The only ones who should be voting in council elections are the ratepayers, the ratepayers are the ones who pay for the council taxes This woman is out to lunch
You clearly don't know what you're talking about. Ratepayers and residents do vote in local elections. You don't even know what you are meant upset by.
@@IanG2120 It's rather simple - Unelected kids who are not even rate payers getting to vote on rate payer issues is not Democratic. and is literally woke Marxism via the back door
Crazy thinking glad this has come to light. Sandra and council are wrong. The youth should not have voting rights. We have issues in Nelson with council doing what they want and not thinking of the rate payers having to cover the costs. Many people are finding life in general diffucult covering every days cost. Wish councils would go back to basics and stop over spending or forcing radical opinions on rate payers.
David Seymor is all over this. She will be gone. Who cares what an unelected teenager thinks. If they are over 18 they can stand foe council like everybody else. This is WORSE than the UNWANTED UNELECTED MAORI WARDS
How completely ignorant are you? Firstly, Seymour is not the Local Government Minister so he has no power to intervene. Simeon can't just remove an elected Mayor and/or councillors or an entire council without reason. Nothing that's been done here goes against the Local Government Act . Further highlighting your astonishing ignorance a Maori ward once established has an elected member like any other council ward in any local govt entity. Don't swallow the cool aid just because Plunkett is serving it up.
@@IanG2120 Actually Ian Government can become involved in local council affairs if it is harming the interests of New Zealand citizen and is acting in an undemocratic fasion, so yr the ignorant one in this comments section ... Further more you've just outted yrself a one of those low IQ radical racist separatists who are all crying now the Gravy Train Is Coming To An End lol
Unelected people being allowed to vote! We need to stamp this out immediately before it goes any further, and also the corrupt Local Government Act that says this is OK
I just cannot believe this is happening there is so much that needs to be done with this very incompetent Hastings council they have stuffed up so badly on so many levels,.......... hope people go out next time and vote the whole damn lot out.....just saying
@@MartinCraig-zt2sv They should be changed as adults in the adult court as well! Or, maybe you should learn to think for yourself and not just parrot slogans 'Bomber' told you.
Absolutely disgusting, here we go again, wasting ratepayers money again, and trying to justify it. Vote these people out. Get rid of this waste. But then again we can’t can we , Sandra has made the call , it’s her way or no way
Democracy is everybody IN THE FRANCHISE voting, for eligible reps. Under law. Youth is not a special skill. It doesn't matter how much dynamism or "massive issues" are involved.
When a hung vote it is protocol to stick with the status quo,surely for constitutional change one should go to the voters,or do councils just think they are a law unto itself,why not just vote themselves into the position for life and cancel democracy all together.
Clearly you don't know anything at all. Under the LGA Mayors are elected at large and have the same voting power as councillors. Nowhere does it say the Mayors have to retain the status quo. Local Government has nothing to do with constitutional change 🙄
OMG, I thought Nelson's council was the most arrogant in NZ ,but this council and its mayor are really trying to take that position from Nelson City. Just as judges have had some of their independence taken away with compulsory sentencing, council are so out of control that we need to implement in legislation some very tight rules on what they can and can't do,as it no longer seems to be working for it's ratepayers,but instead it want to impose an ideological agenda that nobody got to vote on.
She has got to be the worst mayor we have ever had. Rate payers are consistently banned from council meetings, they continue to cite sensitive information allowing them to close the doors. Any objections are never dealt with and I just pushed under the carpet
This ENTITLED woman is out of touch with reality,we the ratepayers are paying for this rubbish,out with hazlehurst,this how they waste money not looking after the ratepayers
Stage 1, subvert democracy by appointing Maori ward representatives who get paid exactly the same fees as the elected councilors do and have the same voting rights. Stage 2, "appoint" unelected youth councilors with the same voting rights as elected councilors. Stage 3, why not pay the "hard-working" unelected youth councilors the same fees that councilors receive, as ratepayers won't mind. Stage 4, perhaps the youth councilors should ideally be of Maori ethnicity? Why not bring some realism to this woke crap by also now "appointing" some unelected pensioners', with full voting rights, to highlight how damaging the huge rate rises are particularly for elderly ratepayers trying to subsist on govt super !!
let me just be clear; we have just had a 15.8% rates increase. All this crap needs to stop, WFH, Councillors I have not voted for but have to pay for, Maori Prayers. Investing is dog business ideas. all the niceties until councils get their rates back under control. All forms of council time wasting. We are in a cost of living crisis. Get real. Do the basics well.
