Posts by Paul Litterick
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@Just Thinking: this is probably not a good week to use jury service as an example of a public good.
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What with the tax review which will consider Capital Gains Tax and now Mr Hide's review, this Government is turning out to be the biggest debating society ever elected.
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One of the failings of lefties is always to assume that certain classes of people will always support the left: students, workers, ethnic minorities. Time and again, these assumptions are proven wrong, but the bitter truth does not make them go away.
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I think there's a fairly obvious lesson for the centre-left in those results.
If only it were obvious to the Centre-Left.
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That's why you need STV voting in Auckland.
Had the Royal Commission come up with some sensible proposals about governance, rather than nonsense about councillors at large and appointed seats for iwi, the Government would have found it much more difficult to justify trashing most of their report and picking the bits which suited them.
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going on a membership drive and getting the students to reregister in the university electorate instead of back at their parents houses.
An excellent plan, but for one slight drawback: we have not had university electorates for some decades now. Voters are required to register in the electorates where they live, which might be some way from University. You might get some freshmen who have not registered since they left home, but I doubt that would make much of a difference.
Besides, the Greens are big on campus but not that big. There are a whole lot more folk who do not go to Varsity, some of whom might resent a bunch of students telling them how to vote.
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John Key wants to be a mirror when he grows up - reflect back to people what is important to them but offer nothing of any substance. And he's about as shallow.
And he is backed with silver.
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He seems convinced that the plural of "text" is "textes".
Don't mess with Textes.
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Breaking news: Worth speaks out and the gory details come out.
He offered her a job as an ethics advisor.
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(the Crown were also paid through the public purse, at higher hourly rates and at higher time allowances than the defence and for the same work).
Interesting thought; debate about Legal Aid always presents it as some sort of liability, when in fact it is about securing a fair trial. The costs of Crown prosecutions are rarely discussed, because they are part of Justice.