Posts by Riddley Walker
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Kyle, I think Craig expects Labour ministers to behave like the honourable members representing National, who are always forthright when taking responsibility for their errors, always the epitome of sincerity and credulity, who are never self-interested, and who always not only have all the facts, but also always lay them all on the table for the public to judge. If only Hodgson could be like Jonkey - never smarmy or disingenuous, and always so demonstrablely familiar with his own party's policy.
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cool Craig, i'll take that as a gracious admission then that CitRat is Nat.
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sorry craig, just couldn't quite reconcile your statement that
ever since I've been involved the National Party has a clear policy that it doesn't run or endorse local body tickets
with the fact that
Nick Albrecht, the C&R campaign manager, works in [Maurice] Williamson’s electorate office
i guess you have a 'National' idea of what it means to 'run' something. but i guess that's just a vast left-wing conspiracy right, i'm sure we can't possibly prove that can we? good thing you've invoked the conspiracy line nice and early, it might help you to save some face, although references to Hodgson and King are a bit spurious. Is that meant to be a cunning segue to the DHB diversion?
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The danger is you blog degenerate into boring boring sterile! We want Robin! We want Robin!
'Doris' of NZ's best internationally known tourist destination, with your 2 posts (both only appearing after the excommunication of Robin) you are obviously a long time listender, first time contributor. I'm sure all of your mate at work does support Robin and finds himself infinitely fascinating. Which reminds me, has anyone heard about the fantastic benefits of cigarettes? Although I don't work for them or benefit from this in anyway, you can find amazing facts about the health benefits of smoking at rothmanstruthfoundation.org. Clinical trials prove that smoking reduces the signs of aging by up to 53.264% and that its active agent is less carcinogenic than even palm oil. by the way, while i sit here balancing my arsehole on my finger for more colour have you ever heard about the magnificent benefits of waging illegal wars on other nations to make a profit and off-load your weapons stockpiles?
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never called you a liar Craig, i assumed you just had to be joking when you were asserting that Citizens and Ratepayers Now are independent from the National/ACT parties.
but if it offends you then no problem, you are correct and i was wrong: they are completely distinct, separate and independent entities, despite the evidence presented earlier. -
God i get sick of people whining about 'democracy' when they don't get what they want.
Democracy is an electoral and governance mechanism folks - plain and simple. None of the organs that service a democracy are 'democratic', not the courts, not the media, not the police, not the military, not political parties, not hospitals or schools or the businesses that may exist within them. And thank jebus for that.
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within hours the site has been amended
well there must be some nats on here. indeed the Lord Jonkey moves in mysterious ways.
He did win the popular vote, and it's still a matter of conjecture as to who really won Florida
yeah I reckon. Remeber the Diebold fiasco, the highly dubious involvement of Jeb Bush and the Florida Chief Returning Officer? In that sense alone Bush's legitimacy as the winner of his first election is well debatable.
btw, did anyone hear TV3's Duncan Garner 'reporting' from the US tonight. A more deluded and narcissistic impersonation of journalism i have not heard.
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as a completely trival aside, i see that on the National Party site (i was checking how you spell Hutchison - RB you were right)
i see that if you go to 'Select an MP', dear Dr Don is still at the top. so much for quarantining him off from the party. and no it's not just a democratic alphabetical order thing, Shane Ardern is well down the list, as is Jonkey.
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this doesn't seem like the right week to be making conflict-of-interest allegations against other parties.
Ain't that the truth! Now I hear on the radio that National's Paul Hutchinson recommended Tony Bierre to Wayne Brown in the first place.
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it's true National likes to pretend they aren't really Citizens and Ratepayers, but then there's this sneaked out from those paragons of leftwingism Ben Thomas (NBR journalist) and David 'W' Young (former Business Roundtable PR guy) in their blog at
http://dogbitingmen.blogspot.com/2004_10_01_dogbitingmen_archive.html
"Citizens and Ratepayers Now, an amalgam of ACT- and National-aligned local body activists, has been worse than decimated. Going from a majority (13 councillors out of twenty) to merely seven, it has ceded control to City Vision, the Labour and Alliance ticket. The community boards offer no solace – even Aaron Bhatnagar, the closest thing to a community board rock star, has been dumped from Hobson in favour of the also-right, but anti-motorway Action Hobson.
National Party MP Maurice Williamson is performing the autopsy like a skilled surgeon. And a practiced one – it’s 2002 all over again inside the Playhouse as he holds forth on the “swing to the left, away from the right – it’s a swing whose time had come.”
The major problem here was that C&R failed to distinguish themselves sufficiently from Banks. “People were telling our team in Eden-Albert, ‘we’re not going to vote for anyone who is on Banks’ ticket’, and there was no way to get across that we were different from Banks.”
Unsurprisingly, perhaps. Williams, who read out the results, is actually Banks’ scrutineer today. Nick Albrecht, the C&R campaign manager, works in Williamson’s electorate office."