I am very impressed. I certainly wasn't capable of coming up with all the information you ask of me. To find that you are capable of, in just a few minutes, coming up with details of all the trips on Air Force planes taken by Key, English and Ardern was ...
Travel on an Air Force plane. I don't have any opinion on whether she travels on an Air Force plane. It is normally the most convenient way to do it, particularly when there is a large group of people going to some out of the way place. [Irrelevant twaddle...
This is just the first bite, as I am sure you are aware. "Full and final settlements" are no such thing. It is unavoidable.
This seems to be a very quick turnaround by the PM. On Tuesday last she seemed to be saying she was in no hurry to get vaccinated. "Asked whether she is willing to be vaccinated publicly, Ardern said she will, when it's her turn." ..... "Ardern's decision ...
On this one I really feel sorry for the IRD. I don't know when they first started telling people about the shutdown but they were certainly doing so last Wednesday, 24 Feb. It never rains but it pours. https://media.ird.govt.nz/articles/ir-online-services-...
I'm off to YouTube to watch the Monty Python Life of Brian tune "Always look on the bright side of life" You really are a little ray of sunshine, aren't you?
And there was I thinking they were friends. Does Senor March only regard it as a business relationship, as in "They were partners in the law firm"? How unromantic.
No I wasn't talking about him getting into the MIQ facility. I was talking about him having been invited to apply for an immigration visa. "Menéndez March's partner was invited to apply for a visa on December 3 last year and a six-month visa was granted on...
I wonder if the families of these, genuinely critical, workers were "invited to apply for a visa"? PM Ardern tells Faafoi to look at 'anything more we can do' to reunite critical migrant health workers with families (msn.com) I do rather expect not. Still ...
Yes. Those are the rates I, and I hope everyone who puts in a return, uses. I was merely curious as to how Sabine, who lectures us on what she considers our errors, could dare to do so when she is so spectacularly wrong with her claims. I certainly hope ...
"Immigration New Zealand is standing by its decision to grant a visa to the partner of Green MP Ricardo Menéndez March and says the application was treated "like any other". Why am I reminded of the immortal response of Mandy Rice0Davies when she was told ...
You have made me very curious. You say that the tax rates are "to pay that 33% tax rate you have to have a certain income? Below that the tax rate is 22% and 17.5%%." Can you please tell me the bracket where a 22% rate applies? What happened to the 10.5% ...
I'm glad I read on after Sabine's comment before I replied. You have saved me the trouble. It is quite amazing how many people seem to think that deductions come of your tax, rather than off your taxable income. I wish it was true.
Interest is the payment you have to make in order to own the property and without that you would have nothing to rent out. I wasn't counting any part of the capital amount of an assumed mortgage as that is going to provide you with something of value even ...
Perhaps you might to do another little calculation. How much did the property cost? Does a property of that price where you live cost $460 to rent? If not recalculate the theoretical rental. How many weeks/year can you actually rent the property? It is ...
"there is nothing to admire or support in Putin's Russia." That is a little bit harsh Stuart. I think there are some things. Alexei Navalny for example. He may not be perfect but, by returning to Russia as he has done, he is certainly displaying incredible...
You seem to be developing the habit of having one name in your pseudonym and then finishing your comment with another. I assume they are your family name and your first name. In order that I can correctly address you can you tell me which is which? Are you...
"Andrew Little has got no say over TS.". Not yet baby, not yet. That is why I suggested that she say whatever she wants to. However not having any say now doesn't affect the fact that he would like to have control in the future, when he can decide that ...
Of course previous Governments headed by both major parties have stuffed up. However for the last three and a half years we have had a Labour led Government. The article I linked to covered the way things have got even worse this year than they were last ...
"we are not to mention". Why on earth shouldn't you mention it? As far as I know Andrew Little hasn't put his hate speech laws through yet so you can't be prosecuted for saying something that causes unhappiness in one of our Lords and Masters. So go to it,...
The Minister of Housing will be very happy. Auckland has risen from number 6 in this Housing survey in 2020 up to number 4 in 2021 report. Go team! Why, with the great strides being made by the current Government we will get up to Number 1 before this term...
"too many firearms incidents lately". But they all stopped about 18 months ago. There haven't been any since St J miraculously removed all the firearms from the people of this country. Whatever.
You are probably correct. They won't need to go that far. It will be dropped as soon as it drops off the news media radar. Rather like the way that all proceedings with the various ratbags in the Labour Party had all the charges dropped.
They can't do that. The treaty says that Sealord, or at least their owners, can do anything they please in New Zealand waters. There will, no doubt, be a claim to the Waitangi Tribunal to scrap the decision.
Things weren't too bad from about 2009 to 2012. Then it all went bad again and we went back to the same mad situation that we had from 2000 to 2008 and then from 2013 until today. I not sure if anything during this period has been quite as bad though as ...
I would suggest that I regard O'Brien as being like a cat that has caught a mouse and plays with the poor thing. She runs for the hills though when she runs into someone who really doesn't give a damn about her. Then she behaves like a cat being chased by ...
I think it is a desperate attempt by Robertson to try and set up the RBNZ as the people who cop the blame for the shambles that this Government has been making of the housing market for the last three and a half years. I suspect it will backfire on him (...
What does my comment have to do with Assange?
You don't really use Tass as a source of "facts" do you? I would trust Tass about as much as I would believe that fellow Trump. On second thoughts that is a bit tough on Trump. I would trust Tass about as much as I would believe something by that Tova ...
"not to mention Navalny's breaking the terms of his parole" You do realise that this means he didn't report to his Russian parole officers because at the time he was in a coma in a German hospital after he had been poisoned by the Russian secret police ...
"what a downer". Now you make me feel bad. I'm very sorry if I rained on your parade.
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