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Warren

Can anyone confirm that the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has addressed the bullying accusation from a staff member working in Anna Lorck Labour MP’s office or is this bullying complaint going to end up like the complaints of a sexual predator working out of the Prime Minister’s Office in 2018.
But as we know the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is such a brilliant leader in her opinion mainly that the broom would have had plenty of use over the last week to cover up all other complaints apart from those against Gaurav Sharma.
The other thing I find irritating is Kieran McNulty having the right to speak on Gaurav Sharma and bulling while the wayward MP has been threatened with expulsion from Labour if he makes anymore accusations.
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August 18, 2022 8:03am
- Warren
  
  https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/08/16/kieran-mcanulty-on-sharma-claims-a-sad-sad-situation/
  
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  August 18, 2022 8:15am
  - jv
    
    Lunchtime at a kindy near you-
    ” Ok class Little Billy is in the naughty corner because he wouldn’t eat his peanut butter sandwich. Who else doesn’t want to eat their peanut butter sandwiches? Lovely that is unanimous then”
    
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    August 18, 2022 8:34am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      That is exactly the outcome – more bullying.
      
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      August 18, 2022 9:03am
    - 7kiwi11
      
      Unfortunately Little Billy wouldn’t be allowed a peanut butter sandwich these days because Little Willamina will die at the mere whiff of a nut.
      
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      August 18, 2022 9:31am
      - Aunty
        
        Oh dear. How is she going to get on with her husband?
        
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        August 18, 2022 12:34pm
  - kowtow
    
    The Media Pardy insist on calling him the “rogue MP” .
    
    He’s not a whistle blower , principled , bullied or any number of other potentially positive adjectives they could give him .
    
    He’s rogue .
    
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    August 18, 2022 8:40am
    - EssenX
      
      The Media Party is also ignoring the fact that Dr Sharma has a historical record of taking down bullies. It will be interesting to see when this makes its way out of social media and into the general public.
      
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      August 18, 2022 9:10am
      - Matt Long
        
        More information please.
        
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        August 18, 2022 9:59am
    - pdm
      
      kowtow – Sharma comes across as a `good bugger’ to me.
      
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      August 18, 2022 9:18am
      - kowtow
        
        Buggeration for his party , that’s good.
        
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        August 18, 2022 1:26pm
    - Philview
      
      The media showed hyperbolic vitriol against the National Party over Sam Uffindel compared to very restrained reporting regarding Dr Sharma. The bias is ridiculous and somehow has to stop.
      
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      August 18, 2022 11:23am
  - Scooter
    
    A body language expert would have a field day with this interview, nose scratch and even choked on his words at one point. Not quite as practiced as the PM.
    
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    August 18, 2022 8:59am
    - emmess
      
      Or he has fleas LOL
      
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      August 18, 2022 9:31am
    - Hard Cheese
      
      He’s hardly a good advertisement for the integrity of the process. His basic argument is that everyone in the Labour party agrees, and Jacinda Ardern and Grant Robertson back him that the allegations aren’t true, therefore case closed.
      
      “we gave a statement to the local paper rejecting this”
      
      There’s some solid evidence right there /s
      
      LOL.
      
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      August 18, 2022 11:38am
  - amospicton
    
    methinks he doth protest too much
    
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    August 18, 2022 8:59am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    McNulty states:
    “At the heart of this is an employment matter and when you’re a Whip, you’ve got staff raising concerns about an MP, you’ve got to step in.”
    
    I thought Parliamentary Services employed the Staff…and should have dealt with the employment matter… not Jacinda Ardern and her lackies.
    
    Sharma made specific complaints about why he didn’t want to continue employing a staffer..
    
    Issues I raised involved staff being drunk at work, not showing up to work, being sent on leave without any notice or approval, and a significant wastage of taxpayer’s money.
    (From his Facebook.. 12 August)
    
    Were these matters resolved in a timely and professional manner?
    
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    August 18, 2022 9:11am
- Scooter
  
  The PM has an obvious aversion to confronting or dealing with issues in her caucus, much easier to concentrate on more school visits. So she accuses Sharma of not managing his staff, while she basically can’t do any better.
  
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  August 18, 2022 8:25am
  - G152
    
    I was amused at the sad faced fake news interview with Cindy claiming Sharma has mental problems and how they are so concerned with his well being.
    Sue them Sharma
    
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    August 18, 2022 8:37am
    - Oskar
      
      Interesting comment from Ben Thomas in today’s Stuff
      
      “The irony, of course, is that the prime minister, characteristically empathetic throughout, has never failed to express her personal concern for Sharma and “his wellbeing”, in the same way a mobster might fret that it would be a real shame if something were to happen to a local shopkeeper who hadn’t paid protection money.”
      
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      August 18, 2022 8:53am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Indeed, here is a link to some comedy gold. It’s Ardern visiting a school (funny that) and a live stream Q&A hosted by Stuff. The body language is telling. The word salad is hard to digest.
      
      The actual speaking starts at 5 minutes :15 seconds. Not sure why they don’t edit the blank part out.
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMB5ZAxKJSI
      
      The fraud is clearly visible. Even in the first 30 seconds if you feel ill and don’t want to watch all of it.
      
      The entertaining part is that Stuff have left comments open. If this is a poll on her performance she is in much worse trouble than the indicators currently show us. Though they disabled the “thumbs down” button. A bridge too far? lol
      
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      August 18, 2022 9:00am
      - nathie
        
        Woah the YT Comments section are well worth a read, looks like no-one is buying JA’s spin!!
        
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        August 18, 2022 9:05am
      - Warren
        
        Clan she wouldn’t address the protesters on Mandates in the sit in at Parliament and again she the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern shows she can’t manage people by refusing to open dialog with Gaurav Sharma over bullying claims but allows one of the bully’s Kieran McNulty to put his side to the media after gagging Sharma.
        
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        August 18, 2022 9:15am
      - Scooter
        
        Why has she got an enforcer standing behind her? Head nodding in agreement with dear leader.
        
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        August 18, 2022 4:39pm
      - Overworked
        
        That’s massively gruesome overemoting. Love the lightning change from regretful mother-of-the-country to loftily frowny International Stateswoman as she changes topic to Ukraine.
        
        The best bit of the interview is at 6:17 where Carmel Sepuloni (?) switches from looking from place to place to a fixed death stare at the person who dared to ask about the pre-caucus caucus meeting.
        
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        August 18, 2022 7:59pm
      - Observer of Life
        
        Clan: She seems to be doing a curling lip/snarling expression when doing most of the talking about Dr Sharma. She lost that in the middle when the subject changed, then it came back when his name came up again later on. Talk about forcing back her true feelings. And BTW that is the most I’ve sat through of her rabbiting on in a very long time. I now feel decidedly sick. Need to go find a bucket. 🤢
        
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        August 18, 2022 9:17pm
    - peterwn
      
      Lange v Atkinson imposes a big barrier for politicians wishing to sue for defamation. The basis is politicians should have thick skins.
      
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      August 18, 2022 10:17am
      - iMP
        
        L v A has been superseded by the fourth defence of defamation in Nz “ responsible communication”. Durie v Gardiner.
        
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        August 18, 2022 11:45am
- Simon
  
  Labo and bullying. Didn’t all the clowns from Wellington force or bully that vaxx shit into everyone.
  
  Labour the party of bullies where were National when Labo was using its bullying zero covid shit onto the general population. Where was the protection from Labo?
  
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  August 18, 2022 8:27am
  - kowtow
    
    Yep , we were basically kidnapped and locked up until enough of us got their fake vaccination .
    
    In essence it was “medication” under duress.
    
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    August 18, 2022 8:59am
    - Joely Doe
      
      In essence it was “medication” under duress
      
      Yes it was.
      Coercion is not consent.
      Try getting that approval past a Medical Ethics Committee..
      
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      August 18, 2022 10:10am
- Bobba Fret
  
  McNulty would be a prick to work for or report to in my opinion.
  
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  August 18, 2022 10:49am
  - RightFirstTime
    
    He comes across as being a bit slimy and completely untrustworthy. In other words, an ideal candidate to be a Labour MP.
    
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    August 18, 2022 12:26pm
    - Stellaboxer
      
      If Ardern were given free reign to achieve her potential then McAnulty would be her Lavrentiy Beria. I have no doubt. He was obviously displacing DoLittle as party thug and if you watch dear leader’s appearances at the tedious procession of junior schools there he is just behind her shoulder observing all. A meteoritic rise from bookie to bully. IMHO.
      
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      August 18, 2022 1:54pm
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      Yeah see what he (allegedly) did to his ex wife, spending all her inheritance on election then dumping her as soon as he won. Nasty POS.
      https://twitter.com/Wildnfree1984/status/1558004042554646529/photo/1
      
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      August 18, 2022 2:34pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Can’t confirm, but I see the vulgar Nigel Howarth poking his nose into Nats on Twitter, if you look at Hottens page, he replies to one of his posts, read the reply’s, they are all suggesting he is a plonker, but was he not the head bully during the sexual grope fest st youth camp where they lied them with grog
  
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  August 18, 2022 1:20pm
fernglas

Is this ongoing media obsession with Covid a genuine reflection of public concern, or is it just some of the 122 journalists, who were supported into non-existent jobs by a Government bribe, trying desperately to justify their continued employment? I see that the Government is now saying that the money was dished out to support the media through Covid, but given that it actually created jobs, it seems that it was more to build up a cadre of pro-Government and pro-fear cheerleaders. Or has no-one in the media pointed that out yet?
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August 18, 2022 8:03am
- Warren
  
  This Government and Media are rotten to the core, so why would they bite the hand that feeds them as even there long time readers are deserting them in droves.
  
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  August 18, 2022 8:23am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    The money is a bottomless bucket while Labour is in the trough, look at what happens to funding when every dollar is used wisely.
    
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    August 18, 2022 1:22pm
- Zero Kindness
  
  The government funded media obsession is being cranked up to the max to try and undermine the upcoming protest march on Parliament.
  Will be interesting to see if any parliament representatives actually come out and meet with the protestors next Tuesday the 23rd of August.
  Never forget, the reason they said they did not meet the protesters in February was because the occupation was illegal, however not one of them met with the huge number of protesters in November and December 2021, the PM then claiming that “they did not represent New Zealanders”, this despite the later accepted view that 30% of NZ supported the protests.
  
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  August 18, 2022 10:16am
  - Hebe123
    
    There’s another protest?
    
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    August 18, 2022 3:50pm
krazykiwi

Over the course of the stage-managed pandemic there have been all manor of lies and obfuscations from our so-called ‘leaders’. Many of these have been linked to and mocked by those of us with enough courage to call the perpetrators on their malignant malfeasances. We’ve now started to see feature length documentaries pulling this content into cohesive commentaries, showing the breadth and depth of the deception. One which documentary is this: Uninformed Consent. This is a full 2hrs, and I commend it to you. For those who’d prefer to snack on shorter segments, I have compiled a high-level topic list:-
1. Leaders vilifying the unvaccinated, and riot-squad police beating up protesters and old ladies [03:30]
2. Biden tells parents to get their kids vaccinated, and then unexplained deaths start occurring [14:50]
3. Pfizer’s criminal activity in respect of Vioxx [27:07]
4. Vilified experts speak up [31:43]
5. Co-ordinated silencing of off-narrative voices [42:30]
6. Bill Gates love testing in Africa, and boasts of a 20:1 return on vaccine creation [46:20]
7.Early treatment is vilified in medical journals funded by pharma [50:40]
8. Industry’s history of pushing harm – DDT fogging, smoking etc [01:05:20]
9. Sports people dropping dead.. proximal to their taking the vax [01:10:50]
10. Big Pharma buying governments [01:19:25]
11. Big Pharma buying regulatory agencies, and many leaders.. including Ardern [01:24:29]
12. Corporate media, “brought to you my Pfizer” [01:27:16]
13. Trudeau, “fringe minority holding unacceptable views” [01:30:35]
14. Stand-up comedian mocks the unvaxxed, describes getting recently vaxxed, then collapses on stage with heart failure [01:39:02]
15. Nuremberg code violated, offers of $millions to get vaxxed [01:52:47]
16. Leaders now say vax doesn’t stop infection or transmission, but to get it anyway [01:44:45]
17. Normalising myocarditis in kids, including a shock ad telling parents how to respond [01:48:30]
18. Schwab boasts about “Penetrating cabinets” of governments [01:49:31]
19. Ardern’s disgraceful “yip, yip” moment. Trudeau says the unvaxxed will face consequences. Biden say his patience is wearing thin [01:52:23]
20. The players, and their money [01:56:22]

The last 2.5 years have seen the greatest, most vile crimes against humanity in history. Who will be held to account? And when?
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August 18, 2022 8:04am
- Jim
  
  Still Safe and Effective?
  
