Posts by Hebe
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Deborah,
If you go with the ‘living in the electorate’ criterion, people can get ruled in or out by a street or two, which seems a little arbitrary. Better to look at their credentials
You have never lived in Brighton. It is a little ... insular. When I first moved out there I met people proud to tell me they "only went over the bridge" (ie to town) a couple of times a year. Neighbourhood factionalism is so entrenched that South Shore. South Brighton, New Brighton, North Beach and North Shore all regard themselves as totally separate tribes, even though they are parked next to each other down a 10km (? maybe a little more or less) stretch by the beach.
Not the kind of place to welcome incomers (after 12 years living there I was only just being accepted as "from round here'' ).
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Keir Leslie,
Exactly why growing the name recognition of another person in a party with a small number of MPs is important when that party is the third-largest in Paliament by far and is likely to have more MPs after the 2014 election.
The two big parties are so threatened by the Greens' slow but steady increase in support that the spotlight on the likes of United Future suits them very well. Ignore the pests and they'll go away: they won't.
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
I thought someone had OOS given the way the poll turned around from the showing in the first couple of hours to the result later this afternoon. Why don't Stuff just stop multiple voting on polls -- or is that impossible?
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Mikaere Curtis,
I think Mojo lives in the electorate - or she did. Another possibility is John Kelcher, who stood against Cosgrove in Waimak (costing Labour the seat), and who lives nearby. (I go for John on the basis that he'll throw a damn good party.) It would seem better tactics to me to give another Green the opportunity to get up some profile by contesting a by-election; Mojo could be out there in support.
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Emma Hart,
Until this morning, when I joined the Greens...
I'm feeling bad... it's in the "things I must get around to" box - join the Greens, dung out the garage, join the Summit Road Society,
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Yes.
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to DeepRed,
Sounds like another case of stuffing words into mouths for the sake of a 'sexy story'
More like a credulous reporter who doesn't do a lot of deep thinking.
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
The jockeying by parties in boundary redraws is part of the process, though the commission obviously has the final say.
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Keir Leslie,
I , cough, am very supportive of the bees. I can make a case for the bees thriving being the foundation of agriculture etc, but I'm not sure the council in this city at this time should commit funding to it.
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Up Front: An Open Letter to the Labour…, in reply to Keir Leslie,
Stuff polls are notoriously right wing, to be fair
Yeah but sometimes they are odd: only two-to-one against a council bee convenor last week surprised me.