Posts by ed pointsman
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Fair enough. Not sure that I agree with the functional equivalence. People's experience (engagement with) of something can be radically different from it's operation. Transforming the latter does not necessarily translate to the former - think of all the relaunched websites that still__suck...
Also, engagement with government is falling around the world. Voter turnouts in western democracies are in decline (I think we are an exception), so 10 years to __transform that engagement sounds realistic, no?
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From what I can see Clarke, there is no mention of a 2012 goal in the 2003 Strategy: where did you pick this up?
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handsome...thoroughly charming
...and well on your way to becoming a huge fat bastard.
Geez, was there anything left over there by the time you flew out??
Your gustatory powers, Che, are positively mythic.
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Is it just me, or did anyone else who read the transcript of the speech and is ploughing their way through Hollow Men shudder as they worked their way down the page: all the 'buttons' or 'levers' were in place:
* economy: don't scare the horses
* maori: kiss and make up
* environment: ditto with the tree-huggersWho wrote this stuff, Dale Carnegie?
If you can fake sincerity, you have got it made
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The founder of philosophical anarchism?
"argued that government is a corrupting force in society, perpetuating dependence and ignorance, but that it will be rendered increasingly unnecessary and powerless by the gradual spread of knowledge."
Mike might be right - but Bill obviously has something to add to the conversation...
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When we are holding Laws up as a (good) example my guess is the thread is starting to seriously unravel...
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Deborah Coddington blames Brash's wife.
heh
...and Deborah Hill Cone calls her courageous?
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Craig,
My argument was that Key is (apparently) as rich as Croesus and yet still keen on accumulating more. Greed is a very unattractive trait in anyone, let alone someone who aspires to lead this country.
You respond by saying: everyone is doing it (which may be true), but doesn't really deal to my point - hence is disingenuous.
And I agree completely with your point about those who choose to enter political life and bemoan the consequent pay cut. I would add that (not from personal experience, alas) for some, power is far more attractive than cash - particularly once you are already rolling in the stuff...
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Craig,
Isn't it a little disingenuous to defend John's actions by saying "they are all the same"? John is, financially, in quite a different league than your average backbencher.
And the concept of leadership material is, for me, predicated in differentiation from 'any other party leader,' not similarity.
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A superficial as I am, my opinion of Key was formed when he was busted copping the 'living away from home' allowance...
Here is a guy worth, what? a metric shitload in any currency, and he is hitting the taxpayer up for a couple extra hundred a week?
And this is leadership material? Sheesh.