Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 6:24 pm, January 30th, 2023 - 73 comments
Categories: act, election 2023, greens, labour, maori party, national, Politics, polls
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This evening two new political polls have been released both putting Labour ahead of National. ' From Radio New Zealand: Two political polls tonight have Labour regaining lost ground against National, with leader Chris Hipkins more popular than the …
Yep Paturoa Road has similar problems. Multiple slips and I can assure you that this is on the top of the local MP's and chair of the local board's antenna and is the top priority for them.
This is the most dramatic localised weather event of my lifetime and the carnage is immense. The statutory test for calling a state of emergency was easily met. Calling one would have been a clear message to Aucklanders that they should take care. It is ...
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 1:40 pm, January 29th, 2023 - 131 comments
Categories: auckland supercity, climate change, labour, local government, science, supercity
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As Auckland slowly recovers but readies itself for further storms there is some attention being given to review Council’s response to the super storm. The initial impression, and this is held widely is that the response was sub optimal. This article by …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:54 am, January 27th, 2023 - 26 comments
Categories: Christopher Luxon, minimum wage, national, nicola willis, same old national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, wages, workers' rights
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National has always claimed to be the party that is really good with the economy. This is an undeserved reputation. Historical analysis shows that the economy performs better under Labour Governments and that ordinary wages and employment rates increase …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 2:38 pm, January 26th, 2023 - 25 comments
Categories: Christopher Luxon, Maori Issues, Maori seats, MMP, national, politicans, same old national, uncategorized
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National Party strategists must be worried. Because Christopher Luxon keeps displaying this innate ability to open his mouth and then insert his foot. The latest example concerns Co Governance. Luxon has this pattern of behaviour where he asks a million …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:48 am, January 24th, 2023 - 62 comments
Categories: Christopher Luxon, crime, human rights, jacinda ardern, uncategorized, violence against women
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In as perfect an example of mansplaining you could ever imagine yesterday AM host Ryan Bridge said this in response to the claims that misogyny had a large part to play in Jacinda Ardern's decision to stand down. "Some of the headlines have been ridiculous…
Ask and ye shall receive. https://union.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Inflation-and-Incomes-Act_NZCTU-FINAL.pdf
Thanks SPC. Might use this as the basis of a post. Good to have the details out there.
Holy feck can you stop using the daily blog as a source of information? Try the MSD release and tell me where it is wrong.
Here is the information. Have a read. Knock your socks off. https://www.msd.govt.nz/about-msd-and-our-work/publications-resources/information-releases/cabinet-papers/2021/welfare-overhaul-work-programme-update/appendix-three.html Claiming that Sepuloni is ...
Fcuk you. I was very aware of what Bennett did to Winz offices so each time I went into them I made a mental note of what was happening. Things are entirely different now.
He has a real thing about NZ on Air funding, basically because they turned him down.
She has changed the ethos of Welfare offices. Nowadays they are welcoming and helpful places. What's the evidence for this micky? I have visited the Henderson MSD office pretty well weekly for a number of years. The vibe is entirely different now. SLP, ...
Yeah he has always had a thing about Carmel. He shows the same sensitivity to her that he showed to female bloggers who pointed out he was an idiot and worse some time ago. This is why I put the stats about child poverty and benefit increases in my post. ...
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:49 pm, January 22nd, 2023 - 59 comments
Categories: Carmel Sepuloni, chris hipkins, election 2023, jacinda ardern, labour
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Everyone in politics has a used by date and no one can expect to last for ever. The really best go out on their own terms. They achieve what they can and then they make space for the next volunteer. Ardern has clearly done this. When Helen Clark bowed …
Well said Nick.
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:23 am, January 20th, 2023 - 180 comments
Categories: Carmel Sepuloni, grant robertson, jacinda ardern, labour, michael wood, violence against women
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When I heard that the Prime Minister was making a special announcement yesterday I experienced a sense of dread. It seemed clear to me that she was not herself. The effusive jubilant Jacinda of previous years had more recently appeared to become very …
Jacinda's basic and perhaps only weakness is that she is a gentle compassionate soul and all of the hate and attacks clearly got to her. We need to do politics better than this.
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:53 am, January 19th, 2023 - 2 comments
Categories: Dirty Politics, national, political parties, same old national
Tags: cameron slater, whaledump, whaleoil
Back in the days when I blogged on my own rather obscure website I started to receive attention because I talked about the internal workings of the Labour Party. Then one day I received an email from someone who I will call Whaledump. He or she started to…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:44 am, January 18th, 2023 - 61 comments
Categories: act, election 2023, election funding, electoral commission, greens, labour, national, same old national
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The Electoral Commission has published parties' return of donations of $30,000 or more received in the past year and the results are interesting. National has performed extraordinarily well and has received $2.3 million from large donors. ACT also …
I hope not. If Grant was in charge I don't think Labour would have a chance.
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:54 am, January 15th, 2023 - 37 comments
Categories: Deep stuff, election 2023, jacinda ardern, labour, national, political parties, Politics
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One thing that really impressed me about the last Auckland Mayoral campaign run by Wayne Brown was how simple his campaign messaging was. It was extraordinarily simple. Auckland was broken and he was the man to fix it. His policy platform was remarkably …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:24 am, January 12th, 2023 - 30 comments
Categories: climate change, Environment, national, same old national, science
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This is a tweet that Stuart Smith put up on Twitter yesterday. It has received a significant amount of blowback, as it deserved. The tweet is more than a little naughty. Fancy proposing that climate change should not be taught in schools. As the world …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:35 am, January 10th, 2023 - 57 comments
Categories: labour, Media, national, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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I don't know if the motivation was to increase social media interaction or just to have a go at the Government but the potentially most ridiculous article of the year has already been posted and we are only 10 days in. Brook Sabin has posted this article …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:55 am, January 6th, 2023 - 116 comments
Categories: benefits, class war, climate change, cost of living, covid-19, Economy, employment, grant robertson, housing, human rights, jacinda ardern, labour, Living Wage, national, poverty, same old national, Social issues, unemployment, welfare
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Judging by the terms of the so call informed commentary the result of this year’s election has already been determined. It is almost as if we should not even bother campaigning. This is certainly the position of blog accumulator and academic Bryce Edwards…
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 2:47 pm, January 2nd, 2023 - 18 comments
Categories: Donald Trump, politicans, tax, us politics
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One of the mysteries of the ages has now been resolved. One of the great mysteries along with who killed JFK and is there life on Mars is how wealthy is the orange one. And now we know. And it appears that he is not as wealthy as he made out to be. …
The Government was facing a one in one hundred year pandemic and predictions of catastrophic economic failures and you criticise them for miscalibrating?
Pretty much.
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:01 pm, December 30th, 2022 - 39 comments
Categories: act, Carmel Sepuloni, Christopher Luxon, climate change, david seymour, Deep stuff, jacinda ardern, michael wood, national, science, uk politics
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It is that time of year again where the events of the year are reviewed and what was notable, noteworthy and notorious. And what a year it has been. January 2022 seems like a decade ago. Who can forget when earlier in the year a group of protestors …
Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:19 am, December 26th, 2022 - 116 comments
Categories: Deep stuff, Maori Issues, Politics, racism, racism
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Meri Kirihimete to one and all. This post is a day late, partially because of technological issues and also because of doing nothing at all on Christmas day issues but it is written in response to replies to this TVNZ tweet. https://twitter.com/1NewsNZ/…
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