Posts by FletcherB
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My other objection to Veitch is that he's a boofhead. Probably not relevant to the debate, but a good reason to keep him off the telly.
You cant use that against him, I thought you had to be a boofhead to be a sports broadcaster?
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I'd say Veitch's statement to the media could be summarised as "I'm sorry I got caught".
I agree with you....
But I think you'll find the whole do you / dont you actually, in your brain, accept responsibility thing can only have an affect at parole hearings....
At sentencing, you can get leniency based on whether you plead guilty or not...
(this based on observation via media report only, no first-hand, or professional knowledge)
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(what happened to refusal to accept guilt being an aggravating factor?)
While you may have an insight to his real feelings on the subject, its a bit hard to say, legally, that someone who pleads guilty hasnt accepted his guilt, no?
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Lordy, what did you do -
Ask for a Heineken or Steinlager?
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"Interesting to describe Christine Fletcher as left-ish, given she is a former National MP."
Ok, you got me there.... But compared to Banks...
Shall we just say Christine and Mat are sane-ish, and split the sane vote? :)
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"If it isn't going to be privatised, why structure it as a council owned enterprise in the first place?"
It is already structured that way... It's a stand-alone enterprise owned by the 6 councils it supplies... if those separate owners get amalgamated... Basically what is proposed is as close to "do nothing" as they can get away with.
I guess you could disband the company structure and make it part of the broader council bureaucracy? Would that really gain much in efficiency?
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"But also vote splitting if there are too many candidates ranged against him"
Yep... that's how he got in the first time.... I've forgotten who the candidates were, but there were two nearly equal quality left-ish candidates, who nicely split the left vote so that Banksy got in. Then, he pissed everybody off, and Hubbard won on the "anyone but banksy" vote...
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Surely, the highest attainment on earth, by a New Zealander was when Sir Ed got to the top of that hill in Nepal?
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"I'm sorry, but I need you to keep on Keeping Christchurch Weird."
Hey- not fair.... being on the inside of an in-joke is one thing..... but referring to a post the day before it's posted? Thats just cruel.
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Cheers... that was fun.
I was actually wondering the entire post was something Bob's dad might have written? (thats a compliment, by the way).