  A leading UK NHS consultant cardiologist Dr Aseem Malhorta (Google his credibility) who is a pro-vaccine advocate, is asserting concerns since analysing data supporting the Pfizer Comirnaty efficacy claims.
  
  Dr Malhorta asserts that the Pfizer trial data shows serious shortcomings, and that especially since (virus evolution to) Omicron, there is now potentially more risk of succumbing to an adverse side effect than receiving the purported health benefits.
  
  The NZ Government’s PIJF paid media will simply never cover a story like this, despite similar findings now emerging across the world. Clearly the PIJF misrepresents the intended purpose: Government Interest Journalism Fund.
  
  Here’s a link to a most compelling recent 10 minute interview of Dr Malhorta on GB News:
  
  https://youtu.be/DWaYdDKKTXc
  
  Furthermore in relation to children’s covid vaccinations, specifically authorisation of a new Omicron targeted vaccine, you may be interested in this recent interview of a retired NHS consultant paediatrician:
  
  https://youtu.be/fXRYMe2ikqI
  
  Kiwis should now demand true transparency and balanced coverage of this well developed international issue.
  
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  August 18, 2022 8:12am
- ClanMcleod
  
  KK – The worm truly has turned. For the first time in over 2 years I have hope now that truth will indeed prevail. It has been among the darkest periods of my life and at times I despaired due to the power structure and huge volumes of money and propaganda that has been thrown at this artificially created disaster.
  
  I have often said that truth will always win out but at times doubted it, along with my own sanity. But I have a very strong feeling in my heart and soul that we have crested that hill and the next year or two will see an increasing influx of truth. Many of those who helped maintain this narrative see that it is collapsing like the house of cards that it is. Many will jump ship.
  
  It is already happening, particularly in mainstream media. Slowly, but one after another, high profile commentators are either waking up and seeing the truth for the first time, or are realising the game is up and switching sides in a hurry.
  Our old favourite el gato malo nailed it a few weeks ago in this post:
  
  “if the pivots were any faster, we could make these people hold magnets and it would generate sufficient power to replace the german nuclear industry.
  
  the whole story is falling to pieces end to end. the true blue zealots are trying one more run for masks and mandates, but they are getting clowned.
  
  this will be isolated to a few locales. the rest are done.
  the data is too clear and the smarter rats are getting the hell off this ship before the waters close over it for good.”
  
  https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-tipping-point-on-vaccines-and
  
  The answer to your question will be the one I will be waiting and watching for with the most interest over the next year or two.
  Who indeed will be held to account? We have a pretty good idea of those who belong on that list. They are guilty of the greatest crimes against humanity in almost a century.
  
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  August 18, 2022 8:49am
  - Jim
    
    I wholeheartedly agree Clan. But sadly the corporate and state sponsored media hacks that continue to employ (wittingly or unwittingly) ‘certain editorial constraints’ are just hiding us all from the truth.
    
    I can understand the temptation of a large financial bribe, but certainly not if the consequences are poisioning the (societal) well.
    
    If lessons about the covid response aren’t discussed and analysed, it’s the perpetrators own children and grandchildren that will potentially be impacted in the future.
    
    One thing for sure and whether we like it or not, eventually all humans reap what we sow.
    
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    August 18, 2022 2:59pm
  - mawm
    
    Those who prevented people from getting early treatment with HCQ or IVM are responsible for a number of deaths from Covid-19. The evidence is there that they are efficacious so they cannot plead ignorance. As they are responsible for their deaths they should be prosecuted. It will take just one country to do so and the dominos will topple.
    
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    August 18, 2022 4:52pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “not only will there be no forced vaccinations, but those who choose to opt-out won’t face any penalties at all.”
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/09/coronavirus-jacinda-ardern-confident-enough-kiwis-will-get-covid-19-vaccine-for-herd-immunity-without-being-forced-to.html
  
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  August 18, 2022 9:23am
  - mandk
    
    Can you post to where she actually said that?
    
    It’s not what she said in that Newshub interview.
    
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    August 18, 2022 10:38am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      mandk – What did she actually say? I’m not watching it, I’m sick of the sight and sound of her.
      
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      August 18, 2022 12:39pm
      - mandk
        
        She talked about restrictions on the ability of hospitality businesses to operate, and Ihumatao.
        
        She implied that people would voluntarily gave the Vax and that mandates wouldn’t be needed.
        
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        August 18, 2022 1:45pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      This is the gist of what she said.
      
      Q – Will people who refuse to take the vax be banned from travel or get tax penalties?
      
      A – No, no, we haven’t applied that before in NZ. For anyone who doesn’t take up an effective, and tested and safe vaccine when available, that will come at risks to them.
      
      Q – Will you have sanctions against those who don’t take the vaccination?
      
      A – We haven’t done that because of our levels of vaccination in NZ, it isn’t about anti vaccination, it’s about vax hesitancy. No penalties if you don’t,
      
      So no penalties if you don’t?
      
      I see no reason to do that.
      
      Her exact words when asked if there would be any mandates for non compliance were:
      
      “No, and we haven’t for any vaccination in New Zealand applied penalties in that way,”
      
      Well we know now there were plenty of mandates.
      
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      August 18, 2022 3:56pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I am not finding it. The Google Machine Cache seems to have been scrubbed of any original
    
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    August 18, 2022 6:43pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Here’s some more from 2020:
      
      “I think when you make things mandatory it often ends up with the effect of having certain populations or communites thinking that it’s not a good thing and infringing on their rights and stuff,” says microbiologist, Siouxsie Wiles.
      
      Jacinda Ardern says there’s no need to make a vaccine compulsory in New Zealand.
      
      “And I have to say that once we have that vaccination available and out then it is on everyone’s individual risk – if they choose not to they are putting their own health at risk. Because we would of course remove other controls that have stopped the spread,” Ms Ardern told 1 NEWS.
      
      https://www.1news.co.nz/2020/08/19/mandatory-covid-19-vaccine-nz-and-australias-different-approaches/
      
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      August 18, 2022 6:54pm
- John Pakes
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Good grief, here you are, one of the fortunate few who will have both the time and the money to be in London this year!
  And you waste time looking at a fake 2 hour video. Wow.
  Get out and enjoy the city man.
  
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  August 18, 2022 9:36am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    JP – Which part was fake? Take your time.
    
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    August 18, 2022 9:44am
    - krazykiwi
      
      C’mon, Clan. You know that’s not how Comrade Pakes roles. His voluptuous vacuousness has been demonstrated time and time again by not supplying any rational, evidence-based commentary. Still, it is entertaining.
      
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      August 18, 2022 9:58am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        I know, I keep trying to entice these people to actually debate because as you and I know, they would be demolished in a heartbeat and exposed for the useful idiots and trolls they have become.
        There is nothing worse than the stench of desperation of someone who knows they are wrong, but doesn’t have the character or moral fortitude to admit it. It’s almost sad. Almost.
        It’s entertaining as you say, in a ” pulling the wings off a fly” type way. It’s childish, I need to grow up…..
        
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        August 18, 2022 11:59am
  - wilderbeast
    
    Bugger off John. If travelling to London is proof that somehow all is well in the world then you set a really low bar. Obviously just another “privilege” that you and the Jacinda accolytes think can be taken away if and when you like then you have a sick take on what democracy and freedom is.
    
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    August 18, 2022 9:48am
  - Jim
    
    Yep here’s the local London News, does this sound familiar?
    
    https://www.mylondon.news/news/london-crime-5-dead-after-24771588
    
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    August 18, 2022 3:05pm
    - Jim
      
      And if that’s not enough London city enjoyment JP here’s another more despicable one, it’s a daily occurrence under Khan.
      
      Ironically the intro is superseded by a clip of David Seymour asking if you’re sick of crime on our streets in NZ. Short answer David, YES!
      
      https://youtu.be/TSwl2XVtwkc
      
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      August 18, 2022 3:14pm
artemisia

”Thirty-five per cent of Kiwis are in favour of lifting all Covid-19 restrictions now, and 30% want all Covid-19 restrictions lifted after the current wave of infections has peaked, the latest 1News Kantar Public Poll showed.”

But

”Epidemiologist Michael Baker says it’s not the time to be cutting back on restrictions despite case numbers trending down.”

There’s a surprise.

Q – Does Dr Verrall have a plan? A – Not that we know of.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2022/08/17/poll-majority-favour-lifting-all-covid-restrictions-soon/
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August 18, 2022 8:05am
- westernScientist
  
  what a surprise:
  
  And those who are more likely than average (30%) not to want all restrictions lifted include Green Party supporters (49%), Labour Party supporters (45%), Wellingtonians (42%) and women aged 55 or older (39%).
  
  (from the linked article in artemisia’s post)
  
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  August 18, 2022 8:22am
  - mandk
    
    This is Greens hypocrisy writ large.
    
    They oppose the use of GMOs in agriculture, but they want mandated injection of genetically modified medications into people.
    
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    August 18, 2022 8:47am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    ie low information/misinformed voters, highly biased towards ~~sheep~~ women
    
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    August 18, 2022 9:59am
- Jim
  
  The rerun of yesterday’s hero’s rarely ever meet with our adult expectations.
  Today’s kiwi made $6M dollar man looks quite different to the original bionic Steve Austin. I wonder what his super powers truly are?
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Six_Million_Dollar_Man
  
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  August 18, 2022 8:40am
- Raphael
  
  Michael Baker is the one who want’s to be able to implement lockdowns for seasonal colds and flu as well.
  The man may be an epidemiologist, but he seems to be completely ignorant of the fact that isolation weakens our immune systems making it more likely for us to get even sicker with seasonal stuff.
  
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  August 18, 2022 8:45am
  - Sacha
    
    When the average man-in-the-street understands how we get seasonal coughs and colds, and how we get rid of them, Michael Baker just reinforces the opinion that he is an university educated know-nothing. Probably with a wallet stuffed with Pfizer dollars.
    
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    August 18, 2022 9:21am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      We do know for a fact that Otago University’s Infection Group is funded by GAVI. Also by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Also that Baker is part of the WHO. And surprise surprise, he’s listed on the WEF website.
      
      https://www.weforum.org/agenda/authors/michael-baker
      
      As George in “Blackadder Goes Forth” so succinctly put it:
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNDPIGSPdFA
      
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      August 18, 2022 12:07pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Raphael – what actually makes Baker an “epidemiologist”? What qualifies someone as an epidemiologist? Maybe it’s time to take a closer look at Baker’s qualifications and why he is held up as an “expert” in this area.
    
    Apparently this is what is involved in actually becoming an “epidemiologist”.
    
    “There are many and varied pathways to becoming an epidemiologist. They usually involve an undergraduate degree in a related field such as medicine, health science, science with majors in mathematics/statistics, psychology, or sociology or arrange of biomedical sciences”
    
    Baker? – tick.
    
    This is usually followed by a postgraduate degree in epidemiology, biostatistics or public health.
    
    “The options for postgraduate study include:
    
    – a graduate diploma or masters degree in epidemiology, biostatistics or public health that involve substantial coursework, including units in epidemiology, and completion of a minor research project with dissertation.
    
    – a Masters by research degree or PhD in epidemiology, biostatistics or public health focused on a major research project usually with at least some coursework undertaken prior to or during the period of study.
    
    Michael Baker?
    
    Let’s look at his actual qualifications.
    
    Baker’s primary qualification is MB ChB. This is a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery. Good start. He trained to be a doctor.
    
    He has a Diploma in Public Health.
    
    “The Postgraduate Diploma in Public Health (DPH) is a broad-based qualification which is highly sought after by a range of employers. It is relevant and practical, with graduates being able to identify and understand public health issues, and depending on which optional papers are taken, gain the skills to analyse and use health data, design appropriate health promotion strategies, plan and evaluate public health interventions, work collaboratively with professionals and the community, appreciate resource allocation and cost issues in health and uphold ethical standards.”
    
    Sounds like an admin role rather than a medical role to me.
    
    He has another Diploma – in Obstetrics.
    
    “This diploma is aimed at improving the standard of obstetric and gynaecological care provided by general practitioners working in the community.”
    
    Nice, hardly relevant to epidemiology, and he doesn’t work in the community.
    
    He also has the impressive FAFPHM FRACMA after his name. What do they mean?
    
    “Fellow of the Australian Faculty of Public Health Medicine”
    “Fellow Royal Australian College of Medical Administrators”
    
    Reading through his Wikipedia page it looks like he initially studied to be a doctor. It looks like he quickly moved to the public service trough and worked his qualifications to suit that career path.
    
