I don't know how that process works, but in general can't, no online petition can. It's easy to use fake and multiple identities. Much like on blogs.
That's from the standard petition privacy policy. What petitioners do with data received is another matter. Bridges is on record as assuring "the National Party will delete all the data they get from the quarantine petition - no ifs no buts." If National ...
Do you have evidence? Or it just appears that way on Twitter? If you have evidence I'll put it up in a post.
Do you have evidence? Or are accusations on Twitter good enough for claims posted here?
Do you have evidence?
That's a big accusation, do you have any evidence? Is that why Labour and Greens ran numerous petitions when in opposition and you just assume National would too? They probably have, but in this case Bridges has assured they won't keep any contact data. ...
Why do you pretend to know what I know?
Time will tell whether Greens capitalise on that (there's a lot of general support for improving the environment) without overreaching and scaring people off. If they're working on it they must be doing it quietly. Nothing on their media News page since 25...
According to Newsroom: The Government has bowed to a public campaign led by epidemiologists and the National Party to have all returning New Zealanders centrally quarantined in hotels or other isolated locations for at least 14 days from their date of ...
I hope Greens do get back in and suspect they probably will, but it will be a challenge for them to be seen above the Covid noise. They also run a risk if they pick up on some suggestions and propose using the Covid disruption as a reason to redesign the ...
But as the polls also show, support for Ardern is not the same as support for Labour, and it's the party vote that's critical. If it looks like Labour have a chance of getting back in but are reliant on NZF that could easily deter people who like Ardern ...
I agree that's entirely conceivable - I think in September or November, that latest an election could be held. But that would be close, and it's also nearly as conceivable that National got a bit more and Labour got a bit less. A lot will depend on the ...
I'm not pretending anything, I'm looking at facts and polls. Are you aware that the last time NZ First was in Government they ended the term losing their only electorate (Tauranga) and failing to make the threshold? And coincidentally they also had to deal...
@KJT - do you think the Opposition should guess everything the Government may do and not say anything about any of that before it may or may not happen?
The day before going in to lockdown Ardern said: New Zealanders entering at our borders undergo strict measures to isolate or quarantine. From midnight tonight, we bunker down for four weeks to try and stop the virus in its tracks, to break the chain. ...
It looks like there are some here who see this as a political opportunity to snipe at National and give them no credit for contributing to dealing with the crisis. Sure there's politics involved in what they do - just as much as there's politics involved ...
"There are 2 referendums." What better time to research and discuss these than the present time and near future when most of us are at home with a lot more spare time than usual? Or deferring them and the election until we are busier than usual getting ...
Do you mean National should not advocate for anything nor question the Government about anything to do with Covid? In a crisis should we effectively be a one party state with substantially increased powers? [Fixed major disaster in user handle. Please pay ...
I've never been a fan of party driven petitions for a number of reasons. That aside, National have had a legitimate need to question the lack of quarantining of first the only source and then the main source of the virus here. And Ardern today had a ...
"There is a widespread feeling amongst National supporters" How do you know this? Sounds to me like you've made it up.
"We progress to level 3 then 2 over the next month or so" Very optimistic I think. The preparations for learning from home and Chris Hipkins saying schools are unlikely to reopen after the 4 week lockdown period suggests the MoE is preparing for longer ...
If the current semi-secret poll is anywhere near accurate both NZF and Greens are in the threshold danger zone. Allowing for margin of error and rounding (not revealed) they could be above or below by a % or so. That's not a rumour, that's been reality for...
That sort of result wouldn't surprise me, but with no poll details and no recent poll history or any idea of trends, and in an extraordinary period, it means less than a fully disclosed and published poll with history in more normal times. It would simply ...
Remember the Greens? What if they miss the threshold as well as NZF? I think in the current circumstances it would be advantage Labour, but that could change - it's said that a week is a long time in politics, but it's even longer in a Covid crisis.
Promoting rumours (or mischief) of internal polls being on supposedly credible blogs is a lowering of standards. The incumbent lead party in Government doing a very good job handling the biggest crisis in decades has a distinct advantage with an election ...
"We seem to have reached a position where a consensus is emerging that free market economics will no longer work. " The free market is an economic system based on supply and demand with little or no government control. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/...
"Plenty would have tried to bluff it out." Like, for four days?
Clark disgraced himself and embarrassed himself and the Prime Minister. Is that a self-gotcha?
You could call any media questioning 'gotcha' if you wanted to discredit it or divert from it. Clark admitted breaching the rules despite being in a position he should know them better than just about anyone, presuming he was involved in making them. And ...
I challenged him recently about continuing to write for The BFD paywalled magazine, supporting among other things Slater's return to his old dirty political tricks, and Chris said I didn't understand how freelance journalism works.
Someone with some experience in media and politics on today's media conference when PM Ardern was asked questions about David Clark. What precisely was the problem today? I watched it and didn’t see anything out of the ordinary. Of course they were going ...
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