Jones Minister of Energy? Well he was the one who got all of the ‘fuzzies off the couch.’ Didn’t he? Yeah right.
Was a time in New Zealand someone from the 'big smoke' like Auckland would move to a country town and take mystique with them. There may have been suspicion of the newcomers but they were often credited with respect and deference merely because they were ...
When all is said and done do politicians want to be in the hurly-burly and hullabaloo of tortuous coalition negotiations or deep in the grimness and grime of the opposition trenches.
Which presumably means that Labour has to work out what it stands for, formulate strategies for achieving its hopes and sell those over time to the electorate. Oh, and have the personnel with the charisma or pulling power and team building capabilities to ...
I look on it like any other sport. Some games go smoothly, straight forward. Others have stoppages galore, endless injury breaks, collapsed scrums, and bizarre TMO interventions. Winston’s there so even if it’s not immediate eye gouging isn’t out of the ...
"So it's OK for a Labour politician to yell at teenage volunteers, and blame them because she lost her seat?" Probably not. I'm looking for somewhere I can find that's an accepted and supported attitude.
Given the significance of the ToW? To whom? And as for fighting for a system that didn't rely on either birthright or violence and to discard it? How will a referendum to get rid of the Treaty go? Those who want Māori subjugated or killed off, ...
Are you the only Labour member and supporter demanding all that?
The are likely to be a lot of old rural women happy at steps being made to them being back where they should be - in aprons in kitchens. While men take care of the important stuff.
I can't find if Brownlee got in.
Northland.
Labour had a massive majority and look what happened. Seems there was not the political nous to harness and harvest that, enough wily backroom boffins focused through the term. And just recently the polls saying most people wanting a capital gains tax? ...
Just last week I found a new version of an oldie which had me reflecting on the variety of their songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YJZkTh53KU
"We've seen in the USA what happens when you dawdle over an immediate transfer of power?" Do you mean we've seen what happens in the USA when you expect the traditional (over a couple of hundred years) transfer of power when the loser in the election is a ...
I expect that on his 'Do Immediately' list Luxon will feature the plans for how he's going to get the election count done more quickly. More than 567,000 special votes? The simplest solution to the perceived problem I suppose is to not have special votes. ...
C'mon now, why would you believe he wouldn't have it in him?
I read something today which reminded me of David Seymour and his cobbers. "One of India's most revered entrepreneurs believes that young people need to put in exceptionally long hours at work if they want to see the country become a global economic ...
Naturally the South African rugby hooker was cleared to play this weekend. Of course evidence and proof of a racist jibe was going to be awkward to substantiate. That said, if South Africa had lost and the insult had been directed at Bongi Mbonambi by one ...
Yes Belladonna. The inquest needs to reveal how many of the 70 recipients phoned the Police, and also if NZF's office or any other MP's were addressees.
So their choice is an election denier who according to the NY Times ''played a leading role in the effort to overturn the 2020 election." And to make sure he strikes the double, according to the Guardian he has co-sponsored bills for a nationwide ban of ...
Someone rips others off to the extent of hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. My observation is that often very little public umbrage is expressed. A couple of young people perpetrate some property crime and or threaten others, and social media ...
... Chief Electoral Officer by Winston Peters on realising the numbers weren't...
Yes SapphireGem. We are about to find out if Luxon is prepared to create civil unrest in order to become PM. Since the Treaty process was established in 1975 there has been ongoing discussions, hours of legal argument, and many court rulings; to now expect...
Was she there when things were done? That means she was instrumental in doing things. Can you name a member who ‘achieved’ something and that was solely, only down to them? Not simply sticking up for the woman but the question reminds me of the banal ...
Over the duration many were scathing about the way covid was handled. I'm sure the erosive residuals were important. Notably, those who were scathing weren't killed by the virus.
"As far as the public are concerned there have been about 20,000 people who have voted on the Herald Poll and 70% say Luxon won and 30% pick Hipkins." I reckon if there was a poll on Mike Hoskings' radio show with 15,000 voting I'd say about 98% would say ...
Luxon had Uffindel as a shadow for months. Here he is, here he is, here he is, so important he has to be there. If he's that important why not talk about him?
True, but as unpleasant as it is, would he rather be in Hipkins' place?
The pondering of a closing gap and the overall closeness reminds me of a final flourish of a rugby team which gives them a sniff at the end of a game which suggests they could have done it. The silly penalties and dropped balls earlier are what put them in...
... aggrieved is oxygen to Hosking. Peters being elected and being in...
Can you imagine Tamaki as an MP?
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