Posts by Jeremy Eade
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"This isn't sniffing Bill English's panties.'
I'm against this, it's just wrong.
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"If you are in a centre-right party.... getting votes from the centre-left is prioriy #1.... but stopping your existing votes drifting to ACT is also important...."
sure, thats what's happening? It's bollocks but that's what's happening. ACT should get their voters and labour should get theirs. That would be more reflective of a democracy than just blurring your policy to take natural votes off other parties......,work with ACT if ACT steal your more extreme voters.
"And with only a few exceptions, politicians of all sides have a bad habit of telling the listener what they want to hear....'"Where is your research, your figures etc? I go on individuals, i've never seen stats. In this case it's Bill and Lockwood doing the blur, on election year. When they are supposed to be winning us over.
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"Might not a genuinely centrist politician want to try and placate more extreme supporters and keep them on-side if they thought they were in danger of defecting?'
You're not genuinely centrist if you're still courting the extreme. Being genuinely centrist means saying , "hey extreme people I don't have much to offer you because I'm here in the centre."
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"Or assume everyone is wired and you're better off not saying anything meaningful at all, as opposed to a three second soundbite nobody could possibly take any exception to. Never change your mind, because that's a flip-flop. Never admit you're wrong, because that's weakness. Never show any degree of humanity whatsoever, because whatever people say to the contrary you're going to get spat on. Then, when people complain that politicians are soulless automatons, keep muttering under your breath "but I thought that's what you wanted".
They're already soulless automations ,..... but we saw bills soul and it was different from his automation.
I want a strong National Party as much as you do but this just feels like bollocks..
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Maybe national need another 3 years to cook?
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"Actually I/S I don't really think it is particularly nice to secretly record people. "
It's poor and i thought it was poor when someone did it to mike williams but maybe convention is now truely broken. Talk with consistency and honesty about your political convictions because we've had enough of Party A collapsing its vote just to have Party B
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"Well, I also used to think reasonable expectations of privacy and some basic journalistic ethics were also universally supported in these parts. Its something of a curate's egg, I guess."
Just don't tell me the truth if it upsets anyones feelings? Bill just said what everyone who follows politics knows he thinks. We know his track record , it's no surprise it's just he quickly apologised for it and everyones a bit stunned. Why apologise?
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"As the BBC's Bea Campbell once observed about Tony Blair, he doesn't like it when 'amateurs' attempt to make their political voice heard."
That's just sad and mental. "amateurs", that's fucking classic.
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"On a more serious note, taping is wrong without prior knowledge.'
NEW RULE:
Expect people to be very interested in the contents of your words at a political party conference in election year.
To be honest the whole bloody thing should be taped, they're talking about ruling us for 3 years ,.... sorry i mean we are talking about employing them to run OUR country. Tape all the conferences. I thought open politics was universally supported here.
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"perhaps go through a discussion document process"
Oh, those 7 words put me at rest, thank you.