Posts by Russell Brown
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To further complicate things, Green folks are saying that pre-election positioning will be decided at the party AGM in June.
So any agreement on the proposal to Labour would have had to be ratified by branch delegates at the AGM.
But any post-election deal would be negotiated by a team selected at a post-election SGM.
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So ...
The Greens have now said that remaining on the cross-benches is an option for them, which I think they're obliged to do in the circumstances.
And Labour has made a complete pig's arse out of making it clear that the decision was that of the leadership team rather than the caucus. Cunliffe should have just said that this morning.
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Hard News: To be expected, in reply to Rob Stowell,
The fact this is public and a story is another stumble.
This is the thing I would like to know. Who leaked it? Because that does seem like an act of bad faith.
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Hard News: To be expected, in reply to Idiot Savant,
National will cricise them regardless. The difference is that without a formal alliance, it is National which gets to frame what a Labour-Green government will do, rather than them getting a chance to frame it themselves.
Did you call for a formal campaign coalition before today?. Given the view that it's apparently an absolute no-brainer, I'm trying to find someone who has actually been saying so all along. Still looking.
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Hard News: To be expected, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Weird how this has existed in Australian politics for over 90 years, with Tony Abbot spending precisely zero time on this kind of doomsday scenario.
Your URL’s missing, but I assume you mean the Liberal-National coalition, which was formed after the 1922 general election. After. It's not the same thing.
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Hard News: To be expected, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I’d like both Key and Cunliffe to decide what they think about Winston Peters this week, if you don’t mind.
I fear you will be disappointed on both counts.
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Hard News: To be expected, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
No – and I’d suggest you learn something from history where Labour and the Alliance very publicly buried the hatchet elsewhere than in each other’s backs.
Sure. And you don't see Labour and the Greens attacking each other this year either. But Labour and the Alliance didn't campaign together in 1999 and didn't enter a formal agreement until after the votes had been cast.
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Hard News: To be expected, in reply to Sacha,
Danyl says Labour’s position seems like a big risk given what polls tell us.
That's an interesting point about the polling at the time of the NZ Power announcement, but it's worth bearing in mind that it was followed not long after by polls so bad that Labour changed its leader.
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A couple of updates. The Oscar movies Jim missed in the first oen:
And his rave review (surprising even himself) of The Raid 2:
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Hard News: To be expected, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Is it possible that Labour has this right? Isn’t the point of MMP that you have multiple parties each closely representing a percentage of the population.
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After the election you build a coalition.Yes, usually. And like I said, that's what everyone was doing just last week. I know it's equally traditional to heap scorn on Labour for whatever, but I'm frankly not seeing it here.