tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post7528564399591763099..comments2024-03-29T17:12:19.648+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: Out Of The Picture: What If Roy Morgan’s Calling It Right?Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-75990876810276132182022-04-24T21:20:32.231+12:002022-04-24T21:20:32.231+12:00Louisa Wall, from Labour sources, seems to've ...Louisa Wall, from Labour sources, seems to've alienated her electorate also. But yeah, apart from their competence in crises -- we never doubted their PR and ordinary government-running competence -- they even don't live up to their own manifesto ideals. <br /><br />Still haven't found out whether their action to lessen the children's commissioner's mandate is down to he/she pointing out their failure so pointedly on child poverty. Just by Jacinda's blindness on child poverty, holding such two so distant ideas, the PR principle and focus group fuckery, in her head I have no time for her. If that is the reason they're undermining the role then it's bargepole time. sumsuchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03133092096534660472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-57929764733243624552022-04-24T09:03:45.745+12:002022-04-24T09:03:45.745+12:00Yep.
Adern and her sycophants are blaming Russia f...Yep.<br />Adern and her sycophants are blaming Russia for the inflationary pressure but the truth is that Adern trashed our economy and spent like Nicholas Cage on speed and that is where the majority of our economic woes come from.<br />Adern has damaged this country with her air headed "leadership" far worse than Muldoon ever did.Jaysnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-63121777371572202552022-04-22T08:37:11.260+12:002022-04-22T08:37:11.260+12:00It's time that Labour realised that no matter ...It's time that Labour realised that no matter how much they stick to the neoliberal economic line, they are always going to be categorised as importing container loads of woke/gay/trans/post modern/commie/nonwhite people from shithole countries with a capacity for mindless violence, in order to undermine our culture and patriotism.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-28608380200179702112022-04-21T17:17:57.549+12:002022-04-21T17:17:57.549+12:00Not directly related to this post, but strongly re...Not directly related to this post, but strongly relevant to your blog more generally. Long but very very good:<br /><br />https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2022/02/victory-is-not-possible-a-theory-of-the-culture-war/<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15274468081330002265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-73746227187250558122022-04-21T07:11:39.965+12:002022-04-21T07:11:39.965+12:00DS ... I didn't make the misogyny comment out ...DS ... I didn't make the misogyny comment out of the blue. Pretty much every Western country that had female leadership has seen over the top criticism of them. I still remember letters going to the Dominion Post about "the top three jobs in this country are held by women!!!!!!!!!!". Hillary Clinton was excoriated, the Finns had the same reaction, there was even some Tory reaction to Thatcher although as usual they kept it pretty private. <br />There seems to be something about women that drives hatred beyond the normal dislike of a Prime Minister from a party you don't like. Just this morning some arse made a comment expressing the wish that the plane that is bringing her back from Singapore crashes. Now I know this would not be said to her face, and it would not be said if whoever said it wasn't anonymous online, but it seems to me to be egregious.<br />According to one, it's because people have lost their jobs and had their lives ruined. Well, if we hung draw and quartered every Prime Minister who causes people to lose jobs ... but obviously these are not the people who are buying boats in huge numbers. :)<br />Now I'm sure that important business people are pissed off, but these are not them – I'm pretty sure they don't waste their time making shitty comments online.<br />I'll ignore the comment about hidden agendas. Something like that simply isn't worth replying to.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-65844568136125268072022-04-20T16:15:02.443+12:002022-04-20T16:15:02.443+12:00Loose monetary policy and excessive government spe...<i>Loose monetary policy and excessive government spending have been the main drivers of inflation in New Zealand. COVID and Ukraine related supply line pressures have added to the fire. We are indeed going to have the "recession we need to have". Mortgage rates of 6% are also just around the corner, putting many home buyers under immense pressure.</i><br /><br />If fiscal irresponsibility is the issue here, why are you lot so keen on massive unaffordable tax-cuts again?