Written By: - Date published: 11:42 am, February 4th, 2008 - 45 comments
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This cartoon from Moreu got me thinking…
If interest free student loans, Kiwisaver and Kiwibank are dead rats for the Nats, what the f— are the live ones?
The fact that they see these as ‘unpleasantries to be endured’ surely speaks volumes.
UPDATE: Someone’s just suggested “Murry McCully” as a live rat.
Evidently this is the view from inside the nest as well if Bill English’s email to Brash is any indication: “You need to know now that the experienced people you have will NOT work in a government run by McCully. I and others will not tolerate him exercising the same influence he does now.” (The Hollow Men pp. 146-8)
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I wonder what Helen will swallow from the Greens, Maori Party, etc to remain Prime Minister. Airlines better schedule additional flights the fuck out of here if such an unholy coalition is the outcome later this year.
Bye Murray I hear there is a river named after you in OZ
Murray
Helen’s already swallowed the Green’s smacking policy and it’s pegged her down a bit in the polls, FTA with China will probably enable us to sell a shit load more coal though, so there may be some hard yards ahead there anyway.
Are foreshore and seabed like Mussel’s, if you have much all at once you can develop an allergic reaction?
National has been sitting pretty in the polls now for the best part of a year – on current results it has the election in the bag and may even govern alone.
Why on earth then would they think they have to keep adopting Labours policies. Make one wonder, they may know just how fragile their support is.
I think the Nats have seen the light and have realised that there is no future in the politics of selfishness and greed and have become progressives . I and I for one applaud them for that.
Ot its because all their supporters have fucked off to Australia
“Or its because all their supporters have fucked off to Australia”
Yep, tradesmen/women and recently graduated students… not exactly the National party demographic.
Phil Ok point taken, it was the seeing of the light then
I note that the Dom has also brought this issue of dead rats in today’s editorial:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominionpost/4387232a6483.html
Well, no, as a matter of fact they don’t have lower taxes once you take into effect their SS. And you have to do that otherwise you cannot compare the two as our SS is bound up in our taxes.
Yes, definately – but that isn’t something the government can do anything about. It’s a free market and the employers make the decision on how much to pay. If they continue to pay less than Australia it appears that they will eventually run out of labour.
So that sending in the troops to sort out the natives wasn’t in any way interfering then?
I think you will find, once you get right down to it, that the Australian government interferes as much as our/any government does. This is because they actually have to to keep society functioning and to do that you need to stop people from performing actions that are detrimental to society.