Nat voter here. Any policy that Labour wants to last long term needs to either be just 1) a good idea (e.g free healthcare) or 2) too dangrous to cancel (e.g. social security in the USA is the third rail of politics). So in terms of Labour's pet policies -...
Nat voter here. Own goal. Either make a small bit of noise to keep the base happy, or at least keep to message. In the big scheme of things an extra public holiday is not going to break the bank.
Easy - buy a solar pannel or a few. Suddenly the price of your electrons drops even further.
Cold Hard Cash. Case in point. Wendover Productions on Youtube did the numbers for an electric short range aircraft. Electric power reduces fuel costs and repair costs by an extreme amount and resulted in a profit margin of $100 per passenger (up from $1)....
The government can easily talk to them - simply send someone who they can cut cut loose if things don't work out. There are plenty of people who could fit the bill - many ex Labour MP's for example. Sure there are werdos/Nazi etc. out there. But not all of...
An observation. I was in Ireland as I watched their housing crisis destroy their banks. The large pot of stamp duty resulted in the government accounts becoming distorted by all this extra money. When the party stopped in 2008, all the money Stamp duty ...
None of my business and would not know about how the Nats would go about it.
Nat voter. There will be some voters from the Nats who will have had enough and gone right to Act. But so what. The polls were a 10% gap or so between Block Labour and Block National anyway before this mess. A mess. Personally Collins should consider ...
Nat voter here. If you want the Nat party to agree to what the Government is doing you invite them into the government. And then you modify policy to as such. But no such offer has been made as I am aware. And so we have the outcome we have now - they are ...
Nat voter here. Agree fully with vax mandates. Jab, Jab or no job - sorry. Disagree with Judith over lifting them at 90% plus.
Agree Agree Agree. No jab no job - unless you work alone. No jab no vaccine passport. It is time to make clear that persons who will not be vacinated will have to live with their actions. Now will the govt change their tune?
A well reasoned answer. While I note that practices have improved a lot in the past few decades FACTA and CRS making it harder to hide money. Bearer shares (Shares which give the holder of the certificate the powers over the company - i.e. hide your cash) ...
Welcome to the legal arms race. Sure we can do this, but the reality is that tax reduction stratergies will continue for decades to come.
We have a few months to wait and see what happens to the countries which opened up, while we get our vacines rate up. This should prove useful when making a policy decision. But while we are waiting can we at least open up more MIQ rooms?. This is very ...
Well we can say what we like about this agreement however the NZ Nuclear Free Zone act does permit the following: (see s12) 1) Innocent passage, 2) Travel through straits 3) Ships and aircraft in distress. Just remember that if we annoy the USA they might ...
No point crying over it. This act has created thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of publicity for this vaccine program. Will it be used to get more people vacinated or not? Because Seymour and his supporters will not care, in fact for them the ...
Thanks for a well written article. Yet the US Secretary of State claims that this is NOT Saigon. Silly man. Reminds me of the Iraqi Information Minister. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/15/antony-blinken-us-mission-afghanistan-saigon
Sky has the freedom of speech to spread their views. But Youtube also has freedom of speech as well. They are free to dump anyone from their platform. And so they have.
My feelings exactly. It is odd that politicians often offer x more police for their election campaigns or $y for health. But they don't look at things like, not having doctors work insane shifts, or the level of nursing care needed. What's more you would ...
I note that back in the 4th Labour government the farmers were unhappy about the government ending subsidies. Then I note that back in the Clark Government the farmers were unhappy and drove "Myrtle" up to Parliment. And third time Lucky? We see protests ...
Yes he is back. But remember, he only has to appeal to the 10% of the electorate that is likely to vote for him. Thus he will offend the Greens, leftist Labour and even Act voters, because at the end of the day - these people are not going to vote for him....
Nat voter here. I am happy to support the Unions on this one. In theory a pay freeze is a good idea. But I smell the inflation bomb coming. Nor has the govt gone and advertised some kind of general spending restraint. In any case the individual departments...
Nat voter here. Well written article. A big fight between the USA and the PRC. A fight I would like to sit out and avoid if at all possible.
Implementation is everything. Anyway. Why did the Act reformers come from the Labour party? Because Labour was the party of the reform, whereas the Nats were the party of the status quo. The reforms outlined by Labour are safe and unlikley to be overturned...
Nat voter here. The attacks of the health reforms by National appear to be trying to create noise for the sake of noise. When Kiwiblog approves in principal the basic thrust of the reforms, I don't see the point of making a big song and dance. So team red ...
Goodbye health boards. When Kiwiblog comes in support of the basic gist of this policy, then it looks like this policy could work. Again implementation is another issue. All the best for the next few years implementing it
The odd person from the right wing has also proposed a UBI. I recall it was a Republican who started Alaska's investment which funds their UBI program. Do things right and you could do a deal with the Nats and have something which both sides of the ...
Right we are stuck with her (whenever she gets sent back to NZ). Australia is not going to take her back. So what are we going to do with her? No point getting grumpy. The death penalty is out, so what resources are we going to use to make sure she not ...
I see Hong Kong as being a battle ground between the two big powers. Want to poke the Dragon - use Hong Kong. While Hong Kong is being held up as the example for Capitalism, the reality is that this only goes so far. Market failure in housing is everywhere...
Reality can be a painful thing - much easier to live in deception. By creating a more crazy conspiracy.
Nat voter here. Trump could have gone done as a great American President. Instead he has gone down as one of the worst. (Remember some US Presidents were in the slavery job and one was in the CSA). I feel a peace- he has now gone. Now for some crazy ...
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