A plausible election result, the way things are going is: Labour: 20% NZ First: 15% Greens: 15% The problem would be that I think Winston Peters would insist on being Prime Minister for the first 18 months of the three year term before retiring and handing...
Marilyn Waring and Simon Upton were first elected to parliament aged 23 and both made major contributions to New Zealand politics by their early 30s so I don't think younger MPs are necessarily unable to be effective.
Claiming specific cancer sufferers were taking the coin of the drug company if they weren't is pretty outrageous. The reference to Labour MPs briefing against Little's decisions is accurate though. At least half a dozen letting whoever will listen know ...
Read it more carefully. It doesn't say they regret their error. They use the passive tense: "the error is regretted." It doesn't say who is doing the regretting. Diplomats and lawyers use this tense to avoid saying anything meaningful. I would have thought...
"What is going on with the local-government Right?" Don't know about outside Auckland, but here in Auckland the local-body right is acting with great altruism to provide a comedy show for the voters. This is also bad for Mediaworks' TV3 ratings on Friday ...
It started with Clinton Derangement Syndrome in the 1990s I think. Not sure if there was Bush1 Derangement Syndrome and Reagan Derangement Syndrome. So it is quite common. But KDS is very strong in NZ at present, as this whole thread proves.
I think that's right. I think there is a very real risk the political left in NZ will soon explode into violence out of feelings of hate and their own impotence.
I never went on Singapore Airlines Business Class in the 1990s but did go on its First Class a few times (thanks taxpayers) and it was just a massive lazy-boy chair rather than a bed. The beds were introduced in the early 2000s in both BC and FC and are, ...
Business Class now is far, far better than First Class was even 20 years ago (when the taxpayer paid for me to fly to Europe on it a few times). Paying personally, I went on Emirates First Class across to Sydney a few years ago, just to check out what it ...
To be clear here, Anne, are you saying people aged 36 or younger are, by virtue of that, unable to comprehend political history? Because that is a pretty arrogant belief to have.
You want to expel those three too?
Are you seriously saying that expelling a former leader from Labour would have been good for its poll rating and long-term electability?
You're not serious are you?
If those are the only options, then Bill English. Overwhelmingly.
I agree that if a prime minister is to wear a flag lapel pin, he or she should always wear the existing New Zealand flag.
Everything in this post is a total lie, and I suspect the author must have known that when he wrote it.
What was "dirty politics"? What does it mean to have been "involved" in it?
No, I hadn't seen that until just now. Thanks for the link.
She certainly is. She says "the TPPA is the rape of our tino rangitiratanga, the torture our basic human rights, and the murder of our people". She is someone willing to insult victims of murder, rape and torture to make a political point against an ...
I remember Bolger getting booed by the Eden Park crowd in the 1990s, at a rugby game. Can't remember if it was before he won the 1993 and 1996 elections. Note that was a rugby crowd not a league crowd so probably worse for Bolger than this was for Key.
What's not true?
It's not a touchy issue at all. It's all just paranoid and delusional on your part.
No corprpate has ever paid me to express a view anywhere except where I have disclosed that. Whether you believe that or not, do you have any substantive points to make?
The only people who take her seriously are 9/11 truthers, the Labour caucus. She is opposed to even the WTO and encouraged the violence in Seattle.
I certainly dispute it. You can't use ISDS just because you are seeking to do business in NZ. You have to have invested here, and invested in the basis of specific promises made to you which are then broken by NZ destroying the value of your investment.
All of them. It wouldn't matter what was in the TPP, they would all adamantly oppose it because they are against the globalisation of capital. The exception is Oram who would have supported an identical deal it completed under a Labour government.
Do you have anything substantial to say? You should get an early night. You have a lot of rioting to do tomorrow.
The tribunals will not be made up of corporate lawyers. That is another lie being put around by the antis. Read the text about how they are appointed.
It doesn't matter to anyone what is written here. It's just like a debating hobby or something. Don't flatter yourself.
Who knows? No doubt we will be surprised by which NZ industries take most advantage of the deal. The estimate of $2.7b in GDP gain will more than pay for the estimated $50m drug import issue.
Ah yes, the delusional fantasy that any client of mine would give a fuck what is written on the standard
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