wayneL
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Reposted... Put in the wrong thread before.
Jacinda Ardern announces resignation as New Zealand Prime Minister
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A comfortable sinecure at the UN doubtless awaits.
"Run Away, Run Away"
"Run Away, Run Away"
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What is about old and middle age men that cannot handle younger females in power?
Must ask a mate of mine (Psychologist)
Any way lets be adjective and look at the numbers from a independ source.
As the world is thanking Jacinda Ardern profoundly for her 14 years in New Zealand’s Parliament and more than five as prime minister, a large number of white male scribes have joined in a frenzy of extraordinarily bitter attacks. Alan Austin reports on her economic performance.
Jacinda Ardern announced on Thursday her intention to retire from the prime ministership in February and from the parliament at the October election. Condemnations from the conservative media are remarkably fact-free.
“All her economic instincts were bad, all her strategic instincts were bad. She had a great desire to undo productive economic reform and remove or shut down the engines of economic growth for what should be a nation of limitless opportunity.”
James Macpherson on the Bolt Report claimed,
“Jacinda Ardern wants to be remembered for being empathetic and kind. Well, she won’t be remembered for building a strong economy.”
The Daily Mail’s Guy Adams opined that,
“Back in New Zealand, where this progressive superstar has never been quite so popular as she has overseas, voters are facing a cost-of-living crisis, spiralling crime rates and soaring inflation. Housing is increasingly unaffordable and the economy is on the verge of a recession …”
The Flat White column at The Spectator asserted,
“Labour is aware that a failing economy is bad for the polls, with Ardern previously overseeing a pay-cut in solidarity.”
We now have annual GDP growth for all 38 wealthy OECD members. New Zealand now ranks fourth, the highest ranking since records have been kept. See grey chart, below.
Oh wait but there is more
At 6.4 per cent, New Zealand’s annual economic growth, far from being “on the verge of a recession” is double the rate of the Netherlands, South Korea, Italy, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom. It is three times that of the USA and four times Japan, Germany, France and Switzerland.
When Ardern became prime minister in October 2017, New Zealand’s annual GDP growth was a modest 3.0 per cent which ranked 19th in the OECD.
That ranks fifth in the OECD, beaten only by Switzerland, Norway, Denmark and Japan.
Job participation had reached an all-time high of 71.2 per cent just before Ardern took office. She kept this within what seems to be an optimum band between 69.9 and 71.2 per cent throughout her tenure, until the third quarter last year, when it reached a new record high of 71.7 per cent.
Labour productivity was a modest 124.1 when Ardern took office. This has increased steadily since then, except for a blip during the Covid recession, and hit a new peak of 132.02 in the latest quarter.
Wages have increased satisfactorily from NZ$30.51 per hour in Ardern’s first quarter to NZ$37.93 in the last measure published.
Ardern’s Government has shone in budget discipline, with healthy budget surpluses in 2017, 2018 and 2019. The pandemic recession year caused a deficit of 7.3 per cent of GDP, with that improving substantially in 2021 to just 1.3 per cent of GDP.
“In substance, Ardern was a flop … She promised the government would build 100,000 homes, it built barely 1000.”
We read earlier the Daily Mail hack bemoaning “Housing is increasingly unaffordable …”
Well, according to Stats NZ, total housing starts have risen in every Ardern year and boomed over the last two. In the first five years of the previous National Government, housing approvals averaged 3.7 per year per one thousand residents. Through Ardern’s five years, they averaged 8.2 per year. See blue chart, below.
michaelwest.com.au
Must ask a mate of mine (Psychologist)
Any way lets be adjective and look at the numbers from a independ source.
"Murdoch’s wailing old white man scribes get Jacinda Ardern dead wrong, again"
As the world is thanking Jacinda Ardern profoundly for her 14 years in New Zealand’s Parliament and more than five as prime minister, a large number of white male scribes have joined in a frenzy of extraordinarily bitter attacks. Alan Austin reports on her economic performance.
Jacinda Ardern announced on Thursday her intention to retire from the prime ministership in February and from the parliament at the October election. Condemnations from the conservative media are remarkably fact-free.
Shutting down the engines of growth
Greg Sheridan writing in The Australian wailed,“All her economic instincts were bad, all her strategic instincts were bad. She had a great desire to undo productive economic reform and remove or shut down the engines of economic growth for what should be a nation of limitless opportunity.”
James Macpherson on the Bolt Report claimed,
“Jacinda Ardern wants to be remembered for being empathetic and kind. Well, she won’t be remembered for building a strong economy.”
The Daily Mail’s Guy Adams opined that,
“Back in New Zealand, where this progressive superstar has never been quite so popular as she has overseas, voters are facing a cost-of-living crisis, spiralling crime rates and soaring inflation. Housing is increasingly unaffordable and the economy is on the verge of a recession …”
The Flat White column at The Spectator asserted,
“Labour is aware that a failing economy is bad for the polls, with Ardern previously overseeing a pay-cut in solidarity.”
