Well, National doesn't have to be ridden over by ACT. As far as I'm aware, the paper isn't something that's embodied in the coalition agreement. If it was, if would have caused a bigger uprising. So, assuming each party has the right to vote as its ...
One thing I've noticed is that National and ACT appear as a coalition even when in opposition. Labour, Greens and TPM need to do the same, showing people a united front, with unique features being like different coloured icing on a single cake.
Greed Is Good, Follow The Money... (Gordon Gecko, Wall St Movie)
It's a sad day in Aotearoa when we compare the various publicised crimes of politicians to decide which party should have the moral high ground... 😭
Forget the detail of this particular situation, the bigger issue is the policy of demonising those who may have a different opinion to those in power. IMHO. However, just because National didn't have a policy on it doesn't necessarily mean they've been ...
https://youtu.be/H3zN4-n8ZWg?si=UtJ_MKIfhTpLxZW8
Never liked the title "Dirty Politics" "I think I smell a Nat" would been far more catchy IMHO...
I've never forgotten our statistics 101 lecturer, who foretold the introduction of what became eftpos but in those days where coins and banknotes were the only currency it sounded fantastic. The relevance of that to today's world is his explanation of why ...
Can't remember the name of the song my grandmother used to sing, but I remember the line "The Rich get rich and the Poor get children". How prophetic...
How do we know the photo is Luxon calling Zelensky? It could be the "Mirror" app.
I think you're looking at the situation from the wrong angle, although it would take a formal survey to really know the answer for sure. I don't think it was what the now-previous government had done, necessarily, but what it had not done. You've ...
I'm waiting for the argument: Socialist=Communist=anti-capitalist=treasonous, therefore we must do away with opposition parties, thus saving $ in the process. Then, a big bonfire in parliament grounds when all Keynsian and similar works are burned, along ...
For the rich, Fiscal Cliff-views over all they survey. For the poor, Fiscal Biffs from the rich.
They're getting extra tax revenue from the smokes. Maybe they'll tax mirrors?
I suppose when you push for Trickle Down Economics, it's only natural that the poor are forced to become Bottom Feeders.
... Where should the Labour Party go now? Well, work out what NACT goes for and go for the rest! Assume ACT is NZs Tea Party, how much of the top does the combined NACT represent? 20% at best, I reckon. Then, at the other end, maybe the bottom 20% who opt ...
Was also thinking, we used to talk about the gap between the top 10% and the bottom 90%. Since then, another 9% seems to have been added to the downtrodden.
It seems to me to be a 21st century dilemma. To win, you have to capture the middle. Yet, voters born after about 1980 only know neoliberalism. They grew up in a world where the the word socialism has been captured by a matra that associated it with ...
Some Nat-friendly people I know are waxing on about the mess the current government inherited and the consequent need to do the hard times before things come right again. Associated with that is the need to do all this other stuff, just to help get the ...
For a government that sees jobless benefits as a short term solution to getting people into work, this is probably the worst policy to do that. It makes coming off the benefit a massive risk, given the difficulty of getting back on if you are terminated ...
For all people say about him, you didn't have to watch Muldoon's eyebrows to know when he was laughing. It may have been an evil chuckle, but his laughter was infectious.
No disagreement. My comment wasn't directed at the actions of the last government but at climate change attitudes in general. Like switching to electric cars and burning fossil fuels to generate the electricity. The end user feels good about their decision...
To really respond to climate change, we would ban imports from the major polluter countries, but who is bold enough to do that? In the meantime we cut another 5% from our measly contribution to the global climate change, pat ourselves on the back and buy ...
Maybe, maybe not. If Luxon had met with Hipkins prior to the election and made a pact that both parties had been burned by NZF in the past and it was in both their interests to rule out going with them, both sides would have picked up some of the NZF vote ...
Luxon says "... Politics is a team game". Hope his coalition partners feel the same way...
All for democracy and freedom of speech, but I think any protests need to be well-thought out and carefully managed. If not, the protesters risk playing into the hands of the Coalition partners who may be seeking to polarise "the average kiwi" and by ...
Could've saved a lot of lives, but Americans would've been driving Toyotas decades earlier and bikers would've been riding around on Honda 50s.
We know, from Luxon's impromptu press conference, that he admits to having difficulty expressing himself, but I'm a bit nonplussed about your quote, and I checked out the link. Hipkins asked if the government would only call for a ceasefire after it had ...
I was brought up to understand that there are two types of Christian - one sees being a Christian as a responsibility to others. A "good Samaritan/noblesse oblige", if you like. The other sort, which appear to be quite prevalent these days, is the ...
Sigh, I wish they would, but I don't think these leaks will do the government too much damage. Dyed in the wool lefties are already unimpressed by the government of the day. Dyed in the wool right whingers (scuse the deliberate typo) will loyally follow ...
I doubt there was a class on backstabbing and undermining when BVV did her uni qualifications and she hasn't had enough life experience to meet those people along the way, I guess. Funny, though, how politicians, who play the kind of games documented in ...
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