Well thank you Prime Minister - Spin 101 lesson #1 - rewriting history to suit the current state of play Key: State houses not part of the state of play John Key says he would have liked to talk about policies like state house sales, but nobody was interested during the election. Quite frankly there wasn’t virtually a single day where we were talking about policy that anyone was interested in,’’ Key said. Asked if National had not been upfront during the campaign over the controversial policy, Key said ‘‘No’’. ‘‘The opposition wanted to talk about Cameron Slater and dirty politics and Julian Assange and Mega Dotcom, but they didn’t want to talk about policy.’’ Identify the following, who prevented the Nats from discussing this next raft of asset-sales. This is a type of no blame approach for the Nats, since others prevented it from happening: 1. The Opposition Parties prevented this by talking about the bundle of Dirty Politics evidence. Only one party drove that Internet-Mana. The other parties certainly held back, a couple of quick quips, a Royal Commission or two. That was there input. Russell Normans bagging Hone Harawira post Election could very well be reserved now, as evidence that the Nats couldnt talk policy. Remember too peeps, this is the Government telling us that they had no choice. If any of the political parties had a choice it was them! They had huge resources for the Election and many within media, and the blogging world wanting to beat their drum. 2. JK is trying to resurrect some of his damaged reputation with the media, hence to date he hasnt accused them of stopping the discussion on policy. Im of the opinion that the media had to ask questions about the information revealed. They know what JK is like, hence the hounding. But more than that, they also learned that they were being disadvantaged when it came to OIAs. Slater was getting same day service and they were being subject to the known abuse of the Law - Wakem verbally slapped the Govts hand the other day on this - deliberately furnishing the OIA information on the last day possible, and in other cases, not even bothering to work to the requirements of the Law - 21 days max. 3. We the people will also be blamed. We didnt show enough interest in policy, instead we wanted to know about other gossip. Except, the Nats told us regularly that people were not interested in Dirty Politics, so why did the Government withhold policy announcements from us. I thought we were the audience during the Hustings and not a political party which at its peak achieved 4.5.% of the vote. Now ask yourself, during a hustings where child poverty was forced on to the agenda as a key priority issue requiring redress - would that have been a sensible time to tell people that some of the state housing stock would be sold? Understanding that this is the act of the Government divesting in owning and maintaining housing for vulnerable members of society. Use your logic - would we have responded positively to this news during the hustings? stuff.co.nz/national/politics/10696319/Today-in-politics-November-4
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 19:03:54 +0000
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