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Luke Piewalker

Is anyone going to talk about Hipkins failures as a minister of education?
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January 24, 2023 8:01am
- amospicton
  
  Charter schools – has there been a worse decision for out young people than killing charter schools?
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:20am
  - RoboRob
    
    In no particular order…..
    
    Merging the polytechs (Hipkins)
    
    The modern learning environment (National)
    
    Removing primary standard national assesment and replacing it with…. nothing (Hipkins).
    
    Blocking / reducing additional rewards for high performing principals (Hipkins)
    
    Blocking / reducing out of zone acceptance (Hipkins).
    
    Punishing high performance schools by limiting their rolls and forcing those children to go to poor performing schools so that the poor performing schools rolls dont suffer. (Hipkins / ministry of Ed)
    
    Needlessly closing schools during Covid (Hipkins)
    
    Moving from phonic to repetition for learning to read and then after 40 years refusing to admit the new system is worse than the old.
    
    So many stupid major educational decisions.
    
    These all ignore the basic issue that the ministry of Ed is not fit for purpose and is not focused on the right things. For some reason their mission statement isn’t ‘The very best academic outcomes for all NZ children’ but is instead ‘We shape an education system that delivers equitable and excellent outcomes.’ The children are not the focus, the system is. We see this all through the education system.
    
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    January 24, 2023 9:06am
    - burt
      
      Punishing high performance schools by limiting their rolls and forcing those children to go to poor performing schools so that the poor performing schools rolls dont suffer. (Hipkins / ministry of Ed)
      
      To be fair, school zoning predates any involvement by Hipkins.
      
      The unions control this policy (like they also control their political arm – The Labour Party) with their brain dead instance that all teachers are equal and therefore all schools are equal.
      
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      January 24, 2023 11:41am
      - RoboRob
        
        I’m referring to the process where the ministry, under Hipkins, generally reduced the zone sizes and overlaps. They then blocked schools from taking many / any out of zone children.
        
        This meant that children that had two options and choose the excellent school now had only the poor school as an option. This was done with the stated intention of protecting the roll sizes at some schools. So instead of fixing a poorly performing school they simply now force unlucky children to attend.
        
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        January 24, 2023 11:48am
      - burt
        
        RoboRob
        
        I understand, but that is not a new situation. I was negotiating that very problem (constricting zone size) in a Wellington high school back when we had Clark as PM.
        
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        January 24, 2023 11:55am
      - burt
        
        What I was recommending to people (on this very platform) back in 2007 was that parents who live in zone for a popular school but have their kids at a private school all turn up at their local school on the first day of term. If you live in zone the school (at that time) was not allowed to turn you away.
        
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        January 24, 2023 11:59am
      - Paulus
        
        I see that Teachers are about to go on strike again because …..they can do it.
        
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        January 24, 2023 1:24pm
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Paulus: “I see that Teachers are about to go on strike again because …..they can do it.”
        
        They are increasingly suffering the effects of a high wokeload?
        
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        January 24, 2023 2:52pm
  - Mark Hanley
    
    Adern had 5 years, the element of surprise, and the council of her labour party predecessor to gorge her bank account with our money.
    
    Hipkins has 9 months and a very wary public so one hopes he won’t be nearly as successful at self enrichment as Adern.
    
    But no doubt he will try.
    
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    January 24, 2023 9:28am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      The voter has to be weary of them rolling back policies for now, that is code for the rotten Marxist just to start them up shifts they squeak back in
      
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      January 24, 2023 11:21am
      - Mark Hanley
        
        You’re giving labour’s mps way more credit than they deserve.
        
        The reason 3 waters will not be repealed is that 3 waters is the mother of all gravy trains. It is not part of a complex Marxist takeover plan.
        
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        January 24, 2023 11:34am
      - Matt Long
        
        Not just part of a neo Marxist plan.
        
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        January 24, 2023 1:30pm
      - Mark Hanley
        
        The voter has to push for a detailed audit of all government spending over the last 5 years to find out where the wasted billions ended up.
        
        We also need better controls on government spending and conflicts of interest so inexperienced and undereducated labour mps are discouraged from seeking public office to make their fortunes.
        
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        January 24, 2023 1:47pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Mark Hanley: “The voter has to push for a detailed audit of all government spending over the last 5 years to find out where the wasted billions ended up.”
      
      An absolute must. Many many skeletons to be found methinks. Will act as a deterrent to other aspiring arrogant clowns.
      
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      January 24, 2023 8:19pm
  - Keith White
    
    “Charter schools – has there been a worse decision for out young people than killing charter schools?”
    
    Yes there has been, mandating that they be vaccinated. Note that many schools overseas are now introducing defibrillators into classrooms in case children have heart attacks.
    
    I wonder how that could be a possibility now when it never has been before / sarc.
    
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    January 24, 2023 5:14pm
- kevn
  
  @Luke… Add his other portfolios as well. Show me a successful one?
  As Maggie said ‘ just an empty suit’ with plenty of yapping.
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:21am
  - Ruawai
    
    When they call Hipkins Mr Fixit, it just means he comes in and spins it so the media look the other way.
    
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    January 24, 2023 10:47am
    - Swifty
      
      He has fixed nothing except Labour’s PR over a few matters that ran off the rails.
      
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      January 24, 2023 11:19am
    - Jim
      
      As I’ve stated previously, Mr Fixit just means he’s been given the chance to fix some other $200k pa Labour Minister’s incompetency. I’m certainly not impressed, especially as I don’t see any fixes to the crime situation!
      
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      January 24, 2023 12:06pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Mr (Seagull) Fixit?
      
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      January 24, 2023 2:53pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    He created the decline in health too
    
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    January 24, 2023 11:22am
    - burt
      
      I don’t think he created it, but he’s certainly more pre-occupied with papering over the cracks than he is with actually fixing anything.
      
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      January 24, 2023 11:51am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        He was minister of health for sometime before the election, oh I am pretty sure he created the mess
        
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        January 24, 2023 3:40pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Luke – probably just us. The shills in the media won’t that’s for sure.
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:21am
- Akitio
  
  To be fair, he’s only following Mummy’s advice.
  
  Brief bio speaks volumes.
  https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/390918/bio
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:27am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    Anyone have any idea what this edubabble means?
    
    ‘Rosemary (Rose) is a Chief Researcher at the New Zealand Council for Educational Research. She has a strong interest in the complex space at the intersection of curriculum and assessment practices. Rose was actively involved in the development of both the New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) and the National Certificates of Educational Achievement (NCEA) which is New Zealand’s senior secondary assessment system. Over the 16 years she has been at NZCER she has lead national research projects related to both curriculum and assessment innovation in New Zealand, with a particular focus on how the NZC key competencies have been understood and enacted. Rose often works in close partnership with teachers and school leaders. She has supported a number of practitioner-led projects funded by the Teacher-Led Innovation Fund.’
    
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    January 24, 2023 7:52pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Strong smell of woke activism there. However I’m reluctant to cast aspersions on people based on what relatives did or didn’t do. Many people are very different politically to their family members.
    
    I’m sure Hipkins can be assessed solely on his own actions (or the lack thereof).
    
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    January 24, 2023 8:23pm
- Ghost
  
  Let’s remember he wanted to track people who didn’t take the vaccine down and vaccinate them despite the claims people wouldn’t be made to have it
  
  https://twitter.com/GillianMcKeith/status/1616663310459338752
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:36am
  - kevn
    
    @Ghost… Thank you. In the tsunami of covid crap I missed that vid. Maybe it was on TV1/3?
    
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    January 24, 2023 8:56am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    “Those who opt out will not be punished”
    Another lie.
    
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    January 24, 2023 9:07am
  - Grunter
    
    Hipkins horrible Covid performance will come back to haunt him. I just hope it is all exposed before the election. Thing’s seem to be starting to unravel in the UK & USA with more in the mass media reporting on non-covid excess deaths, the ineffectiveness and BS surrounding the jab, and how govt lockdowns cost literally billions and ruined so many lives.
    Dr John Campbell in the UK a few days ago reported that UK excess deaths in the first few weeks of 2023 are now tracking more than 30% higher than historical averages – and his words “these aren’t covid deaths”.
    
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    January 24, 2023 9:25am
    - burt
      
      The media are much more complaint (and cheaper to pay off) here than they are in the US, I don’t expect to see any honest or critical reporting from our media as long as they are all being paid by the government to stick to the script.
      
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      January 24, 2023 11:53am
    - krazykiwi
      
      Some of the excess deaths are Covid, but very likely the infections are the result of damaged immune systems that have been programmed to be tolerant of SARS-CoV-2 rather than to fight it. This is the IgG3 to IgG4 class switching phenomenon that has recently come to light, and which would have come to light had the ‘vaccines’ undergone normal pharmacological trials.
      
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      January 24, 2023 12:00pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      As Jacinda’s saint front crumbled in the face of her government’s hideous actions I predict Chippie’s chipper spin routine will quickly become very irritating to the majority of NZers.
      
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      January 24, 2023 3:09pm
  - Keith White
    
    Yes, and this should never be overlooked or forgotten. He was quite prepared to go full Gestapo enforcement when he thought he was right to do that. People like that are dangerous.
    
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    January 24, 2023 4:57pm
- Fishing in the dark
  
  What about as a police minister, crime statistics are still on an all time high, the gang memberships are still on an all time high etc.
  
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  January 24, 2023 9:16am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Lindsay Mitchell has written about Carmel Sepuloni’s failure as a Social Development Minister.
  
  https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/lindsay-mitchell-sepuloni
  
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  January 24, 2023 9:30am
  - Swifty
    
    Lindsay Mitchell is a bloody treasure.
    
    Thank you Lindsay and Maggy.
    
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    January 24, 2023 9:42am
    - krazykiwi
      
      Agreed.
      
      Listen up National/ACT: You need to use and/or take advice from Lindsay Mitchell in your next government.
      
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      January 24, 2023 12:01pm
  - hullkiwi
    
    Meanwhile the spin machine is suggesting that Carmel as Deputy Prime Minister, she is going to somehow fix provision of healthcare for Pacific People. How in 5 years she has had no impact, what is she going to achieve in 9 months?
    
    The Labour/spin machine has been in overdrive for the past week, yet delivery remains at zero, as usual.
    
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    January 24, 2023 11:18am
    - Ehlana
      
      I don’t suppose anyone will ask why she isn’t planning to fix health care provision for all the other New Zealanders?
      
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      January 24, 2023 2:26pm
      - Keith White
        
        You are correct Ehlana, but that would be rayciss so must not happen, say all the bien-pensants.
        
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        January 24, 2023 4:59pm
  - MiddleclassTrash
    
    So,
    Carmel Sepuloni is part Tongan.
    Tonga was never colonised. In fact, it held dominion over Samoa.
    And I assume that her Tongan forebears moved to NZ.
    Does this make her a double coloniser?
    
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    January 24, 2023 1:13pm
- Ra Henare
  
  Seems the Herald is starting to stick it to the current mob.
  
  https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/opinion/tim-dower-this-reinforces-what-weve-all-known-about-politicians/
  
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  January 24, 2023 12:03pm
- Observer of Life
  
  Whenever I see Hipkins or hear him speak, I am reminded of “Master William Pitt the Even Younger” in (I believe) the 3rd series of Blackadder.
  Try YouTubing it. Looks like him. Sounds lik……
  
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  January 24, 2023 4:00pm
- Keith White
  
  “Is anyone going to talk about Hipkins failures as a minister of education?”
  
  No, I still have a day job, I don’t have the lengthy time required to do that discussion justice.
  
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  January 24, 2023 4:56pm
NeverMindTheBollocks

Isn’t it incredible how many very fat people there are in NZ these days, and how much the number has grown in the last 20 years or so.
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January 24, 2023 8:02am
- Blackbob
  
  It’s all that poverty and hardship out there causing it….plus egregious misuse of pronouns as well.
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:26am
- Homas
  
  What’s incredible is that during the run of a pandemic, the primary preventable comorbidity of which is obesity, and during which the expression of the slightest contrarian thought or questioning regarding public health strategy would get you pilloried, it was fine for the govt’s feminist media shills to pump out weekly articles describing how empowered they felt about putting on their “quarantine fifteen” during lockdown, and for a certain university’s “Fat Studies” department to continue to draw funding to push the view that it isn’t the spare two hundred odd pounds putting you at risk, but the “fatphobia” and “weight stigma”.
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:36am
  - kowtow
    
    Yes funny innit .
    
    fat’s ok as far as a “health” thingy is concerned but smoking , verbotten .
    
