Breaking;‼️ Milaan ziet er nu uit als een oorlogsgebied.

Een coalitie van extreemlinkse activisten en bendes van moslimmigranten is momenteel aan het rellen en vernielt de stad omdat Italië weigert een Palestijnse staat te erkennen.

Totale chaos. pic.twitter.com/6RPfUqZJgZ

— Stephan (1) (@springfield1952) October 14, 2026

“Milan now looks like a war zone.

“A coalition of far-left activists and gangs of Muslim immigrants is currently rioting and destroying the city because Italy refuses to recognize a Palestinian state.

“Total chaos.”

By John Crump. The layout of the dunes and waterways shown indicates this is quite a long time ago, probably a century or more.

from Simeon Brown, MP (National)

Unbelievable. The Green Party and Te Pāti Māori have been seen campaigning at Mongrel Mob leader Harry Tam’s gang pad.

This tells you everything you need to know about what a Labour-Greens-Te Pāti Māori-TOP Government will do on law and order.

They will get rid of National’s gang patch ban. Gone.

They will once again give taxpayers’ dollars to the Mongrel Mob like Labour did last time they were in government.

And they will actively work to weaken the law and order changes National has put in place.

Even Jacinda Ardern had to admit the focus in the Police portfolio “has been lost” when Labour was caught out handing your money to the Mob.

Chris Hipkins and his mates clearly haven’t learnt their lesson. And they’re ready to put Kiwis’ safety at risk all over again.

National is proud of our track record on law and order.

There are 37,000 fewer victims of violent crime.

In Auckland alone, ram raids are down 96% since 2022.

Yes, 96%.

Police are back on the beat, and Kiwis are feeling safer.

This will all be undone under a Labour-Greens-Te Pāti Māori-TOP Government.

Party Vote National to stop Harry Tam and the Mongrel Mob from dictating New Zealand’s law and order policy.

There was no need for Greens/TPM to do this: the Mob’s votes were theirs already; all it did is demonstrate what crime will be like again under the Leftists. —Eds

As global political tragics, we talk to people who work on political campaigns around the world. They often say ‘across the democratic world, the names are different, but the themes are the same.’

One theme is this. ‘Anyone who can read a balance sheet knows [insert country here]’s Government is going broke, but nobody can win an election doing anything about it.’

It’s always easier, they say, to get votes by kicking the can down the road. Who’d vote for the people whose rhetoric imports pain from the future?

That is the pollster’s view, but here is the patriot’s view: We love this country and we don’t want to see it suffer far worse pain because we let the fiscal catastrophe happen to us.

We’ve studied its history, as well as the history of other countries. We’ve learned any country that fails to define its future gets that future defined for it by outside forces.

New Zealand Treasury Bonds are trading at over five per cent right now. Besides a brief peak in October 2023, that is the highest in over a decade. Rising interest rates could tip New Zealand into a debt spiral and force sudden changes including pension reform.

[Yesterday] morning Chris Hipkins gave us a perfect example of political cowardice sending a democracy broke. He said we don’t need to look at superannuation. The government just has to make “the right choices.”

Of course, he didn’t say what those choices are, but it’s worth running through them.

NZ Super costs $24.7 billion this year. That’s already more than the government spends on all of education ($21.2 billion), and about three-quarters of what it spends on health.

On Treasury’s numbers, superannuation goes up by $1.6 billion a year. That’s more than the $1.37 billion this year’s Budget found to cover every cost pressure in the health system. It would pay about 17,000 nurses or teachers.

If he doesn’t think we need to look at that, here are the choices:

Cut. Hospitals, schools and police compete for whatever’s left after super takes its increase first, every year.

Tax. The annual cost increases for super are $1.6 billion. Labour’s new capital gains tax raises $700 million at best. So new taxes? Working Kiwis pay more so the age never moves.

Spending freeze. Labour wouldn’t do this. But they could cancel the $2.4 billion per year allowance for new spending. Almost nothing new for health, education or law and order, because it’s almost all sucked up by rising Super costs.

Borrow. Put it on the credit card and send the bill to the next generation. Labour has done this before — now taxpayers are paying $10 billion a year in interest on their debt.

There is another choice. ACT would lift the age by three months a year, from 65 today to 67 by 2035. Besides the gradual, planned rise, there would be three conditions:

1. Compassionate access for people who worked more than 20 years in a physical job.
2. Keep KiwiSaver access at 65 so people can still access that regardless of the Super age.
3. Take tax off KiwiSaver earnings so that, thanks to the miracle of compound interest, people have more to retire on, and keep getting greater gains in retirement.

By the time the age reaches 67, we will be saving $4.3 billion a year. That is real money that won’t become debt for those currently too young to vote. There is another moral dimension to this:

The age has been stuck at 65 for 25 years. In that time, the age people actually stop working has grown 2.5 years, and life expectancy has grown by three years. Moving to 67 by 2035 will still leave people retired and on Super longer than people could have expected 25 years ago.

Perhaps our foreign friends are right. Perhaps no voter will thank a politician for saying the emperor has no clothes, and will instead vote for those promising to kick the can down the road.

Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps. But perhaps New Zealand really is an exception. Perhaps the exception is having a political party with the sheer courage to say the emperor has no clothes and take a stand.

New Zealand can choose to balance the books with no new taxes, but it requires courage to make hard choices now instead of kicking the can down the road to feather a politicians’ own nest while the country goes broke.