    “He originally wanted to specialise in emergency medicine or psychiatry, but got a job in Wellington as a medical advisor for the Minister of Health. In that role he worked on the response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and helped to set up a needle exchange programme.”
    
    He has achieved admirably in climbing the public service ladder. Top of the trough.
    
    Now take a look at his achievements to date. All are academia related.
    He wrote a paper many years ago advocating NZ being locked down, a tropical paradise in a world of unicorns and rainbows. While the rest of the world dropped like flies, NZers lived amazing lives, the world demanded our products, people desperately wanted to be here and Michael Baker was the author and creator of this Utopia.
    
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5473559/
    
    This is the fantasy world that his head operates in.
    
    This one aged well:
    
    “All countries should pursue a Covid-19 elimination strategy: here are 16 reasons why”
    
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2021/jan/28/all-countries-should-pursue-a-covid-19-elimination-strategy-here-are-16-reasons-why
    
    Baker is as fake as Fauci. Kary Mullis invented the PCR test. As he has said publicly, the PCR test is an excellent tool, but not when it is used improperly as it has been during covid, and not when the meaningless results interpreted to suit an agenda and are used to implement draconian policies. The test was never meant to be used in this way.
    
    As Kary Mullis famously said of Fauci:
    
    “Guys like Fauci get up there and start talking, he doesn’t know anything about anything……
    He doesn’t understand medicine and he should not be in the position that he’s in. Most of those guys at the top are just total, administrative people and they don’t know anything about what’s going on with the body…..
    
    Those guys have got an agenda which is not what we would like them to have, being that we pay for them to take good care of our health……
    
    They make up their own rules as they go along, they change them when they want to.”
    
    Every word of this applies to Baker. He’s a career troughing public servant. This is his lifetime moment and he won’t let it go. He knows this is it for him. I almost feel sorry for him. Almost.
    
    There is a short clip of the interview with Mullis here.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt-jmy-_MDQ
    
    The full interview can be viewed here:
    
    https://www.bitchute.com/video/qA5iN9brfyPd/
    
    “The primary diagnostic tool used for determining a viral infection is the PCR test which Anthony Fauci has helped to establish as the gold standard for testing.
    Kary Mullis, the inventor of the PCR test has stated that no infection or illness can be accurately diagnosed with PCR.”
    
    Baker is as much of a fraud as Ardern.
    
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    August 18, 2022 11:52am
- kowtow
  
  Only 35 % , how disappointing .
  
  But then the regime and their paid poodle activist Media Pardy have done a great job in frightening people stupid .
  
  No wonder she’s holding up in the polls.
  
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  August 18, 2022 8:46am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    kowtow – considering the vast amounts of money and wall to wall media driving of this agenda, it is astonishing that we aren’t doing a “2 minute hate” every day at midday and screaming 2+2 = 5. That so many have fought through this barrage is quite positive.
    It has been an unprecedented propaganda campaign.
    
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    August 18, 2022 12:46pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  I believe Baker will be one of the first sacrifices to go under the bus as soon as the narcissist PM finally realises her fake facade has been shredded. It happened months ago, Ardern and her most zealous advocates are still in denial, but it’s over.
  
  Baker is becoming completely deranged. He has had a sustained period of being in the limelight and loving every minute of it. Like Ardern, he is too narcissistic to realise he should have slid off stage many months ago while the going was good.
  
  I note a number of the other early high profile Branch Covidians have gone quiet.
  
  Rod Jackson
  Wiles
  Hendy
  Plank
  Nick Wilson
  
  There are many others.
  
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  August 18, 2022 9:36am
  - Ruawai
    
    Rod was wheeled out on 7Sharp last night with another silly t-shirt.
    
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    August 18, 2022 10:11am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Ruawai – thanks for the update. I had forgotten what a blessing it has been switching off the vast majority of the msm. Did he say anything that was relevantly honest or important?
      Cheers.
      
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      August 18, 2022 12:58pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I think the coming summer will be a real test for our patience. If these mask mandates are still in place come the holiday season and warm weather it will be hideous.
    
    It has become farcical. I went to the pools yesterday. Changing room had about 20 guys getting changed with not much space. Not a mask in sight. Then when departing, everyone puts on their mask to walk past the reception desk.
    
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    August 18, 2022 11:58am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      The power of mass formation is astonishing. It’s hard not to look at these people and shake your head. I don’t dislike them. I just feel really sad for them. Then I get angry at the people responsible for this and I don’t like being angry. I don’t like the negativity caused by those responsible for this fiasco.
      It has been a horrendous couple of years and nothing like it must ever be permitted again.
      
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      August 18, 2022 1:01pm
- emmess
  
  Well the “wave” is over, if there ever was one
  So that’s 65%
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/covid-19/472825/covid-19-update-lowest-number-of-daily-community-cases-since-february
  
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  August 18, 2022 9:42am
iMP

I see the msm “Right thinking” paranoia of current New Zealand is rounding on all those kiwis with “conspiracy theories“ standing for school boards or local elections, hunting them out like lepers.

“schools will be devastated” opines Stuff. What might happen? They express a diverse opinion around a table that “right thinkers” disagree with and we have sone debate?

oh the humanity.
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August 18, 2022 8:05am
- iMP
  
  Printing their photos like implied criminals is pretty dodgy and a direct attempt to influence the elections. An ugly side of NZ.
  
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  August 18, 2022 8:07am
  - Jim
    
    Very ugly iMP. This is nothing less than a state sponsored assault on free democracy, simply smearing candidates running for public office, especially without a right of reply.
    
    What would our own PM have said if in 2017 National ran the smear of “Let’s do this Comrade” (Ardern was President of the International Union of Socialist Youth)?
    
    So diversity is considered strength, unless it’s diversity of thought and opinion of ‘the party’
    
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    August 18, 2022 8:27am
  - mikenmildagain
    
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    It’s almost as if candidates’ backgrounds, beliefs and plans were of actual interest to voters.
    
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    August 18, 2022 8:42am
    - Frank the tank
      
      Which is a logical argument IF the backgrounds of all candidates were subject to the same rigor NOT just a selected view based on their beliefs.
      
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      August 18, 2022 9:11am
    - John Pakes
      
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      Quite right mikenmildagain. We deserve to see the credentials of every candidate, and the media have every right to examine and report on those credentials as they see fit.
      You will not win on this blog though. The anti vax and VFF brigade who have invaded it will see to that!
      
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      August 18, 2022 9:34am
      - H. Upmann
        
        …… “as they see fit”. Think about that for a moment.
        
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        August 18, 2022 10:00am
      - Littletramp
        
        I’m still not sure what is “wrong” with being “anti vax”?
        Especially if one is anti the covid injections mandated on us, which are not actually traditional vaccines and do not stop transmission or catching the virus.
        Isn’t the “anti vax” as an intended insult a bit stale?
        
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        August 18, 2022 10:09am
      - leoj
        
        ….starting with the credentials of the Red Queen being the President of International Socialist Youth.
        
        Media not so keen to highlight that, were they?
        
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        August 18, 2022 10:39am
      - Local Miller
        
        Actually, no, the media have every right to report in a balanced way, not “as they se fit”.
        You don’t win because you are wrong. It has nothing to do with the blog.
        
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        August 18, 2022 10:51am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        “and the media have every right to examine and report on those credentials as they see fit.”
        
        No. They do not.
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/about-stuff/300106664/stuff-editorial-code-of-practice-and-ethics
        
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        August 18, 2022 11:43am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        “You will not win on this blog though. The anti vax and VFF brigade who have invaded it will see to that!”
        
        It is not about ‘winning’. This blog is primarily a forum for discussing politics and public policy. If the place had been ‘invaded’ by the “anti vax and VFF brigade’, I would depart.
        
        I have championed the benefits of childhood vaccination my entire adult life. I have an excellent understanding of what the world was like before widespread vaccines developed by brilliant scientists.
        
        I was initially excited about the COVID ‘vaccine’ because I took the claims by Pfizer at face value. However it quickly became apparent that – at best – the vaccines were pretty useless, and for many groups, particularly young and fit men, risky.
        
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        August 18, 2022 11:49am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        “You will not win on this blog though. The anti vax and VFF brigade who have invaded it will see to that!”
        
        Postscript to John Pakes. In the case of the small number of folk here who are stridently warning about the COVID vaccines, they generally provide extensive sources. Krazy Kiwi is a good example.
        
        If you think his conclusions are wrong, you can read his source material and provide an alternative view, also supported by relevant source material.
        
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        August 18, 2022 11:53am
    - alloytoo
      
      Yet matters of incumbents are not?
      
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      August 18, 2022 10:31am
    - Surely Knott
      
      Yes. Candidates background and beliefs and plans are of interest, so lets look at Stuff’s article which looks to me like defamation.
      
      Stuff claims these eight Sovereign nz candidates are “covid-19 conspiracy theorists” . But it turns out there is no links to VFF and the sovereign leader says Vaccines are unrelated to the job of local government.
      Stuff make a number of smears and associations but their central conspiracy theorist claim seems to relate to these candidates “pushing debunked claims about United Nations sustainability goals, known as Agenda 30.”
      
      So is it justified to call them conspiracy theorists prior to an election, what evidence do they have:.
      
      1. Social Media: Nothing. No evidence. Stuff says there is little on social media. And the candidate rejects Stuff’s insinuation anything was “scrubbed”. (more unsubstantiated smears introducing the word scrubbed smears from stuff)
      
      2. Candidates Direct Answers: The Sovereign party says: “I believe we need to stop using words like conspiracy theory so loosely and do a little research ourselves,” he said.
      
      “Their views on vaccines overlap with “wellness” and natural health movements and concerns that either the UN or the World Economic Forum is working to deprive citizens of autonomy.”
      
      (Where did Stuff get this summary of “their views.” Can we get a direct quote either from the person or social media. What did the candidates specifically say about WEF and depriving citizens of autonomy? They just try and link it to some other unassociated group.)
      
      In answer to stuff questions: “He rejects any UN Agenda, developed by un-elected foreign entities, from becoming law without a referendum”. (Seems reasonable)
      
      Stuff retorts “However, Agenda 30 (and its forerunner Agenda 21) aren’t laws or treaties, and are non-binding, subject to each country’s commitment.”
      
      So Stuff’s central argument for calling these people conspiracists is that it is non-binding..
      
      Then Stephen Judd from Fact Aotearoa says, “his organisation recently became aware of Sovereign.
      Stephen Judd says,
      “The conspiracy theory is essentially that shadowy forces, working through the United Nations want to reduce the human population and achieve ‘one world’ government and in some way, the UN and the forces behind that, are trying to control local government to achieve this outcome,” he said.
      
      ( So why is Stephen being interviewed regarding Sovereigns policies and viewpoints. on the UN. Where did Stephen get this information about Sovereign given stuff said there was nothing on social media. Is this just a theory he has seen elsewhere on the UN and he is ascribing it to Sovereign. Or is this something Sovereign has said. Citation needed.)
      
      These are very serious smears against these peoples reputations. Where did stuff and FACT get their info. The whole thing is a direct attack on our democracy.
      
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      August 18, 2022 12:06pm
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Auckland and Wellington both have candidates for their respective mayoralties who are members of the Labour Party, endorsed by the Labour Party, yet standing as “independents”. One of these candidates, Paul Eagle, is a sitting Labour Party MP.
    
    Where is Stuff’s outrage and indignation about this?
    
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    August 18, 2022 9:36am
    - John Pakes
      
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      Don’t be silly Tony.
      Their comment on candidates was started by the media when they quite rightly pointed out to us all that a convicted criminal was standing for a school board and that there is nothing that the community can do about it but be informed.
      It is pathetic that you should try and compare Paul Eagle with that.
      Tania Tapsell, a National Party candidate at the last election is standing for Mayor of Rotorua. No mention of National in her campaign.
      
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      August 18, 2022 9:42am
      - JimBobJoe
        
        Because John… National dont endorse local body candidates. Labour does and makes them sign a loyalty oath as a condition of the endorsement.
        
        Apples and Oranges John. But logic and looking beyond the spin is not your forte…..
        
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        August 18, 2022 10:13am
      - Benedict Yu
        
        Has Tania Tapsell been endorsed by the National Party? Is she required to follow National Party policies if she becomes mayor?
        
        Can’t you see the difference?
        
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        August 18, 2022 12:03pm
      - gravedodger
        
        Mr Pakes is too thick to perceive any difference between a sitting MP, member of The NZLP with an allegiance to the Government as one of the bound caucus members and a one time candidate for another political party nearly two years ago at a General Election.
        It is well understood that anyone with backing as a Local body candidate from the NZLP is bound to accept that party has an ongoing alliance and allegiance.
        Kinda suggested anyway by Tony with 33 green, zero red and Mr Pakes with zero green and 25 red, at time of commenting, not perfect but rather conclusive aye.
        It is also well established that The NZ National Party eschews any party connection to local body candidates.
        Sort of sad in some ways aye.
        
