On the stump Dr Peter Cleave has been talking about a southern dimension to Mana support for the last fortnight and this is found in the New Zealand Herald's report of 10.11.11 below.
Dr Cleave has been pointing to two main things. Theseare the support for Clinton Dearlove in Te Tai Tonga and the strength of feedback to his own internet campaign. The latter has resulted in a significant number of Press Releases being run by news agencies on the net.
The New Zealand Herald report below on street polls in the South Island showing four percent support for Mana seems to go with Dr Cleave's assertion of a swell in support for Mana south of Lake Taupo as well as in the South Island itself.
NZ Herald Thursday 10th November, 2011
Mana leader Hone Harawira is in favour of street polls rather than the traditional telephone polling.
A New Zealand Herald street poll has detected more support for parties on the extreme left and right political than is shown in its Digipoll survey.
Hone Harawira says he's heartened by a showing of 4 percent support for Mana in the South island and 3 percent in the North Island.
“They're finally starting to realise when you get away from that old school Digipoll where all you’re doing is ringing people with landlines, and therefore cutting out about 80 percent of the poor and 60 percent of Maori, then you are actually going to get a more true reflection, so I am really comfortable with where we're at,” Mr Harawira says.
He suspects Mana is probably attracting about 2 per cent support, so it has a lot more work to do.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Lost community, lost decade
IMF chief Christine Lagarde's warning (9.11.11) of a lost decade of low growth corresponds with Dr Peter Cleave's argument (18.10.11) about a lost decade in New Zealand in the area of finance due to lax regulations and shady practices. Both articles are copied below;
Christine Legarde, the International Monetary Fund managing director, warned of the risk of a “lost decade” unless nations act together to counter threats to growth.
Christine Lagarde said her major concerns were high unemployment and market slumps
Comment
“In our increasingly interconnected world, no country or region can go it alone,” Ms Lagarde told a forum in Beijing yesterday. “There are dark clouds gathering in the global economy.”
Advanced economies have a “special responsibility” to restore confidence and lift growth, while China should boost consumption and allow its currency to rise, she said.
European leaders are looking to China as a potential source of funds to help solve the sovereign debt crisis. China and India said the global economy was in a “critical phase”. The two nations said policy co-operation was needed across the world to avoid the higher debt trap.
Ms Lagarde said her major concerns were high unemployment and market slumps.
“If we do not act together, we could enter a downward spiral of uncertainty,” she said.Address by Dr Peter Cleave, candidate for Mana in Rangitikei to a meeting
> of constituents in the Kahuterawa Valley, Rangitikei Electorate 18.10.11
> Dr Peter Cleave began the meeting by ensuring that the constituents there
> knew his name and that he was standing in the Rangitikei electorate.
> He then went on to say that the case of the two former cabinet ministers,
> one a knight of the realm, in court in the Lombard Finance case shows how
> close these ex-politicians are to the whole dodgy bag of financial tricks
> that people are protesting about around the world.
> 'Former National minister Sir Douglas Graham and former Labour minister
> Bill Jeffries are a disgrace,' said Dr Cleave. They face penalties of up
> to $500,000 each for misleading investors in Lombard Finance.
> Some of the charges involved can carry a jail term of up to five years.
> 'Why are Graham and Jeffries and the other two Lombard partners not being
> treated in the same way as former Labour MP Philip Taito Field and given a
> jail term?,' said Dr Cleave.
> Graham and Jeffries from National and Labour, the two biggest parties in
> New Zealand, have allowed themselves to be the face, the apparently
> trustworthy face, of a financial system that went out of control in this
> country to a greater extent than elsewhere. Do we have any major finance
> companies not threatened with charges of deceit and corruption?
> Mana is making several steps to clean all this up.
> One is to take the people protesting around the world seriously by
> listening to them.
> The other is the introduction of the Hone Heke Tax and the abolition of
> GST. These reforms will be used to create a more egalitarian life for
> people.
> Across the board Mana is taking steps to involve people who have been left
> out of the financial system altogether. Better job prospects, better
> transport systems, better opportunities for a better standard of living.
> And there needs to be an end to greed. Doug Graham and Bill Jeffries are
> being tried alongside other directors, Laurie Bryant and Michael Reeves.
> Reeves indulged his love of European motor cars - like the Maserati -
> while on the Lombard payroll.
> Mana will bring a new approach, a new broom for this corrupt and unequal
> financial system which so many people are angry about right now.
> Dr Cleave closed the meeting by asking constituents to remember his name
> and that of the political movement that he represents, the Mana Movement.
>
Christine Legarde, the International Monetary Fund managing director, warned of the risk of a “lost decade” unless nations act together to counter threats to growth.
Christine Lagarde said her major concerns were high unemployment and market slumps
Comment
“In our increasingly interconnected world, no country or region can go it alone,” Ms Lagarde told a forum in Beijing yesterday. “There are dark clouds gathering in the global economy.”
Advanced economies have a “special responsibility” to restore confidence and lift growth, while China should boost consumption and allow its currency to rise, she said.
European leaders are looking to China as a potential source of funds to help solve the sovereign debt crisis. China and India said the global economy was in a “critical phase”. The two nations said policy co-operation was needed across the world to avoid the higher debt trap.
