The 2017 Election Thread

[husaberg]

It's all kosher, really...

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...reasury-advice

...we have financial responsibility rules y'know.

Thats just 145 years of limo rides For Bridges and the other 50 MP's

[jasonu]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12116229

Seems to be plenty of money for certain groups...

[Voltaire]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12116229

Seems to be plenty of money for certain groups...

Seems not a lot of tax paid by certain groups...

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...ectid=11607336

(same source so it must be true

[Ocean1]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12116229

Seems to be plenty of money for certain groups...

Well they had to do something with the cash they saved from ditching all those charter schools.

And the results will be SO much better.

[Ocean1]

This sounds promising.

https://www.travel.earth/new-zealand...e-sustainable/

Haven't heard anything else about it though, which is strange...

[Voltaire]

Well they had to do something with the cash they saved from ditching all those charter schools.

And the results will be SO much better.

Expert on education are we?.... opps sorry, its just because its not National.

[pritch]

It's all kosher, really...

Well you see, once upon a time state houses were built with the money held in deposits at the Post Office Savings Bank. Nowadays, thanks to Roger Douglas and his philosophical successors, we no longer have such an institution. Of course if the rents paid by state house tennants had been used to finance new builds we wouldn't have quite the same problem. We'd still have a stock of empty houses due to somebody in the street having once smoked meth though.

You might not like what Labour are doing but decades of mismanagement by successive governments have limited their options. At least we'll be able to fill Avondale racecourse with crap housing now though.

[Ocean1]

Expert on education are we?.... opps sorry, its just because its not National.

I don't give a fuck who it is, when your policy plainly contradicts both observable reality and your stated objectives then you're either spinning shit to cover unpopular ideological motives or you're a fucking idiot.

Claiming the state knows best how to teach everyone's kids and insisting that's the only option doesn't agree with the results charter schools were achieving, with state school failures in many cases. To then turn around and separately fund another special interest group for the very same stated reason is just unbelievably duplicitous, its a fucking joke.

[Ocean1]

Well you see, once upon a time state houses were built with the money held in deposits at the Post Office Savings Bank. Nowadays, thanks to Roger Douglas and his philosophical successors, we no longer have such an institution. Of course if the rents paid by state house tennants had been used to finance new builds we wouldn't have quite the same problem. We'd still have a stock of empty houses due to somebody in the street having once smoked meth though.

You might not like what Labour are doing but decades of mismanagement by successive governments have limited their options. At least we'll be able to fill Avondale racecourse with crap housing now though.

You mean years of governments "managing" housing markets in an attempt to control what is ultimately an individual responsibility in order to buy votes has completely fucked the market beyond all repair?

Absolutely.

[jasonu]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12118916

Where are all those dicks on here that were claiming her having a baby would be no different than if a man was PM? Looks like that little sprog has cost you lot $80k and climbing.

[TheDemonLord]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12118916

Where are all those dicks on here that were claiming her having a baby would be no different than if a man was PM? Looks like that little sprog has cost you lot $80k and climbing.

Using the Air Force for Official travel has an always will be perks of being PM.

I'll criticise Comrade Taxinda for many things - but I've got no problem with what she did.

[jasonu]

Using the Air Force for Official travel has an always will be perks of being PM.

I'll criticise Comrade Taxinda for many things - but I've got no problem with what she did.

Hardly a perk.

and if she hadn't just dropped a kid she could have flown to Nauru with the rest of the pollies and not spend $80k on a seperate flight.
That is my point old chap.

[Katman]

and if she hadn't just dropped a kid....

But she did.

And why should it bother you anyway?

[Woodman]

So what would the plane be doing if it wasn't flying her to Nauru? The plane and its hours are already paid for as she says in the article.

[carbonhed]

So what would the plane be doing if it wasn't flying her to Nauru? The plane and its hours are already paid for as she says in the article.

The plane could have been used for whatever the hell came up. This is something unplanned for and completely unnecessary... it's hardly likely that Cindy will bring anything worthwhile to the proceedings anyway... smile and wave, smile and wave. Hell they could have sent Kelvin Davis to hold Winnie's hand if they didn't trust the prick on his own

Here's the hourly direct operating costs of the plane...

https://www.bjtonline.com/sites/bjto...nformation.pdf

Cindy owes us $125k as well as the six weeks holiday on a salary of $500k plus the second rate job she's doing as PM... smile and wave, smile and wave.