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Scott

I watched the multi Leaders debate on TVNZ featuring Maori Party, Greens, NZ First and Act.

Waititi got a lot of deference from Jack Tame and essentially said that everything has been bad since 1840. With his facial tattoos, his radical attitude, his disrespect for old Maori like Winston Peters, he seemed like a creature from another planet. The obviously handpicked audience loved him, however he is only for Maori. Under his governance Maori people will qualify for superannuation ahead of non Maori. How is that not racist?

James Shaw was at his best in the first topic of climate change on which was devoted a full half hour. Otherwise he basically followed along with much of what Waititi said.

Seymour got better as the debate went on and made sense on issues like superannuation. He’s the only person who appears to want to increase our prosperity. Interestingly he seemed ill at ease and not someone with momentum?

The person who was the most comfortable was Winston. He at least represents a NZ we can recognise. He used to ride a horse to school and grew up in a very poor Maori community that was law abiding. He seemed happy in his own skin and was able to effectively counter the Maori radicalism of Waititi.
He proposed a full scale enquiry into our covid response, which I agree with.

Lastly we must mention Jack Tame who handpicked his audience, set up questions with interviews with young women who were all in on climate change and cogovernance and managed to relentlessly promote progressive causes at all times. He is the face of our government funded, hopelessly biased media. In my opinion they should lose all government funding immediately following the election.
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October 6, 2023 8:01am
- redeye
  
  He said Kiwis didn’t want a “hard lurch to the right”.
  Follows along from his 2017 comment.
  ‘”Far too many New Zealanders have come to view today’s capitalism, not as their friend, but as their foe.”
  Conservative should be very ware of the fox in the henhouse. Do they want change or not?
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:07am
  - Pope Punctilious II
    
    Conservatives should be wary about voting for NZF? But not about voting for the Nats or ACT?
    
    We don’t have any serious conservative parties in this country. The Nats are slightly right of centre economically, but left of centre socioculturally. ACT definitely right of centre economically, but very liberal on some socio-cultural issues. NZF are slightly left of centre economically, and are the only major NZ party that is socio-culturally conservative.
    
    But it’s funny how Peters’ critics say (quite understandably) that we can’t believe anything he says, yet here you are saying we SHOULD take seriously his 2017 musings about capitalism. And didn’t Peters oppose a CGT when the Ardern government was considering the idea?
    
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    October 6, 2023 10:31am
  - Local Miller
    
    Sorry, which “He” are you referring to? Shaw, Waititi, Tame,… ?
    
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    October 6, 2023 11:01am
    - redeye
      
      I apologise for not being clearer Local Miller. I was referring to Winston Peters.
      
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      October 6, 2023 11:57am
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others” {Groucho}.
  
  Winston represents only the struggle to reach 5%, by choosing his angle-de-jour.
  His real talent is in hitting the right buttons with the disaffected so he can be dozing in taxpayer funded junkets for another few years.
  Riding a horse to school is neither here nor there.
  
  The fact that latest poll shows that him going with Labour & co could form another alternative government to NACT scares the crap out of me, being that he will chase whoever offers the largest pork barrel and sweetest slops.
  
  I will again state that I have been most consistently a NZ First voter all my life.
  But it seems some people have short memories around him going with Ardern over English.
  
  I would hope you all fall on your own swords, the Winnie fans, if it comes to that: you will have truly doomed the country with your rose tinted view of Winston.
  
  It’s not like we don’t know his ways by now.
  Jeez, c’mon….he gets a leg up onto a horse for TV and we are meant to get teary eyed and carry the scorpion again?
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:20am
  - Surely Knott
    
    The N/Act know why we are voting Nz1. They continue to refuse to address our concerns. In fact they actively belittle those voters. They allowed those votes to go to Winnie and hoped to get them back with scaremongering. The mandates were wrong. Deeply wrong.
    
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    October 6, 2023 11:02am
    - Fuzzysnuggleduck
      
      It is a truism to say the mandates were wrong, just like saying we were and are not served well by the media.
      No argument there.
      But complete these 2 sentences:
      “Winston is talking about mandates and Covid because……..”
      “After Wiston is elected to parliament he will…..”
      
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      October 6, 2023 11:33am
    - Damocles11
      
      In this video Peters says he believes that the vaccinations should be compulsory. So he was the most extreme pro-vaxxer of them all. Sorry, the facts are known.
      
      https://www.tiktok.com/@truth.bombs.nz/video/7276695686500977922
      
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      October 6, 2023 11:45am
      - Damocles11
        
        This is with regards to measles. Still, compulsion is compulsion. A mandate is a mandate.
        
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        October 6, 2023 11:54am
      - G the giant from Dunedin
        
        Yes, snd as I said the other day he was minister of foreign affairs who blocked loved ones returning to see dying family members, he was deputy pm that lock us down
        
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        October 6, 2023 12:14pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        There is a massive, massive difference between a true vaccination that went through many, many years of proper trials before being approved. One that has been proven safe and in use for decades – and an experimental gene technology that was rushed to market in months with totally bs trials and associated safety data.
        
        Also zero information on the effect on pregnant, immune compromised, frail and elderly, all those who it was pushed onto hardest.
        
        There is no comparison, though I personally disapprove of anything medical being compulsory to permit access to normal society.
        
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        October 6, 2023 4:03pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Well said.
      
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      October 6, 2023 3:21pm
    - peterwn
      
      And they think Labour will address their concerns? Now pull the other one.
      Voting NZF is effectively a vote for the major party you do NOT want.
      
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      October 8, 2023 10:32am
- DimChappie
  
  Seymour is feeling the heat from NZFirst. During the Leaders’ Debate, he implied Winston Peters knew about Hepuapua and failed to stop it. LIES, here is Willie Jackson admitting they kept it from Peters when he was in coalition: https://shorturl.at/iGLRT
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:46am
  - Si334
    
    Whereas Winston claimed that Bill English told him he was about to be rolled in potential coalition discussions – absolute lies!
    
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    October 6, 2023 11:08am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Yes, English has stated he is straight out lying
      
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      October 6, 2023 12:17pm
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    The Labour Party delivered minutes of meetings when it was discussed, guess whose name was on the attendees on the two meetings they had?
    
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    October 6, 2023 12:16pm
  - Keith White
    
    You believe what Willie Jackson says is true? Gosh.
    
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    October 6, 2023 2:47pm
  - Damocles11
    
    Winston was one of the people who commissioned He Puapua. This is established fact.
    
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    October 6, 2023 5:10pm
- Damocles11
  
  I saw Winston’s right hand shaking repeatedly, a nervous tic. He was rattled on GST, didn’t seem to know his own policy. He was very, very strong at certain points, and he looked very tired at others. I believe everything he said about how there was far less crime involving maori in the past, this is my 80 year old fathers clear recollection of growing up in NZ, when people didn’t even lock their doors. The drift of maori into the cities has played a large part in their decline as a people.
  Seymour stuck to his guns well, made his points in a very hostile environment where the studio audience was a pack of young wokesters baying for the blood of the purported ‘far right racist’, and smarmy social justice warrior Shaw played up to it for all he was worth, unleashing putdowns and bullying to cheers and clapping from the crowd.
  
  David’s prickliness towards various people is probably an outcome from months of being called a racist and being forced to defend himself over all sorts of different things, often from interviewers who have an agenda going in. Fair minded people will know this to be true, people who have an agenda themselves will deny it.
  
  Lastly, I am sick and tired of the continuing disingenuous attacks on Seymour, Luxon, Willis, and van Velden. None of these attacks will make New Zealand a better place in the long run, they will only splinter the Right and play into the hands of people who seek to benefit from that.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:52am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Saw an advert on TV One last night while flipping channels advertising their election night coverage.
  John, Jack and Jessica…….well that’s a red team if ever there was one. Not exactly unbiased coverage!
  Is TV3 any better?
  From TV One website:
  “In the studio will be Chief Correspondent John Campbell, Political Editor Jessica Mutch McKay and Q+ A presenter Jack Tame providing up-to-the-minute coverage and in-depth analysis.
  
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  October 6, 2023 11:34am
- Damocles11
  
  Winston wants a full scale inquiry into our COVID response, yet in this video he says that he believes the vaccinations should be compulsory. The facts are known; he was the most extreme pro-vaxxer of them all:
  
  https://www.tiktok.com/@truth.bombs.nz/video/7276695686500977922
  
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  October 6, 2023 11:48am
  - Ghost
    
    Many have changed their view as evidence came to light. If peters has changed his view because of evidence or for votes no one will never know, but a lot of pro vaccine have now woken up and turned against it
    
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    October 6, 2023 11:50am
Benedict Yu

I understand little about Rugby. However I find this story so bizarre that I wonder if it is a wind up.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/rugby/rugby-union/all-blacks-coach-scott-robertson-new-zealand-rugby-world-cup-b2424445.html

The soon to be team coach is in France to attend the world cup. However he cannot attend matches. For reasons. 😳
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October 6, 2023 8:04am
- Blog-aholic
  
  If true then the NZRU are twats.
  
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  October 6, 2023 8:07am
- Simon
  
  “I understand little about Rugby”
  
  You should read Danie Craven on Rugby, to help you get started.
  
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  October 6, 2023 8:17am
  - Flossie
    
    It is (so far at least) not compulsory to understand rugby.
    
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    October 6, 2023 10:09am
  - Liberty
    
    You could also go outside and watch the grass grow.
    
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    October 6, 2023 11:15am
- David Garrett
  
  Bene: I share your very limited knowledge of the local religion.
  
  I also saw that as a very odd story. While of course the current team management doesn’t have to let this guy into their corporate box (or whatever they call it) how could they possibly stop him attending matches for which he has a ticket?
  
  Explanations from the rugby heads among us please.
  
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  October 6, 2023 8:22am
  - Gravelroad
    
    Current coach, Foster, super sensitive about being replaced as All Blacks coach by Robertson.
    Foster big Waikato Chiefs leader. Robertson’s Crusaders keep beating Chiefs in the super rugby comp.
    Foster has hurt feelings – handbags at dawn stuff.
    I would be surprised if Robertson could be prevented from buying a ticket and sitting in the stadium to watch any games, but Foster doesn’t want him talking to his players before or during proceedings in case they get different ideas.
    
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    October 6, 2023 8:30am
    - Colville
      
      Yeah its just tiny dick stuff from Foster.
      If he was a better man and coach he would have invited Razor into camp and given the boys a bit of variety.
      
      From what we saw today what he is doing isnt working.
      
      Sam Cane remains not being worthy of a pimple on the arse of an All Blacks captain.
      
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      October 6, 2023 9:50am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      “Foster has hurt feelings – handbags at dawn stuff.”
      
      and this is a grown man, presumably paid huge money?
      
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      October 6, 2023 9:56am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Mains says this is bullshit, I think it is bullshit, I bet he has been told not to help himself to the changing room, why would they care a damn about him in the grandstand?
      
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      October 6, 2023 12:20pm
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    David, it appears that Robertson’s presence might distract some of the team. Apparently. And having been asked not to attend, there is no way that Robertson would want to alienate anyone, particularly players who he may have to work with. And I believe he was just on holiday with his wife and was going to attend a couple of matches. So it’s not much of an issue for him.
    
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    October 6, 2023 9:01am
- kiwikidsnz
  
  I would have thought that public games cannot prohibit individuals attending (unless by justified reason & trespass act).
  
  Robertson may not want to rock the boat at this early stage.
  
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  October 6, 2023 8:23am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    And I bet this is not the case, I bet he has been getting close to members of the ABs working on next year, if so he should be out of the way
    
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    October 6, 2023 12:22pm
- cmm
  
  Of course they could be right, but the most logical explanation is that the MSM has its head up its arse and has got the story entirely wrong.
  
  I too am not a follower of the cult. Luckily that wasn’t on the citizenship quiz. I think they made assumptions because I came from South Africa
  
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  October 6, 2023 8:34am
  - mawm
    
    I was asked which team I supported at an interview for acceptance of my qualifications. Fortunately there was a Wellington – Auckland match on the next evening so naturally as a newly minted permanent resident I supported my home team. It got a few laughs and I got my qualifications accepted.
    
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    October 6, 2023 10:14am
- 3-coil
  
  BY – the main reason Robertson won’t be attending any All Blacks games in France is because he is now back home in New Zealand.
  
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  October 6, 2023 8:53am
Simon

Some meth head with a sword is advancing towards you. He is very upset over some perceived slight. What are you going to do?
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October 6, 2023 8:08am
- Benedict Yu
  
  It has got to the point that I lock the car doors now – which I never had imagined I would ever do here.
  
  If it is not someone coming at you with a sword, it is some 13 year old kids smashing your car windows at 3 am. Happened to me last week.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:00am
  - cmm
    
    Did you report it?
    
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    October 6, 2023 10:36am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      No what is the point? They smashed a side window. I am guessing the alarm went off and they ran. Nothing was stolen from the car. The car was on the street as I was staying at a friend’s house. This was in a nice part of town. This shit is happening every night.
      
      I’m not sure if Christchurch is any worse than other places. Looking at the data (I posted it on GD a while back), even in 2021, New Zealand had by far the highest rate of motor vehicle theft of any country, and it has certainly got worse in the last 2 years.
      
      It is not a minor crime. For most folk, having their car stolen or wrecked causes financial and emotional stress.
      
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      October 6, 2023 11:10am
      - cmm
        
        BY: You are a sensible fellow, so how do you square this circle?
        * You don’t report it
        – but
        * You believe the statistics which only come from people reporting incidents.
        
        Report it so that it gets in the stats. Demand a case number. That way it can’t just be filed in the bin.
        
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        October 6, 2023 12:40pm
  - alloytoo
    
    Lock the car doors and remember if you life depends on it, you weapon probably weighs a ton or more and boasts more horse power.
    
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    October 6, 2023 12:13pm
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  Oh boy….
  If I am in my own home, dash to the study, grab a cutlass or a broadsword and trust that I am more experienced in sword-use and riposte than the meth head.
  Attack the wrist from outside of his own range via lunge & cut. Disarm/maim. Counter as needed.
  A cutlass is more use in the confined space than the katana.
  Aim my thrust through the thin facial bones for an immediate off-switch.
  
  Or in this hypothetical, did I get enough warning to load my Remington pump action with buck shot first?
  
  In my car, inside the car I have a US army Ka-Bar within reach from the driving seat and an alumium baseball bat in the boot. The baseball bat is for use outside the car, and the more moderate response if I was forced to be involved in something.
  
  Or am I on the footpath, and I have good running shoes?
  (An expression in the dojo is the best block for a knife is a city block, and just run & dont be an idiot. You are going to get cut or stabbed).
  
  With a sword, if stuck with no retreat, try and effectively smother sword use by closing chest to chest ASAP and grapple. (Most people don’t know about ‘shorten arms’ for use of swords at such range, and katana are not thrusting swords in any case.) I am quite comfortable in stand and clinch.
  I almost always carry a knife, in case of dog attacks while out. But at a pinch, use anything – headbutt, attack the eyes, even bite chunks out of them if life or death.
  
  …I love hypotethicals, and have prepared and planned ahead.
  
  Why do you ask?
  
  (Mods, the above potentially valuable information is not that I am a psycho, but trained and train other people in martial arts so these are scenarios I have mapped out and even played out with people well ahead of time).
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:38am
  - Colville
    
    For you to load your hypothetical pump gun first you have to go to and unlock your gun safe and then retrieve ammo from separate locked area.
    
    Unless you just happened to be “cleaning it” at the time 🙂
    
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    October 6, 2023 11:43am
    - G152
      
      Or like me take up archery
      
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      October 6, 2023 12:43pm
      - Fuzzysnuggleduck
        
        I like archery probably even more than shooting, as there is something organic in the applying the draw weight, angle, and aim – then seeing the arrow fly, which means you can adjust & people improve and hit targets quickly with casual fun archery.
        Shooting with firearms you have only the sights, breathing/stable posture, and a spotter to call the hit for longer ranges – you dont see the flight of the round.
        I have found it harder to get newbies to improve accuracy on target compared to bow and arrow.
        
        On the pro-side: you can also shoot with a light bow fairly safely in the back yard but can’t practice with a firearm.
        On the con-side: my recurve sporting bow is not a war bow type of weight (only 33lb) so does not have the hit of a compound bow, nor the bladed broadheads such as you would need to reliably take down a large mammal….
        
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        October 6, 2023 1:43pm
    - Fuzzysnuggleduck
      
      Yes, and when you are interviewed for a licence you cannot/should not say ‘I want them for self defence’.
      Yep – I need a bit of warning to even arm like that sure.
      And this is not counting my various 1850s and 1860s muzzle loaders (muskets). 😉
      
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      October 6, 2023 1:32pm
      - Colville
        
        My earliest is 1778 🙂 an actual brass barrelled blunderbuss with top mounted bayonet.
        
        Then there are a few pairs of flintlock pistols and the like…
        
        I am still unclear if flintlocks need to be locked away…you dont need a firearms licence to buy them as you cant buy ammo for them..
        
        But the Gilpin “Hog Splitter” axe doesn’t require loading….. 🙂
        
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        October 6, 2023 6:58pm
  - Opie
    
    Mental note. Don’t pick a fight with Fuzzysnuggleduck…
    
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    October 6, 2023 12:02pm
    - Fuzzysnuggleduck
      
      I lose fights with my wife all the time.
      
      She doesn’t accept that I making valid preparations for a Zombie Apocalypse either.
      
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      October 6, 2023 1:48pm
      - Colville
        
        Chainsaw and sharpened garden spade required!!
        
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        October 6, 2023 6:59pm
  - Skippytony
    
    +1 on the Ka Bar. I have a length of threaded 5/8″ steel rod in the boot of my car which takes up next to no space and has 1001 uses
    
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    October 6, 2023 12:04pm
  - cmm
    
    If you stop your car to pull out the baseball bat from the boot, then you can’t claim self defence (unless you’re being cornered etc).
    
    As you say, the first line of defence is to win your fight by running away.
    
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    October 6, 2023 12:43pm
    - Fuzzysnuggleduck
      
      Baseball bat purely being for a good Samaritan scenario, and one that doesn’t end with the good Samaritan stabbed dead for stepping in – as has happened far more than once in NZ 🙁
      
      But yes, avoiding a fight too. Sun Tsu.
      
