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Mr_Blobby

It is to easy to poke fun at this governments failures, the list is just to long.

So I thought I would look at the successes of the evil tyrant.

Higher taxes, more regulations, fewer freedoms.

Now the poll numbers might say one thing, but I suspect that the undecided vote has increased add in the margin of error and you have a section of the voters waiting for the inevitable lolly scramble, what’s in it for me.

Expect the mother load of all election bribes.
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April 9, 2022 8:03am
- Bill Felt
  
  Student debt forgiveness coming right up!
  
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  April 9, 2022 8:46am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  A Socialist always promises ‘free shit’ but rarely deliver
  
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  April 9, 2022 8:50am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    And below average voters that socialists prey on are too thick to realise that they will pay an enormous price in future for the ‘free shit’ See Venezuela, Argentina, Greece….
    
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    April 9, 2022 12:08pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Try and explain that to them. They have no answers so call you ‘racist’ or ‘rich pricks’
      ‘Venezuela, Argentina, Greece’ they would not be able to find them on a map
      
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      April 9, 2022 1:57pm
- kevn
  
  @Mr B… Plastic bags. Now we buy the bin liners instead.
  Fruit stickers? Still waiting.
  Everything has been rubbish.
  
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  April 9, 2022 8:53am
- Prince
  
  ‘Free’ Dental Care for Beneficiaries.
  
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  April 9, 2022 8:58am
- jgw739
  
  I’m picking an income tax bribe for the lower income. Lumped on elsewhere of course.
  To be inflated away by 2025 anyway.
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:10am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Her measure of success is winning elections, not what is good for the country. John Key was the same. Bill English was not. Unfortunately there may be a lesson there.
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:31am
  - Harriet
    
    Bill English did offer $20wff back at the election – if you vote for National.
    
    Her measure of success is winning……..Boag and Townsend were the same.
    
    Obscurity is the lesson.
    
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    April 9, 2022 11:17am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Reduction of transport pollution during lockdown. That’s gotta count for something, surely.
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:40am
- lastmanstanding
  
  Regarding the Roy Morgan Poll IMHO if Winston gets 5% he will go with Labour/Greens/Maori Party. They will be so grateful he will get Deputy PM and Foreign Affairs. It will be his last swan song. He will be knighted at the end of the term. This way he gets to stick it to the Nats (remember 1993) and sticks it to Seymour.
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:47am
  - I remember when
    
    Te Pati Maori will have a real problem if they become the decider of who wins the next election.
    They are a party of protest which means they lose their voters if they become part of the government.
    Their hope would be for a minority government, which would mean greater power to influence without being part of the government.
    
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    April 9, 2022 10:42am
    - dubya
      
      Yeah, nah. Their hope will be the heated and cooled leather seats of a ministerial BMW. Modified for extended head height to accommodate wearing a cowboy hat.
      
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      April 9, 2022 11:04am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      I imagine the the Labour Maori Causus detests them. Judean Peoples Front vs Peoples Front of Judea.
      
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      April 9, 2022 12:10pm
Suze Wainwright

At last rugby league is getting serious – the Warriors are being investigated by the NRL after one of them called a North Queensland Cowboy a faggot during the match last night
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April 9, 2022 8:06am
- Maggie Pie
  
  😀
  
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  April 9, 2022 8:52am
- pdm
  
  Hell they never played club rugby or club cricket in the 1960’s.
  
  `faggot’ was probably being kind in those days.
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:11am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Yeah, well I hate to think what would happen if he’d called them a binary male identifier…
    
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    April 9, 2022 10:01am
Mobile Michael

It is nine years this morning since Baroness Thatcher died, I think the current New Zealand Leader of the Opposition should ponder this quote from the Iron Lady:

“If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and achieve nothing.”
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April 9, 2022 8:06am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.”
  “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
  The Iron Lady.
  
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  April 9, 2022 8:56am
  - mikenmildagain
    
    The first one reminds me of a Churchill quote:
    “All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.”
    
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    April 9, 2022 9:05am
    - alloytoo
      
      Americans, always good with a sardonic quote.
      
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      April 9, 2022 10:38am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Did she say that the problem with being middle of the road is that you tend to get hit by cars going in both directions..?
    
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    April 9, 2022 9:25am
- Prince
  
  Recall the hatred from the left when she died.
  Under today’s rules that must be misogyny.
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:00am
  - peterwn
    
    But she was allegedly so ‘evil’ that the hatred was justified.
    
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    April 9, 2022 10:09am
    - Prince
      
      Reading today’s Stuff piece, doesn’t matter what she did. Any criticism is misogyny.
      
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      April 9, 2022 11:29am
      - Matt Long
        
        If you don’t vote Labour, you ain’t female.
        
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        April 9, 2022 7:48pm
  - Mobile Michael
    
    Nah, they were either too young to remember how bad the Winter of Discontent was, or too dumb to realise how economics work. Britain is the world power it is thanks to Thatcher stopping the decline.
    
    Remember when Helen Clark met Gordon Brown in Downing Street? Clark got 30 minutes with the British PM. The next visitor was Baroness Thatcher – she got 2 hours and lunch.
    
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    April 9, 2022 11:01am
  - 3-coil
    
    Prince – yes indeed, I recall Willie Jackson’s “ding, dong” (the witch is dead) taunt broadcast when Baroness Thatcher died. And his embarrassingly fake justification that Maori would never disrespect the dead, it was a celebration of the Iron Lady’s stature/life, mana…etc etc
    
    Incidentally, Willie’s mum has died in just the last few days. I bet silly Willie didn’t warble a “ding dong” at her poroporoaki. I’m pretty sure he would’ve been pissed off if anybody else did too.
    
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    April 9, 2022 11:24am
- MCōs
  
  Her time as as PM coincided in NZ with Rogernomics & Ruthanasia and an era of austerity culminating in the Employment Contracts Act 1991.
  Union membership dropped by half and surprise, surprise here we are twenty years later talking about a drain of workers offshore to better paid positions elsewhere
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:32am
  - Mike
    
    Especially the drain to the more highly regulated and unionisex Australian labour market.
    
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    April 9, 2022 10:17am
    - Matt Long
      
      Yes it must be unions that have produced the wealth that enables Australia to pay higher wages. Nothing to do with mining or industry.
      
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      April 9, 2022 11:08am
  - I remember when
    
    References to Rogernomics nowadays, always seem to fail to mention the consequences for NZ trade with the loss of preferential export to the UK.
    
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    April 9, 2022 11:01am
    - Jack5
      
      You can’t legislate a country into a high-wage, prosperous nation.
      
      Douglas and Labour were probably the most sensible government this country has ever had.
      
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      April 9, 2022 12:55pm
  - Harriet
    
    I agree Mcos with the maori macron.
    
    Union membership dropped by half — and then the employers did exactly the same — kept all the union ideology but without the penalty rates.
    
    Everybody still got paid the same no matter how much work they did — just like under unionism.
    
    Unionism and business in NZ is about equal really. They achieve fuck all other than debt and useless politicians. 😎
    
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    April 9, 2022 11:28am
  - lastmanstanding
    
    IMHO the 1984/87 Government was the best government this country has ever had. Under the Terrific Trio Douglas Prebble Caygill they freed up the economy slashed poor government spending and introduced good governance and fiscal responsibility.
    
    All governments since have been a pale shadow. For the past 35 years we have had poor governance taxes wasted on a massive scale a loss of individual responsibility a loss of individual freedoms.
    Again IMHO the country and society has gone backwards.
    
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    April 9, 2022 11:50am
    - MCōs
      
      Inflation over that period was up around 14-15%
      Unemployment increased all through that period up to ~10% in 1990
      https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Unemployment-rate-New-Zealand-1970-2004_fig2_27814262
      
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      April 9, 2022 8:47pm
Vory v zakone

The total number of deaths associated with the Covid-19 vaccines in the CDC’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is 26,396 which is nearly triple the 9,619 deaths associated with all other vaccines combined over the last 32-years.

There have been a total of 1,205,753 reports associated with the covid-19 vaccines in VAERS including:

•145,781 hospitalizations
•125,791 urgent care
•48,852 permanently disabled
•41,320 severe allergic reactions
•37,579 myocarditis/pericarditis
•26,396 deaths
•14,949 bell’s palsy
•13,527 heart attacks
•13,224 shingles
•9,533 anaphylaxis
•6,256 thrombocytopenia
•4,423 miscarriages

The CDC claims that none of these deaths were caused by the Covid-19 vaccines, but their own data shows that 50 percent of deaths occur within 48-hours of getting vaccinated with a direct correlation between the number of deaths and the number of days after vaccination.

Plus there is other relevant data analysis on the site below.

https://kanekoa.substack.com/p/pfizers-covid-19-vaccine-documents?s=w
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April 9, 2022 8:08am
Yvette

“Co-governance”
Ardern’s Government and the media are telling a lie of omission.
References are made to John Key’s National Government signing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and so obliging us to co-governance.
Here are a couple of examples –

… The report [He Puapua] was an attempt to put forward options on how New Zealand could implement its commitment under the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP).
It was a commitment made under the previous National Government in 2010.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/03/29/luxon-rules-out-supporting-maori-co-governance-referendum-for-now/

… Paradoxically, the report was commissioned as a response to the former National-led Government signing New Zealand up in 2010 to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/07/united-nations-declaration-indigenous-rights-consultation-begins-in-wake-of-he-puapua-controversy.html

… In 2019, a government working group created a discussion document on options for Aotearoa to adapt to meet the obligations of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which New Zealand had signed up to.
https://www.teaomaori.news/christopher-luxon-nz-wants-one-system-not-two

In fact John Key’s National Government signed with qualifications.
The major one was that the Treaty of Waitangi is developed to serve New Zealand’s purposes and is the boundary to Declaration aspirations.
It is longer than can be reasonably quoted here –

National Govt to support UN rights declaration
Prime Minister John Key announced today the New Zealand Government has given its support to the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
20 April 2010

What is the significance of a United Nations declaration?
What is the nature of the New Zealand support for the Declaration?
What are the implications for Māori of the New Zealand Government’s support for the Declaration?
Does support for the Declaration change the Treaty settlements process?
Will Māori get a veto right on government decisions?
What does support mean for the review of the Foreshore and Seabed Act?
https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/national-govt-support-un-rights-declaration

Why have a “conversation” if the Government has already discussed their ideas with Maori, and all they have presented so far to non-Maori is a lie on the reasons why we are even having the “conversation”?
Is that the way to conduct a “conversation” on “co-governance” for (expletive or blasphemy of your choice)’s sake?
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April 9, 2022 8:11am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  ‘Lying by omission’ is what you are taught at communication school
  
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  April 9, 2022 8:59am
- Magnus Forteman
  
  UNDRIP seems to adequately sum up these declarations.
  
