" How to kill off debt without selling your favourite classic car or treasured artwork" Headline in NZHerald today which perfectly reflects our massive food bank lines in a recession.
You don't have to wait for the next Scottish election. On May 2nd - 2 weeks time - there's the next British election. So you can test whether UK reports about gender self-identification really do change votes. Or not.
The question to Hipkins changed not a single vote. Same question could have been put to any NZ political leader and it would still have no effect at all.
It must be perplexing for this government that the Consumer Price Index remains stubbornly above 4.5%, interest rates have no schedule at all for coming down, and consumer confidence is the worst it's been since the 2008-9 GFC. Their austerity has cratered...
It's a tribunal populated by judges. The Minister is showing herself incapable of engaging seriously with experts who are also jurists, within her own Ministerial portfolio field. Chhour is a fucking coward. She will get utterly mocked at Matariki.
Our own Green Party delivered massive legislation and policy programmes from a fairly small position last term. Neither NZ Greens nor any other party are revisiting the Birth Deaths and Marriages Act and nor will they ever: dead issue for all our political...
In 2018 Labour were at 21% and tanked to a low of 12%. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1225498/scotland-holyrood-voting-intention/ As of now they are on 32% and rising, with SNP on 34% and falling fast. Greens are at 4% which is about where they were ...
You can track here what's most important to Scottish voters, over multiple years: https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/foi-eir-release/2023/08/foi-202300359025/documents/foi-202300359025---information-for-release---2/foi-...
There's so much Southland adventure tourism potential in on-farm bog snorkeling
With 63 of the 129 seats, the SNP will stumble on as an administration until the next election in 2026. On the issues in play to Scotland's political makeup, only climate registers with voters here. If Scotland is what successful coalition government looks...
Apparently the war on farming is over. https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU2404/S00323/government-ends-war-on-farming.htm Looks like our rivers lost that war. 45% of our river length is unswimmable. And our wetland lost tens of thousands of hectares. And of ...
Scotland's Labor Party have been on the rise for a decade, now into the mid-30% and primed to replace SNP. With the Greens struggling to crack 5% forever. https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/polls_scot.html That's a whole different scenario to New Zealand.
1947-49 Arab invasion of Israel 1967 More of that 1973 and again 2023 and again
So here's the question: With Luxon extending direct Ministerial control into so many areas that have previously been protected by entity boards and management layers, is Luxon in fact undoing 1980s New Public Management theory that stripped democratic ...
Ardern reshuffled way too late and too light, so by the end it was just a political laxative. Luxon could do one of these a quarter and enable his bench to play to their peak.
Well at least he's treating his own team with the same disdain he shows for public servants.
+100 Mickey The entire centre and left united and marched for climate and the environment in 2018. Only needs Hipkins and Chloe to talk to start it again. Pick up the phone people.
Hard to disagree with Goldsmith in there. Dry as toast and quite happy for market forces in purest form alter the media landscape. Simmons without any TEC guardrails is turning our tertiary education sector into risible mash. Her blindsided of the ...
That is precisely the kind of political "strategy" this moment doesn't need. Think back to the last time we had a massive all-in protest on the left. No party was so vain as to seek ascendancy. What they did was work together on draft legislation using ...
The very simplest thing anyone can do is call their MP and demand that Green and Labour leaders front to the media with unified attack against this government. That in itself is the signal to unions and NGOs and the newly unemployed thosands that there's ...
It's not a "war", its a disaster. If 5,000 people lost their jobs from (say) the collapse of Fletchers or Fonterra, it would be viewed as an economic crisis so grave that government would form an immediate crisis Cabinet with a plan akin to the East Coast ...
Yes it really was China that keeps pouring money into the UN and UNRWA, China that last month fought back against the Houthis and enabled sea trade to go through the Red Sea again, China that has armed Taiwan to deter invasion, China that just completed ...
These "South Pacific neighbours" Clark wants us to join with are for the most part strongly aligned already with just four countries: New Zealand, Australia, France and the United States. By strongly aligned I mean already part of their territory in a ...
In most respects Muldoon was more Labour than Labour dared to be.
May you never be asked to defend yourself.
... that Putin must lose." He added that the U.S. had...
Oh you propose Mike Johnson for nobility? Mike Johnson of Louisiana has bragged that he doesn't believe in the climate crisis - even though his home state has been ravaged by it. He is comprehensively against abortion in fact calling it "An American ...
Very hard to see a massive and sustained depression in the Wellington region being worth a minor income tax bracket adjustment (unless you're a landlord of course in which case the payoff is stupendous).
But clearly we have too many public servants, and it's bloated because Jacinda hired too many, and they're all unproductive backroom paper shufflers.
Starting the lettuce countdown on US Speaker Johnson now the Ukraine package has a successful vote.
Huge shoutout to all those brave workers at the Volkswagen plant in Tennessee who have successfully fought to form a union with the United Auto Workers. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/tennessee-volkswagen-workers-vote-join-uaw-historic-win-...
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