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Daily review 06/08/2020
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The fragility of our food supply
A comment was made recently that no-one gets paid $100,000 growing permaculture kale, and this is the income needed for a house. It was a throwaway, dismissive comment so I'm not linking to it, but it was in the context of job creation and my…
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The Covid election
I normally do not do this, tempting fate and all that. But the forces behind this election are so strong that it would take a really dramatic event to change current momentum. Because kiwis are really proud that we are, so far, Covid free. We…
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Open mike 06/08/2020
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Daily review 05/08/2020
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The test of MMP
The left’s change of fortune in the last 3 years is still kind of mindblowing. In 2017, the election that many believed the left would lose was twice turned on its head. First by Metiria Turei’s speech announcing the Green Party’s new welfare policy, where…
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Who are you going to trust with your job, Jacinda or Judith?
In phenomenally good news for the country and the Government and pretty well everyone but the National Party the country's unemployment rate has, checks notes, declined. From Liam Dann at the Herald: Unemployment dropped to 4 per cent in the June quarter, official labour force…
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National’s policy platform
I thought I would have a dive into National's announced policies to see what they are proposing. It did not take me long. For a party that promised to be a policy factory it was a real disappointment. They do have a vision statement. It…
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Go Well Ruth Dyson
She is one of the less noticeable of the current list of Labour MPs. She has been in Parliament for a long time, has given sterling service, has kept the Port Hills electorate safely red and has served the Labour Party organisation at the highest…
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Open mike 05/08/2020
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Daily review 04/08/2020
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Falling into a coma
Why have we fallen into the most boring and predictable election we've had since Bolger's second term? Neither National nor Labour have put out fresh policy in months. New roads don't count as fresh anything. Nor do medium-scale regional projects. Labour are still working on…
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Taxpayers’ Union promoting Green Party policy
The ratio under this tweet is as beautiful as the tweet itself. For non-twitter folk, the ratio is when a much larger number of replies go against a tweet and its likes, although in this case the likes are likely to be people agreeing that…
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Open mike 04/08/2020
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Daily review 03/08/2020
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National seats at risk in Auckland
National has a crop of new candidates in Auckland all wanting to be in Parliament. But judging by what has happened so far you have to wonder if there are further allegations that may emerge which may ankle tap carefully stage managed campaigns. In the…
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National’s Auckland Central problem
And I thought last week was a bad week for National. It looks like they are facing even more problems. This morning in paywalled articles Bernard Orsman and Richard Harman have laid open a really messy situation relating to National's Auckland Central candidate selection. The…
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Open mike 03/08/2020
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National’s week from hell
I do not think in all my years of interest in politics that I have ever seen a more disorganised week from National. Last Sunday it started with a horror poll suggesting that Labour could conceivably not require support parties and National plunging to levels…
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Tick Tock Tik-Tok
Trump has announced he will ban Tik-Tok from the United States. It's Chinese-owned so there. Or maybe he will force it to be sold to Americans. Don't think security is the issue; kids used it to stuff up his Tulsa rally. And it is good…
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Mea culpa
Three years ago I wrote a post "Ok, I’m pissed off with the Labour caucus again. Time to switch". While I am still totally surprised at just how successful Jacinda Ardern has been at pulling both the country and the Labour caucus together, I am…
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Open mike 02/08/2020
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Aotearoa’s free-market waste experiment dumped
Environment Minister Eugenie Sage this week announced the beginning of the end of Aotearoa’s unfortunate experiment with free-market waste management that has trashed our environment. The introduction of the Regulated Product Stewardship Scheme is the beginning of the end of Aotearoa of local councils and…
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Expand Five Eyes
With the growing assertions by the Chinese government across the eastern Pacific including in Hong Kong and our own repudiation of an extradition treaty, there are now calls to expand the Five Eyes intelligence network to include Japan. There's been discussion about this since at…
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Open mike 01/08/2020
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