The Government is not the people, nor has it ever been. It's just a collection of people with little real life experience living in a bubble protecting their own small patch. If you rely on government to fix things, you'll end up perpetually disappointed.
I should still be poor based on that logic though? I don't remember someone oppressing this brown boy so he/she could remain rich at my expense. No one stoped me getting a student loan for university, nor did they stop me from employment or furthering my ...
Poverty is not a choice to start with, but it is a choice to stay in it! There are plenty of ways to dig yourself out of it. This Maori lad started poor and went through the worst Decile One schools but I got out of it. The key is not to have a victim ...
When it comes to Winston though, it really is a case of "Brown man speaks with forked tongue". He must be loving the Greens demise and will be hoping it continues. A straight Lab/NZ First arrangement really opens his options.
Perhaps my 5% call for the Greens wasn't so outlandish after all...
True. There will be a leap for Jacinda in the preferred PM stakes. That's all but a given now that Andrew Little is out of the picture.
I do have a gut feeling that both Labour and National will be in the 30's. Labour 32-odd, National 38-odd.
I'm going to call it as both Labour and National in the 30's, Greens below 5%, or Winston First in the 20's. Could even be all three!
I agree. It's way past Sanctuary's bedtime.
What is is with you Lefties and your racism against white people? This Maori boy from his Thames tribe doesn't understand your blind hate. Celebrate diversity for all (except for whitey). As for people giving up cars, what a crock of shit!!! New car ...
I agree with you on planning. Auckland is poorly planned and has been since day one. Development emphasis has always being on cars and roads. It's more economic fixing and improving the road network than trying to resurrect rail.
There isn't the population density in Auckland, we're just too spread out to make rail economic. Look at London for example: so many millions crammed together made it sensible to use trains. NZ also has so many cars per capita. We are 8th in the world. ...
I live in Auckland and I love roads. Nothing like getting into your car and going where you want, when you want. Who wants to wait 30 mins for the next bus or catch a train that is nowhere near where you want to go?
If Bill is really that much of an ass to stalk someone with 450-odd texts over a dispute, then he deserves all he gets
Banks was found innocent despite Metiria going all into him about truth and honesty. Ironically she's now hoisted on her own petard.
They've not been charged with anything so all is well on that score. English and his 450-odd text messages will blow back on him though.
Would be electoral suicide endorsing a fraudster. She's now a distraction and should go. The evil righties hope and pray Jacinda follows your sage advice though as Metiria's an excellent target đŻ
If I were a National Party strategist, I'd be sacrificing extra-hard to the neo-liberal Gods that she stays as long as possible. Turei's is the Left's weak link. Turei's criminal past will be much flaunted by National in the same vein as "buy Labour get ...
Princess Jacinda needs to kick the Greens to touch. Currently it's "buy Labour and get a benefit & electoral fraudster for free". Metiria's confessions may please the hard core, but it will turn off others.
It's all right Rosemary, Clark and Cullen have installed their puppet as the new leader. [lprent: Trolling and adding nothing to the discussion. Banned for 4 months ]
Of course Labour would never do that...
Perhaps this whole story is fake news...
Cunliffe was clobbered by the voters - utterly rejected, if you recall.
"Iâm all for draconian and even more for very draconian when it comes to levelling the playing field." So you support forced equality of outcome, regardless of effort?
A crackdown on something that's legal? What's next - a crackdown on Mars Bars?
I cannot see how her confession of benefit fraud and lack of contrition can help the cause? The Left is trying to attract back the hard-working blue collar vote yet saying it's morally ok to cheat WINZ?
"smegma is the detritis that collects under foreskins" ... and vulvae.
I can see where BM is coming from. There will be a lot of older voters who will remember the days where immigrants were not many. These voters would feel threatened seeing all these new European/Asian/ Pacific immigrants coming in droves and changing the ...
My experience growing up is very similar to BM's in the 80's. I remember there being only one Asian kid in High School among European/Maori students. This was Hamilton though, not exactly the culture capital of NZ.
I pay plenty of income tax. Not sure how you can 'pretend' to pay tax. IRD will let you know if they think you're pretending
"Did you realise that it can take longer getting a phone today than it did then?" Oh Jesus what planet have you been on? Today anyone can buy a cell phone and have it working a few hours later
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