Imagine you worked hard to distress disabled folk and their carers and couldn’t even get into the top 5 worst ministers in this government. https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350226548/cabinet-puts-disabilities-ministry-watch-after-families-blindsided The ...
Wait we had a bunch of the usual suspects telling us that Curia would never do a thing like that! You’d think there’d be at the minimum a perception of conflict of interest given the highly political role Mr. Farrar has had.
Trolley problem: 5 dolphins or Russell Coutts? "I find it astonishing the amount of influence iwi have over the authorities here in New Zealand," he wrote, saying that DoC would not allow SailGP racing in Lyttelton without approval from the iwi. [Coutts ...
And his response is let’s talk about maybe doing something that I ruled out a month or two back. Back the words with action, otherwise they’re wasted words, and more than likely require someone who can be credible announcing it.
I feel like inflation is screwing our exports.
Except that Anderton and Clark already had history. And Chippy is mostly a control freak leader, who’s uninterested in the policy making structure of his own party. He thinks about clinging on. I can’t see that he’s a man who would risk giving the Greens (...
It was all there when in the election campaign when they had Luxon, Goldsmith and Mitchell on a standup and though they were making a prisoner based announcement none of the knew the cost of incarcerating a prisoner for a year. But for some reason they got...
For the above quote. https://thekaka.substack.com/p/paying-for-tax-cuts-by-not-funding?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
The worst government of the last 4 decades combining the casualness of the Lange years and with the narrow view of the Muldoon years. Here from Bernard Hickey explaining the parts of the difference between Richardson’s real crisis and Willis and Luxon’s ...
Rod Oram. At the going down of the Sun, we will remember him. https://newsroom.co.nz/2023/05/02/rod-video-10-anxiety-into-action/
This doesn’t hit home. Not if cyclones or floods don’t. A little bit of consumer change won’t be a thing either. This is at the point of requiring revolutionary change. But that likely will create instability where stability and cohesion is required to ...
Already in the shop window for spring sales!
Aahhh! Again back to the 90s when the government were not a charity, but businesses were. They were supposed to give up their time to guide universities on what they should teach etc etc. Not sure what’s been done to the apprenticeship plans that were ...
Shall we play this silly little game with taxes? When is a new tax not a tax? Why when it is a levy, a user charge, a fee, or some other type of weasel words. Watch for these sprouting like mushrooms. It’s already begun in transport. Seems likely the ...
Rather like these guys: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/511812/government-rejects-westport-s-plea-for-flood-protection-funding Pick and mix approach to climate change preparation. We’re not in this together. We’ll give you a whole lot of new mines on ...
*$800 million
Omg and he’s so smug. How smug is he? He’s so smug that if you juiced the smugness from Peter Costello and Paul Keating you wouldn’t fill Luxon’s little toe. In a video in which he’s justifying a cost of an extra $800 as if it’s a rounding error (in light ...
It’s almost like someone has told don’t worry get out there it’s part of politics. Unlike being a middle manager somewhere in Canada, being remembered as New Zealand’s Liz Truss will stick. Being remembered as someone who just told the worst and most ...
And on top of Ol King Lux’s House and chariot not being befitting, that the news peasants should cease their begging and their criticism of the government, we had the thousand dollar a week distraction. 52k a year. A distraction because here he’s sent ...
I mean who should we respect? The tobacco sales team straight from HQ? Shane Jones the decider? Chris - Ol King Lux- Luxon? The ones insisting benefit cuts are good for the poor? The ones that are insisting that these boot camps will be different? David ...
She’s worked well with Wayne Brown. Part of the skill is finding areas to work together on.
Luxon’s new numbers come from the public seeing him talk like a c- and walk like a c-. Both on his accommodation and how tough his transport was (no former PMs said I’m better than this, thanks). But here’s a kicker: This shows the pure ignorance at the ...
Rest in Peace.
The cheek to say the coalition is scrapping (the rest of the) successful climate change programs (that we didn’t scrap when I became leader). And a bit with a dog! Not enough to get my vote back tbh. But enough to make this a one term government? Who’s the...
Not very human was it? But I think we need to beware. They’ve attacked our eyes and ears. What’s coming? Something they don’t want us to see or hear until TINA is applied. Or perhaps they don’t want us ever to quite see it. The plan is more than tax cuts. ...
Yes, but your handle suggests you live in a foreign language festival offering. Perhaps looking for the title I once bestowed upon a magnificent acquaintance as Minister for Unpopular Culture’. BTW can NZ watch Last Week Tonight on YouTube? Because the ...
Yeah- imagine rolling out some crap that was old in the 90s and expecting the country to live with it!
This is kind of annoying. Part of the blame lies with the intelligent but dumb, part with a party who refused to defend and articulate the positive work they’d done, but rather empahasised that they were cutting costs, scaling back engagement with Maori ...
Mr ‘Anglo-Saxon simple’ Brown is making a strong case that he, and not Ms. Costello is by far and away the worst MP and minister. Though with the third (?) introduction of military style boot camps (exactly what people who’ve experienced head trauma need ...
Has cutting 3 waters and the uncertainty in response to the floods cost us large scale Amazon investment? Concerns about waste water in West Auckland… https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/03/01/amazons-7-5b-nz-data-centre-plan-quietly-put-on-hold/
Jon Oliver this week on putting the cost cutting managerialists- you know this government of invented panic and arbitrary budget reductions- in charge of a company of product led excellence. The doors start coming off aeroplanes. And we’ve been here before...
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