An Open Letter To Winston Peters
Kia ora Mr Peters,
With the counting of Special Votes, a clearer picture has emerged as to what voters in this country have chosen. The majority have voted against National and it’s allies.
Year: 2017
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Why Duncan Garner’s Kmart checkout metaphor is actually delightfully perfect
Here is our great anthropologist at work as he wanders into the great snake of the Kmart checkout line…
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The wisdom of Nandor and where the Greens politically turn to next
The truth for the Greens is that their dreams of being a 15% Party are dependent on the strength or weakness at any given time of Labour. The Greens vote was actually far softer than anyone suspected and with Jacinda now in charge of Labour, it is unlikely to woo much of that back.
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Why Lizzie Marvelly’s compulsory voting idea isn’t a solution
If you chose to not engage with the political process, it’s your right to have the agency to do that. I don’t think forcing people to have their say is a positive response to voter apathy.
‘Vote or else’ isn’t particularly inspirational is it?
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What the Specials mean for the election result
What has to happen now is Labour strategists need to take NZ First policy and Green policy and weave them together with Labour values to create hybrid ideas that provide big vision. The question is whether or not Labour have the imagination and courage to provide that type of political leadership.
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REVIEW: Blade Runner 2 – Masterpiece Cinema or Artificial Intelligence narrative from the computer program running our reality?
For me the scene which most perfectly summed up the confusion of the manufactured reality of this hollowing out of the human experience is when an artificial intelligence program synchs over the image of a real life biological woman to have sex with a synthetic life form.
If there is a better metaphor for modern humanity, I’ve yet to see it.
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REVIEW: Snort
There’s been so many late night improv shows in Auckland 0ver the decades and being an inner city denizen I’ve managed to catch most of them. I’ll see your Improv Bandits and raise you Michael Hurst’s & Oliver Driver’s Watershed Theatre improv, so my cynical and blackened splinter of a heart demands much to giggle but Snort is some of the best I’ve seen.
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The Liberal Agenda – Rockin for West Papua 2017 – Auckland Gig 2
WHEN: 4pm-9pm
WHERE: Golden Dawn, Auckland
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 8th October 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Observations on the 2017 Election campaign… (tekau)
At 2PM today (7 October 2017), the Electoral Commission announced the final vote results, including some 446,287 special votes cast (17% of total votes cast).
As a result, National has lost two seats and the Greens and Labour each pick up one seat in Parliament. The Green’s Golriz Ghahraman and Labour’s Angie Warren-Clark enter Parliament on the Party List.