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      October 6, 2023 1:45pm
- Keith White
  
  He probably won’t expect the Spanish Inquisition…
  
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  October 6, 2023 2:48pm
JJ56

NZF’s policy announced https://www.nzfirst.nz/2023_policies. Something in that for most KiwiBlog commentators 🙂
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October 6, 2023 8:09am
- mawm
  
  What’s not to like other than unreliable Winston.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:27am
- Opie
  
  If you can give me the nz first policies but without Winston I’d vote for it every time.
  
  They are exactly what you would want from national, if luxon wasn’t a soggy tissue.
  
  Only problem is that’s it’s Winston. You vote for things he is saying. He gets in. He decides to go with labour and does none of it.
  
  The policies basically align with national and act, but Winnie has the balls to stand up to maoris.
  
  It’s just he will change his policies for the correct amount of cash.
  
  I wish it wasn’t like this, we could use a lot of what he is saying
  
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  October 6, 2023 11:32am
  - Colville
    
    The problem is no honest (hahahaha) politician would ever promote NZFs policies… they are promoted knowing they will never have to do any of them.
    
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    October 6, 2023 11:47am
NK

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Nicola Willis, the person National Party stalwarts claim will be an “outstanding” minister of finance (despite her qualifications being the same as Grant Robertson) is already having to explain and back peddle on her “tax relief” policies.

She says NZers are “not fools”. Correct. We see it for the BS that it is. Her next failure will be when her overseas buyers stamp duty fails to deliver.

I hate Labour with a passion. But this is an unacceptable replacement.
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October 6, 2023 8:10am
- Nukuleka
  
  Okay, NK, vote Labour, Green or Maori Party and take the consequences.
  
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  October 6, 2023 8:13am
  - David Garrett
    
    Nuku: He’s not saying that at all…but knowing NK as I do, he may very well abstain…abstentions may explain why, as someone asked the other day, ACT had dropped 2% but the others had all stayed the same.
    
    I myself voted on Monday before Seymour’s continuing grandstanding pissed me off too much.
    
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    October 6, 2023 8:26am
    - Damocles11
      
      Abstaining so that we get a nightmare Labour / Greens / Te Pati Maori horror show. And capital flight and an exodus of our best and brightest. The whole idea of ‘abstaining’ to prove some personal point of principle that no-one else will ever know or care about….I got over that behaviour as a kid when I’d go pack a sad, hide in my room in high dudgeon, and life would carry on without me. I’d be told “you are just cutting off your nose to spite your face, get over yourself”. I can imagine these people who ‘abstained on principle’ watching the country go to hell in a hand basket & having just a wee bit of recrimination that they and those like them chose to get up on their high horse rather than influence the outcome.
      
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      October 6, 2023 9:07am
      - mawm
        
        Or abstain so that we don’t get a UN/WHO/WEF controlled centre-left government.
        
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        October 6, 2023 10:32am
    - RoboRob
      
      If you want to replace Labour abstaining is not an option. I can understand an abstain if you are a Labour man and cant stand to vote for them this time but if you want to remove the govt an abstention is almost a vote for Labour.
      
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      October 6, 2023 9:21am
      - leoj
        
        Genuine question:
        
        Exactly how is a non-vote a vote?
        
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        October 6, 2023 11:46am
      - RoboRob
        
        @leoj
        
        If there are 950 NZers, 500 Nat voters and 450 Labour voters. If 100 National voters decide to not vote then Labour is elected.
        
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        October 6, 2023 12:06pm
      - leoj
        
        How do you know there are 500 National voters to begin with?
        
        There might only be 400.
        
        If there were 500 National voters, they would have voted.
        
        You have assumed there are 500 when there is not 500.
        
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        October 6, 2023 9:20pm
  - kingerstinger
    
    Exactly. It amazes and disappoints me that so many on here, who I would consider to be otherwise quite intelligent, fail to see the big picture.
    
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    October 6, 2023 3:35pm
- peterwn
  
  Nicola, unlike Grant has had a *REAL* job (with Fonterra for several years).
  
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  October 6, 2023 8:17am
- kowtow
  
  The media pardy have done really well .They have held the Opposition to account.
  
  From the outset of this election campaign when announced ,they have focussed on this policy and this policy alone ( relatively) of all the parties , have done a forensic analysis and have come up with a bit of a hit.
  
  All well and good .
  
  But where was that focus and forensics over the last 6 years on the tens of billions wasted , the lives lost and a constitution that was being torn apart .
  
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  October 6, 2023 8:23am
  - Drone
    
    kowtow why would they crit their own team ?
    
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    October 6, 2023 10:30am
- Lance
  
  The only desperate line the inveterate liars Labour can come up with is “saving up to” is dishonest.
  If you don’t understand those words when to go to sale then you are really really stupid.
  
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  October 6, 2023 8:23am
- John Loveridge
  
  I get it. I facepalmed in mild despair when Willis was put on the spot. She had left herself wide open there. But you hate Labour with a passion, and Willis/National is unacceptable. Where does that leave you?
  
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  October 6, 2023 8:23am
  - mawm
    
    John – And when the party that has a basic premise of individual sovereignty failed the first time it was tested.
    
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    October 6, 2023 10:36am
- Lee C
  
  That’s bollocks, NK.
  
  Willis knows how to research, prepare and deliver information with an authority that Grant Robertson has been lacking since day one.
  
  Without downplaying Willis’ considerable acumen, I think Coco the Clown could step into the vacuum that will be left by Robertson and few would notice the handover.
  
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  October 6, 2023 8:27am
  - Taieri
    
    Without downplaying Willis’ considerable acumen
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    Wasn’t she one of the main backers of Todd Muller’s leadership bid? That doesn’t say much about her “considerable acumen”…
    
    Although anyone would be better than the Hon Grant Robertson, being good at playing corporate politics alone doth not make you a good finance minister.
    
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    October 6, 2023 8:53am
    - Lee C
      
      I guess we’ll see Taieri, but teh Muller thing didn;t wpork out too badly for her…
      
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      October 6, 2023 10:03am
      - Taieri
        
        I was under the impression that Members of Parliament are there to work for the country, not for “her”, “him” or whatever pronouns they fancy. A false impression it seems…
        
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        October 6, 2023 10:49am
    - Pope Punctilious II
      
      Indeed she was. And it’s surprising that someone as glass-jawed as Muller ever got to the top of a major political party. You need to know what someone’s made of long before s/he gets anywhere the top job, so that episode raises serious questions about the National Party culture. Has their institutional culture become too dominated by typically feminine priorities like “safety”, eschewing the sort of robust exchanges often favoured by men? (now branded “toxic masculinity”).
      
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      October 6, 2023 10:40am
    - Damocles11
      
      So she was supposed to know Muller’s mental frailties? But go ahead with the white anting, we might get a Winston controlled govt out of it all, yay….
      
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      October 6, 2023 10:57am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      No, she was used to try and shaft Bridges though
      
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      October 6, 2023 12:27pm
- Simon
  
  “Her next failure will be when her overseas buyers stamp duty fails to deliver.”
  
  Stamp duty is more reckless garbage from National. It will be expanded upon in time. Stamp duty, National party clown show bringing in another fucking tax.
  
  National’s high point will be 14 October. Even then they will have to go cap in hand to Winston. After 14 October it will be all downhill. Its grim out there and National thinks dealing with Labo is somehow operating in the real world.
  
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  October 6, 2023 8:34am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    Well, land agents are reporting huge off shore interest, but you haters know better
    
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    October 6, 2023 12:29pm
    - NK
      
      Liar.
      
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      October 6, 2023 12:54pm
- cmm
  
  NK I too copped a bunch of downticks for pointing this out, but it is a very valid concern.
  She’s a journalist. A quality journalist should be able to research. listen and ask the right questions until they understand. Unfortunately what passes for “journalist” in the modern age undermines that somewhat.
  
  My bigger concern is that she’s a greenie to the hilt.
  
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  October 6, 2023 8:39am
  - Damocles11
    
    You seem to be all over her on this. If someone is in any way ‘green’ you seem to think it’s tantamount to being a member of the Green Party. I try to keep our environment clean by not tossing bags of rubbish out my car window, does that make me another James Shaw?
    Is Nicola campaigning to drag farmers into the ETS? What exactly is your beef with her?
    
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    October 6, 2023 9:12am
    - Cassandra
      
      Inflicting costs on NZ producers which will achieve absolutely nothing.
      
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      October 6, 2023 10:03am
  - RoboRob
    
    The question is, will she be as good or better then Robertson? I cant see how she could be worse and we know Robertson is the pitts so why not.
    
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    October 6, 2023 9:23am
    - NK
      
      And THAT is my point. You guys are happy as long as she’s better than Labour. I have much greater ambition for this country, which far exceeds just being Labour but with a blue shirt.
      
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      October 6, 2023 10:38am
      - Damocles11
        
        But it wouldn’t be Labour ‘but in a blue shirt’, because the alternative is not Labour at all, it’s Labour / Green / Te Pati Maori.
        
        But why don’t you tell us the political movement you are actually supporting, so we can benefit from your wisdom?
        
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        October 6, 2023 10:59am
    - cmm
      
      Undoubtedly she will be better than Robertson, but it is astounding that National cannot find a person who has at least a commerce degree.
      
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      October 6, 2023 10:40am
      - NK
        
        My goldfish would be better than Robertson. But I want tuna, not a bigger and better goldfish.
        
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        October 6, 2023 12:51pm
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  The issue here is that Nicola isn’t defending National policy, she is correcting the MSM narrative, based on the CTU interpretation of that policy.
  
  There is a more than subtle difference here.
  
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  October 6, 2023 8:57am
  - Bullion
    
    How is she correcting the MSM when she and Luxon confirmed the CTU interpretation of that policy was correct?
    
    BTW, the Nats use of the term “average” in advertising is a bit misleading. I live in an average household income family (within $5k of mean, 1 FT and 1 PT) with two young kids and Nats tax calculator shows our household would receive less than 60% of Nats “up to $250/fortnight for average household” marketing.
    
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    October 6, 2023 11:20am
    - G the giant from Dunedin
      
      Because these fools said they guaranteed the total hand out to all, they had always stated up to $250 a fortnight, I just wonder how many get $240 a fortnight then 230
      
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      October 6, 2023 12:33pm
- Ian Boag
  
  Promising a tax cut is a master stroke. We all know that we deserve it.
  
  The stories about how it will be funded – foreign buyer tax – offshore gambling tax – might or might not work. It will be a year or so before we know. If they don’t work then gummint can always trim welfare (pension excepted).
  
  Nice one …
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:02am
  - cmm
    
    Nobody deserves anything unless they have earned it.
    Saying “we deserve xxx” is just entitlement.
    
    Why should beneficiaries in NZ “deserve” food, water, housing etc for the mere accident of being born in NZ?
    
    You are of course correct that there is no reduction in tax without other changes. Those can either be more borrowing (we’ve already enslaved and mortgaged the next 3 generations) or less spending.
    
    There is clearly a lot of room for improvements on the spending front.
    
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    October 6, 2023 9:13am
    - Ghost
      
      People don’t have to earn a tax cut, it is our money, governments should be reducing their spending and reducing their tax take on people. There is waste in local and central government with no care to where the money comes from
      
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      October 6, 2023 11:31am
  - Damocles11
    
    Why ‘trim welfare’? There is so much waste and bloated bureaucracy that they probably have umpteen other things they can cut.
    
    The way I see it the major centre-right party has no option but to offer tax cuts, as the Left simply offer endless bribes paid for through borrowing.
    
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    October 6, 2023 9:13am
    - cmm
      
      “Why ‘trim welfare’? ”
      
      Because welfare in its current form does not help people.
      
      Welfare should be a safety net. It shouldn’t be a comfortable hammock.
      Safety nets, like seatbelts, are there to prevent massive injury. They are not for comfort.
      
      Our welfare system has become a “career choice” – a lifestyle.
      
      Welfare has become intergenerational. Half the problem with poor educational outcomes in lower demographics is that people see no motivation. Why study hard and do homework etc when your parents are modelling bludging?
      
      If tax reduction comes at the cost of further borrowing then that’s not a good thing. We’ve already hocked the next two or three generations.
      
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      October 6, 2023 10:47am
      - mortis
        
        And current superannuation is welfare that robs the next generation. We need kiwisaver to be compulsory and prevent government fiddling with our retirement.
        
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        October 6, 2023 11:02am
    - mawm
      
      Damo – I looked very hard for a “major centre right party” on the parties list and could not find one. Don’t delude yourself, under the current leadership National is not centre right by any stretch of the imagination and doesn’t even occupy a centrist space. Neither is the libertarian party ACT. They might be a fiscally conservative and socially liberal so I could at a push accept a “centrist” description for them.
      
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      October 6, 2023 12:25pm
  - goNZ1
    
    I have to say I was gutted when I put in my above average income (single,no kids) into the Nats tax cut calculator to see I will get a measly $20 per week more! Im inclined to agree with the CTU that the ”up to $250” line is a scam
    
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    October 6, 2023 9:18am
    - Lance
      
      If it’s such a scam why then are the left shrieking hysterically about the cost?
      
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      October 6, 2023 9:57am
      - cmm
        
        Did you do it? How much did you get?
        I wonder what the magic incantation is to get the full $250?
        Playing around, it seems some of this is ECE subsidies just dressed up as a tax reduction.
        
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        October 6, 2023 10:53am
    - cmm
      
      I got $20 a week too. ie about $1k a year. It doesn’t move the needle as a bribe.
      
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      October 6, 2023 10:50am
      - Damocles11
        
        So you personally were wanting a bribe? Are you part of the ‘squeezed middle’? How many kids are you trying to feed & how big is your mortgage? They said who they were targeting from the get-go, did you and the CTU not hear that?
        
        I could not give a toss about the tax cut, I just know they have to offer to counter Labours endless bribe, something to get enough votes so we can get rid of Labour / Greens / Te Pati horror show.
        Where is the realism on the centre-right??!!
        
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        October 6, 2023 11:04am
      - Countrygirl
        
        Possibly better than the gst off fresh veg though
        
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        October 6, 2023 5:23pm
    - Bullion
      
      Is that per week or per fortnight? The Nats tax calculator spits out per fortnight values.
      
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      October 6, 2023 11:24am
    - ISeeRed
      
      I’m a SINK too, paying 33% on not much more than minimum wage because I work lots of hours. We carry this country and no one GAF.
      
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      October 6, 2023 1:23pm
  - Taieri
    
    If they don’t work then gummint can always trim welfare (pension excepted)
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    What’s your problem with “pensions” Ian?
    
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    October 6, 2023 9:28am
    - mortis
      
      My problem with the pension is it is entitlement rather than contribution based. This allows government to fudge the numbers and then pit one generation against another to get a benefit.
      
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      October 6, 2023 11:07am
    - Ian Boag
      
      My point was just that the pension is the only form of welfare (makes up half the “welfare” budget) that no government will ever trim ….
      
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      October 6, 2023 4:38pm
  - bjools
    
    Lower taxes and less govt. intrution into tax payers lives is always a good thing…NO MATTER WHAT.
    From Mr Google.
    “The Reagan tax cuts, like similar measures enacted in the 1920s and 1960s, showed that reducing excessive tax rates stimulates growth, reduces tax avoidance, …”
    I don’t believe any govt. services were cut either.
    How we pay for this?
    Ask Mr Seymour, I was staggered to learn, that since 2017 they swelled the govt employment ranks by 15,000 (wonder how many extra contractors and working groups were also paid for).
    Maths…
    15000 x $150 000 (cost Minimum)
    $2.25b…..(Billion!!!!!)
    I’m sure we could get that up to $3b with some adjustments, good management and the cancelling of those working groups etc.
    
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    October 6, 2023 9:49am
    - cmm
      
      It is ridiculous to compare the Reagan tax cuts to what National is offering.
      
      Reagan cut the top end tax rate from 70% to 50% ie, a reduction of 29%.
      The lowest tax rate was cut from 14 to 11%. ie a reduction of 21%.
      Company tax was reduced from 28 to 20% ie. 29% reduction.
      
      According to National’s tax calculator I’m getting a reduction of less than 2% ($20 a week).
      
      Few, very few, people will have the Lotto-like magic numbers to secure a reduction of more than $50 a week. Likely few will be getting more than a 5% reduction in tax.
      
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      October 6, 2023 11:02am
      - Damocles11
        
        You are on full on whinge mode today. Just vote for the ‘better option’ in Loyal NZ or Conservative Newts or Trumpism NZ or whoever you think it is. None of these parties will get anywhere near the threshold, but go ahead and just waste your vote.
        
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        October 6, 2023 11:07am
      - bjools
        
        We should be looking for the best govt. possible (from the choice in front of you)
        NOT
        The best possible govt. ie magical impossible dream.
        ALL tax cuts are valid, as it leaves the growth and direction of the economy in the hands of the people that create it….The citizens.
        The choice is simple
        Lab/TPM/ Greens
        GST off fruit and veg….maybe a few dollars a week for a family.
        Free prescriptions, max $100 per YEAR ($2 per week MAX)
        Free dental for under 30’s …yet to be defined what the encompasses, but not start until after 2027 (ie the next election).
        Nat/ACT…Tax thresholds moved and tax cuts amounting to $40-$50 per week IMMEDIATELY.
        So not a matter of opinion, a matter of the actual numbers.
        
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        October 6, 2023 11:44am
      - mawm
        
        bjools – That is what I find so grating about the vote NACT to stop Lab/greens mantra. They are not offering anything really different. Sure better management of the finances but no ground breaking change. Stamp duties on foreign property buyers? What a laugh. After the money-go-round of collecting and bureaucracy costs for the few brave enough to invest there will be nothing added to the governments coffers. I would rather see more money come into the country, which it will with fewer penalties, to give us the economic stimulus. We are competing with the rest of the world for foreign investment and do not need to add disincentives.
        
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        October 6, 2023 12:39pm
  - Drone
    
    To raise money the government can put GST back on fresh fruit and vege if the other ideas don’t work.. //
    
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    October 6, 2023 10:36am
    - bjools
      
      Those are big words that Labour have never understood.
      Especially….”IF”
      
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      October 6, 2023 11:47am
  - gravedodger
    
    Any one with an honorary PhD in Nous might understand any lowering of tax rates has a positive return from compliance as avoiding has a negative benefit.
    Very hard to calculate but almost always revealed in a rear view mirror.
    It would be revealing if all and sundry who support holding tax rates or increases are actually net Taxpayers?
    
