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Well that sounds like a counter-intuitive election outcome. Let's cut the crap and say it sounds like us a year ago. Except they're returning the government.
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I was ready for Key to retain in power with support from New Zealand First. I had not even entertained the possibility that their vote would improve after all that has transpired. That's what's left me reeling. It is especially depressing to see all the scandals dismissed as simply "noise". Nicky Hager and Glenn Greenwald have both raised very serious issues that need a lot more discussion, and to suggest it was a distraction or an irrelevancy is either 1. insulting or 2. says there is something very rotten - or just very lazy and disengaged - in New Zealand democracy. Quote:
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#23 |
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What was it some people used to say at the height of the Bush era? Democracy is a mile wide and an inch deep.
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Join Date: Dec 2008
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I voted National
Cant stand Cunliffe! Russel Norman is a idiot as well from the eco-warrior Greens. Dirty Politics was a joke. If National did everything that's claimed in that book, fair play, very clever of them. Kim Dot Com needs to be turfed out. His moment of truth with his criminal mates and that joker Greenwald was a load of nonsense. Nothing wrong with a bit of surveillance. Govts should be allowed to keep a few secrets here and there. My preference was to vote NZ First but i stuck with National in case Winston teamed up with Labour. |
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I'm going to take that as satire of an idiot National voter.
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"Mediocrity is never so dangerous as when it is dressed up as sincerity." - Søren Kierkegaard Ian McCulloch the U2 fan: "Who buys U2 records anyway? It's just music for plumbers and bricklayers. Bono, what a slob. You'd think with all that climbing about he does, he'd look real fit and that. But he's real fat, y'know. Reminds me of a soddin' mountain goat." "And as for Bono, he needs a colostomy bag for his mouth." U2gigs: The most comprehensive U2 setlist database! Gig pictures | Blog |
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All politicians are the same. I'm sure Labour would get involved in dirty shenanigans if they had the chance
NZ doesnt need a bunch of crazy lefties with silly living wages. Bring on the fracking and stable govt for 3 years. Clearly NZ doesnt care about Dirty Politics. Hager's audience is left wing loonies, who hate John Key anyway so his book was bound to make no difference. As for Dot Com, Snowden and Assange. They all need to be locked up. |
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Good to know that MFI is a Tory. Noel would be so proud.
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#28 |
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I'm no Tory. I have an equal dislike for lefties and posh people. In fact i dislike most people.
__________________I'm not rich. I work for every penny and others should to. Labour are in complete disarray here. If it was David Shearer, Grant Robertson, Hipkins or Jacinda Ardern i may have voted for them. But i dont believe in raising the minimum wage or having a living wage so thats what made be vote for JK. Winston is a legend though. Shame he is so old. |
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