Posts by Sacha
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Isaac Freeman,
You do have to come down to voting yea or nay on any given bill, so the Parliamentary system does necessarily impose a binary distinction.
But there's an awful lot of negotiating non-binary positions and relationships before you get down to a vote. Especially under MMP.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Isaac Freeman,
That's a useful way of thinking about it, thanks.
The Greens, still in my humble opinion, are strong on 1 and 3, still weak on 4 and 5, and I think the jury is out on 2. Personally I think they have the best product, but the general public doesn't seem to be convinced yet.
I'd say their policies ('2') are so strong that they've been adopted by other parties, notably things like capital gains tax. And are now touted by Shearer as his overall goal for Labour (admittedly before any further reworking of that party's platform).
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to JacksonP,
though I never knew you at all
that's the relevance I was missing
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Capture: Flash Cars, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Wow. Though I find it hard to believe that thing is street-legal.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Kumara Republic,
People can like foods without liking the cooks
Like it. Political chefs must convince voters that their team can be relied on to serve the hungry crowd. A tasty-sounding menu aint enough.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Damian Christie,
Personally I blame the Internet. I happily have these sorts of debates at the Backbencher after the show all the time, and never feel the kind of despair I felt yesterday, even when banging my head against Young Act.
It's the missing beer?
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to Morgan Nichol,
3-way handshake
A great example of moving beyond text to gesture and clip.
It's another thing I admire about Nekminnit too. -
Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to 3410,
I don't know any Taupin lyrics to add to that
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Isaac Freeman,
To return belatedly to the distant origins of this thread, I'd propose that the challenge for Labour now is to find a way to express its political values that doesn't use the word "Left".
I'd agree with that. I reckon their recent campaign opening video did that quite well.
Developing cooperation and differentiation with their allies might involve discussion about what they have in common, but that's likely to be at a positions and "what's important" (values) level that is more subtle than a mono-dimensional label can ever encapsulate.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Rich Lock,
In ivory, natch
That's from the new Ikea catalogue, right?