That photo always looks as though Willis is operating Bridges like a glove puppet.
I seem to remember it was a goat... or was that a donkey?
More's the pity. Nasty though she may be, Collins actually seems to have values and stand for something, in contrast to Key. Whe might have had an actual ideological debate in NZ, instead of the anodyne, soft-right vote-chasing that has characterised NZ ...
... or their employer.
– Progressive Activists: highly engaged, secular, cosmopolitan, angry. – Traditional Liberals: open to compromise, rational, cautious. – Passive Liberals: unhappy, insecure, distrustful, disillusioned. – Politically Disengaged: distrustful, detached, ...
Hi, Judith.
Where were all you National voters when Key was PM?
Probably by reasoning that some voters probably saw, for instance, NZ First on 2.5%, and concluded that a vote for them would be wasted. Such a voter might well think differently if the threshold were 3%.
If that happens, and they survive with the Greens, Jacinda has an interesting choice. Continue the troika, like a hybrid inching forward with handbrake on, or go red/green, cleanly energised. The latter is the best option! That, of course, is assuming ...
Seeing as the gag in itself isn't actually so bad, as far as such gags go, and Trump could certainly count on camera crews and editing to make up for the fact that he would probably look more than a bit hapless doing it in real life, I can only imagine ...
... or that it is 'yes', but they're soiling themselves at the prospect of losing more votes to the smaller conservative parties.
Kaurii
I think there's a strong element of counting chickens before they've hatched with regard to Luxon, actually. Ardern's rise was rather abrupt when it finally eventuated, and came rather from left-field for most observers. Key's rise was relatively obviously...
Well, some of them do. I don't think it's going to end well for them.
Even ACT, […] seem open, honest, and much more focused on what they want. Really? Looking at their list and the way they have allowed the gun lobby to latch onto them, I'm more inclined to say that ACT probably don't even know themselves what they want; ...
The best bit is her comparing herself with Jacinda Ardern in that sort of, 'In a way, you might say, I'm actually a bit like Jesus' manner.
The two most obvious reasons that I can see are: because one is oneself, or one's associates are, guilty of significant misconduct. because one knows that there is a strong chance that all that will come out before the election will be 'two unidentified ...
Like Lot's wife turned into a pillar of salt?
I fully agree, especially on Key, but the thing is that Key was mangling the language in his fabled capacity as a freewheeling, self-taught financial wizard, while English built his political persona around the image of 'barbecue Bill', the amateur ...
The more I see of Collins, the less impressed I am. I had thought that she was sharp, good at cutting through others' arguments and someone for getting real points across clearly. However, as leader, she seems to be spouting nonsensical buzz-words, and ...
... although, of course, if the effect is only to lift their polling from abject to miserable, they're not actually redistributing anything, but getting the votes for free.
The first mistake that emerged was a doozy, overestimating the savings from cutting contributions to the Cullen Fund by $4 billion. In a way, of course, it's a technicality, but they 'overestimating' it is actually precisely what they didn't do. They ...
accept and take the hit, or double down. They're actually doing neither, or having a bob each way, if you like. They admitted the first mistake, and sort of admitted subsequent ones, while claiming that it was just a matter of opinion/viewpoint/pedantry (...
That seems a bit much like Underpants-Gnome theory to me: stupid mistakes — ? — profit! If, when recalling the publicity about the National Party in this campaign, all the electorate has in its collective mind is a series of accounting stuff-ups, then the ...
It is a dick move, yes, but it's also rubbing National's collective face in the excrement of its own narrative that it is better at managing the economy, because it can do difficult things like accountancy and reading spreadsheets and stuff. It would be ...
'The Germans' (well, the federal government of Germany), of course, favour a permanent switch to daylight saving, not the abolition of it.
when your narrative is all about your opponent, even you know youve lost. Although if you can't even work out what that narrative is, there's a decent possibility that you haven't noticed.
Although I agree with you that it is important to understand where opposing viewpoints come from, and to ascertain how compromise might achieve progress where none would otherwise have been possible, I am extremely wary of the incrementalist framing that ...
Blasting any government initiative as a waste of money, and jeering at any degree not in economics, is not nuance.
The title of this post sounds like some obscure form of diarrhoea.
Hmmm. The Taxpayers' Union would seem to me to have the rather large problem that, more or less whenever any commercial outfit markets anything as free, someone will have purchased it or paid for its manufacture, and be forgoing the income from its sale. ...
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