  And just declaring something don’t make it so.
  
  Given the caliber of gov’ts we’ve had, I’m starting to think something like a Fijian model of regime change might be needed. Fight undemocratic fire with fire?
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:36am
  - Mike
    
    There is an irony in advocating a ‘Fijian model’. The Fijian coups successfully overturned a democratic constitution that might have allowed the ethnic Indian citizens to outvote the ethnic Fijians. This dynamic has since changed, with the economically crippling exodus of so many Fijian Indians. But ‘Fiji for the Fijians’ is entrenched now.
    
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    April 9, 2022 10:22am
    - Magnus Forteman
      
      It was meant to be ironic, while hinting at the real question: how do we reign in the current gov’t? What real power do we as voters actually have?
      I’m beginning to wonder whether votes should be tied to passing a basic civics test, would make a lot more sense than being tied to race.
      But back to our system of “democracy” – the current mob’s carte blanche has not been good for NZ, no accountability to anyone including the media, how do we fix it?
      
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      April 9, 2022 1:32pm
- Harriet
  
  The rights of indigenous peoples don’t allow for apartheid style behavior of this scale – outside of land itself[private property for the most part] .
  
  ‘immature’ ‘unbecoming’ ‘ignorant’ ‘stupid’ is what comes to mind when government services etc. are going to be divided along race lines.
  
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  April 9, 2022 11:45am
- namron
  
  Thanks Yvette. Rereading the details of the Declaration should be compulsory for all Labour MPs, particularly jacinda.
  
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  April 9, 2022 11:55am
- David Garrett
  
  Yvette: You miss the point entirely. ACT vehemently opposed signing the UNDRIP because we could see where it would lead in the medium and longer term. It is hugely significant that the wily Helen Clark also saw the future, and had refused to sign up to it.
  
  Key went ahead and did it anyway. Rodney Hide – whose opinion of Key is less positive than mine – has opined that Key was never much concerned about things that would not negatively affect either him or his government for the next couple of years. In other words, he was a short term thinker. Maori by contrast have always been prepared to play the long game.
  
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  April 9, 2022 12:46pm
  - Jim
    
    Hi David, I certainly believe NZ’s economic and societal future is in trouble if this UNDRIP takes hold.
    But all KBers should take note that anyone who criticises our political leaders is now being described as a threat to national security. What happened to the BoRA?
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300561708/why-escalating-misogynistic-abuse-of-jacinda-ardern-is-a-national-security-issue
    
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    April 9, 2022 1:23pm
JimBobJoe

A mouldy smell is permeating NZ politics…. A crypt door has opened and out is crawling the festering, malignant corpse of a want to be Churchill figure…

Winston is the beast shuffling back on to the Political stage….

Jacinda and her political staff must be over the moon to see NZ First on 4%. Winstons hatred of National means the Jacinda Disaster could be continued for another term…

If Labour get a third term this country is going full South American disaster zone…
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April 9, 2022 8:11am
- rockape
  
  I suspect that any gain for NZ First will come from Labour. Those who support the right of politics will never trust Winston Peters again. NZ First may become a parking spot for voters who are upset with Labours failures but could never bring themselves to vote National. The Greens too may get support from that thinking. Labour ,NZ First and Greens getting 42% between them won’t bother me.
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:01am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Act shat the bed with regard to their cold shouldering of anti mandate protestors and lack of mettel in pushing back against authoritarian covid policies – and that turned off a whole lot of natural Act voters who have now gone looking for alternative minor parties to support – Non Act minor party support has shot up as a result.
    
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    April 9, 2022 9:13am
    - rockape
      
      It often does until polling day. Then, stood with pen in hand, the choice becomes clear: do you want a Labour or National lead government ? It’s called, “ the polling booth effect and it inevitably works for major parties and against minor parties.
      
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      April 9, 2022 11:17am
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        I really hope you are right. Act certainly has enough of a buffer in support at the moment that we shouldn’t get any abandoning their support in the booth due to concerns over the 5% threshold
        
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        April 9, 2022 3:09pm
  - jgw739
    
    Don’t forget those from the river of filth who have been crapped on by all major parties for the past year.
    
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    April 9, 2022 9:24am
- PeeJay
  
  I wouldn’t be at all surprised that at some point, probably a bit closer to the election day, Luxon will copy Key’s approach and unequivocally rule out National working with NZ First post election. That is probably the only way you kill any opportunity for Peters to sweep up disaffected right, centre-right votes. Key completely took him out at the knees when he did that – I suspect if English had done the same in 2017, it would have completely stopped the ‘Winston will keep National honest’ crap.
  
  The fact this guy is back at 4% despite his long history, is a sad reflection on the NZ electorate in my opinion.
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:12am
  - GT Build
    
    Not to mention the 10% voting green that added to the Winston first vote shows that we do have a serious derangement issue in New Zealand
    
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    April 9, 2022 10:45am
  - David Garrett
    
    PJ: I absolutely agree with your last sentence.
    
    A quote widely attributed – apparently wrongly – to Churchill is apposite here: “The best argument against democracy is a 15 minute conversation with the average voter.”
    
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    April 9, 2022 12:49pm
I remember when

Otago Daily Times:
German parliament rejects mandatory jabs for elderly:
Germany’s lower house has voted, 378/296, against a bill requiring anyone aged 60 or over to get vaccinated against covid-19.
Chancellor Sholz was last week forced to drop plans for mandatory vaccinations for over 18s as he couldn’t muster a majority.
Daily infections in Germany are high but have dipped in last week or so, with 201,729 infections reported on Thursday last week.
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April 9, 2022 8:12am
RockyJ

Two nights ago I watched a Taxpayers Union zoom meeting on the treaty partnership issue with Stephen Franks. Someone from the audience came up with a cool idea.

The Labour Party constitution has the following exerts on the role of democracy “All political authority comes from democratic means including universal suffrage with regular and free elections with a secret ballot. All people will have equal access…. to the political and legal spheres….the same basic rights apply to all people regardless of race…”

The idea would be for a member of the Labour Party to take a court case against the senior members for breaching those clauses of their constitution. I guess the outcome could be that the entire Labour caucus could be expelled from their own party.

Hey, dreams are free.
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April 9, 2022 8:13am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  I’m pretty sure it’s easy enough to join the Labour Party. Is there not one among us who will go undercover and do God’s work?
  
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  April 9, 2022 12:45pm
iMP

At Stuff this morn Michelle Duff has a long rambling “boohoo women are all victims if criticised”hagiographic piece on PM Ardern, y’know, the leader who traded her political brand on the cover of Vogue and took her baby for a photo op in the UN chamber, etc.

Clearly Duff was not there during the Muldoon era when that PM was perennially known as “ piggy Muldoon”, comments about his shortness (“a shirt knight/night)”), his cheek ; didn’t notice any of the visceral anti-Trump coverage including endless comments about his hair, the Orange One, or Jim Bolger being called Spud cos he was Irish.

No ‘gender war’ then, just justified leftist attacks on leaders of the center-right.

No, when criticised as PM, Ardern is the victim of a misogynistic ‘right-wing’ conspiracies.

And how does Duff know all those Parl protesters were “ right-wing”? Did they do a survey?

Deflection much?
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April 9, 2022 8:16am
- cmm
  
  This is exactly the sympathy grabbing that is keeping Labour above 30%.
  
  Female in group preference is powerful.
  
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  April 9, 2022 8:20am
  - mogg
    
    In 18 months time it will not be forgotten that Ardern personally threatened the protesters, and then backed it up with State violence.
    Ardern has been exposed for what she really is.
    
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    April 9, 2022 12:50pm
- Mike
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Fascinating.
  
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  April 9, 2022 8:21am
- Prince
  
  And let’s not forget the hatred aimed at Jenny Shipley, Ruth Richardson, Judith Collins (dubbed ‘Crusher’ by our lovely media), and Paula Bennett (dubbed ‘Paula Benefit”).
  Then there was the media covering an Auckland Central election as ‘Battle of the Babes’.
  The most telling piece of Duff’s column is this…
  “And will National and ACT appeal to these anti-Prime Minister politics?”
  So for the first time in history the Opposition parties must not carry ‘anti-Prime Minister’ messages.
  But there is no bias in our media.
  
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  April 9, 2022 8:27am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Well, at least ‘Paula Benefit’ was a funny line
    
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    April 9, 2022 9:44am
  - MCōs
    
    It was Simon Bridges who came up with the moniker ‘Paula Benefit’
    
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    April 9, 2022 9:46am
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Inadvertently, IIRC
      
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      April 9, 2022 12:46pm
  - David George
    
    I thought it was PullYa Benefit – at least that’s what a welfare queen I know called her.
    
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    April 9, 2022 12:02pm
- pdm
  
  I had a lefty troll attack me on a friends facebook page because I had a differing opinion.
  
  No counter argument just a coarse Simpsons photo and snide comment.
  
  Such is the way of the left.
  
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  April 9, 2022 8:30am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Best ignored, unless you want to have some fun and trigger them
    
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    April 9, 2022 8:41am
    - Sacha
      
      I always enjoy a bit of baiting, but then I get bored.
      Even here.
      Often what I do is write a ‘blistering’ reply, read it, and then delete, lol.
      
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      April 9, 2022 9:12am
    - pdm
      
      Best not to when it is a friends original share of a post.
      
