Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Steve Barnes,
National never had any intention to mine in National Parks
You really believe that? It's a central part of their fairytale economic projections. Renewed concern from credible sources.
Forest & Bird is calling on the government to honour the promise it made last year to let all New Zealanders have a say about plans to mine public conservation land – a promise that could help protect the West Coast’s Denniston Plateau from an open-cast coal mine.
...“It’s an anomaly that mining is the only activity on conservation land that doesn’t require public notification, and the government promised to fix this last year. They should show good faith by keeping the promise made to the vast numbers of New Zealanders who last year said they wanted our most important conservation land protected from mining.”
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
You seem to be mistaking parliament for the whole of our civil democratic sphere. Political movements have competently opposed majority governments before - or nothing would ever change, would it?
The best recent NZ example is the government's backdown over mining national parks. How do you think that happened?
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Hard News: Presentation and Reality, in reply to James Bremner,
They didn't ask a single searching question or do any digging into his background prior to the election
Hilarious #truther
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The parliamentary Opposition is more than Labour. Opposing has to be more than parliament or newsletters to the party faithful.
a majority government can do as they please
Not if they are competently opposed.
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Hard News: Some things just don't let…, in reply to Biobbs,
Anyone who can't dance to The Bats can't dance
However, evidence would suggest that the converse is not necessarily true. :)
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Kracklite,
fingers crossed into non-Euclidean geometries
likes
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Hard News: Walking upright again, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
my bad #poo
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Hard News: Walking upright again, in reply to merc,
Auckland is really bad also with no signs of improvement on the horizon
There's a continuous plan to fix it up over many years after the stormwater/sewage networks were run down by successive C&R councils - typically skimping on maintenance and landing their children with the bill, to keep those rates down today. The same clowns voted last time they were in power to re-sand beaches in wealthy suburbs rather than accelerating the remedial separation work. People love that shit.
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Naturally the Herald will be offering a front page story to The Standard as balance.
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Hard News: Presentation and Reality, in reply to merc,
Front page and is either DPF is a seer or a charlatan
Outrageously obvious dogwhistling to the right's voters.
The Herald DigiPoll released this morning indicates that a Labour-led Govt is a possibility, if NZ First make 5% and Epsom voters do not vote for John Banks and Ohariu voters ditch Peter Dunne.
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Ironically the DigiPoll also found 40% of voters wanted the Greens to go into coalition with National. Other polls have found Green voters say their Preferred Prime Minister is John Key. This reflects how successful their strategy has been to not rule National out. However what many voters do not realise, is that if a Labour-led Government is possible, then there is no way the Greens will not make that happen. Any deal with National would only occur if National could govern regardless of Green support.
And the notion of a coalition involving both Mana and Maori parties or both Greens and Winston First is presented as realistic rather than preposterous.
What no one has focused on is what could a Labour-Green-NZ First-Maori-Mana Government look like.
Couldn't pass up the chance of a parting shot at MMP either.
So as we head into the final fortnight before the election, a Labour-Green-NZ First-Maori-Mana Government may become a viable alternative to National winning the election. It will be MMP politics at its best. The more parties you need to agree to govern, the more consensus you get - right?