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Daily review 17/10/2023
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Politics By The Armful
I’m going to show you what a large scale effective political act in a second hand store looked like recently. In case you haven’t heard of it, Wanaka Wastebuasters is set within a massive circular economy with all of Wanaka’s greenwaste shredded into heaped deep…
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How the special votes may work out
We are in an interesting phase and things are finely balanced between a National/Act destroy everything Government and a National/Act/NZ First muck everything up and destroy quite a bit Government. There has been some talk about special votes. Generally these favour the left. In 2014…
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NZ Election result
Originally published on Nick Kelly's blog On Saturday Labour lost of General Election in New Zealand. Whilst there are special votes still to count, which make up roughly 20% of total votes cast in this election (including this author who voted from London), these will…
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Open mike 17/10/2023
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Daily review 16/10/2023
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The long wait
As it stands right now with the indecisive election result, we're probably going to have a caretaker government for some time. The election results happen after counting the special votes locally, from other countries, and from places like Antarctica and military missions. The election results…
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Open mike 16/10/2023
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Why are the Greens so happy?
Firstly, my commiserations to Labourites. That's a hard result for Labour. Not so devastating for the left generally, well done to both Te Pāti Māori and the Greens on increasing the left vote. I've been seeing a few comments on twitter from across the political…
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That was not as good as was hoped for
The people have spoken. Every party except Labour and the small parties had a pretty good night. The Greens picked up three electorate seats although I suspect they will be disappointed their party vote was not higher. Te Pati Maori performed well in the electorate…
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Open mike 15/10/2023
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Election Night 2023 on The Standard
Electoral Commission timing of results: Preliminary General Election results will be available here progressively from 7:00pm. Targets for release of the preliminary General Election results are: 10:00pm results from 50% of voting places 11:30pm results from 95% of voting places The Electoral Commission will publish…
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Open mike 14/10/2023
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Neck and neck
Last post before election day but the big mo is on. The latest Talbot Mills puts the left at 47% and the right at 49%. This is margin of error stuff and does not fully reflect what has happened over the last couple of days.…
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Election day rules
The rules about election day are pretty clear. This rule applies to websites and social media Don’t post anything to social media or a website on election day that could influence voters. Also make sure your profile pictures on social media don’t include anything that…
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Daily review 13/10/2023
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About last night’s debate
It is very clear now why National did not agree to a further debate between the leaders. Last night's debate between Chris Hipkins and Christopher Luzon was totally one sided. I would have loved to have seen National's brains trust's faces as their candidate was…
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Open mike 13/10/2023
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Daily review 12/10/2023
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Down to the wire
Two new polls were released last night and they both confirm a tightening of the race with the right slumping and the left improving. From Radio New Zealand: The latest opinion polls show the political left is making gains in the final stretch of the…
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Open mike 12/10/2023
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Daily review 11/10/2023
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Multimillionaire landlords are the real squeezed middle according to National
Craig Rennie of the CTU has continued his excellent work analysing National's proposed tax cuts and has come up with a doozie. Landlords who own multiple properties will get huge tax cuts if National's policy is put in place. https://twitter.com/CLRenney/status/1711632802259898806 According to Rennie's analysis: 2021…
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Labour surges in latest poll
Three days ago I suggested that Labour was getting some momentum and that the feeling on the ground is that people are not trusting National and are incredulous at its policies that do not make sense. This morning the feeling was verified. From Charlotte Graham-McLay…
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Open mike 11/10/2023
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Daily review 10/10/2023
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Israel and Saudi Arabia
I don’t want to talk about Saudi Arabia but it’s time. On Saturday, after the Hamas assault, the Saudi Foreign Ministry released a statement that did not explicitly denounce the Hamas attack on Israel and instead made it clear that the Saudi government had repeatedly…
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The lost art of the heckle
What has happened to the fine art of intelligent heckling? During this election campaign we have witnessed the interruption of political meetings by activists driven by conspiracy theories or out right bigotry who have scored their 15 seconds of TV coverage by screaming abuse or…
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Managing Expectations: Community transmission of coronavirus in NZ was inevitable
Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog Living in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic was a troubling and sad time. As I wrote at the time, the Government's response in the UK was entirely inadequate and needlessly cost thousands of lives. By contrast, the response…
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Open mike 10/10/2023
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