Posts by Keir Leslie
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Emma Hart,
I think this post is really good as far as being fair to Labour, and making it clear that it's not some kind of monolithic top-down organisation goes. I'm more thinking of say, NRT's post as treating it as if "Labour" has somehow decided to Stiff The Good People of Christchurch.
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To be fair to Labour, if you look at the people who've gone on record as unimpressed with the Clayton for East story, you've got two LEC Chairs and a couple of other assorted bods. It's not exactly been greeted with waves of rapturous applause.
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Hebe,
General rule: weird ideas of Aaron Keown's are far more popular than they should be.
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Hebe,
Stuff polls are notoriously right wing, to be fair.
I don't think anyone expects it to be a walkover. The Christchurch local body left had any traces of that rudely dispelled about three years ago now...
As far as boundaries go, I think it's easy to overstimate how much will change, but on the other hand I have no idea at all what will happen. It is a big story around the by-election, though.
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I like this column.
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Bigotry is never OK at sporting events; there's no justification whatsoever for it. Nothing about "that's what you expect" can ever make it OK, and it's disgusting to say that, I think.
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Hard News: Not good enough, Eden Park, in reply to Gareth Swain,
It’s pretty standard at most major sports events here & in the UK, and I would have thought most places by now, no?
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If Key's really ballsy he'll call a snap election now. It's quite high risk though, and he won't.
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Actually lots and lots of non-idle-rich created things. (The cathedral masons. The folk arts of the world, by definition..) And lots and lots of things were paid for by groups that weren't the idle rich.
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I thought it was clearly advice from the Clerk.
(And I don't particularly think that the Speaker should release advice from the Clerk. It's the Speaker's ruling, not the Clerk's, and the Speaker is the one responsible.)