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May 4, 2017 3:00pm by David Farrar

Labour can’t even get people to the pub

Labour could only get three people to a pub in Petone. Speaks volumes.

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Captain Mainwaring

Labour is supposed to be the party of the working class.
Working class people can’t afford the beer at the elitist Sprig & Fern.
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May 4, 2017 3:05pm
- cmm
  
  Working class people wouldn’t be seen dead in the S&F even if the beer was free.
  
  That’s part of Labour’s Big Cockup. They’re basically staffed by Greenie-type chardonnay swillers who don’t really want to stoop to dealing with anyone in white gumboots or blue overalls. Completely out of touch.
  
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  May 4, 2017 3:11pm
  - ztev
    
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    And Bishop with his University debate trophys isnt ?
    
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    May 4, 2017 3:21pm
    - Sponge
      
      No, and nor does he pretend to you dick.
      
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      May 4, 2017 3:39pm
    - Mobile Michael
      
      When he posts his evening walk photos on Facebook they aren’t from 10km north of the electorate boundary. I think that qualifies him more than a resident from a different city.
      
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      May 4, 2017 7:20pm
  - Peter
    
    I wonder when was the last time a Labour MP went into a working class pub?
    
    Or know where one was?
    
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    May 4, 2017 4:42pm
    - ztev
      
      Just goes to show how out of date you are. Life for most working class is a struggle, spending money at the pub isn’t what it was . Some beers at home are the way things are now.
      
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      May 4, 2017 4:45pm
      - thedavincimode
        
        Life for most working class is a struggle, spending money at the pub isn’t what it was . Some beers at home are the way things are now.
        
        GOAL ! (own)
        
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        May 4, 2017 4:48pm
      - ztev
        
        Yes Bishop is.
        heres hes pimping the poor
        “My mate and colleague Alfred NGARO MP, the new Minister of Pacific Peoples and the Community and Voluntary Sector, spent the afternoon in Wainui with me yesterday. First stop was the Valley Church of the Nazarene to engage with local church leaders and get a briefing on the Wainuiomata Fruit and Vegetable Co-Op (run out of the church) as well as the Hutt Valley Pacific Health Service.”
        
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        May 4, 2017 4:51pm
      - mikenmild
        
        ‘get a briefing on the Wainuiomata Fruit and Vegetable Co-Op’
        Hope the PowerPoint worked okay.
        
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        May 4, 2017 5:01pm
      - thegrump
        
        Might be the first and last time I agree with Mikenmild but giving up an hour of your life to “get a briefing on the Wainuiomata Fruit and Vegetable Co-op” would not drag me away from a glass of wine and a good feed.
        
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        May 4, 2017 5:24pm
      - BassilFawlty
        
        How does that shoe leather taste trev?
        
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        May 4, 2017 5:57pm
      - ztev
        
        wait till the ratepayers pf Hutt South know that Bishop is ‘behind’ a move for students to get reduced fares paid from rates.
        
        I suppose those tertiary students will lap it up from the debate champ
        
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        May 4, 2017 6:25pm
      - cmm
        
        ztev: I know exactly what you mean. Most KBers live in a bubble and don’t know how real working class people live.
        
        ztev has really been putting in a lot of effort to help educate you lot, so I’ll try to help out a bit.
        
        Do you wonder why they’re always taking home cardboard boxes from the dumpster at work – for food!
        
        On pay day they are so happy because they can afford matches. They then tear up one of the boxes and make a fire and that means they can warm up the other cardboard box before eating!
        
        Such happy salt of the earth people!
        
        You’ve always got to look at the bright side though – at least it means nobody gets fat and they can’t afford sugar to rot their kids teeth….
        
        Nor can they afford spray paint to vandalise stuff, and the parents can’t afford to go out, so they live in these wonderful clean houses with no graffiti. They spend all their free time tending their gardens and being great attentive parents, helping their kids with homework and making sure they brush their teeth – no cavities in these families and the kids do so well at school!
        
        With all that time to spend with eachother and no booze or smokes or drug (can’t afford them) they make wonderful families – no family violence. On Saturday you’ll normally see the men helping out around the house, doing odd chores, happily doing the washing or ironing. Maybe they can’t afford much in the way of clothing, but they take pride in what they wear. There’s always a clean pressed shirt for Sunday!
        
        They can’t afford radios and boom-boxes, so they sing with beautiful voices.
        
        Wake up ztev.. you’re dreaming mate!
        
