Public Address | Cafe | Island Life: 49 Chinese to Replace John Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address andrew llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47430#post47430 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47430#post47430

You don't make friends with salad, Andrew

Apparently not – check this out

"6000 slices of bread, 4000 sausages, two tonnes of meat ... and three lettuces,"

That's what I call a balanced diet!

]]> Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:18:26 +1200 Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47411#post47411 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47411#post47411

Don Brash's legacy is the destruction of any chance of consensus between our most important political forces.

LOL... I do try to avoid lazy and trivial invocations of Orwell (my personal Godwin's Law), but doubleplusgoodful doublethink there, Don.

]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:49:08 +1200 Keith Ng https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47403#post47403 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47403#post47403 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:05:08 +1200 andrew llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47394#post47394 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47394#post47394 Homer: Are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Ham?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Pork chops?
Lisa: Dad, those all come from the same animal.
Homer: Heh heh heh. Ooh, yeah, right, Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.

]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:22:11 +1200 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47393#post47393 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47393#post47393

Muldoon-ist tizzy

It's become this clincher in NZ debates. A bit like Godwin's Law, all you have to do is say "Muldoon did that" and you win.

I mean, I have it on good authority that he liked bacon sarnies – does that make them bad?

]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:48:50 +1200 Danielle https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47389#post47389 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47389#post47389

he is the Huey Long of New Zealand politics

Huey Long, although corrupt in many ways, did believe in wealth redistribution to the poorest: he was far more of a progressive than Winston, I think.

(My grandmother loved Huey Long. 'Ma chere, before he was governor we didn't even have…

]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:42:41 +1200 Bob Munro https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47383#post47383 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47383#post47383

a subtle massage

now thats Foreign Affairs....

I'd like to think I was channelling Marshall McLuhan in an Inspector Clouseau accent when I wrote that but it was just the usual typo that slips through and then glares back at you as soon as you hit 'Post Reply'.

]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:04:57 +1200 Paul Litterick https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47382#post47382 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47382#post47382 Likee blogpost.

Maybe this is good for us. Maybe New Zealand will develop a reputation for being inscrutable in its political dealings. Maybe political studies departments of universities overseas will employ Zealologists, who will interpret the strange and often contradictory messages coming from that odd country at the end of…

]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:02:30 +1200 Mark Graham https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47377#post47377 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47377#post47377 Winston's posturing for his disaffected local audience will not matter one whit to either the Chinese or other overseas leaders.

And it's always easy to lose the message in the distaste for the delivery method. Like Winny or not, his comments about Douglas et al. are fairly accurate.

Joseph Stiglitz,…

]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:40:27 +1200 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47373#post47373 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47373#post47373 If, as would seem likely, he refuses, then there will be an early election. National will have limited ability to spend its warchest or dream up some policies. NZF (and to some extent National) will get most of the blame for forcing the election date. Labour might just win, but… ]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:31:20 +1200 Hayden Wilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47365#post47365 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47365#post47365

a subtle massage

now thats Foreign Affairs....

]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:46:51 +1200 simon g https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47361#post47361 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47361#post47361 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:20:28 +1200 simon g https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47359#post47359 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47359#post47359 It would be very funny if Clark sacked Peter Dunne instead. After all, Peters is only challenging policy, whereas Dunne is publicly telling the PM to sack one of her ministers. Which one is the worse lese majeste?

(for football fans, see: committing the foul versus waving an imaginary yellow…

]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:18:55 +1200 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47356#post47356 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47356#post47356 Looks like Alisdair Thompson has had the same idea as me ]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:56:05 +1200 Bob Munro https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47354#post47354 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47354#post47354 And as for those pesky Buddhists. They just don't know when they are beaten

The Dalai Lama has to come back to Tibet,” one monk said, according to Reuters, which was invited on the tour. “We are not asking for Tibetan independence; we are just asking for human rights. We…

]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:38:22 +1200 Bob Munro https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47352#post47352 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47352#post47352 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:25:30 +1200 Alastair Jamieson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47350#post47350 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47350#post47350 Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:06:33 +1200 Alastair Jamieson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47349#post47349 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47349#post47349 So in your second scenario I/O, early election, and National gets Peters as shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs?

Mr Key yesterday reiterated his position that it was conceivable that Mr Peters could be foreign minister in a National-led government.

]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:05:28 +1200 Don Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47348#post47348 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47348#post47348

If, as would seem likely, he refuses

That is a certainty. So much bad blood between Labour and National right now it has gone beyond funny.

Don Brash's legacy is the destruction of any chance of consensus between our most important political forces.

]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:00:25 +1200 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47346#post47346 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47346#post47346 Very nice blog, Mr Slack! I've had lots of chortles all through your last few posts (since your re-emergence from seclusion).

Rich of Observationz wrote:

I think that the PM should sack Peters, announcing publicly that his lack of support for the principles of the labour-led government, coupled with his…

]]> Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:16:02 +1200 Paul Robeson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47336#post47336 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47336#post47336 Bollocks.

I have to admit to being a Peters fan. Not because he is an expert dog whistler, but because he is a consumate political performer, and also because he is a consistent nationalist.

The only other politician who represents these ideas seems to be Jim Anderton. And he is…

]]> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:25:11 +1200 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47326#post47326 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47326#post47326 I think that the PM should sack Peters, announcing publicly that his lack of support for the principles of the labour-led government, coupled with his parties racism, makes him unfit to be a Minister.

She can't do that because he'd bring down the government?

Well, there's a way out of…

]]> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 18:15:36 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47325#post47325 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/island-life-49-chinese-to-replace-john-campbell/?p=47325#post47325 Discussion from blog post.

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