Posts by Richard Wain
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While I strongly disagree with Garner on this and many things - TV3 including the 6pm bulletin just passed TV1 in the ratings, for the first time ever I believe.
Think what you like about ratings (I can take or leave them!) - but Newshub/Three News is rating very highly.
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Hard News: Media Take: The selling of…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I think only putting Jacinda up on the ads played against Labour - at least it did locally, for me, in my Auckland Central electorate.
Last time I gritted my teeth and voted for Ardern, as she actually had a shot at unseating that horrible National MP (first and only time I've ever voted for a Labour anything).
But when it came time to vote this election, I honestly hadn't even heard of the Labour candidate before, figured she had no chance, so voted Green instead.
Silly me - while it's not exactly Epsom, the Labour candidate (whoever she was) actually got close to the Nat.
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Since we don't have to provide ID, can't anyone pretend to be me?
I would hate to get to the polls and be told someone had already voted for me!
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All in favour of a UBI.
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I mean, if you need the pension, great. It's there for you. But if you really don't... why give it to you?
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But isn't this whole idea that you pay tax to get money back yourself just wrong?
Don't we pay tax so that people less well off than us don't starve and (hopefully) have a roof over their heads?
And, roads, etc. The communal good. Not to get money back to our own bank account.
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Hard News: Superannuation: Back to the Future, in reply to Andre,
Why should we pay hundreds of thousands of well-off oldies a benefit they don’t need? Shouldn’t we pay more to elderly with no resources? Over 140,000 over-65’s are very wealthy
Amen. I've been hassling my father for years about the moral bankruptcy of accepting the pension as he worked until his early-mid seventies, while earning a six figure salary as a senior lawyer... he joked about it being nice "pocket money"...
Long past time to means test the pension. Fuck-all chance though of any party grabbing that particular thorny issue while all the Baby Boomers are alive and voting.
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Polity: Protesting too much: responses…, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Go away, you fool.
Nice manners there. I was merely voicing my opinion and being polite... obviously a bit of debate is a bit much for you.
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Polity: Protesting too much: responses…, in reply to linger,
No, I saw that bit - but that doesn't change the fact he's a Labour guy, blogging on an (apparently) non-Labour website. Even branding it with a big red Labour sign on top would still be weird... I was being generous to suggest it should be branded that way.
Kiwiblog is one blog, with its own slant, and fair enough - whatever I or anyone might think of the content. Freedom of speech. But this is a collection of blogs, and it seems strange only Labour gets their own column... and I'm definitely NOT advocating there should be equal space for each party, boring.
It's not hard to set up a blog, right?
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Why does PA publish a column from a Labour Party spin doctor (as Rob was referred to by Bryce Edwards on his usually quite good political round-up)?
Regardless of the merits of whatever Rob says here, he works for Labour. Not exactly non-partisan analysis, is it? If this is a Labour blog, it should be branded as such, or he should blog elsewhere.
I'm aware we all know who he is and what he does... doesn't make giving the guy this space any more right.