Posts by Keir Leslie
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No. No it isn't. Where on earth did you get the impression that I intended to dispel any impression of snobbery?
Well, to be honest, anybody who calls sports fans munters as a general term really shouldn't bother talking about sports stadiums; it's the same sort of animals attitude that resulted in all sorts of bad stuff in Europe.
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(which is where most of the munters ... oops, I mean "dedicated sports fans")
Yeah, um, this isn't really dispelling the whole snobbery thing, is it?
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It's 1.5km from the nearest "leezure" area at Customhouse Quay and nearly 3km from Courtney Place.
The Backbencher's a five minute walk I'd say -- don't know how you're getting Customhouse Quay as the closest leisure facility. Certainly the Fever never had any problem getting from a pub to the stadium on foot.
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There is absolutely no mandate for that change and they are trying to ram it through undemocratically now - as the Herald editorial and other journos have pointed out since Rodney's pet Cabinet paper was released.
Mandate? This isn't Imperial China; a mandate in New Zealand is a majority in the House, which, like it or not, Hide has. OK, he didn't get that majority directly, but then, neither did Jim Anderton or Winston Peters. `Mandates' are fuzzy and I don't much like them, to be honest. There's no evidence anybody mislead the electorate about what they wanted to do, and the Herald declaring that a democratically elected majority in Parliament doesn't have the right to do something seems a bad precedent to set.
Now, the process Hide is going through isn't exactly in the spirit of open and democratic governance, but it still wouldn't be if it were Coleman or Joyce doing it.
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Especially unionist Scottish politicians like Brown.
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, so why should anyone else give a damn?
Look, I'm not saying Brown's perfect, but he's a damn sight better than the party of `rather swamped' and `foreign land' and so-on. One party has actively nurtured a sense of racist grievance, and it hasn't been the Labour Party.
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Yeah, the leader of the Labour Party bears no responsibility for the worse electoral result in a century.
He certainly bears no blame for the BNP getting in compared to a party willing, over the long term, to encourage racism and xenophobia in order to win elections.
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Because you seem to blaming Brown for it, which is pretty wtf-ish.
Whereas Hague talking about Britain becoming a `foreign land' and so-on? that's directly legitimising xenophobia and racism.
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<i>Well, the Holocaust denier who thinks darkies only get Victoria Crosses due to political correctness gone mad who leads the BNP is an MEP-elect for the North West England constituency. Not exactly deep navy blue, electorally speaking.</i>
Yeah, but the Tories haven't been squeaky clean anti-racists have they, let's be honest.