' Yes, I saw that statement. I linked to it in my comment with my opinion of it.Yet how odd that, according to Hansard . . . TAXATION (BUDGET MEASURES: FAMILY INCOMES PACKAGE) BILL A party vote was called for on the question, That the Taxation (Budget ...
' Dunno. On the surface, there appears no point. I could speculate, though. Were the Green MPs signalling to the base that "we are not subordinate to Labour"? Were they just giving Labour a reminder that "we are our own party"? Bit of both? Some kind of ...
' I care deeply about education, and health, and the environment, all sorts of good things. I ache in the realisation that all those things are going to have to get worse before the foundation required, first to stabilise and then to build, can be laid. ...
' If my current thoughts about this election were driven by a concern for ideological purism and social media, you might have a point. At this stage, its more about having had a guts full of the unified pretense that there is more than one ideology on ...
' That is my understanding. I would be pleased to have data which proves I'm wrong.
How the hell is not voting “more likely to result in positive change”? . . . Because not voting is only a small part of it. I'm not refusing altogether to engage with a system which cannot represent me - rather, my engagement with it will be with the ...
The problem for the Greens and Labour is that they actually seem to think that the present system is working when it’s failing globally. Hmmm . . . I'm not so sure. The failure is too obvious, especially for those at the heart of the system. It really ...
' If National Ltd™ is returned, I expect there will be plenty of blame going on, just as there was after the last election, and the one before that. And, just like after the last elections, the blaming will prevent any real effort going into designing and ...
' Abusing Russell Brand without addressing his position doesn't help your case. What I like about Russell Brand is that he articulated a subversive alternative which is more likely to result in positive change than any political party is currently offering...
' My main turn off is James Shaw. As far as I can tell, he's a closet neoliberal and overtly incompetent politician. The final straw was when the Greens voted for the Budget. The plaintive excuse is pathetic, the vote betrayed the "no surprises" agreement ...
' Now that I've given up on the Greens, my political views will not be represented in the next Parliament. Who do I vote for? Might as well vote ACT because, at the moment, it seems there are not enough people suffering the effects of neoliberalism for ...
' Apologies are a good starting point. For them to be meaningful, however, a change in behaviour may be required in order to prevent the need for future apologies for the same thing. This is why genuine inquiries carried out with sufficient authority to ...
Written By: BLiP - Date published: 6:43 am, June 28th, 2017 - 85 comments
Categories: bill english, David Farrar, Dirty Politics, national
Tags: Glenda Hughes, matthew hooton, NZ Police
' While Bill English has "nothing to add" except the "this just an employment dispute" lie, the National Party's Dirty Politics Machine has been fired up. Yesterday it was feeding its social media troll army a nasty talking-point to pass around in order to…
Written By: BLiP - Date published: 7:25 am, June 26th, 2017 - 25 comments
Categories: uncategorized
Tags: bill english, national
' On 15 September 2009, Labour MP Pete Hodgson asked the Prime Minister: "Does he believe that in all matters his Minister of Finance [Bill English] has followed that part of the Cabinet Manual that reads: “… Ministers are expected to act lawfully and to …
Written By: BLiP - Date published: 7:59 am, April 1st, 2017 - 46 comments
Categories: uncategorized
Tags: satire
' Scientology has been awarded a major contract by the new Ministry for Vulnerable Children. The Xenu-fearing organisation has been brought on board by the fledgling ministry to train staff on how best to overcome any qualms likely to arise in their duties…
' Depending on semantic gynmastics, perhaps you have a tiny point. But, all the same, "allegations" (to use the misnomer) made by people who were there and/or know something about what happened. Not allegations made by the authors.
' Yeah, I noticed the similarity between John Key and Donald Trump during the US election. Its almost as if the Crosby/Textor types used John Key as a test run to both measure how much dishonesty a society and its MSM can tolerate and how important it is ...
' No. The authors haven't made allegations. Rather, the authors have accurately reported and, as far as possible, fact-checked comments made by people who were there at the time and/or had some knowledge of the events. That sort of work is called "...
Written By: BLiP - Date published: 8:46 am, March 22nd, 2017 - 25 comments
Categories: brand key, john key
Tags: john key, lies
' ' And so it ends – the parliamentary career of the most dishonest Prime Minister New Zealand has ever had. That is John Key's legacy. John Key's lying started long before he entered politics; it just never stopped. The responsibility of being elected to …
' Yep, true, Hekia Parata is a serial liar. However, in this instance, I suggest she has reached a new low in that she has exposed the fact that National Ltd™ is so bereft of any evidence or expert-support for these policies it is reduced to blatant lying....
' Dunno for sure. Not offering much of a difference from National Ltd™, I suspect. Not talking about the actual cause of the degradation of democracy and equity in Aotearoa under John Key and his bankster mates. Greens are looking good, though. That's the ...
' Its not just the housing issue. Its the entire gambit - education, health, human rights, public safety, water, crime and the police generally, Christchurch, smouldering resentment in the provinces, Te Tiriti and Maori land issues, our international ...
' Yep. Fantasy and lies are all National Ltd™ have, and always have had. Now the polls are starting to reflect that fact is becoming more and more apparent. About time, really.
' I understand your point. I disagree. Now drop it, please. Enough. Saying the same thing over and over again does not make that thing any more true or false. What it does indicate, though, is an attempt to clutter a conversation with a trainspotters' ...
' Oh, puhleeze, just fuck off. The message of the post has not been lost, despite your attempts to cloud the issue with a public demonstration of failure to comprehend. If your objection really is about the style of the post rather than the content, feel ...
. . . So the article is clearly wrong. Nope. Hekia Parata fabricated a Special Education Association which is a different entity than the Special Education Association which appears in Google, and that latter entity is moribond which, functionally, is the...
Written By: BLiP - Date published: 8:03 am, August 9th, 2016 - 19 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, Dirty Politics, john key, national, slippery
Tags:
' Its been a wee while since the abridged list of John Key's lies was updated, so here it is. There is one, probably contentious item on the list concerning whether or not John Key knew about the brewing trade squabble with China regarding the dumping of …
' Hahahaha! Hadn't thought of that, but knowing Slater's prowess in the court room, it wouldn't surprise me. I put the quotes around "evidence" because the diagram was one of the things Rachinger gave Slater as proof that he had somehow surreptitiously ...
' Believe it or not but that diagram forms part of the "evidence" which led Cameron Slater to believe that there are Labour Party MPs and staff writing posts for The Standard.
[BLiP: Comment deleted - banned for another week for ignoring earlier ban, that's four weeks in total. Do not comment here again until after 08/06/16]
. . . The line that’s in the above picture is nowhere to be found in this version of the article . . . There is a reference to John Key having said he had not "caught up" with Whitney in the body of the article, and the original headline appears in the ...
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