Celebrating success: National’s jobs record
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Jobs Summit: Celebrating 3 years of success
Don’t panic. It’s 3 year since the National Ltd™ “Job Summit”. I’m really looking forward to the 3000km Kaitaia-to-Bluff cycle way, the nine-day fortnight, and the $1 billion contribution from the banks plus $8 billion from government to invest in job-producing industry. Can’t be long now before we start to see jobs being created . . . John promised.
Re:Cycle (re-run)
We received this guest post about half an hour after John Key announced his cycleway. At the time, the very sensible criticisms it raises were ignored by an enamoured media.
How prescient it looks now, on the anniversary of the Prime Minister’s Jobs Summit.
‘Atlases’ don’t deserve a tax cut
This man is Paul Reynolds, CEO of Telecom. He has overseen the largest corporate disaster in recent New Zealand history. The Nats are planning to give him over $6,600 a week in tax cuts. Apparently this screw up on a $7 million salary is the kind of guy New Zealand needs.
The 59,000 failures of John Phillip Key
Nearly a year ago, John Key, shaken by the first whispers of disquiet over his government’s month-long holiday at the height of an […]
Moreu on the Jobs Summit
The tiniest rolling maul in the world
So the pressure is building for National to get specific about it’s plans for fighting the recession. Therese Arseneau complained on Q+A today […]
Out of her depth
Paula Bennett’s performance on Morning Report today didn’t just bring home how completely out of her depth she is as a Minister, it […]
The Jobs Summit as propaganda
So, the ideas suck but the jobs summit was never meant to produce recession-busting ideas. The fact is this was a propaganda stunt. […]
The Atlases shrug, ‘I dunno’
In the Dom yesterday, Hollow man star Richard Long was full of praise for the Key’s PR team, who managed the Jobs Summit. […]
It’s raining men
A reader just sent us this one minute montage of photos from John Key’s jobs summit. Enjoy.
Spot the odd one out
I grabbed the stills from this Herald video of the Jobs Summit – can you see her? Worth watching the first 10 seconds of […]
No, you leave YOUR ideology at the door
There’s all this rubbish at the moment about people moving beyond ideology. At the Jobs Summit, attendees were harangued to ‘leave your ideology […]
Re: cycle
According to Stuff: “Another idea on the table [at the Jobs Summit] is a $50 million cycleway built the length of the country. […]
Views from the Job Summit
– “Very clear that this is all about showing a consensus behind Key. That’s the mood among my colleagues. Seen some unionists about, […]
No room for Roger
Roger Kerr from the Business Roundtable is full of advice for the Government’s upcoming jobs summit in today’s Dom Post. Which is unfortunate […]