Effective for the top 5% Crickle, and negative for the rest of us. Except even the top 5% will be affected as the planet burns. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/06/simply-mind-boggling-world-record-temperature-jump-in-antarctic-raises-fears...
And here is another senior Conservative calling for a ceasefire and a halt to UK weapon sales. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/05/israel-gaza-aid-tipping-point-senior-tory-alicia-kearns "She rounded on fellow Conservatives who seek to have a ...
Corbyn will have a wry smile at that.
Here is a turn up for the book-a Conservative MP in the UK with genuine principles. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/04/conservatives-investigating-former-mp-alan-duncan-pro-israel-extremists-gaza I was particularly impressed with this: "...
To take just 3 of the 36 points: "Respond to the independent review of Kāinga Ora’s financial situation, procurement, and asset management." This looks like a sell off of state houses to pay for tax cuts per Key/English. "Take decisions on the removal of ...
...plus the church that aided and abetted Franco's fascist regime in Spain and legitimised Pinochet's fascist regime in Chile: "The Junta was offended by having the Allende regime placed on equal terms. In fact, it was being legitimated by the Church. The ...
+100 Phillip
"In the climate change stuff – If Labor is smart it will have a set of policies based on the science. What it shouldn’t do, IMO, is try and score points against the Government in regards to climate change. They should let the Green Party be vocal in ...
Rates on a house are a type of Land Tax/Wealth Tax/Asset Tax aren't they? And they bear no relation at all to the income being earned by the household.
Agreed....and these days this goes for very rapidly growing Wanaka too. For instance there has been a major debate in Wanaka this week because Wanaka/the Upper Clutha now has a population of 17,000 but effectively has no hospital services at all. St John's...
Tarras airport will be fast-tracked. People I have met who live in Queenstown and the Wakatipu Basin hate the noise from Queenstown airport. It certainly wrecks watching cricket there.
Tarras airport will be fast-tracked.
Plus Parker would out-debate Luxon with ease....having said that my laundry basket would....
No they are not.
Agree entirely on this KJT....did you hear Mike Lee on Nine to Noon today at 9.10?
You sound like one of the people who say to me in Wanaka, "ah but my house is only worth $3 million if I sell it". BTW I worked as a qualified accountant for over 10 years.
"over 60% of the public understand...a CGT". Yeah right.
Idiot Savant has it right today. https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2024/03/no-credibility.html Corin Dann destroyed Hipkins with his first question on Morning Report this week. (paraphrasing from memory here) "You rejected changes to the tax system 8 months...
Thanks Macro
I didn't read Damian Grant's article Kay because I knew that he would say that. It is all rubbish of course. Robertson did a fantastic job, keeping NZ's government net liabilities well below the OECD average despite the Covid crisis and the Cost of Living ...
Yeah thats right....in Akl they would just trash the dolphins.
Dolphins 1 Rich Pricks 0. Maybe there is a god?
Bidens latest stance on Ev's though far from perfect will cut 7 billion tons of carbon emissions according to an article on Politico today. (Trump has said EV's can "burn in hell"). That is the kind of incremental ism we need. (Sorry I can't link cos on ...
Maybe the US should have cut off military aid to Israel-that would have achieved a ceasefire immediately. This is all bluster.
Great post Weka. I think all we can do is to keep ramming home the message again and again and again until enough people realise that much more has to be done urgently to combat climate change. Maybe put this post up every month with varied commentary? ...
I'm with you there Jeremy....I will be helping the people of Tarras (I know some of them) if the fast-track starts. While direct action is unlikely (IMHO) to influence somebody like Simeon Brown (who doesn't give a toss about climate change), turning ...
NZ GDP rose 0.6% for the year ending December 2023. This is far from the end of the world. Switzerland, Canada, Norway, Italy Austria and the Netherlands were all predicted to have growth of less than 1% in 2023 and the OECD was only predicted to grow 1.4...
The Happiness survey was taken between the years 2021-2023 when NZ was happily continuing as usual under lockdown while the rest of the world (apart from WA) was being disrupted by masses of covid cases and millions of covid related deaths. How did we end ...
Surely they wouldn't be that cynical? (sarc)
John Major, who idiotically privatised British Rail, splitting it into numerous uncoordinated and self-interested private companies, has much to answer for.
Tarras International Airport in Central Otago may well be applied for any day now under the new fast track legislation. Simian will doubtless wave it through and there will be nothing the fine folk of Godzone will be able to do to stop it. https://www.rnz....
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