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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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Dead man walking….
“National MP Jian Yang reviewing citizenship declarations”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11922788
Who’s the serious looking bloke standing behind him?
Bill English didn’t look rapt having to answer questions about Yang. As if National’s election campaign hasn’t been bad enough! What a trainwreck.
Wonder how they will time the quiet resignation of a list MP. If he has been economical on his CV then he’ll have to go pretty quickly. Not what Bill will want to be talking about in election week.
I believe it was Jami-Lee Ross in the picture you’re asking about, before granny changed it.
edit here’s a wee background piece on Mr Ross
https://www.pundit.co.nz/content/curiouser-and-curiouser
Chris Bishop? And the gormless looking one is Simon Bridges of course!
Granny’s changed the image / video, on an earlier one there was a tall, serious bloke standing at Jian Yang’s right shoulder. A cropped version in still on the home page.
Love the gormless -great description Matiri.
Watched the video through and Bridges reminded me of the nodding bulldogs that you used to see on the rear parcel shelves of cars in the 60’s
Used to see Bridges waiting at Auckland Domestic Terminal when travelling regularly for work. I don’t think that guy changes his expression…… just nods occasionally. Could make you wonder if there is much up top.
Matt,
When he opens his mouth, he removes all doubt. 🙂
On the TV news tonight I saw English with smarmy Bridges. They were both holding kittens.
I have to say it is the first time I can recall seeing dicks and pussies featuring on the early news.
Pete
I have to acknowledge your interesting comment which makes me want to laugh while knowing that i shouldn’t.
A picture!
Pussies and dicks!
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/election-2017/news/article.cfm?c_id=1504338&objectid=11922891
The latest Unicef report has us languishing at the bottom of the developed world in relation to the health and welfare our children and youth.
Child Poverty (41/41?)
Teen Suicide (34/34)
Jobless Households (35/37)
Environmental Awareness (34/36)
Teenage Birth Rate (36/41)
Inequity in Education (34/39
Inclusive Economy (34/40)
Homicide and Bullying (33/40)
Neonatal Mortality Rate (28/36)
Reducing Inequality (26/41)
Food Insecurity (21/41)
Education Performance (15/38)
http://localbodies-bsprout.blogspot.cz/2017/06/nz-now-ranks-at-bottom-of-developed.html
Oh come on someone has to be bottom. We have agreed to be bottom instead of other desperate countries in a face-saving measure for them and expect to be adequately compensated for our gesture. /sarc
Yes ,… I was about to say ,… this is the ‘ Brighter Future ‘ we are talking about here , bucko !!!
Show some gratitude.
Yep! and you wonder how anyone with any degree of social awareness could possibly vote for this to continue…..
National, if they had any sense of fairness, honesty, justice, or shame, would withdraw from this election forthwith as an acknowledgement of their complete and utter failure to deliver a fair and decent society. But that’s highly unlikely because they lack all of the above qualities.
National – delivering Poverty, Suicide, Joblessness, Homelessness, and Hopelessness to thousands of New Zealanders.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!
National with a sense of fairness, honesty, justice, or shame !!!
AHAHAHAHAHA!!! , – I LOVE IT.
I reckon I got a bridge to sell you transported in lovingly by an entourage of flying pink pigs !!!!
The only claim to fame the ‘ National’ party has is the party of the fucked up and willing to fuck up anyone associated with them. L0L0L0L !
Just look at those UNICEF stats , – just fucking look at them !!!!!
Heres a better idea,- why dont we ( after Labour and the Greens win the election ) demand a Commission of Inquiry into just who created this fucked up situation and also demand retrospective justice arching back 33 years to where it all began.
You know , – an inquiry that would take us right back in time to about the year 1984?
And then when restorative justice had been done ,- 25 year prison sentences for treason , – just long enough for those in their ‘golden years’ to rot and die looking at four boringly painted walls?
AFTER they had paid for their prison upkeep out of their own dishonest gains from the taxpayers and AFTER they had been asset stripped with proceeds going into a public consolidation fund and AFTER they were forced to publicly denounce neo liberalism for the wanton and unbridled theft of the commons wealth that it was ?
