Polity: Shifting ground?

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1. Puckish Rogue 1

   7 August 2014 at 12:02 pm

   The reason is that Cunliffe hasn’t said anything to dumb, when Cunliffe says something dumb he gets it (as he should) when the National govt do something dumb they get it

   The problem is that what therabid anti-Keys think is dumb and what everybody else thinks is dumb is two different things

   Don’t worry though Cunliffe will say something dumb again (or more likely someone in the ABC club will leak something again) and the media will report it again and the left can cry bias, again
   • Clint 1.1

     7 August 2014 at 1:07 pm

     Could we get a translation of this into the English language?
     • Draco T Bastard 1.1.1

       7 August 2014 at 4:31 pm

       PR proving that he’s stupid by accusing everyone else of being dumb.
   • tinfoilhat 1.2

     7 August 2014 at 5:52 pm

     😕
2. irascible 2

   7 August 2014 at 12:36 pm

   Puckish Rogue: Can you write coherent prose that makes sense? Your comment is so illiterate that I must assume you’re a Nat troll.
   • Chooky 2.1

     7 August 2014 at 5:16 pm

     ..or on something that scrambles the brain..even alcohol doesn’t do that to the brain…or maybe it does …maybe PR has been into the cooking sherry again!
3. DRUM 3

   7 August 2014 at 12:51 pm

   PR your apparent anxiety has led to you writing incoherent nonsense.
4. philj 4

   7 August 2014 at 12:53 pm

   xox
   re PR.
   The speed of your response on this moderate blog site gives you away. PR spinner in deed and name. Tory troll.
5. Kat 5

   7 August 2014 at 1:03 pm

   This sums up the Key administration to a tee!!

   http://vimeo.com/102441715
6. redfred 6

   7 August 2014 at 1:04 pm

   Rentboy Key is going to be under real pressure now; one more major slip and there goes the election, they know it too. Smith, Joyce Brownlee et al will all be hidden away.

   National will roll out President Key, but a number of flies are preparing to dive into that ointment.

   The rock star economy is rapidly unraveling; Cunliffe will go toe to toe with Key in the debate, there won’t be “a show me the money” moment.

   Perhaps the press gallery have realised they might need the favours of a new PM for a scoop and they better hedge there bets.
7. Draco T Bastard 7

   7 August 2014 at 4:30 pm

   Meanwhile, the pre-election fiscal update later this month could further erode perceptions of the end of the golden weather, if Treasury is forced to revise down some of its rosier forecasts.

   It’s Treasury forecasting under a National government so they’ll have to be revised down and even then they’re likely to be to rosy.

   The only certainty is that the surplus will remain intact, if only because it has become National’s talisman promise. But there will be questions about whether it is largely smoke and mirrors.

   If the surplus remains intact then I can assure you, it’s pure smoke. You don’t get a surplus when billions of dollars of expected income don’t arrive.
8. vto 8

   7 August 2014 at 5:08 pm

   There has indeed been a shift.

   The left by two, that’s my call.

   And Key is his own worst enemy at the moment. His lack of substance (as exemplified by his shallow rude “sugar-daddy” abuse of Harre), the Nats absence of any sense or argument on foreign land sales, Joyce’s rudeness, and dotcom’s student crowd chanting “Fuck John Key”, are all exposing his true nature and standing.

   It is all over for John Key.
9. tricledrown 9

   7 August 2014 at 5:11 pm

   Consumer confidence will dive retail sales will dive with it!
   Rural economies that liar Joyce claimed were growing are already struggling with high unemployment will hurt badly the landslide National had in the Rural sector will disappear and the
   10.000 votes that National won the last election by will evaporate like the water taken out of milk to make powder!
10. dave 10

    7 August 2014 at 6:39 pm

    gfc never really went away we really have been stagnant for the last 6 years but the really bomb is levels of debt in our community its frightening we more indebted than America national can go into denial all they like but its there and sooner or later we all going to have to pay the piper.
    • Colonial Viper 10.1

      7 August 2014 at 11:14 pm

      Debt, leverage and derivative values today are at more extreme levels than at the start of 2008 GFC I. So hang on to your hat.
11. fambo 11

    7 August 2014 at 10:13 pm

    I think the Greens did the right thing by starting their campaign a while ago. In truth this campaign has been going on since virtually the last election. The Keep Our Assets campaign helped make the Greens battle ready
12. Chooky 12

    7 August 2014 at 11:20 pm

    +100 fambo…the Greens deserve a great deal of respect for their well thought through policies, hard work and professionalism …and many many votes…16% would be good this time around!
13. Sable 13

    8 August 2014 at 10:35 am

    I don’t think National care. The MSM is more or less “owned” by them. Who would have thought Abbott could ever have been elected in Australia and yet here we are. No need to guess who put him there either.

    If anything is to change its time to get tough on the MSM. To hold them to account, boycott them if they lie and push for legal reform of reporting practices in this country. They have had it too good for too long and now the rot has well and truly set in.
    • Stuart Munro 13.1

      11 August 2014 at 7:52 am

      +100 – the Key Publicity Bureau (The Herald) should lose their press passes.

      The dodgy stunt of doing all their political reporting as ‘opinion’ needs to be wound up and real reporting made the minimum standard. That means evidence and fact checking for assertions like Armstrong’s “Joyce’s rapier-like wit”. The debate I saw with Joyce didn’t turn up much wit at all much less the finesse associated with rapiers.

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