The CTU are running a series of videos on YouTube featuring young workers who have been dismissed under the 90-day probation legislation. The first caused a bit of a furor in that the young lady featured was also a Labour party activist. She is certainly an articulate young woman. I note that at no time [...]
Parliament really does follow its own little set of rules, doesn’t it? Where else could one broadcast that your boss can’t do his job and insist that he be fired and then be allowed to take sick leave? I have had patients come to me asking for a week or two of stress leave, but [...]
◊Apparently Helen Kelly has announced that the CTU will no longer co-operate with government on trade issues. I assume this is union code for “business as usual”. ◊It’s been fun watching Chris Carter implode, but it seems the show is coming to an end. His latest bout of self-immolation appears to be his last. Still, [...]
I have been following the frenzying of Labour and their aligned blogs on the John Key “Blind Trust” saga with some amusement. I note that there does not seem to be a lot of traction with this in the print media, although the Tabloid on Sunday will surely have something tomorrow, as, undoubtably, will the [...]
Turns out that I was right about the Left-wing blogs and the media continuing to rabbit on about John Key’s “cannibalism” joke. And, yes, it does make them look like complete prats. The editor of the Herald on Sunday even goes as far as to suggest that the coalition between Maori and National is falling [...]
I’m willing to bet that there was a nervous tinge to the laughter when John Key made his joke about being on the Tuhoe “menu”. Everyone there would have instantly spotted that it was a very politically incorrect remark, for a Prime Minister. True to form, the left wing blogs have spent the day making [...]
Indeed, there is an enormous amount of hot air coming from Martyn “Bomber” Bradbury over at Tumeke! today. Bomber has challenged all of us paid shills of Big Oil (if only!) on our silence around the “exoneration” of Phil Jones and CRU. I can’t speak for my fellow shills, but I find the Science and [...]
A comment yesterday by ScrubOne had me thinking about the problem of the margin in legislation. Simply put, the problem of the margin is the innate unfairness of a boundary which attracts a consequence on one side, but not on the other. Take the speed limit as an example. Is someone traveling at 101 kph [...]
Stuff reports: The International Monetary Fund has urged the Government to cut spending by better targeting Working for Families, student loans and free GP visits to get its books back into surplus. But Prime Minister John Key rejected the call, saying National had campaigned on preserving those entitlements. “It’s not my intention to break those [...]
In September 2008 I wrote this: Unfortunately, what this [the repeal of section 59] does to parents is place them in a position of having no clear idea what is an acceptable smack. Worse still, it allows children to threaten their parents, thereby seriously reducing their authority, even if the child has no intention of [...]
