tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post5733434364914301647..comments2024-03-29T03:41:12.499+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: An Opposition Worthy Of The Name?Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-8758841450664090432016-05-31T09:50:36.370+12:002016-05-31T09:50:36.370+12:00Another stammering effort by Little on RNZ this mo...Another stammering effort by Little on RNZ this morning.<br /><br />Someone (maybe one of his highly paid 'media advisors') should tell him that in an interview:<br /><br />1 - Slow down and talk at a slow methodical pace<br /><br />2 - Have your points down-pat so it doesn't look like you're making it up as you go<br /><br />3 - Attempt to advance some points in line with the question but keep it succinct and straight forward as the interview will likely be 5 minutes max<br /><br />4 - Don't speak quickly; it conveys the impression that you're flustered and don't know your stuff. PM's don't get flustered in interviews.<br /><br />Who's telling Little all this?<br /><br />Who's providing Little with expert media/comms/policy advice?<br /><br />No-one it seems.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-25257761092128100132016-05-29T13:13:23.667+12:002016-05-29T13:13:23.667+12:00Jodi Ihaka is another from Little's office tha...Jodi Ihaka is another from Little's office that should be discarded.<br /><br />Another TV3 failure who hasn't done a thing for a very long time.<br /><br />Her twitter feed says she is a 'spin doctor for the red team'.<br /><br />Hard to know how she justifies a salary.<br /><br />More dead wood that surrounds Little that will lead to a substantial electoral failure in 2017.<br /><br />Mark my words.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-32582196722869116142016-05-27T09:07:46.544+12:002016-05-27T09:07:46.544+12:00David Cunliff's 'debate coach' Rob Sal...David Cunliff's 'debate coach' Rob Salmond is more dead wood in Little's office.<br /><br />Salmond is a laughing stock to right wing operators who see him as a try-hard and nothing much else.<br /><br />Clint Smith - another leftie who thinks he has a job for life 'advising' Little should also be chopped.<br /><br />The sooner Little axes them the better. <br /><br />Little's budget response speech in the House yesterday was dull & lacked any punch. A combination of Little as a poor orator and an underperforming speech writer.<br /><br />It was a chance for Little to outline an alternative budget but blew it - again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-36463874783847131522016-05-23T11:51:49.171+12:002016-05-23T11:51:49.171+12:00I heard Little on RNZ's 'Morning Report...I heard Little on RNZ's 'Morning Report' this morning.<br /><br />He seriously needs some media 'coaching'. Perhaps Brian Edwards can sort him out?<br /><br />He comes across as unconvincing & uncompelling. He almost mumbles into the microphone. Little can't make points in a clear & succinct fashion.<br /><br />Jim Knox may have got away with that style of communication but it won't cut anything in 2016.<br /><br />Last night (I can't remember the TV channel) he was making an announcement (the story was lost in the bulletin as the 4th or 5th story just before an ad break) and he had two microphones obscuring his face with his head down reading a speech word-for-word.<br /><br />Again uncompelling & unconvincing stuff.<br /><br />I wonder who does Little's 'media/public presentation' advice in his office and wonder more so if Little has a sense of being short-changed from this incompetant 'advice'.<br /><br />General elections on one level are a contest of personalities; Little's personality of a muddled mumbler won't win an election.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-83981888652019922462016-05-22T10:14:02.004+12:002016-05-22T10:14:02.004+12:00Certainly Little has to clean out his office - it&...Certainly Little has to clean out his office - it's full of deadwood union morons that have no real life experience etc<br /><br />Standing on a picket line isn't enough to plot and win a general election.<br /><br />It's good that Little sacked Sarah Stuart - she was useless. The housing stand-up in Otara with Little left standing around wondering what on earth was going on was a key example of Stuart's gross incompetance.<br /><br />Time for Little to keep going and clean out his office. Martin Taylor hasn't achieved anything. Time for him to be sent away.<br /><br />McCarten has been there long enough to also be shown the door. He's achieved nothing.<br /><br />When Little has talented people around him that can offer skilled advice that will lead to winning an election, he will be credible.<br /><br />The sad thing is: Little likes to be surrounded by the comforting sounds of the union movement.<br /><br />These sounds won't win an election.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-33731369189715556992016-05-19T13:19:52.091+12:002016-05-19T13:19:52.091+12:00The reality is that Little is not a PM in waiting ...The reality is that Little is not a PM in waiting and the Labour front bench is not a cabinet in waiting.<br /><br />Fact.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-76618507568406208892016-05-19T11:34:48.537+12:002016-05-19T11:34:48.537+12:00He who pays the piper calls the tune. Labour has t...He who pays the piper calls the tune. Labour has to get it's finance from the same sources as the Nats so their policies are the same.<br /><br />Not unique to NZ, the Yanx has a similar problem. Their pressie election is a run off between Hillary the Replicrat and Donny the Orangeman. At least the Britz have a real choice but Corbyn needs to purge the rightwing socialists out of the party there, people like Hilary Benn et al. Andy Little needs to do the same here.Bushbaptisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09657695593141243969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-63111880320718333742016-05-19T11:16:29.684+12:002016-05-19T11:16:29.684+12:00"But not Auckland The LA of the South Pacific..."But not Auckland The LA of the South Pacific:"<br /><br />Then move to Dunedin, or Christchurch, or even Nelson where it's almost totally white. Just stop moaning about it here.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-23225239852576338262016-05-19T09:06:07.998+12:002016-05-19T09:06:07.998+12:00What would John A Lee be thinking?What would John A Lee be thinking?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-80294488346653580752016-05-19T08:59:30.707+12:002016-05-19T08:59:30.707+12:00Blogger peter petterson said...
