David Parker

Transtasman has the following to say about Labour:

The Labour caucus must be a peaceful place to be these days for those who don’t seem to be doing much. A handful of MPs are showing some spirit, among them Jacinda Ardern, Sue Moroney, David Cunliffe, David Parker, Chris Hipkins, Phil Goff and Clare Curran. There’s hardly a peep from Nanaia Mahuta since she was given the education portfolio in a peace-making move after the leadership contest, Shane Jones is an invisible man, Parekura Horomia has lapsed into silence, Phil Twyford wakes up sometimes, Maryan Street is taking her health portfolio seriously but isn’t making much of an impact, not much would be heard from Andrew Little if Judith Collins wasn’t suing him for defamation and Rajen Prasad maintains a profile which isn’t on the radar. Deputy leader Grant Robertson, a very sharp operator, has to leave most of what he would like to say to David Shearer. When Robertson is front man because Shearer isn’t around he’s way better at putting Labour’s case and it’s being noticed. Shearer is at the dangerous point where, if he doesn’t start to shape up, rumours are going to start he’s going to ship out.

Yikes!

ᔥ Washington Post and ᔥ Andrew Sullivan

David Parker, David Shearer and Clare Curran have all made disparaging comments about Mexico, so it was with some mirth that I saw this chart on Andrew Sullivan and the associated news that as the US economy tanks Mexicans are going home to better prospects in Mexico.

No wonder the Mexican Ambassador was so upset with Labour’s comments.

A four-decade tidal wave of Mexican immigration to the United States has receded, causing a historic shift in migration patterns as more Mexicans appear to be leaving the United States for Mexico than the other way around, according to a report from the Pew Hispanic Center.

It looks to be the first reversal in the trend since the Depression, and experts say that a declining Mexican birthrate and other factors may make it permanent.

“I think the massive boom in Mexican immigration is over and I don’t think it will ever return to the numbers we saw in the 1990s and 2000s,” said Douglas Massey, a professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University and co-director of the Mexican Migration Project, which has been gathering data on the subject for 30 years.

Nearly 1.4 million Mexicans moved from the United States to Mexico between 2005 and 2010, double the number who did so a decade earlier. The number of Mexicans who moved to the United States during that period fell to less than half of the 3 million who came between 1995 and 2000.

The trend could have major political consequences, underscoring the delicate dance by the Republican and Democratic parties as they struggle with immigration policies and court the increasingly important Latino vote.

ᔥ Business News Daily

David Shearer and David Parker would probably turn away this sort of massive investment happening in Mexico if it were possible in New Zealand. Not for them creating jobs, they must be the jobs approved by the politburo:

Nissan Motor Co., Asian automakers with the largest production capacity in Mexico, will spend $ 2 billion for the third plant in the country when the Yen strength carries the company to move out of Japan.

The plant will open next year in Aguascalientes, near one of the existing Nissan factory in Mexico, said company based in Yokohama, Japan. The plant plans to produce vehicles for the US market, which initially will produce approximately 175,000 small cars per year before the production capacity will gradually increase.

Nissan factory today, capable of producing more than 700,000 vehicles per year, with existing operational constraints, said Bill Krueger, deputy head of operations in the US, in a conference call. “We have more capacity and growth that will be developed across the US”.

The second largest vehicle manufacturers from Japan shift production to the vehicle with a low burden of production to Thailand and Mexico in a few years recently to cover the fall or losses that are produced in Japan as Yen strengthened from any currency since 2010. The transition makes Nissan into the second largest vehicle importer in Japan, last year.

With all the fuss that the left wing and Labour made over Gerry Brownlee’s humorous quips about Finland being an insult and demands that he resign I should think that those same people should be calling for the resignation of David Parker.

After all he wasn’t joking, he was deadly serious.

So far the only real response from Finland was from a radio and tv host and couple of editorials, Mexico’s response to David Parker’s comments though has been official in the form of a letter from the Ambassador.

Oh and while they’re at it, they may want to call for David Shearer’s resignation as well because he slagged off Mexico in his big speech on April 19.

David Parker attacked the government by describing New Zealand as Australia’s Mexico after the Aussies decided to send 380 jobs back to New Zealand:

This hasn’t gone down too well with the Mexican’s who have issued a press release and written a letter to David Parker:

Is Mexico A Cigarette-Based Economy?

Following the recent comment made by Hon. David Parker about Labour’s concerns for New Zealand becoming ‘Australia’s Mexico’, the Mexican Ambassador, Mrs Leonora Rueda, has written a response to the MP noting that Mexico has been awarded the privilege of assuming the annual Presidency of the G20 this year not only because of its being the 14th largest economy in the world, but also through the good performance of its economy over the past 20 years.

