Seymour is going to deal to the 'bloated bureaucracy' by.........creating a new govt ministry to 'deal with red tape'. yup that makes sense, genius
In the NRT blog there is a link to some questions Seymour asked in Parliament seeking to justify his comments about blowing up a Ministry and accusing Hipkins of making it political and that he is the victim here. Strewth, a wise man would have put it ...
"too late" you say daz. Why? too much cash for favours gone into the National Party coffers?
that is why I have long called the party Winston First as that is fairly much what it is.
I hope Winston First gets around 4.5% of the vote come election time. Soak up some of that protest vote that might otherwise go the ACT but not sufficient for him to get back into Parliament. The other odd ball and fringe parties like conservatives, brian ...
should have said if Nat/ACT 1% funders don't like it they can instruct the parties to overturn the changes if they get into power. This election is significant for at least 2 reasons (1) do we get farming to start to pay for and reduce greenhouse gases or ...
I am ambivalent about gst off fruit and veges. It will be a policy aimed at an election win like many others including WFF, tax cuts, tough on law and order, change rules on investment property etc. If it helps get Labour re-elected it helps get Labour re-...
the economic conditions at present makes a CGT common sense. The right wing has few answers to the present economic or environmental issues facing the nation
ones a plastic inanimate cartoon character figure the other is a doll created by Mattel in 1959
agreed. he did the work to build climate change infrastructure which wasn't popular at times or widely celebrated but he stuck at it. last piece of that first phase jigsaw is get farming to pay for emissions. I sincerely hope it's the greens in the govt, ...
or when he tried to walk the plank to a boat. What he did hop into was a secret deal with the Exclusive Brethren to massively try and avoid election advertising rules and then hopped into a huge controversy as he tried to cover it up.
Households in Auckland this week getting first information about any buyouts from floods & cyclones, Hawkes Bay have had some last month. What do other readers think an equitable payout for households should roughly be? How would a bill be split between ...
meanwhile Luxon and National also promise farmers they will kick responsibilities for climate change gases 5 years down the road. The likes of groundswell et al will like that. Go back to 2 decades and another National Party leader (dishonest Don Brash) ...
woods should have declared the shares earlier and should have gotten rid of them to be seen to do the right thing. some sloppy work. National and ACT have been calling for his sacking. A few years ago a National Prime Minister made comments and ask ...
and the fact that National had a very disingenuous leader, maybe one of their most disingenuous leaders of modern times. "I don't know who is spreading the pamphlets, I do know it's not the National Party", the distorted and cynically slanted Kiwi/Iwi ...
Seymour, Van Velden and the gun woman who are the rest?
has Simeon Brown actually contributed anything to Parliament since he has been an MP? I am hard pressed to think of anything myself
some speculation that the waka jump was due to her rising as far as she could and going no further and thinking the MP provided better opportunities. if that turns out to be the case my thinking is as follows. should labour be in a position to form a ...
Another 9 years of a do nothing government Chris?
yes generally it seems so, the groundswell national party. I recently heard Damien O'Connor challenged on radio recently about the pace of legislative change on the rural sector, his answer, if things had been done during the 9 years National was last in ...
a phrase I have heard used in Aussie, a dollar earned is a dollar earned and should be taxed. Simply comes down really to whether kiwis think it is fair that some types of income are taxed and others are not. If it's not fair, a CGT goes some way to ...
a one off, or maybe 2 year, super profit tax on the likes of banks, ear mark the money for the cyclone rebuild. from there a capital gains tax on realised capital gains with the proceeds going toward rebuild/build better and some for lifting tax threshold ...
not much discussion I can find about the muppet show with special guest leader chris luxon, whoops, I mean the national partys policy announcement about electrifying the economy. It's certainly good to see them actually release some policy, even it's a ...
Little crooked donald indicted huh. Lock him up, lock him up
cut it from 18 holes down to 9 holes. put some land into higher density housing as well as some into local park and bush land (also serving as a big soak hole for flooding events). the 'public' get to continue using a golf course, some the land can be used...
The "national standards" under the Key National Government did precious little to promote literacy and numeracy standards but cost a hell of a lot of money and resources. One thing not mentioned in the above, slashing of the nationwide Teacher Support ...
teenagers expressing a view on a matter which should be at the forefront of most peoples minds this summer. Kids putting pressure on political parties whose track record of addressing the issue is weak at best. Putting MPs under a bit of pressure and ...
I would favour a CGT with funds tagged at least initially to a rebuild myself
a 'cluxon', brilliant. A 'clux up', as in Maureen Pugh cluxed that up
the time now for a capital gains tax I think. Allocate some of the funds to raising tax thresholds for low and middle income kiwis - address the inflation issue. The rest of the income tagged into rebuilding infrastructure. Cannot see many people moaning ...
dim bulbs. remember the dim bulbs within the national party around the same time moaning and bitching about carbon taxes on agriculture. don brash lying his way through election campaigns and denying climate change, that clown from Taranaki Shane Ardern ...
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