Even more Broken Britain....thanks to Welfarism

These two examples truely take the Great out of Great Britain.

Benefit cuts force me to eat unhealthy chocolate and crisps, says Sussex woman

A 22-stone woman who has lost a staggering 16-stone says a decision to stop her £340 disability allowance could see her pile the pounds back on.

Laura Ripley had more reasons than most to celebrate her 25th birthday this year as it was a milestone doctors told her she would never see.

The Take That fan had spent the whole of her life "eating herself to death" until four years ago her 30-stone mum died and she decided to diet.

Until this month when benefit bosses decided to scrap her £340 disability allowance on the grounds she is no longer fat enough to claim.

Laura, 25, claims it is a decision that could see her pile weight back on because with hand-outs of £600 a month left, she says she can't afford to eat healthily.

Oh dear god. I wonder is this woman went to the same finishing school as Natasha Fuller. The sheer stupidity is frankly unbelievable. Full story here.

However it gets worse... this next story is more than bad, it's absolutely tragic.

A MUM who has had 13 children is pregnant with her 14th - even though ALL her kids have been taken into care.

Last night brazen baby machine Theresa Winters, 36, vowed to carry on having children until social workers let her and jobless partner Toney Housden, 36, keep ONE.

Defiant Theresa, who lives on benefits in Luton, Beds, declared: "We're not giving up. For every child they take away from me, I'm going to have another one.

ALL the children were taken into care by social workers who had grave concerns about neglect and "lack of parenting ability" demonstrated by Theresa and her jobless partner Toney Housden.

Several of her children were born with disabilities.

But all have been legally adopted except a boy now aged 14 who has cerebral palsy. He remains in foster care which has cost an estimated £2.3million over the past ten years More of these scum here.

A big hearty round of applause to the welfare system. Making stupid people stupider and dependent on handouts. Not only is this abuse hurting them, but childrens lives are being destroyed and there isn't anything the system can do to fix it.

Surely, given the abuses that run rampant through welfare systems the world over - we must rethink and start again. A hand up not a hand out is needed more than ever.

Who has the guts to do something about it?

Labour caught out AGAIN

Labour must be *kicking* themselves again. In fact I'm surprised many MPs are covered in bruises from the endless own goals they are kicking into each other.

1) Phil Goff bought up the "sad, sorry" case of Bruce Burgess, who was initially refused a WINZ benefit. Phil forgot to mention that "poor" Brucey owned several properties and is in fact well off.

2) Phil also scored a humdinger by mentioning the poor innocent victim Neelam Choudary. Who was relentlessly "harrassed" by Richard Worth... who later we find out is a well placed Labour Party member who has stood for Labour in the past and is mates with Labour MPs, their President and ex PM Helen Clark.

The latest in these badly organised "hits" on National MPs is the beat up about Paula Bennett. Suddenly it is all becoming to make sense - Labour are running smear campaigns on a smell of an oily rag about individual MPs to try and get them to resign. The problem is, EVERY SINGLE ONE of these supposed innocent parties and "ordinary" citizens are anything but ordinary.

Dave at Big News has scooped a lot of very interesting facts about Natasha Fuller and Jennifer Johnston. Put it this way, it's gold. More evidence that Labour did not do their homework and this entire "Paula Bennett is a bully" nonsense is a huge overreaction.

Dave blogs -

David Benson Pope released Fullers benefit details in April 2007.

Dave also digs about and sees that Fuller may have broken the law regarding her benefits... and that she has loose lips. It seems that while Ms Fuller has been raking in on benefits more than poor working families with 3 children - she has also been able to afford luxuries including hair extensions and $200 worth of compact discs. Suddenly this is all piecing itself together in a rather murky and underhanded way.

I believe that there is a direct connection between these people and the Labour Party and that Labour HQ has decided they will do anything they can to bring devastation to individual MPs in Government. I believe that Labour have also made some pretty terrible mistakes by not doing their homework - because there are holes in every single story to date.

Will the MSM pick up on Daves investigations? I bloody well hope so. Labour are digging themselves into a deep hold and the people of NZ need to see how low Labour will go to wrestle themselves back in charge of the Government trough.