    I wonder if this is a bit of a wimmin’s thing .
    
    Tobacco , traditionally male = bad .
    
    Fat , which may be predominantly a person with vag issue = well not so much.
    
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    January 24, 2023 11:08am
- Stellaboxer
  
  “Isn’t it incredible how many very fat people there are in NZ these days, and how much the number has grown in the last 20 years or so” I’m convinced that it’s a requirement for employment at my local supermarket.
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:37am
- Ford Prefect
  
  Theres quite a few wearing masks as well “to protect their health”. They dont seem to worry about the effects of obesity.
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:44am
- MCōs
  
  I noticed the same thing in Bangkok
  It may be coincidence, but when I first went there in 1994 there was next to no American style junk food. Not just McDonalds, but now there’s doughnuts, sugar laden drinks and all sorts of stuff.
  Out in the country where all that stuff is scarce and too expensive the populace is noticeably thinner.
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:45am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Tourists can learn Thai cooking. My Thai friend (now in Alaska) came from the Sukhumvit area of Bangkok. Her job was at Baipai Thai Cooking School. A van would pick up tourists from hotels and they would have 1/2 day or full day of cooking and eating. Full day included a trip to the floating market.
    Pattip’s job was translating and taking photos then email them to client’s email.
    What a neat job, meeting people from all over the World.
    Reason for my comment is you would struggle to get fat on Thai food.
    
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    January 24, 2023 9:20am
- Ra Henare
  
  Contrary to what I thought (Lazy people not exercising and eating too much)
  
  PS, I have a morbidly obese adult step son
  
  The science suggests its about what’s happening in our gut and how that has been impacted by highly processed food. And diet soft drinks are a waste of time if you think you can use them for weight control.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66hWntvp0_4&t=427s
  
  It 90 minutes but you can skip to chapters
  Suggest skip to the second chapter to start
  
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  January 24, 2023 12:17pm
  - ISeeRed
    
    9 times out of 10, it’s people eating too much. And being lazy.
    
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    January 24, 2023 2:30pm
    - Ra Henare
      
      Guess you didnt watch the video 🙂
      
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      January 24, 2023 10:40pm
- Chris R
  
  Agree. NZ does not have a “climate emergency” but certainly has an obesity emergency. Negotiating the aisles of my local supermarket reminds me of the Suez Canal when it had a ship stuck in it. Obesity comes from eating too much and eating crap food too much.
  
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  January 24, 2023 12:31pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    NZ, like many western nations, has a gullibility emergency.
    
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    January 24, 2023 3:11pm
Tricati

After the endless nauseating stories of on-line abuse Ardern received, supposedly driving her to resign, we have an English comedian on the Project (TV3) suggesting NZ could crack Chris Luxon’s head to avoid the egg shortage, saying Luxon was New Zealand’s Humpty Dumpty.
So its ok for a nationwide TV show to publicly ridicule/abuse Chris Luxon, but when some disgruntled people negatively affected by Ardern’s draconian policies make a comment, that is not ok.
No one can condone abuse in any form of another person, but as we hear more that Ardern had discussed her departure with close colleagues at the end of last year, it is becoming clear her resignation was an orchestrated stunt to head off falling polls and the allow Labour to ditch unpopular policies and to implement a further tax take.
It seems those researching on-line abuse directed at Ardern have had to go to a number of obscure social media platforms to justify their headlines; but with under 5000 events found, or 0.1% of population, it gives you some context of the magnitude of the supposed issue.
Labour truly is untrustworthy and a very deceitful bunch, but you won’t see any hard questions being asked on them from the MSM.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2023/01/jimmy-carr-says-cracking-christopher-luxon-s-head-open-is-solution-to-new-zealand-s-egg-shortage.html
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January 24, 2023 8:03am
- Raphael
  
  Look at the amount of vitriol that was sent the way of Key, Bridges and Collins by the left. And they didn’t have to scour the darkest recesses of the internet to find it.
  
  our Former Glorious Leader even commented on how a certain rapper was one of her favourite musicians after he wrote that nasty song about what he wanted to do to Key and his family.
  
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  January 24, 2023 10:46am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Yes tge rap artist wrote that song that said he want yo rape snd murder the young Stephe, and Ardern did say he was her favourite, and she publicly liked that particular song on social media, screenshots were taken if her arrogance
    
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    January 24, 2023 11:30am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Isn’t it strange that it’s just funny when you talk publicly about cracking Luxons head, but saying Ardern is a total failure is simply misogynist bullying
  
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  January 24, 2023 11:28am
  - Nickc2
    
    IMO, the majority of people in NZ and in a few other countries have come to believe and rely on others telling them what to think.
    Our MSM and Politicians rely on this tactic. For confirmation, take a look at the number of people TV Interviewers on the street lineup and ask questions about 3/5Waters. They ask enough people until they get the consensus they have been sent to seek and then put the video to air after favourable editing and voice-over lead-in.
    Suckers believe that crap without question eh?
    
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    January 24, 2023 11:46am
- herb1
  
  I’ve just mad a formal complaint to the media council about this.
  Newshub need to be taken to task over this . They and other media outlets have written at length about the nasty media comments that Ardern has faced, yet see nothing wrong with allowing a guest on their show to basically joke about murdering Chris Luxon by smashing his skull open , and then put it on their news website and Facebook page ,and frame it as funny.
  We all know how funny they’d see it, and the speed of the police response, if we rang their head office , saying we’d like to crack open the skull of their CEO.
  People need to complain to the media council and direct to Newshub
  
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  January 24, 2023 11:34am
  - Tom Hunter
    
    Waste of time, as demonstrated by DPF himself when he complained about a much more precise matter in the form of media “polls”.
    
    There is only one way this will change: they go bankrupt and die.
    Don’t subscribe to them.
    Don’t buy them.
    Don’t read them.
    Don’t watch them.
    Don’t listen to them.
    
    Kill them. Die MSM, Die
    
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    January 24, 2023 3:26pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Same can be done with big tech. Get off their platforms. They are scum.
      
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      January 24, 2023 8:28pm
- Flossie
  
  I couldn’t believe it when I read about Carr’s remarks. I imagine if he’s said anything remotely derogatory about the former PM he’d have been just about physically removed from the set.
  
  I really have a problem with someone who flaunted her “youthful feminity”, being a mum, and her engagement and nearly wedding, and being happy to front up for magazine glamour shots taking exception to any comments regarded as misogynistic. A cake and eat it situation.
  
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  January 24, 2023 1:45pm
- Roberta
  
  And let’s not forget that Ardern was praised to the extreme, put on a pedestal by the media, and given an easy ride as PM. These factors completely outweigh any negativity that got past her censors.
  In my opinion she deserved the abuse she got – for her utter deception, cover-ups and incompetence, in major issues such as our democracy, health and freedoms. With the completely biased media coverage and shutting down of opinion, what else were New Zealanders able to do?
  Good riddance to her!
  
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  January 24, 2023 6:52pm
Bridgenag

UK ONS admits their data is flawed; the vaccines may not be beneficial after all. Sorry about that.

https://open.substack.com/pub/stevekirsch/p/uk-ons-admits-their-data-is-flawed?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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January 24, 2023 8:03am
- ClanMcleod
  
  NZ media – “hello? hello? hello?……..echo….echo…echo…”
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:22am
  - leoj
    
    C’mon downtickers. Let’s see you counter why Clan is correct.
    Won’t your bosses at Stuffed allow you?
    
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    January 24, 2023 10:52am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      leoj – there’s a beautiful inverse equation for posts on KB.
      
      1. Take the number of downticks and divide it by the number of comments disproving the point you made.
      
      2. The smaller the resulting number the more accurate your point was.
      
      3. If the calculator says “cannot divide by zero” you can bet money your point was 100% correct and a direct hit.
      
      This formula should be locked into the field of blogology™ the way Pi is locked into mathematics……..🤡
      
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      January 24, 2023 11:16am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Hmmmm….. 2 downticks divided by zero counterpoints.
        
        Hit ENTER
        
        Result – “can’t divide by zero”
        
        …..nuff said. 🤡
        
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        January 24, 2023 12:02pm
      - Pineapple Lumps
        
        Clan, I like your thinking and believe in most instances it is accurate. You need to add the proviso that the formula applies to non-troll posts. Can’t have them believing they are 100% correct and scoring direct hits all the time!
        
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        January 24, 2023 12:26pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Don’t need them, level headed voters are not stupid, just the unhinged left
    
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    January 24, 2023 11:31am
- mawm
  
  This short video by Joel Smalley on Coivid vaccines tells an alarming story. Take note what is happening in NZ and Australia especially. Safe and effective – Yeah Right!
  https://metatron.substack.com/p/whats-the-story-of-the-covid-19-vaccines
  
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  January 24, 2023 9:26am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    mawm – That is an outstanding video and should be shown on prime time TV.
    
    The rest of the world is starting to ask questions, in NZ? Nothing. It’s beyond concerning.
    Here’s Dr John Campbell talking about the excess mortality in the UK.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku2Fv7xnL1o
    
    In NZ? Fraudulent reporting, discombobulation or silence. Take your pick.
    In NZ, they took the NZ data for 3 years and had the cheek to claim a reduction in all cause mortality for 3 years.
    There was, but only because we’re a fucking island thousands of kms from anywhere and we closed down for 2 out of 3 of those years.
    
    The data in the last 6 months is trending the same as elsewhere around the world. Off the charts, and it isn’t from covid.
    As Campbell says, utterly bizarre. These stats are being ignored by government and mainstream media.
    I include National in this, and ACT. It is impossible to believe that none of these people have seen the data.
    
    Meanwhile on the government covid website? 3 weeks since they last had anything to say!
    
    https://covid19.govt.nz/news-and-data/latest-news/
    
    The last post was on the 4th January this year.
    
    Government reminds international arrivals to test for COVID-19/>
    
    How long can they hide from the truth?
    
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    January 24, 2023 11:00am
    - leoj
      
      Did down tickers WATCH the bloody video?
      Clearly not.
      
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      January 24, 2023 4:09pm
  - leoj
    
    Amazing video.
    New Zealand’s Covid death rate 80 times higher AFTER vaccinations started.
    Injected with poison………!!!!!!!
    Maybe, Cindy saw this video, had heart attack and couldn’t face the inevitable music.
    Show this to National’s Chris “door-to-door jabs for all” Bishop. Chippie was all for universal jabbing too.
    Clearly, down tickers are blind to facts.
    
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    January 24, 2023 4:08pm
- Keith White
  
  “But we meant well, now we need to move on, because our intentions were good, and we need to move on, because you need to listen to what we have to tell you to do in the future, because we still mean well”.
  
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  January 24, 2023 5:00pm
Tauhei Notts

I’m a betting man. If, a week ago, a bookie had offered me Labour paying $7 I would turn the offer down, They have no show.
BUT, I think Chippy realises how dire things are and he might possibly take steps to remove their silly policies. If he can do that then the odds of $2.98 on Betfair, this week look tempting.
Several greyhounds that I bet on have a muzzle. How did Chippy manage to fit one on Willie Jackson. However he did it, it was a brilliant move.
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January 24, 2023 8:06am
- Brian McDonald
  
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  [Mod – no need for a post like that]
  
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  December 24, 2022 9:01am
  - RoboRob
    
    Hey Brian have you considered replying to the post and arguing the point rather than just attacking the poster? Providing a logical argument as to why they are wrong might be a better option than insults and veiled threats. Just saying.
    
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    January 24, 2023 9:22am
    - igm
      
      He knows no better . . . check his background!
      
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      January 24, 2023 11:22am
- Nickc2
  
  Perhaps it was Carmel Sepuloni that leaned on Silly Willy?
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:14am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Ouch.
    