Will be a lon...Blogger peter petterson said...<br /><br /> Will be a long time before Caucasians are a minority in NZ because of multiculturalism. <br />....<br />But not Auckland The LA of the South Pacific:<br /><br /><br />The future of Auckland is the focus of a panel discussion chaired by Bill Ralston at the Auckland Museum. It features Marina Matthews from the law firm Chen Palmer; and Waikare Komene, a young architect from Otara, along with Professor Damon Salesa from the University of Auckland, and business commentator Rod Oram, well-known to RNZ listeners.<br /><br />Bill Ralston: I mean Marina picking up on the Herald thing and based on your massive study. Going back (I think it was 2001) 67%of our island city was pakeha. Now it is down to 54% and falling rapidlyIt wont be long before Pakeha Aucklanders are a minority. Is that necessarliy a good thing or could it be a bad thing?<br /><br />Marina Mathews: I think it could be a good thing. I'll just draw on my experiences working 10 years in the public sector in Wellington. I mean when you look at Wellington it has it's own ethnoburbs as well. Um the population and ethnicity of folk in Eastbourne (across the water) is a bit different to that of Cannons Creek by Porirua . So it is slightly systematic. It 's starting to grow across NZ. Asia NZ did a survey (a 2015 report)on the population of house buyers in Auckland. It was just a little more scientific than Phil Twyford may have ventured about people who had surnames that might have sounded like some foreign word who were house owners. What they did say is that 25% of the population of Pine Hill in NZ are Chinese. Um 10% of the population of house owners in Glenn Innes are Indian and so what is happening as a result is that businesses are having to alter what they are doing, how they are delivering and how they are coping. The number one seller at Pac nSave in Albany is white rice (not white potatoes). Another big seller is chicken feet. And so you are seeng the market (I love the French market in Parrnell) It's a lot different to if I went down to Otara on a saturday.<br /><br />Ralston: It's a lot different to if you went down Sandringham Road where there's a whole pile of medium spice shopsand Restuarants, um and down the back of Dominion Road there is the biggest Chinese Supermarket I've ever seen (bout 2 or 3 football fields in size) and you can buy whatever you want. That's the gift, I suppose, that diversity brings.<br /><br />Rod Oram: Absolutely! That makes Auckland a fabulously interesting city. And obviously the key thing we need to care a lot about about are that people are moving around and are appreciating and taking more interest year round rather ratjher than just turning up at Albert Park for a lantern show or Diwhali festival. And of course there are people who just hunker downin their neighbourhood or their community. But I'd like to thinkthere are people particularily amongst the younger generation who are strong in their own identity but are keen to appreciate other identities too.<br />http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/smarttalk/audio/201778519/smart-talk-at-the-auckland-museum-auckland-as-an-islandAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-87555234185093440202016-05-18T19:23:30.308+12:002016-05-18T19:23:30.308+12:00Jim Anderton stuck up for real Labour policies. Th...Jim Anderton stuck up for real Labour policies. The parliamentary party left labour then.peteswriteplacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04474922953916383101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-68730173720463011072016-05-18T19:21:48.813+12:002016-05-18T19:21:48.813+12:00Will be a long time before Caucasians are a minori...Will be a long time before Caucasians are a minority in NZ because of multiculturalism. <br />peteswriteplacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04474922953916383101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-23375649178617816902016-05-18T19:20:58.872+12:002016-05-18T19:20:58.872+12:00The Left has always been more factionalized and le...The Left has always been more factionalized and less disciplined than the Right, at least in most of recent NZ history. <br /><br />The idiot identify politics beloved by much of the left (I'm special!) exacerbates this. Transgender rights is CLEARY the most important issue facing the country - and I know all the jargon (unlike you)! Add another letter to LGBTIAQP!<br />Much easier and more fun than say coming up with a decent policy to tackle the Auckland housing crisis.<br /><br /><br />Also, MMP is pretty much designed to prevent Goff and Minto from being in the same party, if not working together.<br /><br />Also also, the current Labour party are utterly disorganised and incompetent, as per Little's 'Crowded House' debacle. Related, they are broke and demoralised.<br /><br />What DO they stand for anyway?<br /><br />Personally, I think Labour should hold a big party to celebrate their centenary and many PAST achievements - then disband.<br /><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-32086185336818653732016-05-18T19:20:24.878+12:002016-05-18T19:20:24.878+12:00Twyford is pushing through density and sprawl beca...Twyford is pushing through density and sprawl because "you have to balance the rights of existing home owners against those New Zealanders wanting to buy". That is a lie since it is government mandated population growth that is the problem. I hope Labour is punished and people vote for NZ First. You can't trust Labour.