Ilovethebomb

While their candidate is receiving death threats?

If the photo wasn't genuine, you'd expect that to be the first thing the Greens would say in response, surely?

Yeah, it had ballooned to more than double their initial estimate, quite frankly, I don't trust Labour's numbers on any of this.

It's not explicitly said in the article, but the ships will be sister ships, from my understanding, and will be replacing the entire fleet.

Also, the original vessels were $550 mil for the pair, no way is the cancellation cost more than that.

You can comment on both the album and an individual photo on Facebook though.

And the fact it was their child doesn't make this less weird.

I think the major cost saving is having smaller ships means less port side infrastructure, so even if we do upgrade the port to modern standards, it will still be cheaper.

My understanding is we're buying two ships, which will be identical.

Also, forty rail cars is a lot, each one is equivalent to a fully loaded truck at least.

Screenshots are forever.

Never mind deleted, why would you ever post it in the first place?

That's even weirder than I thought it would be.

One person's trash policy is not another's treasure, sometimes it's simply a failure.

The issue with that suggestion is, it takes much less time to throw out what the last government was doing than to actually do something yourself.

The best way to stop "rip and replace" is to stop fucking up, in my view. The ferry project is a classic example, set to be over a billion dollars over budget, and the boats are only 550 mil each, and the boats were absolute monsters, far bigger than we needed.

Three waters is another example, if Labour had dropped the co-governance aspect, the project would likely have gone ahead without too much controversy, but they pushed ahead with a wildly unpopular proposal, and it was a big part of why they lost the election.

Yep. The Hutt Valley hasn't been too bad, but I really feel for people in Wellington City.