Posts by Andrew E
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Hey, tax cut fans. If you wanted change you should have just checked down the back of the couch, you may well have been better off.
If that's vaguely directed towards me, you couldn't be more off base.
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@ che
Exactly.
@ 81stcolumn
LOL at the Roger McGough poem. How apt.
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the numbers look a lot like his voters abandoned him for the nats,
Yes, that makes a lot more sense, and would help to explain why Dunne was cosing up to National during the campaign: could smell which way the wind was blowing in his constituency.
and it was bad luck that those greens didn't think to vote for chauvel.
Quite. But as Deborah and a few others found, it was difficult to vote for Labour if you felt like they'd abandoned principle. So, as much as I support tactical voting, I'm not going to diss people who couldn't stomach voting for Labour.
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Actually that was infelicitously expressed.
Maybe for some bizarre reason they wanted Peter Dunne back in....
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It is odd that Chauvel received fewer votes than Labour
Or maybe for some bizarre reason the populace wanted a Labour government but Peter Dunne back in (in spite of his stated desire to work with National).
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I am also puzzled by Green voting. For a party that only survives because of MMP the approach of its supporters to the electorate vote is truly surprising. In Ohariu, for example, Dunne's majority was 1170 but the Green candidate got 2229 votes. They really had a chance to get rid of the very person who kept the Greens out of power last time!! Go figure.
But HenryB was there an opinion poll published in the constituency? If not, how were people supposed to know how close things were and that voting tactically could have rid them of Dunne?
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Craig,
I saw and heard Teddy Tahu Rhodes sing beautifully this evening with the NZSO at the Michael Fowler Centre. Hope you enjoy the Peter Grimes, which is less my cup of tea than the Handel and Mozart that Rhodes was singing this evening.
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wankers
Quite. Who are these people?
They're people who get their ideas from the shite reporting of public affairs in this country in the newspapers and on the TV.
Frankly, it's time to acknowledge the fact that if New Zealanders want a higher quality of media coverage of public policy issues, then many of the journalists and editors in this country should go back to 'school' and be taught the basics of policy and law making and economics. It might seem controversial to some to suggest this, but I don't think it's that unreasonable to suggest that those in a position of significant influence on the country have some bloody clue what they're talking about, and are able to adequately interrogate politicians from all parties about the impact of the policies they're proposing.
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not so much dull as quaint... it's been a bit like watching the local borough council strut their stuff.
All though I did get robo-called by the National candidate for Wellington Central last night.
Sadly half his name was lost at the start of the recording on my answer machine and he neglected to say again during the message who he was. So much for trying to get name recognition.
But that's the first contact I've had from any of the candidates in my constituency all election. No leaflets etc.
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At the risk of seeming hypocritical by posting in this thread...