Just shows these guys can't get their thinking outside their own bubble...
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...s-rates-relief
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Just shows these guys can't get their thinking outside their own bubble...
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...s-rates-relief
I don't think Bridges will survive after the election if they keep him in. I'm not sure either what good getting rid of him now would do either. Its kind of the same conundrum that Labour was in post Helen Clark. They had Goff and Shearer right after who were perhaps decent administrators but mostly there to keep it warm for someone to really take the bull by the horns.
At this point, they get rid of Bridges and its likely that Amy Adams or Judith Collins steps in. Not sure if that gets them in a better position than they are now. I think Adams keeps the party more moderate, while Judith Collins will see a departure further right. Either way, they are up against it.
There was talk of the former Air NZ CEO Christopher Luxon and that would be a real roll of the dice. It would depend on the public warms to him I think. A highly paid former CEO who is apart of the 1% could go either way depending on how he speaks and presents himself. It worked for Key, not sure how it does here.
She did - but who knows whats going to happen, maybe she changes her stance if we nicely ask her?
I think with Amy Adams at the helm National would have a real chance, she would be able to find a center right majority. "Crusher" Judith on the other hand is only attractive to the hard right in this country and will never master a majority.
Put Judith at Nationals helm and I vote first time in my life for Labour.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300...gent-lawmaking
"Parliament passes the wrong law in an afternoon of urgent lawmaking"
"New Zealand's Parliament is famous for being able to pass laws quickly in a crisis.
But on Thursday it might have moved too quickly, after an error meant that the wrong piece of legislation was introduced to Parliament and then passed within hours, accidentally bringing into law a multi-billion dollar loan scheme.
The bill meant to "throw a lifeline" to small and medium businesses and was passed through all stages of the lawmaking process in an afternoon.
A bill like this would usually take six months to become law."
and so the widening Spiral of Lay-offs & Redundancies starts to unfold ...
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/121...ransport-world
"The Transport World redundancies follow the Gore District Council this week saying it had issued redundancy notices to 17- part-time staff employed at the Gore Aquatic Centre and MLT Event Centre which were both currently closed in Alert Level 3.
Ngai Tahu said on April 23 it was considering laying off 300 workers which would more than halve Ngai Tahu Tourism's 500-strong workforce, such was the impact Covid-19 was having on tourism."
more at link
What would a loan solve for these Employers that a Govt C-19 "Make good on their Losses Grants" wouldn't ?
The reality is that there is very little, in anything, the government can to stop many businesses from closing. They have been rendered unviable as a consequence of the pandemic & the associated response, even previously highly profitable ones.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/...d-him-the-most
Good question - where is the tourism minister?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...ectid=12329317
Employer used $70k wage subsidy for other than payments to staff.
Company has gone into receivership and so, it's tough luck for the employees and taxpayers.
Scary to think how much of the $100k loans to businesses are going to disappear down the proverbial black holes. And we are talking $20 billions to $25 billions at stake!
Amateurs at work in Cindy's government. :eek2:
The loan system has me a bit worried. I think all the wrong companies that do not know how to handle debt are going to get these loans and use the money for all the wrong reason. Keystone cops and if Stuart Nash or whoever is behind this thinks that companies know what they are doing and will act responsibly then pull the other one.
Fair call, the ones I am thinking of are probably in the minority. But the temptation to take on more debt at 0 interest when you can not handle it must be palpable in this environment. I think there will be plenty of defaults. To be fair, having given it some thought, this is probably a better option than the helicopter money of the wage subsidy.
Bring Sir Roger back
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300...-covid19-shock
I like this line
"Douglas said it was an example of “the old maxim rendered true — there is never someone more socialist than a wealthy capitalist in a time of crisis”."
Yes,step aside Robertson?
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...day+6+May+2020
Agree with that and Roger Douglas should understand as he did the same with his radical moves to free up NZ (thank goodness) from the stifling regulations and rules after Labour took office in 1984.
But it is also time with the budget to be fine tuned and more targeted as you say, Dobby41.
Didn't Douglas just about give away Telecom to the Americans? Then when Telecom was held substantially by NZ shareholders it was regulated and vilified by the government of the day.
