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<p>Unfortunately hes from the naki but he was one of theirs for quite a while.If he wants to leave I'd help him pack. I would have paid good money to be at the event where Alan Duff chastised him over how much he'd spent renovating his residence at the universities expense.</p>
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<p>He's been writing books since he got back. Looks like he's due for another one if his last dirge is anything to go by.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://books.google.co.nz/books/about/Rescuing_the_New_Zealand_Economy.html?id=t-zsAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y&hl=en'>https://books.google.co.nz/books/about/Rescuing_the_New_Zealand_Economy.html?id=t-zsAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y&hl=en</a></p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">Without really knowing why, many New Zealanders are baffled and disturbed by the current economic turmoil of our </span><span style="color:#ff0000;"><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">cripplingly high interest rates a</span></span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;">nd a massively over-valued New Zealand dollar that is destroying the returns of our mainstay exporters. Author Bryan Gould shows how an extreme policy straitjacket has been responsible for decades of damage to our productive economy. But importantly, this book also looks beyond the recent, depressing past to a more optimistic vision for the future, and lays out a way forward that utilises a more balanced and humane view of what economic management is about. Ultmately, it is a plea for people to become better informed and to enter into the debate about how we can revive the New Zealand economy.</span></p>
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<p>The book was written in 2008. Thats why I said he's due to write another one, arguing the exact opposite .</p> -
Well the vote is now very close and the media coverage and arguments from both sides boil down to scaremongering from one side and 'she'll be right" from the other. <br>
Boris is talking as if he will be in charge if there is an exit yet fails to explain that his ideas and concepts won't come into play unless there is a change in govt. <br>
When both Labour and the Tories are agreeing on the need to stay despite having more power in a leave situation you get rather worried at the prospect of exit. <br>
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<p>Ah! Here is the thread. I thought there was one but, as it turns out, I was too fucking lazy to go look. I even voted in this poll!</p>
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<p>Never mind - I've managed to find a picture that summarises both sides of the argument. Its quite a tricky pickle to split, as you can see.</p>
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<p>Leave is getting some serious momentum. Mainly, I think, because the leave campaigners have been much louder than the stay. Now that leave is starting to edge ahead, I do expect the campaign for stay (of which I think the arguments are much stronger) to pick up.</p>
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<p>There have been any number of staged debates over here on the subject and I'd like to say I find them amusing because of the sheer tripe that is spouted on both sides but it's not funny because it's serious stuff. I have to say, very grudgingly, that the two heavyweight politicos that have talked the most sense are Nicola Sturgeon (the latest fish based leader of the SNP) and Hilary Benn (leftist son of Tony Benn. Leftist but went to the elitist comprehensive school that is Holland Park). Both of them espoused calm, sane views without any hyperbole. The one guy that is continuously shooting himself in both feet is Boris Johnson. He not only told lies about the cost of the EU but plastered the figures all over his bus. When called out on the lie he has admitted that while it is not the actual truth it is the best way of getting the true cost of the EU over to the British public.</p>
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<p>Ah! Here is the thread. I thought there was one but, as it turns out, I was too fucking lazy to go look. I even voted in this poll!</p>
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<p>Never mind - I've managed to find a picture that summarises both sides of the argument. Its quite a tricky pickle to split, as you can see.</p>
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<p>There have been any number of staged debates over here on the subject and I'd like to say I find them amusing because of the sheer tripe that is spouted on both sides but it's not funny because it's serious stuff. I have to say, very grudgingly, that the two heavyweight politicos that have talked the most sense are Nicola Sturgeon (the latest fish based leader of the SNP) and Hilary Benn (leftist son of Tony Benn. Leftist but went to the elitist comprehensive school that is Holland Park). Both of them espoused calm, sane views without any hyperbole. The one guy that is continuously shooting himself in both feet is Boris Johnson. He not only told lies about the cost of the EU but plastered the figures all over his bus. When called out on the lie he has admitted that while it is not the actual truth it is the best way of getting the true cost of the EU over to the British public.</p>
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<p>Yeah Boris it's good to admit you have to lie to the public to get your point across. Imbecile.</p>
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<p>The stay campaign have also been caught out in massive lies as well though.</p>
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<p>Basically the stay campaign lied on not just one claim in advertising.. but many.</p>
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<p>I'm ashamed to say Baron that I couldn't sit through that video but I don't doubt your assertion of the remainers also lying and Osborne in particular. The scare tactics, lies and sheer bloody nonsense that is spouted but both sides is really tedious. If there was a third option of "Why don't the lot of you just fuck off" I think we'd have a clear winner. However if you do want to hear some sensible non-emotive reasoning take the time to listen to Sturgeon and Benn.</p>
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<p>I've always been a fan of Boris, but he's having a shocker here.</p>
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<p>I must be missing something, as doesn't matter how I look at it, I can't see why on earth people would vote to leave.</p>
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<p>Because they've been worked up with the threat of ISIS immigrating here & 3 million turks turning up to take all their jobs & they think every law they don't like is from the EU when in fact barely any of them are, Germans telling them what shape their bananas can be despite US WINNING THE WAR!. Its the usual method - terrify the stupid & vulnerable & use that as a lever to get a very ambitious & morally bankrupt buffoon into power.</p>
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<p>There are 2 ways to get elected to power in democracy, through talent & doing whats right for your people - that is slow as fuck & hard. Or by terrifying & lying to people & getting them to sweep you in on a tide of ignorance. That works pretty well. Boris saw that his natural progression to power might at best be 3 years away & at worst be blocked by Osbourne, this way he can be PM by Xmas. Much like Trump in the US he'll destroy his party and do untold damage to his country but power is power.</p>
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<p>The whole process has been inept complacency on the in side & a couple of assholes who will do anything for power on the out side. I guess the simplest question would be, which side has been actively trying to work people up to a position where they think shooting a mother of 2 in the head is a valid response? (again, much like Trump in the US) </p> -
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<p>He makes a fantastic point that the people saying this was not a right wing anti immigrant inspired killing but a mental illness issue, had zero issue saying that the murder of Lee Rigby (soldier hacked to death in th UK) was Islamic terror & the fact his killer was a diagnosed paranoid schitzo was a red herring...</p> -
<p>What doctrine was he following that said that you should kill democratically elected people?</p>
<p>Because once someone points out that doctrine, lets condemn it,</p>
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He makes a fantastic point that the people saying this was not a right wing anti immigrant inspired killing but a mental illness issue, had zero issue saying that the murder of Lee Rigby (soldier hacked to death in th UK) was Islamic terror & the fact his killer was a diagnosed paranoid schitzo was a red herring...</p></blockquote>
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<p>You can say he was inspired and instructed by a doctrine most definitely.</p>
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