Posts by Trevor Nicholls
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to ,
Needing to commit benefit fraud to “feed a baby”, is complete bullshit.
This is just the John Key grew up in a state house and made millions and became PM so anyone can do it argument, really.
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I'm more famliar with Kennedy Graham than David Clendon, and he's pretty clearly a blue-Green. On the other hand, Metiria Turei is self-evidently a red-Green. Making a "red" issue central to their campaign has proved riskier than perhaps she expected. She got a lot of publicity and largely set the agenda for a week, but I can understand why bluer-Greens would feel more and more pissed off about the direction things were going.
As a Green party member, I'm seriously pissed off by the way this disagreement has been made public. I suspect that the leadership decided to call the two MP's bluff, and it backfired. -
Hard News: That escalated quickly ..., in reply to BenWilson,
Winston is still a basically this huge random element
Not so huge mind you. When I saw him in the flesh I was surprised by how short he was. As for the randomness, Winston reminds me of the Narnia meme "the Dwarves are for the Dwarves!"
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Hard News: That escalated quickly ..., in reply to Katharine Moody,
wow, Gower should immediately report that the National Party is plotting a leadership change already
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I normally watch the news at 6 and ignore the news-lite programs at 7. Tonight I watched the late night repeat of TV3's The Project and then thought I would compare it with 7Sharp on TV1 on demand.
FFS, 7 Sharp last night was purely and simply a party political broadcast on behalf of the National Party. We're in an election campaign: that program should be taken off the air. -
Hard News: Barclay and arrogance, in reply to Russell Brown,
His diction flattens right out when he's fibbing.
That's a useful tell. Somebody with lots of time could go back over a few of his older interviews and check them out.
Edit: bit slow, beaten to it...
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Climate change is a hoax, decrees President Cnut.
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I have no idea whether I have successfully subscribed to the PA updates list or not. The checkbox in my presspatron account is ticked, but when I click on the link in the "confirming your subscription" email I get the error "publicaddress.nethttp’s server DNS address could not be found."
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…, in reply to Lilith __,
Which is why I think we need a collective name.
The Quaikouras.
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…, in reply to Lilith __,
A big shout-out to Checkpoint
Which reminds me that Mediaworks is probably candidate for Oxymoron of the year.