Hat Tip - Big News.

No Second Class Citizens

I had the good fortune to recieve my signed copy of Sir Roger Douglas new book, "No Second Class Citizens" in the post today.

I have already got through the first chapter and it makes me angry that John Key is leaving this New Zealand legend on the sidelines. The National Party have put back the right for decades and we need politicans who want New Zealand to succeed.

This book, like all of his books is visionary and should be read by anybody interested in NZ politics.

Reduced To Clear - your choice

Good god, are we not rid of nosy busybodies?

Nutritionists and health policy wonks are upset that consumers are taking advantage of a discount store, "Reduced to Clear" that takes advantage of food stuffs that is close to or just over their best before date and sells at a fraction of the price.

Good news for those less well off but bad news if you are a pissant nanny knows best health "activist", as they want this shop shut down. Further proof that these people are too far removed from the everyday battles that families face each day. Families are already being stung for taxes and health/education costs that come from a state unwilling to allow families to take home more of their pay - now their paid bureaucrats are telling them where they should shop. I doubt that these bureaucrats know the first thing about struggling and I suspect many are childless crones who spent their University years inside the womens room - or a student association.

If a family wants to purchase a treat for themselves or want to splurge on a food item they cannot afford then they have every right to do so.

Here is some of their breathtaking stupidity:

Nutritionists and health activists have criticised the deal and the shop, saying it is irresponsible to offer cut-price junk food to an increasingly overweight nation.

Choice?

Fight the Obesity Epidemic's Robyn Toomath, a Wellington Hospital endocrinologist, said the new store was sending the wrong message to consumers.

"It's an encouragement to buy food they wouldn't normally buy, because it's 'value for money'," Dr Toomath said. The Government should not allow market forces to make junk food a more attractive option than it already was, and should subsidise healthy foods like fruit and vegetables.

"It fills me with dismay."

Yes, lets end freedom of choice and spend taxpayers money on cheap fruit and veges. Where do these Doctors come up with these ideas?

Nutritionist Sarah Burkhart said the lolly shop atmosphere of Reduced To Clear would be devastating for dieters.

"It's a matter of, if you don't think you can be sensible when you go there, you should stay away," she said

So why bring it up? Dieters are always tempted walking to and from the gym every day. Leave it up to the consumer to choose to go in or not!

I hope this store has a long and profitable future. Why should the well off choose the nutritional habits for those who cannot afford the occasional treat?

Story here.

Capping rates is Radical and "extreme"

Phil Goff, remember him? He is the increasingly obscure leader of the Labour Party. The same bloke who will be leader for 2 more years before he will get rolled by his party - and with no obvious replacement will be cast off before the war begins from inside the party.

He, despite many years inside Parliament, has realised that he doesn't have the popularity of Helen or the sheer presence of Horomia. In fact he is now so desperate to get publicity he is talking to anybody who will listen to him.

This time it was the delegates of the Local Government New Zealand (LGNZ) annual conference. At the moment councillors are worried that Rodney Hide is going to cut back their influence - and force them to do their jobs properly... so along went Goff to show some of that good old fashioned Labour "solidarity". Did Phil talk policy? Certainly not. Phil decided to play the man or in this case the ACT Party:

Labour leader Phil Goff gave delegates tips on how to handle Hide and his proposals, and called ACT "a radical party, which is better than saying it is an extreme party, but there may not be a great deal of difference".

Shit Phil, that whole ACT = extreme/radical stuff is so 1995. It didn't wash then and it won't wash now. What is extreme about capping rates? What do you think the poor ratepayers, suffering from 9 years of being poor taxpayers under Labour think of your idea that rates shouldn't be capped?

What is radical to make councils ensure we have excellent core transport, water and waste services first and foremost? What is more important to ratepayers, clean water or funding social, recreational or cultural events?

What's extreme about making sure our councillors don't treat local government as a play toy? Higher rates bills are deeply unpopular while washing in clean water and getting on a bus to work and back seems pretty popular.

