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  1. Why UK Labour lost? Part 2: UK Labour’s Strange loyalty to First Past the Post.

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 2:56 am, January 13th, 2020 -  13 comments
    Categories: electoral systems, First Past the Post, labour, political parties, Politics, uk politics
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    Originally posted on Nick Kelly’s Blog

  2. Australian fires and the climate crisis everybody wanted to ignore

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 11:05 am, January 7th, 2020 -  51 comments
    Categories: australian politics, climate change, Environment, International, science
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    Originally posted on Nick Kelly’s Blog 

  3. The power of positive campaigning

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 2:42 pm, December 31st, 2019 -  123 comments
    Categories: election 2017, election 2020, internet, jacinda ardern, labour, Media, twitter, uncategorized
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    With the 2020 election just round the corner and recent complaints about the left’s treatment of the #TurnArdern campaign it is a perfect time to think about the importance of language and positive uplifting campaign themes.

  4. It Is the Thought That Counts

    Written By:  Incognito -  Date published: 12:33 am, December 28th, 2019 -  70 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, Ethics, jacinda ardern, leadership, Left, Politics, uncategorized
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    Antagonistic personalities are an obstacle to effective politics tackling major present problems.

  5. Democratisation by Social Media and the Internet Is Just Meaningless Waffle

    Written By:  Incognito -  Date published: 1:35 pm, December 24th, 2019 -  22 comments
    Categories: accountability, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, democratic participation, internet, Media, Politics, uncategorized
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    Social Media and the Internet are literally in our faces 24/7 but our political engagement is diminishing.

  6. The British Election result 2019

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 11:05 am, December 20th, 2019 -  21 comments
    Categories: boris johnson, democratic participation, electoral systems, International, Jeremy Corbyn, MMP, Politics, uk politics
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    Democracy is a precious thing, and not something that can be taken for granted. Having an electoral system where every vote matters is crucial to creating a decent society. It is time that the UK started seriously debating electoral reform and how to improve its democratic systems.

  7. How to counter angry boomer campaigns

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:15 am, December 17th, 2019 -  154 comments
    Categories: australian politics, boris johnson, democratic participation, Dirty Politics, Donald Trump, election 2020, elections, jacinda ardern, Jeremy Corbyn, Politics, uk politics, uncategorized
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    The UK election was won not by Russian bots but by older voters with limited technical skills circulating poorly designed ads.  What can be done in New Zealand to counter what is clearly a right wing campaign tactic?

  8. The Missing Millions

    Written By:  Bill -  Date published: 11:18 am, December 12th, 2019 -  18 comments
    Categories: Austerity, Bernie Sanders, Brexit, capitalism, class war, democracy under attack, Economy, elections, Europe, Free Trade, International, Jeremy Corbyn, journalism, Left, liberalism, Media, Politics, Privatisation, Propaganda, uk politics, us politics
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    Millions of people and an entire region of the UK left out of polling calculations….

  9. Thawing after the BRR

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 7:10 am, December 12th, 2019 -  27 comments
    Categories: economy, greens, james shaw
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    “The purpose of fiscal policy should be to ensure ongoing wellbeing for all and the health of our environment.”

  10. Little’s Electoral Bill a curate’s egg – good in parts

    Written By:  Mike Smith -  Date published: 1:51 pm, December 4th, 2019 -  11 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, campaigning, elections, electoral commission, political parties, social media lolz, spin
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    I’ve always liked Punch magazine’s famous cartoon “True humility” where the curate assures his bishop noticing his bad egg that parts of it are excellent. Most discussion on Little’s Bill has focused on the bad bits regarding foreign donations. The good bit requires all political ads online to be attributed.

  11. Whither Warren?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 7:40 am, December 2nd, 2019 -  20 comments
    Categories: capitalism, climate change, Donald Trump, jacinda ardern, us politics
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    Is it too early to call negative odds on Elizabeth Warren’s candidacy?

  12. The folly of electoral pacts

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 2:15 am, November 30th, 2019 -  2 comments
    Categories: Brexit, electoral systems, First Past the Post, International, Politics, polls, uk politics
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    Originally posted  Nick Kelly’s blog One feature of the UK election has been various electoral alliances or deals done. This has mostly occurred around the issue of Brexit. Early on in the campaign I wrote about Trump’s intervention in the UK election, specifically him calling on The Brexit Party and The Conservatives to do a deal. […]

  13. Never Trump

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 8:06 am, November 23rd, 2019 -  46 comments
    Categories: Donald Trump, elections, Politics, uncategorized, us politics
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    There is tremendous momentum within the Democratic Party right now with recent gains in Kentucky and Louisiana and Virginia. But in the battle to get rid of Trump they can still blow it.

  14. Hypocrite

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:23 pm, November 20th, 2019 -  74 comments
    Categories: election 2020, election funding, elections, electoral commission, electoral systems, jacinda ardern, national, nz first, politicans, same old national, Simon Bridges, uncategorized, winston peters
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    Simon Bridges has accused NZ First of engaging in the most significant breach of electoral law in New Zealand’s history. But has not ruled out working with NZ First in the future. And has forgotten about National’s neat partition of a $100,000 donation to hide it from the authorities.

  15. Two Referendums Too Many

    Written By:  Incognito -  Date published: 1:32 pm, November 16th, 2019 -  50 comments
    Categories: campaigning, death with dignity, election 2020, leadership, Politics, quality of life, referendum
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    The referendums on two contentious issues could cloud and crowd out the General Election.

