They are not there to get the views of people, they are there to push their own views which are almost invariably right wing. I see this constantly on Left-wing blogs and social media accounts so it seems an accepted truth. But were that true then right-...
Ok, let’s do that. So, the writer of this opinion piece states here that David Seymour’s interpretation is wrong, and that the coalition is disorganised, unstable, and hiding behind this to make un mandated changes behind the scenes. I would say that is ...
Just agreeing with the two posts above. The same is also echoed my one Chris Trotter who is a famously left wing blogger and on this topic I fully agree with him. I’m not sure it’s a LW or RW argument at all.
I never saw this outburst, however these types of things just re-enforce the craziness that people associate with this individual and makes the chances evermore likely that a referendum will happen simply because people want to draw a line under this sort ...
There are only a few treaty settlements left and they are in the final stages of being signed off I understand. The settlements that have been made are full and final. Full and final is exactly what it means.
Luxon will learn. He is new to the game, and a fast learner. Hipkins in comparison has been there for years, it's been his only job. He was woeful as prime minister and got routed in the election. He will get the occasional success, as he seemed to today, ...
I welcome the debate. Nothing wrong with that, and the nation want it. If it were put before the people today. Acts bill would pass. My view is that this shoud happen. The courts ‘interpretation’ of the treaty needs to be thrown out, and the meaning ...
I think we need to understand and accept that the previous government had fiscal policies that did indeed heighten the affect of the portion of inflation that was imported from overseas. National is not responsible for the drop in inflation. All that has ...
The latest Roy Morgan has National with more votes than Labour the Greens and the other party combined. Thoughts. [TheStandard: A moderator moved this comment to Open Mike as being off topic or irrelevant in the post it was made in. Be more careful in ...
@newsense. I think you will be pushing stuff uphill here on that one. Still, it seems you have support from two left-leaning authors, historian Toby Green and economist Thomas Fazi, have written a new book on the global response to the Covid pandemic, The ...
I'll draw your attention to a post made in 2019 by Chris Trotter where he noted a Working Class protest on the Coast, The Message From Messenger Park, but less for his comments than one by long-timer "Sanctuary": Wah wah wah, cry me a river. I am heartily ...
If you take all the tax banding adjustments its roughly a 12% increase overall, so it's way more that 10,000 you and Weka don't seem to realize the actual amount in taxes the so called well of would be liable to pay. That's why there is this ill informed ...
I'm a NZ citizen who works on average 12 hour shifts for up to 300 days straight overseas, and I would refuse to pay the roughly 40,000 extra in tax the Greens would want. I fully believe I pay my fair share of tax. During covid I failed to get a MIQ spot ...
10,000 dollars extra I wish, with the Greens making 75k to 120k 35% and 120 to 180k 39% and 180 and above 45% its abit more than that.
As someone that earns 340k working overseas and paying 115k in tax already in NZ as tax resident, this policy would break the camels back and I would depart NZ. 2 of my NZ Co- workers already set up in other countries when Labour increased the top tax to ...
I'm amazed that this Malthusian nonsense has raised its head once more. A forecast of the global human population reaching 18 billion this century? I had similar arguments on Kiwiblog in 2008 where I quoted another book published in 1974, not long after ...
Pffft... Wayne Brown was utterly useless in the Far North and his DHB role shows that he's just another trougher. But that doesn't justify scaremongering lines like: The alternative does not bear thinking about. Please! If elected he'll change little or ...
Hmmm, John Minto says, Not a single fighting bone in his body when it was needed the most I know there will be some who say we shouldn’t speak ill of the dead and try to salvage something positive from his union work. Don’t bother. His betrayal of workers ...
Only Right-Wingers? So I gather from these comments that none of you felt any sense of freedom at all with these announcements? Or worse, perhaps a sense of oppression from the now maskless? Anyway, watch this video of little kids jumping for joy in Las ...
It's not really a question of ideology but simply failing to scale up, as I've seen in many corporate environments. And corporations often stagnate precisely because the small, inventive, creative parts of themselves get stifled or outright killed off. ...
This New Zealand government, based on no specific plan or electoral mandate, has in the course of just one calendar year renationalised the entire health system, centralised public television and radio, pulled in all property management from school boards...
Ick. Just shows me to check my numbers. Can't find my original number for coal generation in 2010 but the one I used was wrong. However, the good/bad news is that it only changes the monthly reactor build rate to just under seven per month globally for a ...
Well about a decade ago I ran some calculations for a comment on Kiwiblog <a href="https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2014/12/a_nuclear_power_debate_in_australia.html">A nuclear power debate in Australia</a>: <i>So to replace coal with nuclear on a global basis ...
Well ADVANTAGE, you seem to be the one blogger here who might allow this through so I'll give it a crack, especially since this guy, Professor Simon Michaux, doesn't take issue with global warming, but in an online conference looks at the extra capacity ...
For all the talk of Dugin and company inside Russia you all might want to have a read of this 2018 article from NY Books about an early-mid 20th century Russian philosopher, Ivan Ilyin, Putin's Philosopher of Russian Fascism. He's some piece of work and ...
pathetic article, worst I have seen on this website for a long long time, a true hack job (the hosk would be proud of it), am too busy to comment on here generally, I do like to read the website and keep up with how the left is thinking, but had to comment...
Well yes, but amidst all the ranting from Righties who got fooled there was also a gentleman from the left who fell for it - and his take was the complete opposite: <blockquote>ross411 Maybe I am in the minority, but I have no problem with this. Everyone ...
Isnt the official investigation something the police should be doing in cases of sexual assault?
There is a strong argument of removing ethnospecific cultural and religious references within 'Christchurch' in favour of Ōtautahi - its indigenous name - for all levels of government, as well as legal and official documentation. It would be consistent ...
Brexit attrition leaves Teresa a leader in name only https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/13/as-the-losses-take-their-toll-may-is-now-a-leader-in-name-only
Tory contenders jostle for position .. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/brexit/8622780/theresa-may-forced-to-deny-shell-quit-after-brexit-deal-is-killed-off-as-tory-contenders-jostle-for-position/
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