Phil, pull your head in. You simply have no idea whats radical or extreme. Giving citizens the best possible value and protection from greedy local politicians is something you should be supporting. I know you and your Labour comrades hate the idea that rate/taxpayers should have more say in how their money is being spent but surely you can see this will only be good for the people.

Link - Councils signal battle with Hide

Progressive regressives....

So, finally, Chairman Jim has come back to the Labour fold... or has he and what does this mean for his party the Progressives?

Does anybody remember the internationally ridiculed shit Jim pulled a few years ago when he left the Alliance? When he left the Alliance he refused to officially disclose this to the speaker meaning that while the Alliance was a party in Parliament, he was operating against it outside Parliament within his own Party the Progressives, or Jim Andertons Progressives (to let voters know who to vote for).

Wikipedia has a neat post on this
Eventually, Anderton decided to leave the Alliance and establish a new party. However, rules regarding changes of party allegiance meant that Anderton and his allies could not officially resign from the Alliance without also resigning from parliament, which they were unwilling to do. This led to the awkward situation of Anderton and his allies technically remaining part of the Alliance while actually operating outside of it. The conflict within the Alliance was one of the reasons cited by Helen Clark for her calling elections several months early in 2002

The main reason for this was for Jim to continue getting his funding.... Jim is well known for having his snout in the trough as deep as possible. This is why he is going to continue to have the progressives remain as a party in name only, collecting the leaders salary, while having all its members running as Labour candidates and putting its money and staff into Labour Party policy and campaigning.

Does anybody in Parliament have any love for Jim who has carved out a political career that has alienated everybody he has worked with including Labour, The Greens and the Alliance. The Greens couldn't wait to get shot of him and Jim poured hatred at them afterwards... however the Greens won that battle while everything Jim has touched has turned to manure.

Surely this is against the rules of Parliament? What can be done to stop this inept and hypocritical "man of the people" from stealing more taxpayers money that he is supposed to get?

Is this a rickroll or not....

Rick Astley as you have never heard him before... thanks to Nirvana...



Enjoy!

Welcome!!!

Welcome to all the new Labour readers to this blog. After my successful trolling over at their Facebook group, the reader rate, and subsequent abuse, has gone up tenfold.

For my usual readers, I have a confession. I used to be a member of the NZ Labour Party. For somebody as youthful as myself I have to say it felt right at the time. I even harrassed a National Party supporter at school, we made fun of him and was quite mean to the poor fella. Labour at that time supported policies that was good for New Zealand, we cut the upper tax rate to 33%, we abolished those ridiculous subsidies and sold stuff that politicians had no right to operate.

Labour stood for the workers and business in the 80's. The decade of pain was set up to deliver dividends for our future. Sir Roger, readily assisted by his colleages like Goff, Moore and Clark helped streamline the public sector and make the difficult decisions that politicians nowadays are way too scared to even mention in hushed voices.

Sir Roger had plans to give every single worker a gold plated super scheme. If it's good enough for our politicians, who have a bloody good system, why should taxpayers be left out in the cold? Individual retirement accounts as invested wherever we chose, with compounding interest to ensure that we had secure retirement. It ensured that the low income earners would be looked after and it left the high income earners to do as they please.

Sir Roger had initiated the GMFI. The Guaranteed Minimum Family Income was a godsend to low income families. This would top up incomes for the low earners and encourage people into work. This was skittled by Lange despite this policy hitting at the very core of the Labour constituency. It was also proposed alongside a flat tax - more money in everybodys pockets. After all, everybody still today looks at their pay packets and wonder why we pay so much to the government. A flat tax would stop this "penalty" ie punishing people simply for working hard in their jobs. More money in your pocket means a family will have more to spend on their family - and we all know that parents are far better judges of where our money should go than politicians!

Labour now has strayed WAY off the path of giving workers more rights and empowering them to do better. Labour today stands for more state and less responsibility for our families and our own actions. Poor people are trapped inside a welfare net and not encouraged by politicans to get out of it. Even worse, Labour introduced Working for Families that trapped even wealthy people into the welfare net. The founders of the Labour Party would be rolling in their graves!

Labour supporters today are a confused bunch. Why would young kids want to support Socialism or even worse be flying red flags about and cheering for an ideology that takes more away from workers and gives more power and influence to politicians?