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      April 9, 2022 9:22am
- AC
  
  Not to mention that John Key was regularly attacked on a personal level as was Helen Clark and every PM before that. The current PM has been more proactive in cultivating her brand with the Vogue shoots etc plus a ton of favourable press.
  
  Basically being savaged is part of the job description and has been amplified by social media. I don’t think it’s a great thing and would put a lot of people of running for public office.
  
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  April 9, 2022 8:31am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Thanks I will avoid reading it.
  
  It is bullshit thinking. I want Jacinda gone because she is incompetent and has terrible policies. Simple as that. She could be catgender or male and I would feel exactly the same.
  
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  April 9, 2022 8:33am
  - Phronesis
    
    The irony is that misgendering Ardern would be considered even worse. As usual the left want it both ways and are solely trying to shutdown free speech and legitimate criticism.
    
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    April 9, 2022 9:28am
- Nickc2
  
  No one believes political polls – YEA, RIGHT!
  A 9th Floor mandate for favourable press must have been sent out on Friday afternoon.
  
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  April 9, 2022 8:36am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Ozzies love her, see below
  
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  April 9, 2022 8:40am
  - Nickc2
    
    Aussie media is more corrupt than ours, and that takes some beating.
    
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    April 9, 2022 9:01am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      You must have heard that on play school TV1 – so as to divert attention from themselves
      
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      April 9, 2022 2:00pm
- Mr_Blobby
  
  Stop following the local media, just stop.
  
  I guarantee you will be happier and more relaxed.
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:05am
- PeeJay
  
  The problem I see a lot of though is that the justified dislike for Ardern politically, all too often results in criticisms closely aligned with her gender.
  
  Kiwiblog is a classic case in point – you could spend a day reasonably and rationally pointing out Ardern’s many political flaws and failings but all too often you read comments that are borderline misogyny….and a fair number that seriously cross the line. It can range from minor ‘stupid girl’ crap through to some pretty nasty comments.
  
  When thinking about Ardern’s high support amongst women, I remember a quote from the1980’s about all the bad guy dictators the CIA supported – something like ‘he may be a son of bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch’. I think the attacks on Ardern, particularly those that are borderline sexist, will just reinforce the ‘she may be useless but’ attitude amongst her supporters and encourage them to circle the wagons.
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:27am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    The problem is not Ardern but the mindless airheads who support her and give her and her worse than useless Government power.
    
    Many of them switched from Key to her and they are the reason National is just Labour Lite. They make the country less free, less innovative, less resilient, less educated and poorer every year.
    
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    April 9, 2022 10:08am
  - Mike
    
    I think that quote might be from FDR about Somoza senior in Nicaragua.
    
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    April 9, 2022 10:25am
- Jim
  
  iMP, it seems like Duff has a huge blind spot when it comes to satirical comments of male politicians etc, like this recent Washington Post example describing the UK PM as BoJo the Clown.
  
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/31/partygate-worsens-for-boris-johnson/
  
  Or what about when Biden call Trump a clown during the Presidential Election Debates in a retaliation over questions about Hunter’s Ukrainian Barisma business dealings (ooohh a hot potato that one).
  
  More seriously though that ‘Duff Story’ brazenly conflates the notion of someone who criticises Ardern (using weak satirical names like Cindy), alongside someone who uses vile insensitive abuse online, and even stretching a link to the heinous acts of Anders Breivik and the Christchurch terrorist. Really!?
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300561708/why-escalating-misogynistic-abuse-of-jacinda-ardern-is-a-national-security-issue
  
  Of course any criticism of a woman that emerges from a man’s mouth must be steeped in misogyny and sprinkled with casual racism. It’s nothing to do with the deteriorating public mood that has been significantly darkened by the illiberal and anti democratic actions of this Labour government over the past 3 years.
  
  The story even suggests that anyone with a political criticism is a threat to national security. Hells teeth in Duff’s world view I wouldn’t be surprised if we should all be issued with an ‘Empress Jacinda’ badge (like North Korea) and an Orwellian Telescreen for every room in the house.
  
  This is typical neo culture war logic where any justified criticism that is not supporting a far left woke world view is instantly deflected as an ism or ist (usually misogynist or racist).
  
  Come on Duff and Stuff (geez I hope that’s not viewed as offensive) surely you can do much better than that, or is it ever likely you have to beg for patronage.
  
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  April 9, 2022 3:52pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Have those on the left forgotten how they thought it was a great joke when Tom Scott wrote a song advocating the killing of PM John Key and rape of his daughter?

https://www.newshub.co.nz/nznews/kill-the-pm-song-under-investigation-2014082619

https://yournz.org/2014/12/06/tom-scott-on-and-off-radio-nz/
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April 9, 2022 8:26am
- potato
  
  Yeah wonder if someone throws a dildo at the Ardern it will be “funny” and the thrower will receive favourable celebrity status
  
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  April 9, 2022 8:32am
  - Jack5
    
    And the mud thrown at Don Brash.
    
    This clip and the dildo throw were repeated and repeated over months on State TV’s main news bulletin.
    
    And the National Government was hands off. Should have privatised State TV while National had the power.
    
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    April 9, 2022 9:19am
- pdm
  
  Or that fellow Richards some years ago hitting a protester on the head with a loud hailer.
  
  Richards was the husband/partner of then Labour Vice Ovens at the time. Of course no charges followed despite video evidence.
  
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  April 9, 2022 8:33am
- iMP
  
  Tom Scott the loser singer not the NZ Cartoonist we hasten to add.
  
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  April 9, 2022 8:38am
  - Jack5
    
    The cartoonist is relentlessly Left, too.
    
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    April 9, 2022 9:20am
- Prince
  
  Ardern’s favourite band, she said at the time.
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:04am
  - MCōs
    
    Did she?
    Don’t remember.
    
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    April 9, 2022 9:48am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Well, read all about it here on Kiwiblog … When Tom Scott’s band was named Homebrew
      
      “This is the band whom at the Music Awards said John Key was a cunt who should suck their dicks. ”
      
      and Jacinda Ardern tweeted:
      I heart @homebrewcrew #NZMA
      
      https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2012/11/ardern_on_homebrew.html
      
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      April 9, 2022 11:06am
    - Manu-Rau
      
      Yes, she did. And you know she did.
      
      Or are you a compulsive liar? Like her?
      
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      April 9, 2022 9:57pm
- mikenmildagain
  
  Do you think women in politics suffer more personalised attacks than men?
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:22am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Have you forgotten all the Jewish-themed hits on John Key?
    
    http://www.rightreason.org/2014/are-jew-seeing-what-im-seeing-in-new-zealand-political-propaganda/
    
    Did you ever speak out about them on KB?
    
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    April 9, 2022 9:50am
    - Mike
      
      You and I have previously discussed the sheer impossibility of responding to all the racist, sexist, homophobic, and just plainly wrong comments on Kiwiblog.
      I think I have been reasonably consistent in calling out the Holocaust deniers, for example, who amazingly have been tolerated on DPF’s blog.
      
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      April 9, 2022 10:29am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I think you are selective in who you attack and who you support.
        
        You will call out a right-winger indulging in anti-semetic tropes, but I’ve yet to see you doing so when the left indulge in this behaviour.
        
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        April 9, 2022 10:43am
      - Mike
        
        And I think you are selective in not attacking some of the obvious lies from commenters who are generally on your ‘side’.
        
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        April 9, 2022 11:37am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @ Mike
        
        I don’t indulge in your attack politics, trolling or slimy smears of individual commenters.
        
        I write on topics that interest me.
        
        There’s loads of stuff on this blog that is of zilch interest to me.
        
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        April 9, 2022 2:44pm
      - Mike
        
        If there were no attacks, trolling or smears, it wouldn’t be Kiwiblog.
        
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        April 9, 2022 3:56pm
  - Spam
    
    The assumption is that attacks on women are always by men. I don’t believe that to be the case.
    
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    April 9, 2022 10:01am
  - Sideoiler
    
    Do you think women in politics suffer more personalised attacks than men?
    
    I’ll bite, no I don’t think women suffer more personalised attacks than men.
    
    The problem is that they are more inclined to piss and moan about being attacked and then they resort to playing the vag card.
    
    Well that is as tiresome as playing the race card, come on girls I thought you were supposed to be our equals.
    
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    April 9, 2022 10:47am
    - Mike
      
      More inclined to piss and moan? Uh huh.
      
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      April 9, 2022 11:38am
  - David George
    
    No, I don’t think so, there are categories of people where any criticism is assumed to be bigoted that’s all.
    Chloe Swarbrick saying “OK Boomer”, a belittling of an immutable characteristic I suppose, was regarded as funny/cheeky but no more that that. OK Maori or OK woman not so much?
    
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    April 9, 2022 12:10pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Yes they do – especially if they are transistors
    
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    April 9, 2022 2:05pm
- oldfella
  
  FWIW, Maggy, not the elderly Tom Scott whose cartoon is on stuffed today. That Tom is a dedicated lefty, but would never go where his namesake of the hip-hop band @Peace went with that anti-Key hate piece.
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:48am
- Black with a Vengeance
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Tom Scott’s drugged up young kiwi rapper’s late-night fantasies should be seen as simply that.
  
  You should have been here 10 or so years ago when a few of the stale pale male crew were boasting about guns and killing Muslims, Maori and whoever else tickled their perverted fantasies.
  
  Now its all anonymous down or uptick to show subtle support of the intrinsic racism and mysogyny still existing here.
  
  This was all under the unmoderated banner of Fomenting Happy Mischief. Of course Kiwiblog was seen as the acceptable conservative face especially when you had the rabid Whaleoil pushing the extremes of hate and fear.
  
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  April 9, 2022 10:42am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Tom Scott’s drugged up young kiwi rapper’s late-night fantasies should be seen as simply that.
    
    Oh Really,
    
    I thought for a while here in the NZ music scene he was “The man”…
    
    and let’s not forget how important musicians, entertainers, performers are to the Labour Government.
    
    Half a Billion $$$$$ payout from taxpayers over the last couple of years.
    
