My apologies Tracey. It is generally understood that all parties have such procedures but I have been unable to lay my hands on an example for the form for the Nats and it is possible (albeit unlikely) that they do not have such a procedure.
OK I went back and listened again and and made some notes. -- There is a bit of discussion up front about political experience. -- Osborne appears keen to positively present himself as in the swim politically although it ios pretty clear from the interview...
Presumably before he admitted on Radio Live (hat tip Skinny) that he knew about the Sabin rumours before endorsing him to be their MP in 2014. This is incorrect. Did you listen to the full interview? He was confused by Plunket's line to start with but ...
PS if you folks are going to be sensitive about the term "resource" you are going to die when you learn that in IT departments you are all generally referred to as "Users." Do you think you are reading too much into a label? Years ago we were not allowed ...
It is important to note in all this that the issues were not just with the HR manager, they were throughout the executive. Secondly I was going to comment that the OP in her excoriation of capitalism did not seem to notice that this incident occurred in a ...
Hi Serious question - I am not trying to be provocative. So I have read the full report and clearly the management at NZCU were/are a disgrace.. apart from McAuley who is the only one that comes out of it with his integrity intact. I cannot see anything in...
Well if you are only going to accept the support of left wingers for your plans CR then based on current polling you are not going to get far.
Here's the quote from Andrew “We have a system which is clearly broken where low income workers get 50c an hour extra because that’s what the state says is good and then another branch of the state says MPs should get $9000 a year.” Seems pretty clear the ...
Oops lucky I'm not the spokesperson for Finance. My numbers are as bad as Andrew's
I support your call for that CR. Sounds like a good idea. Pass that on to Andrew and he might raise it.
Ah OK. Different rules.
Thanks
OK fair enough. looking forward to hearing him make that statement since until he does it just looks like there is one rule for labour and another for national.
"Time to effect real concrete proposals for change. Index the minimum wage to 1.1x the increases that MPs get." The minimum wage increased 3.5%. MP's increased 3.3% The minimum wage has therefore increased at exactly 1.1x the MPs increase. your wish is ...
I wasn't avoiding your other point, just commenting separately.
"The substantive point is that the top 1% in this society is being handed thousands of dollars more on a silver plate, while ordinary workers are lucky to get a measly $20 a week." But that is exactly the same situation that occurred in 2006 when Andrew ...
I wish I knew how to make those fancy quotes appear that you guys use. I didn't make it up CR. I can't find the official report online yet but here is what the remuneration authority stated. "In its determination, the authority said the payline for ...
No Micky the increase was 3.3%, the rest of the increase was a contra for lost expenses, as you well know. But Micky - you haven't answered the substantive question, how come it was perfectly OK with Andrew Little for this kind of thing to happen under a ...
It's extraordinary the things yo turn up when you dig around a bit. In 2006 when Mp's wages went up by a little over 4% this quote came from the post below: "the figure was more or less in line with what we're achieving - 4.25 per cent this year." http://...
Hi McFlock Here's a link for you. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10413135 It is terrifically hard to get historical information about MP pay rises but it does appear that during the period 1999-2008 MP pay rates rose ...
Good opportunity for the opposition parties to show some moral fibre by asserting they will donate their new found wealth to charity. Matter of fact one MP already has. Jo Goodhew the MP for rangitata has said she will. Not sure whether she is Labour or ...
Micky As stated ad nauseum, whether or not Sepuloni knew her mother had been "charged" is not the issue. I suspect you are intelligent enough to know that and your continued arguing beside the point, again and again and again, just shows how bereft you are...
"And in any case, what difference does it make anyway, if she knew or not? " Clemgeopin - It makes a big difference because IF Carmel did know that her mother was defrauding the system then she is complicit in that fraud. Carmel is not some soccer-mom that...
Tracey I would most certainly believe Carmel just as soon as she makes a statement saying she was unaware of any offending on her mother's behalf. You do get it don't you that she has not actually said that? All she has said is that she was unaware that ...
OK How about I just quote your own words back to you Mickey. "Proof beyond reasonable doubt is an important safeguard in our criminal justice system. The level of proof required before a minister wears some political heat is much lower." The same thing ...
i admit to a degree of dis-ingenuity, but let's be honest guys, Carmel was not stood down for any noble and virtuous reason to do with conflict of interest. She was simply stood down because while she has this hanging over her family she would be dogmeat ...
Murray - Key has made that statement a number of times, you just don't believe him, which is your prerogative. As for Brownlee, not only has he issued a statement, but he has apologised. Once again, it's your choice whether or not to accept that, but he ...
So if she is not connected to the alleged fraud why has she stood down?
"I don’t have any reason to think that Sepuloni knew. Do you?" I don't know either way. Little has been hammering John Key for weeks to prove he did not know about Sabin's issues. Well actually he has gone further and called Key a liar. How is this ...
It's a fair question Putake. Any politician that knew of a family member committing fraud of this nature is a blot on democracy. I would have thought that under the circumstances the very first thing Sepuloni would want to establish is that she was not in ...
I am quite happy to confirm that I do not know and have never known of any benefits claimed by my parents now or at any time in the past which were or might have been fraudulently obtained. I further confirm that at no time have I ever been given the ...
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