I grew up. I realised that the role of Government was to protect its weakest and most needy. It is there to make sure that we are protected from criminals and invasion.

It is there to make sure people who can work should work and the people who can't to be looked after with dignity. It isn't there to trap work shy people into poverty and dependence. If you can't work or are disabled, the Government *should* be able to afford to give you whatever you need to survive your day to day challenges... Labour prefers to spend this on propping up a bankrupt welfare system that protects criminals and lazy people from work.

A Government should be judged on how they treat their weakest and most needy citizens - and Labours answer to that is to keep them dependent on handouts and false promises every 3 years. Government is not a parent nor is it responsible for telling us what schools to send our kids, what food we eat or how we discipline our kids.

Labour has lost its way. Perhaps it's time they took a long hard look at their founding principles and become the party they used to be.

National - same to you.

Helen Who?

Can anybody out there remember a shivelled up has-been with questionable sexuality and a hatred of individualism, wealth and success? Apparently she and H2 went to New York together recently to run the United National Development Programme (UNDP) - an organisation that has had many very illustrious administrators, and now Helen - the black sheep of the available talent who could have had the job.

Any word from New York anybody? The UN? No?


The silver lining from her absence is that we no longer have to hear too many screeches from these sorts of people again..



This should be a recruitment video for "The Opposition" :)

Handbags at Victoria University Labour??

*** Update *** This is indeed a joke, I know many people were rolling in the aisles and back slapping after that hilarious performance. Where *do* they get their wit from? Are these the same people who created that "Join the Opposition" masterpiece last week? I bow down to your effervescent wit!

My thoughts are still the same, ANYBODY who starts off with a "Dear Comrade" or supports a socialist movement in todays world is truely very very stupid. I hoped that maybe a few of them would get "it", but it seems they are quite happy to follow a dead ideology.

Thanks to all the Labour members who clicked on my blog, bringing up my hit count.

I will provide more of these "exposes" of your party in the not too distant future so come back now ya hear? :)

Sell it!

So Kiwibank is as they say, hitting the big time.

650,000 customers, total assets almost $10 billion and in 2008 it posted atax-paid profit of $36.8m.

Well done, you can start applauding if you like. However Kiwibank hasn't proved anything. It was funded through taxpayers, whether they were customers or not, put out ridiculous advertisements that made Kiwis look backwards and had political support from our previous Government over the last 9 years. Little mention that some of Kiwibanks call centre operations are in Australia (despite the TV advertising making fun of them) and despite Labour championing the bank, the Government still doesn't bank with them, choosing to do it through Aussie owned Westpac.

So why hold onto this "asset"? Politicians have no place running a bank and taxpayers should be allowed the luxury of not being unwilling owners. Give the people a real break and sell it, use the money to fund tax cuts.

Oh and Mr Key, National is supposed to support low taxes and I believe in the good old days they liked to privatise stuff. Now you're the owner of a bank and railway again... what are you going to do about it?

Story here (complete with cringe worthy headline)

Please, please

Can England transpose the fighting spirit seen at cardiff into actually quality.

Somebody.......Flintoff, Harmison or maybe Anderson has to do what is displayed in the you tube clip below.

Make the fucking ball move in the air or off the seam at or about a good length at the top of off stump!!!!

It takes 20 wickets to win a test match England have those bowlers. For the first time in 15 years......Australia dont.

Disclaimer.....I was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire so any degree of rational analysis is null and void.

Who is Toad?

Toad has decided to partake in a mean spirited attack on Whale Oil.

This has turned out rather badly for Toad who has been found looking like a complete twat.

My question is simple. Who is Toad? What is his real name and how deep is he in the Green Party.

I am offering a bounty to anybody who can email me this persons name. As usual you can email me at clintheine@yahoo.com with the information.

See Toads post here The comments shit all over the fucker.

Whale Oil has started the fight back here.

It's not the Governments job

So Kiwis are getting fatter at rates only beaten by Mexico and the United States.

Labour typically blames National. National typically says they'll put more money into programmes to prevent it.

