Posts by Sofie Bribiesca
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Hard News: Five further thoughts, in reply to Keir Leslie,
But they have no one to blame but themselves.
I don’t like word on this thread saying Labour did a deal with National. That taints Labour in my book. It’s also understandable now that Willow Prime (she’s Labour) was missing in action up in the North. I guess Labour were concentrating on Davis.
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Hard News: Five further thoughts, in reply to tussock,
To me that’s incredibly fucking stupid for anyone thinking of maybe being in government, but I guess they never were,
Well it sounds that way .
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Hard News: Five further thoughts, in reply to Keir Leslie,
Hang on, Hone Harawira, bankrolled to the tune of ~3 million dollars, is complaining the cash strapped Labour Party outspent him? Well, that’s his problem really.
I thought Internet party was Dot com rolled to the tune of $3,000000.00 and if it's true national NZFirst and Labour did a final push in the North, how much and who bankrolled that? The far North has wealthy Nats. So if labour had nothing,where did it come from?
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Hard News: Five further thoughts, in reply to Russell Brown,
Yes. And it’s not like he was coming from nowhere – he was bloody close last time. He will make a decent and capable MP and he may well hold that seat for a long time.
He sat in on Council stuff with the farmers and the likes of the Mayor (ex National) and developers (ex Mayor,/Wayne Brown). Dover Samuels backed him which would have influenced many Maori Kaitaia way,then buddy Winston put the nail in Hones coffin. Result.
I get the impression he is looking to help grow big business rather than help any poor tho’ e.g. mining . jmo -
Hard News: Five further thoughts, in reply to Bart Janssen,
It is worth remembering that in every survey done in the last ten years the centre voters have all support gay rights, womens rights and ending child poverty.
Didn't translate to votes. The left bloc covered all those issues.
Voting should be compulsory. It would stop people voting with their wallets. It would balance the theory that all of the right vote leaving left leaning at home. -
Hard News: Five further thoughts, in reply to ,
I used to think the Americans where one homogenous mass. Then I realized that was incorrect. They are pretty much the same as us, but I have to say, they do it with more substance.
Come 2017, with Johnny in charge, you can feel just like one of those Americans. We are small enough to completely control. That's the plan, right? All their ducks in a row.
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Hard News: Five further thoughts, in reply to Katharine Moody,
As I’ve said elsewhere on here and I’ll say it again – Kim Dotcom is a modern genius in the biggest growth area on the planet at the moment – the internet. And look what our Government has done to him. It is shameful. My grandchildren would benefit immensely if this entrepreneur manages to stay here and become a leading contributor to our society in the future.Wake up NZ.Okay, I won’t say it again.
Well. I'll repeat that here for you. Couldn't agree with you more. I am baffled by the general response to him also.
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Hard News: Five further thoughts, in reply to Rob S,
build more houses, we’ve done it before and it helped John Key get where he is today.A higher minimum pay to get people off welfare by paying them properly policy.Attack the Nats continually on there economic mismanagement with the Country in debt to the tune of 88 billion and they want to cut taxes and make your kids pay for it later, are they mad?Stay ruthlessly on message.
This. It would have worked too.
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Hard News: Five further thoughts, in reply to James Littlewood*,
Pretty obvious which party failed to motivate its voters.
Have you popped out of your comfort zone to see how ,on struggle street people have difficulty getting out to vote. Maybe the bus they campaign in could be an incentive with a slogan ,"get on the bus to get to the polling booth". Make it actually possible for the poor to get there.
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Hard News: Five further thoughts, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Knew very little about any policy. Was a bit shocked when I told him about the Nats first up legislation to lose legislated tea breaks.
In a nutshell.Ignorance and misinformation. Regurgitated press releases don't inform on policy unless you have access and Up North, the missing voters didn't have petrol. They don't even travel to get the paper , many don't have a computer and ph credit is a luxury. No buses, no train. As well, only one politician got close to our local pub where any votes could be lifted. Willow Prime was across the road dealing with a complaint from the owner of the Gas Station, she could have popped in for 5 minutes, and Kelvin was busy getting rid of Hone. Sabin knew he'd win so didn't bother either. Most repeated that they didn't think Cunliffe was a good alternative so status quo it is and almost noone thought they would read Dirty Politics. One man had (up from Auckland) ,he wanted to discuss it, his friend left the table,went inside because he has always expressed his love of Key and couldn't listen to anything negative about his Emperor. Ah well. at least these people are easy to understand eh? How about that rugby? Jona and Israel just "lurve" Johnny!