Posts by Russell Brown
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Polity: Meet the middle, in reply to Danielle,
Snark exists on Twitter so some of us (ie, me) don’t come and ragepost all over your nice polite threads, Russell. You should be grateful for it. ;)
Well, now you put it that way ...
With a couple of other things going on yesterday, I was feeling a bit weary of being between warring parties (not political parties, or "party" parties).
Otoh, I had an experience with a whale* yesterday and that was incredible.
*Not the blogging kind of whale.
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Hard News: Everybody has one, in reply to BenWilson,
Why did she move on? I understand the final shot, but not the move. Mostly because I’m not paying attention, though. What’s she moving to?
Her main gig is as a TV producer. The Herald dropped her column for budgetary reasons.
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Hard News: Everybody has one, in reply to Kumara Republic,
I sometimes wonder if overseas trends of media consolidation have arrived in NZ. It’d be worth a look by the Commerce Commission, if it hasn’t already been plagued with regulatory capture.
Not gonna happen. Apart from anything else, being big and cross-platform might be the only way to survive and prosper in the new media environment. It's not a good time to be an indie.
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Polity: Meet the middle, in reply to giovanni tiso,
fairly loud chorus of snarking and subtweeting
Also known as “criticism”.
Of course. I'm happier when there's plenty of debate and no snark, but I'm not going to be too exercised by snark either way.
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Polity: Meet the middle, in reply to chris,
I don’t think simon g was off the mark or disingenuous at all in suggesting it was Smith who was pivotal in Labour’s breaking out of “the funk.”
No, agreed. The shift definitely began with Smith. I think Rob was wrong about that and it’s quite okay to say so. He was a bit snarky about it too.
I’m not going to censor his post any more than I’m going to try and stop the fairly loud chorus of snarking and subtweeting in response to the original post.
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Polity: Meet the middle, in reply to chris,
This think tank series or whatever this actually is, led by Rob who may or may not be affiliated with the Labour party and who possibly has a Labour/ centrist obsession, have dramatically reduced my faith in Labour.
They're personal posts by Rob, who contracts to Labour. I'm interested in the discussion.
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Polity: Meet the middle, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I recall one poll while Labour in government which had a surprisingly high number of self-professed Green voters taking a pretty harsh stance on beneficiaries – more than Labour voters, from memory .
I think it was this one from near the end of National’s first term.
Ah yes, thank you.
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Polity: Meet the middle, in reply to Danielle,
t’s not some immutable law of nature that the centre is “rightish” and we need to obfuscate leftist policies in order to get the centrists to swallow them. The centre could just as easily be leftish if we didn’t have a) a high proportion of third way numpties in Labour and b) a well-oiled Nats-friendly propaganda machine in high gear.
It is entirely possible to move left towards the centre, put it that way. It's what National did in 2008 when it swallowed the Superannuation Fund, paid parental leave, Kiwisaver, interest-free student loans, etc as the reality of winning the election. We do sometimes lose sight of the fact that Labour dragged the centre leftwards through being in government.
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Hard News: The Sky Trench, in reply to JessicaRose,
I don’t recall a question on ‘whopping great unnecessary and massively ugly cage’.
Quite. It's OIA-worthy, I think.
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Polity: Meet the middle, in reply to Joe Wylie,
The kindest assessment of Brash would be that he might have been marginally aware of how he was being “rebranded”, but it’s doubtful if he understood the implications.
The other thing about that election was that McCully was running around promising conservative Christian groups (and the Brethren) that they'd be deeply socially conservative in government. There was a lot of conflicting messaging going on to different audiences.
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