Posts by Jeremy Eade
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"I'm actually trying to vote national but it's bloody hard.. I want fast and cheap broadband yesterday.
Oh, Jeremy, you're one of those voters."
I'm trying to pretend I'm in a democracy and better broadband will be very important to an island next to antartica. ..but I know i wont be voting on one policy. Just trying to have an attempt at weighing things.
I'd like our national party friends to try and convince us why we should vote them in and not why we should vote labour out but the chaps on these threads seem reluctant to provide a vision of the brave new world of national other than suggesting it wont look that different.
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"Jeremy, still a cheap shot and you can still sod off."
Oh jesus christ, you are a strange boy.
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"This is a startling admission which suggests that the real John Key is actually the John Key who originally entered Parliament, not the version we see today."
In a nutshell this is the issue of John Key.It could actually be easily solved by asking him his opinions on past National economic styles starting with his old boss, Don Brash.
How comfortable does he feel about DB's now admitted 2005 moderation of his rather unpopular economic views? I mean if modern Labour can distance themselves from 1984-1990 Labour surely Key can do more to assure us that the views he presents are his new "fresh" 2008 views and not some watered down "don't scare the horses" talking points that hides a 2005 suspended agenda.God politics is bollocks. Why can't people just say what they want to do?
I'm actually trying to vote national but it's bloody hard.. I want fast and cheap broadband yesterday.
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"Oh, sod off Jeremy -- that's a cheap shot."
Apologies Craig. Obviously that read the wrong way. I thought you were friends with the kiwiblog guy being party members and all.
I was trying to say that bloggers might have a lot more in common than they suspect, taking the ol jesus approach to things...but I didn't intend a cheap shot to you.
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"But hey, if you think chanting "fire at will" and "secret agenda" is in-depth industrial relations policy analysis, who am I to decry the will of the marketplace of ideas?"
Yes, stop decrying Craig.
I/S is a great blogger - agreed. I hope his feelings aren't hurt.The standard are 4 guys (?), who seem a bit younger , (maybe poorer?) than your average political blogger. They have a very passionate interest in the welfare of the participants in the workplace. You know the workplace , where the vast majority of new zealanders earn their money.I respect that.
They don't come across as particularly militant, just concerned.Our
workplaces are where we literally live. I'm not saying they're the gospel but they are a breath of fresh air with some solid perspectives on capitalism which is interesting to a proud capitalist like myself.Considering a vast majority of people who comment on political threads are anonymous in this country isn’t it time we made the exchange of ideas a little warmer and welcoming and in this particular case stopped belittling the huge work those guys are doing.
…and we know what crazies look like Craig, they look like your mates mate out in the easter suburbs but hey I suspect probably even he isn’t that bad.
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"Of course, countries have to trade and the more balanced and free that trade is, the better it is for all concerned."
Absolutely, i've been trading all my life, i like a good shop i do.
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'I know the Standard is already reviewing their policy more rigourously than I have time to
Um, let's not go overboard there, Paul."
the standard is one of the bravest political blogs in n.z. Thank god someone is blogging for the workforce of new zealand. They're the only blog consistently crunching the numbers....
Are they correct? Only debate will tell but hats off to the standard.
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"Until someone comes up with a way to run something that isn't a business like a business we will always have inefficiencies"
Not all businesses are geared for efficiencies in keeping waste (spending) down.They hide and compensate these inefficiencies by healthy revenue collection.
Business is not an exact science yet, it could definitely be improved. Both private and public enterprise are run by the same planetary
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"Oh, and I long for the day an American president works out that Iran will, in the long run, make a much better ally for the US in the Middle East than Israel ever will."
I can't agree more. Why terrify a generation of Iranian citizens.Let the bridges start being built , its' been so painfully overdue.
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A crucifixion every weekend though. Actually i haven't lived there since the eighties so it's a new crowd now but like every suburb there were sizeable pockets of resistance (sane people).
I'm still looking for the elusive christmas suburb but having lived a life all over Auckland I'm thinking it's more than probably here out in the west.Jim Morrison was right.
...and the electorate wasn't always staunchly tory....it voted the tories out for a while.