Hard News: Meanwhile in Epsom ...
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However, I suspect they are all characters who are not seen as serious contenders by the real politicians of the National party. I suspect selection might come down to which candidate (or candidates father) makes the biggest contribution to National coffers.
I'm surprised Slater isn't running.
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As well as authoring Brash’s biography (which I haven’t read), Paul Goldsmith is also the author of the more fawning of John Banks’ two biographies. Both are imaginatively titled “<Name>: A Biography”.
So that’ll be interesting.
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
I suspect selection might come down to which candidate (or candidates father) makes the biggest contribution to National coffers.
Having been involved in more National Party candidate selections than you, Rich, I suspect you should leave the fantasy fiction to people who are good at it.
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genuine wtf moment: there are two banks biographies?
when did he become that interesting?
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Lew Stoddart, in reply to
Che, Banksie is incredibly interesting; one of the most interesting pollies in modern NZ history. Son of sly-grogging backroom-abortionists, a genuinely self-made man of strong moral convictions and remarkable character. Also bigoted, racist and intolerant but hey – you don’t have to be nice to be interesting.
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Rich of Observationz, in reply to
So Craig, you mean they are actually selecting these jokers on their *merits*. That's even more frightening.
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Lew Stoddart, in reply to
Sorry, I should clarify – both biographies written by Paul Goldsmith are imaginatively titled “<Name>: A Biography”, not both bios of John Banks. The more critical bio of Banksie is by Noel Harrison, “Banks: Behind the Mask”.
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Sacha, in reply to
when did he become that interesting?
it's those 4.20am starts. A hemisphere out of touch, but hey.
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Sacha, in reply to
titled “<Name>: A Biography”
a prerequisite of vanity publishing
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Having been involved in more National Party candidate selections than you, Rich, I suspect you should leave the fantasy fiction to people who are good at it.
Agreed. My impression is that all the candidates very much want to win the nomination, and are battling hard to do so.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Che, Banksie is incredibly interesting; one of the most interesting pollies in modern NZ history.
Yes.
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Agreed. My impression is that all the candidates very much want to win the nomination, and are battling hard to do so.
If they win Epsom it will mean they will lose a coalition partner and possibly power. Oh Epsom, what a clusterfuck you are.
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...and what an awesome coalition partner ACT would make this time around. Mr Burns, Mr Dairy, Mr Ego, and sundry nutters.
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Richard Simpson is the best of the candidates. However, his inconvenient habit of occasionally being swayed by facts will mean he'll last precisely one term as a National Party MP.
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a prerequisite of vanity publishing
I'm amazed at the low hurdle of notability needed for an NZ politician to get a published biography. I do wonder whether our paying almost double the overseas price for books is helping to subsidise this...
Also, the credibility of National's Epsom candidate will be borne out by their list ranking, or lack of, I suspect. We shall see.
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Andre Alessi, in reply to
The more critical bio of Banksie is by Noel Harrison, “Banks: Behind the Mask”.
So John Banks is Batman now? Well, he certainly comes across as someone written by Frank Miller...
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Che Tibby, in reply to
Yes
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surely you mean "colourful"?
not in a "maori way" of course
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
So Craig, you mean they are actually selecting these jokers on their *merits*. That’s even more frightening.
I suspect we could run up a thoroughly non-partisan “dudes and dudettes, WTF were you thinking?” list of candidates and MPs who were hardly glittering jewels in the crown of parliamentary democracy. (I think it’s also a pretty safe bet that the National candidate would never win an Epsom straw poll of Public Address readers.) 20/20 hindsight is also a wonderful thing. In 1990, Taito Philip Field looked pretty damn meritorious on paper when he won the selection for Otara. How did that work out in the end?
Democrazy’s a bitch, but she’s our bitch. The idea that all you need to get a National nomination is a well-connected daddy and a fat chequebook is as silly as the meme that you can’t get arrested in the Labour Party unless you’re a Maori lesbian union official who gaggles with the gays.
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
If they win Epsom it will mean they will lose a coalition partner and possibly power. Oh Epsom, what a clusterfuck you are.
I'd question whether any power dependent on the slow-motion mass-suicide that is the ACT Party is worth having.
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Sacha, in reply to
you can't get arrested in the Labour Party unless you're a Maori lesbian union official who gaggles with the gays.
or an aspie
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I'd question whether any power dependent on the slow-motion mass-suicide that is the ACT Party is worth having.
Sure but this truth hasn't stopped Epsom voters before. The Crazy gang just seems to roll on , let's hope not for too long.
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Whoops, in reply to
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Andre Alessi, in reply to
Sure but this truth hasn't stopped Epsom voters before. The Crazy gang just seems to roll on , let's hope not for too long.
"Sure he's a crazy racist and not terribly smart besides, but at least he doesn't want to raise taxes!"
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Richard Simpson is the best of the candidates. However, his inconvenient habit of occasionally being swayed by facts will mean he'll last precisely one term as a National Party MP.
Most certainly a worthy successor to Christine Fletcher. But does he have the backing of the wider party though?
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Craig Ranapia, in reply to
(too soon?)
Slightly. :)
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