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    January 24, 2023 8:23am
  - RockyJ
    
    If Labour didn’t have Carmel Sepuloni they would have to invent her. She ticks so many boxes.
    
    Hipkins knows that cogovernance is the 600 kg gorilla sitting in the room. They don’t want to talk about it but it is the main reason they are seen as treasonous. Hippy needs to send a signal that it is on the back burner until after they win the election- God forbid!
    
    The deal is with the Maori caucus “let’s make it look like cogovernance and yous fellas are all history, for now at least”. This means we need a token to be second in charge. Ta dah! Carmel! Polynesian but not Maori, female, dim and faithful. Keeps everyone happy.
    
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    January 24, 2023 8:50am
- hullkiwi
  
  Chippy didn’t fit the muzzle on Jackson. The Labour cabinet & party hierarchy planned what would happen & all bought into it sometime last year.
  
  Be certain, not one piece of already implemented policy will change, because if policy is changed all the deals will unravel, then all bets are off.
  
  This move was all about repositioning Labour in the post pandemic world of NZ, while giving Jax her chance for the UN job.
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:14am
  - Brian McDonald
    
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    Get help.
    
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    January 24, 2023 8:47am
    - Luke Piewalker
      
      Yes Brian. Help is arriving.
      National and Act are coming in October to fix New Zealand.
      
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      January 24, 2023 8:58am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        National, based on previous experience will likely be babysitting many neomarxist/woke advances and possibly even creating a few themselves. Prove me wrong.
        
        ACT will probably on the whole be making a brave effort against the hordes of brainwashed woke zombies. I hope they realise what they are up against and prepare accordingly.
        
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        January 24, 2023 3:17pm
    - Opie
      
      Zinger.
      
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      January 24, 2023 9:17am
    - slightlyrighty
      
      Brian….
      
      It’s now widely accepted that the pieces were put into play at the end of last year, with Hipkins and Ardern discussing the future.
      
      If you don’t think they have discussed policy in the face of the coming election, and what would and wouldn’t be palatable to the electorate, then you are the one needing help…
      
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      January 24, 2023 9:39am
    - Simon
      
      Cindy was crashing and burning, she is badly damaged goods the Labo party leadership removed her as deals were under threat. All deals however remain in place as Hipkins buys them a few months. Last millions paid to MSM to cover for Labo. Cindy gets her tax free job at UN.
      
      This is what is happening.
      
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      January 24, 2023 9:39am
  - Frank the tank
    
    Couple of things:
    1). Mahutacorp and Willy aren’t muzzled. They can’t help themselves. The trigger will be when the Maori party goes to 4-5% in polls.
    2). I don’t believe Ardern will go to the UN (well not at first). Look for her to surface in a WEF-controlled entity first. That is her ultimate reporting line NOT the UN.
    
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    January 24, 2023 9:02am
    - KiWombat
      
      “I don’t believe Ardern will go to the UN”
      
      Who would want a burnt out train wreck anyhow?
      
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      January 24, 2023 10:29am
      - NZer In Exile
        
        Oh there’s plenty of work for “strong women” ex leaders about. She’s set for life. Woke women across the world will open their wallets and lap it up.
        
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        January 24, 2023 3:24pm
      - Keith White
        
        Blackrock wants her for her name-visibility.
        
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        January 24, 2023 5:05pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  ANY steps Chippy takes to remove their silly policies, will be nothing more than a delaying tactic until after the next election.
  Given the unthinkable on October 14, all shit will be let loose on the country.
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:18am
  - amospicton
    
    As Seymour said yesterday, Labour’s brilliant new policy is to throw out all of Labour’s old policies!
    
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    January 24, 2023 8:21am
    - Flossie
      
      Not thrown out – just stored in the back shed till next time they are in power.
      
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      January 24, 2023 1:49pm
  - Ehlana
    
    And that is truly frightening MP. Labour didn’t campaign last election on the policies they implemented when they won office. Interviewers need to ask how the public will know what they are getting. Chris Hipkins needs to be asked to categorically assure the public that co-governance will not happen while he is Prime Minister.
    
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    January 24, 2023 8:25am
    - RoboRob
      
      You can 100% be sure that any policy that is dropped now will be back on the table 6mths after the election if they win. They really believed in these policies and were willing to ignore public opinion on them, the only thnig that has changed is they need to win an election to get them through.
      
      If they promise 3 waters is gone, for example, you can be sure it will be replaced by the ‘Aoteroa clean water initiative’. We promise its a totally different thing.
      
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      January 24, 2023 9:14am
    - Simon
      
      Hipkins isnt running anything. Why ask him?
      
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      January 24, 2023 9:42am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Co-Governance will be renamed and repackaged.
      
      https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018874798/analysis-what-co-governance-actually-is
      
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      January 24, 2023 9:53am
    - Paulus
      
      But he, Hipkins will only be PM until October !
      
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      January 24, 2023 10:32am
    - leoj
      
      Co governance is the biggie.
      When is NEW ZEALAND going to collectively state that this maori crap has to stop?
      The answer is: When we are not afraid to be labelled as racists.
      The race card is all they have and we need to jam it right back down THEIR throats then tell them to get lost with their separatism.
      One country, one people.
      We all know about “divide and conquer” but separatism has always failed.
      
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      January 24, 2023 11:05am
    - Bloody Dago
      
      Asking [Mod – use their name] to categorically assure co governance will not happen is….well politicians are not up there on the trustworthy ladder are they.
      Better to ask for something ridiculous like rescind all the Treaty Settlements, and then invoice mana whenua for all the global colonists intellectual property that have had access to, used and not paid a cent for. That might balance the books a bit.
      
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      January 24, 2023 1:31pm
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Listen to his words today at Ratana, he told Māori again there will not be any cogovernance on services, he said he wants Māori to become successful on their own, like other NZers
        
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        January 24, 2023 3:46pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Ehlana: “Labour didn’t campaign last election on the policies they implemented when they won office. ”
      
      And THAT, right there, is the key reason Jacinda and Labour are reviled with extreme prejudice by many NZers.
      
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      January 24, 2023 3:27pm
  - Opie
    
    Book your container now for late October.
    
    Only problem is I’m unsure of the destination as Australia dives headfirst into race based nonsense and inflation. It’s like that moron Albanese saw what was happening over here and thought it was the guide book.
    
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    January 24, 2023 9:19am
    - Keith White
      
      I’m looking at Dominican Republic and Suriname.
      
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      January 24, 2023 5:06pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    With Jaspinda out of the driving seat there will be all sorts of things happening in NZ before she buggers of to UN.
    My guess is she will team up with Comrade Clark and together they will continue to fuck NZ over with Elite Maori.
    
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    January 24, 2023 9:31am
    - NZer In Exile
      
      Can ACT please declare that NZ will not be governed by the UN or those WEF weirdos?
      
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      January 24, 2023 3:30pm
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Luxon has stated the UN does not run this country
        
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        January 24, 2023 3:47pm
- pdm
  
  Hipkins is definitely a step up from Ardern in interviews because.
  1. He answers questions.
  2. If he does not have an answer he says so.
  3. He has been known to say sorry.
  
  At this stage and probably for another couple of weeks he has this get out of jail free card to help him.
  
  `I have only had 2 days in the position and want to do an in depth check on this – so I will be making an announcement later’.
  
  The other significant factor is I have not heard him mention 9 long years of neglect.
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:20am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Rubbish. Hipkins is playing to a script, that I’ve witnessed before (it is the same script Gordon Brown used in the UK). There are two standard stock replies to all questions, and these will be used to answerv all questions when asked anything, these are:
    1. “I haven’t been in the job long enough to look into it (this despite being part of Jacinda’s kitchen cabinet, & so knew/knows what was/is happening as he was part of the decision making)”; and
    2. “I get it about ……………… (whatever), and be certain I understand that hard working families/people are doing it hard at the moment, and the government I lead will ensure fairness in the tax system, because there are people not paying their fair share.”
    
    In addition, he will:
    1. Appear everywhere, as though he is Superman, no problem will be to small for Chippie to be there and appear as though he is solving all ills;
    2. Labour will play the politics of envy, hence Chippy’s comments about tax. Labour will point fingers at mythical people not paying tax, or doing too well with no effort, while real people are doing it hard and are paying too much. Of course it will be National/Act who are supporting these mythical freeloaders not paying their fair share of tax;
    3. The government will be all about Chippy, until he gets the wobbles and the wheels fall off. And when the wheels fall off, the government will be seen to be as inept and lacking in ideas as what to do, as ever they were.
    
    For the original version of this look to the UK mentors of Jacinda and Robertson, the 1997 to 2010 Labour governments of Tony Blair & Gordon Brown.
    
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    January 24, 2023 9:03am
  - RoboRob
    
    Agreed. However he has a MAJOR problem. As one of the only semi performing ministers who does he get to take over his portfolios?
    
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    January 24, 2023 9:18am
    - amospicton
      
      I know he has this ‘Mr Fixit’ reputation but he’s been Minister of Education, Health and Police – all disasters – and the terrible 2nd half of the Covid response. I think he’s a political Mr Fixit but in terms of actual achievements is utterly hopeless.
      
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      January 24, 2023 11:02am
      - RoboRob
        
        Thats why I was careful to call him ‘semi performing’. In his case he actually worked, knew his portfolios and implemented poor policy as opposed to most other Labour ministers who dont know their portfolios, have poor policy but fail to implement it 🙂
        
        One of the best things about this Labour govt has been their inability to implment much of their poor policy. I.e light rail from Ak airport to CBD.
        
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        January 24, 2023 11:52am
      - Keith White
        
        He didn’t fix anything he just looked concerned.
        
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        January 24, 2023 5:07pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Chippie may have those 3 points, but to me he comes across as a smartarse.
    
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    January 24, 2023 9:34am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    The interview presentation is a bit less repulsive but he really is just turd-polishing if you listen carefully. This will wear thin very quickly as the country’s nose dive continues.
    
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    January 24, 2023 3:34pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    His form of answering questions is not always a good watch, he has been shown up by HDA several times trying to avoid the question
    
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    January 24, 2023 3:48pm
- Inandout
  
  TN, Willie is breathing through his nose while Hipkins is installed and perhaps ready for his instructions from the Maori caucus. I can’t see any ‘brilliant moves’ from Chippy because he is now a victim of his government’s shambolic treatment of NZ’s economy and the Maori faction are within a hair’s breadth of taking control of our nation’s water.
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:26am
  - RoboRob
    
    That might be true of the maori caucus in general by I dont think Willie gives a stuff. He is only there for the manna and the money. He doesn’t give a stuff.
    
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    January 24, 2023 9:20am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    They may implode fighting over whether to pull a tactical retreat (pretend to be sensible leading up to the election) or to ram through a racial/heritage based coup.
    
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    January 24, 2023 3:47pm
- kowtow
  
  20 backbenchers losing their place at the trough would be enuff to silence Jackson , but only for the next 8 months.
  
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  January 24, 2023 9:13am
- Fishing in the dark
  
  much of the same, Chippy is carved out of the same Labour Ideology, by end of the day nothing will be changed. All what he will do just promise heaven on earth, if they get in a 3rd term, all is on including Co-governance, 3(5)-Waters, Capital Gains Tax etc.
  He has done nothing, in fact he stuffed up the education system, since he is in charge of Police the crime got worse, as a Covid Minister he stuffed up the entire nation etc.
  
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  January 24, 2023 9:20am
- rouppe
  
  Because he’s lying.
  
  Five waters legislation is in place, sufficient that it cannot be undone. Well it can, but he won’t reverse the legislation in place.
  
  He will have told Willie that if they aren’t in government they won’t get anything, so he’s been told to shut up and sharpen his knives ready for October 16.
  
  What we have heard is, more taxes. That’s pretty much it. I’d have put a bit of money on change to super, but there’s not enough time for that other than as an election manifesto to campaign on. If he does, look for eligibility exclusions, not an age shift.
  
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  January 24, 2023 9:31am
  - Paulus
    
    I understand that something like 1,000 senior staff have already been employed by what is known as Five Waters or some Maori name – with luxury accommodation.
    
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    January 24, 2023 10:35am
- godruelf
  
  maybe it was biological warfare.according to the platform guest (Bomber or Trotter)yesterday Willie is very unwell with the covid.
  
