General Debate 24 October 2018

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duggledog

Yesterday at Pak & Save (the cheapest supermarket) –

Butter: (budget brand) $6.80

Two lamb shanks (large) $19.10

It’s the poor people and those on fixed incomes I feel sorry for. Going to be a lean Christmas for some.

Every three years off they trot to the voting booth and tick for a bit more regulation and tax – or a bit less regulation and tax.

Kiwis are slow learners. The one representative in the House whose Party would slash regulation and tax does not even register in the polls.
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October 24, 2018 8:01am
- igm
  
  Unfortunately there are too many self-entitled, unemployable, breeding-for-income, useless bludgers — created by Labour, who vote to keep these arseholes in power.
  
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  October 24, 2018 8:08am
  - Inandout
    
    igm, then there are the unemployable in parliament.
    
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    October 24, 2018 8:10am
    - G152
      
      Or in universities and coming out with nonsense every so often to make it appear they’re ‘working’ and ‘concerned’
      
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      October 24, 2018 8:24am
      - gump
        
        And yet ten days ago DPF posted that supermarket operators don’t need regulation because food prices in New Zealand are static.
        
        Isn’t that funny?
        
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/10/food_prices_not_increasing_like_petrol_prices.html
        
        On kiwiblog it seems that food prices are static when defending corporate profits, yet they magically begin rising when people want to bash the Government.
        
        It’s going to be great Christmas for oil companies and supermarket operators. Both of whom have increased their gross profit margins at the expense of NZ consumers.
        
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        October 24, 2018 11:08am
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        Yes Gump – the answer to creeping unaffordablility is greater regulation. Because Nanny State knows best. Just like they know best about what drives inflation….
        
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        October 24, 2018 1:08pm
      - RW Capitalist
        
        Well gump:
        considering half the retail cost of petrol is T A X.
        Over 80% of the remainder is costs to the oil companies that leaves a MAXIMUM of 10% profit.
        In most companies, that isn’t worth getting out of bed for.
        
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        October 24, 2018 3:21pm
      - dave_c_
        
        Sorry RW – Ticked the wrong box (Hit report instead of Reply !)
        I was going to say that a if a profit of this magnitude is no worth getting out of bed for, then surely those expecting more are part of the problem !
        
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        October 24, 2018 3:23pm
      - labrator
        
        DPF posted that supermarket operators don’t need regulation because food prices in New Zealand are static
        
        You link to evidence to the contrary:
        
        … food prices have not been increasing greatly in recent years.
        
        Didn’t say no regulation required:
        
        So bigger fish to fry.
        
        Deliberately misrepresenting your host is unbecoming.
        
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        October 24, 2018 8:19pm
  - GoVege
    
    There’re wasn’t so many unemployed, breeding for cash layabouts until the ECA made breeding more profitable than working.
    Guess what short-sighted idiots brought THAT in?
    
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    October 24, 2018 10:11am
- Inandout
  
  NW had butter for $5.80 last week, but anyone who thinks the cost of fuel will not affect prices is a born socialist. Now I hear Wellington is next to get hit with extra local taxes so up go taxi, courier, truck and bus fares.
  
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  October 24, 2018 8:09am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    up go taxi
    Will this impact the incidents of drink driving?
    
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    October 24, 2018 8:46am
    - Inandout
      
      No RW, as most taxi drivers are Arabs.
      
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      October 24, 2018 9:07am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        I think Capitalist meant more people trying to drive their own car when they shouldn’t.
        
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        October 24, 2018 9:52am
      - Local Miller
        
        I think Inandout knew 🙂
        
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        October 24, 2018 10:52am
  - DigNap15
    
    Wow.
    Who can afford to buy butter these days?
    
    Or good meat or fish?
    
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    October 24, 2018 2:25pm
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  45% mate. That is what Labour is now. So no worries for Sheeple. Move on bro.
  
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  October 24, 2018 8:11am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    for now….for now!
    
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    October 24, 2018 8:47am
  - michael_s2
    
    Now that you are commenting again on WhaleOil could you leave this blog alone.
    
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    October 24, 2018 9:49pm
- Simon
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  $100,000 for buying a gong for closer NZ CCP relations.
  
  You dont even have to speak English. But CCP values have become NZ values, money does the talking.
  
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  October 24, 2018 8:23am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Is that how much that chinese guy paid The Labour Party for his citizenship?
    1. How do you know?
    2. It must be Labour because NOBODY paid National that much.
    
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    October 24, 2018 8:49am
  - michael_s2
    
    Who got the $100,000? The nomination for the gong, recommended by Phil Goff, came before the hundred grand to the Nats.
    
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    October 24, 2018 9:35am
  - labrator
    
    The National Party’s total donations for 2017 was $4.5 million. If you’re trying to buy them out, a one time $100k ain’t really holding much weight. Or did $100k sound like a lot of money to you?
    
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    October 24, 2018 8:23pm
- Colville
  
  duggle.
  I just checked my till tape.
  I paid $5 for butter and $23 for a leg of lamb yesterday.
  At P&S
  
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  October 24, 2018 8:25am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    not for much longer.
    
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    October 24, 2018 8:49am
- Im Right
  
  To be fair Duggledog….the ‘poor’ people buy margarine or some spread that’s not butter and lamb shanks isn’t top of their shopping list (Christmas or not), cheaper cuts and mince is on their list. Chickens can still be bought cheaply and for $19.10, they can buy 3 medium chickens or 2 large ones. I agree that we here in NZ are awash with dairy and we pay so much it’s almost a rip off…lamb is cheaper in London than here, butter is just a joke…try Beef Cheeks, great cut but needs lots of cooking, unfortunately even those have almost doubled in price in last 2yrs or so. Blame cooking shows on TV 🙂
  
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  October 24, 2018 8:27am
  - waikatogirl
    
    AirNZ serve beef cheek on their business class menu. It is incredibly delicious.
    
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    October 24, 2018 9:00am
    - dime
      
      that reminds me, I have a ton of cheap cuts left over from when I ordered half a beast. rump, blade and skirt.. best I learn how to cook em!
      
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      October 24, 2018 9:10am
      - big bruv
        
        Dime,
        
        If you leave Rump long enough (until the outer skin is black) then it is the best frying steak you can get.
        
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        October 24, 2018 9:35am
      - waikatogirl
        
        Long and slow dime. Throw some red wine and mushrooms in. Can’t go wrong. ?
        
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        October 24, 2018 10:50am
      - Colville
        
        dime.
        Skirt steak is called Onglet in France…and its loved as a full flavored steak for sandwiches or sliced after cooking and served with fries. Its fooking fantastic. But you do not serve it as a whole piece it needs to be sliced then rested.
        
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        October 24, 2018 11:59am
      - GoVege
        
        “BEAST”???
        That was no BEAST, dime.
        That was a loving intelligent mammal who wanted to live!!
        And eating him just shortened your life and put you at risk of bowel cancer…
        
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        October 24, 2018 5:59pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Get a slow cooker…
        You can’t go wrong with slow-cooked casseroles/curries/stews if you don’t know how else to cope with those cuts.
        
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        October 24, 2018 6:08pm
      - MT_Tinman
        
        Use the rump as BB suggests, the rest just cut into mouth size hunks, throw in a large pot (or slow cooker) with a few onions (quartered – peeled if you prefer), liquid beef stock (enough to cover the meat) and a handful of black peppercorns.
        
        I like to throw in about half a cup of HOT Thai chilli sauce but that is of course optional, you may use HP spicy or any other red sauce not based on sugar – i.e. not bloody Watties crap.
        
        Cook just above boiling for as long as you can – adding water when/if you need to, up to eight hours and then thicken it with cornflower.
        
        You can eat it over a week or so depending how hungry you are.
        
        I like to add spuds or rice and always have bread to soak up the gravy. Tastes better every feed.
        
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        October 24, 2018 6:51pm
    - GoVege
      
      I suppose it probably is…if you don’t think about where it comes from…
      
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      October 24, 2018 7:21pm
  - srylands
    
    I’m a fan of skirt steak. It is still cheap because most people don’t know how to cook it. Great in the slow cooker.
    
    Unfortunately too many low income folk are stuck on frozen chicken nuggets and $1 bread loaves. They either don’t know about or can’t get to Sunday vege markets.
    
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    October 24, 2018 9:13am
  - GoVege
    
    Beef cheeks??
    Yuk!!
    How about a lovely surimi salad with yummy beetroot hummus/ raw fish with heaps of tomato and cucumber, plus potato salad?
    
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    October 24, 2018 10:15am
    - dime
      
      surimi – too many carbs 😛
      
      at least by eating the cheap cuts we are being respectful to the animal? not just eating the best bits and ditching the rest?
      
      Id like to think if I was ever farmed, some alien would say – you must try Dimes balls, they really are lovely.
      
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      October 24, 2018 10:39am
      - starboard
        
        LOL ! Laptop, meet coffee..
        
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        October 24, 2018 11:38am
      - GoVege
        
        Don’t wait for the aliens to land, dime!
        Donate your yummy mammalian meat NOW!!!
        
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        October 24, 2018 5:50pm
    - igm
      
      Suppose you drink almond milk and parade your child around for popularity and photo ops as well.
      
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      October 24, 2018 11:59am
      - GoVege
        
        Almond milk tastes revolting IMO.
        But I know someone who swears by it in smoothies and has lost 23 kilos in just a few months… 🙂
        
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        October 24, 2018 6:01pm
      - MT_Tinman
        
        But I know someone who swears by it in smoothies and has lost 23 kilos in just a few months…
        
        I thought throwing up after every meal was a disease.
        
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        October 24, 2018 6:54pm
  - Padriv Ustoev
    
    Good advice.
    Good meat for the landed elite, cheap cuts for the peasants.
    Just like the good old days.
    
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    October 24, 2018 10:23am
  - GoVege
    
    Do you realize those poor chookies are probably only 6 week old babies?
    Hubby brought home a massive snapper last night.
    I reckon it was at least 60 years old….and lived wild and free all that time. 🙂
    
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    October 24, 2018 5:54pm
    - cha
      
      Size usually corresponds to age – a size 16 bird is around 16 weeks old.
      
      And eating the breading stock is certainly one way of killing a fishery.
      
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      October 24, 2018 6:05pm
      - MT_Tinman
        
        Fowl are bakers?
        
