Your first two paragraphs, allowing for a bit of dramatic license, are in the ball park. "None of the ACT members complained" That's wrong. I saw Act members complaining plenty. The rest, unless you have any proof of it, I don't buy, sounds most like a ...
You're the one making bizarre accusations. And yes, taking the micky isn't very difficult.
You're spaced out again. Not according to Garrett: http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2011/07/general_debate_21_july_2011.html#comment-854525 I'm well aware of Garrett's passport stuff. It doesn't mean he is printing money to fund National operatives to take over ...
"Long on self-congratulation" I'm tempted to comment on that, but best left as it is.
"bugger all to do with reality" I thought for a minute you were revealing Labour's new election slogan.
Don't be so dopey, you get a bit carried away with your bullshit expansions. Epsom and Wigram are quite different - but they are both examples of one party accommodating another for mutual benefits.
I'm aware there are not and there can't be specific rules on the formation of a government. I presume the partys have some sort of convention worked out, but there's nothing to stop some parties ignoring that. But I imagine many voters (apart rom those ...
Anderton most likely would have won Wigram from a strong Labour challenge - but we'll never know because it never happened. It was convenient for Labour to just leave it to Anderton. And in another handy arrangement, Anderton retires and hands Wigram to ...
It might matter to voters, and I'm sure that's in the minds of the parties, especially the small ones who have ambitions for being more than a one term coalition party. Greens in particular seem very cautious about how they are seen to associate. But......
The ODT has confirmed that David Parker is standing in Epsom, but that "he is not expected to threaten Act New Zealand's John Banks". That's a standard sort of MSM assumption that tends to suppress discussion and possibilities of properly democratic "best ...
They already work with the current government, just not in coalition. See: http://www.greens.org.nz/achievements
The big Labour names contesting Wigram to compete head on with Anderton: 2008 Erin Ebborn-Gillespie - third on 15.15% (Labour 40.19%) 2005 Paul Chalmers - third on 19.12% (Labour 47.95%) 2002 Mika Mora - 2nd on 26% (Labour 45%) Labour got the help of two ...
Something puzzling with the numbers: The gap between National and ACT v Labour and Green is gradually narrowing. It’s at 12% this time, which means if 6% of people change their minds, we have a change of government. If 6% changed from National to Labour: ...
CV - if Labour could I'm sure they would, it's just that every other party senses blood in the red water and are preying on picking up votes from the entrails. So it's unlikely Labour has anyone willing to do deals.
Maori Party are right wing? Mana Party are right wing? The Anderton Party is right wing? If you think Labour wouldn't make electorate arrangements to try and give themselves a way of cobbling together a coalition you're as nuts as micky.
Your posts are really spaced out this morning. Calm down and slow down. A new definition of trolling - upsetting ms before he's taken his meds. What David Garret did some time last century is behind this right wing plot?
You're making a lot of assumptions and accusations. You must have proof of all that or you wouldn't be making the claims? Have your got legal advice on that? Or maybe you need to see your paranoia doctor a bit more often. Democracy is parties doing what ...
Yes, I agree that using MMP ("game playing" it) is a good reason to keep MMP, there are more party and voter options.
Epsom electorate nudges, winks and open arrangements, have been called undemocratic. That's nonsense. Parties should be free to arrange whatever they want to. Voters decide for themselves what they like and who they will vote for. It will happen in other ...
The one news article you've linked to (which is vague) emphasises a cap is an upper limit, it discusses reducing numbers, and Key is not quoted as saying the number of jobs won't reduce. But today he said the differential between the two numbers did not ...
Even individual pollsters are swinging by that much. It's a long way until the election with a big wavering middle.
Yeah, but obviously not very well. Comprehension deficit.
You didn't read that very well, did you.
What's dodgy about that? Parties are free to arrange anything they like with each other. And voters are free to judge what parties arrange vote for whoever they like.
- I've not yet seen a "cap, not cut" promise. - I've not yet seen that these jobs are cuts to front line numbers rather than relocating positions. - I've not yet seen that these jobs will be by sacking and not attrition. If you can back up you bravado with...
Re 1: capping does not rule out reductions. 9. a maximum limit, as one set by law or agreement on prices, wages, spending, etc., during a certain period of time; ceiling: Re 1: Key also mentions social workers in his newsletter. If the current job cuts are...
The depth of your research flatters you.
I agree that Cullen was generally prudent, although that could be argued on policies that cost big time like student loans and WFF. And if he predicted his revenue streams carefully he knowingly screwed wage workers with bracket creep. But like every ...
Links please on both 1 and 2. If they did promise not to cut anything at all then they were very stupid but I don't recall them saying anything like that. Cuts of any services or jobs should always be an option, it's gross incompetence to only ever ...
Even Labour aren't sure of a lot of details, they're leaving plenty to the Expert Group. What the Expert Group recommends and Labour ends up doing will be critical to how it works - you can be sure that loopholes will be searched for, and some will be ...
We can only guess at what it would change, leading up to, and then short and longer term afterwards. We can guess a bit better looking at what has happened elsewhere but we would be changing from different conditions to anywhere else in quite different ...
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