I have yet to make up my mind about Hekia Parata – she has a good pedigree in public servce but has got off to a bad start – partly her own making and partly that English import who didn’t understand NZ education and partly the unions who gang up to destroy every new education minister, Labour ones included. I hope this year will be better for her and we’ll see a great MP in the making. Education needs a lot of work and cannot continue to be dominated by self-serving unions.

Just look at the full page ad by the PPTA today. Any good English teacher would put a line through it for exaggerations, half-truths and loaded language.

I think this simple saying stands the test of time. Why do politicians feel it doesn’t apply to them? Maggie should just ignore the Trevor Mallards of this world. When asked for comment I would simply say: “I have never listened to Trevor Mallard and don’t intend to start now”.

End. Of. Story.

Do you include Parata in your list of great Nats women?

I can’t wait to see Tarnatino’s “Django Unchained”. The man is a genuis!!
Can’t see what the problem is that you have with it frankly, he writes FICTION.

Of course Tarantino was snubbed again at the Oscars for best director. Like Scorcese (who got ignored by the Oscars until “The Departed”) his films are just a little bit edgy for the conservative Oscars voters. He pretty much expects it. Good to see Tarantino stating publically that he thought (correctly) that Ben Affleck should have got a nomination for “Argo”.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10858543

You know how in the old days when ‘women in horseback’ would descend on whichever drop kick parents in the district were neglecting their kids and sort them out? I’ve always thought Maggie would be one of those women.

And actually, I think Jacinda Ardern would have gone along too, she just wouldn’t have lead the charge:)

I like strong-willed gutsy women. I’m married to one!

Wait till you see Tarantino’s “Django Unchained”.

You can’t stop these kind of people from making their rubbish movies. The real issue is that our offspring are today so uneducated, and so ignorant of real history, it is easy for the lies half truths and distortions these propagandists employ to find acceptance in their psyche.

You of all people Milky, a communist and a progressive, have the utter gall to ask this question?

We will see his like again, but not until people such as you are removed from political and social ascendancy in our communities.

For it is you who have not only yourself poured scorn and ridicule on such concepts as “old fashioned honour” but have through your infestation and abuse of our education system, taught our children to do the same.

“National Party women love coal more than they love kids” – Jacinda Ardern

You stay classy Labour.

She carries in her genes those of her mother, several aunts and great-aunts, and cousins. Strong, articulate, independent and capable women who survived and thrived often in difficult circumstances.

It’s almost as if these people want to incite racial hatred. I’m concerned my daughter will have to watch this propaganda when she starts school.