Who gives a shit. None of this will make zero difference to our lives. Voters this voters that. The reality is the voter turnout for local elections is terrible. I'm in New Plymouth and I'm pretty sure it's well below half. In saying that.. The people that don't engage are usually the first to cry when they don't like something.
Everyone of you commenting has fallen for Sean Plunketts grift. He is a trained journalist who should have the integrity to inform his listeners instead of this outrage farming he does. He knows full well that this council, like all others under the Local Government Act, has the power to appoint anyone to a committee or sub committee of council. The youth representative of which there is only 1 has input into the committee or subcommittees findings. This is then taken back to the full council who vote on the findings/recommendations. It is only the full council that has the final vote. The council is properly elected and represents the rate payers and residents. You've all fallen for his disingenuous bullshit. And asking a question then interrupting mid reply is not a genuine effort to interview and inform.
Having input and having a vote are two different things. This is people being granted voting rights without having been put through the rigour of having been elected. It is wrong, and Sean is doing us all a favour by exposing it.
@DavidMarshall-b4x Clearly, you didn't read what I posted. The youth representative on the committee or subcommittee is just that. They will have no vote in the final vote of the full council. There is no granting of voting rights. You're just reacting to red meat thrown out by Plunkett.
@Anonymous-c4p Point out anything in my comment above that is what you think is bullshit. It's quite a succinct salient point. Tell me, do you even understand my point, or are you just reacting to the grift of Plunkett?
I want a vote of no confidence in this person and staff.
The only ones who should be voting in council elections are the ratepayers, the ratepayers are the ones who pay for the council taxes
This woman is out to lunch
Totally agree with you 😂
You clearly don't know what you're talking about. Ratepayers and residents do vote in local elections. You don't even know what you are meant upset by.
@@IanG2120 It's rather simple - Unelected kids who are not even rate payers getting to vote on rate payer issues is not Democratic. and is literally woke Marxism via the back door
Do you want to abolish universal franchise in New Zealand?
Go honey, waste that money, we are the bottomless supply just for you.
Crazy thinking glad this has come to light. Sandra and council are wrong. The youth should not have voting rights. We have issues in Nelson with council doing what they want and not thinking of the rate payers having to cover the costs. Many people are finding life in general diffucult covering every days cost. Wish councils would go back to basics and stop over spending or forcing radical opinions on rate payers.
Sandra is exactly 💯 all that is wrong with the modern wo-man 🤡
This has opened a Pandoras box and opened it up for all the other councils to follow suit 😮
Total vote grab from the far Green Left!
Absolutely correct 😮
@@pgreen8531nodding along in agreement on everything doesn't indicate that you have made a comment based on any independent thought process
Misogynist!?
@@IanG2120 Misandry ?
Hhahaha it took her four minutes to admit they aren't elected.
It's just one big gravy train and no one is driving. Stealing other peoples monies to fund incompetence.
Change the Act, pronto! Please!!
What is democracy, she has no idea!!😮
You don't either you're just reacting to Plunketts grift!
David Seymor is all over this. She will be gone. Who cares what an unelected teenager thinks. If they are over 18 they can stand foe council like everybody else.
This is WORSE than the UNWANTED UNELECTED MAORI WARDS
It’s the same - they are all unelected by the people.
How completely ignorant are you? Firstly, Seymour is not the Local Government Minister so he has no power to intervene. Simeon can't just remove an elected Mayor and/or councillors or an entire council without reason. Nothing that's been done here goes against the Local Government Act .
Further highlighting your astonishing ignorance a Maori ward once established has an elected member like any other council ward in any local govt entity. Don't swallow the cool aid just because Plunkett is serving it up.