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    October 6, 2023 10:39am
- lastmanstanding
  
  I fear The Nats have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. When Luxon didnt rule out working with Winston he gave NZF supporters hope of being in Government. However they dont understand Winston wont work with Seymour and he wont work withe the Maori Party. He will however work with the Greens.
  I noted that as ACT support wained NZF support grew. This I suggest was Labour voters from 2020 who wouldnt vote Labour or Nats but would support ACT “to keep the Bastards (Nats) honest”
  These voters will be dismayed if NZF goes with Labour as it will defeat their original intention.
  Oh the joys of MMP!!!
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:05am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    Act’s poll numbers dropped and NZF’s went up after Seymour attacked Bob McCoskrei and his panel.
    
    There were tens of thousands watching Family First at the time. This was a dumb move by Seymour.
    
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    October 6, 2023 9:13am
    - Damocles11
      
      Yeah, and the attack lines pursued by Family First were designed to antagonise Seymour. You only have to read the daily comments on this site to see how much Seymour was hated by Conservative Christians for his principled stance on euthanasia. They’ve gone after him. If the Left get up, we will see just how much Family First and Conservative Christians will enjoy the broken and crime ravaged country they will have bequeathed us. This will become a down and dangerous place to bring up a family.
      
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      October 6, 2023 9:23am
      - Mark Hanley
        
        Don’t worry. The latest poll is talbot mills. Not worth wasting your time discussing.
        
        In fact, Luxon will be quietly pleased with the extra encouragement the despicable unintelligent NZ media’s poll BS will provide the 65% of voters unhappy with Labour to get to the voting booth.
        
        There WILL be a landslide victory to National / ACT BUT…
        
        GO AND VOTE TODAY IF YOU HAVEN’T!
        
        WE NEED THE MARGIN TO BE AS BIG AS POSSIBLE!
        
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        October 6, 2023 9:56am
      - krazykiwi
        
        Steady. I’m a conservative Christian. And a libertarian. In fact if you read the New Testament you’ll see that Jesus was undoubtedly a libertarian, a great role model.
        
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        October 6, 2023 10:24am
      - Taieri
        
        Jesus was undoubtedly a libertarian
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        I heard it said that he was the original communist…
        
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        October 6, 2023 10:52am
      - Chuck Bird
        
        “his principled stance on euthanasia.”
        
        Damocles11, are you also a fan of killing babies?
        
        No one forced Seymour to be interviewed by Family First. Thousands of people watched the interview live or later on YouTube.
        
        In any case, I voted Act because we should support our farmers and Luxon buys in to the climate change emergency.
        
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        October 6, 2023 11:05am
      - Guy Preston
        
        I heard it said that he was the original communist…
        
        That case can be made, but only by narrow cherry picking and poor exegesis.
        
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        October 6, 2023 11:18am
      - krazykiwi
        
        Based on a 20th century definition of communism, Jesus most certainly was not a communist. His encouragement to treat people with dignity and respect was central, and he reserved his opprobrium for pious religious leaders who habitually used their legalistic power over people to their own advantage. Even without buying in to the central tenets of Christian faith it is pretty hard to dismiss Jesus’ key attributes as being anything other than exemplary and constructive for us today.
        
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        October 6, 2023 11:57am
      - mawm
        
        So Seymour can have a “principled stand on euthanasia” but Christians can’t have a principled stand on it and abortion? Who knew?
        
        MMP (thanks John) is turning into a dog’s breakfast which has probably been helped along by our 2 major parties, the “the worst government ever” Labour and a National Party shedding its traditional voters by moving left to gain the mythical centre.
        
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        October 6, 2023 12:51pm
  - Damocles11
    
    The recriminations are starting already based on a couple of polls. Ruling Winston out would make no difference, NZ First voters will only double-down on backing their rebel hero if people rule him out. He was ruled out by the National Party in the past….and got over the threshold. Why not stick to logic and known facts rather than parroting Hooton?
    
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    October 6, 2023 9:19am
  - Gravelroad
    
    I can see a rerun of 2017 coming – National wins by a small minority.
    Prince Peters goes into “negotiations” with both National and Labour to ascertain which lot will give him the most of what he desires..
    Labour will do anything to keep the communist state of Aotearoa progressing – so Winston it is then.
    There is no uncertainty about this for voters.
    If you want socialism gone mad, then vote for Peters, but don’t expect him to save you. For one thing, he is too old and there is very little sensible talent behind him in NZF.
    If Peters developed a serious health issue (and not wishing this on him or anybody), say hello to your next leadership team, Hipkins and Shane Jones.
    
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    October 6, 2023 9:21am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Gravel,
      
      If Winston went with Labour there would be a revolution in New Zealand.
      
      Failing the revolution , there will be several strongly worded posts to blog sites.
      
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      October 6, 2023 9:28am
      - Drone
        
        Maybe letters to the editor would be better than blog posts. Strikes me posting on blogs is a bit like spanking the monkey for many participants here..
        
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        October 6, 2023 10:40am
      - gravedodger
        
        How would such a “revolution” occur, it simply would not.
        One fact the last three years has explicitly revealed, and there has been reason aplenty, there is nothing an elector can do until a next election.
        “Recalls” could be an assist if the numbers are close but with the melons on the sideline just waiting, even that notion would have been utterly futile.
        Cripes even the protest in the grounds of the seat of power was emasculated by amateurs and eventually crushed in a storm of violence by Police sworn to uphold the law and preserve the peace, unimaginable to most before it turned bad.
        
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        October 6, 2023 10:49am
      - Spam
        
        there will be several strongly worded posts to blog sites.
        
        And probably some white-hot memes.
        
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        October 6, 2023 10:55am
      - Paulus
        
        If Winston nets into any position of power there will be another election shortly afterwards as National will not give him, and ($3 billion) Shane any baubles.
        
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        October 6, 2023 11:29am
      - marcw
        
        My message to Luxon and Willis – if you are faced with Coalition discussions, make sure you make it clear:
        
        There will not be any secret coalition agreement. All discussions and demands will be made public once we have made our decisions.
        
        The voters deserve knowing how the final Government makeup is decided, at least so there can be accountability. And it might just moderate some of the imagined demands certain people may request.
        
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        October 6, 2023 11:40am
      - Ghost
        
        That should be made law. Within 30 days of forming a Coalition all documents and discussions released to the public, unredacted.
        
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        October 6, 2023 11:53am
    - Damocles11
      
      Too late to influence anyone on Winston I’m afraid. The ‘covid people’ and some of those for whom co-governance is the main issue – they are with him. The Right is a pretty lose alliance of different philosophies, religious conservatives and libertarians have found they are poles apart thanks to people who work tirelessly to emphasise the differences – and there’s been a drive to fragment us and get us all infighting and it seems to have worked as far as I can see. Winston will deliver nothing and seems to be an unlikely hero to the agitated and unhappy: he’s the one who got us into this whole mess in 2017. Let’s see where we are in 2025, if we are in utter turmoil then I hope the people who worked to break the Right apart are proud of themselves.
      
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      October 6, 2023 9:31am
      - krazykiwi
        
        Covid malfeasance and racially-divisive policy are high on my list of important topics.
        
        But they’re not truly important to Winston. They are a means to an end.
        
        He is an accomplished modern day snake oil salesman, preying on the stupid. Stupid because those same people have seen Winston promise supporters his advocacy election after election only for them to be abandoned, election after election.
        
        Yet still they come. He’ll be different this time. He understands me. He’ll be there for me.
        
        Idiots.
        
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        October 6, 2023 10:20am
      - Fuzzysnuggleduck
        
        Thanks KK.
        You have your views known, and as I say I am currently agnostic/undecided on anything other than the clear malice or stupidity of the government around Covid policy (and deep suspicion of big pharma): and yet you have not been sucked in by the way the political wind has currently blown Winston.
        Other seem to have embraced him based on his cynical adoption of their grievances.
        The end result will be buyers remorse, and regret at leisure.
        They can look down at their nose in their hands, and consider that Winston handed them the knife.
        
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        October 6, 2023 11:04am
      - Paulus
        
        Your last sentence
        – do you mean the lovely left wing mainly feminist media who have, and are still are doing anything to drag New Zealand back to Labour, Maori and the left.
        Sells media perhaps and they expect to keep their highly paid jobs – eh Tova and your mates !
        
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        October 6, 2023 11:33am
      - NothingLeft
        
        The poisonous dwarf over 5% – yet more proof for the non-existence of a benevolent God.
        
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        October 6, 2023 1:51pm
    - pdm
      
      Gravel – Nats 44 and Labour 37 in 2017 was hardly a small margin.
      
      Peters broke all conventional protocols then and even if Labour are on 25 and the Green vote holds up I would not trust him and Hipkins not to to do it again.
      
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      October 6, 2023 9:33am
    - Fuzzysnuggleduck
      
      This scenario (NZ First going with Labour) was something that brought on a brief wave of panic as I lay in bed last night.
      A knot in my stomach, and so many otherwise intelligent people here seeming to talk up Winnie.
      
      The comment I heard (here?) about Labour getting back in would mean that Auckland airport would look like the fall of Saigon comes as a mental picture.
      
      The panic was brief, but there is something like a knot in my stomach that might continue until the election result is out.
      If Winnie goes into extended & prolonged negotiations with Labour and National after that day, I better stock up on quickeze while he contemplates what they offer him.
      Even if he went with the Nats, he is driven by ego and conflict. If he went with Labour/Green/Maori then we are ruined.
      
      I dont think we have had a more critical junction in the ideological/political/economic direction of NZ than now……and the way the wind is blowing, I smell the wafting of swing voter brain farts.
      
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      October 6, 2023 10:55am
      - Damocles11
        
        The people who whingeing about tax cuts while saying National should cut wasteful spending will see Winston come in and frustrate anything National tries to do. The public will immediately blame National for the failure to implement their policies, the bureaucrats will all remain sitting there, and we’ll get more debt, more waste, and a one term government. All because”Winston went and talked to the protestors”.
        
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        October 6, 2023 11:15am
  - miltonF
    
    IMO it’s mostly the freedom vote moving from ACT to NZF. I know because I’m one of them. I was 90% set on voting ACT, and then Seymour purged anyone with dissenting views from his party, while claiming the “vaccine” is perfectly safe and effective. Denying anyone died from the “vaccine”. Libertarian party they are not.
    
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    October 6, 2023 4:33pm
    - Ghost
      
      I don’t think people fell for his covid inquiry plans
      
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      October 6, 2023 4:36pm
- Prince
  
  The Left alliance of political parties and media are trying every trick to discredit National offering some tax relief after six years of allowing runaway inflation and static tax brackets to blow out tax revenue to an extent beyond any Socialist’s dream.
  Allowing every tax payer to keep just a little more of their earnings is apparently ‘taking money from beneficiaries to give their rich mates’.
  And advertising tax benefits of ‘up to $250 a fortnight’ is now ‘misleading’, despite every Party putting their policies in the most favourable light, often without the ‘up to’ proviso.
  ‘Free dental care…’ anyone (but only basic procedures) ?
  ”300 more police’ (many of whom will not have arrest powers) ?
  And on it goes – the most bitter, desperate campaign I can recall. Labour and their media buddies will burn New Zealand to the ground rather than yield power.
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:16am
- Benedict Yu
  
  “despite her qualifications being the same as Grant Robertson”
  
  Give me a break. You don’t need a degree in Economics to be Minister of Finance – in any country. Intelligence and an ability for rational thought – she will need those. She will have dozens of economists to advise her.
  
  Also, she was good enough to get a senior position at Fonterra and to serve on the Board of Export NZ.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:06am
  - Taieri
    
    Also, she was good enough to get a senior position at Fonterra and to serve on the Board of Export NZ
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    There’re plenty of people in senior positions that should not be there. Just look at various boards staffed entirely by the timeservers. Some of them are just sinecures, awarded for services rendered, but not always so. I worked for a company where the second most senior executive was a woman with a degree in French and Latin. She was abysmal. In every respect of the company operations. Not a clue at all, yet she was excellent at playing the office politics, which took her right to the top. Now, I have no problem with women in senior positions, providing they are competent and despite some misgivings, hope that Willis will do OK, as it is also in my interest. But will she? Very recently there’s a certain person holding the most senior position in the land. We all know the effects of that, don’t we?…
    
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    October 6, 2023 11:03am
- Dudley Quaffquaff
  
  We don’t know, and probably never will, how Grant Robertson would have done if he had been faced with the same media scrutiny, analysis and challenge of any of Labour’s fiscal policies, at any time in the last six years, as National’s policies have (rightly) been subject to during this campaign.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:17am
Jack5

First, manuka honey, and now kumara.

Would have thought kumara was a taonga, with ownership, rights, copyright, sacredness
protected under The Treaty.

But an NZ processor is using for kumara Australian “sweet potato” – presumably the same vegetable.

But talking indigenous business, Ngai Tahu has taken a $23 million loss on its honey business and is closing part of it (second link below).

Bloody colonialists, why did they bring honey bees to the country?

https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/10/05/kiwi-company-turns-to-aussies-for-kumara-supply-as-shortage-bites/

Ngai Tahu honey:

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/499451/ngai-tahu-holdings-to-close-oha-honey-operation
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October 6, 2023 8:20am
- Piniwi
  
  Now you know why they are run as a charity.
  
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  October 6, 2023 11:08am
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  The pre-European period (now an era called by wokesters as ‘Pre-colonisation’) kumara is not the same plant or varieties which we see in shops today.
  The kumara we eat today has nothing to do with the Maori gardener of 1840 or earlier – they are not therefore taonga.
  The original variety or kumara in NZ was more like a finger thick tuber, and I was told by a professional archeologist the only person that preserved them at a point in time was a Japanese enthusiast. I suppose they may have been claimed by our Maori now, but the Countdown Kumara varieties we see are much ‘Maori’ as the potato.
  
  I say all this in the interest of balance, but will note that some Maori call dogs ‘toanga’ as well, so as to dodge registration fees, but the original small Maori dug (kuri) as was found here was already noted as being extinct by the end of the 19th century.
  The kuri doesn’t seem to have even survived as genetics in any present hybrid breed. The imported European dog breeds were so much more useful that, like the hearty and dependable potato, the old versions were abandoned.
  Likely put to use, that is.
  Nom nom nom.
  As a working dog or guard dog it would have been inferior to retrievers, terriers, etc etc. It also was said the kuri did not bark. There are only these descriptions and a poorly ‘stuffed’ specimen in a museum.
  
  I have found a few kuri jawbones in very old middens, and even part of a skull, in sites dating to the archaic period – about 600 years ago.
  Tiny really, like a miniature fox terrier in size.
  
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  October 6, 2023 11:55am
oldpark

Last throw of the dice at the last chance Hotel .
There was Chris Hipkins aided and abetted by a man who does the books for CTU .Also being abetted was another guy called Grant Robertson out to attack Nationals’ Tax Policy .
Yes Robertson fresh from plunging NZ Taxpayer Liabilities to the tune of $100,000,000,000 Billion Dollars .With no apologies or beg your pardons .
The CTU so called Union Helper and the other Two, Hipkins and Robertson Cherry picked a section of Nationals’ Tax relief for families .Putting the boot into it Calling it a “Scam” seems the trio were doing the dance of the desperate with their claims .
Wonder how the other lies have played out since Labour and Ardern/Hipkins gang promise of 100,000 Houses under Kiwi Build have been built .How many?Asking for many many voters who were let down and betrayed by blatant claims that never materialized.No trust here .
The Answer to Labours’desperation.”Two Ticks Blue .”
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October 6, 2023 8:21am
Flossie

Yesterday a person stabbed at a dairy. Last night a person shot at a “gentlemen’s club”. The current government has a handle on crime, guns etc? How bad could it be if they team up with coalition partners who want to remove prisons!
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October 6, 2023 8:22am
- Bobba Fret
  
  Ginny says we all feel safer.//
  
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  October 6, 2023 12:23pm
Lee C

In a brilliant own goal, Letitia James has gifted Donald Trump free access to the MSM as the victim of a politically-motivated hoax-trial.

And the MSM which has previously tried its best to demonise or ignore Trump, is now obliged to listen to him daily describe how ‘while people are being murdered’ while the Democrats are using a show trial to pervert the Law and engage in a concerted effort to interfere with his election-campaign.

Well Done Letitia, pushing Trump up in the polls again is really going to look good on your political CV.

Within a day, even the Democrat-sympathetic Judge had to throw out 80% of the charges, giving Trump yet another moment to get on the television.
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October 6, 2023 8:24am
- bartybart
  
  They can’t help themselves, when will they realise these low level trials just boost Trump support?
  
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  October 6, 2023 8:32am
  - mawm
    
    “Blinded by hate” would probably be the best description.
    
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    October 6, 2023 1:01pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Letitia James has been hounding Trump for years.
  She may have realised that Trump is winning against her, so she eases up.
  The other day I said many are riding for a fall when Trump wins 2024.
  James is one of them.
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:25am
- thirteenstars
  
  And Trump has not said he wouldn’t accept a nomination for House Speaker or serve if elected.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:17am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Who will be the Speaker when Trump wins 2024?
    
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    October 6, 2023 5:29pm
    - Colville
      
      Is that like what will Santa bring you for Xmas?
      
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      October 6, 2023 9:49pm
- RichardX
  
  Lee C
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  Within a day, even the Democrat-sympathetic Judge had to throw out 80% of the charges, giving Trump yet another moment to get on the television.
  
  Are you sure about that claim?
  
  https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/10/03/trump-fraud-trial-judge-strikes-down-ex-presidents-claim-he-threw-out-80-of-ags-case
  
  https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/judge-smacks-down-trumps-claim-he-dismissed-80-of-new-york-fraud-case/ar-AA1hDqR7
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:54am
  - Lee C
    
    My reading Richard is that the prosecution insisted on reading out a tranche of allegations on day one which it was previously established have lapsed under the statute of limitations, and the judge had to rule them as inadmissable, this is the 80% I’m describing.
    I think time will tell on this one. Which is what teh Democrats are betting on – that Trump will have to use up lots of time when he could be continuing his election campaign. My insitnct is this will back-fire, just as teh ather attempts to neutralise him have.
    