I would say that would just about make us all square ,… wouldn’t you ?
New Right Fight – Who are the New Right?
http://www.newrightfight.co.nz/pageA.html
Oh btw , MACRO … in total agreement with you matey 🙂
Just struck me as so funny…
‘ National with a sense of fairness, honesty, justice, or shame !!! ‘
Like the British aristocracy who led the ANZACS in World War One ,…. exactly the same sort of ‘ Born to Rule ‘ deluded jumped up sort of wimp arsed wankers who would squeal in terror if a real working class soldier got them alone in the trenches without their Bovver boy back ups and their pips and their epaulets and their parade ground staffs and far from any witnesses….and told them whats what to their face in no uncertain terms ….
Like the Aussies and the Kiwis did.
We need the same sort of balls in dealing with these neo liberal traitors as earlier generations had.
Give em nothing , take them nowhere.
Savemart have apparently fired their unionised workers in Auckland after RNZ started covering the very poor working conditions there this week.
Is that legal?
https://twitter.com/CheckpointRNZ/status/908575646388854784
Ug, what arseholes,
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/201858731/save-mart-fires-workers-after-safety-complaints-union
Slave-mart.
Scab-mart.
Scum-mart.
Sued-Mart.
No, it is not. If it is because they are members of a union.
Me thinks a lot of Person Grievance cases coming Savemart way.
How much will that cost them? Maybe they’re willing to pay to get rid of the union.
No, it’s not.
Bugger!
I have spent more on clothing there than anywhere else.
Followed by the hospice shop in feilding.
If what is alleged is true then the boycott will begin.
If anyone seriously thinks that the new generations coming on are not going to catapult this whole stinking corpse of neo liberalism into the abyss by refusing to be the baby boomers or any other privileged generations work slaves and modern day peasants , – then they had better buy an airline ticket out of here fast.
We are breeding right now as we speak a whole new generation who just wont be taking any more of this shit.
And that’s good.
Because it means this country will not suffer the same sort of civil catastrophe that so , so many others have. The very act of taking this to the vote is the very saving grace we have left of our democracy.
You neglect the new generation , ?… you shit in your own nest.
Big time.
Call me a desperado but I’ve started keeping tabs on the long range weather forecast from Metservice for election day. Looks good so far…fine and partly cloudy for much of the country.
More votes will be not made because of non-enrolment than weather.
That’s most likely true but the weather on the day does play a part.
Long range weather maps have a large high centred to the northwest of the country for election weekend. That augurs well for everyone. Moderate to fresh westerlies with occasional light showers in the west. Mainly dry in the east. Couldn’t ask for better at this time of the year.
Now lets hope they’ve got it right.
“That augurs well for everyone.”
Such sunny optimism! However….keep your eyes open, and prick up your ears….rehearse your loudest cry! For there’s folk out there who’ll do you harm….
Ok
My sister-in-law on her decision to vote National suggested Jacinda “should really be having babies and not be in politics”…this is 2017. Facepalm.
OMG!
You do have to wonder…
I remember vividly in one of my 4th form classes in the 80’s and a very capable young woman told me that there was no way she was going to pursue maths beyond 5th form because it would be useless to her – her mission in life was to marry and have children.
OTOH My daughter is not buying her 4 year old nephew a truck for his b’day – the present is to be gender neutral! 🙂
My mother-in-law said “Well I’m not voting for a horse” (!)
But she could cope with Winston, which was better than English at least.
Heard a few of the horse quips. It’s a deep hatred of “other” under its many guises of sexism, conservatism and often ageism. Change is hard for some.
I dont give a shit who it is or what they look like ,… if it weakens the neo liberal / globalist cause ,… they are my allies.
The long game is step by step , little by little , grind em down.
Its a war of attrition.
Hmmm. That Stuff “Who’s got your vote” poll still has Labour and National in pretty much the same position they were in the last RR/Newshub Poll.
The 6# TOP figure somewhat skew Lab #s down I spose.
