7 November, Christchurch.

Andy and Toni counted 33 toots for us.
Tom, Andy, Scott, Brennan, and Toni were the heroes of the morning. They had to make up for a missing Rick by breaking in to RickHq (with permission) and getting things going as I was running late (had a sleep-over.)

Soon after, we're off to The Square for one last ACT cars fleet convoy (start: 12pm) before they have to be de-logoed before midnight.

Tshirts are fully functional!

Heh, ACT on Campus gets a mention in the latest Australian -

She points out that Key would probably have to go into a coalition government with ACT New Zealand, run by hard Right leader Rodney Hyde; the party's youth wing was yesterday handing out condoms on university campuses with the campaign slogan "Screw Labour, Vote ACT".

Full article here - http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24582008-16953,00.html

Everybody knows Winston is not welcome in a National/ACT coalition/government/confidence & supply agreement. In fact he seems to be the only one left in New Zealand that thinks he may still have a part to play. As recently as the last leaders debate he was at pains to say he didn't think John Key would hold to his promise and he could work with anyone. This despite Rodney explaining why he was being given the cold shoulder - NZ needs its Parliament to have standards, he doesn't meet them. Further exemplified by today's news.

I say this because this charade of a position was exposed for what it is at a public meeting on Thursday night in Mana. NZ First Otaki candidate - Dr David Scott, No. 12 on their list (ahead of current MP Dail Jones), exhorted the attendees to tactically vote, Labour for the electorate, NZF for the party. He declared that NZF was definitely going to go with Labour and voting tactically in this way would help ensure a Labour-led government.

Now everyone already knew this. Just Winston refused to admit it. But does Winston know that his candidates are contradicting him at public meetings? Also, in light of his tactical vote message, will David Scott be replacing his hoardings in Otaki, asking for two ticks?

John Ansell is back with ACT again, and here's his latest work:

Graeme Edgeler has spotted that to entrench a law, Standing Orders require a super-majority equal to super-majority required to repeal that law.

In other words, to entrench the Maori seats to require 75% to remove them, you'd need 75% to entrench them. So neither National or Labour can promise that they will do so in coalition negotiations.

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But Key's behaviour this past week asks an even deeper question. If you really want to change the government, AND government policy, do you vote National or not? On the strength of this past week... not.

-Michael Laws [Emphasis Mine]

[Via 'Stuff']

"To see that peak oil is a scam, environmentalists need to understand only one thing about economics: price influences supply. As I never tire of saying, the stone age did not end due to lack of stone, and for that matter the coal age is fading in New Zealand while we still have 2000 years of coal in the ground."

[Via 'Save The Humans']