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    October 6, 2023 2:29pm
    - RichardX
      
      Trump made a claim that was not true which you repeated.
      
      Some claims may be thrown out over the course of the trial but 80% were not thrown out on day 1.
      
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      October 6, 2023 2:47pm
Beth

Who has seen the reports showing that 11,005 people (presumably medical staff) were granted exemptions from the Covid injections? Who thinks that is fair? How did they go about choosing exactly who those people were who should get an exemption? Many who should have, were unable to, including a good friend of mine. He had an absolute allergy to one of the ingredients in it and was advise if he took the injection he would die within a few minutes. His doctor applied for an exemption for him. It was denied. This cheating revealed above needs to be called out from the rooftops, shouted all over the mainstream media. Has it been? No
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October 6, 2023 8:24am
- gravedodger
  
  Try https://nominister.wordpress.com/2023/10/05/special-people-11005-of-them/#comment-34233
  Beth, very informative indeed.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:53am
  - Master Mariner
    
    It mentions Consultants from Dunedin and medical staff from Northland.
    Consultants is a very broad term?
    Regardless, Im assuming some medical consultants etc.
    In which case, They should of been the very ones shouting from the rooftops, Not doing a secret deal and being gagged for it.
    This also raises the question, What did they know?
    Obviously MOH new more than they let on.
    This boils my blood too. Not impressed at all.
    
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    October 6, 2023 1:16pm
- Ghost
  
  For anyone that doesn’t know this story yet
  
  Secret Jab Exemptions for Healthcare Workers in New Zealand Come to Light
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:59am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    “103 applications were granted, covering approximately 11,005 workers.”
    
    That does not mean that 11,000 health care workers were not vaccinated because they were exempt. Yes it might be 11,000. Or it might be 14.
    
    If it were 11,000 we would have known about it two years ago.
    
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    October 6, 2023 5:37pm
    - kris
      
      At least 6700 according to a different OIA response:
      https://informedheart.substack.com/p/secret-exemptions-for-mandated-healthcare?r=q9aq0
      See the table half way down for a breakdown by DHB and role.
      
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      October 7, 2023 12:24am
- Keith White
  
  It’s quite late where I am working but I didn’t want to wait any longer so I splashed out on an IDD call and rang the New Zealand Medical Council to ask for their comment on this.
  
  The short answer is, Sgt Schultz* was positively garrulous compared to them (ancient Hogan’s Heroes reference).
  
  They pretended not to even know the OIA information was on the OIA website.
  
  They said they would need to “check with colleagues” but wouldn’t call back an overseas number so I switched on my New Zealand mobile and will pay the roaming charges just to see if they do actually call me back. Not holding my breath.
  
  NZMC contacts:
  Outside NZ +64 4 384 7635
  Inside NZ 0800 286 801
  Email [email protected]
  
  One of my NZ-based colleagues also called them.
  
  Good luck.
  
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  October 6, 2023 3:19pm
pdm

My recollection is that when appointed as AB Coach earlier in the year Robertson agreed to stay away from the All Black camp during the lead up to and at the World Cup.

But penalising him for attending an England v Argentina (I think) is just small minded and bloody ridiculous by New Zealand Rugby offianados.
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October 6, 2023 8:29am
- peterwn
  
  The term ’57 old farts’ comes to mind – a Lions captain (I think) called UK rugby administrators that some years ago. Given the political landscape at the time, the administrators were effectively powerless to take action and could only fume.
  
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  October 6, 2023 8:39am
  - Nookin
    
    Will Carling, I think, Peter. England’s captain
    
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    October 6, 2023 10:59am
- RoboRob
  
  The NZ rugby baord is a total failure. I dont like Foster but they way they treated him was disgusting.
  
  They should have always picked Robertson, the most successful super rugby coach ever, but for ‘reasons’ did not. They then constantly hung him out to dry in the media.
  
  To many PC people on the board and not enough talent. When the board is disgussing its female / trans / lesbian ratios you know things are broken. Check out how well that has gone for Disney, and Disney has a lot stronger support and financial backing.
  
  One things for sure NZR is certainly Micky mouse.
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:27am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    100%.
    
    Fortunately nobody really cares any more. NZ rugby is going the way of everything else in New Zimbabwe.
    
    Quotas for everything, the correct protected classes in charge, and fully sold out to a US capitalist fund.
    
    Soon to be a quaint reminder of our past, like home delivered milk, 6 o clock closing, and the ability to walk the streets safely…
    
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    October 6, 2023 10:00am
Sparrow

The reality is most of the politicians are totally unsuited to a ministerial roles they have or plan to have. Is the National party like Labour lacking people with a financial background ?
What private company would employ a CFO with a degree in English Lit I doubt it. I wrote the other day that the system is stuffed it is. Look at the calibre of MPs from all parties would you employ them ? We are being run by uni trained wokes in the public service and consultants earning millions. Wake up NZ
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October 6, 2023 8:32am
- Dudley Quaffquaff
  
  But what can be done about it, if the people who have the skills you want in a minister don’t want to go into politics?
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:20am
hmmokrightitis

Blackcaps. Wow. Onya boys. A few demons laid to rest last night, what an absolute thumping.

Will Young must be pissed off 🤣
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October 6, 2023 8:39am
goNZ1

Spot the difference ,as at 30 June 2023 –

AUSTRALIA from their ABS ” The current account balance, seasonally adjusted, fell $4,787m to a surplus of $7,721m” (AUD$ 7.7 billion)

NZ – The annual current account deficit was $29.8 billion (7.5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)) in the year ended 30 June 2023, according to figures released by Stats NZ today.

SUMMARY – the Aussies arent dumb enough to ban mining and exploration,but in NZ the eco-fundies have infiltrated govt from top to bottom and are sending us broke probably irreversibly…
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October 6, 2023 8:39am
- PeeJay
  
  And their economy is still going strong and they are still trying to lure Kiwi’s to move over – and not just teachers, tradies and police.
  
  Have a few mates being tempted to relocate – construction professionals, not tradies. One mate, just turned 50 replied to a few recruiters, get back to me in a week and I’ll let you know.
  
  Wonder if there are more like him out there with one eye on the election and the other looking at one-way tickets.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:17am
  - Taieri
    
    One mate, just turned 50 replied to a few recruiters
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    I had a couple of job offers in Oz just this week alone and I’m in my mid-60’s. Turned them down as I’m no longer interested in commuting across the Tasman.
    
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    October 6, 2023 11:07am
- Benedict Yu
  
  It is worth noting that Australia only achieved a current account surplus in the last couple of years – before that it was (about) 50 years of deficits.
  
  Both major parties in Australia are committed to oil, gas, and mining. That provides the assurance for simply astounding investment, especially in gas.
  
  The consensus forecasts are that demand for oil and gas, and perhaps even coal will keep on increasing right through to 2030.
  
  https://www.eiu.com/n/fossil-fuel-demand-to-continue-expanding-this-decade/
  
  Countries like New Zealand have signed up for major cuts in emissions by 2030. However if these forecasts are credible, global emissions can only increase through to 2030 because the world will be consuming more fossil fuels. All driven by China. China’s gas demand is expected to increase by 40 percent by 2030. It is incredible and just makes a mockery out of what New Zealand is going to do to our economy and society to meet “net zero” targets. TBH I don’t know whether reality will bite. I think that Chris Luxon is quite happy to drive New Zealand off the cliff.
  
  Those LNG tankers are going to be busy loading up in Australia.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:50am
Scooter

Was Hipkins and others in his govt also given an exemption to the vaccine? 11,000 MOH staff were given exemptions, how many others in other govt departments were also given exemptions?
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October 6, 2023 8:42am
- RoboRob
  
  I have ALWAYS wanted to know how many of the Green party members actually got the vax. My money is on < 50% but the useful idiots in our media purposefully cose to not ask.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:06am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Interesting – I think they were probably polarised. Certainly Julie Anne Genter was very, very, pro vaccination, expressing disappointment that her two young children (under 5) could not be vaccinated.
    
    “Why is the pediatric vaccine not approved / available in NZ yet? Please change the stupid process that is preventing this from happening. We’re in a massive next wave and the babies deserve protection too. ”
    
    https://twitter.com/JulieAnneGenter/status/1444874731774091266
    
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    October 6, 2023 10:55am
- Arthur Fleck
  
  It was made clear to the government workers I know that no jab = no job, and they remain very angry about the coercion.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:21am
  - RoboRob
    
    Angry enough to vote against Labour? I know of people in Wellingto very happy with the labour govt. Pay way up workload way down.
    
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    October 6, 2023 10:43am
cmm

Thank goodness there are no large cities in NZ.

Just looking at how fast the tiny city of Auckland is falling apart makes me wonder when it is going to Detroit itself.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300983973/sex-worker-shaken-and-scared-after-person-shot-at-auckland-brothel
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October 6, 2023 8:44am
- Che Guava
  
  It’s not the size of the city as such, it’s how the city is run and the kind of people in it. Huge cities in China are very safe because the laws are properly enforced and the consequences for breaking them are harsh, similarly Singapore or the UAE. Detroit is the way it is largely because many of the White people left and now a high proportion of minorities administer a city with a high proportion of anti-social and dysfunctional other minority residents.
  
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  October 6, 2023 8:58am
- youcanthandlethetruth
  
  Just a little bit more kindness and she’ll be right.
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:00am
- Rusty
  
  cmm
  
  If Auckland’s a tiny city then what does that make Wellington and Christchurch?
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:26am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    One horse towns?
    
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    October 6, 2023 10:13am
  - Drone
    
    Close to dereliction if you dare to wander the streets. I’m not sure if the decline of Detroit can be compared to the decline of Wellington over the last 20ish years, from vibrancy to decay in two decades maybe Nicky Hager can do an expose. I can remember the street car races, multiple cinemas, free car parking, rugy 7s at the stadium, shops not boarded up, streets without camping beggars, and a time before LGWM. Just saying..
    
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    October 6, 2023 10:53am
  - cmm
    
    Auckland is a tiny city. It doesn’t even make the top 500 in the world (by size).
    
    Yes, Christchurch and elsewhere are smaller, but standing next to short people doesn’t make you taller.
    
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    October 6, 2023 1:06pm
    - amospicton
      
      As an interesting aside (not relevant to the point) Auckland is in the top 10 worldwide in terms of area. It does explain why public transport is always going to struggle to pay its way though.
      
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      October 6, 2023 2:01pm
- RoboRob
  
  Funny how all around the world cities and countries run by ‘progressives’ have implemented a light on crime agenda and just coincidentally crime has sky rocketed. Could it be that, like printing money, this is a failed policy?
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:31am
  - Che Guava
    
    “…implemented a light on crime agenda and just coincidentally crime has sky rocketed.”
    
    See my comment above. They aren’t necessarily light on crime per se, they are very particularly light on crime when it is committed by “marginalised” minorities, who also happen to be the disproportionate committers of crime to start with.
    
    Essentially, crime is seen as OK (and even justified as a form of reparations) if certain people are doing it. In fact, there is a sense that Whitey is getting his comeuppance if he is a victim of non–White criminality. Looked at this way, not everyone considers that the rampant crime problem is a problem at all. It’s actually justice on a cosmic level.
    
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    October 6, 2023 11:12am
    - miltonF
      
      “Social” justice
      
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      October 6, 2023 4:48pm
- Over Taxed Worker
  
  Isn’t that the same street where Chris Hipkins was staying last night?
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:46am
- kowtow
  
  “She was so scared … she wanted to eat but couldn’t eat.”
  
  She’d no appetite for another sausage……
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:50am
Rusty

What was wrong with David Seymour last night during the minor parties debate on TVNZ?

He constantly interrupted James Shaw when he was speaking and at one stage called him James Off-Shore because he spent so much time out of the country.

I don’t agree with James Shaw’s policies but he didn’t deserve to be treated like that by Seymour.
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October 6, 2023 8:45am
- kowtow
  
  From the applause given to the hat wearing moron and the larfs that Shaw’s ripostes got , I’d say that was a stacked audience .
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:53am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    The audiences are always stacked.
    Debate by video with the moderator controlling the mics would be the way to go. Then each gets to speak their message without being interupted.
    
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    October 6, 2023 10:19am
Ehlana

TV3 this morning were calling it a “gentleman’s club”. Since prostitution is now legal, I wonder why.
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October 6, 2023 8:52am
- graham
  
  Trying to imbue it with a sense of respectability it doesn’t deserve?
  
  Funny how people will try to pretend that certain things are “right” and “proper” and “acceptable” in today’s society … but when all’s said and done, a brothel still sounds rather seedy. So the talking heads try to delicately smarten it up.
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:13am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “Whorehouse” is a bit unkind?
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:31am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    A maison close – or is that too upmarket for Vincent St?
    
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    October 6, 2023 9:59am
- Damocles11
  
  ‘Den of Iniquity’, innit.
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:33am
  - Groggy
    
    Isn’t that Parliament?
    
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    October 6, 2023 11:44am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Wonder how Jamie-Lee Ross is going with his venture?
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:46am
- cmm
  
  Perhaps they provide services beyond just wham bam thank you mam?
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:48am
Michael J Baker

11,000 New Zealand healthcare workers got vaccine exemptions. 11,000!!!
The OIA response letter from Te Whatu Ora is linked below. It’s dated 02 August 2023. (I have no reason to believe it’s fake. There’s ongoing correspondence and I’d assume Te Whatu Ora would have lawyered up by now if this was fake).
There’s also a suggestion these people were gagged to not say anything – though I’ve not seen evidence for that claim.
So here’s a couple of questions:
1. Wasn’t one of the main reasons we had to be vaxxed to protect the health system? And if we didn’t we were bad Kiwis. Yet at the heart of NZ’s response to COVD Hipkins/Bloomfield permitted 11,000 unvaccinated workers.
2. Who else got exemptions?

https://newzealanddoc.substack.com/p/secret-jab-exemptions-for-healthcare
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October 6, 2023 8:53am
- Gravyman2
  
  It’s pure bullshit. I’ve worked in NZ hospitals for more than 35 years. EVERY doctor currently working in an NZ hospital is vaccinated and not just against COVID. Your vaccination record is linked to your NHI. There’s no faking it.
  During the pandemic if you didn’t vaccinate you were mandated out. The idea that 11000 doctors were unvaccinated and working is simply not credible.
  There are very significant problems with the story. NO sources other than “somebody told me”; 95 consultants in Dunedin would mean all of them and more; “secret gagging orders” that no one has seen; the premise that 11000 people didn’t talk to anyone about this for more than 2 years, and the fact that none of us are actually employed by the MOH.
  This is pure disinformation designed around the premise that doctors knew about problems with the vaccine and somehow conspired to pretend they were vaccinated when they weren’t (which is just pure paranoid fantasy)
  The real story here is who is disseminating this and why?
  
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  October 6, 2023 2:30pm
  - miltonF
    
    This has been one of the issues with people supporting the govt Covid response.
    
    The lies are so big and so absurd, that people struggle to comprehend and accept them.
    
    It puts people in a precarious situation where they either have to deny everything, or accept that the reality they thought they lived in was a carefully fabricated perception based on a litany of lies.
    
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    October 6, 2023 5:03pm
  - Master Mariner
    
    The OIA request is mis information?
    Seriously.
    I sincerely hope you are right but not by the looks of it .
    
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    October 6, 2023 6:47pm
  - Ghost
    
    What a load of claptrap are you claiming Te Whatu Ora are liars
    
    From 13 November 2021 to 26 September 2022, a total of 478 applications for Significant Service
    Disruption exemption (SSD) were received. 103 applications were granted, covering approximately
    11,005 workers.
    
    That comment is made by. Matt Hannant, Interim Director, Prevention, National Public Health Service
    Te Whatu Ora – Health New Zealand
    
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    October 6, 2023 6:52pm
Tricati

I watched a small portion of the minor parties leaders debate last night (couldn’t stomach watching it all), and from what I saw came to the conclusion, Rawiri Waititi is a racist/dangerous individual and Labour are welcome to him as a partner, Seymour was just petulant and came across as obnoxious so will have done ACT no good, or National for that matter, Peters was his belligerent self and couldn’t answer any in-depth question and his petty interaction with Seymour (and vice versa) was nauseating, and James Shaw came across as the most sensible and on point of all of them – Pity he’s in a party wanting to wreck NZ.
I, like many of my neighbour’s, are heartily sick of this election campaign and all the MSM generated BS and bias, and just can’t wait for 14th when it will be over.
Wife & I are voting this morning so thankfully won’t be interested in the last ‘leaders Debate’ as it’s becoming a circus.
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October 6, 2023 8:54am
- kowtow
  
  When that racist was talking I noticed Tame’s head nodding like one of those car dog thingy’s .
  
  Very odd, openly siding with an extremist esp in his position .
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:57am
imalwaysright

Just after 7am on tv1 I saw John Tamihere saying that during one of the alleged home invasions of his candidate there were 5 pairs of new Air Jordans on the premises.

He said the fact that these weren’t stolen proves it wasn’t Maoris .

What a racist thing to say.

By the way, who has 5 boxes of brand new Air Jordans sitting around.
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October 6, 2023 8:58am
- Ghost
  
  Read Chris bishops statement on it https://www.facebook.com/ChrisBishopMP/
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:49am
- Bernard Black
  
  I have said it before but I will say it again.
  I have some very good hi tech cameras outside my home.
  When armed they immediately send an alert to my phone if they detect a human shape and begin recording.
  Total cost for 2 cameras and base station $400
  If they can afford all those air Jordans then why can’t they afford some cameras and get some hard evidence.
  It sounds like a load of BS to me.
  
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  October 6, 2023 11:27am
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    Its a Jussie Smollet thing, for sure.
    
    After talks of ram raids, racism, and threatening notes all connected to the National party, the police statement popped that balloon.
    And Tamihere and co. are not happy.
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/police-respond-to-hana-rawhiti-maipi-clarkes-investigation/KGJAYA3KNZG6TJF3J4E6NKUR3Q/
    
    Nothing believed to be racially motivated, and sounds like a theft of a political billboard is just par for the course with a number of different parties ones treated the same locally.
    The only other thing is a man was trespassed, who apparently went to speak with her but found she wasn’t home.
    “Ram-raided, a burglary, a threatening letter” – all are gross distortions and exaggeration and fantasy.
    Kind of sums up the Te Pati Maori vision of the world in every other way.
    
