Posts by Sacha
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If there was a way to get rid of a Speaker, the Nats would have used it on Margaret Wilson.
You could call a vote of no coinfidence, but the party benefitting from bias is hardly going to add their votes.
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Polity: Cold, calculated and cynical, in reply to
They have been fed manure for many years.
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Reading what has been going on in parliament today is upsetting. Disgraceful.
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This gambit is calculated to turn attention from Key's gutlessness onto traditional left defence of unpopular people's human rights. Tools like Gower are playing their part.
However, Kelvin Davis is showing how to keep playing the character line. Will his colleagues follow suit or get sucked into the hand-wringing that Nat strategists are hoping for?
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Hard News: After Len, in reply to
More trips per hour into the city will be possible than before.
More trips around the region - the focus on the cbd is a red herring. This single project doubles the capacity of the whole network. Combined with new bus routes that focus on rail hubs around the region, the ROI is massive. And there really is no viable alternative, regardless of the asphalt fantasies of the right.
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Goff is from the right of Labour. Not very left at all, hence picking up Nat party supporters.
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Hard News: After Len, in reply to
assumed a much higher growth rate of population and employment in Auckland's CBD than has been the case historically.
And this myth has been answered before as well. Stat's NZ's official population growth figures have exceeded their High projections for many decades in Auckland. We can see the effect of ignoring that in a history of inadequate infrastructure provision like a 4-lane car-only bridge to the North Shore.
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Hard News: After Len, in reply to
foolish of me to misunderstand
You still sound like you could do with reading material at that link. It answers questions/issues you are raising.
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Hard News: After Len, in reply to
Has someone complained to the Auditor-General about all that yet?
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Hard News: After Len, in reply to
inner city train set
CRL's leading beneficiary is the West. Please educate yourself at http://transportblog.co.nz/our-analysis/city-rail-link/
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