tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671521.post604885444214390035..comments2023-10-26T05:03:32.201+13:00Comments on BIG NEWS: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671521.post-3546090350299771572008-04-23T06:05:00.000+12:002008-04-23T06:05:00.000+12:00At least we agree on Winston. apologise for assumi...At least we agree on Winston. apologise for assuming you voted National during MMP.<BR/><BR/>Dunne is hardly anybody you could categorically say is somebody burning the torch for the CR. He is flakey and not anybody we should trust with the CR policies. He has always been like this - and entire political success was based on the TVNZ worm. At best lucky.<BR/><BR/>I haven't spoken to Roger lately, nor Rodney. But it was a proposal designed to get the pundits talking. He is more than qualified to help the Nats strengthen their policies and give it some meat. <BR/><BR/>I don't get your last bit, sorry.Just my opinionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16614554113040355062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671521.post-55266367310735867962008-04-22T13:33:00.000+12:002008-04-22T13:33:00.000+12:00Clint Heine,Firstly I am not a Nat. Haven't voted ...Clint Heine,<BR/><BR/>Firstly I am not a Nat. Haven't voted National in an MMP election. Ever - and I know how MMP works. Inside out.<BR/><BR/>Secondly, I`d be pleased to see the back of WInston Peters when he doesnt get back in to Parliament after the election.So I am hardly hoping the control freak will get back in.<BR/><BR/>Third, Dunne is definately on the centre right, despite beinga pin boy for nothing( much).Sounds like I know him better than you do - after all he is my MP.<BR/><BR/>The Roger in cabinet was a very serious proposal if you talk to Douglas.<BR/><BR/>Finally a National led government does not mean that I have to support National. If so, you wouldn't be supporting ACT.Swimminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12913329810121951824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671521.post-64202451000981138102008-04-22T13:31:00.000+12:002008-04-22T13:31:00.000+12:00This comment has been removed by the author.Swimminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12913329810121951824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671521.post-64750196260832136592008-04-21T21:08:00.000+12:002008-04-21T21:08:00.000+12:00Nice one Heine....well said.Thats a bitch slapping...Nice one Heine....well said.<BR/><BR/>Thats a bitch slapping if I ever saw one....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671521.post-6628491738476781642008-04-20T10:30:00.000+12:002008-04-20T10:30:00.000+12:00Touche Dave, and very very simplistic. I fear you ...Touche Dave, and very very simplistic. I fear you don't have much of a grasp of how MMP works.<BR/><BR/>Let me try and go through your points and raise a few questions.<BR/><BR/>I don't blindly follow ACT. I am astonished that as a Nat you are so anti ACT. Especially as Brash ran with many ACT policies and almost WON the last election. <BR/><BR/>Douglas was voted back into cabinet and this forced Lange to resign.<BR/><BR/>Your analysis of an average ACT supporter is nonsense too. You're a clever chap, but you're wrong. I am not from a rich (or even close to it) family. When I ran Campus ACT in the late 90's all my branch (40+) were from middle to low income families. We had less money than the socialists and the Nats who did bugger all but sck up to the student unions. We supported ACT because we were not afraid to challenge the arrogance and sofly sofly approach that National adopts when they are in power.<BR/>National is the party that lost the nerve to cut taxes properly, fired Ruth, and couldn't even tame Winston consequently somebody you are trying to get back on board with.<BR/><BR/>Are you really sure Dunne is on the centre right? How long has he supported a Labour Govt? Is he your pin up boy for CR politics? And you wonder why the Nats can't deliver a undiluted policy agenda.<BR/><BR/>Every ACT member has been saying to party vote ACT, we are not interested in fighting every constituency seat as we know the goal is a National Govt. Name for me ONE party that has pretty much voted with and supported National for the last decade. <BR/><BR/>And get over the whole Roger in Cabinet idea. Even though he is better qualified than anybody in National for the job, it was not a serious proposal.<BR/><BR/>Why don't you get on board and support what is best for NZ, and that is a National led Govt that dismantles Labour policy and gets us back to a nation that isn't ruled by envy and greedy politicians.Just my opinionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16614554113040355062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6671521.post-38792948627623570592008-04-14T21:07:00.000+12:002008-04-14T21:07:00.000+12:00Only because the centre-right fail to understand M...Only because the centre-right fail to understand MMP - unlike Labour, who have the <B>Maorimander</B> --- not to mention Welfare for Families, the Electoral Fraud Bill, Kiwistealer, and all the rest..<BR/><BR/>The Maorimander gives Labour 7 extra seats. It means that National+ACT Polling at 51% will not form government. Every 20,000 people who party vote ACT while electorate vote National is another "Free" vote for ACT. <B>If only 100,000 people did this, Labour would never manage government again</B><BR/><BR/>Frankly if I really wanted to change the govt, though, I wouldn't piss about with the tarnished ACT brand. I'd take a bunch of well-respected regional NZ people: Michael Laws, perhaps, Annabel Young, Charlie Pedersen, and the like - <BR/>and run an <B>electorate only party</B> in country & regional seats.<BR/><BR/>Labour's got 10 Maori seats in overhang. The National party could have 10 or 20 rural seats - a <B>guananteed permanent majority</B>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com