"In my experience, people who claim they are centrist are invariably right wing" Come come MH. I would guess that you think Karl Marx was a fascist and as for those Nazis Mao and Josef Stalin you probably see them as being far to the right of Mussolini
I'm not so sure about that. The whinges come mostly from the left on that sort of thing. In 2012 when Key was the PM and they spent $275,000 on painting, carpeting and replacing curtains in the house little Chris Hipkins had a tanty and tossed all his toys...
"public space."? How do you get that idea. I can assure you that if you go onto that property you won't be welcomed as a person who is welcome. You would be far more likely to be looking at a weapon held by someone in the DPS. The public did, back in the ...
Here's the gist of what the PM was told, and that she ignored even though it could have fitted in beautifully with the spend-up that Grant was pushing. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/premier-house-needs-more-renovation-work-department-tells-pm/...
"fiscally prudent". I wish that you believers in the faith of the left could make up your minds. The time when you say that she wouldn't spend money because fiscal prudence was called for was exactly when Grant was borrowing and spending tens of billions ...
The report is what was wrong with the place in about 2020. It went to the Prime Minister of the day who, as was her wont, did nothing about it. It wasn't even allowed in the too hard basket. It was then inherited by he successor who did the same. Now a ...
"In 2018 the house was upgraded, with repairs and maintenance undertaken, at a cost of NZ$3 million." I fear that that upgrade must have been as bad, and as expensive, as most of the things that the Labour Government attempted. Why does it seem that every ...
If you are a true believer in the last Government we had until last year then you wouldn't see any difference between a property without a mortgage and one that did have one. After all the the Labour Government changed the law to prevent anyone claiming ...
Regarding the "Housing Allowance". Suppose all the List MPs were to move to Wellington and live here. They would not get a Housing Allowance. After all Wellington will be their home. This would have no effect on their Parliament related travel outside ...
A rather grudging admission perhaps but at least you are admitting you were quite wrong. I wish some of our MPs could do even that. Even if you think it is fair to treat the MPs who own their homes in Wellington, as well as one in or near their electorate,...
You still can't read, can you? That story was dated 12 October 2023. From the start of 2021 until that date is two and three quarter years. It covers all of 2021, all of 2022 and most of 2023. You are somehow claiming it was in a single year! I suggest it ...
I cannot see how you can possibly come to that conclusion from anything I have said. It is something that can quite fairly be said about the Labour Party hierarchy though as that party has been largely overrun by mediocre academics. What happened to the ...
The problem is that both Ardern and Hipkins closed their eyes and maintenance simply wasn't done. In 2022 she said, after rain in Wellington, ""Moments later, the serenity ended with a fairly major leak. Not from the open window either, we opened that to ...
"He used to claim $90,000 a year.". That is a lie. You have no evidence at all for your fanciful claim.
You should read more carefully. My view is that they should have shown that they can do something well. They might have become rich while doing so. If so they shouldn't be excluded from becoming an MP.
True. That is why Ardern and then Hipkins put it in the to-hard basket and left it to rot. It merely demonstrates that they were incompetent in this just as they were in almost every other aspect of Governance. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/premier-house-...
It isn't a benefit. It is a salary and allowances package they get for doing a job. Now I might think they are overpaid and that we should reduce all public service salaries down to where the maximum that anyone can be paid is limited to $100,000 but I ...
You certainly have a fascinating idea of what is a "benefit"
"a Hawaii vacation spread". Bulls**t.
Luxon is an electorate MP whose electorate is in Auckland. He needs to live, as almost all electorate MPs do, in or close to his electorate. He also needs somewhere to live in Wellington. If Premier House isn't suitable he can live somewhere else. Why ...
A better analogy would be the "Cullen" fund. The New Zealand Superannuation Fund if you prefer its formal name. I assume you are in favour of scrapping it as New Zealand Superannuation is fully funded on a pay as you go basis. Why do we have the Super fund...
Yes, the Current Affairs programs from that era were far better than today. The only one I ever watch nowadays is Jack Tame's Q & A. He still works on the basis that his responsibility is to get his guests to explain the story, and to try and make sure ...
I've never met the fellow. At least I don't remember having done so. Being nearly as old as Joe Biden though how would I be sure?
Don't worry Robert. She may not be instantly discharged without a conviction but I expect she will get diversion and no criminal record.
Crikey. They have a Dinari Black Sleeveless Silk dress by Christian Wijnants at $1295 and they can't even get the hem level!
"I cannot recall this academic ever writing anything about Nats, ACT or NZ First." That is, unfortunately, simply a common situation as we get older. Our memory starts to fail and we can't remember even fairly recent events. Here are a few examples from ...
I believe that the only Ministry Parker resigned from was the minor position of being Revenue Minister. That was the job that both Labour and National gave to Peter Dunne. It wasn't in Cabinet but gave Peter all the perks, and salary, of a Minister. Parker...
"Let's assume for a minute that TMG does both police like security and grey area military work" But, in the light of what Shearer says why should we assume that at all. There doesn't seem to be any evidence that they were involved in the "grey area" work ...
David Shearer would seem to be saying that the term "private military" would be a little misleading. He is proposing, at least as I read it, that they don't really behave like a military force but rather closer to the armed police that we see at New ...
"Truth in what she said"? Very little according ti former Labour Leader David Shearer who actually does know a great deal about the topic. He says "It was during that work he interacted with many companies akin to Mitchell’s and said Andersen’s recent ...
As a Wellington Ratepayer I can only add three letters to your comment. "What an unpleasant surprise…"
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