General Debate 1 March 2019

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Viking2

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March 1, 2019 8:00am
- MT_Tinman
  
  Unprovoked violence and left wing Governments are never OK!
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:26am
  - Viking2
    
    The only left wing Govt. that even got near to being Ok was driven By Sir Roger.
    Even previously he had contributed the NZ super fund that the mad man destroyed.
    
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    March 1, 2019 12:51pm
skyblue

Here is the slightly redacted (left my name out) email I received from the PMs office regarding her work experience, I posted this yesterday on GD & Hosking on the CGT.

Is she stretching the truth or what? Notice answer to Q1, no mention of the word ‘socialist’.

From: Rt. Hon Jacinda Ardern [mailto:Jacinda.Ardern@parliament.govt.nz]
Sent: Thursday, 28 February 2019 8:06 AM
To:
Subject: RE: Conversation with Mike Hosking on 26 Feb 2019

Dear Mr Bxxxxx
I am writing on behalf of the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern to acknowledge your recent email.
The answers to your questions are as follows:
1. The Prime Minister was the President of international political youth organisation IUSY.
2. The small businesses the Prime Minister worked at were a fish and chip shop in Morrinsville and a gift shop. She has also worked at a supermarket.
3. The Prime Minister was referring to the fact that in Opposition she was Labour’s spokesperson for Small Business from 2014-2017.
4. In the UK the Prime Minister was an assistant director in the Department for Business and Enterprise which involved working with small businesses.

Thank you for writing

Yours sincerely

Dinah Okeby
Office of the Prime Minister

Authorised by Rt Hon Jacinda Ardern MP, Parliament Buildings Wellington 6012

From:
Sent: Wednesday, 27 February 2019 12:12 PM
To: J Ardern (MIN)
Subject: Conversation with Mike Hosking on 26 Feb 2019

Hello Jacinda

You commented as follows on Newstalk ZB in your PMs spot on Tuesday 26 Feb 2019 as follows:
‘Again, well again I would speak to my… you know, to my own experience. Yes, I haven’t been an owner/operator I have um… I have run a small NGO, um… I have worked in small businesses and I have been a small business spokesperson, I even worked in a small business in the UK.

This was in answer to Mike Hosking’s questioning.

1. What was the business you have claimed to run that was not an NGO?
2. What were the small businesses you worked in?
3. What was the business you were a spokesperson for?
4. What was the small business you worked in while in the UK?

I look forward to your reply.

Regards
XXXXX YYYYYYY
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March 1, 2019 8:01am
- slightlyrighty
  
  Wow.
  
  Talk about padding up your CV. That is like working at a Gas Station and calling yourself a Petroleum Transfer facilitator.
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:05am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Or a shithouse cleaner being titled a Sanitory Engineer
    
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    March 1, 2019 8:10am
    - G152
      
      Sadly already done.
      
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      March 1, 2019 8:22am
  - Jade Warrior
    
    The Z service station describes them as “forecourt concierges”.
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:14am
    - Swifty
      
      Petroleum movement engineer.
      
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      March 1, 2019 9:26am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        Petroleum & movement engineer.
        or
        Petroleum & logistics engineer.
        ie
        pumps gas and cleans toilets.
        
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        March 1, 2019 9:29am
- waikatogirl
  
  Clearly, her work in the fish and chip shop was the peak of Cindy’s business experience. ?
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:09am
  - sooty
    
    Just as well it was her working there and not pies!
    
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    March 1, 2019 8:18am
  - holysheet
    
    Sorry WG but you have got it wrong. Cindy didn’t actually do any WORK there.
    And she hasn’t changed the habits of her lifetime.
    
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    March 1, 2019 8:20am
  - ldypen
    
    Working in a Fish and Chips shop is not easy you know.. I mean you need a uni comms degree so you can say with authority and clarity “you want vinegar or tomato sauce on that?”
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:38am
    - Viking2
      
      sorta like this.
      https://i1.wp.com/nicolewilliamsgossip.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Jean-Alexander-Who-Played-Hilda-Ogden-In-Coronation-Street-Passes-Away.jpg
      
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      March 1, 2019 12:54pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Chicken salt?
      
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      March 1, 2019 8:34pm
- labrator
  
  Quick, somebody ask her what an IR4 is because I expect she thinks it’s something Neve will say when she is older.
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:19am
  - fluffykiwi
    
    Very good.
    
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    March 1, 2019 8:40am
  - peterwn
    
    and a IR10 !
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:47am
- Bykmad
  
  And Google search of “IUSY” brings this response.
  International Union of Socialist Youth – Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Union_of_Socialist_Youth
  The International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) is an international organization, founded in 1907, whose activities include publications, support of member …
  President‎: ‎Johanna Ortega Affiliations‎: ‎Socialist International
  Main organ‎: ‎World Council Purpose‎: ‎World federation of socialist, ‎social d…
  ‎History · ‎Activities · ‎Presidium and Control … · ‎Historical leadership
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:27am
- hullkiwi
  
  The response is a stretch of the truth.
  
  Try looking up the Department of Business and Enterprise, with Jacinda Ardern as a Deputy Director.
  
  There was never any such government department & PriNZess would not have been a Deputy Director of any UK government department. Secondly, the UK senior civil service union (the First Officers Union) would have taken a dim view of a senior post going to a Kiwi kid who was a political appointee. So, I would be prepared to wager $100 that that part of the response is a stretch of the truth.
  
  To me, her CV is starting to sound like the CV of the Labour candidate for Northcote last year, a stretch of the truth.
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:31am
  - Evadne
    
    According to Inandout’s link below,Jacinda worked “in the cabinet office of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, serving as an associate director for Better Regulation Executive with the primary responsibility of improving the ways in which local authorities interact with small businesses.”
    
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    March 1, 2019 8:47am
    - Tall Man
      
      And yet she says she never met him.
      
      I find that very odd. There must be a back story to that.
      
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      March 1, 2019 10:28am
      - srylands
        
        No it is not odd. The UK Cabinet office, despite its name is a large Government department. It employs over 1600 people. 98 percent of those people would never meet the PM.
        
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        March 1, 2019 3:06pm
      - hullkiwi
        
        Srylands, the Cabinet Office is a Govt Dept – sort of. In the sense of a govt department, it is not like the usual departments providing public services, it is an office stacked with political appointees working for the PM as political/policy advisors in various capacities.
        
        From the subsequent explanations it looks like she was meant to have been formulating policy on how the English/Welsh local councils work with business. No wonder Brown gave that team the boot in 2007. It would have matched Blair’s agenda, but not Brown’s.
        
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        March 1, 2019 5:42pm
  - redeye
    
    She’s Golrized her CV.
    
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    March 1, 2019 8:48am
    - sooty
      
      Brilliant!
      She’s going to luv that!
      
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      March 1, 2019 9:21am
- RW Capitalist
  
  More worrying
  They, with the speed of reply and tone, pronounce this with such pride.
  WOW
  The lack of self awareness is staggering.
  If you gave me this CV, the highest level of responsibility, as a job, I would make her self service attendant in a cafe.
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:35am
- Muttonbird
  
  She left out MP for 10 years and Prime Minister of New Zealand!
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:47am
  - Swifty
    
    Forgive me, a repost from yesterday.
    
    In these abject times when confidence is at a low, when our leadership is in turmoil, when we are suffering a crisis in effective decision making, when ill-considered government interventions are failing left, right and centre and when we hark back to better days – here is a reminder of what a real Prime Minister looks and sounds like:
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI5rcvsLxZI
    
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    March 1, 2019 10:01am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Classic…the world is missing someone like her.
      “No such thing as Public money, only taxpayers money”
      Imagine how MT would have conducted Brexit.
      MT:…..
      The PEOPLE have voted, we will do what they want.
      To the EU members
      We are leaving, since you will be hit harder and worse off than us by this. I suggest YOU make US an offer and be quick about it, the longer YOU wait the worse it will be.
      
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      March 1, 2019 10:28am
    - Komata
      
      Swifty@1001
      
      Um…ah..ah..umm…ah…leds form a commidee…
      
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      March 1, 2019 10:33am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Tell ya what, I’ll make a deal with you.
    I’ll add this to her CV when she starts doing the JOB of PM, not just obfuscating and misrepresenting the truth.
    As an MP…………..really, here performance with that title elicited the best response from Paula Bennet
    “Zip it sweety”
    
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    March 1, 2019 10:21am
Inandout

Lest we forget (and it is easy to do) this was how our princess came to be, well, famous for being famous.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jacinda-Ardern
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March 1, 2019 8:02am
- sooty
  
  JacinDUH, the Kim Kardashian of the political world
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:24am
  - Happychappy
    
    This column by a former National MP won’t please https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/01-03-2019/the-power-of-jacindamania-could-help-fight-climate-change-will-ardern-use-it/.
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:32am
  - freethinker
    
    I don’t like Kim but she does look better than Taxinda from the front & back.
    
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    March 1, 2019 10:41am
- Dave Mann
  
  …. ‘This Webpage is not available’
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:07am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Our PM’s Jessica Simpson moment
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2h72aXVP8o
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:15am
- Rich Prick
  
  Is Cindy the dumbest PM we’ve ever had? Serious question.
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:37am
  - dime
    
    I only remember as far back as lange.
    
    She doesn’t come close to any modern PM in the brains dept.
    
    Just a dumb ass marketing chick
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:45am
  - Chris R
    
    I go back to the earliest Holyoake years…she is the least prepared PM, the silliest PM and the most destructive PM in that time. In fact, she is a walking talking insult to all previous PMs.
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:51am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Never thought they could find one
      More self absorbed
      less qualified
      more dishonest
      lazier
      Than Kirk
      but they did.
      
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      March 1, 2019 10:31am
      - sooty
        
        Wallace Rowling was in the same league as Palmer!
        
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        March 1, 2019 2:07pm
  - Woz
    
    My memories go back as far as Piggy, although I wasn’t yet old enough to vote in the election that rolled him. There have been, since him, PMs I’ve liked and PMs I’ve hated, but none as detestably dumb as Ardern. Not even old Spud Bolger, or the imperious Director Shipley. Not even close.
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:57am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Bolger
      MMP ,wind farms and economic turn around
      Shippley 4% economic growth AFTER the asia crisis nearly destroyed bigger economies than ours.
      So….no all bad.
      