    “This change aims to further support our artists, musicians, performers and Kiwis who make a living out of arts and culture. It also recognises that a critical part of securing our recovery will be the return of arts and cultural events for all New Zealanders to enjoy.
    
    https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2204/S00070/government-takes-action-to-give-arts-and-culture-sector-certainty.htm
    
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    April 9, 2022 11:31am
    - Black with a Vengeance
      
      Tom is a gifted artist. The only victim of his fantastical lyricism is himself. He’s as harmless as Lucy Lawless or Robyn Malcolm with their political leanings.
      
      Absolutely let’s not forget about artists and funding them and their importance to Aotearoa culture and heritage.
      
      Government priorities can’t all be about storm water and sewerage, roads and general infrastructure.
      
      What a boring, insulated, bitter, twisted, navel gazing, soulless place we would live in were it not for the healthy distraction of spiritually uplifting, soul balancing, convention challenging Aotearoa artists. However you define them to be in your eye.
      
      They are our Taonga. Bless their little cottonsocks!
      
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      April 9, 2022 12:28pm
      - Jack5
        
        Sicko Tom Scott’s songs spiritually uplifting, soul balancing…
        
        FFS, 🌴Brown with a Vengeance, go easy on whatever you’re mixing with the kava!
        
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        April 9, 2022 1:47pm
      - Alan Wilkinson
        
        They are not harmless. They are part of the cultural mush that keeps the airheads voting for fatuous soundbites.
        
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        April 9, 2022 2:15pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Personally Bwav,
        I couldn’t give a stuffy-poo about culcha…
        and being a mean-spirited soulless penny-pinching slob, I rather resent taxpayers’ $$$$ subsidising Aotearoa’s wanna-be’s.
        
        If they’re any good, the great unwashed can support them themselves.
        
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        April 9, 2022 2:40pm
      - Black with a Vengeance
        
        Many of us taxpayers don’t mind subsidising art in the least and we do support by paying for tickets, heading out, putting our bums on seats or dancing our asses off and having a rip roaring good time.
        
        I appreciate you want to sit at home and whinge about where you think your money should be spent and by whom.
        
        I just think Tom’s delivery of opinion, while being just as valid as your contrary one, has a bit more merit given the considerable effort he puts in to make it entertaining.
        
        Each to their own…
        
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        April 9, 2022 2:52pm
      - Black with a Vengeance
        
        Ahhh yes the good ol days of Smile and Wave eh Alan ?
        
        Ol mate Johnny was king of the fatuous soundbite and quite liberal with the truth too.
        
        Bless his little cottonsocks as well and his wanna be DJ son who’s now in bed with the Chow brothers developing brothels, I believe?
        
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        April 9, 2022 2:55pm
      - Swifty
        
        “ Absolutely let’s not forget about artists and funding them and their importance to Aotearoa culture and heritage.….”
        
        Hahahahahahahaha!
        
        Horseshit.
        
        The decades-old argument from the left that their case is so special and vital to national well-being that because private citizens won’t willingly part with their dough to pay for their dross it must be publicly funded.
        
        It’s exactly the same argument we’ve seen from the news media recently.
        
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        April 9, 2022 4:15pm
      - Harriet
        
        “…….What a boring, insulated, bitter, twisted, navel gazing, soulless place we would live in were it not for the healthy distraction of spiritually uplifting, soul balancing, convention challenging Aotearoa artists. However you define them to be in your eye…..They are our Taonga…..”
        
        Taonga is then pissed, abusive, undereducated, uncouth, idiotic, immature, pathetic……………and boring as bogans are!
        
        Maori are proud of ‘Taonga’. I wouldn’t be — I’d feel shame. 😎
        
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        April 9, 2022 4:58pm
      - Black with a Vengeance
        
        Ain’t no party like a kiwiblog party cos a kiwiblog party don’t stop…
        
        What a mother of all parties that would be…lol
        
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        April 9, 2022 5:34pm
      - Alan Wilkinson
        
        A. R. D. Fairburn had it right “Note on the State Literary Fund”: “Here is a piece of wisdom / I learnt at my mother’s knee: / The mushroom grows in the open, / The toadstool under the tree.”
        
        That’s your Taonga.
        
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        April 9, 2022 7:20pm
  - chukar
    
    B w V
    So you can say anything ,do anything if you are “drugged up”It is OK behaviour?
    
    No way!
    
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    April 9, 2022 7:30pm
Matt Long

Dr John Campbell’s YouTube of a few days bank on the UK government finally taking not of Vitamin D contains an interesting point that D should be taken with vitamin K² to ensure calcium is properly regulated and finds its way to bones.
What is the natural source of K²? From his video Grass Feed animal products and fermented foods. For years we have been fed garbage about dietary animal products based on American feedlots. New Zealand’s grass fed animal products are health foods, especially if more traditional farming practices are followed.
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April 9, 2022 8:31am
- Matt Long
  
  Further we are told avoiding meat in our diets will somehow help climate change based on the same false equivalence with American style feedlots.
  1, Methane from farm animals is close to net zero as methane, which is supposedly our big issue, is degrading to CO² at the same rate it is produced in a completely carbon neutral cycle.
  2, Hydroxyl Ions produced by water evaporation/respiration from our temperate pastures is sufficient to oxidise not just every molecule of methane produced from animals grazed on that pasture, not twice as many, or ten times as many but more than one hundred times as many molecules of methane or other pollution.
  
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  April 9, 2022 8:41am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    When a rabid leftie mentions climate change to me, I just fart to prove a point. The body language is hilarious
    
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    April 9, 2022 8:45am
- Benedict Yu
  
  One of the barriers to people taking vitamin supplements in New Zealand is cost. The prices are just sky high.
  
  New Zealand 60 vitamin D tablets $15
  
  https://www.chemistwarehouse.co.nz/buy/107644/go-healthy-vitamin-d3-1000iu-plus-vitamin-c-zinc-60-vege-capsules
  
  In the UK you can get 60 vitamin D tablets for £2.50😭😭
  
  https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/resources
  
  And don’t forget that most of the world’s vitamins are made in India. They make billions of them and sell them in bulk. They are all the same.
  
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  April 9, 2022 8:52am
  - MCōs
    
    Tesco doesn’t have to pay for Dan Carter.
    
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    April 9, 2022 9:51am
  - surfing
    
    Arbitrage opportunity?
    
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    April 9, 2022 11:09am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    A years worth of D3 (5000UI capsules) with K2 (to prevent potential calcium damage in cardio vascular system from D3) for $50. I’ve used this company a lot over last 2 years. https://nz.pipingrock.com/v2/vitamin-k/vitamin-k-2-complex-800-mcg-with-d-180-quick-release-capsules-14592
    
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    April 9, 2022 12:20pm
- Sacha
  
  google ‘sources of Vit K2’. – there is heaps of info.
  You can also get Vit D3 with K2 tablets
  Clinicians brand: ‘Sunshine Vit D3 1000u with Vit K2’.
  I got mine online but can’t remember the company –
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:21am
Simon

Auckland Shitty Council heading towards Administration. Probably have to get people in from Australia.
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April 9, 2022 8:31am
- PeeJay
  
  So is bankrupting a supercity now the must have achievement on the CV for an ambassador posting? The job requirements keep getting tougher every year eh.
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:34am
- oldfella
  
  Mahuta could so a ‘Tauranga’, sack the whole council and appt a few commissioners. There, solved it. /s
  
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  April 9, 2022 10:22am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Getting desperate now. Australians think she is believable. Make it stop, make it go away. I’m going to throw up.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/jacinda-ardern-voted-australia-s-most-trusted-politician-for-second-time/ar-AAVYWxh?
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April 9, 2022 8:38am
- RockyJ
  
  Patience, grasshopper. The Australian media will soon put the spotlight on her lack of support for them internationally
  
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  April 9, 2022 8:44am
- Phronesis
  
  If I was presented with such a poll I would vote for Robert Mugabe ahead of any NZ politician just to make a point about how I feel about the lot of them. I suspect many australians do the same.
  
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  April 9, 2022 10:55am
  - Harriet
    
    I’ve always voted for Pinochet in that type of poll —– as he had the dignity of Chileans front, left and center — and just like with Trump and Muldoon — everyone knew what was going on.
    
    There was very little obscurity. 😎
    
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    April 9, 2022 5:05pm
Gravelroad

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300561708/why-escalating-misogynistic-abuse-of-jacinda-ardern-is-a-national-security-issue

Emotion driven reports such as this, which makes several assertions about abuse of women being a national “security issue”, do little to make a positive impact for anyone.
In the case of the current government, it is obvious that the pool of governance experience and ability from which to choose and promote leaders, is very shallow.
Very shallow indeed.
This applies to women/men/other.
Politicians who are being paid by the taxpayer but
who are ill equipped for the job, dictatorial, can’t answer a question and are super sensitive must expect to be challenged and held to account.
If they can’t cope with it, don’t blame the constituents.
Just saying: “I’m a man/woman/other and you must do as I say without question” doesn’t cut it – especially I’d they don’t really know what they are talking about.
Stop making excuses about having personal, health, gender issues and just get on with the job as a professional. Win some respect.
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April 9, 2022 8:40am
- Spam
  
  Note to labour and reporters such as this – the entire Labour government is incompetent, and that’s not misogyny. Jacinda is the figurehead for that ire for people who want competent leadership, and it was the labour machine who made her that figurehead and promoted that perspective, because they knew that she is the only reason labour got elected and the only thing maintaining that popularity.
  
  But we also see what your trying to do now – brand Ardern must be protected to protect labour, and the culture war tactics work well elsewhere, so why not apply them here, too.
  
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  April 9, 2022 8:51am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  If the Wellington cnuts would just f.o. out of my life I wouldn’t detest them.
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:19am
  - mawm
    
    Including the bureaucrats.
    
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    April 9, 2022 11:23am
    - Harriet
      
      ……and 40% of the general staff.
      
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      April 9, 2022 5:06pm
3-coil

Stuff reinforce their woke bias this morning in their local rag DomPost, in an article bleating about sexist and animalist online attacks on their paymistress PM Jacinda!

Evidently it’s ok for Stuff’s main stream media organ to do it (eg. “pale stale male”, Piggy (Muldoon)…etc) but not members of the public “online”.

