That billboard is going to come back and haunt National should it win the election.
NZers going to Australia, UK, US, etc to live is a fact of life and won't change even if the economy flourishes.

Some history. In 1979 the UK Tories ran a clever little bill board…

Damn straight. It repeats that silly idea that people choose to emigrate because of tax rates. Maybe applies to the several ACT voters, but anyone else who falls for that line deserves the government they get

Act actually do seem to believe it. According to a Herald article Prebble campaigned overseas…

This doesn't even make sense.

Damn straight. It repeats that silly idea that people choose to emigrate because of tax rates. Maybe applies to the several ACT voters, but anyone else who falls for that line deserves the government they get

That billboard is going to come back and haunt National should it win the election.

Politics 101: Get elected first, worry about how you got elected second.
a.k.a. everything can be fixed once we're in Office.

Well, it's kind of breaking up with itself at the moment. The Flemish have decided they don't like the Francophone Belgians, and it's looking more and more like there won't be a Belgium to move to in the next few years.

The piece of land between France, Germany and the…

By cutting personal income tax? Give me a break! You could abolish income tax altogether and we'd still be paid less than the Aussies.

Some kid bought a full page ad in the papers & had the names of loads of people who'd left NZ never to return... (apparently).

I remember that advert, it was titled, "A Generation Lost?" It blew back on the advert's creator when it emerged it was part-sponsored by…

Wave goodbye to higher taxes

This doesn't even make sense. Who's making them higher? Labour's promising to cut taxes too.

Not your loved ones.

This just sounds sinister...

everyone in NZ with get up and go has got up and gone

Maybe it's a reference to Stephen Franks' party membership.

everyone in NZ with get up and go has got up and gone.

Which explains why Act is left sucking the political dregs through a used cigarette filter to try and get candidates? :P

I cannot believe that nobody pointed out to them that saying something like that reflects just…

Perhaps the next one will be:
"We'll change solo-mother beneficiary work rules
Enjoy lower petrol prices"

People leaving, like crime, is an easy political football to kick around, but…

I must write a post about it.

And kudos for getting that most hilarious of names into this thread. Can't get enough of those Walloons. (Said the…

And what's wrong with Belgium?

Well, it's kind of breaking up with itself at the moment. The Flemish have decided they don't like the Francophone Belgians, and it's looking more and more like there won't be a Belgium to move to in the next few years.

everyone in NZ with…

Could we not be more imaginative, people? How about moving to, oh I don't know, Russia? And what's wrong with Belgium?

Quite. If I was to move anywhere, it would be to Denmark or Sweden, where the people are lovely and childcare is free. Although I'm already a poster boy…

There is a disjointed quality to National's ad that says to me "we are really quite strange people"

I believe an earlier draft read:

You only come back to a dump like this if you're a godwit or a fuckwit

Had a nice ring, but it was discarded for sounding…

proudly told me she was one of ther names on that list (and she was indeed), she'd left NZ because she was so disgusted with the gummint.

I did point out that she appeared to have returned

ROFL

WTFATPL [wtf are these people like?]

eggsackery – I do get so…

proudly told me she was one of ther names on that list (and she was indeed), she'd left NZ because she was so disgusted with the gummint.

I did point out that she appeared to have returned

ROFL

WTFATPL [wtf are these people like?]

How many terms were they hoping for?

Though as a photochopper I do love how National provides pdfs of their billboards. You don't even have to get the clone tool out to…

The whole net migration thing puzzles me.

Remember the whole Brain Drain thing from a few years ago? Some kid bought a full page ad in the papers & had the names of loads of people who'd left NZ never to return... (apparently).

I was working with a woman at the…

Mr Key said over-taxation had a huge impact on the decision of New Zealanders leaving the country.

Yes, the ones leaving the country for South Korea and Mexico. Key is entitled to an opinion. He isn't entitled to his own facts.

We burned our bridges
We're learning Maori

“Wave goodbye to Winston
Not your principles…”

Wave goodbye to Craig Ranapia
He needs to go have a sit down

Leader John Key, who wore a light blue tie which did not quite match the colour of the planes in the ad, said he was worried about net migration out of the country.

Wait, what?

Public Address reader David Hamilton, who is wearing a brown kind of smart casual hoody…

Wave goodbye to John Ansell.
And your marketing nous.

And tell the group whether you're going to be a strategist on Labour's campaign as well as a candidate, Conor.

Wave goodbye to Maurice Williamson.
He was a little too exuberant

Meet the new Moz. Same as the old Moz.

Hayden, yes that had crossed my mind. Who would like one?

Oh my god yes

Hayden, yes that had crossed my mind. Who would like one?

Ooo yes please!

actually thinking more about it it does lend itself to a haiku form factor ....

Yes! Here's one just for you.

But where is the "more" advertised?

Inadvertent metaphor on my part.

Hayden, yes that had crossed my mind. Who would like one?

But where is the "more" advertised? I expected gallery-sized goodness...

Wave goodbye to higher taxes
not your loved ones

they can’t afford the tolls
we'll be locking more of them up near you
we're selling the hospitals, they can't afford to die…