Should Phil Goff resign?

[shrub]

National and Labour should just come clean and form an "official" coalition, forget about the upcoming election, save the money and get on with slowly ruining the country together but out in the open for a change!

There will not be any difference in the outcome anyway, never has been, never will be, they just keep bleeding us until we have nothing left to give!
(Cynical? yes,thieving bastards? yes! True? yes! IMHO)

Nah, that would never work. Part of being in government is blaming everything that goes wrong on "the previous government" during the first term - take the fiscal surplus of 2007. National could have made NZ paradise on earth and probably the richest country ever if the previous government had bought back NZ rail and frittered away that fiscal surplus on bureaucrats.

On a global level NZ are doing OK. For now ........ regardless of who is in charge.

I still want to know from Mr Cullen where the 8 billion surplus he wanked on about disappeared to in the 12 months prior to the last election. I personally got nothing out of 9 years of labour. I have received a tax cut from National - very appreciated as it helped pay for my motorcycle registration .......

It's pretty complex and I'm not going to explain it here because I can't be arsed and I've been down at the boozer drinking beer, but basically NZ was ridiculously in debt to foreign lenders despite having a fiscal surplus (the government earnt more than it spent). It was also only $8bn, which is bugger all and didn't warrant Cullen's glee, but without it the global crash would have been much nastier to us. The government may have spent less than they earned, but the country as a whole, especially you and me spent waaaaay more, mostly on imported toys like bikes, flat screen TVs and on big flash houses. This article explains it if you're interested, if you can't be arsed reading it then listen to the National spin doctors and they'll tell you what they want you to believe and everyone will be happy.

[The Stranger:Me]

Government.
Can't expect them to actually do anything good.

The best we can hope for is that they do nothing.

[Winston001]

Ooooh - I get it - this is irony, huh?

Nah. Slightly laboured sarcasm but I gave him a bling anyway.

[mashman]

Probably. It seems the main reason National won the last election was because everyone was sick of Helen Clark because she was ugly whereas John Key had a nice smile. And he had lots of money. Nobody seems to be all that interested in boring stuff like policies, evidenced by the way nobody here seems to actually know much about the different parties policies, so they're wasting their time pissing around with policies when they would be better learning how to amuse us.

Rodney Hide was good at that - I reckon the only reason Act are in parliament is because he did dancing with the stars because their policies are as logical as believing that cracking down on speeding and drink driving are by far the best ways to reduce the road toll and road user attitude and skill is not worth worrying about.

That's where I think Rhys Darby would be ideal - he has a nice smile and lots of money and he's even funnier than John Key. Billy Connolly would be better still, he's really funny and has truckloads of money. Crap smile though.

It would certainly make it easier to swallow ... Import Mr Connolly, he doesn't need a dazzling smile, just a lashing of honesty, topped off with the catch phrase "and there's fuck all you can do about it". Darby couldn't deliver "and there's fuck all you can do about it" with as much venom... Helen did fine without the smile and lasted a fair few years I believe.

[shrub]

It would certainly make it easier to swallow ... Import Mr Connolly, he doesn't need a dazzling smile, just a lashing of honesty, topped off with the catch phrase "and there's fuck all you can do about it". Darby couldn't deliver "and there's fuck all you can do about it" with as much venom... Helen did fine without the smile and lasted a fair few years I believe.

I would like to see a parliament made up of some of the current funnier pollies like Rodney Hide and John Key, with Darren Hughes and Chris Carter providing a camp dimension. I was disappointed when they resigned/were sacked as they were really quite entertaining, although the thought of naked 18 year men is a little icky, I would have been much more impressed if there had been several 18 - 22 year old blonde female Swedish lingerie models wandering around naked.

I found an interesting documentary by the BBC about the 2011 NZ election on youtube.

[ellipsis]

..,Jim Tuckerman for prime minister...

[MSTRS:Me]

The best we can hope for is that they do nothing.

..,Jim Tuckerman for prime minister...

[carbonhed]

Wah wah Wah Wah wah

Mate I feel your pain... long may it continue. Please keep us updated.

[shrub]

Mate I feel your pain... long may it continue. Please keep us updated.

Look at that, you discoverd that you can completely change what someone says - you must be so proud of yourself.

[mashman]

it happens at every level of public office

[Spearfish]

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[Smifffy]

poly ticks aye?

Its MMP that's holding NZ back.

The only person to ever enter a parliament with the right idea was Guy Fawkes.

[shrub]

poly ticks aye?

Its MMP that's holding NZ back.

Yeah, the good old days of FPP were the best! Remember Rob Muldoon? He once said that he could have an idea while he was shaving and it would be law by lunchtime. Would never happen under MMP.

[Robert Taylor]

National and Labour should just come clean and form an "official" coalition, forget about the upcoming election, save the money and get on with slowly ruining the country together but out in the open for a change!

There will not be any difference in the outcome anyway, never has been, never will be, they just keep bleeding us until we have nothing left to give!
(Cynical? yes,thieving bastards? yes! True? yes! IMHO)

I think they bleed us because there are so many people with their hands out thinking that the Government ( any Government ) is a cash cow. Where does the money come from? Those that work.....

[Spearfish]

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