#simonwilson — Public Fediverse posts
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"[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;
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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
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"[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