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25th July 2011, 00:22 | #763 |
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Um . . . yeah. There's no evidence for me to assume he is lying and he doesn't have a history of it so why wouldn't I?
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25th July 2011, 00:52 | #764 |
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I thought so.
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26th July 2011, 17:26 | #765 |
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One rule for me, another for people that I don't like
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/indu...Carten-company
Matt McCarten, he who operates a company that doesn't pay PAYE. Another useless leftie. |
26th July 2011, 17:33 | #766 |
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any websites for quick side by side comparison of key policies around yet?
this was decent once upon a time: http://www.policy.net.nz/ |
28th July 2011, 17:00 | #767 |
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Yep some good evidence why a return to FPP or something similar would be a step backwards.
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I would like to see the threshold lowered to 3-4 and have it so that if a party wins an electorate seat it can only bring in extra party members if it has passed the threshold. I assume that this would stop parties doing the type of deals where one party aims to give away the electorate to another party (as there would only be one seat up for grabs).
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29th July 2011, 16:15 | #769 |
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50 MMP, 60 regular electorate seats
* 2% gets you an MMP seat * Maori seats folded in to regular seats. And no, you don't need to have an electorate seat to get a List seat, that's just bat shit inane.
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29th July 2011, 17:49 | #770 |
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I'd like to see politicians be required to demonstrate a minimum level of competency before they can vote in parliament.
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29th July 2011, 18:00 | #771 |
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How would you determine their competency?
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29th July 2011, 18:15 | #772 |
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Set up a professional body that could administer examinations and set standards for professional behavior.
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29th July 2011, 18:21 | #773 |
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How would that professional body be appointed?
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29th July 2011, 18:26 | #774 |
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Who would oversee it? Who would ensure that it could not be stacked by any party? A noble idea, but I don't see it working.
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29th July 2011, 18:33 | #775 |
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I think MMP is a shitcunt system that allows shitcunts that nobody likes get elected to represent you, the people that didn't vote for them.
Example 1 - Margaret Wilson Example 2 - Roger FUCKING Douglas |
29th July 2011, 18:37 | #776 | |
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29th July 2011, 19:14 | #777 | |
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Cut out the psychic representative, and let us vote on /issues/.
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29th July 2011, 19:18 | #778 | |
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29th July 2011, 19:37 | #779 |
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Wait, Roger FUCKING Douglas? That cunt told me he isn't gay.
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Case in point I've had two tell me significant bare faced lies during my current search for a new home. One was trying to pass what was very obviously plastic laminate flooring off as wood laminate, and the other was trying to convince me that monolithically clad buildings from the early 1990s are not prone to leaking. |
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31st July 2011, 16:15 | #784 |
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The Maori Party poll 2 -3% and Mana Party 0.6%. So Maori Party would get 1 seat and Mana none.
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31st July 2011, 18:56 | #785 |
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Sounds to me like people voting on the Maori roll don't believe that those parties adequately represent their interests. Quick, force more of them into parliament despite the fact that they are not wanted there.
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31st July 2011, 19:14 | #786 |
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Sheeeeit.
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31st July 2011, 19:36 | #787 |
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1st August 2011, 16:53 | #788 |
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lol @ the red balloons comment Ab. Totally lost in-between all the whining twats though.
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16th August 2011, 18:10 | #789 |
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STOP CODDLING THE SUPER-RICH.
By general all-round super-rich guy Warren E. Buffett. Not quite the same scale here, but the principals carry through - kill or reduce GST and similar table-taxes, increase taxation at the top end.
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16th August 2011, 18:22 | #790 |
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Has Labour given up? Seriously. It's like, three months to the election and Labour's invisible. We've had 4 straight days devoted to the National conference and the food-stamps idea and not a peep out of Labour. No protests outside the conference, no carefully-scripted reply shooting the food-stamps idea down, nothing. National is out on the court shooting baskets all by itself.
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16th August 2011, 18:23 | #791 |
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Labour & the Electoral Act, good mates.
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16th August 2011, 18:24 | #792 |
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Ab: They'll fire up their union lackeys & rent-a-crowd, closer to the RWC no doubt.
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16th August 2011, 19:26 | #793 |
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But the food stamps are a good idea. Even labour will see this and not want to look even more stupid by suggesting otherwise.
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17th August 2011, 09:37 | #796 |
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Hasn't Key been quite vocal in stating that the pension isn't a benefit, it's an entitlement, as it is paid to all people over 65?
My one concern is that if they say it's going to be easy to restrict the payments from the youth card, what is to say it isn't as simple to exclude GST from fresh food? Apart from only certain vendors accepting the card - how would that work for rural recipients? They can only spend there dole card when they visit a big smoke? Last edited by StN : 17th August 2011 at 09:39. |
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17th August 2011, 12:11 | #800 |
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You think that Key purposely avoiding answering questions about his own comments is a good thing?
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