National - FFS!

[Panda-NZ-]

200 other countries in the world are borrowing during this period.

[Balance]

Crusher like a damp squib in the house today.
She really needs to up her game - so much for eating Jacinda alive as some have suggested.

Feel the fear?

[jonu]

200 other countries in the world are borrowing during this period.

All the more reason to be worried. Is this your definition of "financially literate"?

The Labour Party need to start paying more for their shills. The quality has fallen off somewhat.

[Panda-NZ-]

You need to take into account the risks around speculative investments, particularly where superannuation is concerned, along with existing debt levels which are extraordinarily high. Continuing to borrow like there's no tomorrow because interest rates are low is not necessarily a fiscally prudent move.

50% to GDP in 2024 and the lowest number in the world. National borrowed money too.

They sold assets during their nine years of little-to-no delivery and reduced nz's balance sheets.

[Baa_Baa]

All the more reason to be worried. Is this your definition of "financially literate"?

The Labour Party need to start paying more for their shills. The quality has fallen off somewhat.

They’re being fiscally prudent buying cheap shills. After all as he said there’s only a few thousand members here, imagine when he grows up getting the Facebook or Instagram gig! Have to start somewhere.

First to post, last to post, every day, full on, instant response, extremely biased. Dirty politics but some one has to do it. No denial no rebuttal. Shallow shill transparent like a pain in the glass.

[Panda-NZ-]

You can choose to dispute the facts if you like in whichever way you think is best. or not

[blackcap]

They’re being fiscally prudent buying cheap shills. After all as he said there’s only a few thousand members here, imagine when he grows up getting the Facebook or Instagram gig! Have to start somewhere.

First to post, last to post, every day, full on, instant response, extremely biased. Dirty politics but some one has to do it. No denial no rebuttal. Shallow shill transparent like a pain in the glass.

Best thing is not to feed the trolls, or the shill, in this case Panda. Best ignored.

[Panda-NZ-]

Andrew Falloon using mental health during resignation 'not acceptable' - Mental Health Foundation

"That use of mental health as a political shield or a political excuse - that is not acceptable. Mental distress should not be an excuse in politics," Robinson says.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says anything that creates prejudice or stereotypes is "really unhelpful".
Falloon has faced consequences for his actions. On Tuesday he was dropped as an ambassador by charity White Ribbon, which aims to prevent domestic violence.


"It's really behavior that's completely inappropriate as a White Ribbon ambassador," White Ribbon campaign manager Rob McCann says.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...oundation.html

maybe a a mental health crisis team should be deployed?

Why are they having these issues when we have govt ministers and many people in the wider society who don't seem to have an issue.

[moka]

It takes a while for the truth to come out.
Former National MP Andrew Falloon was caught out in an "enormous lie" with his sex-text scandal after telling his leader he only sent one explicit image to one woman once.
And he only came clean about sending porn to a teenager after he was confronted by National leader Judith Collins - despite being investigated by police.
Collins yesterday condemned Falloon, calling him "a liar" and saying it had become apparent his actions were a "pattern of behaviour" with three more women coming forward yesterday to say they'd also received explicit images.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12349846

[moka]

The story keeps changing, in this earlier one it wasn’t him that sent the text.
National MP Andrew Falloon's explanation for the sex text scandal that ended his political career is understood to be that acquaintances at a party sent the offensive message.
Falloon, a first-term MP, resigned today and it emerged that a pornographic image had been sent to a young woman.
The Herald understands that Falloon's version of events is that he was at a party several weeks ago and briefly left his phone unattended - and at that time acquaintances used it to send the sexual image in question.
It is also understood that police have already investigated the incident and no action was taken.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...f=art_readmore