Posts by Jeremy Eade
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"Wrong. Or rather, its a category error to think that there is such a thing as a true or false answer to the questions of politics (all of which boil down to "what should we do?"
Sure truth was the wrong word...I didn't like it when i wrote it..but there is measurement and most of its pretty interpretable, our science of us , we have facts , we have the amazing world of SCIENTIFIC stats and unfortunately we have political machines that will distort or totally ignore facts to make large political points.
e.g big billboard brother says we are extremely overtaxed, we are business unfriendly, we have out of control crime, we have unprecedented floods of migration of our best people.
the data doesn't back these claims up, it's absurd when we can't even see eye to eye on data and stats. We owe so much to the study of data, why fuck with it at election time?
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"Gareth: Sorry.
AND SO YOU SHOULD BE, WHOLE THING IS A PINKO COMMUNIST LIE CONDONED BY THE POLICE TO RUIN MY REPUTATION.
Sorry, just trying out that centre-right blog thing. Not going too well, will get back to you.."you've got to start slow and then ramp it up, you went to capitals far to early..
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"more conservative/"hardnosed" social policy, less of a progressive tax approach etc that can actually argue a reasonable and considered line."
hardnose , i hate that word. I want to throw cans at it.
less of a progressive tax approach etc that can actually argue a reasonable and considered line."
a flat tax approach? I know where you can find them but they never make any sense.
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insinuate
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"All I'm saying it that it would be useful if those that you could perhaps consider further "right" had a reasoned and centrist commentator - I know the individuals exist"
I wonder if they do? It seems to me that centre is called centre left almost to insuiate that factchecking is a leftist plot.
why is this blog centre left?
....any way brown is out of the left if he ever were in the left because duncan has disowned him.
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"it's just that during the ECA they fell by so much it's hard to catch up now."
hence some anger and the obvious question, what is the solution?
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"I trust Mr Brown doesn't object to the suggestion he's to the left of centre..."
so is there a centre? surely that guy needs to start writing. The truth is
not that hard to agree on, do we need to filter everything through two
special groups balanced perfectly off an imaginary centre or maybe we could fact check? -
Look at journalists.
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Actually the trade union movement is still very much alive and playing a constructive role in public affairs - focusing of course on workers' rights, but also on productivity and skills and many other areas of common interest. It has made a remarkable recovery from the death blow that was intended with the ECA. I wouldn't write it off too soon. It's still a highly communicative international movement - I think the reason you might think it is a dream that is fading is that the media tends (as always) to report the sensational news - strikes and lockouts - but none of the other stuff."
sure, i realise it exists and I'm sure works hard .....but wages are
small, costs are up....its 2008. Bargaining is pitiful in New Zealand. -
"But I guess that's what happens when politics passed through ideology and turns into a quasi-religious dogma, where the only thing worse than an infidel is a back-sliding heretic."
I think it's just another voice....and to be honest in New Zeland there's not that many new voices getting profile.
The reason steve and cameron get angry is because they see injustice.
One is framed through the fading dream of a Liberterian utopia and the other is framed through the fading dream of worker unity.
Take your pick or ignore them both but both dreams are fading.