Explore the archive
Find articles and conversations by date, subject or search expression.
Searching: posts Sorted by: newest Results: 481–510 of 2,173
Post
It's interesting to read Peters' speech to the NZF Convention earlier this year: Convention Speech: The Battle For New Zealand 17 July 2017 Speech Rt Hon Winston Peters New Zealanders are asking themselves the obvious question - will we have a stable government. Political stability…
democratic participation election 2017 national same old national winston peters
Post
Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
Post
Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
Post
And now for an election that matters to the world, with some similarities to our own. Germany’s elections held over the weekend have their Alternative Fur Deutschland (AfD) has 13%. The Christian Democrats and natural allies have 33.5%. The Social Democrats have 21%. The Greens…
Post
Metiria Turei explains this week why she has no regrets about her admission of benefit fraud from 25 years ago, It means that no-one in this country claim ignorance of what poverty looks like. Or can claim ignorance about how the system drives people into such despair.…
benefits bill english class war journalism Metiria Turei poverty welfare
Post
https://twitter.com/izzyelle/status/912110387511750656 https://twitter.com/izzyelle/status/912111293821095936 https://twitter.com/izzyelle/status/912112042173095936 https://twitter.com/LewSOS/status/912111899805868032 I was going to write a post titled Greens rule out National (again and again and again)* but this is way more fun. I think we should all start talking about James Shaw as PM. Because we've had people who should know…
Post
Some pundits are waxing lyrical about how the Nats have maintained their vote over 4 elections, but that masks the underlying trend of the tide going out on the political right. https://twitter.com/gregjrobins/status/911821470686253056 https://twitter.com/richardhills777/status/912195137115004928 Working with the National party is the political kiss of death. United…
act conservative party election 2017 maori party national united future
Post
Peters has hardly cleared his throat yet and he's already clearing out Nats and their proxies. Seymour has been bluntly told that his services are no longer required - sucks to be Epsom. Dirty Wayne Eagleson is moving on - good riddance. And as Gower…
Post
Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
Post
Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
Post
Labour didn’t deserve to win on Saturday because, firstly, because it failed to bring a fully-fleshed tax policy to voters, and, secondly, it never attempted to win the ideological battle over tax. Missteps over the Capital Gains tax apart, Jacinda Ardern ran an energetic and…
accountability capital gains Economy election 2017 grant robertson gst jacinda ardern labour national Politics tax winston peters
Post
Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn writes: ____________________________________________________________________________________ So, the election happened. And rather than seeing the stunning Jacindamania victory we were hoping for, instead we're left with an uncomfortable situation for everyone. National has clearly lost its mandate: their vote dropped, despite sucking up the…
Post
The papers are full of the expected establishment hysteria today, trying to paint the election as a done deal for the Nats. Given Peters' well known love for the media, I wonder what he will make of that? Anyway, the best pundit on the topic…
Post
Spare a thought for poor David Seymour and the ACT party. Seymour may as well be a hologram this term such will be his influence. From Stacey Kirk at Stuff: It's been a faithful National Government support partner for nine years, but Prime Minister Bill…
Abuse of power act election 2017 national national/act government Politics same old national the praiseworthy and the pitiful
Post
This election was a vote for change. After specials are counted the Labour Green block will be nearly or actually tied with the Nats. And then there is NZF. Peters never picks sides during an election campaign because he wants to scoop up votes from…
Post
Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
Post
I am a keen fan of reviewing campaigns to work out what worked. That way next time you know what to do to ensure that the country has progressive leadership. Labour's overall gain in the election was significant, up 10.7% points. But which parts of…
Post
As part of getting to know the way local political parties operate other than Labour, I've been to a couple of NZ First conferences as well as several Green meetings of various types. But I also tolerated decades of reluctantly turning up at many Labour…
Post
Before we get into it, can we please start with this reminder about what it's all about? https://twitter.com/MJWhitehead/status/911583536171311104 The election, not what we had hoped for but not an unmitigated disaster either. We've got a few weeks of limbo to see what settles out, but…
election 2017 electoral commission greens james shaw labour MMP nz first
Post
While the election didn't get us the result we hoped for, the fact that we could even hope for a Labour Green win is remarkable - was inconceivable just 2 months ago. The mood for change was there, it just needed a spark, and the…
Post
An election campaign can be judged by the election night party and I have been to a few. For national elections the 2008 party was tinged with sadness, not only because Labour lost but Helen Clark decided to go. The 2011 night was worse. Labour…
act election 2017 greens labour maori party national Politics
Post
Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …
Post
Regarding when we should know a result. It depends on how close it is. If it's close then the Special votes will be crucial (the Greens have been known to pick up an extra MP from the Specials for instance). Advance votes where the person…
democratic participation election 2017 electoral systems MMP
Post
There are two sorts of election nights. The good sort is where you cheer and celebrate and can be satisfied that your country is in good hands for the next three years. The bad sort is where the barbarians gain or regain control of the…
Post
The Electoral Commission's website will be updated from 7pm. Official New Zealand election results. The 2017 General Election will be held on Saturday 23 September 2017. Preliminary election results will become available here progressively from 7:00pm on election night. Targets for release of the preliminary…
democratic participation election 2017 journalism Media news radio The Standard youtube
Post
Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). And as this election day, the comments will be fully moderated as the Electoral Act limits what you can say as well. Step…
Post
From weka:- National do a last ditch dirty politics effort. A few hours before it becomes impossible for anyone to refute this, Tracey Watkins publishes an opinion piece, “It has been assumed NZ First will hold the balance of power if neither National or Labour…
accountability greens national nz first political parties Politics same old national winston peters
Post
https://www.facebook.com/fata.tuialii/posts/1846134032066858?pnref=story
Post
Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
Post
You can still enrol online up until midnight Friday, and then all enrolled people can vote on Saturday at a polling booth. Details here. I wrote a post about the reasons for voting Green. This one's the shorter version: https://twitter.com/NZGreens/status/910290853045735424 https://twitter.com/NewsroomNZ/status/910990184103194624 https://twitter.com/NZGreens/status/909269172776968193 https://twitter.com/NZGreens/status/910966469428633600 https://twitter.com/Miss_Whanau/status/910043285602803713 https://twitter.com/frankthegremlin/status/910417564588687360 https://twitter.com/MattTaylor/status/906805302619652096…