An Average Kiwi's Blog

Key is not a New Zealander any real Kiwi could ever be proud of.  He continually tells us we should let China buy whatever we have to sell, and he supports it 100%.

While Countries all over the World look at ways to stop China from buying them out, Key looks at ways to sell even more to them.  He lied to us continually before the election with hugely inflated surplus forecasts (which have already dropped to about a quarter of what he initially told us) and making reassuring comments like “New Zealanders dont want to be tenants in their own country.” leading many to believe he wouldn’t allow sales to China of our farms, etc.

John Key is a loose canon, it is now obvious he is merely a puppet of big business, and doesn’t care one bit about the growing poverty, youth unemployment, and other social issues in New Zealand.  Though some are waking up to con man Key’s lies, others follow him much like brainwashed fanatics followed other Dictators throughout history.

It is time people put the pressure on these brainwashed fanatics who support Dictator Key.  Shaming them if they talk about how great their smirking leader is.  Don’t let them get away with it, tell them strongly how you are ashamed of Hawaii Holidays Key, and of them.  No longer should we sit silent when we hear someone make a comment of how “he is doing a good job.”  Tell them how we the majority won’t stand by any more and let Key sell off our Country, and punish those who are poverty stricken.

Rise up against the morbidly obese mentally incompetemt right wing bloggers who continually sing the praises of con man Key, insist Media drop them from their papers, radio stations, TV stations, magazines – or you will stop subscribing to them, and approach their advertisers to do the same.

It’s time we the people, we the Real Kiwis rise up and say “NO” to Key and his incompetent Government.

I have to wonder with the recent sustained attack on the Christchurch City Council whether this is an attempt by our incompetent Government to take focus off its huge failures in Christchurch.

From my extensive discussions with people in Christchurch (note I say people, not National Party fanatics) the person they see as the biggest “clown” is Gerry Brownlee.  In fact, the term ‘waste of space’ seems to be the very common nickname for him.  Yet Gerry Brownlee has referred to Bob Parker as a “clown”, when arguably Bob is one of the heroes (at least in an administrative role) of the disaster, and Brownlee nothing but an oathe.

They also blame EQC and C.E.R.A (both central Governemnt controlled) as the two organisations at fault for the frustratingly slow and unprofessional ‘help’ that they are getting.  The council seems to take a distant third place after those two, yet the mainstream media (once again) seems to be doing everything it can to defend the Government, by way of ignoring its blatant failures, and is now working with the National Party to build the perception that it is all the council’s fault not much has happened in Christchurch.

It’s time people in this counytry woke up to how biased and unskilled NZ’s media are.  It’s also time the mainstream media did its part in searching for the truth, defending it, and placing the blame where it really lies – at the chubby feet of Brownleee, and on the toupee of John ‘Hawaii Holidays’ Key. 

The Maori Party appear to be deciding whether the ‘baubles of office’ are more attractive than keeping NZ’s strategic assets, so will the Maori People stand up to the smirking Key-man this Waitangi Day?

John ‘Hawaii Holidays’ Key will attend the Waitangi Day celebrations, no doubt surrounded by his tax payer funded henchmen.  The real question is will the Maori people present take this opportunity to put Key in his place regarding asset sales, once and for all – with no doubt left in the dweeb’s mind how they feel?

With estimates that up to 80% of Kiwis do NOT want Key selling our strategic assets to his foreign investor friends in China, Australia and the USA, will Maori be the only ones brave enough to tell him in no uncertain terms – “Don’t do it Johnny boy, forget asset sales 100% or protests like never seen before in NZ history will take place, and we will throw you and your incompetent Ministers out on your asses before you know what hit you.”

Don’t go to Mercury Energy unless you want terrible and horrendously slow customer service, rip off  ’savings schemes’, and questionable energy pricing.  If you are with Mercury Energy – LEAVE THEM NOW – before you have to experience a problem with them, and find they arn’t really bothered about you.

Now to make such sweeping statements one needs some evidence of course, and preferably from more than just one incident.  So how about at least six?

1)  More often than not when you phone their call centre you have to wait anywhere from ten to twenty minutes for a customer service agent to answer.  If that’s not bad enough, on at least three occasions they have answered then said “Can you just hold a moment please” – only to put me back into the holding system for another ten minutes or so, then you have to explain what you want to do all over again to someone else!

