Written By: Tammy Gordon - Date published: 6:51 pm, March 20th, 2010 - 24 comments
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Two list MPs and a popular local favourit son. It was always going to be a hard one to pick and it took the selection panel most of the afternoon to decide who would go head to head with Paula Bennet next year. Phil Twyford, Carmel, Hamish McCracken and …
Written By: Tammy Gordon - Date published: 4:45 pm, March 18th, 2010 - 79 comments
Categories: benefits, gst, poverty, tenants' rights
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I got a call from a friend today, thanks to National his rent is going up. I'll call him Ned. He's retired and rents a two bedroom home for $310 a week. He recently received a letter from his landlord advising him of a rent increase of $40 a week. He's …
I'm not even sure it's ideology. This government often just seems dowright mean. Last year they cut funding for 23 schools who give therapy to kids with cerebral palsy and muscular dystrophy. It was only worth $2.5million but it worked and made a huge ...
Mea culpa, I just looked on Labour's website and Red Alert. Two places, to be fair, that I thought would deliver up a statement or comment.
Written By: Tammy Gordon - Date published: 2:53 pm, February 17th, 2010 - 11 comments
Categories: election funding
Tags: Electoral Finance Act, roger douglas, simon power
I've been looking for feedback on Simon Power's electoral finance reform package. I think I heard Russel Norman this morning on Morning Report but I can't find anything from Labour. After the hell that rained down on them over the EFA (much of it richly …
I was just invited to join this campaign on Facebook. I won't be. One of the things that seems so incredibly pointless and mindbooglingly harmful throughout history, is the intent of organised religion to impose its views on other people with different ...
my fav 'We gotta save the polar bear so we can mine there'
I won't be marching. I think some of the extreme religious groups are exactly that - extreme. However, I also think it's pathetic that so many here chose to exaggerate, miscast and spin the "pro-smacking" side's position. 99.9% of people who do not think ...
Labour relies on that "thick vein of self-interest". Hence we had the student loan bribe to keep Labour in power for an additional 3 years and the ridiculous notion of handing out welfare to the middle classes (WFF). The Left loves dressing up self-...
Well, Phil's coming from a low base Rocky. I thought he sounded like a human. I'm not pretending I don't get the politics going on here. Bottom line for me is Hone knew exactly what he was doing and how it was going to be picked up. He wanted this fight. ...
Written By: Tammy Gordon - Date published: 11:00 am, November 11th, 2009 - 30 comments
Categories: john key, phil goff
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I don't know if the two are related but this is my theory du jour. John Key keeps washing his hands of both his own ministers and MPs and his coalition partners' MPs. It seems like no misbehaviour, from rorts to racism can make a dent in Mr Easy Going. …
Ditto the Wow.
Ironic that Sweden is lauded as a shining example to all. A country where a rape occurs every 2 hours, and where the rape of under 15 girls has increased 600% in a single generation. Where 82% of females are afraid to be out after dark. In fact, Sweden ...
I was aghast at Metiria Turei's on Nat Rad this morning. Smugly claiming that the Green's wouldn't miss Sue's vast experience. Her tone essentially said good riddance. Honestly, I just wanted to smack her.
I'm not sure I understand your starting point and/or what the problem is. Is it that Parliament will only be properly working and "democratic" if the 120 MPs are a perfect (or pretty close) match to the demographic breakdown of the country as a whole? What...
How come the left can never seem to manage this sort of orchestrated conspiritorial managment of issues and policies?
Cheer Rocky. You would have thought Fed Farmers might have backed something like that :)
Written By: Tammy Gordon - Date published: 12:38 pm, October 27th, 2009 - 36 comments
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Have a listen to Sean Plunket's interview this morning with Fed Farmer's economic spokesperson Philip York. Fed Farmers is calling on the government to cut spending to rein in the rising NZ dollar. FF: Well there's going to have to be some tough decisions …
Daveo - if Price WaterhouseCoopers come up with some suggestions on, for example, reform of the tax system, would you accept those suggestions verbatim? Or would you "piss of back to talkback", as you so eloquently put it?
Redlogix - putting aside whether or not privatising ACC is a good idea, you're looking at the issue from the wrong perspective if all you're considering is "profitability". It's also wrong to say the REASON for privatising any part of the ACC is to "give" ...
Supposed to be funny?
Must be why the polls are showing so many of them flocking to support opposition parties... (Sorry, assumed we were playing "pull nonsense out of your arse".)
f***ing google!
Written By: Tammy Gordon - Date published: 3:38 pm, October 22nd, 2009 - 12 comments
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… advisors Dr Neil Quigley and Gordon Smith. It also comprises current…
Written By: Tammy Gordon - Date published: 2:23 pm, October 21st, 2009 - 6 comments
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Heard over the lunch time news that John Key was the keynote (oh how he must never tire of that) speaker at the CTU Biennial Conference this afternoon. A quick flick through the programme that had crossed my desk some weeks ago showed this to be the case …
The Maori Party seems to prefer this road to what they got / were getting out of Labour. What was that, again? Oh yeah - sweet fvck all.
Now a comfortable majority are still pretty pleased with things, as far as I can see.
Barry - far too many people here are blind to the fact that they are the intellectual/emotional equivalent of the lunatic fringe of the Right. There's no attempt to engage with the intelligent Right wing or middle ground, just a barrage of name-calling, ...
Yep SHG that's her, elected out with 33.9%. Fickleness in politics is par for the course. That's why Goff should ignore the polls and concentrate on people.
I'm glad to hear it EBP. And I get that the media's not going to give them an easy run. But that's why they're going to have to think hard about how else to get exposure and to 'reconnect' with people. If getting into the MSM isn't working for them, then ...
Written By: Tammy Gordon - Date published: 11:59 am, October 20th, 2009 - 45 comments
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I'm not going to repeat the list of all the things that are starting to make people angry and scared or catalogue the broken promises (privatising ACC fast approaching in National's first term) or go over in fine detail the fact that National are anything …
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