To be fair I think GDP is fairly rubbish too, but these things are what the Nats say are important, so if they can't get those right... As Robert Kennedy put it - GDP measures all but that which we hold most dear. But other measures of economic "success" ...
Written By: Bunji - Date published: 1:39 pm, May 20th, 2015 - 95 comments
Categories: Economy
Tags: economic growth, GDP
National continue their 75+ years record of not being able to deliver the sort of economic growth for NZ that Labour do… Source: RBNZ
2 sides to a balance sheet Gormless Fool. I wouldn't have cut the top tax rate, and I'd have a CGT to take a little of the heat out of the housing market for a start... I'd also have an economy where jobs were a higher priority, and fewer unemployment and ...
private sector debt has not decreased for the major increase in government debt, no. I wouldn't agree with the analysis that public and private debt are so strongly linked. Both need solving, and Cullen didn't solve the Current Account Deficit, no. I just ...
There are 2 sides to a balance sheet - a big part of National's deficits is their cutting top tax rate - was that the big effective stimulus for the economy? Similarly the lack of a capital gains tax / other measures to stop a housing bubble that raise ...
Written By: Bunji - Date published: 11:34 am, May 20th, 2015 - 52 comments
Categories: debt / deficit, Economy, labour, national
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Labour: Net debt goes from $22 billion to $0 National: Net debt has gone back up to over $46 billion Source: Treasury
Not all "hardworking families" own a house Matthew - I know a lot who can't get into the market. And if you look closely I think you'll find the "hardworking" is Rob using John Key's words against him - if there were hardworking families in 2008 who ...
Written By: Bunji - Date published: 10:17 am, May 20th, 2015 - 15 comments
Categories: bill english, debt / deficit, Economy
Tags: arrogance
Bill English tells us that the promise that they won the election on – that they're the only Masters of Finance who could balance the government books (because that's all that's important… not child poverty, or housing, or climate change, or the current …
Written By: Bunji - Date published: 5:26 pm, May 18th, 2015 - 14 comments
Categories: john key
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John Key is now arguing that black is white – that a Tax on Capital Gains isn't a Capital Gains Tax. "Typical politician" many will say – and that shows how far John Key's skills have fallen. When he first arrived on the scene he was hailed as the straight…
Written By: Bunji - Date published: 4:50 pm, April 22nd, 2015 - 4 comments
Categories: debt / deficit, national
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Not satisfied with setting records for biggest deficit and largest total deficit over term, the Key government is now going for most deficits in a row. They now look to equal the National government's 7 deficits from 1966-72. And this is the stuff they …
Written By: Bunji - Date published: 10:38 pm, March 28th, 2015 - 25 comments
Categories: by-election, First Past the Post, MMP, tv
Tags: dirty deals, duncan garner, Patrick Gower
Just now on TV3's Northland special Patrick Gower and Duncan Garner were saying that Labour had lost all moral high ground on "dirty deals" and Little had done a deal with Winston. Presumably as "that's MMP" and this result stinks likes Epsom. Except… …
Written By: Bunji - Date published: 5:36 pm, February 5th, 2015 - 112 comments
Categories: iraq, john key, war
Tags: i/s
Churchill had many famous quotes, but in one he put it that it was "better to jaw jaw than to war war". John Key meanwhile thinks there is no options between ignoring things and war. He's accused "the left" (that hideous amorphous beast, that I'm sure …
He he! I've had it in my "must write about" pile as well! And yes, fantastic job done on it Mandy!
Written By: Bunji - Date published: 12:51 pm, December 16th, 2014 - 187 comments
Categories: International, john key
Tags: Haron Monis, terrorism
Haron Monis was a dangerous criminal. If he was a white non-Muslim there's no doubt that's how he would be reported. But John Key is instead talking about this showing terrorism can happen here. If we take it as that a lone gunman can kill innocent …
Donations towards running costs through the Donate button (on the right, just under Log In) are always appreciated... The rest of us authors don't want to overdo the demands on what Lynn puts into the site... He does an amazing amount with the time he puts...
Yes, it awfully nice of John to do our advertising and push our readership... ;) If they do actually come to read then - all good!
