Posts by Joe Wylie
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Thanks Ian. One more clip in that vein.
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Polity: Labour and the Greens in a tree..., in reply to Craig Young,
As much as it is about values of solidarity and equality, it needs to be about pragmatism.
Which reads to me as a great aphorism for despising those outside of the party system as political amateurs. It's Labour's isolation through contempt for that part of the potential electrorate that's driven them to seek accomodation with the Greens.
As for the Greens, it was the recognition that they needed to court the goodwill of non-Party members that consolidated them to the point where Labour found them worth dealing with. For example, their vigorous outreach with the no asset sales petition. James Shaw's technocratic style appears much more in line with how Labour does things. We'll see.
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Polity: Labour and the Greens in a tree..., in reply to Tom Semmens,
Chris Trotter.....Go away.
Congratulations on getting that out without once using the word Chardonnay.
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Polity: Labour and the Greens in a tree..., in reply to Craig Young,
Josie is at least practical...
Practical in the sense of strategically gaming the system to thwart the popular will, in the grand tradition of Michael Bassett and Tony Blair. I'm less than convinced of the "practicality" of, for example, her "get in behind the TPP you ungrateful bastards" schtick.
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Polity: Labour and the Greens in a tree..., in reply to Craig Young,
Why can't Trotter bother to educate himself about actual red/green coalitions and why does the media keep to running to him as a 'left' political commentator?
Agreed, though isn't it more than a touch ironic to be making that point in the allocated blogpatch of one of Josie Pagani's most enthusiastic boosters?
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Polity: Labour and the Greens in a tree..., in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Keenly
Indicating
Social
Service
In
New
Government
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Polity: Labour and the Greens in a tree..., in reply to Sacha,
I doubt many of us would be surprised. Opinions welcome.
For all I know Marc C may be a trained haruspex, employing a form of divination that us effete liberals would find too offal to contemplate.
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Access: The Universal Basic Income and…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
I am loath to link to anything which gives publicity to Family First...
I'm old enough to recall when looking at a rental property involved the female party wearing a fake wedding ring. Because the world was crawling with McCroskieite busybodies back then, and they really did check that stuff.
Young people today, they won't believe yer....
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Hard News: Three Dreams, in reply to Murray Hewitt,
I highly recommend Michio Kaku's “The Future of the Mind”
Thanks Murray, will give it a go.
While some dreams are seamlessly realistic, others have very shabby production values. I'm thinking of the kind where the action is so urgent that you don't have time to check out the dodgy stuff happening in the background. For example, you're involved in a car chase where some long-demolished location from your childhood just happens to be right round the corner from the Grafton Bridge. After a few of those the suspicion that you're dreaming becomes impossible to ignore and the dream falls to bits.
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Polity: Budget 2016: Fantasyplan, in reply to ,
Would that all go into policing the laws that prevent polluting them, paying policy people to write more policy, and or actually filtering the water?
In the meantime, the "farmer" found guilty of diverting a Taranaki stream turns out to be a "landfarmer", i.e. his "farm" was a toxic waste dump.
