Posts by Russell Brown
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1. the Exclusive Bretheren connection didn't help the nats at the last election. I thought it was a bloody stupid decision to risk being tainted by an association with people who are so obviously nutters, and so it proved to be.
Well, it seems clear that people inside the party thought so too. But they were over-ruled by a leadership that saw the money.
I gather - well, Richard Griffin said - that Richard Long left because he couldn't convince Brash to stop playing with these people. And Brash's decision to meet with them again this year, without telling his caucus, raised some serious questions about his loyalty to his own colleagues.
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Brent Hansen- thanks- and wow- what a cool dude. "If you're not wearing jeans..." yeah- like that won't limit the audience! (My bet would be that if the shots were wider, we'd see Hansen in jeans....) The club scene was in Chch in the 80s was pretty limited: the best band gigs were all in pubs. People who wanted to go on drinking after 11pm didn't tend to go home and put on a tie!
Indeed. The handful of nightclubs I can recall from that era were bloody desperate. The thing to do was get some beer from the bottlestore and drive around trying to gatecrash parties.
Brent says the clip has been "truly global" in the past week, so obviously I wasn't the first one to draw his attention to it. Basically, it was just a matter of him, with no p.a. or anything, being assigned camera crews in ChCh and Dunedin and making a report.
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Michael Bassett is claiming ...
That was the sort of smug, self-serving interview that would tend to confirm unfavourable perceptions of Bassett. I'm guessing his Dom Post editors are not too pleased with him.
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Regarding email, it should be noted that the killer Brethren-to-Brash email, the one Hager says Brash forwarded to Long, appears to have been to a national.org.nz address, and therefore would not have gone through the Parliamentary email system.
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I really wish that someone like Colin James had written it so that it would be a credible behind the scenes study of a political campaign.
Quite by chance, I picked up a copy yesterday of a book I've never seen before: 'The Making of a New Zealand Prime Minister' by Jim Eagles and Colin James. It's about the 1973 Labour victory. Looking forward to reading it.
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U2? Jeez Russ what's next, expounding on the technically brilliant guitar playing of Mark Knopfler? Rating which Pink Floyd albums sound best on your new SACD player?
It's like punk rock never happened...
I know, I know ... but it was a grand act of communication. I did think at times that it would have been fun to have a few more doubting thomases to hand to check their reaction. Like Paul Litterick for when it got a bit churchy ...
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there was even a moment in the game when Nisbett or Mexted actually mistook Hayman for McCaw at the breakdown. I nearly cried with happiness for the big fella.
That turnover was a simply tremendous piece of play, showing strength, speed and awareness. And it led to a try.
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You know, Bassett, Prebble, Douglas, De Cleene et. al. wrecked the Labour party and it took 12 ears to put it back together again. Now they've wrecked National as well.
Yes, that's one of the striking aspects for me too. All those people trying to put their little stamp on The Project. Some of them are/were members of other political parties, and yet they got inside National and ran their candidate. I noted a little while ago that at least some of the National caucus must have wondered exactly where Brash's loyalty lay, and I suspect that they'll quietly be thinking the same thing now.
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U2 only have one good song?
I said one great song, but I'm open to argument. The point was more how much, as a non-fan, I was completely won over by what they did.
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The presenter I am certain is Brent Hansen now (and perhaps formally) of MTV fame.
Sure is. He's a Public Address reader and I'm sure he'll be tickled to see this here. I love how everyone looks 22 years younger ...
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