• Re: Complete and utter desperation from Andrew "Bogus" Little

    From Pooh@3:770/3 to JohnO on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 16:37:10
    On 13/09/2016 4:20 p.m., JohnO wrote:
    With Labour tanking to an entirely consistent 26% and National steady on 48%,
    Andy has released Labour's internal UMR poll with results wildly different to basically every other poll:

    http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/umr.jpg

    But of course we see nothing of the UMR poll questions, poll size, method
    etc.


    Questions: Is Labour the only party capable of saving New Zealand?

    Is National the only party practising dirty politics?

    Is Andrew Little going to be the saviour of the party in the
    next election?

    Poll size: 47

    Method: Bailing up the opposition MPs on their way to smoko...

    In other words, Angry Andy has released a big fat lie.

    My guess is that the UMR poll was conducted at a union meeting.


    That'd probably have given a result little Andy didn't want JohnO.much
    safer to poll MPs.

    Pooh

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  • From JohnO@3:770/3 to All on Monday, September 12, 2016 21:20:51
    With Labour tanking to an entirely consistent 26% and National steady on 48%, Andy has released Labour's internal UMR poll with results wildly different to basically every other poll:

    http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/umr.jpg

    But of course we see nothing of the UMR poll questions, poll size, method etc.

    In other words, Angry Andy has released a big fat lie.

    My guess is that the UMR poll was conducted at a union meeting.

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  • From Rich80105@3:770/3 to All on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 20:28:34
    On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:20:51 -0700 (PDT), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    With Labour tanking to an entirely consistent 26% and National steady on 48%, Andy has released Labour's internal UMR poll with results wildly different to basically every other poll:

    http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/umr.jpg

    But of course we see nothing of the UMR poll questions, poll size, method etc.

    In other words, Angry Andy has released a big fat lie.

    My guess is that the UMR poll was conducted at a union meeting.

    Even Farrar admits that UMR do a good job - no it was independent.

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  • From Liberty@3:770/3 to rich80105@hotmail.com on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 21:08:20
    On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:28:34 +1200, Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:

    On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:20:51 -0700 (PDT), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    With Labour tanking to an entirely consistent 26%
    and National steady on 48%, Andy has released Labour's
    internal UMR poll with results wildly different to basically every other poll: >>
    http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/umr.jpg

    But of course we see nothing of the UMR poll questions, poll size, method etc.

    In other words, Angry Andy has released a big fat lie.

    My guess is that the UMR poll was conducted at a union meeting.

    Even Farrar admits that UMR do a good job - no it was independent.
    Farrar also said
    "But I will comment on this specific poll as it is vastly different to every other poll published."

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  • From Rich80105@3:770/3 to All on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 21:20:40
    On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 21:08:20 +1200, Liberty <liberty48@live.com>
    wrote:

    On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:28:34 +1200, Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:

    On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:20:51 -0700 (PDT), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com> >>wrote:

    With Labour tanking to an entirely consistent 26%
    and National steady on 48%, Andy has released Labour's
    internal UMR poll with results wildly different to basically every other poll: >>>
    http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/umr.jpg

    But of course we see nothing of the UMR poll questions, poll size, method etc.

    In other words, Angry Andy has released a big fat lie.

    My guess is that the UMR poll was conducted at a union meeting.

    Even Farrar admits that UMR do a good job - no it was independent.
    Farrar also said
    "But I will comment on this specific poll as it is vastly different to every other poll published."
    Whereas it is actually consistent within the margins for error given
    by the respective polling companies. Do you expect anyting other than
    spin from Farrar?

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  • From JohnO@3:770/3 to All on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 13:21:30
    On Tuesday, 13 September 2016 21:20:20 UTC+12, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 21:08:20 +1200, Liberty <liberty48@live.com>
    wrote:

    On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:28:34 +1200, Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:

    On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:20:51 -0700 (PDT), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com> >>wrote:

    With Labour tanking to an entirely consistent 26%
    and National steady on 48%, Andy has released Labour's
    internal UMR poll with results wildly different to basically every other
    poll:

    http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/umr.jpg

    But of course we see nothing of the UMR poll questions, poll size, method
    etc.