<br /><br />Fact is, the underlying cause of the inflation is the (justified) QE in response to March 2020, an international phenomenon, combined with on-going supply-chain issues and now Ukraine. Inflation is an international problem right now, basically due to circumstances beyond the Government's control. DShttps://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-20763030668935785482022-04-20T15:38:37.182+12:002022-04-20T15:38:37.182+12:00There is a somewhat visceral hatred of Ardern amon...<i>There is a somewhat visceral hatred of Ardern amongst some sectors of society, which I can't really understand except the must be some misogyny involved.</i><br /><br />Not misogyny, no. It's just some very powerful people in Business and Media angry that Covid sidelined them for so long. How dare the Government listen to health experts, and all that. A male Labour PM would face similar hatred.<br />DShttps://phuulishfellow.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-8152886129609442412022-04-20T14:23:33.510+12:002022-04-20T14:23:33.510+12:00A visceral hatred of Ardern is very easy to unders...A visceral hatred of Ardern is very easy to understand given that she has produced a hidden agenda which imposes on all non-Maori New Zealanders racist laws and major cultural and legal changes without any discussion, debate, consultation or consensus<br />-and most people resent it strongly - essentially, in what had previously been a pretty happy, united and harmonious country, she has introduced division and rancour - she is bad for New Zealand and the sooner she goes and is replaced by National/ACT or a more moderate Labour Government, the better for all New Zealand ! We don’t like petty dictators in New Zealand ! Brian Kennedyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09902412602281481689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-68738250548514867042022-04-20T07:59:32.324+12:002022-04-20T07:59:32.324+12:00See this thread: "those rich people are gonna...See this thread: "those rich people are gonna get it!"<br /><br />They are talking about Remuera; I'm talking rundown 1950's bungalows on "the wrong side of Riccarton Road"<br /><br />https://twitter.com/StuartBDonovan/status/1516347517713100805<br /><br />more durrr than dr @uppslidedown<br />·<br />33m <i><br />Bro. It's not 'your' sunlight. Just like it's not 'your' on street parking.<br />If you don't like the fact that the house next door might be sold to developers, buy it yourself. Don't enforce the rest of the public to subsidize your incredibly privileged ideal standard of living.</i><br />.....<br />Here's the point. The rich can escape; it is the poor who cannot. Bad housing is for generations.<br />NZ lifestyle was a freebie for it's working class.<br />The mantra of "needed skills" is actually Indians and Chinese middleclass escaping a degraded environment. They land at the top (Grammar zone);the money they bring is an economic stimulus. This is just making space for them and wealth for John and Max Key plus the $B export education supplies (shonkily).<br />Brian Easton notes that for a population (predicted for 2050) we will need 2.5 times the tourism services we had in 2019.John Hurleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-92209963565585950292022-04-20T07:01:32.432+12:002022-04-20T07:01:32.432+12:00Hilarious. Five minutes before I read David's ...Hilarious. Five minutes before I read David's comment about the mainstream media not covering Treasury's concerns, I read a story in the mainstream media about Treasury's concerns. Enough said.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-85187387364332945402022-04-19T15:21:44.693+12:002022-04-19T15:21:44.693+12:00There is certainly some fiscal headwinds ahead tha...There is certainly some fiscal headwinds ahead that will make life difficult for any government - and for us of course. Not really covered in the legacy media but Interest.co had a piece on it: "The Treasury said the RBNZ paid $7.2 billion more for the bonds than what they were originally issued for. This was recorded as a loss on the government’s balance sheet and resulted in an increase in net debt."<br />They put the direct loss to our government at over 5B but rising interest rates could blow that out substantially maybe the full 7B - that's half the education budget!<br /><br />This is a big deal, why no real coverage of the treasury's and opposition's concerns? Little wonder that faith in the MSM continues to plummet: "64% say journalists and reporters are purposely trying to mislead people by saying things they know are false or gross exaggerations." https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2022/04/media_in_nz_least_trusted.html<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />David Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04883628159193125307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-36876920142196401082022-04-19T14:47:10.100+12:002022-04-19T14:47:10.100+12:00Don't be spooked Chris. There is reason to bel...Don't be spooked Chris. There is reason to believe that enough people will still realise that National/ACT will make all the serious problems we face much worse. And that Labour's extraordinarily good response to Covid provides a model for how to tackle those problems - particularly the climate crisis and the inequality crisis. (It is the latter that turns a temporary inflationary spike into a 'cost of living crisis').