this whole blame Labour excuse just doesn’t cut it anymore!

If he doesn’t, the bull shit coming from the left just gets parroted, taken on by the media and ends up becoming the lexicon.

The above as sampled by DPF is what Key needs to do – and more of it. All the time now. Simply spell out what his administration has achieved, under what conditions it was achieved, what they are bedding in now, the ‘money thing’ (there isn’t any) and keep lumping Labour, the Greens etc and more importantly NZF into one coalition by stating NOW he will not work with Winston. Period.

Then NZ has a simple choice and on this I believe Kiwis won’t risk the cluster fuck option.

I saw him refer to ‘them’ at the Ratana celebrations on TV last night. I also feel he ridiculed Maori by asking those assembled to name one of their number who gave more of a shit about lifting young Maori than Hekia. No response. Good job. Do it again at waitangi, or just don’t humiliate yourself John!

Poor Shearer. What a choice. Labour either hangs with the delusional, mad Greens and form a coalition of shite which implodes the day after it is formed, or go to the right of National. Too late for option B.

Own the territory John Key, back yourself and start barking mate, otherwise you’ll be drowned out by the… mongrels!

This is a huge goldmine of skills and talent and money if it’s done right and not marketed like a Hooker Lodge luxury-only offer which it currently is. Open the gates to those people and watch us boom. However the problem is none of them are poor and starving and almost all are Caucasian. Let’s hope none of that’s a showstopper. I’m sure it won’t be.

I thought his supporting word for Parata when speaking at Ratana Pa was odd. Asking an audience who ‘cares more’ about the education of children than Parata isn’t measurable anyway, but saying that an obviously struggling minister ‘cares’ about her portfolio is hardly an endorsement of the minister herself or his perceived intelligence of his audience. I think he managed to make Shearer look more like a PM and the shot of Shearer and Cunnliffe provided a settled picture. In the meantime who is the person in waiting as the next leader of National, it’s looking thinner at the top suddenly by comparison with Labour.

This is true but today it’s the worshipers of the degree except a lot of young grads can’t get work in their fields.

And all that assumes that employers want apprentices, which many do, however having to pay them at 16 adult rates when there is a guy with the skills around the corner at the same rate, just doesn’t stack up.

One wonders where these guys get there hairbrained idea’s from.
Perhaps they should ask some small guys in the trades rather than the desk jockeys in the big outfits.

If this is an attempt to tackle youth rates it won’t even take up those leaving school this next term.

No pass mark.

It’s dishonest and it doesn’t stack up.

See if Key and the Nats used Liarbore’s techniques, what they would do here is start mentioning “it’s dishonest and doesn’t stack up” on every single ministerial interview and press release in the least related to housing, in order to drive it into the subconscious. I hope that happens in this case because what we have in housing right now is the idiots out-bidding each other in the insanity dept.

The public who support it don’t get it because most of them are of the mentality that the “faceless” govt, whoever “they” are, have money, they always do, it comes from them, that’s where money comes from, der, so from there it’s a mere matter, they think, of getting more from wherever the hell money comes from, which can’t be that hard is their level of analysis on the issue.

So why not, they collectively bray, like a beastly mindless herd of particularly stupid circus animals, it’s for a good cause so why not just spend the money whatever that is, on a wonderful social cause, of progressively paying for other people’s houses, one at a time, for oh, a few decades or so?

And an increasing number of them are beginning to listen to this nonsense.

If I was Key, I’d hammer that soundbite hard until it becomes engrained and remembered like the “cancerous and corrosive” comment and has the same effect on this groundswell of insanity. Interesting isn’t it that compared to Key, Hulun was so good that she could do it once in one go and penetrate like a dagger whereas by contrast Key I predict, will let the chance disappear, like a ship in the night.

I like the idea of the apprenticeship schemes, I’ve thought that for decades and honestly, to me, it’s palpable that it was a mistake to ditch them back in the 80′s. I hope therefore National puts more into it. 14,000 is the most they can do? I’d use this opportunity to put even more into schemes. This is a perfect way to get well motivated young people into trades we always need and which have often been filled to date esp in Akld by cheap immigrant labour. Let’s put heaps into this.

I’m real disappointed Key isn’t touching interest-free student loans. I don’t buy the argument it’s political suicide. I understand well the support base which includes not just students but their families of course esp the grandparents. The time we experience globally this coming year however will never be better to have a debate about whether or not, in these times we will have during 2013, we can afford it as it is in the current design. This is possibly the only time this debate will ever be able to be put on the table. Otherwise like the anti-nuke legislation, it risks becoming locked into the NZ psyche forever, precisely as Hulun intended (in both cases). But no-one seems to listen to me, dammit. It’s not fair.

Excellent start for 2013, by John Key. Great Speech, and very encouraging for young one’s wanting to go into a trade. Fantastic.

I don’t recall them signalling they would be much different to how they’ve been.

Yes. National even kept the whorish Dunne as Minister of Revenue.

…a bitter disappointment to those of us who expected a radical departure from comrade Clark’s policies.

Your were dreaming then if you expected a radical departure. It shouldn’t have been a surprise that apart from the odd pet policy National would be a careful incremental government, especially in very difficult economic times.

I don’t recall them signalling they would be much different to how they’ve been.

All spinning and cheer-leading aside, the National Party, aka as Labour lite, has been a bitter disappointment to those of us who expected a radical departure from comrade Clark’s policies.

Smile-and-wave Key is a colourless and spineless PM, who will be quickly forgotten. He deserves that fate.

US Oil Company Apache were ready to invest $100 million exploring for oil on the east coast but pulled out a week or so ago primarily because of the difficulties associated with obtaining clearances to drill.

Phil Heatley, late lamented Minister of Energy and the rest of the useless National Party did nothing to help Apache.

The company faced years of negotiations with local councils, regional councils, so called affected parties (in reality anyone who doesn’t want the project to go ahead for any reason) environmental pressure groups, landowners, and local iwi (who run a modern version of Al Capone’s protection rackets) before being granted the permits needed to start drilling.

When NZ needs oil and gas so badly, what did National and Heatley do for Apache?

Sweet fuck all. Just left them to the mercy of a legion of parasites and anti-progress selfish whinging no hoping losers and institutionalised racist gangsters.

National are useless.

Apprenticeships? Pfft, a good idea but just a drop in the bucket. Employment laws, insane environmentalism, racism and corruption are just a few examples of the mass of commercial negatives that are killing enterprise in NZ.

National does nothing where it matters. Like Labour and the Greens, they’re just another pack of moribund do nothing political millstones around the neck of this country.