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The most fun anyone’s ever had with a corflute sign
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSd_HT7sj9U
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A cold cup of tea
Well, that was a let down. The much-hyped 'cup of tea' climaxed in Key saying that he would be voting for Goldsmith but he "wouldn't be unhappy" if other Epsom voters back Banks. A double negative? Hardly a ringing endorsement. I think it's too little,…
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DPF putting his readers in harm’s way
David Farrar has rather cynically authored a misleading poster about Labour's alcohol policy on his blog and encouraged his readers to print it off, authorise it and distribute it. Putting aside the fact the posters are dreadfully designed and unlikely to have the effect David…
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Banks – in his own words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOAu5bjZBDk
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Those nice men in suits
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Open mike 12/11/2011
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Banks & Peters
Are you sick of the whole "cup of tea" symbolism? I know I am. None the less, the meeting has taken place, and Epsom has been asked to hold its nose and vote for failed Nat retread John Banks, and with him on his coat…
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Weekend social 11/11/2011
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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Democracy in action
Today, the Prime Minister and National Party leader sits down with a homophob and racist ex-National minister and failed mayoral candidate in a desperate attempt to signal to National voters that they shouldn't vote for the National candidate they prefer and, instead, vote for the…
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A sharp contrast
When people say 'there's no difference between the two big parties' or 'where are the policies', it's shorthand for 'I haven't been paying attention'. We had a great example of the contrast yesterday. National would subsidise expansion of dairy by selling our assets; Labour would…
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All the 1s
Eleven seconds after this goes up, it will be 11:11.11 11/11/11. Arbitrary but still pretty cool I guess. Once in a century event, having all the same numeral. Interesting to reflect on how much has changed since 11:11.11 11/11/1911. And how little. Wonder what it…
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Treasury on the minimum wage
Labour is the party of the workers, and they're promising to raise the minimum wage to $15 / hour. That's a cost to business, and National is the party of the rich, so they oppose it. But because the current minimum wage is so obviously…
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A cup of tea and a lie down
hattip: the jackal
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Good news bad news polls
As usual, good news and bad news for the Left in the latest pair of polls. The bad news is that Labour is down in both (albeit margin of error). The ONE News Colmar Brunton has National down 2% to 54%, and Labour down 2%…
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Key would sell it all, eventually
John Key's promising new capital spending projects left, right, and centre that would be funded by asset sales. But, with the European debt crisis spreading, the odds of getting $5-$7 billion for slices of our energy companies and Air NZ are worsening. So what's the…
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Open mike 11/11/2011
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Phoney Charisma
Emmerson in the Herald has a good take on John Key's campaign style. As he continues to fail to front up to debate on actual policy.
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Pike River charges laid
The Department of Labour has laid 25 charges against three individuals related to the Pike River disaster. However both the nature of the charges and the names of those charged are suppressed. I'd say this was inevitable given the basic safety failures at Pike. It's…
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Two headlines to ponder
Here's two headlines for you to ponder. On the state of the world: IEA: World is hurtling toward irreversible climate change The International Energy Agency has warned that the world is hurtling toward irreversible climate change and will lose the chance to limit warming if…
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Was it a full moon?
Oh hell. My worst fears have been realized. John Key is a wereperson. He is morphing into an incantation of the countries biggest ever political disaster. I realize that one shouldn't judge by appearances. But like the youthful victims of today and the 1990's, but…
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Jobs for the boys, and girls
In a logical world, when there are a quarter of a million jobless Kiwis and 59,000 more unemployed under National, Don Brash would not be getting paid a few hundred grand to write a report no-one bothers to read, Christine Rankin would not be employed…
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The greatest threat to Banks: Brash (& that story)
John Banks says the brand he is campaigning for in Epsom is 'Brand Key' (yup, that's gone mainstream now), not ACT. Epsomites don't want three-time loser Don Brash but it's unavoidably true that a vote for Banks is a vote for Brash. This is leading…
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Disrespectful
An obscure little article from 3 News yesterday: Key ignores Christchurch quake minute's silence The Prime Minister has ruffled people's feathers after being shown on television talking during a minute's silence for Christchurch quake victims. Mr Key was shown on a TV3 broadcast talking to…
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200,000 children abandoned so already rich can get richer
How many children is 200,000 in the context of New Zealand's population? Statistics New Zealand says between June 2008-2011 around 62-64,000 children were born each year. So 200,000 amounts to every single child born in this country since National came to power three years ago,…
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The new hole in National’s budget
National would get the books back into the black with a $1.5b surplus by 2014/15. It's on their ads, it's in the PREFU. So, it's gotta be true, eh? Well, we already know they've cooked the books by claiming both that they would have the…
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Open mike 10/11/2011
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The Recovery is here, it’s coming, it’s…
National want it both ways. They've brought us economic recovery through their brilliance (we've just not felt it yet), but also the lack of a recovery is not their fault and is in fact why all the stats are so bad. Just a wee reminder…
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Vote to keep us rich & you poor
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEiZPWeQcis
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Mixed polls
As usual the polls are sending us mixed messages. The Fairfax Research International poll looks disastrous for Labour on 25.9%, while National is in a strong position on 52.5%. I'm going to do something I believe that I've never done before (check my record!) and call…
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Where does he find the time
There's a line in, I believe, a Terry Pratchett book that goes 'a leader has to get up very early in the morning and work hard all day long to make a society go backwards'. I was reminded of that when Key said "I work…