Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: UPDATED: Media Take: Election…, in reply to Marcelo Rodriguez Ferrere,
Except we *don't* have a ban on that; not explicitly at least. The High Court in Watson's application for review has a chance to make that clear. No vote in Parliament needed, thank goodness.
No, but we do have a ban on using Parliament TV footage to do it with.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Joe Wylie,
I been huffing oxygen.
Very good, that man!
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Hard News: Didn't see that coming, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
but who knew she was a ‘Yeastie’ as well!
I new she was some kind of infection...
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Hard News: Didn't see that coming, in reply to Paul Williams,
Danyl, this scanned, to me, like something a Labour Party activist circa 1999 or an Alliance one circa 2002 might have said… Corkery’s no idiot in my experience either.
No, she's not, but (having known her closely for 20+ years) that looked to me like genuine frustration with a pack of reporters behaving like jerks, not a pre-planned stunt. She'll be gutted that she lost it at them, as Harre said on the radio this morning, because it ensured that the coverage of policy was minimal by the media and that's the most important thing to any political press secretary. Also, that they were able to put her off her game. But remember, we only saw the bit that the media let us see. We don't know how long they were at her, trying to get just that sort of response, once they realised KDC really wasn't coming out to play.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Dismal Soyanz,
I suspect he's pre-empting Slater publishing anything vaguely incriminating.
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Hard News: Didn't see that coming, in reply to Russell Brown,
Hosking's interview with Laila Harre is amazing.
I'm starting to think Wells does a better Hosking than Hosking.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Kumara Republic,
And not sure if it counts, but the Naked Capitalism blog has written positively of Hager’s exposé… and Cactus Kate’s suspected ties with crime syndicates.
That is gorgeous! Donkey deep, as they say.
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That one's been removed. I'm guessing it was a Downfall?
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Hard News: Never mind the quality ..., in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Sorry for dropping by so soon, but John Slater lost the National Party presidency because it was contested and the other candidate won more votes. It’s how these things work, not least when Slater beat Geoff Thompson in ’98, and I should know because I was a voting delegate to the party conference on both occasions.
As Dismal says, I have no doubt it was done by the book. But due process seems to matter little in Slater's fevered utu-driven imagination.