Shearer took the leadership with Labour polling at 29% and was booted out as leader with Labour at 31%. If Labour had continued to poll in the low 30% range, Russell Norman and Winston Peters would still be bickering about who got what on the front bench. ...
If Dirty Politics is to be believed then its ultimate success is surely the destroying of David Shearer. A Labour leader who consistently polled in the low to mid 30s, coupled with the Greens on low teens, is a real danger to the Nats. They needed to get ...
They're not your children and it is not their job to run a 3 year campaign for you.
The reason there is a difference in reaction is that the Right were able to alert the public of an $800,000 misappropriation by Labour prior to the 2006 retrospective legislation. The non-issue this year is because the Left have failled to publicise a ...
This election will be fought on issues, real issues, like health, education, environment, security, and yes taxation. And it is a good thing that issues will drive the campaign. And if Labour/Greens can win 50 out of every 96 votes they can win. This has ...
They are running OTT attack ads, how silly can they get? The fools use their free speech in the worst possible manner free speech can be used to drive up hatred and expect ordinary people to say "We need more of this." It is stupid.
Let's hope that it will be seen as the beat-up that it is. I'm pretty sure it will.
This shows the problem of costing political advocacy on a "per member" basis. To accommodate the AA the limit would need to be so high as to be utterly meaningless... ...Now you might want to argue that the limit of $120,000 is too low, and I might even ...
Actually that is: I agree his fiction is disturbing and have a preference for the space operas.
"I read that 'Wasp Factory'. A very disturbing little read." No disagreement there. Banks can be a very unsettling author. Agree, have failed to finish "The Bridge" twice. Like the space opera more as it is faster paced, though still a bit disturbing.
Is the government about to drop the smoking age to 12? I doubt it too.
If you could assemble 10,000 people into one organisation you'd have one of the largest political parties in the country! No, you'd have a single issue lobby where a multitude of people agree on one thing and can easily disagree on everything else. Have to...
DS - "Problem is that the EFB does not affect the lives of ordinary people (you know, genuine middle New Zealand, not the Remuera Rent-A-Mob that consititutes the major opposition to the bill). Very few people have the resources to chuck $12,000 at a ...
The absolute best thing Labour could do right now is drop the bill and make the election about core competencies, not something so universally despised as regulations on freedom of speech. It will cost some political capital, but when you get this deep in ...
So National's looking to govern alone but would anyone really want them to? No one will care. This is a 4th term election, this will be decided on incumbant government economic performance and incumbant government arrogance and if anything the personal ...
Guiliani, Obama, some Republucan I've never heard of.
It is clear from his recent post "Oh for all those claiming I am wrong" that he was fully aware that what he was pushing, while technically not incorrect (due to poor drafting), was in no way the intention of the bill. The Greens will fix the wording, and...
the sprout, The compromise made was added to modify police enforcement (intrusive effect of the bill) so that police gain discretion not to prosecute where the offence is considered to be so inconsequential that there is no public interest in a prosecution...
oh that's it. "s59 will have good parents slammed in jail for smacking their child's hand" yet another issue where it turns out the sky hasn't fallen after all, despite the best attempts of the right/Herald to convince us otherwise. Sprout, The s59 repeal...
The weather is uncaring, non-involved and quite illiterate. To suggest this a good analogy with the government is novel.
r0b & Robinsod, You might even be right, but you are asking people to believe in subtle, complex, secretive actions with the government making a mistake, correcting the mistake and claiming never to have made the mistake - not simplicity. The Herald can ...
"Government policy doesn't work that quickly. The Herald's excitable little outburst was timed all wrong to affect the workings of the select committee." Week 1 - people find out democracy is under attack by the Labour government, they read how the EFB ...
Congratulations to the Herald for bringing about some welcome changes to government policy.
I agree with Sam, the overhang will grow and a minority of votes will elect a majority of parliament.
"Perhaps you think Democracy is a bit flexible - that there's nothing wrong with restricting government and blackouts of government activities here and there, but most people who cherish a free and fair democracy will find this abhorrent." Too right ...
THE ROLE OF IDEAS INSTITUTIONS In Australia, we founded an internet based campaigning organisation called GetUp! (www.getup.org.au) Two years later it has over 200,000 members. And it's giving John Howard hell. When GetUp produced their own ad on climate ...
Um, closp that's kinda what parliament is ...
Thing is if the EFB does come back with radical changes Nats, the Herald, the Human Right Commission will point to it and show that the pressure they are applying right now will have "saved democracy". This here is now a lose/lose scenario for Labour and ...
If only there was something to say.
Woohoo. The problem was under Leave a Reply - "Welcome back unaha-closp (Change)." Need to click on the "Change" for Capthca to operate. Otherwise it never activates but allows a post to appear on the screen. Then refresh and it has not stuck.
Privatisation with rigourous competition and regulation makes sense. Privatisation as handled previously by National doesn't.
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