Nationalise the whole ECE sector.
The threat of M Bovis making a comeback should make any dairy farmers blood run cold. With MPI gutted who’s going to help control it. WTF Is Andrew Hoggard thinking??
One of the many things the left can do is talk. Until policy is decided we can talk in general terms. We need to talk about fairness. Whether it’s decency, equality, a fair go, giving everyone a fair suck of the sav, it doesn’t matter. What must be ...
Economics 101, charge what the market can bear. Not cost plus So why do supposedly economically literate MPs in the CoC think rents will come down? No self respecting landlord in their right mind will pass on savings.
Let’s hope MBovis doesn’t make a comeback.
The problem is landlordism. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/mar/19/end-of-landlords-surprisingly-simple-solution-to-uk-housing-crisis?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other “Where Adam Smith and Karl Marx found common ground was in the idea that everyone’s ...
From the sidebar. https://www.kiwipolitico.com/2024/03/two-offenders-different-treatments/ One half unreported by the msm, or have I missed something? ”On the other hand there is a male Pakeha “senior political figure” in a rightwing party who during the ...
We are all the sum of our decisions as adults. Politicians especially should be held accountable for them.
A Carmel Sepuloni as Leader with Kieran McAnulty as Deputy Leader has possibilities down the line.
Pre election Cameron Bagrie was pretty much a shill for the National Party. Now not so much. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2024/02/cameron-bagrie-says-government-should-be-putting-infrastructure-a-country-mile-ahead-of-tax-cuts.html "I would put ...
Do they have name suppresion, or could some enterprising journalist name some names?
How much has Talley’s given to NZ1?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/508492/nearly-200-employers-stripped-of-right-to-hire-migrants-over-visa-scams Name and shame.
Tim Watkin makes some good points regarding our treaty debate. https://www.pundit.co.nz/content/lets-put-down-our-chisels-and-let-te-tiriti-o-waitangi-evolve ”The stone of history cannot be just shaken from our shoe. We have to learn to live with it by ...
Pablo has an interesting take on our new “government.” https://www.kiwipolitico.com/2024/02/the-new-zealand-junta/ ”Another thing about the new government is its utter disdain for the public. Polls only mattered in the election campaign but now are ignored...
On a par with; ”I did not have sex with that woman.” ”I did not inhale.”
Hound her till she resigns. No quarter asked, no quarter given.
The Labour front bench need to go on the serious offensive. Hound Costello, and Mitchell relentlessly. Until they force their resignations. Then target Reti and Wills.
Another issue Luxon has is the cronyism and corruption within his government. Gun toting Judith Collins as Minister of Defence. The same, minister for Orivida as AG. Casey Costello, ex shill for The Taxpayer Union as a minister. Chris Bishop, current ...
Not much of a honeymoon here. “Roy Morgan’s New Zealand Poll for December 2023 shows new Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and the National-led Government (National, ACT & NZ First) with a majority of 51.5% (down 6.5% from November) in their first month ...
How I wish we had First Dog on the Moon here. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/jan/29/toto-the-tax-cut-cavoodle-explains-the-updated-stage-three-tax-cuts?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Still happening. https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350160632/second-michael-hill-jewellery-store-targeted-many-days Where’s the comment from the local MP? Mark Mitchell. MIA?
Pablo on the money again. https://www.kiwipolitico.com/2024/01/a-toe-in-the-fire ”It was obvious that a conservative pro-American government coalition would not only sign a US-drafted declaration defending freedom of navigation and denouncing Houthi ...
They already have!
In reply to Ad at 9. Let’s hope we’re never asked to make a decision to support any action in the Straits of Taiwan.
Currently my hybrid is doing 5.3l/100k.
I’m a YIMBY? Are you? https://theconversation.com/the-yimby-movement-is-spreading-around-the-world-what-does-it-mean-for-australias-housing-crisis-219313?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20January%2018%202024%20-%...
Very well put S. How do other parties counter? My instinct is to go on the attack. Fight fire with fire. However I’m not sure if Labour and the Greens have the stomach for that sort of fight. TPM seem up for it, but are discounted as being uppity Māoris.
Media have a huge role to play here. If they didn’t republish every racist, misogynistic tweet or press release every one would be the better for it.
But not a Christian who follows the teachings of Christ. Sermon on the Mount anyone? https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205-7&version=KJV
This article from The Conversation goes quite a long way explaining America in 2024. https://theconversation.com/is-america-enduring-a-slow-civil-war-jeff-sharlet-visits-trump-rallies-a-celebrity-megachurch-and-the-manosphere-to-find-out-203948?utm_medium=...
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