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Katie Bradford-Crozier writes at ZB

International interest in the Mighty River Power float was high, so 13.5 per cent of the company will now be owned by overseas investors.

The Finance Minister revealed details of the share allocation and pricing of the energy company last night.

113,000 Kiwis have bought shares, at $2.50 a pop.

Bill English says offshore institutions have been allocated $472 million worth of shares – but those were limited to ensure 86.5 per cent of the company was kept in New Zealand hands.

No wonder the share price hasn’t crashed to the $2.00 – $2.20 level that the Green Taliban and Labour were crowing about.  There is genuine interest in the Mighty River Power float.

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The finger pointing has started.

Apparently the 16,500 signatures that are still needed were the ones Labour failed to collect.

I can just see a Labour/Green coalition last, can’t you?

Damien O’Connor wants to know what deals New Zealand has made “with the Chinese”.

My first reaction was:  ”Here we go again”.  First “Chinese” can’t buy farms here, and now Labour are having another go at our largest trading partner by wanting to know “The Deals”.

Please note, once again, that the Labour Party has never asked for details for those deals when they pertained to Australia, or the UK, countries in the EU, or even Middle Eastern trading partners.

It’s always “the Chinese”.

Labour and the Greens should stop kicking the legs from under the chair just to score a few short-term political points at the cost of a long term trading relationship.

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…in documents obtained by the Labour opposition and handed to 3News, there is yet more embarrassment for officials tied up in the controversy.

Dotcom – who the papers reveal was given the codename of “Billy Big Steps” – was first subjected to monitoring on December 16 2011. The documents reveal that on this date the police were already in possession of papers which showed that Dotcom was a New Zealand resident and therefore exempt from GCSB spying.

By January 11 2012, just days before the huge raid on Dotcom’s mansion, the whole detailed immigration file was in police possession and by February 22nd GCSB knew that they had carried out illegal spying. Even so, it took until September 2012 for them to admit that to Prime Minister John Key.

Labour must be very worried about Shearer’s secret offshore slush fund. They have played the classic weapon of mass distraction. And boy haven’t the compliant media lapped it up.

Labour better watch out here.  Their overt support for Dotcon in an attempt to embarrass the Government is going to bite them in the ass if the legal case drags out into their turn at playing government.

Dotcom has not been backward in coming forward when he wants special treatment from officials.  Labour are possibly digging themselves a bit of a hole here.

Of course, they will “forget” about having helped Dotcon in his private prosecution against the Government, just like Shearer “forgot” about a spare $100k slush fund lying about in New York.

Source:  Torrentfreak

While John Key has been charming world leaders, and Steven Joyce has been charming the Novopay Genie back into the bottle, Labour have been spending their time out in the community on a major charm offensive.

Here is Jacinda Adern going for the mummy and grandma demographic today

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The new Mana/Green/Labour coalition government greet the people on parliament’s steps

29 November, 2014

A few weeks ago, the Government announced it will close 7 schools in Christchurch as a result of the earthquakes.  It really wouldn’t have happened for any other reason.

The MSM, unions and opposition went nanas, suggesting the Government had no compassion.  At the time I asked what on earth they were going on about.

Today, the Government announced it is opening 15 other schools in the greater Christchurch region over the next ten years, starting with an 800 pupil school in Rangiora.

A new school for up to 800 children will be built in West Rangiora by 2017, the Government says.

The school is one of 15 new schools to be built or rebuilt in greater Christchurch in the next 10 years as part of the Government’s $1 billion investment in education in the region.

The West Rangiora school for Year 1-8 students would help meet the ”faster than forecast” roll growth in region, Waimakariri MP Kate Wilkinson said.   Read more »

Ok, so don’t sell the assets because we need to keep our assets NZ owned.  Got it.

49% of Mighty River Power is now for sale.  Right.

Green Taliban and Labour MPs and their voters can now buy the shares, thus keeping them NZ owned.

With me so far?

They say they won’t buy any shares.

What?

Cameron Slater at the Truth reports

Charles Chauvel has quit parliament in a fit of pique, taking a lifeline no doubt supplied by Helen Clark, though he denies this publicly.

It is no secret that Charles Chauvel was a fan of David Cunliffe and this will be a large factor in his bolting from Labour.

What is of more interest however is that Chauvel sees an exit to the UN as more preferable than sticking around and hoping that a David Shearer led Labour party may perform an electoral miracle and manage to govern after next year’s election.

Chauvel has clearly weighed up Labour’s chance and also his own and realised both are slim at best.

Click here to read the rest of Cam’s article.

Just as Labour is starting to build a little bit of momentum against the Government, they end up shooting themselves in the foot with this side show.

Seen on Reddit today

Shit, Labour. I know Shearer has an image problem but could you tone it down a little?

What is interesting is that Labour are clearly betting the farm on a Presidential Style head-to-head fight against John Key.

Eeeehm….

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