Comments by "Laurence Fraser" (@laurencefraser) on "New Zealand at the centre of big power play" video.

  1. Most of it's cities, including the largest in each island and the capital, being right on the coast might cause problems along the way though.
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  2.  @stephaniemay792  Act has all of one good point: they take mental health very seriously. Pretty much a disaster otherwise. These are the twits who though privatization of the water supply would Improve things! Meanwhile the Greens periodically forget that they're not actually supposed to be a Communist party, National can't seem to go an election cycle without some sort of scandal and it's leadership sometimes forget that New Zealand isn't a US state, New Zealand First has reached a point where it's impossible to tell when they're actually doing something suspect (and not all the actually suspect things are even wrong and/or bad, just to further confuse matters!) vs when it's the other parties having a go at them (oh, and then there's the part where sometimes the Party is a meaningful entity and sometimes it's just straight up 'the Winston Peters Party'), and Labour is a progressive centre left party... Right up until something breaks economically and then suddenly they go full right wing economics on us (whatever their other faults, communists they are Not!) And also have a bit of a shortage of people who actually know what they're doing at the moment... The Maori party (and splinters) are periodically hilariously racist, TOP's got a bunch of good ideas but is so radical that no one's quite willing to gamble on them (and somehow contrives to persistently Seem a bit dodgy despite not actually doing anything wrong)... I'm probably missing a couple. And yet somehow they're All better than the american Republican party or the CCP :p
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