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Adams and Kaye were supposedly pulling Mullers strings.
Can sort of understand it - obviously not part of Collins' clique - Adams had already announced her retirement from politics and only came back for her boy and Kaye - well she's true she has had the cancer scare but really she's doing a Paula Bennett.
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@Godder said in NZ Politics:
@canefan Woodhouse has a Masters in Health Administration and was a CEO of a private hospital, so he wasn't exactly unqualified.
I thought he was good. Just made a silly mistake and paid the price for it. He'll be back
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@Mokey said in NZ Politics:
Local MPs will probably still get their seats, but it's hard to see people giving their party vote to National. ACT could benefit. Or NZF. Which means that bloody phoenix will rise again.
I think you win find that kiwis like to keep whoever is in power in check. There will be a fair few in the 'swing' that vote on that basis.
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12348768
Judith is not wasting any time
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@canefan said in NZ Politics:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12348768
Judith is not wasting any time
"... crush ..."
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All very well to have a plan and a budget, but National have had that in the past and done a piss poor job. Tens, perhaps hundreds of millions unspent. The Transport Agency is the problem (and Bridges who was a truly shite minister) so if they could stop the heel dragging 65 step process to get even the smallest roading projects underway, and stop farking about with actual viable options like light rail, could be good.
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@Mokey National really are clueless. RONS v 3.2.
Does fuck all for the country economically. Most of the projects they promote are unnecessary e.g Auckland Harbour Bridge actually carries less traffic now than 30 years ago. None of them give a positive ROI even based on their own sums Doesn't help with global warming and the clincher for me - building roads ultimately makes congestion worse
Way to look totally bereft of ideas. So what else will they come up. Let's trawl their manifesto from1993 for inspiration
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My worry with both parties looking to throw money at infrastructure is that the effect on local employment is only a small portion of the spend.
Id like to see a bit more lateral thinking here. I know that state owned business is a thing of the past but investment in new industries that actually produce stuff and employ people with employee buy in schemes for eventual return to private would seem a better investment than another road. -
@Snowy I think she'd be good company, politics and her political persona aside. She definitly errs on the side of steel and snarky but she's funny and plays on the crusher stuff in a self aware manner imo.
I like that she doesn't suffer fools - even if she gets a bit mean.Will she make the same error as Simon and play the person rather than the ball? With the big changes in national they are a bit more open to criticism about their own coherence etc.
Bet the first reporter to revist her back catalogue of boo boos (real or no) gets skewered!
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@Snowy said in NZ Politics:
I've seen Judith speak. She is surprisingly more personable than you would expect. Actually quite humourous, will be interesting to see how she comes across in the press. Wasn't great in the past.
In recent times her humor and wit is quite apparent. She has left the peak crusher image behind. There are lots of people who are too young to know how she even got the nickname, assuming she did so for crushing those not racer cars....
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