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      March 1, 2019 10:33am
  - Komata
    
    RP@0937
    
    Although the term ‘dumbest’ is subjective, if cindy isn’t THE dumbest, then she is very, very, close to the title.
    
    I’ve searched back to the 1880’s and can’t find any real equivalent to her, with the qualification that the media of the day (as with our current MSM), were very partisan, so it’s difficult to determine with any degree of certainty.
    
    She’s certainly in the top three, with Hall-Jones and McKenzie being the other two contenders, although this is based on ministry-length rather than individual personalities.
    
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    March 1, 2019 10:44am
DigNap15

What a laugh!
World Rugby want to introduce a World Rugby League to save themselves.
Bad choice of name for the comp!
If I was League, i’d sue them!
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March 1, 2019 8:03am
Viking2

seems to me that the COL and Jones are diametrically opposed.
Fail Twyford and his failing Greenie companion who rides her bike to hospital are being given the run around by Jones.
Jones seems to be handing out money for road works that need doing to circumvent Twatfords inability to ensure roading expenditure is continued in places where its needed.

All bound to complicate their daily lives.

Even barely sober is getting really pissed of with them all.

Join the club Barry.
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March 1, 2019 8:04am
- howzit
  
  There seems to be a daily barb thrown at club Jacinda from Soper. Must have sobered up from the fairy dust
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:10am
  - secondcumming
    
    Spends most of his time shilling for the Chinese these days.
    
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    March 1, 2019 8:22am
  - stigie
    
    Crikey, sounds like Barely Sober is off Jacinduh’s list of reporters to fly around the world wankfesting..?
    
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    March 1, 2019 8:40am
  - lastmanstanding
    
    I think Barry and Heather probably own several rentals that are about to be subjected to CGT and these were going to from Barrys retirement fund and a legacy to Heather who remember is very much younger like nearly 30 years than him.
    
    That’s why hes pissed off.
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:08am
artemisia

The other day I enquired via Kiwiblog why details of almost all the Kiwibuild contracted homes remain secret. No locations published for example.

Now, after some fine investigation by Newshub, we are told that it will take a decade before the last of those currently under contract will be delivered. That is *now* under contract, not the 100,000 in 10 years as promised. Maybe. Performance not too good so far.

And now another large construction firm is in voluntary liquidation, subbies collecting their gear and walking, so what will the fallout from that and other failures be on housing. Has to be some.

In the Herald yesterday –

“You are going to see more failures within that sector, we haven’t seen the last of it,” said Cameron Bagrie, an independent economist based in Wellington.

And …

But figures released to Newshub show that just 341 of those 10,000 will be built this year, and nearly a fifth won’t be built until the final two years of the programme.

The number of houses expected to be built

2019: 341
2020: 1121
2021: 1515
2022: 1205
2023: 1329
2024: 1022
2025: 917
2026: 1045
2027: 1010
2028: 850

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/02/revealed-how-housing-minister-phil-twyford-s-kiwibuild-targets-unravelled.html
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March 1, 2019 8:06am
- G152
  
  Even the number of tradies being released from large failing firms will not be able to build the numbers of houses claimed.
  Better he admits that he lied and retire
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:25am
  - sooty
    
    You can bet your bottom dollar that he will shuffle off in to some public trough.
    No assets and not affected by CGT.
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:28am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Filling the fiscal hole, by NOT building houses?
    
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    March 1, 2019 10:35am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Plus those projects will still need finishing.
    
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    March 1, 2019 8:46pm
- septic skeptic
  
  Twyford must have mis-spoke on the campaign trail. The correct policy was 10,000 homes over 100 years.
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:59am
  - artemisia
    
    100,000 in 100 years. Big hairy audacious goal.
    
    Let’s do this.
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:53am
holysheet

Being interviewed after putting off yet again her cabinet reshuffle, she was asked what procrastinate meant.
Cindy answered, “its a good question, and one that I am fully prepared to answer in more detail, in the coming days and weeks ahead”.
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March 1, 2019 8:09am
- labrator
  
  “… once the working group comes back with its suggestions we’ll consider a response”.
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:21am
- calendar girl
  
  “…..it’s a good question, and one that I am fully prepared to answer in more detail, in the coming days and weeks ahead.”
  
  And that’s just to provide the meaning of the word “procrastinate”!
  
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  March 1, 2019 10:32am
- RW Capitalist
  
  procrastinate??
  Well she knows what a prostate exam is.
  Maybe she thinks it’s like that, but done to the tax payer?
  
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  March 1, 2019 10:37am
stoptheboats

Hooten puts the boot in!

Jacinda Ardern has learned that blathering about “fairness” will take her only so far. She is said to be in shock over the overwhelmingly negative response to Michael Cullen’s recommended capital gains tax (CGT).

Is anyone surprised?

This is a Prime Minister who has publicly confused GDP and the Crown operating balance and who couldn’t provide a rough precis of the nation’s founding document.
She has no private sector experience and her only known contributions to policy over nine years in opposition were proposing working-group-type processes on issues in the news.

It is extremely unlikely she has ever pondered the complexities of implementing a CGT, its risks of perverse outcomes or its profound
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March 1, 2019 8:10am
- Rich Prick
  
  Shhhh, she’s sorting her crayons into order by colour.
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:16am
  - sooty
    
    Ready for kindy on Monday!
    
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    March 1, 2019 8:21am
sooty

Mathew Hooten says watchout as the wheels fall off the CGT bus! JacinDUH will be out to tax anything that that moves and lots that don’t!
What things not working out well for you sweety!
Easily fixed! Leave!
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March 1, 2019 8:11am
- Komata
  
  Sooty@0811
  
  But would Winnie (in abstentia BTW; has anyone seen him?) be any better, especially as ‘whatever’ is starting to have an adverse effect on him?
  
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  March 1, 2019 10:49am
  - Sacha
    
    I saw him sitting next to the PM during question time one day last week. He was smiling and laughing, and clearly engaging with an imaginary friend somewhere above the opposition benches, while she was answering persistent questions from the Opposition.
    Tragic. Surely his Parliamentary days are numbered.
    
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    March 1, 2019 12:21pm
    - Viking2
      
      Seen that more then a few times. Always wonder if he is laughing at Jacinda which is probably the case.
      
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      March 1, 2019 3:34pm
Paulus

Listening to Cohen in Washington talking about Trump and in particular his lying I thought that it all sounds familiar here !
Wonder who ?
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March 1, 2019 8:11am
- DigNap15
  
  That Cohen guy is a just a scum bag.
  He speaks as if he is making a speech
  Not answering questions.
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:16am
  - kowtow
    
    The media are scum too.
    
    Presenting his fantasies as fact.
    
    He also said words to the effect that if Trump lost the next election , “there may not be a peaceful transition of power”
    
    Ridiculous in the extreme and puts everything else he said in the context of “Looney”
    
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    March 1, 2019 8:22am
  - Inandout
    
    Cohen is a convicted liar, and will do anything to minimise his jail time. The Dems are mongrels for holding this inquiry to coincide with Hanoi. I watched Trump handle the world press conference and I thought he answered their questions honestly. It takes ages to get onside with Kim, but Trump did at least hold out a carrot in the form of monetary aid to North Korea to get their economy going. In return he asked for the complete dismantling of Kim’s nuclear armaments. Russia, China, Japan and South Korea would heave a sigh of relief if this happened.
    
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    March 1, 2019 8:40am
    - Batman
      
      You boys are so sensitive, are you getting nervous about Mr Trump’s apparent criminal behaviour?
      
      You can’t care so much about one set of lies, and then disregard another set of lies. That’s not how logic works.
      
      Your false prophet is facing dark times ahead ?
      
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      March 1, 2019 10:58am
- Scott
  
  I think that Michael Cohen is making all these anti-Trump statements in order to get a lighter sentence from his prosecutors. He was providing compelling political theatre on behalf of the Democrats and their enablers in the media. This political charade was perfectly timed to take coverage away from Trump’s historic summit with North Korea.
  
  It really showed the Democrats for the political hacks that they are. Rather than back the president who was engaging in important talks with a potentially hostile power, their only thought is to undermine him and make him look bad.
  
  They truly hate Trump more than they love their country.
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:51am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Cohen has said in the past that “he would take a bullet for Trump”. Quite a flip in what he used to believe but then a reduced prison sentence is a big incentive. No credibility Mr Cohen!
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:08am
  - Howdy
    
    No Scott, The Democrats Love power more than they Love their country…….
    
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    March 1, 2019 11:12am
stoptheboats

Stop the CGT
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March 1, 2019 8:11am
- DigNap15
  
  I agree.
  But how?
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:24am
  - kevn
    
    @DigNap…. Empty the pricks out the trough. That’s how.
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:00am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Vote National, no matter who the leader is….
    
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    March 1, 2019 7:47pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Yes but he’s got a funny accent so he must be awful.
      
      I fid it ironic when the “turd” and others refer to his accent..
      
      I mean, dere musd be sumthink wrong with dem……
      
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      March 1, 2019 10:20pm
holysheet

Good on Air NZ for reducing their regional fares. How much of a subsidy are they getting from Wristy’s provincial growth fund?

Did they kiss and make up in the Koru lounge?
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March 1, 2019 8:13am
- stoptheboats
  
  Yeah right, more likely Chris L panicked when they heard TigerAir was about to be unleashed on them by ex mates Virgin!
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:21am
- DigNap15
  
  Yes but reducing your fares, means actually reducing the standard fare.
  Not just some amazing last minute specials to fill the pane.
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:28am
- lofty
  
  There wouldn’t have been room to kiss and make up holy…..Every time I go in a Koru, there ain’t room to swing a bloody cat, for kids and “guests”.
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:43am
Maggie Pie

When i read this story in the ODT yesterday, it really tuned my stomach.
My partner reckoned that rather getting MPI to check things out, they would have been better sending Immigration NZ to investigate

https://twitter.com/odtnews/status/1100822700061347841

It reminded me of when we were kids and the family went out to a restaurant.
My mum would always say, “Never order butter-chicken from a Dago, or pizza from a Curry-Muncher”
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March 1, 2019 8:15am
- Dave Mann
  
  Yes I read the ODT article from your LINK to Twitter and this points out for me how much good work the MSM does, despite the fact that we criticise it for being ‘left wing’.
  
