Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Time to Vote, in reply to Bart Janssen,
The people who need to be asked are those that live in Roskill and New Lynn.
It’s a pattern that seems to have been repeated in Wigram and Christchurch East.
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Hard News: Time to Vote, in reply to ,
And there is something I know anecdotally. If we get ten fucked up alcoholics out of canons creek and into a Hazelden treatment centor, we will get at least one of them that will pay back the effort one hundred fold.
You appear to be describing the power of self-respect, which I still believe to be the true dividend of social justice. From other posts of yours I get the impression that you know that to be a hard-won thing, though all the more effective for being so. What we’ve seen last night is the triumph of its toxic substitute, namely snobbery, which provides a quick fix at someone else’s expense.
Claims of widespread revulsion for Cameron Slater among National supporters conveniently ignore that the same people usually hold an equal level of fear & loathing for Nicky Hager, whose work they’ll never sully themselves with by actually reading.
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Hard News: Decision 2014: Where to watch…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Did anyone else notice Don brash dressed in drag at the Conservative party function?
No.That was ACT Headquarters and it was just a shirt without a tie, very Brotherly of him.
One of those early 90s Australian shows, possibly The Comedy Company, did a parody of the Alf show, about the annoying alien, where he revealed to his host family that all along he'd been nothing but a sock, onto which they'd projected their fantasies. Initially they refused to believe him, but once he insisted they turned nasty, even stomping on him for having deluded them. I guess that's why Brash - or the hollow tieless shirt that he turned out to be - doesn't socialise much these days.
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Hard News: Time to Vote, in reply to mark taslov,
Stranger things have happened in an erection.
I was living in Sydney at the time of the Witlam dismissal in 1975. Strange days. In a poll taken in the lead up to the following election people were asked who they felt deserved to win, as well as their voting intention. A clear majority endorsed the ousted Labor Party as deserving to be returned to power, but declared they’d be voting Liberal.
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Hard News: Time to Vote, in reply to WH,
I feel for Hone Harawira a bit. It must have been a tough night for him.
Bradford aside, I really can't see that he's been punished for straying from the high moral ground. There are people within Labour who should have been squirming at the cheers at ACT HQ over Hone's defeat.
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Hard News: Time to Vote, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I actually know a couple of right-ish folks in Auckland Central who voted for Nikki Kaye but party voted Labour on the grounds that Jacinda Adern probably needed the back up more judging from the polls. Not a bad call on the whole, as things turned out.
Sounds pretty enlightened, though given the high Labour candidate vote coupled with a high National party vote in so many electorates – including Cunliffe’s – it has to be something of an exception.
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Hard News: Time to Vote, in reply to WH,
Why would you say she has been vindicated?
Because she could claim,with some justification, to have foreseen where the MegaMana marriage was headed.
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Hard News: Time to Vote, in reply to WH,
If the broader left can contribute to that goal (eg, as I think Laila Harre and Jeanette Fitzsimons do) then great.
So would Sue Bradford, who with some justification must be feeling a touch vindicated, be part of that broader left?
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So with MMP you can candidate vote Labour while crossing your fingers behind your back and party voting National. Not many appear to do it the other way around though.
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Hard News: Time to Vote, in reply to tussock,
Hone could win on specials too, but it’s not likely.
I think Bryce Edwards claimed earlier that he did well on specials last election.