Posts by Sacha
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a Mongrel Blog patch
outstanding!
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Canada has more than a few first nations to feel guilty about. We're all colonial.
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It's the luxuriant plush pile.
Oh, that's Axminster.. -
That pink number didn't happen to be by Chanel?
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Tough with a few hundred, Graeme.
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So this is just gonna increase the prisoner numbers
Only a few hundred more - but it looks like you're being all tough with teh crime. That's what matters.
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Meanwhile John Banks joneses for user pays under the guise of local self-determination. This should help dispel misconceptions that he's the Nat/C&R candidate rather than an Act one.
The whole city should not fund free pools in one area and not in others. Why should a retired ratepayer in Orewa pay for free pools in Manurewa when they can't access them, even if they wanted to?
Under this system, if your local board listens to what you and your neighbours say and decides to have free pools, then the subsidy will come from your local rates.
Want a library - move to a rich suburb? Good footpaths - rich suburb. Social justice - another city.
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It has to be deeper than that, or young people wouldn't be voting for them as well
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Because for years judges seem to have given sentences well below increasing maximums, thus ignoring the sentencing intent of the parliamentarians whose job is to set the law for the courts to apply. Don't necessarily agree with the content, but the backlash is hardly a surprise if you look at it from the pollie's perspective.
Also exacerbated by the "daddy knows best" tendencies of the current bunch voted for by our fellow citizens and approved in opinion polls. It seems we like being told what to do. Just by daddy not mummy.
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Enough trouble counting to 3