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So, Mamdani Marts for NZ?
Change the Commerce Commission’s 6.2 per cent weighted cost of capital and the alleged excess profit claim disappears, taking with it the Green Party rationale for state intervention and their plan for ‘Mamdani Marts’ across New Zealand.
The Options Are Shrinking
What’s it going to be? A tilt towards extremism or a self-sacrificial Grand Coalition?
Ideas That Test My Strength
A bit of honesty would be preferable to trying to hoodwink the electorate with unworkable policies. You might fool some of the people some of the time but you won’t fool all of the people all of the time.
Quick Hit: Labour Breaks Both. Nat Breaks One. ACT Breaks Nothing.
Labour would force Woolworths and Foodstuffs to split retail from wholesale. National still hedges Foodstuffs behind ComCom. Seymour brings the scissors. Breakup season. Same aisle. Three scripts. Labour breaks both. Nat breaks one (maybe). ACT breaks nothing.
Now Parliamentary Licence With a Halo
The serjeant is still there. The standards are not. Where does it end? When every sitting needs him. And he is attacked as a symbol of colonial oppression. Our Parliament becomes a rabble and Westminster is lost.
Wet Gallery. Dry History.
Hager drops a mystery book Tuesday. Gallery sells destiny. The poll charts from 2002 to 2020 say noise. Agitprop in a journalist costume.
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Face of the Day
The long-term goal is to crack the US and make enough money to buy his own farm, where he can run cattle and sheep and host hunting tours.
The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… arriviste (noun) - : one that is a new and uncertain arrival (as in social position or artistic endeavor) Source : Merriam-Webster Etymology : An arriviste is someone who is just beginning to "arrive," in the sense of achieving success or making a name for oneself.
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
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Debbie Ngarewa-Packer Dropped C-Bomb: MPs Ejected in Parliament Chaos
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