  16. Sustainable Party launches

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:01 am, November 11th, 2019 -  99 comments
    Categories: climate change, Environment, global warming, greens, national, political parties, same old national, sustainability
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    The Sustainable Party, National’s sock puppet party designed to weaken the Greens has launched. And its policies for some strange reason have not put climate change front and centre.

  17. National’s fundamentals

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 7:15 am, November 6th, 2019 -  87 comments
    Categories: Christopher Luxon, election 2020, national
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    Are National parachuting in a fundamentalist Christian as a Prime Minister hopeful?

  18. Farage – thorn in the side of the UK Conservatives

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 1:01 pm, November 5th, 2019 -  4 comments
    Categories: Brexit, uk politics, uncategorized
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    Nick Kelly is a former NZ trade union leader and NZ Labour activist. He is a co director of Piko Consulting, and currently lives in London expanding Piko into the UK. The below was originally published on Nick Kelly’s blog 

  19. Truth, boomer memes and the next election campaign

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:05 am, October 26th, 2019 -  54 comments
    Categories: boris johnson, Donald Trump, facebook, Media, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uncategorized, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Thanks to Facebook’s lax attitude to fact checking it appears that the next election campaign is going to be a rough one.

  20. Reality kicks in for US trolls.

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 9:35 am, October 18th, 2019 -  17 comments
    Categories: blogs, David Farrar, Media, national, Social issues
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    It has been an interesting few days looking at political reality kicking in on politics and the net in the UK and the US. The first story I read yesterday was in the US, about one of the lying dimwitted conspiracy nutcases who claimed that the 2012 Sandy Nook school massacre never happened, but was […]

  21. “Extinction Rebellion blanket ban chilling and unlawful”

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 7:10 am, October 16th, 2019 -  74 comments
    Categories: activism, climate change, police
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    Amnesty International condemn police blanket ban on Extinction Rebellion protests in London.

  22. Elizabeth Warren on Facebook and the US presidential election

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 7:16 am, October 10th, 2019 -  72 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, corruption, democracy under attack, facebook, Politics, Propaganda, us politics
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    “They’re allowing Trump to spend over $1 million a week right now for ads on their platform—including ones that air the same lies that TV stations won’t.”

  23. Extinction Rebellion on Lambton Quay

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 7:10 am, October 7th, 2019 -  76 comments
    Categories: climate change, Environment
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    Extinction Rebellion NZ starts off an international week of Climate Rebellion designed to encourage governments to act in meaningful terms on the climate crisis.

  24. Unrelentingly negative

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:19 am, September 26th, 2019 -  29 comments
    Categories: climate change, Donald Trump, global warming, jacinda ardern, science, Simon Bridges, uncategorized, United Nations
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    National has chosen to attack Jacinda Ardern on her trip to New York for doing too much and not enough at the same time.  It seems to be a pattern.

  25. Lying : the preferred denier behavior

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 3:45 pm, September 22nd, 2019 -  26 comments
    Categories: australian politics, climate change, Donald Trump, Environment, International, politicans, science
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    In a striking example of the typical climate change denier, the “Australian Young Coal Coalition” released a photo bemoaning the mess left by friday’s climate change strike rally in Hyde Park. Pity that it was a lying fake. Being put out by climate change deniers, of course it was just a lie. That is all […]

  26. National’s rhetoric problem

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:48 am, September 21st, 2019 -  19 comments
    Categories: national, phil twyford, same old national, Simon Bridges, transport, uncategorized
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    National has displayed a concerning level of rhetoric this week involving a misrepresentation of the GDP figures and the attacking of a board appointee who cannot respond.

  27. Every day New Zealanders

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:37 pm, September 18th, 2019 -  20 comments
    Categories: facebook, jacinda ardern, Media, Simon Bridges, social media lolz, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uncategorized, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Simon Bridges thinks that Jacinda Ardern’s international campaign to change the way that social media handles hate speech and terrorism a big talkfest that will achieve nothing, even though Facebook has as a result announced significant changes to its platform.

  28. An unfortunate rush to judgment by the media?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:55 am, September 17th, 2019 -  124 comments
    Categories: jacinda ardern, labour, national, paula bennett, same old national, uncategorized
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    A release of information from Labour Council member Simon Mitchell has raised issues about what members of the Labour Party knew about recent sexual abuse allegations and when.

  29. National’s double standard

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:31 am, September 15th, 2019 -  100 comments
    Categories: jacinda ardern, labour, Media, national, same old national, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uncategorized
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    National has a rather murky past when it comes to dealing with issues relating to the behaviour of its Members of Parliament.

  30. The Civilian has a fish-hook

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 9:37 am, September 6th, 2019 -  2 comments
    Categories: humour, jacinda ardern, Satire, Social issues, uncategorized
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    The Civilian is New Zealand’s pre-eminent source of online news, and indeed the purest form of news that you can consume without having an apoplectic seizure. Today they detail the course of a vaccination on live TV. Please put your hot drinks down before reading.

  31. Brexit?

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 7:15 am, September 4th, 2019 -  20 comments
    Categories: Politics, uk politics
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    “The bill will attempt to extend the date of Brexit to January 31, 2020 in the event of no deal being agreed or passed through Parliament. If the bill passes Boris Johnson is expected to call a general election.”
    Updated: Bill passed second reading. 21 Conservative MPs effectively expelled from parliamentary party. Boris wants a new election. Corbyn reluctant.. Blond clusterfuck.
    Updated:  And Boris Johnson just lost vote for a general election.