Ruth Dyson is crazy if she thinks that allowing schools to have the freedom to sell what they like has any part in this. Students were always able to visit shops at lunch or after school - and when the laws were stricter under Labour, the rates of obesity were not going down either. Blaming National for cutting programmes is playing politics vs commonsense. National need to pull finger and stop promising projects with pretty names to plough more money into.

The Government is failing at this - as it should be. It isn't their job to tell us how to eat, what to eat or how much we should eat. This job is for PARENTS.

The same PARENTS that should be allowed to discipline their kids and choose what schools our kids go to. Parents should be trusted with this not politicians and most certainly not politicians who don't have children.

Story here.

Well I'll be fooked!

There is a story on Whale Oil in todays Sunday Star Times... all rather revealing and a good read.

Just disregard the part when some obscure left wing "blogger" Russel whatshisname decides to wade into it. Russell, the Labour apologist, isn't new to throwing his opinion into the ring on other bloggers. He is the worst person to ask for impartial debate, which pretty much sums up the lazy New Zealand media.

Anyway that aside I recommend you spend that 10 minutes reading it.

Here.

NO time to celebrate National

From Kiwiblog:

DPF talks about the fact that National is 22% ahead of Labour.... I say this is no time to celebrate...for a good reason:

22% ahead and yet no resolve to move things along from Labour Lite to 100% true blue National policy. While I am happy Labour are not in charge, I am not celebrating that National is 22% ahead. It only lends to the theory that the country was tired of Labour rather than wanting National in - which I was hoping wasn’t the case.

National still supports a 38% top tax rate, Working for Families, compulsary student unionism…. Why don’t they start believing in themselves and doing what Labour did by implementing some policy? Labout achieved so much in their first few years, as much as it pissed us off - so why isn’t National doing something to brand themselves?

If they don’t get a majority ACT/Nat Govt after the next election - they would have blown their only opportunity to push through meaningful right wing policy. Who knows who will support them next time, and every thinking person knows that ACT will vote for anything that will give us less state and more freedom.

National, step up!

I'm not alone:


OECD rank 22 kiwi Clintheine, you should check out Colin Espiner’s comment 24 on his blogpost:

Cruise control

He’s well and truely got National’s number.

He states:

“The problem as I see it is this: National is hamstrung, essentially, because it can’t do any of the things a National administration would normally do right about now because it signed up almost entirely to Labour’s policy programme.

It’s true that National administrations are less reformist by nature than Labour ones, and I accept the point of the liberals above that less government can be better than interventionist government.

HOWEVER, National would dearly love to get stuck in to Working for Families, and get people earning $100K-plus off welfare and all the lack of productivity that entails. But it can’t, because it promised not to.

It would LOVE to list some state assets on the stock exchange. It would be good for business, for the SOEs, for the stock exchange, and for investors. But it can’t, because it promised not to.

It would like to make substantial changes to the health and education systems. But it can’t, because it was elected on a platform of no radical change.

And it can’t pour money into productive areas like tertiary education or other projects of its own making because its entire budget is tied up paying for Labour’s policies.

So it’s trapped in no-man’s land, with no real agenda and no mandate for the sorts of changes that many of the people who comment on this blog would dearly like, I suspect.

That’s the reality of this situation. Attacking the media for pointing this out doesn’t make it not so.”

AND

big bruv Clint is dead right, do not delude yourself into thinking that we had a change of power or control last November, Labour effectively neutered Neville Key with their “slippery” tag, if forced him into making promises to the middle or floating voter that he will never break, of course he is more than happy to break every promise he ever made to his core or tribal voters as he knows they will always vote blue irrespective of who is the leader.

The result of this is that we have a man and a government who are afraid of doing what is right, they are still being controlled by what Labour said pre election, they backed key into a corner and the bastard is afraid to come out swinging.

It pains me to say it but our nation is still in the grasp of Klark and Kullen, until Key rediscovers his testicles he will continue to be held back by the pre election labour party spin.

The Nat’s and Key should realise that THIS is the term when they can change things, THIS is the term when they can go a long way toward weaning Kiwi’s off the welfare state and teaching the lazy bastards that any improvement in living standards only comes about through your own hard work.