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        October 24, 2018 6:55pm
      - GoVege
        
        Not according to Safe’s website (the chookies).
        That snapper was humungous…I’m sure it was a granddaddy and too old to breed…
        
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        October 24, 2018 7:16pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Rubbish..
        Snapper breed until they die.
        Bigger fish have bigger gonads and release more milt.
        Big snapper spawn several times a season , small ones may only spawn once.
        https://www.fishforever.org.nz/protection-tools/putting-the-big-ones-back.html
        
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        October 24, 2018 9:01pm
      - GoVege
        
        Thank you for that Maggie…you walking encyclopedia!
        Then how come they tell us to throw the little ones back?
        
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        October 24, 2018 9:47pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Because if you harvest all or a lot of the juveniles there will be not be a generation to replace the older stock.. that is also being harvested/predated/ dying off.
        
        It’s a bit like taking all eggs from a nest….. if something happens to the parents… that’s the end of the line……(probably how Moa went extinct….. easier to harvest eggs and flightless chicks than hunt big birds)
        
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        October 24, 2018 10:00pm
- VicParking
  
  You rich pricks who can afford Butter and Lamb Shanks. Sunrise Table spread ($1.99) and sausages ($4.99) is my fare. It seems you are living off the HOG and still want to pay less towards making NZ great. We don’t all trot off to the polls to Vote for the COL. Two ticks blue in this household. The representative you talk about is only there because we who vote two ticks blue put him there. Get him to stand in Mt Albert if he thinks he’s that good.
  
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  October 24, 2018 8:48am
  - GoVege
    
    One of my kids is in India.
    Went into a McDonald’s there and EVERY meal was vegetarian!
    Bliss…. 🙂 🙂
    
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    October 24, 2018 7:24pm
- 4077th
  
  On the upside, at least you can get a plastic bag from them.
  
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  October 24, 2018 9:03am
- Harkman
  
  So true, approximately half the country are completely idiotic. At around 8PM last Friday I noticed we were out of (nice wholesome) bread, but being the long weekend it took me 5 supermarkets to get what I wanted, but in that time what I saw on the roads and around Chch explained to me why 50% voted Labour, Greens, and Winston First. Half of society is f’king crazy.
  
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  October 24, 2018 9:04am
  - MT_Tinman
    
    Why the fuck didn’t you just wait until Saturday morning when the bread was freshly baked and buy to your hearts content at the first supermarket you found?
    
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    October 24, 2018 6:58pm
- dubya
  
  Let them eat Almond Butter!, say the Ardern-Gayfords from their dairy-free $2.5m Villa.
  
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  October 24, 2018 9:17am
  - sooty
    
    With a bach in Wellington!
    
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    October 24, 2018 10:21am
    - 4077th
      
      You misspelled Bitch
      
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      October 24, 2018 12:23pm
    - fluffykiwi
      
      A do up bach, which you and I pay for.
      
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      October 24, 2018 3:33pm
Captain Mainwaring

How much better could the union-led TV1 have timed their poll to do the maximum damage to the Nats? But National actually came out of it better than expected, which will piss the MSM off.
How much different would the poll have been if it had happened in the middle of the Curren/Fightery meltdown? The bastards made sure that was never going to happen.
However it does seem that National’s choice of leader was not the right one.
Two years to fix it and take the CoL to the slaughterhouse.
Starting tomorrow.
Go Judith.
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October 24, 2018 8:01am
- tas
  
  You know what’s worse than having a weak leader?
  Continually fighting over the leadership.
  
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  October 24, 2018 8:03am
  - kowtow
    
    Oz a very good example.
    
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    October 24, 2018 8:27am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      CoL is also a good example…the arm wrestle continues, just not as public.
      
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      October 24, 2018 8:50am
      - Prince
        
        Will be interesting now polls show lab/green could cut NZ.
        
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        October 24, 2018 9:52am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Well, while Winston does have a lot of influence, they won’t give up the fairy Taxinda. They know that her giant grin won them the election.
        
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        October 24, 2018 10:09am
  - backster
    
    Tas…True Judith or anyone else need to have 20% or more in the polls before change is considered because any change will be subject to the same Alt left media onslaught that Simon has been subject to. That said I think Paula showed greater leadership than Simon did in exposing Ross. She fought back for her leader and he dumped on her…why?
    
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    October 24, 2018 9:03am
  - MrsAnnie
    
    As much as I love Judith, the Slater connection may mean caucus digs their toes in. If we learn’t anything last week- it was that 55 National MPs are 100% united in their hatred of JLR, 1 even wants hims 6 foot under. JLR has become the Avatar of Lusk and Slater- Slater end game is to see Judith as leader, so he once more can become the inside man. Caucus will not want to grant them their wish. Bridges is safe until early 2019.
    
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    October 24, 2018 9:08am
  - igm
    
    Wait till “Fat Fairy” makes his run for leadership of CoL.
    He will have backing of LTDGT and all the other leeching weirdos — should be a winner.
    
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    October 24, 2018 12:02pm
    - MrsAnnie
      
      Interesting- thinking the other day- Jacinda has a good chance of getting knocked up again in the next 18 months, from personal experience- babies after 40 are tough on the body. If polls are not looking so good, economy turns, fairy dust stops working may she well step aside????
      
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      October 24, 2018 1:47pm
      - sooty
        
        She’s not youth adjacent anymore, that’s for sure!
        
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        October 24, 2018 4:45pm
      - Piniwi
        
        Funny MrsAnnie watching OQT today the silly little girl was very agitated ending up becoming barking mad as a major issue she thought was clouded by the Ross sage returned. Rising fuel prices was reintroduced by Simon Bridges who quietly posed a string of questions that was just too much for her. So after accusing him of making stuff up in another round of scaremongering she lost the plot. She ended up making policy on the fly with a statement to the House. No more RFT will be introduced while she is PM. The pressure shows when she sits down after each question with that stark schoolgirl like pout and her hand holding her mouth shut. Perhaps she is really the weakest link in the COL as she certainly showed how dumb she is today. The funniest thing her constant claims they are doing something about what they think is oil companies fault and they are “doing something about it” To which we must eventually as they have not even started the process of massaging the Commerce Bill. Then there will be a protracted space of an inquiry before their findings reviewed (read adjusted) before any action is taken. Such action subject to implementation which not be overnight. She has her faithful followers swallowing every word while she thinks talking about something is “doing something”. Now on top of all these questions she has the worry of her in house stud breaking away from the boundary fence to head off fishing? In springtime? Bet that is a log way from her plan A. Eh.
        
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        October 24, 2018 11:55pm
- Maxx
  
  My take on the polling numbers is that the question that should be asked is why did Nationals support not drop? I wouldn’t necessarily say National voters are loyal, more that they have no where else to go. Labour, NZ First, and Greens are not an option and with no other viable party, Nats are the choice.
  To me this is more of an interesting poll for NZF than anyone else. With all that has happened over the last week, they couldn’t take any Nat votes. So if they want to get away from the precarious position that they find themselves in, then they will need to take those votes off Labour.
  
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  October 24, 2018 8:04am
  - Paulus
    
    I remain Loyal
    Two Blue Ticks whatever.
    
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    October 24, 2018 8:11am
    - gump
      
      Two blue ticks whatever?
      
      So your vote isn’t reflective of performance or policy?
      
      The purpose of voting is to hold political parties accountable.
      
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      October 24, 2018 11:14am
      - Colville
        
        My purpose in voting is to keep the Greens out of power.
        Only 2 ticks Blue does that.
        
        (tho last time I did vote for the Rimmer clone party)
        
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        October 24, 2018 12:03pm
      - RW Capitalist
        
        Mine is…..
        and from all I’ve seen over 50 years of observation.
        NATIONAL are still the most competent and honest.
        Even Muldoon did more and more that we still depend on, than any other labour PM in my life.
        YES …EVEN Muldoon.
        
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        October 24, 2018 3:26pm
    - Piniwi
      
      Thanks Paulus it has been a harsh initiation for Simon Bridges over the last couple of weeks where he has been put to the test of handling a crises. Not a faultless process but he makes no bones about it giving credit to the team he has so diligently established. It again has the COL smarting every time he gives credit to the for their support but more significantly their united loyalty. This is a strength the COL find hardest to counter as they still struggle individually and together across the board. Another example today when Jones was answering on behalf of Twyford who is i witless protection. Paul Goldsmith spotted the gaps and asked “When did the Minster find out about the new policy today of no new RTF stated by the PM?” He rose and could only say on behalf of the Minister” only when the PM stated it in an earlier question.” A real two moons moment. Lol
      
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      October 25, 2018 12:12am
    - Piniwi
      
      Ops. “Your comment is awaiting moderation.” That’s new? Have we missed something?
      
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      October 25, 2018 12:16am
  - ross411
    
    The whole journalism thing seemed tabloid and gleeful, I found it offputting towards journalism not national.
    
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    October 24, 2018 8:13am
  - tom1980
    
    Morals of the story:
    – MSM has little influence
    – NZ Fist is no longer seen as an alternative for centre-right voters
    – Next election still in play
    
    All good stuff.
    
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    October 24, 2018 8:59am
    - Tall Man
      
      Exactly. If the onslaught from the media directed at Simon Bridges has had the little impact on National I think it will intensify now.
      
      Expect more and more shrill harping from the media frontsmen (done deliberately) which will turn more and more voters away from labour. They don’t understand that the bulk of NZ does not hang on their every word.
      
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      October 24, 2018 10:26am
      - greybeard
        
        Soper & HDPA have become embarrassing with their partiality. What has Bridges ever done to them ?
        
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        October 24, 2018 11:11am
    - lifesgood
      
      “No matter what we say, no matter what we do.” LOL. And she knows all about the carry on in parliament.
      
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      October 24, 2018 11:23am
- Inandout
  
  WO will argue that polls come out quarterly, but I suppose we were used to polls every week leading up to the election.
  
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  October 24, 2018 8:04am
  - tas
    
    A lot of water has gone under the bridge since the last poll, so it’s hard to know how much of it is due to Ross. Perhaps a poll that finished just before the Ross meltdown would have had National over 50% and Labour under 40% due to the fuel taxes, Curran, Whaitiri, Haumaha, etc. Also this poll took place as the Ross saga was unfolding. We really don’t know.
    
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    October 24, 2018 8:12am
    - Tall Man
      
      Look at the poor media coverage of Curran, Meka the masher, fuel taxes, Haumaha, Camp Molestation and so on.
      