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    October 6, 2023 12:24pm
Tom Hunter

I did laugh at the following political advice that turned up in a debate from 2015 between Boris Johnson and academic Mary Beard about which was a better civilisation, Greece or Rome.

I’ve timed it to the sequence where Quintus’s advice to his more famous brother Marcus Cicero, on how to win an election, is read out.

How to win an election – in 64BC
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October 6, 2023 8:59am
- thirteenstars
  
  Roman used cart salesmen were given the same advice.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:21am
slightlyrighty

I see Tamahere’s narrative of a candidate being subjected to a home invasion by a national supporter is falling apart somewhat…

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/10/election-2023-man-accused-by-te-p-ti-m-ori-of-unlawfully-entering-candidate-s-home-says-he-s-innocent-wanted-to-wish-her-well.html
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October 6, 2023 8:59am
Maggie Pie

TRENDING 😀

It looks like Justin Trudeau may have inadvertantly leaked his password on ‘X’….

https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1709728393221009527
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October 6, 2023 9:02am
- imalwaysright
  
  M,
  
  I thought it was Fidel1971
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:07am
Tomtoddy

I don’t like some of ACT’s positions on moral issues.
I don’t like it that ACT leaders didn’t hang in on the anti-mandate stuff.
I don’t like some of the bluster and arrogance of ACT’s leader.
I don’t like the weak look to some of ACT’s top team.
I don’t like ACT’s statements about working with National and NZFirst.
BUT they are getting my party vote because they are the only party with a sensible, positive plan for the economy and that overrides everything else.
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October 6, 2023 9:02am
- Swifty
  
  I vote for the party that best fits with my values and my beliefs of what this country requires.
  
  The best fit – not the perfect fit as that is unachievable.
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:10am
- k1w1
  
  100%, TT. They get one chance from me this time. But if that hubris from Seymour remains (or gets any larger), it’ll the the last time.
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:21am
- Guy Preston
  
  I’m reluctantly resigning myself to the same position, Tt. There simply isn’t anyone better placed to a) be in parliament and b) make the changes the economy and country need.
  
  But, ACT have to be on notice and can’t pull a Winston, or the chances of them having influence in the future may be severely curtailed….
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:29am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  I go along with that. Party Vote Act is not holding your nose, it is keeping Winston out of the picture. He will never be forgiven for giving power the the commie Ardern.
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:37am
- kowtow
  
  and the constitution.
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:59am
- thirteenstars
  
  Indeed.
  
  ACT’s education policy alone is worth the price of admission and since National lacks the grit to truly reform education anyone not keen to be eaten alive at some future date by the output of the indoctrination centres and narcissism factories formerly known as a public schools should give ACT their vote.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:28am
- Benedict Yu
  
  What are the “moral issues” that concern you?
  
  “Your morals are your ideas about right and wrong, especially how you should act and treat other people. Most people would agree that thieves, murderers, and other criminals are lacking morals.”
  
  https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/morals#:~:text=Your%20morals%20are%20your%20ideas,use%20some%20morals%20as%20well.
  
  What are they doing that I don’t know about?
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:59am
  - lifesgood
    
    Agreeing to kill babies and sick people.
    
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    October 6, 2023 11:23am
    - Benedict Yu
      
      Women have been having abortions since there were women.
      
      You really think a New Zealand Government is going to outlaw abortion? We would join about 20 countries globally that outlaw abortion, including Egypt, Senegal, Gabon, Madagascar and Mauritania, Suriname, Nicaragua, and El Salvador.
      
      https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2022/06/24/right-to-abortion-in-which-countries-is-it-banned-restricted-or-threatened_5987907_4.html
      
      There is no developed country in which abortion is illegal. (Yes I am putting the USA in a special category – there is nothing stopping a woman seeking an abortion travelling to a state where it is legal.)
      
      The good thing is that the abortion rate in New Zealand has declined dramatically over the last 15 years particularly in teenagers. So let’s adopt policies to keep that trend going.
      
      As for “killing sick people”, yeah right. The Government kills sick people. How absurd is that statement.
      
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      October 6, 2023 1:55pm
      - ISeeRed
        
        The Government kills sick people. How absurd is that statement.
        
        From Covid we have learned:
        1. The Government will mandate experimental medical interventions that may kill people.
        2. The Government will allow or cause sick people to die e.g. delayed cancer diagnoses and treatments.
        
        In 2018, the above statements would have been considered “absurd”.
        
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        October 6, 2023 2:21pm
      - Guy Preston
        
        Nice attempt to shame by association there BY.
        if thats ok, I guess we can say you’re cool with babies being ripped apart in-utero?
        https://youtu.be/A16gzm9eaa8?si=wu2xw2afT2PcDRKx
        
        No?… didn’t think so.
        
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        October 6, 2023 2:29pm
  - Guy Preston
    
    That would be the premature cessation of life function at either end of the lifespan continuum.
    
    Libertarians are of course free to pursue whatever policy is commensurate with their philosophy, just don’t be surprised when people who agree with a lot of your other positions find it a pill that’s just too hard to swallow…
    
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    October 6, 2023 11:31am
- Grunter
  
  I gave ACT my 2 ticks yesterday (candidate vote for anyone in my electorate is a total waste of time but…)
  
  I’ve always voted ACT, but this time around they got my vote almost by default because the rest are so hopelessly left of centre or completely bonkers.
  
  Historical ACT policies that were their bedrock have now disappeared, which I’m pissed off about – but again, no one else to vote for. The original ACT platform of funding each individual for health, education, welfare and retirement, combined with a savings based approach to these crucial functions (read up on Sir Roger Douglas for details) made total sense IMO. But these policies proved to be ‘unelectable’ after ACT tried in several elections.
  
  My hope is that these policies will be dusted off sometime in the future. And ultimately the current bollocks system of tax & debt and big govt spending will die anyway (basic maths will kick in within the next 20 years).
  
  The entire ‘western’ version of socialism that we now have is about to collapse under a mountain of Global Debt with the rising tide of interest rates. It is impossible for it to survive unless mathematics as an idea is suddenly proven to be wrong! No form of socialism has ever worked and it never will work.
  
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  October 6, 2023 11:03am
  - ISeeRed
    
    Loved Unfinished Business and grew up during Rogernomics. Will be a sad day for me when Sir Roger Douglas passes on.
    
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    October 6, 2023 2:22pm
Warren

Te Pati Maori have lost any respect people would have had for them with their accusations about Graham Gun, the guy is a legend in Huntly and does not have a racial bone in his body.
The man goes out of his way to help people and as a business man does a lot for the Community and Families that live here, so he has signs on his corner property promoting National but that doesn’t make him a criminal like Te Pati Maori President and Party have made out and won’t change my view on what has happened here also.
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October 6, 2023 9:09am
- ISeeRed
  
  Calling them “Te Pati Maori” is entering their frame. I call them the Maori Party, because I communicate in English.
  
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  October 6, 2023 2:24pm
Suze Wainwright

Did the New Windsor dairy stabbing story fall from prominence fairly quickly?

Should we focus more on a shooting at an establishment that would clearly have been full of misogynists?
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October 6, 2023 9:12am
- imalwaysright
  
  Suze,
  
  And so did the stabbing of the four people at a bus stop in Auckland .
  
  In the old days , if the perpetrator was the right demographic, our esteemed leader would have hoofed it to the site to be photographed amongst the bloodstains .
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:16am
- Bevan
  
  Is having a root misogynist now? I can’t keep up.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:32am
Maggy Wassilieff

So no ram-raid on Maori Party Candidate’s Home…and her house invasion appears to be a neighbour coming over for a kōrero.

https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2023/10/05/not-a-ram-raid-not-racially-motivated-police-rebut-te-pati-maori-complaints/
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October 6, 2023 9:16am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Thank Tane that JT the Muss was there to sort things out
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:19am
- gravedodger
  
  Yes Maggy but the notion National is in it for them will remain for most who randomly come in contact with the original Miss/Disinformation.
  That was the intention all along.
  Mr Tamihere is a crook in many ways never revealed.
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:22am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  The Maori Party seems to have assumed that all of the reported incidents are linked; the unquestioning media have not, well, questioned this assumption.
  
  No evidence has been offered to back this assumption and to me it seems unlikely.
  
  A less charitable person than myself might suggest that John Tamihere is on this occasion being somewhat paranoid.
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:28am
- rouppe
  
  What I noticed is that the eyes both John Tamihere and the Maori party campaign chair slid to the side as they were making their accusations.
  
  That’s a tell.
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:32am
- Gravelroad
  
  If this candidate happened to find herself appointed as an MP in the coming weeks, how on earth would she cope with life in Parliament where people can be mean and challenging?
  And don’t agree with all your views.
  And you have to talk with a lot of people you don’t like. And go to boring meetings.
  And all the raaaacism?
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:34am
  - Damocles11
    
    She’s being lead around by the nose by the vile John Tamihere. He is full up to the brim with malice & hate.
    
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    October 6, 2023 9:35am
    - Nickc2
      
      He is full up to the brim with malice & hate and other people’s money!
      
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      October 6, 2023 9:59am
- Damocles11
  
  The evil John Tamihere decided to use the old gent as a pawn in his sick game.
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:34am
  - Nickc2
    
    The old fella should sue Tamihere for all he’s got because the seeds of doubt and misdeed have been sewn.
    Oops, I forgot, Tamihere’s only got other people’s money.
    How about a Jail term for the lying, pompous, racist bastard?
    
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    October 6, 2023 2:59pm
- Burtland
  
  how many days in the news?
  – any press is good press
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:38am
- RoboRob
  
  I read, essentially the same article on newshub yesterday. This to me is one of the major problems with the media in NZ. They leave out the important details in stories for you to guess what really happened.
  
  Instead of saying, ‘a Mungrel Mob member knifed a female shopper in Countdown Dunedin’, they say ‘a tatooed man knifed a shopper in a Dunedin super market’. Its then up to the reader to try and guess what really happened. In the example above I guessed he was a gang member and it wasn’t until months later when a photo was released I confirmed he was (by his patches).
  
  In the house invasion story you reference their is clearly something else going on here. I cant work it out from the details so I am left guessing. My guesses are the following…
  
  1) This is a disgruntled ex partner
  2) This is a family member and its somesort of family issue
  3) This is a local gang member and the media dont want to use the gang word
  4) This was a neighbour wanting to complain about something.
  
  Who knows, certainly the police and the journalists do but they aren’t letting on. Makes one wonder why we have a media.
  
  Also will add this is horrible treatment of Nat / Act by TPM and Labour. Both should be forced to apologise for smearing the right when they likely knew it was nothing of the sort.
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:40am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Pretty sure this is a political stunt.
  First there was nobody home, then the ‘husband’ was home, then she was also home but asleep. Then the ‘husband’ follows the old guy and sees National hoardings at his house. Still nor passing the sniff test.
  JT on the idiot box this morning was very nervous but careful to get his version of the story right. Not very often we see JT like that.
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:44am
- imalwaysright
  
  M,
  
  The only ramraiders who leave stuff behind perhaps .
  
  J T said this morning that subsequent burglars/ terrorists /white supremacists/ or wellwishing neighbour, ignored 5 boxes of Air Jordans that were on site.
  
  That proves it wasn’t maoris, he beamed.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:20am
  - RoboRob
    
    5 boxes of Air Jordans….. Is she a fence for stolen goods?
    
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    October 6, 2023 11:10am
    - imalwaysright
      
      Rob
      
      Maybe uncle John can enlighten us.
      He seems to know all the ins and outs and the burglaries and the ramraids.
      
      Sounds well moody.
      
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      October 6, 2023 12:09pm
Frederick

I have just recently came back to NZ from a lengthy overseas holiday. I have been following the election campaign via Kiwiblog and the occasional Newstalk ZB podcast. Occasionally I heard the odd reference to TV coverage and I assume the usual One/Newshub bias in place.
Anyway last night I made the mistake of watching Newshub news. To my absolute amazement the headline was about some elderly National party supporter (whether he was a National party member was not revealed) who had visited a Te Pati maori candidate’s house. Perhaps if he was a senior party official or he had come round with a baseball bat there might be a smidgen of interest in the story. As it was he seemed an amiable old codger and not a fanatical deranged racist. How this makes the news let alone headline can only be put down as a desperate Newshub attempt to smear the Nats. Any other party and it just wouldn’t be news,
Then the next item. The absolutely odious Jenna Lynch full of vile and sarcasm with yet another hatchet job on Nationals tax plan. It was clear she was doing her utmost to portray the Nat’s in the most negative light possible.
Next item which should have been the headline and reflects modern day NZ – a violent dairy robbery.
At this point I headed for the sanctity of Trackside!
We are so poorly served by our TV media. They are biased, seem incapable of engaging in weighty matters such as the economy, educational outcomes, infrastructure, health system etc. It seems they are more interested in scrolling through Social media accounts (only National and ACT of course) looking for dirt.
Watching news from overseas the news was always about major issues – economy (even macroeconomics), trade, infrastructure, health, system failures, education. They obviously treat the viewer with a little more respect for their intelligence.
Newshub is appalling and Jenna Lynch and before her Tova O’Brien represent the worst in journalism. Still I have learnt my lesson – I might watch Newshub once more time this year – October 15 if the results go as I want- just to see the look on Jenna’s face.
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October 6, 2023 9:18am
- Mrs_Right
  
  I’m sick to death hearing about Nat’s tax policy!
  
  Does the media really think this is people’s biggest concern? Whether some will get a tax cut after the election? Talk about tunnel vision.
  
  And don’t get me started about Jenna Lynch. She is mediocre at best. This is why I don’t watch Newshub anymore. It’s no better on the other channel.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:14am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    That is why rational folk hate election campaigns. It is all about catching your opponent in some grave error “Your numbers don’t add up!!!!”.
    
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    October 6, 2023 11:02am
    - RoboRob
      
      I think in this case the continued attacks on the Nats tax policy are actually unintentionally working FOR National. All people hear about is Nationals tax policy. Sure they are negative but National couldn’t have gotten word out better.
      
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      October 6, 2023 11:13am
  - Paulus
    
    Lynch when she puts forward her standard left wing political views appears to be shaking with ecstatic delight at what she is saying.
    Isn’t she in a “relationship” with a senior in a political party – no, not National of course.
    
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    October 6, 2023 1:43pm
    - Mrs_Right
      
      Someone high up in Act?
      
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      October 6, 2023 4:02pm
- Grunter
  
  Frederick – seriously, please just turn it off (all MSM). And don’t read Stuffed, or any of the daily’s…. They are all just left wing propaganda, can’t trust any of it. It will poison your brain with BS, at best it will make you grumpy.
  
  Some time soon they will all wether and die, which is what they all deserve.
  
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  October 6, 2023 11:10am
  - Frederick
    
    I agree. I used to watch One news and Newshub and the coverage was so annoying that I would be irritable for the rest of the evening. I’ve desisted for some time but I thought there might be a new poll hence why I tuned into Newshub and then my mouth was agape at the staggering inanity of the news.
    Even Simon Dallow whose just meant to read the bloody news puts as much negative inflection as he possibly can when it’s a negative National/Act story.
    Best to stick to Kiwiblog and I must say Mike Hosking, HDPA, Barry Soper and Kerry Woodham on Newstalk ZB provide bloody good commentary on this miserable excuse of a government.
    
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    October 6, 2023 12:19pm
  - Paulus
    
    I thought that the Taxpayer Propaganda payments to the media had cease but from looking at who and where articles come from it obviously still carries on.
    Hope it will cease as soon as a new Government gets in.
    
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    October 6, 2023 1:46pm
emmess

The government is rich but the people are poor.
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October 6, 2023 9:19am
cmm

The worst part of this was the reporting trying to join the dots between the friendly old bloke served with a trespass notice and all the alleged home invasion stuff.

Since most people tend to only read headlines it is quite likely that the average reader thinks that is what happened.

My 50 cents and a servo pie say this was a Smollet.
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October 6, 2023 9:30am
- kiwikidsnz
  
  Tamihere was all over the place joining the dots for the gullible, he’s keeping strangely quiet since the Police statement yesterday.
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:36am
- RoboRob
  
  Lol, just posted the same above
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:41am
ClanMcleod

The evidence of the lies, fraud and deception of the whole covid scam was always going to come out.

First as a trickle, but not a day now passes without another piece of horrific information coming out.
Even though the trials were a sham, it turns out what was used in the trials wasn’t the same as what was rolled out to the public.

In Sonia Elijah’s 28-minute interview with Joshua Guetzkow, senior lecturer at Hebrew University, he discusses how Pfizer/BioNTech’s biological product injected into the arms of billions, was not the same one used in Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine clinical trial. There’s been a “bait-and-switch”….

In the interview, Guetzkow also refers to the fact how the regulators were aware of the drop in the RNA integrity of the commercial batches of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, compared to the clinical ones but simply lowered the standard just before emergency use authorisation was granted. In June 2022, I investigated the leaked European Medicines Agency emails which exposed this scandal in my original 2-part report for Trial Site News, which can be read here.

https://vigilantnews.com/post/pfizer-biontechs-bait-and-switch
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October 6, 2023 9:33am
- ClanMcleod
  
  7 downticks, probably from the assholes at the MoH who got an exemption to the jabs while forcing it on their fellow citizens. Nice. Team of 5 million? GF
  
  To quote Roger Waters “Each man has his price Bob, and yours was pretty low……”
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enTETL9XowA
  
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  October 6, 2023 4:09pm
- Master Mariner
  
  What caight my eye was the pfeizer employees had special vaccines just for them? Why.
  
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  October 6, 2023 7:02pm
Yvette

Police had investigated a report of an alleged burglary and receipt of a threatening note and they had been unable to establish any criminality, although inquiries were continuing.

So, what does “threatening note” say?
Honesty, integrity and transparency, anyone?
________________

If Marama Davidson, being of course the cp-leader of the Greens, had represented her party in last evening’s debate, all four parties appearing would have had leaders of Maori descent
A majority of the minorities
As they say: just saying :o)
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October 6, 2023 9:38am
- OlderChas
  
  Re the ‘threatening note’ Yvette – I understand that it was ‘lost’ and no one can remember what it said.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:40am
Maggie Pie

‘WORKING FOR OTHER PEOPLES FAMILIES’

They’re quite fortunate our taxes aren’t needed elsewhere, for say things like more nurses and doctors, or upgrading Auckland’s failing water infrastructure.

https://twitter.com/NZStuff/status/1709742855173083417
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October 6, 2023 9:43am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  The family came from Syria 7 years ago and are now proud NZ Citizens.
  How does that work? I thought it was 10 years before you could apply.
  The Father can’t work because of his medical condition? Why are they here?
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:51am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    My fave comment….”They need to stop rooting”
    
    LOL!!
    
