Posts by BenWilson
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Could it simply be that Labour and National have rightly cottoned on to the fact that electorates just don't matter squat to them? They only matter to minor parties. Which in practice means there are quite literally only about 10 electorates that matter - the ones which make or break a minor party - Epsom, Tauranga, Dunneland, Andertonville, and all the Maori seats. The rest of us get to choose between getting our candidate locally or on the list.
I'd still be very surprised if National won Auckland Central. The gentrification has not been through rich people moving to Herne Bay, it's just that the area has got progressively wealthier as time has passed. They're still the same old hippies they always were.
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While I don't approve of junk mail, it's gotta be one of life's smallest concerns. It's a hundred times less hassle than people coming to the door or calling on the phone, so I'd really rather get the junk. And leaflets cause sooo much litter.
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What Clark is trying to do now is send a signal to NZ First voters not to waste their vote and to tick Labour if they want to avoid National getting in.
NZ First Voters and Labour voters. Do the twain ever meet?
Craig, I have my recycling bin directly under my mailbox. I hate double handling. I only dip in if I need to start a fire.
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Interesting filming that the 'earnest talk to the camera' has Obama's face half in the dark. It's too noticeable to be an accident. Symbolism anyone?
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I'm wondering if I should rush out now and buy some houses.
You need 4 to get a hotel.
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Emma lol, elections are really just a change of pwnership. & joo getz pwned by reprazents ez.
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There's a difference between a sham and a scam. Every foreign exchange transaction I've been in left me with a bitter taste, but at least they did actually give me the fx at the end, just never as much of it as I expected.
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"Get me a pony, bureaucrat!"
"Your pony has been ordered, sir, but we've hit a snag, the studs are all a bit gay"
"You're FIRED! Get me someone who knows how to find a real stud"
"You won't find that in the civil service, sir" -
i just wanted to disagree that policy manifestos were unnecessary.
That's cool Che, I agree. In fact if I were designing government there would be only documentation and no elected representatives at all, just propositions that would be voted on directly, with civil servants getting hired or fired on their implementation. My only point was that I'm not particularly alarmed by National being light-on. They always have been - it's just how they are. In fact, it's what a lot of people like about them. It's like the car salesman who talks a lot without saying anything, that most people seem to buy their car off for some reason I can't fathom. They don't tend to lie outright, but they will not tell you one thing wrong that you don't ask about, and they'll say a hell of a lot of nice fluff that sounds like promises.
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So Ben, if I may be so bold, how do you decide who to vote for if you have no expectations about policy whatsoever?
Oh I have expectations all right, they just don't form a 1:1 relationship with party policy documents. This is MMP after all, no party will rule outright.
If I understand you, you're saying that the lack of detail in policy is itself the cunning ploy by which to justify the hidden agenda? I think there's truth to that. But even with the most detailed policy, there is never "And we won't do anything else" added on. Most of what they will do is the "anything else", and it's often directly contrary to what they do say. So they not technically liars in the sense Che seems to interpret the word. They're just half-truthers to a massive degree which IMHO is much the same.
Dunno about the party members. They're probably in the dark like the general population, but they're the kind of people who would back the team anyway.
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