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  January 24, 2023 9:47am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  It has to be said, Labour’s stage management of Jacinda’s exit is just about the only thing they have successfully delivered. Personally, I wouldn’t have thought that they have it in them. Just goes to show, when faced with oblivion, even that bunch can row in the same direction.
  
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  January 24, 2023 10:47am
- Ruawai
  
  Because Willie is waiting hoping they win the election, Willie knows there is nothing unless they win the election so he will let Hipkins do whatever he has to do to win.
  
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  January 24, 2023 10:50am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  He has already stated the policy will be put on hold for a of at, don’t listen to that shit, they will be back after the election if they win
  
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  January 24, 2023 12:11pm
ClanMcleod

I’m hoping this link works. Let me know if it doesn’t and I’ll try and find another way to post it.
Made me chuckle.

The Last Thing You See Before Being Hunted For Sport On A Private Island

https://tinyurl.com/ac5dcn86
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January 24, 2023 8:11am
artemisia

How data shines a light on the online hatred for Jacinda Ardern

Data does tell a story but could the story be that Ms Ardern was front and centre every day telling plenty of the ‘team of 5 million’ how she was wrecking their lives and livelihoods. The article is careful to say the data was consistent over time, until mid 2022. Then it escalated. For some reason or other ….

https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/131045572/how-data-shines-a-light-on-the-online-hatred-for-jacinda-ardern
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January 24, 2023 8:11am
- igm
  
  Suppose taxpayers are expected to pick up the costs of her protection. She is reaping the results of what she has sown.
  Protection for businesses yes, but not the responsible party for what happened to them.
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:20am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    [Mod – deleted, do not put this blog at risk with your rubbish]
    
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    January 24, 2023 12:13pm
- Debsta
  
  Penny finally dropped!
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:22am
- Simon
  
  Stuff could have run that narrative in December when she was still PM, That story could have been run anytime. They were going to run in the led up to the election in attempt to smear ACT / National. But because she is out they decided to run right now used to hide the fact Cindy is leaving now because of wide spread failures of her govt.
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:26am
  - RoboRob
    
    Amazing how so many progressive journos can now find issue with JA and her policies when before Christmas it was all roses.
    
    Audrey Young spoke last night about Hipkins having to recover for JA policy mistakes and not listening to the people, yet berfore Christmas rated JA as a top performer.
    
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    January 24, 2023 9:25am
  - pdm
    
    Simon – plusshecannot hack it any more.
    
    Does not like to be diliked -just took her a while to realise no one liked her personally or her politics.
    
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    January 24, 2023 9:31am
    - Kiwiguy
      
      “She does not like to be disliked” – probably her greatest character flaw for being in such a job.
      
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      January 24, 2023 9:58am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    They knew all this before Christmas, how they have the cheek to have the rotten media involved in this is disgusting, they had their bs sorted straight away
    
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    January 24, 2023 12:14pm
- Inandout
  
  art, perhaps our ex PM just cunningly wishes for a year or two of continued body guard protection, as she knows ex PMs are usually set free.
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:29am
- Cassandra
  
  “Hounded from office” suggests she read it which is nonsense. The tributes to Ardern are hagiographic. Stuff this morning stated that banning offshore gas was one of her shining achievements. They didn’t add “so we could import Indonesian coal”.
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:37am
  - Swifty
    
    I saw that.
    
    I don’t know how you can possibly, logically, label that a ‘win’ when for the foreseeable future, likely decades and decades, we will continue to require access to large quantities of fuel, oil, gas and processing by-products and if we are not providing it ourselves, cleanly and efficiently, then we’ll just have to pay for it from overseas firms producing it less cleanly and less-efficiently and then have to transport it here!!
    
    Do these reporters ever think this stuff through?
    
    Do they have any idea how massively, how absolutely destructively our lifestyles will change without access to reliable abundant cheap energy?
    
    My god.
    
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    January 24, 2023 10:03am
    - 70andstilllearning
      
      ” this stuff through” – superfluous Swifty 🙂
      
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      January 24, 2023 10:38am
    - Paulus
      
      The sad part is that the so called media set her up on the largest possible pedestal, and then they forgot to keep her there, and by their stupidity the helped her fall into disgrace.
      They must take the largest share of her demise.
      
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      January 24, 2023 10:38am
  - NZer In Exile
    
    Cassandra: “The tributes to Ardern are hagiographic. Stuff this morning stated that banning offshore gas was one of her shining achievements. They didn’t add “so we could import Indonesian coal””
    
    They really are appallingly thick aren’t they!
    
    Journalists? Pffft.
    
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    January 24, 2023 3:51pm
- Nickc2
  
  Are you sick of being hit over the head with information published by some wanker stating data indicates and then hiding behind supposed data to castigate those who didn’t like Cindy, her Govt, her Maori Caucus, and her Policies.
  I suggest we should challenge the data, how it was gathered, by whom, and for what purpose (that’s assuming the data exists).
  As for all the rhetoric currently being used by our MSM to justify their PGIF funding, there is probably no data available and if challenged, they would be unable to describe the inputs, processes, and outputs of their so-called data analysis.
  Don’t be sucked in by wankers citing data!
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:54am
  - Paulus
    
    ThePGIF is also another word Public Government Propaganda Information Fund – $55 million paid for by the taxpayer.
    It is running out of money I understand, so what next before the election ?
    
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    January 24, 2023 10:42am
- Littletramp
  
  Musk buying twitter mid 2022! The world became eyes wide open.
  
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  January 24, 2023 9:11am
- kowtow
  
  David Fisher in the Whoreald says experts claim she needs protection.
  
  Cites Buchanan ; enuff said.
  And kate Hannah of the so called Disinformation Project ; but she would say that wouldn’t she.
  
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  January 24, 2023 9:31am
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    They should get a second opinion. From the pink haired one or the worry wart. To be sure, to be sure.
    
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    January 24, 2023 1:43pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  ‘The whole World is picking on me’
  Well Jaspinda, do you expect kindness from the people you have harmed, and what you have done to the once beautiful NZ?
  It is all YOU! Nobody else, just YOU! Deal with it!
  
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  January 24, 2023 9:44am
- Ruawai
  
  Maybe Jacinda and Clarke should go and live with their good friends Meghan and Harry and share the cost of security.
  
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  January 24, 2023 10:52am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    They are arrogant enough to join them and dtart the same disgusting media bullshittery
    
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    January 24, 2023 12:17pm
- In Vino Veritas
  
  I’d imagine if they had done the same thing on Key, they’d only have had to go to the Standard to find exponentially more online hatred. Death threats were de rigueur there.
  
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  January 24, 2023 11:52am
Philview

I have made the mistake of venturing back to Stuff in the last week or so and reading the articles about the level of vitriol directed towards Jacinda Ardern. Stuff seems unaware that more than most it has stoked the flames of hatred towards MPs. For example The way it attacked Judith Collins and the many cartoons were surely driven by hate. I would suggest that its recent campaign against Sam Uffindell was driven by hatred of the National Party. I will try and stay away from Stuff. Even the very real issue about Jacinda Ardern is just another political tool for the likes of Stuff to attack who they perceive to be their political enemy which is the centre right.
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January 24, 2023 8:16am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Philview – your points are very all well made, and in my opinion the most vitriolic, hate filled piece of propaganda I saw in the last couple of years came straight from $tuff.
  
  Their “Fire and Fury” attack on normal NZers protesting in Wellington would have had Goebbels gasping in admiration. In this article in $tuffed they explain why they made it. The title?
  
  PUSHING BACK AGAINST THE MONSTERS
  
  How quaint. Whatever was their angle I wonder?
  
  https://interactives.stuff.co.nz/2022/08/circuit/why-we-made-fire-and-fury/
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:35am
- Blog-aholic
  
  Never delve into an article….it keeps them funded.
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:37am
- greybeard
  
  Sharon Murdoch has been a faithful attack dog against National, for Stuff.
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:58am
  - rouppe
    
    If some people’s vitriol directed at Jacinda Ardern is misogyny, then Sharon’s attacks on Luxon and others is surely misandry.
    
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    January 24, 2023 9:34am
amospicton

We have a government that trumpets concepts of diversity and inclusion, but dare to express an opinion outside of theirs and you get denounced as some kind of subhuman extremist. To be fair, not so much by the now former, but still worst, PM in our history, but by her attack dogs in the media. Just as H. Clinton lost an election by referring to those she disagreed with as ‘deplorables’ here in NZ we now get ‘misogynists’. Slurring the majority who do not support this clown show of a government is no way to win back votes. They’re heading for an electoral disaster and they deserve nothing less.
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January 24, 2023 8:19am
cas

Over the holiday period I have been listening to our local radio station. It’s very refreshing. No politics or climate change, local news, local ads, no people interviewing their typewriters, and good music. Not sure I will even return to Hosking when he eventually arrives back.
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January 24, 2023 8:29am
KiwiSapper

I have just had the misfortune to see this morning’s TV1 news presenters. With all the attention given by the media to firearm suppression , especially with another 10 dead in this weeks American dance room killings, these muppets behaved like children and spent prime tv time shooting each other with a “Fly assault” gun.
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It seems the fly killing device shoots salt grains instead of lead but these clowns exhibited sheer incompetence in knowing how to use it, shooting other presenters and waving it around with unexpected discharges.
WHAT a splendid media example of fire arms use for New Zealanders.
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We law abiding firearms users suffer enough from poor media publicity without having media muppets such as these, playing with play guns on National TV News programmes.
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January 24, 2023 8:30am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I Thought it was instructions on how not to use a firearm.
  I watch it because the speaker of the house insists watching.
  Target audience is 7 year olds.
  
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  January 24, 2023 9:56am
Biscuit

Maggie Pie, I watched me some of the Aussie Open last night.

Some observations:

• Why is it, just 77 years from the 22nd Century, technology hasn’t yet come up with footwear soles that don’t squeak to kingdom come when used on hard surfaces?
• And why is it that, after a player gets given new balls (at obscenely-short intervals) he then bounces sh*ttery, before each serve, out of said balls … hence effectively making them ‘old’ balls before his opponent has to attempt to return then?
• Whatever happened to the grunting girls? Is there now a secondary, untelevised Tennis circuit for the lasses who would, seemingly, orgasm either – yep, innuendo follows – receiving or giving serve?
• Has there ever been a top-level match when you see the on-court Rolex watch move to 59 minutes past the hour WITHOUT the helpful commentator then observing ‘and the players have now been on court for (x) hours’?

Don’t start me, either, on other quirks of your sport like:

• Inane chest-puffery after even the easiest of points is won (like if an opponent makes an unenforced error)

• Excessive fist-pumping (like after, good friggin’ grief, each and every point)

• And, although I saw no Doubles match last night, the fist-bumping there, after, again, each and every point.

• Tiresome ‘Ooh-I’ve-won-a-contest-where-there-were-only-two-possible-winners-so-lemme-collapse-to-the-ground-in-faux-shock’ routines.

But, you know me, right? A kind, compassionate, tolerant, super-modest beast et cetera et cetera. So no complaining…
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January 24, 2023 8:30am
- ClanMcleod
  
  I loved Djokovic’s reply after thrashing Alex de Minaur.
  
  The Serbian superstar was just as ruthless post-game as he was during the action.
  
  Jim Courier asked him with his opening question: “I’m not going to ask you how you beat him so convincingly. I’ll ask you why you beat him so convincingly.”
  
  A cold-blooded Djokovic responded: “Because I wanted to.”
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:40am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    That was a brilliant answer. He is good enough to say that.
    
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    January 24, 2023 10:00am
- Frank the tank
  
  I don’t understand any male that watches male tennis. Batshit boring.
  
  Female Tennis on the other hand. Love the Grunters. Had a thing for Seles back in the day.
  
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  January 24, 2023 9:09am
  - Biscuit
    
    Heh heh, Frank.
    
    Not myself having ever considered bat-shitting as a spectator sport, I will defer to your knowledge of same and your comparison between it and Tennis if the masculine variety!
    
    Each to their own, eh?
    
