Posts by Keir Leslie
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Stephen Judd,
I think the Paganis may be regular hunting partners of the Lusk/Williams nexus. Also Nash. Obviously people can be mates with whomever but really.
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I agree that a lot of the concerns I have are mostly based in a general distrust of (Crown) appeals in criminal cases, in my case coupled with a general dislike of the whole concept of a discharge without conviction as way of mitigating the severity of the criminal justice.
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I kinda don't think the Crown should be able to appeal a discharge without conviction. The court has decided the offence didn't merit a conviction -- and we don't let the Crown challenge that in general. So why should this one form of decision be challengeable?
The fact you can scrounge around and use judicial review as a backdoor at the DC level just seems to indicate that the use of judicial review as a backdoor appeal system is kinda screwy, no?
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More useful than a provisional roll, just let people vote at 16. Voting's a habit and people are more deeply tied into communities when 16-18, at school & home, than when living in flats often in different cities.
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Hard News: Didn't see that coming, in reply to ,
It's kinda counterproductive if you're KDC and want to change the government at the upcoming election though.
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I suspect Internet /Mana don't care if they scare moderate voters away from Labour, as long as they increase their own vote. (Or, rather, I suspect that all the incentives run that way, and I suspect the party acts as if that's true, even if the lead actors may consciously know that it's self-defeating.)
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to Craig Ranapia,
No, I don't mean that the papers should do that. I mean that there's clearly a calculation by the Nats that it's better to take those cheap hits and avoid letting Collins front, or Key give any answer that's not "at the end of the day".
Definitely the Waikato Times shouldn't have run that story.
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Still, if the Nats are going to run a small target media strategy, they must get that this means there’s going to be a flood of fill-the-vacuum stories — see the pretty minor “Judith Collins names a lane after a mate” story yesterday.
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Oh yeah, it's super lazy from the media to run a story on Curwen's say-so alone - I'm quite surprised it made it that far.
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Snicker. I think that story may be the product of some feverish imaginations.