Revintokyo comments

Nope. And neither is Transparency International: https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2022

NZ is the second least corrupt country out of 180 countries.

I hate to bust your bubble but Transparency International has got it wrong. If you look at the current education system in New Zealand, you will find - according to statistics "The report pointed to data including a 2020 UNICEF finding that only 64.6 per cent of fifteen-year-olds in New Zealand had basic proficiency in reading and maths." In the following three years it has gotten much worse, probably closer to 75% and the maths is worse still. What it shows is that Labour have allowed our standards to drop, truancy is at historic highs and not dealt with and young people can commit crimes - often at the behest of gangs - knowing that they will not go to prison. Life for the young is great, free lunches and breakfasts at schools, an unemployment benefit of $309 per week minimum- as soon as you leave school . If you got the vote, wouldn't you vote for the hand that feeds you?

People do not realise what it means to have a digital currency. Once banknotes are withdrawn, people are at the whim of the Government and electricity. Should there be a major earthquake or another tsunami or a major earthquake that takes out the electricity - thus making electronic use incapable, people will be unable to pay for essentials, fuel their car, transfer money and their electronic equipment will be useless. This can also happen with solar flares - which happen from time to time - as it did in Quebec in 1989 and the most dangerous - the EMP or Electro Magnetic Pulse - a weapon that China has - and if I am right Russia too. Should they become our enemies (and with the current rhetoric it might not be far away), and we have digital currency, they can cripple the whole country in a matter of minutes and for a great amount of time... Think of the anarchy that will ensure when people cannot get food, fuel or transport. This is a short sighted idea fraught with unthought of consequences.

Don't know if anyone noticed, but the bag the lions picked had a piece of meat in it, the Japan one

had only straw......