    In other words, Angry Andy has released a big fat lie.

    My guess is that the UMR poll was conducted at a union meeting.

    Even Farrar admits that UMR do a good job - no it was independent.
    Farrar also said
    "But I will comment on this specific poll as it is vastly different to every
    other poll published."
    Whereas it is actually consistent within the margins for error given
    by the respective polling companies. Do you expect anyting other than
    spin from Farrar?

    Hilarious!

    Farrar doesn't need to spin - Labour's polling has been consistently shite since 2008. Angry Andy's the one who needs spin, and Dickbot's like an out of balance washing machine.

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  • From george152@3:770/3 to JohnO on Wednesday, September 14, 2016 08:28:05
    On 9/13/2016 4:20 PM, JohnO wrote:
    With Labour tanking to an entirely consistent 26% and National steady on 48%,
    Andy has released Labour's internal UMR poll with results wildly different to basically every other poll:

    http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/umr.jpg

    But of course we see nothing of the UMR poll questions, poll size, method
    etc.

    In other words, Angry Andy has released a big fat lie.

    My guess is that the UMR poll was conducted at a union meeting.


    Well if he didn't pretend that he was popular the knives would be headed
    for his back...
    No-one in liebor management can be that thick as to believe the angry
    little man

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  • From JohnO@3:770/3 to All on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 13:27:14
    On Tuesday, 13 September 2016 21:20:20 UTC+12, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 21:08:20 +1200, Liberty <liberty48@live.com>
    wrote:

    On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:28:34 +1200, Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:

    On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:20:51 -0700 (PDT), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com> >>wrote:

    With Labour tanking to an entirely consistent 26%
    and National steady on 48%, Andy has released Labour's
    internal UMR poll with results wildly different to basically every other
    poll:

    http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/umr.jpg

    But of course we see nothing of the UMR poll questions, poll size, method
    etc.

    In other words, Angry Andy has released a big fat lie.

    My guess is that the UMR poll was conducted at a union meeting.

    Even Farrar admits that UMR do a good job - no it was independent.
    Farrar also said
    "But I will comment on this specific poll as it is vastly different to every
    other poll published."
    Whereas it is actually consistent within the margins for error given
    by the respective polling companies. Do you expect anyting other than
    spin from Farrar?

    Dickbot, Angry Andy released a cellphone photo of a polling report. It has no backup data on poll size, margin of error, method, or the question asked.

    And he expects us to take it seriously? Laughable, from a desperate little man.

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  • From JohnO@3:770/3 to george on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 14:42:56
    On Wednesday, 14 September 2016 08:28:11 UTC+12, george wrote:
    On 9/13/2016 4:20 PM, JohnO wrote:
    With Labour tanking to an entirely consistent 26% and National steady on
    48%, Andy has released Labour's internal UMR poll with results wildly different
    to basically every other poll:

    http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/umr.jpg

    But of course we see nothing of the UMR poll questions, poll size, method
    etc.

    In other words, Angry Andy has released a big fat lie.

    My guess is that the UMR poll was conducted at a union meeting.


    Well if he didn't pretend that he was popular the knives would be headed
    for his back...
    No-one in liebor management can be that thick as to believe the angry
    little man

    I think the caucus has no interest in knifing him as nobody wants the job ahead
    of an election they expect to lose. Better to let Andy take the rap and start afresh after the election.

    Next off the rank will be Gracinda.

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  • From Liberty@3:770/3 to JohnO on Wednesday, September 14, 2016 11:33:45
    On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 13:21:30 -0700 (PDT), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Tuesday, 13 September 2016 21:20:20 UTC+12, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 21:08:20 +1200, Liberty <liberty48@live.com>
    wrote:

    On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:28:34 +1200, Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >
    On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:20:51 -0700 (PDT), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    With Labour tanking to an entirely consistent 26%
    and National steady on 48%, Andy has released Labour's
    internal UMR poll with results wildly different to basically every other poll:

    http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/umr.jpg

    But of course we see nothing of the UMR poll questions, poll size, method
    etc.