If you believe New Zealand needs honesty, courage and leadership on responsible spending, we ask you to stand with the only Party standing for it right now, the Association of Consumers and Taxpayers.

Basically this is the ‘Hurty Words Police’: For Stuff’s Sake, are they there to solve/prevent any real crimes?

We’ve had an amazing week with the Prime Minister, Nicola Willis, Mark Mitchell and Louise Upston all coming to town to support our local Kapiti Campaign. And on Sunday we had over 100 people out in support. I’m lucky to have such a strong and energised team who believe in me and in National, and it’s not too late if you want to join us this weekend. Just let me know and I’ll share the details.

Did you see the latest school results?

Today’s incredible PAT results show Kiwi kids are making significant progress in maths, with four months of additional learning progress in the last two years, alongside the first improvement in reading comprehension since 2017.

Across multiple independent assessments, we’re seeing improvements in reading, writing and maths achievement. After years of declining results, the tide is turning.

This isn’t happening by accident. National has a six-point plan to lift achievement, and we’re delivering it, including an hour a day of reading, writing and maths, a clearer curriculum, better teaching resources and extra support for children falling behind.

Despite this progress, Chris Hipkins wants to scrap the hour-a-day requirement. He’s out of touch with parents who support keeping it. We cannot afford to go backwards.; we need to stick with the team and that plan that is working.

What’s at stake for Kapiti this year

You might have seen this post about what we’ve done in the last three years, and what we’ll do next. If you haven’t, check it out!

We need to maintain the same responsible approach to living within our means and getting debt, inflation, and interest rates down. We are doing that and the plan is working. $50 billion in savings, $15 billion less debt than treasury expected at the budget, 220,000 extra new jobs forecast by 2030, and inflation below 2% next year. I know it’s been tough but these are all great signs. We need to keep this progress going.

By making smart choices, we are still delivering for Kapiti:

• Ō2NL expressway to Levin is under construction, on time and on budget.
• New electric trains are being built and will arrive at the end of 2028 and they will stop at Ōtaki, Levin and Palmerston North 7 days a week.
• A new cancer clinic is coming for Kapiti so patients can get faster care, closer to home. The BreastScreen clinic is open, there are 66 newly funded medications, and expanded access for breast- and bowel-cancer screening. We’re promising an extra $604 million for Pharmac to fund more medications, and free cervical screening.
• We are capping council rates to keep costs down – don’t vote for the people who put rates up by 52% in six years!
• Six new classrooms and six schools getting solar on the roof. Every primary school has (or will soon get) a new Learning Support Coordinator to help students who need a bit of extra support, and every single school gets a big funding boost for their property, so more of their operational budget goes directly to the classroom.
• And I continue to serve local families and help them when they need it most.

On top of this, you can read all our policies here (I’m particularly proud of my Firefighter Policy!!), and highlights include:

• Kiwisaver changes to give you more financial security in retirement,
• Support for locally-owned businesses
• Modernising Paid Parental Leave to give parents more support
• Home Energy Fund to make solar, batteries and heat pumps more affordable
• Growing our economy through expanded trade and investment
• Law and order improvements to keep our communities safer
• The next phase of our education policy like screens out of ECE and NCEA being replaced
• Supporting our Firefighters, and
• No new taxes.

Election Debates

There are still plenty of chances left to come and hear from me. The debates listed before are one, and the remaining street corner meetings over the next two weeks are another. Details:

I’m working hard to earn your support this year, and I’d love you to vote for me, and for National, at this year’s election.

by Geoffrey Churchman

Those who could be bothered watching the National/Labour leaders’ debate on TV3 last night were treated to the usual “I can do it better than you/no you can’t”… “you Stuffed it up in power/no, you have” to and fro, and the demonstration by both that there isn’t a whole lot of difference between them: neither willing to admit the hard facts that the country is over dominated by Wokeism and a bloated public service and that government causes most price rises and (disguised) unemployment.

It’s no wonder that people are seriously considering giving their party votes to ACT/NZ First — or the protest vote parties (TOP/Greens).

The worst moment occured when Ryan Bridge mentioned NZ government support for the gangster regime in Ukraine, which regular WW readers know is by far the worst in Europe and one of the worst in the world. The Zelensky regime openly praises Nazis past and present, massively abuses human rights, runs a hub for drug, sex and armaments trafficking, is a criminal money laundering operation — and is backed by equally corrupt and dishonest Globalist governments and NGOs (like BlackRock) that want to plunder both Ukraine and Russia. Chris and Chris showed they are both willfully ignorant of all this. Sigh.

We’ve commented before about the Wokeist obsession with replacing English words with Maori ones — only.

In this case the universial use of red for stop and green for go saves it from being a safety risk, but as elesewhere, the Wokeists responsible for this need to diminish their zealotry.

The Marché des Enfants Rouges, the oldest covered food market in Paris, was destroyed by a fire on Monday, 12 October. It required around 150 firefighters to contain the blaze, with no serious injuries reported.

Fire official Lt. Col. Pierre de Bouvier said the fire had consumed around 1,000 square metres of the market when the department arrived. He said, “Nothing remains,” as the market’s stalls and part of its metal structure were destroyed. Firefighters allowed the fire to burn in the centre of the market to protect nearby buildings.

City officials plan to find temporary locations for affected vendors as investigators determine the fire’s cause.