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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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It’s an impressive return on $100,000 investment. How wealthy do you need to be to qualify for ‘aid money’ from the NZ tax-payer?
You are aware that Hagaman’s company operates the hotel. He doesn’t own it and he didn’t have the aid money passed to him. That went to the owners to carry out the expansion.
But of course you know that. You just ignore it because you are following your little leader Andy in his smear campaign.
Was the multi million dollar refurbishment publicly known when the contract was signed?
If not, could it possibly have been discussed at a Cabinet Club meeting, thereby giving a certain hotel chain an opportunity to adjust their tender to be more competitive?
So do you know the details of the funding or how much the company is paid to manage the resort. Please tell.
“how much the company is paid to manage the resort”
I haven’t the faintest idea. Why should I?
Sabine posted a great long spiel on the subject where she kept repeating that it was $7.5 million. When I asked the source of this number, which she had repeated 4 times she never gave me a sensible reply.
Perhaps she will tell you whether there is any truth in that figure or whether she just made it up. I suspect the latter.
Here is what she had to say. It is followed by my request for a link and then a very long reply by Sabine which had nothing to do with the question.
http://thestandard.org.nz/gould-on-nats-sleaze-and-corruption/#comment-1162946
Little is too stupid to be PM.
Hooray! Basic Mind is back.
Lol, is that some kind of bot? I love how it just comes out of nowhere. If that isn’t a flaming troll line I don’t know what is 🙄
“…the left underestimate Key to its peril” & if Little gets under your skin he must be doing something right!
“Little gets under your skin”.
So does melanoma. Now what is the “something right” about that?
You guys are spinning a lot lately. Whats up?
Very exercised over this matter aren’t they. They remind me of when I was a kid… caught out doing something I wasn’t allowed to do. The screams of denial could be heard far and wide.
Yeah the reaction to Little’s call for the AG to take a look at a story that broke on RadioNZ seems way out of proportion. What’s going on?
Obviously a sensitive subject. It has happened for a while. The right clearly believe that the best form of defence is attack.
If Little is the melanoma that puts paid to NZ’s political Right, then there is something very, very right about him
The prognosis for melanoma is actually really good when detected and treated early before it has spread to other tissues or organs. When ignoring the signs the prognosis rapidly drops off to a near-death sentence. Need I say more?
Judging from the present and many past PMs stupidity is hardly a deal breaker to becoming PM.
Bother we had a school group going down to that…
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/79192287/person-infected-with-measles-attended-kapa-haka-regionals-in-hamilton
..I hope they were all up to date with their immunisations.
That’s a great graph. It should be disseminated far and wide!!!
Gosh, even the Nat.rwnj simpletons will be able to understand it.
Not so sure Anne – unless Andrew Little is very sure he has evidence of some wrongdoing he’s buying into a very public legal fight with Earl Hagaman for defamation.
In this article, Little is calling out the government not Hagaman. Has he defamed Hagaman in some way too?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/79163924/Labour-leader-Andrew-Little-defends-suspicion-over-Niue-resort-contract
The blue visual above… if it was my name and I’d done nothing wrong I’d be none too pleased with the inference.
What inference? It’s a timeline of events isn’t it?
Read the headline of the graphic. Little is clearly commenting on National. The inference is that National will give contracts to its donors.
The Nat machine has no problems with calling out any beneficiary who happens to stray / get dragged into into the political arena and cause them the slightest embarrassment. For example the two women that Bennet named and Selwyn Clarke.
But they take a different view when it’s one of their star donors getting the same scrutiny.
Mr Hagaman should step back for a moment and consider the societal and political environment that his donations are facilitating.
+1.
No that’s your spin line to deflect away from the issue, he referred to the govt….come on you can do better than that.
Oh they understand it ,its just that they see no problem with it.
Yes. There was a bit of sarcasm for their benefit in my comment.
I’m reminded of the screaming and howling by the right wing over Dirty Politics. Methinks they’re trying the same trick on again but not sure it will work this time because its all about money. And $7.5 million of it is OUR money!!
Food for thought….
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/politicians-should-be-psychologically-assessed-says-hr-expert-20150621-ghtsji.html
They seem to think that they can test whether someone is a fool or not 😆
Leading psychologist is an oxymoron.
LOL
Anybody else having trouble accessing certain posts? Tonight when I clicked on the Oravida post, a red flag popped up on the tab and the page was blank. This has been happening to the Open Mic post too. As an avid reader of The Standard I hate to miss anything!
Cheers.
I got a page saying that there was some maintenance going on. Maybe Lynn is tinkering.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/21/britain-corporate-fatcat-party-till-we-turn-music-off
because we let them
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/20/eu-dropped-climate-policies-after-bp-threat-oil-industry-exodus
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/20/india-drought-affecting-330-million-people-weak-monsoons
Methinks Hagaman’s do protest too much
Earl is probably doing as told to help the DP machine, dogs n fleas comes to mind.
Hagamans, not Hagaman’s