Surely if voters are too lazy to get off their collective arses and vote it's their own fault ? Don't really see why the political junkies on either side of the fence are getting excited Shearer will do it in a canter.
Two US presidents vs one NZ Prime Minister............. It will be interesting to see if JK and BO have a similar slide in popularity over time as the one that Bush went through ..... 90% after the WTC attacks to 25% when he left office. Edit GS I thought ...
Helen and Michael
Gosh there must be a lot of poverty in parliament at the moment....Gerry, Parekura, Nanaia the list goes on ....we must start paying these people more otherwise they'll become so corpulent there won't be room in parliament for anyone else. Captcha .. ...
You do realise the same arguement is used by your political opponents albeit with opposite players.
Ah so no real reason for disliking ZB and you accuse people of being retarded for fun ...... are you about 15 and commenting here in between surfing porn ?
just interested in why you dislike/consider them a piece of shit - is it particular hosts ? Do you ask anyone who questions you whether they are a retard ? Seems to me it would be more retarded to blindly agree with a webpersona such as yourself.
Is any organisation you disagree with a piece-of-shit or is ZB a special case for some reason ?
Come on r0b the best candidate for the job IMO (Phil Twyford) was quietly told to stand aside because of paranoia about Judith - this was silly as he would've been voted in by the locals in a canter and would've made a good MP for Mt Albert, luckily there ...
Do you believe the Maori party has 23,000 members and Labour has 55,000 ? .... sounds like fantasy to me.
Bah wrong place
Are there any mass membership grassroots parties in NZ ? I was under the impression that the majority of the population still had a deep distrust and contempt for politicians and political parties.
"These businesses ought not to be suckling at the teat of the state." Quite right that position is currently taken by the public service and vast amounts of consultants and other hangers on everyone else should find their own trough to gorge in. Unless of ...
I assume these people already pay considerably more tax than the less wealthy both in PAYE/Company tax and rates...... ummmm so why do you want to tax them more. If you take that kind of thinking to a (i)logical conclusion one would be left with a liveable...
Sean all I really give a crap about is whether my rates will be higher or lower under the new supercity - I don't delude myself that it will be any more/less democratic or more/less efficient than the current buffoons. What everyone seems to forget when ...
. and while the lefties and righties argued until they went blue in the face the ratepayers were none the wiser about whether the rates would be going up or down and whether the super council would be better or worse than the crap they've had to put up ...
Ah I see ...... the point, I think, that is being missed by those fighting the old left vs right battle is that the vast bulk ratepayers are only interested in one thing "will my rates by cheaper" most of us have given up on the councils long ago as a ...
What is this proposed question for the referendum ? Wouldn't it be reasonably easy to ask any questions by mail (we get bills from the council around 5-6 times per annum)
Of course people like yourself with multiple rentals have got nothing to do with the problem ?
Oh FFS ...... There's no real policies in Zimbabwe just mad old Bob Mugabe and his henchman who have stuffed what was a fertile and productive country to the point where they now have to import maize.
John Key is to blame for the house prices in NZ .....wtf ??
One of the wealthiest/healthiest countries in southern africa down the toilet because of a mad despotic corrupt leader, not socialism not capitlilism just a complete turd at the top who's fucked it all up to kingdom come.
I think even National voters should consider voting Labour as a form of sincere gratitude for not letting Judith back into parliament ..... I must admit I had a sneaking suspicion Winni Peters would have a tilt at the seat .. now that would have been ...
Arghhhhh - how hard is it to either put cigarrettes below the counter or behind a cupboard door more to the point how hard is it to regulate for and why has no government regulated it. Seems to me it's an easy piece of regulation and hardly anyone will get...
"Aucklanders like having effective local representation because it is a strongly local city." Maybe ... but it doesn't happen, all we have had for many decades is a small turnout vote every few years followed by an inevitable rates increase with the ...
Bill raving won't do you much good - nor will gutting the NZ farming sector do anything for the climate although it would be an excellent way to screw the country.
If you have your head jammed in a vice perhaps antipsychotics would be in order ? The greatest problem (from an NZ perspective) of the problem being activity is that to substantively decrease that activity would have a fairly grave impact on our major ...
"So if we tweak it here and tweak it there ( profitable) and ‘civilise' nature in the same vein we ‘civilised' most of humanity .make it succumb; subject it to our ‘better' ways, make it behave ‘correctly' then hey! done deal, everything sweet." ...
I remember seeing this on TV and thinking that there was at least some hope for the US when they put such apparently intelligent and capable people in charge of trying to clean up the mess - hopefully she can (be allowed to) make the tough (but simple) ...
"Things like heavy metals, flourocarbons, sprays got cleaned up by some rather strict regulations and laws with harsh fines and other penalties. This is exactly what is intended with Kyoto, but using a price signal rather than fines or jail time." True but...
Quite right even though their parents, children ,partners may make up a portion of those 1.2 million clearly they have no concern about them. Oh but that's right weren't your the chap who came up with the obvious answer that the right are all practising ...
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