Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to 3410,
really he's all about selling the talking points; in this case that teapot-tape-gate was a stroke of genius, not a blunder.
and that it was Key's master-stroke, not Joyce's
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Hooten believes Joyce is a strategic genius.
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Lawyer Andrew Geddis dissects Farrar's shrill response to Holmes's witterings.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
The post has some useful information on timing regardless of any analysis you may or may not agree with. You'll notice I don't link to that site often.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Feel free to explain why you disagree. It's the only article I've seen that examines the timeline around the recent opinion polls and a certain cuppa.
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Te Standard examines the timeline around polling and Key's tea debacle. Useful post.
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to martinb,
I think these set really unfortunate precedents for government behaviour we may really come to regret.
Another reason some have found the lack of a useful challenge upsetting. Unprincipled scumbags will do whatever you let them get away with the last time they tried.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
and their job is to present a viable alternative - another activity that takes a few years, not a few weeks.
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Hard News: A week being a long time in politics, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
we're exceedingly unlikely to see Jar-Jar Binks (Nat - Naboo) move a motion to vest powers in John Key to bring about the creation of the Galactic Empire.
Isn't that pretty much what this government has already done to Christchurch/Canterbury - and got away with? Do we really want to see what Joyce looks like with no checks and balances other than internal party tensions?
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Hard News: Criminalising Journalism, in reply to BenWilson,
a honne/tatemae (as they would say in Japan) vote split
love how they have words for it