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starboard

Love it ! Being a landlord myself I fully understand where the advertiser is coming from.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/96251706/private-room-in-south-auckland-listed-on-airbnb-but-no-mori-no-island-people-allowed
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August 31, 2017 8:01am
- EAD_TWO
  
  In my younger days, I had some brief experience working at mid range hotel accommodation. The stereotypes below are common knowledge for those in the industry:
  
  Maoris/PIs = most likely to trash a place
  Whites = most likely to take the toiletries
  Asians = most likely to stink the place out with their cooking.
  
  The cold hard truth though is that this guy is letting out his own private property. He should be able to choose to whomever he so chooses no matter how much it “offends” some people.
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:21am
  - Postitrote
    
    The cold hard truth is under NZ law you can’t discriminate against people because of their race, age, sex, sexual orientation, family status, disability etc. You can be as racist as you want in your own home, just don’t go advertising it or you could end up with some bad media and a fine.
    
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    August 31, 2017 2:31pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Could the advertiser set criteria such as:
  – Must be employed
  – Must be a non-smoker
  – No sub-lodging to family members
  – No cooking of smokey or pungent foods
  
  It’s not the “race” but the behavior of the tenant that the landlord ought to be concerned about.
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:23am
  - KevinH
    
    Back in the 90’s I was renting a house in Sunnynook on Auckland’s North Shore.
    The owners of my house were a lovely Korean couple who also owned the house next door to us which was being rented by Chinese students.
    On a Saturday evening I was watching the box when all of a sudden I heard a massive explosion followed by shattering glass sounds.
    I looked out the window and saw the house next door was on fire. The students had been cooking on a gas ring attached to a gas bottle and a leak had ignited. Within minutes the house was fully involved with fire and some of the students had to escape out a window.
    Needless to say the house was severely damaged.
    Firefighters who arrived on the scene said that Asian students cooking on gas rings were a real problem for them, there had been several similar fires and despite the homes being fitted with conventional ovens Asian students still used dangerous gas set up’s for cooking.
    The long and short of it is that if you do rent a house to Asian students you have to spell it out to them in no uncertain terms not to use gas cookers inside the house.
    
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    August 31, 2017 9:01am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Got to have the high heat for a great stir fry! ?
      
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      August 31, 2017 9:06am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        Yes, this is true. Nothing beats a good old 25-cm double gas ring for wok ‘n roll.
        
        Unfortunately, many Chinese students (whose mums have always cooked for them) would not be familiar with gas tubes, gas regulators, O-rings and the need for regular maintenance and leak inspections.
        
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        August 31, 2017 10:33am
    - KevOB
      
      Polynesian tenants remove floors for umu cookers. (Fire heated stones.) Not all. I know of several occurrences.
      
      Another, white this time, trashed a house. Stripped walls, etc. He was found asleep in the roof by the Police.
      
      Landlords don’t get a free ride from tenants. If discrimination is not advertised it will still be practised.
      
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      August 31, 2017 11:31am
      - Kimbo
        
        There can sometimes be an issue with folks straight from the Pacific (FOBs), who, never having seen an electric oven before, light a fire in it to do their cooking. Or at least that was what I heard a number of years ago from (Polynesian) mates who were sparkies working in South Auckland…
        
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        August 31, 2017 11:35am
      - Postitrote
        
        “Polynesian tenants remove floors for umu cookers.”
        Lol I’m Polynesian, never done that. In any case isn’t it easier to dig a hole in the garden? Umus are generally reserved for special occassions anyway because it’s a way to bulk cook food. Prepping takes half a day, cooking takes another half day. Hardly the most efficient way to get dinner ready.
        
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        August 31, 2017 3:54pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Actually, a simpler way is to advertise in certain languages only. As hulle kan verstaan, dan is daar geen probleem nie. Una bella case in affitto… ( I know google translate could scupper this, but “they” wouldn’t know how to use it…)
    
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    August 31, 2017 10:11am
  - Postitrote
    
    Given it’s an Air BnB property:
    – Your employment status doesn’t matter – guests pay the bill to Air BnB in advance
    – Yes the owner can state the room/property is smoke free
    – The owner can also state how many people are allowed on the advertised rate, and additional costs for extra people
    – The owner doesn’t have to offer cooking facilities.
    Air BnB is an online community so if the owner sounds like a dick then he/she likely won’t get bookings. Something the person in the Stuff article apparently missed.
    
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    August 31, 2017 1:49pm
- Chuck Bird
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  I wonder how many who up ticked you are National supporters.
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:31am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    @ Chuck Bird,
    
    should Starboard be able to choose who stays in his own house or not?
    
    Green for yes, red for no.
    
    Or is it up to people like you to decide who he lets stay in his own private property?
    
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    August 31, 2017 8:37am
    - Muttonbird
      
      If he wants to rent his spare room out for extra cash and advertise it in public then he’ll have to adhere to some rules of decency and leave his racist hat at the door.
      
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      August 31, 2017 9:19am
    - Ed Snack
      
      That’s a false dichotomy. Should Starboard be free to lease to who he wants, yes. Is it reasonable or moral to do so purely on the colour of someone’s skin ? No.
      
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      August 31, 2017 11:01am
      - waikatogirl
        
        Everyone renting has to take their chances getting accommodation. Between houses hubby and I required a rental. Both white kiwis and presentable but that wasn’t enough to become the tenant. We secured the rental by offering to pay several months rent in advance. Lucky for the landlord we were clean, tidy and excellent tenants who left the rental as we found it on departure.
        
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        August 31, 2017 12:08pm
      - starboard
        
        I won’t take the risk. Experience tells me that if potential tenants are brown they will wreck the place. No, I am not being racist, as I said, experience has proven this fact time and time again, I simply will not rent to them. I bet you a million bucks many many many landlords THINK the same..but they won’t come out and say it.
        
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        August 31, 2017 12:18pm
  - Positan
    
    Sorry, I can’t help being a realist.
    
    Having said that, it’s both obvious as well as scientifically determinable that realists are rarer than dinosaur toenails among the hands-held-outers of Labour and the Greens.
    
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    August 31, 2017 8:44am
  - hmmokrightitis
    
    I did Chuck, and Im part Maori. And a realist, as well as a Blue / Yellow voter.
    
    Maybe thats because being a business owner I have to be a realist as well. Thats also why when I rent out my properties, I manage the process myself. Then I can be selective.
    
    My eldest came home last night with a joke. Why are there no Maori’s in Star Trek? Because they dont work in the future either.
    
    We both pissed ourselves laughing.
    
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    August 31, 2017 8:48am
    - Left Right and Centre
      
      Yeah ? Well – there’s one in Star Wars – in fact untold because he was cloned into a heap of copies. But yeah – he-larious joke.
      
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      September 1, 2017 1:00am
  - Peter
    
    How about I decide who you can have living in your house with you.
    
    All good with you, Chuck?
    
    I’ll be really compassionate. I won’t exclude anyone, no matter how bad, no matter what their history, and no matter what the risk.
    
    Still workin’ for yah?
    
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    August 31, 2017 8:49am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Peter, when it comes to renting a room in a house it is a lot different than renting a house or a flat. Certainly no one should be able to advertise houses of flats for rent stating no Maori need apply as was the case in the 1960s.
      
      The advertising for home stays are more problematic. Tourism is a big industry. Is it a good look to have home stays stating no Indians? I do not think so.
      
      I once rented a flat to an Indian couple. They were both doctors. I told them that I a problem before with Indian cooking permeating the curtains and carpets. As they seemed very good potential tenants I installed a exhaust fan in the kitchen window and they agreed to use when cooking and they did.
      
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      August 31, 2017 9:18am
      - Peter
        
        It’s up to you to decide who you want. It’s your place. That’s the point. Wasn’t it an AirBnB ad advertising a room in a house?
        
        I agree that we shouldn’t discriminate on race, although I suspect this may happen in practice, albeit more covertly than in the example given.
        
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        August 31, 2017 9:26am
  - mikenmild
    
    I don’t think it is a question of partisan political preferences, Chuck.
    The law states that it is illegal to discriminate in such a fashion when providing services. That might well contradict many persons’ beliefs and behaviours.
    Personally, if EAD wanted to advertise his services with the proviso ‘no dogs or Jews’, then I believe he should be free to do so. The remedy for such fuckwitted racism lies in its transparency and the exposure of its proponents to odium and ridicule.
    In the public sector, though, the rules should apply. I think it is a reasonable proposition that public official carry out their duties in accordance with the principles of fairness and decency that the overwhelming majority of the community support.
    
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    August 31, 2017 9:37am
  - starboard
    
    As far as Im concerned its my house and I alone will decide who rents it. People like devoid and co can go and get fkuced. I wont rent to maori, islanders, indians muslims or skinheads covered in tats. My choice. ?
    
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    August 31, 2017 10:44am
    - Nostradamus
      
      Starboard:
      
      I wont rent to…
      
      What about public servants? (Mikenmild is asking for a friend…) 🙂
      
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      August 31, 2017 11:35am
      - mikenmild
        
        He means (illegally) sub-letting space in his council bed-sit.
        
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        August 31, 2017 11:39am
      - starboard
        
        I’ve told his Mother time and time again Nosty, throw the bum out..he’s 46 for gawd’s sake and still tied to the apron strings. He needs to get out and about, go flatting, mm is very socially inept. Join the air force, did me no harm, however, Im picking mm more of a navy sorts if ya know what I mean.
        No, I wouldn’t rent to him..homosexuals, I forgot to add them to the list.
        
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        August 31, 2017 12:26pm
    - Postitrote
      
      You have every right to choose who you want to share your hovel with. But if you post an ad that states your racist checklist then expect someone to complain.
      
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      August 31, 2017 4:15pm
      - starboard
        
        Im not silly enough to advertise it..I just interview each applicant and mentally note who won’t be getting it, as with most landlords.
        
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        August 31, 2017 6:34pm
- Swifty
  
  My initial reaction was that the advertiser is Chinese.
  
  Interested in the thoughts of others.
  
  (BTW – I’ve got a spare room currently on TradeMe – my Indian flattie doesn’t want PIs, says he’s scared of them.)
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:38am
  - Padriv Ustoev
    
    That’s cause he’s racialist bro. Tell him he’ll get a smash if he is racialist.
    
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    August 31, 2017 8:58am
    - lifesgood
      
      Racist…not racialist. What on earth does racialist mean?
      
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      August 31, 2017 9:06am
      - waikatogirl
        
        Don’t mock Padriv’s English, he’s showing his diversity. ?
        
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        August 31, 2017 9:11am
      - Padriv Ustoev
        
        Just shows how privileged he is. Doesn’t even know about racialism and discrimination in New Zealand.
        
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        August 31, 2017 9:21am
    - RalphT
      
      And anyway he can’t be a racist as he’s an Indian; as we all know only white people are racist.
      
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      August 31, 2017 9:20am
      - Swifty
        
        Mate, it’s one of the great unspokens in NZ.
        
        For years I’ve knocked around with Thais, Indians, Chinese, Maori, PIs, Japs – ALL of them let slip little biases and bigotries from time to time. Some big ones too. My flatties comment a good and very recent example.
        
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        August 31, 2017 9:30am
      - Random T Person
        
        Nah it’s only actually white current/former Saffas. Didn’t you know, we invented racism. And that poor deluded woman who blew the whistle is so naive as to imagine that she left it behind in South Africa. Ha ha ha. My kiwi mates are just as racist as anyone else; some of the South Islanders, even more so.
        
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        August 31, 2017 10:49am
- Longknives
  
  I’m a Landlord as well. That’s not how I would word my Ad personally but Hey- if it’s okay for the Political Left to constantly shriek insults about ‘Old White Men’ then it seems anything goes these days..
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:51am
- Padriv Ustoev
  
  Clearly a FOB Chinese landlord. Could have been smart and just turned away those he did not want without advertising openly.
  Just like everyone else in this country does. There is a reason you don’t have whites or Chinese working at Domino’s or subway once you get an Indian manager.
  #justbeinghonest
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:55am
  - 4077th
    
    There is a great del of truth to that. More than most people know!
    
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    August 31, 2017 10:06am
  - softail 1450
    
    absolutely correct 100% padriv….
    
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    August 31, 2017 11:31am
  - Sponge
    
    As an aside to that has anyone else noticed that all “Z” petrol stations are now manned almost exclusively by Indians?
    
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    August 31, 2017 12:35pm
- Stars And Stripes
  
  Imagine if Housing New Zealand hung out the sign
  “No Maoris, Islanders or Wogs Allowed”.
  
  Half the country would be homeless.
  
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  August 31, 2017 9:54am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    I thought that they were already, if you read the papers that is.
    
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    August 31, 2017 10:39am
  - JasonJohns
    
    if you want a nigger for a neighbour vote labour
    
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    August 31, 2017 11:43am
    - sam green
      
      Nice.
      
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      August 31, 2017 2:30pm
- Mr_Blobby
  
  Is it racist to ask why you would not want maori and pacific Islanders.
  
  Surely that is the question.
  
  As a landlord you want some one who will look after the property, is that so hard to expect.
  
  You want somebody who pays the rent on time.
  
  The problem is that (polynesians) maori and Pacific Islanders do not as a general rule do either.
  
  Before you all start down ticking and calling me a racist, I am of maori decent.
  
  Maori need to pull their socks up and getting their shit together.
  
  Throwing money at the maori elite has achieved nothing, except benefit the maori elite.
  
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  August 31, 2017 10:17am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    So much Maori land that could provide housing.
    
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    August 31, 2017 10:41am
    - mikenmild
      
      Perhaps the government should confiscate some more and build those house…
      
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      August 31, 2017 10:43am
      - starboard
        
        No. Maori have been given billions of dollars from taxpayers..let them build THEIR houses for THEIR people on THEIR land.
        
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        August 31, 2017 10:51am
      - sam green
        
        They are. Check out what Mangatawa/Papamoa blocks inc have done. Awesome papakainga stuff. You do know that Maori pay tax as individuals don’t you?
        
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        August 31, 2017 6:33pm
      - sam green
        
        Just like you.
        
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        August 31, 2017 6:36pm
      - starboard
        
        Ummm, no..they take more than they give without a doubt. Stoooopid boy.
        
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        August 31, 2017 6:37pm
      - sam green
        
        I hate to ask but ……. evidence? – Apart from your own head.
        
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        August 31, 2017 6:41pm
  - Left Right and Centre
    
    Maori need to pull their socks up and getting their shit together.
    
