Daily review 02/06/2021

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  1. weston 1
    2 June 2021 at 5:46 pm

    Nice quote from george galloway refering to Keir Starmer "So wooden that dogs pee on him " pretty apt i reckon !

    • Gabby 1.1
      2 June 2021 at 6:09 pm

      George would know what cats would do, but he doesn't get on with dogs too well.

    • McFlock 1.2
      2 June 2021 at 9:19 pm

      Galloway. Heh. Half of Orsen Welle's ability to do socio-political commentary, and an even lower comparative ability to pull off the fedora look.

    • millsy 1.3
      3 June 2021 at 9:21 am

      He won't be leader by the time the next election rolls around.

      Too bad Corbyn screwed up by agreeing to the 2019 election. He would have been in his element now, with COVID and everything. He may, God forbid, be the PM now.

  2. Pat 2
    2 June 2021 at 6:08 pm

    How much CO2 needed to repair the damage in Canterbury?

    • Ad 2.1
      2 June 2021 at 6:17 pm

      you could think of it as a great nutrient flush

    • weka 2.2
      2 June 2021 at 10:30 pm

      Let’s repair carbon economy infrastructure instead of using the opportunity to transition. Then transition anyway later because we have to. Wasting precious CO2.

      • Pat 2.2.1
        3 June 2021 at 8:16 am

        The repairs obviously need to occur but as Susan Krumdieck (and others ) have noted before we use vast amounts of energy cleaning up the environmental damage we create…..and energy used to clean up is energy not available to produce and support.

        How often will we be able to repair/rebuild that which is damaged by such events?

        • weka 2.2.1.1
          3 June 2021 at 9:16 am

          Indeed. What happens when we’re getting floods like this every few years? Or two in a year.

          sure, fix the bridges this month, but are we doing that with any regard for climate change mitigation and adaptation?

  3. Stuart Munro 3
    2 June 2021 at 8:40 pm

    Zambia defaults – cue nervous attention in markets.

  4. greywarshark 4
    2 June 2021 at 9:44 pm

    A big number here. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/443888/new-zealand-water-infrastructure-spend-could-reach-185b-by-2051-studies

    Are our future planners out to lunch and dinner? https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/443896/english-language-schools-face-closure-by-end-of-year

    NZ can't just close down viable business streams. It is hard enough to get one going and run it even improperly as we have often done with foreign students. We can't rely on selling houses over NZ people's heads, sort of like the childhood game of Piggy in the Middle where the ball goes over the person in the middle, just out of reach. Then there is dairying, dearie, where our lack of concern for our animal's welfare is not even on a par with that of our disdained low income, no income strugglers.

    Perhaps we could re-establish another Future Commission. https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/igps/about-us/our-history
    The Commission For The Future was a government-funded unit devoted to extending the time horizon of New Zealand's public policy planning. Like its sibling organisation the New Zealand Planning Council, it was established in the early days of the Third National Government, with a mandate to provide government ministers and ministries with policy recommendations that looked to the long-term good of the country: freed from questions of immediate political expediency, the expert policy workers appointed to both bodies would serve as a counterweight to the negative effects of New Zealand's three year electoral cycle.

    Prime Minister Muldoon expressed his appreciation for the ideal of informed apolitical advice by abolishing the Commission For The Future in 1982. In that same year, he let it be known that he found certain recommendations from the Planning Council "unhelpful".

    Sir Frank Holmes – https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/5836762/Top-government-advisor-dies-in-Wellington

    Who does outlook planning now – apart from Treasury's slanted view?
    This? New Zealand's monetary flexibility, wealthy economy and institutions are conducive to swift and decisive policy actions and offset the country's external imbalances”. Moody's, meanwhile, currently rates New Zealand at Aaa with a stable outlook and Fitch Ratings at AA with a positive outlook.31/03/2021
    Is a Strong Economic Recovery on the Horizon for New Zealand?
    https://internationalbanker.com › finance › is-a-strong-eco…

    This is dateless and aspirinational!
    https://www.mbie.govt.nz/business-and-employment/economic-development/economic-plan/
    .

    This is about people drooping from too much work and not enough play.
    https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018797551/how-longer-working-hours-are-killing-us

    • Stuart Munro 4.1
      3 June 2021 at 9:39 am

      Many of the English schools, sadly, were selling residency more than language skills. If that industry shrinks a bit while travel is restricted, that might be no bad thing.

      • greywarshark 4.1.1
        3 June 2021 at 12:17 pm

        True. But gummint clean up your actual act! And don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. Words of wisdom from someone in their rocking chair.

  5. Muttonbird 5
    2 June 2021 at 10:28 pm

    Unbelievable! These people were told very clearly they travelled at their own risk, and there was a high risk of being stranded in the event of a lockdown.

    It was all over the fudging news for weeks. They made their bed, they should lie in it.

    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/06/thousands-of-kiwis-in-melbourne-desperate-for-information-on-how-to-get-home.html