Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Campaign 2017: Buy a…, in reply to simon g,
Labour's tax vagueness is a legitimate story, getting plenty of reporting and commentary
That focus is being stoked by the right and is succeeding in getting Labour to rule out several taxes from the scope of their working party before they're even in power. Inheritance is the latest. #tamed
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Up Front: The Surprisingly Sincere Up…, in reply to Soon Lee,
I was especially disappointed by the poor/lack of mobility access.
A basic requirement along with signs on all likely approaches, surely.
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Hard News: Friday Music: A genuine original, in reply to tim,
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Hard News: Where are all the polls at?, in reply to Russell Brown,
Enabling the Nats to claim that the two polls show Lab support trending down is not professional journalism.
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Hard News: Drugs and human rights, in reply to william blake,
I'm reckoning that Bill English has thought through this statement and is hoping to turn the election discourse away from housing poverty jobs and the environment to one about the constitution and law n order.
The decision would have been Joyce's, as was the dogwhistle/unwhistle two-step.
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Hard News: Media Take: Scandals, selfies…, in reply to Neil,
Easy enough to read the first few sentences and since nothing has changed throw it away without looking further down at the details.
Hence the section I've pictured above being in bold and only a handful of lines from the start of the letter. Go on believing whatever suits your worldview though.
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Hard News: Media Take: Scandals, selfies…, in reply to Neil,
Most likely it was a matter of – have your details changed – to which one would say no they haven’t.
Nope. You will find a scanned copy of the standard letter here or on Kiwibog if you prefer.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Neil,
suggests National didn't do it as there was no advantage.
That's what Bennett is claiming today, sure. But not what Richard Harman said in the post I linked to above:
National is now going to target Winston Peters and NZ First in the hope of winning one or two per cent of his vote back off him.
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Also fuelling National's strategy is polling it has which shows the Greens on around three per cent and Gareth Morgan’s Opportunities Party on two per cent.
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The strategy then is clear; to try and boost National's vote --- thought to be in the mid-40s – by two per cent or so, and then to rely on a high wasted vote from the Greens, TOP plus ACT to reduce the percentage it needs to get half the seats in Parliament.
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If the wasted vote is much the same as the last election, then National probably needs another two or three per cent to win a majority of the seats.Gee, who to believe? We know there does not actually need to be any truth in an accusation to shift some votes. It's the vibe, your honour.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Neil,
If it was National then they would have known that there was no real issue.
They may have been aiming for a modest publicity-driven voting change as Richard Harman suggests, which has nothing much to do with the truth these days.
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There is nothing in the 'no surprises' policy about passing information to a party staffer like the PM's chief of staff. No defense for Tolley on that front.
