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One of the dafter myths about the current burgeoning immigration industry is what people are being imported for. For instance, a common one is that we need skilled immigrants for the construction industry and this is a reason to keep immigration high. The following is…
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So Steven Joyce thought he was onto a winner. Just like 2011 and 2014 he would jump up and say that Labour had stuffed up its costings and was not fit to lead and hey presto National would have a fourth term. We have been…
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Last night in the Stuff leaders' debate Bill English defended Steven Joyce's lie about a "hole" in Labour's budget. He kept trying to move the goal posts of course, but he specifically and emphatically agreed with the disproved figure of $11.7 billion. I honestly thought…
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Colin James on RNZ: Labour a nose ahead of National on the averages Labour, on 41.8% has nudged ahead of National, on 41.1%, in the latest RNZ poll of polls - in the wake of tonight's 1 News Colmar Brunton poll. ... The boost to…
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Tonight's TVNZ Poll shows Labour opening a 4 point lead over National. National drop below 40% (well deserved). https://twitter.com/Jess_Roden/status/905672422631735296 https://twitter.com/ColmarBruntonNZ/status/905672450402164736 https://twitter.com/ColmarBruntonNZ/status/905672628286898176 https://twitter.com/MutchJessica/status/905672622167310337
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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Tonight at 6pm You can watch the stream directly from the home page on the Stuff website, or through Facebook Live on Stuff's Facebook page, or at the Stuff YouTube channel. Will the debate address climate change? Will moderators call English on National's $11.7bn hole lie? https://twitter.com/rnz_news/status/905671851392696321
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First an anecdote. Last week a friend's 28 year old son stole her credit card and ran up a few thousand on it. The same young man who in the middle of August approached a mental health service saying he wants and needs help with…
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The RNZ debate between Labour and Nat finance spokespersons has just concluded - Grant Robertson vs a big flaming gasbag. Robertson very strong, gasbag unable to name One Single Person who agrees with his $11.7bn big lie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9US8cbwjtU&t=18m55s Good work by Guyon Espiner. Strong points…
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National's campaign is a train wreck. Its defining feature so far has been three attempted dirty hits, each one of them an epic fail. Hit 1: The bungled superannuation attack on Winston Peters. It was supposed to knock out NZF so the Nats could assimilate…
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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 is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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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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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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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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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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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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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…