Posts by Bart Janssen
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Hard News: The epitome of reason, in reply to Kumara Republic,
at the same time they don’t necessarily trust Little or the Greens to best him either.
I'd say they don't really trust Little or The Greens.
It isn't so much that they want someone to beat Key, but rather they want someone who they can tell has a (to use Craigs excellent word) consistent policy and who they believe will enact that policy.
Quite frankly even if Little could ascribe to a single policy for the next two years I actually don't trust the guy. Not just, all politicians are liars distrust, but I have no belief that Little has any motivation other than power and hence would shift policies on a whim.
That feeling is almost certainly unfair. But I don't think I'm alone in the feeling that the Labour MPs on show have no genuine personal values and hence I have no idea what they'll do if they got in power.
As for The Greens, it seems as if they will be a voice in parliament but never the voice* and so even if you trusted them to do good you can't trust that the good will be enacted. Layer that with Browning confirming the loony Green meme every time he opens his mouth and trust in The Greens is a hard vote to make.
*BTW for me that is just fine and appropriate, the way MMP is supposed to work.
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Hard News: The epitome of reason, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
say nothing
Judith Collins?
do nothing
Mike Sabin?
Yeah the axe is sharp. In fact the Sabin issue is a great example of what happens when they don't toe the line, Sabin gets the chop AND they lose the seat.
The scary thing is just how quickly the sewed Judith back together again.
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Hard News: The epitome of reason, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
There’s a vote. People vote for the candidates they like. Some of them are Steffan Browning.
I’d say this points to the absence of a factional system, on an evidence basis.
Except as Danyl points out, an internal faction that is independent of the external public that The Green party is trying to get to vote for them.
The consequence is that, like Labour, The Greens, have MPs that can barely walk and talk at the same time. Hard to work up any enthusiasm for voting when you have MPs like that to vote for.
By contrast, National have one MP - the PM. Everyone knows exactly who they are voting for and exactly what they are getting. The other National MPs say nothing and do nothing that could in any way disrupt that mindset.
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Hard News: The epitome of reason, in reply to Sacha,
your #3 does not apply to the Greens, right?
Um explain Steffan Browning then?
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Hard News: The epitome of reason, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
The problem was there was nothing even slightly mysterious about the policies Labour had been presenting consistently for the best part of a year from Clark and Cullen all the way down.
Which is in stark contrast to the chaos the Labour MPs have disseminated of late.
The problem is not that people are voting for National, the problem is they are choosing to not vote at all rather than vote for the clowns that Labour have decided should be MPs.
There is no Waitakere man at all. No Labour voter that has decided after all that National are wonderful. The data is really clear on that. The National vote has not changed. Instead there are Labour voters who rightly enough have decided that the MPs chosen do NOT represent them.
It's hard to blame them for that.
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Up Front: Stand for... Something, in reply to BenWilson,
Other advantages to simpler designs:
Which are good. But if you assume we go for a Hubble image of the Pleiades then ...
-People can actually draw it, paint it, cut it out, knit it, etc.
Well no they can't draw that - but hang on - bugger all people can draw our current flag - go on I dare you without opening up an image of it to copy!!! The only people who hand draw a flag are children and they are always going to abstract the image anyway so providing you have something you can abstract eg seven stars in a pattern then why not have the parent image much richer in detail.
-Easier to remember for everyone, including people from other countries.
Ok this is critical ... for pub triv! In all other situations you can use your connection to the internet - besides if we made our flag a Hubble image everyone would remember it as opposed to those anonymous green or white squiggles that look like all the other anonymous flags that folks are currently suggesting ... it's red white and blue "The USA" ... no red white and blue stripes ... "France" ... no the other way up ... "er I don't know*"
-Less tendency to overloading it with every ephemeral symbol. Save that for a coat of arms.
Gonna go out on a limb and suggest the Pleiades will look like that long after New Zealand ceases to exist as any kind of political entity and perhaps even after it goes as a land mass.
-Less direct symbolism means it will date less rapidly.
So far all the designs suffer from dating. If anything the Pleiades is going to be less dated.
-You might be able to describe it in words, over the phone.
Ok really - who describes a flag over the phone and why would you? I guess you might need to describe it to a visually impaired person in which case I reacon describing the Pleiades is going to be a LOT easier than most of the squggles suggested thus far.
-It might get a name of its own that sticks like the Union Jack or Stars and Stripes.
oooo I know ... we could call it The Matariki although having a nickname for your flag is getting slightly meta don't you think
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Hard News: Mediaworks: The only horizon…, in reply to Sacha,
Broken link is broken Sasha
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Hard News: Mediaworks: The only horizon…, in reply to Clint Fern,
excellent, Pinot Noir
If this were the feed blog I'd give you a long list of excellent alternatives :) Honestly New Zealand make some amazing Pinot noir and there is no need to be wedded to any one producer. Sadly amazing and cheap Pinot noir is harder to find.
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Hard News: Mediaworks: The only horizon…, in reply to sandra,
Agree totally re Simon Mercep. I was looking forward to his start at RNZ but hardly ever listen to his slot now. He seems to struggle to know what he’s going to say next.
What I can't understand is why does Mercep repeat the dreary format that Mora created. There doesn't seem to be anything in that show that is his except the voice.
As for John Campbell ending up at RNZ that seems less likely to me. I know it is the only non-commercial game in town but Campbell has proven adept at getting stories that come with images. While he is a good interviewer I think he (and the team he has attracted) have talent with images that would be lost on the radio.
Perhaps, he could be the nucleus of a video arm of RNZ, radio with pictures but with more meaning and content than Henry.
To lose his expressive face from the media would be sad.
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As the girlfriend of a member of her rival pub quiz team
Love it.