Posts by BenWilson
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Farmer Green,
You were his next door neighbor?
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
I’m also keen to see all of these stats, Lucy. David Hood already gave this link on the Time To Vote thread which has some figures that might help you. It’s got the eligible voter stats. You’re actually a little under on the estimated eligible population, which is 3,391,100. I’d expect that when linearly extrapolating an exponential model.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Farmer Green,
I’m in the Rangitikei electorate
I'm curious if you voted Beetham back in the day?
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Bit early to be making that call, perhaps?
I hope so, but being completely wiped from political power is a very heavy blow. It’s the kind of blow we all wish on ACT, but National will never deliver, even when they are supposedly in this awesome position. Which does make you wonder whether they themselves really believe that they’re in that position. I didn’t get a sense of it from any of the interviews of their leaders apart from Key* last night. They need Dunne and whatever the latest ACT guy who hasn’t yet got busted is called, otherwise they’ve got a 1 seat majority without NZF.
*And with Key I simply can't tell what's going on in his head. The words change, but the face and tone stays the same. I can fully imagine him elaborating on a plan to get rid of ACC with the same folksy managerial tone that he'd use to describe getting rid of an unused old coffee machine in the kitchen.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to mark taslov,
Well now they’ve got one they can pin on National.
Ah, but don't forget that Labour also voted for it.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to tussock,
Yeah who knows. But massive majorities were not uncommon at all.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Jack Harrison,
Still we had a dirty election bought to us by very famous journalists because there was and still is a real story.
I remember a quote by DPF around the time Brash lost his one big shot. It was to the effect of "When we hold the government accountable and responsible, it's called democracy. When we hold the opposition accountable and responsible, there's another word for it". I thought it was poignant at the time, since the election swung in the late phases on Brash's involvement with the EB, and then later the revelations of Hollow Men and what he was doing with his dick. Then Labour turned out to have overspent on the campaign, and they changed the law retrospectively to allow it. Not their finest hour.
Now we've got the left being held responsible because it turns out that our government is quite corrupt and that it deliberately set out to spy on us, and feeds a lot of secret attack lines to a guy who churns even right wing stomachs. These are features, not bugs. Initially undocumented.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Tom Semmens,
You asked me to tell you what I think would be constructive, and I have.
Yes, and thank you for that.
I didn’t see the internet party calling for devolution.
No, I don't think any party polling higher than ACLP has called for that.
You got any better ideas?
I actually like your ideas. I like them a lot better than your whining and recriminating Labour, who will never do any of what you're saying, and PAS who have no power to do any of it, even though numerous commentators have agreed with many of them. You accused me on Dimpost of having ideas that are non-starters - every last one of your ideas is a non-starter for Labour. The place for those ideas is in the small parties. But you hate on the Greens even more than you hate on Labour, and they even HAVE some of your ideas as policy planks. Internet/Mana is the closest thing we've ever had to your policy list. Labour just killed them stone dead.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Bodmin,
Sure, and vote splitting is still a highly likely possibility. Even in Roskill that could be all that happened, that people voted Goff but party voted Green or NZF. I don't think we really know either way, and we should keep open in our minds all possibilities until there is any data to inform us better.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Tom Semmens,
OK Tom, so half of that is the policy of IMP who just got shanked off the entire political grid. Is that really your vision for Labour?
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