Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Five further thoughts, in reply to Jack Harrison,
the Muldoon era is hated by nearly everyone.
The hero to zero trajectory can be remarkably short. A 2011 Facebook fan page for Chch Mayor Bob Parker reached North Korean levels of adulation - 13000+ likes - before suddenly imploding. I rather wish it had been somehow preserved as an example of mass delusion in action. Bob's head crudely Photoshopped onto byzantine icons complete with haloes had to be seen to be believed.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to kiwicmc,
More of a parking fine style arrangement then an actual prosecution. Both my wife and I got them, seemed to be pretty automated…
Things are probably tighter these days, but returning to sender with ‘gone interstate’ scrawled on the envelope used to do the trick :)
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to kiwicmc,
I think the number of countries with compulsory voting is pretty small, Wikipedia lists ~30 if which only 11 actually enforce the law
Australia being one of them – I copped a $55 fine for not voting in the local council elections the other year….
Some years back I saw figures that appeared to prove that the proportion of Australian non-voters who were actually prosecuted was tiny. If so, bad luck in being made an example of and “thrashed with a feather”, as someone once put it.
The two Australians I knew who said they intended to vote for Pauline Hansen’s One Nation claimed they did so simply to give the finger to the major parties. They weren’t particularly interested in politics, and happily agreed that Hansen was mad. I believe that her fleeting success was very much a creature of compulsory voting.
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Hard News: Five further thoughts, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Labour sure as hell weren’t campaigning on an end to 5-eyes. They’ve gone along with it whenever they’ve been in govt. I’m not even sure it’s something they could change, without self-destructing.
And that’s a worry.I know it's a different issue, but Labour have been at best lukewarm on their opposition to the TPPA. In fact Phil Goff's practically a cheerleader.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Farmer Green,
You were there too?
The 1960s? Yep.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Farmer Green,
that shande fur de goyim schtick
I remember. Thanks FG.
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Legal Beagle: Election 2014: The Special…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Would it help if we all had unique ID chips implanted in our hands…
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to ,
He’s going to need penis instruction from here then
What a goldmine of studliness, really I had no idea.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to ,
Hang on, let me sort that out. It’s a ministerial car not a ute.
Under Tom Semmens's dictatorship of the Waitakere Man proletariat it'd be a ministerial ute.
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Hard News: Five further thoughts, in reply to George Darroch,
Blairism will destroy that party, and I mean that literally.
Jose Pagani's vision of a grand coalition with National must be the only reason she continues to drag out the rancid carcass of Blair's legacy.