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        August 18, 2022 1:11pm
- wgtn_dude
  
  I wish we had some of those standing in the Wellington local elections.
  
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  August 18, 2022 8:10am
  - mikenmildagain
    
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    I think you will find a fair proportion of crazy people to vote for when you peruse the candidates’ booklet that your council will helpfully post to you.
    
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    August 18, 2022 8:43am
    - 70andstilllearning
      
      yes milky -F’nDC (as they’re known locally) will send out the candidates “profile” booklet at the ratepayers expense. The last one was about 50% unreadable – I’m picking closer to 100% this time so ~90%+ of the electors wont get a clue about the candidates from that source.
      
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      August 18, 2022 9:37am
      - iMP
        
        Hoardings fir labour local body candidates all had a verified party hq address Wellington on them last time, regardless of where they were standing.
        
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        August 18, 2022 4:08pm
- amospicton
  
  Diversity of sex, ethnicity, sexuality, religion all good. Diversity of thought – very bad indeed!
  
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  August 18, 2022 9:03am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Diversity of sex, ethnicity, sexuality, religion all good, only if you exclude male, European, straight and christian. Bigotry is double plus good if its the right sort of Bigotry.
    
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    August 18, 2022 10:13am
Southern Raider

I fear for the future of Auckland. Efeso Collins was interviewed yesterday and his sole policy is about reducing emissions in Auckland through removing cars of the road, free public transport and more cycle lanes

The city centre is dead, crime is rife, council in massive debt, huge rates hikes and that’s his focus

National need to pull their head in and tell Viv Beck to pull out. I don’t care who the centre right candidate is as long as there is one and the beat Collins
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August 18, 2022 8:07am
- 7kiwi11
  
  Vote ABC!
  
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  August 18, 2022 8:35am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    No, vote splitting is the problem, need to all vote for strongest non-left candidate.
    
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    August 18, 2022 10:15am
  - emmess
    
    No , vote Wayne Brown
    
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    August 18, 2022 10:22am
- Colville
  
  National are going to have quite enough problems without being blamed for Auckland as well.
  
  and here is a classic example of Govt doing the right thing on housing then Auckland Council fucking it up.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/homed/129604500/new-housing-rules-now-legal-but-sausage-flats-are-not-allowed
  
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  August 18, 2022 9:06am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Indeed. I listened to the interview. What a horror show.
  
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  August 18, 2022 11:40am
Paulus

Why do I get the impression that Dr Sharma has been expunged by the $55 media ?
He appears now to be a non person – but not unexpected as Labour tightens the chains on its members, although many will lose their sinecures next year, and must be concerned as to which Government Department will employ them !
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August 18, 2022 8:07am
- Ghost
  
  Media is still writing articles in him, we’re a few yesterdays, todays being a paywall in the herald asks “ Is Sharma Gaurav a warning that Labour’s backbench has been left to drift too much?”
  
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  August 18, 2022 8:22am
  - Ghost
    
    Try again.
    
    Media are still writing articles in him, were a few yesterdays, todays being a paywall in the herald asks “ Is Sharma Gaurav a warning that Labour’s backbench has been left to drift too much?”
    
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    August 18, 2022 8:32am
- nathie
  
  There have been some media articles but 90% seem to be following the Labour narrative unquestioningly (i.e. Sharma is the problem & Jacinda is being kind to him).
  
  Apart from the odd rare one like this one that “snuck through” yesterday!
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/opinion-jacinda-ardern-the-part-time-dj-dancing-on-a-pin/O5NQDXDFOEZL5ZWF3JX7SGSVHA/
  
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  August 18, 2022 9:00am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  I imagine having been part of this govt, that has delivered nothing but poor performance, would be the blackest of marks against employment in any other job.
  
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  August 18, 2022 10:17am
fernglas

Basically, the amount of money printed by the government to combat Covid is about the same as the loss in housing value because of the measures put in place to control the inflation caused by the government’s printing of money. They may as well have flushed it down the bog.
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August 18, 2022 8:09am
Tony Stuart

The PM won’t be happy if she reads Rachel Smalley’s column at the Today FM website this morning; it cuts to the chase. She reckons the government is far too loose with its spending, and after some pretty strong criticism of the disastrous polytechnic merger, she ends thus:

There are over 300 programmes which will be replaced with 47 unified programmes. It should come together in four months but suddenly they’re $100 million short. That is a huge deficit. How does that happen? How are you a bit short to the tune of $100 million?

That’s not inflation, people. That is incompetence.

Yet another case of too much hui and not enough do-ey.

The chair and the acting CEO have appeared before the education select committee – they’ve apologised to Chris Hipkins, the Education Minister.

But here is the thing. There is still no operating model for the mega polytech.

And that means staff don’t know where they’ll be working, if they’ll be working, how their future will roll out and if they’ll have a job.

Why don’t we value our people? They will leave – why would you stay when there’s been a major budget blowout and you are supposed to work for a new structure that has no operating model, they’re $100 million short, the CEO’s resigned, they can’t reveal who will lose their jobs yet, and everything begins on January 1.

Great idea but as with so many policies under this government — there’s no execution. Sound familiar? Kiwibuild, anyone? Or the cost of living payment that’s gone to all and sundry?

Speaking of which, Nicola Willis, National’s deputy leader, posted a message last night from a tax agent who has a couple of clients in China.

And the clients in China contacted her because they’ve received the cost of living payment. They don’t live here, and they file tax returns every year because they have investment properties. They own investment properties, and we’ve paid them the cost of living payment while they live in China.

That’s good, isn’t it? Money well spent again. It’s good that we’re propping people up who are living in China and have property investment portfolios in New Zealand.

There have now been millions paid out in error to people who are ineligible for the cost of living payment.

I think we need a new mantra. How about “#stop the spend”.

People, the money is just flying out the door and it ain’t funny anymore.

https://www.todayfm.co.nz/home/opinion/2022/08/rachel-smalley-maybe-our-new-mantra-should-be-stopthespend.html

Ms Smalley is right on the money, as it were, and I’m more than happy to help her hashtag #StopTheSpend get some traction.

However it’s likely to be nothing but a futile gesture, given this government’s addiction to spending money, and in particular to wasteful spending. It worries me though that my as-yet-unborn grandchild, and probably their children too, are going to be saddled with Grant Robertson’s debt.
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August 18, 2022 8:11am
- iMP
  
  They already are DPF. Aside from taxes, My grandkids rates were spent several Labour councils ago.
  
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  August 18, 2022 8:15am
- kowtow
  
  The spend on the poly’s and the cost of living PR device is small beer compared to the spend on Wuflu , climate and the various race projects which are the vanguard of the destruction of our democracy and radical change to the constitution .
  Where is Rach on those massive structural, systemic and yes disastrously expensive projects.
  
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  August 18, 2022 8:22am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Let’s be grateful for small mercies Kowtow, and hope that further scales fall from Rachel Smalley’s eyes in the weeks to come. Having written one column critical of the government, she will find the next one a little easier.
    
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    August 18, 2022 9:38am
    - kowtow
      
      Yer , I note there is a trickle of critical stuff coming out at the moment , hopefully it’s a trend and not just them fluffing up their CV’s to “prove” how independent they are , given there’s been , rightly , a lot of comment on how they’ve taken their 30 pieces of silver .
      
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      August 18, 2022 10:45am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Nope, this is what they do now they are being called out as corrupt, put a dodgy article up, then they can say look at this, as they flick the bird and continue to deceive
      
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      August 18, 2022 2:17pm
- plc
  
  She was a paid up cheerleader for the Karen-inspired Teddy Bear cult that beatified Ardern leading to 90% of females under 50 years voting Labour/Green at 2020 election.
  
  Bit rich for her to want out now……
  
  Your PM
  Your Government
  You voted for them
  
  As Robert Louis Stevenson said “Eventually everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences”
  
  Take your medicine Rachel
  
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  August 18, 2022 9:22am
- 70andstilllearning
  
  “There is still no operating model for the mega polytech.”
  
  @Tony- in a years time you’ll be able to repeat this post and simple replace “polytech” with “Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand”!
  
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  August 18, 2022 9:48am
- Ruawai
  
  Grant Robertson was on the radio last week saying the next 2 cost of living payments will also go to dead and overseas people unless they advise IRD they shouldn’t be getting it, they are unlikely to hear from the dead people and many overseas people won’t even know they have received it as such a small amount.
  
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  August 18, 2022 10:17am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    Yes that is funny expecting the dead people to advise the IRD that they are no more!
    
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    August 18, 2022 11:36am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      That shows what an absolute idiot he is
      
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      August 18, 2022 2:20pm
  - Nickc2
    
    Grant Robertson wouldn’t know about it on his wage. He’s full of shit! It’s our money, not his to waste on whatever takes his fancy.
    If the IRD can’t guarantee this money won’t go to those who don’t pay NZ taxes, Robertson should look for another vote-buying solution.
    Pompous prick!
    
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    August 18, 2022 1:22pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    How the fuck can they not work out they are dead FFS, he bloody tax man will find them if it was the other way around
    
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    August 18, 2022 2:18pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Why has it taken Smalley 5 years to wake up, I see Peters whinging about how is anti democratic the 55 million for media, well hoo hoo, he never gave a shit about it when media were trying to shaft Bridges and Collins and now Luxon, he put them there, this vulgar prick still won’t rule out shafting us s as lol again
  
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  August 18, 2022 2:15pm
Simon

Liz Cheney fringe GOPe nut job cleaned out by MAGA.
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August 18, 2022 8:15am
- mikenmildagain
  
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  Liz Cheney is a horrible person. Which republican policies do you think she refused to support, apart from the most important one – swearing undying fealty to Trump?
  
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  August 18, 2022 8:47am
  - Libertarians are right
    
    She is a conspiracy nut who falls for every stupid conspiracy put forward by the Democrats.
    That is a terrible habit to have for a Republican.
    
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    August 18, 2022 8:51am
    - virtualmark
      
      If you’ve listened to Harriet Hageman and you still think Liz Cheney is the conspiracy nut then you are, frankly, very very lost.
      
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      August 18, 2022 9:30am
  - Frank the tank
    
    The warmonger’s daughter was part of the old guard. She saw an opening to remove the MAGA movement however underestimated the GOP base and their allegiance.
    
    The remaining old guard (McConnell, Haley etc) play a longer, smarter game hoping for an opportunity whereas Cheney had delusions of grandeur and still does judging by her speech where she compared herself to Lincoln.
    
    When thinking of Liz political premature ejaculation springs to mind.
    
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    August 18, 2022 9:18am
    - thirteenstars
      
      And ungracious and ungrateful in defeat, she opining that she’d have retained her seat had she embraced the idea the 2020 election was stolen.
      
      That’s a direct slap in the face of every Wyoming voter, including the ones that originally elected her, and it proves their loud dismissal of her to be correct.
      
      Nasty.
      
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      August 18, 2022 10:25am
      - gravedodger
        
        Reported that she and her nemesis Hagaman once were mates, a mateship now somewhat tarnished methinks?
        
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        August 18, 2022 1:17pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Anyone that asks Democrats to register as Republicans and vote for them is not right in the head.
    She doesn’t ever live in Wyoming ffs. Virginia is her State.
    The TDS is the worst I have seen I think.
    
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    August 18, 2022 9:55am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      She doesn’t ever live in Wyoming ffs. Virginia is her State.
      
      Awesome – now do Dr Oz.
      
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      August 18, 2022 9:57am
    - cjn
      
      And you read Kiwiblog?
      
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      August 18, 2022 5:16pm
- curry4me
  
  Yes, expect to see her on The View, CNN, or some DC lobbying firm. I doubt she’ll be working in Maccas.
  
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  August 18, 2022 8:55am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Yep, she will fit right in on The View
    
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    August 18, 2022 9:56am
  - Nickc2
    
    She held back about $US8 mil from her electoral campaign to run against Trump in the GOP nomination next election.
    I could say what’s wrong with her head, but it wouldn’t get past KB’s Mods.
    
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    August 18, 2022 1:31pm
- Frank the tank
  
  Trumpy now has ended the Clintons, Bushes, McCains and Cheneys.
  
  Only the Bidens left.
  
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  August 18, 2022 9:13am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    #Trump 2024.
    
    That’s on my flag outside
    
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    August 18, 2022 9:58am
    - Wayne Mapp
      
      Well, that would certainly be an unusual flag to be flying in North Shore, Auckland. Presumably where everyone can see it.
      
