Written By:
lprent - Date published:
12:57 pm, August 17th, 2014 - 4 comments
Categories: greens -
Tags: policy
I’m heading off to get some lunch before going to the Green’s campaign launch.
It is (for those like me who forgot) at
The details are:
When: August 17, 2014 at 2pm – 4pm
Make sure you put on your green t-shirts as we want to see a sea of green tomorrow in the crowd.
I believe that is around the AUT city campus.
I might write some high points if I get some arm-room.
14:16 Catherine Delahunty has unsuspected talents – for a “shy” person she is damn funny.
14:29 The TV ads are pretty damn good.
15:01 Lots of stuff going on. Good speech by Metiria Turei. I’ll have to post it. But it looks like a good match for discussion with Labour to form a coalition.
15:16 Standup. Let us hope no OSH ever see this. Rate increase in income tax to 40% for over 140k, and trusts as well. Picks up $1.1billion to pay for it.
15:20 Interesting looking at the tag team. Turei does the social. Norman looking at the numbers on the economics.
The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
The server will be getting hardware changes this evening starting at 10pm NZDT.
The site will be off line for some hours.
Vote Clean
Vote Green
Yes Catherine is very funny. That innate Irish talent comes to the fore. 🙂 Has us in stitches sometimes.
Green’s tax policy: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/10392621/Greens-take-from-the-rich-for-the-poor
This, and the Greens’ policy for Christchurch, means I’ll be voting for them instead of Labour.
A Labour supporter friend of mine claims the Greens attacked Labour in their launch. Did that happen? If so, what were the attacks?