Posts by Sacha
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you thought I'd 'waste time' on that site, powers-that-be?
Blocking is a substitute for competent management, and unfortunately that's in short supply
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Very juicy contract with no need to undergo a tender process.
So long as it's only for that first election - watch for creeping attempts to embed cosy deals and self-serving arangements beyond the next one too.
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Alcohol was crucial for disinfecting water, wasn't it?
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I don’t get the (perceived) jibe at the IRB.
None intended - just making clear whose requirement it is. Sports is very big global business. NZRFU and the government's choice to play that game.
As for the number of ticket sold this pales into insignificance compared to the claimed TV audience
True
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Nothing wrong with promoting and debating political ideas that most don't support - or we'd be stuck with mob rule and nothing much would change. However, it's perfectly fine to apply informed criteria about what makes sense to any party's utterances and while they all fail the grade from time to time, this report is exceptionally poor.
I'd like to know why his cranky pants are at the cleaners?
Overcranked? :)
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Or, hell, teleconference
Exactly. Once Joyce pulls his finger from wherever it's been resting and gets on with ensuring decent broadband. Making schools early in the queue would be good.
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I reckon calling someone a liar and a sock puppet is a pretty shitty thing to do
Agreed. Nick has made some substantive comments here and a single off-hand one which I personally had no trouble reading as sarcastic and ironic. I appreciate his clarity about his relationship with Act as I did Mikaere's about his with the Greens.
Your man is subverting democracy.
However that's true as well. Company we keep, etc.
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What shocked me about the paper was the flimsy nature of its "research". If I had time, I think I'd have a good chance of spotting the copy and paste direct from a couple of lobby groups.
They're a surprisingly lazy bunch for such champions of enterprise and hard work. You may remember that Bill Birch's report for the incoming Banks/Hay Auckland City Council some years ago was just a dusted-off earlier Act effort. Still, it was enough to justify selling off the pensioner housing and airport shares.
make some, er, brash statements that we can ridicule and offer our (then seemingly) more moderate plan up as the palatable option?
Seems entirely plausible. There are advantages for the Nats of having tame nutters at hand.
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replaced by a local income tax
You mean a poll tax, then?
Councils have largely focused on managing use of land and what's built on it, hence their income levies being based on those things.
I'm sure Act would love to replace that with a flat tax on people, to fit with their flat earth thinking. Didn't work out well for their hero Thatcher, though, and at 2% of the vote there's hardly a local mandate is there?
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report emblazoned with "Draft". Apparently that makes the document outside the sphere of the requests.
Can't the OIA/LGOIMA request include the phrase "and any drafts" or suchlike?