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10:48 pm, September 11th, 2007 - 3 comments
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a) stays on tour?
b) stays on tour until there’s political capital to be gained by raising it?
Colin Espiner is worth a read:
Sure, it wasn’t the smartest thing in the world to invite a suspended prison guard along on the trip… But it’s not a sacking offence. If these are the standards we’re applying to ministers these days, soon there’ll be none left. O’Connor is a hard-working, honest straight-shooter..
The Prime Minister called it a bad call and it was. True to style Key went over the top and referred to it as “unbelievable stupidity”.
Colin has also pointed out that the other co-captain is Murray McCully, senior National Party MP and strategist. He asks: “How come he’s not copping any of the blame?”. Bloody good question. It defies belief that McCully didn’t know that Jim Morgan was a suspended Rimutaka Prison guard.
If he didn’t, and I were Key, I’d be sacking him as my strategist.
I tried to register 2 days ago (r0b), but have not received an email with a password. Is your registration system working?
Hi Fred
Yep, it seems to be working ok. At least a couple of things might have gone wrong:
1) you mistyped one of the “captcha” characters so the system couldn’t properly verify you, or
2) the registration email got spam-filtered at your end
In the first case, try registering again and see what happens, in the second, check to see whether there’s an email in your ‘junk’ or ‘spam’ folders.
If you still don’t have any luck let me know and I’ll double check things again.
Thanks for reading!
Thanks, the registration was in my spam folder (and I would have found it there when I looked before if it hadn’t been pushed way down the list by heaps of spam apparently sent from the future – 2038 no less).
Anyway, not related to this thread, but I found the following really interesting. The brains of liberals and the brains of conservatives function differently:
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-politics10sep10,1,5376455.story?ctrack=1&cset=true
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070909/hl_afp/scienceneuroscience;_ylt=Al30OJfCu.KHrBSPDtyLnlSs0NUE
Could be worth a thread of its own.
Like The Standard 2.0 – good luck with it.