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    October 6, 2023 9:58am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      But was the Father’s medical condition known before they came to NZ? Who signed the Immigration Papers?
      
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      October 6, 2023 10:05am
      - Sacha
        
        Seven years ago New Zealand was a fairly comfortable place to live, and refugees were allowed some latitude in health status, so it is quite possible that he qualified.
        Perhaps living the good life added to his weight problems and I know a couple of born-and-bred Kiwis who have put on significant weight after losing their jobs and being locked down – depression will do that to a person.
        
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        October 6, 2023 11:16am
  - Taieri
    
    I thought it was 10 years before you could apply.
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    5 years after receiving residency permit.
    
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    October 6, 2023 11:12am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Thankyou. I was wrong.
      
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      October 6, 2023 12:04pm
- Fuzzysnuggleduck
  
  “The 46-year-old along with his wife have medical issues which they say prevent them from working and they can’t afford to rent privately.
  
  “I have eight children and the rent is too high,” Al Assi said. “I have a big family. What can I do? Of course, I’d love to work, but I can’t.” ”
  
  This is one for those ‘refugees enrich and contribute to the host country’ case studies.
  
  Send them home. I don’t Assad will be on the look out for them, if they returned.
  
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  October 6, 2023 3:15pm
Burtland

RNZ this morning … the narrative continues

New Zealand’s Covid-19 response saved 20,000 lives – research

The paper by 16 leading doctors and scientists, published in the New Zealand Medical Journal on Friday, is calling for all serious respiratory infections – including influenza and RSV – to be treated the same way.

Lead author and Otago University public health professor Michael Baker said it was a “strange paradox” of preventative medicine that its success could work against it in people’s minds.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/499516/new-zealand-s-covid-19-response-saved-20-000-lives-research
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October 6, 2023 9:43am
- ClanMcleod
  
  Baker should be on criminal charges. At a minimum, he should be sacked.
  Along with a number of other liars and fraudsters involved in this total disaster of epic proportions.
  Ardern, Hipkins, Bloomfield, Verrall, Wiles, Hendy, Rod Jackson, Michael Plank, I’m sure there are plenty of others.
  
  Remind yourself one more time what a proven liar Baker is.
  
  https://rumble.com/v1cjmox-july-16-2022.html
  
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  October 6, 2023 9:54am
- NothingLeft
  
  Saved 20000 lives? Like fuck it did. By start of ’22 NZ had about 1500-2500/million lower excess deaths than most of OECD that hadn’t eliminated Covid. Ie saved about 10000.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:00am
  - NothingLeft
    
    Adding a couple of years life to 10000 (mostly very elderly) people for a bill of $100billion. amounts to several million dollars per ‘quality of life year’ or QALY is 10-100x what Pharmac is willing to pay for life-saving medicines.
    
    And of course screwed up a huge number of lives.
    
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    October 6, 2023 10:13am
    - ISeeRed
      
      You want dying people to die. You MONSTER.
      
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      October 6, 2023 2:26pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      I value life as much as anyone, no matter the age, but the average age of death from covid is higher than the normal average age of death.
      
      The vast majority of those who died had major comorbidities that a bad bout of regular flu would have caused the same outcome. They died WITH covid, not FROM covid. We are talking a few months for most of them.
      
      Meanwhile, excess all cause mortality is running at 15% above normal. People are dying ‘suddenly’ from something and it correlates with the jab. The negative impacts of lockdowns, missed medical diagnoses, mental health problems due to relationship and financial problems, these will have some bearing on the increase, but the bulk of it will be down to the jabs.
      
      But nobody in government wants to investigate why.
      They spent billions ‘protecting’ a few near death people, bombarded us with propaganda to tell us just how ‘deadly’ it was when it clearly and provably wasn’t.
      Now there actually is a serious health crisis and nobody wants to know what is causing it?
      
      Of course, with up to 14% of the MoH secretly having been exempted from getting this poison (and who knows which other government employees got a similar deal) it’s probably no wonder the chair polishers don’t want this discussed.
      
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      October 6, 2023 4:22pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “More than 3000 New Zealanders have died from Covid-19, and it is on track to kill 1000 people this year, making it the country’s most deadly infectious disease at the moment.”
  That is all a lie. It is worded wrong. 3000 died ‘with’ Covid not ‘from.’
  The names that Clan mentions are all fraudsters – liars.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:01am
  - GJM
    
    Yes, the con became hard to hide when a person shot in his driveway “died of covid”.
    Didn’t they also change the definition very quietly once the vax was rolled out, so you couldn’t do simple comparisons, or rather the headlines if you do supported the narrative.
    
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    October 6, 2023 10:46am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      My ex-wife’s sister moved from Hospital to an aged care center. She was 51 I think.
      Found deceased in the morning and taken to the crematorium. Family not allowed in the property to pay last respects. She had Covid, but in reality she died from throat Cancer that she had been battling for 12 years.
      Listed as a Covid death – so wrong.
      
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      October 6, 2023 12:15pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      GJM – anyone who died within 2 weeks of getting jabbed is deemed to be ‘unvaccinated’. Most who died with a positive test, died WITH covid, not from it.
      In many cases, as per the driveway shooting, the covid positive status was a box ticking exercise, and of course never forget, the tests are ridiculously unreliable and the inventor of the PCR test, Kary Mullins, said they should NEVER be used as a diagnostic tool for disease.
      
      According to a nurse I spoke to in hospital when I was getting a procedure, they are less than 50% accurate. He wanted to test me before seeing the Doc. I asked the accuracy. When he told me that I said I wasn’t having it and if it was a problem I would go home.
      Doctor saw me and treated me without even wearing a mask.
      Deadly disease? Yeah nah.
      
      The whole numbers were distorted quite deliberately to support the narrative. It’s a story that is rapidly unravelling.
      
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      October 6, 2023 4:29pm
- imalwaysright
  
  May as well say they saved 6 million lives. Same absence of proof.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:25am
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    The mRNA vaccine has been 100% effective in preventing bear attacks (all types of bear) in the last 12 months.
    At least 80,000 lives saved.
    Shaun Hendy has the modelling, at a nominal $$ fee.
    
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    October 6, 2023 3:20pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Six million dollars to be precise.
      
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/analysis-government-has-paid-6m-to-one-firm-for-covid-modelling/IVV7GMBX7Q2MS7Y2TTJMV6LW3Y/
      
      What a joke. Pay for bs to support a bs narrative.
      The country has been scammed and Baker wants to do it all again. He should be in jail.
      
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      October 6, 2023 4:35pm
- Yvette
  
  While the intergenerational communities of Italy, France and the Hawaiian/ Pacific Island people in Los Angeles suffered severe impacts from covid, New Zealand remained isolated from Beta and Delta and opened its borders to the apparently less severe Omicron. New Zealand’s response was more intuitive and impulsive than logically hard, and rather than quick, it took over 50 days to do the first 1,000 swab tests – so a response that was neither hard nor quick – and overall just plain fucking lucky.
  
  “One of our critical advisers through this, who’s from the science community, mentioned to me the other day that on their calculation, give or take possibly 5000 people have been saved by what we had done,” she said.
  “So in those moments, I think of that. Now those 5000 people, they don’t know who they are. “They don’t know that it was them that has been potentially protected by these measures. But I just keep that in my mind. It’s been hard but the flipside would have been even more painful.”
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/03/prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-says-she-can-see-the-light-as-new-zealand-deals-with-wicked-perfect-storm-cost-of-living-crisis.html
  
  So it goes from “possibly 5000 people have been saved“ to 5000 were saved, to now 20,000.
  What will it be and a weeks time?
  
  Funny that Baker’s research is announced just days before the Election
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:26am
  - Yvette
    
    And apparently there is no truth in this story that on his way to his first protest picnic in the park, or Auckland Domain, Brian Tamaki stopped by a Countdown supermarket and used Hannah’s One Card to purchase 5000 loaves of bread and 833 six-packs of Birdseye lemon and pepper crumb fish
    
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    October 6, 2023 10:42am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    It’s all lies and propaganda. None of those figures are remotely true. Even those original variants were not as dangerous as implied.
    The Infection Fatality Rate was 0.18%, nothing remarkable.
    The high levels of death in many areas were down to terrible choices in how they responded to covid.
    
    Intubation being just one such intervention that killed people.
    
    Moving elderly out of hospitals and into residential care homes to make way for the ‘waves of dying’ overwhelming them. Turning rest homes into death traps.
    
    The use of Midazolam in the UK was off the charts, elderly there were being euthanaised.
    
    As for Baker, he is a proven liar. Here is the evidence.
    
    https://rumble.com/v1cjmox-july-16-2022.html
    
    He barefaced lies again in the Whoreald article claiming NZ was less stringent than Sweden!!
    
    “Remarkably, New Zealand has achieved this outcome with a relatively low level of restrictions, with the average stringency of control measures being lower here than in other high-income countries such as Sweden.”
    
    He is taking the piss now. Even he knows that is a complete fabrication.
    
    And never forget this tyrant’s words. A horror show. Remind yourself just how evil she was.
    
    “Very soon, you won’t be able to do many things that you love without being vaccinated, and I expect that will accelerate vaccinations, that is certainly our goal.” ~ Brought to you by Pfizer.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccc8ke7KANQ
    
    Never forget.
    
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    October 6, 2023 11:07am
    - Sacha
      
      We won’t.
      
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      October 6, 2023 11:19am
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    As noted above, if it was 5,000 people saved – who by the age & health profile of those who died of Covid were most likely due to fall off their perch anyway – then many of them are probably now dead.
    
    They won’t need to worry about the average national debt per household.
    
    Hope they used that extra time wisely, playing Fortnite and eating Doritos.
    
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    October 6, 2023 3:27pm
    - MCōs
      
      That’s a bit callous
      
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      October 6, 2023 4:39pm
- Master Mariner
  
  80000 to 5000 and now back too 20000.
  5000 saved was DG Health and ex PM statement.
  
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  October 6, 2023 7:09pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    As opposed to how many died from the jab, or from their serious condition being missed due to lockdowns, or from suicide?
    All cause excess mortality continues week in, week out. These numbers are being ignored but they already dwarf any of the claimed lives saved.
    
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    October 7, 2023 5:57am
rouppe

Here we go…

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/treat-flu-like-covid-experts-want-new-strategy-for-pandemics-next-phase/67LUP4K2H5BGVGFDWVKCDYYNGY/

Michael bloody Baker
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October 6, 2023 9:46am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  For some reason I don’t believe any of those graphs. Wonder why?
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:09am
- ClanMcleod
  
  He is one of the key players responsible for so much harm to so many people. He is going to double down on everything because to walk it back will expose him.
  The anger and calls for retribution will be many and they will be warranted. He is a criminal.
  
  This from the Whoreald article:
  
  Baker said the response ultimately saved almost 20,000 lives in New Zealand, based on the deaths that would have occurred with the United States’ mortality rate.
  
  “Remarkably, New Zealand has achieved this outcome with a relatively low level of restrictions, with the average stringency of control measures being lower here than in other high-income countries such as Sweden.”
  
  That is pure lies. Right up there with Hipkins claiming nobody was forced to get the jab.
  NZ was among the most draconian countries for rules to enforce lockdowns, masks and jabs.
  
  Sweden was one of the most libertarian, it was at the complete opposite end of the spectrum to NZ.
  Baker could have used Australia as a comparison, that might have been a little closer to the truth, but using Sweden he is mocking us. He is a charlatan and a fraud and an extremely dangerous person.
  
  Baker is like a character out of 1984. A leading member of “The Party”.
  His attempts at memory holing reality are fully supported by a compliant media. They also realise that they are up to their necks in this thing. They will also continue to lie and push fake narratives and propaganda. Their mantra has become that of Goebbels.
  
  “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”.
  
  This is why we can’t just “move on” as many on this blog want. If you don’t understand the danger of letting this thing pass without some kind of accountability for those responsible, we are destined to repeat it.
  You really want compulsory masking, jabbing and lockdowns for the flu? You want this all over again? Because that’s what Baker and the others behind this report are proposing.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:16am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Mod – apologies for the excess bold, I normally check as soon as I post but was called to the phone and didn’t get back in time.
    
    [Mod – is that how you wanted it?]
    
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    October 6, 2023 10:38am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Mod – basically I forgot to close off bold, italic and blockquote after – “high-income countries such as Sweden.”
      
      You’ve made an improvement though, thank you.
      
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      October 6, 2023 11:18am
      - ISeeRed
        
        And some loser downticked the mod and your thank you. LMAO
        
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        October 6, 2023 2:29pm
    - Fuzzysnuggleduck
      
      After a hard working mod goes back and helps fine tune & customise a KB members post here, remember next time to temper your scorn those of you who express displeasure at the rate at which they approve posts.
      
      For shame, Sirs, for shame.
      See? Not all of the Mods are slovenly or idle, like those more uncharitable members imply by persisting in their remonstrating.
      
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      October 6, 2023 3:42pm
  - Michael J Baker
    
    Tough day to be a Michael Baker. I’m not that one.
    
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    October 6, 2023 11:24am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I did wonder, but the lying Baker would not dare come to this blog lest he was doxed.
      
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      October 6, 2023 12:19pm
Tauhei Notts

Boring statistics.
I saw how high my power usage was last week, so compared it to the same week last year. 239 units, up from 197 in 2022 same week. Our home is all electrically heated.
Tell Jesus Christ, or his father, to give us some of that global warming every far quit is talking about.
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October 6, 2023 10:00am
Maggie Pie

“NZ First will not return Labor to power”

– Winston Peters

https://www.nzfirst.nz/2023_election_commitment

Nek minit 😀 😀 😀
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October 6, 2023 10:04am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  He is a snake in the grass.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:12am
- Waipuk
  
  As someone said; NZ First has never gone with National in 27 years.
  
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  October 6, 2023 12:20pm
Handyman

National are still useless at the politics game. They think elections have something to do with policies.

Yesterday when Labour published only 3000 families will get the full tax break they didn’t have a prepared response.
All they needed was to have ad ready stating National’s tax reduction is better for 2 million families then Labour’s $1.50 per week. “You are worse off under a Labour government.”
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October 6, 2023 10:04am
- Blog-aholic
  
  The media forgot one thing. It may only be 3000 households that get the FULL entitlement but there are so many more trickle downs from that starting point. The only thing we got from Labour in the last 6 years was the trickle water down our backs from them pissing over us.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:16am
- RoboRob
  
  National are / were trying for a ‘positive’ campaign. So comments like ‘You are worse off under a Labour government’ are discouraged.
  
  I am sure the Nats would have been attacked by the media whatever they had said.
  
  Its always been obvious people would get somewhere between $50 and $250. For Labour and the media to pretend that a majority were going to get $250 is ridicultous. Part of the equation was an increase in WFF, obviously anyone without 2 children or earning too much for WFF was not going to get 250.
  
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  October 6, 2023 11:31am
  - Guy Preston
    
    I do vaguely remember the phrases “Average family” and “up to $250” being run together, which could give the impression that $250 would be more a middle of the road value than the top end for more families, but then again, why trust the MSM when there is an on-line calculator?
    
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    October 6, 2023 12:07pm
Jack5

Conspiracy theory UN behind Aussie “Voice” campaign …

An Aussie TV star reckons a “yes” vote in “The Voice” indigenous rights referendum would lead to a UN takeover, and a Net conspiracy theory is spreading.

The video is by Nicola Charles, described by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation as “once the darling of Australian television, known for her role as Sarah Beaumont in the show Neighbours during the 90s.”

The ABC says Charles’s video has had half a million views, and its “shares” outnumber those of videos by the official campaign and by opponent Pauline Hanson.

The broadcaster says that, in the last few weeks, the conspiracy theory suggesting “the Voice” is a secret plot devised by the UN to strip Australians of their private property and sovereignty has spread like wildfire.

Australians vote on “the Voice” in a referendum the same day as our general election.

If carried, “The Voice” would provide permanent representation and recognition for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people via a new body providing input into decisions made by the government.

In background explanation of the issue, the University of New South Wales cites the UN declaration of the rights of indigenous people.

Under John Key, NZ signed up to this declaration, though NZ was one of four countries that voted against it at the UN in 2007 (the other three were Australia, the United States and Canada).

When, back in the day, NZ voted against UN measure on indigenous rights:

http://www.converge.org.nz/pma/in140907.htm
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October 6, 2023 10:13am
ecco

Looking more and more likely that Peters will be involved in a centre right coalition. As others have said on here, can’t see that 3 way arrangement lasting. I guess if it all implodes after 3-6 months then they’ll have another election and boot the guy to touch permanently on the second iteration.

Alternatively, not out of the realms of possibility that Peters goes back on his word and goes to the highest bidder ie Labour. In that case the top NZ tax rate will go to 45% to pay for all the financial mess NZ Hipkins and co have got us into. (I’m picking Peter’s bottom line will be compensation for people who feel they have been damaged by the vax or mandated out of their jobs during the pandemic as they are the people who are going to get him over the 5% line).

Would have to then weigh up a move to Oz, as the tax differential between Oz and here would have narrowed considerably if tax rates are hiked here post election. The bulk of our household income is in the $180k+ level. Up till now NZ has been more advantageous tax wise to stay here.

The only thing now with living in NZ is that the co governance fall out, racial divide and rampant crime, with a strong racial element to the main perpetrators, is now ‘in your face’ if you live in NZ and you can’t get away from it. To the point where you say how much is it worth it to get away from this crap, in terms of higher Oz tax?

Anyway election night for us will be very interesting. Will be watching with baited breath. Very interested to see which polling company was most accurate in the last week of the campaign.
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October 6, 2023 10:18am
- Ghost
  
  If it is a nat/act/Winston govt, it will last the distance because both minor parties know if it doesn’t they will be the ones who are punished in a new election.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:26am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Dunno why the downtick for something true Ghost.
    Act and NZF will suffer in the next Election if they don’t perform.
    Any nonsense will be detrimental.
    