@@IanG2120 Actually Ian Government can become involved in local council affairs if it is harming the interests of New Zealand citizen and is acting in an undemocratic fasion, so yr the ignorant one in this comments section ... Further more you've just outted yrself a one of those low IQ radical racist separatists who are all crying now the Gravy Train Is Coming To An End lol
Whooo Sandra. Clear as mud. I would have walked out on the interview just like Ardern taught you. Socialism forever aye?
You know nothing of socialism. You just spout keyword click bait and cause factionalism for the masses.
Im not interested in a childs point of view. The kids are running the class
No.The patients have got hold of the asylum.
The platform actually has some guts unlike the fence sitters at ZB…😅
Quite delusional !!!!
Sandra should be removed, somehow..
Is she friends with Tory
Totally agree with you absolutely disgusting behavior from this disgraceful woman 😮😮
Climate change. There is no Climate change just a financial ponzi scheme taking money from ratepayers 😮😮😮
This not democracy it is fascism and an autocratic leader who is not interested in democratc methods of maning decisions 😮😮😮
@@pgreen8531
Shutup ya thicko !
Unelected people being allowed to vote! We need to stamp this out immediately before it goes any further, and also the corrupt Local Government Act that says this is OK
She doesn’t want ratepayers to have a say, she’s a dictator, time to go
she has no idea what 'democracy ' actually is...whew
Dynamic youth voices that need to be heard, why ! Do they pay rates?
I just cannot believe this is happening there is so much that needs to be done with this very incompetent Hastings council they have stuffed up so badly on so many levels,.......... hope people go out next time and vote the whole damn lot out.....just saying
You're just making lazy comments based on an uninformed opinion!
@@IanG2120 Yr just a low IQ radical racist separatist so yr opinion on anything is irrelevant lol
Well done. About time a real journalist called out Sandra and the HDC. She will struggle to get re-elected
i hope someone else will try for her job, im so over her
Fascism
I would prefer LIFE EXPERIENCE over age..
Raise the voting age to 25 years when the brain is properly formed.
It's 35.
No taxation without representation
@@MartinCraig-zt2sv They should be changed as adults in the adult court as well! Or, maybe you should learn to think for yourself and not just parrot slogans 'Bomber' told you.
@@antihebrew Its from the patriots of the Eureka Stockade, not lame ass digitrolls
Well, in males...
I find it hard to believe anyone would vote for this person. She's a disgrace.
Clearly Sandra is not fit to lead anything. Absolutely woeful in understanding her obligations to the voters of Hastings.
Read the local government act you clearly are reacting to Plunketts grift not facts.
@@IanG2120 Yr just a low IQ radical racist separatist so yr opinion on anything is irrelevant lol
She’s completely confused about democracy
Just because you can doesn't mean you should. This is a travesty.
Absolutely disgusting, here we go again, wasting ratepayers money again, and trying to justify it. Vote these people out. Get rid of this waste. But then again we can’t can we , Sandra has made the call , it’s her way or no way
another nut bar like welly mayor good luck hastings your gooooon
Youth need to wait in line like everyone else before them.
This is just a vote for whoever can convince/lie to a child.... its absurd.
Administrators are needed it seems.
Democracy is everybody IN THE FRANCHISE voting, for eligible reps. Under law.
Youth is not a special skill. It doesn't matter how much dynamism or "massive issues" are involved.
Typical dont answer the question
Did she get a chance? Old big mouth just interrupted her all the time
@@IanG2120 you woke muppet go aeay and play with your self
Playing word salad as usual get a real job clown
@@IanG2120 Yr just a low IQ radical racist separatist so yr opinion on anything is irrelevant lol
@@IanG2120 Are you on the council!
Troughing for the next generation.
When a hung vote it is protocol to stick with the status quo,surely for constitutional change one should go to the voters,or do councils just think they are a law unto itself,why not just vote themselves into the position for life and cancel democracy all together.
Clearly you don't know anything at all. Under the LGA Mayors are elected at large and have the same voting power as councillors. Nowhere does it say the Mayors have to retain the status quo. Local Government has nothing to do with constitutional change 🙄
@@IanG2120 Yr just a low IQ radical racist separatist so yr opinion on anything is irrelevant lol
selective groups only need apply
Well, there goes Hastings....