Amongst other points, she notes that thanks to a highly developed infrastructure and a modern multimodal transportation system, including a vast network of commercial corridors, ports and airports, Mexico is one of the largest recipients of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the world.

FDI in Mexico is nowadays concentrated in high value-added products, such as the aerospace, telecommunications and biotechnology industries, which opens up careers in technology and creates specialised education and allows the integration of academies into the productive sector, thereby increasing research and development and productive chains based on the knowledge economy.

Letter_from_the_Mexican_Ambassador_to_Hon._David_Parker_MP.pdf

Hah!

ᔥ TVNZ

After spending the past 3 years criticizing the government because people are moving to Australia for jobs you would think that they would celebrate Aussie companies deciding to bring hundreds of jobs back to New Zealand…you’d be wrong…Labour clearly hates people working and would prefer that they were beneficiaries rather than working.

Imperial Tobacco has announced it will move cigarette manufacturing from Sydney to New Zealand and Woolworths has announced it is transferring 40 contact centre jobs to Auckland this week.

The food production industry has been moving across to New Zealand for some time, with Heinz Australia recently scrapping more than 300 jobs across three states in favour of its large plant in Hastings.

The moves have been attributed to Australia’s high wages, a soaring Australian dollar and restrictive employment laws.

Labour’s Finance spokesperson David Parker said it shows National’s promise to close the wage-gap with Australia has “come to nothing”.

“Labour does not want New Zealand to become Australia’s Mexico, yet with lower value jobs such as making cigarettes that is exactly what is happening,” Parker said.

Darien Fenton isn’t pleased that 340 Kiwis are nicking Aussie jobs either:

But not for good New Zealand jobs. These days, a Heinz Watties worker is just as likely to end up being employed by Allied Workforce – a temporary labour hire contractor, and be paid minimum wage – doing the same job directly employed and unionised workers used to do for a whole lot less.

She is making huge assumptions there, and at the same time maligning those hard working Kiwis who are alrady emplyed in those companies. Clealry Darien Fenton, David Parker and Labour think they should actually be on the dole because their jobs arebn’t good enough.

Frankly any job is a good job in this economic environment. No wonder the Greens are making huge in-roads into Labour’s support base when they run silly and ill-founded attacks against the creation of 340 new jobs.

Labour’s solution is to simply raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour and that will solve all the problems.

I thought I’d heard David Shearer talk about a New New a New Zealand before.

A quick hunt through my archives reveals this was the slogan he dreamed up on the hoof during his campaign to be leader.

What I also discovered, is that Shearer’s new plan to review the tax giveaways that Labour was proposing at the last election was something that David Cunliffe announced during that same Leadership campaign.

And of course David Parker confirmed earlier this week that Labour was sticking with its Mickey Mouse Capital Gains Tax so neither of these big announcements from Shearer are ‘new at all’.

Then comes Shearer’s claim that farming is a sunset industry and we should have a ‘clever’ economy. Well it turns out this rhetoric isn’t new either, I found a clip from Trevor Mallard in 1996 talking about exactly the same stuff. Labour had nine years in office to deliver – and utterly failed.

Dismal reheated rubbish, after a bungled policy launch that saw Shearer propose stripping environmental protections from land sales legislation, this has not been a good week for the Labour Leader.

He should go back to being Invisible.

On Sunday David Shearer specifically ruled out making any policy commitments.

He said everything was under review and no decisions had been made.

But just a day later, on Newstalk ZB, David Parker (another leadership contender) revealed that Labour would be proceeding with a proposal for a Capital Gains Tax.

A couple of questions after David Parker got schooled by John Key it was the turn of Socialist Cindy, Jacinda Ardern, for a wee lesson in front bench politics as she took on Paula Bennett.

Lockwood Smith is going to get real sick of explaining simple parliamentary procedures to Labour’s front bench star.

“Questions can’t state things, questions have to ask things”

I think Labour are going to have to assign Trevor Mallard to run interference for Socialist Cindy else she’s going to end up being slaughtered.

Labour decided to use David Parker to attack the government over the Westpac Farms, formerly owned by the Crafar family sale. It was a poor choice and John Key smacked up David Parker comprehensively.

It seems that Labour’s new qualification criteria is that you live here…I wonder what they will do when James Cameron decides he wants to live elsewhere.

Only a fool like David Parker would try to say that it was better for the farms to stay in the ownership of a broke farmer and his inbred family than get some good capital investment.

There is also an interesting point of order from Winston Peters, who appeared to slur his words and his wig is clearly askew.

Maurice Williamson followed this up after with his smackdown.