This is not a they did it too argument. This is a Labour got it wrong with the tax rates argument. The current scenario fails the fairness test any person would apply. If you are going to have a higher rate for rich pricks, then ensure everyone pays it. As...
This should be compulsory reading for all Labour supporters to show why you lost the last election and why you'll like to do the same next time. You won't be able to move on until you admit to your mistakes. If the envy tax was introduced for "fairness" ...
Eddie I have no doubt that there are attempts to dig up dirt on opposing politicians, altho I must admit that if I was a Mayor of any town or city, I would not assume that taking a leak in public wouldn't be an issue. Perhaps he was once an NRL player? So ...
At the risk of being a dickhead, can I point out a bit of a cock-up in your post: "Only determined pubic opposition will stop them.". Will the pubic opposition involve rich pricks??
I think this is a fascinating topic. On the one hand, the environmental issues tend to be much closer to the hearts of the middle classes. For example, the classic chardonnay socialist will be up in arms about the impact on the environment. Yet the blue ...
The fixation with the Herald is the political equivalent of NZ rugby's fixation with blaming the referee for the RWC loss in 2007. I had a discussion late last week with a couple of experienced business types who were ranting about the left wing bias in ...
Agreed. I think we're playing footy at the trenches at Xmas then!
My usual beef tho r0b that there's the white hat/black hat mantra with the respective roles reversed at KB. It's kind of ironic that no one bothered to dig up dirt on Georgina Beyer and her life experiences hardly detracted from her ability to perform as ...
Why would the right bother to use failed left tactics?
Nice White Hat Duncan, do you like my Black Hat :) Now get off the court, we're playing singles not doubles.
I'm no defender of the Nats - it may well be a fair criticism in that case. However, I don't think it would be unreasonable to assume that Labour and other parties resort to similar activities although clearly that will never be acknowledged here or a red ...
At the end of the set, if we each have six games to we go to tie breaker :)
Some of your best work. Of course it's a different thing. You are the white hats and we're (not that I'm one of "them" either) the black hats. OK, I take back the accusation of hypocrisy when it's simply a case of double standards. The comparison is ...
Isn't it time we stopped playing these games? First of all, all sides do this as others have pointed out. Second, I don't recall an outraged guest post about someone posing as a National Party member recording conversations. Mental gymnastics were done by ...
Funny Daveo. You must be new around here.
Yet when he does anything he's mocked or condemned. It's no different to the abuse directed at the Aussie cricketer, Watson. He wouldn't be abused by the fans if he wasn't any good. Don't get me wrong - it's done well, it is funny, especially if you've ...
It WOULD have been really funny were it not for Eddie's many attempts to deify St Helen. The double standard approach is becoming just as tiresome as the similar attacks on Clark were when Labour was in power. Funny yes. Hypocritical. Hell yes.
Before someone points out the obvious ... "unless there were two or more dogs". It's the inevitable result of trying to be smart and an arse at the same time!
I don't want to do this to you LP but I recall some poor righty getting the treatment for poor grammar last week undermining the credibility of their argument. One word in the title likewise stands out like the dog's proverbials (unless there were more ...
Agreed. Key talked big but needs to act on this. National's front line appears to be pretty weak to be fair (although Labour's line up is still largely last centuries). The interesting aspect is that the longer term battles will be the emerging talent and ...
Agreed BB. There's almost a parallel universe in operation here and at KB where whatever your team does is justifiable and whatever the other team does is wrong regardless of the context.
I think you're missing my point Lew. Creating an argument based on extreme examples is hardly compelling. Frankly, I think Reynolds is paid an obscene amount of money and it certainly isn't performance based. But to use Reynolds as a justification for ...
As vto says, this is the dog whistling extreme straw man BS that the right is accused of. The beneficiary rorting the system in Chch with his swimming pool costs comes to mind. Not typical says the left. So how they hell is this guy typical or ...
Doh - how stupid can you get? Of course you can screw the economy like Labour did by stuffing up the tax rates to incentivise investment in housing above everything else (which also screwed the poor and those who didn't already own their own property). At ...
And there is lies your problem. Labour's future is Goff, Mallard and King. Mind you, if Bernie from the eponymous weekend movie was in Labour's front row, Marty and Eddie would still enthuse about Bernie's performance. There's no defence for poor ...
If I need to point out the personal attacks (without quotes please), you obviously need to read a little more wider. It's politics and fair game but no different to the type of attacks on Clark which were derided here. The popularity issue related to Key ...
Ditto income. In terms of party allegiances, it varies with age and responsibility (and I could add wisdom :)). I did once vote for the Gordon Dinosaur Party which indicates dissatisfaction with all parties. My point is that Farrar is quite open with his ...
And in order to underline their commitment to transparency and open govt, the anonymous posters at the Standard agree to detail their party allegiances and sources of income. What's interesting to me is that tactics of opposition that we so derided here ...
Being completely reasonable is a nasty way to take the wind out of my sails :) Yep, there are crap teachers in all institutions and ironically - for the same reasons that really really bad teachers don't last - the best teachers are often in the lower ...
Without retrieving my historical (or should that be hysterical) posts, as an ex teacher I'd happily take issue with some of Mike's broad statements that naturally enough go completely unchallenged here. Non performance has been and continues to be an issue...
Yeah, mickey always rabbits on ...
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