@Jackle Let me point out the first contradiction. "We’ve been seeing the POA “draft” Labour Strategy plan enacted pretty much word for word" "... the document doesn’t outline a course of action, ... in fact it outlines several" By your own words, you admit...
@ Viper "The draft strategy document appears to be well into the process of being physically enacted." *sigh* There is no way the document can be physically enacted, because it doesn't recommend or even suggest a course of action. All it does announce when...
@Ross "Actually the union doesn’t get to dictate the terms of employment. " What do you think they are striking over. Terms of employment. " That’s why they attended mediation and apparently showed they were prepared to negotiate. " Prepared to negotiate? ...
You're retarded. Its a draft document, or did you not reach the end where it becomes nothing but placeholder text. The final part of the draft goes on to recommend notifying the board, and checking to see if they agree. So this draft doesn't represent an ...
No author implied corruption? what the hell do you tihnk "What I meant was that if there was a Labour Government I am pretty sure Curia would have difficulty retaining its contracts." implys? It STRONGLY implies corruption, that or labour would shutdown ...
"Almost no effect", multiplied by 1.5 million people is a pretty damned big effect. But i guess you're a big subscriber to the "Take care of the pounds and the pennies will look after themselves" How are you with carbon emissions? NZ has almost no effect ...
I love your thinking there Viper Because Gibson had ties with Maersk, he set things up. He pulled his connections to make Maersk pull a $20 million a year operation away from his company into an competing port, just to make the strikers look bad. In ...
Its not a losing sum game. Its called supply and demand. If you lower the costs, you'll increase demand. If shipping costs less, taht'll mean importing goods, everyday things like tins of fruit will be cheaper to import, and exporting goods like milk will ...
The port and Auckland are getting fucked over by unionists and strikes. I think that's pretty true, repetition or no.
You seem to be losing your grasp on reality. Are you honestly suggesting firing the head leadership and replacing it with volunteers who'd be paid sweet fuck all. I can't even fathom such stupidity playing out. "The Council has a responsibility to its rate...
"Nah… you and Bazar are just playing at being ...
Care to explain why these employees have a right to demand they should be the only ones working? Because that's what this is boiling down to. The union wants to keep the entire pie for themselves, no exception. Just reading this article, if you read ...
Sooooooo Bennett is back in as an electorate MP and Sepuloni is out.
"No, that’s not how it works." Yes, that's very much how it works. The only way a snap election will be avoided is if EVERY PARTY besides act and national work together. You'd have to be MENTALLY DAMAGED to believe that could ever happen with NZ First, ...
"constitutionally means a snap election" He's still correct, as we would have a snap election, as forced by the constitution. You take a government that can't form a majority, and you add the ramifications of the constitution, and you get a snap election ...
While it may not be the definition, its most certainly the case for this term. National have about 49% of the votes, so to avoid a snap election, nearly every other party needs to unite against national. A 7 party coalition, including NZ first, mana, and ...
And that would be a terrible day for free thinking in all of NZ. Last thing i want is a dedicated and biased MSM. Better to have media that has both left and right wing articles in the same outlet, so people can get a better picture and both sides of the ...
"Goff was the anointed successor of a very popular PM." Anointed? Clark lost the election and that very same night said, without warning, resigned. See: www.youtube.com/watch?v=txI29QEwMRM There was no anointed successor, she left it up to on the fly ...
Pointless abuse not tolerated? Where is that statement against half of vipers posts? Most of his posts just abuse me for no reason other then he disagrees, and in an nonconstructive abusive manor? [lprent: CV says why he is abusing you, if not in the ...
What was that you said Viper? I couldn't hear over the celebrations of national winning its second term. But don't sulk too hard, you'll have another chance to turn nz into a communist welfare nation in 3 years time.
I'd tell them they were the prelude to dark days. That we were just recovering from one international recession, and were looking at another bigger one looming on the horizon. It was an easy choice, choosing between a party that built and demonstrated its ...
I think you need to take a more objective view of what's happening, sounds like you're living in denial. The government wants to start selling assets, and denying that fact is being stupid. I'd prefer it not be called selling assets as that's too simple a ...
Indeed, i think Goff opened well. But i also have to agree that while it was nice to listen to, it was just running commentary about hardships. There was no actual substance to it, other then a few shots. Which is why i think the worm was so positive to ...
And i suppose you believe the media should not ever be held accountable for what they publish? That they should be given the right to say what they please, and gather news without any restrictions? I expect you were frothing at the mouth when news of the ...
Pretty much my thoughts to a T. Frankly i think the taping was a deliberate and illegal attempt by him to get dirt on national. And this is just round 2, where he's talking bullshit to keep the media fed, on topic, and disruptive for National. I'm pretty ...
I do, and i also understand that will never be allowed. If key agrees to release them, it'll show a Key that denied something that didn't matter, and a Key that flipflops. It also sets precedent that taping private political conversations is an acceptable ...
"Only if you believe the world is out to get poor little John Key." Because its never happened before If my internet wasn't playing up, I'd actually put a bit more effort into that, linking how everything from key's car being trashed, to his garbage ...
" a cameraman accidentally recorded a conversation" You have to be an idiot to believe that it was an accidental recording. "where no one had a reasonable expectation of privacy" They were dining by themselves with the media forced out of normal listening ...
it would be nice to have an actual leader of the opposition for once.
From: http://www.hnzc.co.nz/councils-and-community-organisations/community-groups/tamaki-transformation-programme/glen-innes-redevelopment/faqs Affected families will be transferred to another state house that meets their needs. Families wishing to move ...
"What I am concerned about with your comment is how you are prepared for the government to cut down on state housing" I never said i was prepared for it. Just because I'm defending the decision for housing nz to evict tenets doesn't mean i support housing ...
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