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    January 24, 2023 9:59am
    - Frank the tank
      
      I just like watching attractive women in short skirts. I’ll leave the “bat-shitting” (whatever that is) to you.
      
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      January 24, 2023 1:29pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The grunters never bother me. I like female tennis because of the longer volleys.
    I also like women who can mix up their game. I confess to being a fan of the Swiss Miss Martina Hingis. Her opponent never knew what the hell she was up to. All of those fast runs from the baseline to the net. Fantastic player.
    
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    January 24, 2023 10:06am
- Close Hen Counters
  
  In the 70s, 80s and 90s, no one seemed to be injured either
  
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  January 24, 2023 9:13am
- pdm
  
  Biscuit you must have been awake all night dreaming that lot up.
  
  What a creative (or devious) mind you have.
  
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  January 24, 2023 9:34am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Bouncing new balls….
  
  To warm them up… & get a higher bounce
  
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  January 24, 2023 10:09am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Also known as…. ‘tea-bagging’ 😀
    
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    January 24, 2023 10:35am
    - Biscuit
      
      I live and learn, you two Mags!
      
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      January 24, 2023 10:44am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Another phrase mentioned by the girls at tennis 😃👍🏻
      
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      January 24, 2023 12:22pm
Pavel

Genuine question; when Jacinda resigned why was Robbo also replaced as deputy PM?
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January 24, 2023 8:30am
- Biscuit
  
  The Prime Minister, I think, gets to pick his deputy.
  
  But had Robbo been retained how could Labour posture themdelves as being ‘inclusive’ with two white Wellington-based males at the top?
  
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  January 24, 2023 9:46am
  - Inandout
    
    Biscuit, the answer is that one white fella there is inclusive, so qualifies for the free pass.
    
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    January 24, 2023 9:55am
- Prince
  
  Because polls show Robertson is even more unpopular than Ardern.
  
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  January 24, 2023 10:02am
- rouppe
  
  Who cares anyway?
  
  The real damage is done as Finance Minister, which he continues to hold.
  
  When Hipkins is away, it will be very interesting to see how Carmel Sepuloni (sometimes known as Septic Tank) handles the pressure. Kelvin Davis crumbled, which is why he was replaced by Robbo.
  
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  January 24, 2023 10:59am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Davis was never replaced by Robertson, one is dep leader of Labour, and one is dep PM, Davis had to be acting pm a couple of times when both Cindy and Robertson were away
    
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    January 24, 2023 12:24pm
- kowtow
  
  He’s still got the waste taxpayer’s money portfolio , that’s what matters.
  
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  January 24, 2023 11:11am
kevn

@Phil… They will just milk the arden persona as long as it has life. No matter to them she is (virtually) gone.
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January 24, 2023 8:31am
mogg

This puts Hipkins into the right context;
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-world-without-mad-magazine
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January 24, 2023 8:39am
Tomtoddy

I have been pondering the many and varied attempts in the media to capture the essence of Ardern’s Prime Ministership. There is almost an air of desperation to rewrite history so she is seen as having achieved a great deal. It is almost like….. “you are going to believe she was successful whether you like it or not”.

Much of the commentary centres around her handling of what writers called “crises” that occurred during her time as PM. She used some unusual stances and adopted some catchy lines but was her reaction and management any better or any more effective than the PM who was in power when Air NZ/Erebus occurred? Ot Ballantynes fire? Or the Brunner mine collapse?

We expect our leaders to show their strength and sympathy, to speak and act on our behalf and that always do. I struggle to see how Ardern showed any greater or more poignant consideration.

A few commentators have focused on her total lack of ability to match delivery with grandiose and idealistic claims of reform or transition of the nation. Reality says she was the most hopeless of all recent leaders including the like of Bill Rowling.

Her overseas efforts are all words and little substance. What actual gains was she primarily responsible for? So many people fell for the flowery claims, the appearance with her child and other PR gimmicks.

Once the flush of her sudden throwing in the towel has passed history, in sensible hands will judge her harshly.
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January 24, 2023 8:46am
- Brian McDonald
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  You are advised to keep your obsession with the previous PM because going cold turkey at your age could possibly be fatal.
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:52am
  - RightNow
    
    Now do John Key obsessives
    
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    January 24, 2023 9:36am
  - Biscuit
    
    Erm, Bryan, thus far the new (well, incoming) Prime Minister has said NOTHING about reversing the more silly of Jacinda’s policies but a LOT about picking and choosing which of them to put on the backburner ratrher like The Queen said to Paddington ‘for later’.
    
    You might like to think Jacinda has left a decent legacy.
    
    Others disagree.
    
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    January 24, 2023 9:40am
- mogg
  
  Ardern’s Labour govt was a Ponzi scheme, all trash talk and empty promises. She makes Bernie Madhoff look like an amateur, he only got away with $20 billion. Jacinda’s five years in power were catastrophic for NZ economy.
  
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  January 24, 2023 9:01am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I suspect that is why some in the Left are now lashing out and blaming everyone but themselves.
    
    No-one likes to admit that they were a victim of a con-artist and were scammed hard.
    
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    January 24, 2023 10:12am
- Taieri
  
  We expect our leaders to show their strength and sympathy, to speak and act on our behalf and that always do.
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  All I expect from the government is to do things FOR us, not TO us.
  
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  January 24, 2023 9:05am
- mawm
  
  Tom – I suspect that many in the media are waking up to the fact that Jacinda never had the intelligence nor the experience to handle the job. And now she is showing that she can’t handle criticism. The best thing she did was resign and now we need someone who has the insight, and perseverance, to do what is needed to get this country back onto an even keel.
  
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  January 24, 2023 3:41pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/great-news-for-the-stop-co-governance-tour/
https://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Blog-template-plus-car-signage.pdf
A Hamilton businessman has loaned a car and the signage cost donated.
Police will be present at the meeting venues.
This is going to take off.
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January 24, 2023 8:58am
- Bridgenag
  
  Like the feeling I had with the Freedom fighters it is a great relief that there are people ready to put the word out there. A huge task with the MSM a propaganda machine against them.
  
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  January 24, 2023 9:26am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Good to see more people reading and up ticking this.
  It is worth reading the older posts to get a handle on what is really going on.
  You will not hear anything like this in our public media.
  
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  January 24, 2023 2:11pm
rockape

National better keep its policies very close to its chest for the next few months. I here Labour are desperate for some new center right ones !
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January 24, 2023 9:03am
- Ian Boag
  
  Labour are desperate for some new center right ones
  
  Where did you here that ….. ?
  
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  January 24, 2023 9:32am
  - RightNow
    
    Moles in the Labour caucus probably
    
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    January 24, 2023 9:37am
  - rouppe
    
    “Chris Hipkins is more conservative, and to the Right of the Labour Party.”
    
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    January 24, 2023 9:38am
    - Roberta
      
      But ‘Conservative’ and ‘Right’ are supposed to be evil aren’t they? That’s what the media have been saying for the last 5 years – what’s changed their tune? The latest Labour Party poll results by any chance??!!
      
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      January 24, 2023 7:26pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    ‘hear’.
    
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    January 24, 2023 10:02am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    They have stated they want more centrist policies
    
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    January 24, 2023 12:27pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  The Rubicon the green/woke lunatics will never cross is anti-woke policy. National (if they choose to grow a pair) can bank on that.
  
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  January 24, 2023 4:03pm
Swifty

Could any Wellingtonians please let me know the names of decent Asian grocery stores in their area?

You know, for a range of rices, sauces, fresh and dried noodles, Chinese veg etc etc.

Many thanks.
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January 24, 2023 9:06am
- Prince
  
  Yans Supermarket, Hopper Street – next to Prestons butcher.
  
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  January 24, 2023 10:04am
- Biscuit
  
  We hvae two (at least) in Upper Hutt, Swifty:
  
  Golden Star Asian Food Supermarket
  7 Geange St
  Open ⋅ Closes 8 pm · 04 528 5886
  
  All Asia Foods , Remittance and Ticketing
  45 Main St
  Open ⋅ Closes 7 pm · 04 527 4311
  
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  January 24, 2023 10:06am
- RightNow
  
  Yan’s supermarket in Hopper St
  
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  January 24, 2023 10:16am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Central Wellington:
  For Korean goodies… Haere Mai – Victoria St
  
  For everything else – Wellmart – Tennyson St
  
  For Newtown – Mt Cook
  Yans – Hopper St
  
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  January 24, 2023 10:39am
- rouppe
  
  In Porirua:
  
  Asian Downunder 18 Parumoana St
  City Green (fresh fruit/vege place) 48 Parumoana has a bit.
  
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  January 24, 2023 11:04am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Davis trading in Petone
  
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  January 24, 2023 12:39pm
- Swifty
  
  Thank you all very much.
  
  Eldest daughter leaves my whare next week to head off to Wellie as she has decided to complete her BCom at Vic having down two years at Aucks.
  
  Will pass on to her.
  
  Many thanks again.
  
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  January 24, 2023 1:04pm
- The Housekeeper
  
  Wellmart at 31 Tennyson St. It’s spotless and all products have an English translation in the shelf descriptions. You an also get clothing alterations here.
  
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  January 24, 2023 2:16pm
  - Swifty
    
    Thanks
    
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    January 24, 2023 4:08pm
Opie

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/entertainment/2023/01/jimmy-carr-says-cracking-christopher-luxon-s-head-open-is-solution-to-new-zealand-s-egg-shortage.html

Imagine if someone suggested cracking arderns head open?

They would be cancelled before you know it.

I have no issue with the joke, but it’s the double standard that gets me.

Jokes about cracking a right wing (barely) white males head open = good

Criticism of 5 year of failed delivery and moronic policy = misogyny
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January 24, 2023 9:09am
- jon
  
  Like many of Carr’s jokes they arent funny, doesnt say much for all the Kiwi’s that seem to flock to his shows either.
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:09pm
  - Ghost
    
    Still, he’s funnier than any of those New Zealanders who pretend to be comedians.
    
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    January 24, 2023 8:20pm
BeaB

Fascinating how many reporters are saying the ‘real’ reason for Ardern scuttling off is the misogyny and vitriol directed at her. She says that is not the reason. Nothing supports the rights of women more than denying them their own voice!
How about we all accept there was a lot of nastiness, but that’s not new. Also, she was a good figurehead during a crisis when leaders have to learn their lines and stick to them. But she got carried away by her own eloquence and promised far more than she could ever deliver, especially with the competing interests within her own party.
Hipkins won’t be much different but his Milky Bar Kid demeanour may win votes.
The only way to get rid of them is to give two ticks to National. Anything else gives them the chance to slip back in.
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January 24, 2023 9:16am
- RightNow
  
  Funny to hear my lefty friends talk vile abuse about Judith Collins one minute and then complain about the misogyny against Ardern the next.
  To be fair I don’t have that many ‘righty’ friends as far as I know. They’re probably like me and just keep quiet.
  
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  January 24, 2023 10:20am
- Sideoiler
  
  …The only way to get rid of them is to give two ticks to National. Anything else gives them the chance to slip back in.
  
  Two ticks National then we will end up with another labour government, just blue labour instead of red.
  I doubt that anyone fourty years of age or older will see another single party government under MMP in their lifetimes.
  National don’t have a prayer of governing on their own and I am not sure they realise it.
  
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  January 24, 2023 10:42am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    No they won’t govern alone, Labour will need the greens , that will put a lot off
    
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    January 24, 2023 12:34pm
- Taieri
  
  Fascinating how many reporters are saying the ‘real’ reason for Ardern scuttling off is the misogyny and vitriol directed at her.
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  Also racism and homophobia…
  
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  January 24, 2023 10:48am
tknorriss

A winning message for National/Act to deliver in response to Labour shelving or postponing unpopular policies:

“The best way to stop Labour regurgitating the policies you hate: Vote National or Act.”
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January 24, 2023 9:25am
BeaB

So Ardern had already planned to leave when she deceived us by announcing before Xmas that she was going to fight the next election.
She told the truth to Hipkins and Robertson who knew before Xmas she was leaving.
Lots of time to plan and orchestrate the whole farce.
The media fell for it, hook, line and sinker.
Labour thinks we are stupid and treats us like fools.
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January 24, 2023 9:26am
- 70andstilllearning
  
  “The media fell for it, hook, line and sinker.”
  The media helped with it, hook, line and sinker.
  
