Posts by Kumara Republic
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Hard News: Popular Paranoiac Politics, in reply to Paul Webber,
Whilst I don’t think there’s a place in NZ politics for a home-grown Tea Party (Manuka Party?), surely there is a place for a liberal party. Economically conventional like National but reformist rather than conservative. Greener than National without the return-to-feudalism of the Greens. Not socially conservative like Brash and his brethren. Compassionate for the community without Labour’s reflex ritual of brother-unionist-against-capitalism. Where is that party?
If you're thinking of a socially liberal centrist party like the British LibDems, there doesn't seem to be one in NZ, even with MMP. Such territory merely seems to be the 'middle ground' fought over by the usual suspects.
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Hard News: Popular Paranoiac Politics, in reply to Sacha,
There is certainly enough unhinged money sloshing around to bankroll a spoiler campaign next year. I wonder if a dry redneck party might deny Winston enough votes to be a potential swinging coalition partner for Labour (much like Bob Jones' role in 1984)?
Didn't a certain theo-con eat into John Banks' mayoral vote?
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Hard News: Popular Paranoiac Politics, in reply to MikeE,
I'll never forget coming down after a gig in the days where party pills were legal and hearing her reccomend (I shit you not) at some meeting on the shore - that we cut the hands of shoplifters .... then some crazy fucker with a neck beard start a 20 minute rant on the evils of the word "liberal"...
And the irony of these Wahhabists-by-another-name invoking the Eurabia domino theory isn't lost on us.
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Muriel Newman's tin-foil hattery on Maoridom is nothing short of the old Terra Nullius doctrine.
Any WikiLeaks stuff on all the above?
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Hard News: Love you too, man, in reply to 3410,
They no longer play any '50s to speak of, and play not much '60s gear either.
I believe Solid Gold FM has picked up the mantle - of sorts.
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Hard News: What about that Welfare…, in reply to Petra,
SCF, Equitable Mortgages... they likely won't be the first. I can hear a Coffee Party starting to froth.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
where's Wishart when we need him?
You mean the pre-Intelligent Design Wishart? Not sure if he exists anymore. I'd say Nicky Hager has stepped up to the mantle now.
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Looks like Pike River is turning into a funeral pyre for the 29...
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Hard News: What about that Welfare…, in reply to Petra,
Garth McVicar is a <insert your own angry swear words here>
Two Minutes Hater.
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@Lucy S: and further to back up your argument, the paroling of Bruce Emery. All victims are equal, but some victims are more equal than others.