      Now look at the coverage of JLR which in the grand scale of things is fairly irrelevant with National being the only major opposition party.
      
      Independent media?
      
      Nope.
      
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      October 24, 2018 8:22am
    - MrsAnnie
      
      I think you are right- we know polling was over 5 days. Wednesday polling was in the 30’s.
      Two key questions- What was it like on Monday? What was it like Friday?
      The average was 43%. My guess is either Monday was 46-50% territory or we had a solid rebound to 43-45% on Friday in order to provide that 43% average. Its not a leap to assume Wednesday by itself will have provided 1 point to Labour and 0.5 points to NZ First.
      In Summary- without Wednesday Labour and Nats would be even or the Nats would be ahead and NZ First would be below 5%.
      
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      October 24, 2018 9:21am
    - KiWombat
      
      It seems every time the COL add a new tax their numbers seem to rise a point or two. It seems the public are embracing the new fuel taxes and showing their support in poll numbers.
      
      Just wait until they start their christmas shopping !
      
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      October 24, 2018 9:30am
      - Tall Man
        
        It’s because they foolishly think that money will be heading their way.
        
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        October 24, 2018 10:27am
      - waikatogirl
        
        And a house. Remember Cindy promised everyone a house.
        How is that Kiwibuild thingy going Phil?? How many do you have completed after a whole year, 18 was it??!
        
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        October 24, 2018 10:58am
      - KiWombat
        
        Was it 18 ?
        
        I thought that 18 were already being built by a building company in any case.
        
        KiwiBuild was supposed to supply ADDITIONAL housing to counter the nine years of neglect.
        
        Looks to me like year 10 has just clicked over !
        
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        October 24, 2018 9:27pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  The worst aspect of this poll is that it commenced two weeks ago, was discontinued, and then resurrected when all the Ross problems started to surface.
  
  On what basis were those decisions made, and what effect does the rather unusual methodology say about the integrity of the poll. Perhaps DPF, as a fellow pollster, may be able to comment.
  
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  October 24, 2018 8:07am
  - Poppa
    
    That is very interesting to say the least.
    
    It does have a smell to it
    
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    October 24, 2018 8:20am
    - sooty
      
      A stink, you mean! Labour was losing big time so they can it!
      
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      October 24, 2018 8:25am
- hullkiwi
  
  CM, agree with you about the polls. The narrative is now the Nats are on the slide, based on last week’s story. But a hard look at the story, shows it is not about the National Party per se, but about a disgruntled psychopathic trio trying to stir disunity and sling mud at National/Bridges because of perceived grievances. This is a time for patience and not being quick to over react to a deliberate negative media campaign.
  
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  October 24, 2018 8:09am
  - Tall Man
    
    You mean HdPA, Tova the tosser plus any other journalist you wish to add.
    
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    October 24, 2018 8:26am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      Slater, Lusk and Ross?
      
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      October 24, 2018 9:57am
      - Tall Man
        
        I think we have quite a few psychopathic trios on the left at the moment.
        
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        October 24, 2018 10:29am
  - peterwn
    
    Which is what seems to be happening. MSH call it ‘rift’ or suchlike, but only a one person rift. WO seemed to have leaked information, that source is now gone. Seems to me the National caucus just wants to get on with the job. There is a problem to deal with, but the urgency seems to have gone off.
    I have wondered whether any legal action against his ‘mentors’ is possible. Being charged with ‘criminal nuisance’ perhaps.
    Now Winston has jumped claiming he received the same sort of treatment from National. He is highly hypocritical since he would not tolerate a renegade MP in his party – at best he would ‘deselect’ the person next time around and at worst kick the person out of Parliament using his Waka hopper law.
    
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    October 24, 2018 8:30am
    - Happychappy
      
      Yes peterwn you only have look at the NZ First MP from Christchurch that said NZ First were going to buy back all the Electricity Shares that were sold by the National Government at the same price and he out of Parliament and not allowed in his office as soon as Parliament closed for the 2017 General Election. Do what Winston says not what he does, Hypocrite.
      
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      October 24, 2018 9:23am
      - peterwn
        
        I bet Winston was quite happy with that ‘buy-back’ policy until he copped an earful from his Grey Power (excuse the pun) constituents who had purchased some of these shares, then double crossed his MP. Same with ‘three strikes’ repeal, seems it had been discussed and OK’d with Winston who then backtracked at the last minute leaving Andy hanging out to dry.
        And if Simon does use the Waka hopper legislation to boot Jami out of Parliament, Winston would no doubt claim the legislation was never intended for that purpose (Tui time).
        
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        October 24, 2018 1:21pm
- G152
  
  No. That poll was deliberately slanted.
  An easy thing to do.
  Remember how the fake news had Hillary at 94% to become the US President
  
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  October 24, 2018 8:26am
- VicParking
  
  What about the Poll they took two weeks earlier and scrapped???
  
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  October 24, 2018 8:49am
- Harkman
  
  True, Colmar Brunton was a disgrace, we all know they jettisoned they’re scheduled opinion polls for a more upto date survey. But this is not time consistent, it isn’t double blind either, because the participants were obviously being coached by the supplementary questions. Often these polls have a 5% who are not sure who they would vote for, because many don’t pay attention to politics but when you educate them during the process over JLR they go “Oh can I go back and change my original answer?” Did previous polls have a “What did you think of Jacinda’s costing taxpayer’s $100k for an unnecessary one day round trip to the islands, on a Hercules when she is supposed to care about climate change?” Never, just fake polls from a fake news outlet. Just disgraceful.
  
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  October 24, 2018 9:17am
  - MrsAnnie
    
    Am I right that it was only Colmar Brunton that has ever had Labour ahead of the Nats in either 2017 or 2018???
    
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    October 24, 2018 9:23am
    - Harkman
      
      After the baby announcement perhaps??? But again that would’ve been skewed by questionnaire bias. Don’t the Greens always get less than their polls?
      
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      October 24, 2018 9:54am
- Fletch
  
  The media are still referring to it as a “scandal” though it is not. National have not done anything illegal and they processed their donation correctly. It’s one mentally disturbed guy kicking up shit.
  
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  October 24, 2018 10:11am
- greybeard
  
  I agree that the timing of the poll was suspect, but disagree with changing the leader. Bridges has done nothing wrong. I think some people want him gone simply because of his voice.
  
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  October 24, 2018 11:08am
  - peterwn
    
    Latest poll means nothing and in any case there was nothing National to be ashamed of with the results.
    MSM attitude seems to be – National has (or had) a renegade MP, therefore the leader should fall on his sword. No logic at all here. More like MSM, Slater(jr) and Lusk want to see a bloodbath and are upset it has not happened. Slater and Lusk seemed to have given Jami the high octane fuel then try and blame National for the consequences. Slater is two faced – if he is saying National should have gone easy on Jami, he should be calling for Australia to go on Kiwis detained for deportation. Same basic issue.
    
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    October 24, 2018 1:05pm
holysheet

Wristy Jones is out walking having a smoke in Auckland and passes a hooker standing at her door.
She asks him: “Hey man, why don’t we give it a try?”
“No girl, that is no longer possible for me” he replies.
Says the hooker: “Come on, what have we got to lose, we can give it a try!?”
They both go inside.
They undress and then he acts like a young man and performs 2 times in a row.
“Oh my goodness”, says the hooker, breathless “and you said that it was no longer possible for you?!”
Says Wristy: “Oh, screwing is still good, it’s getting it on the taxpayer that is no longer possible..”
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October 24, 2018 8:05am
secondcumming

Jamal Khashoggi’s son, *Salah*, was taken to the Saudi Royal Palace to receive condolences from the Crown Prince, following the most unfortunate death of his father. Salah is currently under a travel ban and is not permitted to leave the Kingdom.

You’d have to say the look on Salah’s face says it all……

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DqNbZkHXgAEh-vZ.jpg
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October 24, 2018 8:09am
- tas
  
  That is some twisted shit.
  
  I’m just glad this saga is shining a spotlight on the Saudis. The west is far too cozy with them.
  
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  October 24, 2018 8:16am
  - Inandout
    
    tas, the west is cozy with their oil supplies, but thanks to exploration in the US perhaps less so. NZ of course is sitting on ample oil supplies but we are still beholden to the Saudis.
    
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    October 24, 2018 8:51am
    - stephieboy
      
      Inandout, even more reason to build our economy on sustainable and renewable energy resources?
      
      Yes?
      
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      October 24, 2018 9:15am
      - dubya
        
        Even more reason to continue working towards energy independence. Get fracking!
        
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        October 24, 2018 9:20am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        destroy our economy on sustainable, renewable, EXPENSIVE & UNRELIABLE energy resources?
        Fixed it for ya.
        
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        October 24, 2018 10:27am
      - Tall Man
        
        And let other “poor” countries supply us the oil we need.
        
        Steffy girl you’re loosing it, assuming you ever had it.
        
        Is Ardern a liar?
        
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        October 24, 2018 10:32am
      - VicParking
        
        Like goat shit
        
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        October 24, 2018 10:55am
      - gump
        
        @dubya
        
        The decision to suspend prospecting permits for offshore oil and gas doesn’t affect onshore fracking.
        
        It’s a quietly growing industry in the Taranaki. If you want to go fracking then nothing is stopping you.
        
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        October 24, 2018 11:19am
    - GoVege
      
      I thought our oil was unsuitable for car engines?
      
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      October 24, 2018 7:26pm
  - stephieboy
    
    tas, the Saudis need to seek CIA or FSB ( former KGB ) advice on the more subtle ways in getting rid of enemies of the state like poisoned tipped umbrellas etc.
    
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    October 24, 2018 9:13am
    - Tall Man
      
      Still living in the 70’s steffy girl.
      
      Is Aredern a liar?
      
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      October 24, 2018 10:33am
    - VicParking
      
      They should hire the Clintons as advisors
      
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      October 24, 2018 10:56am
Left Right and Centre

Modern NZ snowflake mothers whining about ‘meal planning’, being knee deep in nappies and this showstopper . . .

I felt completely abandoned in what felt like the hardest job of all time with the worst working conditions, and robbed of the good family vibes I thought I should be feeling.

My heart bleeds for these poor oppressed little hard done by long-suffering petals. It absolutely really, truly, honestly does.
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October 24, 2018 8:09am
- Jules99
  
  Doesn’t help that the PM has been held up as an example of how easy it is to hold down a tough, full-time job while bouncing bubby on the knee. Now young women are feeling like failures.
  