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        May 4, 2017 7:58pm
- Viking2
  
  Working class no longer live in Petone. Can’t afford the housing.
  
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  May 5, 2017 8:49pm
timmydevo

If the invite had said, “Beers with Labour Hutt South, and it’s our shout…” then it would have been a different story.
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May 4, 2017 3:07pm
- Rich Prick
  
  Socialists spending their own money? Thanks for the chuckle.
  
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  May 4, 2017 3:22pm
- thedavincimode
  
  I’d be more than happy for these turkeys to subsidise a night on the turps for me. “Lager frenzy on liebour” would attract more interest I’d have thought.
  
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  May 4, 2017 4:39pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  Normally, if you advertised that it was Andrew Little’s Shout, people would go there expecting to be yelled at by the Angry One 😎
  
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  May 5, 2017 7:48am
stigie

What a disgrace of a party, roll around September. My pick is 24% !~
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May 4, 2017 3:09pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  I’m going for 21% once it sinks in that with hopeless Labour you also get the stinking Greens.
  
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  May 4, 2017 3:13pm
Harriet

They can’t even organise a piss up in a union electorate and they want to change the government? – with whose army?
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May 4, 2017 3:10pm
Rich Prick

To be fair, Peter Dunne probably had dibs on the phone booth.
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May 4, 2017 3:12pm
thegrump

Oh my, that is so utterly feeble, and it is exposed on social media for everyone to see. You get to the point where you are almost sorry for them. Almost.
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May 4, 2017 3:15pm
- ztev
  
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  meanwhile NZs national party is featured on all the major news publications of the world this week- no time to rain on THAT parade
  
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  May 4, 2017 3:23pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    I hope ‘rain on that parade’ isn’t copyrighted or any of the words contained with in. ;
    
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    May 4, 2017 3:56pm
    - ztev
      
      Ill give Jo de Joux a call, she sure to know the answer – having been caught out TWICE stealing others copyright
      
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      May 4, 2017 4:53pm
      - Mobile Michael
        
        Hey, I live in that electorate and resent that remarkAt least she didn’t claim to create it.
        
        Or change the law retrospectively to make it legal.
        
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        May 4, 2017 7:18pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    ztev (aka Trevor-impersonator), you really live in your own little dream world don’t you?
    
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    May 4, 2017 9:22pm
Longknives

Are Labour again promoting a ‘Binge Drinking’ Culture??
I’d love to hear the respected Doug Sellman’s comments on this booze soaked campaign..
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May 4, 2017 3:29pm
- Jigsaw
  
  Doug Sellman is respected!!? You must be the only one then….
  
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  May 4, 2017 3:43pm
  - Longknives
    
    Tongue firmly in cheek Jigsaw!
    Imagine the outrage from the wowsers and the Left if National ran a ‘Have a beer with the Nats’ campaign?
    
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    May 4, 2017 4:38pm
Huevon

If only the function was in a proverbial brewery…
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May 4, 2017 3:53pm
Monty

so Petone is the heartland Labour area in Lower Hutt – traditionally where all the manufacturing was, strong pacific communities and working class people. And Ginny realistically thinks she has a chance against Chris Bishop. I would bet $ that come 24 Spetember 2017 Ginny (who seems nice enough) will be getting ready to go back to her day job.
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May 4, 2017 4:21pm
Monty

so Petone is the heartland Labour area in Lower Hutt – traditionally where all the manufacturing was, strong pacific communities and working class people. And Ginny realistically thinks she has a chance against Chris Bishop. I would bet $ that come 24 September 2017 Ginny (who seems nice enough) will be getting ready to go back to her day job.
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May 4, 2017 4:23pm
George Patton

“Massive people-powered movement….”
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May 4, 2017 4:31pm
mikenmild

The photo I saw from this event looked like it has about a dozen people in it, having a beer after canvassing in Petone.
Perhaps DPF should post more often on the National Party – he might know a little bit more about them.
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May 4, 2017 4:32pm
- thedavincimode
  
  But that is the point isn’t it milky. No punters; just liebour hacks who’d been flogging some shoe leather for no good purpose.
  
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  May 4, 2017 4:37pm
  - mikenmild
    
    They’ll be satisfied when Labour retains Hutt South.
    
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    May 4, 2017 4:40pm
    - thedavincimode
      
      milky, that sounds like betting talk 🙂
      
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      May 4, 2017 4:42pm
      - mikenmild
        
        I only gamble through the TAB.
        