We now have annual GDP growth for all 38 wealthy OECD members. New Zealand now ranks fourth, the highest ranking since records have been kept. See grey chart, below.
Oh wait but there is more
At 6.4 per cent, New Zealand’s annual economic growth, far from being “on the verge of a recession” is double the rate of the Netherlands, South Korea, Italy, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom. It is three times that of the USA and four times Japan, Germany, France and Switzerland.
When Ardern became prime minister in October 2017, New Zealand’s annual GDP growth was a modest 3.0 per cent which ranked 19th in the OECD.
Employment
The jobless rate has been at 3.4 per cent or lower since June 2021. Between September 2021 and March 2022, the rate was 3.2 per cent, the lowest since records have been kept.That ranks fifth in the OECD, beaten only by Switzerland, Norway, Denmark and Japan.
Job participation had reached an all-time high of 71.2 per cent just before Ardern took office. She kept this within what seems to be an optimum band between 69.9 and 71.2 per cent throughout her tenure, until the third quarter last year, when it reached a new record high of 71.7 per cent.
Labour productivity was a modest 124.1 when Ardern took office. This has increased steadily since then, except for a blip during the Covid recession, and hit a new peak of 132.02 in the latest quarter.
Wages have increased satisfactorily from NZ$30.51 per hour in Ardern’s first quarter to NZ$37.93 in the last measure published.
Further fun facts and figures
New Zealand’s current inflation rate is 7.2 per cent, just below the peak of 7.3 in the previous quarter. This is well below the OECD average of 11.6 per cent, ranking around eleventh. Given the global challenges, it is quite false to characterise this as “soaring”.Ardern’s Government has shone in budget discipline, with healthy budget surpluses in 2017, 2018 and 2019. The pandemic recession year caused a deficit of 7.3 per cent of GDP, with that improving substantially in 2021 to just 1.3 per cent of GDP.
Housing approvals
The Australian’s Greg Sheridan wrote:“In substance, Ardern was a flop … She promised the government would build 100,000 homes, it built barely 1000.”
We read earlier the Daily Mail hack bemoaning “Housing is increasingly unaffordable …”
Well, according to Stats NZ, total housing starts have risen in every Ardern year and boomed over the last two. In the first five years of the previous National Government, housing approvals averaged 3.7 per year per one thousand residents. Through Ardern’s five years, they averaged 8.2 per year. See blue chart, below.
Murdoch's wailing old white man scribes get Jacinda Ardern dead wrong, again - Michael West
As the world is thanking Jacinda Ardern profoundly for her 14 years in New Zealand’s parliament, Rupert Murdoch's scribes are wailing again
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Personally I think this is the biggest problem the West in general, not just NZ, has.
Politics has become a highly toxic environment that simply drives away those with real intellectual ability or even those who are simply normal everyday people.
The very nature of it simply isn't going to attract the sorts of people we really ought to have in parliament on account of either their background and knowledge or their representing a broad cross section of society. Rather, it's going to attract an extremely narrow range of people with specific ability in politics itself and no good alternative career option.
Affordable housing. All those stats are not relevantWhat is about old and middle age men that cannot handle younger females in power?
Must ask a mate of mine (Psychologist)
Any way lets be adjective and look at the numbers from a independ source.
"Murdoch’s wailing old white man scribes get Jacinda Ardern dead wrong, again"
As the world is thanking Jacinda Ardern profoundly for her 14 years in New Zealand’s Parliament and more than five as prime minister, a large number of white male scribes have joined in a frenzy of extraordinarily bitter attacks. Alan Austin reports on her economic performance.
Jacinda Ardern announced on Thursday her intention to retire from the prime ministership in February and from the parliament at the October election. Condemnations from the conservative media are remarkably fact-free.
Shutting down the engines of growth
Greg Sheridan writing in The Australian wailed,
“All her economic instincts were bad, all her strategic instincts were bad. She had a great desire to undo productive economic reform and remove or shut down the engines of economic growth for what should be a nation of limitless opportunity.”
James Macpherson on the Bolt Report claimed,
“Jacinda Ardern wants to be remembered for being empathetic and kind. Well, she won’t be remembered for building a strong economy.”
The Daily Mail’s Guy Adams opined that,
“Back in New Zealand, where this progressive superstar has never been quite so popular as she has overseas, voters are facing a cost-of-living crisis, spiralling crime rates and soaring inflation. Housing is increasingly unaffordable and the economy is on the verge of a recession …”
The Flat White column at The Spectator asserted,
“Labour is aware that a failing economy is bad for the polls, with Ardern previously overseeing a pay-cut in solidarity.”
We now have annual GDP growth for all 38 wealthy OECD members. New Zealand now ranks fourth, the highest ranking since records have been kept. See grey chart, below.
View attachment 151959
Oh wait but there is more
At 6.4 per cent, New Zealand’s annual economic growth, far from being “on the verge of a recession” is double the rate of the Netherlands, South Korea, Italy, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom. It is three times that of the USA and four times Japan, Germany, France and Switzerland.
When Ardern became prime minister in October 2017, New Zealand’s annual GDP growth was a modest 3.0 per cent which ranked 19th in the OECD.