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  October 24, 2018 8:34am
  - itstricky
    
    Ah, ye olde Kiwiblog damned if you do; damned if you don’t argument.
    
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    October 24, 2018 10:05am
    - starboard
      
      Cops are closing in, bro..
      
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      October 24, 2018 11:44am
- VicParking
  
  Boardwalk on Waiheke Island? A dryer with a light inside it. Coffee Machine. Party Lights on the Deck.
  Air Purifier behind the bed. Man its hard being a SnowFlake. All this global warming and the risk you might melt.
  
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  October 24, 2018 8:57am
- Colinxy
  
  A had a boss many years ago who was of the greenie persuasion. He proclaimed quite loudly that we didn’t need all of our modern appliances and could do without them easily. I knew he had a wife and two teenage daughters (he liked to mention this fact a lot).
  
  Since he was so adamant about not needing all of today’s conveniences, I decided to target the female weakpoint. I said I would get him to remove one modern appliance from his life for a month. I would need to write up a list of tasks he and his household would need to do to substitute for the modern appliance. Not that he knew it, but I decided that the modern washing machine should go (since he had a wife and two daughters) – he apologised and rescinded his attitude an hour afterwards. This was rather wise of him, since after an hour I hadn’t finished compiling the list of things that were required.
  
  You know, fetching the water for the copper, chopping up the firewood to heat the copper, starting the fire an old way (not modern techniques), let alone making the wash powder and so on and so forth.
  
  I deliberately chose this one facet because I suspected that his wife would divorce him over it.
  
  Modern women, as a whole, have no concept how easy their life is compared to yesteryear. Keeping the household running was a full time occupation for the average woman. The luxury of joining the “workforce” simply wasn’t an option.
  
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  October 24, 2018 9:23am
  - Debbie
    
    “Modern women, as a whole, have no concept how easy their life is compared to yesteryear. Keeping the household running was a full time occupation for the average woman. The luxury of joining the “workforce” simply wasn’t an option.”
    
    Maybe some women, but not all. I can still remember watching my Nana washing the laundry using her old-fashioned roller washing machine – it was definitely not a quick task. Adn even that was apparently a huge improvement over *no* washing machine.
    
    Add to that the automatic dishwasher, dryer and vacuum cleaner – none of which I had when I was younger – when you’ve regularly swept up your carpet on your hands and knees you definitely appreciate modern appliances a lot more.
    
    My life is a lot easier thanks to modern technology, however….. given that as a single working woman I can whip round the house and keep immaculate in approx 15 minutes a day (plus a bit longer on the weekends to clean the bathroom properly) it really does make me wonder what the hell stay-at-home mums do all day, once the kids are at school? I DO understand in the case of pre-schoolers.
    
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    October 24, 2018 12:57pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      it really does make me wonder what the hell stay-at-home mums do all day, once the kids are at school?
      
      1. School car-run
      2.Yoga/pilates/Gym/pool/ walk dog
      3. Coffee
      4.Social media/shopping
      5. Lunch
      6. Nails/hair/massage
      7. Coffee
      8. School car-run
      9. Take kids to ballet/music/extra tuition/sport
      10. Start dinner….
      
      Repeat
      
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      October 24, 2018 6:22pm
- dubya
  
  Why don’t these women just get a Filipina maid part-time?
  
  Actually, that might backfire when the husband sees the maid is prettier and considerably more useful than a kiwi bird…
  
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  October 24, 2018 9:23am
- itstricky
  
  My heart bleeds for
  
  Does it equally bleed for all the whiners on KB? There’s numerous falling skies today, depending on where you look. And someone (GASP) has been fed some conflicting MAFSNZ rumors (GASP). What is the world coming to?
  
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  October 24, 2018 10:04am
  - starboard
    
    Cops are at ya back door cuz..
    
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    October 24, 2018 11:46am
Keeping Stock

Who at Radio New Zealand thought it would be good journalism to build a story about the text from a National MP to Jami-Lee Ross at a time when he was thought to still be in a mental health facility.

And who do people think is responsible for leaking the text to Lisa Owen, formerly of Newshub, the same media organisation that employs Tova O’Brien, breaker of the original Bridges expenses leak?
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October 24, 2018 8:11am
- MrTips
  
  Oh pick me! That’s easy. Slater, Lusk +/- Ross. The thing is: they are too GUTLESS to admit it
  
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  October 24, 2018 8:38am
  - peterwn
    
    Lusk would be pushing the line that National should have ‘looked after’ Jami. WO said that Lusk advised budding MP’s to ask their parties how they would be ‘looked after’ after leaving politics. I responded on WO that if a budding Nat MP had not ‘made it’ career-wise before considering whether to stand, she or he would not even stand.
    He betrayed his party by leaking the expenses so had to face the consequences (which would be obvious to anyone in that position). He could have done ‘damage control’ but chose not to (his ‘mentors’ should have advised that).
    So National should have ‘looked after’ him by hitting him with a wet bus ticket and telling him not to do it again. You must be joking!
    
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    October 24, 2018 8:57am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Absolutely agree peterwn – screwing your leader over, even if you are strongly opposed to them, is political suicide. It reminds me of the old saying “The boss may not always be right, but he’s always the boss”.
      
      The irony of all this is, of course, that for weeks a certain blogger was telling National they had to “rinse” the person who leaked Bridges’ travel expenses. National has “rinsed” Ross, and that same person is now aiding and abetting Ross to further destabilise the party. Hypocrisy much?
      
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      October 24, 2018 9:34am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        But Ross didn’t leak. He said he didn’t.
        Seems that it isn’t just jails that are full of innocent people, but asylums as well.
        
        oops, I mean Mental Health facilities.
        
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        October 24, 2018 10:02am
      - tas
        
        Ooh, I wonder which blogger was being a hypocrite about going after the leaker. Is it the same one who says we shouldn’t discuss Jami-Lee Ross’ adultery but who broke the story of Len Brown’s adultery?
        
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        October 24, 2018 10:02am
      - peterwn
        
        Shaun – I seem to remember Slater saying he had a ‘source’ of info inside National’s caucus. So he was quite happy to take advantage of leaks from that source. The source has no doubt dried up (except for stale news).
        
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        October 24, 2018 1:09pm
- Harkman
  
  So two days ago I got a news update from red radio, I don’t listen to red radio. It was a piece by some openly left wing feminist blogger who was slamming National for covering up assault on women. Um Meka? Willie Jackson? Benson-Pope? Um the Young Labour camp?? Oh no not a word on any of that.
  
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  October 24, 2018 10:02am
flipper

Well, the Turks (who side with Iran and Syria V Saudi Arabia) can and do spin to reporters who then embark on a journey of click baiting.
But…..
They could not spin to Pompeo, even though they have spun that meeting to reporters…..
BUT
The Turks, including Erdogan, CANNOT spin to CIA Director Gina Haspel.
She will tell Erdogan to put up (evidence of their spin) or shut up. Period.
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October 24, 2018 8:12am
AgainstTheFlow

I didn’t want to ever post about JLR but..

How do we know he has any mental health problems at all? The Nats leadership says he has, but JLR may have claimed that to them as the reason he has so many complaints.

The reason for my cynicism is that in today’s media, the only way out for a man with a history of years of abusing people and exploiting women is to claim it’s a mental health issue.
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October 24, 2018 8:16am
- rangitoto
  
  We heard yesterday that he has been discharged from care. There is something mighty fishy.
  
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  October 24, 2018 8:19am
  - sooty
    
    Jethro, would know been fishy and all!
    
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    October 24, 2018 8:28am
  - Fletch
    
    Yep, the old Weinstein gambit. Go into hiding in “care” for a few days, then come out remarkably “cured”.
    
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    October 24, 2018 10:14am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Release of JRL by the hospital yesterday & his talking to the media via his friends should be a clear indication that he & his friends are trying to manage a story for news consumption. Rather than there being anything wrong with him in a clinical sense.
    
    WO, JRL & Lusk are displaying the traits of psychopaths, i.e manipulators who trying to make JRL the victim and Bridges/the National Party and the women as the bullies and perpetrators of the situation befallen JRL.
    
    Closure of this saga will only be achieved by JRL leaving parliament & probably NZ. Because while he is here, he will remain someone for the media to focus on.
    
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    October 24, 2018 1:20pm
- Im Right
  
  You only have to look into the ‘lone wolf’ Islam terrorists in western countries whenever they are caught or identified when dead as ‘having a history of mental illness’….this is the go to default position so as to not upset non terrorist Islam followers, wrong on so many levels. Basically anyone who follows Islam has a mental illness, that makes the reporting more factual I guess!?
  
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  October 24, 2018 8:44am
- iMP
  
  Because Ross said in his own words, “I had a mental breakdown.” hell-o?
  
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  October 24, 2018 9:27am
  - AgainstTheFlow
    
    That’s still the same source – JLR and friends.
    
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    October 24, 2018 10:15am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    I know from personal experience that you don’t recover from a “nervous breakdown” in two weeks.
    
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    October 24, 2018 10:21am
    - waikatogirl
      
      No you don’t KS. I hope your personal fight is going well.
      Needless to say, when anyone is working through deep depression/a breakdown they don’t need “friends” manipulating their behaviour as may be happening in Ross’s case.
      
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      October 24, 2018 11:09am
    - DigNap15
      
      You mean 2 days!
      And no you don’t its a long term thing.
      
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      October 24, 2018 2:34pm
ex-golfer

Regardless of whether we think 43% is a good result for National, the issue remains that they are a party on their own in Parliament and until a viable center-right partnership party comes along the chances of regaining the Treasury benches are slim in an MMP environment – especially when electorate seats can be gerry-mandered to suit.

What is even more concerning is that 46% of those polled would vote Labour if an election was held today, despite and environment of rising costs, rising unemployment and business confidence (and therefore employment investment) at a long-time low.
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October 24, 2018 8:18am
- Tall Man
  
  The poll is merely an indicator of your source of income.
  
  Beneficiaries and those on income/housing supplements are growing in number and only a really dumb dog bites the hand that feeds it.
  
  As an aside, wasn’t Jenny Shipley a mum when she was Prime Minister and I don’t recall daily updates about her and her family. I’m sure Burton was a busy guy and I don’t recall seeing him in the media daily.
  