  How is investigative reporting like this going to be done if the MSM dies off? Sure, individuals might sound off on Twitter or FB and get lots of ‘likes’….. but that would be a far cry from a factual report such as this.
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:27am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Yeas you are sooo right about that DM!
    I immediately wondered just how much of this behaviour goes on at indian owned food outlets and the like. Particulaly if they staff them with those overstayers we hear so much about. It does need exposing to the general NZ public so we can be made aware of whats going on. This sounds truly revolting 🙁
    
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    March 1, 2019 10:22am
    - Steve Todd
      
      Hey, Maggie, don’t you mean “your partner immediately wondered …”? ?
      
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      March 1, 2019 10:46am
    - Komata
      
      MP@1022
      
      The general public don’t know the half of it!
      
      A family member was very invloved in the restaurant trade, and if her tales are anywhere near the truth, the wonder is that we are all still alive and that more deaths don’t occur.
      
      And it’s not just the chefs / cooks….! NEVER offend the wait staff; their ‘revenge’ can be very, very inventive…
      
      (Just saying).
      
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      March 1, 2019 11:02am
      - Maggie Pie
        
        I no exactly what you mean Komata! My partner knew someone that worked as matre d at a really high class wine bar and he used to refill expensive French Red bottles with some $30 stuff he got from Countdown then sell it for about $40 a glass! He reckoned the funniest part was when some of the big noters swilled it round in there gob before giving approval to pour – thinking they were impressing the whore they were out with . lol!!!!
        
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        March 1, 2019 11:55am
      - Rachael Membery
        
        I was in Auckland over the evening of 27/28 February for the Eagles concert and had the misfortune of going into the Quay St McDonalds after the concert, admittedly around 3 am, and every available customer surface was covered in customer rubbish and the self rubbish containers were not useable, and the staff didn’t seem to care, we even said that if they were understaffed that if they gave us a bag we would help as it was such a terrible look. That was declined. It was apparently due to staff being on rostered breaks. Where is the work ethic, do we really need to be so unionised that business suffers?
        Disgusting, and yes I have rung the Head Office who do not seem to have enough people available to answer phones in person either.
        
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        March 1, 2019 12:37pm
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Yes it IS truly disgusting out there these days Rach!
        A friend of my partner is a Cop and he was telling him that the other night they were atending a report of ‘loud moaning noises’ when they came across a couple of street-dwellers having sex in the Skip Bin behind a KFC. Rather than arrest them and have to drive them back to the cells he just issued a verbal warning and passed the file over to the morning shift.
        
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        March 1, 2019 1:33pm
  - Tall Man
    
    FFS, “investigative”
    
    These guys went to the press.
    
    Investigative would be questioning ardern the liar about her cv, about sroubek, about her sperm donor’s habit of mowing lawns, about building 100,000 fucking houses…
    
    You know, the big stuff, the important stuff, the secret coalition agreement, the pressure on cullen to “recommend” a CGT.
    
    Not some shit faced fuckwit using “past date” meat.
    
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    March 1, 2019 10:17pm
stoptheboats

Trudeau scandal hits the fan, see yesty blog.

Remember the pix of True Dough phoning up Cindypants when she “won” the election !! They are far lefty socialists mates, along with Macron, the supposed New 3 Youth saviours of the age!!!!
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March 1, 2019 8:18am
DigNap15

Macron
Trudeau
Ardern
They are all the same and need to go!
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March 1, 2019 8:25am
- Ross12
  
  Remember Helen Clark’s comment about Ardern at the start of her term — something like ” She will be our Macron or Trudeau”.
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:05am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Finally Clark admits her incompetence, and poor judgement.
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:26am
- Tall Man
  
  Come on, ardern the liar is not even a fish in the pond. She’s an anaemic wannabe compared to the others. They are just as dumb as she is but at least they get to ply in a pond.
  
  Ardern the liar can’t even manage a puddle of piss in her daughter’s nappy..or jethro’s.
  
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  March 1, 2019 10:10pm
holysheet

Best advice from the drunken dwarf yet.
If you’re fed up with the corruption in your political party, leave and form your own party, so you can tailor the corruption to suit your personal needs.
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March 1, 2019 8:27am
- sooty
  
  Yep! Thats our Whinney to a tee!
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:32am
DigNap15

Auckland Fireworks Ban
Their survey vote was 90 to 10%
Rubbish.
No African President has ever won an election by that much!
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March 1, 2019 8:27am
- slightlyrighty
  
  It wasn’t a survey. It was the ratio of for and against by submission. A self selecting poll.
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:35am
  - Swifty
    
    And then Casey trumpets it as ‘The people of Auckland have Spoken’.
    
    Liar.
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:21am
  - backster
    
    Identical to the one that found 97% scientists believed in Global Warming.
    
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    March 1, 2019 11:47am
- Westie Bob
  
  Would love to see a petition based on keeping personal use fireworks.
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:41am
- waikatogirl
  
  Apparently, it is not ok to have fireworks celebrating Guy Fawkes failing to blow up Parliament, but it is ok if fireworks are used to celebrate the recently approved Matariki.
  What?! How come? ?
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:44am
  - lifesgood
    
    Isn’t it sad that the fun police are ruining every aspect of life. Fireworks night, as a child, is one of my cherished memories and dads loved it, even more than firing up the barbeque. I can still see the family’s faces light by the glow of bonfires and fireworks. On the other hand I have a nutty neighbour who lets fireworks off for weeks after Guy Fawkes, sometimes at 2am. I still wouldn’t vote to ban home use, though.
    
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    March 1, 2019 8:59am
    - lastmanstanding
      
      Im so glad I grew up in the 50s and 60s. To be a Kiwi kid at that time was to have won first prize in the Lotto of life.
      
      We had real freedom as kids to knock about and play with non of the nanny state bull shit we have now.
      
      Tree huts tree swings playing cowboys and Indians wide open field near town to play in.
      
      And building a Guy and fire on 5 Nov and lots of fireworks.
      
      The nanny state has stopped all that and taken away a large part of what should be Kiwi kids growing up.
      
      Aresholes of all them.
      
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      March 1, 2019 9:17am
      - Swifty
        
        And it hurts doubly that there’s an imported socialist Scottish harridan behind it all.
        
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        March 1, 2019 9:19am
      - Steve Todd
        
        I share your great memories of those years, lms. The problem now is, that our population is almost twice what it was back then, meaning there are twice as many idiots as there were then.
        
        And, over the last 30+ years, we (along with all other Western nations) have become a more litigious (and, of course, PC) society, meaning institutions and organisations have to protect themselves from the real possibility of legal action against themselves.
        
        That’s just the way it is; it’s not going to change (back), whether we have a Labour-led or National-led government.
        
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        March 1, 2019 11:06am
      - Steve (North Shore)
        
        Down the gully shooting rats with a slug gun – aged 7
        
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        March 1, 2019 3:46pm
    - kowtow
      
      Yep , it’s the relatively few idiots that Big Brother latches onto to spoil it for the sensible majority.
      
      Mind you the idiots seem to be growing in number . Me , me , me. Can’t go to a perk to let them off , they do it in the road or back garden with neighbours houses really close by and you’d be surprised if I told you what their profession and ethnicity is .
      
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      March 1, 2019 10:58am
  - septic skeptic
    
    I have no particular objection to moving our day from 5 November. Guy Fawkes doesn’t have much connection to NZ. Sometime in the middle of the year would be great, much better if it’s dark fairly early in the evening, especially for the young kids.
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:16am
    - lastmanstanding
      
      Its part of the culture of many of us whose ancestors came from England. I betcha if it was a Murry tradition it wouldn’t be stopped.
      
      Sick to death of Mine and many other citizens whose ancestors came from UK having our traditional culture trashed by Arseholes.
      
      One way streeters I call them. OK if they agree. Not OK if they don’t agree.
      
      How about a bit of give and take and a bit of tolerance or is that all too hard.
      
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      March 1, 2019 9:20am
    - kowtow
      
      As long as we have a Westminster model and a population based 75 % on UK migration then we have a very close connection to Guy Fawkes.
      
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      March 1, 2019 11:00am
      - Rachael Membery
        
        Plus it is fun.
        
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        March 1, 2019 12:54pm
  - JIV
    
    Recently approved Matariki?
    
    I think you mean recently made up Matariki.
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:16am
  - sooty
    
    Because maori invented gunpowder!
    Don’t you know anything!
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:34am
    - freethinker
      
      Was that invention before or after Nuclear Fusion?
      
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      March 1, 2019 10:54am
  - Howdy
    
    Matariki Fireworks = Maori racism
    
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    March 1, 2019 11:14am
- Surely Knott
  
  Leftists: Drugs must be legal. Prohibition doesn’t work.
  Leftist: Fireworks must be banned. Presumably prohibition will work?
  1. Why not just enforce it down to one day of fireworks. People could sign a form when they buy the fireworks with a barcode. And for any other day you need a fire permit stating where and what time. People could register their horses, or other at risk properties on an online map. And then don’t issue a permit near those houses unless the neighbours are warned and give approval.
  
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  March 1, 2019 12:35pm
  - Tall Man
    
    FFS, harden up.
    
    Throughout the world fireworks don’t cause issues..only here where the poofters live….
    
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    March 1, 2019 10:04pm
slightlyrighty

I have a question…

Am I racist? Now I would never attribute a behavior based on a race, but when I see a behavior, I immediately assume the race of the person carrying it out.

Case in point, there was an owner of 2 Pizza Hut franchises in Dunedin who is being investigated after an staff member alleged the franchise owner served expired food rescued from a skip, refused to fix a broken mixer leaking oil into dough, and changed expiry dates of chicken and seafood.

I immediately guessed the ethnicity of that franchise owner after reading the headline.

When I read that another restaurant is being done for grossly underpaying immigrant staff, I immediately have an idea as to what ethnic group that restaurant owner comes from.

Is it wrong for me to think that way, because every time I make that assumption, I am 100% correct. Every time. Every damn time.

There are many ‘woke’ people who would castigate me for being wrong. But they can’t argue with the apparent facts.
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March 1, 2019 8:34am
- fluffykiwi
  
  No not wrong, it applies to all areas of life, thinking babies being murdered. Violence against partners. Etc.,
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:45am
  - kowtow
    
    But you can get two doctors to certify the execution of a baby too.
    