I voted 3 times just now. Once through Firefox,Chrome and Safari. Seemed to go through so anyone of any stripe could do that especially a desperate Nat.
Hehehe – voting early and often I see.
But self selected polls are a complete waste of time as you have just demonstrated.
Bridges’ smile – that’s Prozac – right?
Lots of practice staring in the mirror.
Comes from reading How to Win Friends and influence People too many times.
PS: Carnegie changed his name to make people think that he was related to Carnegie.
We see a lot of elderly American women at the gallery who exhibit the same smiling nodding behaviour. I wouldn’t have a clue what they are on but I don’t want any, it totally stuffs their minds, there’s no-one home….
Latest Roy Morgan. Looking good for a Labour/Green/Maori Party coalition govt.
https://www.roymorgan.com/findings/7339-roy-morgan-new-zealand-voting-intention-september-10-2017-201709151750
Won’t load Anne. Overloaded?
Looks like the link is broken. Overload maybe.
Maybe the Dirty Tricks brigade has “leaned”on Roy Morgan?
What is the result. The site seems to have crashed.
OK from memory:
Seats in house:
Nats. 50
Labour 49
Greens 11
NZ 1st 6
Maori P. 2
ACT 1
Lab/Greens/Maori Party – 62
National/NZ 1st/ACT – 57
Thanks Anne, That is nearly a perfect result!
Roy Morgan Votes:
Nat 40.0 Lab 39.5 Gr 9.0 NZF 6.0 MP 2.0 ACT 0.5
Labour/Green government here we come!!!
Act 1 could be an overhang seat, which would see National/ NZ1st/ Act with 58 seats. Redistribution of the support for parties not getting 5% would probably give the left one extra seat, giving them 63 seats to the right´s 58.
However, on those figures NZ 1st would probably support the left on C&S in return for some small concession.
Sorry. Figures quoted probably include redistributed seats, so 62 – 58.
However, on those figures NZ 1st would probably support the left on C&S in return for some small concession.
Agree.
If NZF hold the Northern seat, they would get in with even 4%.
am guessing this is the other half of Josie Pagani (is not a common name)….something of a tag team it would appear…I have never felt sorry for Stephen Franks until a couple of days ago when he was on RNZs panel with the exceedingly verbose Josie
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/thepanel/20170914
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2017/09/14/47950/time-for-jacinda-to-make-some-enemies
it also appears they are well matched in their dubious thought processes
HiveMind Report – A Universal Basic Income for Aotearoa NZ
labour and Greens, when they’re in government, should concentrate upon creating a UBI.
On The Nation tomorrow they are doing a piece about the proposed Waimea Dam which is located in Nick Smiths electorate.
Just thought I’d mention…. presently if you drive across the Waimea Plains you will notice Nick Smith hoardings on most of the farms on the Appleby Highway and one of Maureen Pugh on a Vineyard still on the plains but just over the electorate boundary.
I think the whole thing is a rort personally, there are massive conflicts of interest. And I’m really fucked off they are even considering using my rates for it. Anyways looking forward to the story in the morrow.
ACC does more dodgy shit, this time developing predictive software
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11922430
“ACC said staff could see an estimate of the client’s likely recovery duration, and used that to ensure “proactive management” and introduce “interventions” where recoveries were not progressing as expected.
Forster said that was a huge concern, because ACC staff and managers were driven by exit targets – the time in which they could get their clients off the books.
“Targets combined with predictions could drive unlawful and unethical behaviour, such as exiting people from the scheme when they still need ACC’s help,” Forster said.
He did not think ACC had client consent for the corporation to use their data in the model, unless there were forms he had not seen, which was unfair.”
On the radio Trevor Mallard named the bloke who made up the nasty posts about Jacinda as though from Rotary. He was a member of Chris Bishop’s team. A photo was supplied.
You get any more National / ACT types comin’ round trying to tell you lies, just think of this song and tell em to f@ck off.
REBEL SON-OUTTA MY FACE – YouTube
outta of my face lyrics rebel son▶ 3:15