<br /><br />But there is a third problem that intersects with these two - the fact that we are politically stuck. No political party seems willing or able to do what is necessary to fight these problems, despite the model of the Covid response being in front of our eyes. If people vote National simply out of feeling a bit fed up and deciding to give the other lot a turn, it will tell us that the sense of being stuck is so entrenched that nothing will change until disaster comes knocking.ABnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-57066998190676677642022-04-19T10:23:01.184+12:002022-04-19T10:23:01.184+12:00Interesting that you leave out the possibility of ...Interesting that you leave out the possibility of the strongest member of the labour caucus, Mahuta.CXHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07716356211635024878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-53907725616063879872022-04-19T08:39:18.743+12:002022-04-19T08:39:18.743+12:00Loose monetary policy and excessive government spe...Loose monetary policy and excessive government spending have been the main drivers of inflation in New Zealand. COVID and Ukraine related supply line pressures have added to the fire. We are indeed going to have the "recession we need to have". Mortgage rates of 6% are also just around the corner, putting many home buyers under immense pressure.<br /><br />The economic outlook for New Zealand over the next 18th months is poor. But it is Ardern's asssociation with He Pua Pua and the policies being implemented under it (segregated health, 3 Waters, the end of equal suffrage) that will drive Labour into well-deserved oblivion.Odysseushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04745489060434244478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-25494836464654768012022-04-19T07:52:09.602+12:002022-04-19T07:52:09.602+12:00There is a somewhat visceral hatred of Ardern amon...There is a somewhat visceral hatred of Ardern amongst some sectors of society, which I can't really understand except the must be some misogyny involved. It's funny when you see the comments on just about any story about her – doesn't matter what it is there's a big pile on in an effort to infantilise her – particularly by referring to her as "Cindy". Apparently it's due to the fact that "people have seen their jobs disappear and their families destroyed. Well, Jim Bolger saw to 1 of my jobs, and Bill English another. Apparently that doesn't matter – maybe because they were men. :)<br />And it's funny because apparently she's buggered businesses – except for almost anything but the tourism and hospitality industry, all of which seems to be thriving – but when she goes overseas to drum up a bit of custom for New Zealand businesses they don't like that either. No satisfying some people.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-78143216366998081412022-04-18T21:55:11.548+12:002022-04-18T21:55:11.548+12:00I'm not so sure that Jacinda will be around to... I'm not so sure that Jacinda will be around to contest the next election. If the election result, or polling continues this trend , i think she may feel she has done all she could and might as well have some family life like other people .<br /> Also by then we will know more about the after effects of the vaccine and she might deem it meet to follow in Ashley's footsteps and get out of the kitchen.<br /> But look at the transformative governance that is likely to be in train. Hopefully not yet enacted by the next election, but the three waters proposal is the kind of legislation that Grant needs a four year term to get through. Ie. enough time to force changes through that no body wants or voted for or was ever likely to. Left or right.<br /> I think their priorities need to conform more with those of the electorate to hope to reverse the polling trend.<br /> But getting back to Jacinda herself, she is far and away the most attractive individual they have to offer in that role. It is where the caucus is directing her to lead that is the problem. She is a great leader but it is time to look around and see if anyone is following.<br /> D J SDavid Stonenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-660995971521371542022-04-18T17:56:48.585+12:002022-04-18T17:56:48.585+12:00It is said a week in politics is a long time, what...<br />It is said a week in politics is a long time, what then is eighteen months. What the Roy Morgan polls are reflecting, if accurate, is how the electorate remains divided. If the same electorate can give a 50.01% MMP majority in 2020, supposedly as a thank you for managing the pandemic response and hence saving lives, then why not a similar percentage in 2023 for managing the cost of living crisis and saving business.<br /><br />In the meantime here's a song that Jacinda may well be humming all the way to Asia and back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmENMZFUU_0 Katnoreply@blogger.com