A record number of Americans applied for British citizenship in the first three months of this year, and for the right to live and work in Britain indefinitely, according to official data.
NZMorningReport detailing how Nicola Willis has failed to allow for up to $700 million for KiwiSaver contributions for govt workers. Like the broken promise with cancer drugs she will to have to nick it from next year’s budget. Have we ever had such a useless Finance Minister?
In Sydney for a few days. The Metro is so good, really really fast and trains just one after the other.
Things are going swimmingly
Toyota seem incapable of learning anything. The too-big-to-fail mentality is too ingrained now.
Toyota Motors’ trucking unit has agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges and pay $1.6 billion in civil and criminal penalties for fraudulently concealing excess emissions from diesel engines sold in the U.S., the EPA said Wednesday.
Let's goooooo
As the planet warms, insurance companies are dropping homeowners in communities they deem too dangerous because of wildfires, hurricanes and other threats. Now, for the first time, the scale of that pullback is becoming public. nyti.ms/41EOpNc
Mayor Brown opens the new swimming area downtown. From idea to reality in a year? Low cost. More of this. www.stuff.co.nz/travel/36051...
Clear statement from the All Blacks
#ToitūTeTiriti
Another ACT minister in the coalition just taking the piss. www.stuff.co.nz/politics/360...
The 10 busiest train stations across the UK are London stations and 6 of them are served by the extraordinarily popular Elizabeth Line www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
Me too today
Strolling, lingering, supporting the local economy. These are things that enhance the life of a community. Bike/ped-friendly streets are community enhancement tools.
Do you think it will ever happen?
If I was going to stick my neck out I’d venture that specials will roughly follow the narrative we saw on election night. Nats doing better with early votes but dropping in the last week of the campaign (under increased scrutiny) and on e-day itself.
Not sure about that but I do think TPM will do well out of specials.
Isn’t the whole point about the specials typically favouring the left parties precisely because they don’t mirror the election day swing?
I’m really looking forward to a day of lazy enjoyment of the public holiday that, it turns out, drives National and ACT beyond crazy!
I’m just astonished really that they had got themselves so out of sync with what the public were really thinking, so dependent on focus groups, that they really thought the GST off fruit and veg was gonna change their political fortunes. Ditto with the dental, It was all so fucking lame.
One of the other factors of course that may have led to Auckland voter’s savage repudiation of Labour is the party’s complete shitshow with infrastructure planning in the city. They failed to achieve anything.
No one even really thinks about the regional fuel tax especially since petrol is often cheaper in Auck than places that don’t have the tax. It’s not the only thing that cost Labour but resentment over the lockdown and the grinding way it went on and on seems to have stuck.
I think that was me, over there. And it’s possible to appreciate both the health outcomes of the lockdown and the huge personal costs it imposed on people affected by it. And the misjudgement was not understanding and balancing those two things when it was clear Delta wasn’t going to be defeated.
Voting done
