Housing selloff – obsessive secrecy and power
National’s selloff of our state houses is yet another example of its two main obsessions, secrecy and unaccountable power.
not yours to sell
So much for the competitive market
I love how right-wing ideology is just some thing that can be switched on and off at will. Case in point, ownership of state houses…
Selling state houses to Australia
English needs to explain why the government can’t find NZ buyers for their “social housing” plans. The Nats to explain how selling state houses helps a single family in need.
Oppose the housing sell off!
A last-minute, urgent appeal from Phil Twyford – oppose the sell off of state houses – today!
Social housing providers
Is Key planning to flog off state houses at half price to a liquor company?
Effects of privatised power
The entirely predictable effects of privatising much of our electricity generation capacity are arriving thick and fast.
Mighty Big Gamble on Mighty Big Gift
Hey John, how much public money are you going to pay the wealthy to “buy” our assets? (And how just desperate are you…?)
Market not impressed with $30 Million payout
Yesterday John Key gave $30 Million of tax payer’s money to Rio Tinto in order to prop up its electricity deal with Meridian – and thus to prop up his privatisation ideology. Mighty River Power shares took a hit. Smart investors getting out?
Another $30 Million to prop up Meridian sale
John Key just spent another $30 Million of tax payer’s money to prop up his privatisation ideology.
45,000 more signatures
The eight week window to gather more signatures for a referendum on asset sales is now over, and the new signatures will be presented to Parliament today. Lots of them…
Meridian sale panic
The Nats must be panicking about the prospects for the sale of Meridian – because they’re resorting to extraordinary tactics.
The wheels are falling off
The Nats have tried to do too much too soon, and now the wheels are obviously falling off their sad “flagship” privatisation programme.
MRP sale fail numbers
Here are the numbers that sum up the MRP sale fail – foremost among them the $1,000 that the government has spent per Kiwi investor attracted.
Asset sales petition has more work to do
Breaking – The asset sales referendum petition has collected 292,000 valid signatures. It needs 16,500 more (about another 5%) to reach the threshold. The Keep Our Assets Coalition has 2 months to get the remainder – and says it will get them…
Economic sabotage
Which is really the party of “economic sabotage”?
Attention Mum and Dad investors
Labour’s Clayton Cosgrove reveals that when selling Mighty River Power shares, brokers will get twice the commission for selling to a foreign buyer. This will send ownership overseas and drive up prices for Kiwis.
Should the Left keep opposing asset sales?
Should the parties of the Left continue to oppose asset sales? Lew At Kiwipolitico (loudly cheered on by Bryce Edwards) doesn’t think so. I think Lew is wrong. Here’s why…
Kiwis at the front of the queue?
One of the promises that Key made about asset sales was that Kiwis would be “at the front of the queue”. So why will up to 30% of the current offering be heading overseas?
Body on Mighty River
Judicial review of water ownership rejected
A win for the Nats, a loss for the country. The Maori Council’s request for a judicial review of water rights has been rejected.
Mighty River sale on hold
As expected, the High Court advised today that the government should hold off sale of Mighty River Power. The government is complying.
Asset sales grind on
Amidst all the current scandal and chaos, the Nats’ privatisation agenda grinds on.
Maori unity and aspirations
Yesterday’s national hui on water rights has resulted in the best possible outcome for Maori, a decision to present a unified front in the face of National’s divide and rule tactics.
Asset sales delayed
Breaking news – the government is delaying the sale of assets until at least March next year.
NRT: Numbers out of his arse
I/S at No Right Turn on Key’s made up numbers.
3 News polls mums and dads
Turns out that not many “mums and dads” are planning to buy shares in their own assets.
The illusion of consultation
For some reason the Nats are in a hurry to complete their privatisation programme within two years. Anyone in any doubt as to how the process of consultation with Maori will play out might be informed by some recent history.
Waitangi Tribunal: Asset sales should stop
The Waitangi Tribunal has recommended that asset sales should stop.
Will update as reaction emerges.
Asset sale delay likely
Even John Key is now admitting that the asset sale program is facing a serious legal challenge, and that delays in the sales are likely. Any such delay would have several implications…
Iwi and the riverbeds
The only remaining possible legal threat to the Nats’ plans to sell off our power companies is a Treaty based claim to water rights or riverbeds.
Sale of the century
So – what kind of person does well out of asset sales?…
Privatisation bill passed
They’re quite literally selling our country down the river.