Why should private online commenters be held to higher standards than MSM race-baiter, bigotted journalists like those at the DomPost disseminating their own ugly biases to their readers, the public?
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April 9, 2022 8:41am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Looks like it is ‘attack Jaspinda’ day today.
Next please – this is going to be fun
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April 9, 2022 8:46am
- 3-coil
  
  Yes Steve, in Jacinda-world it’s apparently worse to make “explicit references to horses” 😂 than to say…call comrade Putin a war criminal.
  Edit: sorry, admit that may be misandrist hack-writer Michelle Duff’s world..
  
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  April 9, 2022 10:19am
I remember when

West Coast Messenger:
Driest March on record:
It was a record breaking dry March on the West Coast, following on from a record-wet February and a record dry January.
The gauge at Hokitika airport got to 35.2mm – smashing March record of 40.1mm in 1991.
Records at the station go back to 1964.
Remarkably it followed the second wettest February on record, which followed the driest Hokitika January on record.

Climate Change is obviously causing serious disruption to evaporation.
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April 9, 2022 8:49am
- Pavel
  
  The ground never dries out down there.
  
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  April 9, 2022 11:33am
- I remember when
  
  Newshub:December 2021:
  Weather: ‘Severe marine heatwave’ for west coast of North Island:
  
  Possible cause of high East Coast rainfall totals this year?
  
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  April 9, 2022 12:11pm
iMP

To quote a Govt Minister of this current Administration …”Old white males should get out of the way for younger women”. I took that to the HRC. They replied “ Nothing to see here, move along citizen.”

So, let’s just flip our Minister’s quote a bit…

“Old brown women should get out of the way for younger men.” Outrage in 3…2…1
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April 9, 2022 8:53am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Karen is on her way – duck for cover
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:07am
  - Harriet
    
    “..Old white males should get out of the way for younger women….”
    
    Meanwhile the same Gov minister has no problems with ‘male toxicity’ saving women and children in the Ukraine from autocratic rule — while ‘young women’ sit on the sidelines.
    
    How the fuck does this ignorant minister think she got to be serving in the ‘Westminster System of Government’ —– from centuries of maori protocol?
    
    “…. I took that to the HRC…..”
    
    Add to it — and take it back again. Just for their records. 😎
    
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    April 9, 2022 5:13pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Some good news, for a change. The Children’s Hospital, built and donated by Mark Dunajtschik & Dorothy Spotswood, has been handed over to the DHB.

They sound like really nice people too.

From me, thank you.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/wellington/300560694/wellington-philanthropists-on-their-most-generous-donation-yet
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April 9, 2022 9:00am
Hugh Jarse

Michelle’s article is exactly why the NZ media have fallen in trustworthiness by 10% in the last year.
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April 9, 2022 9:04am
- Jack5
  
  Just 10 per cent? C’mon …
  
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  April 9, 2022 10:10am
- oldfella
  
  Hugh, only 10%? /s
  
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  April 9, 2022 10:27am
- emmess
  
  Mike Hosking mentioned that
  
  Not remotely surprised trust in media is falling. It’s falling, according to the authors of this week’s latest report into the industry, at “an alarming rate.”
  This is the AUT Trust in News in New Zealand report. They mark various organisations out of 10. Over the past three years overall it’s gone from 62%, as in 62% of us trust the media, down to 52%.
  
  https://player.fm/series/the-mike-hosking-breakfast/mike-hosking-no-surprise-the-trust-in-the-media-is-dropping
  
  To fall 10% in a year to me made sense
  But I was surprised it was only that over three years
  
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  April 9, 2022 12:18pm
Maggie Pie

Beautiful day here. Not a cloud in the sky and 20c.
My partners in Melbourne for the Gran Prix so home alone.
Me and a few of the girls from tennis are heading up to Parnell tonite. Be the first time this year we’ve been able to go out as a team 😛

His mum has just re-tweeted this pic she came across of Helen & Pete on their wedding day. From the DomPost she thinks.
They certainly look loved-up. Hard to understand some of the nasty comments tbh….

https://twitter.com/letsgetradical/status/1512197495757058066
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April 9, 2022 9:08am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Just you & the girls be careful tonite..
  
  Auckland isn’t a safe city
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/04/shooting-at-auckland-strip-club-leaves-person-in-critical-condition.html
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:18am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Thx Maggs!
    We’re fine as a group. We’ve all got each other backs.
    The beauty of Parnell is the bars are 95% gay these days.
    
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    April 9, 2022 9:37am
- mikenmildagain
  
  That photo was taken in front of parliament after Helen Clark became labour party leader. It was (in)famously featured on the front page of the next morning’s Dominion under the banner headline of ‘Leadershp passion’. Totally not misogynistic.
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:29am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Of course it is misogynistic… It makes Helen Clark look like a dopey female enthralled by her male partner.
    
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    April 9, 2022 11:43am
    - Mike
      
      I forgot rhe ‘sarc’ tag.
      
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      April 9, 2022 12:23pm
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      As opposed to a dopey female enthralled with her PM? I’ve got more sympathy with the mating attraction. Much less harmful.
      
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      April 9, 2022 1:20pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Reminds me of The Vampire Bride
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:37am
- Gravelroad
  
  @MP-
  Even though MMA below reckons that the photo is not illustrating a passionate marriage, I am looking forward to seeing a wedding photo of Mr& Mrs Ardern Gayford (if and when that happens) on the next days front page of the Dom Post.
  Or do you think I would have to wait for the the six page women’s paid for magazine spread?
  Would that be misogynistic?
  
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  April 9, 2022 10:21am
Yvette

Another Ardern Government omission –
National promises three waters repeal as Canterbury town resident speaks out over dirty drinking water
The Opposition party has nailed a billboard in the Waimakiriri district advertising its pledge to repeal the laws, under which the government would take control of drinking, waste and storm water services and assets from local councils.
In the neighbouring Selwyn district, water the colour of weak tea still runs from the taps in the town of Springfield.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/04/national-promises-three-waters-repeal-as-resident-of-canterbury-town-speak-out-over-dirty-drinking-water.html

An implication is that National opposes the solution (“3 Waters”) which would solve Springfield’s problem.
But Labour last November set up the new Government entity, Taumata Arowai (no non-Maori name) – https://www.taumataarowai.govt.nz – as the new water services regulator for Aotearoa New Zealand. (We are committed to ensuring all communities have access to safe drinking water every day. We also have an oversight role in protecting the environment from the impacts of wastewater and stormwater) This is an entity of “3 Waters” already in existence.
Does Christopher Luxon not know this?

This is the entity which right now should determine what exactly is turning Springfield’s water to pale tea, and presumably define what needs to be done, in current council responsibilities, to correct it.

That brings the issue to the point where council can fix it, or “3 Waters” would do a better job.

The new unheralded entity, Taumata Arowai, is the 4th part of “3 Waters” which science activist Dr Mike Joy said was missing, but is now first.
And it was “unheralded” because its existence should “blow out of the water” the whole “never repeat the Havalock North contaminated water disaster that so much of the argument for “3 Waters” is foistered on us with.

All New Zealand’s investigative journalists are dead – brain dead
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And, not to detract from that above, but “If you run a bath, it ends up looking tea-coloured. You end up with a rash if you have a bath and don’t shower after and rinse it all off” – is the shower water different to the bath water?
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April 9, 2022 9:17am
Jack5

New Zealand has started into high inflation, caused mainly by the Government in effect printing money in a spendaholic outburst primed by fighting Covid.

And now, the Ardernists plan to impose on businesses red tape and responsibility for “slavery” — that is wages – in foreign suppliers.

The Government wants to create another Wellington bureaucracy to hound businesses and try to they are fighting slavery in places like Bangladesh, Ecuador and wherever else we source products from. There is no end to this: low-priced clothes for our kids, cellphones and computers from China, bananas from South America,cobalt from the Congo for hundreds of products.

The Labour-Greens are deranged, extreme socialists. What happens to hundreds of thousands of low-paid Bangladeshi textile workers if sales are cut off? They starve.

New Zealand’s clothing and footwear industries have long since all but died. The slave-labour rules will push importers and retailers towards higher price products, and that’s going to hurt NZ families who are about to have a really rough time in the Ardern inflation surge.

“Slave” product legislation plan:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/464917/government-reveals-plan-to-help-combat-modern-slavery
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April 9, 2022 9:22am
- Taieri
  
  “(…)Armstrong would like to see a “really specialised department, that’s separate from government, who is regulating and monitoring”.
  
  “And something like an anti-slavery commissioner should be considered,” she said.(…)”
  
  I don’t think this goes far enough though. We urgently need not just an anti-slavery commissioner. There should be a government ministry dedicated to stamping out the slavery world-wide. In addition to the commissioner of course.
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:59am
  - pussycat
    
    There should be a commissioner appointed to cull stupid ministries.
    
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    April 9, 2022 12:45pm
- Nickc2
  
  What if Aust, Japan, China and Britain failed to take our exports due to our ‘slave-like’ wages?
  Think twice you Green virtue signaling idiots, the world is a cruel place.
  
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  April 9, 2022 10:01am
- Mike
  
  Jack loves slave labour?
  
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  April 9, 2022 10:33am
  - MCōs
    
    I remember maybe ten years ago when aB replica jerseys were selling for over $200 someone did a bit of digging and found they cost less than $10 to make in Bangladesh.
    My sister in law has a shop in Bangkok selling school uniforms at a fraction of the cost they go for here.
    They pay the factory workers close to min wage. Less than $2/hr
    Maybe three days for a tank of petrol.
    
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    April 9, 2022 11:19am
  - Nickc2
    
    Why do Labour Voters shop at $2.00 Shops if their version of a Socialist Utopia is what Cindy has made of NZ?
    
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    April 9, 2022 12:48pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Because they are hypocrites. I don’t want to delve into the mind of a leftie to find more reasons
      
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      April 9, 2022 2:12pm
- cmm
  
  If this commission is in any way legitimate it will recognise that:
  * Slavery has been part of the human condition since forever.
  * It is only the West (especially the Brits) that have stamped it out where they can and have created a low-slavery world.
  * The only places where any significant slavery and “slavery” persists are shitholistans.
  
