Labour MP Shane Jones began yesterday bluffing away a dirty secret he has carried for two years, but by day's end, after admitting it, even he was questioning his political future.

An nzherald.co.nz poll showed 70 per cent of readers thought Jones should lose his job - a sentiment echoed by several prominent bloggers.

EMA chief executive Alasdair Thomson says ministers should be treated like company employees.

One minister received contant pleas from Ministerial Services to forward overdue credit card reconciliations instead of waiting to be asked.

Former Labour Minister Shane Jones told radio he was a "red-blooded adult" but using his ministerial credit card for porn should not have happened.

Former Labour Minister Rick Barker charged 16 Corona beers on his ministerial credit card, and later reimbursed it for "some" of the cost.

Labour MP Chris Carter has owned up to spending taxpayer money on pay per-view films and flowers for his partner.

Porn? Wine? Flowers? Golf clubs? What is appropriate? Share your views on the ministerial spending scandal.

MP Shane Jones is expected to be one of the more embarrassed former Labour Cabinet ministers when details of credit card spending going back six years are released today.

John Key's national cycleway has hit a bumpy patch, with only about 10km constructed from the $50m fund set up for the project.

Inflation makes savers the biggest Budget losers.

The Government has embarked on a path to abolish building depreciation on virtually every building type and could hit depreciation claims on commercial building fit-outs in future, says Bayleys Valuations director John Freeman.

It's time to kill the middle class welfare boondoggles.