coalition Archive

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  Armstrong should know better - by frog

  
  
  
  Many thanks to John Armstrong for a bit of coverage in today’s Herald, but really he should know better than to say we have changed our tune. John says: Having slammed the door shut to working with National a mere three months ago, the Greens now want to reopen it. The Greens’ co-leader’s language in [...] read more
  January 27, 2009 4:44 pm - 86 Comments
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  An agreeable question with a disagreeable result - by frog

  
  
  
  It’s unsurprising that ONE News Colmar Brunton poll should find that, when asked ‘should the party with the most votes should get to lead the government’, nearly 80 percent of people agree.  It seems a reasonable sort of thing to suggest. I imagine you would get the same sort of support for the proposition that [...] read more
  October 28, 2008 4:13 pm - 17 Comments
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  The Greens’ principled announcement - by frog

  
  
  
  While most of the analysis of the Greens’ announcement yesterday that we could not support a National government has focused on the power dynamics (‘what were the Greens thinking cutting down their options like that?’) very few have noted the principled position that underlay it – the right of voters to know beforehand.  Although the [...] read more
  October 21, 2008 1:02 pm - 19 Comments
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  Greens’ preference for post election talks - by frog

  
  
  
  From the Greens Press Conference this afternoon: Co-Leader Jeanette Fitzsimons says: “However our analysis showed us that on the whole National would take New Zealand in the wrong direction, in fact, many policies headed off down a dead end street. This means that we can not form a Government with National, or support them on [...] read more
  October 20, 2008 12:28 pm - 80 Comments
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  Who will it be? - by frog

  
  
  
  Triennially the question goes on to all the MMP parties: So who’s it going to be, who will you go with? This time, with the exception of the Maori Party, we pretty much know the answer, or will know the answer before the election for all of them.   But what we don’t know is [...] read more
  September 25, 2008 8:29 am - 53 Comments
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  Germany’s Green-Conservative alliance - by frog

  
  
  
  Following on from Kiwiblog’s promotional efforts on behalf of the New Zealand Greens yesterday it is interesting to note that in the port city of Hamburg Germany’s Christian Democrats and Greens have just signed regional coalition agreement. The Christian Democrats are led nationally by chancellor Angle Merkel and are Germany’s largest Conservative Party.  The Christian [...] read more
  April 18, 2008 1:53 pm - 3 Comments
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  Herald rollercoaster continues - by frog

  
  
  
  Polls, eh. 44%, how did that happen? The Herald’s latest digipoll gives added credence to the accepted political wisdom that whatever disease Labour has caught it appears to be terminal, and if you want to say goodbye you better push your way up to the bedside now. Of course, that diagnosis continues to rely far [...] read more
  March 3, 2008 2:02 pm - 26 Comments