Posts by DexterX
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Islander,
especially Maggie Barry - she's a broadcaster right?
And her other fields of expertise are?Being a wanker - excuse the French..
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Yes, make it like Idol.
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Which is why on election night my hope is always for a divided parliament, for a minority government that is forced to compromise to achieve changes. Sadly kiwis seem easily frightened by the possibility.
That is what I was after, the result was pretty close.
Should Paula Bennet be unseated when the spedial votes are all counted then the result you sought gets closer.
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Tom Semmens,
a lot of voters increasingly see replicated in the style, language and behaviour of our elite cadre main political parties the culture of their own workplace, where processes to ensure consultation and empowerment are cynical charades of going through the motions.
That is the reality, going through the motions the end result of which is more toil for less.
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to BenWilson,
Yes, it's a perversion of the intent of the system, but so is what's happening in Epsom, time after time.
It is also what happened in Waitakere this time and almost worked in removing Paula Bennett, if it had worked would that have been a perversion?.
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to 3410,
b) The "brain drain" has slowed under National.
Only the stupid remain?
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Tax revenue is presently running well behind the forecasts in the PREFU - how unsurprising.
Tax increases, perhaps reducing WFFs and spending cuts are going to be the taste/flavour of the future for the next say 2 to 5 years.
Globally the Euro zone is in the crap, China is floundering and Australia is having problems. The Reserve Bank will slash interest rates to reduce the NZ $ and promote growth/reduce the rate of the slow down. The Chch rebuild will be important for the National outlook.
The govt will now move away from doing nothing much and start a major "sort of" drive to getting the budget into surplus as soon as palatable - they will hope in earnest for a recovery.
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Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Russell Brown,
I think Labour has to transform now. The union movement doesn't justify its constitutional status in the party at the moment. It's just wrong that Darien Fenton is safe and Carmel Sepuloni is gone. And that Labour's only new list MP is Andrew Little, who ran a useless campaign in New Plymouth.
The union movement in Labour has to focus more on who they represent "workers" first and then look to influence policy from that perspective. The Unions/CTU did dampen down workers aspirations for political expediency, which was essentially what I consider the last 9 years of Labour produced – WFF and all that jazz.
For Labour the penny still hasn't dropped - they haven't noticed they just weren’t organised well enough to create a “win”. Labour had a strategy they didn’t stick to it.
What really hurt Labour was:
1) The response to: “Show me the Money?” A quick witted on the night – “We’ll be getting it from the same place you will, borrowing it off shore till things improve ” would have been substantially better than floundering for two days to produce figures.
2) Labour saying they were going to take a broad focus and not focus on the personality cult of John Key – The Labour front bench should have stepped up and drawn attention to National Front bench bunkering down and disappearing.
3) The low voter turn out – Labour likely didn’t get their people out so one has to look at the party machine and the president.
4) The Cup of Tea Saga stymied debate and shifted the focus away from the economy.Labour undermined their offensive game and faltered on defence.
Looking at the principle issue Asset sales – the vote is 62 to the Right and 59 to the Left – there were only two seats in it which would have enabled Labour to have succeeded in stopping Asset Sales whether the result was a National or Labour coalition govt.
Watching the TV3 coverage on the night the women outside Keys home was like a schoolgirl with a crush, and the focus on what food was being served and other matters infantile were cringe worthy.
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Act are a bunch of dead cats that don't bounce, their dead rotting corpse has been rolled into the house as a theatrical prop; add to that their member is a zombie mad man who has eaten his own brain.
Just priceless watching Banks give a speech - he is barking.
Hilarious
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IMHO - The best outcome for the future and from the choices available would be a National Maori Party Coalition - with No Asset Sales.