    How different is that ?
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:00am
  - waikatogirl
    
    The little baby girl killed in Kaitaia was only 4 weeks old! There are some seriously fucked up dangerous people in this world that need removing permanently.
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:13am
    - G152
      
      The term JACK comes sadly to mind.
      For them as have never heard it before it stands for
      Just Another C—- Kid..
      The death penalty should be invoked in these cases!
      
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      March 1, 2019 9:28am
      - lofty
        
        Otherwise known as SOCK’s….Some other…..
        
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        March 1, 2019 9:47am
- Jules99
  
  Ditto ‘unexplained’ deaths of babies in the home.
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:46am
- Swifty
  
  If you emigrated to China, or India, or anywhere – what do you think is more likely?
  
  1. That you would retain your habits and behaviours; e.g. you’d keep your lawns mowed, you’d take a found wallet to the police station, you’d be a tidy kiwi, you’d stand for a pregnant woman in the bus etc
  
  2. You’d quickly and completely merge with the locals and adopt whatever they did.
  
  My observation is that people are creatures of habit and many immigrants to NZ merely continue with their previous habits and behaviours. If they come with shitty behaviours, they’ll display shitty behaviours here – and vice versa.
  
  If ripping off your employees or selling expired food is a cultural norm back home – that’s what they’ll do here, at least initially, if not for evermore.
  
  I see it all the time where I live.
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:09am
  - kowtow
    
    We’re “multicultural” now . Even Sir John Key said we were.
    
    That means all cultures are equal .
    
    So if some Muslim girls want to go to Syria to engage in genocide , that should be OK by the rest of us.
    
    Embrace the diversity , engage in the enrichment .
    
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    March 1, 2019 11:04am
- Random T Person
  
  Stereotypes arise for a reason.
  
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  March 1, 2019 10:22am
MCos

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Big day around the world yesterday.
United States of America and North Korea summit rather predictably came to nothing with conflicting statements from participants about whether North Korea wanted full or partial lifting of sanctions.
Some committee questions Michael Cohen in Washington in political circus.
India & Pakistan once again go to the brink. Unfortunately Modi has an election to think about, but the signs are they’ll patch things up.
Netanyahu under the pump, but he says it’s all a witch-hunt.
World rugby wants to set up a twelve nation league leaving out Fiji ranked #9 plus Samoa & Tongo and incorporating Italy ranked #15. Players pissed off.
UK continues to flounder.
Arrow misses the target in NZ.

Tweet of the day

“i guess trump is now going to call himself a war hero bc he was shot down in hanoi.“
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March 1, 2019 8:35am
- Inandout
  
  mcos, don’t forget baby Trudeau.
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:14am
  - MCos
    
    There’s that too and the election in Thailand, which if you follow events throws up jaw dropping news every few days.
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:43am
Steve (North Shore)

Trump, Kim – Vietnam. Media blaming Trump for the breakdown and non signing. Media have severe TDS. I say no deal is better than a bad deal.
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March 1, 2019 8:35am
- MCos
  
  Grandstanding by both of them, I would say.
  I doubt whether Kim had any intention of signing away his nuclear weapons.
  Everyone knew that.
  Everyone also knows that the spade work needs to be done beforehand so that there is already something on the table these blokes are happy with.
  As it turns out they can’t even agree what they disagree about.
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:19am
  - Inandout
    
    Mcos, you know even less than Cindy. You wouldn’t have a clue what was discussed.
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:27am
    - MCos
      
      Well it got off to a bad start when Kim wanted to split the Nobel Peace prize money 70-30 . . . . . .
      
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      March 1, 2019 9:51am
      - Tall Man
        
        You’re so funny, I’m surprised you left Timaru as there is a real future for a dork down there….
        
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        March 1, 2019 9:55pm
- Inandout
  
  Steve, the words ‘failure’, ‘collapse’ feature commonly by a news media that waits patiently for Trump to walk away. CNN and Guardian are crowing ‘defeat’ but it was an eye opener to watch other world media ask sensible questions at Trump’s Q&A conference. Previous Presidents did zilch so Trump is at least trying.
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:24am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    One of Trump’s sayings is ‘if the deal is not a good one, we walk away’ The MSM blaming him for no deal is just fake news bullshit
    
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    March 1, 2019 2:15pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Funny, a few hours ago the US media were claiming Trump would sell his granny to NK to distract from Cohen’s ‘damning’ testimony.
  Fools.
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:47am
- Ross12
  
  Right at the very start –before Singapore, Trump said it would take a long to get to a resolution.
  
  Also there is more to it than just the NK situation on it’s own because China has a huge influence on NK and Kim. So the USA/China trade “battles” are indirectly involved in these negotiations.
  
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  March 1, 2019 10:06am
  - MH
    
    the whole purpose of the trip was to get Viet-nam to ask China to build a wall on its border with NK.
    
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    March 1, 2019 12:20pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Ha ha ha jacinda, you’re so funny..
      
      Did you know ardern is a liar..
      
      Silly me, of course you did….
      
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      March 1, 2019 9:57pm
- Komata
  
  Steve (NS)@0835
  
  And don’t forget the really BIG news:
  
  NO-ONE allowed Jim Accosta to ask a question!!
  
  How dare they not; since he is, after all JIM ACCOSTA, and therefore VERY important (at least in his own mind)!
  
  Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy…
  
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  March 1, 2019 11:10am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Acosta is a prick. A nobody who thinks he is the greatest reporter the World has seen. See the talking pictures on YouTube by ‘The United Spot’ Hilarious
    
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    March 1, 2019 2:17pm
    - Steve (North Shore)
      
      https://www.facebook.com/theunityspot/videos/vb.226131044926117/389263365193629/?type=2&theater
      
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      March 1, 2019 2:24pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Small man, small cock..big chip on his shoulder.
        
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        March 1, 2019 9:53pm
Gravelroad

Figures released yesterday show that Green Party Climate Change Minister, James Shaw, spent most of any politician on international air travel last quarter – $73,771.
This is more even than our Princess and Winston’s 1st.
The Green Party has no shame in their pursuit of baubles and power. But they know best of course.
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March 1, 2019 8:49am
- Poppa
  
  James Shaw the one who spouts endlessly about climate change? Surely he wouldn’t be using that evil fossil fuel?
  
  What a complete tosser, anyway he is actually a communist rather that a greenie, that is just for show.
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:56am
  - graham
    
    Yup, and they had the audacity to state that it didn’t really matter because when they fly Air NZ their carbon use is “offset” or some such twaddle.
    
    Which sounds to me suspiciously like stealing an expensive item of jewellery from a store and giving it to your partner, then claiming that your stealing it from one person and making them miserable doesn’t matter because you made someone else happy, so it all evens out …
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:06am
    - Hugh Jarse
      
      The offset is done when the booking is made, it’s an additional charge on top of the airfare, so the taxpayer will be funding it.
      
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      March 1, 2019 11:43am
    - Albert_Ross
      
      No, that is not a good analogy. Unlike the jewellery store the climate does not care where or how emissions are emitted, and it does not care where or how they are offset. The thing that matters is the global totals.
      
      Thus, for climate change purposes, if you increase the total by one here and simultaneously reduce it by one there, the net outcome is zero no matter where “here” and “there” are, no matter how or by whom it is done.
      
      This makes climate change a different kind of environmental challenge from (eg) air quality or water quality, where the location and nature of polluting activity clearly does matter. You won’t help Lake Taupo by reducing nitrate leaching into the Clutha. But you can offset a tonne of carbon emitted in New Zealand by cleaning up a factory in China or planting trees in Brazil.
      
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      March 1, 2019 12:17pm
      - Sacha
        
        Oh, NOW I get it!
        That’s why we in NZ have to be inconvenienced by the the plastic bag ban – to offset other people’s use of them.
        And why WE must cut down our carbon emissions – so that other countries don’t have to, even though ours are minuscule in the global ratings.
        Good ol’ NZ, the international virtue signaller.
        
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        March 1, 2019 12:37pm
- Bykmad
  
  Do as I say, not as I do. Call me Green and a Hypocrite I am!
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:58am
lifesgood

So the brains trust at Auckland Council are going to lower the speed limit to 30 on hundreds of roads around town. Now, admittedly, you are lucky to get above 30 in the central city most of the time but for Pete’s sake why lower the limit in the many suburbs they are proposing. Bloody cyclist, the scourge of the city, that’s why. It’s getting close to the olden days when a man with a red flag had to walk in front of a car. With this idiotic council what’s the betting that’ll be their next brain wave.
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March 1, 2019 8:53am
- DigNap15
  
  I spoke to a councillor yesterday (not in Auckland) and she said that there is a big push from the bureacrats for safety.
  So they want us all riding bikes, walking or taking buses, so that there wil be less accidents.
  (She did not like cycle lanes in the city!)
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:07am
  - lifesgood
    
    They’d save a lot of lives if they educated pedestrians. Gone are the days of “look right, look left, look right again” People just lurch out onto crossings now without looking. No wonder they get killed.
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:20am
    - DigNap15
      
      They are looking at their phones!
      
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      March 1, 2019 9:36am
    - sooty
      
      A pedestrian crossing is not for lime scooter riders and cyclist, either!
      
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      March 1, 2019 9:41am
  - Random T Person
    
    I can ride around 80- 100 kilometres on my bicycle at an AVERAGE speed of around 35 kilometres per hour. Restricting cars to 30 will mean some cyclists are faster than motorised vehicles.
    
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    March 1, 2019 10:33am
    - Tall Man
      
      Not if they go past my door……
      
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      March 1, 2019 9:48pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  “for Pete’s sake why lower the limit in the many suburbs”
  To make public transport appear more efficient
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  They are all about the appearances.
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:08am
- MCos
  
  I wouldn’t mind if the cars drove to the existing speed limit down my street.
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:21am
- septic skeptic
  
  I can tell you one thing. If they succeed in getting rid of petrol vehicles in time to meet 5heir zero carbon targets – it won’t be because we have all got electric vehicles. I say invest in a tricycle. It will be easier and safer to carry the weekly shop or your new TV home than it will be on your bike.
  EV’s will be for the likes of Jimmy two mums. After all he will need to get to the airport in time to fly off to the latest conference on the implementation of global socialism.
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:33am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Twice now I have seen an elderly woman cycling in a stately manner on a tricycle with a zimmer frame
    on the back carrier ready for when she alights.
    This in a seaside town with a large amount of heavy traffic.
    Good on her.
    You start off on a tricycle when you are a kid. Might as well end in the same way.
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:46am
    - Sacha
      
      I’d have a trike if I lived in a flat town. There are some really flash ones around, with gears and everything.
      How about an E-Trike? That’d be fun. You could get 3-4 on a regular car park –
      
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      March 1, 2019 12:40pm
  - RW Capitalist
    
    My problem with EV’s
    They want ME to buy theirs.
    
