Posts by Chris Waugh
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Ooooh, is there now something to get excited about? Well, almost, perhaps. It's nice to see somebody actually looking at the really obvious Labour MP to target re: Donghua Liu. Finally. But something big is still missing here: Motive. Why did Damian O'Connor intervene in Donghua Liu's application for residence? Three times? For what?
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I've lost my daughter! She's turned herself into a strawberry!
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John Armstrong on National's worries about complacency and the "missing million".
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Hard News: The Letter, in reply to Sacha,
They’re even setting electorate-level targets as bodies rather than percentages.
I'm curious. What's the rationale behind that? Surely the seats in parliament are divvied up by the percentages of those who voted, so why the sudden interest in boosting absolute numbers?
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Hard News: The Letter, in reply to Steve Barnes,
You wrote "the polls are rigged to make us look good", which implies that somebody is deliberately designing them in such a way that they overstate National support. What does seem to be clear is that they are reported in such a way that makes it seem National is going to waltz back into the Beehive.
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Hard News: The Letter, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Its almost like he is saying “The polls are rigged to make us look good, don’t believe it” something I have suspected for years but if Steven Joyce says so then…
I saw that and I thought something similar, if slightly less conspiratorial sounding.
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The Herald seems determined to find a story in this:
Aucklander Paul Davison, QC, is heading a team of advisers for Liu reviewing the property developer's records following the comments of David Cunliffe this week.
The Weekend Herald understands this includes more than 30 photographs taken over 18 months linking Liu to Labour, including a fundraiser at an Auckland restaurant and a trip to China, where he hosted a Cabinet minister in 2007.
Liu is also seeking to retrieve financial records held in China.
And Fran O'Sullivan, in not copying that discipline of Key's she writes about, offers this:
The Prime Minister wasn't the direct source of the Liu "revelations" (I use that word advisedly as many of the more hyperbolic Liu claims have since proved to be a mirage).
Herald investigative journalist Jared Savage, who broke the story which led to Williamson's resignation, had already sought Liu's immigration file under the Official Information Act. But it is instructive in that it was sources close to National who shopped the story of Liu's anonymous donations to Labour elsewhere after Woodhouse had accessed the file.
National has not played a straight bat on this story.
So how long is this going to drag out for?
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And just in case Vodafone or Glastonbury doubted it, communication is a Good Thing.
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Maybe the people in charge of Vodafone are the same ones in charge of Glastonbury? Vodafone, brought to you by Glastonbury. New slogan: No, you can't change, you're stuck with whatever crap we give you..
