Posts by Rich of Observationz
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I think the offence of "treating" was orginally applied to Tammany Hall type practices such as setting up outside the polling booth with a barrel of beer.
A free cup of tea at a candidate meeting doesn't really amount to that.
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...where he hid Hoffa's body.
Everyone knows where that is, it's in Shergar's stable. Right next to Lord Lucan.
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I have never sought nor expected a trade discount at any of the tailors, wine cellars or snuff purveyors that I frequent.
I'm no expert, but understood that discounts on "snuff" were strictly on a quantity basis. A certain Matthew Ridge could probably provide better information here...
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In Rodney-land, children will get exactly the same amount of say as other voters.
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I killed a mouse with a can of beer, does that count?
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I'd like to see a society where a Chinese candidate is electable in Tauranga or West Coast.
Still, National felt a homophobic bigot was electable in Wellington Central..
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We want New Zealanders...
Rather unfortunately, people in this country (like Australians and Americans) use "New Zealanders" or "Kiwis" as a folksier synonym for "people".
UK politicians haven't, until recently. There isn't even a commonly accepted collective term for British people: "Brits" is semi-derogatory, "Britons" sounds like one's covered in woad, "Britishers" indicates you may be about to be impaled on a German bayonet.
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welding, fibreglass work, attacking something with a gas torch, spray painting
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How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive; A Manual of Step-By-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot.
Step 1: Buy a Toyota.
Step 2: Convert Volkswagen into quirky bar/gazebo/chicken coop. -
See, now that's where I tune out.
So you're not interested in my specific points as to why.
I lived through Thatcher, still visit the UK lots. The two regimes are not the same and nor have the outcomes for the UK been the same.
Same.
Brown/Blair are *worse* that Thatcher. She wouldn't try half the things Labour have, because they would have led to riots and the withdrawal of support from some of the more small-l liberals in the then Tory party.
Brown has just got more cops and a system that effectively fireproofs the leadership from internal dissent.