Ms Lagarde said her major concerns were high unemployment and market slumps.
“If we do not act together, we could enter a downward spiral of uncertainty,” she said.Address by Dr Peter Cleave, candidate for Mana in Rangitikei to a meeting
> of constituents in the Kahuterawa Valley, Rangitikei Electorate 18.10.11
> Dr Peter Cleave began the meeting by ensuring that the constituents there
> knew his name and that he was standing in the Rangitikei electorate.
> He then went on to say that the case of the two former cabinet ministers,
> one a knight of the realm, in court in the Lombard Finance case shows how
> close these ex-politicians are to the whole dodgy bag of financial tricks
> that people are protesting about around the world.
> 'Former National minister Sir Douglas Graham and former Labour minister
> Bill Jeffries are a disgrace,' said Dr Cleave. They face penalties of up
> to $500,000 each for misleading investors in Lombard Finance.
> Some of the charges involved can carry a jail term of up to five years.
> 'Why are Graham and Jeffries and the other two Lombard partners not being
> treated in the same way as former Labour MP Philip Taito Field and given a
> jail term?,' said Dr Cleave.
> Graham and Jeffries from National and Labour, the two biggest parties in
> New Zealand, have allowed themselves to be the face, the apparently
> trustworthy face, of a financial system that went out of control in this
> country to a greater extent than elsewhere. Do we have any major finance
> companies not threatened with charges of deceit and corruption?
> Mana is making several steps to clean all this up.
> One is to take the people protesting around the world seriously by
> listening to them.
> The other is the introduction of the Hone Heke Tax and the abolition of
> GST. These reforms will be used to create a more egalitarian life for
> people.
> Across the board Mana is taking steps to involve people who have been left
> out of the financial system altogether. Better job prospects, better
> transport systems, better opportunities for a better standard of living.
> And there needs to be an end to greed. Doug Graham and Bill Jeffries are
> being tried alongside other directors, Laurie Bryant and Michael Reeves.
> Reeves indulged his love of European motor cars - like the Maserati -
> while on the Lombard payroll.
> Mana will bring a new approach, a new broom for this corrupt and unequal
> financial system which so many people are angry about right now.
> Dr Cleave closed the meeting by asking constituents to remember his name
> and that of the political movement that he represents, the Mana Movement.
>
Regional Development- Peter Cleave Mana Rangitikei
Press Release 11.11.11
Dr Peter Cleave responded to an article on the Rangitikei electorate by Stacey Kirk in the Manawatu Standard by going back to his earlier Press Release of 3.11.11.
‘The Rangitikei Electorate needs a strong dose of Regional Economic Development’, Mana candidate Dr Peter Cleave said then.
Dr Cleave a graduate of Auckland (First Class Masters) and Oxford (Doctorate) Universities argued that a Top Down approach has not worked.
In his internet posting today Dr Cleave noted that the candidates reported in the Manawatu Standard article of 10.11.11 were not long on detail.
’We urgently need now to get back to the vision of the 2002 Regional Economic Development Strategy, a vision that embraced a “whole of community” approach’, Dr Cleave said. ‘I would like to thank all media outlets, particularly internet news sites that ran the earlier Press Release of 3.11.11. Also the people from Taihape, Taumarunui and elsewhere who have got back to me or given feedback elsewhere. It is interesting to see where people are getting their news these days and to see them responding in an interactive way.’
The approach taken to Regional Development by Dr Cleave went with his pledge to look after forgotten communities in the Rangitikei Electorate.
‘As I have said repeatedly during this campaign there is so much talent in the Rangitikei Electorate,’ said Dr Cleave. ‘The prospects are so bright but the dreams of constituents have not been realised. I am standing for Mana in Rangitikei with strong regional development in mind.’
Dr Peter Cleave responded to an article on the Rangitikei electorate by Stacey Kirk in the Manawatu Standard by going back to his earlier Press Release of 3.11.11.
‘The Rangitikei Electorate needs a strong dose of Regional Economic Development’, Mana candidate Dr Peter Cleave said then.
Dr Cleave a graduate of Auckland (First Class Masters) and Oxford (Doctorate) Universities argued that a Top Down approach has not worked.
In his internet posting today Dr Cleave noted that the candidates reported in the Manawatu Standard article of 10.11.11 were not long on detail.
’We urgently need now to get back to the vision of the 2002 Regional Economic Development Strategy, a vision that embraced a “whole of community” approach’, Dr Cleave said. ‘I would like to thank all media outlets, particularly internet news sites that ran the earlier Press Release of 3.11.11. Also the people from Taihape, Taumarunui and elsewhere who have got back to me or given feedback elsewhere. It is interesting to see where people are getting their news these days and to see them responding in an interactive way.’
The approach taken to Regional Development by Dr Cleave went with his pledge to look after forgotten communities in the Rangitikei Electorate.
‘As I have said repeatedly during this campaign there is so much talent in the Rangitikei Electorate,’ said Dr Cleave. ‘The prospects are so bright but the dreams of constituents have not been realised. I am standing for Mana in Rangitikei with strong regional development in mind.’
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