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  April 9, 2022 1:06pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Another day, another way to increase costs, prices and poverty.
  
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  April 9, 2022 1:44pm
I remember when

The live cattle carrier Al Kuwait berthed at Timaru on Wednesday.
MPI confirmed a cargo of 8861 cattle will be loaded for China.
In shipments in January, the Yangtze Fortune exported 3995 cattle without mortality during the 21-day journey and the Ocean Ute had one mortality from 4407 in 18-days at sea.
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April 9, 2022 9:25am
- MCōs
  
  Noted
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:53am
- Jack5
  
  It’s another case of China buying up resources at source.
  
  Why can’t they buy the beef instead of the live animals?
  
  Similarly with Australia shipping cattle by the million to Indonesia and Asia. Wouldn’t it be preferable to have a booming meat processing industry in the Northern Territory?
  
  Imagine, if in the rising days of the United States, cattle had been exported live by the million instead of fueling the industry that created Chicago.
  
  Live cattle exporting is a rat-shit industry economically, especially with world food prices about to soar in the famines arising from the devastation of the Ukraine-South Russia food bowl.
  
  I’m with the animal-rights people, the Greens, and whoever else wants to ban large scale live animal exports. I’m against it economically.
  
  It’s another ratshit export industry from NZ’s point of view, like the Chinese companies bottling our water. They have bought old agricultural-industry plants in the south to get water extraction rights.
  
  One example, the steep decline of wool scouring. It used a lot of water. Chinese companies have bought at least one dying plant for its water rights, and have brought in scores of Chinese labourers to do the bottling for export.
  
  The industry isn’t unrelated to the Three Waters hokum, with Maori wanting to join China importers in dominating our water industry.
  
  If globalisation is now retreating, as many commentators suggest, live cattle and bottled water exports should be scrapped.
  
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  April 9, 2022 10:06am
  - Caleb
    
    No one to work in meat processing plants.
    Work all week at the freezing works to pay your bills, week after week.. What for?
    
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    April 9, 2022 11:13am
  - Nickc2
    
    Wakey wakey, hands off shakey, the customer gets what the customer wants.
    If consumers of our dairy products wanted dead cows, we should provide them with dead cows optionally frozen.
    Likewise, if consumers of our water want their water supplied in a bottle instead of a river, we should provide it that way.
    
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    April 9, 2022 11:25am
    - Jack5
      
      Nick2, hands off yourself.
      
      This is about ownership of resources, not about meeting market requirements. Water is valuable just as oil is. You don’t just let anyone come into the country and help themselves to its oil.
      
      There are limits to benefits of market freedom. Booming economies in the last half-century show that: West Germany after World War 2, China, Singapore, even Japan, and now Vietnam. All pretty much planned economies with strong intelligent State direction.
      
      Meanwhile, free-free market America’s dominant position erodes.
      
      Our farmers have been bright at building competitors. Our deer farming expertise has spawned rival venison and antler competitors in several countries.
      
      Our dairy expertise, down to Fonterra farms in China, has contributed to China being a larger dairy producer than New Zealand and to ventures such as the vast Chinese-Russian dairy farm supplying Siberia.
      
      If the goal is being a stud animal exporter, surely it’s more efficient to air-package semen or embyros than ship whole animals.
      
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      April 9, 2022 3:02pm
      - Nickc2
        
        I don’t agree. Selling Kiwi Fruit plants overseas didn’t help our Kiwi Fruit industry much did it? Lord Rutherford splitting the atom didn’t help our Energy industry much either.
        If we don’t capitalise on our inventiveness and resources while we have them, time and innovation will make them worthless.
        It’s like a woman being proud of being a virgin whilst complaining about never having kids.
        
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        April 9, 2022 8:27pm
Swifty

Max Rashbrooke’s far-left views are well known but he truly excels today in attacking and labelling anti-democratic New Zealander’s right to donate their money to political parties of their choosing because of the influence they could have on a party’s policies but totally fails to mention even a single one of Labour’s policies since 2017 which award favours to THEIR political supporters:

https://i.stuff.co.nz/opinion/128308086/rich-list-donors-are-great-for-political-parties-but-not-for-democracy

Nor does he mention the imminent (Un)Fair Pay Agreement legislation where Labour’s backers and bag-men will soon have legal backing in extorting increased benefits for their members and at the expense of other New Zealanders.

But hey it’s ok when the left do it.

Max, there’s a word for your views.
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April 9, 2022 9:27am
- I remember when
  
  The question is when did the Labour government think they were in power to act as a Union.
  Increasingly they are enacting legislation covering things that unions and employers used to negotiate.
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:48am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Everyone opposed needs to stop using the propagandist label ‘fair pay agreements’ and start calling it by more honest name, perhaps ‘compulsory wage extortion law’. Any other suggestions?
  
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  April 9, 2022 10:25am
  - Swifty
    
    I quite agree with you, after all there is nothing ‘fair’ about the proposed legislation.
    
    The legislation’s whole purpose has been said by Wood and his bagmen to FORCE employers to raise wages. And he means to achieve this using the coercive power of the state and under the threat of punishment by the state.
    
    Surely ‘fair’ or ‘fairness’ in terms of any commercial activity is a rate or value mutually agreed upon by buyer and seller.
    
    The state forcing one party to pay or reward another party in a wholly voluntary transaction more that they are otherwise willing or able to is the very definition of ‘unfair’.
    
    Following your lead I think I’ll settle on ‘Labour’s corrupt and compulsory Union-payola wage extortion laws’.
    
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    April 9, 2022 11:08am
    - Mike
      
      I don’t really agree with much of that. I think the state has a role in underpinning decent wages and conditions, and I think that is more than subsidising wages through WFF.
      
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      April 9, 2022 4:04pm
      - Swifty
        
        Define decent.
        
        Who will decide decent? How will decent be defined? What marks a line between decent and un- decent?
        
        What better way of defining decent or fair is the free and voluntary system of willing buyer and willing seller?
        
        And if post-FPA wages rise so much that jobs are lost in a company or sector will Max Rashbrooke or Wood personally pay the rent and grocery bill of the families without work? Or will those families just be collateral damage in the pursuit of their great socialist dream of ‘fairness’?
        
        And a point never mentioned by the state is that nobody in NZ, nobody, is forced to accept any job, role or rate or wage.
        
        If you don’t like what’s on offer walk away. Start something yourself. Look for a different job. Shop around.
        
        Unlike this Labour government who is soon to be (metaphorically) holding a gun to the head of NZ employers and business owners.
        
        Again, it’s the hypocrisy that really gets me.
        
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        April 9, 2022 5:25pm
      - Swifty
        
        “ And a point never mentioned by the state is that nobody in NZ, nobody, is forced to accept any job, role or rate or wage.….”
        
        Sorry, that should read “mentioned by the left…”
        
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        April 9, 2022 5:32pm
- [email protected]
  
  When the government forces pay increases for workers the government benefits through a higher income tax take.
  
  The affected businesses raise their prices so the workers who are a captive market for those higher priced products don’t gain much if any in the end.
  
  The other losers are the businesses that export and can’t increase their prices due to foreign competition. Fewer export dollars earned = lower standard of living for Kiwis.
  
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  April 9, 2022 1:34pm
  - cjn
    
    Businesses cut back on the number of workers. The customer does the work eg banks and supermarkets.
    
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    April 9, 2022 5:13pm
Jack5

Problem for Nato allies …

France and Poland are falling out.

Macron, under pressure from the Far Right in the eletion at home has branded the Polish Prime Minister an “a far-right anti-Semite who bans LGBT people”.

Macron alleges the Polish Prime Minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, is trying to help Macron’s political rival, Marine Le Pen, in the French Presidential election (tomorrow, Paris time).

Israel, not an ally, but a key ally of the United States, is also upset with Poland, over a new Polish law that will cut off property claims by Holocaust survivors.

Meanwhile, new British sanctions on Putin cronies and alleged cronies have caught Moshe Kantor, a billionaire who heads the European Jewish Congress.

The U.K. government cited Kantor’s majority ownership stake in Acron, a fertiliser company “with vital strategic significance for the Russian government,” and said Kantor is among the businessmen who “prop up [Putin’s] war economy.”
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April 9, 2022 9:32am
- Nickc2
  
  It’s not difficult to pick a fight with France, but one should be aware that the French change sides frequently and often without warning.
  
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  April 9, 2022 11:34am
  - Jack5
    
    You’re thinking of Italy, aren’t you, Nick? When did France change sides?
    
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    April 9, 2022 3:02pm
    - Nickc2
      
      Try WWII.
      
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      April 10, 2022 8:01am
Hollyfield

Just been reading about the Wellington bar that’s continuing with vaccine passes (but only some nights a week so the implication is that covid is only contagious on those nights).

But it made me wonder why some people are so desperate to only mix with those who have been vaccinated. If a person is concerned about catching covid and therefore has been vaccinated to gain more protection, another individual’s vaccine status is irrelevant. With the vast majority of people being vaccinated, a person’s unvaccinated state affects them, not you.

It’s like having a bacterial infection and demanding that everyone around you take antibiotics.
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April 9, 2022 9:33am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Logic and facts are irrelevant to airheads. Emotion is all that matters.
  
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  April 9, 2022 10:12am
- oldfella
  
  Hollyfield, just booked some accommodation for a trip to Auckland late May. The booking confirmation says I need to show my vaccine pass… which will have expired by then. That will be true for a lot of Kiwis, so guess the motel will need to reassess that policy as will most businesses that are still demanding them.
  
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  April 9, 2022 10:36am
  - Hollyfield
    
    My initial thoughts
    1. It’s very likely they haven’t updated their website. Just a couple of days ago I was looking at a website of a cake shop which had a big banner saying which days/hours they were open over the Christmas break.
    2. Even if they say they require a vaccine pass the likelihood of them actually asking to see it is quite low. Between December and last weekend I’ve been asked for my vaccine pass once at the hairdressers and once at one cafe. Even when vaccine passes were compulsory and the cafe had enormous signs saying they must see the vaccine pass, they still didn’t actually ask to see it. I think the signs were to prevent anxious people complaining, but most places just get on with business. There’s some very anxious people who still say things like “unvaccinated people are going to kill everyone” but these people are increasingly in the minority. Eg 1 person at my work said this last week, compared to around 20 with this view 6 months ago.
    
