Unbelieveably, this would be consistent with hua Huata gaining a position with a Sth Akld youth council. after she swindled all the money from the kids.

There will be no surprises about Parekura…. good to know it’ll only be from the shadow.

“Graeme – perhaps if Helen demotes Parekura, there’ll be room for one extra!”

HEH If Parakura is taken from cabinet there would be room for 3 extra. you would just need to find the chairs for them.

Yes I must say, she’s putting on a brave face encountering the enevitable.

More likely a desperate face to match desperate times.

I’m just waiting for her to speak the death knell,,

“Bugger the polls.”

The justice system is in an awful mess and the “super -justice ” Ms King is hardly the person to correct the many failings . Look at her previous portfolio’s including Health ? What a mess , why bother with a reshuffle Helen as you are going out the door forever .

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10473103

Tomorrow is all saints day, but today is halloween.

Halloween and Helen and Goblins and Witches………….why – they all seem to go together so well dont you think.

So essentially there is no allowance for appreciating asset costs – land or second hand property.

This means that while incomes are rising faster than costs of living, there is an increasing inability to afford housing ownership amonst those yet to do so. This means that we now have a two tiered society, on the one hand an increasing sense of asset wealth and on the other an inability to afford what was commonplace in an earlier time.

Ironically amongst some of those unable to own a house are those who never expected to be able to (never aspired to) and who are benefitting from employment and rising pay.

Labour has been too gutless to fix the high marginal tax rates and ineffective law dealing with the sale of land, which has helped drive house prices so high. Rental properties can reduce your tax in the short term and be sold for a tax free gain in the longer term.

I can’t wait to see if he doing the Karapoti Classic again next year, if I see him perving at the girls in lycra I’ll just punch him in the face to defend their honour.

Based on what? He has completely fucked grassroots sport, SPARC is accountable to no-one, and all he does is swan around on junkets. He’s a fucking disgrace.

Definitely not. Helen has decreed that there is no “institutionalised system of rascism” here. Eg. there are no maori quotas, no maori electorate, etc etc.

I;m just far more scared by the prospect of the cadre of 1990s far-right neoliberal iedealogues that sit behind John Key ever running the country. Cosy business deals/selling SOE to mates at bargain basement prices, hidden by the self-serving rhetoric of “market efficiency”, Slashing benefits, smashing the unions

RAOTFLOL…. nome and toms have given their secret rehearsals a big push. just as well, their national tour is almost ready. i want tickets

So are demotions ( or lack thereof) race based now?”

Using that logic, maybe there’s a case to say that not to promote Darren Hughes to the front bench would leave Labour short of a ginga!