Posts by giovanni tiso
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Sacha,
can you recommend a good place to read more about that?
I haven't got one, I'm going by the Inscrutable Wisdom of Keith. Just trying to apply logic to it.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to BenWilson,
Which might be a healthy thing, considering the ridiculous choices Labour made for their list prioritization.
That's another thing I don't get about this post: if Cunliffe has really been scheming for a whole term (while Parker/Shearer haven't) and is so complicit with the way the list punished new talent in order to preserve voting blocks in caucus, how come his block was so far behind Shearer's at the starting line, and the former leader and deputy leader - who surely are most responsible about the list selection process - lined up behind his opponent?
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Sacha,
Mr Shearer said he had not given any undertakings to his colleagues.
The basis of this post is that Cunliffe has given firm undertakings, Shearer none (not even to Parker. Yeah, right.), and that Cunliffe supporters have been bought, whilst Shearer are disinterested agents of change. One would want to see some sort of, you know, evidence, other than a bunch of people surrounding Cunliffe's car on election night.
As for the credibility of the speculation, Robertson has in fact lined up as Shearer's deputy, hasn't he? So we know at least that bit was correct. As for the rest, we won't know until after the election, but that goes for both candidates.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Sacha,
link?
Look at all the speculation, that camp Shearer has done nothing to deny, and you won't see a senior post for Cunliffe. I guess that Shearer has to take care of another former rival in Parker, who would get finance, but still.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Keith Ng,
If Cunliffe didn't offer them positions, they would never choose Cunliffe.
Mmmhhh... given that Shearer has indicated there won't be a front bench place for Cunliffe, who says he hasn't made known to his supporters what they're getting? And how do you know Shearer's voters are disinterested? Won't they expect advancement by virtue of having backed the winning horse? Also, the bulk of them used to be supporters of Parker, and if you want to talk about somebody who had spent the last term jostling for the leader's position, you need not look any further than Parker, surely.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Deborah,
So what's with the prevailing meme of blaming David Cunliffe for Goff not being able to come up with them during the debate?
He should have burst out of Goff's chest, like in Alien. We expect nothing less of an effective Finance Spokesperson.
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I want to add Michael Lhaws because I forgot to do it last year, I coined it here and now EVERYONE uses it. I'm full of grump.
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this is Hard News's seventh New Zealand general election
Crikey!
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Capture: Walk across the rooftops., in reply to JacksonP,
In this case the film was hand processed, and then I scanned the negatives on my Epson Scanner, which has a negative doodacky on it
They came out really well. I need to get myself one of those things to tackle Mum's drawer o' negatives.
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Did you develop these, or scan the negatives? (I know it's probably the stupidest question and a child of five could answer it, but my child of five is at school so I've got nobody else to ask.)