Posts by Katharine Moody
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Hard News: The Day After Tomorrow, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
that the MP seems to represent folk at the…better heeled end of the spectrum. Like the Treaty settlements…there’s not a lot of trickle down to the plebs in the iwi.
Tama Iti made this point this morning on Marae and Hone's made the same point on a number of occasions. My stomach turned when I read the covenants Ngai Tahu put on their Wigram Skies residential subdivision;
https://ngaitahuproperty.co.nz/portfolio/wigram-skies/
A more blatant initiative towards exclusionary design criteria (as a means to 'hold up' land and build prices to keep those in need out) would be hard to find.
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Hard News: Media Take: The selling of…, in reply to BenWilson,
But when you’re out of material and have to get to print, you rerun old stories.
So true.
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Hard News: The Day After Tomorrow, in reply to simon g,
Having just watched Winston’s media conference (or onslaught), I am now officially “relaxed” about the negotiations. If NZF can support Labour on confidence and supply only, I’m fine with that.
But if he wants to be a Minister, National can have him.
Have you read the headlines recently? No wonder he treats the media with disdain:
Fran O’Sullivan
Traitor Treachery
Hail Caesar – calling the tune with just 7½%
Tyrant, Tyranny, Tyrannised
It is not treachery to hanker for the certainty of FPPMr 7½%
English and Ardern should not sit around waiting for more than a fortnight for Mr 7½ per cent to decide when he is ready to play ballhttp://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=1192…
Duncan Garner
The megalomaniac reigns all over National’s parade
You need to read this to get the full flavour of the vitriolWhat he said in that press conference was that he’s waiting for the full vote count. What could be wrong with that?
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Hard News: Media Take: The selling of…, in reply to Neil,
That’s hard to square with her suddenly claiming she trusts and respects Peters.
Why do you say that? He proved himself trustworthy with the Clark/Cullen administration.
No one is talking about it - so I'll add it to the mix.
Winston Peters as Prime Minister - Ardern and Shaw as co-Deputy PMs and first time Ministers in the portfolio(s) of their choosing, with the balance of Ministerial portfolios distributed on a proportional basis.
In other words, the real kind of change that the majority of NZers voted for and MMP at its collaborative finest.
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Hard News: Media Take: The selling of…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
NZ just fell for it.
It doesn’t feel that way to me. The swing was most certainly toward Labour. The Nats (and their coalition partners) were the biggest losers to my mind.
One of the best statements made on election night was, David Parker I think – who pointed out that Jacinda was the only Prime Ministerial candidate who came out with her integrity intact.
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Hard News: Media Take: The selling of…, in reply to linger,
I'm with you on that.
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Hard News: Media Take: The selling of…, in reply to linger,
Thanks for the clarification.
I do hope some future government looks at the issue and then passes legislation, if appropriate, that indexes the tax brackets to the rate of inflation so that 'putting bracket creep right' can no longer be used as an election bribe. Time we stopped focusing electoral decisions based on a few pieces of silver that were effectively stolen from us anyway.
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Hard News: Media Take: The selling of…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
That runners ad is such a good visual representation of these assumptions.
And in addition to the points made, I thought it reflected how stale/bereft of new ideas the National party had become. It looked to me to be a low budget, poorly executed re-hash of the 2014 rowers ad.
Mirrored as well in BE election night speech with its repeated, repeated, repeated reference to 'strong and stable' government. Funnily enough on Backbenches they started the post-election episode telling the National guy he wasn't allowed to use that mantra - and blow me down... he couldn't think to save himself! That was the only thing he could come up with when asked what kind of New Zealand he wanted.
Their entire caucus seem to be a collection of Steven Joyce clones.
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Speaker: The Government lost the election, in reply to linger,
The EasyVote card sounds more like a bug than a feature.
That's my impression as well, particularly if because of them people are removed from the roll altogether.
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Hard News: Media Take: The selling of…, in reply to Glenn Jameson,
Glenn, I think you may have missed this comment by linger, earlier in the thread:
no, as written, the National tax cut law expires automatically. National would have to act to extend it. Labour wouldn’t have to do a thing to remove it.
Did you get it wrong?