Public Address | Cafe | Yellow Peril: Are we getting our class back?

Riddley Walker

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:05:51 +1300

Did you like the book Manakura? I loved it, although it was some time ago.

Anyway, wanting source material is fair enough, my apologies for the sloppiness – here you go:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=0005CEA2-16F6-15C7-BBB983027AF1010E

And yes you are quite right to acknowledge there were other reasons for a more amicable atmophere this…

Manakura

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 19:33:16 +1300

I mean crikey, just how lazy are the corporate media?

Probably about as lazy as people who post comments on net forums that make wild accusations without any source material to back it up.

Yes Key probably turned up with the intention to find someone for a photo up, but…

Riddley Walker

Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:09:53 +1300

Is it just me or am I really the only one to notice that National MP Dr Jacqui Blue is the GP of Aroha's mother and nana, signifincant ne pas?

Isn't it odd that Lord John Key had never heard of McGehan Close, then visits there after making headlines from…

Chuckie L

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 20:58:42 +1300

-In so far as class is salient to National's recent attempt at agenda-setting, National's ambition is the alieviation of the guilt of middle class voters – through appealing to middle class morality of self-help and charity

Never ceases to amaze me how people refer to National's policies as part of…

Yamis

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:14:52 +1300

Yes, it would be more interesting if there was more time spent by these parties discussing how those families can get muesli bars in THEIR OWN CUPBOARDS than at their local school.

They can hardly talk about people giving up and becoming lazy or dependant on the state and then…

Manakura

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:12:54 +1300

I always thought that politicians were the underclass?

Mikaere Curtis

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:48:25 +1300

Key is rather cleverly playing on the Kiwi psyche. The so-called "underclass" is the shadowy nemesis of our much-vaunted egalitarianism.

"Underclass" is unmeasurable, it eats away at our concept of Fair Go. He uses the typical straw men of sensational, horrifying crime stories to illustrate his flawed thesis.

When he…

Marcus Neiman

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:41:36 +1300

In so far as class is salient to National's recent attempt at agenda-setting, National's ambition is the alieviation of the guilt of middle class voters – through appealing to middle class morality of self-help and charity – it is not as if the party seriously sees the working/post-working class as…

Marcus Neiman

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:34:56 +1300

Somehow I think the split between the parties is more one of prefered service deliverers rather than the (re)mobilisation of class.

National is for the private sector and, watch for it, certain religious organisations – Labour is for the state and secular community groups. Neither is talking about the touchstone…

Public Address

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 13:34:56 +1300

Discussion from blog post.