Yes. Every day. Imagine that. Even weekends, when his kids don't even go to school. Even Christmas day. To address your point in a manner less commensurate with the stupidity of how you appraised Hipkins' statement, however: no, I shouldn't find it ...
The cookies were corrupted by gay foreign Maori fruit pickers.
If there is a change to policy that means that, instead of the government being obliged to allocate further funding to keep up with entitlements, beneficiaries have to pay for services that would previously been funded, then that is a funding cut. Whether ...
You describe Corkery's voting from opposition on a government bill, so it would seem that McCully was giving her the option of changing her vote on a bill that had the numbers to pass anyway. I wonder whether he would have done the same had he required the...
A pay ruse sounds about right...
Feeling open to voting either centre-right or centre-left doesn't actually make you any less likely to hold heavy ideological biases then anybody else, you know?
Interesting how the current government reaches for the urgency button in repealing legislation by its predecessor, despite not having replacement processes ready to roll, and without a discernible justification for urgency in many cases, but when it comes ...
he does what writers prophecised many hundreds of years beforehand. Prophesied.
Just under 2000 within 7 days, according to the PDF summary by the CTU (linked in the post). If Willis' claim of a 4% response-rate is accurate, therefore, the email must have gone out to about 50,000 members.
What, because he said that she had mentioned it? I think you're trolling and should be banned. The mods can go ahead and do that now, too, seeing as I've consulted with you on it.
Because everybody knows she blatantly lied to cabinet, whereas there are questions in people's minds over whether it was a civil servant or one of her cabinet colleagues who leaked it, and from which party they might have come, and the answers to those ...
Erm... no. The figures for CEO pay rates are inflation-adjusted, and expressed in '2020 dollars', according to the data linked by PsyclingLeft Always. A quick look at the RBNZ inflation calculator says that the purchasing power of $149,200 in 2001 would ...
Goff and Cunliffe, I think you'll find. I don't recall Clark being blindsided by a 'gotcha'-question.
Like really you are keeping score on this? No. I assume people just think Luxon made an ass of himself, which he did.
The post doesn't seem to be considering 'post-election coalitions'. It is referring to Luxon's ruling out a single, specific coalition, apparently not on the basis of policy. If you want to explain the connection to Maori Party policy, then away you go, ...
It seems to be off topic, since it doesn't seem to have any thing to do with Luxon's stated reason for ruling the party out. In fact, I find it considerably more telling that you borught it up than that others didn't.
Really? I don't get the impression that centrists are afraid of ACT. They're clearly more likely to vote National, but that isn't the same thing.
What are you basing that on? They didn't seem to have a problem when Key was keeping the Maori Party on board. I mean, I can understand the point you're making, but that doesn't mean that it's actually true.
There is no down-side to Luxon ruling out TPM – and plenty of up-side (many of his supporters and potential supporters are very wary of the TPM rhetoric). Where's the upside? It seems to me that voters who are that 'wary of the TPM' are only likely to ...
It's possible to ask more than one question at a time.
It seems to me that the appropriateness of your take hinges on the trans-rights demonstrators' aims being to silence women because the latter are women. I don't think that that's established at all. What makes you so certain of that interpretation, rather ...
The problem being, of course, that Labour want to convince people precisely that they are diet National.
I love how you conclude that she wouldn't make the top ten by a demonstrative comparison to (drumroll) nine who were supposedly superior.
But the centre is where most of the votes are. Insofar as 'the centre', ideologically, is the intersection of most people's interests, as perceived by themselves, that is axiomatic. That that centre is necessarily synonymous with an imagined mid-point ...
I agree that Ardern has led a fairly underwhelming government from the point of view of reform and vision, but I also think that she, like anyone, deserves the right to decide to call it a day when she feels she needs to. There is no honour in leading your...
Yes, I should be keen on all of that as well, and it is indeed an opportunity for a leftward tack like that. What shouldn't be ignored, however, is that it is equally an opportunity for a rightward tack. Unfortunately, trends over the last forty years or ...
I agree with mich of that. Contrary to the narrative that is sometimes presented, there is no real evidence that the Labour government is in terminal decline, with polling showing a fairly close race between left and right. Labour's best chance of winning ...
But, on the other hand, if it was any other area of broadcasting, they wouldn't be putting people up who are amateurs at their jobs, and would expect a high level of professionalism. It depends what one thinks their job is in that regard, really. If one ...
Why is that a useful question?
'Held his own' what?
It's a prety boring sport, if you ask me (which, of course, nobody did, but it warrants mentioning occasionally).
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