Hi, LPrent. It's in my nature; hell, we could almost be twins ;) It's a perfectly reasonable question to ask, given Mike Smith keeps putting weirdly pro-China stuff on the site that often reads as if it had come via the embassy's People's Daily Talking ...
It's not personal abuse, Mike. It's a straightforward question; are you sponsored by the CCP or its supporters? What exactly are your China links? If you think it's ok to ask for transparency from Brady, you should have the guts to do the same for yourself...
I guess there is an obvious question here. And it's not about Professor Brady's links and financing, it's about the author's motivation. I, for one, would like some transparency on Mike Smith's link's to China. Has he visited the country? If so, how many ...
Golriz Ghahraman has just made the nice point on twitter that a month's worth of first time voters will now be eligible to cast a ballot. Happy birthday anybody turning 18 between mid September and mid October. Have some democracy with that cake!
Yep! Collins will go down in political history as the first Tory leader to publicly campaign for a Labour Government to extend their stay in power ;)
A clever choice from Labour. Spikes Winston's constitutional guns and reinforces to the country that this is a listening and caring government. Cold comfort for National, who get four more weeks to try and lift themselves out of the doldrums, while the ...
My brother went to Oxford ... worked at the car factory in Cowley. (No.94 in a series of old Monty Python jokes)
Good question! On current form, the Epsom Hologram has more credibility than Collins.
Oh, dear. Judith Collins really should know better than to try and best Kim Hill. Audio here.
Post up now, Anker. https://thestandard.org.nz/umr-poll-august-2020/
Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 3:36 pm, August 12th, 2020 - 34 comments
Categories: act, class war, Dirty Politics, election 2020, greens, jacinda ardern, Judith Collins, labour, nz first, Politics, same old national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
Tags: judith collins, labour, national, polls, UMR poll
Yet another rogue poll, this time from UMR, has Labour on 52%, National 28%, Act 5.9%, Greens 5.4% and NZ First steady on 5.1%. That would give Labour 65 seats, the Greens 7, NZ First 6 and ACT 7, National 35. I stand by my earlier suggestion that if all 3…
Really, there's only one Biden policy that matters and that's getting rid of Trump and as many of his spineless cronies in the House and Senate as possible. I don't have high hopes for the Biden years, however he could do absolutely nothing and still be a ...
For me, TM, Biden gives off a John Key vibe. Steady as she goes, million dollar smile, minimal intervention. That sort of thing. Harris will be useful as a go to whenever tricky stuff comes up, and I can see Biden deferring to her on legal matters, ...
Cheers, guppy7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6i9BsYwspo
Nice work, LP.
Thanks for the clips, G Unit. It's good to see that the right is so fearful of Biden. As a general warning to anyone using the unproven 'dementia' line, I'll be actively removing ageist or ableist comments. Cheers, TRP.
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Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 8:50 am, August 12th, 2020 - 53 comments
Categories: Donald Trump, election 2020, International, Joe Biden, Politics, us politics
Tags: Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, USA
Joe Biden has picked Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. Significantly, she is both the first black or Asian woman to be offered the position. Harris was an early runner to be the Democratic Party's Presidential candidate, but dropped out. The …
Me no Laika?
Cheers, Pete. Mind you, 9.30 on a Friday night isn't that far off Saturday morning and effectively it meant it wouldn't be picked up by the media till the next day. Or not picked up at all, as seems to be the case.
I wrote a post a few weeks ago about the disintegration of NZ First. My read at this stage is that positioning themselves as the opposition within Government has been a major mistake. Clearly, NZ don't like people who stand against the PM. A week or so ago...
Good question, Al1en. The poll was released on a Saturday morning, which is weird in terms of news cycles. Not sure why RM would choose that time when waiting till Monday (or even Sunday arvo) would have guaranteed more media coverage.
Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 7:11 pm, August 8th, 2020 - 45 comments
Categories: act, class war, Dirty Politics, greens, Judith Collins, labour, MMP, nz first, political parties, Politics, same old national, vote smart
Tags: judith collins, national, Roy Morgan poll
The latest Roy Morgan poll is yet another rogue result, claiming that new National Party leader Judith Collins has actually cost the Tories votes. That can't be true, surely? On the day that National have released their party list, this will be a reminder …
Way to miss the point, cobber. Language matters and the language of violence needs to be called out because it leads to real life consequences. Organising is the answer, not threats.
"We need to shout at our politicians more. We need to fire them out of the disgusting complacency they demonstrate." https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/nov/14/jo-cox-killed-in-politically-motivated-murder-trial-thomas-mair-hears
I can't see that happening, Gosman. There aren't enough NZ First voters to make a significant difference to ACT's vote and most NZF folk are socially conservative, not libertarian. I'd see them as more likely to go with the various nutter parties that have...
Wow! The contradictions of the modern American right laid bare in one short video.
Moz ain't banned. Observer Tokoroa recently had a month off and I'm guessing PaddyOT and him may be related.
I agree with your guess Gosman, but not the reasoning. ACT's best ever results came when Labour won power (1999 and 2002). In both elections, it was reasonably clear that National were either going to need help to form a Government or were simply not going...
Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 5:22 pm, July 30th, 2020 - 132 comments
Categories: class war, Dirty Politics, election 2020, Gerry Brownlee, greens, jacinda ardern, Judith Collins, labour, Media, nz first, Politics, same old national
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TVNZ's latest Colmar Brunton poll is released at 6pm. This post will be updated with the results then. In the meantime, some context: The June Colmar Brunton saw a 9% swing from Labour to National under the exciting new leadership of Todd Muller. However, …
Good point, though I meant that it was not being advocated as being something NZ, or the Standard, should embrace.
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