When you are the sixth biggest dairy company in the world and the Southern hemisphere's largest - according to Wikipedia - you should be acquiring more assets, not selling them off, shouldn't you? Is Fonterra run by ACT Party cronies?
Remember how National bombarded us with images and innuendo about how The Alliance and Labour working together (in the 90s) would be a case of "the tail wagging the dog"? Have you ever seen a better example of the tail wagging the dog than the present ...
Perhaps in their charters the children will be required to stand and chant "all hail David Seymour.... all hail our saviour......" You might laugh but with Seymour's intoxication of ideology and delusions of grandeur you never know. Meanwhile National ...
Charter schools are one step towards privatisation of education. The next step for Seymour will be education vouchers, like his hero the Great Rogernome, wanted to do.
It seems to my cynical little mind that the present government is looking for scapegoats for its own cockups and consequential lack of action over our past, present and future energy production and requirements. It all began with the Rogernome government ...
I read it, agree it's right on the button. Despite his later political leanings, Chris Trotter has written some very good and analytic articles over the years.
"Storage " implies looking ahead to the future. National can't see further than the next election.
Not to mention that this second incident actually happened about 18 months ago but the florist conveniently forgot to tell us that. This is so obviously a National smear job.
I bet a lot of people didn't realise that. And Stuff think they can save the 6 o'clock news? Based on this useless example of their journalism, it is already dead.
I have just become aware that the "incident" with the florist actually happened about 18 MONTHS AGO. The news reports about it were very obviously slanted to make people believe that it happened shortly before the parliamentary incident. So how the f... ...
Green baiting, especially the Wellington MPs, is National's goal. In their minds they are getting payback for the Greens kicking National's butt (as well as Labour's) in Wellington at the last election All these "incidents" are not co-incidental, they are ...
National's model makes it harder for the smaller local bodies who will find it harder to get loans and/or pay higher interest rates to fix their ageing water infrastructures. These are the rural towns which, ironically, usually support National to the hilt...
Its very easy to dream up hypothetical situations.
The florist allegedly got angry when JAG tried to record the "confrontation" on her cellphone. Now why would that make the florist angry? I'll tell you why. Because the florist had been insulting and abusing JAG after a heated discussion about cycle lanes ...
Regarding the latest allegation, not fact, against JAG that has very conveniently surfaced this morning. Would be interesting to find out what sort of insults this florist gave her before she got her own back but obviously Newstalk Hosking wouldn't be ...
... are going. "Take that you lefty b.....s"
I've met Genter, she doesn't come across as someone you'd be scared of getting a beating from. Just another excuse for you to Green bash Jimmy and thats all. Hope you are as proactive when Shane Jones next threatens someone.
Wow! Waving papers in front of someones face is SO threatening. Dooley was clearly afraid for his life. No mention of when National's Muldoon used to brandish his fist in front of Labour members' faces. Silly thing to do by an experienced MP but a good ...
I don't disagree with MPs getting a pay rise as such. The 10% quoted is apparently for two years, not immediate. But after the government demanding hospitals save $105 million, massive cuts to the public service workforce coming and unemployment rising ...
He repeatedly promised that National would lower the cost of living during pre-election debates. I want that promised honoured. How he does it is not my problem. But I think he will simply forget the promise and hope the rest of us do.
I don't disagree with a policy of no cellphones in classrooms per se, i just think that it should be up to the schools, school boards and parents to make their own policies as to their school's particular needs. Imagine the outrage if it had been the ...
I heard an interesting item on RNZ Checkpoint yesterday. It was a farmer opposing the government's plan to reintroduce live animal exports. He was Waikato farmer Chris Falconer, who confirmed he had also signed the national petition against it Under ...
The opposition outpolling a new government after only six months??? Has that ever happened before in New Zealand?
I'm still waiting for Luxon to fulfil his pre-election promise to lower my cost of living. Just about everything costs more than it did six months ago.
All around the country hospital emergency departments are barely functioning and what does this neat benevolent government do? It demands 105 million dollars of saving in the health budget and gives each region a figure of how it is expected to save. Our ...
Now we have National it is - to coin an old US phrase - "a return to normalcy ". They no longer have to check for reds under their beds.
The phoney war on farmers has ended. The real war on the environment has begun. National is responsible for both.
Yes, my point was that he was there a long long time despite doing nothing much. Doing nothing seems to get you success within National. They probably kept him on because he entertained everyone with his constant rants about socialism.
Possibly the end of the political career of another National also-ran whose main purpose to the tories was to get the Chinese asian votes. There are a few others like David Bennett and Paul Goldsmith who do just as little and deserve similar but because ...
Luxon, Peters and Seymour basically threw her under a bus, so its no surprise she got squashed. This combination of rich urban yuppies, yeomen farmers and conspiracy theorists basically hate the media, so they chose the weakest link to manage broadcasting.
That ignores the fact that keeping interest rates up is the Reserve Bank's main way of limiting inflation. They no longer have to worry about unemployment so I would expect them to do this so that the NACTZ can brag about reducing inflation, never mind if ...
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