Posts by giovanni tiso
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How do you find out those figures, Giovanni?
All the polling booths are listed by electorate here.
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Wow, I just found a reason to smile. Provisional results from our local polling booth:
Labour 414 votes
Greens 159
National 140
New Zealand First 28
Act 8 - just one more than "informal party votes"!
Maori Party, Legalise Cannabis and Progressives 6
United Future 3I'm going to start a secessionist movement forthwith.
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We just called a family meeting. From now on, that thing that we use to unlock the door, it's called "our idiot Prime Minister", for short. (For long it'd be "our one term idiot Prime Minister".)
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The people have spoken, the bastards!
(California legislator Dick Tuck, 1970's)
It's raining - bloody government!
(Italian proverb)
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when the rest of the world is going left
You mean the US, Australia and...? I can see plenty of countries going right just about now.
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I'm not as politically savvy as some here, by any means
Yes, Jackie, I'd have to agree. Because then you write
I'm bitter and angry and all those things, Craig, because I'm an idealogue. I work with children.
And it tells me that you're obviously quite a bit savvier. And thanks for the whole post, I'm going to hold on to that. It was heartfelt and beautifully put.
As a teacher I have to say the thought of Anne Tolley as Minister of Education sends shivers up my spine. The fact that I will now also have to spend more time testing my 5 year olds and less time teaching them somewhat baffles me.
Word. The principal of my son's (primary) school went to Australia for a conference last month and they were telling him how the New Zealand education system is ten years ahead of Australia's. But of course National we'll want to turn it around because hey, we need to be more like Oz so we can climb the OECD ladder (presumably they also plan to find plenty of ore while in office).
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I just tried burying my head in the quicksand
Permission to use that...
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Roger Douglas isn't the leader. He's also been pretty definitively ruled out of cabinet, but that's not really the point is it?
Well, I'd like to know what the point is, then: a 73 year old statesman (ops! just puked in my mouth) doesn't come back to Parliament with the expectation to be a quiet backbencher. He's going to try to push his agenda and Act as a coalition party and having put him at number 3 on the list of course is going to do his bidding even if he doesn't become minister (and I agree that he won't). Act will get at least one cabinet post, wouldn't you say?
There is nothing quite so easy to manipulate as a politician who purports or (worse) honestly believes to be post-ideological, and Key is just that. So if you don't mind, Craig, some of us might still receive Douglas' presence alone, let alone his public pronouncements, with some concern.
The only thing John Key could have ever done to make you happy is lose. Well, tough.
He could have told us in advance how he was going to govern, based on what principles. I tend to find that reassuring. Other than that, I think last night set him up quite neatly by highlighting in the starkest possible terms the difference in stature between himself and Clark. Let's see how measures up.
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Reader's Digest Version: Douglas can have all the plans he like, they don't actually mean jack shit.
So National is going into Government with Act because...?
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His plans? Remind me who the Prime Minister elect is again, Danielle. I don't think it's Roger Owen Douglas.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Roger Douglas not the Prime Minister of New Zealand before? I think chills are entirely justified. Based on yesterday's performance (scenery! ingenuity!) I for one wouldn't trust bumbling man to have much of an idea of or a firm grip on what the next government is going to be like. And blank slates are awfully easy to be written on.