David Shearer

Have a listen to Ed Miliband being extremely slippery about Labour’s tax, borrow and spend policies. What a slippery little weasel.

I can’t wait to here someone in the media here put David Shearer under the cosh like this. The full interview at BBC has the questioning start at around the 1 minute mark.

Ed Miliband struggled to explain his party’s economic policies when he was asked repeatedly whether Labour would be borrowing more money to spend on public services and tax cuts.

During a chaotic radio interview, the Labour leader was questioned 13 times over the details of how he would afford policies intended to boost economic growth including building projects and a VAT cut.

Mr Miliband’s aides were also later forced to clarify the party leader’s policy on benefits for pensioners after he suggested that Labour would consider limiting winter fuel allowances and free TV licences to the poorest older people.

The 15 minute set-piece interview was part of a series of features with party leaders running this week on BBC Radio 4’s World at One. Nick Clegg and David Cameron are also due to be questioned.

Mr Miliband clashed repeatedly with the programme’s presenter, Martha Kearney, who at one point resorted to asking him for a “straight answer”.  Read more »

Grant Robertson has made an extraordinary promise on behalf of the Labour Party.

While Leader David Shearer hides overseas from the fallout over Labour’s economic vandalism masquerading as power policy, Robertson as acting Leader, has promised no intervention in any other market.

This is back-peddling at its finest, because Shearer as Labour Leader, has been promising all sorts of opportunist meddling.

Who are you going to believe? Grant or David?

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The NZ Herald has confirmed all suspicions that they are just a conduit for the Labour party by publishing this article by Rebecca Quilliam today.

I’ll be that plenty of other political parties issued press releases paying tribute to the service of the armed forces. Prime Minister John Key paid a personal tribute in Wellington while attending the dawn parade, while David Shearer was hiding behind the shirt tails of Helen Clark in New York.

It disgusts me that they run a partisan and one-sided, almost word for word Labour’s press release on behalf of the Labour party on Anzac day. it is only one paragraph different, the first one. I can’t believe Rebecca Quilliam put her by-line on it since three quarters of the words aren’t even her own.

How shameful, how embarrassing.

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Could it be that David Shearer has dropped his ATM receipt?

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Current Labour Leader David Shearer bolted a day after announcing Labour’s biggest lurch to the left since … well forever.

After announcing their intention to intervene and gut the power market and destroy shareholder wealth Labour have been on the back foot facing claims that if their rationale is to be believed on power then why not intervene in other markets.

David Shearer of course is nowhere to be seen, he dropped this policy on Thursday afternoon, promptly made for the airport and bolted like a coward, leaving Grant Robertson and David Parker to unconvincingly defend the biggest lurch to the left since like forever.

Now they are saying they won’t intervene in any other market. They have been forced to because it is now apparent the damage their policy announcement is currently doing to the NZ economy. This is the start of an embarrassing backdown for Labour.

Labour Party deputy leader Grant Robertson has moved to try and reassure financial markets that its sudden lurch to favour central planning in the electricity industry is one-off.

In a statement attacking Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce, Mr Robertson says: “Labour makes no apology for stepping in to fix problems in the electricity sector. But this is not a signal that Labour is going to intervene elsewhere in the economy.

“As we said on the day we launched NZ Power, we have no plans to intervene in any other markets.”

That of course is a lie. Labour has plenty of plans for intervention.  Read more »

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Why is David Shearer operating an overseas bank account brimming with cash?

Why isn’t he transferring it to New Zealand?

Could it be that he knows his money is safer overseas?

Does he want to keep it safe from Quantitative Easing?

Does he want to keep it safe from rampant inflation?

Does he want to keep it safe from the effects of the Green/Labour economic sabotage?

Is this just the beginning?

Is there more to come?

David Shearer is off to New York after his little trip to London.

He says he won’t be visiting his formerly secret bank account…and he also says he won’t be bringing the loot home?

A spokeswoman for Mr Shearer said he has no plans to close his US-based UN bank account – where his salary was paid for about 20 years while he worked for the organisation – while he is overseas.

Mr Shearer made headlines last month after revealing he had forgotten to declare the bank account, containing at least $50,000, on Parliament’s register of pecuniary interests for the past three years.  Read more »

I was on the Huddle last night with Larry Williams and my usual counterpoint Josie Pagani.

Josie might have a bit of a reason to be happy with our topics, one of which is the latest polls.

Our topics were:

• First up the polls and the tie in to MRP shares…which there can’t be because the polling was done before the Greens/Labour announcement. So that’s going to be telling. But clearly it shows that even though David Shearer cops a lot of flak – the gap’s closing. Which is of course great for National.
• The ongoing economic vandalism by Labour and the Green Taliban  Read more »

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