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all_your_base - Date published:
9:29 am, August 8th, 2008 - 14 comments
Categories: labour, national -
Tags: Cullen, qotw, quote
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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I’m all for Muldoon’s “If you tell the truth all the time, you don’t need to remember anything” but Cullens one was a pearler.
I thought Gerry Brownlee’s response to Mallard was pretty good –
A cheap shot, but funny nonetheless.
they’ve been truthin, when they oughta be a lying.
JK on TV3 last night. (Slight paraphrase ’cause it’s from memory) “We want to get to the bottom of the person”…talking about the ‘taper’
Sprout Love your work 🙂
it’s nice to be back oob
I thought it was quite funny of Gerry Brownlee to seek leave for an immediate election!
I normally can’t stand the lout but I thought that was quite cheeky 🙂
Nick Smith’s observation that the infiltrator was “too hip” to be Young National takes the biscuit for me as quote of the week.
The acknowledgment that hipsters can not be tories gave me a real buzz.
Especially when you know their view of hip will mean any non-neanderthal they don’t understand.
At least Smith has shown he’s one Nat who understands their support base.
Chris S: Even better was the Cullen rebuttal thereafter, saying of a patsy from Charles Chauvel that it was an excellent question; so excellent, in fact, that National wanted a snap election to avoid it being asked.
(I praaphrase)
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Use of the word “hip” shows just how uncool Nick really is. I’d like to see him get a little ghetto – dat shizzle be messin’ wid his flava.
So the Nats were infiltrated by “The Hipster”. It kinda sounds like a new Batman villain, only one that wears girl jeans instead of scary facepaint.
Fools, they should simply have given the PA system a quick blast of Lily Allen and weeded out the people who weren’t covering their ears 😀
Meanwhile, hipsters are having electoral difficulties of their own
captcha: Winson ex- (almost, but not quite, answering my Wish of the Day).
Finally the Nats have something to take pride in! An orchestrated litany of truth is a rare commodity for this blog. Who assisted you to recognise this innovation?
“Hipster” is a very 1950s tag to my mind.
Lily Allen? Rex, you really don’t understand do you?
I am reliably informed that Lily Allen is popular amongst hipsters in New York, by a semi-hip New Yorker 😛