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Open mike 28/09/2013
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Kennedy Graham: Key’s UN speech “B-“
Good on Kennedy Graham for posting a good critique of Key's UN speech, while the MSM largely report the speech in uncritical and glowing terms. Graham gives it a B-; damns Key with some faint praise, then goes on to criticise the pro-US bias, the…
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Garner tweets on what he was told was latest UMR poll result
Just a short post and a song for Friday afternoon. Duncan Garner has tweeted the results of a UMR poll. Just been told that UMR poll has Nats 39, Lab 36, Green 14, NZF 5.1%. Not sure if it's out yet. Internal presentation yday. And…
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Hooton and CV “embellishment”
So , Matthew Hooton has somewhat backed down from his liar liar accusations against David Cunliffe. However, he and/or his cheer team, without acknowledging Hooton''s backed down, and without apology, are adopting the fall-back position of "CV embellishment",or "padding". This in the face of the…
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Weekend social 27/09/2013
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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I guess this just shows the Right doesn’t have a monopoly on arseholes
The other day, I wrote a piece on Poto Williams' selection to be Labour's candidate in the Christchurch East by-election. I promptly had to ban a commenter who assumed her selection was due to a quota - ie. a woman Cook Islander can't possibly win…
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The cleaner & the ugly face of National
Imagine that your job was to clean 130 toilets every day. Imagine the grinding unpleasantness of it. Imagine the horrors some disgusting person would regularly leave for you to deal with. Imagine you do that for just above the minimum wage, barely enough to support…
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Open mike 27/09/2013
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The birth of NZ’s very own Birther movement
The right must be very afraid of David Cunliffe. Because they are coming up with the most extraordinarily crazy conspiracy theories to try and discredit him. It is becoming a bit like the Birther movement in the US. Over in the land of the free…
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Radio New Zealand apologises to David Cunliffe
This morning on Radio New Zealand Kathryn Ryan read out a short apology for comments recently made about David Cunliffe by Matthew Hooton. The statement records that David Cunliffe had produced BCG time records showing he spent 235 hours working on the Dairy merger in…
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Return of the Hollow Men
John Key and his handlers have tried so hard to distance himself from the underhand dirty tricks employed by National Party people to undermine opposition parties. They were used relentlessly to undermine Helen Clark, but, once in power and having achieved dominance in the popularity…
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Open mike 26/09/2013
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“Dark, dirty and heartless” – Nats & Nick Smith
There were two very good speeches in the General Debate in the House today from opposition leaders. Both of them showed just how dodgy Nick Smith's record is, and why he should be, yet again, stood down as a Minister. Russel Norman began his speech…
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On national’s smear tactics
As Irish predicted, the Nats continued their desperate smear campaign today with the revelation that David Cunliffe doesn't actually have a qualification he never actually claimed to have. Honestly, you couldn't make this shit up. The irony is that this latest desperate spin came at…
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Key loses his “Centre”, Herald spins right, Smith on the ropes
Cunliffe’s Labour is center left, moderate one working for the many struggling Kiwis doing it tough in as opposed to Key’s cronyist, corporate-backed, radically “neoliberal”, government that disdains democracy and changes laws to suit the wealthy international elites. The NAct supporting right are looking a…
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ImperatorFish: I did not order this
Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here. Gee I’m a bit peckish. I never had time for breakfast this morning, and it’s been meeting after meeting since I got up, and I’ve got Question…
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We have just over 400 days to change this Government
One opinion poll does not a Government make but this morning's Herald digipoll which had Labour on 38% and National on 44% is promising. The Cunliffe leadership era has started. He has not put a foot wrong yet apart from tripping over a couple of…
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Labour up 6.8% – Herald DigiPoll
Sure it's just one poll but that's nearly seven percent. And it's (nearly) all come off National. This goes quite some way to explaining why National are breaking out the desperate dirty tricks...
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Open mike 25/09/2013
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National goes dirty
It's not been surprising to see National's dirty tricks machine groan back to life over the last week - in the last week of the leadership campaign a good source close to the Nat's research unit told me that they'd picked David Cunliffe as the…
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Dear media….
Just for the record, if you or any other idiot accuse me of homophobia, genocide, necrophilia, child kidnapping or just not being nice enough please use this photo; not the ones you used recently which make me look disturbingly like my mother - whom I…
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Anti-democratic tendencies
That CV's almost looking complete and we've been loving the baubles and celebrity of a weekend with the Windsors. Milk it baby. John Key has come away not only learning that you address a baby as "Sir", but more committed to keeping the monarchy and…
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Doing what we’re best at
One of the oddities of looking at our export statistics in NZ is that one of the largest export sectors simply doesn't show up. It is one that virtually didn't exist 20 years ago when I started working in it. The amount of hi-tech exports…
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Cunliffe makes space for the Greens
The cleverness of David Cunliffe's reshuffle extends beyond how he has united Labour by keeping worthy MPs who opposed him in senior positions while demoting no-hopers like Curran. He's also left space for the Greens to move into both in opposition and in government. That…
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Open mike 24/09/2013
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Labour’s reshuffle
Hooton's attempted diversion aside, the big news today is David Cunliffe's announcement of Labour's reshuffle. Following is the Party's press release: Labour Leader David Cunliffe has unveiled his new shadow cabinet, describing it is a government in waiting that will make a real difference to…
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Hooton – please apologise
I don't usually comment on Matthew Hooton's statements and commentaries. His behaviour on RNZ this morning, shouting down both Kathryn Ryan and Mike Williams offended my ideas about free speech, democracy and fairness. Hooton accused Cunliffe of lying, and no-one was given space to reply.…
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“Predistribution”: From Miliband to Cunliffe
Andrea 's latest op ed piece on Cunliffe focuses on his use of the idea of pre-distribution, following it being embraced by UK Labour leader Ed Miliband. I posted a quick analysis on open mike of the ways Vance incorporates a right leaning stance in…
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Open mike 23/09/2013
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Have the Nats been at the insanity peppers?
Selling Mighty River shares was bad enough: $66m taxpayer dollars spent on selling shares with a dividend yield of 6% (the total shareholder return for the Crown last year was 11%) to avoid borrowing at 4% . That's spending money to lose money. Not crazy…