    They don’t wear socks man . . .
    
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    September 1, 2017 1:06am
krazykiwi

Conjunctivitis.com – that’s a site for sore eyes 🙂
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August 31, 2017 8:01am
- 4077th
  
  I SEE what you did there 🙂
  
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  August 31, 2017 10:08am
Captain Mainwaring

Keep digging your hole Winnie. Keep demanding scalps. For every voter you gain out of sympathy you will burn off three others who are heartily sick of your petulance and your double standards.
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August 31, 2017 8:01am
- Kimbo
  
  But his shtick has worked since…the bottom of the Cook Strait ferry allegedly scrapped the seabed in 1986. And among his devotees, it is proof of his Messiahship. Welcome to MMP where, in the words of Mike Moore, a silver, bronze and tin medal can beat a gold. 😉
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:08am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    To be fair, most of those who believed Peters’ Cook Strait ferry myth have long since gone to meet their maker.
    
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    August 31, 2017 8:33am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Well put.
    
    We’re getting the quality of government we voted to retain in the MMP referendum.
    
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    August 31, 2017 8:33am
    - Ambergris
      
      You have it in one DP. Under MMP we are totally stuffed. Today Peter’s is making moving the Port of Auckland to the north a requirement of his support as I understand it.
      
      Whichever “dog” gets in to power there is another example of it being wagged by the “tail”.
      
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      August 31, 2017 9:14am
  - Longknives
    
    What’s this Cook Straight Ferry story?
    *I was at Primary School in 1986…
    
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    August 31, 2017 8:52am
    - krazykiwi
      
      Winston claimed that the Labour government had covered up an incident where the Cook Strait ferry ‘Aratika’ allegedly struck bottom. Fixated with bottoms since way back 🙂
      
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      August 31, 2017 9:19am
    - Kimbo
      
      @ Longknives
      
      What’s this Cook Straight Ferry story?
      *I was at Primary School in 1986…
      
      As per krazykiwi, where it all started. After losing his seat in Hunua in 1981 after just one term in Parliament as a nondescript MP, Peters came back in 1984 as MP for Tauranga with National in opposition and in disarray. The caucus was divided between McLay free-marketeers, and the pro-Muldoon rump. Peters, or more exactly his strategist Michael Laws needed a strategy to boost his profile and to further his leadership ambitions (remember, Rob Muldoon anointed him as his true successor when he said Peters had what it took to be NZ’s first Maori Prime Minister), and, in the days of Rogernomics reforms, “revealing cover-ups and corrupt business practices” was the brand they came up with.
      
      http://natlib.govt.nz/records/20902123?search%5Bi%5D%5Bsubject%5D%5B%5D=Politics%2C+Practical&search%5Bi%5D%5Bsubject%5D%5B%5D=Tax+evasion&search%5Bpath%5D=items
      
      To this day Prebble still doesn’t know if the ferry struck the bottom, but as it got Peters fixated on a supposed scandal while he (Prebble) went about selling off the Railways, that was fine by him! And everything since has been a variation on the same old bullshit. Lots of sizzle, no sausage! the Winebox, scampi, Huka Lodge, Pike River… 😉
      
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      August 31, 2017 9:59am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        Rows of ostentatious houses in Howick…
        
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        August 31, 2017 10:35am
      - Kimbo
        
        Yep. That was from 1996 after the first wave of new Asian migrants. Michael Laws has admitted that he was told “to come up with some policies that will make NZ First popular”, so Laws, the ultimate political cynic/realist looked overseas and, along with anti-crime (“laura norder”) came up with…anti-migration. And of course it was popular with the blue collar working class and Maori, and also the older Pakeha anti-1984 reforms brigade, i.e, Rob’s Mob…especially when the media made a big play of it and gave him lots of free publicity, just as they did with Donald Trump.
        
        But having made a clean sweep of them in 1996, Winston now decides it’s time to throw the Maori seats under the bus…
        
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        August 31, 2017 10:42am
- fluffykiwi
  
  Winnie last night showed he was an old school politician, he is now well past his use by date. His slurred words, the hard to suppress amusement from all the others in the debate when he rambled on. James Shaw’s face was a picture when Winston was rambling on.
  Winnie knows of course that the News Media will only cherry pick what he said, that the people in the audience will move on from the night etc.,
  I thought that James Shaw came across well as did David Seymour and next I thought Joyce, probably to some extent handicapped by the fact that he is the incumbent Minister.
  Robbo and then Winnie. Robbo is arrogant, “I know best” for us all. No room for individuality in his book, our way or the highway.
  The farmers will be happy that he came out with an Emissions tax on farmers and then hopefully they will have a trading scheme up and running before the end of their first term, but the tax will come first. Lucky old farmers
  So last night from labour it was Tax as usual, let’s do this.
  Seymour needs to treat Peters as irrelevant, regardless of how the votes fall. Seymour can tell a good message and needs to stick to that message. He is clear that the country needs to keep going the way it is and Act is there to help National with that.
  James Shaw is in the wrong Party, or he needs to get the Greens back to being an environmental party who can work well with any other party. The Socialist label does not help them, keep out of poverty etc., He was articulate and a good debater from the parts that I saw.
  Joyce was clear and concise but struggled not to laugh when Winnie was rabbiting on.
  Winnie is really a problem actually for all the country and political parties.
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:10am
  - Paul Marsden
    
    Seymour is the young, fitter warrior against the drunken, tired old Peters (and charlatan), who is clearly passed his use by date.
    
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    August 31, 2017 9:20am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Yes, and the overpaid superannuation story serves as a very good reminder that Peters is now 72 years old. In all probability, years of drinking, smoking and late, late nights have aged him far more than his 72 years.
      
      On a number of occasions in the last few months he has looked very shaky in Parliament when holding up documents to table or leak. His hands tremble quite noticeably. I seriously wonder if he has the early stages of Parkinson’s Disease, and if that’s the case, maybe he should just bow out and enjoy his retirement without the pressures of public expectation.
      
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      August 31, 2017 10:39am
      - Rachael Membery
        
        His partner must be a saint of a woman.
        
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        August 31, 2017 10:43am
      - Kimbo
        
        His partner must be a saint of a woman.
        
        I’m sure Peters’ current partner knew exactly what she was getting into, and if she didn’t then she has no excuse for failing to conduct due diligence! 😉
        
        “Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac”. And he has a certain charm and a boyish smile that I’m advised women find attractive. Plus women are, statistically, the more faithful and abundant followers of Messiahs…
        
        Hey, I don’t profess to make the rules on how you chicks operate, I just report them! 😉
        
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        August 31, 2017 10:47am
      - waikatogirl
        
        He would find it impossible to leave the limelight. He would hate the perceived irrelevancy to look forward to.
        
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        August 31, 2017 12:18pm
    - Gabby
      
      And Seemore Coq will never grow old, though his data may corrupt.
      
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      August 31, 2017 12:37pm
    - Liberty
      
      Peter campaign reminds me of Muldoon’s 1984 election.
      His good bye tour.
      
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      August 31, 2017 12:58pm
      - fluffykiwi
        
        Peters role model.
        
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        August 31, 2017 3:22pm
- oldpark
  
  Yes agree methinks he protests too much.
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:23am
- timmydevo
  
  I’m running out of people to vote for.
  
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  August 31, 2017 9:24am
G152

Who benefits from winnies whining?
Winnie, that’s who..
Dobbed himself in and blames every-one else..
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August 31, 2017 8:05am
- ztev
  
  National benefits ! he left the pack decades ago but instead of withering and dying in the desert he formed his smaller pack who compete with nationals voters
  
  Any decrease in NZF party vote would lead to 75% of them going directly to national.
  
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  August 31, 2017 9:13am
  - Happychappy
    
    Well we will find out tonight ztev when the Colmar Poll arrives before the Leaders debate and it should factor in whether your right as it has been running from 26th august to 31st of august so could show what sort of picture the voter can see.
    
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    August 31, 2017 9:30am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    “Any decrease in NZF party vote would lead to 75% of them going directly to national.”
    
    Good.
    
    TWO TICKS BLUE !!!
    
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    August 31, 2017 9:47am
    - Gabby
      
      TULIXPU !!!! !!!! !!!! !!!! !!!
      
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      August 31, 2017 9:55am
      - rangitoto
        
        Jacinda says she will tax you for licking PU.
        
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        August 31, 2017 11:09am
    - KevOB
      
      ☑️☑️
      
      And some for Gabby
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      August 31, 2017 11:40am
      - Gabby
        
        Tulixpu
        
        And some for Ol’ Blather
        
        Tulixpu
        
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        August 31, 2017 12:35pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    Winnie is a labourite at heart. His sister said in a doco about him that Winston only joined the National party cause he liked to be on the winning side.
    
    Old dogs don’t change their spots.
    
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    August 31, 2017 9:55am
holysheet

Policy on the hoof again?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/96340312/Winston-Peters-promises-shift-of-Auckland-port-to-Northland

Goofy will not be happy.
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August 31, 2017 8:12am
- cmm
  
  Cool, so all those containers need to be trucked 150km along relatively skinny roads from Marsden Pt to Auckland.
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:29am
  - Muttonbird
    
    https://au.res.keymedia.com/files/image/HRMNZ/kiwirail.jpg
    
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    August 31, 2017 8:38am
    - Muttonbird
      
      For those who object to the image of a train. There’s two drivers in that cab doing the work of 60+ meth soaked truckies.
      
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      August 31, 2017 9:21am
      - krazykiwi
        
        Couldn’t see any ‘meth soaked truckies’.
        
        What I did notice is the image comes from an Australian source, which reminded me of how the last outgoing Labour government spitefully sold Kiwirail to “spend it all” before the incoming National government was left to pick up the pieces.
        
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        August 31, 2017 10:04am
      - Ed Snack
        
        Yes, and take 3 times as long, costs twice as much, and has 1/20th or so of the capacity, plus takes two truck transfers anyway as the railway doesn’t go to the proposed port yet anyway.
        
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        August 31, 2017 11:33am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    A port should be near the sources/destinations of the freight. Northland doesn’t produce/consume nearly as much freight as Auckland, so there will have to be long-distance transport (and upgrading of roading/rail) for a Northland port to be viable.
    Alternatively, grow the population of Whangarei by 10-fold.
    
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    August 31, 2017 8:40am
    - Dafixeruppa
      
      Wow, I am amazed at the amount of product that Tauranga uses, considering it does more business than Ports of Auckland.
      
      With a GOOD rail system and this is where Rail can work well, and a landing point in the centres where the trains can unload to trucks for short haul, then a port can be positioned anywhere on the coast that has a deep water access.
      
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      August 31, 2017 9:32am
      - waikatogirl
        
        That’s exactly how Tauranga Port operates with a large inland port currently being built on the eastern edge of Hamilton. The inland port is being fast tracked under government legislation deemed an economic infrastructure of significance.
        
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        August 31, 2017 10:00am
      - sam green
        
        Thanks to the vision of Tainui.
        
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        August 31, 2017 2:35pm
    - Paulus
      
      Tauranga Port has the most efficient container throughput in the country by a large amount over Auckland Port.
      It operates effectively two separate ports, a container one and a dry cargo one, each on 24 hours and has a deep port which now take the largest containers.
      It has many hectares of empty and available land still.
      It is not near residential in the same way that Auckland is.
      As a shareholder the efficiency is judged by its share price.
      The return on Shareholders funds of Auckland is pitifully low and commercially unacceptable.
      It is Union Controlled.
      It is Council Owned.
      By selling it the Council could help reduce the billions of dollars debt that the ratepayers have.
      But it is a very left wing Council led by a lying twit.
      
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      August 31, 2017 10:57am
  - Colville
    
    Marsden Point to Auckland rail line?
    
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    August 31, 2017 8:42am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      We will need dual track, on which freight trains can run at 100 km/h.
      The rail will have to skirt around or tunnel through the Brynderwyns (at great cost). Will the Auckland rail terminal be in the CBD or in Manukau?
      
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      August 31, 2017 9:24am
      - Tarquin North
        
        The rail link will go from Marsden Point to Oakleigh, they already own the land for that. The line then runs south to Maungaturoto and on down to Wellsford. Apparently the track isn’t in the best condition and there are tunnels and bridges that would need upgrading. What we really need is a new highway and then bring the rail in later. On a slightly different note, once a year they do a trip where you travel from Auckland to Whangarei on the quick cat and come back by train. I’ve never done it but apparently it’s an amazing ride through the back blocks with views to die for. Must do it one day, it’s a great tourist idea
        
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        August 31, 2017 9:52am
  - jcuk
    
    NO NO NO the rails should be upgraded for the job instead of being neglected.
    
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    August 31, 2017 8:47am
- m@tt
  
  I can’t stand Winston but this needs to happen, and inevitably will happen when more people start to work out that a port of this size sitting in your CBD is an exceedingly dumb idea, not to mention a terrible property investment.
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:45am
  - cmm
    
    CBDs are a terrible idea. They made a lot os sense in the old days before the telephone etc.
    
    Nowadays we have Skype etc – why do people even want to go to CBDs?
    
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    August 31, 2017 8:47am
    - m@tt
      
      Agreed, yet they still exist.
      
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      August 31, 2017 8:49am
    - Muttonbird
      
      Real world face to face contact is important in business obviously.
      
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      August 31, 2017 9:25am
      - Gabby
        
        That’ll be why all the foreign owned businesses are doing so badly.
        
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        August 31, 2017 9:53am
  - Inandout
    
    But if the land is freed up won’t the Ngati Whatis claim it because they once gathered pipis there?
    
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    August 31, 2017 9:00am
    - Muttonbird
      
      Hoping attitudes like this die out when you do. Which can’t be far off.
      
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      August 31, 2017 9:26am
    - lifesgood
      
      What makes my blood boil is that Ngati Whatua came down from the Kaipara and stole their Auckland land off another tribe originally living here. I guess it’s alright when maori do it.
      
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      August 31, 2017 10:10am
      - fluffykiwi
        
        The Northern Ngapuhi tribe took slaves to do their work, unfortunately they don’t realise that slavery has been outlawed and they are still waiting around for other people to do their work.
        
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        August 31, 2017 2:52pm
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Reclaimed too, isn’t it?
      
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      August 31, 2017 10:48am
    - fluffykiwi
      
      Up North the Tribe is still deciding which hapu is in charge of settlement negotiations. So imagine the arguments over which pipi bed was whose.
      
