Spare us the Labour good/National bad.

If we’re talking tragic, I suggest you look to the self-serving Electoral Finance Bill, and then ponder Labour’s dearth of talent available for Ministerial advancement .

Spectacular desperation is exemplified by the retention of Mallard – indeed what on earth could be more desperate?

“Knowledge” is a rather generous term to use in this context.

“I also know the “truck Driver” if I remember rightly he recently won a small business award in the Hutt Valley.
He’s certainly a great Bloke!”

The desperation of the right can be a truly tragic sight to behold.

and in fact I would suspect that the ridiculous so-called deomtion has made it worse

yes, ‘demoted’ because he was so stressed that felt the need to resort to the biff, but said demotion provides for additional responsibilities because he’s a capable mature minister. H4H … that’s Helen for Hypocracy. (appoligies to D4J)

Lee, we have net immigration.

Yes- last week we lost a couple of doctors and tradesmen to Australia but got Ahmed Zaoui’s family arrive – nett immigration

back to topic – mallard has been demoted (insert tui ad here).

the mallard problem has not gone away, and in fact I would suspect that the ridiculous so-called deomtion has made it worse.

anyways, i think we differ in considerable ways re economics and the way in which business operates at its best. and its business that employs, not govt.

what gets to me though is the number of people who dictate to business yet have no experience in it (and I very much include this govt’s members in that). without that experience there is simply no way to appreciate what it is like, despite who knows how many degrees one might have (fyi, i have 2). a bit like war and childbirth, by way of extreme example (gotta go thru it to know).

look, if govt want to know how to improve business and hence employment, why not ask those in business. But no, cant do that – they’re the enemy!

Nothing is further removed from the truth. Whoever had come into govt would have reaped the good times which have stemmed from the policies of the 80s and 90s and the general good health of the world economy. Anyone with any cred knows this and would admit it.

That is what I meant by you being ‘delusional’.

do you seriously consider that the labour govt can take the credit?

He started it…

I shouldn’t be having a go at you I should be praising you. After all you are showing the gumption to pull yourself up from wherever you where, using study and qualifications as a measn to re-insert yourself back into the labour market, and make a better life for yourself.

Well done you!

NOw, what about all those wonderful things that the present government has done to stall the alarming slip in the OECD ratings you were going to address?

Also what have they done in the last decade of being in power to re-institute the awards system?

They’ve raised the minimum wage 6 times but still it isn’t matching the real growth in living expenses – so to counteract that brought in WFF so that working people must go to the government to top up their paltry incomes.

Meanshile the standard of life is down, families working shifts not seeing their kids together, with all its time-bomb social issues waiting to happen.

If you are starting out as a worker here, the chances of marraige, kids and a mortgae are all jeopardised by teh hike in house prices hike in mortgage rates, and crash in real wages.

At the same time the Health system is in crisis, policing is in crisis, poverty is rising (ulessyour name is Helen, in whcicch case it doesn’t exist)

Unemployment is massaged out of existence by a number of devices then trotted out to prop up the accident of history which has been the past years of economic boom as if CUllen invented it out of nothing. But his ability to manage our finances is reflected in how he keeps getting the forecasts wrong year in year out, and using his incompetence to stifle growth by sitting on billions of surplus.
And still the people are leaving.
If you see me as ‘stupid and transparent’ fine, eally don’t mind.

At least I’ve got a job…

Stick to the issue.