Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Jones: The contender leaves, in reply to ,
I might be be blinded be cynicism
Davis seems genuine about this and he has been a good person in the past.
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Hard News: Jones: The contender leaves, in reply to SHG,
the possessive "our"
think in a collectivist mindset and the problem disappears.
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Hard News: Jones: The contender leaves, in reply to Euan Mason,
How much better for Cunliffe to have said something like
yes, and how come we can all do a better job of this stuff than those who are paid to?
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John Armstrong faithfully regurgitates Nat lines about the Greens being against economic growth, painted as a black/white battle with the environment:
Jones, however, may have seen himself ending up as a paralysed economic development minister in a Labour-Greens coalition which saw him having to constantly battle on behalf of any project with environmental repercussions.
However it is the same mindset we've seen from Jones.
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Hard News: Jones: The contender leaves, in reply to SHG,
from above:
The whole electorate/list thing came about because Kim misunderstood how NZ politics works.
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Hard News: Jones: The contender leaves, in reply to The Ruminator,
apparently an either/or with Shane or the Mana party
share the spotlight with Hone.. ?
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Hard News: Jones: The contender leaves, in reply to ,
how does that add credibility to someone who wants to help run a country?
it speaks to the tension between Labour's subtribes, stoked by folk like Chris Trotter and Josie Pagani.
This is a warning call for Labour; very few extra votes will be attracted to Labour because people like Shane are being driven out. And the more people who are driven out of the party, the more the party is dominated by people who don’t even realise there is a problem, let alone what the problem is.
Kelvin must really confuse her black/white worldview, which seems like a great thing to me. :)
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Access: Who Are Disabled New Zealanders?, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
Maybe it's the implication that disability is an inevitable part of ageing.
There's a high association, to be fair. I've always found that most people have an easier relationship with the idea of ageing as a source of impairment. Guess most of us have watched older family members change and adapt.
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Access: Who Are Disabled New Zealanders?, in reply to ,
Good point.
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Hard News: Jones: The contender leaves, in reply to Jean Hughes,
he is a man for Shane Jones
Gordon Campbell agrees:
Shane Jones has left Parliament in the manner to which we have become accustomed, with self interest coming in first and second, and with the interests of the Labour Party (under whose banner he served) way, way back down the track.
After listening to Jones this morning, it did all sound very much about what *he* wanted. I know nothing of his 'personal' reasons for the decision. I respect they may have been pressing on him (he did mention his age a fair bit) but the decision could so easily have been announced a day later alongside party colleagues and leader. And/or Maori he supposedly served and led.
I look forward to an election season with less slagging of Labour's likely coalition partners, and to the return of the very talented Kelvin Davis to parliament. I believe Northland Maori and the rest of us have gained, not lost.
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