"National is not interested in doing anything about poverty in NZ" Emotive generalisations never constitute a winning argument. Far better to argue the facts. Everyone knows that real wage relative to real cost of living got completely out of whack between...
"No New Zealand child should grow up in poverty" is the only accurate statement CPAG has ever made. Irrespective of who they vote for, no one in NZ wants to see children mistreated by being allowed to go to school hungry, sleeping on urine stained ...
Do I trust John Key as a politician - no, I do not trust any politician as they will lie to get what they want. Do I trust John Key & the Nats are the best party - especially now Collins has gone- to take this country into the next 3 years of growth & well...
I have read it & have not changed my Nat vote. I was seriously considering it though had Collins remained in cabinet...but only in terms of abstaining as I am just not sure I could bring myself to vote left. I have deep seated economically conservative ...
"But when the government of the day is using the bloggers who are a part of their (government) network to control the narrative (ie, dish dirt and discredit), then it’s a completely different kettle of fish. And that’s what’s been happening." But where the...
It speaks volumes about Slater's lack of character that out of all the posts he chooses to delete he still has no issue with calling a West Coast car crash victim feral, or a 10 year old boy dumb: http://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2013/03/sad-fat-crap-and-dumb/ As...
I've already voted - 2 blue ticks all the way of course. Can't see how I/M are anything to be worried about. And if I thought the Nats were in serious trouble I would love to have been able to split my party vote to the Greens & Act....between the two ...
Yep, lucky enough to borrow a copy. One aspect yes, but definitely the most pertinent. I suspect with other allegations Slater could probably write his own book about the Labour party. The Collins/ede/Slater combo seems to be in a world of its own.
So what you're saying is that I have mixed up legality with actionable? What about data theft in the Crimes Act? It was covered on the post about Slater copying info from the Labour Party website? Content was hacked, only copied, but not used in manner in ...
We will never be in agreement that nutrition is compromised by access or advertising, but yes to education- if you re-read my comment I emphasis that...but through the kids. As for nutritious food being boring - that was an acknowledgement of how others ...
I'm guessing you do? For me it depends on how broad you want to go....I think GST should only apply to consumer choices & should not apply to basic needs - ALL whole grains (which then covers cereal - wholegrain oats to make porridge should be the kiwi ...
I agree except prison....I think that is being exceptionally optimistic given we have only in recent years started to appropriately sentence people for very serious crimes! Let's not forget there are still some judges who believe women cannot be raped by ...
Definitely a case for public interest, but my understanding is that the law never accepts the means justifying the ends. A case has to be established on its merits & legally - if say you broke into someone's home, saw the missing Mona Lisa & handed it in ...
No, I think we need defences against lazy complacent parents first. I'm a parent & frankly anyone who tries to pass the buck re their poor food choices as the gatekeepers on what food enters the house is lazy and negligent. The food manufacturers are the ...
I'm kinda tory :-) & I agree with personal responsibility, but I don't think that should preclude a collective responsibility to help encourage personal responsibility! :-) I think the govt should mandate a no junk ban in all schools - force the schools to...
I agree in that a stolen harddrive is without question stolen property so why has Slater not been charged with receipt of stolen good & his source been charged with theft? But I think copied information from a hacked or open site that accidentally left ...
I think that all personal information the hacker got from Slater's accounts (financials, personal family emails, doctor info etc) should be deleted & declared as such - call it a gesture of goodwill (btw not sure why he needs anything returned when he ...
oops typo!
Yes Slater did have some leverage thanks to his wee gaggle of insiders, but the question is how much of this information really mattered? Not a lot. The only major expose he had was Goff being caught out for lying about the SIS briefing - which was a non ...
Good comment weka - yes this stuff has been going on for decades, but it definitely shifted into new & illegal territory when social media started to kick off. So why do you think Hooton & Farrar have not been stood down? Why do you think they have a more ...
Yes, but that doesn't mean consequences' comment is wrong - we all know they are complicit, but whether they are as complicit as Slater claims remains to be seen. Sure there will be plenty of back-pedalling as everyone scrambles to distance themselves from...
Maybe Jordan or David, but not Matthew - he would never make basic grammar errors ("camera" as opposed to "Cameron")!
"Every careful observer of politics has known for a long time that Slater was running dirty tricks for the Nats. Plenty of media were inside Slater’s tent, as Fisher puts it, and many of them would have worked out, as Fisher did, what was going on. Why did...
I don't think Key will be gone by lunch time & I think he will probably survive this & go on to win the next election. Sorry lefties, but until Russell, King, Mallard, Hipkins, Cunliffe & Goff etc are out of politics you're losing before the campaigns even...
"Hamas using children to protect their missiles, and Israel using missiles to protect their children" You're obviously just trying to stir the hornets nest, but you could still at least try & get your observation right; the left argue that there is simply ...
I agree - there is no Slater equivalent of left-wing posts...partly because the left doesnt have access to the same level of $$ & resources & the world wasn't quite as techy pre 2008, but also because, apart from Bradbury (whose bark is admittedly often ...
I would say that in many ways the only reason why the left may not be proven to be as dirty is because, like you say, you live off the smell of an oily rag & because you haven't been the party in govt. I suspect had this kind of tech been available in the ...
Are you sure? Yes the Nats were in govt, but I thought it was lowered under the Dalziel Amendment Act - a PMB brought in by Dalziel & voted in on a conscience vote where the majority of the left voted yes & the majority of the right voted no?
Nah you can't use the recent polls as they are all before this book came out. Secondly, democracy is grossly undermined when 1) most people do not get polled, 2) most who are polled live in Waikanae or Tauranga - our retired capitals so they only reflect ...
Travis eh....interesting! I'm guessing you're not the same Slater 2IC wannabe Travis....I can't imagine he would step away from the party line! Hmmm I wasn't just a casual observer, I heartily contributed until the bitter end! ;) I saw the 'light' when ...
"Sorry unsol, a fish rots from the ...
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