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Comment: Calculated cruelty
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 10:39 am, August 14th, 2024
I coudn't agree more...especially, 'Simply saying- all the charter schools will be canned and all their dealings will retrospectively be made public and subject to the OIA as much as any other school.' It's time Labour got some guts and pushed back.Comment: Act plays the race card and the victim card
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 11:35 am, August 5th, 2024
It's not ACT, it's 'FACT' ( Fascist Association of Consumers and Taxpayers)Comment: Act plays the race card and the victim card
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 11:32 am, August 5th, 2024
'Chicago Boys, Thatcher, Pinochet and Reagan.' Well said but you forgot the Koch brother (s) and their ilk who really hold the funding strings.Comment: Act plays the race card and the victim card
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 11:14 am, August 5th, 2024
Thick or bad? Remember Cuba loving lefty Donna Awatere who joined act until she like so many others in act got caught out. The word 'recidivist' come to mind.Comment: About Karen Chhour’s future
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 11:01 am, August 4th, 2024
In Chhour's interview with Tova she got a taste of boot camp culture and didn't like it. I feel a little sorry for her. She's just a puppet of Seymour's psueudo Darwinian philosophy and will be left by him to sink or swim. Real boot camp stuff eh?Comment: They are going to privatise health, aren’t they
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 1:47 pm, July 29th, 2024
Fight back. Any suggestions as to how we mobilise andi fght back? (Serious question)Comment: They are going to privatise health, aren’t they
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 11:07 pm, July 28th, 2024
It's about time to mobilise people.Enough is enough.Comment: Open mike 26/07/2024
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 1:08 am, July 27th, 2024
Yes at the time I thought it was unjustified. Of coure some animals will get sick and some will die. Mind you the last time I went there over a year ago it did look a bit shabby..TVNZ lookd as if they didn't have anyone to kick around after their hit jobs ...Comment: Government wins pay dispute with police: National Party 1, Police 0, Public -1
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 10:23 am, July 16th, 2024
BW. Now! now! No disrespect to the backbones of our nation.Comment: Government wins pay dispute with police: National Party 1, Police 0, Public -1
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 8:56 pm, July 15th, 2024
Whoever you are Mountain Tui you write well and have an intelligent grasp of the issues you write about.Thank you.Comment: Mountain Tui: The Kiwirail Interislander saga continues
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 10:38 am, July 11th, 2024
Ugh! Why have an interislander ferry when you can fly everywhere at the taxpayer's expense ? These politiians are just not in touch with ordinary people.Comment: The implications of UK Labour’s success for NZ Labour
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 6:25 pm, July 8th, 2024
'the UK election wasn't won by Labour.....'That's silly.Comment: Open mike 08/07/2024
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 1:53 pm, July 8th, 2024
I will vote for whoever can do that in New Zealand... except Luxon, Peters or Seymour.Comment: Open mike 08/07/2024
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 11:16 am, July 8th, 2024
me too. was getting worried about the right wing trend in Europe and admre the French for pushing back. Their ability to work together to keep far right bigots out of power is a lesson for lefties in this country. It disturbs me that our left leaning ...Comment: Open mike 26/06/2024
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 1:22 pm, June 26th, 2024
Winston's mean spirited bovine fecal rhetoric is sounding more and more like the convicted felon in the USA. As he ages he seems to think it's more amusing.Comment: Health & safety of workers is apparently about Cones
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 2:16 am, June 16th, 2024
'You have to wonder how we ever survived or got things done more than 20 years ago.'Spoken like a true blue tory. We got things done by killing at least two workers a week in ndustrial accidents usually but not always men with a .family of kids. Yeah let's ...Comment: Health & safety of workers is apparently about Cones
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 11:34 am, June 15th, 2024
Van Velden and Seymor epitomize the theme in a 1959 movie, 'I'm alright Jack' where the worker who climbs the corporate ladder and lands a well paid job says, ' .Pull up the ladder,- I'm OK' ( except I doubt that either of them have ever been a real worker ...Comment: UK General Election – the mood on the doorstep
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 11:55 am, June 11th, 2024
Love the way David Seymour's avatar Nigel Farage is spoiling the Tory chances. Neither can get elected without some dodgy dealings.Maybe they both g.ot trained by Atlas tutors.Comment: The Big Budget Backflip *
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 9:15 am, June 4th, 2024
Robologic -Summed up beautiully.Comment: Open mike 02/06/2024
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 10:18 am, June 2nd, 2024
Well said.-The policies of Seymour and Stanford are awful. Even if you are retired please keep doing the mahi to stop their destructive influence.Comment: Open mike 31/05/2024
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 10:31 am, May 31st, 2024
Can't wait to see him in his orange teletubby suit.Shame he won't be sharing a cell with Michael Cohen.Comment: Open mike 29/05/2024
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 11:23 am, May 29th, 2024
The only squeezed middle is Gerry Brownlees.Comment: Fonterra’s Brand Sale Continues to Drag New Zealand Down
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 11:52 am, May 19th, 2024
Never imnd the milk powder. Just sell all the cows to China. Solves everything.Comment: Open mike 14/05/2024
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 10:03 pm, May 14th, 2024
I hope the leader of Labour will have the guts to announce that when Labour is again the government, Seymour's absurd private charter schools will be closed and disestablished without compensation to the owners.Comment: Open mike 14/05/2024
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 9:20 am, May 14th, 2024
Luxon's comment that he was 'not aware of anyone being made redundant and then. rehired as a consultant, '...'I'm not aware of that. all I can just say .....' is classic sociopathic CEO behaviour- denying facts and evading responsibility.Comment: Open mike 08/05/2024
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 11:30 am, May 8th, 2024
'.you're out'...but good to hear.the a'hole was arrested 40 minutes later.Comment: Open mike 08/05/2024
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 11:13 am, May 8th, 2024
Watched this on TV news. Appalling. and makes me think of 'One strike and your'e out.'Comment: Open mike 03/05/2024
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 11:55 pm, May 3rd, 2024
Yes Espiner had a genuine gothcha.-Seymour thinks he's so clever but he isn't.Comment: Open mike 03/05/2024
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 11:53 pm, May 3rd, 2024
Boris couldn't organise a pissup in a brewery. but he could in Number 10.Comment: Open mike 03/05/2024
Written By: Rodel - Date published: 11:52 pm, May 3rd, 2024
Boris couldn't organise a pissup in a brewery but he could in Number 10.
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