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July 17, 2020 11:00am by Kokila Patel

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Maggy Wassilieff

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No drugs, No hugs, No thugs.
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July 17, 2020 11:03am
Meatloaf

That looks like the real difference. Jacinda has the charm, the nice talking, the warmth etc. While that may be what a child needs, what the NZ worker needs is work, this means business confidence.

I have far more business confidence in Judith. Already after less than 48 hours she has talked about getting rid of the RMA and working out each MPs portfolios. Getting rid of the RMA means we can produce things at a cheaper price. The less it costs us to produce the more we export and the less we import.
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July 17, 2020 11:09am
- JackRabbit
  
  “That looks like the real difference. Jacinda has the charm, the nice talking, the warmth etc.”
  
  Meatloaf, scratch the warmth please. She is cold-hearted and calculating.
  
  There is no “nice” talking. Whats nice about being told she is spending your future, and that of your children, grand children and great grand children?
  
  And she is only charming to those that are shallow and easily aroused by cheap Turkish Delight platitudes. She has all the charm of a Venus fly trap. Modern day White Witch.
  
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  July 17, 2020 1:03pm
  - Unity
    
    I don’t think she has even congratulated Judith on her win. I would have thought she could have swallowed whatever and done the decent polite thing. I remember Todd congratulating Jacinda on her handling of the pandemic, without any problem whatsoever. Just goes to show the true person.
    
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    July 17, 2020 1:29pm
- Close Hen Counters
  
  She has the warmth of a freezer
  
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  July 17, 2020 2:34pm
RockyJ

That is the choice in a nutshell.
In fact one of the most unkind leadership styles is to promise cuddles and then deliver kicks. Jacinda has kicked in turn farmers, oil and gas workers, tenants, landlords, law abiding citizens, patients, the list goes on.
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July 17, 2020 11:09am
- EuropeanCanon
  
  Yes indeed. Because the cuddles are nothing but cover for evil.
  
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  July 17, 2020 11:52am
  - JackRabbit
    
    The cuddle is actually a crocodile death roll.
    
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    July 17, 2020 1:34pm
Sir Cullen's Sidekick

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But Sheeple of this country prefer hugs. So no chance for aunty Judith. Sorry to burst your bubble Ms Patel.
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July 17, 2020 11:13am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Hugs are so 2019 SCS. Jacinda is behind the times, once again. She won’t be having a good weekend, I suggest.
  
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  July 17, 2020 11:30am
- Libertysparks
  
  No totally. My 23 year old son, who leans left on most issues texted me yesterday to announce he is voting Judith Collins. He has been suitably impressed by her initial interviews and sees a sea of difference between Ms Collins and Miss Ardern. Maybe others in the younger generation are noting the difference between smiles and substance
  
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  July 17, 2020 12:56pm
  - Sir Cullen's Sidekick
    
    Bro – My friends, who are well educated and earn five figure salaries are voting Labour. You know what the reason is? – “She is beautiful and kind”. When I told them Cindy will slap high income tax, their answer is they don’t mind paying for a kind beautiful person who saved lives. How I am still alive after hearing this BS is purely by God’s grace.
    
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    July 17, 2020 2:45pm
    - sharont
      
      They’re winding you up. They’ll think of their pockets when it comes to voting.
      
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      July 17, 2020 4:34pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  So you prefer hugz to competence.
  
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  July 17, 2020 3:19pm
the deity formerly known as nigel6888

Yup. Heard it on Plunket yesterday

“No drugs, No thugs, No hugs.” Vote Judith.
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July 17, 2020 11:17am
krazykiwi

Sadly there are a huge number of NZers who feel they have been ‘saved’ by Ardern and will vote for her without any knowledge of what competence is, nor its value. This unthinking allegiance will be the source of countless psychology/sociology papers written from the ashes.
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July 17, 2020 11:18am
- Sir Cullen's Sidekick
  
  Yup bro. She saved 85,000 lives. She is bigger than GOD. Let’s keep movin.
  
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  July 17, 2020 11:20am
  - Frank the tank
    
    Dunno – every peasant like me that has to commute over the Nippon Clippon every day will be welcoming a second harbour crossing announcement. In contrast Robbo is choosing to piss it up against the wall.
    
    If Cindy is made to look like a naive little girl in the debates then the stardust will fade. NZ has a soft spot for strong leaders – look at the reverence we still have for piggy Muldoon.
    
