Sounds more like MH is just trying to curry sympathy for Key by floating that. . Being PM would be quite addictive to someone with a lust for power, and not easily given up. . If Key did want to resign without looking like a fugitive he would have to wait ...
One of the reasons that it's so easy for the right to brand TS as nasty is the name-calling that goes on here. Name-calling isn't really a very substantial sin in itself, but it does take a pretty thick-skinned righty to express any political thoughts here...
The most urgent needs are an increase in the minimum wage and an end to zero hours contracts, and why not throw in compulsory time-and-a-half penalty rates >40 hours while I'm at it.
I'm still curious who will be the likely contenders for Labour party president. Any ideas? I see there's nothing on ipredict.
Key's lies made the front pages of Stuff and the Herald online last night, but by this morning both outlets had pushed it off the main page, like the obedient little lapdogs that they are. I wonder how many phone calls from the PMs office it took to make ...
Does anyone have any idea who the likely contenders will be for the party presidency?
Renewable Energy? Nucleur Power? . Former Naval officer and current editor of The Register writing at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/21/renewable_energy_simply_wont_work_google_renewables_engineers/ reporting that Google scientists worked for years ...
Some folks have trouble detecting light-hearted comments even when emoticons are used...
And the winner is... Sue Bradford : ) . To re-post my post from when IMP was originally announced... "Laila has a vehicle. KDC has a weapon. Hone has funding. Sue has principles." . I wanted to see Laila in parliament but they lost three votes in our ...
Yes, reading Trotter's blog you'd think he was for Little. Listening to him on the radio you'd swear he wanted Gracinda to win and that Little's victory is a tragedy. I'd like to see Little sit down for a beer with Trotts and remind him that they have a ...
[RL: Deleted. Steps over the very strong line we hold at The Standard about protecting people's real identities. Nor any pressure or encouragement to out an identity however indirect.]
Trotter on radio bagging Labour and Little again as I write this. Rodney Hide was more encouraging...
Yes it's a shame that a robust passion for one's subject has to descend into abuse so often on this otherwise excellent blog site.
Interesting - the pissy article in the Herald appeared at 5am. It was still there at 6.40am, but I went back at 7.20am to make a comment on it, only to find the story gone.
And so it begins - the Herald online front page this morning "Unwanted by Taranaki voters, could Andrew Little be the next Labour leader?"
Hilary is a tory through and through. Elizabeth Warren on the other hand is much more interesting. http://www.salon.com/2014/11/15/its_elizabeth_warrens_party_now_how_to_remake_it_in_the_liberal_heroines_image/
Robertson also mentioned that Labour should talk more about what it wants to achieve and less about the mechanisms. i.e. Don't talk CGT, talk tax fairness. Which I read as a similar message. I think any new leader (apart from Parker) is likely to ask the ...
You are arguing against a strawman that you yourself created. Climate science and climate politics are not the same thing. One is about testing theories and the other is about putting a stake in the ground and building a policy around it - that's a ...
Interesting you should mention gravity. Scientists will tell you it's one of the least understood forces in the scientific realm. it's a fascinating world out there and we have a long way to go in our understanding of so many things. We are like ants ...
Science is a method. Interim conclusions are drawn based on interpretation of the data and can change as the data or interpretation changes. Once you lock in an interim conclusion as an immutable fact you have departed from science and entered into a ...
I hope anyone who labels all anthropogenic-climate-change skeptics as cranks has done their own comprehensive review of the data from a range of sources and come to their own reasoned conclusion about that. I'd hate for it to be just be a pointless name-...
Robertson has an easier and more direct way with words than Parker or Little. Similar in a way to Mahuta in that respect. He clearly has a team of cheerleaders and I will give him the benefit of the doubt that they were not bused in by him to do the ...
Yeah. Cr on Win81. Alienware 14 laptop with 1920x 1080 native res. The rh column list of posts wraps into the rh 1/3rd of the column only. I can email a screenshot if you want.
Others may already be aware of this but I just worked out that Rawshark's name is probably taken from the Rorschach comic book character, rather than directly from the Rorschach test. http://au.ign.com/top/comic-book-heroes/16 "Superheroes often live in a ...
I'm coming around to the view that the tories will be hoping Robertson wins because it would reinforce their narrative that Labour is dominated by gays and feminists. Little and Parker represent something more mainstream - a traditional contest. The only ...
@CV Who was the reader?
I'm going to have a listen to her on youtube and see if I can divine more... https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nanaia+mahuta
Definitely a more open tenor to the answers. Nanaia is certainly a little different. A risky choice. Hard for me to pick whether she would be a very strong or a very weak leader. I suspect one or the other. Interesting. . I'm going to have a listen to her ...
@bsb Glad to see some considered thoughts being aired on this.
"I’m suggesting that if you believe all four contenders have similar levels of ability and attitude..." Why would anyone believe that?
Interesting interview with Kerry Anne Walsh on the background to her book and upcoming movie on the white-anting of Julia Gillard by the Rudd faction, assisted by the media (incl right-wing bloggers) and the conservative right in Australia. http://www....
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