Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I was most taken with the ‘Poodle’ reference when Linda Clark
unleashed it on election night – I’m guessing she was referring to British terminology which very adultly has it asWell, I've heard Ms. Clark referred to in canine terms that are considered, at best, somewhat vulgar when applied to disagreeable or disobliging women. And I'm sure she'd (quite rightly) have some interesting suggestions where the relevant volume of the OED could be inserted by anyone following up such a reference with a page citation.
And slightly less facetiously, Ian, if minor parties signing confidence and supply agreements justify calling MPs "poodles", I hope you'll have no problems with the usual suspects in the Kiwibog describing the Greens et. al. in exactly the same terms. I'd rather nobody bothered, but I seem to be in the minority on that score.
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to Steve Barnes,
NO THEY DIDN"T….. more like 30% ish of registered voters.
Yeah, and 82% of registered voters still didn’t vote for Labour, so I think that dead horse has well and truly been flogged into well-ground dog meat.
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
They can no longer govern alone – but can (and have ) made a gov’t as ‘dog walkers’ with the poodles – Seymour and Dunne, lapping up any affection sent their way…
Ian:
The next time you feel like lecturing me (or anyone else) on manners, how about you stop calling Dunne and Seymour "poodles" and give the infantalizing diminutives a rest?
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Hard News: Friday Music: Festival of Non-Dudeyness, in reply to Samuel Scott,
The Laneways lineup is crazy good. I don’t understand how it can be soooooo good?
These things seem to be 90% obscenely hard work, carefully cultivated contacts, sound instincts (virtually indistinguishable from inspired guesswork) and just a dash of good luck for seasoning. :)
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Hard News: Friday Music: Festival of Non-Dudeyness, in reply to Russell Brown,
Not bad for a 17 year-old, especially given that just being on that soundtrack gets every artist halfway to a hit.
True enough. Arcade Fire isn’t going to be the next One Direction, but it did them no harm having the pretty good ‘Abraham’s Daughter’ playing over the end credits of The Hunger Games (and on its rather successful OST). And if I ever end up ruling a fascist dystopia, they’re definitely writing my national anthem…
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whose soundtrack Lorde has curated.
How do you “curate” a soundtrack, as opposed to putting together an album of as much music from the film as you can afford to get sub-rights for? (Hell, I'm enough of an old coot to be thoroughly bewildered by the "soundtrack" full of music that was never in the film, never intended to be.)
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to Sue,
Craig could you please pull back from calling anyone who has a different perspective than yours on Cunliff’s decisions “disingenuous” or “naive” it’s mean.
I'm genuinely sorry you think that Sue, because I don't think someone making a bad argument (IMHO & YMMV, of course) is ipso facto a terrible human being worthy of nowt but scorn and contempt.
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That’s setting a pretty low standard for leadership of a party, and a person who wants to be prime minister Craig.
No, it really isn't. I've been a member of the National Party for twenty years, including several years as an elected officer at electorate and regional Young Nats levels. I've also been a voting delegate at candidate selections, conferences where election of officers was contested the party presidency was contested. I was also peripherally involved in a full scale review of the party constitution. None of which always came out to my liking, but that's grown-up politics.
And we're really going to bring Dirty Politics into it? If you want to go there, Kyle, I'll ask whether that label is better applied to people who only respect the rules when they find it politically convenient to do so. I totally get why a lot of people around here would have been a lot happier if Cunliffe had resigned on Election Night and taken a vow of silence on the backbenches. You can question what levels of good judgement, if any, he'd shown since. I just find it disingenuously naive that anyone would believe any political leader would find being white-anted an acceptable position to be in if they had any other alternatives. Cunliffe does, whether you like it or not.
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to mark taslov,
More unwanted headlines, of what benefit to the Party Mr Quin?
Maybe it's of considerable benefit to the public to get some insight into how The Party that would really like to be The Government one day operates.
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to Sue,
first – you give me “but Cunliffe isn’t “forcing” anything ”
now it’s “Sure, he forced the issue ”You're being spectacularly disingenous there, Sue, and while you're perfectly entitled to disagree with me you're NOT entitled to totally misrepresent me.
Now, could you please answer the question: Has Cunliffe behaved in a manner that's contrary to the Labour Party's own rules? Not "has he behaved in the manner you think he should" or "is this leadership contest happening at a time of your liking".
Again, as far as I'm aware he's perfectly entitled to test his mandate in the way it's happening. And I'd certainly argue that if you think the prospect of months of being white-anted is a tenable position for any political leader, I'd say you're rather naive at best.