  Gone into overdrive now it’s “public knowledge”!
  
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  January 24, 2023 10:20am
Swifty

In Labour’s sixth year in Govt I see today Michael Wood still claiming that investment he claims he needs to make on Auckland rail is the direct consequence of misdeeds from National.

On the last 24 years, Labour has been in government for 15 of them – and this is the very same Labour government which has squandered billions of dollars in the last five years on ‘nice to haves’ rather than ‘must haves’.

But he is still trying to blame National.

I used to think Wood was just feeble. Young, inexperienced and a bit stupid. Certainly blinded by ideology, but hey what Labour MP isn’t?

But now I think him a straight-out bullshitter. He is now attempting to deliberately mislead New Zealanders about the current state of affairs and their origins.

If anything he should be blaming Ardern and that great waste of space Phil Twyford who spectacularly failed as both Minister of Housing (and KiwiBuild, snigger) and Minister of Transport 2017-20 – who was demoted to being a Minister outside cabinet for his efforts and is now just making up the numbers as Minister for Disarmament (snort!).

I distinctly recall him braying and carping to all who would listen, when Key was in, about how much better than National he’d do when in government.

But no, all gong and no dinner just like the rest of his mates.
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January 24, 2023 9:30am
cas

It’s amazing what you find when you are chucking out papers.

I came across a form letter from the PM about her first Budget saying that
1 People shouldn’t have to think twice about turning on the heater to stay warm
2 We’re investing strongly in health ( this means that we have hospitals fit for purpose)
3 We all value living in safe communities ( by striving for( an interesting choice or word) and additional 1800 sworn police officers etc.)

And it goes on to talk about the importance of housing affordability and the grand plan for Kiwibuild.

Based on this they have achieved diddley squat.
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January 24, 2023 9:33am
Maggie Pie

And here’s another thing….

Why does ‘ZB-Breakfast’ insist on seeking comment from that whinging pommie leftard ROD LIDDLE out of the UK?
He obviously hates rich people…. and seems to takes great pleasure out of spreading sh*t about anyone deemed to be successful.

Can’t imagine ‘The Hosk’ enjoys talking to the nasty prick every Tuesday either.

Just saying.
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January 24, 2023 9:36am
- H. Upmann
  
  On Hosk guests, Liddle is not nearly as bad as US’s Richard Arnold. If a wheel fell of his skateboard it would be Trump’s fault. The guy is a moron.
  
  Quite fancy the chick from Italy.
  
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  January 24, 2023 10:10am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    If you mean Jo McKenna, she looks a lot older than her voice.
    
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    January 24, 2023 10:28am
    - H. Upmann
      
      Come on now Maggie, nothing wrong with older women!
      
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      January 24, 2023 10:46am
    - Sideoiler
      
      Not a bad looking woman, don’t think I’d kick her out of bed for farting.
      
      https://josephinemckenna.com/about-me/
      
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      January 24, 2023 10:52am
  - Zapper
    
    Definitely a Democrat Party shill. So bitter, and it’s very frustrating when the Hosk lets him say things which are blatantly untrue and doesn’t challenge him.
    
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    January 24, 2023 1:28pm
- Nickc2
  
  If it wasn’t for people hating the rich, there’d be no Trade Unions?
  
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  January 24, 2023 12:00pm
Grunter

Hipkins problem to solve straight away is who does he pick to replace him in his ministerial roles?
Education – Twyford
Police- “Bring Back Poto”!!
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January 24, 2023 9:42am
- Paulus
  
  Tinetti for Education as an ex low decile primary school head in Tauranga, where she did a good job, but should have stayed there as she is not much good in politics.
  
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  January 24, 2023 10:49am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Nash was a paste police minister, and the woman from Tauranga is doing a lot of education cocking up
  
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  January 24, 2023 12:38pm
stewmar

Right up until the end of December Jacinda consistently told Media that she wasn’t resigning and that she would be there for the next election. Now we hear that she had talks with Chippy late last year about what would transpire when she resigned in the New Year.
Couldn’t lie straight in bed.
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January 24, 2023 10:03am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Ardern was basically off-duty as soon as she departed from the Covid podium.
  
  She’s spent the last year hiding from the public.
  
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  January 24, 2023 10:44am
  - H. Upmann
    
    Now that is the perfect and precise summing up of Ardern.
    
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    January 24, 2023 10:49am
- Paulus
  
  stewmar
  You don’t think that was another lie ?
  
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  January 24, 2023 10:50am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Lying till the bitter end
  
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  January 24, 2023 12:39pm
Swifty

I’m a little surprised that we haven’t yet seen on the front pages the reasons spelt out on why Robbo didn’t put up his hand for PM.

I know what they will be though.

Alongside a pic of Robbo looking sad and wistful, “Robertson doesn’t think Kiwis ready for a gay PM.”

Headlines: “Kiwis Too Homophobic for Gay PM!”

[Mod – Keep MP’s families out of it please]

Additional reporting from Stuff Journalist Lefty McLuvvie “Kiwis should be ashamed that Grant Robertson didn’t feel that the country was ready for a gay PM, but our Stuff survey clearly shows that large numbers, about 9.8% said they wouldn’t agree with Grant and Alf representing us at meetings of world leaders.”
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January 24, 2023 10:17am
- Ghost
  
  Grant stated why he didn’t. He failed two times previous to become leader and said he wouldn’t try again.
  
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  January 24, 2023 10:28am
  - Biscuit
    
    Agreed, Ghost.
    
    My credo re sex is that I am quite happy with anything provided that:
    * It’s of-age
    * It’s consensual
    and
    * It doesn’t frighten the horses.
    
    If I’m not going to vote for Grant (and I’m not, heh) there are far more relevant reasons for my downticking him than his private life…
    
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    January 24, 2023 10:42am
  - Swifty
    
    Oh I quite agree – my point is that it will nonetheless be spun by journalists interviewing their own keyboards that the REAL reason is because of some character flaw of New Zealanders.
    
    That it’s all OUR fault.
    
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    January 24, 2023 10:56am
    - cmm
      
      It is really just an extension of White Guilt.
      
      If you say you don’t like Obama because of his policies, you’re lying. You’re really a racist and just trying to make up excuses that don’t sound racist.
      
      If you say you don’t like Robbo because of his silly policies, you’re lying. You’re really homophobic and just trying to make up excuses that don’t sound homophobic.
      
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      January 24, 2023 11:28am
      - Swifty
        
        And if you don’t vote left you’re a Nazi.
        
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        January 24, 2023 11:58am
- Taieri
  
  Kiwis should be ashamed that Grant Robertson didn’t feel that the country was ready for a gay PM
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  Who the f@ck cares? I’m far more interested in the contents of their heads than in their sexual preferences.
  
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  January 24, 2023 10:50am
  - Swifty
    
    My point exactly, but it’ll be spun as our fault – just as they’re trying to do with Ardern’s throwing in the towel.
    
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    January 24, 2023 11:11am
    - Ghost
      
      It isn’t being spun, they reported why Grant didn’t want the job. No spin
      
      https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/01/19/grant-robertson-says-he-will-not-stand-for-labour-leadership/
      https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/01/deputy-prime-minister-grant-robertson-not-putting-himself-forward-for-labour-party-leadership.html
      
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      January 24, 2023 11:14am
      - Swifty
        
        It’s early days Ghost.
        
        Give it time.
        
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        January 24, 2023 11:27am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        He has been lying when saying he didn’t want it in 2014 and he told us, he stood against both Shearer and Cunliffe latter on
        
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        January 24, 2023 12:42pm
      - Ghost
        
        Shearer and Cunliffe were before 2014
        
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        January 24, 2023 12:48pm
  - cmm
    
    It’s such a lame excuse.
    
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    January 24, 2023 11:21am
  - cmm
    
    Kiwis should be ashamed they let Robbo get away with what he did for fear of being called homophobic.
    
    Ditto Cindy and sexism.
    Ditto Mahuta and racism.
    …
    At least Hipkins is straight and white so he has no sacred cows to hide behind.
    
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    January 24, 2023 11:30am
    - david
      
      cmm: how can you be so certain?
      
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      January 24, 2023 1:16pm
  - Ehlana
    
    Oh, um, well, see, the fact is Taieri, some of their heads don’t have contents. Hence the focus on their sexual preferences.
    
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    January 24, 2023 3:52pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I can’t imagine that NZ is any less liberal than Ireland…and for the second time they have a Gay PM. (Leo Varadkar – 2nd time in office).
  
  Labour needs to show that it has new hands at the helm…. Robertson’s image is too closely bound up with Ardern’s……
  
  Plus he was doing Ardern’s work for the last year anyway and having to provide cover for Ardern in Parliament when Trevor departed the scene.
  
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  January 24, 2023 10:54am
  - Keith White
    
    I don’t care who does what to whom as long as they don’t frighten the children or the horses. I really care about who mandates dangerous injections for our children and who extorts us taxpayers to buy themselves votes. I’m pretty sure that puts me on a list somewhere. But you know what, one of the good things about being old and having Teh Rust is you don’t have to care what people think about you for very long.
    
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    January 24, 2023 5:09pm
- burt
  
  Alongside a pic of Robbo looking sad and wistful, “Robertson doesn’t think Kiwis ready for a gay PM.”
  
  As if we’ve never had a gay PM before…..
  
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  January 24, 2023 11:37am
Maggie Pie

TWITTER TRENDING

‘666’…..the mark of the DEVIL

https://twitter.com/EvilArthurFleck/status/1617450571103080448

Or just a coincidence?
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January 24, 2023 10:18am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, weird eh? Of course only Jacinda’s hair stylist would know for sure.
  
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  January 24, 2023 10:54am
- cmm
  
  The universe winks again…
  
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  January 24, 2023 11:20am
cmm

Bus full of cops seen hurrying down to Porirua tuning their guitars….

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/police-monitoring-large-gang-presence-in-wellington-region-for-tangi/UTGNPRDYXRHZPARA6X6ZW7OWHE/
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January 24, 2023 11:19am
Maggie Pie

So much for ethnic and social Diversity 🙁

‘Artist Impression reveals Kianga Ora proposal for 16 new homes to be built at Rotorua’s Kawaha Point’

Yet it doesn’t depict any fat people living there….

https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/1617612251657080832
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January 24, 2023 11:39am
- cmm
  
  Where tatted up MM members and the Harleys?
  Why isn’t the cyclist wearing a helmet?
  Why is there rubbish in the streets (can’t be leaves because there are no trees).
  
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  January 24, 2023 11:48am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    And why isn’t the car a beaten-up old Falcon?
    
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    January 24, 2023 12:23pm
    - cmm
      
      … or a people mover with 3 space saver tyres.
      
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      January 24, 2023 12:58pm
      - Keith White
        
        I’ve never seen that, but I have seen two space saver tires, on a front wheel drive car, so of course they were on the front wheels. Evolution in action – as long as they did not hit anyone else.
        
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        January 24, 2023 5:11pm
    - Keith White
      
      Because Holden 🙂
      
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      January 24, 2023 5:10pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    You’re right!
    And on a closer look….the residents are all Pakeha!!
    
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    January 24, 2023 12:23pm
    - Don Beckett
      
      Kawaha Point used to be one of the elite areas of Rotorua. I suppose there are no elite areas there now. 😉
      
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      January 24, 2023 1:18pm
Bridgenag

Scared Witless …worth a look

https://open.substack.com/pub/boriquagato/p/rationalizing-rationality?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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January 24, 2023 11:54am
cmm

Hipkins not going to live in Premier House.

Is this going to join the list of unused ghost houses?

But it tells us something: he sees this as a caretaker role. If he thought he’d be PM in the next term he would move in now.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/incoming-prime-minister-chris-hipkins-wont-live-in-premier-house/CGGVJKRT2BBSBNQPOIA6QXNTPE/
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January 24, 2023 11:56am
- burt
  
  [Mod- deleted, don’t put this blog at risk with your nonsense]
  
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  January 24, 2023 12:13pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Cindy probably wants till April
  
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  January 24, 2023 12:44pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  So the Chipster isn’t going to live at Premier House.
  He must know he’s in the job for a good time not a long time.
  