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  October 24, 2018 8:36am
  - sooty
    
    First stay at home dad?
    
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    October 24, 2018 10:18am
- waikatogirl
  
  “What is even more concerning is that 46% of those polled would vote Labour if an election was held today, despite and environment of rising costs, rising unemployment and business confidence (and therefore employment investment) at a long-time low.”
  
  But… Spinning Cindy says rising prices are caused by the international markets ?
  
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  October 24, 2018 11:12am
- Surely Knott
  
  Next election it’s back to first past the post. Greens have made it clear they won’t go with National. NZ first, who have previously gained unhappy national supporters votes, has made it clear they won’t go with National. Although when asked directly he hummed and haaad but Winston’s hatred for National is clear. So next election there is two choices, National or the COL. National doesn’t need a coalition partner. National needs to make it absolutely clear, that only a vote for National is a vote for change. If the economy sucks there is only one change vote. Anything else is a vote for a Labour led govt.
  
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  October 24, 2018 12:00pm
  - Tall Man
    
    All correct apart from the final sentence…..winston led thank you 🙂
    
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    October 24, 2018 3:37pm
- mark15
  
  Give it time our kid
  
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  October 24, 2018 12:05pm
- tf78
  
  Aren’t a lot of labour voters union members hence they will always have the numbers.
  
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  October 24, 2018 12:07pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Well, only about 14% of NZ’s labour force belongs to Unions.
    
    http://www.societies.govt.nz/cms/registered-unions/annual-return-membership-reports/2017
    
    Unions are no longer the big money movers they once were. Hence Labour’s desperate need to get hold of taxpayers’ moolah.
    
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    October 24, 2018 12:20pm
Inandout

When Simon was arguing with Garner’s rather limpish fill in he used the term ‘in reality’ numerous times. I thought ‘in reality’ was a union term, although I could be wrong.
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October 24, 2018 8:19am
oldpark

After watching last nights taxpayer funded Colmar Brunton poll on TVNZ,some results would ensure there would be no sleep last night for NZs Megalomaniac Peters. His party certainly got a wake up call. NZF just sneaked into the MMP threshold of 5%. Peters himself got 4% or third out of three people polled as NZs leader.
Even worse for him if there was an election last night and compiling the percentage amount for Lie-bour/Green Party as shown on the Colmar Brunton figures they could be the Government and he would not be required and an also ran.
More salt in the wounds for Peters how could a far left Lunatic Party like the Greens who he helped into Government Poll 7% and his NZF party bordering on extinction on 5% emulate his lust for Power. Maybe it is now becoming ,Those that make it happen,those that watch what happened ,and those who wonder what happened. Sounds like NZs self appointed DictatorPeters has fughed up .Shame.
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October 24, 2018 8:25am
- Yvette
  
  Peters himself got 4% or third out of three people polled as NZs leader.
  
  No, Oldpark, Winston on 4% was 4th, while Judith Collins was third
  Jacinda Ardern – 42% (up 2%); Simon Bridges – 7% (down 3%); Judith Collins – 5% (up 3%); and Winston Peters – 4% (down 1%)
  
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  October 24, 2018 8:35am
  - stephieboy
    
    Yvette, but surely that whopping 42% is the one that really counts?
    
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    October 24, 2018 9:06am
    - Tall Man
      
      As an indicator of just how many mindless dipshits there are in NZ? You’re right, it is concerning. Probably explains why our productivity is so low.
      
      Is Ardern a liar?
      
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      October 24, 2018 9:10am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      Oldpark and Yvette were commenting on WP result in the poll.
      WP didn’t get 42%
      Another failure in your struggle for relevance.
      
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      October 24, 2018 10:09am
    - DigNap15
      
      Yes who makes up the 42%
      And who did all the National supporters vote for?
      Something is wrong here.
      
      I will be following it up in a day or so when Colmar Brunton put their figures up on their website!
      
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      October 24, 2018 2:38pm
    - Ross12
      
      I agree with you SB but there are also 42% who did not prefer any of those listed. This why I think preferred PM polls are meaningless.
      
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      October 24, 2018 6:28pm
- Doubledimp
  
  Breakfast show asking Melissa Lee why National is at 43% but Simon is at 7% in the polls. She had to fudge an answer, my response would have been “because Simon cannot have a baby”.
  
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  October 24, 2018 9:00am
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    Nor can you I believe. Your point?
    
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    October 24, 2018 9:08am
    - Tall Man
      
      Is Ardern a liar?
      
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      October 24, 2018 9:10am
    - rangitoto
      
      He’s talking about Taxinda’s little Squirrel.
      
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      October 24, 2018 11:57am
  - Philview
    
    The numbers don’t stack up with reality. Over 30% of people are saying don’t know. Most National voters will have a preference for a leader so something is not right with those polls.
    
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    October 24, 2018 5:00pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  Nats down 1.4% from last election
  Labour up 8%
  Didn’t get it from the Nats.
  So must have fed on their own babies eerr coalition partners.
  
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  October 24, 2018 10:44am
- Biscuit
  
  oldpark, I am thinking that Winnie – desperate to stay ‘relevant’ – will be heard in coming days to be promoting:
  
  A rise in pensions ‘because pensioners are our core support group and we’ve already given heaps to our other main support group: the racehorse breeders’
  
  A trip to Pike River
  
  Some new anti-immigration position
  
  A reverse-Waka bill that guarantees a knighthood, if not a life peerage, for old-timer hckas who might get turfed out at the next election and who sure as hell won’t be getting any such honours from the incoming mob
  
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  October 24, 2018 11:27am
- Paulus
  
  Easy for Peters – drop the MMP 5% to 3% as agreed in the secret agreement. His party can drop by half and they still get in again.
  QED
  
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  October 24, 2018 2:42pm
secondcumming

On a lighter note, I was late home from the gun-club last night and missed the semi-final episode of MAFSNZ.

The missus was still up, so I asked her if anything exciting had happened? After getting a detailed overview of the entire show, she went on to say, “……and those two bum-sniffers have finally called it quits as well. That nasty little prick Sam decided he wanted to find a new lamp-post to piss on”

Honestly, for the last few weeks she’s been telling everyone just how suited they were to each other…….WIMMIN, eh.
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October 24, 2018 8:38am
- VicParking
  
  What the F*K is MAFSNZ. I can only guess it’s one off those cooking or dancing shows. If my gun-club found out I even had a family watching one of those I would need to wear a Bullet proof next time I attended.
  
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  October 24, 2018 9:05am
Happychappy

There has to be a point at some stage that the media will wake up to the fact they are being played by blubber and Lusk and releasing one side of the story from a angry ex mistress there has to be another that lit the fire.
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October 24, 2018 8:42am
- Biscuit
  
  Happychappy, I try to limit my viewing of Whale Oil these days to times when I am depressed (think Liverpool losses … and my horses running less fastly than I fondly imagined they might!) and need a good laugh.
  
  Whale Oil these days is:
  
  • Ad for some meat product His Excellency is flogging
  • Umpteen other ads
  • Daily reminder on ‘How to upgrade, renew or change your Whaleoil subscription’
  • A – this one makes me so excited I have to go lie down – Sudoku
  • Zit of the Week
  • Generic ‘National is Evil … especially since they, sob, stopped listening to me’ whine. Accompanied, natch, by a hopelessly-biased Poll.
  • The occasional good cartoon
  
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  October 24, 2018 11:19am
  - Happychappy
    
    Can’t argue with that Biscuit a slimeball to match.
    
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    October 24, 2018 12:05pm
  - Nermal
    
    And yet here you are talking about it again
    
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    October 24, 2018 3:37pm
Tauhei Notts

I came upon a blog by an influential U.S. commentator, Martin Armstrong.
He writes that NZ has become the first country to fine passengers who refuse to hand over their phone passwords at the border.
The NZ Customs & Excise Act 2018 came into effect earlier this month. It allows Customs officials to demand passwords, PINs and encryption keys to unlock devices for “digital strip searches”. They can fine you $5000 and you will be unable to leave NZ until the fine is paid.
This is what lies in store when socialists grab control. Freedom of the individual no longer exists. The state comes before God, family and human rights….
Foreigners commenting on my country are usually illuminating.
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October 24, 2018 8:50am
- stephieboy
  
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  A heathen like you believe in a personal diety?
  
  Well, I never!
  
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  October 24, 2018 9:04am
  - Tall Man
    
    Trite and pointless. What the hell are they teaching you at camp molestation these days?
    
    Is Ardern a liar?
    
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    October 24, 2018 9:07am
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      Tall Man, you never told a porkie in your life?
      
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      October 24, 2018 9:09am
      - sooty
        
        Just like you! Ah stephie.
        
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        October 24, 2018 10:15am
      - Tall Man
        
        If and when I become PM my honesty or dishonesty may become important steffy girl.
        
        My question is whether or not you, as a dipshit blind Ardern follower have the courage to admit to us all that you are following a barefaced liar, or should we just expect another bunch of meaningless drivel?
        
        Is Adern a liar?
        
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        October 24, 2018 10:18am
      - stephieboy
        
        Tall Man, me an Adern Follower??
        
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        October 24, 2018 1:22pm
      - starboard
        
        simple-shariaboy is on roster today..
        “me an Adern Follower”
        
        LOL !
        
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        October 24, 2018 5:12pm
- VicParking
  
  In Iran if you dont hand over your phone passwords you get to hand over your hand.
  
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  October 24, 2018 9:07am
  - waikatogirl
    
    South Korea has announced to their citizens who travel to and partake in legal Canadian weed while in Canada will be dealt with by the authorities on their return to South Korea. They warn that their SK laws cover their people worldwide. ?? ?
    
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    October 24, 2018 12:15pm
- tas
  
  The law in question was passed with unanimous support. Damned politicians.
  
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  October 24, 2018 9:20am
- marcw
  
  Perhaps you could tell us the story of how you had a party with TSA in Los Angeles TN. You know the one where you told them to get stuffed, and leave your iPad alone or you will hold your breath and create a scene. Oh how they laughed, and said you were just a naughty boy. Then gave you a kiss and sent you on your way with a wave and a smile … or not.
  
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  October 24, 2018 9:49am
  - Tauhei Notts
    
    WTF is TSA?
    
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    October 24, 2018 9:56am
    - marcw
      
      Transport Security Authority – a law unto themselves.
      