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    October 6, 2023 10:58am
  - cmm
    
    Possibly, but the shit will stick where it lands.
    
    I obviously can’t speak for all Act voters, but there is no way I’m swapping support back to National.
    
    That National can’t get to 40% (should really be 45%) after the last 5 years is not Act’s fault. It is all National’s own fault.
    
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    October 6, 2023 11:17am
    - lifesgood
      
      I think you mean it is the Media’s fault.
      
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      October 6, 2023 11:46am
      - cmm
        
        The media is part of the picture, but a good operator cuts right through the media.
        
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        October 6, 2023 1:09pm
    - Ghost
      
      It’s just polls. I expect the actual results will have national over 40% on the night
      
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      October 6, 2023 1:46pm
  - ecco
    
    @Ghost – umm I think one of the leaders of the minor parties has more form with not being able to get on with others than the other minor party leader. If it falls apart Peters is the one who will get punished. Not Seymour.
    
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    October 6, 2023 1:42pm
- Handyman
  
  If the alternative coalition is Labour, Green, TPM and New Zealand First, that would be an unstable government.
  
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  October 6, 2023 10:48am
- Mrs_Right
  
  In 2014 in never happened. Despite the hysteria from the media that Peters would be “The King Maker”.
  
  National and Act got enough votes.
  
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  October 6, 2023 11:12am
- RoboRob
  
  I’m still hopefull NACT can get their without Winston first. I think it really depends how many Left wing voters decide not to vote.
  
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  October 6, 2023 11:35am
- mogg
  
  You can’t believe Winston but never underestimate his need for revenge. Jacinda and Hipkins made a complete fool of him after 2017, Winston does not do forgive and forget. He will negotiate with Labour because he desperately wants to rub Hipkins’ nose in it, as in remember me, I put you into government and now I am going to take you out of government so you can eff-off. For him it will be the ultimate power play and very likely what has kept him going for so long.
  
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  October 6, 2023 3:21pm
Maggie Pie

FACTOID 😀

The worlds largest ‘EV CHARGING STATION’ is in California.

All 98 Charging Bays are powered by…. DIESEL – GENERATORS

https://twitter.com/daily_cowboy/status/1708202188462596107
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October 6, 2023 10:35am
- cmm
  
  Here it is little difference. Most of the marginal power added by EVs is served by coal.
  
  EVs should really have bumper stickers saying “My tailpipe is in Huntly”.
  
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  October 6, 2023 11:19am
BeaB

We have a whole new Māori electorate – Hauraki-Waitako. That’s according to the misspelt official info sent out with my easy vote card.
Does that invalidate the vote?
Can we have confidence that the election will be run properly?
Is there no end to the incompetence of this useless Labour government?
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October 6, 2023 10:47am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  It’s not the voting that counts, it’s who counts the votes.
  
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  October 6, 2023 11:04am
  - Paulus
    
    At least counting is not by machine (yet) as in the USA !
    
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    October 6, 2023 1:52pm
Chuck Bird

New book by Bjorn Lomborg

The ‘Skeptical Environmentalist’ offers 12 low-cost, proven policies that he says would save 4.2 million lives and generate $1.1 trillion in new wealth every year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRoltR1pelU
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October 6, 2023 10:50am
- NothingLeft
  
  Old book by Bjorn Lomborg, “The Skeptical Environmentalist” was first published in 1998
  
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  October 6, 2023 12:02pm
cmm

Many people seem to be fixated on getting rid of Labour next week at any cost.

Sure they have been extremely damaging, but please think longer term too.

Imagine what a train wreck a National/Act/NZF coalition would be. The damage caused by that would likely see a flip back to Labour/Greens in 2026 and National and Act suffering longer term damage.

First prize is clearly that NZF doesn’t make it to the party, but that’s looking less and less likely every day.
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October 6, 2023 11:10am
- RoboRob
  
  Yes but what does one do? To get rid of Labour one must vote Nat or Act. Yes we might end up with NZF too. All we can do to avoid that is not vote NZF and try and encourage others to also not vote NZF.
  
  What do you propose ?
  
  Seems to be a lot of people here today suggesting not voting for Nat or Act but not really offering alteratives.
  
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  October 6, 2023 12:01pm
- Dudley Quaffquaff
  
  Why is all the talk about whether NACT will need to do a deal with Winston? Is there a serious possibility that Labour, the Greens and the Maori Party will be able to form a government without him?
  
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  October 6, 2023 1:04pm
  - ecco
    
    Just wondering how far off TOP is from taking the Ilam seat. TOP could hold the balance of power too.
    
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    October 6, 2023 1:45pm
- Waipuk
  
  So your alternative is!
  
  A vote for a Labour/Greens or Labour/Greens/Maori mix would only mean an exceleration of what we have now, decline in education, high crime, destruction of the health system, ballooning debt, Maori first …
  
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  October 6, 2023 1:13pm
- David Garrett
  
  cmm: Sadly it seems almost certain that NZF will “make it to the party”…
  
  “The best argument against democracy is a 15 minute conversation with the average voter”
  
  WSC
  
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  October 6, 2023 1:38pm
  - cmm
    
    Ah yes, the good old days, when the average man in the street could hold a 15 minute conversation.
    These days he would have to be satisfied with 15 seconds.
    
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    October 6, 2023 7:43pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/single-pdfs/regarding-a-referendum-on-co-governance/
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October 6, 2023 11:12am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Corporate Death Penalty.

https://teapartypolls.com/theteapartydaily/trumps-court-loss-is-called-corporate-death-penalty/

Donald Trump jr said if Mar-a-Lago is worth only $18M he will have ten!
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October 6, 2023 11:19am
- Colville
  
  Mar a Lago is 7Ha of prime beach property. Even in Auckland that would be $70Mil ++. Sydney $200Mil. probably twice that.
  
  Auckland Council just paid $12Mil for 1.6Ha in Manurewa to add to the botanic gardens!
  
  FFS the building is 6000 M2 ! the size of 30 very big houses!!
  
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  October 6, 2023 12:27pm
- RichardX
  
  After a New York judge ruled on Tuesday that Donald Trump and his company had for years used fraudulent methods to value his properties, Trump zeroed in on the ruling’s section about his home: Mar-a-Lago.
  
  “This highly partisan Democrat ‘Judge’ (All the Clubs, etc.) just ruled that Mar-a-Lago was WORTH just 18 Million Dollars when, in fact, it may be worth 100 times that amount,” Trump wrote. In fact, the judge had cited Palm Beach County Property Appraiser valuations putting the property at between $18 million and $28 million, depending on the year, from 2011 to 2021.
  
  Trump might think Mar-a-Lago is worth $1.8 billion, but in 2020, his own company said the Palm Beach appraiser was right. That year, the county valued Mar-a-Lago at $27 million.
  
  “The Petitioner agrees with the determination of the property appraiser or tax collector,” a real estate broker representing Mar-a-Lago acknowledged on a form filed with the local Value Adjustment Board, and obtained by CBS News.
  
  The broker, Michael Corbiciero, had at first filed to challenge the valuation — attesting under penalty of perjury that the filing was on the owner’s behalf as the property’s authorized agent — before withdrawing the petition and checking a box saying the property had been accurately appraised.
  
  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-mar-a-lago-1-8-billion-own-company-said-it-was-too-high/
  
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  October 6, 2023 2:08pm
ClanMcleod

Hipkins did the Goebbels thing denying anyone was forced to get jabbed. Then we find out it is likely that thousands of Ministry of Health employees got exemptions, this included administrators.

All the while these people were telling the rest of us to get jabbed and/or sticking the needle in the arms of fellow citizens, many who believed they were part of a “team of five million”.

Ursula Edgington PhD, who writes under the title Informed Heart on Substack has sent me a partial breakdown of 6,700 medical staff granted vaccine exemptions provided through a 29th September 2022 OIA H2022009529. It appears from the OIA HNZ00023978 dated 2 August 2023 that we reported yesterday that the actual total may be as high as 11,005. This figure includes over 1,500 administrative managers.

The health service employs around 80,500 staff. This means that as many as 14% of MoH staff were granted exemptions. Previous mainstream media coverage accessible to the public has only reported that a total of 81 vaccine exemptions (not the actual 11,005) were granted to Ministry of Health staff.

https://hatchardreport.com/additional-information-thousands-of-moh-workers-were-granted-covid-vaccine-exemptions/

How sad, angry and betrayed those people must be feeling right now. As for those who took the exemption and didn’t speak out, I hope their conscience plagues them for the rest of their lives.

Never forget the lies and betrayal of those we trust to help and look after us.
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October 6, 2023 11:31am
- Blog-aholic
  
  This is the course on how you remove trust in government. But it is so much more because the trickle down through media and the health industry is massive.
  
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  October 6, 2023 11:47am
- Gravyman2
  
  It’s pure bullshit. I’ve worked in NZ hospitals for more than 35 years. EVERY doctor currently working in an NZ hospital is vaccinated and not just against COVID. Your vaccination record is linked to your NHI. There’s no faking it.
  During the pandemic if you didn’t vaccinate you were mandated out. The idea that 11000 doctors were unvaccinated and working is simply not credible.
  There are very significant problems with the story. NO sources other than “somebody told me”; 95 consultants in Dunedin would mean all of them and more; “secret gagging orders” that no one has seen; the premise that 11000 people didn’t talk to anyone about this for more than 2 years, and the fact that none of us are actually employed by the MOH.
  This is pure disinformation designed around the premise that doctors knew about problems with the vaccine and somehow conspired to pretend they were vaccinated when they weren’t (which is just pure paranoid fantasy)
  The real story here is who is disseminating this and why?
  
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  October 6, 2023 3:00pm
  - Keith White
    
    So Gravyman2:
    29th September 2022 OIA H2022009529
    2 August 2023 OIA HNZ00023978
    You can check, if you want to.
    
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    October 6, 2023 3:28pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Gravyman2 – you obviously didn’t read the post did you?
    
    There is a link to the OIA.
    
    It isn’t claiming 11,005, that’s the ‘potential’. Nor is it just doctors. The exemption was available to 1500 administrators as well. The others will be a mix of employees.
    
    But the fact stands, it DID happen.
    
    Pure disinformation? Are you Kate Hannah????
    
    If you’re going to throw accusations like that around, best you provide something resembling evidence to support your claims.
    
    Words like ‘conspiracy theory’, ‘disinformation’, ‘misinformation’ have been used to death. Most people with 2 or more functioning brain cells instantly dismiss them for what they are – bs smears.
    
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    October 6, 2023 4:47pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Good one Labour…

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/499546/election-2023-some-rural-voters-caught-out-by-polling-booth-closures-on-election-day

Can’t even organise an election properly.
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October 6, 2023 11:32am
- NothingLeft
  
  Smart for Labour to hamper rural (Most anti-labour segment of NZ) voters.
  
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  October 6, 2023 12:06pm
Maggie Pie

O.M.G! 😀 😀 😀

Here’s the fab Katie Hopkins with a few facts about owning an EV….

https://twitter.com/voices_nz/status/1709781953732579524
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October 6, 2023 11:36am
cmm

I see both Herald and Stuff are teasing with a new poll coming out in the next couple of hours asking whether Labour is getting a left.

That they are only talking from a Labour angle is telling of their bias.

But the way they are talking this up seems like they have some advanced info that Labour is getting an up-tick. Not good.

I hope I am wrong.
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October 6, 2023 11:36am
- PeeJay
  
  Yep – see it’s being talked up. Suspect it will be quite minor, say 1% either way, but the MSM will talk this up massively.
  
  Like you, hope this is wrong – can’t imagine how bad things could be if they stay in charge for another 3 years!
  
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  October 6, 2023 11:55am
  - cmm
    
    1% either way is not statistically significant, but I doubt any of our current crop of journalists has studies statistics.
    
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    October 6, 2023 12:20pm
- cmm
  
  From Stuff, hoping this will help Hipkins: “As Political Editor Luke Malpass wrote earlier in the week, the plague worked for Australian PM Anthony Albanese whose sunken polling went up after a spell of Covid isolation.”
  
  This only happens when you are so loathed that being out of the public eye allows people to forget how terrible you are.
  
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  October 6, 2023 12:34pm
ClanMcleod

And to follow Hipkin’s lies re not forcing people to take part in this experiment, the US and Biden following exactly the same playbook.

“This Will Make Your Blood Boil” – Biden Admin Goes Full Orwell Denying Vaxx Mandates Ever Happened

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/will-make-your-blood-boil-biden-admin-goes-full-orwell-denying-vaxx-mandates-ever

Alas, here we are, entering the final quarter of 2023, and we have the United States government, and many state governments (including New York’s former Governor Andrew Cuomo, current left-wing Governor Kathy Hochul, and the super-majority Dem legislature) proclaiming for all to hear that they did not force anyone to do anything detrimental these past 3.5 years. UNBELIEVABLE! Did you hear this? They are actually saying with straight faces that they didn’t force you to wear a mask, or lock down and shutter your businesses, or choose between taking an experimental drug or losing your job… Nope! They did none of that. And you – well, you are flat out crazy if you think they did. You are lying. You are exaggerating and totally overreacting.

The problem for all of them is, we have the receipts. No wonder there are so many efforts globally to shut down free speech and alt media sites using nonsensical claims re ‘hate speech’.
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October 6, 2023 11:38am
- Damocles11
  
  Here is a video of Peters saying he believes measles vaccinations should be COMPULSORY.
  
  https://www.tiktok.com/@truth.bombs.nz/video/7276695686500977922
  
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  October 6, 2023 11:52am
  - NothingLeft
    
    Almost all other vaccines are far safer and more efficacious than Covid vax.
    
    Measles is extremely infectious and kills about 0.1-0.3% of kids infected and can leave life-long damage to more (blindness, brain damage etc). It is only stopped from circulation (herd immunity) by having something like 90% vaccinated/immune.
    
    Given Benefits/risk ratio it’s hard to make any solid argument for non-vaccination.
    
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    October 6, 2023 12:13pm
  - Ghost
    
    Measles vaccine should be compulsory, what’s your point, or are you just fishing for replies unable to understand that the vast majority of people who didn’t have the Covid vaccine are not anti vaxxers, and have had all their vaccines except this one?
    
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    October 6, 2023 12:17pm
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I have nothing but contempt for parents who don’t give their children the MMR vaccine.
    
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    October 6, 2023 3:11pm
    - krazykiwi
      
      Yes, I was like this once. But the more I have dug into the topic, the more convinced I’ve become that that same fraud, malfeasance and captured regulatory failings are present in the childhood vaccines machine as has become apparent from the Covid ‘vaccine’ travesty.
      
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      October 6, 2023 3:41pm
      - RdM
        
        Yes. I was considering replying to earlier measles misconceptions, not least how to actually treat it in the absence of vaccines seems knowledge lost or no longer disseminated – it should be – but also the measles vaccine has many similar flaws & etc.
        
        You might enjoy this long read, and links within.
        
        https://malagabay.wordpress.com/2019/05/29/pop-goes-the-measles/
        
        And in the comments.
        
        https://greenmedinfo.com/blog/herd-immunity-myth-or-reality
        
        I’m glad I had it in early childhood.
        
        I seem to recall 7-10 days in dark nights and dark or dim daylight, let the fever go, don’t try to block it.
        
        But I’d need to research that again properly.
        
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        October 6, 2023 8:57pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Let it go, the stench of PDS is unbearable, the attempts to smear are next level.
    
    If he gets in, blame Luxon and Seymour. They gave him the oxygen.
    
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    October 6, 2023 4:52pm
- mandk
  
  This is the mugger’s defence: “I might have held a gun to his head, but he voluntarily handed over his wallet”.
  
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  October 6, 2023 12:27pm
- Keith White
  
  Gaslighting only works until someone turns off the gas. As you say, we have the receipts. Can’t scrub it all off the internet…
  
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  October 6, 2023 3:25pm
Ghost

There is a bit of a buzz around the latest Taxpayers Union/Curia poll, due out at lunchtime – with suggestions it could finally yield some good news for Chris Hipkins.

The Post’s National Affairs Editor Andrea Vance understands that over the last couple of days Labour’s internal polls have National tracking down, and Labour up, slightly. A caveat – it’s usually best to give overnight polls a week to see if a trend beds in.

But if the TPU poll mirrors this result, it will be a gamechanger for the election campaign – and certainly make the final week much more interesting.

Article
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October 6, 2023 11:58am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Greens @ 13%….
  as my partner said, ” shows just how f***d this country has become”.
  
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  October 6, 2023 12:03pm
  - Mrs_Right
    
    They never get on election night as much as the polls indicate.
    
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    October 6, 2023 1:01pm
    - MCōs
      
      At the last election Roy Morgan, TV2 & TV3 all greatly overstated the final seats for National, underestimated Labour and were fairly close with ACT & the Greens
      Refer Wikipedia
      I advise waiting until next Saturday
      
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      October 6, 2023 4:58pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Green supporters. The chardonnay/latte slurping suburban midwits with a bird feeder and a photo of an African kid who they ‘sponsor’ on the fridge.
    
    Seriously dim people who love a good ideology.
    
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    October 6, 2023 5:05pm
- double d
  
  Snort – labour internal polls …..
  A breathless take from Vance based on “suggestions it could finally yield some good news”.
  And suggests it could be a game changer
  Desperation is a stinky cologne…..
  
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  October 6, 2023 1:10pm
- rockape
  
  But hasn’t the Talbot Mills polls , Labours own, show the very opposite? Last three polls from them Nats +4 Labour -5% .
  
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  October 6, 2023 1:10pm
- James Stephenson
  
  and Labour up, slightly
  
  Dead cat bounce.
  
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  October 6, 2023 2:01pm
cmm

When people participate in a murder does it really matter who actually did the stabbing?

Crazy really, they had common cause and both participated. Give them both the same punishment.

Where is the line drawn for making this a joint crime? Do they need to hold the knife together like the bride and groom slicing the wedding cake?

Ditto for the kids who crashed in Rangiora killing the lass. They all participated. Why peg it all on the driver?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/133049524/cockle-bay-homicide-verdict-returned-in-case-of-two-best-friends-who-blamed-each-other-for-murder-of-wiremu-arapo
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October 6, 2023 12:25pm
- Ghost
  
  I’m reminded of the Timaru crash and the parents outrage at it. Sorry, but your sons got in the car with a drunk, and likely encouraged the speeding, and worse, got in the boot of the car. They are sad events, but responsibility belongs to all in the car.
  
