Hard News: Prospects
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It's time to kick the money lenders out of the temple, not vote for them.
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Oh well, a loss means that at least Mike Williams gets the boot (tho' I wouldn't put it past Labour to screw that one up...)
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Thanks Steve,
Looks like I’m not making it past 9 o’clock then.
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Also, he's not a complete git, which puts him one over Franks.
Great campaign slogan: "Grant Robertson: Not a complete git"
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My major gripe is that the incumbent government has done nothing to warn people that their borrowings are funded offshore and the implications of that when it all turns to custard (as we're seeing now).
Really? I think Cullen has kvetched about that quite a bit. And, more to the point, done something about it via KiwiSaver and (insofar as it impacts the overall national saving rate) the Super Fund -- both of which were opposed by other parties.
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My major gripe is that the incumbent government has done nothing to warn people that their borrowings are funded offshore and the implications of that when it all turns to custard
What makes you think that would've made the slightest bit of difference? Bollard sounded alarm bells for a long time before it all went to shit, and nothing changed. The collapse of the housing bubble was thoroughly forecast, but people still acted like it was the unforeseen demise of some kind of natural right to ever-rising house prices when it actually occurred.
The Government should stay the fuck out of how people spend their money. Directing private-sector spending is otherwise known as communism, and as much as that charge is levelled at Labour they are very definitely not communists.
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Thanks Steve - solid gold.
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Great campaign slogan: "Grant Robertson: Not a complete git"
Hmmm. less than a day to go and noew we start making up campaign slogans.
One last chance guys. Let's get the viral word of mouth earworm thing happening. Give us your sloganz, short and pithy.
here's my first.
John Key? Not for me! -
I'm having a down day ....
It's snowing outside, for the third time today, and the third day in a row, in November - I predict 3 years of winter ...
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Thanks for your mention of the Labour candidate in Wellington Central, Grant Robertson. He would be a great MP - good values and intellect for parliament, and would also be a great electorate MP and fighter for people. Much of the work of being an MP is working for people and supporting them in their battles with the system. It doesn't make the media but does make a difference for real people and their lives. Retiring MP Marian Hobbs was particularly good at this and Grant is the same.I know, as he has already helped me with some issues around disability and autism.
But this is a wealthy electorate which has been held by Labour, National and even Act in the last couple of decades so Grant needs every vote possible to win it. So, if you are in Wellington Central, please do.
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Paul C
Check out the Herald's Porkometer. National have won (and I bet that's not what the Herald intended when they started it!).
So the new government will spend more AND cut taxes AND not sell anything AND not borrow more AND make us all safer and healthier and freer and richer and happier.
Don't get down - the magic money is here!
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Check out the Herald's Porkometer. National have won (and I bet that's not what the Herald intended when they started it!).
And it makes a bit of a nonsense of the rationale for voting National in today's front-page editorial. They should just admit it's tribal and be done with it.
BTW: can y'all help me here?
Did the Herald threaten to do a pre-election name and shame (with mugshots) of everyone who voted for the EFA and/or the pledge card spending validation bill?
It appears they have not been so pissy after all, but I'm struggling to recall the original threat.
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Hmmm. less than a day to go and noew we start making up campaign slogans.
NZ First - Live Free or Die Hard.
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hmmm things just got a little sureal - I just got a letter addressed to "John Key C/- Paul Campbell" (he must be hiding in the cellar or something) - the return address is "The Inconvenient Truth About Winston Peters" - and it's addressed to John and signed by Winnie - it sort of reads like a bad Peter's press conference so I guess it's really from him.
It points John to a web site that's been specially set up for me personally (maybe that's why he's hiding in my cellar) - I tried looking at it (at www.MrKey.co.nz) but I guess it knows I wasn't really John because all it did was throw up a blank screen and loop telling me I had a bad password (it didn't actually ask for one).
Seriously though - this piece of crap page is about 90% javascript (and maybe 50% of that is commented out - thanks for looking out for my bandwidth cap Winston) and the variables in it rather condescendingly refer to me as a 'prospect' - note to NZFirst - next time around maybe you could try it on more than just explorer ...
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Epsom is a story for our times.
I am rather relieved to not be in Epsom any more! I hated having to vote for a candidate I didn't necessarily support, in a tactical vote.
Wellington Central is so much simpler and straightforward!
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So strategically, for Labour voters in Epsom, you vote for Richard Worth if you want a Labour Govt.
On the button, Christopher.
I would like labour to lead the next term, so I'll vote National (Richard Worth) and party vote Green.
Unlikely to work my way but I can't think of anything more intelligent to do in this blue-ribbon electorate.
Rodney and his poisonous crew need shifting ... out.
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Also from NBR ...
National used OIA to dig dirt on Clark's husband
They went back 40 years trying to find somewhere Davis had put a foot wrong in applying for a grant or something. It will have cost taxpayers many thousands of dollars.
So please, no more whining about "smears".
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I predict 3 years of winter
Don't worry. Aslan will eventually be elected after a tense down-to-the-wire campaign against the incumbent White Witch.
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Russell
That was revealed by Brian Edwards on TV One, Wednesday night (the post-debate panel). It's been ignored by all media since.
I don't usually go with "media bias", but there's too often a failure to see a story if it doesn't fit.
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So please, no more whining about "smears".
As far as I know the only smears have come from National. Secretly recording what an MP is saying in private that contradicts what they say in public is not a smear, it's called journalism. Remember journalism? it used to be big in the seventies.
Here's another slogan
Say NO to a sub-prime minister. -
Che, an occasion where I couldn't decide which side I wanted to kick hardest
neither. that would be lowering oneself to the occasion.
re: grant r. he was standing outside my place of work the other day handing out pamphlets. i greeted him and he handed me the paperwork.
looking at it i said, "dude! i voting for you anyhow!" he goes, "well, you won't be needing that then!" and grabbed the papers of me.
</very humorous moment inadequately captured in lame writing>
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So she decided she would probably vote for ACT because "Rodney Hide is quite funny."
I think I'm going to cry.
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Did the Herald threaten to do a pre-election name and shame (with mugshots) of everyone who voted for the EFA and/or the pledge card spending validation bill?
Both? From memory there were at least two... S59?
I had a hazy impression they meant to do it on a weekly basis
I remember thinking that if they kept adding gripes they would run out of space.
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"... Bradford (who, in saltier days, I referred to as "a platinum-plated prick")"
This is most unfair to ... platinum.
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Russell said:"Also from NBR ...
National used OIA to dig dirt on Clark's husband"The point of that was that National's tax-paid Research Unit was researching the "dirt" on Peter Davies at exactly the same time Key was slamming Labour for using The Labour Research Unit for checking the credibility of John Key! (The Williams debacle.) "Pigs....etc" says John Key.
Isn't that hypocrisy?
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