There are cheaper town houses and apartments too. Honestly, read the policy dude.
Oh FFS the Roy Morgan is bunk.
Any mechanism to identify offshore owners to ban new purchases or force divestment of existing ones would be the same. Either way, the outcome over time would be the same as offshore speculators will sell out of the market but won't be able to get back in.
Little has stated repeatedly that he would ban offshore speculators from buying NZ housing.
It's interesting they quote parts of what he said but not the whole quote. I'd be interested to know what he actually said, because I bet you it wasn't what the media claim.
Also: I call bullshit on the 'zero hours' claim on Lester. 'It has been suggested' is weasel words of the highest order. By all accounts Lester is a bloody good employer, as his advocacy for the living wage both as a business owner and a councillor has ...
So this attack on Lester is utter nonsense. He is paying a living wage. A bit of history. Lester has supported the living wage as a councillor for years. As a businessman, here's a report in 2013 saying he was getting 75% of staff onto living wage with a ...
Sorry, I don't understand how it helps anyone to refuse to negotiate and simply vote the legislation down. Or, cede the field for united Future to do the negotiating and get something piss weak. What exactly do you suggest Labour does in this situation? if...
Yawn. Sounds like you'll never be happy. It's the self-indulgence of someone who wants to play leftest man in the room but has no responsibility to anyone who's actually working on a zero hour contract. All mouth, no trousers and certainly no political ...
Stephanie, any idea what the EPMU vote was for the leadership campaign in 2013? TRP's comments don't look accurate to me.
You say that CR, but then you make a wild claim attacking Labour despite all the documented evidence. It's not even like you need faith here, you just need google, and yet you refuse to use it before reflexively slagging off Labour. The Bomber disease is ...
Of course he wouldn't mention being approached. It'd be confidential, wouldn't it? And none of us will ever know. Doesn't stop you from making wild assumptions and pontificating at anyone who'll listen though.
And given Winston didn't tell anyone and wouldn't tell anyone he was running until after Labour had launched its campaign, how does that work? What would you have said if Labour didn't run a candidate and then Peters didn't either and just handed it to ...
What TRP said. Little has been very clear to play down expectations from the start. This is just more of the Bomberesque reflexive anti-Labour rhetoric that is so damaging to the Left and our chances in 2017. People on the left need to have a little faith ...
I'm not implying there was a behind closed doors deal. What I'm suggesting is: a) You are making an assumption that Labour didn't try to work with Peters. You don't know that, you're just assuming it and then casting aspersions on Labour. But you have no ...
Again: What evidence do you have that Labour didn't try to talk to Peters?
Again I ask: how do you know Labour didn't approach him? Or are you just assuming because you've taken a Bomber-style reflexive anti-Labour approach?
I've heard a thing or two from people high up in NZ First and I'm stunned at the ignorance on this thread. As I've already asked, what makes you all so sure Labour didn't approach Peters? What makes you so sure that Peters didn't want Labour to run so that...
I've asked before but I'll ask again. What makes you so sure Winston was willing to do a deal with Labour? If he's targeting the National vote, which he needs to in order to win, wouldn't it have been to his advantage for Labour to put in a candidate ...
Why do you assume Labour hasn't tried to talk to Peters? Do you think Peters would have worked behind the scenes with Labour on strategy? Really? If so, you obviously haven't been paying attention to Peters' modus operandi over the last several decades. ...
Good idea. Let's put out a policy to print money and just wait for those votes to roll in.
Really struggle to understand why the Greens are getting so wound up about this issue, so wound up in fact that they spent three days in the media calling the leader of the opposition an amateur and a sexist for overlooking them and instead putting the ...
Get into government and use the apparatus of the state - the bully pulpit if you will - to change public perceptions. You can't do it from opposition when you're already not seen as economically credible, in an age when people are seeking economic security...
The Greens tried a policy of printing money. It was widely ridiculed. For Labour to do so in the current environment would relegate them to opposition for another two terms.
Metiria clearly does not have the skills, understanding and experience of David Shearer. It's not about her being a woman - that's just bizarre, as anyone who knows or has worked with Little will tell you.
Labour's decision was the right one in my view, but that's of no consequence now. What the Greens have done is turn a miscommunication that should have been sorted behind the scenes into a sustained four-day media attack campaign against Labour. I ...
Kind of bizarre to see people in this thread attacking the labour party here. Labour led and won this campaign and mobilised tens of thousands of people for it. That's something we've not seen in a while. Yes, of course they're going to claim the victory ...
People don't realise that a leaders debate is nothing like any other format. You don't win on points, you win on how you come across to the public. Key is the most popular PM in recent history. He's got an easy touch and can connect with middle NZ with ...
Key is not an inarticulate fool. This is the big mistake many on the left have made. He wiped the floor with Clark, Cullen and Goff - three of the strongest debaters Labour's ever had. Key needs to knock Cunliffe out of the park. A win for Cunliffe is to ...
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