Hipkins still says he is the most popular politician in the country. Ani has the clip. Cam already cut the line. Stats NZ has GDP up 0.2 per cent and construction up 2.7 percent. Popularity is a feeling. The ledger is a receipt.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hager drops a mystery book Tuesday. Gallery sells destiny. The poll charts from 2002 to 2020 say noise. Agitprop in a journalist costume.
Van Velden has lost confidence in FENZ CE Kerry Gregory after a seriously significant file was withheld for a year. SFO sits on a historical levy matter FENZ says is proactive and not Gregory personally. Accountability needs the file. Breach of trust. Then the SFO.
Debbie drops the c-word. Willie fights the ruling. The Serjeant has to come. Chippy needs these people for a coalition. They called this lot chaos. Wait until you see theirs.
Ensuring accessible palliative care for all must remain at the heart of the discussion, not expanding assisted-suicide legislation in the name of choice and compassion.
The Waitangi Tribunal was never intended to exist indefinitely. It is time for our elected government to step up, complete the settlement process, and unite New Zealand with equal rights for all citizens.
Outlawing the signal that keeps the supermarket stocked is not compassion. It might be how you get some votes. It’s also how you empty the fridge.
