Posts by Idiot Savant
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I like our messy dictatorship
Wow, that's some verbal slip-up. I was intending to say democracy, and had just chucked the comparison with executive dictatorship...
Clearly, more coffee is in order.
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So, if National win the election, proceed with their promise to hold a referendum on MMP (and assuming FFP would no longer pass muster), what would you folks vote for..?
MMP. I like our messy dictatorship, even if it is difficult to describe to Australians.
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We also predicted the election date ...
Which obviously means you must work in the Beehive, as an adjunct of the Labour party.
And meanwhile, while the media circus is focusing on trivia and chasing fantasies, actual policy goes unexamined.
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Paul: it's also worth notingthat Key could simply structure Labour's existing tax cuts differently. But that will raise obvious points about favouring the rich...
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Paul: but is it a "crisis" if the money has simply been prespent on things you don't wan tto spend it on, and which are politically very difficult to unravel? OK, for the donors and cronies, yes, but for the rest of us...?
Sacha: they already are. It means for example that they have no money for pre-election promises like last time. Though we could always hope they rise to the occasionand follow Rutherford's line: "we don't have any money, so we're going to have to think".
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Meanwhile, looking away from the sideshow, National has just set itself up to claim a financial crisis if elected as a way around Labour's fiscal poison pill. So, we'll get 1990 all over again - marvellous. I guess we'll get to see whether MMP is any safeguard against this sort of behaviour...
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Vinick gave Santos the briefcase I think (not sure TV ever showed that...and after the 3rd or 4th episode in a row on a DVD box set my memory fades).
He did indeed - but he also looked.
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Does anyone else have a sneaking suspicion that Ron Mark will be the leader of NZF by the end of the week?
No. Any ordinary party, yes, but NZ First is a personalist party, and Winston is very much in control. Without him, they're nothing.
Still, sometimes it is better to be nothign and have a clean conscience than crawl into bed with that particular demon.
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Well, that would explain why they're snuggling up tot he fundies...
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Minister for 42 Below, perhaps?
Only if I can be Minister for Absinthe.