Posts by Russell Brown
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Motorhead!
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Hard News: The People's Poet is dead!, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
We had many (p)Riks at Southampton Uni in the early 1980s. Come third year, most of them cut their hair and interviewed for Andersen Consulting. I suspect they are now CEOs.
Rick's probably a Lib Dem councillor and lost his seat last week.
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Hard News: Meanwhile back at the polls, in reply to Sacha,
Robert Jones
Good point.
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Legal Beagle: Q&A: John Banks' judicial review, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
And at least, as far as I understand the law, it can be avoided without a dirty little stitch-up to retrospectively change the Electoral Act under urgency, despite the utter lack of genuine public interest or constitutional urgency.
Yes. Just a simple parliamentary vote.
I presume you're referring to the vote to validate Harry Duynhoven's seat after he inadvertently made himself ineligible by seeking to resume his Dutch citizenship, which had lapsed thanks to a technical change by the Dutch government. There was no dishonesty involved.
There was some urgency in the sense that if it hadn't been validated there would have to have been a costly by-election, which he would have won. I guess it was a matter of distaste for a retrospective law change vs a pointless waste of taxpayers' money.
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Legal Beagle: Q&A: John Banks' judicial review, in reply to BenWilson,
I don’t think they should back it, either. It is actually a costly form of grandstanding.
They won't. Cunliffe has basically said so.
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Hard News: Meanwhile back at the polls, in reply to izogi,
Williams is a classic rent-a-quote. He'll fire out inane press releases and respond to journalists' calls even when he doesn't know what he's talking about. His Tax Day release was so incoherent as to be bonkers.
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Hard News: Friday Music: Original Beats, in reply to Gabor Toth,
Meanwhile, back in little old N’zild, Stuff seize upon a mildly negative review from the Guardian and use it to splash “**Board by Lorde**; ‘A little monotonous’” as the main feature on the front page of their website.
Yeah. Every other review I've seen from her London shows has been a rave, but they pick the negative line out of that one.
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Hard News: Meanwhile back at the polls, in reply to Andrew Robertson,
As you can see, there are a few gaps here and there.
Indeed!
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Hard News: The Ides of Epsom, in reply to BenWilson,
So the key issue for ACT voters nationwide is the 8 Story Limit for Epsom. I think we can fairly surmise they’re not going for the party vote any more.
No, they’ll go full nimby in Epsom and still shout to the rest of the country about how the rights of developers are sacred.
Seymour’s attempt to claim that people who’d bought houses had obtained property rights around “the character of their community” – which, let’s not forget, would be in conflict with the rights to build of other property owners – was priceless. As Matthew says, a party of rent-seekers and cartelists.
Edit: I should note that the "eight stories next to everyone's house" claim is total fucking bullshit, and even less true since Len Brown let the Unitary Plan be gutted.
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Meanwhile, it seems that not only will David Seymour benefit from Paul Goldsmith's desperate attempts to not win Epsom for National, there'll be a bit of a flavour of the Auckland mayoral campaign about it. I blogged.