. Cheers, Pat ... Merry Christmas to you too & have an exceptionally pleasant New Year.
. Agree and coming up with the usual anti- 'maari' sentiments that have been such an unwelcome refrain in TS over the last year or so. Spare me the pathetic attempts to smear anyone who fails to immediately march in lockstep with each new radically-...
. has the potential to put an end to NZ as we know it Good. We can do so much better. The Year Zero Burn it all Down Nihilism of the socially-detached, genuinely privileged professional middle-classes ... no skin in the game, no consequences for you, ...
. Shanreagh (to RedLogix): Possibly best for you to read the actual report rather than purport to debate on the basis of some media commentary. RedLogix (to Shanreagh): I have scanned it though to get a sense of the general tenor, and read more carefully ...
. I'm not entirely sure they poll on the lurid echo-chamber fantasies of ludicrously self-righteous Pakeha Woke dogmatists who reduce the nuanced, complex & paradoxical reality of New Zealand history to a crude, distorted, simple-minded good vs evil ...
. Public opinion on a few high profile social issues / party policy as expressed in recent polling: (1) Q: Do you think young people should be sent to military boot camps if they are serious offenders? This would involve young people aged 10 to 17. [1 News...
. Yep, a potential swing to ACT esp for former Nats suspicious that a Luxon Govt will quietly settle for much of the extremist Woke agenda ... and a potential swing to NZF esp for disillusioned Labour voters aware that the Party's been captured by an ...
. Ohhh, careful now ... you'll raise the ire of the Critical Race Theory brigade ... as you may know, these ruthless, self-righteous dogmatists wield "racism" smears like a full set of weaponry to enforce a very dubious suite of policies & close down any ...
. Of course, a key problem with the post is that it's a year & a half out of date ... when it was first posted in August 2021, Collins was still leader & the Nats were polling in the 20s, their poll ratings frequently little more than twice as high as ...
. ... then clearly stated his objective to supplant National as the leading party on the right. He’s on track for that, as current media attention shows. and (National) could well splinter Both of these predictions seem very unlikely to me. It's the kind ...
. LOL ... spare me the ID pols bullshit from pampered well-to-do virtue-signalers like dear old Daphne ... Oligarchic Capitalism absolutely loves the affluent Woke cadre within the Professional Middle Class ... its inherent divisiveness, its rejection of ...
. Surprising given I studied New Zealand (& Australian & British) Labour History at Uni ... read very widely, derived a wealth of info from my parents & the wider family and undertook quite a bit of original research.
. ... in Aotearoa right now. While I personally quite like the name (although the notion it was ever employed by Maori to denote New Zealand as a whole is a myth) ... let's bear in mind polling suggests just 7% of Euro/Pakeha & just 21% of Maori support ...
. A significant misreading of the contemporary zeitgeist ... there is so much to take issue with here. To take just one example ... Labour is not helping itself. It shows signs of third termitis. Senior ministers look tired and there is a feeling that big ...
. In a word ... yes. (we're talking Party-Vote, of course).
. New Zealand Election Study flow-of-the-vote stats (over the decades) suggest when Labour voters are disillusioned with their Party they tend to move into non-voting ... whereas disenchanted Nats are much more likely to swing to other parties. Does the ...
. I should, incidentally, at this point publicly acknowledge & massively thank both Tom Hunter at Yes Minister & David Farrar at Kiwiblog. Both gentlemen published blog posts on my parents' situation. And I greatly appreciate it. Tom was the first to ...
. Would you consider going to the media? Thanks for all your support, Anker ... genuinely appreciate it. Yeah, I've definitely considered it & did make an approach (albeit a fairly tentative one) that ultimately proved unsuccessful. But I did have a ...
. Candidate selection processes need to specifically look for and exclude the self-aggrandising, the paranoid, and anyone with a Messiah complex. Precisely the qualifications selection panels prize most.
. 57.1% counted Potaka (Nat) 4597 Dansey (Lab) 3026 McDowall (ACT) 976 Sharma (NZMP) 827 current margin 1571
. Who seemingly doesn't have a problem throwing her own party colleagues under the bus and ignoring collective cabinet responsibility. LOL ... spot on. The patronising 'Noble Savage' paternalism of affluent Pakeha Wokedom is quite extraordinary. Deriving ...
. Cheers, Red. My ancient smart phone (born 2012) proved absolutely useless ... couldn't even remotely deal with the mongrel's violent slamming into the dividing wall / driving heavy objects with full force into both the floor & walls / highly aggressive ...
. @Shanreagh (In reply to your reply to me below) just being able watch. That sentence means remarkably little to me, I'm afraid. Normally I'd respond to your key point but I remember ... not all that long ago ... two very reasonable women on this site ...
. Spare me the moral lecturing from a wannabe terrorist like Kemara. Dubious AF.
. but equally I am not going to be lectured to by authoritarian ideologues who are motivated primarily to protect a political narrative. Spot on.
. Captured by an affluent, profoundly un-democratic & (despite all the ostentatious moral posturing) ruthlessly self-interested Pakeha Woke cadre ... together with an equally ruthless & authoritarian ethno-nationalist Maori caucus. The phoney virtue-...
. Series of huge, violent slams from the malevolently sadistic social housing neighbour on the other side of my 91 & 92 yo parents dividing-wall over a 2 hour period this afternoon & early evening. They've been forced to endure 5 years of this Nightmare. ...
. Obviously, this evening's 1 News Kantar reinforces (indeed, intensifies) my point.
. Micky: I am not surprised that his (Luxon's) preferred PM ratings are so bad. But they're not. . In a recent post, you argued that: there is this really, really major feature that the media is not highlighting. The recent Newshub poll confirmed that ...
. Yep ... that's fair enough ... I've realised in the last few days that I've been moving into troll territory over recent weeks (so was expecting a mod note at some point) ... ... and, to continue the self-critique, I've also been indulging a little too ...
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