Deluded if she thinks the ratepayers are going to stand for this nonsense.
OMG, I thought Nelson's council was the most arrogant in NZ ,but this council and its mayor are really trying to take that position from Nelson City. Just as judges have had some of their independence taken away with compulsory sentencing, council are so out of control that we need to implement in legislation some very tight rules on what they can and can't do,as it no longer seems to be working for it's ratepayers,but instead it want to impose an ideological agenda that nobody got to vote on.
She has got to be the worst mayor we have ever had. Rate payers are consistently banned from council meetings, they continue to cite sensitive information allowing them to close the doors. Any objections are never dealt with and I just pushed under the carpet
this is not a function of council,its non democratic
This ENTITLED woman is out of touch with reality,we the ratepayers are paying for this rubbish,out with hazlehurst,this how they waste money not looking after the ratepayers
OMG she’s a shocker alright….she hasn’t got a clue 🤦🏼♀️…and yes you do have some massive issues alright lady…Far-Out‼️
You Dont hear anything Good from the comments, if the glove fits.....
Because all the commentators are just being stirred up by Plunkett and don't think independently.
Stage 1, subvert democracy by appointing Maori ward representatives who get paid exactly the same fees as the elected councilors do and have the same voting rights.
Stage 2, "appoint" unelected youth councilors with the same voting rights as elected councilors.
Stage 3, why not pay the "hard-working" unelected youth councilors the same fees that councilors receive, as ratepayers won't mind.
Stage 4, perhaps the youth councilors should ideally be of Maori ethnicity?
Why not bring some realism to this woke crap by also now "appointing" some unelected pensioners', with full voting rights, to highlight how damaging the huge rate rises are particularly for elderly ratepayers trying to subsist on govt super !!
Boomers cocked it up , stop thinking zoomers can fix New Zealand.
Do you think she was advised not to call The Platform?
let me just be clear; we have just had a 15.8% rates increase. All this crap needs to stop, WFH, Councillors I have not voted for but have to pay for, Maori Prayers. Investing is dog business ideas. all the niceties until councils get their rates back under control. All forms of council time wasting. We are in a cost of living crisis. Get real. Do the basics well.
A kid is a specialist???? ....WTF????
Dam that’s definitely not democracy. But Sean try to be a little less rude, definitely challenge but don’t go over the top mate
Screams Woke!
This council is more interested in monuments and titles, than the ratepayers, who employ them. Very modern system, a new age, hope it works."?
Who gives a shit. None of this will make zero difference to our lives. Voters this voters that. The reality is the voter turnout for local elections is terrible. I'm in New Plymouth and I'm pretty sure it's well below half. In saying that.. The people that don't engage are usually the first to cry when they don't like something.
Ridiculous good on her
Everyone of you commenting has fallen for Sean Plunketts grift. He is a trained journalist who should have the integrity to inform his listeners instead of this outrage farming he does. He knows full well that this council, like all others under the Local Government Act, has the power to appoint anyone to a committee or sub committee of council. The youth representative of which there is only 1 has input into the committee or subcommittees findings. This is then taken back to the full council who vote on the findings/recommendations. It is only the full council that has the final vote. The council is properly elected and represents the rate payers and residents. You've all fallen for his disingenuous bullshit. And asking a question then interrupting mid reply is not a genuine effort to interview and inform.
Having input and having a vote are two different things. This is people being granted voting rights without having been put through the rigour of having been elected. It is wrong, and Sean is doing us all a favour by exposing it.
@DavidMarshall-b4x
Clearly, you didn't read what I posted. The youth representative on the committee or subcommittee is just that. They will have no vote in the final vote of the full council. There is no granting of voting rights. You're just reacting to red meat thrown out by Plunkett.
What an utter load of bullshit you type - Yr just a low IQ radical racist separatist so yr opinion on anything is irrelevant lol
@@IanG2120 no one else seems to subscribe to your bs Ian.
@Anonymous-c4p
Point out anything in my comment above that is what you think is bullshit. It's quite a succinct salient point. Tell me, do you even understand my point, or are you just reacting to the grift of Plunkett?
Sandra doesn't like been questioned by the sound of it.