How interesting because Hulun was a huge fan of Blair and his Third Way. She used a lot of his techniques over here and I’ve always suspected she received some heavy coaching from that psychotic bastard. Could it be some of the lefties are finally waking up?

I’ve only heard Pagani on Monday Politics with Hooten on RadioNZ and she’s quite left in my view. What the hell is wrong with the left that their lefty demographic on the fanatical end is bulging at the seams there’s so many of them, and at the same time this flock of lemmings keeps trying to push forward even further left, distancing themselves all the time from the centre – the main battleground – with each passing moment? Plus the flock of lemmings grows larger and larger all the time.

I mean it’s great to see, I’m loving it but it’s appalling at the same time isn’t it. How can they be so stupid, and keep being so stupid, year after year after year. Personally I think when Hulun single-handedly shifted the NZ political centre massively to the left, that Herculean movement crossed some sort of hidden Rubicon and it’s causing what we’re witnessing, this mass flocking of leemings all heading in the wrong direction and never turning around ever, just like Happy Feet the penguin.

[DPF: Yes, but only at a very low initial level. It will help with trade issues, and it is near inevitable they will have to come in at some stage so better to not have it as a sudden shock one day]

DPF your doctorate awaits.

“She happily debates right-wing opponents such as Matthew Hooton, Deborah Coddington, David Farrar and Cameron Slater. There is no personal invective; they are often complimentary about her.”

Well yeah, they’re all so right wing they could happily exist in the Progressive wing of the Labour party with very few alterations needed. Maybe a few adjustments to economic policy, but mostly they’re quite at home with much of what the left do- example the extreme left Louisa Wall’s marriage redefinition bill.

No matter what endearing personal qualities left wing politicians might possess, it should never be forgotten that their end game is to enslave us all to the state.

Many here have followed the familiar path of commenting then promptly being banned. No one expects anything more.

The most severe criticism is from the left of politics’ left, usually by anonymous bloggers who question her left-wing credentials at best and can be personally abusive.

Yes, I’ve seen plenty of that, I’ve been subjected to very similar attacks that Josie was at The Standard.

In fact it was on a thread in August that was attacking Josie (again) that I criticised the standard of behaviour at The Standard and suggested “You’ll attract better if you act better. If that’s what you want”. That is what I was banned for, as I posted today pointing out The Standard’s failure in attracting suport for a coup.

The hard core activists believe they are correct, they attack and actively repel anyone they disagree with, they are scathing about MSM, and then try to launch a popular uprising against their own leader.