    In other words, Angry Andy has released a big fat lie.

    My guess is that the UMR poll was conducted at a union meeting.

    Even Farrar admits that UMR do a good job - no it was independent.
    Farrar also said
    "But I will comment on this specific poll as it is vastly different to every other poll published."
    Whereas it is actually consistent within the margins for error given
    by the respective polling companies. Do you expect anyting other than
    spin from Farrar?

    Hilarious!

    Farrar doesn't need to spin - Labour's polling has been consistently shite since 2008.
    Angry Andy's the one who needs spin, and Dickbot's like an out of balance washing machine.


    "Dickbot's like an out of balance washing machine."

    LOL

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  • From Newsman@3:770/3 to All on Wednesday, September 14, 2016 00:14:18
    On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:20:51 -0700 (PDT), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    With Labour tanking to an entirely consistent 26% and National steady on 48%, Andy has released Labour's internal UMR poll with results wildly different to basically every other poll:

    So, why not just for one grudging moment step outside your dully
    echoing chamber of interminable boredom-relief twittering and into the
    light of day to receive some much needed enlightenment:

    "All over the west, the left is in crisis. It cannot find answers to
    three urgent problems: the disruptive force of globalisation, the rise
    of populist nationalism, and the decline of traditional work."

    http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/06/does-the-left-have-a-future

    For another,collateral scenario:

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11702299

    Now strip out English's "empty-calories" GDP numbers from the real and
    actual wealth-producing stats and see what's really left: that's
    right - nothing but pernicious low labour-productivity (more than 40
    unbroken years of it) in an increasingly debt-driven consumption
    economy based on foreign company ownership, foreign credit and
    imported goods. Even New Zealand's grossly over-loaned private
    dwellings are, effectively, owned by......foreign banks.

    (Total National debt has now zoomed past the half-a-billion dollar
    mark.)

    And tourism is now this country's principal earner, and, along with
    "poverty" maladies like rheumatic fever, it doesn't get more third
    world than that.

    As some UK visitors observed a couple of years ago, "The imported
    coffee made on imported machinery by a doubtless imported barista is
    great and the scenery's grand, but apart from the latter, is there
    anything at all in this country - even the sheep - that New
    Zealanders can truthfully call entirely their own?"

    IOW, the entire economic shebang is a poisoned chalice for any who, in
    their crazed and all-consuming lust for power, would be so precipitate
    as to try and seize the incumbency from such a bunch of clueless, directionless, headless chickens.

    As Tom Frewen put it all those years ago, none of them would have even
    the faintest hope of making it onto the drains board of some French
    provincial town.

    Bullseye, Tom!

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  • From george152@3:770/3 to Liberty on Wednesday, September 14, 2016 11:41:39
    On 9/14/2016 11:33 AM, Liberty wrote:
    On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 13:21:30 -0700 (PDT), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Tuesday, 13 September 2016 21:20:20 UTC+12, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 21:08:20 +1200, Liberty <liberty48@live.com>
    wrote:

    On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:28:34 +1200, Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:

    On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:20:51 -0700 (PDT), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote:

    With Labour tanking to an entirely consistent 26%
    and National steady on 48%, Andy has released Labour's
    internal UMR poll with results wildly different to basically every other poll:

    http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/umr.jpg

    But of course we see nothing of the UMR poll questions, poll size, method etc.

    In other words, Angry Andy has released a big fat lie.

    My guess is that the UMR poll was conducted at a union meeting.

    Even Farrar admits that UMR do a good job - no it was independent.
    Farrar also said
    "But I will comment on this specific poll as it is vastly different to every other poll published."
    Whereas it is actually consistent within the margins for error given
    by the respective polling companies. Do you expect anyting other than
    spin from Farrar?

    Hilarious!

    Farrar doesn't need to spin - Labour's polling has been consistently shite since 2008.
    Angry Andy's the one who needs spin, and Dickbot's like an out of balance
    washing machine.


