No, I mean like a loonie left criminal who is hell bent in destroying National, but in his failure will implode Left Wing parties for at least 5 to 10 years. Maybe he is Robin Hood - for National.:D
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This afternoon the @WhaleDump Twitter account linked to a zipfile on the Mega.co.nz - Fatmans Mega website which contained 12 files that appear to be screengrabs of emails sent to and from Slater's gmail account. How close does one have to go to let everybody know that you (Dot Com) is the hacker. He is skating on thin ice and a little rumbling suggests there could be an arrest very soon.:cool: Hager next?????????????
Yes, looks like it could be a cliffhanger all right. At some stage, though, it will come back to policies and people. On the policy front there's not a hell of a lot of difference between Labour and National, although preferring National I could live with Labour. The trouble is, who knows what sort of policy concessions they'll have to make to the Greens, NZ First and IMP to be able to cobble together some sort of govt?
Regarding people, National have a far superior lineup of potential ministers (all right, apart from Judith Collins who should have got the boot long ago). All the competent ones in Labour are ABCs and there's only one person in the Greens, Kevin Hague, who I would like to see as a minister. Russel Norman as Minister of Finance, anyone?
Labour needs to get some decent people into parliament if it's going to have a chance of being a competent government, it should have been renewing like National has been but too late now. David Cunliffe has risen to his level of incompetence, he probably would have made a decent minister but no way a PM.
"Really? Are you serious? No, I mean, are you really serious?
Both Labour and the Greens are the parties for full employment. So are the Greens! That means getting people off the dole and working. If that means training them work in today's world, then good! Collectively both Labour and the Greens are also parties for open R&D. National wants to spend R&D their supporters only (i.e. the National party gets to choose where it gets spent!)
Snapper ... People who say such things are either National Party supporters or haven't studied the policies. Which are you?"
Labour have stated that they will be removing the 90 day trial period if they get in. Absolutely the worst thing they could do for unemployment. Labour/Greens or is it Greens/Labour might say they going to have full employment but easier said than done. Raising the minimum wage? unsure if that will raise unemployment or not but unlikely to be positive. MSD has started making real gains in shifting long-term unemployed and trying to break the cycle of intergenerational welfare so I think National are doing something right. I agree with you that there's a lot of stuff that National could be doing better and I'm certainly not a dyed-in-the-wool National voter but they've got my vote this time. Probably more of an anti Cunliffe/Norman/Harre/Dotcom than pro National but same result.
Who says Dotcom or Harre will have any say in a Labour coalition? They'd only need the Greens and NZFirst. By the time all the dirty politics has been aired, Winston won't side with National.
Have you met any of these MPs you're so worried about, Snapper? Or are you just going on the press, and pro-National blogs?
God no, haven't met any any of them, the same as 99% of the rest of the population (though I did go to school with Kevin Hague, very smart guy). Re the dirty politics, if I was famous and had the choice of Nicky Hagar reading my emails or the GCSB I think I'd choose the GCSB!