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      August 18, 2022 11:02am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        Up a right of way. Only neighbours see it.
        Flag above it is the stars and stripes.
        
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        August 18, 2022 12:40pm
      - virtualmark
        
        Not at all weird …
        
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        August 18, 2022 3:49pm
    - thirteenstars
      
      “Flag above it is the stars and stripes.”
      
      At least three properties in my area have flagpoles and they fly various flags at appropriate times, such as France on Bastille Day, Stars and Stripes on the 4th, whatever team the All Blacks are playing that weekend, Ukraine is very popular right now, etc.
      
      Really brightens up the area.
      
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      August 18, 2022 4:41pm
  - thirteenstars
    
    Interesting tidbit on US TV yesterday, that of the 10 Republicans that voted to impeach Trump, four have retired, two retained their seats, and four have been beaten by Trump endorsements.
    
    Sounds like a reasonable hit rate .
    
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    August 18, 2022 10:04am
  - Nickc2
    
    The Bidens are a soft target so long as Hunter’s Laptop can be protected from FBI destruction.
    
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    August 18, 2022 1:33pm
- virtualmark
  
  Well, Liz Cheney has principles. Which means there’s no place for her in today’s Republican Party.
  
  But she knew this was coming. And I suspect she has a plan … to run for the GOP nomination for President. She won’t get it. But she’ll have a hell of a time fighting the other candidates.
  
  I suspect the Republican’s would rather set themselves on fire than let her debate Trump.
  
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  August 18, 2022 9:23am
  - Frank the tank
    
    LOL she won’t get past the Iowa caucus.
    
    Stop having wet dreams regarding Cheney stopping Trump it won’t happen. The only one that has a half a chance would be DeSantis and he is keeping his powder dry for 2028.
    
    Any moron that compares themselves to Ulysses S Grant and Lincoln when getting landslided isn’t principled – they are delusional.
    
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    August 18, 2022 11:00am
    - virtualmark
      
      I doubt Cheney expects to win, or even come close. But I won’t be surprised if she runs as a “voice of conscience” spoiler.
      
      Realistically about 10% of Republican voters align with Cheney. They voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020, perhaps half-heartedly. They think January 6 was an insurrection and attempted coup. They look at recent events like Trump holding classified documents. They think Trump, and Trumpism, is a clear and present danger to the US constitutional order.
      
      She knows she can be a rallying point for that cohort. It’s not enough to win the nomination but it’s enough to do a kamikaze mission from.
      
      And … if those 10%-ish of traditional GOP voters don’t vote for Trump in 2024 he’ll struggle to win the Presidential race. He may be the front-runner to be the Republican candidate, but I don’t think he can win the 2024 election itself.
      
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      August 18, 2022 11:19am
      - Frank the tank
        
        She would have to run as an independent – Pirot style. To campaign as an independent she would have to have a lot of cash (>200 million) and a lot of drive.
        
        To convince Never Trumpers to throw that amount of money at a doomed campaign will be difficult and from what I can she lacks the energy to do a bruising campaign.
        
        Liz will end taking Megan McCain’s seat in the Whoopi/Joy shitshow.
        
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        August 18, 2022 1:48pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        “…. like Trump holding classified documents.”
        I think you’ll find that the “classified documents” weren’t as classified as made out. This was simply a hit job on Trump to attempt to deflect him from 2024 engineered by Garland and the weaponised FBI. The raid has caused a swelling of Trump’s support, because most Americans know that the raid was actually illegal.
        
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        August 18, 2022 3:07pm
      - virtualmark
        
        I think you’ll find the classified documents are worse than you expect.
        
        Ask the simple questions: Why do you have this stuff? Why didn’t you give it back? What were you going to do with it? The common sense answers aren’t that nice. Oh, and not forgetting that the Espionage Act doesn’t rest on whether documents are classified or not.
        
        But yes, the M-A-L search has firmed Donald’s support *in MAGA-land*. The polls are saying he’s gained MAGA support and de Santis has lost MAGA support. But the polls are also saying that overall, across all voters, it’s hurt his support levels quite a lot.
        
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        August 18, 2022 3:45pm
      - virtualmark
        
        Oh, and if Trump is indicted for the M-A-L documents (which I suspect he will be) that will also, further, swell support for Trump *in MAGA-land*.
        
        It will also, further, erode support for Trump outside of MAGA-land.
        
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        August 18, 2022 3:53pm
      - virtualmark
        
        “I think you’ll find the classified documents are worse than you expect.”
        
        And right on cue … today the US Federal District Court released two more documents from the docket for the M-A-L search warrant. The description of the Espionage Act charge reads “Wilful retention of national defense information”.
        
        My advice to Trumpists is to be cautious about these charges. I note that GOP Senators are conspicuously not commenting on this case. I suspect that’s because they know what the individual documents are, and why Trump has been so determined not to return them.
        
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        August 19, 2022 9:59am
    - mikenmildagain
      
      I saw a good comment about Lincoln:
      “In Lincoln’s Day, the term Radical Republican referred to men who wanted to grant civil rights to all men, regardless of color, and it included many who wanted some stern punishment for the South’s rebellion. Now a Radical Republican is someone who wants to violently overthrow the government and strip minorities of their rights.”
      
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      August 18, 2022 12:53pm
  - curry4me
    
    If she did that, most GOP voters would sub to Netflix to see it, by way of light entertainment. It’d pay for every GOP candidates election epenses. Lobbyists would have to go pound sand.
    
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    August 18, 2022 1:09pm
    - virtualmark
      
      I saw an interesting comment this morning that said the fringe GOP candidates, like Rubio and Cruz, would probably want her to take part in any primary debates because she would weaken Trump’s support.
      
      As the Russians would say “It’s the toad f*cking the snake”.
      
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      August 18, 2022 3:48pm
- thirteenstars
  
  Indeed, and strange DPF didn’t lead with a sizzling-hot take about it first thing this morning, he always keen to comment on the performance of Trump’s endorsements.
  
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  August 18, 2022 9:55am
- artemisia
  
  Time’s D.C. Brief – The GOP Just Borrowed a Soviet Skill and Disappeared Liz Cheney
  
  It’s the Soviet way. No inference intended. Yeah right.
  
  Some interesting background, including this –
  
  ”On Wednesday, she filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission to start a political group with the express purpose of keeping Trump from returning to the White House. She’s hinting at a possible run for the presidency”
  
  https://time.com/6206773/liz-cheney-loss-republicans/
  
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  August 18, 2022 10:56am
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD9KQhFmc4g

Chantelle Baker reacts to Fire and Fury.

Sean Plunket speaks with Chantelle Baker about Fire and Fury. [I hope she appears more often on The Platform, or gets a slot. She certainly didn’t have any trouble defending herself. Sean Plunkett asked hard questions like a JOURNALIST would. Nothing like the shills from the ‘team of 55 million’. 28:00]
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August 18, 2022 8:17am
Tomtoddy

Our Reserve Bank and its Governer have become an embarrassment. Not only are they incompetent and costing the country unnecessary hardship but their arrogance and childish antics have undone any gravitas and standing the Bank has had historically.

They have just blamed everyone and everything else for their poor management and failure to meet their target. We deserve and need better.
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August 18, 2022 8:21am
- Jim
  
  I did note Orr’s new criticism of the government’s domestic spending as fuelling inflation.
  
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  August 18, 2022 8:32am
- Bobba Fret
  
  I have the feeling that Adrian Orr just does exactly what Grant Robertson tells him to, and that is mostly/partly why we are in this mess.
  
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  August 18, 2022 11:38am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Yes, and they have forced him to speak Te Reo in his speech ffs, he never use to, just like Bloomfield did not at the start of the planedemic
    
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    August 18, 2022 2:25pm
krazykiwi

In Dundee, UK the local authority has created a new role, that of a the Period Dignity Officer.

As evidence of just how warped things are these days, the furor about this role is that it has been filled by a man …. rather than mocking that such a role exists in the first place.
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August 18, 2022 8:46am
- Colville
  
  just because “he” has a beard and a cock dosent mean “he” is a “man” //
  
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  August 18, 2022 9:01am
  - zulumonster
    
    “her” cock
    
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    August 18, 2022 1:06pm
- Ghost
  
  I had a giggle when I read the about yesterday and some woman complained we don’t tell men what to do with their prostrate. Shit, go to our hospital and the urology staff are all females, so yes you bloody do.
  
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  August 18, 2022 9:51am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  More of a mouse than a man, I’m guessing.
  
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  August 18, 2022 10:56am
Ghost

It’s great we have a caring government that cares about people’s well being, oh wait, I guess that is just another PR image

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/129598519/man-with-parkinsons-cant-get-a-benefit–his-partner-earns-1000-too-much

A Canterbury’s man with Parkinson’s disease says he can’t get a benefit because his partner earns just over the income threshhold for a Supported Living Payment.
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August 18, 2022 8:47am
Yvette

What came down in the last shower
I am thinking in the shower – what else to do? –

Jacinda Ardern has a a Bachelor of Communication Studies (BCS) in politics and public relations (although just from Waikato University) and is internationally famed as a brilliant empathetic leader

And Dr Gaurav Sharma has a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery degree from the University of Auckland – and through that and actual practice, should have a fair grasp of psychology – and a Master of Business Administration from George Washington University

Sharma has had “interventions” in staff difficulties over 18 months and considerable effort on his part to communicate problems.
Then the full mental force of the Labour Caucus was applied to the problem – a “secret” 8pm meeting, and then a further “official” meeting next day and rejected and isolated Dr Sharma.

And they are running the country?

And now will Sharma’s vote – supposedly representative of the people who voted him into office (personal electoral vote, not party vote) – be undemocratically taken from him, or can he vote independent of the Labour Party.

This can really spoil a shower, but still I guess the choice was mine.
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
– Victor Frankl Concetration camp survivor and famed psychologist
OK, take the medications now
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August 18, 2022 8:48am
- Tony Stuart
  
  With Dr Sharma being suspended from Labour’s caucus, he is no longer under the Whips, and can vote how he chooses when he is present in the House. When he is absent from the House, it is up to him as to who gets his proxy vote, and in fact he can choose not to vote on issues when he is not present for the debate.
  
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  August 18, 2022 9:27am
  - MCōs
    
    As you know under normal circumstances parties in block. The exception being conscience issues, which are well known.
    Our system wouldn’t work if members were able to freely cross the floor on any issue without repercussions.
    If Dr Sharma started voted against the party line, or S.U. for that matter, they would find it hard justifying not being permanently deleted from their party.
    I’m picking both of them will be back again; although in the case of the doctor he’ll be gone one way or the other.
    
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    August 18, 2022 9:49am
    - krazykiwi
      
      Our system doesn’t work now, and having MP not cross the floor when they feel compelled to only highlights the failings.
      
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      August 18, 2022 10:17am
      - Alan Wilkinson
        
        The system works, just not for the right people. The essence of successful politics is motivating the clueless. The clueless then get what they voted for.
        
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        August 18, 2022 11:03am
  - Wayne Mapp
    
    Not quite correct. While suspended, you are still part of the Party, so are bound by that commitment. If he votes against the government, he would almost certainly be expelled.
    Maurice Williamson was suspended for a while in 2004. His vote remained with the whip. After a time of penance he was readmitted, and became a Minister outside Cabinet in 2008.
    
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    August 18, 2022 11:07am
    - TS Child
      
      Forgive my ignorance. But if a party essentially mandates which way you have to vote, then what is the point of voting? The government might as well say ‘meh I want this and I have x on my team, you’ve only got y on your team so suck it up’. ‘Votes’ implies some choice. Which seems a good thing – if your own party can’t convince you, then maybe the plan isn’t a good one .
      
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      August 18, 2022 12:52pm
Maggie Pie

What were they thinking…..

At first I thort the was a satire piece, with someone photoshopping a lazy-eye onto ‘it’.
But no, transgender male Alexandria Adamson, who has expressed ‘its’ desire to physically assault women, and even called for the murder of politicians it disagrees with, has been appointed to the position of… ‘Learning Disabilities Officer’ in Scotlands governing National Party.

https://reduxx.info/put-terfs-in-their-place-trans-activist-appointed-to-office-by-scottish-lawmakers/

Could it happen here?
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August 18, 2022 8:51am
- Frank the tank
  
  Good God – I’m going to have nightmares after seeing those pictures………
  
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  August 18, 2022 9:20am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    My partner was saying he once dated a girl with a lazy-eye.
    Didn’t last. He always thought she was seeing someone on the side.
    
    😎
    
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    August 18, 2022 9:42am
    - Alan Wilkinson
      
      We have a puppy with one but strangely it always corrects when he sees food.
      
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      August 18, 2022 10:31am
    - Frank the tank
      
      It’s more the block and tackle I’m more worried about.
      
