Posts by Tom Johnson
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Good points, its like soper has been writing the same story his whole career, do they read, do they challenge their ideas, do they know what suffering feels like?It's just too comfy for a guy like him. It's a sad joke,
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Barry Soper can’t write. Let’s be honest. If he handed that crap in to a ncea exam he would be rewarded with a tiny mark, maybe a fail. I’m being honest. It feels like he is writing drunk.
He is paid by one zed be to be a National cheerleader because he is one, he seems to think Labour are all suspect commies, in an aching Mike Moore kind of way, I get that,but Jesus at least have the fucking decency to attempt to write as well as the poor print journalist whose column you replaced. I really am getting sick of zb radio folk writing. They can’t write and they can’t seem to produce a logical commentary. So bad.
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Polity: Labour and the Greens in a tree..., in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Yep, the key word here is "suffer". People are suffering.
Who took the hit for the GE?. The poor. There are sizable chunks of the electorate who felt nothing from it's bust up , ironically the classes most associated with the banking programmes that caused the collapse.
What did John Key sacrifice for the rebuild? Nothing, absolutely nothing. It's time to admit the weight of the following stagnation is being taken solely by those who can least afford it, in fact pathetically John Key gave himself a tax cut to help with his pool cleaning bill.
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Labour and Greens are natural coalition partners in any reasonable persons eyes except the weird world of a handful of primetime political pundits who love promoting scraps that don't exist in order to look personally dynamic.
New Zealand First carries the potential of taking both major parties over the line under mmp and has had that potential from the get go of mmp. This is a reality we have had for nearly 20 years.
Yet whenever this obvious scenario is highlighted the celebrity political gossip journalists go apeshit , thinking they have unlocked some amazing secret. Tired of reading the same story over and over again, especially when current govt policy is a disgrace.
Now the fact that Actzi are so horribly weird and are basically a fat far looney rightwing fantasy party and only really exist because of a terrified A.Gibbs and his fear of poor people getting a fair playing field means Nat gets to easily gobble up all the mmp right wing vote that fractured under Bill English 2002 .
It makes it look stronger than they actually are , its still a podgy caucus full of incompetence , saved by the worldclass winking and smiling of a currency trader and the weirdness of a shortsighted Peter Dunne and his ability to lock out the party that gave him his political career in the first place.
The Nats cross the line just, through these two gentlemens arrangements, not really parties so much as instruments of ego and stagnation. It's a sad affair to see National crippling our major city and all the other economic disasters it is slowly letting foster, but its a non story to write about how mmp promotes natural logical alliances.
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Polity: Labour and the Greens in a tree..., in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Trevett just wrote one of the most pointless articles I have ever seen . It’s basically a press release for National.
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National always suck at helping, always. As a catholic i hoped english may have listened to our pope.
Pakeha males love nats. It's a white boy thing. Pakeha boys are right wing to a majority. Pakeha are divided. 55 % nats forever, 45 no way. -
Polity: Mike's minute: Mike's maths!, in reply to Sacha,
Making profits out of infrastructure hurts the infrastructure everytime, structures by inference need to be patient and strong and kind to its workers, set an example of civilty.
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Government advertising is a very nice and juicy portfolio for an ad rep.
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Polity: Mike's minute: Mike's maths!, in reply to ThoughtSpur,
TVNZ covered the cost of the flag referendum last year, $25 million.
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Polity: Mike's minute: Mike's maths!, in reply to Rickai,
tvnz is built on the solid base of decades of state funding and build. The state also trained nearly all the broadcasters and makes most of the homegrown television. Self funding just means the ads cost more. Silly to call that a business.