Posts by Keir Leslie
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Hard News: The Mayor's marginal enemies, in reply to Jim Cathcart,
Well yes you are wrong in as much as the ACC doesn't exist so it can't be pressured (obviously) and less nitpickingly, the National government's solution to housing affordability --- more sprawl --- is not a solution.
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Hard News: The Mayor's marginal enemies, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
To quote from one of the all time classics:
There is much made by people who long for the days of their fourth form debating society about the fallacy of "argumentum ad hominem". There is, as I have mentioned in the past, no fancy Latin term for the fallacy of "giving known liars the benefit of the doubt", but it is in my view a much greater source of avoidable error in the world.
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Hard News: Bad Judgement, in reply to Tristan,
I have to say, when it comes to finding a meeting room for the LEC if the best you can do is "how about at TVNZ's offices" I think maybe you're starting to get to the piss-up in brewery level of organisational difficulty.
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Hard News: The Uses of Dotcom, in reply to nzlemming,
Realistically, nine months is a reasonably long time for a candidate to have to fight a seat. It is good to select candidates early but it is also important not to select candidates too early when there's insufficient information about the eventual race. Obviously this cycle we had uncertainty about boundaries which it is important to remember could have resulted in any given seat changing substantially, but there's also things like the retirement of incumbents, events, and yes the slow arcane and complex internal party democracy Labour enjoys.
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It’s quite funny. Odd Future, who have a very prominent gay member and a not so prominent but still visible lesbian member are clearly horrible beyond the pale misogynists and homophobes.
(Which isn’t to say that they are morally a-ok or anything like that. But it does suggest there’s a bit more complexity here than is being recognised.)
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Nominations close on the 28th, selection meeting is the 8th March. As far as I know Tony Milne is the only person to have announced they are seeking the nomination.
As I understand it this is pretty much as fast as the Labour Party is capable of going, considering the (could have been much more drastic) boundary changes etc.
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I can't say that the highly autocratic and controlling aspect of Clark's leadership are those I miss, no.
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To be fair, "yes we would stop that company trading in NZ" is pretty much the underlying principle behind all company taxation. Of course we'd be prepared to stop Facebook operating here if they weren't willing to pay their legal tax obligations, in exactly the same way we'd stop Microsoft or even Fletchers. So so dumb to be manipulated by Tova O'Brien into phrasing it the way he did though.
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Hard News: All John's Friends, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Would it have given the seat to Goldsmith? I think that's something that needs to be proven.
Also, would it have caused an anti-Lab/Greens backlash that loses them a seat on the party vote? Because if so it's not a win.
(And of course there's the ongoing damage to the parties reputations, the basic principle that Labour stands in every seat and offers to represent every New Zealander etc.)
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Hard News: Crashing the party before it starts, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Hmm. There's an intermediary between the party and the voter, and there's a different paradigm we put that case into (i.e advertising.) But I agree it's not super clear where the boundary is --- the Greens give out packets of seeds, and invite you to see Minuit: is that illegal? Why not?