Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: A thundering clash of, in reply to Dennis Frank,
The Ohariu poll announced on Q+A this morning has the Greens at 12%
Only within that electorate and with a larger than usual margin of error.
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NBR resurrects the spectre of the Greens' successful previous comms advisor Andrew Campbell in its analysis. This part is what irks me most too:
One Green Party insider tells NBR the key problem was that the current comms team did not “war game” what would happen after their co-leader confessed to beneficiary fraud at her party's July 16 AGM.
There was an effort to anticipate reaction from the media, and other parties, but it was not carried out by election-hardened staffers, or in enough depth (Mr Campbell’s lieutenants left around the same time he did).
The insider thinks that while maintaining a relative silence publicly, National did its own research, which it passed on to various media.
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Hard News: A thundering clash of, in reply to Dennis Frank,
An MP going to the media without caucus approval is unlikely to be forgiven in any political party.
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Green party exec board says thanks but no to Kennedy Graham standing again.
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Hard News: A thundering clash of, in reply to dave stewart,
Thanks, Dave. Note that this site automatically makes links clickable if you paste the whole thing including the beginning.
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Hard News: A thundering clash of, in reply to ,
Maybe you could tell group who you really are.
Please let's not have this conversation again. People have reasons for using different identities online, though real names are more common here than many other places.
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to Tom Semmens,
trying to shiv Labour
Please provide any evidence beyond your reckons that this was their intent.
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to Tom Semmens,
stunt of political betrayal
There's an interesting tendency for some in Labour to regard left-leaning voters as theirs by divine right, to be 'stolen' by other parties.
This Greens policy announcement being over-personalised is not good politics, and it would certainly have cost Labour some votes on both edges but I doubt that was some cunning dastardly intent. More of a cock-up.
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to ,
Sounds like you may need to actually read their policy: https://www.greens.org.nz/policy/social-policies/mending-safety-net