Bill Ralston: Forget logic, it’s election year – The thought of spending 48 hours trapped in a remote country lodge with 94 bureaucrats “team building” and discussing property maintenance ranks alongside being severely beaten with a half-dead hedgehog when it comes to my list of… [NZ Politics]
Bill Ralston misses the point entirely. Bill, perception IS reality. End of lesson.
His best line was unfortunately his last.
[quote]Like Hillary Clinton in her doomed race with Barack Obama, all Helen Clark can do now is hang in there and desperately hope her opponent shoots himself in the foot.[/quote]
Matt McCarten: Politics masquerades as research as you’d expect in election year – Since
Labour’s been in power, we haven’t heard a lot from the Business
Roundtable.
When Roger Douglas and Ruth Richardson et al were running the country
into the ground, the Roundtable was New Zealand’s foremost right-wing
think… [NZ Politics]
I can’t be bothered critiquing Matt McCarten he is becoming more and more envious and churlish the closer to evisceration labour and the left comes. He would do better to set up a new party to hoover up discontent with the parlous state the left has become under the Clarkists.
