Labour / NZ First Government

[Balance]

The subsidy was paid out by MSD/Work and Income due to financial hardship because employers were significantly impacted by COVID-19.

Sounds like a hardship grant/benefit to me. Employers definitely benefited from the payment from the generous benefactor = the government.
A benefactor provides money or other resources to an individual, group, or organization. A beneficiary receives these benefits.

Special Needs Grant = Hardship Grant. A Special Needs Grant is a one-off payment to help you pay an essential or emergency cost if you can't pay it another way. You usually don't have to pay the money back.
https://www.workandincome.govt.nz/pr...rant.html#null

An employer topping up the wage subsidy to keep employees on = a beneficiary? So paying money out = a beneficiary?

Guess that's why the Warehouse & FBU gave this government the one finger salute and laid thousands off.

Class 'A' garbage.

It's clear there's not one single job-creating employer amongst the Labourites here.

[dobby41]

As for honesty & integrity, try the hijab and the granting of asylum for the Iranian queue jumper as instances of how cynical & hypocritical Cindy is.

Since we don't have an asylum queue it can't be jumped.
This is a National try to deflect from what really matters - and their own internal woes.
So obvious.

[Balance]

Since we don't have an asylum queue it can't be jumped.
This is a National try to deflect from what really matters - and their own internal woes.
So obvious.

I did not vote National so you can put my postings in context instead of using the ole bogeyman trick.

The Iranian was released from Manus Island on a visitor's visa to NZ for a speaking engagement. He was there because he tried to queue jump.

Suddenly, he gets asylum - totally contradictory to what his visitor's visa was issued for.

Indefensible deceitful underhandedl behaviour by Cindy.

Great for Comrade Cindy’s UN job credentials but the rest of NZ will pay the price if the Australians tighten down on restrictions for NZers there.

And who can blame them?

Don't try to hood wink the rest of us - we are not so easily hoodwinked as you are.

[justakiwi]

Oh, you are hood winked Balance. Hood winked by your own obsessive, compulsive beliefs, which are no longer grounded in reality. You have created your “story” about our Prime Minister. You have obsessed and raged for months in your attempt to disparage her. Your story is now your reality. But that doesn’t make it true.

You are fast becoming the Kiwi equivalent of Trump.

Don't try to hood wink the rest of us - we are not so easily hoodwinked as you are.

[tim23]

An excellent poll result you have to be joking if you exclude the rouge poll the result is nothing short of disastrous for National a remember under soyman anything less than 40 was trouble territory. The fact that she keeps on spouting internal polling in the high 30s without providing this detail to even her own team speaks volumes, the fact nats are still leaking to the media shows the real mood of the party. Plenty of encumber Nat MPs will be out on the streets based on this polling simple as that.

Heaven forbid - those outgoing National Mps might ended up on welfare!

[tim23]

I did not vote National last election so you are way off beam with your observation.

As for honesty & integrity, try the hijab and the granting of asylum for the Iranian queue jumper as instances of how cynical & hypocritical Cindy is.

Burnishing her UN job credentials at the expense of oppressed Muslim women (hijab is a symbol of oppression in many Islamic countries like Iran, Afghanistan & Iraq) and going back on the commitment to Australia not to allow Manus Island refugees to jump queue.

If you have to persevere with your cheap shots at the PM (who is rather popular) as least you could show her the courtesy of using her correct Christian name.

[justakiwi]

Another “mark” of insecure narcissistic bullies.

If you have to persevere with your cheap shots at the PM (who is rather popular) as least you could show her the courtesy of using her correct Christian name.

[Balance]

Oh, you are hood winked Balance. Hood winked by your own obsessive, compulsive beliefs, which are no longer grounded in reality. You have created your “story” about our Prime Minister. You have obsessed and raged for months in your attempt to disparage her. Your story is now your reality. But that doesn’t make it true.

You are fast becoming the Kiwi equivalent of Trump.

Employers topping up the wage subsidy are beneficiaries according to tim23 - says everything about the state of mind of the Labourites posting on this thread (brainwashed by Cynical Cindy wearing the hijab and must be just about beyond redemption).

Pray explain the Manus Island queue jumping refugee being granted asylum - why taunt the Australians? Cynical, deceitful and totally irresponsible.

I refuse to be hoodwinked by style over substance. You are free to worship the ground she walks on but there are those of us who can see through all that pixie dust.

[Balance]

If you have to persevere with your cheap shots at the PM (who is rather popular) as least you could show her the courtesy of using her correct Christian name.

Hitler was extremely popular with the Germans too, remember? Popular does not = best for a country.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12352752

Meanwhile, she says she trusts the sly lying Winston 'Owen Glenn' Peters when an overwhelming majority of NZers say they do not. How cynical & hypocritical can you get?

[westerly]

Pray explain the Manus Island queue jumping refugee being granted asylum - why taunt the Australians? Cynical, deceitful and totally irresponsible.

I refuse to be hoodwinked by style over substance. You are free to worship the ground she walks on but there are those of us who can see through all that pixie dust.

Whats wrong with upsetting the Aussies? They don't exactly do us too many favours. Not long ago you were raving on about how well they did without a lockdown. Looks like they are going to have one now.
I see your friend Winston is now using your "woke pixie dust " terms of indearment now - strange?
Your popularity rating is possibly much the same.

westerly