The PM is the leader of a governing political party in an election year. Anyone who doesn't know which party she leads must be asleep.
The previous health minister always attended the daily briefings....oh wait...
Can you read headlines?
The PM has ultimate responsibility. Doesn't mean she has to pretend to be a micro-biologist.
Not turning the daily briefings into a party political broadcast.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/03/livestream-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-s-daily-covid-19-press-conference.html Stop being so silly.
Indeed. These are just two pieces that detail the smell in the relationship between NZF and the racing industry. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/423192/border-exemptions-for-horse-racing-track-workers https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/11-08-2020/the-...
The 'truth' is the PM fronts these daily sessions. She doesn't need to. It's politicking, pure and simple. And it's not an attack line. The PM is a politician in an election year. Any politician would do exactly the same. But for goodness sake don't try to...
Who cares when it ended? I'm expressing my considerable admiration for how well the PM has exploited this. Previous PM's have been no different.
I tend not to judge the quality of what a politician does as a popularity contest. The PM has played this crisis with absolute finessse. It's really quite a show.
There is a big difference between being visible and exploiting a crisis. But she's a politician, and that's what they do.
The PM has no reason to front these daily sessions other to maximise political effect. An occassional appearance would be more than sufficient. Labour have leveraged this crisis beautifully for political gain. All power to them, but denying it is just ...
Selling public housing is not 'austerity'. According to this article https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/122149832/government-sells-30m-worth-of-state-houses-after-labour-promised-to-stop-sales this government has sold $30m worth of state houses, ...
"We recovered slower than other nations because of the austerity. " There was no 'austerity'. What country were you living in? NZ maintained high levels of social spending, and managed to eliminate what had been forecast as several years of deficits. That ...
"How is it in any way controversial that 'girls' and 'women' are socially-constructed gendered terms? " Principally because the terms 'girl' and 'women' refer to human beings of the female sex. These are not social constructs. And it shouldn't be ...
And yet tax cuts were an important part of the governments successful response to the GFC.
NZ was heading towards recession before the effects of the GFC hit, that is correct, but your overall characterisation of Cullen's time as Finance Minister is misleading. Cullen followed a broadly market economic approach, one that has served this country ...
Interesting to compare the RM polling to the nearest dates for 2011 and 2002. The RM poll taken 25th July - 7th August had National on 51%, Labour on 32%, Greens on 7%, NZF 4%, Act 2%. I can't find RM polling for 2002 (before their time??), but at the same...
And neither do some of the older generations. Hopefully NZF's time is well and truly over.
The statements made are misleading. When you 'cancel' something, you put a stop to it. Not slow it. Not reduce it.
The words used were 'stops', 'end', 'cancelled'. There is a hint of dishonesty here.
Good comments, Observer. And today we have this desperate nonsense https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/07/willie-jackson-goes-for-judith-collins-jugular-over-racially-divisive-remarks.html. Thigs have changed all right.
Neale's right, but Labour set themselves up for this by precisely the statements quoted in the Stuff article, including: "In the lead up to the 2017 election Labour said if elected it would immediately end the sale of state houses." "In December that year,...
Yep, they both do it. No argument from me there.
Investing in a non-viable aluminium smelter? Surely there's better things for government to spend it's money on.
Well done those people. Unfortunately I don't hold out any hope Auckland Council will listen.
Why would the private sector even be interested in investing in a business that is " no longer viable given high energy costs and a challenging outlook for the aluminium industry" (https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/300052786/tiwai-point-aluminium-smelter-to...
But that wasn't the promise. "Massey University associate professor Grant Duncan, who teaches public policy and political theory, said politicians were known to make statements without providing additional information to qualify it. While it made sense for...
" However, we have long moved past the above discussion" You've never even tried to have that discussion. This discussion began with this post https://thestandard.org.nz/if-judith-and-gerry-are-the-answer-it-must-have-been-a-desperate-question/#comment-...
It wasn't the private sector that promised to build the houses, it was politicians.
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