Posts by Ian Dalziel
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I thought Shane Jones had sorted out the fishing industry in NZ and the Pacific - surely it can't be broken again?
(NB: May contain traces of sarcasm)
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..and let's face it National just doesn't give a toss anymore it seems.
They tweeted from the embargoed Budget lock up - 3 and a half hours before it was allowed
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/80592318/treasury-to-call-on-national-party-budget-breachers-to-please-explainGerry and the Placemakers have shouted down any questions about the last minute changes to the stated 'purpose' of the new Chchch rebuild entity Otakaro
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/business/the-rebuild/80598922/gerry-brownlee-says-change-to-otakaros-purpose-no-big-deal-calls-labour-deludedThey are still trying to bluff their way through the fact that they have no idea what they are doing in regard to the oversized Chchch Convention Centre
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/business/the-rebuild/80638368/convention-centre-weighing-down-christchurchs-cbd-recovery--treasuryneed I mention their woeful addressing of the housing situation
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Polity: Labour and the Greens in a tree..., in reply to Ian Pattison,
volcanic pique…
Mt Roskill by-election;
Labour’s Goff (18,637) had 8,000+ votes over National’s candidate (10,546) last election, while the Greens only had 1,682 votes (and John Minto had 300) - the whole Right / Conservative bloc (including NZF) still only totals 12, 357
http://www.electionresults.govt.nz/electionresults_2014/electorate-28.html
As long as Labour picks a worthy replacement to Phil Goff they shouldn’t have any worries – but yes, we do live in strange times… -
Polity: Labour and the Greens in a tree..., in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
“Labour and Greens up a tree”….
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Hard News: A cog in the Mediaworks machine, in reply to Alfie,
Here's Stuff's take on it... I love this new business model they talk about (bold):
Chalmers, while happy to talk numbers, wasn't giving anything away about the intentions of MediaWorks' owner, private equality firm Oaktree Capital but did say there were not current plans for further staff cuts. Oaktree took full ownership in May 2015.
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Polity: Labour and the Greens in a tree..., in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Bachelor analogy (on TV news last night) while not referencing or crediting it
whoops, I got that wrong he does allude to it
- hmm, maybe I'm frothing a wee bit too...
that man makes me so mad.
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Polity: Labour and the Greens in a tree..., in reply to Rich of Observationz,
If the Greens/Labour chose to run a single candidate and won a National-held electorate, they’d just get an electorate MP rather than a list one.
You miss my point – by having one Labour candidate and no Green candidate to dilute or spread the vote it might push a Labour candidate over the threshold – it would have gained Chchch Central for them last election
http://www.electionresults.govt.nz/electionresults_2014/electorate-4.html
and, as you say, Ohariu
http://www.electionresults.govt.nz/electionresults_2014/electorate-36.html
that’s two seats right there.People can still vote for their preferred party – that is a cumulative total not electorate bound – If I understand MMP correctly, and the Greens don’t currently have any sitting Electorate MPs as far as I know.
and there’s a coupla other electorates that with people voting for NZ First, or whatever conservative alternative raises its misbegotten head next year, instead of National, that a sole candidate with a mandate for both Labour and Greens could seize the day – worth a crack.
At worst we have to get the country back to ‘factory settings’ and rebuild the damage National’s programmes have wrought…
…don’t let them reign again!!
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Soper box rants...
Bloody hell - Barry Soper is almost frothing at the mouth as he tries to pack as much vitriol into his diatribe / column today:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11648756
he gets so worked up basic english escapes him:But Little and Metiria Turei, both lawyers in a previous life, he for the trade unions and she as an anarchist, a former candidate for the McGillicuddy Serious Party and then for the Legalise Cannabis Party before becoming a corporate lawyer, strode confidentially into the impressive wood panelled, Old Legislative Council Chamber to announce their betrothal to the wildly applauding apparatchiks.
and basic Parliamentary knowledge:
National's campaign architect Stephen Joyce was immediately swyping* his iPhone on hearing the announcement, tweeting that with Labour handing The Greens a rose, does that make Winston Naz?
Soper runs with Steven Joyce's oh so witty Bachelor analogy (on TV news last night) while not referencing or crediting it - he barely makes any sense - ending with this oblique scatological reference, classy stuff...
If you mix red paint with green you get brown and Peters has after all been described as the blowfly of New Zealand politics!
Hmmm blowfiles tend to be Blue Green and that's a National thing I thought...
...and Soper gets paid for writing this crap??!!*(who knows swyping might be a thing, I'm not tech-savvy enough to know_
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Polity: Labour and the Greens in a tree..., in reply to ,
the Greens might also need to take stock
Vote rustlers?
One does wonder if there will be Epsom & Ohariu-like candidate 'withdrawal' and instructions to voters re MP and Party vote in some areas?
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Polity: Labour and the Greens in a tree..., in reply to Joe Wylie,
Hepatic cat...
employing a form of divination that us effete liberals would find too offal to contemplate
Entrailer trash...
...or Liver birds?
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