Say what you like about Labour but they were smart enough to know that the first term is the one to implement real change, they used their honeymoon period to push their own agenda, Key is missing his one chance to make a real difference

The reality is that Labour are still relevant, the bastards are almost as relevant as they were pre election, the more worrying and scary reality is that this will not change as long as Neville Key remains the leader, its time for a change and its time for Crusher Collins.

I followed up:

The thing is, yes it is the Nats fault in many cases, BUT Labours scorched earth policy led to this gigantic meltdown. The lies over the ACC deficit would have been treated as a war crime in other countries and as for the nationalisation of the railways during election year while being behind in double digits in the polls…. that is pure planning to prevent National the tools to pull us out of the meltdown Labour passed on.

Labour had the knowhow to drag NZ to the left - National has a golden opportunity to pull it back, if only to the centre to start with. Start giving Sir Roger a bigger role in the push back. Any Government that has him sitting on his hands is a Government NOT committed to change for the better.

How embarrassing would it be to say in three years that Labour used Sir Roger more effectively than National did?

What do you think?

More SCUM

Why on earth should police or the courts grant name suppression for these two lowlifes?

A young father-of-eight will go before a jury accused of selling his 13-year-old daughter to customers at a McDonald's restaurant for $40 cash.

The parents of the teenage girl were arrested in October 2007 and charged with a raft of child cruelty offences, one involved an allegation their Housing New Zealand home smelled so appallingly specialist police searched inside for a decaying body. None was found.

Since their arrest, the two beneficiaries have been on bail at a South Auckland address while their children remain in Child Youth and Family custody pending the outcome of the case.

The two parents who will never be identified for legal reasons will defend 30 allegations during a seven-day Auckland High Court trial, beginning next week before Justice Geoffrey Venning

"Never" be identified they say? This is a sure fire case for some serious councilling. What on earth forced them to behave like animals? It gets worse...

Investigators alleged "the house (had) faeces covering the walls of the toilet and carpet that had turned black in colour" and "there were holes and drawings on all of the interior walls of the house".

When officers arrived at the property they believed "there was a decaying body inside and searched for one" but did not find one.

Both parents face several assault charges arising from allegations they beat some of their children. In one alleged incident the 13-year-old girl was admitted to Auckland City Hospital with bruising.

Housing NZ bosses last night defended the fact that they had found significant damage to the family's home during a property inspection in 2005, but not carried out repairs until the family's tenancy was cancelled three years later after Tenancy Tribunal intervention.

The home was brand new when the parents took possession.

2005?! They found out that their brand new state house was trashed and looked the other way. They blame procedures for not throwing them out and yet didn't say a word to the necessary departments that could have helped them... of course I have this crazy idea that a Government department may have helped... we all know in reality this is most likely not the case. They have beaten their kids, smashed up their house and sell their kid in McDonalds... and yet the warning bells only now go off.

This is where I believe ACT has an answer.

Not a 100% solution, because nobody does nor should be promising such nonsense (cough cough Labour, National)

ACT has discussed for over a decade a mentor programme that will support families at risk and in need. These people could come from any part of society, churches, Iwi.. it doesn't matter where. What these people are for are to give advice and guidance to struggling and in danger of falling through the cracks. I remember Prebble being asked in an interview if this would cost much money - his answer, and I paraphrase, was that it will cost a bit, but it was a priority as it would be so beneficial in the long run.

It is worth the investment. Of course it is.

A family that doesn't sell their kids at Mcdonalds but understands how to clean their house and not live below the poverty level is a family that will end the cycle of dependency. It will allow the kids to attend school, understand budgets and become better citizens. Most of all, Labour will not be able to use them as voting fodder every three years. We already know that Labour exploits the poor and uses scare tactics from this group to their advantage. But if these families are working, paying taxes and staying independent from the state and welfare then the more likely they will want to have more autonomy over their schooling and hospitals.

See - Parent sold kid at Mcd's

ACT policy on Families at Risk

One good thing about the rain

Emma Watson decided to flash her amazing body to the paps in Leicester Sq the other day. Goodness me, what are they feeding her? They should feed it to all 18 year old English girls!