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      August 18, 2022 11:01am
cmm

I really am sick and tired of stats being abused and turned into lies for the CV19 fear mongering.

Oes noes, look at all the CV19 positive people in hospital!

Well I was one of them. I was admitted to hospital for less than 24 hours. I was tested with PCR and came up positive – just remnants from a previous infection a few weeks before. So add one to the tally even though I was not really positive and certainly was not there because of CV19.

And there were approx 12 others in the ward that were positive. Most of those had come in negative and had got infected in hospital. None of those was there because of CV19.

So of the 13 or so positive cases on one ward, not a single one was there because of CV19. All were incidentally infected (or even no longer infected).

Oes noes, look at the dead! Ok, I don’t know all the cases of deaths. I only know one: my mother. She was in terminal care (as were the first 10 to die in Chch). She was not put in hospital by CV19 and she didn’t die from it but from the cancer that was ripping through her body and her 84 year-old heart that had suffered a lifetime of abuse due to morbid obesity.

Now I am sure there are some who really are in hospital because of CV19. I am sure there are some who dies because of CV19 too.

But I’ll bet they are far fewer than you’d think.
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August 18, 2022 9:10am
- Frank the tank
  
  Just ignore it and mock it when you see it. 11 weeks without using a face nappy.
  
  We are winning. Slowly but surely.
  
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  August 18, 2022 9:21am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Looks like a bit over 1500 excess deaths since start of year, could probably blame a substantial proportion of those on covid (aside from flue and consequences of 2 years restricted health care increasing deaths from other conditions)
  https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&facet=none&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&Metric=Excess+mortality+%28count%29&Interval=7-day+rolling+average&Relative+to+Population=true&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=AUS~NZL
  
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  August 18, 2022 2:54pm
Colville

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/129603975/alleged-imposter-doctors-web-of-lies-spanned-continents-for-more-than-a-decade

I read this wondering how much time he had been handed down by the beak… but he hasnt even been spoken to by the police!

So this guy has forged documents/ lied to a Judge to get off a charge and intimately examined dozens of people including children while play acting as a Dr.

and he hasnt been spoken to?
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August 18, 2022 9:11am
- MCōs
  
  “When contacted by Stuff that same day, Krishnan’s father, Krishnan Kuppen, handed the phone to lawyer Steve Cullen, who was meeting with the family and said he would likely be acting for Yuvaraj Krishnan.
  “At the moment, given there seems to be a criminal investigation pending”
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  Quite clearly charges are on the way.
  
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  August 18, 2022 10:01am
- Ghost
  
  The important part from the article
  
  “ Police have declined to comment about the case, other than to say their investigation is ongoing.”
  
  Give the police time to do their job
  
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  August 18, 2022 10:07am
  - Colville
    
    So you don’t think having him come down to the station for a chat and handing over his passport would be an appropriate first step?
    
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    August 18, 2022 10:36am
    - Ghost
      
      I think the police taking their time with what is an international case to gather evidence is normal and acceptable.
      
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      August 18, 2022 12:25pm
      - Colville
        
        Good to see plod was reading this mornings GD…
        
        https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300665013/alleged-imposter-doctor-charged-with-forgery-expected-in-court
        
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        August 18, 2022 1:22pm
      - Ghost
        
        Yeah, just saw that, I hope now other hospitals etc are rechecking their recent hires.
        
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        August 18, 2022 1:35pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Strange that his brother hadn’t twigged that Yuvaraj Krishnan had never completed medical training.
  
  He has two siblings, one of whom is an award-winning, qualified doctor with experience in clinical research.
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/129603975/alleged-imposter-doctors-web-of-lies-spanned-continents-for-more-than-a-decade
  
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  August 18, 2022 10:44am
- MCōs
  
  He was in the Manukau District Court today
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/alleged-imposter-at-middlemore-hospital-faces-forgery-charge-in-court-today/OKKEIOVGJUHKTIKGYVUCCFSWP4/
  
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  August 18, 2022 2:57pm
rhygar

Did everyone see the article on the rediculous censuring of a teacher for removing an earphone froma students ear? How low has the education system fallen too and can it go even lower?

Here is my take on it: https://youtu.be/mZb6Tjvd-j0
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August 18, 2022 9:11am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Obviously no-one with a brain would go teaching in a state school now. As the consequences and results show.
  
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  August 18, 2022 9:43am
Nickc2

A couple of days ago, I posted an open question on KB for Wayne Brown (Akld Mayoral Candidate) asking if:

a. If he would commit to reverting our roadways for use by Motor Transport, and
b. If he would commit to ceasing the granting of consents for building Multi-Story Apartment Blocks on quarter-acre sections.

Someone on KB asked me to post any reply I received from Wayne. Well, here it is:

Cycleways that do not disrupt things and cost no more than $200/m rather than $12000 as per now are ok

Multi storey buildings with no carparks make no sense but you can thank the government plus National for that rule.

Wayne

Draw your own conclusions
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August 18, 2022 9:43am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Not silly IMO. The planning disaster is clearly the fault of central government’s grotesque failure to define and maintain property rights.
  
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  August 18, 2022 10:29am
mogg

https://i.stuff.co.nz/opinion/129597375/gaurav-sharmas-real-mistake-was-to-think-labour-cared
Ben Thomas on Ardern bullying.
“Ardern expresses concern for Sharma in the same way that a Mafia boss would express concern for a shopkeeper who hadn’t paid his protection money”
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August 18, 2022 9:46am
Gravelroad

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/129598951/the-covid19-conspiracy-theorists-targeting-northlands-local-elections

Looks as though $tuff has taken it upon itself to hunt out and identify “unsuitable” people who have had the temerity to put themselves forward for election to local councils.
No conspiracy theorists, anti vax morons, anti government protestors or non socialist people allowed.
Let’s go round the country and “out” them so people know who not to vote for.
I will take notice of this when I see the same journalists applying the same conditions to Candidates closely aligned to all political parties.
Not to mention local hot shot business people who think that getting elected to the council will facilitate their plans to further their subdivision, building plans etc.
Also, these journalists possibly do not have much idea about how councils are managed and led.
It is not easy for single issue electeds to get traction for their pet policies – there is no commanding attention at the council meetings.
It is run by the staff. Every meeting has a set agenda focussed on the business of the day.
There is no free for all general debate featuring individual agendas.
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August 18, 2022 9:50am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Watch this happen in the General Election 2023…..make no mistake.
  
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  August 18, 2022 10:09am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    The MSM is just the propaganda wing of the Labour party and no longer even pretend to be anything else. Their jobs depend on maintaining their benefactors in power.
    
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    August 18, 2022 10:23am
    - Tarquin North
      
      There are times when it’s good to be a Northlander. That is a wonderful own goal from Stuff and great publicity for the people they are trying to put the boot into. My choice has been made much easier, thanks Stuff.
      
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      August 18, 2022 10:44am
    - Cassandra
      
      The frightening thing is that it might just work. How Labour can be ahead in the latest Curia poll amazes me. Everything Labour touches turns into rubbish. Everything! It is staggering how incompetent this Labour Government is.
      
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      August 18, 2022 10:48am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Let’s wait and see, Nats dropped that drop is the early part of Uffers problem, that may not be as bad as first thought either, but the poll does not take into account any of the bullying from Labour
        
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        August 18, 2022 2:47pm
- Nickc2
  
  Andrea Vance embarking on a Political Execution Crusade to help her old mate Cindy out.
  Nothing new there eh?
  Where would we be without Andrea? A fucking site better off I would suggest.
  
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  August 18, 2022 10:09am
Nickc2

This morning on TalkbackZB, Kate Hawkesby stated that a bunch of potential students visited an NZ University to ascertain what Uni Courses they may embark on.
When being lectured about School Teaching, they were informed that being proficient in Te Reo was compulsory and their proficiency in such would be tested every two years. Then, apparently, the lecturer went on to say that if they weren’t keen on learning Te Reo, School Teaching wasn’t for them.
Geez, who initiated this mandate and under whose authority?
Will Luxon reverse this mandate?
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August 18, 2022 10:25am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Orwellian as opposition to racism becomes racist. The fools falling for this will eventually become its powerless victims but won’t know why. The outcome will be a corrupt, incompetent, bankrupt failure. South Africa demonstrates the way. Our 50% of school leaver illiterates will vastly outbreed the useful citizens and unless compensated against by immigration will use their political power to subvert and impoverish the country while enriching their own elite. An elite which will have no intention of reducing the poverty which keeps them in power.
  
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  August 18, 2022 2:36pm
Alan Wilkinson

Anyone who believes in free speech won’t be buying any chips from Bluebird:
https://i.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/300664079/bluebird-employee-under-investigation-following-antimori-language-comments
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August 18, 2022 10:38am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Don’t you love the fact that the URL has a spelling mistake in it!
  
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  August 18, 2022 10:43am
  - cmm
    
    The fancy a can’t be used in a url, so it is normally dropped.
    
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    August 18, 2022 11:22am
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  I regret clicking on a Stuff link and note the embedded blurb about the white-as-whipped cream journalist, their iwi and their ‘providing a Te Ao Maori perspective’ – then the back and forth Te Reo and English appeal for money at as footnote.
  
  Well, my own perspective is that anyone posting on Facebook against the current zeitgeist of Maori-wonderfulness and the ‘living treasure that is Te Reo’ is risking accusations of thought crime.
  
  I keep my FB clean, and use a nickname here for good reason.
  If you have a career or reputation which might be impacted by thought-crime, then the article shows how someone might stalk you for your comments and approach your employer.
  Make your profile-privacy for Friends only, or else keep data minimal (like employment) because the employer might make a claim for reputational harm at worst, or empathy training/reeducation at best.
  Employers fear social media outrage more than shafting their employees, so beware all.
  Note that I feedback in no uncertain terms to my company directly about ‘diversity and equity’ (i.e discrimate against white males) in my workplace, and the pointlessness of karakia for most people. This cancer is creeping from the public sector into corporates. But my social media FB or Linked In, I keep that non-political.
  
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  August 18, 2022 11:17am
  - Ghost
    
    Yeah, I remember the days of the lunatic chipping and Maria, labour’s hacks would track people down and haras them, I refuse to use my name because of those two nutjobs
    
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    August 18, 2022 12:22pm
- Hometruth
  
  Bluebird and Whittakers choclate are of my shopping list.
  
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  August 18, 2022 11:36am
- ByGolly
  
  What will Bluebird ” investigate” exactly??
  
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  August 18, 2022 11:41am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    I see Bluebird are subsidiary of US Pepsi. So they will be investigating their corporate wokeness requirements.
    
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    August 18, 2022 12:28pm
- Ghost
  
  Bluebird aren’t really the issue. The issue is someone went through the posts they didn’t like then tracked down to see where they worked.
  
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  August 18, 2022 12:19pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Of course that is the issue as far as the comment goes. But Bluebird are the issue for punishing legal free speech and sincere opinion in response.
    
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    August 18, 2022 2:16pm
  - Local Miller
    
    Bluebird are the issue because they didn’t just say that: “Personal opinions expressed by staff on personal social media sites are not the concern of the company” and “Bluebird will only take action where offensive comments are made in the context of employment and staff or customers are specifically affected”.
    As it is I don’t buy Bluebird products. Heartland is locally owned, sourced and manufactured and produce a much better product.
    
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    August 18, 2022 3:05pm
    - Ghost
      
      Once that would of worked but now companies have to be more cautious of the backlash from the always offended.
      
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      August 18, 2022 5:05pm
cmm

It occurred to me yesterday that the iceberg analogy could apply pretty well to our government in the whole.

There’s the tiny bit we see that we can vote for and change. It might be Red (with a splash of Green and Black) or it might be Blue with a splash of Yellow.

But under that is the 90% that never really changes – the public service – and is the big problem. We have no effective way to control that part.

The like with an iceberg, the direction that the government, as a whole, goes is really dictated by the hidden 90%. The wind (us voters) blowing on the bit that sticks out (or repainting it Red or Blue) really changes nothing.

At some stage, the politicians had the ability to control the public service, but perhaps they no longer can (or have lost the will to do so).
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August 18, 2022 10:49am
- greybeard
  
  I agree 100%.
  Here is an observation I made to someone a couple of years ago:
  
  “I worked for a council for 5 years, after a lifetime of private employers.
  I learned very quickly that the elected councillors had very little to do with the decision-making process: that was the job of group managers, the CEO, and selected ideologically-driven employees.
  And what made it worse, some of those employees were appointed by their managers, and did not go through a competitive selection process where the position was contested by applicants. They may previously have been consultants or part-time ‘advisors’ .
  Many council employees have had little or more likely no private employment experience.
  I also found very quickly that the elected councillors and Mayor were egotists and in several cases bloody thick.”.
  
