Yep, NAct bark is worse that its bite; voters decide how soon that changes.
A succinct illustration of the problem. Do 'Lords' at the head of the table really believe they need all that food? What selfish gluttons - serfs have to eat too.
"Hated by all sides", and courted by all political parties – the centre will hold a little longer, but not forever, imho.
Glad to see your colours firmly nailed to the mast. Good that you care - as should we all, imho. A "centrist", you say
It's called bringing perspective. From my left perspective/bias, sunshine lifts the lid - don't know about mileage
Thanks Belladonna, just observing that you're (much) more exercised here about the fallout from the Sharma drama than you were about the Uffindell affair. Sorry if that's unwelcome, but I believe it to be fair - how about you?
It will be interesting to see which it turns out to be. Could turn out to be your "exceedingly bad look", or your "Still not highly desirable... Still not good from a PR perspective..." look, or some other 'look'. When this type of 'bruised ego bomb' goes...
...for the closed minded... Snort - there are (at least) two sides to every 'story'. Some choose to lurch loudly away from consensus expert opinion for their own reasons, but that's not for me. Evaluating potential unintended consequences of COVID-19 ...
He wants utu. No shortage of NZ pollies wanting utu, but be careful what you wish for Ross response created seed of destruction for Bridges [25 May 2020] He [Jones] says it’s too early to say how new National Party leader Todd Muller will perform...
As soon as the lynching has been organised and the Caucus meets Sharma will "be gone by lunchtime" as somebody once said. Might "somebody" be a former Gnat leader - perhaps one Don Brash? He's all heart. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/don-brash-gone-at-...
All futures are assured, but some futures are more assured than others Equality for some: the challenge of poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand - 2018 ........................................'Woke Towers'........................................
They love this shit. The more punitive, the better. QFT. Here's Slane from 2013 - the 'beating' heart of NAct.
Labour (Polytechs, DHBs, 3 Waters, RNZ/TVNZ) and NAct (MBIE, Super City, Schools) may be mergaholics, but we are a small country - best to 'think bigger'? NZ has too many Govt agencies - Key
Not sure why you think that. Maybe it's just words, but reckon Labour's heart is in the 'right' place. The location of NAct's 'heart', otoh, has always seemed a bit dodgy, but that's probably just me. Steering Kiwis away from crime [from the link at 3:41 ...
Labour is following neither strategy. Surprising opinion coming from you. The 'red meat' brigade (NAct) clearly have a regressive track record, the Greens are clearly progressive, and Labour is endeavouring to chart a politically pragmatic middle path. ...
So is any NZ political party (apart from the Greens) advocating for the commonsense progressive strategies that you and I strongly support? Any idea what sort of track record the fifth National government (2008 - 2017) had re tackling the root causes of ...
You can argue as much as you please, and I'll support you, for effective intervention at the beginning of the criminal trajectory. Especially for interventions pre-crime – for those kids/young people who everyone can see are hugely at risk. Excellent, ...
https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/new-zealand/articles/12-moments-that-shaped-new-zealands-history/ The pandemic be up there, but minority 'anti-mandate' protests weren't unique to NZ (497 Deaths/1M pop) - USA (3200), UK (2711), Canada (1123) etc. had ...
‘Blood bath from hell’: Inmates at private prison tell of suicides, allege negligence amid Covid outbreak [9 March 2022] Best to build more (SERCO-run) Corrections facilities then, or will crates do? Three strikes is populist policy (throwing the voters a...
And I wrote "sitting MP" My comment @2.1.1.1.3 was a reply to your comment @2.1.1.1 (2:17 pm) - not a "sitting MP" in sight. But if you want to play, how about: Kiritapu Allan, Camilla Belich, Rachel Boyack, Rachel Brooking, Liz Craig, Paul Eagle, Barbara...
There hasn't been any real difference between these parties [ACT (founded in 1993), Labour and National] since the eighties. Amazing - simply breathtaking. They're all arseholes. Bastards, every last single one of them. Reads like a 'river of filth' ...
I long ago gave up supporting the national party Lucky you LB - sadly I've never been in a position to do that. Can still bring myself to 'Electorate vote' for the local Labour candidate, but my Party vote tilted further left at the first opportunity (in ...
LB, can't blame you for having a go at bullies, loose cannons and dense blowhards - almost unbelievable that the Gnats are this awful (still), and yet here we are, full circle, or fool Uffindell if you like. What a piss-poor, albeit wealthy and entitled, ...
Interesting report, well worth a read. Here's one take. Separatist or radically inclusive? What NZ’s He Puapua report really says about the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples [7 July 2021] As I try to show in my book ‘We Are All Here to Stay’:...
But Luxon has shown that he's in charge of the situation now. And good on him. Better late than never? Seems a bit 'ambulance at the bottom of the cliff', and National's fleet of ambulances is stretched pretty thin as it is.
Dead man elected mayor of US town [16 April 2010] When asked how she felt about losing to a dead man, Brock said "I'll live". Who is our dead man walking?
I think we used to call it 'buying votes'. The tax cut is an unsubtle vote-buying strategy - consistent Nats "Our vision is to close the gap with Australia by 2025." [PDF] Hon John Key, Prime Minister [November 2009] Asset sales bring in less than cost of...
Nat MPs and their backers/mates - can't trust 'em. Dirty to their DNA, imho. Dirty Politics: How attack politics is poisoning New Zealand’s political environment On 7 July 2020, Boag admitted leaking sensitive medical information about COVID-19 patients ...
The spectre of George Orwell's '1984', surely, not 'George Orwell' himself. Eric Arthur Blair (aka George Orwell) - from "Tory-anarchist" to "left-wing (though hardly orthodox) Labour-supporting democratic socialist", maybe - never a politician, let alone ...
Happy to give beneficiaries the benefit of the doubt - what might the bene bashing Nats give 'em?
Yep, many of the Nat's continuing self-inflicted 'troubles' could be seen as Key legacies.
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