"I don't agree with your assessment of Ardern or this government..." Given how much you twist and turn when you're arguing any issue, that really doesn't carry much weight. 'My' assessment of Ardern is increasingly shared by those who follow politics. The ...
"If we accept competence in politicians as normal, sooner or later people might expect it from you." They already do, and I would expect nothing less. For a while JA was held to a lesser standard, simply because post Clark Labour had been so poor, she ...
"It's a supreme spokesperson role Shad, nothing more." I would hope it was more. The role should entail leadership, the ability to get policy across the line, maintain the confidence of the key stakeholders in a nation and particularly it's economy. JA has...
"Competent at stealing?" You have a fetish about stealing. Weird. No I'm talking about competence at running a country. There are plenty of examples of JA's ineptitude for her to be considered anywhere near competent. A good neighbour, maybe.
"The movement towards competence in any area of paid employment scares the crap out of him. " We're talking about Jacinda Ardern. When did that change to a 'movement towards competence'?
"Because the movement towards competent politicians actually working for New Zealanders..." Clare Curran Meka Whaiteri Phil Twyford Kelvin Davis I rest my case.
"At least Bojo had some political experience before entering parliament, and wasn't just a currency wonk" JA's being a 'policy wonk' isn't what got her the job. It was Labour's utter desperation. She won't last as long as JK did. As the star dust is ...
"Burgers are something that anyone could need. " And a really useful qualification for running a country?
"That's where all politicians start, the back benches. " And we'd all be far better off it that's where JA had stayed. But of course Labour was utterly stuffed, and would have made Boris Johnson their leader if it meant votes.
Oh my gosh. Let's make every woman who has ever given birth PM.
"...but she seems to know her own 16 year-old mind. " She's 16! I wouldn't trust a 16 year old to know much about anything.
Yep, you do have it bad.
"You have to ask why someone would leave private practice, if they were competent, to be a much lower paid court functionary." So ask him. Could be the same reason David Cunliffe and John Key left private sector careers to enter politics.
Kiwibuild
"People who believe "free markets" work." You're picking it up!
"I would have thought being a "policy wonk" better prepares a politician for policy work than trading currencies or even practising law." So give her a job on the back benches, or chairing a select committee.
"How do you measure anthropogenic carbon dioxide? Get Greta to sniff it?" That is incredibly cruel. Greta is a young woman being exploited by all sorts of people. Her fan base is primarily children, too young to question the bs they are being asked to ...
Interesting. However it was Woodart who mentioned 'business' experience. The proof, as they say, is in the pudding. We're seeing the damage lack of experience outside the political bubble can cause in this administration.
Litigation lawyer. Crown Prosecutor. Those certainly trump flipping burgers and being a policy wonk.
"It is on the internet Shadrack. " So is the flat earth society. 911 conspiracy theories. People who deny the moon landings.
Being a well intentioned failure is a hard act to follow. Still, there'll always be a job at the UN.
How do you define 'businessman'? At one stage I believe Jacinda Ardern claimed she had small business experience. I guess she was stretching things a bit.
I want someone competent at the helm. Jacinda Ardern's lack of experience is becoming all of our problem. I'd be happy to have Jacinda Ardern as a neighbour. I have serious doubts about her performance as PM.
You're telling the story. It's a wild one, but you're telling it.
Clearly you lost the train of thought.
Before that he was a litigation lawyer with Kensington Swan. With all his limitations, that still beats flipping burgers.
John Key ran the Global Forex for Merrill Lynch. He was a member of the Fed Forex Committee in NY. He was an enormously successful man, who had lived with responsibility and pressure. And Jacinda has made burgers and been a policy wonk.
Except I never said that. If Key has done anything illegal or morally wrong, state your case. Publish a blog with the evidence. Don't just make unsubstantiated accusations.
Of course. And 911 was an inside job, aliens shot JFK...
It is if course possible HC became a 'neo-liberal' between fighting these alleged 'neo-liberal reforms' all the way, and becoming PM.
"She fought them all the way." And then unwound everything they had done when she became PM. Oh wait...
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