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Open mike 15/11/2019
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Daily review 14/11/2019
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End of Life Bill passes
David Seymour's End of Life Bill passed through Parliament last night by 69 votes to 51. We are now facing a referendum at the next election. From Boris Jancic at the Herald; Parliament has passed a bill legalising voluntary euthanasia in a historic vote, and…
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Open mike 14/11/2019
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Compassionless Conservatives?
Originally posted at Nick Kelly's Blog The Conservative Party in the last week have had two serious PR blunders. One was Jacob Ress Mogg’s careless and hurtful comments about the victims of the Grenfell tower fire. The second was Prime Minsters Johnson’s comments that flooding…
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Daily review 13/11/2019
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Open mike 13/11/2019
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Daily review 12/11/2019
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Learning to win fast
So Australia is burning, California has this year had unprecedented fires and the North Pole is melting. Japan has had typhoons that, shock horror, caused the cancellation of two Rugby World cup games. India and Bangladesh have been hit by unprecedented flooding, and Tuvalu and…
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Open mike 12/11/2019
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Daily review 11/11/2019
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The Middlemarch fire and Dunedin’s water supply
Dunedin City encompasses a very large area and draws a significant portion of its water supply from catchments further inland. The Otago Daily Times is reporting that the Middlemarch tussock fire over the past few days has impacted Dunedin's water supply, possibly for months. About…
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Sustainable Party launches
This took a while. With the advent of the Internet it is normally really easy to gather a crowd, at least if you have a good cause. Put up the necessary website, use Facebook to promote it and gain 500 members and voila, you have…
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Open mike 11/11/2019
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The Liberal Democrats
Nick Kelly is a former NZ trade union leader and NZ Labour activist. He is a co director of Piko Consulting, and currently lives in London expanding Piko into the UK. The below was originally published on Nick Kelly’s blog The Liberal Democrats have seen…
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Maybe Nancy was right
There is a very good chance that the upcoming impeachment trial ofPresident Donald Trump will turn into one massive campaign launch -one which significantly increases his chances of winning a secondterm. Let's move past the Democratic-dominated hearings coming in the nextfew weeks. It's a free…
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Open mike 10/11/2019
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How To Get There 10/11/19
This post is a place for positive discussion of the future. An Open Mike for ideas, solutions and the discussion of the possible. The Big Picture, rather than a snapshot of the day’s goings on. Topics rather than topical. We’d like to think it’s…
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UK Elections: Parties positions on Brexit
Nick Kelly is a former NZ trade union leader and NZ Labour activist. He is a co director of Piko Consulting, and currently lives in London expanding Piko into the UK. The below was originally published on Nick Kelly’s blog Originally There is considerable confusion in…
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National’s solution to poverty – make people even poorer
This has as much chance of working as trickle down. And I am astounded that someone should think it, let alone think that it is a good thing to say publicly. But a National MP has publicly advocated addressing poverty by ... wait for it…
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Open mike 09/11/2019
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Daily review 08/11/2019
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Zero Carbon acts – this is how change happens
https://twitter.com/Davidxvx/status/1192517261740761089 That pretty much sums it up for me. A few other thoughts. I don't follow the detail of current mainstream responses to the climate crisis (eg the Zero Carbon Act), because I believe there are compelling reasons for industrialised nations to Powerdown (while sharing…
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Open mike 08/11/2019
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Daily review 07/11/2019
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Slapdown
Politics and particularly New Zealand First has become pretty ugly lately. Changes in Immigration policy has meant that the partners of Kiwis who have entered into arranged marriages were finding it more and more difficult to come to New Zealand. This caused considerable consternation…
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Police London-wide ban on Extinction Rebellion actions ruled unlawful
The Guardian reports In a judgment handed down on Wednesday morning, Mr Justice Dingemans and Mr Justice Chamberlain said the section 14 order imposed during XR’s “autumn uprising” in October was unlawful. Dingemans said: “Separate gatherings, separated both in time and by many miles, even…
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Open mike 07/11/2019
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Daily review 06/11/2019
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UK Conservative’s social media is remarkably similar to National’s social media
Looks like a pattern is emerging. Here is a tweet from the UK conservative party complete with naff music soundtrack. https://twitter.com/Conservatives/status/1191686313461846016 As has been noted by various commentators the film has been heavily edited and spliced unfairly and the last part, where the Labour Spokesperson…
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