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Ilam and Selwyn are coming to the Party

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disgraceful behaviour by anne tolley 33 Replies

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No GST on Food 2 Replies

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It is the MPs that are paid too much 17 Replies

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Andrew Little Entering Parliament? 7 Replies

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GST at 15% 2 Replies

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Te Hurihanga - Examining the Costs 2 Replies

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Glenn Livingstone added a discussion

Ilam and Selwyn are coming to the Party

Hi there, Ilam and Selwyn are doing their best to step up, in difficult electorates, for Labour. Please support our joint Super 14 fund-raising initiative (on the front page) The stronger we are, the more Party Votes we can contribute, so to del…

1 hour ago

John LANGDON replied to maria joan bernadette leyden's discussion 'disgraceful behaviour by anne tolley'

Matt, if yous is an illiterate, and yous want an introduction to some gorgeous female teachers for remedial work, rather strict tho and no fancy business, me can do the honours..

3 hours ago

Charles Chauvel You can't dig and drill your way to catch up with Australia...this is the type of logic that says a weak ETS won't affect our reputation wit

9 hours ago

John LANGDON replied to maria joan bernadette leyden's discussion 'disgraceful behaviour by anne tolley'

Me is saying, ever so humbly, that the Maori through the Treaty, were given the rights of British subjects, which meant, amongst other things, Maori had the right to an education that fitted them into society, and the teachers did not deliver what t…

9 hours ago

Patrick Anderson replied to maria joan bernadette leyden's discussion 'disgraceful behaviour by anne tolley'

John LANGDON said: Strange that many of our prisoners are apparently illiterate Maori who have been through the school system that the teacher unions are defending..How many of the teacher union spokespersons are Maori?? It's the teacher unions th…

10 hours ago

Matt Belcher replied to maria joan bernadette leyden's discussion 'disgraceful behaviour by anne tolley'

Maybe im one of those illiterate people John, :)

12 hours ago

John LANGDON replied to maria joan bernadette leyden's discussion 'disgraceful behaviour by anne tolley'

I agree with everything you say Matt, BUT I feel it is a betrayal of a child if the education system does not provide basic literacy and numeracy...and currently it is not doing this..AND as part of literacy, we spell countrys as country's (sorry!!!…

13 hours ago

Charles Chauvel I am back in the House, as it resumes for 2010. Here is a selection of what happened in the House last year - http://ping.fm/gg5qe

13 hours ago

Matt Belcher replied to maria joan bernadette leyden's discussion 'disgraceful behaviour by anne tolley'

Maybe the government should be focusing on Adult education in literacy ? I wouldnt blame immigrants, infact we should admire them, at least many of them can speak more than 1 language. I do agree with anything that improves our education system, ev…

15 hours ago

John LANGDON replied to maria joan bernadette leyden's discussion 'disgraceful behaviour by anne tolley'

Like you Matt, I personally know no illiterates BUT...BUT...Several of my friends are now teaching literacy to adults...Some are teaching literacy to prisoners...Statistics can be used to prove anything, but it is a fact that the Government is spend…

16 hours ago

Matt Belcher replied to john marshall's discussion 'sea bed discussion'

Well Matt your party has never done anything to help me. Are you paid a salary or an amount per blog post to be on here trying to discourage Labour PArty supporters from using this forum?

yesterday

Matt Belcher replied to John LANGDON's discussion 'No GST on Food'

Likewise David, it would make sense to do this, we could then even look at puting GST on luxury items up to say 20% to cover the shortfall. Sadly the big down side is how complicated it is to do and run. Whatever happens it will hurt the avergage jo…

yesterday

David Kearns replied to John LANGDON's discussion 'No GST on Food'

I like this idea alot, there would be a lot of what ifs and what nots but at the end of the day the food monopolys in our country are doing nothing to help people eat better or even help to feed our kids more when mum and dad just dont have enough m…

yesterday

Matt Belcher replied to maria joan bernadette leyden's discussion 'disgraceful behaviour by anne tolley'

Is there realy a problem John?. Ive heard that is actually only 1% of school leavers and the issues is that it is 20% of the work force. Well theres something wrong here, I know a few people and none of them have literacy problems certainy not 1 in…

yesterday

David Kearns replied to john marshall's discussion 'sea bed discussion'

Matt misses the point , its not about the politics.....its about people.

yesterday

matt muldoon replied to john marshall's discussion 'sea bed discussion'

Well your labour party did not lower taxes in nine years so you cant beat the Nats up for this.

yesterday

John LANGDON added a discussion

No GST on Food

How can we get the Labour Party to come out with this policy? No GST on food is policy in most OECD countries..It is not impossible to implement..It is basic to a socialist philosophy, that food not be taxed..This one simple policy could make a de…

yesterday

David Kearns replied to john marshall's discussion 'sea bed discussion'

How do you pay for wage increases ?? One way is to rebalance the tax take to benafit both the worker and the business owner, I.E. a lower business tax and a higher minamum wage and with this comes the benifit of more cash in peoples pockets and the…

yesterday

Tatsuhiko Koyama Is this the end of monopoly in the legal profession? https://sites.google.com/site/tatsuhikokoyama/new-zealand-law-society-1

yesterday

john marshall replied to john marshall's discussion 'sea bed discussion'

Interesting Aron that you should point out that the Tories want unemployment. Of course they do . Key has publicly stated that he want to keep wages low.The most effective way is to keep unemployment high. ie".The continuous bleeting from gthe Nats…

yesterday

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