Posts by James Liddell
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In the case of an over ripe Gorganzola there are OSH regulations and fencing requirements, wheels of cheese may require a certain depth of tread and I've even heard of a certain camenbert being detained for causing a public distubance.
rofflenui.
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Milk on the cycleway. It'll be carnage!
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My point is that how's he going to retool, to use his words, precisely, which industries will be the priority and benefit and which won't?
details, mere details. Don't trouble yourself with them.
But look over there! A cycle way!
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Well I for one am disgusted at this knocking of our dairy industry. It's incredibly unpatriotic. These objective and informative videos explain everything a decent, patriotic New Zealander needs to know about the backbone of our economy.
/sarcasm.
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@ Sof
Yeah, similar thoughts went through my head with the systematic undoing of Winston. It felt like Winston was the real threat to National and we know what Winston thought of National, so KAPOW, BANG!IMO
Yeah, although I always thought that Winston was more of a smug pr*ck. McCully I find truly venal.
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Thanks for that, DeepRed. I hadn't seen that. For once I find myself in agreement with Mr Ralston.
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Excellent analysis, Tom.
What strikes me about the Key government is the sheer lack of rigour in so many of their decisions. It's as if they think they can simply spin any unintended consequences.
Who can Argue? Key got the vote, remember?
Breast cancer sufferers having congestive heart failure whilst on Herceptin? But we had a mandate! The people spoke!
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I've long thought of McCully as part mischievous child and part Francis Urquhart. He's the kid who can't leave well enough alone, interfering in things because he can, because he's bored, or simply because he wants to see what would happen. It always ends in tears and with broken toys. And then there's the nasty Machiavellian part, which the media portrays with equal wonderment and revulsion as him being the ultimate back room dealer (always on the right side of a coup) and the consumate political power broker. Either make him totally unfit to govern. Combine the two and it's a disaster.
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So, Is this the running faster?
A bit of that, and a whole lot of this methinks.
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I am yet to work out why the PM thought he should take tourism on, cynically I thought it might be the media opportunities, but clearly tourism is a major export earner (pity it's also high impact and low yeild).
Paul, it was because the industry said he should. Up until that point, there had been no suggestion that Key would take the portfolio. Lindsay Tisch was spokesman for Tourism in opposition.