Dave Lane 
🇳🇿I can't help but wonder how NZ Labour, with their tepid 'national investment fund', are planning to combat secret (from all NZers) ISDS suits from multinational corporations if they deem such policies might affect their profits in NZ. They'd have to pull NZ out of the #CPTPPA first. Which I think would be entirely appropriate. I might even vote for them if they were really going to do that. Otherwise, nah, they're too big-business-pandering, no longer pro labour.
Yes, https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/15/freedom-of-movement/#data-dieselgate Cory Doctorow (who coined the term 'enshittification') dropping some serious truth bombs about how the US Trump administration and US BigTech are rorting/scamming the global digital environment with international 'trade agreements'... and why their bad faith means we need to *jettison* the ones we're beholden to, especially the #CPTPPA. We must dishonour them, because they were never honourable to begin with.
@Salty @billbennett The gov't will tell us it's because of 'treaty obligations', especially the stupid #CPTPPA, which we should never ever have even considered, much less signed and ratified (yes, both National and Labour are to blame there). That non-free trade deal needs to get dropped ages ago.
It's important to note that both major parties ended up supporting the pro-corporate #CPTPPA, even after Labour actively campaigned against it. Both are neoliberal ideologues. We need a progressive, corpo-skeptic party running our gov't. Because corporations - especially multinationals - have zero interest in Aotearoa as anything other than a population & environment to convert into shareholder value, never mind who has to pick up the pieces.
Listening to Chippy on RNZ, it seems that our having signed up for the #CPTPPA agreement has tied our hands regarding blocking 'golden passports' for wealthy foreigners wanting to 'buy into' Aotearoa, like Thiel did. Wonder what benefits ordinary NZers get from our compromising our sovereignty, ceding it to multinational corporations? I'd vote the heck out of a party that promised to pull us out of 'restrictive "Free" Trade Agreements' like CPTPPA.
@drrimmer @glynmoody yes, I continue to be livid with both our National & Labour-led coalitions that both undermined NZ's sovereignty by signing us up to horrible #CPTPPA.... what a massive failure of judgement & democracy that was.
@SimonCHulse @donkey @vwdasher yup, they're no longer relevant - they're just as pwned by the rich/business class as National these days - their support for the #CPTPPA was a real betrayal.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/557915/call-me-next-time-peters-disparages-luxon-s-tariff-talks So now NZ's gov't is calling for both China and the EU to enter the CPTPPA to circumvent the US... but it locks all the participating country into a system *designed by US corporations* to preserve their pre-eminence in the global market. This is ridiculous. The #CPTPPA is poison to nation states. Here's why: https://davelane.nz/tppa-select-committee-redux-2018-edition
@alcinnz @ensslen @civillibertynz I remember when I was presenting to the Select Committee on the #CPTPPA a few years back, and David Bennett (former Nat'l MP Hamilton) jumped out of his chair, with his hands formed to throttle me (and demanded a retraction) when I informed the Committee that, if they didn't vote against joining, I would consider them all traitors to NZ & their constituents. He'd been playing on his phone up until that point. I stand by my statement.