john armstrong Archive

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    Anti-MMP forces look like they are going to play dirty - by frog



    Over at g.blog Toad highlights some appalling disinformation about the MMP referendum from Cameron (Whaleoil) Slater: Cameron Slater, most likely deliberately, has got it completely wrong on the MMP referendum. Slater blogs: Some peo­ple are already sug­gest­ing that MMP should be reformed but that is not the ques­tion in this ref­er­en­dum. What we are being [...] read more
    June 29, 2011 3:44 pm - 11 Comments
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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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    Herald misses return ship home - by frog



    Like the Japanese soldiers who apocryphally continued guarding their post long after World War 2 had finished the Herald continues steadfastly in its campaign to prove the Electoral Finance Act is an attack on democracy. First it has Bill English demonstrating for logic students, with this statement, the exact opposite of a tautology: “The worst [...] read more
    June 18, 2008 8:55 am - 20 Comments
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    Greens looking forward to after the election - by frog



    Vernon Small, uses his column in the Dominion Post today to argue that the Greens have no where to go when they get down to negotiations after the election. He notes that the political climate while volatile, looks better for the Greens than last election. So, on balance, the Greens can look forward to a [...] read more
    June 2, 2008 5:07 pm - 78 Comments
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    What I’m reading today - by frog



    Lyndon Hood’s answers to frequently asked questions about the Emissions Trading Scheme is a beaut: If New Zealand wants to maintain its edge as a clean, green nation, we urgently need to pretend as hard as we can to take decisive action on climate change. I suspect he was inspired by John Armstrong on Saturday: [...] read more
    May 12, 2008 4:21 pm - 18 Comments