Let me say up front, I’m a supporter of strike action. If you don’t think you’re being treated fairly by your employer, and discussing it with them isn’t fixing it, then what better way to get the message across that simply refusing to work on their terms. It’s an important part of a functional employment landscape.
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Poor, disadvantaged Joel Cosgrove and Heleyni Pratley of the Wellington Workers Party are up in arms that they have been trespassed from Victoria University for protesting fee rises, in a press statement entitled Victoria University: No Free Speech Here Thanks.
Wait… hold up a second.
Some of our readers may remember recently, when Jackson spearheaded an earnest campaign to win the seat of Mount Albert from his stronghold in Wellington. Resoundingly ignored by the mainstream media, the campaign was still a great success, with almost tens of Mount Albert residents swinging in behind Wood.
Oh Green Party, why do you goad me so?
So often I want to agree with you, really I do. You used to support an emissions tax over an ETS – quite rightly – then cast that into the wind for some reason as far as I can tell.
But luckily you kept some of your wits about you, and are calling for some fairly obvious changes to the ETS, with regard to intensity based allocations, price caps, etc. Again, you are right on calling for these changes – thank you.
But then you go and manage, in the space of one sentence, to turn off all the goodwill you’ve built up as I read your statement.
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The same online persona indignantly posted this:
Rather than address what I said, you lay into me with insults
As (link now broken) this:
@suebr Listen Sue, YOU are very DANGEROUS, YOU are ANTI DEMOCRATIC, and YOU need to leave NZ, You are insult to the democratic process!
Just when you thought that refinancing scammers were already claiming miracles, you get this beautiful piece of spam:
I feel I should make it clear at the start that I’m not a big fan of Sue Bradford – but surely people must see the irony in the fact that people are campaigning for legalised smacking on the basis that that violence is appropriate (no judgement being passed as to whether I agree, that’s immaterial), whilst simultaneously these same people are calling for Bradford to be assasinated.
On behalf both Jackson and myself, thanks to the more than ten thousand brave souls who truly and royally messed up their ballot in this retarded referendum. I thoroughly endorse the comments made by a close friend and far more intelligent man than myself, who, upon seeing the victory to the “no” vote, commented only:
I guess this means John Key has to remove the part of the crimes act which says “it is illegal to smack as part of good parental correction”
The ever-interesting Jake Quinn over at Life and Politics makes a very valid point on the nature of a political system that seems to encourage sheer bloody-mindedness over anything else:
Whoever thought up the idea of E-Prime seems like a genius. While it certainly does not appear suitable for use at all times, this does not eliminiate its usefulness in particular circumstances.
Simply put, E-Prime advocates the elimination of all forms of the verb ‘to be’ from language, forcing everything to be phrased in the subjective rather than the objective. Try it next time you are writing a political opinion. It forces you to behave quite differently, and all in all encourages a more reasonable approach to things. Fascinating – though I would note I find it reasonably difficult…
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