Posts Tagged ‘BMW’

Bludger Bridges

Written By: - Date published: 6:56 pm, August 13th, 2018 - 63 comments

Simon Bridges has blown over $100k of your money in just three months, tiki touring around the country at the taxpayers expense. Nice work if you can get it!

Update: A Shark Jumps Matthew Hooton. Live on Twitter!

Beemer watch

Written By: - Date published: 8:05 am, May 14th, 2011 - 61 comments

What is going to happen to the “old” BMW limos when the government gets rid of them?  The franchise that just donated $50,000 to the Nats has said it wants its share of the “honey pot”.  I wonder if the Nats will oblige?

Cash for cars?

Written By: - Date published: 5:26 pm, May 11th, 2011 - 117 comments

A $50,000 donation from a BMW franchise to National?

This latest twist to the BMW saga has a real stench about it.

“I’m not going to make excuses…”

Written By: - Date published: 7:32 am, February 22nd, 2011 - 25 comments

Which John Key are we to believe?  John “I’m not going to make excuses” Key, or John “because [the government] was preoccupied” Key.  Take your pick – Key is all things to all people…

Nats impose media ban on selves

Written By: - Date published: 9:15 am, February 18th, 2011 - 11 comments

In a surprise move, John Key has announced the National Party is imposing a media ban on itself until the BMW limo affair dies down. “We got the idea from the Maori Party. Every time they open their mouths over Hone Harawira, things get worse. Shut their mouths and the issue goes away. Brilliant. There’s so much we can learn from our Maori friends”

John Key – Liar

Written By: - Date published: 6:59 pm, February 17th, 2011 - 182 comments

John Key and his government have told us a series of lies over the new BMW fleet.  One by one they have been disproven.  As the truth slowly closed in Key clung to one last deception, that he himself didn’t know about the impending replacement until last week.  Now that lie has been busted too.

Lies make BMW story worse

Written By: - Date published: 8:27 pm, February 16th, 2011 - 37 comments

Key says he didn’t know about the BMW purchase. Funny cause on Tuesday, English was taking responsibility: “we could go out and buy second-hand cars but one way or another cars need to be maintained”. The Nats try to blame Labour but the contract Labour signed says replacing the cars was optional without penalty.

Who’s zooming who?

Written By: - Date published: 11:32 am, April 5th, 2009 - 27 comments

The Herald reports: Last week John Key used poor United States sales of the new BMW 7-series – 10 were sold in February, compared with more than 1500 in the same 2008 month – as an example of how much other countries were hurting in the economic crisis. But New Zealand…  sales of the top-of-the-line […]