I was addressing the point made by tsmithfield that "he still only had one vote". My point was that as Leader he could, and did, change policy which gave him more power. What issues he might seek to change were not my subject but that he could change ...
He may have only one vote, but he has the power to change the policy stance of a major party during a question period at a public meeting- which I understand happened on the question of housing density. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/housing-...
Regarding your last paragraph concerning targeted subsidies, that is the topic of another post here where it says, "Targeted welfare policies provide social benefits only to the poor or the neediest groups based on means testing or other criteria. One ...
No wonder why National are having to expend so much energy and adopt more extreme right wing positions to defend their right flank. Are their recent retractions of policy part of this strategy?
And ACT and National questioners insist on asking a question that is part of a larger quote and therefore misleading. Ginny Anderson pointed that out today during QT in the House, naming some half dozen different recent dates on which the same question was...
Poverty is being addressed. Minimum wage increases, targeted assistance, winter warmth, accommodation supplements, free prescriptions, free buses. half price fares, school lunches.... And just in the news, enabling unions to negotiate better wages for low ...
We also have political parties who are saying tax us less. What Ginny Anderson said in QT yesterday bears repeating. https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/combined/HansDeb_20230530_20230530_18 "What I will note is that not only were front-...
"As for not only dealing with crime but the causes of crime. When are they going to address poverty?" When will the wealthy share their wealth? When will tax evasion end? When will people understand what society means? Kindness? Sharing? Peace? Cooperation...
Find out here what National did in 2014-17 about raiding shops. https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=666399771648489
Have a listen to today's QT in the House and find out. First you will learn how to deal with a dishonest questioner who only gives part quotations. Then you will learn about 1800 extra police and not only dealing wth crime but the causes of crime. Or you ...
Good that Parliament is back in session. Today's popcorn session at question time saw Hipkins, Robertson and Anderson in fine form against the 'wit' of Luxon, the dread seriousness of Willis and the cheekiness of Seymour. Worth a watch in a rerun. Then we ...
Interesting that National are continuing with their age raise for Super given this research finding. https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/04/superannuation-new-research-reveals-more-support-for-hiking-taxes-and-keeping-age-at-65-than-raising-it-to-...
Try Google. I'm more surprise that no-one has challenged such a stupidly nonsensical statement as " He has, in fact, failed at everything he has attempted." Since the writer does use that phrase "in fact", I challenge him to read a Google summary of ...
And Winston also promoting the same message according to your (and my) Stuff citation. It contains this quote "the NZ First leader took aim at bilingualism and “woke social engineering” to laughter and cheers from the Grey Power congregation." Alleluia!
Thanks, Anne. Here's what was said in a very recent National newsletter. It seem that we are "driven by the influence of woke socialists who seek to advance their own agenda'. They are the problem, being racists...... "Infiltrating institutions and ...
I am not sure of all this so I am seeking information from those who might know. The recent Horizon poll was a large one with 1500 respondents and a 10% don't know. Also, and most importantly (?), the respondents were those on the roll and practising ...
Ngungukai- rite tonu ki tenei ara? https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/132148491/christopher-luxon-worries-its-hard-to-understand-mori-names-what-bubble-is-he-in
Have you been reading "The Croaking Wokes" by John Wind'emup? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kraken_Wakes
Chat GPT, an AI programme, was asked. "Can you write a speech for Christopher Luxon?" "It would be impossible for me to write a speech for him/her/it," it replied. "I am after all an Intelligence." Asked whether it could write a speech for Nicola Willis, ...
"Here's what happens: you either go out and buy a standard, stock image… of an actor playing a fake nurse or a doctor or whatever it is, or you can create it now through AI and I don't think there's any difference in both of those approaches." Is National...
I had a read of the 20 June 2019 "National's next leader? " from The Standard above. Interesting prescience from some contributors. For me it raised the issue of what options National has when Luxon goes for there are not many at the moment. It goes back ...
When did the ship sail? How long ago and what were the reasons for her departure? In a similar analogy, the reasons for emigration by ship in the 19th century ranged from a search for freedom and personal advancement to colonial exploitation.
ianmac, I too lived in Papanui in the Fifties, and Sixties! I remembered during the discussion here the artesian water from a drinking fountain on the north west corner of Hagley Park after a game of cricket. Funny but driving around our present town today...
Sorry, Ngungukai, but all I have to read are tea leaves, press reports and body language. The tea leaves are murky, the press reports are hinting at rolling tumbrils, and the body language of Luxon's colleagues-deputy and Whips- in the House indicates ...
How does it feel to be the latest in a long line of recent National Party leaders to know that your deputy has been asked by reporters whether it is true that business leaders have approached her with a concern to depose you? Also, what a bastard of a ...
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/99591173/state-of-new-zealands-drinking-water-slammed You say quite rightly that ChCh values its water purity. I'm an old ChCh boy and remember its artesian water. Where I live now is the same. But the goal posts ...
All Christchurch had to do in 2016 was to spend some $40 million to secure the water supply against contamination. There are 400,000 residents there- it would cost only 20 flat whites per person to remedy! https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/313670/...
AB, very well put and so true. I'm obliged to contribute my share because I can earn what I do only because a functional society exists in the first place."
During the Irish Famine, that was a reality. "Private charities, such as Quaker soup kitchens, were overwhelmed; and bands of walking skeletons began to roam the countryside. People died in ditches, green foam issuing from their mouths because they had ...
Sorry, ianmac, but an accountant I am not. I joked at a recent meeting that I had held many positions within that organisation but never treasurer- with good reason.
Adrian, I bet you've got a line in great headwear :-) or is that 'headware'? :-) :-)
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