"[The government] is paying 4.7% interest on 10-year Treasury bonds right now, while the private sector is paying upwards of 8%. Largely because of this disparity, a British parliamentary study in 2011 found PPPs were likely to end up costing twice as much as other comparable projects."
#SimonWilson, 2025
#HatTip to Gordon Campbell, who quoted this pithy fact in his own piece on Public Private Partnerships;
Our Prime Minister, Mr Potato Head, is a classic example of hilariocracy. I don't know if he realises what a clown show he's putting on. But I suspect his party chose him precisely because he's such a clown.
As #SimonWilson of the Herald put it
"The value of what looks like ineptness is that is actually stops debate. He doesn't say anything sensible and therefore you don't have a debate about the ideas."
https://omny.fm/shows/the-working-group/2024-a-year-in-review-guests-simon-wilson-jordan-w
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"[PM Christopher Luxon] cannot have this both ways. He cannot be the person who wants to lead as a statesman in this country, and at the same time, indulge the racism."
#SimonWilson, 2024
https://omny.fm/shows/the-working-group/luxon-blames-mmp-speed-limits-trump-vs-harris-gues
Kia Ora Aotearoa! Welcome to The Working Group, New Zealand's top political podcast not funded by NZ on Air. I'm your host, Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog. Joining me tonight: - Damien Grant - libertarian liquidator and Cthulhu of Capitalism. - Simon Court - ACT Party MP - Simon Wilson - NZ Herald columnist Tonight's issues: Issue 1 - God hates ACT while Luxon blames MMP for Treaty Principles Referendum Issue 2 - Has National weaponised our impatience to raise speed limits on roads they can't pay for? Issue 3 - China and deflation Issue 4 - Trump vs Harris first debate ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TEXT: Working to 3598 Check out the Social Media - https://bento.me/theworkinggroup
"[Nicola] Willis says she's not an austerity minister, but cutting taxes, holding down wages and slashing government spending are austerity measures. There is no evidence they will reduce the wage gap: Australia is doing the reverse, which is why people are going there.
Britain, meanwhile, has spent 14 years doing very much what Willis has introduced. The result: Gross National Income per capita is on track to be eclipsed by Poland within about 10 years."
#SimonWilson, #NZHerald, May 30, 2024
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