Anyone else seeing a striking resemblance between Don trumps and Winnie Peters use of twitter? Peters is looking like a bit of a twit....

Trump, a billionaire that is now President of the USA. I have a hard time believing he is an idiot. Maybe its just fashionable to pick on him.

kitno wrote: Trump, a billionaire that is now President of the USA. I have a hard time believing he is an idiot. Maybe its just fashionable to pick on him.

Winnie for PMscary as it seems but with Bill at the helm for now,Winnie will be a force as far as coalition partner goes,whats greens/labour got to offer??little maybe the leader of labour but must do what the party wants,not what he thinks is right.

I find Trump refreshingly non P.C. Says and is begining to do what other presidents have been told not to say or do.

As for the rest. I see, lookaway, and quietly smile.

Think Pompeys tall poppy gets close..
Winnies policies are usually / often not practical and/ or would cause eg  al sorts of international trade agreement issues type of thing...
Which is basically what trumpy got voted in on....
Just say the right things, get enough propaganda hype behind you regardless if practical or not, get enough to vote and presto.
 But are we as voters, at least those who do vote under the MMP party/ candidate system going to do what the American voters have done?
 

Trump is an example of the difference between stupid and ignorant.
Whilst he's not stupid, he is unbelievably ignorant about a multitude of things

Why are they not practical? What has the number of seats or the make up of them have to do with international trade agreements or that type of thing?

 Basic international free trade agreement clauses.. The very basic concept of free trade agreement is about even playing field without and local sub-ties for competition of local product...
 And example of this is Winnies  latest on local wool producers.. holding the industry up by legislating for preferential treatment for the very much more expensive local wool  carpets
 We do that and next thing you will se use being dragged thru the Brussels courts , while in the meant time the other counters imply shut off our access to all their markets.
 Trade agreements are not the only area where this sort of thing happens.. migration agreements with many other countries, agreements on returning criminals, proceeds from criminal activity.

What polles say at election time in their propaganda is NOT BINDING and so often just not possible to do.. and if it is, likely to send the country into a spiralling recession.
 But this is good warn fuzzy vote catching PR

And as we see, now, Trump was a master of this BS. he cant even get any of his core policies thru a senate or congress lead by his own party... a wall.. cultural immigration/ entry, health care,  Europe pay for more of the NATO budget....and thats just the tip.

pjc wrote: What is free trade? If you seriously think that you can x amount to china with no restrictions.and they can send x amount here.think again.they who hold the purse strings have the final say.Winston knows all too well how the game is played and us kiwis are on the court.

Yep. We are still the only mugs that truly have free trade. We give all our stuff away free of any tarrifs. Most other country's still have tariffs/subsidies called by different names. They still pratice protectionism to a degree. Not good old asset stripped NZ. Nooooooo. We give away our valuable natural resources dirt cheep instead of value adding here. We want to lead the way in foolishness.You are bang on with the purse strings analogy. China routinely threatens us, not openly but through manufactured back door trade hassles.What really grates is we have to pay so called market prices for products manufactured here using all our infrastructure. 1 kg butter $9. Ridiculous. Yet it can be purchsed cheaper in Europe. When we bleat about it they threaten us by saying the could sell the whole lot overseas and we should consider ourselves lucky. We send our best produce overseas and substitute it with inferior product from our trading partners. Yipeeeeee!