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Since the leadership debacles of the late 80's and early 90's, I've always had a strong dislike of shifting leadership mid-term in coups. The sight of scavengers scrabbling over the corpse of their party is unedifying, distracts from real political work, and above all it…
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Someone tipped me off about this Kiwiblog post where DPF tries to play the wise 'ol political insider: The war against Shearer The Standard has done three posts in two days calling for David Shearer to go, and on who should replace him. While each…
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Tomorrow is the centenary of the death of Fred Evans on 13 November 1912, during the Waihi gold miners strike. Out of this struggle of ordinary, but courageous NZ workers, grew the NZ Labour Party. Who now has such courage to lead NZ politics in…
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It seems like John Key isn't the only Nat politician prone to memory lapses, rewriting history, and changing their story every five minutes. Now it's Hekia Parata's turn. Here she is announcing her ill-fated plans to close and merge various Christchurch schools back in September:…
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Twice this year we have seen Labour leaders turn around perceptions of them and their party with one speech. Ed Miliband did it at the Labour Party conference in Manchester in early November. Julia Gillard did it in the Australian parliament in October. A year…
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It should come as no surprise that I agree with the other posters on The Standard who think Shearer needs to go as Labour leader. But weka, in the comments of Eddie's post, asked: If Shearer is to go, then who replaces him? Who else is…
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In the latest installment of saga of John Key selling out NZ to Hollywood, we can see just how low our PM is prepared to go. He's undermined New Zealand workers' rights in order to sell NZ's identity and tourist industry to Warners, the TPP…
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I think Eddie is right. David Shearer needs to go if Labour is to stand a chance in 2014 and he needs to go as soon as possible. I was agnostic about the leadership challenge nearly a year ago. I figured that either candidate had…
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Jon Stewart's Daily Show on the 7th - the day after the American elections - is a classic. Stewart is having more fun than is seemly or decent! I still can't get video embedding from the Daily Show to work (Lprent?), so all I can…
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For the Left to win in 2014, David Shearer has to resign as Labour Leader. This is a big call to make and one that I have agonised over, but the reality has become increasingly clear: under Shearer, Labour is all too likely to snatch…
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Both Key and Shearer have been under pressure from various media commentary of late. Duncan Garner has given Key a telling off on his government's dismal economic performance: Surplus target up in smoke National must surely know its target to reach a surplus in the…
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Welcome to Poverty watch, a weekly update on the National government's lack of response to the urgent and growing issue of poverty in NZ. A lot of background issues and links are set out in Poverty Watch one two and three. Another week, another warning…
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Press releases on opposition party websites, often highlight issues that the MSM don't pick up on. This often indicates some of the biases and/or weakneses of our news media. It's not always wilful and politcally-biased avoidance. Sometimes it's just that the MSM news looks for…
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According to the Sydney Morning Herald "New Zealand has broken ranks with Australia and refused to sign up to a second round of the Kyoto Protocol." The SMH went on: The announcement comes just hours after Climate Change Minister Greg Combet announced Australia was ready…
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Unemployment - a National disgrace They say there are lies, damn lies and statistics. Well, sometimes statistics tell the truth. And sometimes that truth is damning. There are now 175,000 people unemployed in New Zealand. The unemployment rate is 7.3%. That’s the highest it has…
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Weekend social is for non political chat. What's on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can't we all just get along?
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The crises in housing and unemployment are hitting some demographic groups harder than others. There are worrying trends of increasing marginalisation and struggle for some demographic groups. Meanwhile other groups that were previously less vulnerable, are struggling. There has been a significant worsening in employment…
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The last time unemployment was this high, Bill English was Finance Minister and his government was facing electoral oblivion. I don't remember his excuses last time but this time he's taken a different excuse from Key - who refuses to believe the numbers - and…
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Some Republicans have been disgraceful losers in the American presidential race. From Carl Rove denying the obvious on Fox "News", to 400 students in a racially motivated riot, to Donald Trump calling for revolution, a march on Washington and other nonsense. Amongst the noise, one…
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Remember when Key's excuse for rising unemployment was that it was a "lagging indicator" and the numbers would soon fall? Well, that was 3 years ago and its been lagging a hell of a long time because, since then 25,000 more Kiwis have become unemployed.…
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Here's another entry in the Very Important Columnist vs Parasitic Bloggers file. While the professional mainstream media were all chanting in unison that the American presidential election was "too close to call", one (famous!) blogger correctly predicted the result - for every state. The Guardian…
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NActUF are very good at using finely-honed, diversionary and distorting spin. However, when debating 2 Private Members' Bills yesterday, already lacking 1 needed vote before the day began, government speakers couldn’t even be bothered trying too hard. Often in the debate son the first readings…
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Donald Trump says its not democracy, but that is essentially the story of the US election campaign. In the end, on-the-ground organisation beat the billion-dollar PACs. Wall-to-wall negative advertising turned the punters off, but people-to-people contact on both sides of the contest meant the turnout…
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Up to his neck in criticism for his batshit behaviour of late, Key petulantly complained: "I dare you to show me one example where I haven't discharged my responsibility seriously, professionally and appropriately" Well I like a challenge as much as the next random blogger,…
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Well, Fran O'Sullivan must be shaking her head in confusion - her endorsement of Mitt Romney somehow failed to get him over the line, or anywhere need it. Maybe she'll find succor in these referenda results: 5 out of 5 states voted in favour of…