Chris Trotter really nails it here. Luxon's political inexperience and lack of empathy, Seymour's extremism and Peters' slow decline into irrelevance are leading NZ towards an inevitable one-term government. https://bowalleyroad.blogspot.com/2024/05/this-...
"Both the Nats and ACT are committed to reducing NZ's net emissions. Note in particular ACT's pledge to "Fast-track permit development to make offshore wind easier to permit", and the Nats' ambitious plan to electrify NZ." Come off it Dolomedes-if this was...
BYD are building a factory in Mexico from where tariffs to sell EV's in the USA will not apply. It has currently ruled out exporting to the USA from there, but that won't last. Biden is protecting his smokestack dinosaur auto industry thus allowing it to ...
Brillliant...Vox are like ACT with knobs on. Sanchez is good value. However, the very conservative PP (Partido Popular) made "substantial gains" so it is far from unalloyed good news. And looking at the results now, Vox didn't lose any seats, though I ...
Yes Seymour is trying to make it impossible to disestablish the charter schools with the 10 years contract plus two options to extend. But I am not sure about this. The charter schools will still be largely state funded. Surely an incoming government (in 3...
Well said Phillip.
That is why Hipkins has to go Maurice.
Hooton also makes it clear in the article that Hipkins needs to be replaced by somebody who is willing to be more radical. Of Willis and Luxon he says: "Luxon and Willis proclaim, there’s no cause for alarm nor any reason for policy adjustments. According ...
Finance minister and PM should go...that is pretty damning.
In the article below you can see that a 680MW battery storage facility in Menifee, California, can be built for US$1 billion…lets say NZ$1.7 billion. But once the stored power is used up presumably it has to be recharged the next day or days.Battery ...
In the article below you can see that a 680MW battery storage facility in Menifee, California, can be built for US$1 billion...lets say NZ$1.7 billion. But once the stored power is used up presumably it has to be recharged the next day or days.Battery ...
Read my posts above Alwyn...there is a green solution. It's just that Simeon Brown and friends aren't interested because they don't care about saving the planet.
Hydrogen is not really an option for the grid at the moment from what I have read-it takes too much energy to produce and so-called "Green Hydrogen" is a myth. (It may be viable for trains, trucks, buses) I agree totally about closing down the smelter-that...
SPC-I think batteries are rapidly becoming so much more efficient and getting so much cheaper that, from what I have read (did you read the article above in full?) batteries will easily cope with dry years. This is especially true given developments in ...
Simeon Brown was on RNZ's Morning Report today. He spent most of the time blaming the last government for today's potential power outage and supporting fossil fuel development. The words "climate change" and "battery storage" never passed his lips of ...
Good facts there SPC-thanks for that. Of course the reasons for the concerted attacks on Genter and the Greens are: The Right is worried that the Greens polled 14% in the recent TV1 poll. The Right is still in shock that Genter won Rongotai, and the Greens...
James-I think the Greens will undertake an honest appraisal of JAG's behaviour in the house. She will get a verdict "don't do it again" and a slap on the wrist. Personally I applaud her passion-she had had enough of being told that the last 6 years had ...
David-there have been plenty of posts on TS over the years criticising Edwards' negative stance towards the Left in his writing and in his appearances on The Panel, Checkpoint, Morning Report etc. I am sure he is held in high regard by members of the ...
Wow Dennis you are really buying in to this MSM beat up. Just to repeat my posts from yesterday: 1. "Don't believe everything you read. Van der Kaay writes for the so-called "Democracy Project" run by Bryce Edwards. Edwards has for many years consistently ...
Dennis-Genter has had 13 impressive years in parliament. One dumb act, carried out under provocation, does not alter this track record. Read my TS posts yesterday.
National, through Luxon and Willis, is talking a lot about "social investment". This was the magical tool Bill English talked a lot about. It sounds very good at press conferences and pre-budget meetings, conveying a sense of compassionate conservatism, ...
gsays-I didn't gloss over anything. The Kerekere bullying happened well over a year ago which is not anywhere close to the period I am commenting on above in relation to Kaay's biased article. I commented on the three relatively current events that the MSM...
Hadn't realised that it was 18 months ago Mike...really is a scam/beat up...terrible reporting of the facts by MSM (which is actually their job).
Come off it gsays. Genter has been in parliament 13 years behaving, to my knowledge, impeccably. Then she gets het up because Doocey yells lies at her (completely ignoring the real spending facts on roading) so she crosses the aisle to show him the actual ...
Don't believe everything you read. Van der Kaay writes for the so-called "Democracy Project" run by Bryce Edwards. Edwards has for many years consistently criticized parties from the Left while acting as an apologist for the Right. The Greens have had 3 ...
I used to think the same Clive, but have changed my mind and support the 3 year term. An example is this government. They scraped a disparate coalition together, only just being able to form a majority, getting 52.8% of the votes cast. Despite this Luxon ...
Maybe you should look at the long list of things that this awful government is repealing-Jacinda did a hell of a lot. She was hampered by Peters in the first term (NZF canned light rail). When you put her five years in the context of also having to deal ...
That is an interesting idea.
Well Luxon is politically fairly useless, Peters will be 81 at the next election and may have had enough. Seymour is way over to the Right. Hipkins won't do so we just need the charismatic leader and a crisis that helps the Left/Greens...... I wonder what ...
+1000 Phillip
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