When considering how vile the National Party has become since the Shipley - Richardson era, I'm reminded of the biblical verse, 'They have sown the wind & they have reaped the whirlwind.'
The Millenial vote will be equal to the Boomer vote this election & a majority from 2023 as the Boomers die off. How many Millenials are going to vote for a party led by 2 fat old farts in their 60's?
All public transport systems throught NZ should be owned by either Central or Local Government, (as they used to be) operated on a non profit basis & paying the Living Wage.
Tony Ryall? The jumped up bank clerk from the provinces? Get a grip!
Thank god that vile creature is buggering off - what a trougher!
Goldsmith's only area of knowledge is in writing historical biographies
Collins has claimed that her political hero is Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher was the UK's worst 20th century Prime Minister. Her political characteristics were like Collin's - incompetence, corruption, vindictiveness.
Nothing will be sorted until we re-establsh a Ministry of Works as the lead, Government owned contractor on all large scale infrastructure projects. PPP's are dead in the water! If the Nats start whining about the light rail project, remind them of their ...
Putting 'the plan' together will expose the deep divisions in the Nat caucus. The new converts to Keynsian, interventionist economics will be fighting with the neo lib, austerity, balanced budget loonies. It'll be a fight to the political death.
The economic ground has moved underneath National but they're not aware of it. The 2020 budget represented the repudiation of neo liberal economics - balanced budgets, 'a bonfire of regulations', tax cuts for the wealthy, etc. As we move into a post covid ...
Right back at you, Barfly - National are a despicable rabble & deserve their fate
It's great to see the ruling class disembowling themselves in public
It's always entertaining watching our betters behaving just like the rest of us
You'd better blame the Minister of Transport in the last National Government. If the new motorway had been built by a government agency like the Ministry of Works, there would have been constant 'government oversight', completion by due date, no sub ...
And National are whining about the Transmission Gully outcome, having set up the fiasco in the first place. Another example of 'free market' failure. FFS, re-establsh the Ministry of Works & just bloody get on with it!
Gosman, I was contrasting the operation of Social Democracy, (SD) in NZ, (by both Labour & National Govts) from 1936 - 1984, with the 'free market deforms,' (FMD) of the Douglas, Richardson, Shipley, Key years since 1984. I don't know how much NZ history ...
Gosman, the neo libs' favourite saying is, 'just because it doesn't work in practice, doesn't mean it won't work in theory.'
It's great to see the Greens moving away from identity politics & focusing on real world issues which will boost their party vote in Setember.
Gosman, the market in NZ has failed in the following areas: Affordable housing, whether to rent or to buy; full employment; affordable tertiary education; affordable primary health care; secure, well paid career paths which reward skill, etc. Market- ...
Gosman, one of Douglas's many lies was that his neo lib policies would boost productivity by shrinking the role of the State & allowing 'free enterprise' to flower - except it didn't. After 35 years of mostly neo lib policies, our productivity is ...
Gosman, the reason Social Democrats despise Douglas & his cronies is because when they inherited NZ's full employment economy, which had given us wide spread prosperity & opportunity over the previous 50 years, they deliberately set out to smash it. In ...
As I've said before, neo liberalism's shitty, me- first philosophy has hollowed out the National party, so that all you've got left, is a collection of vile, unelectable wanna be's.
Both political groupings face a post covid challenge going into the election, but the present Coalition Government is better placed than the Right wing parties. The only solutions which National & its lackies can offer are the unworkable policies of tax ...
If Bridges & Paula Benefit were currently in government, we'd all be dying like flies. For the last 35 years, National has sown the wind & now they're reaping the whirlwind. Since the late 1980's, National has deliberately adopted vicous, inhuman policies ...
Alwyn, the central fact remains, Labour's financial management from 1936 - 1949 was superb & far surpasses anything that subsequent National Governments have managed. That is historic, irrefutable fact & no amount of obsessive nit picking by you makes any ...
You don't need to join a political party, Alwyn, to demonstrate your ill informed, Right Wing bias
Alwyn, I stand corrected. I should have clarified that 'we finished the War with no foreign Government debt.' On your second attachment, there's a graph, 'Breakdown of NZ Government Debt,' showing that in 1935, both external & internal government debt, ...
Thank god the Greens are starting to announce forward looking, environmental & job creation proposals. I hope they googled Bernie Sanders Green New Deal website & that they'll now progressively roll out more worthwhile policy based on his well researched ...
Alwyn, Joyce could achieve the broadband rollout only by establishing a new, Government owned SOE, Crown Fibre Optics - Socialism gave the country broadband
Weka, as a Green Party member I've been concerned for some time that the Greens are stuck on 5% (or less) in the polls & have lost focus. When Russell Norman was the GP leader, he strategically decided that the GP would only achieve cut thru if they ...
Let's hope that Greenpeace's initiatives will give the Green Party a kick up the arse & get them enthusiastically supporting Greenpeace's program
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