Sunday Snippets
For that long Sunday afternoon:
The NZ Book Council have a very cool website to encourage reading. They’ve done it as a Windows operating system.
Scrubone does a fisking of No Right Turn’s outrage at National over citizen juries. Also on that issue, Russel Norman at Frog Blog agrees with some of my suggestions around Citizen’s Juries – specifically the need for multi-partisan agreement not narrow agreement.
Paul Walker responds to Matt McCarten’s hysteria over the Business Roundtable.
Whale Oil likes his stats comparison with Kiwiblog. Obviously girls and guns work 
Craig Foss looks at how Dr Cullen is financing his tax cuts – he is borrowing $6.4 billion and also selling $6.4 billion of financial assets breaking one of his four tests. This last one is particularly cunning as it allows him to claim gross debt remains on track. This si why net debt is the better indicator.
Colin Espiner reviews the Reserve Bank MPS and the polls.
Bernard Hickey believes Alan Bollard has gone soft on inflation, as does the Westpac Chief Economist.
June 8th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
The Government promised a citizens’ jury to investigate wider issues around electoral administration and political party funding.
The appointment of a “citizens’ jury” by Government would be a corrupt Act
Before there is any suggestion of investigating or altering Electoral reform, the past election must have been subject to a Royal Commission of Inquiry. It is Criminal to build with corrupt foundations
Question: “How much transparency do we want”?
Answer: Full transparency.
Question: “How much corruption we are prepared to tolerate?
Answer: We already tolerate more corruption than any other Western Democracy”.
Question: “Whether we want the rich to be able to buy elections”?
Answer:”Anyone in this country can but this election.
Question: “What constitutes a level playing field”?
Answer: These do not exist
Question: “Do we want our politicians to use that as an excuse to override constitutional protections”?
Answer: They already do.