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    March 1, 2019 10:41am
- LTA1955
  
  Its the freakin speed camera’s the Marxist council want all over the inner city to send out TON’s (Traffic Offense Notice’s) at the same speed of supermarket EFTPOS machines to those nasty car owners. Its nothing about saving lives.
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:46am
  - Tall Man
    
    Generating $360,000 to pass on to genter’s pathetic partner….
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:46pm
- oob
  
  So the brains trust at Auckland Council are going to lower the speed limit to 30 on hundreds of roads around town.
  
  The proposal for my street is to lower the speed limit to 10 Km/h.
  
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  March 1, 2019 10:29am
  - kowtow
    
    Who’s going to enforce that ?
    
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    March 1, 2019 11:08am
    - sooty
      
      The council!
      Revenue straight into the coffers!
      
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      March 1, 2019 11:37am
      - oob
        
        I’m anticipating little old ladies with Zimmer frames will be the primary enforcement mechanism the Council employs.
        
        At those speeds after all, they’re more than capable of running me down in a chase.
        
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        March 1, 2019 12:43pm
  - lifesgood
    
    Whaaaaat! You can walk faster than that! Oh, yeah, I guess that’s the plan.
    
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    March 1, 2019 11:58am
    - oob
      
      I drive a V8. I’m not certain it even operates at 10 Km/h.
      
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      March 1, 2019 12:33pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Why on earth would you want to find out 🙂
        
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        March 1, 2019 9:45pm
lastmanstanding

Why do pollies lack the good common sense of many KBers.

Example A

A Government allows thousands of migrants into a country without having the housing and infrastructure in place.

Result. Lack of housing causing prices to rise out of the reach of locals. Over crowded roads schools hospitals and social services.

Why do pollies write cheques they cant cash.

Eaxmple B

A Government promises to build 100,000 new houses and plant 1,000,000,000,000 trees

Why shouldn’t I and others with basic common sense treat these people with the derision scorn and contempt they so richly deserve.

And perhaps if many others treated them all the same way they just might change their dumb arse behaviour.

Then again probably not. They are hard wired at birth.
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March 1, 2019 9:03am
- Notsofast
  
  There is grinding poverty everywhere due to this wreckless policy of John Key to allow housing to be hoovered by China. They understand safe water, a temperate climate, and secure legal title. They have contempt for New Zealanders while invading the country with stolen money.
  
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  March 1, 2019 11:05am
  - Tall Man
    
    At least your post isn’t a diatribe on the “poor man” being locked up for smashing his child’s skull in but it’s still shit.
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:44pm
RW Capitalist

Arderns political CV
became involved in the reelection campaign of Harry Duynhoven, a Labour member of parliament (MP) in the New Plymouth district.
Ardern lost by some 13,000 votes.
In 2011 she ran for the seat representing Auckland Central that was held by another of New Zealand politics’ brightest young stars, Nikki Kaye of the New Zealand National Party, who was just five months older than Ardern. Kaye narrowly (717 votes) won the race, dubbed the “Battle of the Babes,” but once again Ardern returned to parliament as a well-placed list candidate. Ardern’s support for David Shearer in his successful quest for Labour leadership won her a high profile assignment as Social Development spokesperson. In 2014 Ardern once again faced off with Kaye for the Auckland Central seat, this time losing by only 600 votes.
To sum up
Helen Clark retrospectively changed the law, so Duynhoven, did not have to resign, due to dual citizenship.
So
Supported a liar (Duynhoven)
Supported a corrupt act to keep him there
(perhaps that’s the reason for the “oil and gas” decision?)
Then a 3 time loser as an electorate MP.
So
A track record of lying and losing.
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March 1, 2019 9:06am
- Poppa
  
  Didn’t win the last election either.
  
  Just happened to be the soft touch that the charlatan Peters was looking for at the time.
  
  With Peters out of the picture life could get quite interesting next time around
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:21am
Chuck Bird

I heard a talk show host last night say that Cindy supported NZ ISIS brides be allowed back to NZ. Has anyone else heard anything about this?
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March 1, 2019 9:22am
- Rich Prick
  
  Jesus, if true Cindy’s getting pretty desperate for “refugees”. Does she want the husbands too?
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:32am
  - septic skeptic
    
    That’s a given. Family reunification.
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:46am
- Albert_Ross
  
  What? She supports the impartial application if the rule of law? Heaven save us all!
  
  Yes, there are some things you have to put up with in a civilised society where rights and freedoms apply. One is that those rights and freedoms also apply to people you don’t like.
  
  There’s no need to actively help such people return to New Zealand. But if they are able to get back on their own resources and with a NZ passport, there is no basis to prevent them from entering.
  
  If they have committed crimes under NZ law, then by all means arrest and try them, and if they’re guilty, punish them. If Syria or another country wants to extradite them for trial regarding crimes committed there, and goes through the proper extradition process, then by all means cooperate with that.
  
  But punishing people without bothering with any of that due process stuff is not what grown up civilised countries do.
  
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  March 1, 2019 12:27pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Actually Albert it’s exactly what civilised countries do.
    
    We need to provide a safe environment for all citizens and if that means “infringing” the civil rights of a few “nut jobs” then I am all for it and I would assume that the vast majority of New Zealanders are as well.
    
    Now you, as a “concerned” citizen, may wish to put the wellbeing of the minority ahead of the safety of the majority but I think you may be very lonely in that stance.
    
    The position that the UK has chosen recently is exactly the same as the options that NZ has available and hopefully ardern the liar will not have the decision in her retarded hands.
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:41pm
MT_Tinman

Christchurch Police announced yesterday that all front line police will be armed with firearms.

I’ve met several ChCh policemen (and women).

God defend New Zealand!
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March 1, 2019 9:27am
- Dave Mann
  
  What do you mean? Are you for or against this move? Just asking.
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:44am
  - Harriet
    
    Me personally I’m against it in the day time, as patrol cars themselves carrying firearms is enough. Besides they have tazers and other armed officers at their beck and call. Makes you wonder what the training is all for. Spelling out the reasons why ‘most serious incidents other than road related deaths happen at nighttime’ is a far more constructive position to work from in imho. Too much like the British, too bossy.
    
    footnote, I don’t have anything personally to do with the police, I’ve simply taken an interest in society and authorities over 4 decades. ‘Some parts’ are deteriorating as a society as ‘some civilians’ aren’t acting like adults – but excusing themselves from responsibility — and the police are simply responding to that. Feminism has had a large impact on criminal offending in NZ in the last 40yrs, and everything that goes with it – and it will continue into the next generations.
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:58am
  - Tall Man
    
    The potential paperwork for discharging the weapon will temper the reactions in my opinion.
    
    With adequate training I think it is a good move.
    
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    March 1, 2019 10:00am
    - sooty
      
      After seeing what the police have hired as traffic cops on the local tv programs. They have a problem there as some would have trouble writing there own names. Yet the police put them on national tv.
      
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      March 1, 2019 10:14am
      - Tall Man
        
        But..can they differentiate between there and their?
        
        What the fuck do you want…
        
        Cops held at bay by criminals?
        
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        March 1, 2019 9:30pm
  - MT_Tinman
    
    Are you for or against this move?
    
    I’m against it.
    
    There are far too many cowboys (and cowgirls) out there in patrol cars.
    
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    March 1, 2019 11:44am
    - Tall Man
      
      I’d rather have Police cowboys than “mongrel mob or black power cowboys”.
      
      You may be different, I can’t think why…
      
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      March 1, 2019 9:29pm
- kowtow
  
  I’m not against an armed police force.
  But this is clearly a knee jerk reaction to one recent incident.
  
  Being a knee jerk it means that all those armed Plod won’t have the very high standard of training to be routinely armed .
  
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  March 1, 2019 11:11am
  - Tall Man
    
    All officers are well trained and have to complete a rigorous training regime before they are graded for firearms.
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:27pm
- Howdy
  
  It is for a limited time whilst they chase down the 2nd offender who was sighted in the car with the dead chummy……..
  
  LIMITED due to circumstances..
  
  A good move by the area commander.
  
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  March 1, 2019 11:19am
  - Hugh Jarse
    
    Sorry may have wrongly downticked this. Agree with your comments. Other chummy still alive though. In response to Harriets comments, this incident occured in daylight, I am not sure if the officers had to get firearms from the boot while under fire, but if they did, that’s an unacceptable risk to the Police and public in the circumstances.
    
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    March 1, 2019 11:55am
secondcumming

A mate from the gun club retweets……

*THIS IS REALLY STRANGE*

1. Did you know that the word ‘racecar’ spelled backwards, still spells ‘racecar’?

2. Did you know that ‘eat’ is the only word that if you take the first letter and move it to the last, it spells the past-tense ‘ate’?

3. And have you noticed that if you rearrange the letters in ‘illegal immigrants’, and add just a few more letters, it spells out, “Go home you free loading, benefit bludging, drug dealing, violent, non-English speaking arseholes, and while your at it take a few of those goat-shagging raggedy-arse bastards with you” ?

How weird is that?
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March 1, 2019 9:43am
- Lizziep
  
  brilliant, thank you for making me smile second cumming
  
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  March 1, 2019 11:56am
Manolo

Cooling off?
https://www.apnews.com/86e447c98bdd4ecaae29c06c19edff4b

The United States’ gross domestic product, the broadest gauge of economic health, expanded at a 2.6% annual rate in the October-December period, the government said Thursday. That was down from a 3.4% rate in the July-September period and a sizzling 4.2% pace from April through June.
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March 1, 2019 9:45am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  makes the large deficit a problem again. GDP growth of 2.6% with Debt Growth of >4% means substantial increase in debt/GDP ratios (which had been pretty well balanced previously)
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:56am
sooty

What’s this about JucinDUH supporting the school kids striking and complaining about her own government?
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March 1, 2019 9:46am
- DigNap15
  
  She has to look after her supporters and practice her waves.
  
