I was mainly going off Shaw's spokesperson roles of; Climate Change, Finance and Economic Development; the last two will be off the table (Robertson & Parker), and Climate Change is a bit of a hospital pass (Megan Woods probably isn't that attached to it ...
I agree with OAB that enacting policies is more important to the GP than perks and status. It all comes down to the numbers at the election, with NZF currently seeming the more likely coalition partner due to that (first phone calls notwithstanding). ...
Here is another poll showing Labour ahead. Though it was apparently; "first published in the September 16, 2017 issue of the New Zealand Listener", which gives me serious doubts about the numeracy of the writer. Hopefully this; "Bauer Media Insights IQ", ...
alwyn It is not just before the the election, we are still fifteen days out (though admittedly it is time to vote if you are overseas). The 2008 figures are most likely to have relevance here, as I can't see the GP getting over 10%. So the most recent CB ...
The level of deception from this fishing club spokesman is something to behold. I certainly have seen dolphins south of Moeraki at places like porpoise bay (where the name is a bit of a hint): the "fast vessel" would focus its patrol searching for nets set...
God money's not looking for the cure. God money's not concerned with the sick amongst the pure. God money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised. God money's not one to choose https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao-Sahfy7Hg
Or just a simple: "Unlike the National party, Labour do not have to lie to people to get their votes. Our fully costed and independently reviewed policies stand on their own merits." Not being specific to Joyce means that the listener would be likely to ...
Carolyn_nth Both those links take me to the same Newsroom post (which I hadn't seen - so thanks for that). Was there a second piece to which you were trying to link as well?
Atheism predated Bolshevism by centuries (even millennia depending on your definition of the term): Honeste vivere, neminem laedere, suum cuique tribuere Knutzen after Ulpian
In the OP Hit 2, Robins says; "English stood by as she said it and did nothing". What he actually did was worse than nothing: Asked if the Government would be able to create a law like this in a country with a written constitution, the Prime Minister ...
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McFlock Merely maintaining the status quo would be a decrease unless the population were also static or declining. Which isn't the case, and furthermore; not only is the population increasing, but so is the average age (with associated health needs) along ...
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. Upton Sinclair
Wayne like Helen Clark, mark 2 but with... the interests and perspectives of a new generation. So; completely unlike Helen Clark, in other words (unless you mean that she they are both female leaders of Labour - in which case English is the same as Muldoon...
There is a good post on TDB this morning about the gap between reality and National's electioneering. This about bootcamps was particularly good to have a reminder of (as with all the other madness swirling around, it is easy to forget some of it): [Rudman...
Bill Rignot et al's (2014) paper; "Widespread, rapid grounding line retreat of Pine Island, Thwaites, Smith, and Kohler glaciers, West Antarctica, from 1992 to 2011", is referenced in the leaked report: So they are not unaware of his work. You are right ...
A National minister lied to the public, and police, for his own short term political gain during an election ? Must be a day ending in a "y". http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/201857263/video-evidence-appears-to-contradict-nick-...
I threw a couple of dice while saying each leaders name; Ardern got a nine, and English a seven. This seems to me to have exactly as much statistical significance as either the Herald, or the Standard's "poll" (from, let's face it; highly biased commenters...
Delia Do you have any evidence to back your assertion that cannabis is as harmful as alcohol or smoking tobacco? While it can certainly be a huge waste of time, THC does not seem to be nearly as harmful to the user as those two legal drugs: MOE is defined ...
The leaked report that is talked about in the stuff article Shaw links to is here: https://www.greens.org.nz/sites/default/files/CH_Guide_Draft4-webversion.pdf It is 286 pages long (240 after you factor out references, contents pages & glossary), so I only...
Didn't he also say something about tens of thousands (60 000?) children no longer living in beneficiary households. If that is his definition of bringing NZ children out of poverty, then simply forcing their parents off benefits would achieve it. The ...
The reliability of that NZH "poll" is lessened by the way you can vote multiple times if you can be bothered. Restart your browser and give it a go. The ODT poll has it 61% for Ardern, and it is unimportant enough to be likely free of bot spamming (...
Retirement age.
My brain must have shorted out at the sheer ridiculousness of the claim (I'm sure he said; "you still can [swim in the Oreti river]"), that I missed the weaselly modifiers.
And in a segment before that (paraphrashing because I don't have a photographic, or even very good, memory): Gower: "Do you commit to resigning over that matter of principle" Ardern: "Yes" Gower: "what principle would resign over Prime Minister?" English: ...
Matthew Hooton is on the panel, so I don't think we are through with deception just yet. Speaking of deception; English's claim that he would swim in the Oreti river. NO!! You can not swim in the Oreti river, even around Dipton. Possibly up near the Mavora...
English was pretty uncomfortable on the abortion question. But there is no way the present system is even; "broadly speaking", a good one. Ardern was solid on taking it out if the crimes act and treating it as a health issue, but the debate format isn't ...
Uncommitted voters??? The applause seems rather partisan.
A new post has opened up about the debate has opened up: https://thestandard.org.nz/second-leaders-debate/
Yeah, I thought English would be all over Ardern with distortions of the Labour financial plan. She seemed to hold her own pretty well, especially with that; "politicians bickering" line, and when she said; "please let him finish". Nothing new was really ...
I've got to start noting down the answers to be fact checked - so far it has been a bit of a background blur as I've been skimming posts. I don't really like the debate format as it prevents going to any depth. Also Gower isn't calling English out on the ...
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