May 2008

Greens should have gone with Maori – Tanczos – Outgoing Green MP Nandor Tanczos said last night he believes the Green Party made a mistake putting its support behind Labour in the 2005 election and would have been better off talking to the Maori Party as it was now.
Mr Tanczos… [NZ Politics]

The Greens are turning feral. After years of being Madge Allsop to Labour’s Dame Edna they are getting puss-faced.

Nandor Tanzcos, perhaps the only Green I respect politically despite his silly hair, is finally getting up the gumption to talk some sense. He has suggested that the Greens made a mistake in sideding with Labour.

They did, but not for the reasons that Nador suggests. The problem with the Greens is that they aren’t really green. They were captured sometime ago by un-reconstituted marxists and maoists. The Green message is only really in their name. Now if the Greens were truly Green and adopted policies that weren’t based in a large part of hard socialism then they might get taken seriously.

Being truly Green doesn’t mean you have to act and look stupid either. Take Seeby Woodhouse for example, he is a capitalist, a technologist and he is Green, in fact he is probably more Green than most of the Greens caucus put together.

If the Greens focussed on Green issues and sat on teh cross benches instead of being toadies and lickspittles to Labour then they could grab 10% and together with the Maori Party be oart of every government for the forseeable.

Gordon Copeland who was awarded the Wally of the Year Award by the DomPost has just scooped second and third prize in the same contest.

The fool complianed to the Press Council that the DomPost labelled him a wally, and they rejected his complaint making him truly the Wally of the Year.

Are the feet from

A) Mick Jagger

B) Cameron Brewer

C) Mark Walden

D) Rick Neville

E) Gilda K

F) Shayne Currie

G) (p)Ricardo

Answers in the comments as the poll thingy isn’t working.

If you aren’t using Firefox 3 you are dead stupid.

It rocks, is blistering fast has loads more features.

For those of the enlightened that use a Mac it makes it look native now and work a whole lot less clunky.

I think I may well be in love. Firefox 2 was so-so, definately better than the other one but not quie as good as Safari. Version 3 I believe surpasses Safari now by quite a long way.

Once again Open Source shows the way.

Today we find that Labour has it’s own “Hollowmen” story. Colin Espiner has revealed in the The Press official documents that show Labour and its cabinet in 1989 developed strategies to try and stave of the rout that became the 1990 election.

Why is this pertinent?

Well because two cabinet ministers at the time and indeed the Deputy Prime Minister were Helen Clark and  Michael Cullen.

Is it any wonder that they employ the very same tactics now in their vain attempt to try to stave off defeat.

[quote]Labour feared Winston Peters and Ruth Richardson would lead the National Party and tried to destroy the man now helping prop to up the Government, secret papers reveal.

A document headed Interim Report to Cabinet on anti-National Strategy shows the lengths to which the fourth Labour government went to cling to power before its rout at the 1990 election.

According to the confidential document, one of the main aims of its strategy was to “render a Peters-Richardson combination impossible” and to “destroy Peters”.

The paper went through the opposition front bench, targeting MPs and assigning “targets” to Cabinet ministers.[/quote]

Labour needed this little official document like it needs cancer. It will do nothing to quell the rising tensions coming between Labour and NZ First and indeed now the Greens. If you are in any doubt do some substitution with little bit of the document.

[quote]Among the targets was Mr Bolger, who was to be described as “lame duck”, “weak, boring, timid, gutless” and “not up to being PM”.

The strategies included ignoring Mr McKinnon (“Don Who?”), discrediting Miss Richardson (“inconsistent, expedient”) and dismissing Mr Peters as “arrogant, flashy, superficial, lacking in substance”.[/quote]

Very familiar attacks aren’t they? Worse for Labour though is that unlike the Hager work of fiction these documents are official government documents. I wonder how many more there are of these to come out now Colin Espiner has dropped the first one.

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Budget fails to do the trick for the Government – Labour’s tax-cutting Budget has had no immediate impact on its poll rating in today’s Herald -DigiPoll survey, the first major poll that includes a large post-Budget sample.
The economy has moved into top spot as the issue most… [NZ Politics]

They’re gone burger, no bounce for the government in the latest Herald-Digipoll. Freefall more like it. The government has been caught like a possum in the headlights. Drunk on power they haven’t realised how out of touch they are and thought the budget would save them. They were wrong, dead wrong. National despite dropping slightly has actually increased its lead.

The poll was taken across the budget and Labour actually dropped after delivery of the budget.

Bad news for Helen Clark too, she continues to trail Prime Minister in Waiting John Key 44.6-42.3.

Staff turnover at the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment was nearly 100% for the past year.

This is simply appalling and shows a government department in trouble. In the private sector consultants are called in to fix departments or businesses with a staff turnover of more than 30%. It usually results in the manager being being fired or at the very least team leaders. For a department to have almost a 100% staff turnover on one years shows how appalling inept senior managers must be and how utterly dysfuctional the department is.

Worse still the changes follow the change of the head of the department. Gee I wonder what the problem is?

There must be going to be an election soon. Why?

Because Mallardourous is at it again claiming “bagmen” are at large this time though they are “Aussie Bagmen”.

[quote]Mr Mallard, Labour’s 10th-ranked Cabinet minister, accused Mr Key yesterday of secret talks about plans to sell the assets of State Owned Enterprises and lease them back.[/quote]

A National spokesman described Mallard’s latest “bagman” allegations as “bullshit” and that they were still waiting for him to prove the last “bagman” allegations.

Sheesh Labour are one trick ponies.