Popularity doesn’t make it OK

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1. One Tāne Huna 1

   7 March 2013 at 9:00 am

   It’s getting so hard to be an enabler these days. I only drive the car, of course.
2. tc 2

   7 March 2013 at 9:19 am

   Look at me, look at me, look at meeeeee…..see I’m still relevant look at all thegood stuff I do.

   Without me you’d still be owning your power companies, collecting gift tax etc etc
   • The Al1en 2.1

     7 March 2013 at 7:16 pm

     “look at meeeeee…..see I’m still relevant look at all thegood stuff I do.”

     He hasn’t gotten drugs out of our local sweet shops and dairies, so now we have drug dealers selling shit and munchie supplies in a one stop shop.

     As it’s the only thing I can recall him doing (except taking the easy way out in the asset sales vote), I’d say a fail, and a big one at that.
     Whoring principles for confidence and supply.
     Bouffant twat.
3. Te Reo Putake 3

   7 March 2013 at 9:22 am

   Previous Governments are to blame? The ones Dunne was a member of? What a load of sanctimonious twaddle! And as for ‘fast and loose’, deliberately keeping schtumm on his actual intentions over asset sales so the voters of Ohariu would re-elect him falls into that category as well.
4. ordinary_bloke 4

   7 March 2013 at 9:54 am

   Dunne is right, and Anthony R0bins is on the ball .. but that unfortunately is how business is often done in Aotearoa/NZ these days.
   • Draco T Bastard 4.1

     7 March 2013 at 10:38 am

     That’s how business has been done in Aoteroa for quite some time. In fact, that’s the cause of those rules that Dunne and others are complaining about. This governments actions is just things returning to the times that such corruption wasn’t prosecuted.
5. geoff 5

   7 March 2013 at 10:08 am

   Dunne isn’t disgusted, Dunne is disgusting.
   • aerobubble 5.1

     7 March 2013 at 12:27 pm

     Build a yacht, sell it overseas for US$, now
     do your bring the profits back and are taxed
     at a higher rate, or just the cost component?

     Why not borrow some money and send that overseas
     too, ‘for advertizing’ – hell why borrow in NZ
     at higher interest. Use the collateral from
     your obvious business success overseas to borrow
     money in some cheap foreign domicile.

     Now that you have debt overseas you can
     pay off the debt slowly with any NZ profits thus avoiding
     any tax in NZ. The NZ ledger is barely making money,
     but overseas you have a massive growing portfolio
     of wealth – because obviously you used your profits
     to lend your NZ subsidiary money – thus avoiding
     oversight in foreign shores.

     Dunne is the revenue minister, the risk premium Nz
     pays for borrowing is a fix up.
     • AsleepWhileWalking 5.1.1

       7 March 2013 at 9:44 pm

       OR you could just go to Chile, have them give you $40K USD

       http://startupchile.org/about/the-program/

       We are SO behind the eight ball
6. Matthew 6

   7 March 2013 at 10:39 am

   The stupid thing is, Dunne doesnt need to suck up to anyone. Key needs him more than he needs Key. If i was Dunne, I would be putting the boot into Key at every opportunity.
   • tc 6.1

     7 March 2013 at 11:13 am

     Dunne’s a slimey butt licker and Slippery knows it being one himself.
   • geoff 6.2

     7 March 2013 at 12:15 pm

     Dunne only has eyes for re-election. He’s probably just trying to create a little distance between him and National in case they become unpopular and he gets tarred with the same brush.
     • emergency mike 6.2.1

       7 March 2013 at 1:16 pm

       It’s like he’s suddenly woke up and decided that good family first folk who support him might not approve of NAct’s ‘rules are for fools’ style of deal making. And he doesn’t want them to start seeing him as the self-serving rubber-stamper for NAct that he is. Hence this wet bus ticket.
     • wyndham 6.2.2

       7 March 2013 at 1:54 pm

       +101 Geoff
7. vto 7

   7 March 2013 at 12:18 pm

   Dunne has no credibility
8. fenderviper 8

   7 March 2013 at 2:18 pm

   Best to take no notice (and treat him with contempt, as he has treated NZ) of anything Dunne has to say. This is simply the bad hair jerk positioning himself onto the fence in preperation for the next election in an effort to keep his carriage on the gravy train. The sooner we see the end of this creep the better, c’mon Ohariu release yourselves from this has-been never-was.
9. AsleepWhileWalking 9

   7 March 2013 at 9:46 pm

   He did try and sort out the child support mess.
   • RedBaronCV 9.1

     8 March 2013 at 7:05 am

     He’s made it worse. Rules made by the boys for the boys and it’s costing the taxpayer some $40million.
10. Peter 10

    7 March 2013 at 9:54 pm

    I believe Key should be congratulated. His ability to set up smoke screens to dupe the 90% and then pillage the country for the 10% is second to none.
11. Populuxe1 11

    8 March 2013 at 6:16 pm

    But apparently popularity forgives all if you’re Hugo Chavez – that seems a tad inconsistant
12. Ugly Truth 12

    12 March 2013 at 5:45 am

    From the common law is a related idea:

    The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void ~ Edward Coke

    This sort of thinking doesn’t go down well with the freedom and democracy (mob rule) crowd. It is arguably part of the reason that the state lies about the nature of the common law, saying that common law is nothing more than case law. English common law, as established by King Alfred the Great, was based on aspects of Judaic law, beginning with the ten commandments.

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