Politics

It is and you are

by Whaleoil August 24, 2010

A Senior Labor MP speaks the truth. Other rea­sons were also cited. One senior MP said the del­uge of votes away from Labor to the Greens reflected a lack of for­ti­tude on pol­icy, espe­cially cli­mate change. He said Ms Gillard has proved to be just as weak and focus-poll dri­ven as Kevin Rudd on the subject, […]

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Do you really know Julia Gillard?

by Whaleoil August 18, 2010

Attack ads are bril­liant. In Aus­tralia and in the US these ads are used exten­sively, and they are the most hon­est. If you are going to attack some­one you have to get stuff right. This ad from the Lib­er­als in Aus­tralia is superb. And Angry Ander­son isn’t too enam­ored with Labor either. Related Posts:Schools to have […]

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Awesome Attack Ad

by Whaleoil August 13, 2010

If only National did one of these for Labour here. Not to dis­sim­i­lar the sit­u­a­tion faced by National after tak­ing over from the wastre­als of the Clark gov­ern­ment. Related Posts:How will this help Three Hats fundrais­ing for Labour?Labour cock-ups this weekIs Plug­head going independent?Turn­ing a Chicken Run into a vic­tory in 2011If you have to defend it, […]

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Gillard does a Taylor and Old School Repeaters get upset

by Whaleoil August 9, 2010

Julia Gillard has done a Kevin Tay­lor and med­dled in the employ­ment affairs of a polit­i­cal enemy. Mark Latham took the fight to the street and ambushed the unc­tu­ous Gillard about her com­plaint to nine about employ­ing Latham. Mr Latham ambushed Ms Gillard with­out warn­ing, ask­ing her if she knew any­thing about a com­plaint that […]

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Schools to have more control over budgets and staffing

by Whaleoil August 2, 2010

Oh wait I mis-read the arti­cle, it is Labor in Aus­tralia not Labour in New Zealand. SCHOOLS will get greater con­trol over their bud­gets, select­ing and employ­ing teach­ers and iden­ti­fy­ing fund­ing pri­or­i­ties, under a new Labor pol­icy. Julia Gillard, cam­paign­ing in the west­ern Syd­ney seat of Lind­say, announced the empow­er­ing local schools pro­gram, which she […]

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Quote of the Year — Alexander Downer

by Whaleoil August 1, 2010

“I don’t use the c-word, but I do use the f-word pretty freely, and I can tell you that Kevin Rudd is a f****** awful per­son,” he said. Alexan­der Downer Mean­while Rudd is rat-fucking Gillard a beauty. Related Posts:It is and you are­Propheti­cRudd looks gone for all mon­eyKevin O’LemonWell, They were

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Troughers in Oz

by Whaleoil August 1, 2010

NICK LALICH, Labor MP for Cabra­matta and mayor of Fair­field City Coun­cil, is one of State Parliament’s ”dou­ble dip­pers”. When he was elected to Par­lia­ment in 2008 at a byelec­tion he decided to keep his job as mayor and col­lect both salaries. His par­lia­men­tary salary is $130,540 a year, his annual elec­toral allowance is $39,950, […]

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The Angry Kevin burger

by Whaleoil July 29, 2010

from the The Chaser Related Posts:It is and you areAwe­some Attack AdTurn­ing a Chicken Run into a vic­tory in 2011Gillard does a Tay­lor and Old School Repeaters get upset­Labour over-playing their hand

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Politician of the Week — Francis Maude

by Whaleoil July 25, 2010

I wish we had politi­cians with the balls to say this in New Zealand. Let’s see if Fran­cis Maude deliv­ers on the rhetoric. In the House of Com­mons recently, Fran­cis Maude was asked to list which of the hun­dreds of White­hall quan­gos, agen­cies and non-departmental bod­ies he was “assess­ing on their suit­abil­ity of pur­pose and […]

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7 things politicians can do to help bloggers

by Whaleoil July 21, 2010

I was read­ing an arti­cle last night from a blog­ger telling the GOP the 7 things they could do to help the right side of the blo­gos­phere. I could have writ­ten this myself and replaced Repub­li­can with National/Act. It is a very good post though and has some very good ideas, if National or Act […]

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Save money by employing Crocodiles

by Whaleoil July 13, 2010

The UK gov­ern­ment recently launched a web­site to gar­ner ideas for how the gov­ern­ment could save money. It was touted as a first and a bril­liant move for inclu­sive democ­racy…until… Oh dear, that isn’t so good….there are plenty more Lol sug­ges­tions. go have a look. One par­tic­u­larly fine exam­ple is the sug­ges­tion to set up […]

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Prophetic

by Whaleoil July 9, 2010

This video was posted in Sep­tem­ber 2009, it turns out it was quite prophetic. Related Posts:It is and you areDo you really know Julia Gillard?Schools to have more con­trol over bud­gets and staffingTurn­ing a Chicken Run into a vic­tory in 2011Gillard does a Tay­lor and Old School Repeaters get upset

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The Evolution of Political Advertising

by Whaleoil July 8, 2010

I am con­stantly impressed with the stan­dard of polit­i­cal adver­tis­ing in the US. Their attack ads are superb, and there are none bet­ter than those by Ladd Ehlinger Jr. Ladd Ehlinger Jr. jokes that he’s only shot cam­paign ads for three peo­ple, and he’s man­aged to get two of them named “worst per­son in the […]

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Has Shame Jones got this title?

by Whaleoil July 6, 2010

I sup­pose the hos­pi­tal was using it’s ini­tia­tive in these cash strapped times, but one does won­der whether Shame Jones has got this DVD in his buff film col­lec­tion? A “big bud­get” porn movie was shot in a Lon­don hos­pi­tal that hired out one of its wards to a film com­pany, it has emerged. The […]

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Do Labour troughers have Italian roots?

by Whaleoil July 3, 2010

Per­haps “Tug­ger” Jones & Koru Club Carter have Ital­ian roots? Not roots as in The Man­grove sense but roots in the her­itage sense. Sil­vio Berlus­coni paid £900 for lap dancer to per­form show in hotel room dur­ing trip to Brazil Sil­vio Berlus­coni received a pole and lap dance dur­ing an offi­cial visit to Brazil, it was […]

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