I would be interested to know how he would pay for his plan. If fewer larger businesses are supported, presumably we would end up with kore unemployment. He doesn't support a CGT but he likes income-testing super. So presumably oldies with income would pay for his plans. But those who can arrange capital gains would be OK?
Telecom was sold to the Fay Richwhite led Bell Atlantic/Ameritech/Tappenden consortium for a price which blew all the other bidders (including BIL & Fletcher Group) out the window.
They saw the huge potential of the mobile market at that time.
The regulations came in after Telecom squandered billions of dollars in Australia (AAPT for eg was a $3 billion disaster) and did not invest in upgrading its broadband infrastructure in NZ.
The removal & breakup of Telecom into Chorus & Spark came after Helen Clark went on a trip to Seoul . She was horrified and embarrassed that NZ was still on dial-up while South Korea was already on UFB.
It can't be ... Labour's buddy whether they like or not
The same strategist whose ideas destroyed whole industries & buried large numbers of Employees jobs in the process..
Whether the current incompetent huddle manage to better the record achieved in the 1990's with Douglas onboard, could be interesting.. ;)
Could this be one of those Large Offshore Corporate Sinners which Labour was busy bashing around the block not so long ago ? -
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/121...digital-future
"Microsoft's "significant investment" shows faith in NZ's digital future"
Disagree with you.
But for Roger Douglas, we would still be manufacturing and assembling sub-standard and second rate & shoddy cars, TVs, clothings, furniture etc at outrageous prices, begging banks for mortgages and still using dial up internet.
And unemployment today would be 15% as the rest of the world bypasses NZ.
Fantastic, lets hope its the beginning of a tidealwave of companies that now want to be here
"On Wednesday, the technology giant announced it planned to build a data centre in the North Island, adding to its 59 other data centres around the globe. It would be the first multinational cloud service to open one in New Zealand, with the investment likely worth tens of millions of dollars.Muller said it would accelerate technological solutions that required rapid processing power, such as artificial intelligence systems. "For example, this is ultimately the sort of processing power that will be needed to support a fleet of autonomous vehicles safely."stuff"
And Our PM instigated changes re these companies monitoring and removing unacceptable posting, streaming etc after ChCH and they responded,thanks to her.
Putting NZ's covid-19 outbreak data in perspective :
Per 100,000 :
Deaths
Taiwan 0.03
Hong Kong 0.05
Australia 0.39
New Zealand 0.43
Japan 0.45
South Korea 0.50
Infected:
Taiwan 1.8
Hong Kong 13.9
Australia 27.2
New Zealand 30.5
Japan 12.3
South Korea 21.1
And we know that Taiwan, Hong Kong and Australia have not had to close down the economies to the extent that NZ has, to achieve BETTER results than NZ.
And it has nothing to do with whether it's National or Labour who is in power - it's about doing better than we have done.
What can we learn from them and do even better than we have.
Lets' raise our sight higher, shall we - rather than be forever comparing ourselves with the worse rather than the best.
I assume you have something to back up that statement !! The PM is very good at grabbing international headlines by making statements such as her and the Cabinet taking a huge pay cut. 3 weeks later she has not done anything about it, for which there is no excuse. Just another failed promise.
Anyone see Kelvin Davis with Paul Henry on TV3 tonight fumbling away ?
Apparently he couldn't even put a number on the Kiwi Tourism / Hospitality jobs that he said he was going to save
or when this was going to occur .. ;)
Poor Kelvin never seems to disappoint with the dubious unique ability to freeze, get foot stuck in mouth or come up a major disconnect when challenged by some of the sharper more awake media interviewers applying heat on him .. ;)
The Govt's C-19 actions in turn compared to Christchurch & Guns Ban rapid 'shoot from the hip' however
bring to the fore - why was Govt's action to Covid-19 so sloppy & slow - out by about 4-6 weeks on
optimum timing which would have largely avoided what we have now & going forwards ?
Govt have proved in past that they can & have previously moved fast, so why not with Covid-19 ?
