Posts by James Littlewood*
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Rik: it's National - with Act support - who wet the electors' appetite for tax bribes in 2005.
Bribing us with our own money is precisely what the National party have been doing. Just because Labour have a welfare programme hardly makes them outstanding in this regard.
Besides, better for a gummint to be a Robin Hood than Dick Turpin.
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[Tizard] was exaggerating to excess
Either way, she failed to inspire 'em, ye?
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Re "Bribed with own money".
WTF is he on about, if not tax cuts?
Perhaps more disconcertingly, what exactly is the "lots of pain for lots of people" he's promising?
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Low point Saturday night: Rodney Hide.
"I'm just proud to have run a clean campaign and to have stuck to the issues."
Meanwhile, Dougless: "If I get in I'll do heaps of stuff."
And again, this morning, Radio NZ: "The important thing for us now is to take action regtarding, umm, the issues that face us."
What might those be, Rog?
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So, what's the goss on the new Labour leader?
I like Cunny!
Pro: unbundling.
Con (and this one goes for labour as a whole): Therapeutic Goods Act.
Or Goff, the guy who introduced the nation to student debt in the first place?
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What's worse:
- National alone
- National + Act
- National + Act + MaoriObviously, from any opposition's point of view, the government is automatically compromised, and therefore improved with the presence of Winnie.
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Steve, you're a gem.
Except you missed this: if you don't vote Green, you're stoopiderist of all, because they can do everything all the other parties do, only fairer and in a way that ensures there'll be more of it to go round in the future.
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I'm almost convinced they have almost no basis in reality
Last time round I was working for TNS who did the 3 News poll, and still do.
Ours was the only individual poll to predict the Labour-led gummint, and anyone who remembers how extraordinarily close that election was will know what a tight call that was.
However, the rolling poll of polls Molesworth and Featherston (where are you guys?) improved on ours with regard the exact number of Maori overhang seats, and a couple of other details.
One thing the polls are really not dealing with is predicting the number of Labour supporters who like having Greens in gummint, but who won't vote for them out of the misguided fear that it will deprive Labour of something.
Historically, Greens poll worse in elections than in the media. I believe people see the Greens polling well, and feel let off the hook of voting for them themselves.
Imagine how well they'd do if the people who actually agree with them on the importance of sustainability, transparency and fairness actually voted for them!
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Regarding National being more left wing than RB ...
All I can say is "remember Muldoon." It's not so much where Key is (or Muldoon was) on the spectrum, it's their misguided and contradictory notion of Government involvement that hurts people.
It's been described before as soft fascism.
Or: Government is bad. Therefore good governments reduce themselves wherever possible, except when that good government wants to actually DO something, such as enact actual policy, in which case it should think like big bisiness, and remove - annihilate - all possible barriers as rapidly as possible.
Sir Douglass in the Herald this week. "If I get elected, I'll do heaps of stuff." Well, he never was one for revealing his near-universally unpopular ideas before inflicting them on the rest of us.
If Rodney Hide gets in, Douglass won't need to get elected.
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the [jane austen] films are worse. a bunch of foofy tosh.
Emma: can we rename this the foofy tosh file?
Surely, the phrase "foofy tosh" defines the worst of the worst.
Toy Story. Paddington bloody Bear. Even if he is supposed to be a metaphorical refugee. In fact, especially if. Stephen here-it-is-no-it-isn't-BOO! King.