Posts by Jeremy Eade
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Regardless of the ethics of taping political conversations at a party conference (& remember this was an arranged NZ political forum where people went to talk.... shock fucking horror..............n.z politics) the disappointing thing is National have confirmed that their mission is to get into power and then fight their (not yours yet) battle from the government benches .
Bill and Lockwood both know they fucked up by saying things that they actually believe in , now that's fucked up.
Be honest, dazzle us with aggressive economic strategy but don't just pretend your grand vision is too hard to explain.
Where are your democratic skills ? Why can't your "useful things "
agenda be articulated and debated? Why would any politician not have the nerve to win electorates over with enterprising policy? -
"I'm hoping that we'll do some useful things that way that may not be policy right now."
Like what Lockwood? What 'useful things" are you holding back from policy that we are not ready to get? We want real politics not see through election strategies .
Politicians who don't have the strength to debate their convictions are useless to us, even more so parties.
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"(Hee. This thread is weird as hell. When rugby rules, Tampax and ACC statistics collide!)"
I always remember ben elton parodying 1980's UK tampons ads that started with the classic phrase,
"ladies do you have a secret."
It is weird talking about female health issues because it's not something thats been discussed much (by the hairy gender at least). Actually is this a health issue or just accepting there is biology that women have that men don't , a difference that almost certainly makes them the superior gender.
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Up the revolution brother.
Food isn't exactly optional, but I still have to pay for it!"Nah that's dumb. That's not cool that's dumb pal. If you can't handle the politics of the idea just consider the economics. Actually you should try and understand the politics too. ...
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(Also: the price of 'feminine hygiene products' [pads and tampons, for those of us less euphemistically inclined] is a feminist/working-class activist issue as far as I'm concerned. $11 for cotton wool and stickytape? Are they kidding me?)."
I can't actually understand why FHP as you call 'em aren't free. How is it a choice to consume such items?
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But I do think, however, there's at least an argument about (say) bonding student teachers, doctors etc. to work in New Zealand for a period with the quid pro quo of (say) an additional lump sum in the form of additional student loan repayment."
I agree. It would be the thing to do if you had any time for the notion of sense of community.
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"what would you like money spent on? Where do you think a spare billion could be well spent?"
As much as we can create and grow gdp we also need to revisit the delivery of that growth into areas that need it, our personal households.
I would support a complete restructuring of our wage negotiations
and our remuneration's because we are a low wage society for no other reason than we have lost the ability to negotiate for those who don't have the power to. -
"For me, an obvious priority would be direct intervention to roll out insulation."
That's a great point.
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"I mean, did that really work out for Ireland, or was it just the EU subsidies and remittance of funds from the UK?'
Ireland pops up a lot in discussions of the modern economy yet what can N.Z learn from that economy apart from trying to join the EU.
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"How about doing what Ireland did - invest massively in education."
That's the kind of vision I want to hear from our parties. What should our people know that they don't know? How are skills achieved and why is importing skills the only answer offered?