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Written By: alwyn - Date published: 1:05 pm, August 24th, 2026
"taxes that are on ... activities that most don't engage in". Am interesting concept. We only have about 25 or 30 neurosurgeons in New Zealand. Let's tax the hell out of them. [We will miss your trolling until 13 Jan 2027 but then again, you don’t add much ...Written By: alwyn - Date published: 9:38 am, August 24th, 2026
"The racist party vote has risen which is disappointing." Your statement is true but it's only an increase from 2.3% up to 3%. It could have been a lot worse.Written By: alwyn - Date published: 10:44 am, August 23rd, 2026
When you typed "No place for hangers on like ACT or NZF" did you not notice how selective you were being. Why didn't you say there was no place for a Green party hanger on when you were quoting Morgan's views? Morgan actually said "Whether it’s Act (all ...Written By: alwyn - Date published: 9:24 am, August 22nd, 2026
I guess Northland supporter Ad will be relieved. His beloved team do not have to play the Hawkes Bay squad during the round- robin part of the competition this year. Meanwhile another 50+ score for the Magpies.Written By: alwyn - Date published: 7:25 pm, August 18th, 2026
Isn't it amazing how so many people on the left side of politics suddenly start announcing how wonderful someone on the other side of politics was after they have quit. I noticed on this blog how MICKYSAVAGE was so impressed by him when he said a few days ...Written By: alwyn - Date published: 12:23 pm, August 18th, 2026
"approaches treasonous"? Aren't we getting just a little bit carried away?Written By: alwyn - Date published: 12:01 pm, August 18th, 2026
Why are you surprised? We aren't nearly as rich as a either Norway or Switzerland so of course they have more to spend. As a percentage of GDP/head the figures for education spend you quote are NZ 18.20%, Finland 22.24%, Norway 18.69% and Switzerland 16.71 ...Written By: alwyn - Date published: 7:06 pm, August 14th, 2026
I wonder if Labour, or the Greens for that matter, would offer an Epsom style deal to the Opportunity Party to make sure their polling numbers would count? After all a number like 5.2 could easily drop to 4.9 and they wouldn't be in the House at all. ...Written By: alwyn - Date published: 6:07 pm, August 13th, 2026
Were any of them actually dismissed by the Governor General? I thought that the Commissoner chose not to try and extend his term but the term actually finished. The number two did quit but his position had become untenable. He wasn't fired though was he?Written By: alwyn - Date published: 4:53 pm, August 13th, 2026
I don't think he would have the power to do that. The appointment of Police staff is a function of the Commissioner, not the Minister I believe.Written By: alwyn - Date published: 7:05 pm, August 7th, 2026
I posted a reply which I have since deleted. I misunderstood what you said in the first sentence. If you did see my comment please ignore it.Written By: alwyn - Date published: 6:31 pm, August 7th, 2026
It's just a rogue poll. At least that is what Chippie is claiming. In Mandy Rice-Davies' immortal phrase, or at least in the way it is usually quoted. "Well he would say that, wouldn't he?"Written By: alwyn - Date published: 6:46 pm, August 2nd, 2026
"you have to demonstrate up front you can do it in a way that doesn't harm the environment" I wonder if that applies to egg production? Hens in cages of any form are to be banned from the end of next year. I believe there is a push to only allow free-range ...Written By: alwyn - Date published: 12:27 pm, July 31st, 2026
What am I supposed to be defending? I only pointed out a plausible reason for not being able to give the candidates by name. Today is the first day I have seen the Opportunity Party candidate named for the seat, although I might have missed it previously.Written By: alwyn - Date published: 9:47 am, July 31st, 2026
Not all parties have yet chosen their candidates. Would you prefer to allow a choice only among the candidates where you already knew their names at the time of the poll but leave the party out of the poll for those where you can't put a candidate name in?Written By: alwyn - Date published: 5:57 pm, July 28th, 2026
M J Savage did a great deal more after he became PM. The radio stations were nationalized an in the later 1930s the official radio news program was prepared in the Prime Minister's office and was broadcast exactly as it was supplied to the radio stations.Written By: alwyn - Date published: 5:18 pm, July 28th, 2026
Bring on the lifestyle of North Korea. Thanks to Kim Jong Un the country probably has the least light pollution in the atmosphere of any country in the world. Pyongyang, where he lives is just about the only lit up area at night in the country. Does anyone ...Written By: alwyn - Date published: 8:54 pm, July 25th, 2026
Anyone who thinks that Finlayson was going to keep an e-mail to him confidential is an idiot. I thought that Nash was smarter than that, but it appears not.Written By: alwyn - Date published: 6:00 pm, July 23rd, 2026
I think you are being a bit to hard on Labour. They aren't responsible for everything that goes wrong. I have it on good authority that the NZ Labour Party weren't responsible for the massacre at Katyn Forest where tens of thousands of Polish Officers were ...Written By: alwyn - Date published: 5:31 pm, July 23rd, 2026
Nash didn't really have a chance to learn how to behave. He spent a long time as a Labour MP where anything was acceptable to the leadership and the media ignored anything bad that he might have done. If he could have stayed in the Labour Party he might ...Written By: alwyn - Date published: 8:42 am, July 16th, 2026
It says that but in the table it leaves the column for annual leave blank. It should have reflected the required 20 days.Written By: alwyn - Date published: 7:08 pm, July 15th, 2026
I notice that the detail in the link gives the annual leave for New Zealand as being zero. He also don't seem to have included KiwiSaver. Still a surprising result though.Written By: alwyn - Date published: 5:42 pm, July 15th, 2026
"Staying in opposition for another three years may well be preferable..." I think your opinion of our MPs is unduly kind. I cannot think of any of them who would disagree with the opinion that the worst day in Government is better than the best day in ...Written By: alwyn - Date published: 12:58 pm, July 15th, 2026
So, are you saying that the decision on whether it is a single Government is that it has the same PM for multiple terms? If so that means that in the MMP era we have had three single term Governments. In fact worse than that we have had three Governments ...Written By: alwyn - Date published: 12:34 pm, July 15th, 2026
"BTW, no one-term Governments under MMP so far". That is really an old fashioned, FPP viewpoint isn't it? It relies on the concept that somehow the National and Labour Parties have some special status and count for more than do the other parties in ...Written By: alwyn - Date published: 7:13 pm, July 14th, 2026
I will be able to reply. "I was in the same town as I was on 26 November 1960 and 29 November 1975" On those dates of course we had the end of one term Governments. On 7 November 2026 of course we can only propose that we will be at the start of an ...Written By: alwyn - Date published: 1:55 pm, July 14th, 2026
" in the provinces & wop-wops". You are illustrating the approach that is causing so mush trouble for the Democrats in the USA. The large-city "woke" individuals who form the Modern Democrats have only scorn for the majority of the population who inhabit ...Written By: alwyn - Date published: 1:32 pm, July 14th, 2026
It is probably that to form a Government National will have to provide things for both NZF and ACT. ACT will be a great deal more hardnosed than the Green Party will be, at least in my opinion. Look at what the Greens did in 2017. No Ministers in CabinetWritten By: alwyn - Date published: 1:27 pm, July 14th, 2026
P1. Who were those making up the "huge public sentiment"? If it wasn't those people who voted for, and preferably belonged to New Zealand First they didn't matter. It shows, however, hat Winston does feel bound in any way by things he might imply or say ...Written By: alwyn - Date published: 12:33 pm, July 14th, 2026
In 1996 it was possible to form a majority with just National and NZF. You wouldn't have had one with only Labour and NZF and I don't think that Anderton would have sat on the sideline the way the Greens seem to be willing to do. I think that Labour and ...
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