    "Dickbot's like an out of balance washing machine."

    LOL

    More waffle than wobble with that one

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  • From JohnO@3:770/3 to Liberty on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 16:44:01
    On Wednesday, 14 September 2016 11:33:48 UTC+12, Liberty wrote:
    On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 13:21:30 -0700 (PDT), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Tuesday, 13 September 2016 21:20:20 UTC+12, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 21:08:20 +1200, Liberty <liberty48@live.com>
    wrote:

    On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:28:34 +1200, Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:20:51 -0700 (PDT), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    With Labour tanking to an entirely consistent 26%
    and National steady on 48%, Andy has released Labour's
    internal UMR poll with results wildly different to basically every other
    poll:

    http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/umr.jpg

    But of course we see nothing of the UMR poll questions, poll size,
    method etc.

    In other words, Angry Andy has released a big fat lie.

    My guess is that the UMR poll was conducted at a union meeting.

    Even Farrar admits that UMR do a good job - no it was independent.
    Farrar also said
    "But I will comment on this specific poll as it is vastly different to
    every other poll published."
    Whereas it is actually consistent within the margins for error given
    by the respective polling companies. Do you expect anyting other than
    spin from Farrar?

    Hilarious!

    Farrar doesn't need to spin - Labour's polling has been consistently shite
    since 2008.
    Angry Andy's the one who needs spin, and Dickbot's like an out of balance
    washing machine.


    "Dickbot's like an out of balance washing machine."

    LOL

    Phil Quin sums Andy the the leftards like Dickbot up with brutal honesty:

    http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/84198470/should-labour-replace-little-it-wont-solve-anything

    "Deranged conspiracy theories or mindless optimism. Take your pick.

    This echo chamber thinking –– the tendency in politics to believe only what
    suits and reject everything else as a conspiracy –– is not new. In fact, confirmation bias is a ubiquitous force in all human affairs, as powerful as gravity."

    Couldn't have put it better.

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  • From JohnO@3:770/3 to Newsman on Tuesday, September 13, 2016 18:08:50
    On Wednesday, 14 September 2016 12:14:20 UTC+12, Newsman wrote:
    On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:20:51 -0700 (PDT), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    With Labour tanking to an entirely consistent 26% and National steady on
    48%, Andy has released Labour's internal UMR poll with results wildly different
    to basically every other poll:

    So, why not just for one grudging moment step outside your dully
    echoing chamber of interminable boredom-relief twittering and into the
    light of day to receive some much needed enlightenment:

    You have severe verbal diarrhea.


    "All over the west, the left is in crisis.

    Isn't it wonderful!

    It cannot find answers to
    three urgent problems: the disruptive force of globalisation, the rise

    Globalisation is not a disruptive force. It is a life force. The alternative is
    to become a protectionist hermit state.

    of populist nationalism, and the decline of traditional work."

    http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/06/does-the-left-have-a-future

    For another,collateral scenario:

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11702299

    Now strip out English's "empty-calories" GDP numbers from the real and
    actual wealth-producing stats and see what's really left: that's
    right - nothing but pernicious low labour-productivity (more than 40

    You are making shit up.

    unbroken years of it) in an increasingly debt-driven consumption
    economy based on foreign company ownership, foreign credit and
    imported goods. Even New Zealand's grossly over-loaned private

    New Zealand's balance of trade has actually been flat in well over 60 years once you smooth out the seasonal variation.

    dwellings are, effectively, owned by......foreign banks.

    Of course they are not. This would only be true in the case of foreclosures.


    (Total National debt has now zoomed past the half-a-billion dollar
    mark.)

    LOL. Half a billion!


    And tourism is now this country's principal earner,

    Nope, despite the runaway growth in Tourism it is still behind dairy.

    and, along with
    "poverty" maladies like rheumatic fever, it doesn't get more third
    world than that.

    Tourism in the UK set to hit 10% of GDP. In NZ, tourism is currently about 8.5%
    of GDP including indirect supporting activity). By your feeble-brained logic the UK is third world?