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      August 31, 2017 2:50pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Tauranga is just as close, and can service Waikato too. Scale is very important for efficient port operations.
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:54am
  - KevinH
    
    Captain Cook wharf could be redeveloped and made more accessible to Aucklanders. Presently it is used as an imported car facility and is mainly a car park most of the time. It does seem to be a waste of prime waterfront land and should be shifted elsewhere.
    
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    August 31, 2017 9:23am
- Paul Marsden
  
  I think Winnie saw this vision at the bottom of his whisky glass. Move the port out of Auckland and suddenly, nearly half the population of NZ will be paying more for almost nearly everything they consume
  
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  August 31, 2017 9:25am
  - Dafixeruppa
    
    which is not a bad thing, increase in GST, increase in profits for transport firms paying more tax, increase the fuel tax in Auckland as well, then add a buy or sell your house tax, an additional water tax, a pollution tax, a sitting in traffic tax, a “i’m a stuck up numpty” tax and the just because I can tax and people might just start to realise that there are other parts of the country that are better to live in.
    Businesses that don’t need to be centralised can start to telecommute using the new UFB and the rest of NZ can grown while Auckland shrinks.
    
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    August 31, 2017 9:35am
- Bongo
  
  Not a bad suggestion. Think of the housing free’d up in Auckland with the Wharfies and others being relocated up to Whangarei. Or will their be redundancies? What will the Unions think? Might help unemployment in Northland though. Wonder who the NZF candidates are up that way & if their chances need a boost?
  
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  August 31, 2017 9:29am
- MarkF
  
  An interesting idea but has anyone looked at the logistics? Let’s start with 250,000 cars and 900,000 TEU (20″ containers or for this exercise 450,000 40″ units) that come through Auckland each year. A railcar filled with a 40″ box would be, say about 13.5mts long. Now if you could fit 6 cars on the same railcar that would be about 42000 railcars and 450,000 container cars. At 13.5m long that is 6,600 km of railcars. If a train could be 1km long then that would be 6,600 trains per year or 18 trains per day, in each direction (36 trains or one every 40mins) as the railcars need to get back to the port. If the trains have to be shorter then it just gets worse! All on a single line and how do they get through Auckland sharing with the commuter rail service.
  
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  August 31, 2017 10:37am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Very well said MarkF, and for those pushing Tauranga as an option, how much land is available at that port and have they thought about all those trains sharing the line with Tooth Fairy’s high-speed passenger trains?
    
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    August 31, 2017 11:20am
krazykiwi

Hoopla aside, Ardern faces toughest test in election leaders’ debate intones Soper.

The article is headed with Taxinda enduring a meeting with Wesley Intermediate students on the campaign trail. It looks tough out there.

I hope she’s given the blowtorch treatment. This piece of flaky pastry would lead NZ, and so far the fawning media have failed to do their duty.
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August 31, 2017 8:14am
- Paulus
  
  Did not know that Wesley Intermediate schoolchildren had the vote !
  Perhaps Cindy will change that too.
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:19am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    It’s no problem. While Jacinda has been visiting schools, Helen Clark is preparing for the election debate.
    
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    August 31, 2017 8:55am
    - fluffykiwi
      
      Is Helen at the dentist getting her teeth fixed, what about the wig, do we think the disguise will fool the TV audience.
      
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      August 31, 2017 2:53pm
  - Gabby
    
    Most of their parents do puller.
    
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    August 31, 2017 9:18am
    - softail 1450
      
      what do you use to get the shit taste from your mouth gaggy ?
      
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      August 31, 2017 11:55am
      - Gabby
        
        I find Listerine or a mint flavoured gum takes away the taste of your exhaust, but the spectacle of you wobbling along on a bike for old ladies with haemorrhoids continues to burn, softcock 14mm.
        
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        August 31, 2017 12:16pm
  - Dafixeruppa
    
    Wasn’t that one of the Labour policies? dropping the voting age to 15?
    
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    August 31, 2017 9:36am
    - mikenmild
      
      Should be twelve, or even lower if an individual can pass a civics exam.
      
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      August 31, 2017 9:43am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Yep; Labour and the Greens love that idea. And their mates from NZEI and PPTA will oblige by producing thousands of obedient comrades to fatten the Left’s vote.
      
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      August 31, 2017 9:43am
      - mikenmild
        
        It’s a miracle you came through those indoctrination camps unscathed and still managed to develop such a clear sense of which political parties are nice and which are nasty.
        Is there any special trick you used to avoid becoming an ‘obedient comrade’?
        
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        August 31, 2017 9:51am
      - Dafixeruppa
        
        Nah can’t you see he is scarred?
        Having a working brain and seeing the indoctrination for what it is, is one of the biggest reasons for people to not vote blindly.
        
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        August 31, 2017 10:20am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        Yes mikenmild. Norm Kirk did it for me. I went to the Labour Party campaign opening at the Palmerston North Opera House in 1972 (my 6th form year) even though I was too young to vote at that point.
        
        Kirk promised that he wouldn’t let politics interfere with sport, but months after he was elected cancelled the 1973 Springbok Tour. I decided then and there that the Labour Party was not for me, doubtless to the disappointment of the Labour Party hacks who had taught me up until that point.
        
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        August 31, 2017 10:46am
      - mikenmild
        
        Glad to see that, unlike John Key, you can remember where you stood on supporting racist rugby tours. Interesting issue to be a formative one.
        
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        August 31, 2017 10:50am
- kowtow
  
  Can’t wait for the claims of “misogyny” in tomorrow’s papers and commentariat.
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:30am
- Longknives
  
  Day after Day all we see is pictures and footage of Saint Jacinda our new Messiah singing,dancing and holding hands with Children.
  She is getting the biggest Free ride ever from any Politician in NZ Political History…(It’s staggering how many people are being duped by this)
  
  Attack this fake in the Debates National (The ‘Misogyny’ and ‘Old White Men’ shrieks are going to come anyway from the Left- It’s inevitable)
  Absolutely destroy her- Grill her about ‘Comrades, Comrades, Comrades’…Grill her about ‘Homebrew’ and whethers he condones rape etc etc
  I honestly think she would fall to pieces under pressure..
  
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  August 31, 2017 9:00am
Paulus

Can it be assumed that one thing good that might come from Prime Minister Taxinderella and approved by Winston, is that Helen Clark will be appointed back to New York as New Zealand’s Representative at the UN – that would piss them at the UN.
Or will she stay and socially control the Country again from behind with her front doing as she and the Unions say.
She is still bitter with both the UN and New Zealand for rejecting her.
This way she will get her UTU as Cinders will not be able to hold her back.
Clark,assisted by Robertson, are way ahead of her politically. Clark still has a fine brain (and H2 will not be far behind).
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August 31, 2017 8:15am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  If glove puppet Jacinda wins, then this will be Helen’s 4th term. Everything from the disembowelment of Little, to the slight of hand with the “we’ll introduce tax increases when the working groups (that Helen or Cullen will chair) recommend them” policy approach is classic Clark.
  
  Clark has beaten Mr 21% once and she knows exactly how to do it again.
  
  It’s our own version of Back to the Future.
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:37am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    I’d go a step further that that DP. If Labour leads the next government, New Zealand will become a Republic, and guess who our first president will be.
    
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    August 31, 2017 9:47am
- sooty
  
  Any one heard about H2 since she went to NY?
  edit Did she come home too?
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:39am
  - lifesgood
    
    And what about Peter these days?
    
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    August 31, 2017 9:08am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      He was at the Labour ‘launch’.
      
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      August 31, 2017 10:51am
  - softail 1450
    
    she’s probably in California transitioning .
    
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    August 31, 2017 11:58am
- Gabby
  
  Surely, comrades, you don’t want Jones back?
  
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  August 31, 2017 9:21am
Happychappy

I wish Winston would hurry up and get his Lawyers and investigators into the job of finding out who the leaker was of his details that saw him have to pay thousands of dollars back to MSD. I do believe that there is every chance that Peters story is a beat up to cover up his and Shane Jones poor polling in the North and to drag some of those voters back to give him more power. Winston was not going to the Queenstown Debate a few days ago until he got the reaction that he wanted from this story, now he making the Port of Auckland a bottom line at the cost of three or four billion to shift it to the North. So you look at what he has to gain and what National has to lose and you should see this as another manufactured Election beat up by Winston First.
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August 31, 2017 8:15am
- Paulus
  
  Can he sue himself, or is this another one of Winston’s Piss and Wind ?
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:16am
- SteveRemmington
  
  “I wish Winston would hurry up and get his Lawyers and investigators into the job of finding out who the leaker was”
  
  What would Cam Slater have to write about then?
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:20am
  - VicParking
    
    Can Cam write?
    
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    August 31, 2017 8:28am
    - oldgolfer
      
      Yes, but not very well.
      
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      August 31, 2017 8:46am
    - SteveRemmington
      
      Yes I perhaps should have said, publish on behalf instead of write.
      
      I see he is on fire this morning. Three anti-National posts up before 8.30am. Still 3 and a bit weeks to go before election day. I hope he doesn’t peak too early.
      
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      August 31, 2017 8:49am
      - CHFR1
        
        Can anyone please advise what he thinks is the end result of this strategy, does he want a Labour government?
        I have to say his site has gone full retard recently and is quite unreadable. It is funny as I remember how he went off at Little Green Footballs (a US political blog) when the owner went liberal but he seems to be doing the same thing.
        
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        August 31, 2017 11:52am
  - oldpark
    
    Only about himself,he has turned renegade with his many many split personalities,and needs some more councelling,and a holiday back in the country he was born in, Fiji.
    
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    August 31, 2017 9:21am
- cmm
  
  Well they already have Plan B in place for when they can’t find any leaks via National. They already have some people in the MSD in the slot for the next target:
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/96340317/shane-jones-takes-aim-at-social-development-boss-writings-on-the-wall
  
  The leak is only a small part of the story. And Winston is leaker-dealer-in-chief, so he has no moral high ground.
  
  The main story appears to be this, why couldn’t WP resist just taking a wee bit more?
  
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  August 31, 2017 11:02am
lastmanstanding

Sadly due to at least 50% of the voting population having the intellect and mentality the depth of a puddle Luigi Jacinda and Shaw will still keep getting votes.

Only the discerning voters with a brain will vote two ticks blue.

One ceases to be amazed at the shallowness of the supporters so easily bribed and like the earning poor so easily conned out of keeping some of their hard earned taxes.

I mean your poor you are on PAYE and Jacinda has told you ‘forget about the extra $13 a week. We’re keeping that sucker so we can bribe you and your dumb arse mates”

Cause thats Tooth Fairys message to them.
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August 31, 2017 8:16am
- KevOB
  
  ☑️☑️
  
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  August 31, 2017 11:44am
  - Gabby
    
    Tulixpu
    
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    August 31, 2017 12:09pm
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Don’t blame the voters. It’s a failure of leadership by National. All of this is happening because Key never promoted personal choice and responsibility as the core value that separates his party from the left.
  
  National won the last three elections with personality, not principles. Now Labour is doing the same. National is trying to buy the election but Labour’s bribes are bigger. National deserves to lose but, sadly, I doubt they will learn the right lessons as a result.
  
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  August 31, 2017 12:26pm
Dafixeruppa

So I read a comment on something in the toilet paper this morning… I think you guys call it Stuff…
anyway the comment was something along the lines of “The left think the right are stupid and the right think the left are stupid, but neither realise they are both correct.

It reminds me of the old tongue twister:
A skunk sat on a stump
The stump thunk the skunk stunk, but the skunk thunk the stump stunk.

Actually my thought for the morning.
All politicians must be able to recite it 5 times at speed and get it correct before they are allowed to speak in a debate.
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August 31, 2017 8:17am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Both the Alt-Right and Alt-Left are totalitarian identity-politic ideologies.
  
  But then, the fratricidal tendencies of competing socialist ideologies are well documented in history.
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:43am
  - Gabby
    
    Whereas the right eat their young.
    
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    August 31, 2017 9:25am
    - Dafixeruppa
      
      sauteed with a dash of vinegar… need to become as sour as possible
      
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      August 31, 2017 9:38am
    - softail 1450
      
      after they have been bbq’d by the left gaggy.
      
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      August 31, 2017 12:02pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      And the “left” eat the young of others? No?
      
      Remember, under any totalitarian paradise, it is every man for himself.
      
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      August 31, 2017 12:19pm
- calendar girl
  
  Dafixeruppa, that would require Winston to have three days on the wagon!
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:46am
brett68

If National really do want to take out Peters all they have to do is state that they won’t go into coalition with NZ First.

His vote would collapse as all those rural folk he’s been courting would then realize a vote for Peters is a vote for Taxinda and the Greens.
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August 31, 2017 8:17am
- Souvlaki
  
  Yep…but that takes true cojones…which National lack ! ( well..they may HAVE them…but undescended & wizened);-)
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:28am
oldpark

Sounds like the apprentice defacto leader of the Lie-bour Party Ardern spent the last two days taking instructions from the real leader Helen Clark how to run NZ,yes she is back,Clark knows Ardern is a light weight,and couldn’t run a country even worse a bath.
Clark that paragon of virtue who ran NZ with an iron fist for nine long years,until John Key and Bill English put a stop to her jackboot type of leadership.
Clark will bring her apprentice Ardern up to date,on how her and Liebour dumped the Airforce, the Privy Council,the Hospital waiting lists,also the homes for the handicapped,bribed the voters with so called free student loans,and saddling the NZ Taxpayer with billions of dollars of needless debt.Not forgetting the huge personal high tax rates,inflicted in her reign.
Her instructions to her apprentice Ardern, will be more of the same. Although telling the real truth and agenda perhaps to Ardern,is that the overall game plan for Lie-bour/Green Parties and Clarks unfinished business is to turn NZ into the Socialist Republic of The South Pacific.
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August 31, 2017 8:19am
- Padriv Ustoev
  
  Reminds me of Star Wars. Darth Klark trains her shadowy apprentice Darth Taxinda. Taxinda faces off against the Jedi but is defeated. The Jedi don’t find out who was behind the real assault on personal freedom and financial responsibility unroll the next movie comes out. And only O’Bill One Ken-English senses a disturbance in the force that he has encountered long ago and mistakenly thought he defeated.
  
  What an epic. Practically writes itself.
  
  Stay tuned for ” Labour Strikes Back” and ” The Return of the John-di”.
  
  In the last episode John Key comes out of retirement and duels the ageing Darth Klark on top of the Bee Hive in a climatic fight scene.
  
