Maybe rock star economy because there are a few very rich people at the top while the masses can only watch?
just what I was going to say!
London seems to cope with Boris Johnson's numerous affairs. How is it anyone's business but his wife's?
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bloody cheek - who elects the editor of the Herald?
well the MSM have had no problem calling the result as a blow to the government. Not a killer blow, but part of the steady erosion of support that you can't afford when you have a wafer thin majority.
however you measure it, Grant is the left candidate. For a start, he is the only one to give the correct answer on abortion, that it's a woman's right to choose, not the waffle about "conscience" that we got from the other two candidates.
just when you thought standards of journalism in NZ could sink no lower, they start a rumour then report it as a fact...
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er, no it isn't. The media have been repeating Whale Oil's meme and totally failing to report the facts. Pretty normal for them really.
is that the royal "We"?
so we have to wait for the less progressive men to support any policy about women? And that's not at all sexist... The NZLP website has over 60 pages of policy stuff but our journos are too lazy to read that. Should the party staff be able to anticipate ...
ah, Farrar, the guy who thought it appropriate to turn up to a British High Commission do celebrating the "best of British" as Jimmy Savile... classy!
Mana Party exaggerating stuff? Surely not!
because people are out! I take it you've never actually done any doorknocking?
pathetic character assassination - Shearer has no principles? how does that fit with his record? you are entitled to dislike someone but don't pretend they have vices unless you can actually give examples, not abuse
Martin McGuinness, former chief of staff ot the IRA, has told republicans to stop celebrating Thatcher's death: www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/09/martin-mcguinness-end-thatcher-celebrations Will those Standardistas so desperate to prove how right-on ...
Why would you expect anything about Chavez to be on the LP website? Any condolences will have been made to the Venezuelan people, not to Kiwis. Politicians have to say something innocuous when leaders die. Get over it. Some people are just sitting at home ...
A million dollars? It seems to have doubled in your fevered imagination! And hardly secret as it was declared to IRD. No-one believes Key forgets so many things - he's PM FFS - so he must be lying. What was your point again?
how seriously do I take someone who doesn't know the difference between "bare" and "bear"? Not very!
this article is pure kremlinology and unworthy of The Standard. In order to characterise MPs as right or left (let alone careerist - what does a non-careerist MP look like?) you have to produce evidence of policy differences. The article totally fails to ...
Ed Miliband is a typical social democratic leader, timid and prevaricating. The idea that he is to the left of Shearer is risible. It is nothing to do with their personal beliefs, it's where the party they lead happens to sit in the spectrum. The UK LP ...
anyone who ever talks to actual voters (as opposed to just talking about them) will be painfully aware that the vast majority, of all races, have minimal interest in politics and struggle to name more than a couple of MPs - Key, Peters and Mallard would ...
all these people who "know" what's happening in the Labour Party, when actually they clearly have no idea, remind me of kremlinologists back in the day. I sometimes think the far left thrives on wishful thinking - if they say something (eg "certain values ...
except that by treating it as a serious question, rather than a piece of Nat spin, he would be dignifying it as a topic. It's an old political trick, and no serious politician would fall for it. (Some on the left have a naive belief that if only the "facts...
do let us know when Mana actually achieve anything? I'm not holding my breath. The far left's refusal to dirty their hands by engaging where it will actually have an effect weakens the whole left.
the amendment that caused all the ructions was put on the agenda the day before conference, leaving no time for delegates to consult the people who'd sent them. It was NOT about making the leadership selection more democratic - that was already agreed by a...
it is absolutely typical of the left (pretty much worldwide) that instead of getting involved in the Labour Party and fighting to make it more effective, it wastes its time kibbitzing from the outside. This may make you feel better but it has nil ...
as a Brit I remember when Tony Blair was the most popular politician ever and could do no wrong. Anyone who crticised was told "look how popular he is!" It took ten years for people to see through him sadly, but by then he was toxic. Key is a poor copy of ...
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