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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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Nice quote from george galloway refering to Keir Starmer "So wooden that dogs pee on him " pretty apt i reckon !
George would know what cats would do, but he doesn't get on with dogs too well.
Thats so lame gabs carefull you dont strain your brain !
Well miaow to you too!
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.
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.
How much CO2 needed to repair the damage in Canterbury?
you could think of it as a great nutrient flush
You can think of it as all manor of things….none of them beneficial as far as i can see….except perhaps as a warning
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Let’s repair carbon economy infrastructure instead of using the opportunity to transition. Then transition anyway later because we have to. Wasting precious CO2.
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?
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?
The insurance industry will probably react faster than govt to the predictable risks of where and how we build.
that's not likely to give us good solutions though?
Public infrastructure is largely uninsured
Zambia defaults – cue nervous attention in markets.
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/
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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
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.
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.
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
They could be National supporters who know nuffink nor what personal responsibility means
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But, but we thought everything was okay now, that we could just go on with having everything we wanted, the PTB were sorting everything for us.
WH Auden time again (1 September 1939)
Faces along the bar
Cling to their average day:
The lights must never go out,
The music must always play,
All the conventions conspire
To make this fort assume
The furniture of home;
Lest we should see where we are,
Lost in a haunted wood,
Children afraid of the night
Who have never been happy or good.
https://poets.org/poem/september-1-1939
And we put ourselves in jeopardy for these people and the tourist industry. Caution and better controls needed!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/443949/covid-19-ministry-of-health-reveals-it-missed-177-people-who-had-travelled-from-melbourne