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It’s kinda insane how much National talk about her. She’s all over their social media.
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“Have you been turned away from a polling place? Newsroom wants to hear from you. Email us at [email protected] with ‘Voting Changes’ in the subject line”
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A charter school bought a farm, went broke, and kept the farm. Another couldn't renew its lease in the middle of the school year.
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The biggest mistake tourists make in Japan is dragging a fifty-pound suitcase up and down subway stairs.
Watch how Japanese travelers board the bullet train. They walk on with a cup of green tea, a small shoulder bag, and both hands free.
Where is their luggage? It is already in the next city, waiting for them.
In Japan, the system is called Takkyubin, recognizable everywhere by a logo of a mother black cat carrying her kitten gently in her mouth.
When you check out of your hotel in Tokyo at eight in the morning, you hand your heavy suitcase to the front desk, fill out a tiny slip, and pay about twenty dollars. You can even send it straight from the corner convenience store.
Then you spend the entire day wandering through mountain temples or eating street food with nothing on your back.
When you walk into your traditional inn in Kyoto that evening, your suitcase is already standing neatly in your room, wiped clean, with the handle turned toward you.
In fifty years of handling millions of bags a year, lost luggage is virtually unheard of.
A society runs smoothly when you can hand your belongings to a stranger at a convenience store and know they will beat you to your hotel.
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This is the most awesome rant by Paul the Other One against this Government and point after point makes the case why we have to vote them out.
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Fuck that’s a lot of words telling us Simeon Brown doesn’t understand MMP election campaigning.
Labour and the Greens need to front up and be clear on their coalition plans.
Questions remain unanswered almost 24 hours since Labour and the Greens were challenged to tell Kiwis what their coalition agreement would involve.
Both Chloe Swarbrick and Chris Hipkins have been silent about which Green Party policies would be non-negotiable and what concessions Labour would be prepared to make.
Chris Hipkins has promised to form New Zealand’s first-ever four-party coalition government with the Greens, Te Pati Māori and Opportunity by Christmas.
The Greens are set to be around half Labour’s size and are campaigning on $49 billion of new spending, with nine new taxes to pay for it. Greens co-leader Marama Davidson told Ryan Bridge today that the Greens will have a ‘heck of a mandate’ and ‘no politician will be able to ignore that’. That’s a clear warning to Labour that the Greens will demand serious concessions.
New Zealanders deserve to know what policies would be on the negotiating table to get that agreement by Christmas, what a deal with the Greens would cost, and which new taxes will be introduced to pay for it.
National is specifically seeking answers on behalf of Kiwis on what percentage of the Greens’ new spending it will adopt.
What percentage of that will Chris Hipkins sign up to in a coalition deal? Is it 20 per cent, which would cost around $10 billion, or more?
What is Chloe Swarbrick’s bottom line – how much of that $49 billion will the Greens demand before they sign?
And how will it be paid for? How much more borrowing and which of the Greens’ nine new taxes will Kiwis be hit with?
In the past, Labour and the Greens have agreed to an accord on finance policy. This time, there is no such accord. That, together with the fact that the Greens are larger than ever, means that the Greens have enormous leverage.
There is a clear impasse, with the Greens insisting on record borrowing and tax, and Labour claiming that won’t happen. Can we really believe Labour, which has increased borrowing and tax at every opportunity?
This election is tight, and with Kiwis now voting, the choice couldn’t be clearer.
Stick with National’s plan for a more secure future, or risk it all by going back to a Labour-led coalition with Chloe Swarbrick as Finance Minister with nine new taxes on the table.
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Oops…
Simeon Brown calls for Labour coalition costs, refuses to explain National's rnz.co.nz/news/politics_elec…
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Voter turnout by year
2005: 80.9% 🔴
2008: 79.5% 🔵
2011: 74.2% 🔵
2014: 77.9% 🔵
2017: 79.8% 🔴
2020: 82.2% 🔴
2023: 77.5% 🔵
That extra few percent from disengaged voters really does make a difference
this collapses the whole political spectrum apart from the liberal left into one amorphous lump, which also as it happens renders the far right invisible. The liberal left's idiocy around cancel culture and abandoning freedom of expression notwithstanding.
NACT really are full of shit. Slash public service budgets, including waged positions, find out then that essential services don't work properly, hire contractors back in to do the work *at a higher rate* 🤡NAT🤡ACT🤡NZF🤡
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Good to see the latest Dirty Work campaign by Williams and O'Brien has been taken down.
"Sensible Sentencing Trust removes images of politicians from attack advertisement".
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I think there are going to be some surprised and possibly angry people after the election. Any MSM talking about parties and polling should be also talking about OP's position on coalitions, and the overhangs.
This is misleading. Opportunity say they will preferentially form government with the largest party. They’re not going to play both sides off each other.
Voters need to know this. A change of government requires Lab to have more seats than Nat #nzpol
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Turnout is key to changing the govt. National, ACT, and NZFirst hope for low turnout, which would favour them.
