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Elections 2008

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over 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
Or the land settlements? Actually I voted labour last election too but even I'm pissed off with what's going on. In fact there are no politicians curently in Parliament that appear worthy of being in there. Too many flakes, liars and charllotans
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Every time an election comes round I'm reminded of a great line from a NOFX (classy band by the way...) song:

Political scientist gets the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred...


The ignorance that a lot of people bring to the polling booths really pisses me off...In my utopian society people would have to pass an intellegence test before being allowed to vote.

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Guess I should point out that these were just general observations, not a comment on anyone who's posted in this thread...
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Tax cuts to every working person. Or land setllements to a small proportion of the population. Surely there is more prospect of vote buying in the first group.
 
Thats a pretty broad gernalisation.  Just because the news chooses to broadcast incidents from question time because they make good entertainemnt doesn't mean politican don't do good work.  Infact, considering thier responsabilites and hours they actually work, and the time away from thier families, I don't think they are remmunerated very well at all.
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el grapadura wrote:

The ignorance that a lot of people bring to the polling booths really pisses me off...In my utopian society people would have to pass an intellegence test before being allowed to vote.


Or make politics a compulsory subject at high school or have a compulsory pols paper at university? I already knew quite a lot compared to my peers I think, but I learnt a heck of a lot I taking Pols 111.
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el grapadura wrote:
Every time an election comes round I'm reminded of a great line from a NOFX (classy band by the way...) song:

Political scientist gets the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred...


The ignorance that a lot of people bring to the polling booths really pisses me off...In my utopian society people would have to pass an intellegence test before being allowed to vote.

DISCLAIMER:
Guess I should point out that these were just general observations, not a comment on anyone who's posted in this thread...

George Orwell eat your heart out.

Who gets to decide how intelligence is measured? The government?

BTW, is spelling part of the test?


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Malky wrote:

Who gets to decide how intelligence is measured?


I do. It's my utopian society, I set the rules.

Oh, and the misspelling of intelligence in my original post was done on purpose...probably would have got it if the Orwellian paranoia hadn't struck you first.el grapadura2008-07-10 16:58:54
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Well that will count out 120 names straight away.
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There is a brilliant letter to the editor in the dom today pointing out the love affair the media have with nicky hager and lap up everything he says and treat it as gospel compared to there treatment of ian wishart who is simply hagers equivalent on the right.

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Hager never exaggerates or makes things up - Yeah Right!
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2ndBest wrote:
family.  Destiny New Zealand has basically renamed itself the Family Party and has co-opted former United Future MP Paul Adams as its co-leader
Yeah, Paul Adams got 5809 votes in East Coast Bays last time.  There is a kind of new suburb generic church goer in the East Coast Bays and Albany, young and young families.  So I wouldn't be surprised to see some sort of impact at the next election.  Although I can't see them getting the 16 percent they got in East Coast Bays, simply because the new town issues and demographics hardly exist anywhere else.  There is infrastructure for the shopping malls but not much left over for community groups, so when community leaders do take a stand, hey presto Paul Adams, you have some serious voting.
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el grapadura wrote:
Every time an election comes round I'm reminded of a great line from a NOFX (classy band by the way...) song:

Political scientist gets the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred...


The ignorance that a lot of people bring to the polling booths really pisses me off...In my utopian society people would have to pass an intellegence test before being allowed to vote.

DISCLAIMER:
Guess I should point out that these were just general observations, not a comment on anyone who's posted in this thread...
I think this should be applied to breeding aswell.
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Actually, eugenics was widely deemed a respectable idea until Hitler came along...el grapadura2008-07-14 16:14:31
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bopman wrote:
There is a brilliant letter to the editor in the dom today pointing out the love affair the media have with nicky hager and lap up everything he says and treat it as gospel compared to there treatment of ian wishart who is simply hagers equivalent on the right.
 
Hmmmmmmm.....
 
I guess the level of quality that must be reached for brilliance to be achieved has severly dipped, and will continue to dip under a National government I guess.
 
Ian Wishart: He has a track record of a frontpage article calling the Labour party women 'frontbums', dedicated a book to proving his obssessive certainty that Helen Clark is a lesbian, despite being in a long and loving marriage NONE OF WHICH HAS A JOT TO DO WITH HER PERFORMANCE AS PM, 
 
and running a crucial story about a bunch of Columbians who when given a tour of heaven and hell by Jesus, spotten John Lennon in hell doing penance. Ian Wishart and Investigate magazine.
 
Ian Wishart: former investigative journalist with a nose for a conspiracy. Now he has overlaid that with zealous born-again revivalism.
 
Nicky Hager: Annoying self publicist who has a tendency to release well researched books that make him the centre of attention and sales in election year.
 
The Nats have not denied that what was in the Hollow men was true. Nor have they denied using Crosby Textor.
 
If what he is saying is true, and paints you in a bad light, its better to smear him and make that the issue.
 
Why the media would rather run with 'Nats advisers accused of dirty tricks in Australia', than John Lennon seen in Hell by Columbians, I don't know. Must be love, love, love.


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