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@Paekakboyz said in NZ Politics:
@canefan speak of infrastructure did you see the article on the state of our pipes in Wellington!!? Ffs I wish I was talking bout weed!
No. Must be about as good as ours
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@reprobate said in NZ Politics:
@canefan said in NZ Politics:
@antipodean agree re-the GFC. Key and English were very fiscally responsible
... by doing not a lot, inheriting a good financial position and increase in trade with China bailing us out - and making the situation look better than the reality via immigration. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/319701/john-key's-$400bn-legacy is a reasonably balanced take on it.
There is some credit due for sure, but largely characterised by being dealt a good hand and inaction in my opinion. He knew full well what was going on with housing, and the inequality and generational problems it would cause, but decided that it was in his best interests to leave it alone.
Now Ardern is doing exactly the same. In fact the parallels are striking - Labour are coming out of a global crisis smelling like roses when the reality is they've been dealt a great hand with our isolation, and are roundly ignoring the major problems the country has because solving them would be unpopular.One difference is Keys government took action in their first 100 days that helped us weather that crisis well and with minimal disruption. No small feat.
Labour have borrowed us in an enormous hole in comparison for their crisis and we are about to reap the “rewards” of than over the next decade.
Don’t disagree too much that there was only minor improvements under Key, but part of that is due to MMP which is not an excuse Labour can use this term.
They can do what they like over the next three years, let’s see where we end up.
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@Paekakboyz said in NZ Politics:
@canefan blush, I thought u were wellies based. And not just from the handle!
Born and raised mate
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Has any country ever given power to an independent body that oversees long term planning and infrastructure which is free from political influence or can this not exist.
Just thinking in Australia how incoming govt completely fucked over the NBN and ruined the long term plan of the previous govt.
It just seems to me you would be better having the smartest people in their fields using science, knowledge and expertise to plan ahead instead of people who are popular.
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@antipodean said in NZ Politics:
Is this it?
That's remarkably unprofessional. Why book someone in the vain hope they're going to give the mea culpa you dream about?
I was going to post on this as it's getting a bit of coverage these ways as well. I didn't know who JLR was, so I did some research. IT would appear he's a bit of dickhead / dreamer and not a nice person.
I think Tova comes across as a Jacinda-living gloater. Why get somebody on to interview them with the sole purpose of gloating to them about how poorly they did? What is the point? Saying things like "this is the last time we'll have you on" is really pathetic. Her opening diatribe set the tone & he simply didn't take the bait. She seems to have zero respect for any answer which doesn't agree with her own opinion (and lets be clear, a lot of them are simply opinions).
A lot of JLR answers seem quite clear and honest. Imagine the horror of a potential MP believing they had the ability to win a seat! The horror!!
Show me a Tova interview where she tries to completely butcher a Labour politician, or even Ardern, and I'll perhaps change my view.
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@dogmeat said in NZ Politics:
Hope Labour really intend to be transformational and don't do a John Key and avoid doing anything that might be in any way unpopular.
I don't see how she can do that without massively backtracking or going outside Labor's election promises both explicit of the general spirit. I don't think she carved off 18% of the National/NZ First vote with a platform of wholesale changes.
She has two real options here. She can continue running the small target strategy and parlay this into another one or two terms and be the next Clark/Key or she can see this term as Labour's one opportunity to make major changes and go for broke and pay the electoral consequences later (she also wouldn't be the first to think she can break a promise and talk her way out of it).
The sense from her speech (claiming a mandate, not thanking her coalition partners, saying she wants to transform politics) is this opportunity is too much to resist. A bit like Aesop's scorpion and the frog. You've just handed a majority government to the former head of the young socialists what exactly do you expect?
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@antipodean said in NZ Politics:
Is this it?
That's remarkably unprofessional. Why book someone in the vain hope they're going to give the mea culpa you dream about?
Regardless of the individual concerned, I have no idea why a journalist starting her interview by "you're a loser" and then later " you're narcissistic" is something "cool, hip, trendy etc". So much work goes into anti-suicide programmes, anti-bullying on social media etc, then a mainstream journalist just goes on a rant like that. The guy himself might be not particularly pleasant, a bit of a chancer etc, but she could have asked the same questions in a different matter. Imagine if he did top himself, would the interview still seem "cutting edge"
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@Godder said in NZ Politics:
@dogmeat My guess for the Greens is C & S, but some form of lesser policy agreement might also happen. The only reason for a full coalition would be to bind the Greens to collective Cabinet responsibility. Strategically Labour need the Greens to be friendly and to build experience in government for future coalitions, so putting them on the cross benches is probably unwise. It's also a benefit to NZ democracy to have all Parliamentary Parties get some government/ministerial experience so that they have MPs who can do the job if they have a good election and end up in a coalition, and so Question Time and Select Committees are better.
