Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Except as Danyl points out, an internal faction that is independent of the external public that The Green party is trying to get to vote for them
You both seem to have a different definition of "faction".
A party faction is a group with a varied degree of organisation, from a few MPs who hang out together to an organised society with offices and a website. I don't believe there are any of these in the Green Party, but feel free to provide references that refute this?
The members of a party are obviously going to have opinions, or they wouldn't join the party in the first place (well, unless their chosen party gives out dodgy visa approvals and so forth). That isn't a "faction".
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say nothing
Judith Collins?
do nothing
Mike Sabin?
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In other sustainability news:
"a buying frenzy among Chinese retail investors sent shares surging 111 per cent through last week"
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I guess one can borrow against those shares, and buy houses in Auckland, or borrow against houses in Auckland, and buy more shares. Or both.To me the problem is not: "how can we win against John Key in 2017, given current nominally pleasant economic conditions"?
but
"how can we offer a credible solution when people are seeing a 50% drop in house prices, 20% interest rates and the banking system offline for three weeks"?And the danger is that Key (or English) does get elected in those circumstances because both sides are offering the same non-solutions.
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Hard News: The epitome of reason, in reply to Bart Janssen,
There's a vote. People vote for the candidates they like. Some of them are Steffan Browning.
I'd say this points to the absence of a factional system, on an evidence basis.
(Also, if you don't like the list, you could join up and vote/campaign for different people to get electable list positions).
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Hard News: The epitome of reason, in reply to George Darroch,
Well, when I bothered to be a financial member of the Greens, some while ago, nobody asked me to join their faction, or suggested I should vote for X because she/he was on their team?
If you believe they have factions, what are they called and who's in them?
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A large amount of National's popularity is predicated on the Auckland property Ponzi scheme. (NZD80bln of house price inflation over the last year - 30% of GDP).
Of course, just like Chinese industrial growth, this is completely sustainable and will continue forever. On that basis, National will retain power forever - Ponzi schemes can't change operators.
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Australia was able to export its cars to the States under the USAUFTA, but they didn’t sell in big numbers over there
Because they only appealed to people who wanted a great big sedan with a 1960s pushrod V8, which the US auto industry also made. (In fact, the Aussie V8s started out as clones of obsolete US models).
If they’d produced well designed cars with modern technology (as the Germans and Japanese do) then they would have sold overseas even without an FTA.
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I think we should have a national poi.
With fire-poi mandated at night, and when foreign sports grounds (or gas stations) refuse to allow NZers to spin their traditional flaming poi, we can call them out for being culturally insensitive to our national traditions.
(Might need to wait 10 years or so for the invented tradition to mature),
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Hard News: 2015: The Budget of what?, in reply to Robert Urquhart,
Interesting. How would a financial institution distinguish payments by partners, flatmates, people you sold something to on TradeMe (not in the course of a business) etc?
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Hard News: 2015: The Budget of what?, in reply to Robert Urquhart,
You didn't link your blog?