Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: News from home ..., in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I recall she brought Shearer on board too. Fancy that.
And Shane Jones. She's a complex one.
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Hard News: News from home ..., in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Sir Michael Cullen, who lives in Ohope…
if only Ohope was really a thing with feathers…
Dalvanius Prime once told me that, according to the lore of his Taranaki iwi, an illustrious ancestor in those parts had a knack for taming moas. His prize specimen was a flying version, which he employed in a daily shuttle service between Patea and points north of there. Perhaps Cullen could have a word to Mallard to hurry up that jurassic park project of his.
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Hard News: News from home ..., in reply to Matthew Hooton,
Palmer, Moore, Bolger, Shipley, Clark, Cullen etc are never more than a text away.
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Hard News: News from home ..., in reply to Mr Mark,
Wellington City (like Dunedin and South Auckland) remains well to the Left of the rest of New Zealand.
And I’d bet that not so long ago you’d have confidently said that about Christchurch. I’ve yet to read an honest post-mortem on what went so horribly wrong there from Labour’s POV that doesn’t involve a certain amount of whistling in the dark.
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Hard News: News from home ..., in reply to TracyMac,
Someone who can smack down the purported fence between “Waitakere man” and “urban liberals” in a positive forward-thinking way can only be helpful to the prospects of the party.
Little’s firmly matter-of-fact affirmation that sexual harassment is a serious issue is a refreshing change from Cunliffe’s musings about his guilt over being a man. Whether Cunliffe intended it that way or not, it’s encouraging that we’ve moved beyond the level of pathetic gratitude for some aspect of the leader’s personality.
Look, I’m queer, I’m Gen-X, I live as close to the central city as I can. According to people like Semmens or Trotter, I must be natural enemy to the Little and his mates.
However Little’s leadership develops, it’s a safe bet that Semmens and Trotter will still be gagging for their meathead messiah for a long time to come.
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Hard News: News from home ..., in reply to Matthew Hooton,
powerful institutions will be doing everything they can to stop him.
The tipline is running hot then?
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Hard News: News from home ..., in reply to Geoff Lealand,
I am just wondering what or who all those folk merrily abandoning Labour might be offerings as alternatives to their apparent assent to years more of National and reactionary politics,
There's no lack of precedents. Michael Bassett, for example, got himself a speechwriting gig for Don Brash :)
BTW Little is handling the Sutton thing damn well so far.
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Hard News: News from home ..., in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Especially when the last week or two hasn’t exactly been bereft of low-hanging fruit for the Opposition – Roger Sutton
That would be an abrupt and apparently opportunistic change of tack. If there’s been an unspoken bipartisan agreement to treat any issue as a no go area it’s Sutton’s role with CERA. Even Ruth Dyson appeared to go along with this, despite being caught up in Sutton’s blatantly dictatorial overreaching of his powers.
Apart from her appreciation of Sutton’s apparently constructive engagement with the Council’s current CEO, Lianne Dalziel’s eulogy from early this week tapped once again into the reservoir of goodwill from Sutton’s post-quake glory days as CEO of Orion, something that’s been sadly squandered since he accepted the poison chalice of CERA.
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Hard News: News from home ..., in reply to Ian Dalziel,
the penicillin is mightier
than the swardThere's mould in them there pills....
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Hard News: News from home ..., in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I don’t think they’ve let their magic tortoise go yet…
:- )Book of Changes, Hexagram 27:
Nine at the beginning means:You let your magic tortoise go,
And look at me with the corners of your mouth drooping.
Misfortune.The magic tortoise is a creature possessed of such supernatural powers that it lives on air and needs no earthly nourishment. The image means that a man fitted by nature and position to live freely and independently renounces this self-reliance and instead looks with envy and discontent at others who are outwardly in better circumstances. But such base envy only arouses derision and contempt in those others. This has bad results.
I don't think Little actually envies Key, which is a good start, but then none of the other contenders appeared to. Cunliffe, however....