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    April 9, 2022 11:21am
    - Hollyfield
      
      And the person who said an unvaccinated person will kill everyone
      She, her husband and both children have had COVID
      It was a mild cold for all of them
      They are all vaccinated they are all still alive
      
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      April 9, 2022 11:35am
- cmm
  
  Considiering the effectiveness of the vaccine, it is more like having a bacterial infection and demanding that everyone around you has knee surgery.
  
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  April 9, 2022 1:09pm
I remember when

Horowhenua Mail:
Hopes killing field days are over:
During 2020/21 there were 14 fatalities on a 20 km stretch of SH1 between Otaki and Levin.
The killing fields are a number of sites in Cambodia, where more than a million people died between 1975 and 1979.

See the similarities?
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April 9, 2022 9:40am
- MCōs
  
  killing field
  noun
  plural noun: killing fields
  a place where a heavy loss of life has occurred
  
  The killing fields of Cambodia is one example.
  The bit of road is another at the other end of the scale
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:57am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Both the result of terrible socialist govt with doctrinaire misanthropic political agendas? (In labours case refusing to build much needed motorways)
  
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  April 9, 2022 10:18am
Surely Knott

The NZDSOS teachers and doctors lose their case. One of the key issues in the case was the safety of the vaccine. The judge reckons its “safe and effective.” I’m not sure he got this right. “safe and effective” is a marketing term that means approved by the fda. But in NZ it’s only provisionally approved. Eg. Medsafe has not seen fit to fully approve it. Not for delta or omicron. Not a year after the vaccines been in use in NZ or after they are recommending 3 vaccines. It is not fully approved. And Pfizer still has indemnity because it is still only provisionally approved. Provisional. Hasn’t been through a proper full process.

But Medsafe said it’s provisionally approved BUT we should trust it because their was safety data supplied and extra checks. Because usually provisionally approved doesn’t require any safety data but pfizer provided some. Regardless it’s still only provisionally approved because of a lack of long term health and safety data. Provisional. So who is the judge to say it’s safe and effective. And if Medsafe thinks it’s safe and effective enough to force on the public then approve it. Put the data and application through the full process and make it transparent. Stake your names and reputations on it. It may have had extra checks but it is not fully approved. And the provisional approval process requires no safety data apparently. So anything else was a bonus. Provisionally approved. Provisional. The medical body has not fully approved it. Provisional. So is it right for the judge to now say it’s safe and effective. If it was it would be fully approved. Pfizer won’t take the chance, medsafe won’t put their name or reputation on it, but you must take it or you’re rabbit hole dwelling conspiracy laden filth.

Here is what medsafe says about their provisional consent. “[111] The Pfizer vaccine has been approved in New Zealand under the Medicines
Act. As explained above, Ellis J considered and dismissed an application for interim relief associated with the approval although she identified an issue with the general availability of the vaccine under a provisional consent. She concluded that interim relief should not be granted. 58 When doing so she said:59 … it must be recognised that the process gone through here was not an orthodox provisional consent process—it went above and beyond. Although s 23 applications are not required to provide the s 21 particulars about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine, it is clear that those particulars were, in fact, provided by Pfizer, in part (no doubt) because an application for full consent
was also made. And it is difficult to see how the assessment process could, in the circumstances, have been more thorough. As set out above, Mr James’ evidence makes it clear that there were a number of layers of reflection and review in addition to those that would ordinarily be expected in a provisional consent assessment. The risks with which s 23 is concerned—and the reason for the restrictions around granting a provisional consent—have therefore been considerably diminished.”

So it wasn’t approved but the judge essentially says it’s safe enough. It went above and beyond they say. But still not far enough for full approval it seem, but safe enough to over ride the bill of rights.

From the judgement ” His evidence is striking, however, because he is the Medical Officer of Health at Waikato District Health Board. He has concerns about the safety of the Pfizer vaccine, and he significantly doubts its efficacy and has chosen not to be vaccinated himself, putting his job at risk. A key aspect of his evidence is that there is uncertainty about the safety of the vaccine, and that mandates are fundamentally inconsistent with usual medical practice and the principle of informed consent. ”

From Dr Bloomfield: “Data about the impact of the vaccine on onward transmission of Omicron is still developing, due to the time since discovering this variant and being able to observe the effects of booster dosing. As such, data are only available that assess the effect of ‘all vaccines’, not Pfizer alone. However, non-peer reviewed data from a small study suggests that vaccinated people infect fewer people in their household, which is a setting where many ‘exposure events’ are likely to occur” A small non-peer reviewed study!

Judge: ” Having considered the evidence I am not satisfied that the Pfizer vaccine has unaddressed safety issues.” But medsafe is satisfied there are unaddressed safety issues that’s why it’s provisionally approved. And it’s medsafe who is qualified to make a safety medical decision.
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April 9, 2022 9:52am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Crappy decision. Judges are there to preserve human rights, not vaccine risks and efficacy. That is exactly the kind of decision individuals must be free to make.
  
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  April 9, 2022 7:28pm
Swifty

More Chinese bullying and corruption:

https://i.stuff.co.nz/sport/olympics/128282614/new-zealand-officials-embroiled-in-international-diving-stoush
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April 9, 2022 9:54am
Swifty

My 19 year old daughter was serving tables at an Auckland CBD eatery last night, a crew of a dozen mixed Islanders and Maori with one Indian guy walk in around 9pm.

The place was pumping and chocker and my daughter said “sorry, I can’t seat you all right now but I have one table for four free and the rest of you could sit at the bar and wait for a table to come free if you’d like….”

One of the group (a light skinned Maori by my daughters reckoning) said quite loudly “Nah, they won’t seat us ‘cause we’re black….”

FFS.
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April 9, 2022 9:59am
- Nickc2
  
  May I suggest you e-mail you daughter’s experience that night to the PM, Willie Jackson, Nanaia Mahuta, and Kelvin Davis, and see what sort of replies you get if any. Their e-mail addresses are included in this link.
  https://www.parliament.nz/en/get-involved/have-your-say/contact-an-mp/
  
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  April 9, 2022 11:45am
- David George
  
  Haha, reminds me of Ali G – “is that cos I is black”
  https://youtu.be/JRGC-5LjJ2M?t=149
  
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  April 9, 2022 12:36pm
Maggie Pie

Finally got to watch the ‘E’ channel last night.

I must say all this ‘gender-equality’ shite is getting a bit silly.
Apparently, there’ll be a new James Bond movie coming out, which will have 007 starting out as a man, but during the action will undergo Gender Reassignment Surgery and end up as a woman!

Due for release Summer 2024. Will be called ‘COCKTOPUSSY’

😀 😀 😀
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April 9, 2022 10:09am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Honestly, Maggie, that could be the name of the whole series.
  
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  April 9, 2022 10:59am
dannz

Paralysed by ideology… Just send them
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/128308671/nz-has-surplus-armoured-vehicles-ukraine-needs-them-why-wont-we-send-them
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April 9, 2022 10:23am
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/128307100/my-food-bag-shares-up-12-per-cent-after-preliminary-result
Nadia Lim certainly gets a lot of coverage on Stuff and on radio stations.
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April 9, 2022 10:24am
Surely Knott

A Dunedin Bar is also still requiring them. So i did a quick survey last night at 11pm. Using google my business live which shows expected busyness of a company versus their actual live busyness. And the three dunedin bars i checked were all as expected normal busyness but the mandated bar had dropped by 1/3. I will check again tonight to see if there is a trend.
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April 9, 2022 10:43am
Maggie Pie

I’ve never been into rugby. Far too many head injuries for my liking.
And except for Arron Smith, I could hardly name another All Black.
Although listening to the News before, you’d think that guy Dan Carter could find something better to do with his time?

Just saying.
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April 9, 2022 11:09am
- Prince
  
  Aaron Smith did a great job reffing that game last night.
  
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  April 9, 2022 11:45am
- MCōs
  
  He does a lot of advertising for Chemist Warehouse.
  
  A lot of these formerly superstar sportsmen seem to have too much time on their hands.
  Happens to our rockstars too and ancient politicians.
  I was listening to an interview on the radio with some well known in NZ singer.
  He was ‘resting’ between making albums or touring out in the provinces or whatever. He was kind of bored, really and went for a walk to a local coffee shop and chanced upon another well known local musician in the same predicament.
  Tom Walsh is a builder, Richie buzzes round in his chopper. Some guys end up on the wrong side of the law.
  A friend of mind ran into an old AB he used to admire, drunk, disheveled and homeless on the street.
  
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  April 9, 2022 12:20pm
- Bridgenag
  
  Yes and why not help NZ’s please
  
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  April 9, 2022 1:23pm
- kevn
  
  @Maggie… Pity Dan isn’t doing more advocating for his severely adverse jab reaction sister, Sarah.
  Using his profile to effect.
  
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  April 9, 2022 1:34pm
rouppe

A hit job in Stuff trying to pitch the recent fund raising as the death of democracy.

The Rich List donors represent not even the 1% but rather the 0.01%. (Almost all, moreover, are Pākehā men.)

Wow… In the same publication that was calling references to the PM as “Cindy” misogynistic, we have this bloke calling individuals “the 0.01%” and “white men”, clearly as a pejorative. (Yes I know he said Pakeha, but he probably gets a bonus for getting that in there).

Research by Victoria University’s Thomas Anderson and Simon Chapple shows that, between 1996 and 2019, big donations from businesses outweighed those from trade unions by four to one

Conveniently forgetting all the payment “in kind” by unionised workers doing Labour groundwork for free while on the clock

If political parties become dependent on large donors for the cash needed to contest elections, how will they not also become, subtly and over time, biased towards those donors’ interests and worldviews?

Let me just rephrase that for you

If political parties become dependent on ~~large donors~~ unions for the ~~cash~~ cash and labour needed to contest elections, how will they not also become, subtly and over time, biased towards those donors’ interests and worldviews?