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  August 31, 2017 9:38am
  - Fletch
    
    “I will make it legal…”
    
    http://oi66.tinypic.com/34e6jy0.jpg
    
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    August 31, 2017 11:37am
  - Brigitte
    
    Fly it won’t, afraid I am.
    
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    August 31, 2017 11:37am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    “Squeeeee!”
    
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    August 31, 2017 12:21pm
kowtow

The world’s gone mad.

“Four carnival revellers who “blacked up” to look like a Jamaican bobsleigh team are being investigated by police for racism.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/30/police-investigate-racist-coolrunnings-carnival-float/
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August 31, 2017 8:31am
- EAD_TWO
  
  I wouldn’t say “gone mad” – it is more correctly described as people’s minds have been deliberately poisoned.
  
  For what end and by whom is the real question…
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:43am
- Padriv Ustoev
  
  Yes the well known racist propoganda movie “Cool Runnings”
  Hitler personally approved the script and the budget was crowd funded from the KKK.
  
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  August 31, 2017 9:03am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  What ever happened to “freedom of expression”?
  
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  August 31, 2017 12:22pm
  - Shawn Herles
    
    “What ever happened to “freedom of expression”?”
    
    In today’s liberal society you have the right to pot, porn and perversion. You have no right to freedom of expression.
    
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    August 31, 2017 12:28pm
VicParking

The bright ideas are coming out from Red radio this morning.
No 1. Hangover day off – paid
No 2. Pay people $20 to vote
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August 31, 2017 8:37am
- krazykiwi
  
  No 1. Winston could have had 30+ years of hangover leave, if this had been a thing way back.
  
  No 2. Reminded me of Alas Smith & Jones : News for the Elderly
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:57am
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Peter Dunne’s Greatest Contributions to NZ

Nicely summed up by the Civilian – worth the effort to plough through it all – just to get a measure of the ‘greatness’ of the little fellow.
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August 31, 2017 8:40am
cmm

Why are the MSM running so many articles about Princess Di?

Is it to boost the interest in Young Pretty Women and thereby make Jacinda look good? They’ve already used Princess Di’s “The People’s Princess” moniker on Jacinda.
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August 31, 2017 8:45am
- SGA
  
  Is it to boost the interest in Young Pretty Women and thereby make Jacinda look good?
  
  Yes, it might be part of some fiendish conspiracy.
  On the other hand, it might have something to do with today being the 20th anniversary of her death, and the media have been planning a retrospective for some months.
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:53am
- kowtow
  
  Northern hemisphere “silly season” , so the 20 th anniversary must be an editors’ dream to fill the empty spaces in his paper to fill the empty spaces in the heads of the thickos interested in that sort of thing.
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:56am
- Gabby
  
  Dark forces indeed, that could assassinate a princess in a Paris tunnel 20 years to the day before thrusting their personable Manchurian candidate into the fawning fake media spotlight.
  Forces at work in the world today so powerful and far-reaching that your daily Rocket Fuel Malt Liquor run is fraught with hidden menace at every turn. DAYYUM.
  
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  August 31, 2017 9:32am
- G152
  
  It’s their guilty conscience.
  Their constant harassment of Princess Dia even to photographing her dying in the car.
  Then to accuse the royal family of being ‘heartless’ and not rushing back to London because the media demanded it of a grieving family.
  Now they’re just fake media and should be shut down
  
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  August 31, 2017 9:59am
- Biscuit
  
  cmm, I call it Lazy Journalism.
  
  Oooh, it’s August – that was the month Princess Di died. Let’s regurgitate the same stories we’ve run each and every year since she carked it.
  
  September is just as bad with 9/11…
  
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  August 31, 2017 10:59am
VicParking

WO must have spent all night sucking lemons as he came out this morning with his first three blogs spitting fire and brimstone at Bill English. Pictures of Bill in underwear, in a guillotine and Cam declaring himself the chosen one “I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings, but you haven’t been listening to me. Perhaps you will start now.”
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August 31, 2017 8:47am
- mandk
  
  Why do you bother going there?
  Slater (like that Gabby creature who posts here) is best ignored.
  
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  August 31, 2017 9:05am
  - VicParking
    
    For a laugh. ???
    
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    August 31, 2017 10:51am
  - KevOB
    
    You can get into his site for free (without all the bile for blocking etc) through using his foreign link http://www.connorpost.com/
    
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    August 31, 2017 11:48am
    - G152
      
      Frankly why bother.
      He’s Peters puppy now
      
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      August 31, 2017 1:18pm
- Swifty
  
  After years of daily viewing, I won’t visit him now – I don’t even want to add to his viewer stats.
  
  Good luck to the man – but I come away from that site now feeling unclean.
  
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  August 31, 2017 9:36am
- oldpark
  
  Wonder how Slater would look with a huge artificial clowns nose,he has quickly become ,the clown of the country,the more he attempts to denigrate our PM with his lies rumours and innuendos including the National Party,the more potential votes they will get.
  Nicky Hager will be celebrating daily ,Slater is vindicating and only confirming what he put in his book “Dirty Politics”.
  Maybe Nicky should go for a revival and a reprint of his book.
  
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  August 31, 2017 10:18am
  - VicParking
    
    like this ?
    
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    August 31, 2017 10:53am
- Biscuit
  
  Vic, Cam bleats on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on about the National Party rejecting him that you almost (almost!) log for the return of sane anti-National criticism from the likes of Kim Dotcrim…
  
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  August 31, 2017 11:03am
  - Kimbo
    
    Maybe someone should tell Cam that the National Party are simply taking his advice:
    
    Whaleoil’s Rules of Politics…
    
    3. Never hug a corpse – it smells and you end up smelling like the corpse too
    
    https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2011/10/whaleoils-rules-of-politics/
    
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    August 31, 2017 11:51am
- MrTips
  
  Bad news eh? https://youtu.be/2houSdLjKBw
  
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  August 31, 2017 12:40pm
- Piniwi
  
  Funny to watch. Myth busting WO style. Thinks leaks could not come from a disgruntled union employee in WINZ or IRD. He’s dreaming. They are like the proverbial “Alice’s Restaurant”. You can get anything you want. Anybody who has worked in one will know how easy it is to get information. Even worse now as more staff seem to have English as a second language. As most know they may be able to speak English but seldom truly understand it.
  
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  August 31, 2017 2:49pm
- VicParking
  
  WO has turned into an obsessive compulsive nutcase. Even in his blog about the “dodgy socialist dam” being cancelled he could not refrain from having a go at the PM.
  “The business case doesn’t stack up and there was no plan B. The dam is as dead as Bill English’s long term career as PM.”
  
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  August 31, 2017 3:31pm
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Lowest property sales volumes since 2011 … Newshub

http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/money/2017/08/lowest-property-sales-volumes-since-2011.html

The heat has well and truly come out of the property market, with July sales volumes at their lowest levels in six years.

Last year real estate agents were trumpeting the property boom in Hamilton – as investors looked for new pastures outside of an over-priced Auckland.

But now Core Logic’s Head of Research, Nick Goodall, says its popularity is waning.

“We’ve certainly seen a reduction in investors buying there. Value growth in Hamilton has meant that gross yield has reduced”, he said. VIEW & READ more via hyperlink above …
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August 31, 2017 8:51am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Hugh, would you be throwing good money at a house when the Jacinda Party’s about to crash property values?
  
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  August 31, 2017 9:17am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Captain Mainwaring … The inflating housing bubble days have been over for quite some time … and buyers and their financiers have no intention of paying bubble prices any more.
    
    After near 13 solid years of public discussion of these issues, most Kiwis today know that housing bubble pricing is just poverty creation … for themselves and their families.
    
    Welcome to the real world Captain Mainwaring !
    
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    August 31, 2017 10:05am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
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      We are awaiting the TV 1 Colmar Brunton poll later today … following the Whangarei one from late last week … which illustrated a massive swing to Labour since 2014 on the most important Party vote … …
      
      High-profile NZ First recruit Shane Jones lagging behind National’s Shane Reti in battle for Whangarei | 1 NEWS NOW | TVNZ
      
      https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/high-profile-nz-first-recruit-shane-jones-lagging-behind-nationals-reti-in-battle-whangarei
      
      In the battle to win the Whangarei seat, a new Q+A Colmar Brunton poll reveals voters are strongly leaning towards National candidate Dr Shane Reti over New Zealand First’s Shane Jones, who is hoping for a political comeback. … VIEW & READ more via hyperlink above …
      
      Housing Affordability Fires Up New Zealand’s Voters – Bloomberg
      
      https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-29/kiwis-defeated-by-crazy-house-prices-create-vote-battleground
      
      • Nation’s home ownership has fallen to lowest level since 1951
      
      • Ardern’s resurgent opposition party makes housing key issue
      
      When Olivia Hollywood began hunting for her first house in Wellington early last year, she was optimistic that half a million New Zealand dollars ($362,000) would get her on the property ladder.
      
      After eight months attending packed viewings and watching homes auctioned at vastly inflated prices, Hollywood and her partner abandoned their search. Since then, average prices in the Wellington area have gained another 13 percent to exceed NZ$607,000. The couple is among thousands of Kiwis for whom home ownership is looking increasingly distant.
      
      “It was frustrating for us because we did expect it was going to be quite easy,” said Hollywood, 24. “We decided it was just too crazy for us and we’d rather sit tight for a couple of years and save up a bit more.”
      
      As ownership falls to the lowest since 1951, housing affordability is firing up voters ahead of New Zealand’s general election on Sept. 23. The government is under attack for failing to respond to price surges that have forced many to ditch their property dreams. New Labour leader Jacinda Ardern has made housing a key issue, helping restore the main opposition party in opinion polls and leaving the election too close to call. … read more via hyperlink above …
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      … Labour’s broad based approach to affordable new housing production …
      
      Housing – New Zealand Labour Party
      
      http://www.labour.org.nz/housing
      
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      August 31, 2017 10:09am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        WHY HAS THE NATIONAL – LED GOVERNMENT FAILED WITH THE HOUSING ISSUE ? …
        
        In my view the ‘tipping point’ for the housing issue in New Zealand was the Newshub Reid Research poll of 28 May 2016 …
        
        Opinion: John Key’s Govt has failed New Zealand on housing | Newshub
        
        http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2016/05/opinion-john-keys-govt-has-failed-new-zealand-on-housing.html
        
        … with Keys disastrous Sainsbury interview and the NZ Heralds ‘Mood of the Boardroom’ that followed.
        
        Not surprisingly Captain ‘Costa Concordia’ Key decided to desert the sinking ship September … bailing 5 December with a bunch of bull (check out the drivel the guy talked at the media conference … link on my website within the GONE GONE GOING section),
        
        Then too, the political antics of the political weapon of mass destruction Nick Smith as well. No wonder they are keeping him in hiding during the election campaign !
        
        September 2016 polling by Labour (reported by Rob Stock of Fairfax March 2017 ) was also instructive …
        
        The NZ homeowners who hate high house prices are revealed in Labour polling | Stuff.co.nz
        
        http://i.stuff.co.nz/business/money/90244287/the-nz-homeowners-who-hate-high-house-prices-are-revealed-in-labour-polling
        
        Much of the above stuff is neatly set out within the GONE GONE GOING section of my archival website http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org … with the 5 Important Graphs at the top.
        
        What a pity John Key and his National – led Government failed with the housing issue out of the 2008 election !
        
        The price for this political failure by the National – led Government will be paid … deservedly … on election day 23 September.
        
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        August 31, 2017 10:48am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        Trolling again Hugh? You posted the story about Olivia Hollywood yesterday.
        
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        August 31, 2017 10:53am
      - All_on_Red
        
        Olivia Hollywood is either too fussy or full of shit.
        A quick Trade Me search shows 903 houses currently for sale in Wellington under $500k.
        
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        August 31, 2017 10:55am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        The Bloomberg article of yesterday is enormusly important / significant.
        
        Wellingtons Median Multiple is 5.9 … severely unaffordable.
        
        For markets to rate as affordable they must be at or below 3.0 times annual ghousehold earnings / median multile.
        
        Refer to the Definition of an Affordable Housing Market at http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org .
        
        I outlined the purpose of the Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey within a SMH / The Age article February 2011 …
        
        Report: housing affordability out of sync with incomes
        
        https://www.domain.com.au/news/report-housing-affordability-out-of-sync-with-incomes-20110202-1ad3m/
        
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        August 31, 2017 11:18am
      - Happychappy
        
        Can you put the figures from 1951 of how many homes were owned and then produce the figure for today’s home ownership. Your bullshit trying to compare 66years ago to now is unbelievable.
        
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        August 31, 2017 11:53am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Happychappy … What part of 3.0 don’t you understand ?
        
        Please read the SMH / The Age article above.
        
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        August 31, 2017 1:44pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Australian land bubble update … From the Housing Industry Association (HIA) of Australia …
        
        Land bubble bulges – MacroBusiness
        
        https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/08/land-bubble-bulges/
        
        Yey! The HIA:
        
        “The substantial increase in the price of residential land continues to be the single biggest factor behind recent deteriorations in housing affordability” stated HIA Senior Economist, Shane Garrett. The HIA-CoreLogic Residential Land Report, Australia’s leading report on the residential land market, shows that a typical vacant lot of land for housing increased in price by 2.1 per cent in the March quarter of 2017.
        
        “The HIA-CoreLogic Residential Land Report shows a small increase in the supply of residential land on the market during the quarter and the price of land is now 9.3 per cent higher than a year ago.
        
        “Land price increases in Australia are unrelenting,” stated HIA Senior Economist, Shane Garrett. Read more via hyperlink above …
        
        https://hia.com.au/-/media/HIA-Website/Files/Media-Centre/Media-Releases/2017/national/Land-Price-Increases-Unrelenting.ashx
        
        A review of things you need to know before you go home Thursday; ANZ cuts TD rates, business confidence solid, mortgage growth slows sharply, business debt growth low, swaps rise, NZD falls | interest.co.nz
        
        https://www.interest.co.nz/news/89615/review-things-you-need-know-you-go-home-thursday-anz-cuts-td-rates-business-confidence
        
        BUILDERS LAMENT
        
        Get the price of land wrong and affordabile housing is tough to build and supply. At AU$253,525 per vacant lot, (NZ$280,000) the price of residential land in Australia has stretched to yet another record high according to the latest edition of the HIA-CoreLogic Residential Land Report published today. Based on sales during the March 2017 quarter, the pace of annual residential land price growth was strongest in Melbourne (+16.6%), followed by Sydney (+11.1%) and Adelaide (+7.4%). Price pressures were a little more modest in Brisbane (+3.6%) and Perth (+2.7%) over the same period. Hobart was the only one of the six capital cities features in the report to experience a reduction in land prices over this period (-8.0%).
        
