Posts by Joe Wylie
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to Sacha,
poodle does not warrant dudgeon (high or low) when it so accurately reflects the relationship.
Faust, out walking with his pal Wagner meets the devil for the first time in poodle form:
WAGNER
It may be that your eyes deceive you slightly;
Naught but a plain black poodle do I see.FAUST
It seems to me that with enchanted cunning
He snares our feet, some future chain to bind.WAGNER
I see him timidly, in doubt, around us running,
Since, in his master's stead, two strangers doth he find.FAUST
The circle narrows: he is near!
WAGNER
A dog thou seest, and not a phantom, here!
Behold him stop--upon his belly crawl--His
tail set wagging: canine habits, all! -
Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
the ’60s and ’70s were a very different proposition from the ever unwrapping present, we embrace.
Only a few major entertainment& information sources;Within five years of the first regular TV broadcasts in NZ Wellington was experiencing the phenomenon of a 'royal flush'. Viewers of the one and only channel strained the city's water resources as they hurried to perform their ablutions in the ad break following the evening news.
But as they say, if you claim to remember this kind of inconsequential rubbish you probably weren't there.
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to BenWilson,
The way they operate is bizarre, like some lost tribe in New Guinea, with a circle of elders, an indentured semi-religious pressure group, and bunch of angry disenfranchised villagers.
I remember you expressing similar thoughts a while back, and me citing James Dann's Ilam campaign as an exception. Ah well.
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to mark taslov,
I don’t know Joe, I just assumed you may be
Carry on interviewing yourself then Mark, I'm done.
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to mark taslov,
I was deadly serious in the points I made, for a die-hard Labourite that may be difficult to swallow
I'm having a little difficulty here. Who exactly is a 'die-hard Labourite'?
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to mark taslov,
Come on Joe, arguing that someone could at least deign to join the conversation beneath the blog posts they’ve contributed at Publicaddress isn’t a cheap shot. it’s pretty much exactly what happens all the time.
Only if you assume that making a guest post here obliges you to indulge anyone who happens to be living on the internet. You ramped your argument beyond the level of good faith in order to provoke a reply.
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to mark taslov,
with a bit of read
Googling would have provided ‘a bit of a read’ on James Dann’s not inconsiderable activism from well before he was a candidate. Certainly more than enough to lay the cheap shots you’ve sadly lowered yourself to.
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Hard News: Five further thoughts, in reply to Paul Campbell,
I remember they tried to sell it here, it was the wrong colour and tasted odd – no one would buy it
They tried adulterating it with local product.
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to Mr Mark,
Yeah, I get the impression James is pretty ambitious and has therefore hitched his wagon to the Robertson juggernaut. Probably hoping for a reasonably high List spot or Safe-ish Electorate somewhere down the line.
Well I wouldn't really know about that. What I do know is that James Dann's been one of the few Labour insiders to consistently maintain a level of activism on the post-quake issues that really matter here in Chch. For the wider Labour Party it's been a pretty dismal track record:
Lianne Dalziel demoted as recovery spokesperson under Shearer, prompting her move to local government.
Narrowly defeated Chch Central MP Brendon Burns who, despite having shown himself to be an effective advocate for the quake disadvantaged, was given a losing list spot in 2011.
After a false dawn as recovery spokesperson, Clayton Cosgrove went missing in action.
Megan Woods, who holds relatively undamaged Wigram by the grace of Anderton and will never forget it, has offered almost zero solidity with the badly affected East. The one time she did put her head above the parapet she couldn't apologise enough.
No-one within Labour, be it Cunliffe, Robertson, or anyone with real seniority, has taken a sustained and consistent line on festering issues such as insurance. The official Party obituary on Chch central's conversion to a solid National seat is that Tony Milne ran a great campaign. As I haven't lived there since the quakes I wouldn't know, but I understand that James Dann was a contender before being given the Ilam short straw. Frankly it's hard to believe that he'd have done worse.
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to Sacha,
Labour wanted a lot more government spending that even with higher tax rates would have required more borrowing, a higher deficit and more public debt.
Rubbish.
Don’t mention the bailout of South Canterbury Finance, unless you want to spoil a lovely bedtime story.
