Posts by giovanni tiso
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But then Plunket let him off the hook!
This is a big judgment to make, I know, but I had the distinct impression that he took pity on Peters.
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These same powers are attempting to bring down Labour by attacking Peters to deliver their bastard child, National.
By messing with NZ First's accounting? By infiltrating Owen Glenn into enemy lines?
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Trotter is doing a marvellous job of attracting attention to his new blog, isn't he?
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She didn't did she? Just because she didn't go public does not mean she sat on it.
Seriously? What Matthew said at para 3 and 4.
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Glenn still strikes me as more credible.
Even if you assume one is as credible as the other, I still don't get how Clark sits on this until yesterday. Except that the SFO inquiry followed so quickly that it dissipated some of the heat around her - so I see how the timing would have worked to her advantage.
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What's wrong with 'Americanisms' anyway?
Thank you Deborah, thank you thank you thank you.
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Most of us would agree I agree I think that there is an aesthetic aspect in sports, made up of all those moments that make us go "that was beautiful". And if there is beauty, is it natural (like, say, mount Tongariro, or the shape of Marlene Ottey's face) or is it artificial, that is to say created by people in a controlled environment? If we're talking about the latter, there's your art in sports, be it Warney's flipper or a Michel Platini free kick or Marlene Ottey's dash to the finish line.
There was plenty of art in those dives from the 10m platform in the last day of the olympics I thought.
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what's Helen supposed to do about it in the complete absence of any evidence one way or the other?
Since Glenn had absolutely nothing to gain by lying, I think she should have at the very least harboured serious concerns about the credibility of her minister of foreign affairs. We know how she's dealt with suspicions of this kind in the past. The perception that she just kept mum and hoped that things wouldn't come to a head will be difficult to shake, and is a major tarnish on her reputation.
Much as we keep hearing so much about people being tired of Helen and her minions, with all the latent and not so latent sexism attached therein, she really is the reason why Labour is even holding on to such 'slim' a margin. Hit her credibility, the party will crumble in the polls.
Sincerely hoping to be proven wrong, yours truly, etc.
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Which, if that's all there is, is much less bad than "Mike Williams gave Winston Owen Glenn's phone number to hit him up for some sly cash."
I don't credit my understanding of the NZ political climate much, but I think you're underestimating how calamitous this revelation is. In an already shaky edifice, Labour was held together by Clark's reptutation for integrity. Most people would construe the fact that she sat on those contradictory statements for so long as proof that she was hoping the news wouldn't break until after the election. This is a disaster.
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the canvassing shoes, is what I meant.