Posts by krothville
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Cunliffe should have just said 'a year' right off the bat when asked. A year sounds reasonable at least, whereas a month is a much harder sell.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to mark taslov,
Thanks for not banning me Russell and the best of luck to everyone, if I stepped on your toes with this exercise in free speech, get real.
I actually enjoyed your posts. But then again, I really like discussions on PA, because mostly everyone argues cleanly, and backs their opinions up.
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I think that if the left wanted to, they could also co-opt the "common sense" type sound bites, but for some reason, haven't twigged on the strategy the right has always used, or can't figure out a way to boil their policies down to that "it just makes sense" kind of thing.
But it's not really that hard to do:
"It just makes sense to try to prevent climate change because it's going to destroy our baches and beaches"
"It just makes sense to raise the minimum wage because it will save the government money and people will be able to feed and clothe their children"
"It just makes sense to tax the rich more, and give middle NZ a break"
"It just makes sense to make it cheaper for people to own their own homes by making it harder for people to flick houses for profit"
"It just makes sense to introduce rent controls like Germany so that people aren't forced to spent 65% of their income renting a 3 bedroom house somewhere in Auckland"
"It just makes sense to subsidise insulating houses so we can save money on healthcare"And I could go on and on and on. It's actually not that hard to boil it down like that, and start that "fair go" zeitgeist thing someone mentioned earlier.
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Haha, you're right. Would have been great if it had been true though, not for the NZ link or anything, just as something of interest.
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OnPoint: "Project SPEARGUN underway", in reply to mark taslov,
Thanks for that, certainly very interesting, how did the commenter know, and how did the person whose stuff he was looking at find out?
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Hard News: Time to Vote, in reply to Chris Waugh,
So, Nikki Kaye has Auckland Central by 647, Trevor Mallard has Hutt South by 378. What are the chances of specials overturning those?
I'm also surprised how slim Peter Dunne's margin is. Only 930. It was my impression he was a reasonably popular local MP, hence his longevity, but I guess it's not that simple. Had all those votes for Tane Woodley gone to Virginia Andersen....
Huge chance of change for both Dunne and Kaye, as both electorates are close to 30% specials.
Dunne's electorate weren't very happy with him about the drugs law, apparently, a lot of people said they would never vote for him again.
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Hard News: Time to Vote, in reply to Sam F,
Ah, bugger, I'd hoped it was the Graun's.
Also, guys, that special vote block is enormous this time around (~10%), and I think it will have a fair number of conservative votes in it, I think they only need around 10-15k more, easily doable out of 250k or so.So things could get worse.
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It certainly would be!
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Hard News: Time to Vote, in reply to ,
adolescent Prime minister
Link please, I must have missed that, I need cheering up this evening.
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Can anyone clarify for me, because a lot a lot of people this election had to do a special vote because they received the letter from the election commission to say they were enrolled, but then turned up today to find out they weren't on the printed roll, is there any way to tell if your vote has been discounted because the electoral commission thinks you weren't enrolled, yet your letter was sent and you thought everything was ok?
It just seems awfully strange this year, and there were a lot of people on both the Maori roll and the general roll in my area who turned up and found out they weren't on the roll and then turned up and they weren't. Much, much more than in other years.