Posts by Greg Dawson
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One comment on the "Labour needs to show they have a host of good leaders, not just one" and "Labour needs to x" in general - Show me where the now FPP again National government does that. Is crusher a good leader? Joyce? I'll give you English, but not Key.
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I'd really like to understand what happened to the Green vote. They seemed to be in a stronger position than 2011, with a better campaign and policy platform, and Labours weakness playing to their favour. And yet.
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If we're looking at three years of a national owned parliament crowing about a mandate to break the law, lie, cheat, and steal the nations assets... yeah I get why people leave the country.
I know the precedent is watergate, and nixon's resounding re-election after the story broke, but god it's depressing. It is the sort of thing that makes you wonder just how little you know the people you live with.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Because profit is more important than the clean water that a nation depends on. Sounds familiar.
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Hard News: Time to Vote, in reply to Alfie,
But overall result almost certainly going to hold to the 54% No victory...
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Hard News: Time to Vote, in reply to Alfie,
Actually, 57.3% voted YES in Dundee. I suspect that the big cities may continue to sway the result in that direction. I hope so.
Of course, I meant Yes, but I suspect my brain went “No to staying in the UK”. The joys of referendum questions :)
And after the next few councils declared, it's looking a lot worse for the independence campaign. They've got a 130k gap to close now. Suspect the polling guess of 54-46% staying in the UK will end up about right.
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Meanwhile, I can’t be the only one enjoying two days in a row of keenly watching returns come in. Although admittedly, at this point it looks like both will go the opposite of the way I’d personally prefer, the excitement for pols geeks is still there.
Although! It’s looking very close at 7/32 in, 50.9% for independence. Was way higher for staying until Dundee just rolled in with 57.3% for No.
Edit: Feel free to shuffle this post to another thread, wasn't sure where was appropriate for scottish thoughts.
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Based on an admittedly skewed sample of legal bloggers in NZ, I don't think it's the legal minds that we lack. Instead it's that the politicians keep treating expert advice like the car keys, and giving it to the pilot.
Hopefully it doesn't just come down to NZ for the TPPA, and a couple of other key countries decide it's not for them (like say, Japan). That might give our leaders the spine to follow suit, since they don't seem to be interesting in trying anything new that doesn't involve strip mining public assets and slashing welfare.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to mark taslov,
I don’t know, I’m no lawyer. anyway, have a go
Oh, neither am I, and tbh why bother when it'll all be over-ridden by some unknown clause in the TPPA anyway?
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to mark taslov,
(b) does not authorise anything to be done for the purpose of intercepting all communications of a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident of New Zealand.
Obvious rejoinder from weasel spy : we didn’t take all the communications, only some of them. Perhaps the word “any” would suit better.
Edit: Or even just "the", for simplicity's sake. Although it leaves up to definition how you determine ownership of a communication - how much do I have to say for it to be considered "my" communication instead of the Australian on the other end? Or is it mine if I only listen?