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  August 18, 2022 11:02am
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Again, when you look at the role of elected local government representatives it is clear no-one sensible would want to stand. The simplistic deluded, egotists and ideologues have the field to themselves.
    
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    August 18, 2022 11:12am
- Local Miller
  
  This isn’t quite true WRT Government (vs Council) as the Minister for a particular portfolio sets the standard, tone, direction, etc. for their portfolios. They appoint senior managers, etc. who should run the department based on the Ministers direction.
  
  While not everything done National has been good, we can see cyclically that under Liebour the “civil services” have degraded and things have moved in the wrong direction, where under most National Governments things tend to turn around and improve, if some what slowly. I’m aware this is a generalization, but it seems valid in broad sweeps.
  Part of our issues are:
  1) It’s easy so screw things up quickly and really hard to fix things up once they are broken.
  2) People feel hard done by when a government (National) implement austerity measures to try fix things that Liebour have broken in the largess.
  3) People love the “free stuff” being given out under a bad Liebour Government, but it’s this very behaviour that stuffs the services up.
  4) The MSM is heavily biased towards the left, so they report unfavorably on actions that “hurt” the public but are needed to fix things. Similarly they report favorably or are silent on things that break the services.
  5) Social Services are what my dad always called “protected employment” because it was very had to get fired. The result is good staff tend to get frustrated and move on, and bad/lazy/left leaning staff tend to accumulate. This needs to change.
  
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  August 18, 2022 3:18pm
  - cmm
    
    “Yes minister”
    
    Increasingly Ministers are just becoming figureheads with little practical control over what is going on in “their” departments.
    
    Even with the Nats in charge, the civil servants are able to control the outcome. We just need to look at how the teachers stymied the efforts to get proper measurements and benchmarks into education.
    
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    August 18, 2022 4:00pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    Even worse, bad managers accumulate rather than moving on. Then any decent staff move on even faster.
    
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    August 18, 2022 4:22pm
kowtow

Trotter , interesting insight into labour and the sharma drama .

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/chris-trotter-parting-shots

As an aside sharma attributed this statement to Duncan Webb .If true , that’s scary .

‘The Hamilton West MP also accused Webb of saying: “The only way this country can succeed is if Labour is in government. Government means Labour. So the Party comes first and foremost before the country”. ‘ Source newshub.
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August 18, 2022 10:56am
Maggie Pie

Should we be concerned?

ZBNews reports…
‘New Zealand still in global-queue for Monkeypox vaccine’

There are now more than 38,000 confirmed cases worldwide, with New Zealand having its fourth reported case in the last week.

This article, in todays DAILY MAIL, is truly disturbing 🙁

https://mol.im/a/11119463

As my partner says…gives a whole new meaning to the term ‘brown-nosing’
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August 18, 2022 11:00am
- Frank the tank
  
  Like getting shot and killed and then turning up in covid death stats………
  
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  August 18, 2022 11:06am
- Blog-aholic
  
  I am sure just like the Covax, this government will not have ignored letters from suppliers, not ordered the jab in time and then they will definately not gaslight us by saying we are at the front of the queue…..
  
  MPox is, like Covid is being politicised and we need to ask ourselves, why???
  
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  August 18, 2022 11:26am
- Paul Marsden
  
  From the same paper, but arguably more horrific. I’m not sure who the animals are here…
  
  “A dog has been infected with monkeypox for the first time ever after sharing a bed with a gay couple in Paris and subsequently being found suffering from an “anal ulceration.”
  
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  August 18, 2022 3:06pm
oldfella

One of the proudest moments of my life’: Sonny Bill Williams on wife’s change to wearing head scarf
My wife’s a hijabi! Alhamdullilah my wife decided to put the head scarf on. One of the proudest moments of my life. What makes it so special is knowing she has done it for Allah SWT and no one else. May the most high always bless you with good health, contentment & happiness.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/one-of-the-proudest-moments-of-my-life-sonny-bill-williams-on-wifes-change-to-wearing-head-scarf/RFCVVCF2Z24MTG5X37JFHNFGKY/
How did this become a front page story on the horrid? Am I missing something?
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August 18, 2022 11:06am
- mandk
  
  It’s just another example of irrational Islamophilia, in which we are all supposed to participate.
  
  I pity those poor little girls. They will, presumably, come under pressure from their parents to wear a hijab too.
  
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  August 18, 2022 11:58am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Reformed characters are always the most insufferable. I preferred him when he was a bad role model.
  
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  August 18, 2022 12:22pm
MDQ

Tim Roth (the actor) apparently had an ethereal experience when meeting Ardern at a bar b que – or at least that’s how the puerile hack at the Herald interprets it.
Yeah,” he says with obvious affection at the memory and sounding as if he’s recalling a dream. “It was quite something.”
Good grief!
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August 18, 2022 11:33am
Warren

I wonder whether the Labour Party will log this in there diary and use it like they have on National’s Sam Uffindell for bullying if any decide to become politicains.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-high-school-closed-for-two-days-due-to-student-brawl/2QI7JKVJWE74WJM5HTDNYXXOPY/I
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August 18, 2022 11:34am
Maggie Pie

Here’s a question for the group…

Can anyone explain what an ‘Explainer-Editor’ does at $tuff?

https://twitter.com/Klynchstuff1
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August 18, 2022 11:36am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  They mould text into Political Correctness.
  
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  August 18, 2022 11:52am
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  They justify their politics for simpletons.
  
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  August 18, 2022 12:24pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Paid Explainers are needed because we are all so thick, lazy and pre-occupied with dumb stuff that we must to be told what to think.
  An “Explainer editor “ will decide and rank in order of importance, after consultation with whoever is doing the paying, which situations, policies and events need the most spin applied – and when.
  I imagine the job description for the Explainer Editor can be accessed through the Prime Minister’s office.
  
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  August 18, 2022 12:28pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Deciphers word soup waffle?
  
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  August 18, 2022 12:42pm
- kevn
  
  @Maggie… Golden Boot Explainer Editor.
  Soccer player…
  
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  August 18, 2022 12:52pm
- Ghost
  
  Cuts their own hair in the dark?
  
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  August 18, 2022 1:24pm
Takere

Who has any idea how this will change in 2023?

Key statistics
The total number of votes cast was 2,919,086.
The number of special votes was 504,625, 17% of total votes (2017 – 17%).
68% of votes were cast in advance (2017 – 47%).
82.2% of people who were enrolled voted (2017 – 79.8%). This is the highest turnout since 1999 (84.8%).
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August 18, 2022 12:36pm
Maggie Pie

When it comes to chocolate….. I’m a Chuao girl.
Although couldn’t help but wonder what percentage of Koko local manufacturer Whittaker’s will have in the Maori version of their white chocolate?
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August 18, 2022 12:40pm
- Its only I
  
  Having the “correct wrapper is the only important factor for the Labours cult of the eternal woke…..not what’s underneath.
  
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  August 18, 2022 12:56pm
Swifty

If I lose money on an art sale – will the artist or the artist’s estate owe me 5% of my loss?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/arts/129603422/artists-to-get-5-of-resale-price-of-artworks-under-new-royalty-scheme

There’s that ‘fairness’ word again. Used by socialists as a cover when they haven’t got any other argument.

Utter madness from Sepuloni.
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August 18, 2022 12:46pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  I built my own house. It’s a work of art.
  
  Can I have 5% every time it’s resold?
  
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  August 18, 2022 7:19pm
ClanMcleod

I just picked up, Alia Bland from VFF is currently being interviewed by Rodney Hide on The Platform. It’s been over 30 minutes. She is doing an amazing job explaining their position. It will be well worth listening to the whole thing later if you can’t tune in now.

https://theplatform.kiwi/live-on-air

Compare this to the lies and propaganda from Ardern, Baker and the NZ mainstream media. These are the conversations we should be having but have been prevented from doing so.
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August 18, 2022 12:48pm
- kowtow
  
  Labour hid HePP from NZF , their partner , and from the electorate .
  
  The Media Pardy know this . But they don’t accuse their paymaster of democracy defying shenanigans .
  
  Same with separatist health , water and local govt changes .We’re not being told the truth behind their attacks on our democracy .
  
  It’s being actively hidden by tghe puppets in the Media Pardy , so her polling stays relatively high.
  
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  August 18, 2022 2:03pm
- MCōs
  
  I thought you had the hots for Chantelle Baker?
  
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  August 18, 2022 3:11pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Cheney.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdkCIrqXP8o
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August 18, 2022 1:01pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnhdqGAYYWU
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August 18, 2022 1:02pm
thirteenstars

Inflation just keeps on trucking.

Last couple of days, eggs up massively at both PaknSave and New World. Standard, mixed grade jumped 50 cents a dozen. Size 7, which I usually buy, up 90 cents dozen.

Frozen french fries, Pam’s brand at New World, up nearly a dollar from last week, which is about a 25% jump.

Those two are produced in NZ. Strangely, things like Robert Harris coffee and Dilmah tea have held their price since before the inflation. As have many other imported products.

Also noticed some products have had price jumps which within a week are reversed or substantially reduced. This has happened with some wines and many canned products. The wholesale price signals being sent out must be highly volatile.
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August 18, 2022 1:04pm
- kowtow
  
  The term “greedflation” may apply .
  
  The retailers know thay can jack up prices in an inflationary environment and hide behind “inflation dun it”
  
  Then when there’s a reasonable push back ie don’t buy it , they drop prices so as not to have unsold stock on hand.
  
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  August 18, 2022 1:59pm
CAKE FACE1

One of Dr Sharma’s allegation was that one of the whips said to him something along the lines of “The Party is more important than the country.”

It’s unlikely whether we’ll ever know for sure if this happened. Still, it seems a strange thing to make up.

In my opinion, this fanatical thinking is evident in Cindy’s cruel conduct.

This government is more vicious to dissenters than any in history.

The election should be action packed.
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August 18, 2022 1:09pm
- Its only I
  
  The whole thing with Dr Sharma is dead in the water unless the good Dr fronts up with something able to be investigated and verified.
  If the Dr doesn’t front up but truly believes they have been a victim of bulling and witness to forms of crime then he is no hero to anyone, just another simpering enabler of an environment harming not just himself but countless others and probably most of the reason those bent walls contain what political human detritus they do.
  
  He has been silenced and Recinda has bobbled above the mess all “clean and caring” with the help of a very partisan MSN while the Labour party drones sling sticky shyt with more accuracy than a monkey caged in a zoo….its instinctive and effective and expected.
  
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  August 18, 2022 2:42pm
- MCōs
  
  “This government is more vicious to dissenters than any in history.”
  
  That’s a big call.
  Alexei Navalny, Aung San Suu Kyi, Morgan Tsvangirai . . . . . . . . are all ears.
  
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  August 18, 2022 3:08pm
ClanMcleod

Rodney Hide has opened the phone lines. The responses are astonishing. Worth tuning in.

https://theplatform.kiwi/live-on-air
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August 18, 2022 2:25pm
- Ghost
  
  Interesting, I never knew he had stopped being a member of ACT
  
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  August 18, 2022 2:40pm
Ghost

Hmmm, how many people can call what they do for work a form of art? Builders can, we spend huge money trying to maintain some of their art work

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/arts-minister-carmel-sepuloni-visual-artists-to-get-resale-royalties-by-2024/YWEA74H7LWADHKBURB5CAW6V44/
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August 18, 2022 2:38pm
Chris Nisbet

RE: that fire at the car yard in ChCh – do you think they’d tell us if EV cars were involved?
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August 18, 2022 2:56pm
- Its only I
  
  ….or diesel, petrol, LPG, CNG or steam?
  
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  August 18, 2022 3:02pm
- greybeard
  
  Simple insurance issue.
  
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  August 18, 2022 3:40pm
Maggie Pie

Yu’ll love this…..

Tourism Minister Stuart Nash says he doesn’t want to attract …..”two-minute noodle-eating visitors”

– Mike Hosking (NewstalkZB Breakfast)

LOL!!!!
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August 18, 2022 3:11pm
- mandk
  
  Nash is ignorant as well as being a snob.
  
  He is referring again to backpackers, without having a proper understanding of their contribution.
  
  The International Visitor Survey shows that their mean expenditure is only a little less than the average. They spend less than the daily average for all visitors, but they stay longer than average.
  
  Backpackers also often do paid work while they are here. The fact that Covid has kept most of them out of the country explains why much of NZ’s fruit has been left to rot, rather than being harvested and exported.
  
  In addition, backpackers are generally young, bright and dynamic – just the sort of people we should be encouraging to migrate here.
  
  We need more backpackers, not fewer.
  