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  March 1, 2019 10:26am
  - sooty
    
    She could do that in front of a mirror!
    
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    March 1, 2019 2:13pm
    - Tall Man
      
      She does….
      
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      March 1, 2019 9:24pm
mandk

The great Andre Previn has died.

He was a great classical and jazz musician, but many will remember him for him for one of the funniest comedy sketches of all time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7GeKLE0x3s

Rest in peace, Mr Preview.
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March 1, 2019 10:05am
- Dave Mann
  
  Oh thank you. That was a brilliant sketch! Andre Previn carried it off so well in the way he played the straight man and took the piss put of himself. Comedy gold!
  
  It’s worth remembering that at the time Andre Previn was extremely famous as a serious conductor and soloist in a world that valued talent over celebrity…. so this performance of his was exceptional.
  
  R.I.P.
  
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  March 1, 2019 10:46am
  - MH
    
    reminds me of the other pianist comedian Victor Borge.
    
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    March 1, 2019 12:53pm
Inandout

Is this getting a bit close to our royal household in Sandringham?

https://i.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/central-leader/110948544/reported-gunshots-and-suspicious-fire-in-sandringham-auckland

Personal Security on alert!
Lawnmower shops remain closed.
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March 1, 2019 10:34am
- sooty
  
  But they would need the lawnmower!
  Been essential supplies and all that!
  How are the people going to handle not been able to go around and around in circles?
  They may spinout of control!
  
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  March 1, 2019 11:32am
- Tall Man
  
  Why would anyone waste a bullet.
  
  She shoots herself in the foot on a daily basis….
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:20pm
Longknives

Have you guys heard about ‘Momo’ the demonic creature who has (allegedly) invaded You Tube and is challenging kids to murder their parents etc?

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/02/momo-challenge-5yo-forced-into-pixie-cut-after-taking-part.html

I had an even more terrifying experience last night- I was watching some You Tube online and a dreadful looking creature with long black hair, the most skeletal gaunt face, and creepily massive hands appeared!
It shriekings were mainly nonsensical- I heard lots of “Umms” “Aaahs” and something that sounded like “Comrades”- but the most scary part was it’s teeth! God I might never get the image of those terrifying gnashers out of my head….

Luckily I don’t think I watched ‘Jomo’ long enough to be brainwashed- Though I do have a strange feeling of guilt about my years of hard work and investment and now feel like maybe I should pay more tax?….
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March 1, 2019 10:34am
- Tall Man
  
  …..lots more tax……
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:19pm
BeaB

Hypocrite File
Newshub reports: The Green Party’s co-leader James Shaw spent more on international air travel than any other minister, new data shows.

The Climate Change Minister had $77,771 approved for international travel from October to the end of December, compared to $54,487 for Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, data from the Department of Internal Affairs shows.

No other minister’s international travel expenses came close to Mr Shaw’s total. The second highest was the Prime Minister, followed by Energy Minister Megan Woods and Finance Minister Grant Robertson, respectively.

In comparison to Mr Shaw, his Green Party colleague, Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage, had $48,981 approved for international air travel, along with just $1853 approved for Women’s Minister Julie Anne Genter and $411 for Jan Logie.

The Government’s confidence and supply partner, the Green Party, is known for its anti-carbon stance and hailed the Government’s decision to end offshore oil and gas drilling.

When asked why his international travel expenses were so high, Mr Shaw told Newshub he happened to attend multiple international climate change events during that time.

A spokesperson for Mr Shaw explained how he had attended the Global Climate Action Summit held in San Francisco, as well as the Katowice Climate Change Conference in December in Poland where talks ended with a deal on putting the Paris Agreement into practice.

The spokesperson said the minister also passed through London on his way back to New Zealand from Poland for a forum on Pacific climate change issues.

Mr Shaw told Newshub: “I understand that as Climate Change Minister, I have to way up the value of my travel. These events last year were significant international climate change conferences. They allow us to put New Zealand’s case to the international community.”

He said New Zealand, as a small nation, needs to have a voice at the global table to represent the Pacific, and “that sometimes means having to attend these events”.

He also highlighted that the events he attended present networking opportunities.
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March 1, 2019 12:06pm
- Inandout
  
  BeaB, he was actually quoted as ‘way up’ by Stuff. FFS
  
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  March 1, 2019 12:28pm
- Universal Smith
  
  He will now be flying to even more meetings to decide how to spin this. While he expects us to bike to work in the rain.
  
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  March 1, 2019 12:55pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  And what was achieved at the Katowice Climate Change Conference?
  https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/16/what-was-agreed-at-cop24-in-poland-and-why-did-it-take-so-long
  Sweet Fanny Adams
  
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  March 1, 2019 2:10pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Come on, it takes a bit of time to empty the trough.
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:14pm
- Pascal
  
  How many flights? You can fly to most international destination for a couple of thousand. So did he have like 35 odd flights over the year?
  
  Simon Bridges could drive his limousine from the bedroom to the bathroom for the rest of his natural life and he won’t spend the carbon that James Shaw did in one year.
  
  Ludicrous bloody Lefty liars.
  
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  March 1, 2019 9:36pm
Steve Todd

Have a look at this, people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yOAXSqj9Cg.

It is a clip from the Steve Hilton (Fox News) interview with the First Daughter, to be aired in the States on Sunday night, with an appropriate reaction from Jesse Dollemore.

She reckons that people, in their hearts, don’t want to be given something, meaning a job. The entitled cow doesn’t have a clue.
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March 1, 2019 12:14pm
- Tall Man
  
  Having spent a bit of time working in the welfare/wmployment sector, I can state without a doubt that the “charity” given out by governments in the form of unemployment benefit or DPB in many cases, is not received with thanks and it actually builds a growing resentment towards the giver in the getter.
  
  Even food parcels are often received with ingratitude and resentment especially if you happen to be a white person dispensing the parcel.
  
  That level of resentment is only exceeded by the sense of entitlement that many have.
  
  I heard an innterview on the radio where the woman kept referring to her brother’s “pay”. He was on a benefit FFS.
  
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  March 1, 2019 5:02pm
  - Howdy
    
    Tall Man
    and they pay income tax on their pay!
    after it’s come off of someone elses pay…….
    
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    March 1, 2019 7:04pm
secondcumming

Just gone off that *Shaun Plunket*….big time!

Lefty prick has just opened his show saying “he doesn’t want to see Police Officers walking around with Glocks on their hips”. Sounds like he’s referring to the situation in Christchurch.

Well why doesn’t he get off his fat arse and chase down a few armed crims himself?
What a c–t!!
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March 1, 2019 12:17pm
- Inandout
  
  Shaun has a greenie on at the moment. Sounds like Jimmy Two Mums.
  
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  March 1, 2019 12:43pm
Hugh Pavletich

NEW ZEALAND: Building consent performances must be reported accurately … with changing population bases taken in to account …

Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/03/links-1-march-2019/#comment-3301426

NEW ZEALAND: Building consents issued: January 2019 | Stats NZ

https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/building-consents-issued-january-2019

Key facts

•In January 2019, the seasonally adjusted number of new dwellings consented rose 17 percent, after rising 5.4 percent in December 2018.

•In the year ended January 2019, the actual number of new dwellings consented was 33,576, up 7.4 percent from the January 2018 year.

•The annual value of non-residential building work consented was $7.1 billion, up 7.0 percent from the January 2018 year.

… NOTE …

It is important to report the building consent figures adjusted for population … the building consents per 1000 population per annum measure … nationally, regionally and for specific urban areas.

Note Graphs 4 & 5 below …

http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/2017%20Information.html

When accurately adjusted for population, New Zealand is nowhere near the residential building intensity of the 1970’s … and too … the exceptionally higher performances of the Waimakariri and Selwyn Council areas have not been adequately reported either.

And too … Australia’s building consent performance is consistently higher than New Zealands … when the respective population bases are factored in.
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March 1, 2019 12:20pm
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  Access the latest information on the Australia’s housing markets …
  
  MacroBusiness – Australian Property Shares Dollar Economy
  
  https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/
  
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  March 1, 2019 2:33pm
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Sydney, Melbourne house price falls accelerated through February … Sydney Morning Herald
    
    https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/house-price-falls-in-sydney-and-melbourne-accelerated-through-february-20190301-p5111t.html
    
    House price drop extends beyond Sydney and Melbourne as credit crunch bites | Australia news | The Guardian
    
    https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/01/house-price-drop-extends-beyond-sydney-and-melbourne-as-credit-crunch-bites
    
    Property price downturn extending beyond Sydney and Melbourne – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
    
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-01/property-price-downturn-extending-beyond-sydney-and-melbourne/10860806
    
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    March 1, 2019 2:59pm
    - starboard
      
      Reported for whoring
      
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      March 1, 2019 4:24pm
DigNap15

Sean Plunket is giving James Shaw a hard time on Magic Radio now.
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March 1, 2019 12:39pm
Inandout

Jimmy Two Mums gives Jacinda a 9 out of 10 for performance. What a crawling shit.
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March 1, 2019 12:58pm
- Longknives
  
  Ooh Labour won’t like that.
  He should have given her a 10/10!
  Seriously- Have you ever tried to criticise Ardern (or even suggested she has made a mistake) around hardcore Labour people? They go ballistic like you have insulted their prophet or something….
  
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  March 1, 2019 1:02pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    I work with a few ‘red flags’ They go apeshit, then start with the insults. I just smile – then they know I trolled them! Ha!
    
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    March 1, 2019 2:48pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Maybe she proxy ordered Jimmy a few lawnmowers?
  
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  March 1, 2019 2:46pm
stoptheboats

Arrow Construction still advertising for staff on their website!!!

WHY WORK AT ARROW?

If you’re looking for a great place to work, where initiative and innovation have no road blocks, and team work and culture are everything, we would love to talk to you!
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March 1, 2019 1:03pm
- secondcumming
  
  I hear the Chows are looking to take it over.
  
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  March 1, 2019 1:41pm
  - rangitoto
    
    They were a customer and want their building finished.
    
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    March 1, 2019 3:48pm
- ex-golfer
  
  Don’t believe all the media hype.
  ARROW may have been placed into voluntary liquidation, but several of its biggest sites are operating as normal today albeit with a reduced workforce.
  
