All politicians feed crap to the public, be they John Key, Andrew Little, Donald Trump or Hilary Clinton etc 'ad nauseum'. It goes with the territory. Therefore, though I am agreeing here that it appears that National are ducking this one, some blowback ...
So damn right stagnant wages and over the top immigration help no one.
Thats the worry what form will it be regurgitated as.
The veto was signaled, and part of the National manifesto BEFORE the 2014 General Election. To say, the majority of NZ agreed with 26 weeks paid parental leave is playing fast and loose with the Truth. It was presented to the Country Democratically, voted-...
Scott Adams (Dilbert creator) wrote on this: http://blog.dilbert.com/post/143789982926/clinton-versus-trump-persuasion-scores We’ll start with Clinton’s new campaign slogan: LOVE TRUMPS HATE Based on the slogan, I can tell you with confidence that the ...
That's not counting new biologic drugs diabetics need that they are paying top dollar for because pharmac haven't got the money to subsidize them.
The water depletion in the mid Canterbury area is a big problem. One day in 2015 there was a 30 million cumec drop in rakaia river Flow between the rakaia river gorge bridge river gauge and the rakaia river mouth the river mouth actually closed up. This ...
Don't go to work on Monday.
"Idiotic", "fool", "shallow dumbness" - that's a bit rough Iprent. Most people responded with smart, progressive comments. The point was YouTube, Facebook etc have voting buttons to increase engagement, and help good content rise, and bad content sink. The...
Thanks Anthony. If you liked that article, you're going to love this one that just went live... http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff-nation/assignments/winning-new-zealand-flag-design-your-views/14283879/12-things-the-flag-process-got-very-wrong
This is the end game of a consumer-driven economy when your consumers aren't paid enough to consume. It's like a farmer who stops feeding his cow and seems puzzled when it stops producing milk.
Great speech from Russel!
Haha yeah what the left needs is another echo chamber, eh CV!
Armstrong’s approach to political commentary was, in his own words, focused on the game of power, who was winning and how they did it. Agree. Armstrong's style is to talk about politics as though he were commentating a boxing match.
Yes Blip I do, nearly every day, it's my default station. I'm not criticising RNZ, it has good content and good journalism (compared with corporate media) but on this particular point about Key's approach to RNZ and RNZ's limited reach to apolitical, swing...
A link? So you can read someone elses opinion? Yea it’s my opinion based on observations of John Key getting ripped up for shit-paper by Espinor on multiple occasions and it having zero effect on Key’s popularity. And if Key thought it was damaging to his ...
absolutely! ;)
Xenophobe! :twisted:
John Key will be lovin this news! His most popular and vocal liberal-leftie opponent is now neatly contained in a bubble that has near zero reach to apolitical swing voters.
Or it could be, if Corbyn wins, that the UK party is about to have a rerun of what NZ labour went through with Cunliffe. The idea of a united Left in this country is a fucking bad joke.
'Precariat' is a shitty word. Sounds like something a turtle-neck-wearing, chardonnay socialist would come up with. How about 'part-timer', a nice contrast to the name of the social clique that John Key's son is a part of...'the fulltimers'. http://www....
That's your take on it, which ignores all the context of this global economic story. It all comes back to my original point that, independent of Labour's intentions or approach, you and others wish to define the discussion of this particular economic ...
Hammer on to the exclusion of all else? I'm no Labour Party fan-boi but in everything I saw of Twyford fronting this he was always at pains to explain that it was all foreign housing investment that should be banned not just Chinese. What have Labour ...
So by your logic, if the flow of off-shore money appears to be coming overwhelmingly from one country then nobody should point that out because it would be xenophobic? What if there was irrefutable evidence? Not just a few months of analysed real estate ...
Phil Quim quits......and nothing of value was lost
This government's popularity and the net worth of Auckland home-owners is closely tied to the continuation of the real estate bubble, which is why I suspect that even dog whistle politics wont be enough to persuade Aucklanders to vote against National. ...
Matthew, people take actions which aren't in their best interests all the time, even when they know those actions aren't in their best interests. For example, people with drinking problems.
Spot on, Anne.
I thought command and control was more the realm of the neo-conservative ultras, no?
Will this give National the perfect excuse to forge a relationship with winnie to help secure them a 4th term? Might the Labour end up being the biggest loser out of this? I'm just parroting a line i heard from Hooton and mike williams but they may have a ...
(pg. 42....) Hooton ended the email by saying: 'We are going to be an outstanding success. I just hope you... don't think I am a populist. I'm not. I'm a right wing academic neocon ultra. I just believe in winning too' I fucking love Nicky Hagar.
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