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        May 4, 2017 4:44pm
      - thedavincimode
        
        But aren’t we talking about a ‘sure thing’ here? More of a short term investment really. 🙂
        
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        May 4, 2017 4:46pm
    - mikenmild
      
      So, you are offering attractive odds?
      
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      May 4, 2017 4:48pm
      - thedavincimode
        
        Evens. Chicken.
        
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        May 4, 2017 4:50pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Offering evens never makes you look confident.
        
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        May 4, 2017 5:07pm
      - thedavincimode
        
        More or less confident than someone asking for better than evens?
        
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        May 4, 2017 6:03pm
      - Dave_1924
        
        Its a Labour seat just BUT with 3500 Green votes and you want odds that Labour will win it? What are you on? If Ginny loses the seat its a complete disaster MnM – she is odds on to retain…
        
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        May 4, 2017 10:05pm
- s.russell
  
  They may have been innocent bystanders, or may have been the parliamentary staff Labour paid to have go along.
  
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  May 4, 2017 4:39pm
  - thedavincimode
    
    They may have been ~~innocent~~ unlucky bystanders
    
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    There ya go!
    
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    May 4, 2017 4:41pm
  - mikenmild
    
    “may have”
    Sure, or the photos were doctored. Equally likely?
    
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    May 4, 2017 4:41pm
    - Sponge
      
      I have a memory of Cunliffe doing just that. For that reason, I wouldn’t put it past them.
      
      [edit] The give away would be if it was a really obvious photoshop as they wouldn’t be competent to do a good job of course.
      
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      May 4, 2017 6:55pm
- Dave_1924
  
  Mike, and Mild and Ginny and 7 others… brilliant!
  
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  May 4, 2017 10:03pm
- RRM
  
  mikenmild
  
  The photo I saw from this event looked like it has about a dozen people in it
  
  Huge! 😆
  
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  May 5, 2017 8:21am
chris

3 people said they went on Facebook. That doesn’t mean that’s the actual number of people who went…
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May 4, 2017 4:44pm
- Kea
  
  3 people said they went on Facebook. That doesn’t mean that’s the actual number of people who went…
  
  You are right. Probably about 10% of that number actually turned up 🙂
  
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  May 4, 2017 10:09pm
lazza

Must have been a Lion Red pub.
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May 4, 2017 4:46pm
- mikenmild
  
  Sprig & Fern is a craft-brewery pub, originally from Nelson.
  
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  May 4, 2017 4:49pm
- ztev
  
  Wellington is Lion Brown heartland, the main local brewery was Staples in Thorndon, part of NZ breweries, which was brewing till 1988
  Staples main beer brand was Red Label
  
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  May 4, 2017 5:03pm
  - nasska
    
    Red Band! And it was bloody awful.
    
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    May 4, 2017 6:22pm
  - cmm
    
    “which was brewing till 1988”
    
    1988, eh? Pity National wasn’t in power then or you could have blamed them for shutting down the honest working man’s brewery of choice.
    
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    May 4, 2017 9:08pm
  - burt
    
    ztev
    
    You forgot to mention that Lion Breweries was/is a Catholic dominated business and how shocking and unacceptable that is !
    
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    May 5, 2017 12:45pm
tusker

Might be because they invited only fatties…… ‘we’re building a massive people powered movement’
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May 4, 2017 5:02pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Now now, don’t be mean to fatties. They have feelings too- mostly hunger.
  
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  May 4, 2017 5:43pm
cmm

Did you hear the joke about three Labour supporters that walked into a bar….

Sorry, that was the punchline.
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May 4, 2017 9:05pm
cas

they had Trevor and Annette in the eastern bay recently. Apparently polling had shown them that Annette went down well with punters. They didn’t say if polling had told them it wasn’t worth rolling Angry Andy out. i think they did have a pub session. perhaps its their new tactic – but who pays for the drinks?
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May 5, 2017 10:20am
b1gdaddynz

They had a Facebook live stream of a meeting in Palmerston North yesterday which seemed to have a reasonable number in attendance but unfortunately (fortunately maybe) you could not hear one word Andrew Little said because the audio was terrible. Basically all the comments were complaining about not be able to hear even from people who were clearly Labour supporters. Despite this they made no attempt to fix the issue. They had the slogan “Building a better New Zealand” to which I replied trying building a better live stream first…..
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