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Auckland Central, Labour 26% party vote, Greens 24%. Then there is Epsom right next door, delivering Banks.
I saw this man standing alone, looking confused, then stern in High Street today, I thought to help him, I thought I knew his face from somewhere, he seemed to be looking for someone, short, cropped head, state services suit, tie awful. He did not meet my eye as I passed by him one foot away, a very average person, nothing to him at all I thought.
It was Joyce.
Quote of the night goes to Key re the Maori Party, "they've done some good things for their people." -
Hard News: Last Words, in reply to Steve Barnes,
You make a point and I lightened up with a little giggle, thanks for that.
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If you ever swim in the sea...it's got to be the Greens, just saying. This is the first year I have spoken out, and I thank Russell and PAS for the chance to do so. Plus I will be voting the same as Craig :-) If I was in central it would have been Jacinda Ardern, she would make a great leader.
Labour should have my vote but they need to learn to play with others, why rule out Mana? And yes you have made the Greens life hell in the past. And in Tamaki, where are you, the Nats are throwing people out of their homes as we speak. -
Hard News: Last Words, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Joyce knows that his highway is a ribbon of oil to carry bigger diesel trucks to carry the petrol from the offshore oil rig to go in the cars that pay the tax on the oil that pays for the police and the soldiers...you get what I mean.
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One bonus, if the Nats get in and the Greens perform really well over the next 3 years, I don't see National back in power for a very very long time. That's how it works here no?
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to BenWilson,
Once they are built, and have a proven revenue stream, like our current ones, of course plenty of people are happy to privatize those profits.
There is the nub. It's about initial investment, who carries the can and who profits from it. Privatise the profit, publicise the debt. Clyde is a very good example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_Dam owned by Contact Energy now, Origin Energy (Au) has a 51% holding. Now take a look at all those power stations it owns in NZ (9).
Read how much money the NZ tax payer put into developing those power stations. Read National's involvement.
Follow the money ;-)
History
Contact Energy was incorporated on 8 November 1995 and became a state owned enterprise on 18 November 1995.[4] Contact commenced operations on 1 February 1996, acquiring assets from ECNZ with a payment of $1.6 billion.[4] As the founding chief executive, Paul Anthony was instrumental in establishing the corporation distinct from ECNZ.
In 1999, the company was sold in a public offering of shares, with 40% purchased by Edison Mission Energy (EME) as cornerstone shareholder. EME subsequently increased its shareholding to 51%.
Following financial difficulties elsewhere in its business, EME onsold its shareholding to Origin Energy in 2004.
During the 2008 financial crisis, Contact decided to increase prices by up to 12%, while doubling its directors' fees. As a result, it lost more than 40000 customers in six months - 10% of the total. Its profit was halved. Contact calls this the worst blow to its reputation in the company's history.[5][6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_Energy
Deja voodoo. -
Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to hamishm,
"Interesting reports about the lack of Nats talking to media."
Never complain, never explain.
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Legal Beagle: Referendum Fact Check #6:…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
I.e., disaster capitalism.
= CERA
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Muse: Indecision '11: Fighting the Grey, in reply to tussock,
Same, it takes a village to raise an elder ;-)
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to ,
"Will the 21st century schools be built from the proceeds of asset sales, be built in east Porirua, and will they have espresso machines and leather armchairs in the staff room."
No, but they may have a sort of fast-ish broader bandie thingy, that we may have had for them sooner had Telecom not been, erm, privatimised.