Labour need to maintain 100% friendly relations with the Greens for the long term. But while their support might be nice to have in this parliament their opposition is going to be a whole lot more useful - especially on tax.
If/when Labour get to overhauling the tax system the same policy is going to be a lot more palatable to the centre if you have the Greens saying it doesn't go far enough and they don't support it rather than selling it hand in hand with them.
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@Billy-Tell To be fair, she was just quoting him when called him a loser.
It was a straight out character assassination interview, nothing else. The sort of interview loved by people on the left when done to the right, and loathed by the same people on the left, when done to the left.
It's the modern world unfortunately. Be kind, as long as that kindness is on the correct train of thought. No different than people wishing death on Trump.
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@antipodean said in NZ Politics:
Is this it?
That's remarkably unprofessional. Why book someone in the vain hope they're going to give the mea culpa you dream about?
I've got to give JLR some credit for maintaining his equilibrium.
On Tova O'Brien I've heard of her only. Never seen her in operation until just now.
But am pretty sure I've come across comment that she was "mean" to Cindy in some news conferences . Because Cindy is just so kind.
So maybe she is just mean to everyone.
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@booboo said in NZ Politics:
On Tova O'Brien I've heard of her only. Never seen her in operation until just now.
I first heard of her when she was a UK correspondent and was covering the Cairns/Modi libel case and was by far the best source of reporting on that so she has some journalistic chops independent of whatever her political leanings are.
Just an odd editorial call to have him on if he is so irrelevant just to belittle him. The bulk of it was fine but the 'dream on' and 'this is the last time we will have you on' stuff was gratuitous. Like @MajorRage said - lets see this with someone in power.
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@Crucial It might be getting cheaper now that international tourism is dead!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/120920551/heres-where-the-cheap-properties-are-likely-to-be-in-covid19-aftermath
And yes I think it is cheap enough if I don't have to pay for it (I think I did also say Queenstown/Wanaka) rather than just Queenstown. -
@nostrildamus said in NZ Politics:
@Crucial It might be getting cheaper now that international tourism is dead!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/120920551/heres-where-the-cheap-properties-are-likely-to-be-in-covid19-aftermath
And yes I think it is cheap enough if I don't have to pay for it (I think I did also say Queenstown/Wanaka) rather than just Queenstown.That article is pretty old and the predictions are proven wrong. There has, if anything, been price increases.
As for Wanaka. They simply don’t have the infrastructure to plonk a large increase in population. There are already major battles over trying to upgrade the airport or build a new one and that is just for tourists. There is certainly no prospect of affordable student accommodation -
@rotated said in NZ Politics:
@booboo said in NZ Politics:
On Tova O'Brien I've heard of her only. Never seen her in operation until just now.
I first heard of her when she was a UK correspondent and was covering the Cairns/Modi libel case and was by far the best source of reporting on that so she has some journalistic chops independent of whatever her political leanings are.
Just an odd editorial call to have him on if he is so irrelevant just to belittle him. The bulk of it was fine but the 'dream on' and 'this is the last time we will have you on' stuff was gratuitous. Like @MajorRage said - lets see this with someone in power.
She wasn't aware the producers had confirmed his attendance until she turned up that morning (having been on the Newshub panel until midnight the night before). The researchers had prepared questions but she thought "fuck it" and went with her own questions/angle. As someone who had more to do with JLR than I would have liked in the last few years (no, not like that), I thoroughly enjoyed it. He Is a narcissist, he led the media on a merry dance up and down Molesworth St in late 2018, and he made life a misery for more than a few people during his one-man crusade. I wish him well with exploring his new career with his wealth of qualifications.
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@Smudge said in NZ Politics:
@rotated said in NZ Politics:
@booboo said in NZ Politics:
On Tova O'Brien I've heard of her only. Never seen her in operation until just now.
I first heard of her when she was a UK correspondent and was covering the Cairns/Modi libel case and was by far the best source of reporting on that so she has some journalistic chops independent of whatever her political leanings are.
Just an odd editorial call to have him on if he is so irrelevant just to belittle him. The bulk of it was fine but the 'dream on' and 'this is the last time we will have you on' stuff was gratuitous. Like @MajorRage said - lets see this with someone in power.
She wasn't aware the producers had confirmed his attendance until she turned up that morning (having been on the Newshub panel until midnight the night before). The researchers had prepared questions but she thought "fuck it" and went with her own questions/angle. As someone who had more to do with JLR than I would have liked in the last few years (no, not like that), I thoroughly enjoyed it. He Is a narcissist, he led the media on a merry dance up and down Molesworth St in late 2018, and he made life a misery for more than a few people during his one-man crusade. I wish him well with exploring his new career with his wealth of qualifications.
All the above maybe the case, but I think the public should expect their interviewers to at least start things off from a neutral position.
Right from the word go, she made it her plan to humiliate, embarrass & shame him. That's not good enough, or even close to professional in my view.
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