Posts by Sacha
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I really think emails should be bombarding all politicians
That's part of what a planned and organised campaign involves, as some of us have been trying to explain. It's not going to randomly happen on its own.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
You'd think the Greens would be all over it
Yes, and link the govt's behaviour with the way it treated ECan and the similar influence of moneyed interests in the battle over the region's water.
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to Gareth Ward,
a micro supply chain to every customer
So true, and iCloud completes the lock-in.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
whatever they do could not be enough
your optimism is noted
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
I suspect the departures of Mike Munro and Heather Simpson, and their subsequent non-replacement, have a large part to play in the current state of affairs
+1. Backroom competence is crucial.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Labour's *job* as a big part of any future left government is to get traction. That's not impossible unless you've already given up. I hope you can see that's what it sounds like whenever they whine about the evil meedia rather than looking in the mirror.
Where's the use of other non-mass channels (where on-ground organising strength counts)? More importantly, where are the well-planned core messages, no matter who's speaking? Even their own blog doesn't show evidence of that.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
You're confusing press releases with a strategic communications campaign. Competent political parties do both, and drive media coverage even if the context is hostile. Pointing that out is not some evil conspiracy against a cuddly party who can do no wrong.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Perception is, Key is the Puppet Master
So how does the opposition claiming he is responsible for his colleagues' decisions help challenge that?
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TV3 news has insurers not covering some new houses, and builders being out of work for the same reasons (both 2 min clips).
Naturally, Gerry reckons the market will provide (even though it clearly isn't). He's also handing insurers the geotechnical information that he refuses to release to home-owners until after the election.
Or you can say Key is doing all that if you prefer. Just leave Stephen Joyce out of it, ok.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Sacha,
aid to Libya
and the Horn nations, I should say. Letting McCully off the hook for that debacle by making it sound like Key's responsible is stupid politics when National's lacklustre cabinet is recognised as a weakness (noted in a Labour blog post yesterday, even - how's that for coherence?).
However, slagging Key or his chums didn't work last election or since and only a fool would recommend the same approach again. Voters need to believe that a Labour-led cabinet would be competent, so you'd expect to see that reinforced at every opportunity. There's not one thing in Street's post about what she and her colleagues would do.
I hope you can see why that sort of basic failure might frustrate some of us.
The lack of drop since all the options have been put on the table, and the woes, gotchas and downright lies being publicised, and still not a drop has meant that he thinks they are onto a winner
That's the real harm of inability to campaign. It hurts real people.