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        August 31, 2017 4:41pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        AUCKLAND ACTUAL NET CONSTRUCTION INFO – CORE LOGIC INFO … h/t BH …
        
        CoreLogic have produced a damning fact, that blows out of the water the belief that Auckland is having a building boom -especially in relation to record levels of population growth.
        
        “Our own analysis has shown that whilst there were roughly 10,000 dwelling consents in Auckland in 2016 (and 9,000 in 2015), the net increase in stock was only 6,000. A key contributor to this difference is the necessary reality of urban renewal which requires a property, or properties, to be demolished in order to build more multi-unit properties…” http://www.interest.co.nz/property/89592/auckland%E2%80%99s-property-market-looks-set-stay-weak-some-time-yet-even-housing-shortage
        
        Given Auckland’s average housing occupancy rate of 2.9 people per dwelling, a net increase of 6,000 residential dwellings will only house 17,400 people. Yet Auckland is growing by 45,000 to 50,000 people a year.
        
        It is this fact that is driving homelessness and overcrowding in Auckland, with all its awful social and economic consequences, such as third world poor housing childhood illnesses that the NZ Herald reported on yesterday.
        http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11913334
        
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        August 31, 2017 5:14pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Watch: Labour rockets ahead of National in stunning Colmar Brunton Poll result | 1 NEWS NOW | TVNZ
        
        https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/watch-labour-rockets-ahead-national-in-stunning-colmar-brunton-poll-result
        
        Labour is ahead of National in the latest 1 News Colmar Brunton Poll with the party’s support growing to 43 per cent, while National has dropped to 41 per cent. … VIEW & READ more via hyperlink above …
        
        The Government has failed with housing since late 2008. Check out the GONE GONE GOING section and the 5 Important Graphs at …
        
        Performance Urban Planning
        
        http://www.performanceurbanplanning.org/
        
        Poverty, gap between rich & poor and housing affordability, housing shortage, and homelessness dominate discussion in lead-up to election, says Roy Morgan poll | interest.co.nz
        
        http://www.interest.co.nz/news/89038/poverty-gap-between-rich-poor-and-housing-affordability-housing-shortage-and-homelessness
        
        Jacinda Ardern is the effective messenger and credible leader Labour requires …
        
        ‘Someone to love
        Somewhere to live
        Something to do
        Something to hope for’
        Jacinda Ardern … NZ Labour Leader
        
        Watch: ‘New Zealand is such an optimistic nation’ – Jacinda Ardern says election about getting ‘basics’ right … TVNZ
        
        https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/watch-new-zealand-such-optimistic-nation-jacinda-ardern-says-election-getting-basics-right
        
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        August 31, 2017 6:55pm
  - Paulus
    
    Hugh – have you created the model for when Mortgage Rates start going up quite quickly after a Labour/Peters/Green election.
    Watch our interest rates drop and inflation starts to gallop.
    Ever heard of negative house values when people are overextended and cannot pay their mortgages as in UK a couple of times in recent years.
    
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    August 31, 2017 11:06am
rightoverlabour

Surely this disqualifies all Australians from serving in their Government as they all have rights in New Zealand.

Section 44 of the constitution disqualifies dual-nationals and those “entitled to the rights or privileges of a subject or a citizen of a foreign power” from standing for parliament.
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August 31, 2017 8:54am
- Gabby
  
  Depends if ‘the rights’ is ‘all’ the rights or ‘some of’ the rights.
  
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  August 31, 2017 9:36am
  - VicParking
    
    They have more rights than NZ’ers. They can go to AUS and get benifits
    
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    August 31, 2017 10:55am
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If Climate Change is real, how come this

If man-made climate change is real, why are all the records for extreme rainfall over time in the US are all pre-1981?

Oh that’s right, it’s a religion – and we just have to have faith and believe that the world really is ending!
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August 31, 2017 8:59am
- krazykiwi
  
  September 8, 1900. The Great Galveston Hurricane was a Category 4 storm, with winds of up to 145 mph (233 km/h), which made landfall in Galveston, Texas, in the United States, leaving about 6,000 to 12,000 dead.
  
  Even the corrupt IPCC have given up attributing weather events to global warming / climate change.
  
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  August 31, 2017 9:09am
  - srylands
    
    It is worth noting that if the same hurricane happened today in Galveston nobody would die. They would all be evacuated. In 1900 they had no idea what was coming. The storm surge drowned them all.
    
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    August 31, 2017 9:29am
- krazykiwi
  
  Griff trap placed, and baited ….
  
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  August 31, 2017 9:15am
- Gruffydd
  
  ROFL
  Krazy its called physics
  The amount of moisture air can hold is proportional to the temperature .
  Evey 1C results in 7% more moisture.
  Tropical cyclones and hurricanes are heat engines.
  The warmer the water the stronger a storm can become.
  
  Sea level is rising. As oceans warm they expand and the planets lands ice is melting due to warmer temperatures ..
  
  Catastrophic storm like we have just seen are more likely because of atmospheric physics .
  
  By the way loon’s
  I have often pointed out climate change denying wingnuts are in direct disagreement with every major scientific body on the planet.
  You are the ones with a religion.
  You reject basic physics based on you faith that science is wrong .
  
  Fortunately every political party in NZ ignores such fuckwits .
  Your nutty ideas don’t count.
  
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  August 31, 2017 11:36am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    A false assumption by the warmists is that the atmosphere warms the oceans. So, run a cold bath and put a heater in the bathroom . See if the bathwater warms. I read it was calculated for the atmosphere to warm the oceans by the amount suggested it would need to get to 4,000°C. Go on Griff, try it and report back your results. We eagerly await…..
    
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    August 31, 2017 1:49pm
  - krazykiwi
    
    Griff, you need to learn how to build an argument. Simply throwing around a few isolated scientific facts won’t cut it I’m afraid. As you know, the burden of proof lies with the party proposing the theory. That’s you, and the other alarmists.
    
    So perhaps go back to beginning, and point out the irrefutable, causative evidence that:
    
    (a) separates mankind’s activities from natural climatic variations; and,
    
    (b) proves that the trillions spent on Climate Change™ could not have achieved better outcomes had those funds instead been directed to global population health.
    
    With each passing day, the predictions made yesterday by your so-called major scientific bodies fail to eventuate. Science demands that the theory of cataclysmic climate change be invalidated through lack of evidence.
    
    However what started out as a dubiously-birthed theory, matured to junk science, and has now graduated as religious dogma.
    
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    August 31, 2017 2:27pm
    - DifferentPerspective
      
      Beautifully put!
      
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      August 31, 2017 3:00pm
    - Gruffydd
      
      ROFL
      We even have the fuckwit who claimed to have a MS in peloclimatology .
      
      Hello halfwits
      I gave you some simple scientific facts as to why this storm was wetter and stronger.
      You come back with fuckwittery.
      
      Air doesn’t transfer heat to water. Are you really claiming that?. That’s loony tune shite.
      
      The specific heat capacity of water is greater than air.
      well DUH.
      Considering the weight of the atmospheric column is the same as 14.7 feet of water is that surprising?
      
      I don’t see any reply to my argument just bullshite Krazy.
      Physics says the storm was stronger and wetter due to a warming planet. Sea level was higher so flooding was worse than other wise.
      
      The world was predicted to warm due to increasing greenhouse gasses .
      It has as expected with evidence collaborated by the changes we are seeing around the globe.
      Unless you can find a reason for these changes yoiu are gibbering.
      
      Science does not talk of A “Theory of cataclysmic climate change”.
      That’s in only in your head so it is impossible for me to discern what you are gibbering about.
      
      irrefutable, causative evidence that:
      
      More fuckwittery .
      The IPCC reports include tens of thousands of cited scientific papers collected over almost three decades .Every report has increased the certainty.
      That you chose to ignore the evidence and gibber conspiracy nonsense like nutters is why you have no representation in this country at all .
      
      Suck it up halfwits.
      You are loony tunes.
      
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      August 31, 2017 5:18pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        I don’t see any reply to my argument just bullshite Krazy.
        
        If you bother to put up a half cohesive argument then I’ll happily reply. Instead you seem intent on posting semi-literate ramblings that are devoid of science.
        
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        August 31, 2017 5:31pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Houston_Galvaston Area has been subsiding for decades… at least 7 cm/year.
        http://hgsubsidence.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/GPS-Project.pdf.
        
        All the drainage channels lead into the low-lying central city area.
        Hectares of prairie land that could soak up water have been turned into vast extents of impermeable concrete.
        
        None of this is new or unexpected…..
        
        If you locate millions of people in subsiding coastal flood plains that are regularly subject to Hurricanes, you will get problems.
        
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        August 31, 2017 5:50pm
      - krazykiwi
        
        Ah, I can’t resist ….
        
        Griff: I gave you some simple scientific facts as to why this storm was wetter and stronger.
        
        NOAA are avowed warmists, known for placement of temperature sampling stations near to latent heat sources such as air condition ducts.
        
        So I take some comfort in using their own data to show that the most recent state record for rainfall was in 1982, and that was in Hawaii.
        
        What about Texas? Well the four records there were:
        
        – Galveston 1871 – 3.95” in 15 minutes
        – Woodward Ranch 1935 – 15.0” in 2 hours
        – Thrall 1921 – 36.4” in 18 hours
        – Alvin 1979 – 43” in 24 hours
        
        Storm Harvey was nowhere near these. So no Griff, it wasn’t wetter. As for ‘stronger’, that is a term you’ll need to define with more clarity so that I can debunk your assertion.
        
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        August 31, 2017 5:56pm
      - cha
        
        But if you locate millions of people in subsiding coastal flood plains that are regularly subject to Hurricanes, you will get problems.
        
        But…but…Houston..
        
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        August 31, 2017 6:14pm
      - Gruffydd
        
        ROFL
        Dr wingnut.
        Maggy Wassilieff
        
        It is warmer .
        Multiple different organizations agree .
        Including but not limited to .
        UK met
        NIWA
        BOM
        NOAA
        NASSA
        Jap Met
        Berclay earth .
        RSS
        UHA
        WMO.
        Organizations using Radiosondes data.
        Along with this we see physical evidence of this warming in the cryosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere .
        
        Natural forcing are negative.. The planet should be cooling .
        
        The scientific theory of greenhouse gasses predicts that the world will warm by about 3C for each doubling of CO2.
        We are now at about a 40% increase in CO2 concentrations .
        We have measured a rise of about 1.2C from pre industrial temperatures entirely in agreement of this theory.
        
        Basic atmospheric Physics.
        Hurricanes are heat engines powered by warm oceanic water. The water is warmer so the storm had more energy to power it.
        More Physics.
        Moisture in the atmosphere is dependent on temperature.
        The air was warmer so it could hold more rain.
        
        Sea level is rising at an accelerating rate due to global warming .
        Water expands when heated.
        Land Ice is melting.
        Sea level was higher so flooding was worse.
        
        All these factors increased the effect of the recent storm as they do all the potential weather we have now.
        
        You whacks can disagree all you like.
        Your ignorant ideas do not count in this country.
        We don’t have a political party for physics denying anti science loons to vote for.
        
        Instead.
        You are something for me to laugh at.
        
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        August 31, 2017 7:16pm
    - krazykiwi
      
      Griff – “I gave you some simple scientific facts as to why this storm was wetter and stronger”
      
      And I gave you scientific evidence that your ranted claims were, as usual, utter rubbish. I note that you’ve chosen not to reply.
      
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      August 31, 2017 8:27pm
tvb

Peters has more bottom lines than a Zebra.
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August 31, 2017 8:59am
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  Has he written down all his bottom lines? If not he’s sure to have forgotten the first half dozen or so by now.
  
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  August 31, 2017 9:19am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Winnie says Moving the port is a “cast iron bottom line”.
    
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    August 31, 2017 9:39am
    - Paulus
      
      Didn’t know that Winston had cast iron bottom !
      Thick skull and cast iron stomach maybe.
      
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      August 31, 2017 11:08am
krazykiwi

A so-called ‘cultural mediator’ at a migrant reception centre in Italy has caused outrage with his comments on rape following attacks on tourists from Poland and Peru in Rimini, Italy.

Abid Jee wrote that rape was “a worse act, but only at the beginning, when the willy goes in, then the woman becomes calm and you enjoy it like normal intercourse” on Facebook after a Polish couple and a Peruvian transsexual were attacked by four men thought to be North African migrants

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Poland’s Deputy Justice Minister Patryk Jaki went even further in an impassioned Twitter post, writing “for these bastards should be the death penalty, although for this particular case I would also restore torture”.
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August 31, 2017 9:03am
- Inandout
  
  Another Antifa disciple by the sounds of it.
  
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  August 31, 2017 9:14am
- Huevon
  
  Poland has a Minister of Justice worthy of the title. Ours is more interested in sodomy.
  
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  August 31, 2017 10:03am
  - mikenmild
    
    How do you know Amy Adams enjoys sodomy?
    
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    August 31, 2017 10:19am
    - JasonJohns
      
      Huevon has his eye on the animalistic impulses of our politicians.
      
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      August 31, 2017 11:32am
  - Lucia Maria
    
    Poland does not have a Minister of Justice worthy of the title. Their current government, including the Minister of Justice, are currently moving in the direction of being able to fire at will the entire judiciary. It’s a total mess of the type that we in NZ should be very happy is not happening here and would be alarmed if it were.
    
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    August 31, 2017 11:13am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Wow, the death penalty with a side-order of torture. You don’t hear about that much these days.
  
  Best not rile up the Poles.
  
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  August 31, 2017 10:40am
VicParking

All these stories of statues being taken down and destroyed are old news in NZ. Von Tempsky’s head was cut off his statue and the Marsland Hill New Zealand Wars memorial in New Plymouth had the statue of a soldier on top of it destroyed in 1991.
I’m supprised the few remaining monuments to the British who fought and died in the colonial wars are still standing.
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August 31, 2017 9:07am
- mikenmild
  
  Not so much of a live issue here. It’s not like those monuments were erected 60 years after the events to celebrate white supremacy, is it?
  
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  August 31, 2017 10:03am
- Duxton
  
  Indeed. Hopefully someone will desecrate or tear down a monument commemorating the 28th Maori Battalion – the biggest bunch of crooks and war criminals NZ has ever sent abroad.
  