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  March 1, 2019 3:40pm
Prince

You have to wonder why this guy was convicted at all.
He was just doing what the Govt boasts it does – take from the rich and gamble it away.
Give this man a portfolio under this CoL, or a job in the Tax Advisory team.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/108093307/gambling-addict-who-ran-ponzi-scheme-gets-five-years-jail

“The judge said in the reports before the court Johnston felt the loss was not so bad because the victims were wealthy, which made the deception easy. She said Johnston had not benefited financially from the offending but it was concerning that he was minimising the effect on the victims because he saw them as rich.”
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March 1, 2019 1:09pm
DigNap15

Please help me what does
WOKE mean?
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March 1, 2019 1:28pm
- kowtow
  
  It’s a negro thing.
  But ironically it’s been culturally appropriated , bwa hahaha.
  
  “Urban Dictionary defines “woke” as being aware, and “knowing what’s going on in the community.” It also mentions its specific ties to racism and social injustice. To use “woke” accurately in a sentence, one that captures its connotations and nuances, you’d need to reference someone who is thinking for themselves, who sees the ways in which racism, sexism and classism affect how we lives our lives on a daily basis. ”
  
  https://www.bustle.com/articles/134893-what-does-woke-mean-theres-more-to-the-slang-term-than-you-think
  
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  March 1, 2019 1:37pm
MrTips

Oh dear, Hipkins cops one in the chook and finds out what its like when you piss off the Southland.
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March 1, 2019 1:53pm
- Inandout
  
  I love it when the Maori challenge thing is done with the stick and all the ‘officials’ stand like fucking statues, with all the reverence that the occasion demands. If only one could just say, ‘do we have to tolerate this crap?’ It would be a vote catcher for sure, and all the watchers would be agape.
  
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  March 1, 2019 3:06pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Smile, nod your head and walk past.
    
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    March 1, 2019 9:04pm
- DigNap15
  
  And Dave Cull is not going down without a fight re the Dunedin Polytech.
  Chris, just let thoee the ones in arrears go.
  Pay their bills, then close them.
  The other ones can provide the courses.
  
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  March 1, 2019 4:07pm
Johnboy

Here we go:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/110962064/french-boy-mother-bitten-by-dingoes-on-fraser-island-australia
Just what happens when you let all this pathetic greenie shit take over with dangerous feral animals.
Crocodile Dundee will be laughing in his grave at all the fuckwit’s being scoffed by Saltie’s!
Even Cinders mentor Helen got the shits over dealing with ferals! 🙂
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March 1, 2019 1:55pm
- Inandout
  
  How could the dingo bite through all that fat?
  
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  March 1, 2019 3:08pm
Muttonbird

Annual housing consents reach near 44-year high.

Well, finally a real government has the reigns and they are both building houses and providing the environment for house building.

This country had been very poorly served by the previous head-in-the-sand government so it’s great they got turfed out to make way for people who know how to get things done.

I note that the previous high in 1975 was also a time when a Labour government was getting things done.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12208505

Perhaps David Farrar could do a post on this great news!
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March 1, 2019 2:06pm
- Johnboy
  
  I seem to remember buying my first house in 1975 Mutton old chap. Cost $24000. $6000 from me. $14000 from the government and $4000 second mortgage. I thought I was made…..thank you socialists! 🙂
  By 1980 my 7.5% housing corp loan was at 19%….fuck you socialists! 🙂
  Anyway after I cleaned a lot of shithouses to get extra income I finally got the mortgage sorted!
  Moral of the story never trust a bunch of fuckin lefty tossers ever again!
  Nothing has changed Mutton! 🙂
  
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  March 1, 2019 2:22pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Similar for me post 1978. I refinanced and had a 1st mortgage at 14% and a 2nd at 22%. Nearly killed me, but I don’t give up easily. The Banks and the Building Societies were giving each other backhanded with my money, I’m sure of it.
    
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    March 1, 2019 2:43pm
    - Inandout
      
      Yes steve, my lawyer helped me get around the Muldoon interest rate freeze by using one of his obliging insurance clients and his trust money. I think we had 3 mortgages and steady jobs, but it was a struggle for a while. Then came the 23% interest onslaught, but we got through that.
      
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      March 1, 2019 3:14pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        And with ~15% inflation all three of you saw your mortages fall away to little more than pocket change within a few years. (wages were doubling roughly every 5 years, halving effective size of mortgage). It set you up for life and was the luckiest/best thing to ever happen to you.
        
        1st home buyers now will need to keep plugging away at their huge mortgages for about 30-40 years to get same halving, basically working until retirement given years it takes to even get a deposit together, for the same reduction in relative size of their mortgage.
        
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        March 1, 2019 4:52pm
      - Tall Man
        
        So you stupid non person of indifferent sexual identification, wtf is an urban who gives a fuck..
        
        Those of us who wroked for ourselves did not see that wage growth but we survived which is a lot more than a useless snowflake like you could ever do.
        
        In case you forgot
        
        ardern is a liar
        
        ardern is a media whore
        
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        March 1, 2019 9:01pm
  - stigie
    
    We have all suspected you use to work the night carts JB..?
    You will know what it’s like cleaning up after these bastards that are in government now !~
    
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    March 1, 2019 5:10pm
- Tall Man
  
  Before you shit your pants with excitement..
  
  “At the peak of the 1970s, approximately 13 new homes were consented per 1,000 New Zealanders compared with 7 per 1,000 in the year ended January 2019,” says Melissa McKenzie, the construction statistics manager.”
  
  It may also pay you to consider that the bulk of these project require a lead time well in excess of 12 months so theoretically, these could be put down to the efforts of the National Government but hey, why let the truth fuck your story up.
  
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  March 1, 2019 2:28pm
  - Muttonbird
    
    Ardern certainly has this country heading in the right direction.
    
    While John Key has Air NZ heading in the wrong direction! ?
    
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    March 1, 2019 2:32pm
    - Johnboy
      
      You are quite right there Mutton. All of us who have studied science realise that the only direction that gravity approves of is downwards and it looks like Cinders is heading that way. 🙂
      
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      March 1, 2019 2:37pm
      - Muttonbird
        
        She’s building houses, mate. That’s more than the last lot did – they created the housing crisis.
        
        History will not look kindly on the Key government.
        
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        March 1, 2019 2:40pm
    - Muttonbird
      
      And how about that utter screw-up, John Key? When he did try and achieve something he totally failed. The flag referendum will be his only legacy and when he got his ass kicked he flew out of the country like a big baby.
      
      Couldn’t even face the public after they shamed him!?
      
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      March 1, 2019 2:38pm
      - Johnboy
        
        It’s just so sad watching all you happy young lefty things that just recently were celebrating the victory of your Winston created government. All that hope that the toothy one would inspire the nation to shrug off the shackels of capitalism and create a bright new “Fair” society. How sad. All she has created is her new $1m house and a legacy of failure Mutton. Still once we ship her off to the UN where she can send rousing speeches to raise the hearts of all you budding como fuckwits and get a proper government back again that understands how the economy actually works all will be well. We shall look after you all and send almost none of you off to the gulags of South Auckland old chap! 🙂
        
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        March 1, 2019 2:55pm
      - BeaB
        
        Liar.
        
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        March 1, 2019 2:56pm
      - starboard
        
        ..After 9 long years..yadda yadda
        
        Err..JK left the building long time ago buddy boy. Do keep up.
        
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        March 1, 2019 4:28pm
      - Muttonbird
        
        Well, here’s the headline:
        
        Air NZ’s golden run comes to an end with first half earnings drop
        
        This coincided with John Key joining them so yeah, he might not be the business genius he was cracked up to be.
        
        He was only a money trader after all.
        
        Just hope Jacinda can save the country from the worst of the damage Key and English did.
        
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        March 1, 2019 4:59pm
      - starboard
        
        What a muppet.
        
        “Its JK’s fault..’ffrrtt’..”he joined AirNZ about then”.. ‘faarrtt’..” “told ya so.faarrtt blah blah “…
        
        You absolute plonker.
        
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        March 1, 2019 7:06pm
    - Tall Man
      
      I warned you not to shit your pants in excitement but you just couldn’t help yourself could you stinky?
      
      “This lot building houses”…41. 10,000 over the next ten years..that’s only 990,000 less than they promised.
      
      Poor old Air NZ, couldn’t buck the trend but I just can’t figure out how Sir John Key managed to fuck up the whole industry world wide.
      
      I know he’s pretty good but surely he can’t take all the credit.
      
      https://thepointsguy.com/news/2019-struggling-airlines/
      
      Ah yes, the increased fuel costs…nothing to do with ardern the liar of course is it and do you know why…because she’s so fucking useless she can’t do anythinng except…..
      
      she’s a really good liar
      
      a really really good liar
      
      ardern is a liar
      
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      March 1, 2019 5:31pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    and in the 1970s the work involved in building a house was probably half to a third what it is today.
    
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    March 1, 2019 4:41pm
- Swifty
  
  Consents does not equal builds completed.
  
  I wonder, too, the degree of chilling effect on house construction a CGT will have?
  
  After all, it’s the lefties who have said for years ‘if you want less of something, you tax it.’
  
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  March 1, 2019 2:36pm
- ex-golfer
  
  Congratulations Muttonhead on recognising the wonderful achievements of the capitalist free market leading to so much private property development.
  Great to see you praising capitalism.
  Are you feeling slightly sick? Confused? Unsure of where you stand?
  
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  March 1, 2019 3:35pm
- rangitoto
  
  Looks like not too many want Taxinda’s hovels:
  
  https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/383723/wanaka-kiwibuild-homes-facing-tough-competition-to-be-sold
  
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  March 1, 2019 7:28pm
oob

Momo Ardern and Lees-Galloway have been pandering to the Unions:

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/383564/govt-resumes-regular-meetings-with-unions

I proposed yesterday that the next government should introduce legislation to automatically double the sentence if a criminal is associated with an organised criminal organisation such as a gang.

The definition of “criminal organisation” should be expanded to include Unions, and the Labour and Green political parties.

Let “Labour Camps for Labour Voters!” be the battle cry of the next election. It’s time for these anti-Kiwi scum to contribute to our society, for once in their God-forsaken lives.
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March 1, 2019 2:07pm
- Johnboy
  
  And here was me thinking all labour voters were a little bit camp already. 🙂
  
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  March 1, 2019 2:34pm
  - sooty
    
    Must be their upbringing, something to do with the camps or their people are camp!
    