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  August 18, 2022 4:16pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Labour only wants a) rich capitalists they can fleece, and b) morons who will vote for it.
  
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  August 18, 2022 4:28pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Sounds about right Alan.
    
    TBH I’ve never ever eaten 2-minute-noodles….but I seem to remember that was the nikname Whaleoil gave Len Brown 😛
    
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    August 18, 2022 5:17pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Nash needs to get out & about amongst young folk….they snack on 2-min noodles (often dry) in between their main meals.
  
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  August 18, 2022 5:59pm
ClanMcleod

Steve Kirsch was apparently the numero uno source of “disinformation” on the internet, Nobody has yet been able to tell anyone what the “disinformation” actually is but I digress…..he just lost his spot to Joseph Mercola. Anyway, Steve posted this piece of information that he found over on my old friend el gato malo’s blog site.

The CDC and all of the other “sources of truth” have said since the vaccines started rolling out that:
“the mRNA and spike protein do not last long in the body.

Our cells break down mRNA from these vaccines and get rid of it within a few days of vaccination.

Scientists estimate that the spike proteins, like other proteins our bodies create, may stay in the body for up to a few weeks.”

Anyone saying otherwise would be deplatformed or suspended in a heartbeat.

As Steve Kirsch observes:

“What happens when the scientific evidence is so clear about the spike protein from the COVID vaccines remaining in your body that the CDC has to admit they were wrong?

They just delete the inaccurate statement and say nothing. Nothing!”

https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/cdc-admits-they-were-wrong-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Lies by omission. Every trick in the book. The narrative is crumbling.
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August 18, 2022 3:36pm
Maggy Wassilieff

On what planet does a NZ teacher think it is appropriate to be teaching 11 year-old girls about anal sex?

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/08/northland-mother-horrified-after-11yo-daughter-taught-graphic-details-about-sex-at-school.html
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August 18, 2022 4:22pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Seems a bit young to be in a year 7-8 class with some 13-14 year-olds?
  
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  August 18, 2022 4:37pm
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    No…
    Year 7 is Form 1/ Intermediate age (most kids would be 10-11)
    
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    August 18, 2022 4:47pm
- thirteenstars
  
  Sickening. These people are essentially groomers.
  
  Kids should be taught biology which includes conception but the actual subject of sexual behaviour and interpersonal relationships is not for school. That’s the job of the parents.
  
  “…he said the health curriculum allowed students to ask anonymous questions which teachers provided factual responses to.”
  
  Nope. Nope. If a child asks a teacher, I’ve heard about anal sex, can you tell me what it is all about? The correct answer is, sorry, it’s not appropriate for me to answer that question. You should talk to your parents.
  
  Also:
  
  “…we adopt a holistic approach to relationships and sexuality education. This is defined by the ‘hauora’ (wellbeing) model which includes physical, social, mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects. ”
  
  Again, no. It’s not at all appropriate, in fact it’s highly inappropriate, for teachers or any other such person to discuss any of those aspects of sex that aren’t closely related to biology.
  
  The problem for the neo-Marxist groomers that engage in this kind of “instruction” is that regular biology does not expose children to the LGBTQ spectrum for obvious biological reasons, and this is Q A thing how they get it in the curriculum.
  
  But parents need to organise and share information. They need to confront schools and protect their children because you sure as hell can’t trust teachers or apparently the entire public education system to protect them.
  
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  August 18, 2022 4:57pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

Really good/simple explanation of structure of modern political discourse, manipulations and misrepresentations and exploitation of useful idiots in the service bad actors.
https://youtu.be/X5jqE76o6qs
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August 18, 2022 4:30pm
Warren

What sort of people do we have in New Zealand that would kill children put them in suitcases and leave them in a storage unit until the units are auctioned to pay for owed rent. Shit what is New Zealand coming to, barbaric.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2022/08/livestream-police-giving-update-on-manurewa-homicide-investigation-involving-human-remains-in-suitcases.html
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August 18, 2022 4:59pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Not New Zealanders, I’m guessing.
  
  How did it happen that no one noticed that two school aged kids just disappeared?
  
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  August 18, 2022 7:26pm
greybeard

Stuff headline:
“Climate change: Auckland councillors vote to cut transport emissions by 64%”.
Translation: “Auckland councillors are a pack of delusional overpaid idiots”.
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August 18, 2022 5:10pm
Jack5

For national mental health, Cabinet minister Little’s plan includes a “kaupapa” [i.e., agenda] Maori approach to therapy and intervention.

That seems to entail tohunga treatment of psychiatric disorders.

Tohunga were the practitioners of Rongoa Maori, or Maori medicine. This includes “spiritual healing” for psychiatric illness.

Little is completing the resurrection of this treatment, which was driven underground by the Tohunga Suppression Act of 1907, legislation which was supported by the then four Maori members of Parliament.

An interesting mention in the link below is that “knowledge and practice borrowed from Western medicine may be incorporated into treatment.”

To be fair, there are Western non-standard medical practitioners ranging to colour-therapists. But I doubt that colour therapists are on the State health payroll.

Does Little also see tohunga as an answer to the crisis in the country’s health-system crisis?

Maori health treatment:

https://bpac.org.nz/magazine/2008/may/docs/bpj13_rongoa_pages_32-36_pf.pdf
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August 18, 2022 5:16pm
Ghost

More people living in cars under jacinda. This will mean we will once again see John Campbell going knocking on car windows to interview those in cars? Oh silly me, the media only do that when it happens under national. Under labour this weirdo is once again giving a press conference in a school. Shit has there ever been a prime minister before that spends so many times in kindy and primary schools? I am beginning to wonder if it is because she never graduated kindy

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2207/S00217/people-living-in-cars-has-quadrupled-under-labour.htm
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August 18, 2022 6:19pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Kindy is Jacinda’s happy place
  
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  August 18, 2022 7:30pm
- wilderbeast
  
  Absolutely correct. Far easier than fronting up to adults I’d suggest
  
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  August 18, 2022 7:45pm
slightlyrighty

Just watching 3 News. Sharma just went Nuclear!
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August 18, 2022 6:25pm
septic skeptic

Oh dear, Cindy was “too definitive” when she said the caucus minus one predetermined the outcome of the caucus meeting the following day? What an inopportune moment to get caught giving a straight answer to a simple question!
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August 18, 2022 6:40pm
- septic skeptic
  
  Edit Denied not said
  
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  August 18, 2022 6:52pm
CAKE FACE1

Dr Sharma has unloaded again.

My popcorn supplies are running low!
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August 18, 2022 6:41pm
Tony Stuart

Dr Gaurav Sharma has come out swinging, and this time he’s aiming for the PM’s office. He has released a recording of a call made to him after Monday’s “caucus meeting minus one”, where he was warned about the meeting the following day being a done deal, and likely “brutal” towards him.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/08/labour-s-dr-gaurav-sharma-breaks-silence-accusing-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-of-cover-up-releases-secret-recording-of-mp.html

So who is the Labour Party MP who spilled the beans to Dr Sharma, and is this indicative of some significant cracks in Labour’s caucus? One thing is for sur; Dr Sharma isn’t going to go silently into the night…
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August 18, 2022 6:50pm
- alex Masterley
  
  Talk about chucking a hand grenade into the mix.
  The lights will be burning late on the 9th floor tonight.
  
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  August 18, 2022 6:53pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    I feel for the poor innocent children of NZ who will forced to endure a campaign of PR visits from Cindy as she seeks to deflect attention from her nasty mendacious regime.
    
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    August 18, 2022 7:10pm
- MikeMan
  
  It will be a low list or shakey electorate MP who can read the room and knows they are toast in 2023.
  
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  August 18, 2022 7:05pm
- kowtow
  
  By election time.
  
  I wonder how the rest of the Media pardy will react tomorrow am.
  
  I note the Democracy Project has lots of Uffindell / nats/ Lux stories , but nothing on the Sharma Drama . How odd.
  
  I like how he talked about how new MP’s were told to say nuttin , how the pm’s office has tactics for not revealing info .
  
  Makes the PM’s claims about most open and transparent , to be transparently fake.
  
  Remember compadres , there’s only one source of truth. That’s how she likes it , and that’s what she said herself .
  
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  August 18, 2022 7:12pm
- JJ56
  
  ‘Sharma isn’t going to go silently into the night …’
  
  Oh yes he is in Stuff’s universe, no mention on their site at 7:10.
  
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  August 18, 2022 7:14pm
- Ghost
  
  Good, I’m glad he is speaking up. What we have now is not only a government that believes bullying is acceptable in the work place, but a government that believes the victim should be punished. All workplace bullying campaigns should be stopped under this government
  
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  August 18, 2022 7:23pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  Funny, no coverage by Public Interest Journalism?
  
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  August 18, 2022 8:05pm
Warren

Ha ha Jacinda Ardern’s worst nightlight secret recordings Gaurav Sharma send a message I’m not done yet and if you had listened you wouldn’t be in this mess.
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August 18, 2022 6:59pm
Suze Wainwright

This time he’s got a recording – how rogue is that?!
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August 18, 2022 7:09pm
Warren

You have to laugh Gaurav Sharma makes the saying never give sucker a even break very true as he hits back at labour and their arrogance over Jacinda Ardern and Labours bullying accusation. I bet our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is regretting not listening to his accusations now and not giving him the a chance to discuss them with her before belitting him in the media.
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August 18, 2022 7:14pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  We all knew the country is being run by a bunch of incompetent, sleazy, dishonest scumbags but that is now being revealed naked to the world now.
  
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  August 18, 2022 7:57pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  He’s playing an absolute blinder!
  
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  August 19, 2022 7:10am
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh goodness…another busy weekend for Labour’s bunnies.
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August 18, 2022 7:21pm
- Warren
  
  But Maggy has the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern bitten off more than she can chew, and will this bullying and lies come back to haunt her.
  
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  August 18, 2022 7:31pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I suspect she has 2 options…
    
    1. Dump Sharma and go with a by-election.
    
    This will close down any investigation of the Labour party and her involvement in cover-ups.
    
    2. Carry on with the circus that Labour is trying to solve Sharma’s problems…and she will not discuss”confidential” matters any further……(smile, ooze empathy; drip concern….)
    
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    August 18, 2022 8:36pm
- Ghost
  
  Perhaps jacinda will have Covid and have to isolate for several months?
  
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  August 18, 2022 7:34pm
  - nathie
    
    Breaking news, PMO Staff called back to work for the next 24 hours straight …. their brief is to figure out where to hide her, options being considered are:
    
    *Labour’s witless protection cupboard? (Ooops, no room, Kelvin is still in there)!
    
    *VIP 757 trip to traverse around the globe non-stop, via air-air refueling?
    
    *Bingo! Visit to children’s school in the Himalayas, will be a 28 day trek!
    
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    August 18, 2022 8:02pm
slightlyrighty

Last time an Indian ambushed someone this bad was the Battle of Little Big Horn!
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August 18, 2022 7:43pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I’m trying to remember what happened last time some ruling elite tangled with a little Indian chap who believed in truth and justice.
  
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  August 18, 2022 8:00pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    All power to this one to shine a bright light into the darkness that is wrecking our country.
    
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    August 18, 2022 8:14pm
- Ghost
  
  Labour have lost any Indian votes
  
  Question is how long before they roll jacinda to try and save face.
  
  Trevor have you left yet, prime minister Trevor mallard, speak against him and he will beat the shit out of you.
  
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  August 18, 2022 8:01pm
Maggy Wassilieff

I would like to give due acknowledgement to Dr Sharma’s fabulous use of Ardern’s favourite retort:

Several allegations of bullying have been made against him.

Dr Sharma said he completely refutes “every single one of them”.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/08/labour-s-dr-gaurav-sharma-breaks-silence-accusing-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-of-cover-up-releases-secret-recording-of-mp.html
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August 18, 2022 7:46pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Well, it is encouraging to learn that at least 1 Labour MP had the decency to notify Sharma about their secret squirrel meeting without him.

But bloody frightening to realise what a compliant load of toadies the rest of them are.
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August 18, 2022 7:52pm
- nathie
  
  You mean, (nearly) all of these people!!!
  
  https://www.labour.org.nz/ourteam
  
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  August 18, 2022 7:58pm
surfing

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/andrew-little-funds-gp-visits-for-maori-pacific-and-elderly-as-health-reforms-go-local/ISNLDFU63EWQ3DDSQWOG7NQ4CM/

So, a poor white guy and a richer maori walk into a doctors office. The richer maori pays a lower fee because they are the special race.

This is disgraceful. NZ is going full on racist society!

Otherwise, tell me how this is even a bit fair?

National have to hammer this home, how race gives one a health funding advantage, despite all other things being equal.
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