This will be interesting as it unfolds. A pharmacist on charges of supplying pseudoephedrine. Pharmacists supply pseudoephedrine every day all over New Zealand. In this case the charge accompanies those of possession of pseudoephedrine and possession of the equipment to make 'P'. Perhaps the first charge should actually be (or correctedly reported as) knowingly supplying pseudoephedrine for the manufacture of methamphetamine.Bloggers make news again. From a piece about Judith Tizard in the Herald on Sunday;
"I understand Tizard is kept quite busy by being Helen's Mini-Me at all those Auckland cocktail parties..." wrote one emailer to the kiwiblog forum. "She's not stupid, just moody and, well, not the hardest working Labour MP by a long shot," wrote blogger Liberty Scott. "One thing is for sure, Judith won't be remembered as a mover and shaker, but as one of those odd MPs who is really there because of family heritage."
Love the comment at the end of the piece. Tizard says she doesn't want to be in cabinet because, "It's an awful waste of a Monday."
And the Sunday Star Times reports beneficiaries are worse off now than after the benefit cuts of 1991, 'worse off under Labour'. Will Labour peg core benefit rates to average wages? I think they just might promise to with the spin being 'as we have reduced benefit numbers by so many we can now afford to "invest" more, particularly in those families with children.' The Maori Party and Greens will agree. That'll secure the quarter-million-strong beneficiary vote for a left government.
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And the Sunday Star Times reports beneficiaries are worse off now than after the benefit cuts of 1991, 'worse off under Labour'.
Well yep. That just shows how well Labour has run the economy. RadioSocialism reported this differently: benefit levels are lower (related to Gross Wages) than in 1991. What this really show is that taxes are higher then than have ever been
and also that (in spite of Labour's aims) some people at least have moved off direct benefits and on to Welfare for Families. Lowering, or better still, removing Welfare for Families and all the other benefits would of course move far more people in to work and out of poverty.
The meth storys an interesting one. I've known pulman since I was a kid. Heck he was my local pharmacist growing up.
There are quite a few interesting rumours going around pukekohe last time I was back there... involving a few well known figures in the are and a few nastier individuals.
Should be *very* interesting to see how it unfolds.
Mikee, I don't take much at face value any more. He might be guilty. Or he might be the victim of an attempt to grass someone else or a nasty revenge thing. Criminals can be very devious and amoral people. Joe public too often makes the mistake of thinking they are stupid.
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