And why, precisely, do you think voters "see whoever wins as being interchangeable"? Could it be *gasp* something to do with the fact they all present themselves as "independents" and offer mealy-mouthed identical-sounding rhetoric? It's almost like that's...
See also the plague of "independents" running for local government and the even-worse turnout there.
You raise a very valid point.
Surely SNP? All that means is the UK need to figure out proper coalition governments.
Nice derail. The actual *point* is that while many on the right of UK Labour use the Leave vote as "proof" that Corbyn can't win elections, he did a far better job than any of them did convincing their constituencies to vote Remain.
He fills Twitter and blogs with [his] righteousness and smugness, puffed up by [his] own perceived moral and intellectual superiority. OMG this is a great game, PM!
The only thing I'm afraid of is getting my eyes stuck in a perpetual eyeroll at all the people parrotting the "Corbyn is unelectable!!" line. It's completely baseless. He has held his seat since 1983; his electorate had one of the highest votes to Remain; ...
There can be a difficulty in that party rules and processes aren't always easy to get your head around as a newbie. There may be a few LECs (or whatever the UK equivalent is) where the old hands are still calling all the shots for the time being.
The rally was hugely empowering for the people attending - for some it was their first public demonstration and despite the Auckland drizzle we had some fun and made a hell of a racket! Thanks heaps to Jacinda Ardern and Barry Coates for coming along to ...
Whether it was ever possible to present their data of ethnically Chinese buyers to present the point of a need for a foreign buyer register (and a proper one, not National’s skewed one) in a way that didn’t give the perception of mixing the 2 is another ...
Labour used surnames to assess foreignness. It was never going to be presented in any other way. And as I've commented above, the number of Labour folk who insist on making this about "but the statistical probability" or "well maybe they could have ...
And there you go, conflating "has Chinese surnames" with "being foreign". Here's the racism: we keep acting like the only foreign money which is bad in the housing market is Chinese money. Nobody ever complains "I went to an auction and all the white ...
Well, you leave the question begging. What were the ends? What did this move achieve, beyond pissing off a lot of people? I can somewhat see what the strategy was meant to be - establish that the key issue in Auckland housing is foreign money, using leaked...
As Keith's follow-up and Tze Ming's posts illustrate, the rigour of the statistics is actually irrelevant. Chinese people were scapegoated for the housing crisis on the basis of their surnames. If anything, the continued insistence that it's all OK because...
Crone's campaign was doomed from the start. Goff was anointed Mayor of Auckland years ago, and having three incoherent candidates run on the right in an FPP system was never going to help. My only point is ... she has a point, kind of.
"The role of Government is to protect private property rights." That's one opinion. "The left wing think tank, the New Zealand Initiative" aka The Business Roundtable. Pull the other one, mate.
I don't think this is the best argument to hang your hat on. The problem with Labour's "Chinese surnames" debacle is precisely that it wasn't statistically sound and it, like Victoria Crone, made no distinction between resident Chinese folk and overseas ...
The lists above provide information which people *may use* when deciding how to vote. As it says, I would equally link to endorsement posts by Family First or the National Party, if they sullied their hands with local politics. And our law is simply not as...
How many of them are actually on the Māori roll and live in Waiariki? Because the Māori Party's position is pretty secure as long as there's no significant challenge to Te Ururoa Flavell's seat.
Rubbish. If he wasn't aware of the full facts he could have said so. Instead he made excuses and couldn't back them up.
Funny how Winston's concern about "the way Parliament operates" only popped up at the last minute, when he could get publicity out of it. Look at Prosser in the video - he's clearly got no leg to stand on. "Oh, we have new information but you'd have to ...
Well given your "suspicions" over Hague's own statements I think I know who I'm going to believe.
I absolutely agree. Local body elections don't get nearly the kind of attention they should because the assumption seems to be that all the "important" decisions get made at a central government level - and the only things that matter in local government ...
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Your passive-aggressive snark is noted. I do appreciate that some people think the only thing worse than generations of oppression, theft, violence and cultural genocide is being called "the r-word". :roll:
Thanks for that additional information. There's a hell of a lot that just doesn't get talked about.
Compensation for the historical confiscation of your lands and destruction of your culture is hardly "gifts". It's very easy for people like us Pākehā to talk about "sharing" and "working together" when our position in society was built on stealing ...
It could be, but it feels like a very risky play. Key's government has been made to look unstable and arrogant, and the conversation has gone a lot wider than a bit of parliamentary back-and-forth.
There's nothing "novel" in the government's approach on this. They announced a major decision affecting a Treaty settlement with zero consultation with the affected parties. Par for the course for European colonisers in New Zealander, really. No one can be...
Cheers.
Interesting that Taleb explicitly cites fatphobia as an area in which we've allowed a sense of intellectual superiority to override objectivity. Far too many people on the left are still convinced that a paternalistic "we must punish the poor people for ...
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