So people who work 9 to 5 make good tenants seems to be what Bishop is saying. He must be stuck in the 60s when most people worked such hours. Not many do now, but National apparently hasn't noticed.
Big job layoffs in the public service over most ministeries. But not in Seymour's ministry of silly smirks - funny that!
This government is proceeding exactly how we knew it would. Luxon is the public smile and wave front man, the power behind the scenes is Seymour and Peters. A weak National Party bereft of ideas and solutions themselves, but beholden to the directions of ...
So called "investigation" by Israeli authorities into the deaths of aid workers in an international aid convoy is an international damage limitation exercise only. There is little reason to believe it will change the IDF's behaviour. They will continue to ...
I received the latest AA (Automobile Association) magazine today. I expected that they might tackle the new transport minister on charging RUC on EVs, but no. They posed passive, almost bootlicking questions. It seems they are so starry eyed at having a ...
A huge increase in import cheap Chinese imitation building materials. Pay-off for Chinese government support of National at the last election.
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 ...
of course it won't - its just that the same happens here. my last sentence says it all.
good idea to put the boot in before they've even been elected. can anyone imagine that happening on the other greedy and incompetent side? who needs an opposition when we can provide a home grown one for ourselves?
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 ...
Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 2:24 pm, March 19th, 2024 - 3 comments
Categories: class, discrimination, employment, human rights, jobs, law, Unions, wages, workers' rights
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Uber Drivers are in the Court of Appeal today. Uber is appealing against Employment Court decision they they are employees with worker rights. Its a no-brainer, so they are and should have them. John Campbell covered the issues well in this 1News story …
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.
I have many American friends who like me believe in cooperation rather than competition and peace rather than war, and who oppose anyone or any institution that advocates deliberate first use of nuclear weapons.
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 ...
Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 10:38 am, March 9th, 2024 - 18 comments
Categories: AUKUS, gaza, Judith Collins, uncategorized, us politics
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in a war over Taiwan" is the title of an Atlantic Council paper produced last September. They mean nuclear weapons use. These are serious people; Undersecretary Bonnie Jenkins addressed them last year about AUKUS. The Atlantic Council paper's conclusion …
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