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      October 24, 2018 10:20am
  - KevOB
    
    Transportation Safety Authority? Found at airports.
    
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    October 24, 2018 10:39am
Captain Mainwaring

IS HPDA crossing a line when she uses her radio show to tell her listeners not to vote National?
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October 24, 2018 9:17am
- Keeping Stock
  
  She’s certainly crossing a line in terms of Newstalk ZB Wellington’s ratings. If the ratings drop, advertising revenue will drop, and she’ll be looking for a new gig.
  
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  October 24, 2018 9:37am
- marcw
  
  Usually when know-it-all “journalists” do this sort of thing it backfires. Remember “no matter what we say, or what we do”? The Bradford effect.
  
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  October 24, 2018 9:52am
- oldpark
  
  @Captain Mainwaring.
  Yes that piefaced bitch HDPA has become an agravating useless grubby import into NZ. Now living in Oriental Bay an authority on everything enhanced by the pillow talk of her bed mate Barely Sober. Makes wonder how did we all survive before the wee grubby waste of space pest turned up especially her out of control whining voice . TV3 knew what they were about,when they dumped her as a serial troublemaker.Newstalk must have been desperate to employ her. Our company have decided to stop advertising on NewstalkZB . They seem to be not very concerned on the type of bleeding heart pests they have been employing.
  
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  October 24, 2018 9:54am
tas

Dumb article on stuff https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/108038315/simon-bridges-outbust-against-jamilee-ross-not-wise-for-a-leader

Jami-Lee Ross is not an employee of Simon Bridges. Parliament is sovereign and is answerable to the electorate, not their parties. The party leader is answerable to caucus, not the other way around. Bringing up employment law is totally missing the point.
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October 24, 2018 9:19am
- Tall Man
  
  Stuff..that venerable media outlet……. Nope, Stuff, that coalition media outlet.
  
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  October 24, 2018 10:08am
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    Tall Man, never told a porkie in your life?
    
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    October 24, 2018 10:21am
    - Tall Man
      
      Face it, your hero is a barefaced liar…
      
      Is Ardern a liar?
      
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      October 24, 2018 10:39am
- KevOB
  
  Isn’t Peter Cullen associated with an another Cullen of political notoriety?
  
  The Labour mobsters don’t ever fight clean or openly. That makes National an easy target for Labours feigned self righteous front.
  
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  October 24, 2018 10:37am
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… AUSTRALIA …

House prices ‘falling by over $1,000 a week’ in Sydney and Melbourne, Deloitte says – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-23/house-prices-falling-as-interest-rates-wage-growth-move/10418278

The boom time is over and we’re now officially experiencing the “house price fall we had to have”, according to Deloitte Access Economics’s latest business outlook.

It has found what many had been predicting: prices are dipping as interest rates are rising, with our biggest cities feeling the winds of change most keenly.

“Our house prices here in Australia had streaked past anything sensible by way of valuation,” said Deloitte partner Chris Richardson. … read more via hyperlink above …

… via …

Deloitte: House prices “falling by over $1,000 a week” in Sydney and Melbourne – MacroBusiness

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/10/deloitte-house-prices-falling-1000-week-sydney-melbourne/

… To rate as ‘affordable’ housing should not exceed 3.0 times gross annual household income ( median multiple ). Calculate the adjustments going forward for specific Australian metros (noting the adjustments Ireland experienced following the 2007 event ) …

Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey: All Editions

http://www.demographia.com/db-dhi-index.htm
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October 24, 2018 9:34am
- Cobolt24
  
  NZ: Falls in migration & rising building consents mean Auckland’s housing shortage could be on the verge of receding, but there’s still a big backlog of pent up demand to overcome
  
  https://www.interest.co.nz/property/96447/falls-migration-rising-building-consents-mean-aucklands-housing-shortage-could-be
  
  Probably a sign of things to change.
  
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  October 24, 2018 1:40pm
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Normal housing markets … like it used to be … watch videos …
    
    Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/10/abc-7-30-report-auctions-crash/#comment-3210822
    
    It always used to be affordable like this in Australia and New Zealand … up to about the late 1980’s ! …
    
    Watch these NZ videos …
    
    Why are New Zealand homes so pricey? It has nothing to do with avocados | Stuff.co.nz
    
    https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/property/106789344/why-are-nz-homes-so-pricey-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-avocados
    
    Housing through the decades, what is affordable? | Newshub
    
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2016/08/housing-through-the-decades-what-is-affordable.html
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    A simple structural definition of an affordable housing market … from my archical website http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org …
    
    DEFINITION OF AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING MARKET
    
    For metropolitan areas to rate as ‘affordable’ and ensure that housing bubbles are not triggered, housing prices should not exceed three times gross annual household earnings. To allow this to occur, new starter housing of an acceptable quality to the purchasers, with associated commercial and industrial development, must be allowed to be provided on the urban fringes at 2.5 times the gross annual median household income of that urban market (refer Demographia Survey Schedules for guidance).
    
    The critically important Development Ratios for this new fringe starter housing, should be 17 – 23% serviced lot / section cost – to balance the actual housing construction.
    
    Ideally through a normal building cycle, the Median Multiple should move from a Floor Multiple of 2.3, through a Swing Multiple of 2.5 to a Ceiling Multiple of 2.7 – to ensure maximum stability and optimal medium and long term performance of the residential construction sector.
    
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    October 24, 2018 5:36pm
Manolo

The new sultan does not miss a chane:
https://www.bloombergquint.com/politics/erdogan-seizes-on-saudi-murder-as-chance-to-upend-middle-east#gs.IhZNfOY

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is trying to turn a horrific murder in Istanbul into a catalyst for changing the balance of power in Saudi Arabia and regaining influence across the Middle East.

Having remade the region’s largest democracy in his own image, Erdogan is taking aim at rival Saudi Arabia’s leadership amid international outrage over the death of insider-turned critic Jamal Khashoggi at the kingdom’s consulate in Istanbul. Erdogan has vowed to reveal what happened to Khashoggi “in all its nakedness” on Tuesday, just as the Saudis kick off a major investment forum in Riyadh. Directly refuting the Saudi account of the slaying could dramatically raise the stakes for Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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October 24, 2018 9:57am
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo, Turkey the first Mulsim state to recognise Israel and allow the Israeli air force to use Turkish airspace for exercises.
  
  Only if life were more simple painted in black and white.
  
  Sigh!
  
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  October 24, 2018 10:25am
  - Tall Man
    
    And who gives a shit?
    
    Is Ardern a liar?
    
    Is Gayford a sleaze?
    
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    October 24, 2018 10:37am
    - starboard
      
      Watch this ..me me me me me…Captain Sleazy
      
      https://youtu.be/OtTIgXAAg7k
      
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      October 24, 2018 11:28am
  - Nermal
    
    That was before Erdogan, when Turkey was a secular state, but you know that
    
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    October 24, 2018 3:40pm
Shaun the Sheep

It is my understanding that so many countries have withdrawn from the major investment forum in Riyadh that it is now just a little junket for a few minor players.
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October 24, 2018 10:15am
- GoVege
  
  Sorry…missed the uptick…went over a bump… 🙂
  
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  October 24, 2018 10:27am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Not texting while driving GV… ?
    
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    October 24, 2018 12:23pm
- Biscuit
  
  Shaun, but I bet it will still ‘achieve’ more than 99.9% of all the junkets held at that UN eyesore on New York City’s East River.
  
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  October 24, 2018 11:06am
Tall Man

https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/09/ardern_caught_out_in_blatant_lie.html

This is now up to the top when you google that famous question..

Is Ardern a liar?

Time to add another maybe

Is Gayford a sleaze?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWQduC6N5OY

You have to question the thought processes of a woman deciding to have a child with him…
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October 24, 2018 10:36am
- lifesgood
  
  Oh, ye gods! He hasn’t had any successful relationships…they haven’t lasted, if they were successful they would have. What a sleazy moron. How dumb is Jacinda, eh?
  
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  October 24, 2018 11:47am
  - Komata
    
    lifesg…
    
    Re: ‘How dumb is Jacinda, eh?’
    
    The fact that she is ‘Labour’ is probably a sufficient answer…
    
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    October 24, 2018 12:19pm
    - sooty
      
      She’s a commie first!
      Labour the means to an end!
      
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      October 24, 2018 5:01pm
- stephieboy
  
  Tall Man, man give up the neurotic obsession!
  
  PS the US President never told a lie?
  
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  October 24, 2018 2:22pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Is Ardern a liar?
    
    Simple question directed at a simple mind.
    
    Is Ardern a liar?
    
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    October 24, 2018 3:42pm
- RF
  
  Yep… sleaze with a capital S.
  
  Reflects badly on Arderns judgement hooking up with this serial lothario who publicly boasts about his former conquests. As my gran pappy told me… empty vessels make the loudest sounds….
  
  Not the type of guy you would really want to bring home to meet mum.
  
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  October 24, 2018 5:13pm
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Israeli human rights activist: “If a soldier receives a flagrantly illegal command, he is duty-bound not to follow that command. “

Hundreds of people have been executed and more than 10,000 have been maimed by Israeli snipers during the Great March of Return protests. Not one of those people has been armed.

AMY GOODMAN: You also wrote in Haaretz, “What are the Palestinians supposed to do? If they dare demonstrate, it’s popular terror. If they call for sanctions, it’s economic terror. If they pursue legal means, it’s judicial terror. If they turn to the United Nations, it’s diplomatic terror. It turns out [that] anything a Palestinian does besides getting up in the morning and saying ‘Thank you, Rais’—’Thank you, master’–is terror.”

HAGAI EL-AD: Yeah. This has become so routine in Israel. This has become so normalized after 50 years, that people have difficulty even in accepting that basic rights—that people who live under oppression have the right to reject that reality. And any avenue that the Palestinians try is met with one form or another of condemnation.

But for Israel, this is part of a broader agenda. The agenda is not only to overcome Palestinian opposition to their oppression, but also to silence Israelis and to silence the international community. So, it goes further, right? You know, if an Israeli is against occupation, she or he must be traitors. If an international is speaking or acting against occupation, they must be anti-Semites, right? And I’m saying that with a lot of cynicism, but this is no laughing matter. This is actually quite an effective silencing mechanism that Israel is deploying continuously, all over the world.

