Saturday, September 09, 2017

Crucial good news stories ignored by 'change' voters

The number of teenage mothers granted a benefit has plummeted:



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The percentage of children dependent on a benefit is falling and is lower than it has been for decades:



Sunday, September 03, 2017

Not all are awestruck

Jacinda Mania hasn't struck everywhere:


Not a skerrick of interest in the royal party it would appear. Working too hard to notice.

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Election 2017

Muriel Newman accuses the Labour leader of being neither open nor transparent which Ardern claims "at every soundbite".

A democracy deserves politicians who are transparent and honest. Labour’s new leader is showing she is neither.
The reality is that voters deserve to know exactly how much proposed new taxes are going to cost them, before an election. That’s what openness and transparency is all about – revealing the truth to voters, no matter how unpopular it might be.


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While Rodney Hide questions Winston's moral entitlement to a pension and also reminds us:

As an aside, Peters is on his third pension entitlement.
Through a quirk of parliamentary history he has been entitled to two extremely generous parliamentary pensions.
His entitlements are gold-plated and make national Super look extremely mean.

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