Originally Posted by
elZorro
I wouldn't know, I didn't ask for quotes to double-check on that occasion. But that happens with or without subsidies, depends on how shallow the business management is, how many overheads they have. The time before, a couple of guys supplied and installed pink batts in our previous house for less than it would have cost for me to buy the batts. I was fairly pleased with myself that day.
Here's something I just figured out, W69. Labour was formed in NZ as a party in 1916, they contested the 1919 election. They spent 5 terms of three years in opposition, before winning power in 1935, and they stayed in power right through WWII, until 1949. They are still one of the two major parties.
Here are the bare bones stats until the 2017 election: Out (in opposition) for 5,3,4,3,3,(3) terms ( (3)= assume National stay in until 2017)
Labour have been the party in power for 4,1,1,2,3 terms.
Forgetting about everything else that might be going on, just those number trends imply that Labour is almost certainly going to win office again in 2017, and they might even stay in for four terms this time :).