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-25613540420045181582016-05-18T19:19:59.434+12:002016-05-18T19:19:59.434+12:00But Muldoonism didn't have the same effects th...But Muldoonism didn't have the same effects that Douglas had on NZ. We got over Muldoon but were economically and socially savaged by the long term effects of Rogernomics.peteswriteplacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04474922953916383101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-73366616857638325322016-05-18T19:17:03.366+12:002016-05-18T19:17:03.366+12:00Labour has to come up with a vision and a reason f...Labour has to come up with a vision and a reason for people to trust and support Labour, and for labour to lead a unified opposition block. All the attacks on Labour by so-called Leftists just totally annoys me. Actually I have told a few of them to piss off! The demise of the union movement hasn't helped. The compulsory enforced voluntary provisions in the Employment Contracts Act (the oxymoron of the century) cut the movement off at the knees resulting in lower wages and worsening conditions.peteswriteplacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04474922953916383101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-7716111153272726132016-05-18T19:07:39.762+12:002016-05-18T19:07:39.762+12:00It reads like a plea to roll back MMP to return a ...It reads like a plea to roll back MMP to return a two party system.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-69549097880443135762016-05-18T18:56:43.282+12:002016-05-18T18:56:43.282+12:00Anon @16:00 you are so right. Labour as a broad ch...Anon @16:00 you are so right. Labour as a broad church has got nothing on the broad church of money...sorry I mean National as a unitary cause. Nick Jnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-61288945697905461612016-05-18T16:38:39.575+12:002016-05-18T16:38:39.575+12:00Hi Chris
No Left to Turn to asyermightesay ...Hi Chris<br /> No Left to Turn to asyermightesay <br />Cheers D J SDavid Stonenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-48666980069243542142016-05-18T16:00:27.994+12:002016-05-18T16:00:27.994+12:00You're overlooking the elephant in the room.
...You're overlooking the elephant in the room.<br /><br />National was able to hoover up the rest of the Right, simply because the rest of the Right were only mildly grumpy at the Nats. There has never been any great historical grudge between the right-wing tribes, because all they really care about is stopping Labour - which means that Muldoon today isn't persona non grata among the Right the way Douglas is to the Left.<br /><br />With the Left, you really are dealing with the wounds of civil war - and those people (more common on the Left than the Right) who prefer the purity of Opposition minor parties to a Labour compromise. This makes it much, much harder to unite.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-14292773490767558272016-05-18T15:57:30.756+12:002016-05-18T15:57:30.756+12:00It's a shame they cannot get their act togethe...It's a shame they cannot get their act together as there are some pretty hard working ministers in the labour party<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-56371403813647516972016-05-18T15:55:04.744+12:002016-05-18T15:55:04.744+12:00I am surprised and saddened that you can consider ...I am surprised and saddened that you can consider this post as helpful. I will send you a bucket of humility. Kindly sip from it every morning...Pdoggehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04251464243799154382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-57640730930671440672016-05-18T15:16:06.402+12:002016-05-18T15:16:06.402+12:00“If only we had an Opposition worthy of the name!”...“If only we had an Opposition worthy of the name!” How right they are.<br />.....<br />Don't forget that we (Pakeha) are starring down the barrel of becoming a minority in "Aotearoa".<br />Multiculturalism (many foreigners) was a Labour policy. It sent a message that the land mass known as New Zealand was not a closed club but open to anyone and only one half have received any benefit. Asian supermarkets are not sufficient recompense for the loss of national identity (unless you're <i>weely weely</i> into cooking). There has been no territorial swap (they play in our yard but they have nothing for us).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-34451799353743200372016-05-18T15:12:13.104+12:002016-05-18T15:12:13.104+12:00No need to give Labour a clap - they already have ...No need to give Labour a clap - they already have it. I'm not so sure it's an ideological issue even though rallying calls can be unifying under a powerful voice. It is much more that Labour recruits poor quality people. When you let blowhards of the lamentable quality of people like Paul Tolich in Rongotai play local king-maker, the outcome can only be disaster.Keith Shorrocks Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14699580856484738833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-64832813543540985732016-05-18T15:06:04.804+12:002016-05-18T15:06:04.804+12:00Chris a very good post, Labour are hoping for vict...Chris a very good post, Labour are hoping for victory through a coalition of NZ First the Greens and themselves. In the event that that became possible, the price that Labour and the people of NZ would have pay to Winnie the Pooh would finish them forever.<br />They are lost at sea, they have a compass but no one is capable of using it, but what use a compass if they have lost power and sail. Some one mentioned socialism mixed with a sensible well thought, costed economic policy, they were thrown overboard. <br />I am afraid that bobbing about, hoping and drifting is the course Labour have chosen.<br />They pray every day please Greens and NZ First save us, the reply from both is yes we will but we want*************************************************************. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com