Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Walking upright again, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I’m glad to see they are still using the reverseable placard I left with them for future use – (Rateable Value is a Rort b/w Change the Government, Give Chch a Fair Shake)
Your handiwork.
In action.
I wonder if CERA will recycle those little colour-coded crosses left at their door. -
The Rev. Mike Coleman's Martin Luther moment as he nails his open letter to NZ to the cross delivered to CERA's door at the culmination of yesterday's Show Your Colour Crusade. CERA as a Diet of Worms would confirm the experience of a number of aggrieved colour-zoned residents.
Mike Coleman's letter can be found here.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Kracklite,
I don’t think Farrar believes his own spin either.
OK, I'm too kind. If I were to make the effort to picture him it'd be kneeling in prayer, Christopher Robin-style, invoking the almighty to keep him in mind for one of those knighthoods. And did he tell any lies today? Little fibs perhaps, but all in the highest of causes.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Steve Parks,
. . . his analysis on this tea pot tape issue is way off base.
To me it's a close replay of the frantic bloviation over the Hollow Men farce. Same for Hooton, though lacking Farrar's inherent obsequiousness he doesn't necessarily believe his own spin.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Sacha,
Lawyer Andrew Geddis dissects Farrar’s shrill response to Holmes’s witterings.
While the good professor’s energy is admirable and the results can be entertaining, like his willingness to engage with the squeaky element that occasionally infest the DimPost, you find yourself wondering why he bothers. Given Farrar’s tendency to come across as a bad parody of a hair-splittingly pious theologian (anyone remember the endless tying-in-knots nonsense re. the materiality or otherwise of Brash’s emails?), it’s rather like the intellectual equivalent of squeezing zits.
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to Paul Williams,
I didn’t like Simon Upton, but I respected him…
I remember hearing an item on ABC radio at the time of the original MMP referendum, where Australian political pundits discussed events in NZ. One offered the opinion that MMP would probably get up, perhaps for no better reason than that Helen Clark and Simon Upton didn’t like it. NZers, he believed, would take that as an endorsement.
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to Sacha,
you clearly haven't met him :)
Have you read his biographies of Brash and Banks?
I hear that the descriptions of cavalry charges against blood-crazed fuzzy-wuzzies and midnight escapes from Boer prisons are absolutely ripping. -
Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to Keir Leslie,
What was with the Winstonite? He seemed like an old lag at the rark-the-crowd-up thing?
A self-declared small-g green too!
Just put his pic up, along with the others.I had hoped for a few snaps of the one who's becoming known as the Loch Ness Monster of the hustings, on account of how he's seldom seen. As the Baptist Hall is a single-level venue there was no risk of being thrown downstairs.
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Signs o' the times, today in Christchurch.
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to Hilary Stace,
There also seems to be a bit of frustration around the country about National Party candidates not turning up to, or pulling out of election meetings.
Brownlee didn’t front to the Ilam candidates event tonight, which seemed to come as no surprise to most of those who turned up. Six participants in the neutral territory of the Bryndwr Baptist Church hall, only Mana was missing, but no Loch Ness monster sighting. A frazzled little chap who didn’t identify himself as being aligned with National delivered the news – Mister Brownlee’s office had called around three hours before the meeting was due to start, no substitute could be arranged, he’s a busy man, he may even be in Australia.
Although the news was received with surprisingly few catcalls the little chap became visibly agitated, especially when members of the audience were able to confirm that Brownlee had been in town earlier in the afternoon. In one of the safest National seats he appeared to be the only member of the Party faithful who’d bothered to show.