tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post60433505612689158..comments2024-03-29T00:44:42.046+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: All That Glitters: James Shaw At The Ika Seafood Bar & Grill.Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-39666786675758541252015-07-04T12:07:31.226+12:002015-07-04T12:07:31.226+12:00The problem the Greens have is trying to blend a p...The problem the Greens have is trying to blend a party around an incoherent set of ideas. You would expect a Green Party to be based on sound science and the biological sciences to trump the social sciences (just us physics trumps engineering) yet clearly the Green Party paradigm is based on the current views of the sociology department. You see this in the way they view Auckland, Vancouver, Toronto, Melbourne and London (house prices, quality of life, sustainability). There is just no way around these fundamental issues (waffle aside)jhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-3189627856626933602015-07-03T18:49:58.609+12:002015-07-03T18:49:58.609+12:00Jeez, Chris, Shaw isn't the first politician w...Jeez, Chris, Shaw isn't the first politician who's asked others to help him express himself. All that matters is that he said those words! They are his now and we can rightly judge his future actions by them. Unless you think the speech writer was equivalent to Crosby Textor instructing John Key on how to lie to the public? Really Chris?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-81511655679627615752015-07-03T16:20:22.928+12:002015-07-03T16:20:22.928+12:00I have to say that after meeting James a few times...I have to say that after meeting James a few times I couldn't understand why everyone was picking him to be a closet corporatist. He's staunchly Green in pretty much all its current policies and that is a good thing. The only difference is that he presents a different style to the stereotype that the Greens are burdened with. I don't think he is against the free market system, simply the excesses of it, and that is where a lot of Green Party members like myself would be at too - government built housing, protection of the environment, good wages and workers rights.Davidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-27185732544421840272015-07-02T20:23:34.176+12:002015-07-02T20:23:34.176+12:00No, he said in his maiden speech to Parliament tha...No, he said in his maiden speech to Parliament that even Thatcher admitted the threat of climate change. He was pointing out the Nats were well behind the times.<br /><br />What you read was the result of either the glorious illiteracy of our media, or their deliberate misrepresentation of the facts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-22727735035920827052015-07-02T12:16:24.984+12:002015-07-02T12:16:24.984+12:00I read somewhere he was an admirer of Margaret Tha...I read somewhere he was an admirer of Margaret Thatcher. Enough said.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.com