You mean where she got caught out in Parliament insulting Seymour? Did you see the bit in the first story you get? "Seymour told Newstalk ZB’s Heather du Plessis-Allan he’d been called worse, and he actually saw it as “a victory”. “I asked her the question...
Who, apart from yourself, calls it that?
It is rather nice to again hear a Prime Minister admit to having made a mistake. The last time I remember was in John Key's day when they made changes to KiwiSaver and said that no-one would be worse off. Someone found a case where a contributor in a ...
Are you doubting that the members of the Wellington Council are paid by the ratepayers? The authority you link to may decide how much Councillors, and the Mayor are paid but the actual money they get is most certainly paid by the ratepayers/.
Labour would never have a string of leaders in a short time. Clark, Goff, Shearer, Cunliffe, Little. They were all there for ages.
I assume you mean that you think it was right to terminate Blumsky's, and Gilmore's political careers because they were only white men and didn't matter but Ms Whanau should be able to go on in her downward spiral because she is brown and female and ...
Yes that did happen. It certainly didn't help his political career though as he lasted a single term as a List MP and then left Parliament for good. He didn't enjoy being an MP, although he had enjoyed being Mayor, and wasn't that bad at it compared to ...
"Winston is (in)famous for his imbibing" And just what is your evidence for the statement? I am prepared to accept that he often stays up after midnight, but although I know people who have seen him dining out late at night I don't know anyone who has seen...
There is no such position and no such link. There are references to he phrase Deputy leader but no such position is recognised, even to having a Wiki entry. You will note that there is a Wiki entry to Leader of the Opposition but not Deputy. If my link to ...
"Afraid of the return of Muldoonism, perhaps. Apparently gin fueled his style. Dunno why they bother with such trivia". Perhaps you could tell us why, if you don't know "why people bother with such trivia", you feel the urge to repeat it? After all he left...
I suspect he is not very popular with the hierarchy of the party. He is Labour of fifty years ago when they actually tried to represent the working people. He didn't go on the list. He was probably offered position 95 or so. I doubt if Hipkins would have ...
I'm surprised that you, of all people take what Luxon says as gospel. Can we now assume that you will accept anything he says as being absolutely correct because he said it?
No There is no such position as deputy-leader of the Opposition. Whoever used that wording was simply wrong. If it was Luxon he was just as wrong as Hipkins currently is. Have a look at this. You will see that they have positions of PM, and deputy PM as ...
If "I'll never learn to speak more than a few words" is true how do you know they were "speaking fluently in Maori"?
She refused to be questioned by Mike Hosking on his program, didn't she? And the Covid appearances where "Jessica then Tova" was regularly on display with most other reporters never getting a chance'
Chippie really hasn't got it through yet that he in Opposition now rather than being on the Government benches and part of the Executive. He is complaining that "He said he thought it was an “interesting decision” that National had chosen Greens climate ...
I'm not sure that she needs to resign. I think she has a valid option of giving up drinking alcohol completely. No booze whatsoever. If she does that I think she can remain it the Mayor's job. If she can't stop, or lapses even once after trying to stop I ...
Yes, now I do. I was only thinking of her normal Press briefings, not the ones during the Covid lockdowns when Parliament was not in session and she was the only voice in town. The complaints were that every Opposition MP had been muzzled.
"the Right complained". Can you give some evidence for this claim? I can remember people complaining that she wouldn't take questions from some reporters and favoured those who gave her good stories but I don't recollect the story you tell. Do you have any...
Yes I did. My feelings about it were pretty much summed up in the sentence in the article that says "There remains uncertainty over the way hydrogen forms deep within the Earth, exactly how it migrates to the surface, and how best to extract it." I was ...
They should come to Wellington and demonstrate. The Labour endorsed Councillor Teri O'Neill is sticking up posters of the PM and the ACT and NZF leaders as a "humorous" protest, Terribly funny of course. The Mayor, also of the Left is supporting her. https...
Oxygen is the most abundant element in the earth's crust. It doesn't exist as an isolated element, and thence as a gas, but in the form of oxides. Hydrogen doesn't exist as an element in the atmosphere. Any hydrogen that was released in the atmosphere will...
You really shouldn't trust the "spinoff" to tell you what is in the agreement. Go to the source. This is what they agreed to after all. It says, in Fiscal Policy, "Deliver savings in public sector spending by reducing non-essential back office functions, ...
You say "I notice one of the coalition clauses is to bring the size of the public service down to 2017 levels" I suggest they you have a chat with your optometrist. It doesn't say that at all. It says only that expenditure reduction targets should be ...
If Chris was singing it the second line would be "spent all the tax-payer's money" Actually I would have to agree that the songs you mention are great ballads but I've never heard anyone sing them in a voice that was nearly as tuneful as Bessie at her best...
When he wrote that Luxon had been PM for about an hour and a half. The lefty journalists we have in NZ are probably already complaining that he hasn't got rid of the waiting list for orthopedic surgery yet. I'm sure that Labour would have completed the ...
I almost felt sorry for Hipkins after seeing a press conference he held on Friday. I had been watching some of his interviews with the Press from just before the election. At those he had been backed by anywhere from 4 to 6 Ministers, all looking as if ...
Why do you exclude the two ACT electorate MPs from the Waka jumping clause? The link you supply to the Act says "This section applies to every member of Parliament, except a member elected as an independent." Thus it would apply to Seymour and van Velden. ...
I'm afraid that it is you who are jumping in to quickly. It is of course quite true that in a conscience vote the Speaker does cast his own vote. However those are not the votes being talked about as the writer stated that "National-led coalition has a ...
"a majority of just 5 seats after they provide the speaker". It is now 27 years since MMP started. However some people still don't seem to realise that and still stick to the old days of our FPP Parliament. The Speaker's vote is cast by their party these ...
I would like to see all the racist behaviour cease. All of it. We will still be able to judge people by their character though. I am still not going to be happy if a gang pad tries to set up next to my home. MLK still intended that judging people was ...
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