  Hopefully,too, some of the obscene TOW payouts will be diverted to pay compensation to the families of the Italian POWs murdered at El Meier and Takrouna, and the German POWs who were murdered at San Silvestro.
  
  Gotta be consistent, now.
  
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  August 31, 2017 10:39am
  - mikenmild
    
    Tut tut. ‘Alleged’ war criminals, please. No firm case has ever been established that any of those things were crimes, as defined at the time.
    It would have been remarkable had the allies prosecuted any of their own for such things during WWII – much clearer cases than those were totally ignored.
    
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    August 31, 2017 10:54am
    - VicParking
      
      Better get Nicky on to it.
      
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      August 31, 2017 10:57am
      - Duxton
        
        Sorry VicParking. I went to Reply but pushed the Report button. My bad.
        
        It would present an interesting dilemma for Young Nick!
        
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        August 31, 2017 11:15am
    - Duxton
      
      I call BS on you, mikenmild. Are you saying that throwing POWs off a cliff wasn’t a war crime? Or crucifying POWs with their own bayonets and then using them for bayonet practice wasn’t a war crime?
      
      Churchill wanted Pita Awatere charged for his role in the San Silvestro incident, but Freyberg managed to get him back to NZ before the investigation could begin.
      
      Absolute scum.
      
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      August 31, 2017 11:10am
      - mikenmild
        
        All I am saying is that if those action occurred, which is debatable, their was no prospect of a prosecution in that war. I’ve never heard of Churchill arguing for war crime prosecutions of allied personnel. If he did, there were much clearer-cut cases for him to pursue.
        See, for one notorious example:
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Miers
        
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        August 31, 2017 11:26am
      - Duxton
        
        You never give up, do you, milky?
        
        These ‘allegations’ are not ‘debatable’ — they actually happened. There is documentary evidence to support this.
        
        Just as there is documentary evidence proving that the MB murdered wounded German soldiers in a field hospital at Minqar Qaim. I could go on, but unlike you I have to get back to work.
        
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        August 31, 2017 11:55am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        Pita Awatere (if he also had the discipline) seems to have had the kind of mentality that would have made him a fine soldier in the IJA.
        
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        August 31, 2017 3:13pm
      - mikenmild
        
        Take it up another time. I take it you are similarly exercises about the alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.
        
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        August 31, 2017 3:15pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @Odakyu-san
        
        Perhaps you do not know Lt Col. Awatere’s history.
        https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5a27/awatere-arapeta-marukitepua-pitapitanuiarangi
        
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        August 31, 2017 3:43pm
Ross12

Talking of polls, the latest internal polls for the US Democrats must be in and can’t be very good.
Pelosi and the MSM are out condemning Antifa and getting away from them as fast as possible in Pelosi’s case. The MSM will probably take a little longer as they look at each to see who move the fastest.
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August 31, 2017 9:13am
BeaB

Oh dear. The media are thrilled to bits because, when asked what she was wearing for tonight’s debate, Jacinda, quick as a flash, asked if Bill was being asked the same question.
I can tell her the answer. A suit, shirt and tie.
Does she not know women have more choices than men when it comes to clothes – and a lot of other things too.
If this is the childish level of her intellect then god help NZ.
I bet she and her advisers have spent hours deciding what outfit, which earrings, hairdo etc.
Just look at the fuss the media and social media make over what Melania Trump wears.
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August 31, 2017 9:32am
- krazykiwi
  
  This will be script advice from Auntie Helen.
  
  “You’re clearly asking [this] | [that] because I am [young] | [a woman] | [a young woman] and that is [completely inappropriate] | [nasty] in the 21st century”
  
  Don’t answer the question. Just address the context. And make all questions appear subjective so that English appears old and misogynistic. Paint his motives as nasty, even when his words are not.
  
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  August 31, 2017 9:41am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    I wonder if she’ll accuse Bill English of shouting his wife and family down at home…
    
    https://www.nbr.co.nz/article/clark-says-key-had-a-tantrum-36529
    
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    August 31, 2017 9:54am
    - starboard
      
      What a hideous woman, everyone should read that nbr link.
      
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      August 31, 2017 3:14pm
- Gabby
  
  Tell me about Bingles’ lapels and vents BooB, inquiring minds want to know.
  
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  August 31, 2017 9:43am
- SGA
  
  meh – I don’t spend time here trumpeting feminist causes, but in this case it’s a fair response. It’s a banal, silly question. What next – What the leaders plan to have for lunch that day? What colour suit, shirt, and tie combo English is going for? Dumb.
  
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  August 31, 2017 9:49am
  - mikenmild
    
    Hasn’t it been a long media tradition to report on what tie the Minister of Finance will wear for his Budget speech?
    Face it, these things are important and the public needs to know.
    
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    August 31, 2017 9:59am
    - SGA
      
      Well, there was Tuku Morgan’s underpants…
      
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      August 31, 2017 10:00am
      - mikenmild
        
        Mabel Howard’s bloomers…
        
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        August 31, 2017 10:02am
      - itstricky
        
        John Key’s hair ties…
        
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        August 31, 2017 10:20am
  - BeaB
    
    It’s not a silly question. Advisers and stylists put hours into this sort of thing. She will be dressed very carefully to project an image. And viewers will analyse everything whether they know it or not.
    
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    August 31, 2017 11:08am
    - Ed Snack
      
      Exactly, what we need is for Jacinda to answer that she hasn’t bothered to think about it – because she very obviously has thought about it extremely carefully.
      
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      August 31, 2017 11:44am
      - Gabby
        
        If only she’d walked into that, ed shmuck.
        
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        August 31, 2017 1:01pm
    - Gabby
      
      So will Bingles BooB, hair, makeup, just the right combination of traditional yet modern cos he’s a modern kinda oldfashioned guy.
      
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      August 31, 2017 11:51am
- oldpark
  
  Maybe with her lack of policies,and being feted by our anti National Government Mainstream Media.Ardern would not look out of place,wearing nothing,as to quote a well known phrase with a small change. The media anointed”the empress is wearing no clothes “.Very appropiate for the occasion. What a sight for sore eyes that would be.
  
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  August 31, 2017 10:01am
  - itstricky
    
    Will Bill be wearing nothing in your fantasies as well?
    
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    August 31, 2017 10:22am
    - Happychappy
      
      Did you get off thinking about that itsticky.
      
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      August 31, 2017 11:56am
      - itstricky
        
        You and I can both see that it’s oldpark who’s having a grand old time living his equal opportunity fantasy.
        
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        August 31, 2017 12:13pm
      - Gabby
        
        That’s a bit crappy, chappy.
        
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        August 31, 2017 12:59pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  Bill seems to be wearing bespoke suits these days.
  
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  August 31, 2017 10:56am
  - mikenmild
    
    If you’d had a 40% pay rise this year you might be updating your wardrobe too.
    
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    August 31, 2017 11:00am
- KevOB
  
  It was important prior to digital TV when the screen interlacing distorted clothing patterns.
  
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  August 31, 2017 11:53am
- rangitoto
  
  You can be sure that it would be mostly women who care a toss about what Taxinda is wearing.
  
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  August 31, 2017 12:18pm
Ross12

There was a thread on tertiary education yesterday. I hope young NZers are being taught by better people than this ardent feminist

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/08/leading-feminist-finds-way-attack-white-male-texan-carrying-minority-woman-child-safety/
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August 31, 2017 9:34am
Gabby

I hope young NZers aren’t snarky turds like steaming pile of horseshit Matt Walsh.
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August 31, 2017 9:46am
Manolo

Vandals on the loose. Will Cook be in danger?
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/08/29/yonkers-christopher-columbus-statue-vandalized/

As New York City considers the future of the monument at Columbus Circle, others are taking more direct aims at tributes to the controversial Italian explorer.
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August 31, 2017 9:51am
- Inandout
  
  ANTIFA is getting out of control in the US cities, and is no different from a terrorist group.
  
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  August 31, 2017 9:59am
  - mikenmild
    
    Al Qaeda, ISIS, Hamas, PLFP, Tamil Tigers, IRA, Antifa – all the same really…
    
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    August 31, 2017 10:22am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Sydney’s Captain Cook statue got done over on Saturday.
  https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/26/captain-cook-statue-and-two-others-in-sydneys-hyde-park-attacked-by-vandals
  
  Capt Cook and Capt “Crook” (on Kaiti Hill) regularly get done over…
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/82669990/Captain-Cook-statue-in-Gisborne-repeatedly-defaced
  
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  August 31, 2017 5:24pm
dime

no doubt women will all be voting jacinda after the herald exposing the sexism she faces! being asked what she will wear tonight? :O :O

NZ is sooooo sexist that a loser who worked in a fish & chips shop, went to uni to get the most low rent degree they offer and then never actually worked, now earns 250k a year and may become Prime minister!

sexist lot we are!

how did she overcome such odds??
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August 31, 2017 9:52am
- mikenmild
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Versus a guy with a degree in English literature, a few years as a public servant and thirty years in Parliament, it’s easy to see how she won’t be able to be competitive.
  
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  August 31, 2017 9:57am
  - krazykiwi
    
    Exactly. She can’t compete based on competence. The last thing she led was a rag-tag bunch of socialist youth more than a decade ago.
    
    By comparison Bill has successfully led NZ through a disastrous handover from nine years of Labour-led lost opportunity, followed by the GFC, and the near destruction of a city by repeated natural disasters.
    
    So no, she won’t be competitive.
    
    She knows it.
    
    The media knows it.
    
    Which is why she will try to steer the debate into subjective territory, and paint Bill as a ‘nasty old man’, looking desperately for sympathy votes.
    
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    August 31, 2017 10:14am
    - Kimbo
      
      Yep. On the “proven competence” stakes, Bill has it over Ardern in spades. He’s the second part of the John Key team that got us through the GFC and Chch earthquakes. Annette King has admitted as much and her extended stint as deputy confirmed it.
      
      So what has Ardern achieved as an MP? Nothing of substance. Even Louisa Wall with the Marriage Equality Bill can point to a big win, but Ardern, after some 9 years?! Besides losing 2x to a mid-ranking National MP, Nicky Kaye in Auckland Central in what should be a natural Labour seat…
      
      But good luck to Labour, and they had no other option. Tonight and the next few weeks we find out if the old boxers trick of sitting on the ropes for most of the round, and then trying to fool the judges with a flurry of punches at the end will work for them. She sure has more “charisma” with voters, especially the young and women.
      
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      August 31, 2017 10:22am
      - Keeping Stock
        
        I disagree Kimbo. John Key may have been the CEO of Team Key, but without English’s leadership in managing the economy, Key would have had nothing.
        
        They were a perfect team; Key was the frontman, with English doing the grunt work in the background, bringing the books back into surplus three years ahead of Treasury’s 2008 prediction. When he does finally exit politics, I have no doubt Bill will become Sir Simon William English, and bloody good luck to him. He was the man for the time.
        
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        August 31, 2017 10:57am
      - Kimbo
        
        I disagree Kimbo.
        
        Then I must have worded it poorly (I am accused from time to time of being “verbose” – I know, I’m as surprised as you no doubt are! 😉 )
        
        …because, yes, your summation nailed the relationship well. Although I think Key brought intellectual heft and a steely nerve, in a comfortable package.
        
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        August 31, 2017 11:00am
  - Gabby
    
    degree in English literature fully funded by the taxpayer, IF you don’t mind.
    
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    August 31, 2017 11:46am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    No need to be economical with the facts.
    
    Bill English has a B.Commerce degree from Otago University (majoring in Economics) as well as a BA hons in English Literature from Victoria Uni (Wellington).
    
    A few years as a public servant…. In the Treasury Department…..
    and somehow managed to get married and start his brood of kids.
    
    Good manager, I reckon.
    
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    August 31, 2017 1:18pm
    - Gabby
      
      from Victoria Uni (Wellington) fully funded by the taxpayer, IF you don’t mind.
      
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      August 31, 2017 8:40pm
- Huevon
  
  NZ is becoming like Latin America
  
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  August 31, 2017 10:06am
  - mikenmild
    
    Que?
    
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    August 31, 2017 10:55am
    - SGA
      
      Perhaps he means climate change or that more kids are playing football than rugby these days? 🙂
      
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      August 31, 2017 11:04am
  - MrTips
    
    Bloody hope so. We might have a chance of qualifying for the football world cup then….
    
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    August 31, 2017 12:43pm
- waikatogirl
  
  NO, we simple minded wimmin folk, will not ALL be voting for Cindy! ?
  
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  August 31, 2017 10:21am
  - mikenmild
    
    Who will you simple-minded wimmin be voting for, then?
    
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    August 31, 2017 10:55am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Q: Who will you simple-minded wimmin be voting for, then?
      
      A: The best person to run the country, and the only option is Bill.
      
      Frippery is nice on a present but the contents of the package are far more important when it comes to the economic well-being. Cindy purports to have the leadership skills when it is obvious she doesn’t is not going to be the best for NZ, the economy, or the people.
      
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      August 31, 2017 11:14am
- Paulus
  
  Ask Helen C and the MSM who created the Queen of Hearts – (yes Hearts).
  
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  August 31, 2017 11:12am
- Gabby
  
  dim’s gettin snobby
  
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  August 31, 2017 11:45am
- VicParking
  
  I hope she wears something low cut to show her wonderful long locks and a colour to bring out her smile
  ‘And though royal comparisons can be made (see: Princess Diana and Kate Middleton’s top twinning moments), the Leader of the Labour Party has a fashion sense all her own.’
  I’m sure my heart will miss a beat when she flows onto the stage tonight.
  Two ticks blue.
  
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  August 31, 2017 3:37pm
  - Gabby
    
    Tulixpu.
    
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    August 31, 2017 8:38pm
Manolo

Poor sensitive and delicate Swedes:
https://www.ft.com/content/23ea67a2-8d80-11e7-a352-e46f43c5825d

An outspoken Norwegian minister has sparked a sharp war of words with Sweden over immigration in an unusually public spat between the Nordic neighbours.

Sylvi Listhaug, the immigration minister from the populist Progress party, has warned for months that Norway should not copy its neighbour and allow “Swedish conditions” to develop.

That is code for the gang warfare, shootings, car burnings and other integration problems that Sweden has endured recently in the suburbs of its three largest cities, Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo.

