Seymour won't be Cock of The Walk as Deputy Prime Minister - rather Cock Up of the coalition. He's a dangerous stupid man.
Farmers retiring have also benefited hugely from the increase in property prices. Around the year 2000 a modest size sheep and beef farm might sell for $1m in the right place. Now it's several million. So farming for capital gain has been prominent.
Farmers are business people, and should be farming on the basis that they should be making a profit each year, but in many cases while they are developing a farm, so much of their costs are tax deductible, so in the end each year they are actually paying ...
What happened to the idea that public servants should be apolitical? How many dtooges did the Key/English administration slot in to government departments to do the dirty work for them? Should heads of govt entities have to go when an election produces a ...
How long will it take before we get to the stage where those who do not believe in many of the ideas being put forward by various groups will be villified by those groups for daring to express disapproval. We sre not all tree hugging, gender fluid, ...
But it is still ok for Federated Farmers, Maunfacturers Federation, Motor Trade Association, and a host of other sector organisations for employers in that sector? Ok to get rid of them as well? You can't have one rule for employers and another for ...
Would have been sensible to take note of the troubled waters our Bridges is in just now after a similar jaunt around New Zealand to let voters know who he is. Watch out for the eventual fallout from his trip.
Great speech. Pleased that you are being innovative with special needs children. And what you are doing for children in general. I am one of the many who are grateful for such initiatives as the winter heating payment. Maybe grandchildren I have will have ...
With the party behind him as Bridges claims in this article, he should develop very quickly, eyes in the back of his head, or he might be the victim of an 'et tu, Brute' moment.
The 2 cctv photos are not identical, as I see fifferences in the surrounds. Also I believe just like the Rainbow Warrior bombing in Auckland, that the top dogs did not know what was being done. Someone in Russia at a certain level was afraid of what the ...
The answers may better lie in agriculture that is suitable for a local climate. If we irrigate everything we risk causing damage. Better to farm with the climate than against it. We have already seen huge damage to waterways round the country, encouraged ...
Bolger has admitted that his partyy was wrong to smash workers rights and now he has a chance to right those wrongs. We have so many issues with low wages and the generation he ground down are the parents of those who are the problems now. Go back to a ...
Add to the comments above, a transport network, road, rail, air transport, where all of these have major shortcomings. Roads closed due to storm damage, where there is no detour, hurt communities in the provinces, air fares from provincial airports, and ...
On that basis we can get away with any crime we care to commit, refuse to speak to the police investigating said crime, and get away with it. Come on NZ Police, don't take us all for fools.
Of course. Comment I heard recently was that in relation to dairy farming. We can't move the land overseas to a 3rd world country like you can with a factory, but we can bring in the low paid workers. What does this achieve? Low wages all round, and if you...
It was Metiria who pulled the stunt. so ----- Please stand down from the leadership of the Green Party for the good of the Green Party.
What we need is a modern version of Michael Joseph Savage, along with people like Girvan McMillan, Arnold Nordmeyer, Peter Fraser and those good people who set up the original welfare system to push out the greedy capiltalists. Funny that the news media ...
My husband's personal caregiver tells us her employers are going through every case they have on their books to see if time can be stripped from any cases so they can save dollars on their budgets.
Where does Glenys Dickson figure in all this? Although she was the innocent and wronged party in all this, the fact remains that she secured a sum of "hush money", that with her many years of experience, she must have been aware of the source of some of ...
He can be scked in effect by the National Party cancelling his membership. He would then not be able to carry on being an electorate MP. This has been done before, most notably John A Lee. But would billyboy have the guts to do that? Barclay is not being ...
Blinglish gives me the impression that he would like to turn to Key and say, "am I doing it right John?" He is no more a PM than I am a man!
Sick joke? Won't do much for the Nats in the Clutha Southland seat if they allow oil prospecting in this wonderful natural playground that Southlanders love so much.
So when he has the targeted spending in place, will he still totally underfund that spending, like he is underfunding hospital and medical services, education, and community services provided by organisations like Parkinsons NZ and Multiple Sclerosis NZ? ...
Liz Craig is standing against Sarah Dowie in the Invercargill electorate in the 2017 election. She has a pretty good chance of taking this one for Labour. She is a worthy candidate and was blooded in the Clutha Wallace electorate last time. Barclay has ...
Desperately needed right now. Change the government to one that provides the care needed by the sick, the resources needed by schools, the roads repaired, Radio New Zealand properly funded, waterways cleaned up, tax system recalibrated so that everyone ...
English knows even less than Key about being poor. He grew up on a farm in Southland at a time when farming had it better than those of us who serviced the agricultural industry. No idea how it would be to have Mum and Dad say, 'sorry you will have to wait...
He makes me think of a kid caught with his hand in the cookie jar - what Mum? No not me, I don't steal the cookies. Then the sleazy smirking smile, as though the smile will allay Mother's doubts. What a pity some smart clever reporter(if there's any left ...
Billy boy will know what useless looks like. I have 3 son who all have jobs and they are not useless, they just never wanted to work on a farm. Could I suggest that those farmers who cannot get decent staff might need to look hard at themselves and their ...
Last election Todd Barclay was being 'minded' by Jamie Lee Ross during his campaign around the south. Met them in Te Anau when I was having a meeting with Dr Liz Craig. She would be a great MP. Those 2 boys looked like vacuum cleaner salesmen and acted ...
But Muldoon's action in the Crewe case is exactly the problem here because he made that decision unilaterally in the political sense to gain some popularity, so it was a political decision.
Would be really nice if all those who comment on posts on this and other pages used more appropriate language. I am offended by the number of swearwords used by some. If you can't make your point without using offensive language then don't comment at all. ...
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