Posts by Sacha
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The argument in favour of using the Viaduct and Aotea instead seems compelling, and Mr Litterick is right about there being no time left to properly consent and build a cruise terminal anyway.
Love the idea of diverting funds into the staging of music, events and hospitality for fans. Surrounding retailers might not like the free barbie idea much though.
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Some key tenets of the "New Zealand sucks" meme -- especially that by global standards our taxes, government spending and regulatory burden are high -- can be trivially disproved (indeed, in each case the opposite can be shown) but the actual data have been trumped by people feeling that we suck, because they're angry or something.
Exactly. And the 'warriors' of the right can hardly bleat about a defeatist attitude when they have repeatedly lied to create it. Nothing ambitious there.
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Isn't looking at the data in different ways what stats guys and economists are meant to be doing anyway? If there's something in the data that seems anomolous, you go looking for the reason, rather than ignoring it, right?
You can see how that approach might be news to "poor dishevelled Deborah" (ouch).
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Fellow Manawatu MP Iain Lees-Galloway is unimpressed with Power's head in sand approach.
It’s an issues paper, which means it is open for discussion and consultation. But Simon has shut down the discussion and basically told us there is no point in engaging in the consultation. All because John Key decided he would make a ‘war on P’ central to his popularity strategy.
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buy some black tar heroin, and shoot it directly into my eyeball whilst eating a deep fried Mars bar
Danny Boyle is your master now?
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And let me be clear on one other thing. We don’t subscribe to the view that some types of soft evidence aren’t really harmful. It doesn’t matter whether it’s soft anecdotal evidence or hard facts. Prolonged use of evidence by voters can be harmful to this government.
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Scott nails it, channelling Power:
Indeed, I will not rest until the use of evidence in formulating governmental policy has been cut to zero. I know this is an ambitious target, but, like the Prime Minster, I am ambitious for New Zealand and its people, especially when those people happen to be me.
Evidence is all around us. It is all pervasive. Most of us will know someone who is using evidence, and will have seen the destruction evidence causes, particularly to the chances of those people voting for my party.
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What Gio said. Superb work, Chris. I hope passing journos build on it.
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Lot of that going about
Um, generosity, not the swinging subset of it
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Lot of that going about