Posts by Matthew Poole
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Hard News: Labour's Fiscal Plan:…, in reply to ,
wellington Regional council is going to leave the city link inter web wires up, after the trolley bus wires get sent away to smelter.
The internet cables aren't owned by the council, for one thing. And for another, they're mostly fibre optic which really doesn't smelt so well.
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Hard News: Labour's Fiscal Plan:…, in reply to Brent Jackson,
businesses that aren’t in the business of trading commercial property
Businesses that are in that business, of course, are already subject to CGT on their transactions.
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I would be more likely to want them to represent me in parliament, if they showed enough humility to acknowledge that some of the 1980s Labour Party was inconstant with basic human dignity.
That's been done already. Must be two years ago now. They finally owned the fact that the outcomes of the 1980s were a terrible failure for a lot of people, and not in keeping with the traditions of Labour.
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Hard News: The Letter, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
The Greens are the only ones to expect Labour to do a deal ahead of any others. Why should they get preference?
Because the others, combined, are polling somewhere around half of where the Greens are polling. Anyone, apparently including the Labour caucus, who thinks that the Greens won't be the number-two party in a Labour-lead government is fucking delusional. Without the Greens, there is no Labour-lead government. Without the others, there may or may not be depending on the precise calculus of votes cast on the day.
You wanted to know. That's why.
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Hard News: The Letter, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
No one told us explicitly that National/ACT came with a Charter Schools done-deal before the last election
No one mentioned charter schools at all during the election campaign. It was Act policy, which people who'd paid attention to their policy knew, but that was it.
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Hard News: The Letter, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Labour are doing their damnedest to not win this election, and succeeding admirably.
A bit harsh, don’t you think?
Not overly, no. The way they’re treating the Greens is abominable. Not because they’re being nasty but because they’re behaving like there’s a potential future government that includes Labour and doesn’t include the Greens. Their “We’ll talk about that after the election” reaction to the Greens’ ETS/carbon tax policy, for example, is begging for voters to say “It’s too risky to vote for you, because your government is going to include the Greens and you won’t tell us about how you’ll handle this major policy of a key partner.”
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Let's just remember the landlord didn't set out to hurt his tenant, though as the article observes as a registered drain-layer he ought to have known better. Tenants who tear up the property in which they're living aren't just being negligent.
Six months of home D is pretty weak, assuming I've found the section of law under which he was charged, which carries a maximum of two years' jail. It's hard to think how much more actively culpable one could be. I'm actually surprised it wasn't a manslaughter charge, TBQH.
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Hard News: The Letter, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Now who is living in fantasy land?
It's dreams like that that keep me from remembering that Labour are doing their damnedest to not win this election, and succeeding admirably.
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One up-side to the Press Council, they can now specify where "clarifications" are published. I would say one full front-page piece about Granny's appalling journalistic standards, with the following six days required to carry a front-page above-the-fold reminder that they are fucking hacks.
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Hard News: The Letter, in reply to Sacha,
He’d cite some variant of free and frank advice from Ede et al
Except that that only plays for OIA requests. Unless he was going to try and play the "national security/police methods" card to blunt discovery, he'd have no choice about disclosure when presented with a lawsuit; I can't see a judge being too sympathetic to that prime ministerial "I'm not sayin' nuttin'!" utterance, either.