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Is Philip “El Jefe” Field on the run.

The Inde­pe­nent Finan­cial Review reck­ons so.

Appar­ently the rumours are that “El Jefe” is look­ing for a new home in United Future!!!

Aaron Bhat­na­gar takes the com­ment of the week award over at Sir Humphrey’s .

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Hat Tip: Nick Lewis

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This from the Her­ald this morning.

Clearly Manukau’s rat­ing pol­icy along with other coun­cils are start­ing to impact on business.

Coun­cils should really be encour­ag­ing busi­nesses to estab­lish not dis­cour­age them.

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When local “busy body ” politi­cians get bored and reg­u­la­tion goes way too far.

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John Kerry is on attack over the elec­tion time accu­sa­tions of the Swift Boat Veterans.

For the life of me I can’t see why Kerry would want to re-litigate this. He con­tin­ues to get slayed every time he opens his mouth. Read the post it is hilar­i­ous if not sad that Kerry is des­per­ately try­ing to spin this.

All Kerry has suc­ceeded in doing is rais­ing more emabar­ras­ing ques­tions over his service.

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Just 19 days ago Harry Duyn­hoven was accus­ing Mau­rice Williamson of being “alarmist” over a report to the Trans­port select com­mit­tee that was damn­ing of CAA.

At the time Williamson described it as “shiver up your spine stuff”.

My, my haven’t times changed?

All of a sud­den the Gov­ern­ment, faced with yet another gov­ern­ment depart­ment mis­man­age­ment deba­cle, has demanded “urgent” answers from the CAA.

What hap­pened to the “alarmist” tag. Qui­etly dropped as they rush around and try to repair the damage.

And who can Labour blame for this sorry state of affairs. no one but them­selves. There have been two pre­vi­ous reports in 1997 and in 2000 that slammed CAA, add that to the 2006 report and what has changed?

Noth­ing, the iden­ti­fied prob­lems still occur, almost all under labours watch. Com­plete inac­tion despite two damn­ing reports on their watch. 

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Weepu opens the scor­ing for the Hur­ri­canes from long range.

Carter’s sec­ond suc­cess­ful penalty from three attempts gives the Cru­saders the half time lead.

Casey Laulala crosses for the only try of the game.

Richie McCaw doesn’t infringe at the break­down, honest.

Skip­per McCaw tri­umphantly holds the tro­phy up as team­mates look on.

The crowd goes wild in the stands.

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Jor­dan Carter is one of the most puerile and churl­ish Labour apol­o­gists out there. He often drib­bles on with anti-American, anti-Brash rhetoric and resorts to Cullen-esque whiney, snippy state­ments of what is and isn’t.

Again despite plenty of other impor­tant news out there to com­ment on he takes a swipe at Don Brash.

Well Jor­dan, since you started it here goes. 

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A UK radio sta­tion has banned the play­ing of James Blunt because their lis­ten­ers are sick of hear­ing his music.

Oh I wish to God NZ radio sta­tions would concur. 

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A TVNZ Colmar-Brunton poll last night found 63 per cent of respon­dents did not believe Dr Cullen ‘s warn­ings about the fis­cal con­se­quences of tax cuts.

Effec­tively say­ing Yeah Right!!! to the His­tory Teacher.

Of course both Cullen and Helen Clark say the poll is skewed to the right and flawed yet again shoot­ing the mes­sen­ger rather than lis­ten to the message.

Labour has now effec­tively lost the tax debate. 

The other debate that has Labour in a tizzy is the pri­or­i­ties of spend­ing where clearly Labour has again mis-calculated. Their vaunted Work­ing For Fam­i­lies has appar­ently fallen flat as has pre-funding super and road­ing spend­ing. The top two pri­or­i­ties for Kiwis are Health and Tax Cuts.

This is clear vic­tory to national for set­ting the agenda and makes it the sec­ond Cullen bud­get in a row to fall flat on its face. 

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