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  January 24, 2023 2:40pm
NothingLeft

Facebook Google and Amazon have just fired 40k workers. Did they look at twitter and realize like Elon that a huge proportion of their workforce were woke deadweight.
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January 24, 2023 11:56am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Maybe I will get less of my posts on FB deleted.
  
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  January 24, 2023 12:04pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  You can see why our Public Servants will be worried if Act scores bigly in the October election.
  
  “ACT is the only Party that’s published a fully costed alternative budget, and it would reduce Public Service numbers to the same level Labour inherited, 47,000 Full Time Equivalents.”
  
  https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2301/S00054/hope-fading-fast-for-hipkins.htm
  
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  January 24, 2023 12:29pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The Public Sector is bloated, and has been for decades?
    Many unemployable turning up each day to eat their lunch – then get paid.
    The whole lot needs to be dismantled with the good operators put back. The deadwood who have been there for 30+ years doing nothing been to be discarded. The Net Taxpayer has had enough. OUT you go!!
    Rant over.
    
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    January 24, 2023 12:40pm
Nickc2

God help us! This woman is only a heartbeat away from becoming the President of the USA and saviour of the Western World. Dumb and Dumber has nothing on this woman.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/01/this-woman-is-terrifying.html
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January 24, 2023 12:24pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Horizontal Harris. If she gets to POTUS all crazy shit will happen.
  The Pentagon will do as they please. Us will enter Ukraine. US will possibly attack Iran.
  The Democrats will mess with the Constitution, especially the Second Amendment.
  Then the 5th Amendment, and whatever Amendment covers abortions.
  America with move more into Socialism.
  I don’t know what else, but it will not be a nice place to visit.
  
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  January 24, 2023 12:53pm
  - Taieri
    
    The Pentagon will do as they please.
    ————–
    
    They do anyway. You don’t think Biden controls anything, do you?
    Can he even control his…?
    
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    January 24, 2023 1:06pm
    - Nickc2
      
      Biden’s forte in life would be as a sniffer dog at an international airport, sniffing out little girls’ hair.
      He’s god-damned useless at anything else eh?
      
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      January 24, 2023 1:19pm
  - Sideoiler
    
    …The Democrats will mess with the Constitution, especially the Second Amendment.
    Then the 5th Amendment, and whatever Amendment covers abortions….
    
    Seems very unlikely Steve, the way the founding fathers set the constitution up was brilliant.
    The Constitution’s Article V requires that an amendment be proposed by two-thirds of the House and Senate, or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the state legislatures. It is up to the states to approve a new amendment, with three-quarters of the states voting to ratifying it.
    
    Of the twenty seven ammendments, none of them protect the right to an abortion.
    That was why the Supreme court ruling gives individual states the power to set their own abortion laws without concern of running afoul of Roe, which had permitted abortions during the first two trimesters of pregnancy.
    
    Oh that we had had such men of foresight at the birth of our nation.
    
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    January 24, 2023 5:32pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Post birth abortion is murder.
      
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      January 25, 2023 8:14am
- Keith White
  
  You have to admit, she checks all the woke boxes, and nothing else is needed for participation in the modern political process.
  
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  January 24, 2023 5:12pm
Swifty

I wonder what proportion of Labour Maori caucus members and their elite mates who, faced with the now high-likelihood of a NACT election victory, are now breathing great but quiet sighs of relief?

Assuming National do what they say they’re going to do, bro-governance is now dead, for the time being at least.

Now, Labour Maori MPs will never be put to the test. They’ll never have their policies put into practice and scrutinised. They’ll never have to answer to large-scale investigations and enquiries from Treasury as to why the cost of laying a kilometre of water pipe has tripled under 3 Waters, why patient outcomes are poorer and more costly under the new Maori Health Authority, why certain tribal elites are cruising around town in new Range Rovers, looking trim and terrific in new suits and dresses and after recent bariatric surgery, their kids graduating from Harvard, Cornell, Yale and Oxbridge, while large numbers of youngsters are still seen within their rohe barefoot, snotty-nosed, and living in motels.

Yep, I reckon there’ll be a few mightily relieved folk around our Parliament this week.
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January 24, 2023 12:33pm
- Swifty
  
  I mean, come on, when have you ever seen in response to a Labour Maori Caucus member or a Uni academic who, when saying co-governance ‘is working with great success’ in parts of the country, the interviewer asking the simple question “by what measure?”
  
  I never have.
  
  I think they mean by ‘success’ that it hasn’t yet fallen in a great screaming a acrimonious heap, as yet. That all the parties are all still on speaking terms.
  
  But what about outcomes? Are we under co-governance delivering more for less? More for the same? Might we be delivering less for more? Or perhaps delivering about the same for a bit more and taking twice or three times the time to do it?
  
  When have you once heard Jackson or Mahuta or others saying anything remotely approaching “Out of co-governance I expect x results, over y time and costing no more than z. And if this is not delivered I will regard co-governance as a failure and we shall abandon it.”
  
  Never, that’s when. And they’ll never say it either.
  
  Co-governance will be a success just because it’s in place. Never mind the cost. Never mind the negative social impacts. Never mind the poorer performance. Never mind the lack of change in poor social performance indicators. Never mind the waste of tax money taken from NZ families to pay for it. Never mind that those billions would have been better left in NZ families’ pockets, or spent better elsewhere. Never mind all of the great social and racial division that it caused.
  
  Never mind all of that.
  
  It is all a great success because democracy has changed.
  
  It is all a great success because ‘equity’.
  
  It is all a great success because the Treaty demands it.
  
  But all that really boils down to is ‘It is all a great success because we say it is.’
  
  Say what you like about National and ACT but, should they win the imminent election, then they can automatically and justifiably be thought of as a great, great government for the mere fact that they will have prevented the country suffering the massive, calamitous impacts of this sneaky, hidden, ill-defined, incompetently and incoherently argued, deceitfully handled, debasement of our democracy called co-governance.
  
  Damn you Labour. Damn you all to hell.
  
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  January 24, 2023 12:56pm
  - Alan Wilkinson
    
    The only measure Labour cares about is whether it delivers them votes.
    
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    January 24, 2023 7:59pm
- Philview
  
  Unfortunately Chris Luxon has apparently said this morning that National supports devolution but not Co-Governance. I suspect that is going to open up some problems for Chris. My idea of devolution is a separate Government as is the case in Scotland. However the Scots have a border.
  
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  January 24, 2023 1:24pm
  - kowtow
    
    More votes for Seymour .
    
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    January 24, 2023 1:34pm
    - kevn
      
      @kowtow… Seymour might just hoover up a huge number of votes. Luxon hasn’t resonated with lots of people. Now it is man to man debating in parliament, lets’s see if Luxon can pony up some.
      
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      January 24, 2023 4:38pm
      - Jack5
        
        Luxon will win the election: ACT will never have real power until it wins a swathe of electorate seats in addition to party votes.
        
        Stuff today begins its year of election bias with a report from the annual Ratana meeting:
        
        Ratana mission complete for
        Christopher Luxon, but
        outshone by Chris Hipkins
        
        Boost, boost, boost Labour … the pay-off for the subsidy.
        
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        January 24, 2023 8:43pm
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Don’t think so, Luxon is being lauded by several people from the right, he seems to have a lot more support at the BFD today
      
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      January 24, 2023 11:36pm
  - Ehlana
    
    Decisions should be made as close as possible to the people who are affected by them. If that is what he means by devolution, then it is a good thing. It’s certainly a way better idea than suggesting that people who live in Wellington can make good decisions about managing water in Invercargill.
    
    Predictably, Marama Davidson is not happy: “When Māori are able to control our people and our land, it’s good for everyone.”
    
    Why exactly does she want to control Maori people? Should they not be free to control themselves, just like non-Maori do?
    
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    January 24, 2023 3:57pm
    - Swifty
      
      ‘Control.’
      
      What a simultaneously incredibly appalling but revealing choice of words.
      
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      January 24, 2023 4:20pm
    - Taieri
      
      Why exactly does she want to control Maori people? Should they not be free to control themselves, just like non-Maori do?
      —————
      
      If Maori people wanted to be controlled this way they would have voted for it.
      Talking of which, how representative of the whole Maoridom is Maori Party? Not all that much methinks…
      
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      January 24, 2023 4:27pm
    - Keith White
      
      She wants to control Maori people, because otherwise there are fewer opportunities for grift.
      
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      January 24, 2023 5:13pm
      - Swifty
        
        Exactly.
        
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        January 24, 2023 6:08pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Go and listen to his speech fFS, he stated clearly there will be no separatist services, he stated also he wants to see Māori success but that success should be just like any other NZer, where you fools get this crap from god only knows
    
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    January 24, 2023 11:34pm
nathie

Wow I’ve never seen so many MSM article authors and researchers commenting on violence and death threats the PM faced.*

~~Surprisingly~~ Unsurprisingly I have not read one of those article authors or researchers commentating EVER on violence and actual deaths suffered by hard working Kiwi’s such as Dairy and Shop keepers. Imagine going to work everyday, and facing thugs and abuse and in some case actual physical violence … and the Govt politicians care more for the perpetrators and these same MSM article authors and researchers stay silent/must be supporting the perps because of “reasons”).

(*Of course I condemn death threats against the PM, or any politician for that matter and their families, it is despicable. But what is also despicable are these article authors or researchers now in unison using the PM’s planned and voluntary departure to smear the Opposition and normal people simply saying they dislike the PM due to her policies).
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January 24, 2023 12:57pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh dear..

The cuts begin….

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/483006/mediaworks-announces-90-staff-to-lose-jobs-in-cost-cutting-move
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January 24, 2023 12:58pm
- All_on_Red
  
  90?
  Meh, Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta say ‘hold my Beer’.
  “Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Facebook-parent Meta have announced plans to cut more than 50,000 employees from their collective ranks”
  https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/how-big-tech-s-pandemic-bubble-burst/ar-AA16CqfZ
  
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  January 24, 2023 1:08pm
- nathie
  
  MagicTalk (and their predecessor Radio Live) were “cancelled” by Mediaworks.
  
  Instead they replaced it with boring, non-offensive (“let’s talk about how you eat meat pies”) type crap called Today FM and their ratings have tanked even more!
  
  Whereas previously MagicTalk ran on the smell of an oily rag (they weren’t funded well, which contributed to some of their “issues”) but they were highly topical and relevant!
  
  And how MagicTalk were right along (eg when it came to their criticism of Labour’s poor management – gasp you can’t do that shouted the rest of the MSM at them)!
  
  They were ahead of their time (full credit to Peter, Sean, Ryan, Leah, Hayden & Tony) and if MediaWorks had supported them up until now (and fixed the missing FM coverage for Auckland etc) they would have been a ratings winner!
  
  Instead millions were put into its boring replacement and many listeners turned it off. The buck stops with the top, CEO Cam Wallace, someone with no previous broadcasting experience. He needs to bggar off and resign as he doesn’t have a clue.
  
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  January 24, 2023 1:18pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Tova, then Duncan?
  
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  January 24, 2023 1:19pm
- jon
  
  NO sympathy!
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:53pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

I wonder if Jaspinda really comprehends what she has done to NZ? I don’t think she does. Floating in a tinfoil bubble. Nothing gets in, nothing gets out.
Not really enjoying my retirement at the moment.
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January 24, 2023 1:00pm
- Chris Nisbet
  
  Oddly, I was wondering if she actually did realise what she’s done and has had a bit of a crisis of conscience.
  I’m probably giving hey _waay_ too much credit though.
  
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  January 24, 2023 3:23pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Narcissists do not care about what they have done.
    The idea is to digress and move on.
    How far away from NZ are the UN offices?
    
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    January 24, 2023 4:12pm
Ghost

How strange stuff turned the live video stream off

‘Divisive and immature conversation’: Christopher Luxon takes on co-governance in Rātana speech

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/300790925/live-divisive-and-immature-conversation-christopher-luxon-takes-on-cogovernance-in-rtana-speech
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January 24, 2023 1:03pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Stuff are highly paid propaganda outlet for far left treaty agenda. Govt funding dictates that they must never give a platform to any ideas that contradict that far left agenda. NZ MSM are no longer news media, they are just the publicity arm of Labour/Greens/TPM.
  