    As some UK visitors observed a couple of years ago, "The imported
    coffee made on imported machinery by a doubtless imported barista is
    great and the scenery's grand, but apart from the latter, is there

    Sure they said that, Keith. Now, in the UK is the coffee and coffee machine imported? Of course it is. Your argument is simply a pathetic anti NZ whine.

    At least in NZ the scenery is better than the UK.

    anything at all in this country - even the sheep - that New
    Zealanders can truthfully call entirely their own?"

    IOW, the entire economic shebang is a poisoned chalice for any who, in
    their crazed and all-consuming lust for power, would be so precipitate
    as to try and seize the incumbency from such a bunch of clueless, directionless, headless chickens.

    There's that verbosity again. Perhaps if you didn't have this need to use as many words as possible, your writing would appear less garbled?


    As Tom Frewen put it all those years ago, none of them would have even
    the faintest hope of making it onto the drains board of some French provincial town.

    Yeah, that's why France's economy is going so well, eh?


    Bullseye, Tom!

    Well, you continue to shoot yourself in the foot, Keith. Is there a bullseye on
    it?

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  • From Pooh@3:770/3 to All on Wednesday, September 14, 2016 20:13:44
    On 13/09/2016 9:20 p.m., Rich80105 wrote:
    On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 21:08:20 +1200, Liberty <liberty48@live.com>
    wrote:

    On Tue, 13 Sep 2016 20:28:34 +1200, Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote: >>
    On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:20:51 -0700 (PDT), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    With Labour tanking to an entirely consistent 26%
    and National steady on 48%, Andy has released Labour's
    internal UMR poll with results wildly different to basically every other poll:

    http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/umr.jpg

    But of course we see nothing of the UMR poll questions, poll size, method etc.

    In other words, Angry Andy has released a big fat lie.

    My guess is that the UMR poll was conducted at a union meeting.

    Even Farrar admits that UMR do a good job - no it was independent.
    Farrar also said
    "But I will comment on this specific poll as it is vastly different to every
    other poll published."
    Whereas it is actually consistent within the margins for error given
    by the respective polling companies. Do you expect anyting other than
    spin from Farrar?

    Whereas you only believe spin (bullshit) from little Andy the union
    stooge and parliamentary idiot.

    Pooh

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  • From Pooh@3:770/3 to Newsman on Wednesday, September 14, 2016 20:19:47
    On 14/09/2016 12:14 p.m., Newsman wrote:
    On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:20:51 -0700 (PDT), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    With Labour tanking to an entirely consistent 26% and National steady on 48%, Andy has released Labour's internal UMR poll with results wildly different
    to basically every other poll:

    So, why not just for one grudging moment step outside your dully
    echoing chamber of interminable boredom-relief twittering and into the
    light of day to receive some much needed enlightenment:

    "All over the west, the left is in crisis. It cannot find answers to
    three urgent problems: the disruptive force of globalisation, the rise
    of populist nationalism, and the decline of traditional work."

    http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/06/does-the-left-have-a-future

    For another,collateral scenario:

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11702299

    Now strip out English's "empty-calories" GDP numbers from the real and
    actual wealth-producing stats and see what's really left: that's
    right - nothing but pernicious low labour-productivity (more than 40
    unbroken years of it) in an increasingly debt-driven consumption
    economy based on foreign company ownership, foreign credit and
    imported goods. Even New Zealand's grossly over-loaned private
    dwellings are, effectively, owned by......foreign banks.

    (Total National debt has now zoomed past the half-a-billion dollar
    mark.)

    And tourism is now this country's principal earner, and, along with
    "poverty" maladies like rheumatic fever, it doesn't get more third
    world than that.

    As some UK visitors observed a couple of years ago, "The imported
    coffee made on imported machinery by a doubtless imported barista is
    great and the scenery's grand, but apart from the latter, is there
    anything at all in this country - even the sheep - that New
    Zealanders can truthfully call entirely their own?"

