Politics

I was on NewstalkZB last night with Larry Williams and Josie Pagani on The Huddle.

Our topics were:

The first segment was discussing the latest Green PR campaign calling for a ban on all deep sea oil drilling – attempting to destroy a $2 billion per annum export industry plus all the jobs that are created. Then there is their racist 15% tax on all overseas based property buyers. They are not really going to help the economy!

And of course the answer to the housing problems from them too.   Read more »

I am on NewstalkZB tonight with Larry Williams and Josie Pagani on The Huddle.

Our topics are:

The first segment will be discussing the latest Green PR campaign calling for a ban on all deep sea oil drilling – attempting to destroy a $2 billion per annum export industry plus all the jobs that are created. Then there is their racist 15% tax on all overseas based property buyers. They are not really going to help the economy!

And of course the answer to the housing problems from them too.  Read more »

Larry Williams is not impressed with the rent-a-mob scum who spat at and abused business leaders attending a budget briefing today.

I am on Larry Williams show The Huddle tonight with Josie Pagani.

Our topics are:

Going to be another day of Gilmore bashing. It’s been quite carthartic. So he’s fighting back today with silly texts.  Read more »

The Green/Labour petition opposing asset dales has failed. Despite the thousands of dollars of taxpayers money the Green/Labour parties threw at this petition it has failed, coming up 16,500 signatures short.

The Clerk of the House has released the following press statement:

The Clerk of the House of Representatives Mary Harris has today certified that this petition has lapsed because she cannot be satisfied that the threshold required by the Citizens Initiated Referenda Act 1993 has been met. The Clerk has been assisted in reaching this conclusion by advice from the Government Statistician.  Read more »

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

Our topics were as follows:

Aaron Gilmore – The Clown of Christchurch East.

Sensible Sentencing Trust’s new website - Judging the Judges. Sensible Sentencing have promised it’s not going to be a witch hunt and general slamming of judges, but a long hard look at their decisions and the circumstances under which they are made. I can’t see this being a bad thing.  Read more »

Barack Obama has done more than any other person in the world to rescue US arms manufacturers. Good on ya Barack, NRA membership is surging.

Leaders of the National Rifle Association announced that its membership has surged to a record five million, a figure they aim to double in the “long war” to preserve gun ownership in America.

The organisation’s executive vice president and public face Wayne LaPierre told its annual convention that proposed legislation to introduce expanded background checks had “got the defeat it deserved” last month.

Mr LaPierre told members the fight over background checks had been “but one skirmish in what can only be defined as one long war against our Constitutional rights,” and that the NRA was in a “once in a generation fight for everything we care about.”  Read more »

It’s Monday, time for the Huddle with Larry Williams and Josie Pagani.

Our topics are as follows:

Aaron Gilmore – The Clown of Christchurch East.

Sensible Sentencing Trust’s new website - Judging the Judges. Sensible Sentencing have promised it’s not going to be a witch hunt and general slamming of judges, but a long hard look at their decisions and the circumstances under which they are made. I can’t see this being a bad thing.  Read more »

How embarrassing. Labour having to correct their own press release ‘correcting’ Phil O’Reilly.

CCN: Phil O’Reilley Open Letter Wrong On Many Counts
http://parliament.newsroom.co.nz/stories/ccn-phil-o-reilley-open-letter-wrong-on-many-counts
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Press Release by New Zealand Labour at  4:16PM, 02 May 2013
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Correction: at Labour’s request this replaces the earlier press release on this matter.

It will comes as no surprise that Labour disagrees with the open letter from Phil O’Reilly and others, says Labour’s Finance spokesperson David Parker.

“Labour is absolutely committed to lower power bills for New Zealand households and businesses. NZ Power will reduce bills by $230 – $330 a year for families and commercial bills by 5 – 7 per cent.

“The letter from Mr O’Reilly does not cure the current problems in the uncompetitive electricity market. Prices have increased since the independent report from Professor Wolack found $4.3 billion of overcharging. The system must be fixed.

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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