Congratulations - you have effectively neutralised Populuxe"s facile views
Labour will never convincingly win office until it rediscovesr its Social Democratic origins & traditions.If it keeps wandering in a wishy washy Blairite wilderness, it will always remain in opposition.
Luxon is a penis in a suit
It's a disgrace that when there is so much unmet need in NZ re housing, health, education, etc. Labour boasts about the billions of extra dollars it's poured into defence spending. Spending on defence is the biggest example of wasted government spending - ...
It's fantastic to finally have a political party with the balls to reintroduce a first world tax system. Our current third world tax system has produced a third world economy & a third world society, charactersied by entrenched poverty, homelessness, ...
Ghost, even if gross government debt is 30% of GDP it's still amongst the lowest in the OECD. If government debt rose to 40% of GDP, (still manageable) it would release billions to eliminate poverty, homelessness, infrastucture deficit, etc. Obsessing ...
As the article says, net government debt is 21.6% of GDP, an absurdly low figure by OECD standards - Australia's metric is c 48%. This means that the government has a huge capacity to borrow long term at low, sovereign rates of interest so that we can ...
Ghost, nothing you say alters my basic premise that the English establishment will never grant independance to Scotland. If the Scots want their independance, they'll have to unilateraly take it, just like Sinn Fein did.
If Scotland wants independance, they have to take. The historical precedent is the Irish Nationalist (Sinn Fein) MP's who, after the 1919 UK election, refused to take their seats in the Westminister House of Commons, but instead, set up an independant ...
She's Peter Goodfellow's wife
So Mayor 'fix it' Brown just sat on his arse until 10 pm before declaring a state of emergency - what a dick head.
The only solution is to renationalise power.
He's 76 years old with health issues - he may not make even one term.
In ya dreams, comrade
I've read the book & its portrayal of the Nats is every bit as bad as the reviewers claim - what a godawful bunch of lying incompetents. Regarding Luxon, his commercial skills are mediocre. His biggest balls up at Air NZ involved landing rights at Heathrow...
Helping a 'productive conversation' includes reminding ourselves periodically of the vile cruely of our political opponents. If we drop our guard they will reappear to inflict more damage on people & society, eg. Luxon's tax cuts for wealthy people like ...
Of all the vile people in Key's cabinet, Bennett was one of the worst. Who could forget her invented 'crisis' of meth contamination by the tennants of state houses. With no proof whatever, Bennett evicted state house tennants, destroyed their property on ...
Seymour won't be part of government after the 2023 election.
Luxon is a penis in a suit
Nicky Hager's books, 'The Hollow Men' & 'Dirty Politics' provide factual evidence of National & Act's vile, sustained, organised, personal attacks on their political opponents. I challenge Pataua4life to produce written evidence of equivalent Labour & ...
Because the National Party's driving philosophy of greed, self interest & entitlement pervades everything they do, anything is justifiable. National & Act are the only NZ parties with a long time record of lying, slander & personal abuse towards their ...
What a tool
The Allied army which surrendered in Singapore was commanded by a General Percival who was in the same tradition as all the other incompetent British Generals who shambled their way through both world wars, needlessly sacrificing their men's lives. During ...
The National caucus, of course, is brimming with talent
Well said and its the workers that do all the work.
One figure which a recent poll revealed was that 4% of women under 40 support the National party. Making a white guy over 50 the new leader is not going to fix any of that.
Do you mean a PPP like Transmission Gully?
Subliminal, we get fiscal & monetary policy aligned by amending the Reserve Bank Act to enforce the original policy that the RBNZ is under the control of the government of the day & its role is to carry out the government's monetary policy. The ...
COVID & climate change have finally convinced thousands of NZ voters that the neo lib mantra of small government, tax cuts for the wealthy, selling off state assets, etc. is simply BS. The Nat carcass, however still cling to this nonsense which means that ...
Janet & Anne, in WW1 there was a coalition government between the governing Reform Party & the Liberal Party opposition, (the Labour Party wasn't formed until 1916, half way thru WW1). In 1936, the remnants of Reform & Liberal became the National Party. In...
If Collins & Seymour had been the government last year, thousands of us would have died like flies by now - as in Boris's UK, Trump's USA & Bolsenaro's Brazil.
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