Jackson coming on board would be a death blow to the Maori Party. He controls the Maori Party in Auckland and the North, with a majority of the Maori Party's members being his backers who he signed up to the party. Willy has massive resources and networks ...
Look closely and you'll see links to Gareth Morgan's money too. Jevan Goulter is your link.
He's supporting the Maori Party, who are National's poodles. Same thing.
Some commenters have no idea of what voters actually expect of their government or why National has attacked Labour over fiscal credibility for so long. Of course a left government should manage the books responsibly. FFS.
The EPMU under Andrew Little held an illegal health and safety strike at Pike River. Because it was illegal it was never publicised. This was published in the evidence to the Royal Commission.
You should talk to actual ethnic communities. They love michael.
That's a 50% vote for National.
That's a highly unlikely outcome, and in fact such a high green vote would likely scare off swinging voters Labour needs to get up into the mid-30s and beyond.
If Labour don't get at least 35% they're not going to be able to form a credible government, which means no Greens in cabinet. The best thing Green voters can do to get the Greens into government is to vote Labour.
It's actually how most New Zealanders - and most voters - see themselves. The vast majority of people self-identify as 'middle' and it makes political sense to reach out to those voters if you want to win an election.
What on earth are you about? There's no comparison whatsoever.
Rather than quote the hysterical Chris Trotter, you should read the actual report, which has a section on collective bargaining.
Don't be ridiculous. This was a stupid media attack line and he treated it with the contempt it deserved. Their framing is an attempt to paint Little and Labour as on the fringe and out of touch wth "the everyman" (as Garner puts it). Little is running a ...
Cunliffe? Jesus. Talk to anyone involved in 2014.
Um, MPs don't have a say on selections. It's a local democratic decision by members. Leggett chose not to stand.
Let's be clear. The original claim from Vance was that Labour had 'mucked up its numbers'. When it was clear that Labour's numbers were robust she changed her story to they should have put all the detail of modelling and assumptions in the public-facing ...
There are 30 pages of detail behind each policy. The standard practice is you give a precis in one page and then provide detail as requested. The government does not include all assumptions in its policy releases as it would run to 30 pages, and nor does ...
Also, if you're going to assume (bizarrely and contrary to any reasonable evidence) that everyone does the whole six months, then why not assume everyone drops out after two weeks? Then the cost could be $10m - $90m, which is meaningless. The point is you ...
There's nothing detailed about 18 weeks paid parental leave assumes the average parent takes 14 weeks of leave, but that doesn't go in a fact sheet either. It's actually extraneous detail.
Lanth. 1. Because only Andrea Vance asked for the details behind the policy costings. 2. No fact sheet goes into all policy detail - that would take 30 pages. Detailed costing assumptions are virtually never put in public-facing material. It is entirely ...
Again, this is not something that has ever been demanded. In the past, Labour used to produce 12-page policy documents. The journalists attacked Labour for being wonky and overly detailed, and then they and the Nats picked Labour apart over the detail. Now...
No one has ever laid out these detailed assumptions in a one page fact sheet. The government does not do so for Paid Parental Leave, for university enrolments, for Superannuation, for benefit payments, for anything to be honest. And the media never demand ...
To repeat from a previous thread: Actually the policy was costed along orthodox lines. The offer is for six months’ work. Not everyone will complete that work as a number will go off and find alternative work or training, which is as the policy is intended...
Actually the policy was costed along orthodox lines. The offer is for six months' work. Not everyone will complete that work as a number will go off and find alternative work or training, which is as the policy is intended. That's why you cost on an ...
I doubt anything would make you happy. - Build 100,000 affordable homes for first home buyers - Ban offshore speculators and tax domestic speculators. - Build thousands more state houses and decorporatise Housing NZ - Three years' free post-school ...
This is a disgusting comment
I'm reliably informed he was on leave at the time of the Chiefs fiasco. Honestly, you do nothing but smear CV.
Conservation is racist colonialism... This is the biggest planned PR job in NZ history. We're fucked.
But Andrew Little is up three points. The poll makes no sense.
Oh you are too much
UMR and Reid Research both have Labour between 31 and 33. Roy Morgan is a joke and everyone knows it after they had National up 10 points then down 7 recently within a few weeks. Colmar is on its own.
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