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Open Mike 07/09/2017
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Dr Doolittle strikes again
While most focus on Joyce's inability to read costings, the portfolio he presided over for a few years is amidst claims of cheating, pressure on teachers to pass failing students, and now; NZ Universities about to drop out of top 200. Chancellors cite low per…
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Daily Review 06/09/2017
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The Spinoff’s Great Debate – 7pm tonight
https://twitter.com/MorganGodfery/status/905287689217482754 WARNING - viewers will be exposed to Paula Bennett's abhorrent politics. But the rest look interesting, Kelvin Davis, deputy leader of Labour Marama Davidson, of the Greens Shane Jones, of New Zealand First Marama Fox, co-leader of the Māori party David Seymour, leader of…
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Excitement mounting for Part 2 of Audrey Young’s analysis of Parties financial promises
See UPDATE After the first in her series of articles inviting a bank economist to analyse and comment upon Labour's spending promises, tomorrow she turns to the second in the series with a close analysis of National's promises. This will be no mean feat…
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Salmond on the new political era
On Newsroom Dame Anne Salmond writes: Dame Anne Salmond: It’s the end of an era In New Zealand at present, a seismic shift is under way. Despite all the hype, this election is not really a contest between left and right. Instead, the tectonic plates…
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Liar Joyce’s shifting goal posts and zero budgets
Steven Joyce accused Labour of a basic accounting error, failing to carry forward extra spending commitments, an $11.7bn "hole". This is a thoroughly debunked lie. So now he's trying, in a series of desperate interviews, to shift the goalposts and say that what he really…
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Joyce keeps digging
Serial economics paper failer Steven Joyce is not backing down from his claims that there is an $11.7 billion hole in Labour's fiscals. Even though pretty well everyone in the country who has a qualification in economics disagree. From Radio New Zealand: National campaign manager…
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Joyce and English now laughing stock
Post John Key all National ever had going for it was an undeserved reputation for financial competence. Now that is gone too. It doesn't get any worse than this 3 weeks out from an election. Politically Correct: The deadly serious numbers game ... National's so-called…
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National – campaign vs reality
https://twitter.com/AnaSamways/status/904869107769556993 https://twitter.com/AnaSamways/status/904876383880470528 https://twitter.com/onemouse/status/905008268954681346 https://twitter.com/ToddAtticus/status/904963594214920193
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Open Mike 06/09/2017
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Daily Review 05/09/2017
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I will resign before raising Super beyond 65
John Key and Jacinda Ardern have some things in common it seems. She has a pony tail and he likes pony tails (I was drawing a long bow to say that was something they had in common, I know). National are being beaten at their…
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Speaking of mothers
As an aside to all the hooha last week about who has the biggest scandal, I was thinking about the use of mothers as metaphors for something big and impactful and what that might say about us. Remember the Mother of All Budgets? The one…
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Tick tock.
A wee reality check, https://twitter.com/NZGreens/status/904857820134121472 https://twitter.com/BarbSturmfels/status/904819513434062848 https://twitter.com/jamespeshaw/status/904154492081340416 From NASA, July 2017 was statistically tied with July 2016 as the warmest July in the 137 years of modern record-keeping, according to a monthly analysis of global temperatures by scientists at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies…
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Even Kiwiblog won’t defend Joyce’s $11.7 billion claim
As the dust settles and the overwhelming preponderance of experts agree that Steven Joyce's budget hole claims are fanciful I thought it was time to hop on over to Kiwiblog to see how David Farrar was handling the issue. It seems that he was trying…
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A test for NZ media and democracy
The Nats are not backing down from their $11.7bn lie. The media need to call it loudly for the big lie that it is. This is now a test for NZ's democracy. https://twitter.com/katieabradford/status/904830652641492992 https://twitter.com/nealejones/status/904837182921203712 https://twitter.com/publicaddress/status/904835035169120256 https://twitter.com/K8Shuttleworth/status/904822437031772161 https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/904836501099470849
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The Jacinda Phenomenon
I have been around the Labour Party for a while. I met Bill Rowling once when I was a 14 year old, and I have had various interactions with previous leaders David Lange, Geoffrey Palmer, Mike Moore, Helen Clark, Phil Goff, David Shearer, David Cunliffe…
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Steven Joyce – liar or fool?
Steven Joyce's claim that there is a $11.7bn "hole" in Labours' fiscal plan has been soundly refuted by multiple economists and analysts. Brian Fallow: 'Robertson's right, Joyce is wrong' Economics columnist Brian Fallow says Labour has reallocated some money, but there's no missing money as…
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Open Mike 05/09/2017
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Second leaders’ debate
A much better debate, but English doubling down on the lies about Labour's fiscal plan. https://twitter.com/publicaddress/status/904628792701853696 https://twitter.com/NewshubPolitics/status/904629500847177729 https://twitter.com/1NewsNZ/status/904637928189468672 https://twitter.com/CheckpointRNZ/status/904592524475416576 https://twitter.com/nzlabour/status/904628648333807616 https://twitter.com/nzlabour/status/904631199594725376
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Daily Review 04/09/2017
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Steven Joyce’s comprehension fail
Steven Joyce has burst into print and claimed that Labour has a $11.7 billion dollar hole in its budget figures. There are five different problems claimed. Four of them involve relatively small figures and have been explained by Grant Robertson. The biggest one ($9.4 billion)…
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The actual implications of a Capital Gains Tax
This post by Matthew Whitehead is cross-posted from lemattjuste.wordpress.com I’ve been banging the drum on this issue a bit recently, but what we’re not being told about National’s recent criticism of Labour on taxes is that they don’t actually just hate a CGT because it’s…
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National’s 18 new taxes
National is well in to panicked negative campaigning now. One of their main attacks is to try and spread fear about Labour and tax. Good to see them called out on it: Bill English promises no new taxes National has introduced an average six new…
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National plays the lauranorda card
Things must be getting desperate in the Beehive. National has announced a good old tough on criminals policy. But the announcement did not go as well for them as they could hope and serious questions about Paula Bennett's competency have arisen. First of all the…
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Labour’s support for renters
National have bungled the housing market and the crazy prices are turning us into a nation of renters. Renting is the norm in many countries, but they typically have better legal protection for tenants than us. So this move by Labour is both realistic and…
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Open Mike 04/09/2017
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National have poisoned the Peters well
National deciding to go after Winston Peters was a high risk strategy, and it has backfired on them - Heather du Plessis-Allan: Campaign just got uglier The week started with the hit job on Winston Peters. There's nothing as ugly in politics as a takedown…
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In the one month since Jacinda Ardern became leader…
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