Ad, if you think that renationalising the electricity industry is a 'stupid idea' then you're wasting everyone's time by writing for The Standard. You should be contributing to Kiwi Blog - their politics are more to your liking.
Ad, why don't you attend the next Green Party AGM & propose exactly that remit? With good background data & some careful lobbying you might surprise yourself by getting the remit adopted as Green Party policy!
Ad, your blog is a confused & contradictory justification for maintaining the staus quo in our electricity sector - how could the actions of Nixon & Mitterand be remotely relevant in a post Covid world? NZ's state owned, non profit electricity system ...
Of course it's possible - Government is sovereign. I don't buy into the mealy mouthed narrative that government can't do anything. Michael Cullen renationalised NZ Rail after private owners proved incompetent. What we did with rail we can do with power.
Prior to 1990, we had a reliable electricity system which gave us the second cheapest power in the OECD, (after Norway) based on state owned electricity generation & supply. The Bolger Government decided to smash this system & replace it with a profit ...
Gorman is just another confused National Party tool.As a member of the Nat's Welfare Reform Group he systematically & deliberately made the lives of beneficiaries (except for NZ Superannuiatants) as wretched & as miserable as possible. What happened to his...
National's dire results reflect a broader trend - the age of neo liberalism is coming to an end & thank God for that! National, for almost 2 generations have told us that embracing naked capitalism would make us all healthy, wealthy & wise & it's taken us ...
The demographic which listens to Hoskings is literally dying off - red neck boomers. Hoskings & his fan club are yesterday's people.The PM doesn't need to waste her time talking to a hostile, declining audience.
Smug, right wing boomers on NZ Super forget that NZ superannuatants outnumber all other WINZ category of beneficiaries, combined. NZ Super is a form of UBI, paid regardless of income or assets. For those on NZ Super to scream their tits off at other ...
It's incredible that Rich is still the CEO of the Food & Grocery Council after she instigated the FGA's disasterous involvement with Slater, Graham, etc. Looking at the pathetic National Party today, it's apparent that their instigation of Dirty Politics ...
Mickey, there's no need for Jacinda to 'burn political capital' by tackling the Poverty issue. Introducing social justice, (eg. free tertiary education, affordable housing for boomers' grand children, etc.) is an issue that benefits all sections of society...
One significant reason our prisons are overcrowded, with double bunking, etc. is because of the high number of remand prisoners, a direct result of National tightening bail requirements. Some remand prisoners wait for over a year before they're tried.To ...
Seymour's in danger of becoming the new bow tied cockatoo - Peter Dunne was returned in 2002 with a gaggle of oddball MP's with very little in common except that they were all right wing crazies. His caucus soon fell apart & the same will happen to Seymour...
With all his money, you'd think that Lidell could afford a suit which fitted him
You've got it all wrong - The Nats have tried arrogant business based bullies & failed - Muldoon, Key, Collins, Brownlie, Joyce, etc. The post 2020 electorate has a majority of women & millenials & most of them loathe the Luxon stereo type, hence the swing...
It'll be a great day when Labour has the balls to renationalise the whole power industry & return us to the pre 1991 position where power was sold to consumers at the cheapest possible price. There were no parasitical CEO's on obscene salaries, no overpaid...
National are a disorganised rabble, led by a psycopath
The fun will begin when Luxton strides into his first post election caucus meeting, expecting to be welcomed as the Nats' new messiah, & finds a depleted collection of ferals, consumed with hatred, resentment, self loathing & scapegoating. Whoever becomes ...
I'm with Draco - we re-establish the Ministry of Works for all major infrastructure development & advance them finance from the Reserve bank at 0% interest. We don't involve ACC, foreign pension funds, etc- look at the balls ups of Auckland's light rail & ...
Stuart, both Hastings & Napier were rebuilt in 2 years, by 1933, in the middle of the Great Depression. Financially short changing ChCh was just part of Key's strategy to finance his unecessary & unaffordable tax cuts for the wealthy. Labour needs to go on...
We need to ensure that the proposed Water Authorities are not privatised at a future date by a Right wing government. One way to ensure this is for Labour & the Greens to state categorically, that any attempted future privatisation will be reversed by an ...
I don't need to justify myself to you or any other contributor hiding behind a fictious name. I'm an environmental Social Democrat - the Greens & Labour together encompass my political beliefs. If I want to support both parties by paying a membership fee ...
Get a life, you poor sad bastard
Speaking as both a LP & a GP member, Shaw is a dick head, but not sensible to sack him over this, so close to the election. Labour needs the Greens to stay in Parliament for 2 reasons: 1) To drag the next Labour Govt to the left, because without a full ...
Agree 100 % TM. No Local Authority should be structured along 'free market' corporate lines, the way Key & Hyde destructured the Super City. Some more ideas for reform: 1) Scrap all the CCO Boards, they serve no purpose except to add an unecessary layer of...
The other thing that struck me, at the end of Jacinda's presentation, was watching the jackals of the media shouting out their inane 'gotcha' type questions. These hyenas aren't interested in information, they just want a cheap headline to which they can ...
Watching Jacinda's masterful performance on TV1 this morning had me grinning from ear to ear - she's simply amazing! Compared to Jacinda, Collins looks facile, incoherent & small minded.
The GFC kicked neo liberalism in the balls & Covid will finish it off. 8 years ago, Russell Norman, the Green's leader advocated quantative easing (QE) & was laughed off the stage. This week, the Reserve Bank was given the authority to put $100 B worth of ...
Happy Birthday Jacinda! Thousands of us literally owe you our lives. Kindest regards for a great day
'As tight as a drum'? If you believe that, you'll believe anything
Looking at Seymour & Bishop in the photo above, they look as if they've been dressed by their mothers - perhaps they were?
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