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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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“In considering the matter, the Board unanimously supported a first step in seeking further information from the parties involved, and ensure that the Member of Parliament who was the subject of the allegations was given the opportunity to provide a considered response before any conclusions were drawn.”
“No specific penalties or actions were discussed, agreed, or endorsed by the Board at its meeting yesterday, beyond our support for an investigation in line with due process. It was not and is not a role of the Board to give approval to demote Caucus members or to take similar action.”
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300463540/national-party-board-confirms-it-did-not-agree-to-sack-simon-bridges-as-judith-collins-claimed-in-press-release
The future of Collin's in the National Party is probably untenable.
Will Muller now attend caucus meetings?
How deep are the problems in the National Party?
they start at the top
Tidy comment from Lisa Owen on her Natrad programme promo.
She said " Judith lobbed a hand grenade and took herself out".
Nuff said
I just hope she takes bridges with her. Clean out the trash completely.
You’re not supposed to lob it into your own tent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragging
Judith tried to lob a hand grenade but only threw the pin FIFY
Dean trying to save her arse now her Part in colins' dirty politics backfired,
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/127099113/national-mp-jacqui-dean-speaks-on-inappropriate-simon-bridges-remarks-following-party-turmoil
Good luck with that, she read the tea leaves completely wrong
You know those leaves that gather and rot in the bottom of fetid swamps?
Those leaves.
An apt description
"I knew when I was confided in by a female colleague regarding her allegation of serious misconduct against a senior colleague, that I would likely lose the leadership by taking the matter so seriously.”"
"mealymouthed" is an adjective.
I had always hoped that the siren's were better looking than old jude, but there you go.
So this guy is one of the guys I follow and hes pretty damn good.
This is one of the videos that made me just a little uncomfortable and, if you're honest, you'll feel a little uncomfortable too
Who woulda thunk it.
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The Auditor-General has slammed the members of a school board who paid $450,000 to themselves – and have been unable to say what it was spent on, who authorised it or how the fee was determined.
An inquiry was launched after it was discovered that the Combined Establishment Board of South Auckland Middle School and Middle School West Auckland paid the management fees to the Villa Education Trust in 2018.
However, the school's appointed auditor noted that the trustees of the board were also the trustees of the Trust and "effectively decided to pay money to themselves", Auditor-General John Ryan said.
[…]
"This meant the Board took no steps to manage the conflict," he said.
Alwyn Poole founded South Auckland Middle School and Middle School West Auckland and organised all students at both schools in "villas" of 60 children, each with a class of about 15 students in each of the year levels 7 to 10.
The partnership schools were bulk-funded, enabling Poole and his wife Karen, the Villa Education Trust's chief executive, to hire more teachers by spending less on property and administration.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-school-management-board-slammed-by-auditor-general-after-paying-450k-of-public-money-to-themselves/H2BU2Z6THILVTXLGECEN62WZE4/
What bets the Taxpayers' Union will be right into this tomorrow with press releases?
The Taxpayers' Union which has on its board a co-founder David Farrar. Who occasionally features on his blog site items from the Alwyn Poole mentioned here.
If it were a state school would it be headlines news on Kiwiblog with the boot going in and plenty of condemnation and scope created for the boofheads on there to attack public schools? Too damn right.
Maybe a journalist could ask Seymour some hard questions about this instead of treating him like some kind of darling. Charter schools was his baby and safeguards should have been in place to prevent this theft.
One final comment on National's crazy day …
Clearly most Nat MPs – and more importantly, the vast majority of voters – are relieved that Collins has gone. But let's always remember that National's spineless, morally bankrupt MPs did not take the initiative and make it happen.
Collins finished off Collins. Consider the counter-factual: she doesn't press "send". She doesn't put out that late night press release. She is still the leader today. The MPs are all still saying "Yes, I support our leader".
Perhaps they would move eventually. But not this week, maybe not this year. We'll never know, because they never had the basic decency to do the thing everyone else knew they had to do. Even when it was easy and obvious, and has been for a very long time.
Which is why they should never be put in charge of anything that matters.
There is something systemic in the National caucus, until it is dealt with there will be apathy.
They say that in medieval times a popular sport was to catch a number of rats in a sack, and shake it until they started fighting, then release them into a small space so that people could watch (and bet on the result). Some might say then, that National have returned to their core principles and ancient traditions, others might look to Shane Reti to midwife the birth of a new leader.
But I am reminded only of the desperate struggles of ACT's white walker – Jamie (the family man) Whyte. National seem to have plenty of slime, but no Kenneth Branagh, and a tragic shortage of eels. How then do they propose to breathe life into the random assemblage of charcuterie that is all that remains of their party?
What the fuck is a 'white walker'?
A fictional race from GRR Martins A Song of Ice and Fire which is the source material for the Game of Thrones TV series
White Walkers are a Game of Thrones evil dead type of thing.
https://www.reservebar.com/products/johnnie-walker-white-walker-blended-scotch-whisky
The winner!
The smarter part of the army of the dead.
Got it.
Red what the fu k is google.
Men who can't win piss and moan about a woman who can.
https://twitter.com/GlennBBC/status/1463588799578058753
Collins will be fondly remembered in future.
As the heroic figure who sacrificed herself, and saved the lives of thousands of New Zealanders.
By keeping National, and ACT, out of power during covid!
A great day in NZ politics…celebrate with Franz…enjoy.
https://youtu.be/vQhqikWnQCU
Auditor general should be brought in.
These charter schools get up to 4 times the funding per pupil.
This looks bad the board pocketing money meant to help children do better .
Why has no one media asked experts to fact check Simon Bridges advice on how to father daughters?
Back in 2016 he had fathered two male children by his British born blonde wife, and was thinking out loud about how to father a daughter – with his intellectual peer Jaime Lee Ross connoisseur of the blonde MP's in caucus (with a not so secret crush on Simon's wife).
Simon admitted he was often in a heated (testosterone fueled) rush with his wife and so he would have to change his approach if was to have a daughter.
Conclusion – in 2017 Simon became father of a daughter.
So now we know, he took his own advice and it seemed to work.
Note/reckon – it would require a well funded research study to identify whether this would work on a wider scale.