Posts by Idiot Savant
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Twyford originally proposed this measure as part of the filibuster on the Auckland dictatorship bill. I think it'd be good if it passed, but that's because I don't see it as being triggered very frequently - and then I damn well want people to have a say if a rightwing council wants to go back to the 90's and flog everything off. When it comes to privatisation, I just don't think we can trust our politicians, and so we shouldn't delegate that power to them.
(Though I'd rather see a version covering the whole country than one specifically for Auckland).
And remember, while a bill may have no hope in hell of passing, sometimes its still worth it to force the government to debate an issue and get everyone to go on record about it.
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Also very disappointing the Nats can bloc vote on a "conscience" issue.....
Whether an issue is a conscience vote or not is a question for each individual party. Sometimes they all agree, and every MP gets a free vote. Other times, some treat an issue as one of conscience while others (usually those whose gonads Peter Dunne has his fist wrapped tightly around) do not. This was one of the latter.
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national bloc-voted against, the Greens and ACT (bar Douglas, who was overseas) supported it, and Labour split down the middle, with the younger intake massively voting to send it to committee.
The latter bodes well for the future.
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I could see NZ doing well out of 'cannabis tourism' if we legalised it. Get the tour groups at immigration, micro-chip them
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What, are they toaster-ovens or something?
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But if the Speaker got in the habit of naming anyone who engaged in rhetorical Helen Lovejoy-ism, I suspect the House would be permanently inquorate.
Only if he kicks out every Minister, bcause that's the only quorum requirement we have.
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Meanwhile, a commenter at The Standard has some Hansard
I was watching that, and I was appalled. But it was part of a consistent pattern yesterday: no answers, so slander instead.
(thread crossover) And so we had the absurd situation of Judith Collins claiming that Labour had been too tough on crime when they were in government to dodge responsibility on why they were wasting money on new prisons. Which conveniently gnores the fact that she and her party spent that time screaming that they weren't being tough enough...
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Shipping containers are loaded with symbolic meaning. Just imagine if some clever dick politician, one-day decides to load all these prison containers, ant there prisoners onto trains.
But they closed the Gisborne line years ago, and there's no prisoners on the West Coast, so they couldn't be sent east.
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Richard Worth has quit. Haiku now plz?
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And I'd sure like to think that if Simon Power even talked about introducing ASBOs here (despite the evidence they're not only horribly illiberal but DON'T WORK), we'd both be extremely pissed off. I'm a National supporter, but I've got limits where pragmatism (and acknowledging you're not going to agree with every line of party policy) just turns into whorish hackery.
He already has, in the form of enabling legislation for anti-boy racer bylaws. That legislation is now in select committee.
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Has he read the Local Government Act recently? There are these things called the four wellbeings: social, environmental, cultural and economic.
And I'm sure Rodney would be happy to dispense with three of those. Remember, "there is no such thing as society", the environment is a Comunist Plot, and culture is something that makes you reach for your revolver.