Posts by Bart Janssen
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clearly implying that the leader requires such guidance
I'd be a bit more charitable and say that he is suggesting this leader is open to input. To some degree I don't feel like that's been true of some previous leaders.
It would be a pity if these speeches were basically a leadership coup in the making. I'd really like the Labour Party to start working on winning an election rather than having individual party members focussed on winning a seat on the front bench.
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Southerly: Liveblog: Moving House (Literally), in reply to Hebe,
the sceptic tank
So he’s going to have built-in Public Address in the new location?
Doh! Obviously the sceptic tank will have to include a wood fired pizza oven.
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I'm betting that David's lack of continuation of this live blog is a cunning plan.
He know we are all so damn curious to know his progress that we will damn well come down and look for ourselves ... at which point we'll be given shovels and told to dig the sceptic tank hole.
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OnPoint: Peek-a-boo, I can't recall…, in reply to Jonathan King,
giggling through interviews …
I actually have a colleague who does this when asked hard questions about his science ... he actually giggles and never answers. It has proven to be a successful strategy :(
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OnPoint: Peek-a-boo, I can't recall…, in reply to Kiwi Nomad,
Why does this farce continue?
That's an interesting question. Key could end this at any time so why hasn't he?
Is there something else we should be looking at - something just as, or even more, corrupt ... how about letting Sky City have more pokies so they can build a convention centre that will cost the government millions to run?
Or how about selling assets, at huge financial cost to the country?
Ah who cares anyway it's three years to the next election and the the public won't remember any of this shit by then.
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Hard News: #JohnDotBanks and all, in reply to 3410,
So he's betting that there is no phone record, interesting gamble.
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Hard News: #JohnDotBanks and all, in reply to Tom Semmens,
John Banks is a man who takes his reputation and integrity seriously.
So you're saying he risked committing a crime to protect his appearance of integrity ...
I suspect you are right, yet another reason to not have him in parliament.
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One thing I find a bit puzzling about all of this, is why? Why did Banks bother to claim the Sky City donations as anonymous?
Sky City, like many businesses, regularly makes equal donations to all the serious mayoral candidates. So everyone knew already that they were going to give the same amount to Len Brown AND John Banks.
It wouldn't surprise me to find out that Kim Dotcom had made donations to multiple candidates and not just John Banks.
So given that we know Banks is receiving donations why bother with trying to hide them. It all seems like a lot of effort to hide something that is of little real importance.
The only time it ever becomes important is if you intend to abuse your position to provide benefit to your contributors and despite personally believing that Banks is scum of the first order I actually doubt he would do that.
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Hard News: #JohnDotBanks and all, in reply to Matthew Poole,
looking at the law, I don’t see that one washing
Graeme's blog post suggests that it's likely that Bank's can successfully argue precisely that.
He may squeeze through that loophole. However, he does not seem to be the kind of person we really want representing the citizens of New Zealand or even of Epsom ... well maybe he is appropriate to represent Epsom.
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Doesn't go to 11