Posts by Tom Semmens
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When I heard this policy I thought straight away, wow those internal poll numbers must look bad. This is dangerous blustering from a desperate government that has completely run out of fresh ideas and from a minister who happily uses the civil service and private information to target the enemies of the National party.
Bennett WANTS to be challenged by academics and opponents. She wants to bash PC liberal lawyers and professors and for the loons of the talkback Taliban to rail against her opponents. She wants to suck the publicity oxygen away from the “relentless positivity” of Jacindamania and re-focus it on the dark hatred of objectifying human beings.
If the public wanted a difference between the probably next leader of the National party and Jacinda Ardern, they got it on spades from Paula Bennett. Bennett is a class traitor and a sociopath- a dangerous, cunning, ignorant and utterly immoral piece of work.
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Hard News: Media Take: Scandals, selfies…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Just FYI: we were told that Hosking was given a “clarification” to deliver last week – and rewrote it on his own, rendering the whole exercise of clarifying rather pointless.
This would square with the stories from the likes of Liz Gunn that Hoskings basically does as he pleases and is completely out of the control of his supposed superiors. I would suspect Hoskings told his spineless bosses he would be moderating the debates, not the other way round.
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Just curious, any up to date polling in the public arena for Ilam?
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David Farrar is no longer sharing his polling information to various sites for Poll of Polls.
According to Martyn Bradbury, over at the daily blog. Can anyone confirm if that is true? If so, I am getting in an extra supply of tea of biscuits for election night.
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I wonder how long it is going to take for it to sink in that TOP is nothing but the re-skinned libertarianism of a stale, pale old male rich enough to favour us with his eccentric solutions.
Gareth Morgan reminds me of that dangerous old fool of the Lange government, Trevor De Cleene.
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I sure do hope the Greens score above 5% in the next poll (A Roy Morgan, I believe) otherwise they could be in dire trouble if they start to suffer from people thinking a vote for the Greens is a wasted vote and either vote Labour or stay at home.
This existential Green political catastrophe can be laid entirely at the feet of Metiria Turei and the red-Green faction of that party. Can we say that seeds of disaster planted in the Greens by Sue Bradford, whose reckless vanguardism and lazy politics of elite consensus threw Labour out of fashion and into the wilderness for nine years, have finally come to fruition in the Greens as well?
All up, I struggle to feel sorry for the Greens. Inept political tactics and management by the Greens played a huge part in the defeat of the Clark government and Labour's banishment to the political wilderness and now inept political tactics and management - born from a delusion of grandeur that saw Metiria launch a bid to replace Labour as the primary party of the left (how long is a fortnight!) - have ironically given Labour the opportunity to do a passable impression of Lazarus and surge back into fashion, popping the phone back on the hook as they did so. In both cases, a certain out-of-touch left wing radicalism which has found a home in the Greens have been political wreckers on the mainstream chances of the two major parties of the centre/left in the build up to an election.
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Wow, what did Metiria do to John Armstrong? Steal his walking stick and only give it back after she covered it with Green party stickers?
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to ,
Finlay Macdonald
Pretty much sums up my view on this whole sorry affair.
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On the other hand, tonight's poll is music to the ears of Labour voters.
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to Trevor Nicholls,
When it appears that you have cheated the system at the margins, you should be destroyed. But when you cheat the system from the heart of it, you should be promoted. That’s the National/ACT economy for you.
That's class war for you.