Imagine if this many companies were failing under Labour
EB Games proposes closing all New Zealand stores
Ten businesses that didn’t survive 2025
Liquidations hit decade-high in worst period since global financial crisis
Can you all imagine how insane Mike Hosking would be if Labour were in power and they were shredding companies as fast as National/ACT and NZFirst have managed?
Do you think there would be jokey laughs and portrait swapping?
The mantra that National are better for the Economy is a lie.
Labour is good for Capitalism, National is good for Capitalists.
Don’t dare lecture the Left on Economic management again!
Imagine if this many companies were failing under Labour!
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Of course the smug Hosking would be stirring the pot big time if Labour was destroying our economy and country as is this demented, desperate CoC. Hosking is another ME ME ME person and a RW Shill. Again, it’s all about the money-tree and how much he personally can get from it. I keep asking “how much is enough”, but it appears there is no limit to greed! The only people who frequent his ZB freak show are has-beens, ie those past their sell-by-date who are still living in the past. No-one with integrity, or a working brain, ever goes there! For years I have taken no notice of him whatsoever – he is totally expendable. Interesting, how will the owners/workers from these affected companies vote next time? National and their ilk are a dose of poison to our people and country; surely this is obvious to all by now?
Hosking does balance like a legless acrobat on a tightrope.
PG your obsession with Hosking, your knowledge of Hosking, demonstrates you are a devoted follower of Hosking.
A follower and clearly knowledgeable understanding of Hosking’s bio. Hosking, like you Bob is not that bright and suffers small man syndrome. Worst of all, if Hosking attacked Luxon like he did, then you definitely know this government is crap.
I believe my academic achievements, my brightness levels, my knowledge levels and my extensive travel experience have me considerably brighter than you CG.
Come on Trevor! Just tell us how we just have to wait a few weeks more before the economy will magically surge forward into a new paradise of wealth for all!
I have some magic beans that I will swap with you for your house and car.
Yes, where is Trevor, Trevori?
Interested if those companies and employees feel the same as Trevor, Trevori does?
But but but but we are getting back on track are we not
Business confidence best since 2014 .Permits for new homes up . Real Estate agents see a surge in demand from both 1st homebuyer and landlords. . Have faith and trust in the Coalition to provide.
Cease with the bovine scatology trev https://www.stuff.co.nz/money/360923570/tough-december-retailers-boxing-day-sales-slump-124
Oh the failed real estate economy again .Keep doing the same boom and bust bull shit then look back 10 years and you will see the country has gone down hill .We are plunging over the Luxon/Willis cliff right now .48K businesses will go broke this year yee ha the growth that these clowns are dreaming of .
‘Permits for new homes up . Real Estate agents see a surge in demand from both 1st homebuyer and landlords. ‘
So Trevor confirms the adage that New Zealand has a housing market with an economy attached.
Economic growth is not about the number of Real Estate Agents or land developers who make money, or banks putting people in debt for the rest of their lives, or boomers wanking themselves silly over property values. It is about jobs paying decent wages. It is about producing exports.
Trevor it is a democracy and you are allowed the free speech that my father and grandfather fought to obtain for you but I really do wish you would stop saying black is white, hot is cold, the sun is the moon and Luxon was CEO of Air New Zealand because he is a successful businessman(Luxon was CEO of Air Zealand because his dad was a business executive and David went to the proper schools).
You do not stay as top dog in any job if you are not good at your role .I am sure many on this site do not know what it takes to be in charge of even a small operation. Making hard calls that effect the lifes of hundreds takes a spe ial type of person.
Im sure many on this site are literate enough to run a business of any size Trevori, you not so much.
The guy making the hard calls as PM is affecting not “effect” the lives of millions and in no way good.
How are you sure trev do enlighten us the many
Business confidence at new high, highest since 2014.
Oh Trev, that’s fucking rich given you have a childs conception of the world.
And Luxon has his current job because National were literally scraping the barrel for anyone who wasn’t Todd Meuller, Simon Bridges or Judith Collins.
You can’t even provide links or evidence for anything you claim. My 12 year old god daughter can do that, so what’s your excuse?
You’re just another drab parrot squawking out headlines you’ve read but never actually engaged with or thought about.
Cinder congratulating herself again.
Hope your 12 year old god daughter doesn’t read your foul mouthed comments.
Well said Cinder, business confidence is the lowest since 2018, moral at its lowest and record numbers of businesses have closed. I wouldn’t hold Bobs view of the English language to a candle, judging by his illiterate posts.
Nicely said stevie.
I’m a man of letters,an erudite chap, a literary scholar.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/companies/liquidations-hit-15-year-high-as-2025-proves-brutal-for-struggling-firms/premium/SZT465DMBZATHNMSUJ4WDVOWSY/
Oh trevori, you need psychiatric help.
“Oh trevori, you need psychiatric help ”
Nah just sent back to the U.K that is the stunning success it is thanks to Trevor’s New Labour and Tory austerity approach. I bet he would be terrified to return to the free market wasteland he escaped from.
And yet he supports the same evil polices being enforced in the country he emigrated half way around the world to and has the audacity to lecture real New Zealanders on the merits of destructive neo liberal policies and their enormous success we are still waiting to see as we are exploited and suppressed by the same policies the U.K are now dealing with the serious damage inflicted on many.
The real reason why urban businesses are failing is because their source of all but free farmer money’s drying up so there’s no money left to be pimped here, at great cost I might add, by PONZI scammer banksters artificially inflating the myth that’s our economy because they, the banks have fled the Kiwi ship they’ve sunk and are now rorting Australia. If you want to see where our economy’s heading then go into the countryside and look out onto empty paddocks as Auckland increasingly becomes a ghetto city.
Bomber your LINO mates support the economic system you and many of us writing on here detest and revile.
You have repeatedly written blogs on LINO’s failure’s.
Yes LINO gets a hard time as the main neo liberal supporter to the free marketers preferred support party and its media enablers and labeled ” left ” to somehow justify having an enemy that the old Westminster system that once recognized left and right wing parties were providing actual alternatives.
There is nothing ” left ” or progressive that is on offer in Aotearoa that exist in other countries overseas.
Our political choices are bland , boring , beige and predictable to ensure the status quo right wing economic austerity establishment continues unopposed.
Ardern could have , should have stepped up and delivered REAL change but did not believe in anything other than the status quo with a few kindness tweaks to provide the illusion of actual change that many Kiwis were demanding.
That was never going to work and ensured her and the sixth LINO led governments defeat.
The real enemy is has strengthened its grip on all of the people Ardern promised to save.
Her legacy of inaction and indifference to the economic enemy and failure to deliver REAL outcomes has been hidden behind the pandemic , Chris Tarrant and White Island.
Hipkins and his colleagues are still failing our people.
Agree 100%. And there have been no signs of Labour promoting transformational change in the short to medium term.
Agree 100%. And there have been no signs of Labour promoting transformational change in the short to medium term.
Business confidence at a new high, landslide for the Right assured.
Record numbers of businesses closing.
Confidence in the business sector rising, pointing to another landslide for the Coalition Government, right wing that is.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/61-shops-announce-closures-in-10-days-will-liquidation-numbers-get-worse-before-they-improve/U763UIL7HNB4BJQDXZDVHHUQ34/
Confidence at an all time low.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360925400/food-prices-rise-4-cent-2025-driven-grocery-and-meat-costs
Prices skyrocketing.
New Zealanders confidence at an all-time low, pointing to another landslide for the Labour Coalition Government, like 2020.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54519628
Imitation the ultimate flattery CG, thank you.
Thank you for your admission that I am correct.
Not at all CG.