Works both ways, ehoa
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April 9, 2022 11:10am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  I bet both sources are insignificant compared with what Labour extracts from the taxpayer.
  
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  April 9, 2022 1:04pm
  - Bridgenag
    
    All those rubbish ads…….sigh
    
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    April 9, 2022 1:25pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Junk mail in the letterbox.
“ARE YOU AN ALCOHOLIC? CALL NOW, WE CAN HELP’
Partner insisted I call so I did.
It was the liquor shop “BUY 3 AND GET ONE FREE!’
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April 9, 2022 11:45am
- Lee C
  
  A penguin was at the seaside for the day when his car started to break down.
  He just managed to get it to a mechanic’s before it conked out. Lots of steam and such.
  The mechanic was friendy but adamant. “I can’t look at it now, but if you come back in an hour I might be able to tell you what the problem is.”
  
  As it was a nice day, the penguin decided to go down to the seafront, check out the wildlife and the sights, where he got a vanilla icecream.
  
  Anyone who is familiar with penguin anatomy will know he had to attack the ice cream with his beak and well, made abit of a mess of it.
  
  Looking a this watch her realised it was time to check up on his car, so he waddled back to the mechanics.
  
  “Well did you find out what the trouble is?” he asked.
  
  The Mechanic looked up from under the bonnet and said:
  
  “Looks like you’ve blown a seal.”
  “No.” replied the penguin.
  
  “It’s only ice cream.”
  
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  April 9, 2022 12:31pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    LOL!! I’m using that one tonite after we’ve all had dessert 😛
    
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    April 9, 2022 12:48pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    The Seven Dwarves knocked on the door of a Nunnery. When the Mother Superior answered the door, Dopey stepped forward and asked “Mother, are their any Dwarf Nuns in the Nunnery.
    The Mother Superior replied, “No Dopey, there aren’t”.
    Dopey then asked, “Are there any Dwarf Nuns in Italy?”.
    She replied, “Sorry Dopey, not at all”.
    By this point the other Dwarves were laughing and rolling on the floor.
    The Mother Superior said “What’s so funny?”, and the Dwarves all shouted “Dopey fucked a Penguin, Dopey fucked a Penguin!”
    
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    April 9, 2022 1:02pm
    - Bridgenag
      
      lol
      
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      April 9, 2022 1:28pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Larry LaPrise, the man who wrote “The Hokey Pokey,” song, died peacefully at the age of 83.
  
  The most traumatic part for his family was getting him into the coffin. First they put his left leg in, and then the trouble started.
  Shut up! You know it’s funny
  
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  April 9, 2022 2:21pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

The biggest and most damaging lie of this govt: Claiming that unemployment is down to historic lows. Since Labour came in official unemployed numbers have dropped from 125k to 93k a claimed ‘3.2%’.

Hidden in that bullshit is that they have switched 100k people to different benefits that have grown massively from about 180k when labour came in to 280k now A 35% increase. There are huge numbers now receiving what is effectively a universal basic income with no requirement to look for work, just sit around getting fatter, stupider and more miserable growing labour’s welfare vote base. Insidiously destroying their future prospects, hopes and their children’s potential with the half existence that welfare dependency creates.

The damage labour are doing to their voting base in this sneaky lying (to the country) manner vastly outstrips all the other destruction they are wreaking on this country in it’s terms of the long term negative consequences, financial cost and destruction of human happiness that it is creating.
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April 9, 2022 11:45am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Shoot, that should be 55% not 35% increase in welfare dependant.
  
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  April 9, 2022 12:51pm
Nickc2

We’re having a Street Party in my street this evening, both Kainga Ora families have moved on (intentionally or not, we don’t know). YAY!!!
Kids can now play in the street without the fear of being attacked by a fucking big half-starved dog, no all-night noise due to parties, no expletives shouted at pedestrians, and cars parked in the street will no longer be intentionally damaged.
A time to rejoice.
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April 9, 2022 12:03pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Ardern’s Government leaves NZ exposed to energy insecurity

https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2022/04/09/new-zealands-management-of-its-strategic-assets-just-right-or-in-need-of-recalibration-and-in-learning-from-canberrra/#more-15297
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April 9, 2022 1:24pm
Maggie Pie

One of the girls from tennis has just tweeted this…. OMG you’ll luv it 😀

Jacinda!

https://twitter.com/wahinetoa7/status/1512569332412424196
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April 9, 2022 1:24pm
- Bridgenag
  
  Maggie For those of us not twittering, facebooking, ticktocking or whatever…. A little message to give the dinosaurs the gist would be great as we believe you …… no evidence required
  
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  April 9, 2022 1:39pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Just join up to Twitter now Bridgey! It’s free and it’s easy.
    You’ve got no idea what you’re missing!!
    You can also make thousands of friends all over the world.
    I have.
    
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    April 9, 2022 2:01pm
  - greybeard
    
    Just click on the bloody link!
    She isn’t asking you to set up a Twitter account !
    
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    April 9, 2022 4:31pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  From the Podium of Struth
  
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  April 9, 2022 2:26pm
Bridgenag

My partners friend belongs to a group of Cindy-ites that are having a morning tea [talked about for weeks] and they are GOING TO OPEN ALL THE WINDOWS in an air-conditioned apartment complex ………. FFS Poor little frightened creatures. What is wrong with the fellas….!!!!!
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April 9, 2022 1:34pm
surfing

Fuck Jacinda’s government I’m afraid.

Son just got his brand new motorbike back, after it was stolen by the mongrel mob a couple of weeks back. Son is a student with no money,and this theft meant he had no transport around town and to uni. It had a major impact on his life.

Cops caught this mongrel mob coward turd riding his bike with no number plates. No doubt the punishment will not match the impact on my sons life.

Mongrel mob have done a lot of damage to my son’s brand new bike , put 1900km on the odometer. Obviously crashed it a number of times.

Makes me so angry that Jacinda supports the mob financially. I can’t stand this woman’s politics and the sooner she goes the better.

I detest the gangs with a vengeance, and I’ll back any party that vows to tear apart the gangs and put them all in jail if necessary.
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April 9, 2022 1:46pm
- David Garrett
  
  Gangs should be mercilessly targeted – “turned over” in police parlance…they have all the laws they need now, but when you have Cuddles Coster refusing to say that the Mob is even partially a criminal organization that’s not going to happen any time soon
  
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  April 9, 2022 5:59pm
Maggy Wassilieff

I see the SMH and Melbourne Age are giving up the use of honorifics

https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/read-all-about-it-the-herald-is-dropping-honorifics-20220408-p5ac1d.html

https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/changing-our-language-with-the-times-20220408-p5ac29.html

It will be interesting to see if our MSM follows suit.

Somehow I can’t see our Lefties giving up referring to their favoured Profs/Drs/Dames/ Tā/ Numerous Samoan chiefs / by their titles.
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April 9, 2022 2:17pm
- big bruv
  
  I’d bloody settle for the media calling our PM “Ardern” instead of the far too sycophantic “Jacinda”
  
  It was never “John” or “Helen”, nor was it “David” or ‘Rob”, why the hell does Ardern get her first name used so often?
  
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  April 9, 2022 2:28pm
  - Paulus
    
    By calling her Jacinda it shows she is one of us !
    
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    April 9, 2022 3:10pm
- Jack5
  
  Dropping traditional honorics at this stage is probably cowardice in the face of the Woke who want gender free English.
  
  No longer any need for reportes to choose between Mrs, Miss, or Ms for second mentions of a person (these pronouns have long gone from first mentions).
  
  The next wave of change, neutral pronouns, will be harder.
  
  Using the plural “they” for “he” or “she” will he a challenging choice for news media. Use they for as a gender-free pronoun will brand the news medium using it as Woke, Liberal, and Grauniad-like. And not worth buying.
  
  Use of honorifics has been changing for many decades. At one stage, and perhaps in some places still, some sections of a newspaper, such as for sport news, might not use honorifics, while other sections used them.
  
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  April 9, 2022 2:46pm
  - Mike
    
    The conventions of language use change over time. Who knew?
    
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    April 9, 2022 4:12pm
big bruv

List of things that Blue Labour Leader Mr Woke-Luxon will not repeal.

1. The UTE tax
2. He Puapua
3. The Treaty
4. Moari Wards
5. Three Waters
6. Matariki Holiday
7. Labours Tax Increases
8. Tax Thresholds
9. NZ ‘History” curriculum.

This explains why even after the disaster that is the Cindy government Mr Woke-Luxon cannot capitalise. The public knows that under his leadership, and with the current intake of Blue Labour MP’s things will be the same.
NZ is rapidly chasing third world status, we need a new direction and a new vision, we don’t need a woke fundy.
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April 9, 2022 2:23pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  And did you see where I posted here yesterday that Cis and Cindy were PEN-PALS long b4 he entered Parlianent!
  
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  April 9, 2022 3:15pm
- greybeard
  
  Why not send this post to Mr. Luxon himself, and ask for his response?
  
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  April 9, 2022 4:27pm
- Don Beckett
  
  You are incorrect with many items on that list, big bruv.
  Why don’t you check before criticising.
  
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  April 9, 2022 4:50pm
- MCōs
  
  No government is every going to delete a public holiday in NZ.
  
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  April 9, 2022 9:51pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

At the boss’s funeral a disgruntled employee knelt next to the coffin and whispered “Who’s thinking outside the box now Gary?”
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April 9, 2022 2:38pm
- Mike
  
  That got a LOL.
  
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  April 9, 2022 4:14pm
Paulus

But look at Labour actual real Health achievement !
The new Wellington Childrens Hospital is opened today – wunnerful Labour actual sucess.
BUT
It was privately paid for and built by and under the generosity of Mark Dunajschik and his partner Dorothy Spotswood.
The whole Country should give thanks to both of these sucessful and generous people.
Not doubt Cindy will take credit where it is not due.
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April 9, 2022 3:16pm
Harriet

If you hate the police — then just vote in a Labour government and make them look useless and questionable — and you don’t get charged! 😎
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April 9, 2022 5:20pm
Suze Wainwright

Blues!
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