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@JC said in NZ Politics:
What surprised me most was that Collins is actually quite a laugh. Jacinda may be a nice person but she's not much fun. Very earnest.
Collins did a regular segment on the am show for quite a while. She was very funny on that
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@Rembrandt said in NZ Politics:
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Crusher lived up to her billing. Gower also very good. Jacinda very sharp on Covid but floundering on gritty issues.
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The one thing that cannot be overstated is what an outstanding job David Seymour has done over the last term to regain credibility and relevance for ACT. Sure he's had some luck drawing his private members bill and National imploding but nevertheless he has performed a Lazarus on a party that every (can't think of a dissenting voice) political commentator said should just quietly fold up after 2017.
More and more over the last six months he has looked like the real leader of the opposition.
Be interesting to see how he manages an extended caucus that's bound to include at least a couple of loose cannons.
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@dogmeat said in NZ Politics:
The one thing that cannot be overstated is what an outstanding job David Seymour has done over the last term to regain credibility and relevance for ACT. Sure he's had some luck drawing his private members bill and National imploding but nevertheless he has performed a Lazarus on a party that every (can't think of a dissenting voice) political commentator said should just quietly fold up after 2017.
More and more over the last six months he has looked like the real leader of the opposition.
Be interesting to see how he manages an extended caucus that's bound to include at least a couple of loose cannons.
Leaning towards giving my party vote to Act at the moment. Could change on the day of course...
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@JC said in NZ Politics:
What surprised me most was that Collins is actually quite a laugh. Jacinda may be a nice person but she's not much fun. Very earnest.
I saw Collins speak with Mark Mitchell a while back, and yes she has a sense of humour. Admittedly it was at a vineyard so I was in a good mood.
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@Godder we're both showing our age now.
At least the leader of mcgillicuddy serious was true to his word. When he didn't win as promised, he wrapped himself in sackcloth and ashes, and was publicly flogged before winding up the party. Set an example to politicians to keep their words 👍
Edit: and one of their policies was to move wellingtons airport to Lambdon quay to encourage shopping as people disembarked
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@nzzp said in NZ Politics:
Edit: and one of their policies was to move wellingtons airport to Lambdon quay to encourage shopping as people disembarked
They actually had that one right. Pretty much all of the world's airports are shopping malls, with food courts and bars. Aeroplanes are just an afterthought.
As for McGillicuddy_Serious_Party, this "policy" always made me laugh:
A potato famine: Jim Bolger's somewhat pock-marked countenance bore an unfortunate resemblance to a potato. Much to his displeasure, he became widely known as "Spud"; the Royal New Zealand Air Force, with a typically Kiwi lack of reverence, christened his Boeing 727 "Spud One".The policy list is bloody funny and probably more accurate than any party since.
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@canefan said in NZ Politics:
Didn't they want to turn Wainuiomata into a kumara patch?
It was great satire - a clear justification for crazy policies.
One of the proposals to make money was to fence off the three passes into the west coast of the south island, pave most of it, buy the world's nuclear waste there, and then charge admission to see the deformed human beings roaming a dystopian wasteland. I mean, it kinda makes sense...
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@pakman the stats are a bit manufactured in that the base he is comparing us to changes. Sometimes its 2017 -sometimes the average of 10-17 and once 09-17. It's also a bit specious to take a target with a delivery date of 2030 and say we are only x% of the way there as there's still plenty of time to deliver.
Nevertheless judged on almost anything other than crisis management Cindy has failed to deliver. As was reflected in the last pre COVID poll.
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