Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Angry and thrilled about Arie, in reply to merc,
That's an interesting (non-Arie) story which must be campaigned on as a clear choice for voters. Do Aucklanders want more bland 1950s suburbs with long commutes to get anywhere, or a real city with more public transport, apartments and terraced housing as well?
Senior National Party ministers have long fought against Auckland's old regional growth strategy, based around a metropolitan limit designed to stop urban sprawl into the surrounding farmlands.
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On Friday, at a meeting between Cabinet ministers and Auckland councillors, sources say the ministers couldn't stop browbeating the councillors over the error of their ways."Quite intimidating and smalltown," said one.
Fronting the critics was Environment Minister and Nelson MP Nick Smith, backed by Transport Minister Steven Joyce and Whangarei-based Housing Minister Phil Heatley.
Mr Joyce let rip last November waxing lyrical about the quarter-acre section, saying the challenge for Auckland's spatial planners will be "not to impose their ideal Auckland on us, but allow for an Auckland that reflects the varied ways in which the people of our biggest city already choose to live".
He found it "amusing" that where density had increased it was not along transport corridors "where the central planners said it would", but instead "in the beachside suburbs". The comment was something of an own goal, suggesting that if the growth strategy restrictions on urban expansion were to to be relaxed, urban Auckland would spread inexorably up the coast towards Whangarei.
Damn right the govt has an agenda. Whose interests do you think rosy-eyed Joyce's Puhoi holiday highway is designed to serve? Big property developers eyeing to carve up Rodney district, not other Northland businesses or even the truckies who think he's doing their bidding. If we elect visionless hicks then I guess we sadly get what we deserve. Collective punishment, if you will.
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About that dodgy bail document being "investigated" we're told (emphasis added)..
There is now an inquiry being undertaken by the police prosecution section into the presentation of the bail document to the court.
Well that won't be a whitewash then. I'd assumed it would at least be an IPCA investigation. Perhaps a journalist could ask if it is considered normal for the Police to investigate their own conduct?
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Hard News: Steve, 1999, in reply to BenWilson,
it does lock up after 3 failed attempts anyway, and sends me a text
taunting your failed memory
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Watch tonight's Sunday story (10 minute clip).
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Yes, great work. The Inspector came across as a self-serving, dissembling scumbag who quite possibly believes that the Police themselves were the 'victims' that the initial prosecution document falsely claimed had opposed Arie's release on bail. Interviewer Janet McIntyre didn't let his attempts to lie about the timeline go unchallenged either, and his lack of shame said it all. Judith Collins also showed her character all too well. Very revealing.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Perhaps you could explain what you really meant?
I believe I have been clear enough. People in Christchurch need competent organised political action, not defensive semantics.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
how can
If telling voters they’re being misled by media was going to result in votes for Labour, you’d think it might have shown up in the regular polling some time over the last 4 years
mean
voters will be put off National by the feeling of being "Duped" by the press
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
your assertion that voters will be put off National by the feeling of being "Duped" by the press
You might have to point to where I've ever said that.
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There's a long-term underlying discourse in politics about the relative place of personal and societal responsibility. It provides some of the context for the way voters respond to claims about who is responsible for what, including the part mass media plays in influencing people's understanding and actions. Smart political communications will take that into account.
If telling voters they're being misled by media was going to result in votes for Labour, you'd think it might have shown up in the regular polling some time over the last 4 years. "False consciousness" has never been a particularly appealing part of marxist theory. Hopelessness is not a vote-winner.
Take part of a sentence, out of context, attribute your own meaning and construct a statement derogatory to your target
I trust people around here to figure out who's doing what, in the context of this conversation.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
a populace lulled into a stupor
It's hard to persuade people to vote for anyone who is calling them stupid.