Love the cricket analogy. 72 -75 was an aberration. Had Norm Kirk lived he would have wiped the floor with Muldoon. Muldoon ran probably the nastiest campaign in this country's history - like Trump, full of "fake news" and Bill Rowling was far to nice to ...
There is also a very old saying that says "Politics is the art of the possible" and I believe that this government is sticking to that adage with good effect. To redress the social imbalance brought about by thirty years of neo-liberalism is going to take ...
You obviously feel very strongly on this issue - can you illuminate your condemnation. Please point out where he has failed.
You are implying MMP is the culprit. How so. Are you suggesting that pre 1986 all parties and their funding practices were squeaky clean? I very much doubt it. In fact I would have thought that it was much easier to hide funds in those days. We were far ...
IMO the rabble rousing that occurred around the country yesterday was merely a predictable sequel to that idiotic protest that took place outside Morrinsville a couple of years ago. Remember the wally with the placard that read "Pretty Little Communist". ...
My local paper recently published a review of Peter Dyer's book "The story of New Zealand's leaky home disaster". I then found this article on Stuff, reviewing the same book, https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/116236850/the-rottenomics-of-the-47-billion-...
I have lived and worked in the UK in recent times and holidayed regularly in Australia. How I envy the Brits with their BBC 1 and BBC 2. The ABC does an excellent job in Oz. Why can't we have something similar.
Talking of lies, and in case you don't get down to my post below, her is a useful link. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/26/co2-is-plant-food-australian-group-signs-international-declaration-denying-climate-science?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=...
Listened to the last part of a discussion Wallace Chapman was having this afternoon with a climate Professor. From what I managed to catch it sounded an eminently reasoned argument. Before the interview was completed Wallace was being bombarded by the ...
I was very embarrassed by Bryce Edward's vacuous article that made it to the Guardian. I looked for space to comment was couldn't find it. He is coming across as a shallow Tory troll.
Not sure if this has already been said or not, my apologies if it has, but this whole nasty saga has Crosby Textor all over it and Bennett would be a very willing tool for them. Attack politics relies on spreading fake news and innuendo as widely as ...
Good on you TFG
Got in one. An unprincipled woman who had no compunction in leaking confidential details of "victims" when it suited her.
Oh dear, A Five O'Clock news item would appear to turn this whole nasty episode on its head. The antics of the Gnats, and the appalling Paula Bennett are straight from the Crosby-Textor manual. Throw mud and innuendo as quickly and widely as you can in the...
Well said DMK. The electoral system in the UK is a hang-over from a bygone age. Tony Blair let the British people down when he reneged on an agreement with Lib Dem Paddy Ashdown to set in motion a path to proportional representation.
It seems to me that all is speculation until we get the report from the Q.C. - which must be made public. Paula Bennett is taking "attack politics" to new depths and she is working straight out of the Crosby Textor manual. If the report from the Q.C. shows...
Thanks for that Herodotus. I watched it several years ago as part of an inflight programme and found it absorbing viewing as well as deeply moving. I have been a cricket lover all my life and happened to be living in England (although a kiwi) in 1950 when ...
Who is Mike Smith - not a former captain of England I'll be bound. Whoever he is he must have forgotten all about Mitchell Johnston (aided and abetted by appalling Aussie sledging and Gabba crowd abuse) who terrified Jonathan Trott to the point that he ...
My apologies.
Greetings ankerawshark. I came to that conclusion a long time ago. In fact I skip Shadrach's posts. Pointless raising my blood pressure [Please pay attention to your user name when you submit a comment]
A brilliant, timely and extraordinary speech from James Shaw. It is extraordinary because it has long been a Green Party mantra where you do not attack the person. Criticise the policy of course, but avoid bringing in personality. The philosophy behind ...
Ad always has difficulty with basic arithmetic - especially when it doesn't suit his argument.
Thanks, and there is an associated article which is, in fact, the headline of todays edition. It contains a link to the one given above.
Is there a reason why the link to the Guardian article may not be published here. The article should be read by all fair-minded people who believe in fair, genuine and open democracy.
Thanks Duke. No need for me to repeat all of that but could also add the sale of state assets (yes, to my eternal chagrin Douglas and Prebble were also guilty of that) and, to go back a generation, Muldoon's disastrous Super scheme but Tories such as Wayne...
Wouldn't have the audacity to call myself professor but respectfully suggest that my view as valid as yours, whatever that might be. Goodness, certainly of some interesting reaction there. No not on any stimulant, just been around quite a long time and ...
Couldn't agree with you less. Those that the left have championed have rarely been part of the "fight". Most are not interested in politics even though they are being affected by them on a daily basis. It might sound slightly elitist but it has always been...
While I believe totally in the values that Jeremy Corban and Bernie Sanders espouse I don't think they will ever win an election principally because the weight and power of the Tory owned media is so heavily weighted against them - if you were around in ...
Spot on Anne, and while you are talking Crosby/Textor, don't forget the homegrown weasel Sean Topham, "the digital whiz who worked at in the inner sanctum of the Liberals' campaign HQ in Brisbane" according to Audrey Young. Have also been disappointed with...
Typical "attack"politics. Just been having a look at comments on "The Daily Blog" - difficult to know whose "side" it is on. "Kiwi Sean Topham, aged 28, was the digital whiz who worked at in the inner sanctum of the Liberals' campaign HQ in Brisbane." So ...
Didn't get time to edit?? "my wife and me" and "years" not ears of course.
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