UNIONS -The roadblock to recovery.

We are led to believe that the books are looking a little tiny bit better than expected which means that we must still be careful, counting our pennys and sticking to a safe spending plan if NZ is to recover from the recession.

Sure National want to do it their (Labours) way, so the recovery will not allow for any policy to bring on fundamental changes that will progress a neo liberal agenda. So taxes wil stay high and Key will continue WFF and other policies that will not help anybody out of the clutches of big Government. Labour had a considerable part to pay in the situation we are in now; Kiwi Rail, ACC, unaffordable allocated spending... and they seem set to get away with it. Kiwis have very short memories.

Which brings me to my point. We are on the edge of making a turnaround and what is looming ahead? Union pay demands. While many non state workers are struggling or budgeting to get ahead in these times, Teachers and Nurses unions are wanting to play hardball with the National Govt. Why? Because the Unions support Labour. Pure and simple. You will never get through a National electoral cycle without at least all the unions having a go with their cloth caps in hand. They want negotiations for more money, in a time when nobody else is getting any. And this isn't all teachers, this is merely their unions - the PPTA etc, who have been in Labours pocket, and vice versa since inception. They protest, tell Labour of their plans and then the Labour minister of the day will stand up and attack National for not spending enough.

If anything is going to stall the recovery then this is it.

Why do left wingers seem to think they are immune to the crisis? They are against lower taxes to give us more money in our pockets, but are happy to keep on taking handouts and redistribution from the middle income earners - the people keeping them in work.

What should be done about it? National has to grow some balls. Key has to stand up and enough is enough. Kiwis must LISTEN to the facts and tell the unions to piss off. Don't join a union. Become your own person.

Stories here: Deficit slowing..., but Unions say no way.

One more other little note that must be mentioned; read this story and think for yourself where all those loser, smelly student protesters end up after graduating....

And these idiots say they represent all students!

If I did it.....

David Bain knows he isn't going to get a penny of compensation so has gone to New Idea to tell his "story" to the wary public. It seems that this, a possible book and maybe even a movie might help forget that you killed 5 of your family members.

Bain tells of him "hugging" other prisoners who beat him and always thought that he was innocent. He is only outside because some ex All Black with deep pockets felt sorry for him and I suspect Karam didn't have much faith in the police.

That lack of faith is why David isn't still bent over in the showers now - if the police did their job properly then the only magazine David Bain would be talking to is possibly this one :)

I think that David feels the only money he will get is from such deals because it is very unlikely he will be able to prove himself innocent. Maybe Bains could write a book, I have the title already... If I did it. Worked for OJ.

Story here.

More downfall..

Hat Tip -Whale Oil

Nigaz 4 life

Ooops, it seems as though the Russians didn't hire anybody with a decent enough grasp of the English language to help name their Nigerian oil venture.

Enter the newest player in Nigerian oil..... NIGAZ.

Supposedly pronounced "nye-gaz", the name has infuriated Nigerians on Facebook yes all 12 members are outraged :)

Good god, what were they thinking? How long will this last before enough people get offended - and how absolutely hilarious is this?

I'm not offended. Is anybody else really offended, or is it just silly white people who think it is worth getting upset about it?


Nigaz Please! Story here.

So what was achieved in the last nine years ladies?

Further proof that the left are missing the braincells that the rest of the population has.

Why is the left getting all huffy when we just got out of nine (hard) years of Labour, with a female PM - and no concessions whatsoever for "equal wages".

I have worked in many industries and dealt with HR in NZ and I have never seen differences in a womens pay with a mans pay. If this happens then why didn't the "champion of the workers" sort this out in the last nine years?

Fuck girls, it's almost a decade.

This is a deliberate ploy by the idiot left to put the boot into National. Labour set up commissions and organise talk/wank fests about an issue and all that achieved is nothing except some people got paid a lot for it. Where is the result of the most feminist Govt in NZ history? If this is happening still then surely Labour failed so why blame National?

It is all rather silly. But look at the people promoting it. Sheesh, these are the types of people who are arguing over a few cents and not in the real world. Put away the red flags girls and use some of that commonsense.