2) When you get talked into changing to them, they promise huge savings on their electricity plans – but in reality (from what we experienced) there was not much difference between them and the very expensive supplier we were with!

3) Getting return contact from them by email takes about twice as long as what it would take by standard post!  I once emailed them complaining about the well over twenty minutes I had to wait on hold, only to be placed on hold again at their call centre – then, incredibly, I waited a week for them to reply to say they are sorry I had to wait so long!

4) Their Movie Club (that to be fair only costs about a dollar a month to belong to) is a joke.  They claim you will get cheaper tickets, free popcorn with every ticket, etc.  We tried to use it twice only to be told that “No, there are no specials with that card – oh I think maybe on Tuesdays you get cheaper kids tickets”.  Two occasions!  I contacted Mercury, then after a few days (naturally) they replied to say they were sorry about that – and that was it!  So – no ‘we will do something to make up for it’ or ‘we will investigate this and get back to you’ – just ‘sorry’.  In other words the Movie Club card appears to be little more than a scam to get a few thousand dollars extra for the company each month!  (As a side note: they now have a ‘Perks’ card as well.  I have only tried to use it at one location to be fair, but when I did the staff member told me she had never heard of it!).

5) A few months back I was phoned by one of their ‘agents’ to ask if I was going to sign up to their ‘fixed price plan for (I think two years?).  The catch being, as soon as you signed it your electricity charges actually went UP!  I said ‘No, we are not interested but thanks’.  He then just kept going, and going, and going – telling me how good it was, everyone was signing up with it, I would be silly not to sign up, etc.  Again I told him no.  A few days latter he phones again, again asking me to sign up with it – again even after I said NO, he kept going, and going, and going….. until I virtually had to hang up on the guy!  In other words, it is pretty obvious Mercury Sales people are on commissions, and so will tell you almost whatever they have to – to get you to sign up with them.

6) We finally had enough of Mercury – solely because of their terrible customer service.  So – we switched to Genesis (who it turns out are quite a lot cheaper than Mercury Energy!).  I waited for a final account from Mercury… and waited…. and waited.  Then finally, after we had already received our first bill from Genesis (a fair bit lower than what our Mercury ones had been), I get a letter from Mercury stating “Should payment not be received within seven days of the date of this letter, your account will be referred to a Debt Collection Agency…”.  Great – so I didn’t receive a final invoice (now that may just be a postal problem or whatever….) but also no reminder letter, or phone call or even an email – just a threatening letter?  To make things worse the letter was received six days supposedly after it was written, with now the weekend and Auckland Anniversary making any payment possible two days after the final due date!  So – I call them Tuesday morning, after ten minuets on hold I get through to someone, I tell him I want to pay my final account – he says “Just one moment please” – I then find I am back on hold, again, for another six minutes.  Another ‘agent’ answers, I explain it all again, I was then sure she was about to say ‘one moment please’ when I told her I wasn’t impressed as I had already been on hold twice!  She then decided (wisely I thought) to take my payment.  Goodbye Mercury!

So – again, DON’T SIGN UP WITH MERCURY ENERGY, you must be insane or a Foreign Investor if you do!

As predicted by Average Kiwi, John Key lied to us all before the election with his comment “New Zealanders don’t want to be tenants in their own country.”  giving the impression he wouldn’t let the Crafar Farms be sold overseas.

Of course John ‘Hawaii Holidays’ Key is now saying the opposite, that he doesn’t have a problem with Overseas Investors buying our land.  But then what else would you expect from someone who doesn’t even value New Zealand enough to spend his holidays here.  He is a sell out, a traitor, a non-Kiwi.  A real Kiwi has a love for New Zealand, and values our land, our assets and our people.  Key appears to value none of these.

So it’s been confirmed, a Chinese Government backed investment group had bought the Crafar Farms, a large group of dairy farms in the North Island.  The good reputation of New Zealand Milk products may disappear within the next few years as possibly sub-standard farming and food hygiene practices kick in.  The Farmers, many of whom are currently National Fanatics, will turn against the National Party.  The name “Key” will become a curse word in future years, and those who supported him and his treasonous Party will be mocked and hated for generations to come.

It is the duty of all real Kiwis to now act and stop Key and his rich mates selling off the rest of our Country.