And stop live animal shipments by ship from New Zealand.
15 Nats resigned @ 300,000 each. That's 4.5 million.
John Key as an All Black? Priceless. Comedic gold. Go see https://twitter.com/ArchieDaRival/media
When everyone knows he should be talking to you, Matthew.
Who is this Phil Quin? According to the National Business Review Phil Quin is “ a former adviser for the NZ and Australia labour parties and a strategic communications consultant”. Some of his work: NZ Herald: The anatomy of a failed Labour coup 9:22 AM ...
Something to cheer you up from Trademe: Another listing of the John Key hagiography John Key Brand new item 20% off - Was $32, Now $25.60. That didn't take long.
Nothing new. The 1981 Springbok tour was a trip through all the provincial marginal seats.
Continuing: Why have you not though shown this statement to Labour? For that reason, really. There’s still more to be done and there are issues of sensitivity around it for us. All these things don’t get passed over and we’ve sort of received a bit of an ...
Below is a transcript of the interview with Tim Murphy the day after the Donghua Liu story broke in the Herald on Sunday. “New Zealand Herald stands by its story” From Morning Report on 23 Jun 2014. Murphy was obviously feeling very cocky about it and let ...
Then it goes on: ...One of his first acts on his return was to sack two lower-ranked Cabinet ministers - as Roughan puts it - "for nothing in particular that they had done". Kate Wilkinson and Phil Heatley would have had no inkling of their fate when they ...
Despair is the right word to use. We are in desperate times because so much is at stake. It’s not a game, it’s not sport, although some of the folks leaving comments here seem to get puerile glee from the point-scoring argy bargy. Unless there is a huge ...
I thought David Cunliffe was great on Q&A his morning. Feel very encouraged, especially as Key has gifted the Labour Party a major point of difference with his toadying up to Uncle Sam.
I think a bottle of palm oil would be a better choice than wholemeal flour. You can make good healthy food with wholemeal flour. Palm oil is oleaginous crap.
Today's fine dining is tomorrow's shit, so basically Astle and his ilk are early-stage shit merchants.
If you watch the John Key at home listen for this memorable line: “Making a few more million wasn’t going to make any difference to the lifestyle we wanted.”
Delusion, greed and hate: the three unwholesome roots.
Hello, Dave. You are right when you say provided there is full employment. I've looked back over this discussion and I realize that I should have started off by saying "an honest day's pay for an honest day's work" rather than the other way round. I think ...
Hi, Weka. Thank you for your reply. I'll be honest with you, when I was sounding off, a tiny voice in my head was asking "Who gets to decide if someone is fit for work?" I chose to ignore it, and I thank you for keeping me honest :-). Of course, disabled ...
Same.
Hi, Weka, When I said people who honestly can’t do paid-for work should be treated with compassion and taken care of, I meant people who are sick or very old, or physically or mentally incapable of working. People who are capable of work but don't, through...
Well, for me the concept of an honest day's work for an honest day's pay means that it is dishonest and even immoral for people to expect and take more than they deserve for the work they do. We should condemn the super rich and super greedy as being ...
Thinking about the traditional story of Christmas and all, my pick for the Three Wise Men: the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu and Pope Francis. I'm sure they'd have a lot of fun riding across the desert together on camels.
One could make a case for Waikato and South Island as major tory voters getting special ‘two lane blacktop’ treatment. Not so sure about that. I live in the Waitaki electorate and our road is so bad it's a favourite with rally car drivers. We've had the ...
I don't know what Identify Politics is, but what I think is what we need right across the board is an honest day's work for an honest day's pay.
I'd like to add my thanks, too, especially to Lynn, Karol, Mickey Savage, and many others for their research and facts as well as their valuable opinions. I'm a lonely Labour Party supporter in rural East Otago so I appreciate having The Standard as a ...
Naki Man, you're deluded.
Thanks for coming on The Standard and wishing us well, and thanks especially for giving us hope for a better tomorrow. You have done very well since you became leader. This from John Armstrong no less: "Since taking over from David Shearer, David Cunliffe ...
"Doesn't go well with trout."
From that article: "Irreverent Cabinet Minister Paula Bennett has produced her own pink wine label on a chardonnay this Christmas called "Sip It Sweetie". Some will find their way into Christmas stockings, but most will be auctioned to fundraise for her ...
The difference between old money and new money and pretending to have money.
In Quaxs' words, "this is deja vu all over again."
Cats, with their independent spirit and beguiling purrs, have captured the hearts of humans for millennia. In New Zealand, felines are no exception, boasting the highest national cat ownership rate globally [definition cat nz cat foundation]. An estimated 1.134 million pet cats grace Kiwi households, compared to 683,000 dogs ...
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