Comments on: Espiner on National’s use of the crisis

By: BLiP

BLiP — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:57:43 +0000

C’mon fellas – its Johnty we’re slagging off. Its gotta be Ronnie Hazlehurst’s famous piccolo theme tune, surely.

By: Johnty Rhodes

Johnty Rhodes — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:36:35 +0000

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By: Johnty Rhodes

Johnty Rhodes — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:32:06 +0000

Oh really GWW. You are a real numpty. He did not take these companies down. He was succesful in his own right & is a much better option than the crook Cullen is for finance nous.

Your obsession with him is really getting to you. He is more sucessful than Clark & Cullen ever were. They have taken the best years of growth and what do we have show for it, a train set & decades of deflicts.

Was his wife & children at home when you stalked his place tonight?

By: Felix

Felix — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:23:10 +0000

Ride of the Valkyries.

By: BLiP

BLiP — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:21:19 +0000

Create crisis move quickly and move on to next issue

Crosby/Textor 101

By: ghostwhowalks

ghostwhowalks — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:14:19 +0000

Whos stalking??. hes a public figure
Has there credible threats to his safety or is St Stephens Ave a no go area ( digital wise or even physically)

By: sally

sally — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:08:24 +0000

Create crisis move quickly and move on to next issue

Hit and run politics. Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good crisis…

By: r0b

r0b — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:26:22 +0000

Create crisis move quickly and move on to next issue

Sadly it’s a tactic that plays well to the news cycle and quick superficial reporting.

By: Trevor Mallard

Trevor Mallard — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:12:13 +0000

Reminds me a bit of the Douglas/Prebble approach. Create crisis move quickly and move on to next issue. with Joyce in Cabinet it is like having Bevan Burgess on constant tap.

By: Matthew Pilott

Matthew Pilott — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:28:09 +0000

I was thinking ‘Imperial March’…

Rex, remember you’re the jaded cynic here – us lefties are used to a Government that does what it says it will – a luxury no doubt, but we were spoiled by Labour’s 5th iteration weren’t we?

So it might come as no surprise to see National doing stuff it said it wouldn’t, and taking action that is vastly different in ideological bent to their campaigning, but it certainly marks an unfortunate and dishonest change from the last Government.

Cap: ’40 pinkola’. Someone with Johnty Rhodes’ measly intellect would probably lose bladder control with that one.

By: Matthew Pilott

Matthew Pilott — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:22:19 +0000

Yes Ian, it certainly is Orwellian to disagree with something someone says, and then agree with something completely different from the same person.

Oh wait – that’s called ‘Critical Thinking’. Methinks Mr Llewellyn might want to try sometime.

By: BLiP

BLiP — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:22:02 +0000

Better late than never. Perhaps Espiner has decided to get off his arse and do some invesitgating and fact checking instead of swallowing . . .

By: ghostwhowalks

ghostwhowalks — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:03:55 +0000

Jonty, we know all about how the Wall St bonuses are calculated, based on illusionary profits.

And why is Key considered a ‘success’ ?.

Every where he has worked has turned to dust, and these were all long standing firms before he and his ilk joined them.

Lane Walker Rudkin- gone
Elders – gone
Bankers Trust – gone
Merrill Lynch – gone

NZ National Party – TBA ?

By: the sprout

the sprout — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:52:16 +0000

Wall to wall negative coverage for National on RNZ this morning, which I expect will be echoed by TVNZ tonight. I wonder how much longer those polls will hold up?

By: bobo

bobo — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:01:15 +0000

People don’t remember every specific policy but it alters their overall perception of a party in general terms, the same way the anti-smacking policy did for Labour even though it wasn’t of their making and supported by National.

I don’t think referring to cities other than Auckland as provincial New Zealand is correct , this isn’t a rural vs urban argument or that wasn’t what I was getting at , it’s a just a region the size of Auckland should be able to pay for its own infrastructure . Rail networks are not sexy propositions to pitch to the public unlike rugby stadiums.

Gingercrush – Labour increased its majority in their 2nd term whether that was down to voters being happy with a government for once doing what they had pledged to do with no nasty surprises as hadn’t been the case for decades before it.