Posts by Steve Barnes
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to Sacha,
that line is a regular feature at The Standard and is frankly beneath you, sir.
Sorry Sacha, I shall rephrase...
The average voter is pretty simple and rather gullible.
How's that?.
Come on, Mr wave and smile, popular, You DA MAN John Key!!!
Gimmee a break, if that ain't gullible and simple what is? -
Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to James Butler,
I’d like to hear how it’s “clever”. It looked phenomenally stupid to me.
You, Sir, are not the average voter. As we know, the average voter is rather selfish and pretty gullible. If this was not so then we would not have a National Government at all.
It's clever because, had Norman not been so over the top in his apology, it would have made the Greens look principled open and honest, without affecting their grass roots support, unlike the "it is highly unlikely we would go with national" line they have been trotting out for the past week or so which just made me think WTF?.
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to BenWilson,
ETA2: I can't think of a policy more likely to cause an instant spike in crime than to put people who not only haven't got a job, but now are even more unlikely to get one, and who have a drug habit to support, to have no means to support themselves.
+2
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to James Butler,
Do you really think that Green members on the whole are more likely to be OK with a "teal" coalition than Green supporters?
Yes, I do, and here's why...
A member of a party is on a track, however small, to one day be in a position of power. It would be in the "interests" of a member to further the power of that party, in what ever way possible, power corrupts...
A grass roots supporter has none of this, they just want the party that represents them to have power, not get into bed with a party that represents the opposite of their wishes. -
Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
As for the idea that this is some kind of foreplay for a Teal coalition,
I find it hard to accept that those close to the leaders were planning this for months and the leaders had no knowledge of it, I wouldn't be surprised to find out this was a deliberate ploy, if it was then it was very clever. If not, it would appear that there is a split very high up in the party.
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to Sacha,
it's those grassroots members who get to sign off on the Greens' arrangements with other parties,
Note I said supporters not Members, their voting base as opposed to their membership.
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I’m getting more and more creeped out by the chic cynicism “if you’re going to vandalise election hoardings, the only sin is getting caught”.
That is right in some ways, defacing a political billboard can be seen as free speech
whereas tagging someone’s fence is just vandalism.
The Greens, on the other hand, seem to be playing this as a way of appearing to be amenable to National, for fairly obvious reasons. If they ever support National on supply and confidence they will upset a great deal of their grass roots support and that is a gamble I don’t think will play out well for them.
If, however, they get a few votes from National bent swinging voters then go on to form a government with Labour it could be a worthwhile risk for them.
I, for one, will not be voting for them this time, the thought of them supporting National gives me nightmares.
Anyway, it is not as if National aren't guilty of messing with billboards themselves. -
Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
"blow me" with breakfast and a more or less sincere promise to call afterwards.
Could we have a cup of tea first, privately of course.
Is that your manbag on the table? -
Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Blow me
So, Craig. Not one of your bestest buddies then?.
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Hard News: The perils of political confidence, in reply to BenWilson,
It’s now being strongly suggested that Key said something to the effect of NZF voters “dying out"
Not very bright that John Key, old people are dying out, idiot. The fact is the number of old people is growing, a fact that JK ignores at his peril. Unfortunately, for JK that is, he said he would retire before he raised the retirement age.