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@antipodean said in NZ Politics:
Forgot to congratulate you all on locking in economic decline and poor public policy for the foreseeable future. Well done.
see you back here in 3 years - if Labour deliver anything other than moderate, incremental changes I shall be flabbergasted. What we have is continuity and a clear mandate to keep moving forward (oof)
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@antipodean continuing on with what has served us so well for sixty years now....
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@Paekakboyz said in NZ Politics:
@Mokey from memory she has had her moments with Winnie.
He deserved to be eviscerated imo. Absolutely made a calculated decision to latch on to Advance and give them oxygen - and he no more believes the shit they peddle than most of us do.
But is this the interviewers job? Or is it to ask the hard questions but not express her or his viewpoint.
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@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.
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@dogmeat said in NZ Politics:
@antipodean continuing on with what has served us so well for sixty years now....
I sincerely doubt Ardern's government is going to be much chop at positive economic reform.
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@Mokey said in NZ Politics:
The way the Internet (and Americans) are jizzing over that interview is actually making me nauseous. I find JLR repulsive in every way, but come on, Tova was Ali fighting a great grandpa with two hip replacements and a glass eye.
I'll sit up and take note when she interviews someone in Parliament for the next three years like that. Someone she needs access to. Someone with actual power, rather than a chump with legal issues.
One of those obnoxious style interviewing techniques that make NZ journalists a joke.
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@Billy-Tell I don't think we have a monopoly on that style. I think JLR was a joke more so than the interview or how it was conducted.
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@antipodean it's going to be really interesting (aka terrifying) to see what eventuates given the state of the world. Anyone would be on a hiding to nothing no?
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@Paekakboyz said in NZ Politics:
@antipodean it's going to be really interesting (aka terrifying) to see what eventuates given the state of the world. Anyone would be on a hiding to nothing no?
Interesting reading Bob Jones piece over the weekend saying how he as 1/4 billion cash waiting for next year to clean up on property when everyone goes broke.
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@Paekakboyz said in NZ Politics:
@Hooroo that's nearly a third of National's unallocated $$ for their proposed budget (ahem) for 2021!! What a savvy shit fluffybunny aye.
Only framed at way as that 700 million unallocated figure stuck in my brain.
Well it's one thing to do it and it's another to boast about it. A little untidy but if I put myself in the same position, I doubt I would sit on my hands, I just wouldn't boast it
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@Paekakboyz said in NZ Politics:
@antipodean it's going to be really interesting (aka terrifying) to see what eventuates given the state of the world. Anyone would be on a hiding to nothing no?
Agreed. Especially with the growing noise internationally from politicians responding to concerns about "international supply chains" to rewind the benefits of globalism.
A good way to wind into pre-WW1 nationalism in preparation for the upcoming Sino-Indian war/ South China Sea flare-up.
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@Paekakboyz said in NZ Politics:
@Billy-Tell I don't think we have a monopoly on that style. I think JLR was a joke more so than the interview or how it was conducted.
It was just pathetic IMO. The main aim was to humiliate the invited guest. It was schoolyard bully stuff. I didn’t really see any journalistic merit in the interview itself. You can ask the difficult and probing questions without being thoroughly unpleasant and impolite. It’s basically a continuation of the Paul Holmes style of journalism. What makes NZ TV so awful as well is there was probably an ad break just before and after.
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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?
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@antipodean yes, that's the one
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Honestly, I don't know why he wanted to go on TV after election night. Barry and Campbell etc were shitty to Nikki Kaye all evening and she didn't do anything wrong. How exactly did JLR think it was going to go down with his track record and an acerbic interviewer?
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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?
Is she always this bad?
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@antipodean said in NZ Politics:
@dogmeat said in NZ Politics:
@antipodean continuing on with what has served us so well for sixty years now....
I sincerely doubt Ardern's government is going to be much chop at positive economic reform.
I sincerely doubt that also, but the problem is, as opposed to who...?
Certainly not National, they have no claim to any sort of competence and some of the shit Collins was spouting was economically moronic.
Key had years and years to achieve something, and well, he didn't really bother.
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