Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Won't anyone think of the 'kds'...?
- it had to be said
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eXKeyScore?
Those who ignore the past, cripple the future
- sure that was then and this is now
the arrow of time and all that...I have no obsession with Key
but as that is what this thread is ostensibly about
naturally one looks to where he came from to begin to get the measure of the man, to compare with his current actions and I find the same smarm and disingenuousness, and if anything he is losing his self control - should I pluck my eyes out and unremember these things?People are free to ignore them if they wish
or if the past constricts their breathing...
and venting does help I seeIndeed he's not going to last forever, but he is setting the tone and the direction - case in point Todd Barclay (the Dipton wunderkind) promising to make more mistakes in the future on National Radio this morning!
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/201792268/todd-barclay-admits-he-has-made-some-mistakes-as-a-new-mpbut hey that's history now...
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Polity: Key Derangement Syndrome…, in reply to Sacha,
thought it was by Boag – hence little Cam’s loyalty to evil Judith’s faction instead.
Boag wanted new blood but not identified so CamsDad and that Shipley-Dame -to-be (and therefore a colonial relic) swung into action…
One assumes The Right maintains this page’s fact base?
In 1998, on learning of his interest in pursuing a political career, the National Party president John Slater began working actively to recruit him. Former party leader Jenny Shipley describes him as one of the people she “deliberately sought out and put my head on the line–either privately or publicly–to get them in there”.
and Metro:
My advice to everybody is try not to get yourself touted as a future leader,” says former National Party president John Slater. “It can almost be a kiss of death among your colleagues.”
Key’s entry to politics — via a bitter selection battle with the sitting National MP Brian Neeson — is widely associated with then-president Michelle Boag’s wish to inject new blood into the caucus. But plans for him to run for the party were actually hatched during Slater’s presidency.
Key was in London, earning a fortune as Merrill Lynch’s global head of foreign exchange but nursing an ambition held since his Christchurch childhood to get into politics.
After Slater learned of his interest — through a chance business encounter with Key’s sister in Christchurch — National’s informal talent recruitment machinery whirred into action. Meetings were arranged with Slater and National’s then-leader Jenny Shipley. Back in New Zealand on holiday, Key was invited to a New Year soirée attended by various senior party people at Slater’s Pauanui beach house. Wine-buff Slater recalls Key bringing an excellent bottle of Kim Goldwater. So does Key, who collects a bit of wine himself: “I told him not to drink it with his sausages.”
His chances were helped by Shipley’s recognition that following the retirement of a group of senior MPs her party was light in the finance portfolios.
“He’s not the only person in the National caucus who I deliberately sought out and put my head on the line — either privately or publicly — to get them in there,” says the former Prime Minister.
The next stage of the courtship was an invitation to speak at the National Party’s Auckland conference, which inevitably raised the hackles of some sitting MPs who scented a potential rival. Shipley: “He was an unknown at the time and there were some egos that had to be dealt with because, of course, members of Parliament are very keen to speak at their regional conferences.” The speech hardly cemented his future. (“Look,” says Shipley, “he wasn’t a brilliant presenter at the time.”)Slater sr was rewarded by Boag oustng him from the Nat Party presidency - In many ways whaleoil was raised by wolves…
Is John still in Auckland Politics, wasn’t he Palino’s campaign manager?in possibly unrelated news I hear there is a massive cockroach invasion in Auckland…
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Polity: Key Derangement Syndrome…, in reply to Richard Mayes,
gut feelings...
The news media were interviewing people at the TPPA protest in Akl who couldn’t actually say what the TPPA was or why they were against it.
The same applies on the Dexter side as well - talked to many who support it blindly, while not having any idea what it involves, just that it's a 'trade deal' and John Key said it was a good thing...
It's the same cognitive dissonance in action.Time for everyone to watch the Key Genesis again - back when he was a fledgling Forex whiz kid who'd found his wings at Elders Finance*, before he conquered the overseas bourses and made his millions and was head-hunted/groomed for National by Cameron Slater's dad...
http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/close-up-big-dealers-john-key-1987
I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him...
(and there's a throwaway line in there that make me wonder if Bronagh isn't really the shadowy power-behind-the-throne!)*Elders Finance was of course eventually bought in a fire sale in 1999 by Hanover Finance aka the lovely Eric Watson and the charming Mark Hotchin...
...I think we all know what happened then - Trust Richard Long? Sure can't! -
Polity: Key Derangement Syndrome…, in reply to Kiwiiano,
how did it manage to get a Norwegian maple leaf on it
But isn't it good,
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Polity: Key Derangement Syndrome…, in reply to Richard Mayes,
lethe is more...
Did we? News to me…
What brand of bottled water were you 'Dexters' quaffing back then?
Wasn't from some subterranean Greek river was it?
Or maybe they just watered the Kool-aid down with it...
he said 'Sinisterly'...
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Hard News: The unstable Supercity, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Götterdämmerung
everything I have ever read and experienced suggests SAP was designed to destroy modern civilisation.
Now I see that SAP stands for Systemanalyse und Programmentwicklung
they sure have absorbed a lot of companies
- but they are philnthropic it appearsSAP is funding a project to assess and educate autistic children. It has also launched an initiative to hire employees with autism and Asperger syndrome, citing their intelligence in the IT field and attention to detail; SAP aims to compose 1% of its workforce with autistic people by the year 2020. In May 2013, 6 people had been employed
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the golden city...
Much the same as in Chchch then - insomauch as the powers-that-be don't know how to design a city of, and for, the future - apparently any forward thinking here can only arise in our 'Innovation Precinct'...
.... the flagship tenant of which is Vodafone, I'm not holding a lot of hope there then... -
Polity: Saudi sheep: Misappropriating…, in reply to Alfie,
Fleece navvy dead....
the $11.5m Saudi sheep bribe has risen by a further $280,000
guess who's looking 'sheepish' now...
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public notices..
I note that National Electorates are holding their AGMs this month
Queenstown tonight, Ilam on the 17th, Dipton the 18th and so on...Here's hoping there is an appetite for changing the upper echelons and direction by the grassroots...