AMY GOODMAN: You know, this week, the pope sainted Archbishop Romero, Óscar Romero, of El Salvador, who was assassinated in 1980. The last speech he gave before he was gunned down was heard throughout El Salvador on the radio. And he ordered the soldiers, he beseeched them, he pled with them, to put down their arms, to defy orders. He said, “Stop the repression.” In April, your group, B’Tselem, called on Israeli soldiers to refuse orders to shoot unarmed protesters. Did they heed?

HAGAI EL-AD: No. We published ads. This is actually also like a legal responsibility, a moral responsibility, not only, I think, from like any decent person, but also according to like Israelis’ own laws. If a soldier receives a flagrantly illegal command, he is duty-bound not to follow that command. And commands that order soldiers to fire at unarmed protesters that are not endangering anyone, from a distance, these are flagrantly illegal commands. They should not have been given. And the responsibility for that is with the country’s leadership, with the prime minister, defense minister, chief of staff. And that’s where the responsibility begins. That’s where the brunt of the responsibility is. But if such orders are given, soldiers are duty-bound not to follow such orders.

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/10/19/btselems_hagai_el_ad_calls_for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZMw43NyRqU
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October 24, 2018 10:50am
- Garbageman
  
  Its a shame those dirty little Hamas huggers dont follow any sort of rules isn’t it, yet the Hamas filth murder at will, fly in daily missiles, use flaming kites etc not to mention hiding behind their own civilians like the goat shagging cowards they are, im sure we are all looking forward to your exposing these atrocities Morrissey or are terrorists your preferred type of Govt
  
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  October 24, 2018 12:05pm
- rangitoto
  
  “Hundreds of terrorists have been killed and more than 10,000 have been maimed by Israeli snipers.”
  
  Sound like the snipers need some more training or deadlier weapons.
  
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  October 24, 2018 12:12pm
  - DigNap15
    
    There’s still 7 million to go.
    When they left Palestine there were 1 million Palestinians, now they have managed to breed 6 million more, using mostly UN and EU donation money!
    
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    October 24, 2018 2:42pm
starboard

Nurse for morris please..he’s melting.

Now, THIS is a bridge….

https://thethaiger.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f6632ac64dad55c4aadf33b0c&id=df77d5febe&e=a397e53793
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October 24, 2018 11:11am
Morrissey

Impressive bridge, all right, starry my friend.
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October 24, 2018 11:20am
Komata

Manolo

Mr Erdogan will, of course, be attending the forum…
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October 24, 2018 11:22am
Surely Knott

Jacinda virtue signalling about doing politics nicely . But…. Winston Peters who is part of her government gets headlines for slagging Simon Bridges off personally and playing burning bridges. in the house The coalition setup makes a nice dissociative split where she can be pretend to be perfect and nice party and Winston can do all the dirty deeds and difficult policy calls that excite the media, but without ruining Labour and Jacinda’s own perfect good mother image.
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October 24, 2018 12:14pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  Good cop, bad cop. And the polls lurve her.
  
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  October 24, 2018 12:46pm
- Inandout
  
  SK: the CoL reminds me of a Toyota car that has Nissan doors and a Lada motor. It may move but the doors don’t close properly and the gears crash. It would take many working parties to discover that Toyotas work best with parts that fit.
  
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  October 24, 2018 2:40pm
- Tall Man
  
  Slugs, the pair of them.
  
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  October 24, 2018 3:44pm
Jack5

Jimmy Choo’s shoe-in

Are fashion shoes the, well, the Achilles heel, of female politicians?

Julie Bishop, Australia’s former Foreign Minister, in a controversy because she accepted as a gift a pair of shoes designed by the famous Jimmy Choo.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/no-record-julie-bishop-facing-questions-over-jimmy-choo-shoes-disclosure-20181016-p50a25.html

Who is Jimmy Choo?

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/01/magazine/who-is-jimmy-choo.html
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October 24, 2018 12:18pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Everyone knows you only wear (and accept) Manolo’s.
  
  (NZ /US size 9; EU 42….
  Maggles
  Bag-Lady Bench
  C/o Kaiti Mall)
  
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  October 24, 2018 12:44pm
- Manolo
  
  Mr Choo is a minor competitor, the ones in the know consider an interloper. The real shoes are mine (Maggy can vouch for some of my masterpieces)! 🙂
  
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  October 24, 2018 12:58pm
  - Jack5
    
    Send Jacinderella a pair, Manolo. Something glass-like.
    
    Then we’ll nobble her for accepting a bribe.
    
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    October 24, 2018 4:28pm
    - stigie
      
      Would need Dad to check for correct fitting, he’s an expert and outstanding in the correct fitment of womens shoes..?
      
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      October 24, 2018 4:55pm
    - nasska
      
      …..”Something glass-like”…..
      
      Something in mild steel & fitted by a farrier may be more appropriate. 🙂
      
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      October 24, 2018 6:15pm
Hugh Pavletich

UNITED STATES: 5 Texas Counties Top List Of Most Affordable Places To Move … Bisnow

Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/10/abc-7-30-report-auctions-crash/#comment-3210605 … and …

5 Texas Counties Top List Of Most Affordable Places To Move … Bisnow

https://www.bisnow.com/houston/news/affordable-housing/five-texas-counties-top-list-as-most-affordable-place-to-relocate-94220
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Goodbye L.A., Hello Phoenix: Affordable Housing Makes Second-Tier Metros Top Choices for Moving – RENTCafé rental blog

https://www.rentcafe.com/blog/rental-market/real-estate-news/top-10-counties-where-people-are-moving-offer-half-price-housing/
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How Many Years of Income Does a Home in Your City Cost? – Richard Florida – CityLab

https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/05/where-the-house-price-to-income-ratio-is-most-out-of-whack/561404/

Richard Florida May 29, 2018

The rule of thumb long used by real estate agents and homebuyers is that you can afford a house if its price is equivalent to roughly 2.6 years of your household income. That ratio is based on historical nationwide averages under healthy economic conditions. But today, in many places around the country—particularly in coastal cities in California and along the New York–Boston–Washington corridor—housing has become staggeringly more expensive than that. … read more via hyperlink above …
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Richard Florida – Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Florida
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Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey: All Editions

http://www.demographia.com/db-dhi-index.htm
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October 24, 2018 2:20pm
softail 1450

I never in a million years expected someone to come along with a better “resting bitch face” than aunty Helen Clarke,but OMG Jacinda has way surpassed
Clarke ,in parliament today she looks like she has suffered a crash landing with her broom and still has half of it firmly imbedded in her rear end…….
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October 24, 2018 2:26pm
- sooty
  
  While trying to walk and sit down!
  
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  October 24, 2018 5:06pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  I decided to have a look. Yikes, watch the outrageous way Brownlee is being treated by Mallard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpyJ9XNQHUw
  
  The question was National daring to ask whether Wellington can expect a petrol tax too.
  
  Mallard lets the PM abuse National for the question, then takes away 5 of National’s supplementary questions for something he didn’t like about Brownlee.
  
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  October 24, 2018 5:10pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Thanks for that CL. Good on Gerry for telling the Speaker he is biased. Keep watching as Simon attacks the COL with both barrels stating “They don’t know what they are doing”. He has found his feet as leader. Well done Simon!
    
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    October 24, 2018 7:13pm
- Northland Wahine
  
  Well a real witch could sweep the floor with a said broom because we’re talented like that.
  
  Damn wannabes.
  
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  October 24, 2018 6:29pm
rangitoto

Taxinda happy that the poor can no longer afford to drive. Helps with congestion and CO2 emissions. Driving is only for Rich Pricks like union bosses and Labour party elite who can afford electric cars.
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October 24, 2018 2:38pm
Captain Mainwaring

Anybody know where Megan 3-pies has been for the last couple of weeks?
And has anyone caught a glimpse of Sarah Dowie since the Jami-Lee meltdown?
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October 24, 2018 3:07pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Captain Mainwaring
  
  Anybody know where Megan 3-pies has been for the last couple of weeks?
  
  Apparently Bellamy’s have taken on an extra chef to cope with customer demand!
  
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  October 24, 2018 3:27pm
- fluffykiwi
  
  I didn’t know anything about Sarah Dowie so googled, and here is what I learned from google.
  Sarah Dowie was elected as the Member of Parliament for Invercargill in the 2014 General Election. As the daughter of two police officers, justice and law and order issues are part of Sarah’s DNA.
  
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  October 24, 2018 3:36pm
  - RF
    
    I hope the dots are not joined to where I have heard they are going.
    
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    October 24, 2018 4:17pm
    - MrTips
      
      Openly named on ~~shitsville~~ WO
      
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      October 24, 2018 7:00pm
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Sorry I don’t go that cesspit.
        
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        October 24, 2018 7:55pm
Morrissey

MORON WATCH No. 2:
Don Esslemont

A man running a campaign against Māori wards in Palmerston North has compared the fight for their establishment to Nazi Germany.

Don Esslemont collected around 4000 signatures for a petition he presented to Palmerston North City council, forcing a citizen’s initiated referendum on the wards.

He told Maori Television’s Native Affairs, “If people advocate treating people differently because of their race, that is racist. And that is what the Nazis did.” ….

https://www.maoritelevision.com/news/politics/fight-maori-wards-nazi-germany-hobsons-pledge-supporter

MORON WATCH is compiled by Hector Stoop and Serena Sopwith-Fotherington, for Daisycutter Sports Inc.

No. 1: Jesse Hughes (moronic metal musician)
https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-03072016/#comment-1198342
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October 24, 2018 4:19pm
- krazykiwi
  
  He secured enough signatures to force a citizen’s initiated referendum?
  
  Democracy in action. Well done that man!
  
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  October 24, 2018 4:26pm
- mandk
  
  Moron Watch.
  What a delicious irony coming from from you, Morrissey,
  
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  October 24, 2018 5:50pm
- Swifty
  
  I’ll give you the attention you crave Morrissey.
  
  Just why do you think this bloke is a moron pray tell?
  
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  October 24, 2018 6:27pm
DigNap15

Most voters in councils all over NZ do not want Maori Wards.
Yet the councillors and bureacrats keep pushing for them!

Its rascist and a waste of time
(Have you ever been to a meeting where Maori are involved
Waitata, Karakia, Koha and nothing done.
Let them get voted in on merit!

Maori will just hold back devolpment, in case they find a burial ground or two hangi stones.
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October 24, 2018 4:29pm
- Morrissey
  
  bureacrats….. rascist … waitata….
  
