No Right Turn has an alarming message re taxes on E-cars: ....EVs pay road-user charges. "But they're making the e-cars pay tax at twice the amount an equivalent modern vehicle would pay in petrol excise tax: https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2024/01/from-...
No Right Turn has strong words for Willis claiming that the previous government had cooked the books and left the new government with a financial mess to clean up. It was a serious allegation from Willis but ... https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2024/01/...
No-Skates. You describe the realities of being human so well. Thankyou.
A terrible consequence from this may be that the miserable bastards who attacked her might feel emboldened so turn will turn to - who next? I think also that some MPs don't give a toss about what people think of them because they are un-empathetic people. ...
Saddened for Golriz. People like her are needed to help reform our world. Best wishes for her recovery.
Wonder where they had their meeting?
Sweden, and Norway also has a great response: Sweden:"Sweden's non-punitive sentencing model must be working because the overall reoffending rate in Sweden is only 10-40%. Post-prison support is another strong reinforcement for keeping ex-offenders from ...
One of the Western European countries developed a deal with MSM that they would cease catastofreonising (?) the bad news. They also set about increasing rehabilitation in prisons and reducing the punishments in prisons. The prison population halved and the...
Nicola Willis. Show Me The Money!! Show Me The Money!! Show Me The Money!! That cost Labour an election it was said, so what about you?
OOps. copy lost its alignment. Someone fix? Surely National didn't leave 155 fiscal cliffs behind in 2017 - did they? A selection of "Fiscal Cliffs" left by National in Budget 2017 by Thomas Coughlin Table with 3 columns and 12 rows. 2017/18 Budget $'000 ...
Thomas Coughlin has done a great job of analysing the "fiscal cliffs" which Willis will hammer today to justify her claims. Thomas has gone through the last Budget line by line and comes up with no support for her claims. Nick Rockwell quoted Thomas: “I’ve...
True BG. But I suspect that Luxon calculates that if he wafts pro climate change rhetoric, he can go ahead and do the opposite and no one would notice. He has a belief in just how clever he is compared to we peasants and anyway he has a supportive god in ...
Marlborough used to be Leftish but the boundary was shifted down to just north of Rangiora and now known as the Kaikoura Electorate, even dopey Stuart Smith wanders in with an 11,000 majority, just like FPP.
The maximum speed on that road is 90k. Parts are less than that. Yes to the hugely reduced accident rate. I travel the Blenheim Nelson road each week and reckon the traffic flow is much smoother and cars seldom overtake each other. Wonder why.
Thats odd. Just watched Parliament on Demand. Government had at least 4 Patsy questions and "Sorry this does not exist" for 3 questions. Chris Hipkins, Camilla Bellich and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer from the Opposition did not replay yet their questions had ...
And their huge skill in managing things and getting outcomes.
Yes thanks Ed. Verity sums it all up so well.
Well said SPC. I think I can hear Ruth Richardson cackling.
Thanks Ad. A clear credible study on pros and cons. It seems even more surprising that Luxon doesn't seem able to see the consequences of his actions. Perhaps his god is guiding him?
Yes Stephen. Funny that though NZ Reading scores started trending down from 2009 around the beginning of National Standards, this bogus Education Minister is going to reintroduce them. Worth a read your link. Funny how the great innovations came from ...
It did seem to me that NZ Business claimed that "Retail Crime" was a serious blow to NZ Law and Order. Suited the Opposition to add it to the mix of anti-Labour soft on crime rhetoric. What data did NZ use?
Nick Rockel has yet another in depth read on the risks/problems from the loss of Three Waters. So local councils, who screamed their opposition to Three Waters, saying “don’t take away water, you’ll dilute my powers”, will now be told, “fine, it’s all ...
Surely the highly skilled negotiator Luxon would have seen the fragility of the NZF position, or was it worth the risk so that he could become Sir Christopher Luxon? However what if NZF support from fans does turn to custard? Winston is installed in the ...
That first speech of Luxon's was just mean spirited. I cannot remember any Leader spouting in the House such a miserable diatribe picking out members of the Opposition. Unforgivable. There are many NAct NZF members who, although politically opposed, get on...
The threat sounds so alarmist but so far Trump continues having a huge effect on MAGA. Each time he is charged his polling goes higher, and none of his opponent candidates get near him. And in spite of the economy picking up under Biden he is not seen as a...
Reading David Slack this morning he has a grim message that Trump will get in as President again. Hell and descent into a grim lawless State without democracy. Under a second Trump presidency, he contends, political persecution and attacks on opponents ...
Yes. Please do Ad.
Luxon spent 14 min of his 28 min speech moaning about Grant and Chris then launched into his election speech without any actual grit. Empty vessel. Hope? Excitement? Competence?
Adrian I thought Iprent and Robert's point was not to drown all the forests, but to doubt that forests were even a viable means of climate change.
X was flooded with thanks and appreciation for the whistle blower. Even demands that Jacinda should be brought back to stand trial for murder.
It is incredible that given the huge number of speeches delivered by Luxon, telling us that the terrible cost of living and dreadful inflation is stopping good people from getting ahead or even getting enough food on the table, he/they do this miserable ...
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