The 2017 Election Thread

[husaberg]

I never knew this one happened
Its turns out Keys goverment added in this to the former PM perks
50K per year and a new car every 60,000kms for anyone who has been a PM for more than 2 years
this is additional to free travel perks and massive super package.
https://www.remauthority.govt.nz/cli...ime-ministers/

[Ocean1]

In practice sadly yes. Government departments don't like unspent budgeted funds as generally that means the following years budget could be cut. The unspent portion being regarded as evidence the previously budgeted amount was too great.

Aye. Which is why any good salesman knows when the end of the financial year is for all of his govt clients, there's sales to be had immediately before that date to mop up any cash lying around from this year's budget and immediately after that date if last year's budget is long gone and they've been hanging out for new stuff for months.

I've both worked for and sold tech shit to some of those departments, without the inside experience you'll never convince yer average pleb how little of any govt department budget spend results in anything of value whatsoever.

If I was paying for it I'd probably have a wee well armed meltdown.

Oh....

[Voltaire]

Where does one apply???

You just need to join some party Young Twats when you leave school and work you way up to MP, easy peasy, or in the US just buy your way in.

The Defence Force probably gets fuel at cost too.

[carbonhed]

Cindy's personal transport. $13k hourly operating costs. 9 extra hours operation = $117k. I wonder what seat she chose?

[Voltaire]

Does the air base have a Duty Free shop?

[sidecar bob]

Does the air base have a Duty Free shop?

It has bugger all by the look of this.
What did she actually want with the place?
https://dose.com/articles/welcome-to...ever-heard-of/

[husaberg]

It has bugger all by the look of this.
What did she actually want with the place?
https://dose.com/articles/welcome-to...ever-heard-of/

that where most of our fert came from traditionally that and the Christmas Islands in the Indian not pacific (not the ones with the Statues thats Easter)

Soneone posted a pic of the steeples that are left when the millions of years of bird droppings are removed that makes up the phosphate deposits.

[Voltaire]

The PM has his own band.

[husaberg]

Simon Bridges considering going until someone told him he wasnt invited and no one knew who he was...

He might have made it but it had a leak.........

[jasonu]

Cindy's personal transport. $13k hourly operating costs. 9 extra hours operation = $117k. I wonder what seat she chose?

Fucking disgraceful!

[jasonu]

It has bugger all by the look of this.
What did she actually want with the place?
https://dose.com/articles/welcome-to...ever-heard-of/

That's what happens when there's a bunch of boongers in charge.
South Africa is going down the same path.

[Graystone]

1) You mean the 36.9% of registered voters that actually voted for labour.

2) Fair enough, I got that wrong.

3) Have you been talking to my wife?

Didn't vote for her, happy to pay it. 80k cost is sensationalist garbage, ironically, if she was a shit PM this would be a distraction from something that actually matters...

[Graystone]

That's what happens when there's a bunch of boongers in charge.
South Africa is going down the same path.

You're one those people who raised the iq of both countries when you left NZ for USA aren't you?

[sidecar bob]

You're one those people who raised the iq of both countries when you left NZ for USA aren't you?

Perhaps you could come up with a more viable explanation for the situation they have currently found themselves in?
If a smart man found himself in a spot of financial bother would he sell his front driveway to the street to someone that could then charge him whatever toll they fancied for him to access his property?
Fortunately for Nauru Theres not much of a market for second hand airports to nowhere that were built with forced labour.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naur...tional_Airport

[sidecar bob]

Didn't vote for her, happy to pay it. 80k cost is sensationalist garbage, ironically, if she was a shit PM this would be a distraction from something that actually matters...

Is she a shit pm or not? Simply playing Santa Claus with taxpayer money doesn't make her a good P.M the same as buying your children gifts every day doesn't make you a good parent.
Now we have some feral Labour MP stood down on full pay because she can't control her temper, or keep her hands to herself.https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/polit...ult-allegation
She was however overjoyed on TV last night, that some Iwi or another had weaseled another substantial payout from the taxpayer coffers for an imagined historic grievance I couldn't be bothered following the ins & outs of.
And re the aircraft, if you can be bothered doing the maths at the cost per capita between what trump wastes on air travel & this wee debacle, I'm pretty sure I can guess who spent the most.
But her position as PM is as safe as houses with Labour supporters refusing to accept she can do any wrong, just like Hitler in 1933, absolutely flavour of the month.