Weka, they (old school conservatives) are still there in their tens of thousands working tirelessly within these charities, driving Cancer patients, standing on street corners collecting and in hundreds of unpaid areas as are those on the left. To suggest ...
thatguynz - tell me how people ever get to change a system within a democracy if it's not in the electoral box. No point having political principles if you'll die never having achieved anything. There's a halfway house where you moderate, compromise, ...
Yoza, I can't speak for fisiani, but it looks to me he or she wasn't saying 'power for power's sake', but rather suggesting Little may be choosing pragmatism in order to get into an electoral position to be able to effect change. One can have as many ...
What are you taking about Ross? Sorry but I find your argument verges on bizarre. The mother we know at least is a senior medical employee and no doubt is remunerated accordingly. The father , also is gainfully employed and the decision they make are no ...
Perhaps I am guilty of not fully understanding or referencing the terms of the inquiry but it did investigate the SIS and it's operative (Tucker) and it's operations (informing the Leader of Opposition, communications with the PM's office) broadly. No ...
How is Goff releasing explosive information that reflects on National Security and SIS operatives not wrong. [deleted] [lprent: Perhaps you should just stick to first establishing that your first assertion is correct. In particular how it affects National ...
Well, Abbott was born in the UK you know. I've often thought that we Antipodeans owe a lot of the emergent moaning and whining tendency to letting too many ten pound POMS in....
No benefactor is silent. It's always a case of he who pays the piper calls the tune.
Tracey, I think you mean PB (Pete Belt)
The formula for these things is very his turn/your turn and it's more a policy platform and a Key v Cunliffe than interviewer Hard Talk.
Like it or not George is right that the "comfortable, middle class voter" is the Greens voter. There is many a working class, plain living Labour voter who would rather not vote than vote Green and they'll hoping that Labour picks up momentum on their own ...
There is nothing normal about anyone who collects Nazi paraphernalia and there is something deeply disturbing about a German who does so, especially if, as he says he doesn't support their ideology. There is so much to disrespect about this man - for ...
On the number of digi-polled people who claim to have voted. I think the whole Herald polling methodology is fraught with so many issues to be remotely relevant, but I have no problem believing that 85% of those who responded voted, or claim to have voted....
If a policy of child assistance includes families earning up to $150,000 it'll not get much support from struggle streeters or those who regards themselves as fiscally prudent - let alone your opponents. It does voters a disservice to assume they've have ...
How on earth can Mr Key and Mr Abbott step into commercial territory and effectively order Australians to be less patriotic? Even if such interventionism was possible with regards to the supermarket's position on "Buy Aussie", the customer's may well ...
I think the Herald have been pretty supportive of the Mayor and until the EY only Fran had taken the stance he was irrevocably damaged. I personally believe that Brown has reinforced the years old perception of him as corruptible and he can never prove to ...
The man is now a joke. On top of his unaccountability to the ratepayer, his commercially compromised stance on SKY CITY and the embarrassment and shame he brings to Auckland, the man is far too fiscally incompetent to have the degree of power he does. If ...
Beautifully expressed. Thank you mac1
As for scoring political points Pink Postman can you spot the irony here??? I am on now on the right of NZ politics, but was always actively against apartheid and have had the privilege of visiting SA many times and visiting Soweto, Mandela's house, the ...
I think it is important that any ruling reflects the importance of the fifth estate and the dominant role it plays in information dissemination and that those of us who employ them as news source and interaction set aside partisanship. It seems clear to me...
IMHO it IS the aspirational classes that win an election. Waitakere has a fair few of them and finding what floats their boat is why Clark brought in WFF2 and interest-free loans as immediate pre election sweeteners. It's really was as simple as that. ...
Karol - principles will default to the Groucho Marx school - that is the "those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others". That is the real politiks of being in a coalition government and the price to be paid for selling your ...
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