Posts by Keir Leslie
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Even if the notification was just to the PM's Office, the PM's Office doesn't exist independently of the PM. It's actions are his actions, and what it knows he knows, otherwise the entire basis of responsible government collapses.
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Hard News: We can do better than this, in reply to Idiot Savant,
More in "let's not go to the pub after" kind of a way.
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Thing is, in my experience, politics is pretty boring. It's making phone calls, knocking doors, and delivering pamphlets. Or, at higher levels, it's organising other people to do those things. Sometimes you do slightly interesting things, like put out a statement saying that you're in favour of puppies and kittens, and isn't that nice.
Slater often seems to be playing a politics-themed LARP (sorry to any Larpers reading) where the win-condition is to be as awful as possible.
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Hard News: We can do better than this, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Thanks Craig. Yes it was poorly thought out wording there. Main point is that I think all those activities are wrong and need to be dealt with by whoever's responsible --- and trust me, I'm more than happy to say that means the Standard needs to do more.
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[Saw RB's post, deleted.]
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Also it would seem that some in the Nats would quite like Collins to Go Away, but others are going to the mat for her. This must be playing havoc with the election campaign organisation.
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You know, let's be totally upfront here. I have real problems with the way the Standard is run, particularly the moderation. But some no-name commenter making offensive implications is both wrong, and something that should be dealt with, and absolutely nothing fucking like what Cam Slater has been doing for the past ten years.
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Hard News: We can do better than this, in reply to Sacha,
And apart from anything else, that's a nobody in the comments! For heaven's sake why does he even try?
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Pete, really? I think that’s a bit of a reach.
Anyway, yeah, I think Collins is heading for the exits, but I don’t know if that’s enough now.
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“I wouldn’t do that and I don't like it” is as close to “what the fuck were you playing at” as a minister can get when talking about another minister.
If English were simply unimpressed he’d have said something like “oh that’s a matter for Judith, I’m not going to get into it”. He was consciously giving a quote that would run prominently as an expression of disapproval.