    Then again the moderator will probably be someone woke like Jack Lame…….
    
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    July 17, 2020 11:37am
    - R
      
      look at the reverence we still have for piggy Muldoon.
      
      You’re taking the piss, right? Oh and Labour got more votes than National in 1978 and 1981, so voters clearly loved Bill Rowling lol
      
      https://newzealand.fandom.com/wiki/Bill_Rowling
      
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      July 17, 2020 12:37pm
    - Nermal
      
      The harbour bridge is clogged every day. National’s solution? Build a second crossing. Labour & Green’s solution? Build a cycle track & walkway. Sums it all up for me
      
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      July 17, 2020 8:48pm
      - info@cruzpro.com
        
        Did you see the projected cost of that cycleway? $360 million! And that is the initial estimate. Just how much do you think it’s actually going to end up costing? How many people will use it every year?
        
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        July 17, 2020 9:48pm
- Garbageman
  
  I have an employee that likes Ardern i asked him why he said its because he heard her talk once and she sounded nice i then asked him what he thought of race based surgery lists and if he thought apartheid belonged in NZ his response “i guess if they need it sure” this is the level of i dont really give a fk that we are dealing with, admittedly i was once the same way and i can understand why people switch off when politics is mentioned but that sort of low information thinking really concerns me when our very future is on the line
  
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  July 17, 2020 11:36am
  - Flossie
    
    But is that employee likely to bother voting?
    
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    July 17, 2020 12:13pm
  - septic skeptic
    
    That’s democracy for you unfortunately. We are stuck with it unless we go to some sort of knowledge test to qualify to vote.
    
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    July 17, 2020 12:15pm
  - Mr_Blobby
    
    Is that Ex employee.
    
    I would be worried, they would take something and then justify it because they needed it.
    
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    July 17, 2020 1:17pm
    - Garbageman
      
      No other than his political leanings he’s a valued employee of many years and a top bloke but i do like to push his buttons on occasion like when i gave him a MAGA (the Ardern variety) sticker for his car, that didn’t last long under his welding torch but i still have heaps left so the fun has just begun
      FYI i think you might still be able to get them free from Holysheet @ YSB if you want to join the merriment
      
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      July 17, 2020 1:50pm
      - Harriet
        
        He’s voting for a living.
        
        I don’t know what you pay him but that’s largely irrelevant —- anyway he hears things like ‘WFF payments and childcare rebates’ from the government, media and his wife, and that is what he then does – he votes for it. He has no incentive to work for that money, and voting to have your taxes reduced, as you are paying for it.
        
        National need to go back to promoting opportunity instead of outcomes.
        
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        July 17, 2020 3:45pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Hey Cindy – just for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy6Rbzaxb0M
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July 17, 2020 11:24am
Adolf Fiinkensein

Wot?

I thought Ms Collins looked very cuddly indeed in the pic on the front page of the Australian,
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July 17, 2020 11:45am
C J Southern

Love it.

Also loved a recent headline to the effect of “Move over Jacinta – the grownups are taking over”.
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July 17, 2020 11:49am
tom hunter

Nope. National Party vote 2002-2005 and 2011-2017 (ACT in 2008) and electoral vote National all that time because the MP’s not bad and nobody else is close enough in votes to matter.

But after nine years of Key and company, and having observed the heart of the party in the form of retired MP Wayne Mapp’s comments on Bowalley Road, The Standard, No Minister, and here, I’m done with National.

Party vote ACT from here and perhaps even the electoral vote just for the hell of it. Sure, I doubt they’ll make headway even in coalition with National because unlike Winston First they don’t know how to negotiate and the condescending squishies of National simply wave them off.

But it’ll be better than feeling like I’ve been had.
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July 17, 2020 11:52am
bruceavon

David will be in the middle of this, advising on the way to go, but it’s a fine line between holding Ardern to account and straight out attacking her. My guess is aggressive personal attacks will backfire big time. Bloody hard with such a short time to go. Judith needs to be in the news all the time but she needs to engage with Ardern. And she seems to be ignoring her.
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July 17, 2020 11:59am
- septic skeptic
  
  You won’t convince the electorate that the PTPM is an incompetent show pony leading a rabble that couldn’t organize a pay cut in a parliament if you are too scared to come out and say it.
  
