Dave Armstrong: Government has lost its bottle over water policy

There is no one, and I mean absolutely NO ONE, as hypocritical as the left. Their mantra has always been ˜do as I say and not as I do'

The hypocrisy of the Champagne Socialist.

Shambolic incompetent coalition is there no end to their madness.

The coalition is having to water down nearly all their policies as they come to terms with the real world.They played on the emotions of the scared,the weak,the infirm ,the young and the unintelligent.They lead them to believe they could do a better job based on nothing but their own self perpetuating spinI guess to be brutal they were lying.Please,any body,as soon as you can,please vote this rabble out of office.

The Greens need to realise that they will be packing up their tents and going home and will not even be part of the next election. This water bottling fiasco is the last straw and they have lost any supporters they had after this. Sage has proven she cannot be trusted and is a sellout. This party also showed us it supports fraudsters and liars. They also support so called lawyers who like to slate Kiwis and chance they get while forgetting this country allowed them to come here in the first place. No wonder they are losing support. Kiwis do not take too kindly to being lied to and being disrespected by a bunch of fools who are cooking their own goose. Its too bad they turned into an activist party that cannot be trusted. Adios Greens turn the lights off and lock the door on your way out!!!

Endless back tracks and blatant over promised dishonesty by this coalition coming home to roost as everyone said it would despite the medias best attempts to bury scandals within the 24 hour news cycle. Charter school termination letter reported at 9.30 last night, cynically timed to offer Labour the least amount of attention, its buried now in the mornings news feeds. It doesnt get any more blatant than that from the media. Curran did the same thing then left the country . Cindy did it with Oil, its so dishonest and cowardly. We all know the greens so called principals are about as solid as the foundation this Frankenstein coalition is built on and they will eventually eat themselves like the left always does . Heres hoping to seeing less of her majestys face in the news for the next six weeks at least.

come now Ananda, there are none so blind as those who refuse to see. Please take off those rose-red tinted spectacles and see the Labour Government for what it is.

Thats a very adult rebuttal.

Great to see the Greens eating greens.

No worries, well all be forced to have photos of Chairman Mao on the wall before long.

The Greens and Labour both loudly campaigned that they would stop any applications any applications to extract our pure water for export from foreign companies. Conservation Greens Minister (excluding H20) Eugenie Sage has just approved an application to a Chinese owned company and virtually has said to them - Take all you want.Then the same Minster Eugenie Sage receives an application from a small West Coast company to extract some coal for export and she suddenly remembers she is a greeny and immediately blocks that application.The Greens are a joke.

Greens all mouth and trousers total waste of space as party

homelessness has risen in christchurch and is now over 200 , after years of growth many businesses are now struggling and have had a drop in turnover and the future is very uncertain. You may think its ok to throw money at the island, boating, harness racing, students ahead of more important things but a growing majority thinks different

You mean all those things that are widespread throughout the western world as a result of welfare diminishing state budgets, illicit drug use, poor parenting and gang inspired crime that labour is solving for the world by creating awesome committees stocked with failed ex politicians and labour acolytes?

kgm, you can call National a lot of names (and you have) but the hypocrit label belongs squarely to Labour. TTPA hypocrisy, PPP hypocrisy, double bunking hypocrisy, pay-for-access hypocrisy...

Naive decisions made by a naive government who have no idea about the realities of running government.

Stop repeating the lie that the minister was constrained. She wasnt and chose to ignore her own party line. Maybe Dave should read Section 17(2) of the OIA, instead of believing a press release from an under fire and incompetent minister:S17(2) of the Act details factors for assessing any application. They include:whether there are or will be adequate mechanisms in place for protecting or enhancing existing areas of significant indigenous vegetation and significant habitats of indigenous faunaconditions as to pest control, fencing, fire control, erosion control, or riparian plantingcovenants over the landprotecting or enhancing existing areas of significant habitats of trout, salmon, wildlife protected under section 3 of the Wildlife Act 1953, and game as defined in sections 2(1) of that Actproviding, protecting, or improving walking access to those habitats by the public or any section of the publicconditions for conservationagreement to support the entry on the New Zealand Heritage List/Rārangi Kōrero of any historic place, historic area, wahi tapu, or wahi tapu area under the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Act 2014

Proponents of MMP will say the coalition agreements were and are confidential.Opponents will say if they are not made public you don't know what you are voting for even though the manifestos were laid out clear. The difference was who screwed the most out of who at the table. We know Labour gave away more than they needed to because Winston never negotiated with National with any intent to side with them. Labour gave away more than they had to.

And the GFC and Chch earthquakes never happened......

On parade in a regional economy near you, the hypocrisy of the Green Commissars. Using jobs as a justification was a National Party excuse and now the Greens trot it out but hypocritically do not care about jobs on the West Coast or Taranaki when they can pontificate and virtue signal against the dreaded fossil fuels. Cuddling up to big cosy Chinese Companies is so much more pure, right? Well, both do practice their own forms of communism so I suppose it must be OK.