Posts by giovanni tiso
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to SteveH,
TV3 still saying that the hospital has been evacuated.
Radio New Zealand saying repeatedly that it isn't.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Chch no good. NO GOOD.
Yes, it may not be the right time. And besides, where is it good in Aotearoa?
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
In other words: Think before you RT.
I feel like I could just zap the people who are overusing the #eqnz tag. Shut the fuck up if you have nothing meaningful to say. But that may well be the stress of waiting for friends to get in touch talking.
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Hard News: Again: Is everyone okay?, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
there's also a distressing silence from others
To say the least.
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TV1 on as well.
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Hard News: Welfare: Back to the Future?, in reply to Peter Martin,
anther massive shake just hit Chch
Wait: what?
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Hard News: Welfare: Back to the Future?, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Winning a marginal seat absolutely gets you more people in Parliament.
It's not how the system was explained to me, in that the overall makeup of Parliament gets substantially rebalanced according to the electoral vote. (I initially thought that 69 went FPP, and the rest proportionally, but I was disabused of this notion. On this very blog, from memory. Was I misinformed?)
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Hard News: Welfare: Back to the Future?, in reply to Sarah Wedde,
But as long as taxpayer money is being spent on publicity campaigns instead of supporting those in need, it's all good.
No expense needed - we can just reuse the one we had in 1998. It's not as if it made a lick of sense then either.
(I uploaded this myself - what service, eh?)
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Hard News: Welfare: Back to the Future?, in reply to Matthew Poole,
it doesn't take many seats swinging back to Labour for National to be looking distinctly shaky in ability to form a government.
Not really, it's still the overall vote percentages that count in the system - winning marginal seats doesn't mean getting more people in Parliament under most scenarios.
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Hard News: Welfare: Back to the Future?, in reply to Hilary Stace,
I see the report recommends encouraging more 'natural supports' for this group - that means any family and friends they have.
Much the same recommendation as the 2025 taskforce report, that advocated ‘greater self-reliance and greater use of family, community and market mechanisms for support’. Or, in standard English: "fuck off already and leave us alone".