Victor Billot » Politics http://www.victorbillot.com Sat, 08 Oct 2011 06:32:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Left of liberal http://www.victorbillot.com/2010/06/left-of-liberal/ http://www.victorbillot.com/2010/06/left-of-liberal/#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:16:21 +0000 admin http://www.victorbillot.com/?p=347

Must be that time of the year again. Speaking at Drinking Liberally Dunedin this Thursday 1 July.

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]]> http://www.victorbillot.com/2010/06/left-of-liberal/feed/ 0 Beyond the sea: New Zealand’s ports at risk? http://www.victorbillot.com/2010/06/beyond-the-sea-new-zealands-ports-at-risk/ http://www.victorbillot.com/2010/06/beyond-the-sea-new-zealands-ports-at-risk/#comments Sat, 26 Jun 2010 11:09:04 +0000 admin http://www.victorbillot.com/?p=339 The following article on New Zealand ports and maritime issues was originally published in Foreign Control Watchdog issue 123 (May 2010), the magazine of CAFCA, and is available online at their site. I thought I’d add it here as well.

Somewhere beyond the sea
somewhere waiting for me
my lover stands on golden sands
and watches the ships that … Read more

]]> http://www.victorbillot.com/2010/06/beyond-the-sea-new-zealands-ports-at-risk/feed/ 0 Broke, Anxious or Seriously flush http://www.victorbillot.com/2010/02/broke-anxious-or-seriously-flush/ http://www.victorbillot.com/2010/02/broke-anxious-or-seriously-flush/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:56:27 +0000 admin http://www.victorbillot.com/?p=326 The following article appeared in the Otago Daily Times, on Wednesday 3 February 2010, in response to an article by Dr Mathew Zacharias entitled Patients’ rights trampled in drive for equality and ongoing talk about user pays models at the Dunedin Public Hospital.

I was interested to read the hard-headed realism of Dr Mathew Zacharias in his opinion piece … Read more

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An appearance this Tuesday 23 April 7pm at Velvet Underground, Dunedin for the Drinking Liberally series.

Facebook version here.

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]]> http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/06/drinking-liberally/feed/ 0 That’s very generous of you . . . sir http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/03/thats-very-generous-of-you-sir/ http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/03/thats-very-generous-of-you-sir/#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:15:19 +0000 admin http://www.victorbillot.com/victorbillot/?p=194 A small mention here at Tumeke for my comments today about our Prime Minister who craves to see the warm and friendly hand of charity extended to the dispossessed.

John Key is a confused man. He wants a British “honours” system, an American “generosity” system and presumably a Burmese employment system to pay for it all.… Read more

]]> http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/03/thats-very-generous-of-you-sir/feed/ 0 Paths are made by walking http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/01/paths-are-made-by-walking/ http://www.victorbillot.com/2009/01/paths-are-made-by-walking/#comments Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:19:10 +0000 admin http://billot.wordpress.com/?p=106 New Zealand’s leading public intellectual of the Left, Chris Trotter, seems to have been genuinely unsettled by the defeat of Labour in 2008. Toys have been thrown, and targets targeted.
In an initial attack of post-election spleen Chris railed against those voters who brought in National as ” . . . the men who just couldn’t cope with the idea … Read more

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My new election blog for 2008 is online. I’ll be posting on this for the duration of the campaign – see you there.

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I have been selected to stand for the Alliance Party in the 2008 general election for the Dunedin North electorate.

More information as it comes to hand.  I haven’t decided yet to blog on my campaign on my old election blog or just keep it all here.

I’m pleased to represent the democratic socialist viewpoint.

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]]> http://www.victorbillot.com/2008/05/campaign-trail-08-2/feed/ 0 A couple of observations on the state of the world http://www.victorbillot.com/2007/08/a-couple-of-observations-on-the-state-of-the-world/ http://www.victorbillot.com/2007/08/a-couple-of-observations-on-the-state-of-the-world/#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:09:14 +0000 admin http://billot.wordpress.com/2007/08/16/a-couple-of-observations-on-the-state-of-the-world/ On the theme of things “eco”, George Monbiot sums up recent thoughts rather nicely here.

He also manages to pin down the blindingly obvious with this post on Unions and the Labour Party in the UK. Some parallels to be drawn with our free trade pushin’  Government?

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