Rodney needs a great MP. Marja looks like she could be the business. Mark Mitchell MP is an arms scandle waiting to happen. Rodney is the fastest growing area in NZ and does not need an old fashioned conservative with a shady background. Labour needs a ...
Yep, Brexit is a seismic event that has exposed significant flaws in English society and body politic. The deep racism, senses of alienation, senses of deprivation felt by a big proportion of its society will not go away easily. The incompetence and ...
Lioyd, thanks for bringig the debate back to the big picture. The European project has been extremely successful, despite errors and setbacks. Hopefully it will now bring long lasting peace to Balkans. Putin's Russia and Trumps US wants to see the EU ...
Rude. The UK always got lead roles in the Commission. Roy Jenkin was president, Chris Tugendhat was Finance, Ivor Richards was Vice Pres and Employment, Len Brittan was VP, Neil Kinnock VP, Chris Patten was external relations, Peter Mandelson had Trade,...
The Australians will Roger the Poms out of a sense of DUTY. The English are receiving a DULY fair and extremely patient treatment from Tusk, Barnier and Verhofstadt. The comments in English papers suggest that people have more faith in the EU leadership ...
@Cemetery Jones 1. ref England rather than Britain: have I got an answer for you! The UK of GB & NI had a referendum and the majority voted to Exit the EU. Scotland, which along with the Kingdom of England, for Britain. Britain does not include Northen ...
Of course the Australians are saying they will conclude a deal quickly. Saying that costs nothing. Will it be on terms favourable the england? Nah Mate! The poms are over a barrell and will be dutifully rodgered.
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....a bit related "The problem with English nationalism is not that it exists but that it is incoherent, inarticulate and immature. This underground torrent has always been there, but it was buried for centuries beneath two powerful constructs: the British...
... on dark chauvinism. The Spanish Armada, Napoleon, Hitler and now the...
The BBC and most of the print media were against Labour and the SNP. NZ Labour must become the smartest player in Social Media.
The DUP will support the Tories and try to row back The Good Friday agreement and relationship with the EU and The Republic of Ireland. They shafted their founder, Ian Paisley, for enteringing into the agreememts that have led to peace: i.e. Paisley was ...
Corbyn might become the UK PM or come very close. He has shafted May and turne English politics on its head. It will be interesting to see how the "cautious" elements in the NZ Labour Party react to this. It will upset Grant Robertson's positioning as the ...
Reading between the lines ExPat is a term with both or either racial and "Imperial" connotations! Do the English who come here have any other cultural bagage? What are we doing for immigrants from England to help adjust to our culture? Is there an ...
"Opinion polling firm YouGov have raised eyebrows in the run up to Thursday’s poll with the results of their forecast model, which at the time of writing is forecasting that the Conservatives will only win 307 seats. This would deprive them of their ...
Both Labour and the SNP have said they will not do a coalition. However they are both open to Labour forming a minority government with the non-tory parties committing to "supply".
Boris? Great! Scots will vote in ther droves to get away from this cartoon of a Tory. In Northern Ireland Unionists will vote with Sinn Fein to join the Republic. Sell any remaining Sterling denominated assets.
Chatting to an Englishman at a social event.. ok a bar. Got around to UK GE and Brexit and migrants. His view is that Brexit will stop the flow of migrants into England and that that will be a good thing. I asked him where he lives and works and where he ...
Bennettt, is trying to emulate Judas "Crusher" Collins.... Collins bestowed that nickname on herself when she introduced legislation to crush boy-racer cars: not a single car was crushed on her watch. I cringe at the sight of woman politicians posing with ...
Yes, and all in good time. "Privately, middle-ground Fianna Fáil TDs accept that they will be the ones to bring Sinn Féin in from the cold in the coming five to 10 years – once, of course, Sinn Féin has moved on from Adams." http://www.irishtimes.com/news/...
On the 4th of May Local Government elections will be run in England, Wales and Scotland. The campaigns are already in-flight. Labour will be obliterated in Scotland: they will possibly get single digit support. They will have no heart left for the general ...
The EU is a lot more than a Bilateral Trade Agreement. It's existance arose from a political desire to bring European countries together and to stop the incessat wars. That has been a success. The EU has Four Fredoms at the heart of its constitution. ...
An aspect of the "European Project" which the English hate is an EU Army. While many see the concept as delusional, some countries want to commit to an EU Army rather than NATO. Some don't see it as mutually exclusive. 1. If/when the relation between ...
SCOTLAND OUT Nicola Sturgeon: Referendum ‘all but inevitable’ to avoid Tories’ race to bottom under hard Brexit. http://www.thenational.scot/news/15029429.Nicola_Sturgeon__Referendum____all_but_inevitable____to_avoid_Tories____race_to_bottom_under_hard_...
Let's us hope Mt Albert gets a more deserving MP next time. Shearer got the seat too easily and acquired an unpleasant sense of entitlement. Shearer then screwed up the local Labour organisation. Shearer's vanity enabled Grant Robertson to use him as patsy...
Claire Trevett won't publish readers comments on her Thursday piece on Cunliffe! Perhaps the readers' comments were not to her liking. Poor sensitive thing.
Cunliffe has a proper Labour Machine in New Lynn. There is depth in the organisation. They are strong at grassroots and in leadership. They have won control at Whau LB and Waitakere LB as well as getting Ross Clow onto Auckland Council. Whoever put their ...
King/Robertson 1 Labour Nil
Dufeofurl, do you search out negativity or does it feel attracted to you?
The Euro has had successes as well as its problems. The ease of doing trade in a single currency zone is of immence value. The Euro is not going away. It has better prospects than Sterling. The SNP failed to have a clear story on currency for the last ...
Alex Massie writes on the very deep change that the Brexit vote can crough about with Scottish Unionists. The Euro is an acceptable alternative to incompetent London rule. The Pound is not exactly all the rage at present. http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/...
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