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@jegga said in NZ Politics:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in NZ Politics:
@Chris-B. said in NZ Politics:
@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in NZ Politics:
I think you guys are confusing supportng with understanding....
Captain...your ship is sinking....
It was a train you muppet.... and it has derailed
A train, the environmentally sound choice. All these years of hiding and you've slipped up and revealed yourself as a closet green.
I always had my suspicions you know.It was a steam train... lots of coal is used. Hence the toot toot...
You ferroequinologist muppet -
@Baron-Silas-Greenback nice try pinko but I'm not buying it.
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A nice summary of the success of John Key
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What? I thought he just got lucky?
To be serious though, I thought he may have struggled with the Christchurch earthquake and surprised to see him being lauded for it. Everybody I know in Christchurch absolutely hates him. It maybe because they are my infamous WT relatives though, and i've just assumed that all people in Christchurch are like that.
Again, that may not be accurate, but that's probably for another thread which I won't read.
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@canefan said in NZ Politics:
So National are hitching their wagon to English and Bennett. She seems quite tough, has handled tough portfolios like social welfare and like John Key has a background founded in time spent on the benefit
If Bridges is really ambitious and smart - he should find his way to elocution lessons.
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@Chris-B. And get some heeled shoes, plus a better tailor. One pic of him at a groundbreaking ceremony, he was like a foot shorter than everyone else, a Thunderbirds expression on his face, and his suit cuffs were nearly hanging by his knuckles. Politics is about perception.
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Yeah, JK ate Campbell's lunch in the GCSB one. Campbell tried his best to land punches all interview and Key just had the bat and pad close together and then left everything outside off stump. A tremendously skilful performance in negating the treachery of the left's most persistent media mouthpiece. Oops, am I using the boxing or the cricket metaphor?
I think it was only a week later when Bridges and Campbell shouted at each other for ten minutes - a completely different game on an equally tough pitch. That one over offshore prospecting?
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Phew! Polly has finally got around to letting us know her thoughts. As usual she's managed to make an article about someone else mostly about her.
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11765161
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@dK said in NZ Politics:
A nice summary of the success of John Key
Right on for the "shit writing" thread -
"Growing the son of a single mum in the suburbs gave him an everyman’s touch."
Anyone who can grow a single mums son without using artifical fertalizer is a winner in my books. Sereiously when you are cost cutting why does everyone sack the proof reader day 1...
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@gollum said in NZ Politics:
@dK said in NZ Politics:
A nice summary of the success of John Key
Right on for the "shit writing" thread -
"Growing the son of a single mum in the suburbs gave him an everyman’s touch."
Anyone who can grow a single mums son without using artifical fertalizer is a winner in my books. Sereiously when you are cost cutting why does everyone sack the proof reader day 1...
Seriously , Fertiliser .
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@canefan said in NZ Politics:
Bill English PM pledges to tackle NZs social problems while keeping to his aspirational market based principles. This could be the left's nightmare realised if he can sell his vision
It is kinda the rights nightmare as well.. to a lesser extent. National are so expertly straddling the middle it is not funny. Are they even a right wing party anymore?
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback not in an international context - certainly not when compared to USA
National has pretty much almost always been slightly left of centre.
What Key's pragmatism and popularism has done is allow them to adopt anything Labour has espoused that looked like it might have wings.
English's issue will be appeasing some ambitious backbenchers. I think he pretty much has to let Nick Smith go (despite their friendship) ands McCully as well - which should be much easier.
Anything less will not go down well in caucus.
Do that and he can hopefully for Nats walk the tightrope of promising continuity and change at the same time.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in NZ Politics:
@canefan said in NZ Politics:
Bill English PM pledges to tackle NZs social problems while keeping to his aspirational market based principles. This could be the left's nightmare realised if he can sell his vision
It is kinda the rights nightmare as well.. to a lesser extent. National are so expertly straddling the middle it is not funny. Are they even a right wing party anymore?
They are. But they have evolved to a point where they are broadly dominating the centre leaving labour to move more left to the distaste of middle NZ. Better the nats than the reds. The media were tiring of Key and he of them. This move has flipped the reset switch and so far Bill is getting positive press. If he manages to go on and win the general election next year it will be one of JKs crowning achievements. Contrast this to Helen Clark leaving. She lost the election and promptly pulled the pin leaving Labour devoid of a succession to lead that they have not yet recovered from
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