Posts by Angus Robertson
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You don't think bringing something armed with a 25 mm. cannon capable of firing at 200 rounds per minute into action in a suburban area might be potentially life-threatening?
Perhaps if they had used it in some sort of cunning plan to lure him out of the house:
"Jan?"
"We want you to come out of the house."
"You like guns, right? Well just round the corner we have a fully fuelled LAV, motor running, keys in the ignition and magazine loading 25 mm auto-cannon."
"Just round the corner Jan, hear that? That was us revving the engine."
"It's yours, just come and get it."
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Shearer is pioneering a new school of thought in New Zealand politics: You don’t need to apologise just because the Gallery read it on Kiwiblog. It’s okay, really.
The joy of being in opposition, tolerance of more than one opinion within the same party.
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Mazaruns is my first port of call for quality port. There are very decent wineries in West Auckland and Te Kauwhata. Why go to a supermarket or wine shop?
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They could be a bit more creative though, stop so obviously copying another sport, and make it less embarrassing for forwards.
For extra time drop 8 players from each team and play a game of sevens.
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The great white hope...
There's a phrase that has lost some of its kudos in the past decade.
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...They've gathered in large numbers, displaying photos showing the grotesque aftermath of war, and calling for a stop to the “genocide” of Tamils.
They seem like perfectly genuine people when they tell me that they don’t care who wins, they just want the killing to stop. Yet, Nirmala Rajasingam, a Sri Lankan Tamil activist in London, makes a powerful point:
If the opposition is undertaking your genocide then surrendering your civillians to them is never a good idea. The narrative is genocide, it would be odd to turn up to one of these rallies with a sign saying in effect "Send Tamils to Conentration Camps".
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Witch trials happened all the way from Russia, through all of Europe, England, Scotland, and into the New World colonies, over a period of nearly three hundred years.
Also a capital crime under Sharia.
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My point was that the Greens and Labour need first to work out how they're positioned on these issues, presumably they're more aligned to each other than they are with the government,...
No, Labour Party and National Party are both middle of the road, centrist and mainstream. The left wing of Labour has commonality with the Greens like the right wing of National with Act, but they both market themselves as the choice of the average NZer.
Labour on those issues is in favour of building SH20 (but in a caring sustainable way), expanding St Lukes shopping mall (after a suitable consultative process) and want the SupaCity (as a way of expanding inclusiveness to the entire Auckland region). National wants the same things (on the basis of cold hard economic efficiency) - so motivationally they differ but on actual implementation a ciggy paper might not pass between.
The Greens want to dig up the road and tear down the shopping mall and who knows what they want for Auckland.
This is why what I/S says makes sense, Labour should fight its own corner.
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Take an article, and replace problematic identifiers (terrorists, gang members, beneficiaries, you get the idea) with the word 'people'. Here's a randomly-chosen example from Stuff's world news today:
People backed by jets and helicopter gunships have begun an offensive against people in a valley just 100 km northwest of the capital, Islamabad, part of a new campaign to halt the rapid advance of people. The people's spokesman Athar Abbas said he expected it would take up to a week to clear an estimated 500 people from Buner district.
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Glenn, fair point, but referring back to what Mikaere and Russell said (and Lynn Prentice too) were the local issues, they are not issues the National candidate will campaign on are they?
SH20 - National are offering to complete this quickest.
St Lukes - National will say they are in favour of increasing job opportunities in Mt Albert.
Supa-City - rates, rates, rates and possibly rates may enter into this debate at some point. And Maori seats, which is always interesting in non-Maori electorates.
So yeah National will be campaigning on the issues.