tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post6089111809259337480..comments2024-03-29T11:07:51.893+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: Ocean's Fourteen: How David Cunliffe Plans To Pull Off The Political Heist Of The Century.Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-84270488641857067432014-05-31T13:11:17.054+12:002014-05-31T13:11:17.054+12:00People are disillusioned all over.
http://www.the...People are disillusioned all over.<br /><br />http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/30/denamrk-cotes-meat-balls-party-ordinary-dppGuerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-72479828177990669982014-05-31T09:26:47.837+12:002014-05-31T09:26:47.837+12:00"
As Frank Field, that admirably plain-speak..."<br /> As Frank Field, that admirably plain-speaking Labour MP, told Wednesday’s Today programme on Radio 4, it was different when you had a European Union comprised of countries with very similar standards of living. The minute you gave drastically poor countries free entry to the UK, the inevitable happened. Since 1997, four million people have come to Britain – the equivalent of a city the size of Birmingham – yet there has been no concomitant expansion of roads, schools or hospitals. It explains why it is now easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to buy a coffee in England from a native English speaker.<br /><br />It also explains why regions such as my own East Anglia voted Ukip so overwhelmingly last week. If places such as Peterborough turned purple with apoplexy, it is not because its residents are necessarily racist or because they saw in Nigel Farage the finest statesman since Winston Churchill. It is more likely to be because women in labour are often turned away by one of the region’s major maternity units, which has several times actually locked its doors, so difficult does it find a soaring, immigrant-driven birth rate. A midwife friend who was seconded there described conditions as “third-world”.<br /><br />Until recently, it would have been “racist” to point this out. Four years ago in Rochdale, when Gillian Duffy challenged Gordon Brown on immigration, the affronted prime minister shied away and muttered darkly about that “bigoted woman”. It is quite clear now who was the bigot. Brown was typical of a political class that became shamefully biased against its own people. In thrall to a post-war European ideal, they had scant interest in the difficulties and discomfort it caused ordinary people on the ground. If anyone complained, simply shut them up by hissing “bigot” or “racist”. "<br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/10860492/Are-we-all-racist-now.html<br /><br />Cunliffe can't be half-in half out.<br />there is an issue of perception of the reality of the human condition: do foreigners really "enrich us" (other than well off elites)? Is it our problem they have out bred themselves into poverty? etc<br />....jhnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-80202437098536911122014-05-30T12:48:10.862+12:002014-05-30T12:48:10.862+12:00There are precedents, both in New Zealand and the ...There are precedents, both in New Zealand and the UK, for the largest single party not necessarily forming the government (albeit under FPP). It happened here in 1911, and in the UK in 1923.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-81246134734133306672014-05-30T12:17:18.988+12:002014-05-30T12:17:18.988+12:00The prospect now of getting Labour people out to v...The prospect now of getting Labour people out to vote for Cunliff has just been made a little harder but more fun to watch.<br />He has to be saying; "Vote for me and I will sit ahead Cabinet with Russell & Winston making a glorious left future for NZ. Oh and wait there is more. I will need Hone & Lierla too" ... and paymaster Dotty pulling their strings.<br />Bound to get the Labour vote out eh!!CarbonGuiltynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-28735658964088806492014-05-30T09:44:09.897+12:002014-05-30T09:44:09.897+12:00'to rouse this sleeping psephological giant...'to rouse this sleeping psephological giant'<br /><br />Splendid phrase, that!Scotthttp://readingthemaps.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-70269783827177822262014-05-29T15:40:00.000+12:002014-05-29T15:40:00.000+12:00Laila Harré just added another dimension for you t...Laila Harré just added another dimension for you to 'sit back relax enjoy and watch'.<br /><br />BTW, the more National thinks its going to win the better eh!Katnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-92102056816582633642014-05-29T13:01:55.963+12:002014-05-29T13:01:55.963+12:00Surely your next column will be entitled 'How ...Surely your next column will be entitled 'How to Buy A Political Party'....and then explore how some on the left can be bought out although the price appears to be a bit higher than a cup of tea.Jigsawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13906156865367357834noreply@blogger.com