between the PM and Stalin nor any truth to the claim that Jacinda Ardern is a communist or a dictator.
Furthermore, the Government isn't ramming the Maori language down people’s throats. In fact my advice to anybody who doesn't like one of our official languages being used is to simply leave Aotearoa.
These racist right-wing farmers have clearly lost the plot, but none more so than this guy who took the time to paint a picture that depicts the Prime Minister raping a sheep.
But if all that wasn’t bad enough, the National Party also added to the cringe factor by running a hurt butt campaign as well.
On Friday, 1 News reported:
Farmers are 'getting it in the behind', Collins says of new National ad
"Farmers are actually really feeling like they're really getting it in the behind, they don't like it," Judith Collins said today as National released a new advertisement depicting arrows going into farmers' backsides.
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Collins said farmers were "united and the public are saying [that] too, they're with them".
Crusher is clearly living in la la land if she believes that a majority of the public thinks farmers are getting it in the behind from the Government. Even if there was some truth to the claim that farmers are being over-taxed or over-regulated (which there isn't), making light of anal rape is never a good thing, especially when we’re talking about an electioneering advert for the largest opposition party in Parliament.
No wonder farmers and tradies are fed up. Labour’s taxes & ignorance about rural communities are unfair. #Demandthedebate pic.twitter.com/XMN6BwM5Sc
— Judith Collins (@JudithCollinsMP) July 15, 2021
This type of politicking is sure to turn middle New Zealand off of Collins and her small cabal of reactionary idiots, many of whom are more interested in producing juvenile Twitter memes than developing any actual new policy initiatives that might help our farmers feed the world.
In fact this type of extremism on display doesn’t bode well for the right wing. Trying to attract voters by getting your supporters to waive objectionable placards around or simply opposing everything the Government is doing with outrageous and factually incorrect slogans is going to result in a hiding to nowhere for the National Party.
And as a show of force for the right-wing, the farmer protest was pretty piss poor really. So weak in fact that they had to steal images from overseas farmer protests to try and make Kiwis believe that they’ve got the numbers.
New Zealand Farmers protest New Zealand Jacinda Arderns government taxes and water policy's, like never before. pic.twitter.com/MBIEBTEzMh
— Maurice (@Sparkymannz) July 16, 2021
