Posts by Jeremy Eade
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It is actually possible to follow some of the core beliefs of the left (e.g. equality, helping others) while adhering to some on the right (e.g. self responsibility, individualism).
That's a New Zealand Herald summation of left and right. Self responsibility and individualism weren't invented by the right.
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Any fucker lights a couch in my street , we'll probably put him on it.
actually that's wrong, I mean someone would put it out and put it on trade me.
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Who are these students? I'd love to know who they are? Backgrounds, attitudes, etc. It's an amazing longterm bad joke that dunedin seems to be the backdrop to basic drunken idiocy that I couldn't imagine being part off, even in my wild youth days. Taking the police on in an Auckland street would be fucking disasterous for your health.
I use to hear some weird stories from students living down there in the 90's. The onethat stuck was a now prominent happy go lucky tv presenter who used to think it was his divine right to go into other peoples flats late at night when he was drunk and help themselves to their food.
He would have been knifed if he did that in some places here.
There's something about that place, the student housing and the smallness of the town that seems to almost encourage alevel of idiocy through drinking that is unbelievable.
These peolpe aren't indicative of students , but who the fuck are they? How can you be so arrogantly bullish year after year?
It's hard not to get fucked off with this. Any fucker lights a couch in my street , we'll probably put him on it.
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The problem with the Parliamentary Labour Party isn't that they want bad things; it's that they are going about good things the wrong way.
To be fair Labour suffered with plodding electoral partners. The second and third terms were compromised by the greens, its most logical electoral partner not getting enough popular vote.
It's also important to note that 1999 labour were very sensitive about being seen business friendly in order to return in 2002 and 2005 not that the business community ever gave Cullen the respect he deserved in his overtures to them.
Labour moved up to the centre in order to set up 1999, National moved down to the centre in 2008 and yet the centre is going to be the deathslide of this country. The centre is stale and sterile.
Goff needs to ignore the tired political geography and smash around some good uplifting hardcore labour principles of equality and fairness. The task is to take Labour principles and fight with them. They are the solution. The centre is just a concept that was thought up to sell newspapers.
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Maybe victory in 2011 shouldn't be at any cost?
No, it shouldn't be at the cost of stamping on progressive solution scientifically based policy like efficient lightbulbs.
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They should avoid being distracted by other matters.
Or make the distraction a big issue ...if the matter is serious enough it needs representation. That's their job.
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Brickley...I vote conservative punk.
Obama is not george w, he's not billy clinton, he's not bush the elder
There is a progression. Have a listen to him closely. He's trying to walk 260 million odd people into this century. He's got talent that dude but yes winning elections is a prerequsite for good governing.
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But it's not even working for Obama particularly well
Well he did get elected and he got elected out of camp nowhere.
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The EFA was a mess, yet you can't blame Labour for making it as messy and disturbing as it got.
The act was written in response to a fucking potential nightmare of invisible, anonymous high impact last minute campaigning but hey we've all forgotten about that ....that assault on democracy.
and that cost the greens votes..there's no fucking doubt about it , and that vacuum was taken up by one winston peters.
so Graeme, the assault on democracy had already happened.
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I am in no way unsupportive of BDSM etc in fact it makes life more interesting.
Craig will be calling you.