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    March 1, 2019 5:07pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Damp?
    
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    March 1, 2019 10:12pm
cmm

It appears that the open secrets about Michael Jackson are now leaking out in a #metoo-like tsunami.

We all knew he was a sick bastard, but what is surely worse are those enablers that surrounded him.

His house keeper and doctor; parents who handed over their kids for exploitation.

They should have been the gate-keepers/circuit-breakers but just exploited both sides for their own advancement.
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March 1, 2019 2:12pm
- Inandout
  
  cmm, only a blinkered fool would deny MJ was a serial pedo. Kids sleeping on his bedroom floor, but not in the bed; what a fuckin’ liberty.
  
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  March 1, 2019 3:18pm
Manolo

The vile AOC caught. Do as I say..
https://michaelsavage.com/occasional-cortex-lashes-out-after-pics-surface-of-hamburger-dinner-slams-stalkerish-restaurant-photog/

Less than a week after raging against cow farts and urging Americans to stop eating so many hamburgers, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was caught oozing with hypocrisy.
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March 1, 2019 2:49pm
- Inandout
  
  AOC comes from the same stable as Jacinda, hypocritical liars.
  
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  March 1, 2019 3:20pm
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Same mold. Lying and bullshitting is a pre-requisite for Socialists
    
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    March 1, 2019 3:52pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    She’s hugely smarter than Ardern, though very misguided.
    
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    March 1, 2019 4:40pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Really? I have not seen any evidence of that at all.
      
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      March 1, 2019 5:15pm
- Nermal
  
  Socialism is for the people, not the socialists
  
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  March 1, 2019 4:11pm
  - sooty
    
    One rule for you.
    Another rule for me.
    And you are the serf!
    
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    March 1, 2019 5:02pm
- Muttonbird
  
  What a lame attack. She didn’t order the hamburger. She also didn’t call for hamburgers to be banned although that seems to be what her critics are implying. I’m assuming the guys din’t in fact have a hamburger for breakfast and lunch that day?
  
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  March 1, 2019 4:54pm
  - Swifty
    
    ‘What a lame attack.’
    
    Now you know how we feel when you and ztev show up.
    
    And the terrible thing is you guys are getting worse, not better, at it.
    
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    March 1, 2019 5:00pm
    - nasska
      
      They had nine long years of deranged sniping at John Key & lack the mental agility to switch to defending their gormless PriNZess.
      
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      March 1, 2019 5:07pm
      - Muttonbird
        
        Umm. She’s doing fine.
        
        40% preferred PM despite making significant social changes towards a fairer society. I know that’s something you greedy, white grave-dodgers hate, yet she’s still popular.
        
        Jacinda Ardern doesn’t need defending.
        
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        March 1, 2019 5:29pm
      - Swifty
        
        Define a fair society.
        
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        March 1, 2019 5:32pm
      - Tall Man
        
        She certainly needs something..
        
        a brain, nah she’s already fucked one brain.
        
        Perhaps she needs an honesty transplant..she’s sure lacking on that but hey, where in the labour party could we find a donor as dishonesty seems to be a trait within the ranks..
        
        Oh well, we’ll just have to put up with the liar until 2020..
        
        ardern is a liar
        
        New Zealand now knows this.
        
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        March 1, 2019 5:34pm
  - Tall Man
    
    “A lame attack”..
    
    That’s the best you’ve got?
    
    No wonder people think you’re a simpleton.
    
    It’s a really good attack and it shows both her ignorance and hypocrisy.
    
    Almost as bad as jimmy 2 mums complaining about “emissions” then outflying everyone else in the entire government. Average of $300K per year…awesome…what a fuckwit but hey, that’s de rigueur for the left now, stupidity and hypocrisy.
    
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    March 1, 2019 5:19pm
MH

The PM has announced to the Parliamentary Gallery that her name has been changed to Adjourn.
Meeting over.
“Toi-lets do this”
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March 1, 2019 3:40pm
- Tall Man
  
  Yeah but was she telling the truth because you do know that adern is a liar…
  
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  March 1, 2019 5:11pm
Ross12

No wonder all those immigrants are pouring into France
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/macron-targets-benefits-system-that-gives-up-to-7-000-a-month-57t0kl0bg
(Sorry I don’t have sub for the Times to get behind the paywall)
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March 1, 2019 4:29pm
- Tall Man
  
  Have a wee peak at the total benefit payable to a family with 4+ kids and the max housing benefit plus an allowance for a couple of ADHD kids plus the resale value of the ritalin.
  
  It isn’t $10K (rough equivalent of 7k Euro) but adern the liar collects a benefit of $10 k per week. That’s the real rip off.
  
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  March 1, 2019 5:10pm
sooty

What magicial things did the COL release today?
After all they did have this week off!
They could have all burned kersene and gone on a junket after leaving someone to mind the shop!
JacinDUH would have done nicely, with her her work experience!
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March 1, 2019 4:59pm
lifesgood

Warning fellow KBers. There is a bloody speed/red light camera at Mechanics Bay beside Mekano Restaurant pointed at the traffic lights. More revenue gathering. I’ve never heard of anyone being killed there.
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March 1, 2019 5:51pm
greybeard

NZ is miles ahead of Bangladesh.
Ross Taylor ( supposedly one of NZ’s best batsmen ) comes to the crease on a hot afternoon, lasts 19 balls and goes for 4 runs.
Yeah right: he had no intention of batting for long, just did a token innings then back to the pavilion for a cold beer.
Leave the hard work to the others.

What a pouting, spoilt-brat prick.
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March 1, 2019 6:03pm
- Muttonbird
  
  It’s because he’s Samoan, isn’t it.
  
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  March 1, 2019 6:11pm
  - Jack5
    
    Taylor (full name: Luteru Ross Poutoa Lote Taylor) has a Samoan mum and a New Zealander dad.
    
    Seems like a decent, hard working sportsman to me, and a very good batsman.
    
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    March 1, 2019 8:51pm
  - Tall Man
    
    You’re a hateful little fucker aren’t you?
    
    Small penis as well I suspect.
    
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    March 1, 2019 8:55pm
- Happychappy
  
  By the sound of your post it is you that is a pouting, spoilt-brat prick. What a absolute tosser you are.
  
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  March 1, 2019 6:38pm
  - Viking2
    
    😆 😆 😆
    
    Oh dear.
    The irony.
    
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    March 2, 2019 5:11am
Monique Watson

WTF

How is it March and Sroubek still hadn’t been issued with deportation orders?

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/110971848/czech-drug-smuggler-karel-sroubek-lodges-new-residency-application-immigration-new-zealand-confirms

Oh that’s right. The Government lies by omission and it took the reluctant release of this letter by OIA to get the truth out. Even Sroubek’s lawyer was in the dark until last Friday.

And that is why we haven’t heard much lately from the High Priestess of the Most Open and Transparent Government ever.
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March 1, 2019 6:33pm
- Happychappy
  
  Monique this give National the chance to attack the Coalition again over this next week in Question Time.
  
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  March 1, 2019 6:41pm
- nasska
  
  Sroubek’s residency application is one I support. So long as he stays in NZ he’ll act like the Sword of Damocles hanging over the lying bastards of this administration.
  
  Cinders has to get him out of gaol & onto a plane before he gets a chance to open his trap & take the lot of them down with him.
  
  We should be crowd funding his appeal if he’s short of the readies!
  
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  March 1, 2019 6:50pm
  - Swifty
    
    Long may the albatross stay around Cindy’s neck.
    
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    March 1, 2019 6:56pm
  - holysheet
    
    There you go again. Giving the silly little girlie credit to actually see this Sroubec thinky as a problem. Lawnmowers of the type he supplies are hard to come by.
    
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    March 1, 2019 8:11pm
- Tall Man
  
  FFS, look at the people involved in this. What a pathetic bunch of tossers. Much like the lefty dorks on here…you know who you are eh muttonturd….
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:53pm
  - Viking2
    
    Muttonbird
    
    Muttonbirds are species of petrel, especially shearwaters, whose young are harvested for food and other uses before they fledge in Australia and New Zealand. The English term “muttonbird” originally emerged among settlers on Norfolk Island as the strong taste and fattiness of these birds’ meat was likened to mutton. The Māori name for the birds, tītī, is also widely used in New Zealand.
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    The short-tailed shearwater or slender-billed shearwater, also called yolla or moonbird, and commonly known as the muttonbird in Australia, is the most abundant seabird species in Australian waters, and is one of the few Australian native birds in which the chicks are commercially harvested. Wikipedia
    
    Gays snubbed in mutton bird rules – NZ Herald
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3601147
    
    By ANNE BESTON Excluding gay and de facto partners from the annual mutton bird harvest could breach human rights law, says the Ministry of Jus.
    
    Excluding gay and de facto partners from the annual mutton bird harvest could breach human rights law, says the Ministry of Justice.
    
    Mutton birds, also called sooty shearwaters but known by Maori as “titi”, are seabirds considered a great delicacy by Maori.
    
    The yearly harvest of juveniles is a prized tradition and one of the few culls of native species allowed.
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3601147
    
    Muttonbird clearly described.
    A fatty little juvenile liked by gays.
    
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    March 2, 2019 5:17am
Shaun the Sheep

I’ve just seen an ad on the telly where a woman earnestly insists that others on screen ‘not lose sight of their moral compass’.
NFOCL when the advertiser was revealed as Married at First Sight.

Someone who involves themselves in getting married for tv exposure has a moral compass?
Who knew.
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March 1, 2019 6:46pm
Batman

EXCLUSIVE: The White House chief of staff at the time, John Kelly, wrote a contemporaneous internal memo about how he had been “ordered” by the president to give Jared Kushner the top-secret clearance. w/@maggieNYT @adamgoldmanNYT @anniekarni https://t.co/cDkJjvVzgh
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Another Trump lie bites the dust
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March 1, 2019 7:37pm
nasska

Pretend to be a skilled, professional pharmacist by taking half an hour to put some tablets in a fucking bottle!
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March 1, 2019 7:49pm
- Tall Man
  
  Frustrating isn’t it…..
  
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  March 1, 2019 8:49pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Nah, it’s “fustrating.”
    
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