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Is Barnaby running?
Rick
Is Barnaby running?
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Re: NZ Elections
One bit I've never understood, given his heritage, is Peters's evident hostility to the Mäori Party and to Mäori in politics.
The US has characters such as Justice Clarence Thomas, who seems biased against black people. Is Peters that sort?Comment
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I had hoped this little chat would veer more toward the "President" part of the OP(?) as in NZ being a Republic (or whatever it is that Presidents are president of) rather than being a British Colony or Australia's baby sister. We may well be a group of islands in the Pacific, but we are not "Pacific Islanders" even though most of them seem to be here. I chose Winston for no other reason than he seems to be the only MP who has the necessary pluck/spunk to make such a radical change. What say you?
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Norm"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." Edward John Phelps
“It is your attitude, more than your aptitude, that will determine your altitude.” Zig ZiglarComment
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"I think that the incumbents need to go take a break, but I'm not sure about any possible coalition as a replacement." - JW
I think you have summed up the feeling of much of the country. Plan A is getting stale but Plan B is still undercooked.
(Now I am thinking about cakes. Better than politics anyway)
MikeComment
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As a Canadian in a roughly similar country politically (a parliamentary constitutional monarchy with Queen Elizabeth II as our nominal head of state), I say don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Robert Mugabe got elected - once. GW Bush got elected - almost. Donald Trump got elected - kind of. It is far from the worst possible system, and it shows remarkable resilience and adaptability as the world changes.What say you?Comment
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If it were up to me I'd give him the job of governor of the Auckland Islands, required to be in residence for the full term, with no cellphone or radio.
Being as no one lives there, he wouldn't need any staff for his office, could spend his days fishing. On his own.
John WelsfordAn expert is but a beginner with experience.Comment
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No, we have sufficient Joyces of our own...
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One bit I've never understood, given his heritage, is Peters's evident hostility to the Mäori Party and to Mäori in politics.
The US has characters such as Justice Clarence Thomas, who seems biased against black people. Is Peters that sort?
"Hostility" might be a bit strong of a word as yet, more an annoyance or irritation that a group with so little to offer is so well rewarded as I said earlier about Maori being pandered to as though we owe them a living (depending who you talk to, and who is honest about it). Beats me why the NZ taxpayer should be forking out for Maori's petty grievances when their beef should be with the British Crown? What's that line about "the sins of the fathers being visited on the children"?
I sometimes suspect that Maori hold little workshops all over the country periodically to re-invent their "culture" to qualify for another hand-out.
I hear that Maori language is now compulsory in schools ? What a crock! My basic smattering of Latin has served be far better than anything I ever learnt about Maori. Besides, the language is not pretty (spitting consonants like a cantankerous child) and the "culture" has no value in the real world outside of the mud-eye (spell-check didn't like the way I spelled it).
I'm sure the USA didn't get to be "the greatest Nation on Earth" (albeit self-proclaimed) by embracing the Sioux or the Cherokee or the Eskimos or whoever, any more than Australia became what it is today by embracing the Aborigines. How can we ever hope to be a First World Nation if we let third-world cultures (native and imported) drag us back to the dark ages?
There must be a million stories of how Maori are creaming it off the NZ taxpayer: Funny how $800k made some voodoo ghost disappear so we could put a road through? Land that the early settlers made productive has often become a "sacred Site" because some mythical ancestor supposedly took a dump there. They tried to claim ownership of the Wellington waterfront until they learnt it was all reclaimed land. They want to claim ownership of the foreshore and seabed so they can exact a fee from all who cross it. Un-effin-believable! And we let this happen?
That's my rant for a while
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Norm"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything." Edward John Phelps
“It is your attitude, more than your aptitude, that will determine your altitude.” Zig ZiglarComment
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