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Don't worry, you will be safe locked in your ivory tower, the rioting peasants with only stones to throw will not reach you.
More likely to happen though if National are returned at the next election and the next financial crisis occurs. If it happens before the next election Labour and the Greens will sort it out. :)
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Wonder what went wrong
@GeoffMillerNZ: 'Labour rockets in poll' - Labour at 38% after @DavidCunliffeMP became leader 3 years ago today #throwbackthursday
Not so. Clark was good, and I think Shearer would have made the grade given more time. He's proving to be very likeable now that he's gained a bit of confidence. Best of the lot since Clark.
P.S. Goff has been excellent in some portfolios, e.g. housing but was terrible in leadership role. Cunliffe a complete goose and hated by far too many. Labour should have seen that but chose not to look.
And you said Shearer had no fire, FP, back a few years in this thread.
http://www.sharetrader.co.nz/showthr...l=1#post362870
Here's an anthem for FP and Craic, et al, which I heard on RNZ yesterday. Written in the 70's and still a valid commentary. It's part of a movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSiTtAuBL8g
Ummm, an anthem from the 70s. What about the continuous humming from our well performing economy ? As one commentator said yesterday: " But today's figures are good. You have to dig very, very hard through the roughly 60 pages of GDP data released by Statistics New Zealand to find any bad news – although, no doubt, a few opposition politicians are trying hard."
Robertson continued his ridiculous habit of pulling out all the strongest growing industries/areas and then saying look there is no growth and Little saying the polls are wrong. What a sad opposition we have.
I see the Labour Party are trying to say that the very strong 3.6% growth in the economy/GDP (stronger than Australia, the USA and the UK) are due solely to immigration and population growth.
So I did a bit of searching on Google - population growth in NZ in the last year (INCLUDES Immigration) has been 2%. The newspaper headlines attribute the growth to Building/Housing and Exports. Pretty good effort when dairy prices had such a dent put in them.