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  July 17, 2020 12:20pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I agree…
    Some folks need to have the bleeding obvious spelt out for them in a memorable little catch phrase.
    
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    July 17, 2020 12:48pm
  - bruceavon
    
    Yes agree. My point is you can say “incompetent” but you could never say “show pony”. Too personal. Would thousands of women off. And lose votes.
    
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    July 17, 2020 12:55pm
    - septic skeptic
      
      I’m not convinced. Whatever you might think of him, Trump must be rated as the best campaigner ever given that he won against the polls, MSM and a substantial chunk of his own party. “Crooked Hilary” worked just fine for him.
      
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      July 17, 2020 1:34pm
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  Probably scared to face Collins because it would make Arden look so bad.
  
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  July 17, 2020 1:06pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Psychology. Judith is doing it for a reason. Sooner or later Cindy will snap and have a thermonuclear meltdown because she is not being noticed
  
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  July 17, 2020 3:11pm
Black with a Vengeance

Welcome to the…

…Paunch and Judy show.
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July 17, 2020 1:36pm
- Harriet
  
  Snowflake and the dwarf are going to perform as Greta Thunberg and Muhamad Ali shortly. In their final act.
  
  And then the media will pronounce them both dead. Forever and ever. The end.
  
  There is a book in the Old Testament called Judith. 😎
  
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  July 17, 2020 4:02pm
Philview

Remember last year when the UK Conservatives were wiped out at the European elections and Brexit was looking to be dead. The Conservatives chose a new leader and then big election win followed. It doesn’t take a lot to turn things around and I have a feeling Judith is going to tap into something. I have just noticed a couple of people already liking Judith’s choosing people based on ability philosophy.
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July 17, 2020 1:58pm
- Harriet
  
  Judith isn’t tapping into their insecurities, I think instead most swing voters – of any demographic or identity group as everyone has their house on this – would know Judith’s past and see that as security in what are very uncertain times. And she is leading National, known to be – recently sound – with the economy and social matters. Stability correlates with prosperity.
  
  No covid is one thing – but no job, no money and no hope is another thing altogether; benefits don’t pay bills — and that is what Judith may tap into. 😎
  
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  July 17, 2020 4:42pm
  - IC5000
    
    > but no job, no money and no hope is another thing altogether; benefits don’t pay bill
    
    I thought it was an article of the faith amongst the right that the govnt couldn’t create jobs so what exactly is the plan? You could cut taxes but in the face of declining demand this really does fuck all. National can’t complain about Labour racking up more debt through social spending yet allocate 31 billion to roads. Cutting benefits and public spending while engaging in tax cuts would alienate large numbers of voters. I can’t see how this incentivises anyone on the centre to vote National at all.
    
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    July 17, 2020 7:22pm
Im Right

I’m just pleased the head to head debates will not now be overshadowed with the screaming skulls of the feminatzi, and far left drop kicks in general, that a man (Bridges/Muller) was bullying a poor woman….now let the debates begin!
Any fake tears or looking rattled/ being upset by Arden in any debate will be taken off the spin doctors tactical list.
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July 17, 2020 2:53pm
453mm

Great meme, but I would have chosen a tilty-head pouty-face Ardern pic, not a constipated-orator Ardern pic.
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July 17, 2020 3:28pm
pb

Cuddles is too benign. Her’s is the cuddle of a smiling tyrant.

Reminded of Patrick White’s cuddling miss Docker in “A Cheery Soul”.

Or Lewis: “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive… those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
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July 17, 2020 4:35pm
sharont

They’re winding you up. They’ll think of their pockets when it comes to voting.
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July 17, 2020 4:39pm
Fisiani

Labour promised you road, rail and houses. You fell for it.
They promised to not sell state houses. They sold $30,000,000 of state houses. You fell for it
They promised to reduce child poverty, it has risen. You fell for it.
They will promise and promise again. Will you fall for it yet again?
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July 17, 2020 5:13pm
chukar

It’s about trust.

We all know both sides promises are dependent on whoever the Coalition partner is.
A side benefit of MMP.

A built in get out of jail card.

Do you believe that the the new proposed new roading infrastructure is affordable or even doable?

Or do you really think the RMA will be binned ?

Pike river , kiwi build

The list goes on.

Do you trust these people?

Not me
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July 17, 2020 8:45pm
BlairM

The fact you think it’s brave is the problem.
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