Posts by BenWilson
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to TracyMac,
I think that quite a substantial proportion of Labour voters feel that way too. The pinkos just happen to be the Green party and anything further out. It matters not one whit that they themselves were once a party like this. Too far down the memory hole. Also too far down the memory hole is having once been the kind of person who might actually choose to vote for such pinko ideas. And the very same people who cried foul about Muldoon being elected with a minority of total votes and getting nearly the same hold on power that Key got yesterday, complain about how this is all MMPs fault. FFS if it were FFP now, Key would have got a two thirds majority.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Give him a chance. He might come through, but not if he's got to answer a bunch of aggro. I'm really genuinely curious to hear what the vision behind the bitterness is. It might make sense, or it might be incoherent cliches strung together. What I don't want it to be is silence.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Well I, for one, vote strongly that you do, because I've asked you to do this many a time and got nothing back, and yet you persist on carrying on about PAS like the pork chop in a synagogue that you have made yourself. I've asked you on Dimpost several times too and got nothing, unless you aren't Sanctuary.
Do tell what your actual plan is. At as much length as you like. Put it out there in detail. There will never be a better time.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Tom Semmens,
For the third time now, tell me how better you think it should be done. Because you're long on bitter recriminations and short on real ideas.
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Yup. They used to do it that way in Oz, before Howard changed it. It's quite a straightforward idea, that the tax is only on genuine profit. You're not going to have to pay 33% of the value of your property on the place you purchased in St Mary's Bay in the 1970s for $10,000, and sold in 2015 for over a million dollars. You'll just be paying for how much over the national average rise that it is.
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I'm not convinced that polls drive the results. Some evidence to that effect would be good, although it's actually hard to see what kind of evidence would be effective.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Deborah,
I think it's your enormous influence over the party that Tom is bitter on. Can you contextualize that for him? What part of the identity politics machine did you influence to get that prized spot of contesting a really hard rural seat? Which salty earthy candidate were you up against, that hardened Labour loving farmer, whose rightful spot you stole? Which part of the vast left wing feminist cabal gave you the seat? It's my understanding that the process is somewhat democratic.
Oh, and congratulations for your debut! Pity the overall result was a beating, but at least you've got that rite of passage behind you now.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Bart Janssen,
There are two problems with that idea the Mt Roskill is no longer Labour.
There's one really big problem with the idea that it still is Labour, which is that 8% more people voted for National there than Labour. Yesterday.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Raymond A Francis,
I'm not sure exactly why the local candidates are being held accountable for the party vote in this reasoning at all. There's nothing about the party vote that signals the candidate. It's called the party vote for a reason. The failure to get party vote is on the party.
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Hard News: The sole party of government, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Why are you even bothering to defend the party organisational culture after such a comprehensive rout?
I’d like to hear your ideas about an alternative organizational culture for Labour.
ETA: As in, I'd like to hear actual suggestions, rather than slogans
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