Posts by Rob Stowell
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OnPoint: Spending "Cap" is Fiscal Anorexia, in reply to merc,
Jeepers. What's the bet they're shipping gold here 'cos when it goes up, up, up and away in value (y'know, like after the Euro tanks) there's (gasp! how could that be!) NO zero ZILCH capital gains tax.
Cunning beggars? -
Or Key is simply poking a cardboard cut-out of Banks over the parapet to check out opposing fire. Isn't that what these concessions look like? I 'spect we'll see rather a lot of it :)
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Seems like a long shot, but could Dunne save TVNZ7?
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OnPoint: Spending "Cap" is Fiscal Anorexia, in reply to merc,
...still giggling... :)
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Is it travelling the independent/art house circuit? Will it screen in Wellington
Hi Geoff-
Reading cinemas in Wellington- current times. Rialto in Auckland; Hoyts in Chch- which seemed odd, but they are almost the only screen left.
It'll probably get to Hamilton- unless it really fails to get bums on seats. 'Sposed to be in something like 50 cinemas! It will be a real shame if it doesn't do ok at the box-office.
(I wonder if part of the problem is that a lot of people who've seen it talk about crying, and people think: nah, not today thanks. I dunno- I didn't cry, but I had seen a fair bit of it before. But I am a sook- who on occasion will shed a tear over a children's book :)) -
Labour would do well to hold out an olive branch in that direction too
Crazy if they don’t. To lose one Māori Party could be considered bad luck, to lose two…
I too wish Mana had done better. It seems like a wasted vote (curse you MMP, for being so strategic!) and I wanted to see Annette Sykes in da house :) -
I think it might be a little over-long, but I dunno about depressing. What I came away with was a sense of kiwi voices and faces, ways of speaking, of understated humour, of goodwill, of honest emotion in the face of a shitty situation.
That really shone.
ETA- and yeah, in many ways it's a bloody depressing situation. But I didn't come out of it- or When the Levees Broke, or Patu! feeling depressed . Angry, some, with the last two. -
Yeah, enough of the soul-searching :) Save that for idle moments.
I’m not actually sure whether Goff’s head on a plate would be quite the thing Labour need now. I got the impression he’s finally learning how to land blows on Key. If there’s anyone who really is natural at that, though, let them come forth!
Amen! Strong, coherent rhetorical opposition in the house would be bloody lovely.
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For me, the key message is to get started on the work now, and keep at it- not in grand ways, but as many small ways as possible.
It's like unionism, in that respect. I understand people feeling the unions haven't done a lot for Labour. But kicking them off the bus seems wrong. The unions haven't done a lot for themselves in NZ lately, because they are mostly a lot smaller and weaker than they were.
At a local level in my union (TEU) the paid (part-time) organisers are very busy- and all the rest of the work is done by volunteers- generally the same small group of volunteers.
Expanding that engagement is hard in good times. I suspect- I fear- the engagement will go up considerably in the next three years, and we'll see a lot more militant unionists- and union-bashing. -
Hard News: Democracy Night, in reply to Sacha,
If I had a decent way of using macrons on this machine, I wouldn't :)