The Wanaka supermarket does this every Easter, but this time they probably won't get prosecuted because the NACTZ have said openly in the past they will change the holiday trading laws thus the police will probably be told quietly not to do it. I also ...
Things might not be quite as rosy as they appear for Labour. Note the astonishing victory for the left George Galloway in the recent Rochdale by-election, which Labour should have won in a canter. The Brits have rightfully had an absolute gutsful of those ...
Not a couple of weeks ago I predicted that the political right would start a campaign of propaganda supporting landlords who don't want to pass on their reduced costs to their tenants now the interest rebate has been reinstated. It has begun. This story ...
How did businesses manage in the 70s when most people got double time for Sundays? Somehow most of them managed to scrape through but in the neo lib 90s whilst nearly everyone lost their penal rates and extras a lot of business., especially manufacturing, ...
Hi Michael P. Another reminder that you haven't replied to my challenge of your claim that the Hurricane Poua rugby team are taxpayer funded. Unless, as I suspect, it is a hot air claim that you cannot substantiate, like a lot of your claims on this site.
The reason for all this should be obvious, but so many ignore it. Simply, the political right don't have any answers to the major problems such as child poverty, homelessness and addressing climate change. And what's more they don't care. So they divert ...
Tax cuts WILL go ahead. They will go ahead because I believe this was one of the secret clauses in the coalition agreement demanded by ACT. ACT and their rich list mates made tax cuts a bottom line and if National reneges on this ACT could retaliate by ...
After reading this I even more rue Labour's decision making in the last 2-3 years of their government. It is a basic admission that Labour knew what they should have done, but lacked the guts to do it. And unfortunately Jacinda Adern has to take a large ...
Not being used to make money? Well thats a lie for a start. They were soliciting donations for the party before and after the performance. I hung around the entrance to the Convention centre beforehand to see who or what turned up to see Peters It was more...
Peters caught using someone's music without permission. Chumbawamba say they don't support his use of their 1997 hit "Tubthumping" because they mean it as a song of hope, whilst Peters is ...."using it to shore up his misguided political views..." and he ...
Even more curious is that he said there is a 5.6 billion dollar hole facing the present government, which Finance Minister Nicola Willis denies. Obviously you can't go ahead with tax cuts with such a hole, assuming you don't want to create a banana ...
The following will happen shortly. We will begin to see various news stories about landlords that have been ripped off, their houses trashed, fittings stolen and rent unpaid by bad tenants. Not that it hasn't happened, it happens, and it has always ...
I suppose it all comes from a general assumption that people who talk and dream about a particular subject must actually know a great deal about it. I'm sure everyone knows that it is not necessarily true. As the Americans like to say, "you can talk the ...
The present government wouldn't even know what it was. [Please correct the typo in your user name in your next comment, thanks - Incognito]
His attitude is probably something like if it's those pesky greenie lefties that suffer then why worry?
Seems like any bod in a uniform votes National by default. Perhaps they should ask themselves why.
Does that mean you won't be able to get police person when you need them? Doesn't sound much different from the normal situation.
Oh yes the old keep politics out of sports argument! Sport and politics have been one for many many years Gosman, whether you recognise it or not. Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, Fifa World Cup just three examples where politics runs the show.
Chris Luxon should lead by example and reduce the rent on the houses he owns.
National likes to boast about what they have "achieved" in 100 days. What they don't boast about is how low Luxon's rating as PM is after 100 days. New PM's usually are high in the ratings, as befits the honeymoon period of a new government. But how many ...
I think the roots of it go back to the 1980s, if not earlier, when the neo-liberal forces of the world - governments and institutes - began a campaign to gain control of the MSM and make the economic theories of Friedman and Hayeck the norm. Part of this ...
"Look good" are the operative words. Everything the NACTZ government does is designed to look good, because their conspiracy theory prop supporters and the shallow MSM lack the intelligence and foresight to delve further from the surface. I've said it many...
When I read Seymour's comments my first thought was: Revenge of the Nerds. Peters' and Seymour's payback to the media who have said and done rotten things to them over their long parliamentary careers. Now you lot will get your comeuppance.
I suppose that when you own a stack of houses and are the representative of an affluent blue ribbon seat like Botany then anything less than a mansion is unliveable. But I bet it is still infinitely better than the places that many people have to live in, ...
I wonder what would have happened if someone had given the assailant a bunch of fives in retaliation for his attack on the victim? I know exactly what would have happened. The police would have gone after the avenger at all cost and ignored the offender. ...
By the way Michael P. I am still waiting for you to validate your claim that the Hurricanes Poua team receive taxpayer funding.
Please give details of the taxpayer funding that they receive. I am interested to know.
Cheers to the Hurricanes Poua rugby team daring to publicly call out the redneck divisive NACTZ government for what they are. They can add one more to their fan list.
ACT certainly has a thing about poor people. It goes all the way back to early Industrial Revolution England era. The rich, who made maximum profits on the backs of paying their workers minimum wages, convinced themselves that if a person was poor, it was ...
To hell with Cayman Islands bank accounts, may as well keep your ill-gotten gains here and save a lot of trouble.
I didn;t know about the "toe the line" either, although as a keen classical historian I knew "decimate". We so often use expressions that we have no idea what they actually mean.
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