July 2005

Zen Tiger says it best

by Whaleoil July 30, 2005

[Imported from Whale Oil Beef Hooked on Blogger]

I was read­ing DPF’s blog on trans­parency when I came across this post by Zen Tiger. It is superb, so superb that I have decided to post it here for all to read. Whilst not an ACT sup­porter myself, I have refused to edit it. Thank you Zen for putting it such an easy to under­stand way. Unfor­tu­nately the left are so enam­oured with their own voice and utterly bereft of any con­science or ideas that they will fail to see the logic.

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Show us the figures! Show us the figures!

by Whaleoil July 29, 2005

[Imported from Whale Oil Beef Hooked on Blogger]

The eru­dite David Far­rar has refused to buckle in the face of lefist lies and spin.

Mal­lard has attacked Westpac’s analy­sis as “extrem­ist and scaremongering”.

Well, Mr Mal­lard as least they both­ered to do some actual sums, not pull fig­ures out of their ass.

As I have said before Labour has more spin­ners than an Indian cricket team and defi­nately more cheek than a fat mans bum.

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Mrs Peter Davis number 24 on Powerful women list

by Whaleoil July 29, 2005

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Prime Min­is­ter Mrs Peter Davis has risen to num­ber 24 on a list of the world’s most pow­er­ful women, above Hillary Clin­ton, Laura Bush and the Queen, but behind impris­oned Myan­mar politi­cian Aung San Suu Kyi.

And who com­piled this list.…none other than Forbes magazine.…Who is the pocket of the Amer­i­cans now???

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Mallard finds evidence

by Whaleoil July 28, 2005

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Mal­lard has today found evi­dence of Nation­als financ­ing and at the same time has also dis­cov­ered the cost­ing esti­mates for the Stu­dent Loans BRIBE.

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Even Westpac says the policy sucks

by Whaleoil July 28, 2005

[Imported from Whale Oil Beef Hooked on Blogger]

In an highly unusual move today West­pac Chief econ­o­mist Bren­don O’Donovan has slayed the Labour Party Stu­dent Loans Bribe.

They have cal­cu­lated that this BRIBE would cost not $100 mil­lion — $300 mil­lion as Labour has fibbed. In actual fact it will cost over $1,100 Mil­lion or ONE POINT ONE BILLION DOLLARS each and every year.

Labour has sim­ply devel­oped this pol­icy on the hoof and it is so bad that a major bank has seen fit to enter the fray. This is almost unprecedented.

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Herald poll shows Labour ahead 6% but wait theres more

by Whaleoil July 28, 2005

[Imported from Whale Oil Beef Hooked on Blogger]

The Her­ald poll this morn­ing shows Labour ahead by 6%, largely as a result of it’s scur­rilous spin attack. Cer­tainly it can­not be based on any­thing of substance.

Per­ti­nent results are;

Labour 43.9
National 37.5
NZ First 7.1

Now to the but wait, theres more sec­tion.

The Her­ald also ran a poll that found 53.1 per cent of peo­ple believed the cost of vis­it­ing a GP had increased and only 12 per cent believed it had decreased. A quar­ter of the peo­ple polled found no change.

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Labour’s Wellington Central candidate out campaigning

by Whaleoil July 28, 2005

[Imported from Whale Oil Beef Hooked on Blogger]

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The trend is your friend or not as the case may be

by Whaleoil July 28, 2005

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Tv3 has a new poll out. Result are as follows;

Labour is down 1 to 39 from the poll in June. (49 seats)
National is up 3 to 39. (49 seats)
NZ First is down 4 to 7 (9 seats)
Greens are steady on 6 (7 seats)
ACT on 1.6% — no seats
United on 1.4% (2 seats)
Maori Party on 2.2% (4 seats)

This poll con­tin­ues the trend for Labour of down and the trend for National of up. Lets see what tomor­row brings with a new Her­ald poll.

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Looks like we have a new Teletubbie — DumDum

by Whaleoil July 28, 2005

[Imported from Whale Oil Beef Hooked on Blogger]

In the face of clever blog­ging evi­dence and the over­whelm­ing assault of the truth Mal­lard has had to admit that it has exag­ger­ated the sav­ings to stu­dents from its interest-free loans policy.

I think he means lied, fibbed, rorted and deceived, but hey!! lets accept “exaggerated”

I sup­posed he “exag­ger­ated” his scur­rilous accu­sa­tions about National’s funding.…still wait­ing for the evi­dence Trev.

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It’s a Scam for sure

by Whaleoil July 27, 2005

[Imported from Whale Oil Beef Hooked on Blogger]

One won­ders how blun­ders like Kyoto occur…the answer is now before us if you hadn’t already guessed.

Peo­ple who have never run a busi­ness, employed peo­ple from their own pocket, and have only ever been to school or in a Union should never, ever, ever be given con­trol of the gov­ern­ment. Espe­cially if you are a failed His­tory professor.

David Far­rar has shown the stu­dent loan pol­icy of Labour to be what most of us sus­pected all along.….based on lies, sup­po­si­tion and deceit.

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And here it is– Nationals new sign

by Whaleoil July 27, 2005

[Imported from Whale Oil Beef Hooked on Blogger]

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Herald Editors find their balls

by Whaleoil July 27, 2005

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The Her­ald edi­to­r­ial this morn­ing shows that the MSM may have woken up to Labours BS express train.

I am gob-smacked by their brutality.


Cyn­i­cism and des­per­a­tion abound in equal mea­sure in the Labour Party’s $300 million-a-year pledge to abol­ish inter­est on stu­dent loans. This is polit­i­cal bribery at its most base. It bodes ill for what is to come dur­ing this elec­tion campaign.

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Is Student Loans the next Kyoto?

by Whaleoil July 27, 2005

[Imported from Whale Oil Beef Hooked on Blogger]

Labour clearly has not thought through the total impact of their stu­dent loans BRIBE.

In their des­per­ate bid to retain the keys to the Trea­sury benches they have sim­ply imple­mented pol­icy on the hoof with lit­tle thought or research, if any, into the impact.

Stuff who have an arti­cle ques­tion­ing the numbers.

Labour claims the pol­icy will cost $100m in its first year and will rise to $300m a year from 2008–2009.

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The books are cooked!!!!

by Whaleoil July 26, 2005

[Imported from Whale Oil Beef Hooked on Blogger]

A spokes­woman for Cullen said that Labour, if re-elected, would ini­tially take the money from a $1.9b con­tin­gency fund Cullen had allowed for new spend­ing promises.

What!!!

Where was that in the bud­get?
Where is this com­ing from if there is no room for tax cuts?
Is this the BNZ all over again?

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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!!!

by Whaleoil July 26, 2005

[Imported from Whale Oil Beef Hooked on Blogger]

Fran O’Sullivan lashes Labour in this morn­ings Her­ald call­ing their fund­ing attack a “big lie” and pre­dict­ing that more vic­tims will be lined up before the cam­paign is fin­ished.

In real­ity, Clark con­trols Labour’s game and it is clear she will trade off any short-term dam­age to this country’s rela­tion­ship with the US to stay in power.


How­ever, the big lie has helped Clark rein­vent her­self as the poster-girl against US bullying.


Clark needs to show she can put New Zealand’s wider inter­ests above her own.

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