A couple of hours ago I Liked her FB post from Paris.

Tom was simply channeling Prince Charles.

I'd like to believe, her being my MP and all, but I'm not the only one who wondered where the heck she was at those post-quake events attended by…

though the last two require qualifications rather than on-the-job training.

And nature just happens to have gifted you with the kind of find mind to make these kinds of decisions on behalf…

Ahem, Pygmies? What's well put there? Let's not be insulting (?) Pygmies eh, although my current bean counter is really cool.
As an aside I'd wager that National has many more bean counters than…

You need to calm down sometimes bro, your hater gonna…

We’ve already discovered that to much education simply leads to a qualifications arms race that the middle class is better equipped and funded to capture in their interests than the lower middle class, the working class, the working poor or the just…

Like, before the industrial revolution, everyone worked on farms, and then we freed those people up and instead of mass unemployment we got massive wealth and prosperity growth.

Freeing up miners and loom workers and scribes and coopers and wainwrights didn't mean…

How to Keep a Piece of the Pie After the Robots Take Our Jobs

I’m slightly sceptical of MOOCs as a solution, because they need an incredible amount of self-discipline to complete, and completion rates are typically far less than…

http://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/78949/rodney-dickens-says-forget-dairy-and-housing-consumer-spending-central-driver-economic#comment-835804

It seems overly confident to state that the full…

Employers ruthlessly use…

I find it quite hard to square with being unable to find a job despite huge experience and skills in the sector, and not even having high salary expectations. To me it's just one of those things…

I think there’s an unwillingness of some employers (going up the value chain to corporate purchasers of IT) to (a) pay the rate for the job and (b) develop staff skills rather than expecting to hire people…

Another thing to consider is that certain political leaders in Auckland…

In my case, I'm tempted to vote Labour again, largely on the strength of the proposed Digital Apprenticeship Scheme.…

In gambling circles, it's called 'double or quits'.

The overall point is…

It's a bit hard to make therefore-type conclusions about this stuff. It's possible that we could have high inflation and high unemployment too, which would be even more…

Well, I can guess what the reasons are anyway. The Colonel doesn't give away his special blend of 11 herbs and spices to just anyone.

There are, of course, people who aren’t unemployed…

MH is only half right about jobs being a critical issue, it’s the quality of jobs, not casualised, part time; working in poverty.

Many thanks for that Mr. Wylie...we were in need of a good laugh. :-)

but that's not what we're seeing, is it?

@Joe: It appears Labour can make this kind of stuff-up ...

They've also invited Michael Bassett, who unlike Jim Anderton will be attending. The very same Michael Bassett who wrote a glowing review of Brash's Orewa speech, and later gloatingly revealed that he'd written most of it. You really couldn't make this stuff up.

another spectacular misjudgement.

When it comes to recipes, Roger's been known to channel the spirit of Aunt Daisy.

What might be on the menu?

Slow cooked superannuitant?

Deep fried lean cuts of unemployed youth?

Lightly sauteed brain of has -been economic despot?

The trouble with this sort of approach, now…

Well yes. Our forefathers did that. They invented, improved and discovered all kinds of things to make life easier, to make the working week shorter, to increase leisure time,…

Thanks, Sacha, for planting that image in my brain....

'm curious, Robert, who it is that Labour sees as the target voter for this kind of push. Is it the unemployed themselves? Do they have some kind of evidence or information about just which voters might think jobs is the number one issue to the point that it…

For sure, I don't really want to slice and dice it. Just giving the cliches of central tendency so far as work goes. I'm currently doing unpaid work that I love – looking after children mixed in with postgrad stats training, and I'm only an attitude…

That was a question for Rob Salmond, btw. I just realized I have no idea if Rob's a Robert and definitely shouldn't presume to call him that.

"Change is good" he said. Presumably, he'll be happy to say we should also change the gov't in 2017, because, like he said, change…

Research has shown that people do not vote based on policy.

Influencing social discourse is crucial. Some parties have been better at it than others. That has to change before people will vote differently.

given the failure of political communication to the contrary (despite ample evidence), yes

Given that it has worked wonders in Japan, I would say not.

Labour has, on many occasions, delivered many sane and promising policy statements.
The Media and those who have only their own interests at heart, have stuck their collective fingers in there ears shouting “LA LA LA LA CAN’T HEAR YOU” and then stated, truly,…

What will Labour offer when Auckland house prices drop 60% and the banks are crashing: haircuts and austerity?

4%. In the Neo liberal world do we need negative interest rates to have jobs?

Again, Labour delivered the message poorly....

....and the media capitalised, to The Incumbent's benefit.

As a non voter, with no Party affiliations, I sometimes wonder if Labour is being sabotaged from within.

Just when they seem to be resonating...boom!

The modern news media is an uncritical member of the ideological state apparatus dominated by and run by the winners of the neoliberal economy, and they hate CGT because a large number of them are property speculators.

Labour was caned…

The only thing that would put jobs front and centre…