Sweden’s own immigration minister cancelled a meeting with Ms Listhaug after her Norwegian counterpart alleged there were 60 “no-go zones” in Sweden. Swedish police insist there is nowhere they cannot go but admit there are problems with gangs of young men. Police in Malmo told the Financial Times that most of the troublemakers were born in Sweden rather than recently arrived immigrants.
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August 31, 2017 10:02am
Jack5

A link on the Hooerald shows that Z, the petrol station company, is pushing, as well as benefiting from a diversified work force.

The only thing is it doesn’t tell you the real benefit: “student” and other immigrant labour is keeping its costs – wage costs – down.

Ah well, we have the choice of where to fill up. But then, the competition is doing it, too.

You need bugger all skill to fill a petrol tank and take the cash. You would think it would be a great job for unemployed young NZ kids.

Why are we filling our unskilled jobs with foreigners?

I bet Z and the other petrol companies were among those who pressured the incompetent Immigration Minister, Woodhouse, to modify planned changes to immigration.

And why don’t petrol prices reflect the high currency and low oil prices at present. The “8c” off today sort of crap is a marketing rick. Where is the AA in voicing motorists displeasure about this? Oh, they are working with one of the petrol companies in the “X off today” rort.
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August 31, 2017 10:09am
Stars And Stripes

Government pledges $27 million for Auckland City Mission
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11914520
“The Government will put $27 million towards Auckland City Mission’s plans for a $75 million housing complex for the homeless in central Auckland”.

Yeah good one National, chuck more taxpayers dollars at the wasters in society who contribute nothing.
While you are at it why not pay for all their booze and drugs as well just to really keep them in the lifestyle they are accustomed too.
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August 31, 2017 10:11am
- mikenmild
  
  Send them to the boot camps?
  
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  August 31, 2017 10:15am
  - Psycho Milt
    
    Stars and Stripes wouldn’t want National to pussy-foot around with boot camps. Gauleiter Hanke would have known what to do with these “useless eaters.”
    
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    August 31, 2017 10:48am
    - Ed Snack
      
      To say nothing of what Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Fidel, Che, etc, would have done.
      
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      August 31, 2017 11:48am
- mandk
  
  and your solution is?
  
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  August 31, 2017 10:47am
  - dime
    
    do nothing.
    
    lock them up if they commit crimes.
    
    if they misbehave – lock em up.
    
    Dime gives less than zero fucks about people who choose to be homeless.
    
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    August 31, 2017 10:56am
    - Longknives
      
      All these bleeding hearts should actually go to the City Mission one day and see the absolute feral scum that hangs around there begging, selling drugs or looking for someone to fight.
      I had some friends visiting Auckland walk up Hobson Street from the Sky Tower on the way back to my place- My mate was fuming when he got home, some wasted Maori guys at The Mission were loudly telling his twelve year old daughter what they were going to do to her..(wish I had warned him to bypass that fucking place)
      Needless to say I don’t donate to their frequent requests for handouts..
      
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      August 31, 2017 3:07pm
  - Stars And Stripes
    
    Wait for a cold winter and let natural selection take place.
    
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    August 31, 2017 11:24am
    - dime
      
      lol
      
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      August 31, 2017 3:50pm
- fluffykiwi
  
  Just not sure why you would put a housing complex for the homeless in central Auckland, would they not be better off out further in the city. But then again you can have all the housing you want and they still do not want a roof over their heads.
  
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  August 31, 2017 3:20pm
Inandout

An interesting comment came from a friend whose company serves documents on mortgage defaulters and personal debtors. He said the last few years had seen quite a drop off in the numbers of defaulters, and he put this down to a buoyant economy. He does however forecast an increase in his business if Labour takes over again, especially if unemployment rises or taxes skyrocket. His best years in turnover were during Clark’s reign.
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August 31, 2017 10:16am
- Jack5
  
  Inandout, as house prices drop, either with a pop in the property bubble, or the slow hiss that has already begun, it is certain that banks will have to foreclose on an increasing number of mortgages.
  
  We are all going to pay for the banksters’ greed in lending up to 100 per cent on purchases (and over – by including transaction and legal fees).
  
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  August 31, 2017 10:19am
Cunningham

Any thoughts on whether peters leaked his super details for publicity? This story seems to benefit peters most and he is one slimy cunning rat. Wouldn’t put it past him at all.
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August 31, 2017 10:26am
- m@tt
  
  I think he had no reason to make such a high risk gamble, his support was fine for him where it was.
  
  As much as I really hate to admit it, the obvious answer fits best. Some dickhead in or near National had a brain explosion and thought this would win them back the conservative NZF voter.
  
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  August 31, 2017 10:32am
  - Cunningham
    
    Maybe but his support has dropped and he has had a quiet campaign so far. If he is confident he cannot be tied to leaking his own details then it is the perfect scandal for him. You have to wonder what National would get out of leaking this. The whole thing doesn’t add up.
    
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    August 31, 2017 10:36am
    - m@tt
      
      Cock-up over conspiracy. Someone heard the juicy details and just couldn’t hold it in.
      Only the most naive person would truly believe that there was no gossip at all amongst the ‘handful’ of people that had access to this info over the weeks before it was leaked.
      
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      August 31, 2017 10:41am
      - Cunningham
        
        But he paid it back straight away so ANYONE can see this wouldn’t be a scandal on it’s own. I can’t see how someone other than Peters could see this as being on the same scale as Turei hence why it doesn’t make sense a senior MP in National would do it. However what would be a scandal is having this information ‘leaked’ and who would benefit from this supposed leak? Winston Peters, the (ironically) anti corruption crusader. I don’t think any other politician would take this risk but Peters I’m not so sure.
        
        Anyway regardless of who it was, the person who did it needs to face serious consequences when/if found out. Unfortunately this is unlikely to be before the election.
        
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        August 31, 2017 10:52am
  - mandk
    
    I don’t agree at all.
    Winston thrives on publicity and he doesn’t care whether or not what he says is bollocks.
    He has been starved of publicity by Jacinda, so he has manufactured a story.
    
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    August 31, 2017 10:45am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Handed to him. He didn’t even have to make it up.
      
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      August 31, 2017 11:02am
      - Paulus
        
        Ask the TVNZ Irish ex NOW political hack where she got the now untraceable & anonymous call from in WINZ.
        
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        August 31, 2017 11:16am
  - Happychappy
    
    Proof please and Peters had every reason to out himself as he is not as popular in Northland than most think.
    
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    August 31, 2017 10:48am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    I disagree completely m@tt. Jacindamania had pushed Peters to the inside pages, and that’s not where he likes to dwell. What better than a juicy scandal where he comes up smelling of roses to get him back on the front page?
    
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    August 31, 2017 11:01am
- Keeping Stock
  
  As I said yesterday, Peters is as cunning as a shit-house rat, and the thought that the leak came from NZF is not at all far-fetched. After all, look at the headlines since Sunday.
  
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  August 31, 2017 10:59am
- Ed Snack
  
  Word is that it’s a McCarten piece of black ops. PSA rep passed info on and timing was set by when the “no surprises” rule meant that ministers would be informed so a clear “obvious” leakers path would be able to be created in people’s minds.
  
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  August 31, 2017 11:51am
  - Gabby
    
    You think Snowball’s gone, but really he’s been working for Jones the whole time.
    
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    August 31, 2017 12:56pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  You have too many letters between cunning and rat…
  
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  August 31, 2017 1:56pm
holysheet

Lil’ Johnny goes to his dad and asks, “What is politics?” Dad
says, “Well son, let me try to explain it this way. I’m the
breadwinner of the family, so let’s call me Capitalism. Mommy is
the administrator of the money, so we’ll call her the
Government. We’re here to take care of your needs, so we’ll call
you The People. The nanny- well, consider her The Working Class.
Your baby brother, we’ll call him The Future. Now go think about
this and see if it makes sense.”

So the little boy goes off to bed thinking about what Dad has
said. Later that night, he hears his baby brother crying and
runs to his room only to find that his diapers are very soiled.
So the little boy goes to his parents room. Mom is sound asleep.
Not wanting to wake her, he goes to the nanny’s room. Finding
the door locked, he looks through the peephole and sees his
father in bed with the nanny. He gives up and goes back to bed.

The next morning, the little boy says to his father, “Dad, I
think I understand what politics is now.”

“Good son, tell me in your own words then what politics are.”

The little boy replies, “Well, while Capitalism is screwing the
Working Class, the Government is sound asleep, the People are
being ignored and the Future is in deep shit.”
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August 31, 2017 10:26am
- Awww C-mon
  
  Gold, stealing!
  
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  August 31, 2017 12:10pm
cmm

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/well-good/teach-me/96303629/sugar-could-be-a-gateway-to-hard-drugs-study-says

According to Dr Simon Thornley (Auckland Uni): sugar is a gateway drug to hard drugs.

Apparently mice would rather drink condensed milk than cocaine, therefore…

Anyway that sure explains all the tattooed low-life hanging around the baking isle in the supermarket.

This is the sort of “research” your tax dollars fund.
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August 31, 2017 10:30am
- KevOB
  
  Has Dr Simon Thornley has just made it easier for drug dealers? They won’t have to offer expensive , for them, ‘tastes’ in future, just sugar. A new method of hooking.
  
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  August 31, 2017 11:58am
  - cmm
    
    Anyone else remember getting their polio vaccine in a teasppon of sugar or a sugar cube?
    
    I’m sure the gangs could just do the same with meth and set you up as a customer for life.
    
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    August 31, 2017 4:33pm
- Left Right and Centre
  
  sugar – gateway to no longer fitting between one.
  
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  September 1, 2017 1:46am
Longknives

I just saw a post on Facebook from an old friend from Varsity (Schoolteacher- Cute but was always a bit ditzy)
It went “Jacinda is the best thing to have ever happened to New Zealand #Letsdothis”

Some bloke then politely commented that he likes Adern but will be voting National as he thinks “The Economy is heading in the right direction”

Her reply?-
“I don’t care about the bloody Economy! I care about children going to School with hungry tummies. I care about families with six or seven kids going homeless”

Yep- “I don’t care about the bloody Economy”….That’s what we are up against!
May God help us all.
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August 31, 2017 10:48am
- Happychappy
  
  Well it seems a lot of these poor families can still afford to buy Play Stations, computors and mobile phones for their children so maybe they should go back to the basics and they could then feed their children.
  
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  August 31, 2017 10:54am
  - Paulus
    
    Surely Sky is still available from Winz.
    
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    August 31, 2017 11:21am
- brett68
  
  School Teacher, Christ what do you expect?
  
  I certainly wouldn’t extrapolate out this woman’s stupidity and shallowness onto all other women.
  
  All the women I know think Ardern is a Trojan horse.
  
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  August 31, 2017 11:02am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Thank goodness.
    
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    August 31, 2017 11:06am
  - BeaB
    
    And a sacrificial lamb. Cunning Grant is lurking in the background.
    
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    August 31, 2017 11:13am
    - brett68
      
      I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s Andrew Little who takes back over once Ardern bows out.
      
      For Labour the transition to Ardern was far too seamless, almost as if a deal has been done.
      
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      August 31, 2017 11:17am
    - KevOB
      
      So are the Unions. They want pay off and control over the work force at all levels. Via Venezuela.
      
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      August 31, 2017 12:03pm
- Kimbo
  
  @ Longknives
  
  You would be surprised how far that mentality can take someone. In 1972, Norman Kirk the ultimate practical old-fashioned Labour politician (left school at age 13 to work cleaning gutterings, then onto the railway, built his own house with blocks he also made himself, which he would cycle miles, one by one, from Christchurch to the site in Kaiapoi)
  
  …was in an election where a whole raft of trendy issues were deemed important. These included sport with apartheid-era South Africa, nuclear testing in the Pacific, Vietnam, etc. They were especially important for many of the young Labour Party members and candidates. One of them, Russell Marshall, the (successful) candidate in Wanganui, and a church minister and later the guy who ditched School Certificate when he became Minister of Education in Lange’s government was opining all those issues were important
  
  …but couldn’t understand Kirk’s insistence that “the economy” was the most important social justice issue of all. 😉
  
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  August 31, 2017 11:14am
- waikatogirl
  
  Bet she thinks teachers should be paid heaps more too.
  
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  August 31, 2017 11:20am
- Peter
  
  I care about children going to School with hungry tummies
  
  Cringeworthy virtue signalling from the vacum.
  
  Perhaps you could ask their parent what she is spending her benefit on, rather than feeding her “Precious”?
  
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  August 31, 2017 11:43am
  - kowtow
    
    Then she should hit the parents for child abuse.
    
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    August 31, 2017 1:23pm
- howitis
  
  ‘I care about families with six or seven kids going homeless’
  Yeah, OK.
  
  Perhaps this ‘educator’ could do some edjamucating like:
  
  -Zip up your Levis, sweetie
  -Cover your stump before you hump
  -Wrap it before you Tap it
  -Go to family planning and get an injection
  -Don’t live beyond your means
  -Respect your landlord’s property
  
  Fences at the top of the cliff and all that.
  
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  August 31, 2017 12:49pm
- cmm
  
  “I don’t care about the bloody Economy! I care about children going to School with hungry tummies. I care about families with six or seven kids going homeless”
  
  Yup, well screw up the economy and there will be more hungry tummies and more homeless kids. Just ask that commie darling Venezuela!
  
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  August 31, 2017 4:35pm
Manolo

After the African invasion. Parts of today’s Rome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htCJKJM4b6c
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August 31, 2017 11:06am
JasonJohns

SJW Pete George has launched a hate campaign against the Kiwiblog community:
https://yournz.org/2017/08/29/abuse-unabated-at-kiwiblog/

Could be prelude to calls for censorship. In the US the alt-right is being removed from the web. Pete George doesn’t like the alt-right commenters here.
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August 31, 2017 11:07am
- Manolo
  
  The pain of Peter Dunne leaving the political scene is too much for his loyal minion. Oh dear.
  
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  August 31, 2017 11:10am
- mikenmild
  
  I’m guessing you don’t comment there, Kea.
  
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  August 31, 2017 11:14am
- holysheet
  
  Kiwiblog is one of the most unmoderated blogs in New Zealand, with ‘free speech’ abuses often ruling over decency and fairness.
  
  What is it about the words “FREE SPEECH” that the useless prick doesn’t understand?
  
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  August 31, 2017 2:34pm
- starboard
  
  Pete who ?….
  
