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Strypey<p>"[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."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/SimonWilson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SimonWilson</span></a>, 2025</p><p><a href="https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/road-tolls-ppps-and-the-investment-summit-time-for-some-honesty-simon-wilson/UJJKPOL6RZFZJM26NK4DC2JKDA/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nzherald.co.nz/nz/road-tolls-p</span><span class="invisible">pps-and-the-investment-summit-time-for-some-honesty-simon-wilson/UJJKPOL6RZFZJM26NK4DC2JKDA/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/HatTip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HatTip</span></a> to Gordon Campbell, who quoted this pithy fact in his own piece on Public Private Partnerships;</p><p><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2503/S00039/gordon-campbell-on-winston-peters-bad-trip-and-the-return-of-the-ppps-zombie.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2503/S00</span><span class="invisible">039/gordon-campbell-on-winston-peters-bad-trip-and-the-return-of-the-ppps-zombie.htm</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PPP</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>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.</p><p>As <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/SimonWilson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SimonWilson</span></a> of the Herald put it</p><p>"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."</p><p><a href="https://omny.fm/shows/the-working-group/2024-a-year-in-review-guests-simon-wilson-jordan-w" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">omny.fm/shows/the-working-grou</span><span class="invisible">p/2024-a-year-in-review-guests-simon-wilson-jordan-w</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TheWorkingGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheWorkingGroup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/SimonWilson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SimonWilson</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/hilariocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hilariocracy</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>"[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."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/SimonWilson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SimonWilson</span></a>, 2024</p><p><a href="https://omny.fm/shows/the-working-group/luxon-blames-mmp-speed-limits-trump-vs-harris-gues" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">omny.fm/shows/the-working-grou</span><span class="invisible">p/luxon-blames-mmp-speed-limits-trump-vs-harris-gues</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>podcasts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TheWorkingGroup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheWorkingGroup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/NZPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NZPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TreatyPrinciples" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TreatyPrinciples</span></a></p>
Strypey<p>"[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.</p><p>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."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/SimonWilson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SimonWilson</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/NZHerald" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NZHerald</span></a>, May 30, 2024</p>
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