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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. ...
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Could the standard of the candidates for the Auckland mayoralty get any worse ? Apparently yes.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10658010
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10657858
Absolutely. You missed Tenby Powell, though.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10657963
Just what Auckland needs, someone with no local government experience who thinks a city can be run like a business (hint for Tenby – it can’t be run like a business). At least he would fit in with all the new senior managers.
I was going to add him into the list but saw that he was advocating for a fast rail link from the Airport into the city therefore I gave him the benefit of the doubt that he might not be as bad as the rest of them.
Nah – no way can any candidate get lower than the standards of the first candidate.
I heard comment this a.m. on NatRadio about Dick Hubbard when Auckland mayor getting opposition from his deputy mayor Dr Bruce Hucker.
Looked up this link where Dick H says he wasn’t thinking of standing against Banks but considering standing as councillor. He seemed to think well of Len Brown.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/3064381/Hubbard-flags-his-return-to-fight-right
Another private prison bidder damned
Oh, look at that – private business proving itself far worse than government again.
Snarky piece of anti-student union propaganda on TVOne news tonight. The ‘news’ was that a student didn’t want to pay her subs because she didn’t use any of the services. Hardly worth the 6pm news. But lo, it’s all just a ruse to talk about the Private Member’s Bill to do away with compulsory student unionism. And who appears at the end – Heather (I’m not the leader of ACT…yet) Roy. She was given the final say and her point (that students are the only ones with compulsory unionism) was allowed, therefore, to frame the itme. Yep, they ticked the ‘balanced journalism’ box by interviewing a student president who pointed out everything that the fee pays for. But no one asked the original student, did you really not use any service? Could she defend her position if challenged? The whole thing had the stink of a set up. How did they even find this girl? Let me guess…ACT put them onto her…