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  January 24, 2023 1:46pm
- Nickc2
  
  Thanks Ghost, that was a great speech by Luxon.
  
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  January 24, 2023 2:03pm
  - Swifty
    
    A very good speech I thought.
    
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    January 24, 2023 3:46pm
  - jon
    
    Luxon needs to give more of those speeches, come out of the shadows, show some grunt!
    
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    January 24, 2023 8:56pm
- Swifty
  
  Thanks very much Ghost.
  
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  January 24, 2023 2:54pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Let’s hope they try and throw shit at him at Waitangi
  
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  January 24, 2023 11:30pm
I remember when

Not sure about the rules.
Is it two New Zealands for every Aotearoa or is it the other way round.
Been worrying me since I was woke this morning.
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January 24, 2023 1:46pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  You will know after the Coup.
  http://www.stopcogovernance.kiwi
  
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  January 24, 2023 2:25pm
Maggie Pie

The world under Labor…..

One of the girls from tennis was telling us her 19yo daughter has been looking for a flat in Wellington to share with someone else from Uni.

And this is what ‘4 hundy- a week will get ya!

https://trademe.co.nz/a/property/residential/rent/wellington/mount-cook/listing/3959435311

Honestly, most people have ‘walk-in-wardrobes’ bigger than that.

Just saying.
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January 24, 2023 1:55pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, for a student that is luxury. I was brought up in a carboard box in middle t road…..
  
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  January 24, 2023 2:12pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Yeah, and I had to wear sugarbag pants. No shoes either.
    
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    January 24, 2023 2:29pm
- Nickc2
  
  Tell her to change her name to Rangi or Pania or something similar. Then, she’ll be entitled to a two BR fully furnished apartment with rent paid by the taxpayer.
  
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  January 24, 2023 2:58pm
- kevn
  
  @Maggie… In QT the locals rent out their driveway so you can park and sleep in your car between working.
  
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  January 24, 2023 4:42pm
Gravelroad

Re personal abuse:
Friend just showed me a video from Twitter of journalists/presenters on TV1 breakfast show shooting at a Donald Trump figure with a salt gun – live coverage.
So is this abuse? All OK to pretend shoot a former US president cause you don’t like him?
Is it only women politicians who get threats then?
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January 24, 2023 2:16pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Here it is GR…with the newly married Matty carrying on like a school gurl 🙁
  
  https://twitter.com/Questions4Kiwis/status/1617660144174895104
  
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  January 24, 2023 2:35pm
  - Nickc2
    
    I tried to watch that, it was CRASS!!! What a bunch of sick puppies.
    What would happen if a Cindy or Chippy doll was used as the target? IMO, the show would be off the air permanently.
    
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    January 24, 2023 2:47pm
    - Swifty
      
      It’s different when the left do it.
      
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      January 24, 2023 2:53pm
    - Gravelroad
      
      What would happen if a disturbed young school child saw that and, next thing you know, they are in the classroom shooting the teacher who was mean to them.
      That is today’s world in which we live.
      Maybe unintended consequences – but those Tv presenters are self indulgent idiots.
      What an example to set – let’s shoot that person we don’t like/approve of and have a good laugh about it.
      
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      January 24, 2023 3:06pm
      - Nickc2
        
        I don’t believe it was a spontaneous thing set up by the idiots on the show. It must have had Producer and/or Director’s input to orchestrate the timeline, provide the props and direct the on-floor proceedings. Therefore, management were involved and must be held to account.
        Come on Willie Jackson, you’re the Minister of Broadcasting (or at least until someone else is appointed), do something about it, where sitting back laughing doesn’t cut it I’m afraid.
        
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        January 24, 2023 3:16pm
      - Swifty
        
        I’m quite surprised that after all that has been talked about these last few days regarding Ardern’s resignation and the supposed reasons for it, that they thought this was a good idea.
        
        Employees of the state broadcaster should and must bend over backwards to demonstrate impartiality.
        
        But no, they just laugh at us. It’s all just a great bloody giggle.
        
        If they had a doll of Ardern, Mahuta, Helen Clark, Marama Davidson etc lying around do you think for a minute they would have used that instead?
        
        I bet $1,000 bucks they would have said “Hang on, let’s not use that, that’s the wrong message to send.”
        
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        January 24, 2023 3:20pm
      - Swifty
        
        I’m now thinking someone might be in some real trouble over this.
        
        That footage is now going to go viral. I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if it ends up on Sky News or Fox and elsewhere as an example of the institutional bias that exists and from New Zealand’s state broadcaster.
        
        The right will use that footage mercilessly.
        
        Amd I haven’t even mentioned the insult it will be perceived as by many, many Americans. Rightly or wrongly he was a US President, and the office deserves some little respect.
        
        An appalling lapse in judgement from many people here. They would have had 100 different potential targets kicking around the studio but, no, they just had to use a Trump doll, which they happened to have lying around.
        
        I’d this isn’t bringing TVNZ into disrepute, it’s (admittedly tattered)!reputation of professionalism and impartiality, I don’t know what is.
        
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        January 24, 2023 3:45pm
  - Swifty
    
    Unbelievable.
    
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    January 24, 2023 3:21pm
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    He is one
    
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    January 24, 2023 3:34pm
  - Keith White
    
    The left always tell us what they are going to do, before they do it to us. They can’t help themselves.
    
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    January 24, 2023 5:15pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I did not see that, and neither did the speaker of the house.
  If so, it deserves a complaint to the Broadcasting Standards Authority.
  These breakfast children need to stop their TDS nonsense.
  
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  January 24, 2023 2:46pm
- jon
  
  At least we know who the four hosts are, who engaged in this appalling behaviour!
  
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  January 24, 2023 9:34pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Petition. Stop 3 waters.
https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/three_waters
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January 24, 2023 2:33pm
Maggie Pie

WHAT ON GOD’S EARTH IS HAPPENING?

ANOTHER 7 elderly Chinese shot to death in Half Moon Bay, California.

The man arrested is a 67 year old Zhao Chun Li….

https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1617700039090135040
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January 24, 2023 2:56pm
- All_on_Red
  
  The shooter is not white
  Nothing to see here, move along
  
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  January 24, 2023 3:07pm
  - kowtow
    
    The LA shooting was waaaaay down the list of “news” priorities the other day .
    Then I heard his name and knew why.
    
    As you say ” Move along please”
    
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    January 24, 2023 3:25pm
Jack5

A great name for a spy features in a current political row in America.

It’s about Eric Swalwell, a California Congressman, being reappointed to the Congress Intelligence Committee.

Opponents accuse him of having links to a suspected Chinese spy in America. Her name is Christine Fang, but Fox News reports she’s also known as “Fang Fang”.

The online news site Axios says Fang targeted up-and-coming politicians and had “romantic or sexual relationships” with at least two mayors in the American Mid-West.

Axios says Fang took part in fundraising for Swalwell’s 2014 re-election campaign, according to a political operative and a current U.S. intelligence official.
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January 24, 2023 3:26pm
Ghost

Scott Adams – The Anti-Vaxxers are clearly the winners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C41GCgyG4mI
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January 24, 2023 3:27pm
Ghost

Jacinda has said in Rātana that her experience of being prime minister and of New Zealanders is of love, empathy and kindness, so there we have it New Zealand media. Time to spin that again to claim why she quit
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January 24, 2023 3:58pm
- Swifty
  
  That’s a good point.
  
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  January 24, 2023 5:43pm
MiddleclassTrash

So Cindy had to get a man in.
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January 24, 2023 4:04pm
septic skeptic

CO-GOVERNANCE
This is on Newshub:
Addressing co-governance, Luxon says it’s been a “divisive and immature conversation over recent years”. He believes the Government hasn’t been upfront or transparent about its intentions and hasn’t taken people with it.

Luxon says National opposes co-governance in the delivery of public services, such as in health and justice. National supports the targeting of people on the basis of needs, not ethnicity. He says that might be “difficult news”, but it doesn’t mean National doesn’t want to involve Māori.

This doesn’t go anywhere near far enough in my view. Does anyone know WHY Luxon and National are always qualifying their opposition to co-governance by adding “in the delivery of public services”. Where in Luxons view is co-governance appropriate? In the management of public assets maybe? In political representation? In the consultation rackets?
IMO he shouldn’t be talking about “involving Maori” (he never seems to say he intends to involve other kiwis be they European, Chinese, Indian, Pasifika or any other ethnic group).
The fundamental issue, the elephant in the room if you like, is that if the English version of the TOW is correct, then we have a basis for moving forward as one people in a democracy. If the current Maori interpretation is adopted then we must create two classes of citizens (Tangata Whenua and Tangata Tiriti) and we go forward with a form of Apartheid where your political rights depend on your ancestry.
Now I really don’t care whether some legal boffins determine the pre-eminence of the Maori interpretation. That simply cannot stand. In that case TOW must be scrapped and we have to adopt a new constitutional framework whereby we all citizens have equal rights. To do otherwise is madness.
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January 24, 2023 4:14pm
- Keith White
  
  I agree with you, but I think we are heading down the path of menace rather than the path of reason. Madness pays off for all the people who don’t want to work and want to take other people’s money. Therefore, with 54% of New Zealanders getting more money from other taxpayers than they earn for themselves, we are down the path of madness – fastly and furiously.
  
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  January 24, 2023 5:16pm
- Prince
  
  What could you possibly find wrong in targeting assistance to people in need, rather than ethnicity ?
  
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  January 24, 2023 6:39pm
  - Keith White
    
    Are they in need because of stupid choices, or are they in need because of unexpected and unpredictable fate? if they are in need only because they made dumbass decisions, I see no reason I should pay any money I earned by hard work, to bail them out.
    
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    January 24, 2023 8:36pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

“Bankman-Fried also spent $10 million backing Biden’s 2020 campaign through indirect donations.”
https://rightwingnewshour.com/he-had-multiple-secret-meetings-with-biden-admin-3/
This is one of the extreme right wing sites that Batman used to rabbit on about.
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January 24, 2023 5:43pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

This is Democrats cheating again. El Paso was just fine, no tents!
https://rightwingnewshour.com/theyve-suspiciously-gone-missing/
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January 24, 2023 5:48pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Nope. We know who owns the moon. People who own everything, Yes??
https://rightwingnewshour.com/warning-were-racing-china-for-control-of-3/
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January 24, 2023 5:52pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Close to the wire, but is my comment satire, or not?
  
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  January 24, 2023 5:53pm
Swifty

“Touch her like Jesus. Touch her gown.”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/touch-her-like-jesus-teary-ardern-farewells-pm-ship-in-peace/M2HYVR4IPBGTRDBXEZ6V6ATTZ4/
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January 24, 2023 6:14pm
- Alan Wilkinson
  
  As I said a while ago, we were far better off when women filled the pews and worshipped God. They caused less damage.
  
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  January 24, 2023 7:46pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Oh FFS. Spare us.
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:13pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  Spare us!
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:16pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  She’s not the Messiah; she’s a very naughty girl
  
  (With apologies to Brian Cohen’s mother}
  
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  January 24, 2023 9:22pm
graham

Watching the news, and at Ratana, a reporter asked Ms Ardern if she was ready to be a back-bench MP. She replied, “I’m ready to be lots of things. I’m ready to be a back-bench MP, I’m ready to be a sister, and a mum.”

My wife commented, “She didn’t say anything about being ready to be a wife …”

…

Now we all KNOW that if a National PM in the same position had made the same statement, the media would be all over it, breathlessly speculating about if this means the wedding’s off, etc. Tell me I’m wrong.

But will we see such speculations in the media tomorrow? Like hell.
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January 24, 2023 8:11pm
- Ghost
  
  Well there is no need to speculate because when she resigned she said during it to Clarke, let’s get married now.
  
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  January 24, 2023 8:19pm
Scooter

Next they’ll be saying she walks on water. It must be the most cringe worthy article ever written.
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January 24, 2023 9:47pm
- Ghost
  
  She does, but it was only a puddle in a pothole
  
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