John Key says that Paula Bennett brings 'political nous and dexterity' to the climate change role which, in Keyspeak, means she's adept at looking like she is doing something while actually doing nothing, and is adroit at avoiding the responsibility for ...
Tony Benn must be spinning in his grave.
I wonder if these sheep are destined for Haj sacrifice? The Saudi government has spent over SR2 billion to build modern automated slaughterhouses with state-of-the-art facilities. The Adahi Project, run by the Islamic Development Bank (which was set up by ...
'I thought Cunliffe was your Corbyn…' well that goes to show how wrong thought can be Jamie. So - in your view - the election defeat had NOTHING to do with Cunliffe being actively undermined by some of his caucus colleagues, and the brown smelly stuff that...
I agree. Comment on Facebook: "So Andrew Little has promoted people in the Shadow Cabinet with full regard to the electoral importance of the bloated super city with its clogged arteries and ill-placed sense of its own self importance. He's promoted Kelvin...
My contribution: "There was a consultant called Paula Who was hired as a tough overhauler Of a department whose role Was to help those on the dole - Her brief was to make it much smaller."
"Dickens was writing at a time when the periodicals could smell radicalism a mile away, and in the most unlikely places. 'Jane Eyre' had been censured for 'moral Jacobinism' and anti-Christian 'murmuring against the comforts of the rich and against the ...
My comments to the select committee which I posted before - or thought I did: "I am opposed to the proposed changes to the legislation governing zero hour contracts as laid out in the Employment Standards Legislation Bill because the bill entrenches these ...
Did you read the blog post James? I have looked very closely at all of those who died - as much as I can with what is in the public domain. When I started looking into the sort of people the police shoot I thought it would be mostly violent and hardened ...
http://tewharewhero.blogspot.co.nz/2015/09/...
This sort of stuff risks turning off some of the people it's aimed at. Sensible people on the right - and yes there are a few - get a tad edgy when the propaganda starts sounding as risible as a CIA plot to assassinate Castro with an exploding cigar. The ...
Plug for my long rebuttal of Karl du Fresne's attack on Otago academics. http://tewharewhero.blogspot.co.nz/2015/08/the-rise-of-industry-apologists-of.html
The ultimate 'selfie': sellf-satisfaction, self-congratulation, self-gratification self-indulgence and self-righteousness
Filled in the survey - found the format annoying and so wrote screeds to explain / contextualise.
Pedantic point but the phrase has not been confirmed as having been coined by Lenin.
LOL.
If you could stop tugging your forelock for a moment Kiev and read a bit further in Hart's Wikipedia entry you'd see that he hardly came from humble beginnings. His father was a radiographer; Hart Jnr went to Mt Roskill Grammar School and, although he ...
Imagine if the equivalents of O'Connor in other public sector unions got to comment on policy & procedural matters in the way and to the degree he does. Effective policing depends on community trust. The plethora of TV cop shows do their best to persuade ...
What we need to know about Serco http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jul/29/serco-biggest-company-never-heard-of
John McTernan - the Chief of Staff to Jim Murphy, ignominiously defeated leader of the Scottish Labour Party, and special adviser to Tony Blair. Enough said.
This can't be separated from the discussions around overseas investment in the NZ housing market. I had many concerns over the way the PLP handled the issue of the Auckland housing bubble and foremost among them was the - largely - uncritical acceptance ...
I'm continually amazed at how many layers of management there are in business enterprises and the public sector and how much the ratio of managers to managed has been shifting in favour of the former - and yet, employers still say they need a probationary ...
Haven't you got anything apart from cliches and banalities in your intellectual armoury Gosman? Just out of interest - how do you define the 'hard left?'
And then there's the rather more blunt view of Max Keiser; my asterisks. "Alexis Tsipras wins the feckless, lazy c**t award. #Congrats"
I think this about sums it up ….especially the penultimate paragraph. JULY 13, 2015 The Problem of Greece is Not Only a Tragedy: It is a Lie by JOHN PILGER An historic betrayal has consumed Greece. Having set aside the mandate of the Greek electorate, the ...
I hate the way populist television can sashay from union bashing to a positive profile of a union leader because she has a terminal illness but it's good that a wider audience get to know Helen Kelly for what she is - a sterling person who is steadfast to ...
Naked rightwing ideological posturing is an unedifying spectacle so you'll forgive me if I avert my eyes.
So - an undisclosed estate agency decides to leak commercially sensitive data to the Labour Party - data that seems to support concerns about a flow of Chinese capital into the domestic property market in Auckland which is helping fuel a dangerously ...
"Typical racist South island hill billy. thank fuck for Cook strait." Thereby demonstrating your own brand of bigotry BM.
IMO local government in NZ has been hamstrung for decades by : the constraints on how councils can raise funds and being largely reliant on local rates, i.e. very little central tax revenue is devolved to them; what councils are allowed to spend rates on, ...
Having a 1 vote majority of elected members makes a mockery of democracy - only takes 1 to give central government a majority as the commissioners will continue to do its bidding. Unless Canterbury elects 7 independent and progressive councillors who will ...
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