Natural born liar at work here. Our govt has been incredible through this crisis, that cannot be denied. You sound like a sloppy trumplike henchman pumping out the fake news, what blogg are you being paid to throw your poo from .Aways transparent your sort.Try looking at the bright side of life.
Iceman you cannot deny that facebook etc changed what they allow streamed etc since our PM instigated that meeting with other leaders. As for the Rifle ban , guess who is following our actions atm, Canada.
The Auditor General spent 8 months on investigating the gun buy back scheme. He was unable to determine whether the scheme had made New Zealanders any safer, despite the $139 million spent on it. But good on the similarly minded and weak PM of Canada just to copy paste.
Trudeau and Ardern are birds of a feather. Virtue signalling and short on detail and policy. Hence pre-Covid all the cockups we had with delivery on Labour's election promises.
1. Light Rail
2. Capital Gains Tax - "Captain's Call"
3. Immigration
4. Kiwibuild
5. Cleaner Rivers
All main planks of Labour's election promises. None delivered on.
Be that as it may, the NZ buyback followed the Australian Port Arthur massacre several years ago. The former has been widely acclaimed for making Aussie safer; NZ, likely to be so now, as well. Just tragic that it takes many deaths for countries to act to limit the use of firearms.
Because those who are publicly anti-Labour/anti-Jacinda, frequently allude to the fact that they believe National would have done/would do so much better. Those people have very short memories. Hold the government to account by all means, but never forget the things National did not do well, and will do again should they be back in power in the future.
I have been a vocal critic of how this government has singularly failed in its housing policy - especially kiwibuild. The inexperienced and naive Phil Twyfool & his equally dumb advisors were taken to the cleaners by the developers.
So they changed the policy and it's now all housed under Kainga Ora.
Well, I have just examined a development project involving Kainga Ora and guess what? They are going to get taken to the cleaners by developers again! If we were in another country (say, 3rd world) I would venture to say that someone in the government is corrupted and getting back-handers!
And this is the problem with this government - stupid as stupid does. Too arrogant and too dumb at the same time to learn.
The failure of this government to deliver on Kiwibuild, Capital Gains Tax and unlimited spending on Pike River - what has that got to do with National?
Labour was elected on its platform to deliver solutions - they had already laid the blame of everything that's wrong at National.
Now they must stand on fall on their own ability to deliver the solutions, surely!
Im all good with Pike.Closure for families and hopefully accountability.
Kiwibuild, im thankful they tried but it turned out to be an impossible task. Reset, change regs, red tape etc as is happening now.
Cap gains , thank winston. It may be back on the table in future with covid changing everything.
Immigration. Who has restricted Overseas people buying and selling our houses etc etc. Who you gonna call .
Cleaner rivers no easy quick fix,just ask the farmers on the canterbury plains farming intensively on 80 metres of gravel, who encouraged allowed that, yes the N word again yep national and nitrogen. Elsewhere is easier and is happening incrementally.
Strange that you are so eager to be pleased with that list of abysmal failures.
Pike River expenditure of tens of millions for no change in the status quo. No mention of the Light Rail either. Oh, and by the way, immigration and house purchases by foreign buyers are two separate things.
It seems the Cindy dust has yet to shake from your eyes JT...perhaps it never will.
Try harder, look for something positive, keep away from penny dreadful fake reality choices.See if you can make up a valid list of concerns and acknowledge the successes this country and govt are achieving.
All those failures are "fake reality"? They're not a "valid list of concerns"?
I'm not having to try hard. Those failures are there for all to see.
Aren't you even a little bit disappointed that you were bullsh***ed to by saintly Cindy on the main planks of Labour's election campaign? I might have also added child poverty which pre-Covid was measurably worse. Will be worse still now.
Pike River possibly caused by the free market policies of Douglas and carried on by Richardson is not something Labour should have pursued. GST was not an election policy but should have been introduced.
Douglas destroyed the MOW with his free market policies. The MOW would have easily coped with
Kiwibuild and light rail with one hand behind their back.
westerly
Jonu
You may put our prime minister on a saintly pedestal, thats up to you, i dont. Where do you place yourself huh ;)
Abysmal fails", is just poo spin from your mouth nothing more.Keep saying it ala trump tactic style doesn't make it true just displays your own twisted parallel reality.