  You really are the most perfect example of a blithering idiot, NipDugs.
  
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  October 24, 2018 7:53pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Sorry fuckwit, I beg to differ, but does that not matter on the planet you inhabit?
    
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    October 24, 2018 7:58pm
Philview

It sounds like the Police have started the investigation into Simon Bridges and the National Party. They are not hanging about! They wouldn’t tell Simon Bridges who the leaker was but must be quite happy to go public with this investigation.
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October 24, 2018 4:52pm
- rangitoto
  
  What does Bridges have to do with it?
  
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  October 24, 2018 5:16pm
Happychappy

Well if Simon Bridges is cleared by the Police Investigation JLR should be expelled from being a MP and making false statements. If you are prepared to ruinanother person’s reputation in Parliament their should recompense.
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October 24, 2018 5:41pm
dog_eat_dog

TVNZ running Bridges’ PM numbers again tonight. And probably every night regardless of what actually happens or the party vote.
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October 24, 2018 6:13pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  Put this on the wrong post.
  
  Some context on Simon Bridges Polling
  He is 7%…National at 43%
  Similar polling of Labour
  Andrew Little
  Labour at just 24 per cent – its lowest results in the poll’s history since it began in the 1990s
  
  David shearer
  Labour 30.9 (down 5.5)
  
  David Cunliffe
  which put Labour on 23 per cent
  All cut and pasted from actual articles at the time.
  Simon is not in trouble, he’s doing his job, keeping his party in the race.
  
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  October 24, 2018 6:41pm
  - MrTips
    
    More context. Helen Clark 1996 fended off assholes and shit merchants, polling 2% as preferred PM….Nek minnit.
    
    John Key similar position in 2006.
    
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    October 24, 2018 7:02pm
Johnboy

For the first time in ten years I steeled myself to watch TV1 news. At 6:15 they had a story about Ebert. The nex minit they showed a stock photo of our COL Building and Construction minister resplendent in her ceremonial hair flower! 🙂
I then turned the box off and cracked another bottle…..Godzone is utterly fucked! 🙂
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October 24, 2018 6:27pm
RW Capitalist

I see Labour will have an inquiry into petrol prices, while families are saying they are having trouble.
SQUIRREL
LOOK over there, at the oil companies, while we tax you till you go blind.
The govt. is entirely and only responsible for the massive rises in petrol prices.
But you may not think so while the MSM try to help them obfuscate.
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October 24, 2018 6:37pm
- JibberJabber
  
  Bridges in Parliament today, to Ardern”did you make that up on the hoof?”
  I LoLed
  
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  October 24, 2018 7:34pm
Johnboy

Let none of you ever forget that the only reason we have the fuckin incompetent Tooth Fairy in command is because that utter POS Winston knew he could stick his hand up her ass and manipulate her like a glove puppet.

Let none of you ever forget that the reason we are in this position is because we believed that the shite that the filthy leftist bastard Rod Donald and his mates promulgated was going to give us better democracy.

Any of you fuckwits that voted for MMP ….twice!!!! deserve hanging..drawing..and quartering IMHO! 🙂
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October 24, 2018 6:46pm
- stephieboy
  
  Johnboy, I would imagine that the Jamie -Simon affair is for you like having a radical orchiectomy without an anaesthesia?
  
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  October 24, 2018 7:23pm
  - Johnboy
    
    My balls are so huge they would need two wheelbarrows and a heavy lift ship to send them here steph:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Phallological_Museum
    
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    October 24, 2018 7:30pm
    - cha
      
      Hi Randy, how are they traveling?
      
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      October 24, 2018 7:34pm
    - stigie
      
      “The museum continues to search for “a younger and a bigger and better one.”
      
      Have you been in touch with the museum JB..?
      
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      October 24, 2018 7:39pm
      - nasska
        
        Too late for old buggers like JB & me stigie.
        
        Instead of taddies we’re firing dust! 🙂
        
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        October 24, 2018 7:44pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Johnboy:
      
      My balls are so huge … steph
      
      If you’re wanting to get Stephieboy’s attention, old chap, the magic words are “small but ample”!
      
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      October 24, 2018 7:47pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      From your link:
      The museum’s guest book includes comments such as, “I’ve never seen so many penises–and I went to boarding school!” (from a New Zealand visitor),
      
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      October 24, 2018 8:18pm
      - nasska
        
        ….”“I’ve never seen so many penises–and I went to boarding school!””…..
        
        I can empathise with the author of that comment Maggy. After I was expelled I decided that if I never saw another set of male genitalia I would likely die a happy man.
        
        By good fortune it was 1966, the start of the sexual revolution & the chicky babes weren’t holding back.
        
        Wonderful times to be young & single but I got taken prisoner midway through hostilities & spent the rest of the era working two jobs & acting as back-up nappy changer. 🙂
        
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        October 24, 2018 8:34pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @nasska
        
        I spent a week on Jeju Island and the place is littered with these chaps
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dol_hareubang
        
        Still, in all my trips to S.Korea, I haven’t felt a desperate need to visit Haesindang Park
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek4kGtMl5N8
        
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        October 24, 2018 9:22pm
      - nasska
        
        Strewth! At least we now know what to do when Johnboy falls off the perch.
        
        Put starch in the embalming fluid, stand him up & put him on display. 🙂
        
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        October 24, 2018 9:31pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Steffy girl if you had a dick I’d tell you to go fuck yourself but there we are.
    
    Is Ardern a liar?
    
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    October 24, 2018 9:06pm
- Johnboy
  
  Ah! 6/3 I see approx half of you fuckwits have a guilty conscience about voting for MMP! 🙂
  
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  October 24, 2018 7:46pm
stigie

Fine rant JB and totally agree !~
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October 24, 2018 7:20pm
- Johnboy
  
  Thanks for that moral support stigie! 🙂
  I’ll crack another Grouse and see what else I can stir the shit about! 🙂
  
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  October 24, 2018 7:23pm
dog_eat_dog

So no new regional fuel taxes while Jacinda is PM. Interesting. Are we to then take it:

1) The Auckland fuel tax will be repealed out on the grounds of equity?
2) That the Govt is just going to underwrite other council’s largesse with the tax revenue collected from Auckland, but expects Auckland to keep paying for Auckland?
3) That, if no other Council needed it, the regional fuel tax can be attributed as a ‘help a brother out’/’get out of debt drawdown issues free’ card for long-time stalwart Goff?
4) That the benefit adjustments that Labour made instead of tax cuts to all NZers have resulted in Government-driven inequality in Auckland relative to the rest of the country – again, underwitten by Aucklanders?
5) That the whole thing is a captain’s call bugger’s muddle and further legislative changes they campaigned on will just be abandoned once the Nats start to score points with them, regardless of the merits they so breathlessly blubbed on about in opposition?

Or, you know, like, whatever.
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October 24, 2018 7:58pm
- sooty
  
  What happens if Commie Cindy is rolled?
  New taxes for everyone!
  
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  October 24, 2018 9:46pm
Salacious Crumb

I’m trying to stay open minded on Simon Bridges but seriously; WTF!

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12148042

Yeah sure Jami-Lee. Cam will look after you. He’s got your best interests at heart….
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October 24, 2018 7:59pm
- brett68
  
  Bridges is a fucking clown, I don’t care who they replace him with but just get rid of the prick, he’s not a leaders arsehole.
  
  Worst National leader ever.
  
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  October 24, 2018 8:10pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Missing an apostrophe along with a couple of brain cells?
    
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    October 24, 2018 9:01pm
- fluffykiwi
  
  The whole thing seems a political hit to take Simon down. How does releasing a text from a woman quieten anything down for the person with issues. It appears WO is in this up to his eyeballs. (See Herald) The “mental” issues all seem so very convenient, disappear for a couple of days, get the sympathy vote for said issues, more texts released, released from hospital, all is well in the care of a good friend – watch this space we are told.
  Timing is all important. I pity the MP who has had her text released, an “innocent pawn in this saga, she is being totally used and where is the furore over that, no she has become a villain. (Forget she had an affair lots of people do rightly or wrongly that is a private matter between she and her family).
  
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  October 24, 2018 9:17pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    Is Peter’s involved with Slater an Lusk? Cindy talks about being kind and Little goes along with that BS. Peter’s and Little appear to know the scumbag was the leaker. Bridges suspected but needed proof.
    
    National should complain to the Mental Health Foundation and tell them to have a word with Slater and Lusk. They should make it clear that if Ross keeps up releasing material they will not go soft on him.
    
    They should report him to NZTA. Someone with his mental health should not be driving.
    
    Someone should offer his wife good legal advice. If he gets sued for defamation before they have a property separation agreement it will cost her.
    
    He is a sociopath and scumbag and he knows what he is doing.
    
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    October 24, 2018 9:30pm
    - Nookin
      
      Good points, Chuck. As soon as this story broke it brought to mind Peters’ forecast that Bridges’ days were numbered. I would not be remotely surprised if Slater/Ross/Lusk were keeping Peters briefed. Too much of a coincidence, otherwise.
      Bridges came through this with honour intact, unlike Ross and, especially, Slater. Peters will be livid that he was fed a pack of lies and has ended up looking like the twat crying wolf as per usual.
      
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      October 24, 2018 9:39pm
  - RF
    
    Ever since Simon took Tauranga from Peters he had been gunning for him.
    
    Ha bloody ha…
    
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    October 24, 2018 10:22pm
- Nookin
  
  A good strategy, really. Get in early, put his position on record. Preferably follow up with an email. Put the defence of honest opinion on shaky grounds from the outset. Bridges knows that Slater is so partial that he will barge right into the mire.
  
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  October 24, 2018 9:33pm
Hugh Pavletich

China’s hidden camps – BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/China_hidden_camps

…via …

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/10/macro-afternoon-515/#comment-3210966
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October 24, 2018 8:21pm
- Tall Man
  
  Any chance you can get winston and Ardern booked in for a bit of R & and R?
  
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  October 24, 2018 9:00pm
lifesgood

Good grief. Winston Peters bad mouthing National on the Bolt Report, barely articulate as usual and not giving any decent answers to anything. A bloody embarrassment. And what’s with the frenetic blinking?
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October 24, 2018 9:25pm
- michael_s2
  
  He blinks frequently when he is telling lies.
  
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  October 24, 2018 10:00pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    You can tell when he lies – his lips move.
    
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