Why, is the most intriguing part. We know there is no love lost between Judith & John. I suspect it didn't matter what he said. I reckon (as that seems to as good as anything these days), that the National Party thrust Johnny into the spotlight to remind the faithful that everything will be alright if they just remember to click their heels together & repeat "there's nowhere like home" & they will transported back to the days of John. Judith may not leave, but she can hardly exert revenge on anyone in cabinet when its come from others in the party. The across the board publication & interviews is hardly accidental. If Fran had an urge to describe anything as bogus, this was it.
I admit it, I've used this tactic myself, albeit not on a nationwide political scale.
1. Observe what the "other side" are doing.
2. Tell everyone who will listen that the dissing-target should be <<paraphrase or parrot what they are actually doing>>, just faster, bolder, less hermitty.
That way, if it all works out you can say "Look, they listened to me and it all worked out!"
If it goes to custard you can say, "My idea was fine. They just should have done it faster, bolder, less hermitty, as I told them to! They didn't listen"
It is a 100% no-lose situation for the commentator watching coal waste being shifted when you don't actually have your shovel in the slagheap.
When I was a Labour candidate in 1984 Richard Prebble seriously offered this cynical advice: "Find yourself a tame bureaucrat inside your local council. Get them to supply a schedule of works in the pipeline. A few weeks ahead get into the local media complaining about the potholes in such-and-such street then - voila - your effectiveness becomes apparent!"
I lost what ever respect I may have had for him at that point.
Nice. I'm getting tired of the call from business to tell them when.this and that will happen , when lockdown will end etc so they can plan. I mean it's a pandemic which hasn't been kind enough to let us know its precise timetable.
Judith and John have simply not caught up with a world wide tsunami of change that has made them and MSM's traditionalist approach irrelevant and even dangerous if we think Trump
Ho valiant Sir John! Bravely sacrificing his legacy to make the current Nat-Queen look good. Oh dear, that dragon of unpopularity is harder to defeat than it looks, and it may well consume our hero and his leader both.
Oh thank God for this. I was really thinking I was the only person not agreeing with this preposterous ridiculous totally-missing-the-point article from this shyster of an ex-leader. I am so relieved I could cry to hear I am not alone in thinking Is he for real????!!! I am disappointed (if not completely surprised) at the chorus going up of "All hail John Key." I have a persistent mental image playing of early white settlers the world over offering blankets and whiskey and cheap baubles for land ownership and sovereignty and calling it clever.
I just don't get how many 'intelligent' people cannot comprehend that the Virus does work to a calendar and that things will change as the science/data progresses. Then I awoke to Gladys Berejiklian reading out her opening up "but don't call it 'freedom day'" timeline to December...
I'm planning a lot of travel around NZ in the next few months, I have a itinerary*, in terms of sequence, but no idea on dates and no way am I setting anything in concrete at this stage. I think that is the only approach even at a national level.
* I could not work in travel without autocorrect as never get that word right first time!
Poor Shonkey has not come to terms with Post-Modernism, or as Zygmunt Bauman named it in his turn-of-the-century book: “liquid modernity” — the growing conviction that change is the only permanence, and uncertainty the only certainty.
Why, is the most intriguing part. We know there is no love lost between Judith & John. I suspect it didn't matter what he said. I reckon (as that seems to as good as anything these days), that the National Party thrust Johnny into the spotlight to remind the faithful that everything will be alright if they just remember to click their heels together & repeat "there's nowhere like home" & they will transported back to the days of John. Judith may not leave, but she can hardly exert revenge on anyone in cabinet when its come from others in the party. The across the board publication & interviews is hardly accidental. If Fran had an urge to describe anything as bogus, this was it.
The Wibbly Wonkey Jonkey.
I admit it, I've used this tactic myself, albeit not on a nationwide political scale.
1. Observe what the "other side" are doing.
2. Tell everyone who will listen that the dissing-target should be <<paraphrase or parrot what they are actually doing>>, just faster, bolder, less hermitty.
That way, if it all works out you can say "Look, they listened to me and it all worked out!"
If it goes to custard you can say, "My idea was fine. They just should have done it faster, bolder, less hermitty, as I told them to! They didn't listen"
It is a 100% no-lose situation for the commentator watching coal waste being shifted when you don't actually have your shovel in the slagheap.
When I was a Labour candidate in 1984 Richard Prebble seriously offered this cynical advice: "Find yourself a tame bureaucrat inside your local council. Get them to supply a schedule of works in the pipeline. A few weeks ahead get into the local media complaining about the potholes in such-and-such street then - voila - your effectiveness becomes apparent!"
I lost what ever respect I may have had for him at that point.
Standard corporate organisational advancement tactics...
Nice. I'm getting tired of the call from business to tell them when.this and that will happen , when lockdown will end etc so they can plan. I mean it's a pandemic which hasn't been kind enough to let us know its precise timetable.
Bidet-Boi Hosking. Positively fizzing. Daddy's back.
Judith and John have simply not caught up with a world wide tsunami of change that has made them and MSM's traditionalist approach irrelevant and even dangerous if we think Trump
Ho valiant Sir John! Bravely sacrificing his legacy to make the current Nat-Queen look good. Oh dear, that dragon of unpopularity is harder to defeat than it looks, and it may well consume our hero and his leader both.
Oh thank God for this. I was really thinking I was the only person not agreeing with this preposterous ridiculous totally-missing-the-point article from this shyster of an ex-leader. I am so relieved I could cry to hear I am not alone in thinking Is he for real????!!! I am disappointed (if not completely surprised) at the chorus going up of "All hail John Key." I have a persistent mental image playing of early white settlers the world over offering blankets and whiskey and cheap baubles for land ownership and sovereignty and calling it clever.
I just don't get how many 'intelligent' people cannot comprehend that the Virus does work to a calendar and that things will change as the science/data progresses. Then I awoke to Gladys Berejiklian reading out her opening up "but don't call it 'freedom day'" timeline to December...
I'm planning a lot of travel around NZ in the next few months, I have a itinerary*, in terms of sequence, but no idea on dates and no way am I setting anything in concrete at this stage. I think that is the only approach even at a national level.
* I could not work in travel without autocorrect as never get that word right first time!
Poor Shonkey has not come to terms with Post-Modernism, or as Zygmunt Bauman named it in his turn-of-the-century book: “liquid modernity” — the growing conviction that change is the only permanence, and uncertainty the only certainty.