BTW,would you put yourself as high as the PM LOL.
Balance has never learned from his failures why? Because he has never had one:t_up:
Time for you to buy that property now that the property market is going down. Bang on prediction, would you not agree that recovery will be in 2021?
Predictions change with changes in assumptions.
Grow up, JT - otherwise, you will be like David Clark or Clare Curran.
Labour are toast.
Gag orders on ministers. Open and transparent? I think not.
"If you do get a media query on this please provide a written response," it reads. "I would like to sign off and see all written response (sic). Do not put Minister up for any interviews on this."
The documents were released at 2pm - after the Government's only press conference of the day.
Newshub requested an interview with Health Minister David Clark - it was declined.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...-response.html
The good old Friday afternoon media release. Cindy knows her media management alright.
I noticed today that for the first time reporters weren't so easily fobbed off by Grant Robertson on the Taiwan situation. Robertson, somewhat deviously suggested a journalist was playing with words, which was in fact exactly what Robertson was doing. Various other journalists asked follow up questions to nail him down. They collectively smelt blood...and no doubt were pissed off with his dismissal of their colleague. It's about time. The Press Gallery has been far too passive these last 6 weeks.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/hea...eges-committee
David Parker referring to a committee he would normally Chair. Priceless. Labour really is running scared on this. The more they doth protest, the more it smells like they have gone into this half arsed. No wonder the police were cautious in their early policing around level 4.
Yes, part 2 is “silly” which is exactly my point. We have three parties of any real significance in this country. Only two of them will ever have the ability to form a government alone. Neither party gets it right 100% of the time. They never have and they never will. No matter which party is in power there will be decisions we disagree with. I don’t agree with every decision Labour has made, but they have made enough good ones, and have handled more than a few unexpected crisis situations over the last few years. National would not have handled them any better in my opinion. Balance and some others here, are hell bent on trashing Jacinda and Labour (but mostly Jacinda) and ignoring any of the positive/good things she/they have achieved. National have been part of the decision making around the coronavirus situation, and up until now, they have supported pretty much every decision made. They are now putting pressure on re level 2. Fair enough but I am damned sure they will be be the first to bitch if we go to level 2 and have an explosion of cases. As Jacinda has said, it isn’t them who will bear the brunt of a bad decision.
Some people are simply never happy, and there are more than few of them in this forum.
Confirms Cindy as a grubby politician - worse actually given her promises of open & transparent interaction with NZers.
Cindy obviously believes in the mushroom approach - keep us all in the dark and feed us horse manure.
Well, not all of us are dumb enough to fall for her star dust (really bull dust).
Looking forward to the next media briefing when she can be grilled on such a cynical direction to her ministers.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12330745
"There's no real need to defend because the public have confidence in what has been achieved and what the Govt is doing. Instead we can dismiss."
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/121...omestic-travel
"Coronavirus: Tourism minister warns high prices could dampen domestic travel
"A Tourism New Zealand marketing campaign will try to persuade Kiwis to spend up large on domestic travel, the way they did on overseas trips.
But Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis said operators would also need to come to the party over pricing to attract customers.
“People in tourism want visitors, but if they price themselves out of the market, they simply won't have that.”"
It seems that Kelvin is still fumbling around & hasn't woken up that he should be talking to "Cheque Book Grunt" just down the end of the same pew he is squatted at about what AIR ROBERTSON thinks it's playing at extracting more dimes out of Kiwi Travellers in difficult times..
Yet another fail by Davis it seems on this..
How has this fellow even managed to stay a Minister ?
Labour's next Disasters coming up real soon -
1. More Business Carnage here:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/ind...uring-lockdown
"Coronavirus: 70 job losses and more than $4 million owed by 13 businesses that fell victim to Covid-19 during lockdown"
and more likely to come
2. What's coming up after the Wage Subsidies end:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...ectid=12330623
"Covid 19 coronavirus: The new jobless..."
"Equally, she said, at the moment the government wage subsidy is masking the true impact of Covid-19. More than 1.7 million people - an astonishing 60 per cent of the workforce - are receiving the subsidy - but once it ceases there are likely to be more layoffs.
