Posts by mark taslov
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
We’re 9 pages in Craig. The reaction could be classed as mixed. James isn’t applying for a job as a librarian. The ability to effectively engage with opposition, criticism and just general bullshit is a mandatory requirement for a successful MP and most definitely for a would be quote/unquote Prime Minister.
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to Russell Brown,
It might have been an idea for you to go and look before saying so.
Yeah I’ve done that, link up the two time Guest Blogger who has entirely failed to engage with their discussion, I’m happy to be proven wrong on a specific instance in case you feel that the trend in itself is not enough to call the behaviour into question.
Whether you think it’s relevant or not, your votes are only worth as much as mine.
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to Deborah,
Jesus wept. Mark, ask me any f^%&$ing!!! thing about the CGT and I will answer it for you. In detail.
Ok thanks Deborah, in proposing CGT as it was laid out, what is Labour’s reasoning for introducing this further tax to include and be applicable to those on low or unsustained incomes? The reason I bought this up is because Mr Cunliffe smudged details.
Cunliffe told reporters there would be a one-month grace period before an inherited house would be hit with a capital gains tax.
Perhaps you can provide more direct and clear answers to basic questions than David Cunliffe. I’m well aware it doesn’t apply to the family home, I’m well aware it only applies on a realisation basis, neither of these answer my question, which I’ll restate for better engagement:
in proposing CGT as it was laid out, what is Labour’s reasoning for introducing this further tax to include and be applicable to those on low or unsustained incomes?
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Oh, get a grip.
Much as I appreciate the verbiage, your not being James Dann only further underlines my point. Find another Guest blogger in recent memory on your site who has after two posts completely declined to engage with the discussion on your site about their posts and I’ll concede your point. Otherwise I’m not convinced that you get it.
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I reset my scrambled password, sorry for popping up like this, I’ll try to be brief but may not succeed. Stephen Judd and Keir Leslie, from reading the both of you over the years, I feel I have a reasonable idea as to your outlooks and ideals, certainly more than James Dann has provided in either of his guest blogs here or on his video, in fact so familiar am I that I would have voted for either one of you.
In this instance James Macbeth Dann has dropped a bomb and walked away, as ‘the help’ you are here to clean up, address any loose ends, and it’s this lack of meaningful engagement that epitomizes modern Labour.
Legends of Norman Kirk’s ability to bowl up anywhere and converse with the humble Kiwi aren’t easily forgotten. So where exactly is James now? Though not the best example, Sir Rob Muldoon would have absolutely trolled the shit out of blogs and the like, in order to engage, and to engage in order to enhance his understanding of what his constituents thought, wanted, and feared. Though his feet were no closer to the ground than Icarus’, at least he had no qualms about getting the fuckers dirty.
As I said “I would have voted for either one of you”, what may now inform any change of heart here, is that reading between the lines, it would seem that not only might the two of you have played a role in putting James’s up to this, but that you are also certainly facilitators. What is absolutely clear is that he’s simply not engaging with people here. Like it or lump it at least John Key gives the impression that he can mix it up with Joe Tūmatanui.
It is exactly this kind of puppet master politics that some old Labour loyalists like myself are tired of. I’m over hearing someone who rote learned the CGT stumble over the details, I want the brains behind it, someone so intimately acquainted with the detail that they can fill me with confidence about the every last scarab of the policy. I’m tired of listening to someone spiel off David Slack’s (behind the scenes) work, I want to vote for David Slack himself, and that sentiment includes a bunch of people I read and have engaged with here.
Labour wants to choose a leader, well how about instead of locking yourselves into a weekend long orgy and issuing barbs accross cyberspace, you actually try to revisit that long forgotten practice of engaging with the constituency. Get your feet back on the God damned tarmac, send the lot of those MPs out ‘a door knockin’ with clipboards to collect suggestions and signatures for preferred PM, log on to places like Publicaddress, TheStandard, Kiwiblog to engage, discuss, debate and listen to opinion. Please, just anything at all but this forever incest.
Get human.And Richard Aston:
Maybe all MPs should be biffed after 3 terms .
Superb, perhas an obligatory one term stand down every five terms, get those ‘career’ types to reconsider their priorities.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
ha! and HA! I’m always amazed how you see so far Ian. Magic. I should probably rattle me daggs, I don’t want to burst too many bubbles and although this year’s jamboree has been an absolute binder, it’s obviously left me with a lot to think about, things which I can do nothing about here.
Thanks for not banning me Russell and the best of luck to everyone, if I stepped on your toes with this exercise in free speech, get real. And for any of you who might be on the cusp of adulthood and feeling kind of daunted about the future in this brave new world, (I know there’s one or two of you) one last special song from a kinder simpler time to get your twerk on to.
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Thanks Steve, that was very thorough, and for the links, both good reads, that Nandor’s always rung my bell.
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Hard News: Five further thoughts, in reply to ,
I think you need to chill for a wee bit.
Of course you do, and as a moderate New Zealander you’re quite right. Anyone who thinks this is morally wrong just needs to chill for a wee bit, look the other way, turn a blind eye, shut out the noise, shut down the noise, head into sand, cross fingers, Hail Marys, hand on heart, drink the koolaid, sip the cup, cover the ears, cover the eyes, walk the walk, lie down, burn the bridge, roll over, touch your toes, reap what’s sown, board the gravy train, and flick off the confounded pest.
Quite evidently, it’s no longer acceptable to stand up to New Zealanders being spied on, raped, beaten, unjustly maligned and point out how far to shitsville they’ve let the country fall. Not in any meaningful way. That just wouldn’t be appropriate. March with the beast steven, march with the beast.
