Labour / NZ First Government

[iceman]

Amateurs https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-...her-government

[fungus pudding]

Amateurs https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-...her-government

That's a good summary, well worth reading. eZ and Westerly will enjoy every word..

[777]

Don't think National did much, except not stop the course of the planning for private development. Having the government in there at the start of the project is a big change.

http://www.mtalbertinc.co.nz/governm...s-unitec-land/

These people will be 5km from Queen St, so yes, they could bike to work in town. They'd presumably still need their own carpark building.

That is the problem with all the planners, they think that everyone works in Queen Street.

[BlackPeter]

Amateurs https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-...her-government

Ardern needs to read the Riot Act to Peters and Shaw. She also needs to take heed of it herself.

She let herself down while clearing up the mess created by Peters’ botched handling of the Russia problem. And badly so.

Her claim this week that New Zealand had been ahead of the international pack in declaring Moscow was behind the attempted murder of Skripal was as outrageous as it was audacious as it was patently incorrect.

Cindy taking a leaf or two out of Trumps book and working with alternative facts? She must be pretty desperate throwing already in this early stage her reputation over board.

Ah well - I guess we can't have everything and a populist left wing government simply does not rhyme with attributes like "integrity", "truthfulness" and "honour" ...

[winner69]

Good ol David Parker making America’s Cup happen in Auckland ....great effort

[BlackPeter]

Amazing how fast the rot shows through: NZ First MP Jenny Marcroft threatens that the government will withhold funds from electorates oppositon MP's might lobby for ... and hey - National better not criticize NZ First ministers or else ...

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-...sunderstanding

"Ms Marcroft said she had been sent to tell me the Mahurangi River Restoration Project would be considered for funding from the government's Provincial Growth Fund - but for that to happen I would have to end my involvement with it as a local MP," he said on Monday.

"Ms Marcroft told me this was because the government was unhappy with me revealing the illegitimate use of Defence Force aircraft by Defence Minister Ron Mark."

Last time I checked NZ was still a democracy, but it appears NZF is moving faster than their big idol Trump to change this.

Obviously - Winston says afterwards "just a misunderstanding" (without clarifying how you can misunderstand a clear threat) ... but clearly Winston and Co will hope the threat will stick. That's the way they want to stay in power - by bullying not just companies (AIR / Shane Jones) but as well by threatening their electorates. Amazing how deep Winston and Co did already sink - or have they always been in the gutter?

[fungus pudding]

Amazing how fast the rot shows through: NZ First MP Jenny Marcroft threatens that the government will withhold funds from electorates oppositon MP's might lobby for ... and hey - National better not criticize NZ First ministers or else ...

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-...sunderstanding



Last time I checked NZ was still a democracy, but it appears NZF is moving faster than their big idol Trump to change this.

Obviously - Winston says afterwards "just a misunderstanding" (without clarifying how you can misunderstand a clear threat) ... but clearly Winston and Co will hope the threat will stick. That's the way they want to stay in power - by bullying not just companies (AIR / Shane Jones) but as well by threatening their electorates. Amazing how deep Winston and Co did already sink - or have they always been in the gutter?

They certainly should not be in sole charge of this 'provincial' fund. No single party should be - least of all a rat-bag lot like Winston and his cronies.
Incidentally NZ has not had provinces since 1876. Strange that the politicians don't seem to know that.

[minimoke]

Nurses reject a 2% pay offer. Good old Cindy wants to stick her oar into the negotiations by offering a mediation route - as if one wasn't there already.

Simple solution - dont put taxes up on 1 April. That way nurses got to take home more of the money they have earnt.

[BlackPeter]

Hmm - some Labour twit plans to build 4000 houses on 29 hectars to resolve our housing crisis:

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/...albert-will-be

Lets do the numbers: 4000 houses on 29 hectars are 138 houses per hectar (72 sqm per section), but given that sections still need access roads (roughly a quarter of the space in less denser housing) this leaves something like 50 sqm per section.

Lets assume no minimum distance to the neighboring houses (Think very small fully detached houses) and several stories (Basement needed to house the cars). It is just ridiculous.

David Seymour is putting Labours proposal in context:

At Unitec, Twyford wants to put 4,000 homes on 29 hectares. A hectare is roughly the size of a rugby field. The densest area of Auckland at the moment is the Waitemata Local Board Area, taking in Parnell, the CBD, and some western inner-city suburbs such as Freeman’s Bay. It has a density of 19 dwellings per hectare. The Albert-Eden area has a density of 12 dwellings per hectare. Twyford’s proposal puts 138 dwellings per hectare. The new development will have seven times more homes on a given area than anywhere else in New Zealand. It will be nearly twelve times denser than the surrounding area.

from: http://act.org.nz/free-press-monday-...ar-act-policy/

So - Mr "Chinese sounding" names plans to more than 7-fold the dwelling density of the (so far) most densely populated Auckland suburb.

Maybe he should visit Hongkong, I understand they design now "nano apartments". This might be the future Labor has for all of us in mind:

http://www.scmp.com/business/article...uyers-continue

Lets do this

[minimoke]

So - Mr "Chinese sounding" names ....

I was wondering on that this morning how do Adern and Genta know there are too many old white men are on board. Is it because they have old white man sounding names?