    IOW, the entire economic shebang is a poisoned chalice for any who, in
    their crazed and all-consuming lust for power, would be so precipitate
    as to try and seize the incumbency from such a bunch of clueless, directionless, headless chickens.

    As Tom Frewen put it all those years ago, none of them would have even
    the faintest hope of making it onto the drains board of some French provincial town.

    Bullseye, Tom!

    Exactly where did you get your bogus 'superiour education' from Keith?
    Some little town in the wilds of the fens noted only for turning out missionary's and governors for the colonys in the nineteenth century was
    it?

    Pooh

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  • From Pooh@3:770/3 to JohnO on Wednesday, September 14, 2016 20:23:15
    On 13/09/2016 4:20 p.m., JohnO wrote:
    With Labour tanking to an entirely consistent 26% and National steady on 48%,
    Andy has released Labour's internal UMR poll with results wildly different to basically every other poll:

    http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/umr.jpg

    But of course we see nothing of the UMR poll questions, poll size, method
    etc.

    In other words, Angry Andy has released a big fat lie.

    My guess is that the UMR poll was conducted at a union meeting.


    Interesting that little Andy seems to parrot Rich more and more. Is Rich actually Andy or just his new campaign manager.

    Pooh

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  • From JohnO@3:770/3 to Newsman on Wednesday, September 14, 2016 19:13:41
    On Wednesday, 14 September 2016 12:14:20 UTC+12, Newsman wrote:
    On Mon, 12 Sep 2016 21:20:51 -0700 (PDT), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    With Labour tanking to an entirely consistent 26% and National steady on
    48%, Andy has released Labour's internal UMR poll with results wildly different
    to basically every other poll:

    So, why not just for one grudging moment step outside your dully
    echoing chamber of interminable boredom-relief twittering and into the
    light of day to receive some much needed enlightenment:

    "All over the west, the left is in crisis. It cannot find answers to
    three urgent problems: the disruptive force of globalisation, the rise
    of populist nationalism, and the decline of traditional work."

    http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/06/does-the-left-have-a-future

    For another,collateral scenario:

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11702299

    Now strip out English's "empty-calories" GDP numbers from the real and
    actual wealth-producing stats and see what's really left: that's
    right - nothing but pernicious low labour-productivity (more than 40
    unbroken years of it) in an increasingly debt-driven consumption
    economy based on foreign company ownership, foreign credit and
    imported goods. Even New Zealand's grossly over-loaned private
    dwellings are, effectively, owned by......foreign banks.

    And on cue - another analysis that shows Keith Warren's bleating to be a load of horse shit:

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11710248

    Some highlights for you, Keith:

    "Strong international demand saw exports increase 4 per cent, with exports of goods posting its biggest quarterly increase in nearly 20 years.

    This increase was driven by exports of dairy products, meat, and fruit. GDP per
    capita increased 0.5 percent this quarter, following a 0.3 percent increase in the March quarter, SNZ said."

    ...

    "On a per-capita basis, GDP rose 0.5 percent in the quarter, matching the period's population growth, and was up 0.7 percent on an annual basis."

    So much for empty calorie GDP eh?

    And the likes of the UK, US and Australia continue to look on with envy.


    (Total National debt has now zoomed past the half-a-billion dollar
    mark.)

    And tourism is now this country's principal earner, and, along with
    "poverty" maladies like rheumatic fever, it doesn't get more third
    world than that.

    As some UK visitors observed a couple of years ago, "The imported
    coffee made on imported machinery by a doubtless imported barista is
    great and the scenery's grand, but apart from the latter, is there
    anything at all in this country - even the sheep - that New
    Zealanders can truthfully call entirely their own?"

    IOW, the entire economic shebang is a poisoned chalice for any who, in
    their crazed and all-consuming lust for power, would be so precipitate
    as to try and seize the incumbency from such a bunch of clueless, directionless, headless chickens.

    As Tom Frewen put it all those years ago, none of them would have even
    the faintest hope of making it onto the drains board of some French provincial town.

    Bullseye, Tom!

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