Posts by Jack Harrison
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Farmer Green,
So your saying, "Don’t watch the biased media, put your head in the sand and they’ll go away." Cheers buddy, I love ya simple homespun advice.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Farmer Green,
They have done the tax cuts already, and they are promising more at some stage down the line.
The tax cuts they did were financed on our nations credit card. The modest tax hikes suggested are needed to cover our needed spending and because the original tax cuts are a drain on our economy. Cutting taxes in a recession for your core base is good politics, but fucking disastrous for our national accounts.
I don't think this issue won them office in 2014. They won because they simplified the choice, socialist p.c nutters versus nice John. How they simplified it that way is a topic for much discussion.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to simon g,
Cunliffe needs to address his warmth factor and labour need to reflect on the possibility of a warmer, more media savvy leader.
D.C can state that he indeed did look Prime Ministerial at times and that Dirty Politics over shadowed his "month in the electoral sun." It's a tough one. Reflection needs to be done in a sensible adult like fashion.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Katharine Moody,
The opposition has a lot of ammo, if aimed correctly, who knows.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Russell Brown,
Nationals winning margins were huge, two ticks everywhere. Labour needs to scream “party vote” next time.
Also Cunliffe profiled badly in our media. Folk didn’t warm to him. This does need to be investigated but not today.
Cunliffe should just say “get real” to anyone who thinks the Labour Party are in a position to reflect purposefully less than 24 hours after the result. These “resign” stories are a beat up and are an example of a headline driven media.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Sure, but high p.r profile such as twitter is a big vehicle for them because they are members of a huge historic "state sponsored" national sport that dwarfs all other sporting cultures. It should be free of this.
As individuals yap away.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to ,
Yeh, you're right, Sue Bradfords law. Even Key voted for it. It’s a good law.
However it often gets packaged into the box of “p.c” crimes Labour apparently committed, mainly a list inspired by simple right wing pundits who love to say “p.c” a lot.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Good point. MMP means a voter can tailor their vote in hope for a Government capable of wider policy implementation so Labour at 25% is not the story. The left at 35% is the story. The left suffered from the dirty dialogue, as happens. Political turn-off favours the right. Still we had a dirty election bought to us by very famous journalists because there was and still is a real story.
Nixon won with 60% of the vote.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Amanda Wreckonwith,
At least those parties have a soul to search for. You are looking at a soul to move 5% of the voting public from right to left, the magical 100,000 swingers.
They could also start to take A hardline attitude to media bias,,as the Democrats did in the U.S. Pointing out commentators who are clearly cheering p.r instruments of the New Zealand National Party
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to CJM,
The politicisation of the all blacks is another example of an environment which stinks. Fuck up current international players, that shirts not yours to fuck with.