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@nzzp said in NZ Politics:
@jegga said in NZ Politics:
I think the greens are gone next election,
Their voters are not well represented on the Fern. I know some, they can be a bit evangelical. Remember their job is to get 130,000 people voting for them, and over 160,000 did AFTER one of the co-leaders tried to blame fraud on the oppressive capitalist system.
The only thing that will stuff them is if their supporters think that they aren't doing enough in power. It's a common theme for support parties - really hard to make a difference, but your supporters tend to be more extreme than most.
Your point about the greens having little if any support on this forum is hard to disagree with but they halved their share of the vote of the previous election and were close to being tossed out completely.
Being in coalition is usually very hard on the smaller parties particularly as Labour has so far treated them with disdain . Electing a nutter like Davidson sheds any pretence over them being an environmental party and now they are just mana style hard left lunatics. Davidson might give a fuck about Gaza but I doubt the guilt ridddn Prius driving section of their vote wants anything to do with her and her jihadi mates.
They only need to lose a couple of percentage points and they are out of parliament, maybe a party that doesn’t only remember the environment every three years will spring up and take their place? -
How many official inquiries does the Govt. engage in a year?
Apparently (according to National) Labour have initiated 72 inquiries since they took over, these things obviously come at a significant cost, and given all the shite heaped at how much National spent on things, why is Labour not?
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haha
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The current government summarised in one picture. Brilliant.
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@no-quarter but is he worried about what NZF voters will think, or his shares in Oil...
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@taniwharugby said in NZ Politics:
How many official inquiries does the Govt. engage in a year?
Apparently (according to National) Labour have initiated 72 inquiries
It's now 75!
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Does anyone ( apart from Lizzie Marvelly) actually believe there was shit running down the walls in the Middlemore cafeteria ?
No tweets , no Facebook posts, none of the various unions bringing it to light, no news agency writing stories about it , no opposition MPs using it at question time to embarrass national ? where’s the actual evidence of this?
It reminds me of national declaring a crisis in ACC and raising the rates
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@taniwharugby said in NZ Politics:
@jegga in todays moan and bitch about everything society you can bet if there were sit running down walls, we'd of seen it all over FB, blaming Key.
#fixourhospitalsnotourflag
Exactly. This fails the sniff test.
#dirtysmellypolitics
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@taniwharugby said in NZ Politics:
@no-quarter but is he worried about what NZF voters will think, or his shares in Oil...
Most nzf voters have trouble with their memory so no worries there.
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Back to the topic of roads, there are days when I'm sure that the old Ministry of Works couldn't have been much more inefficient than the current contractors.
The SH29a link in the below, not content with resealing it at peak times on a Friday... they stuffed it up (with stones flying everywhere and windscreen chips) and have to do it again after speed restrictions for two weeks. If only it was an unusual story.
That's without me getting started on the ratio over summer of 5:1 of 'men standing aimlessly with clipboards and hi-vis to watching one digger in operation on Bayfair to Baypark. Or NZTA wasting the whole 2016/17 construction season on the project. Gah!
No wonder every project takes at least three years and costs $100 million plus.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503343&objectid=12032110
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@donsteppa Lol, just look at how many times the Waikato expressway Hamilton - Cambridge section has been resealed since it was constructed. Same ooopsie to start, there was some fuck up with the contract, and they had the chips flying and damaging windscreens issue - enough to go back and fix. That was my twice-daily commute, so I knew firsthand how fucking average it was, and when one of the Waikato NZTA people who came to our weekly team meetings outlined it all, he got some serious side eye.
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they started redoing the same 700m section of road just up from me last week that they did last year and repaired at least twice...although they have gone out an extra 100m or so each end it's probably closer to a km stretch...such efficiency and cost effectiveness.
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