"There's going to be a long tail," Bradford said. "Where it really takes time is with people who have never been out of work before, they will usually borrow money and do anything they can because of the feelings around registering for welfare, the stigma.""
As was posted earlier on here about was seen in Australia - the same is here:
"Young people appear to have been the worst affected."
more at the link
Yes its come out of nowhere and rocked the world,Hopefully change from all this over consumption based world will come for the better of peoples and the planets well being. But the marketing campaign is about to start up and spin."You have to have the latest this and that".Over spend and over eat, buy stuff that you have to throw away shortly after because one part breaks and no spare parts are made etc.
They have to try with tourism, Aiussies and kiwis make up the bulk of them after all, but alot ofpeoples finances just wont be able to stretch that far for a while.
Thanks this govt has reacted fast to an ever changing situation and thanks to them speedily getting money out to the people that was so important to do.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...erm-government
Third term arrogance from this first term government.
Star dust turns to bull dust but as long as there are dumb-downed voters who swallow whole the ‘this government can do no wrong’ narrative, Cindy & her bunch of incompetents will continue to run the country into the ground.
David Clark, Phil Twyford, Clare Curran, Lees Calloway, Kelvin Davis etc etc ...👎🏻
Kiwibuild, CGT, child poverty, infrastructure upgrade, etc etc .. 👎🏻
Relax, Balance, perhaps the electorate, tired of this lockdown, will do a "Churchill" on this govt come September?
;)
Labour will bolt in at next election; not that they deserve to, they don't. But they can't lose when there is no alternative, and National with the uncharismatic Simon at the helm is no alternative.
A country with a strong Opposition excels.
Agreed, NZ today is not that country.
Hence, the arrogance of Cindy - treating NZers as mushrooms fit only to live in the dark & get fed horse manure.
Transparency & openness - she pledged.
Let’s do this, she urged the electorate.
Completely & totally broken pledge in less than 3 years.
What is Cindy going to be like if she has another term? 👎🏻
Are these the first signs of third term arrogance from a first term government?
What a lazy sloppy piece of"journalism" making guesses and assumptions and forgetting whats gone down and paraphrasing making her own opinion as fact. Unbelievable considering what this Govt has done and why waste time with triviality as they have a huge workload ahead getting this country back on track, colossal full on getting the right strategies and actions that wont please all of the people no matter what they do.
Look at all the hands out demanding, no way will they all be satisfied without sending this country broke. No way will they be able to announce detailed plans etc yet its all new and the Govt knows there is a vicious underbelly here of bitter national people and journos under pressure hence the the focus on negativity and cult of personality, survival of self and media.
I celebrate what this govt is doing and has done, far from perfect but pretty damn amazing considering NO PRECEDENT or blueprint to go off. No whining or hands out from me just thankful , especially as it looks like we could be in level two 2 weeks earlier then anyone dreamed of. Energy to our govt they are going to need every bit in the weeks and months ahead. I celebrate my family members in care facilities are safe and our fatalities are lowatpit. Im concerned about all the bubble breakers possibly putting us back to level 4. Fingers crossed.
David Clark's behaviour absolutely and conclusively sign of a self-entitled arrogant Labourite.
Telling ministers not to respond to questions and inquiries from the media about how the government has handled the lockdown & outbreak - absolutely.
Open & transparent government, remember?
Now I am surprised you do not like teachers!
I have nothing but the greatest respect for dedicated, hard working, intelligent and caring teachers.
But Kelvin Davis's performance outside of the classroom is nothing short of diabolical.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...-reopened.html
This buffoon could not come out with one single concrete plan when he was questioned by Paul Henry - and he has had 6 weeks to work on a plan!
All he could say is that there is no plan until such time as the tourism sector has an idea what the future of tourism looks like!
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/natio...?ocid=msedgntp
Jeeze.....while I am not as fervent as a lot of you seem to be.....this just makes me wanna puke !
Talk about ramping up the PR machine.
THE PERILS OF PREMATURE CONGRATULATION
https://democracyproject.nz/2020/05/...ongratulation/