Colin James thinks Labour may have a chance in 2017 after all.
http://www.colinjames.co.nz/the-big-...bours-rebuild/
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Colin James thinks Labour may have a chance in 2017 after all.
http://www.colinjames.co.nz/the-big-...bours-rebuild/
It won't if the media and Labour make their top priority whether and when Cameron Slater and John Key texted each other instead of economic policy. The electorate have already voted on so-called dirty politics and overwhelmingly said they are not interested and they will vote against anyone who tries to shove it down their throats.
I can accept many things in life, but I cannot tolerate being lied to. I think there are plenty more voters who think the same way, going on the comments following these articles. In any case, the next election is a while off. Labour will develop their policies further, which will make a change from National's market-driven stasis.
But you didn't mind when dc lied in his job application for Labour leader?
Do you mean this stuff?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/poli...resh-CV-claims
Maybe his CV was slightly embellished, or out of date in parts. It's another example of the Labour-bashing machine that was in full force back then. It's not to the same scale as barefaced lying by the elected PM, to the press and to the house of parliament, is it?
If its not the truth it's a lie. And there was many.
i get that the Opposition want to cement in the mind of the voters that Mr Key is a liar. Fair enough, it's the job of the Opposition to do this. But IMO the longer it goes on, the less likely it is that people will find it important, or believable or even interesting. All Mr Key has to do is repeat like a broken record - I said the wrong thing and I put it right. Plenty of NZers have grown up with "It's the putting right that counts".
Sorry Artemis, I don't think that's good enough for a PM, or any MP for that matter. "Putting it right" refers to fixing an electrical appliance while it might be technically outside its warranty. Or going the extra mile. It does not cover deliberately lying to the public or the house of representatives. If we can't expect a high standard from our PM, who else in NZ can we trust? Parliament is an extension of the legal/justice system.
In any case, it's not the lie about whether he is, or isn't, texting Cameron Slater most days. It's the much bigger one about whether he knew all about what Jason Ede was up to.
Can't you see the scale of this, NBT or Artemis, et al? Using State information and processes, even State staff, to help undermine political opposition through selective information provided to third party bloggers? And then lying about your involvement? It's several steps too far.
Heh. You might very well say that. The 'furore' is mostly about who texted whom and when. Can't you see that people don't care? Maybe there are wider implications but i reckon most people neither know nor care about them. They know about texts though. Texting is part of their world. Mr Ede is not.