Employment
The jobless rate has been at 3.4 per cent or lower since June 2021. Between September 2021 and March 2022, the rate was 3.2 per cent, the lowest since records have been kept.
That ranks fifth in the OECD, beaten only by Switzerland, Norway, Denmark and Japan.
Job participation had reached an all-time high of 71.2 per cent just before Ardern took office. She kept this within what seems to be an optimum band between 69.9 and 71.2 per cent throughout her tenure, until the third quarter last year, when it reached a new record high of 71.7 per cent.
Labour productivity was a modest 124.1 when Ardern took office. This has increased steadily since then, except for a blip during the Covid recession, and hit a new peak of 132.02 in the latest quarter.
Wages have increased satisfactorily from NZ$30.51 per hour in Ardern’s first quarter to NZ$37.93 in the last measure published.
Further fun facts and figures
New Zealand’s current inflation rate is 7.2 per cent, just below the peak of 7.3 in the previous quarter. This is well below the OECD average of 11.6 per cent, ranking around eleventh. Given the global challenges, it is quite false to characterise this as “soaring”.
Ardern’s Government has shone in budget discipline, with healthy budget surpluses in 2017, 2018 and 2019. The pandemic recession year caused a deficit of 7.3 per cent of GDP, with that improving substantially in 2021 to just 1.3 per cent of GDP.
Housing approvals
The Australian’s Greg Sheridan wrote:
“In substance, Ardern was a flop … She promised the government would build 100,000 homes, it built barely 1000.”
We read earlier the Daily Mail hack bemoaning “Housing is increasingly unaffordable …”
Well, according to Stats NZ, total housing starts have risen in every Ardern year and boomed over the last two. In the first five years of the previous National Government, housing approvals averaged 3.7 per year per one thousand residents. Through Ardern’s five years, they averaged 8.2 per year. See blue chart, below.
View attachment 151960
Murdoch's wailing old white man scribes get Jacinda Ardern dead wrong, again - Michael West
As the world is thanking Jacinda Ardern profoundly for her 14 years in New Zealand’s parliament, Rupert Murdoch's scribes are wailing again
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I wonder if that applies to , Trump, Morrison and Boris Johnson, not going by the venom and toxic posts on here, which you would think doesn't have resident loonies. Lol
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As a life observation I haven't noticed any correlation between age or gender when it comes to ability in management or other leadership roles.
I have however noticed that those who see their age, gender or even more so sexuality as a key virtue are usually terrible at actually doing the job. Those who are good, don't spend time making a point of such things.
Throwaway comments or a random joke doesn't count in that context, I mean those who labour the point repeatedly.
Yeah I wonder if we now blame "young single women" not being able to handle middle age men in power. It's a stupid "left take" using race, age, income and then use it as some kind of justification. This is the exact vomit the media has been regurgitating through the woke era.
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I said no one and that includes those you have mentioned.
IFocus
You are arguing with a Galah
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As a life observation I haven't noticed any correlation between age or gender when it comes to ability in management or other leadership roles.
I have however noticed that those who see their age, gender or even more so sexuality as a key virtue are usually terrible at actually doing the job. Those who are good, don't spend time making a point of such things.
Throwaway comments or a random joke doesn't count in that context, I mean those who labour the point repeatedly.
In politics women get hammered and its really nasty no matter what side.
In my own experience generally I found the girls better no matter what age didn't have to deal with the ego all the time as with some males, could argue a point on its merits.
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True, look at Gillard, Hilary and Adern, they all copped the mysoginy tirade.
I wonder if the same happened to Merkel. If so she did pretty well to last as long as she did.
But, on the other side a few male politicians have copped it from the feminist lobby, Morrison, Porter, Tudge et al. Does that square things up ?
wayneL
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The ladies have to be able to take as good as they give. There is no free pass in politics. You can't argue equality/equity, be an authoritarian schmuck, and then expect special treatment for being a woman.
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So you agree with the concept of personal denigration and threats of violence being an accepted part of the social millieu ?
wayneL
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Who the hell are you? Cathy Newman?
As much as you or I wish it weren't, the fact is that it is... as much as politcians are out of touch, globalist totalitarian tw@ts, drunk on power.
Trump and his family copped it worse than anyone.
In fact didn't you and IFocus jump on board all the made up stories I was constantly debunking?
Ardern probably copped less than Trudeau and they are a cookie cutter of each other.
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What is that Cathy Newman crack meant to mean , and who the hell is Cathy Newman ?
You either condemn threats of violence or agree with them, what do you do ?
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Don't know what you are talking about, give examples.
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Who's Cathy Newman ?
wayneL
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It means, that like in Newman's debate with JP, you have tried to construct a putrid and disgraceful strawman fallacy to ascribe views I have never held. This is among the lowest and foulest of argumentation.
You *know* I don't agree with violence or threats, so go shove that up your ***
Of Trump copping it worse or examples of jumping on board fake news
https://news.yahoo.com/barron-trump-relentlessly-cyber-bullied-024454289.html