The one thing people do watch en masse is TV news - and they have clips of those lines in parliament. But yes, Joe Punter is unlikely to watch ParliTV. Media pundits don't like us because we're free competition... but they do like it when we find them new ...
John Key will keep running those lines though. He knows that average Joe Punter doesn't read blogs, and no journalist is going to set him right - they're hardly fond of us (see Paddy Gower for a start). So Key can keep saying "The Standard is just like ...
He he, Jane Clifton too (also buried): Ede had been on the phone to Slater at the exact time the OIA request was lodged by email. How could that be "nothing to do with my office", as Key kept saying? Key airily dismissed this account as "quite contested" -...
yeah, weird - Herald are all over it, stuff it's gone down the memory hole. Suddenly according to them no-one's interested in politics now it's going against Key. Andrea Vance and Vernon Small are writing some good stuff - and their editor is burying it.
Written By: Bunji - Date published: 8:53 am, November 27th, 2014 - 35 comments
Categories: john key, twitter
Tags: #dirtypolitics, cameron slater, Gwyn report, textses
rOb somewhat scooped me, but here's my twitter round-up of the reaction to the PM's office releasing the texts last night. So John Key is in trouble for attacking Goff for talking about the Gwyn report ahead of its release, but then also JK talking to …
Written By: Bunji - Date published: 4:59 pm, November 26th, 2014 - 5 comments
Categories: national
Tags: chisholm enquiry, dirty politics, Gwyn report
The Gwyn Report was not an investigation into the PM's office. Cheryl Gwyn could not order John Key to give evidence, and he chose not to. Her conclusions of a lack of professionalism by Warren Tucker, but no similar conclusion for John Key and his …
Written By: Bunji - Date published: 10:20 am, November 26th, 2014 - 17 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, Judith Collins
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Oravida was on the way to the airport. Just popped into my husband's company for a glass of milk. Private dinners with Chinese border official and Oravida directors. Blocking payments to ACC claimants who don't give a general privacy waiver. Making untrue …
Written By: Bunji - Date published: 8:16 pm, November 25th, 2014 - 9 comments
Categories: john key, Satire
Tags: #dirtypolitics, chisholm enquiry, Gwyn report
It may just be the quality of John Key's analysis, but apparently the Gwyn report has done something impressive in scientific circles and proved a negative. It comprehensively shows that John Key never knew about the Goff SIS OIA release. Or not. JK: but …
Written By: Bunji - Date published: 12:47 pm, November 20th, 2014 - 99 comments
Categories: john key, twitter
Tags: #JohnKeyHistory, new zealand wars
Twitter today is finding its own way to express exasperation with John Key declaring that Aotearoa was peacefully settled. Apparently the New Zealand Wars were just another Rugby analogy to John Key. Parihaka was a Herbs song. Gate Pa? Well he probably …
Written By: Bunji - Date published: 11:25 pm, November 18th, 2014 - 43 comments
Categories: making shit up, Media, Satire
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Sunday 21 September: After the election result last night showed how divided the country is, it is unclear how the nation can unite behind John Key to let him be Prime Minister. Key got less than half the vote, with more of the public not backing him than …
Ah, but the 70% of statistics that are made up (including that one, and the ones National have sued for justifying various policies) are lies, no? Statistics in general aren't lies, true, but it's a very famous quote (apparently not Disraeli's), which does...
While I don't disagree with your principle of offering hope rather than whinging, my point was more that these aren't stats manipulations, they're downright wrong. How can you have honest government with dishonest numbers?
Written By: Bunji - Date published: 8:15 am, November 18th, 2014 - 37 comments
Categories: accountability, making shit up
Tags: dodgy statistics
Russell Brown had a good post last week about National's dodgy use of statistics in the interest of pushing their gang legislation. Jarrod Gilbert is understandably not pleased, having tried to correct the figures at the time. Russell also cites the false …
We've been seeing a lot of National's arse over climate change. I think the great WibblyWoos from the planet Troodonton are going to invade and slay us all. Therefore we need to hand all power over to me so I can save us. Show me the evidence that this ...
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