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  October 6, 2023 12:31pm
  - Blog-aholic
    
    In some USA states you will be charged with and if convicted get the same punishment as the actual perp.
    
    One case from several years ago a bloke took a mate to town and on the way the mate wanted to stop at a store for some ciggies (or something). The dude stayed in his car waiting across the street. His mate came back like nothing had happened and off they went.
    
    When the police caught up with the perp who had robbed the store and killed the shop attendent with a gun, the diver who was not there, not involved and did not know it had happened was also charged and convicted of the murder and they both got the death sentence…..hard to say that, that is fair IMO.
    
    I believe he appealed but not sure whether it was successful.
    
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    October 6, 2023 12:44pm
RichardF

On August 17 Shae Dobbs entered a woman’s home and announced “I told you I’d be back”, then assaulted her with a pitchfork, pieces of wood, a terracota pot plant, and stomped her head. She is still in hospital recovering from 5 lost teeth, multiple fractures including every rib broken, numerous other wounds to her head and body. He asked neighbours, who filmed the assault, for petrol to “burn the demon”. They must have been terrified. He said she owed him 23 million dollars. The journalist said its unclear what sparked the attack.

I figured this wouldn’t be his first rodeo so had a Google and discovered meth head Shae Dobbs was arrested in 2020 for setting up a “last supper” where he threatened to kill 3 people with an axe. He told Police it was a joke. He also threatened a person via a letter who had a protection order against him (the woman assaulted 3 years later?). The judge said his behavior was “very concerning” and sentenced him to 18 months supervision. His lawyer said he was not in his right mind due to substance abuse his sentence should be rehabilitative. How did that go?

This guy was a ticking time bomb, just another example of our soft judiciary who think some cuddles will put these poor souls on the right track. Have a search for Shae Dobbs and see if you agree with me. Some people are beyond help and need to be kept away from society forever.
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October 6, 2023 12:25pm
Jethrod

Further back on today’s blog there was talk of Left and Right and who is or isn’t these things.
Who on this site can put a name to each:-
1 Extreme Left
2 Far Left
3 Left
4 Centre Left
5 Centre
6 Centre Right
7 Right
8 Far Right
9 Extreme Right

So confusing , what are the policies that can be attributed to each division, or are they just in people’s minds.
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October 6, 2023 12:55pm
Maggie Pie

They Walk Among Us 🙁

I’ve heard it said less intelligent people work and pay taxes and deserve representation the same as anyone else.
But should they be required to pass an IQ-Test in order to vote?

Retard talkback caller to ZB tells host….. “He is no longer voting National, as he believes their promised tax cuts will only fuel further inflation”

Honestly!! SHEESH.
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October 6, 2023 12:56pm
- Ghost
  
  Don’t blame the caller
  
  https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather-du-plessis-allan-drive/audio/jenee-tibshraeny-nz-herald-wellington-business-editor-on-goldman-sachs-criticising-nationals-proposed-tax-cuts/
  
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  October 6, 2023 12:58pm
- miltonF
  
  Leftie logic – Taxes make things cheaper and removing taxes makes them more expensive.
  
  Not only is this backwardly wrong, but this logic is never used consistently.
  
  For example, they believe taxes on food and cigarettes make them more expensive, but they believe taxes on houses will make them cheaper.
  
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  October 6, 2023 5:36pm
Surely Knott

2 Standards of Justice.

1. Boy Racer (Adam Rapson). 18 years old. No priors. Charged with Manslaughter.

Media Justice = Face and photo in paper.

2. Violent home invasion, hits woman with wood, stabs with pitchfork, woman put in coma, every rib broken, fled police. August 18 (Shea Ryan Dobbs)

Media Coverup – No photo in paper, no mention of his serious past history.

But then at the bottom of the same article we see “Dobbs also pleaded guilty to burglary” on Feb 17, and “Threatening to Kill” May 14.

A google and I find even more previous history not mentioned in the current article about who this person is.

Shea Ryan Dobbs in 2021 was sentenced to 18 months supervision and drug rehab. He had set up a fake scene in a shed of a “last supper” for three. “Imitation firearms were laid in place of cutlery, while 2 axes, a wheel barrow and plastic bins were at the ready to dispose of their bodies.”

“Dobbs initially told police it was meant to be a joke then got angry, said he was going to kill one victim and would not say anymore.”

The judge said his sentence should focus on rehabilitation because he’d already spent time in prison.

Why does the media run the photo of one person but not the other. Why isn’t there a full description of criminals priors. Why wasn’t Shea bought to the courts in May when he threatened to kill
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October 6, 2023 12:57pm
rockape

Call me suspicious but it’s funny that some rural polling stations are not open on the 14th but open for just a few hours on the 8th. Others in areas like Motueka, a socialist haven have two polling stations open every day of early all the way to the 14 th. Now I have done the polling manager bit in past elections and this is not the usual case. There was no notification of this either other than the arrival, late , of the voting packs.
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October 6, 2023 1:05pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  I have never known polling stations in any parts of NZ not to be open on the actual day of voting.
  
  This is frankly outrageous if true.
  
  Voting on election day has been and always will be sacrosanct and to disenfranchise people because of location is absolutely unacceptable IMO.
  
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  October 6, 2023 1:15pm
  - Tauhei Notts
    
    This comes from the boffins in Wellington. We have seen a dreadful attitude creep through our public service. The mantra seems to be;
    “if they don’t live in Wellington they can all get stuffed”………………………pork and potatoes for dinner.
    This was best shown in the information provided to Rachael Smalley (spelling?). The dismissive arrogant attitude was sickening.
    The wait time on the phone to government offices is disgraceful. Another symptom. The list goes on and on.
    Hopefully we can have people who will put some fireworks up the anal cavity of people who adore Tory Whanau, after 14th October.
    
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    October 6, 2023 4:23pm
Swifty

I presume the victim’s sweatshirt was blue in colour:

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300984093/gang-member-violently-attacked-intellectually-disabled-man-smashing-bottle-on-his-head

That being the reason for this vicious and unprovoked assault on an innocent member of the public going out for a walk.
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October 6, 2023 1:22pm
- PeeJay
  
  The only thing shocking about that story is the perp was actually remanded in custody rather than roaming around on home D.
  
  Although, I suspect the reason he has been remanded in custody is that he is facing “other unrelated charges”. Wouldn’t be at all surprised if he was already out on home D awaiting trial on some other assault charges.
  
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  October 6, 2023 2:13pm
mandk

It is understood that Andrea Vance has gone home to change her knickers after getting over-excited and wetting herself earlier about a possible turn round for Labour in the latest Taxpayers’ Union poll.

Turns out that Labour are up a bit, but so are National. Worse than that for Andrea and the other left-wing harpies is that Luxon has pulled ahead of Hipkins in the Preferred PM stakes.
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October 6, 2023 1:29pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Yes, snd Greens are doen more than Labour are up
  
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  October 6, 2023 2:14pm
Ghost

Taxpayers Curia poll

The party vote totals showed NZ First on the way up, reaching its highest result in recent polls, with 6.9%.

National was at 35.9%
Labour was at 27.9%
The Greens were at 10.6%
And ACT was down to 9.1%
Te Pāti Māori would bring in more MPs, with 3.7% – as long as it wins an electorate.
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October 6, 2023 1:31pm
- NothingLeft
  
  Ugh. The cancer is back after 3 years remission.
  
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  October 6, 2023 1:50pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Gone are the days of ACT dictating everything, I new Act was losing support to NZF because off their arrogance, I would go as far as say Peters will trounce Seymour and his dying party
  
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  October 6, 2023 2:13pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Have faith G.
    A surprise is coming.
    
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    October 6, 2023 5:27pm
  - ecco
    
    *knew
    
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    October 6, 2023 10:02pm
ecco

Epsom electorate – just recieved our voting papers today. Could almost be like Trump and say there’s been tampering with the electoral process with this incompetence and call for the election outcome to be null and void.
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October 6, 2023 1:37pm
- Prince
  
  Still haven’t received ours, despite living at the same address for 20 years and having no problem previously.
  Good news is we have received Easyvote Pack (according to the envelope) for 3 people who owned the property before us – 20 years ago.
  Everything ths Govt touches turns to shit.
  
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  October 6, 2023 2:15pm
- MCōs
  
  The voting papers are at the polling booths
  
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  October 6, 2023 5:03pm
- Ghost
  
  Why? You can still vote, you don’t need your easy vote card. There has been no tampering with our election
  
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  October 6, 2023 5:09pm
westernScientist

Just to save the few sane people left the effort:
https://flightbookings.airnewzealand.com/vbook/actions/selectitinerary

I hope the Winston first voters enjoy their new labour/green/maori/winston first coalition.
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October 6, 2023 1:40pm
Sparrow

It’s interesting that all the insults directed by KBs on this blog and by David Seymour at Winston Peters and his supporters as being dumb cretins has rebounded on them with this latest poll. Ofcourse Winston can’t be trusted nor can any other politician don’t forget that.
As one of those who are continually insulted by this blog should tell you why I have voted for NZF. I am a lifelong Labour voter and one time member when it was a true Labour Party. So in 2023 where do I go as cannot vote Labour with this mob. To ensure our Labour MP is thrown out swallowed a rat and ticked blue. Now where does my party vote go ?. It was going to ACT until Seymour got to big for his boots then I remembered the Labour traitors who started ACT and helped to create the middle class party Labour is today. Yes some of us have very long memories that’s a reality we are tribal. So where to go ? The old rogue Winnie yes he is a populist but he speaks to middle NZ warts and all. This is the reason us old time farts have moved the dial plus the Nats leadership lacks the guts to address the real issues facing NZ. A space minister give me a break. Have a great election. Have not forgotten the bet with Handley. Apologise if I have spelt your name incorrectly.
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October 6, 2023 2:01pm
- NothingLeft
  
  “lifelong Labour voter and one time member”
  
  Oof, embarrassing. And yes, voting for Narcissist Pied Piper Peters with a 40 year track-record of putting himself ahead of his ever-deceived supporters is cretinous. He’ll say anything to get elected, and when in power delivers nothing but bluster chaos and waste in distracted govt.
  
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  October 6, 2023 2:31pm
  - mogg
    
    And revenge on Labour and Hipkins who made a complete ass of him last time.
    
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    October 6, 2023 3:26pm
- greybeard
  
  It’s a POLL, mate.
  Not the General Election.
  Be patient.
  
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  October 6, 2023 5:42pm
Chuck Bird

Has anyone else noticed the latest Taxpayer’s Union poll? Act would get 12 seats and NZF 9 seats. When Act polled to have 15 or more seats and NZF was around 5% Seymour could have a little justification for saying he would not work with Peters with the hope that would put NZF under 5%. However, with NZF almost certain to make the 5% Seymour should respect the will of the voters as Luxon will.

As much as Seymour’s arrogance pisses me off I still voted Act because of Act’s farmer-friendly policies.
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October 6, 2023 2:41pm
- Ghost
  
  I believe the only sensible comment has been luxon when saying he will work with what the voters give him. Time politicians and even voters respect the voters decide.
  
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  October 6, 2023 2:44pm
PeeJay

On the Taxpayers / Curia poll.

NZF are clearly going to be kingmaker. While everyone seems convinced there is no way Peter’s will go with Labour, I think it’s at least 50/50 that he will – a desperate Labour party have no principles and they will offer him far more than National can. Anyone who thinks Hipkins won’t be picking up the phone if the numbers are there is a fool. And anyone who thinks that Peter’s won’t take that call is an even greater fool. Regardless, weeks of delay await us as Peter’s does his will he / won’t he gig – he will be insufferable!

Second thought is the split generally. Take NZF out as a centrist party (and that’s debatable), then you’re left with National / Act on 45% versus Lab / Green / Maori on 42%. With a margin of error of 3.1% that is ridiculously close. With all the stuff wrong in this country, the left block should be getting it’s ass handed to it – not in a position to form a government if Peter’s feels like some more utu on National.

So. we’ve either got 3 years of National / ACT / NZF government – which due to Peter’s being able to neuter ACT, will not really change much and is horribly at risk of National then being a 1 term government before a revitalized left gets back in, or just as likely 3 years of a shitshow whereby Labour get a deal together with NZF with side deals with Greens and Maori – probably separate cabinet tables to keep them all apart!

Complete circus either way!

Mentioned in an earlier post my mate who’s looking at opportunities in Aussie………might see if he has that agents number!!!!
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October 6, 2023 2:53pm
- mogg
  
  You underestimate Winston’s lust for revenge.
  
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  October 6, 2023 3:28pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    And Seymour’s. Bob McCoskrei is not a liar.
    
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    October 6, 2023 3:35pm
    - Colville
      
      Mountains and molehills. Get over it.
      
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      October 6, 2023 9:59pm
Chuck Bird

John Key says Luxon can trust Winston Peters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbXB7xDBw3M
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October 6, 2023 2:59pm
Maggie Pie

I see our Census forms have just arrived.
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October 6, 2023 3:11pm
- Jethrod
  
  Pardon?
  
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  October 6, 2023 4:43pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    https://twitter.com/Amanda_Errat/status/1644059140690710528
    
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    October 6, 2023 5:03pm
Philview

I will be voting National but who the hell thought it was a good idea to send a pre recorded message from Chris Luxon down the phone to the country at tea time last night. If you want to lose an election that is the sort of tactic that annoys people.
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October 6, 2023 3:11pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300984093/gang-member-violently-attacked-intellectually-disabled-man-smashing-bottle-on-his-head
Shoot him.
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October 6, 2023 3:17pm
- Jack5
  
  This is an appalling piece of cowardly brutality by a gang member to an intellectually disabled man.
  
  With the election close we hear people chirping about prison only increasing crime.
  
  If that’s the case we need to look at flogging for gang monsters like the one in this attack.
  
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  October 6, 2023 3:33pm
Maggie Pie

The-Horrid are reporting ‘Robert Walker Ltd’ received over $64 million in consultancy fees for the last financial year. The firm comes in at #1 on the power brokers list for the provision of…Recruitment Services.

The story goes go on to say that their own most recent hire was disgraced Labor Cabinet Minister Stewart Nash. Apparently Stew is about to take up the position of ‘Corporate Director’ based in their Wellington Office.
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October 6, 2023 3:29pm
- Swifty
  
  Walters.
  
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  October 6, 2023 3:33pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Mates looking after mates.
  
  (I’d look after you MP if you fell on hard times and ended up at Kaiti Mall)
  
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  October 6, 2023 6:13pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    OOOXXX
    
    😀 😀 😀
    
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    October 6, 2023 7:08pm
BananaLlama

Anecdotal but alot of people intending to vote for Peters to “put the cat among the pigeons” so expect him to be well up on election day. Hope National and Act have a good offer to make.
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October 6, 2023 3:29pm
- Prince
  
  Offers are irrelevant. Peters will run with anyone opposed to National. Utu runs deep. Will we never learn ?
  
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  October 6, 2023 4:44pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Hitler phones Trump:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSpRkJTY9iA
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October 6, 2023 3:56pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Ausgezeichnet!!
  
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  October 6, 2023 4:56pm
ecco

Fascinating interview on the Platform with Raf Manji of Top who is now saying he would go with centre right ie Nats, if he won Ilam and held the balance of power. He said it would require an Epsom type arrangement with the Nats standing aside but Nats are not open to that. That’s a shame, that would be an interesting scenario and avoid the Peters factor. It’s on Plunket’s full show session about half way through.

I paid a sub for The Platform. They are great. Some very interesting interviews. Consume more of this now than newstalkzb. The long form interviews on the Platform site only available to subscribers are well worth the $14 per month.
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October 6, 2023 4:04pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  I was a fan until Plunkett started dribbling on and abusing ‘anti vaxxers’ even though the majority of the people he’s attacking are no such thing.
  
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  October 6, 2023 5:12pm
Prince

Watching Te Karere for a while this afternoon, a full segment seemed to be devoted to the Labour candidate for Manurewa. Followed her around door knocking (everyone seemed to be voting Labour).
A few scenes about Ramraids, but the candidate said Labour had this covered with some wrap-around services.
Why is TVNZ running these ads for Labour ?
I’d like to see an anti-corruption unit set up after the election to monitor State Media, to ensure they are balanced in their political coverage.
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October 6, 2023 4:41pm
Paul Marsden

Enough of this mayhem! In cases where Police oppose bail, unless there are accentuating circumstances, then a judge must abide.
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October 6, 2023 4:42pm
alan

ACT’s vote went through the floor as soon as Seymour said Maori were indigenous, Winston was very happy to pick up all those votes.
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October 6, 2023 5:01pm
MCōs

We went to a Westfield Mall for and noted there was a polling booth next to the food court
It’s school holidays and both places were choka
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October 6, 2023 5:10pm
greybeard

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300984406/human-faeces-likely-cause-of-queenstown-cryptosporidium-outbreak
This is just rubbish.
If the water supply was the problem then THOUSANDS of Queenstown residents and visitors would be affected, not just 60.
Why are they not looking for the common denominator for the affected people ? Location, pub, restaurant, social gathering, meeting, movie theatre, whatever ?
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October 6, 2023 5:39pm
- trout
  
  According to friends in Queenstown THOUSANDS of people have been affected. Most not serious enough to go to the doctor and have the illness notified to the health authority. The official numbers are misleading.
  
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  October 6, 2023 5:50pm
  - greybeard
    
    Have any of your Queenstown friends been affected ?
    Do they really know thousands of other Queenstown people ?
    Why have there been absolutely no reports of thousands of affected people ?
    
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    October 6, 2023 6:14pm
- kowtow
  
  Will the Otago uni “experts” who blamed the farmers and lambing season retract and apologise or the media outlets so happy to carry the smear .
  
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  October 6, 2023 8:09pm
Ghost

Another person on an ankle bracelet

The 24-year-old facing multiple charges after two people were stabbed in an Auckland dairy yesterday was on electronic bail at the time.

He is charged with two counts of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and one count of resisting police.

Article
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October 6, 2023 6:04pm
Maggie Pie

When Harry met Cindy…..
the $2.75 mil ‘donation’ is being put to good use 🙁

https://twitter.com/NZNationalParty/status/1710172805416038633
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October 6, 2023 7:51pm
- Prince
  
  The corruption will continue until they are booted out of office for good.
  
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