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  August 31, 2017 2:57pm
- dime
  
  i clicked the link.
  
  first of all, none of my abuse made his post. gutted.
  
  second was some comment from wayne mapp about misogyny!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  “I am heartily sick of seeing the level of misogyny of some of the commenters.”
  
  just because people dont like chompers and her evil evil ideology, it doesnt mean we hate women FFS!
  
  jesus christ i used to vote for that guy.
  
  i never hear the word “misandry” when people are having a crack at JK or bill or chick magnet gerry!
  
  Personally, Dime is sick of piss weak, virtue singaling politicians.
  
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  August 31, 2017 3:58pm
  - cmm
    
    Come on dime, you know it is completely sexist to hold women to the same standards as men…
    
    These modern third or fourth wave feminists (or whatever we’re up to now) don’t deserve the name. They don’t want equality or a chance to prove themselves. They just want everything handed to them on a plate, because vagina. They’re really worse than the fainting women in Jane Austen novels.
    
    Most of the modern breed of feminists wouldn’t do Rosy the Riveter’s job because it might screw up their nails.
    
    My Great Aunt was a tough bird. She was born in the 1890s and lived to 90. She had polio as a child which gave her a huge physical handicap: a short leg, a hand that was frozen open and unusable, and a skull deformity that made it look like she had a tennis ball stuck in her cheek.
    
    During the WW1 she drove ambulances – which also meant she had to service the thing. They were temperamental beasts back then: overheating, burning out spark plugs every couple of hundred miles,… Even with those physical disabilities she was a wizz at fixing engines and changing tyres etc – before they had modern hydraulic tools to do the hard work.
    
    The last time I visited her before she died, she’d just come back with her toolbox from fixing some plumbing problem at the “old people” of 70 that lived next door. No matter she was over 90!
    
    Now that’s a bloody feminist!
    
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    August 31, 2017 4:50pm
- Rich Prick
  
  The buggars would moderate life if we let them.
  
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  August 31, 2017 4:32pm
JasonJohns

The trouble with Pete George is that he mistakes technical terms for abuse. He complains about Huevon a commenter at Kiwiblog calling Jacinda Ardern a bitch. But Huevon is a committed Christian and a patriot and is not indulging in puerile namecalling. He compared Ardern to a female dog in an attempt to make an important point about her feral nature. Ardern’s fornication is an open secret. Her animalistic impulses are a valid subject for discussion. Pete George is trying to close down thoughtful debate at Kiwiblog.
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August 31, 2017 11:13am
- itstricky
  
  That’s too good. You have to be a piss take.
  
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  August 31, 2017 11:16am
  - mikenmild
    
    He’s a Kea troll. The most amusing of Kea’s sock puppets at the moment is realityczech, but Jason is the best illustration of Poe’s Law we have right now.
    
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    August 31, 2017 11:21am
JasonJohns

Lie ‘bitch’, ‘cuck’ is a technical term of the alt-right that is often misunderstood as abuse by less sophisticated thinkers. Here is an excellent definition
ABOUT THIS WORD
cuck or cuckservative
What does cuck mean?
A cuck is a term for a weak, effeminate, or inadequate man. Cuck has also been blended with conservative to produce cuckservative, often shortened back to cuck. Both cuck and cuckservative are especially used online by white nationalists to insult US Republican politicians they judge as insufficiently conservative.
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August 31, 2017 11:16am
- Gabby
  
  cuck soccer tiff jizzyjocks.
  
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  August 31, 2017 11:25am
JasonJohns

It is important to show solidarity with Huevon. He’s under fire. In the US the alt-right has been pushed off the net by SJWs like Pete George. Huevon could be next.

Uptick if you agree with Huevon’s statement that Jacinda Ardern is a bitch.
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August 31, 2017 11:30am
- mikenmild
  
  Was it okay if my uptick was just to applaud your efforts to promote freedom of speech, Kea?
  
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  August 31, 2017 11:35am
  - VicParking
    
    I just upticked because I could
    
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    August 31, 2017 3:54pm
Manolo

125 brand new Europeans:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4838228/African-migrants-trying-paddle-Europe-SURFBOARD.html

An incredible photo shows two African migrants attempting to paddle to Europe on a surfboard.

The Spanish coastguard picked up the two men, among 125 migrants rescued on Wednesday, in the Strait of Gibraltar.
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August 31, 2017 11:38am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  They probably got picked up because they stole the surfboard and the owner wanted it back.
  
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  August 31, 2017 3:32pm
Fletch

Well, well, well…

TVNZ’s profits fall by 89%
I wonder why?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11914521
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August 31, 2017 11:39am
- Kimbo
  
  Like Kodak, Sky TV and video rentals, it is a dying business model. But not helped when Helen Clark foisted them with the “neither fish-nor-fowl” Charter model. If she wanted something like the ABC in Aussie – which is bloody good btw, no matter what you think of their editorial setting – then pay for it.
  
  Or if it is a dividend let it be commercial as it was at the time with Paul Holmes as the flagship.
  
  Or better yet, they should have sold it and got heaps more than what it is worth now…and they could have still taxed the profits…although no doubt an expensive but non-binding citizen’s-initiated referendum would have ensued! 😉
  
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  August 31, 2017 11:58am
  - sooty
    
    Sell Red Radio as well.
    
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    August 31, 2017 12:12pm
    - Kimbo
      
      Can’t conceive of who would buy it…
      
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      August 31, 2017 12:33pm
    - VicParking
      
      Don’t sell it, just flick the switch and send everyone to the MSD.
      
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      August 31, 2017 3:56pm
  - waikatogirl
    
    A few years ago Video Ezy turned down a buyout by Netflix. Netflix is now worth $900,000,000.
    When was the last time you went down the road to hire a video?
    
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    August 31, 2017 1:42pm
    - dime
      
      netflix – 77billion US.
      
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      August 31, 2017 3:59pm
- Inandout
  
  How can profits fall when we are bombarded with an ever increasing number of ads? That in itself is the reason I now record shows and play back, skipping ads. Sometimes there can be up to 10 ads between each programme segment.
  
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  August 31, 2017 1:07pm
- SPC
  
  That would explain the recent “upgrade” to Silverlight for on demand videos.
  
  Edge has no plug-ins, IE 11 does not function well , Chrome ended support for it in 2015 …
  
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  August 31, 2017 2:51pm
Jack5

Left wing comedian Raybon Kan takes the award for crassest comment of the day.

In a piece in the Hooerald on the NZ leaders’ debate, Kan can’t resist bringing in Donald Trump. Here’s Kan’s concluding sentence:

Privately, Trump is likely enjoying the deluge because it reminds him of hotel mattresses in Moscow.

Why are current NZ comedians so unfunny? They might raise a smirk or a smile, but no decent laugh like we used to get from Billy T. James.
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August 31, 2017 11:51am
- Fletch
  
  Kan is damn awful. I don’t know why the Herald still employs him. My elderly parents still get the paper and constantly complain about Kan’s columns. All he does of recent is bitch and complain about Trump using the worst language.
  
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  August 31, 2017 11:53am
  - mikenmild
    
    Trump has the best language, though. The best words…
    
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    August 31, 2017 2:50pm
- Kimbo
  
  I see Kathy Griffin is coming to NZ. Can’t say I’ll bother going. However, as unpalatable as it is to many Kiwibloggers, it is reflective of the fact that among certain sections of the (international) community, anti-Trump humour sells, no matter how inane or banal. Or sometimes amusing.
  
  Is a fact of life for conservative politicians, be they Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Rob Muldoon, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Jim Bolger, Dan Quayle, GWB. As humour is ‘anti-establishment” it doesn’t have the same dynamics with left-wing politicians. Not among the young who are the primary consumers of political
  satire, at any rate.
  
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  August 31, 2017 12:10pm
  - Fletch
    
    I see that Griffin has now retracted her apology about the severed head gag she pulled. She says she is “no longer sorry. The whole outrage was bs”.
    
    http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/kathy-griffin-retracts-apology-decapitated-trump-photo-longer/story?id=49506224
    
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    August 31, 2017 2:23pm
  - Peter
    
    I don’t know if these NZ comedians are anti-establishment, and that’s probably why they aren’t remotely funny.
    
    The left IS the establishment. The left ideology is absolutely entrenched here. All they are doing is smugly repeating the safe status quo.
    
    Like 7 days, for example. Ohh…slagging off National and saying fuck. How radical! How edgy! About as radical and edgy as a church youth group.
    
    Now this guy is funny.
    
    Political correctness:
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceS_jkKjIgo
    
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    August 31, 2017 2:33pm
    - VicParking
      
      Seven twat
      
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      August 31, 2017 3:58pm
  - dime
    
    Dime was in the comedy store a few months ago in LA.
    
    10 comedians.. they all did the lamest trump material. they all had the same take. it was boring.
    
    some comedians can take the piss out of trump and its glorious, but the politically active leftists just rant. meh
    
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    August 31, 2017 4:02pm
    - Longknives
      
      That’s what I always liked about the South Park guys- They took the piss out of both the Left and Right Wing..
      *Weren’t afraid to take the piss out of Muslims either..
      
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      August 31, 2017 4:36pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Yep, Stone and Parker, the most equal-opportunity satirists around.
        
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        August 31, 2017 6:50pm
- Shawn Herles
  
  “Why are current NZ comedians so unfunny?”
  
  Because they are liberals, and liberals are generally not funny. They think they are, but liberal comedians come across to most people as spoiled children at best, or sociopaths at worst.
  
  Liberals, most especially of the leftist variety, have a deep hatred for anyone who is not an urban dwelling, Christian hating, latte sipping cosmopolitan who knows the correct terms for the dozens (and growing) of “genders” they have invented. So when they attempt to be funny, they just sound like people who should be in a padded cell wearing a wrap around jacket.
  
  Whatever liberalism was 40 or 50 years ago it has morphed into something ugly, nasty, and misanthropic.
  
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  August 31, 2017 12:22pm
  - realityczech
    
    Had to uptick that Shorn.
    
    God is not real though. 🙂
    
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    August 31, 2017 12:26pm
  - Kimbo
    
    Yet they make a living, so someone willing to pay thinks they are funny. So they satisfy a market. Or maybe it is a form of virtue signalling and “edgy” to be seen laughing at them.
    
    Dunno. Not my money. Their choice…
    
    Put it this way – I’m disappointed in Raybon Kan who was genuinely funny about 20 to 25 years ago. But then Alanis Morissette was selling records by the bucket load then too, so artists go stale, or lazy and formulaic and dial it in
    
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    August 31, 2017 12:27pm
    - Left Right and Centre
      
      Music appeal probably a bit more complicated than a blog comment could hope to cover.
      
      Bands and singers go in and out of style – hundreds of stories of hitting a peak – going out of fashion – then they’re back. Aerosmith perfect example. Rolling Stones another.
      
      Along with Alanis are plenty of others who followed similar patterns. Think Michael Jackson 1980s. He was the 80s in pop music. 1990s – late 90s ? Dropped right off compared.
      
      I can name Rumours – Fleetwood Mac. Try naming the rest of their catalogue – hello ? Hootie & The Blowfish. One big hit album. Even Oasis. It’s not like they came up with another five ‘Morning Glory’ hit album follow-ups. And they were huge.
      
      Raybon Kan probably a better writer than stand-up performer for me.
      
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      September 1, 2017 2:14am
  - Kimbo
    
    A good critique from a comedian of comedians “picking low-hanging fruit” like Donald Trump, which is almost as easy as unleashing an f-bomb tirade:
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqKs5F-YeLY
    
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    August 31, 2017 12:42pm
Monique Watson

92 Degrees in the shade here. Liver is holding up for another day. Thanks for asking.
And Winnie didn’t leak; he got the shaft. Classic case of “Count the numbers”.
Once Peter Dunne stepped down, National needed to take the scalp of someone who would cartwheel to Labour for the baubles, over propping up a proven government.
Nicely done. Peters can’t pin the leak and he’s furious.
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August 31, 2017 12:07pm
- realityczech
  
  You are living the dream 🙂
  
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  August 31, 2017 12:28pm
howitis

Proof that people hate dirty stinky commies.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/95909907/leaving-cards-bought-in-bulk-as-staff-leave-wellington-city-council

Wellington City council has 22% staff turnover vs. Auckland 15% (why leave that permanent cruise ship with free clothing and makeup lessons) ; Dunedin has 9% (must be the fact you can commandeer 100 cars and no-one cares, or the perks of the ever-present corruption are too damn good).

Nearly one in four people a year want to get away from WCC.
That is WCC not the W.C.
It must truly reek.
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August 31, 2017 12:12pm
- sooty
  
  The place must be bad if they are not staying for the living wage!
  
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  August 31, 2017 12:29pm
realityczech

The raging narcissist Lipstick Pig is on her high horse again faking being “offended” and demanding special treatment.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/96349925/will-mike-hosking-ask-bill-english-about-his-outfit-choices-too
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August 31, 2017 12:32pm
- Gabby
  
  Will Horeskin comb over to the left or the right?
  
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  August 31, 2017 12:46pm
  - Inandout
    
    I detect that you are balding gabbo.
    
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    August 31, 2017 1:12pm
    - Gabby
      
      Sorry no ponytail downanout.
      
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      August 31, 2017 9:27pm
- KevinH
  
  Personally I would’nt ask Jacinda or Bill what they are wearing at the debate tonight.
  That is in fact a journalistic no no to query the interviewee’s dress sense because it is irrelevant to the interview, a distraction.
  Jacinda handled the interview well and can’t be blamed for bristling at Hosking’s intransigence.
  I expect tonights debate to be more conversational than confrontational and no doubt Bill will be wearing a blue tie and Jacinda will be in a reddish outfit.
  
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  August 31, 2017 2:49pm
sooty

Over in Taranaki, Howie Tamati is leading the poll in the maori seat. Lets hope he turns up more often than he did when he was a counciler in the local council.
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August 31, 2017 12:33pm
- MrTips
  
  THIS Howie Tamati? https://youtu.be/CO9PlliT4ys
  
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  August 31, 2017 12:48pm
  - cha
    
    No
    
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    August 31, 2017 12:54pm
holysheet

Tell me if I am a racist.
Driving along minding my own business, when my windscreen is blotted out by this big black thing. It was a black cover blown off the ute I was following.
The ute continued on its merry way until I caught up with it at the next roundabout.
Pulling up beside it, I yelled out the window pointing to the cover on my windscreen.
I told him to follow me to the next place we could pull off the road. He got out of his ute and pulled the cover off my vehicle saying sorry.
What nationality do you think he was? Uptick for a chink, down tick for everyone else. How these fuckers get to drive beats me.
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August 31, 2017 12:49pm
- Gabby
  
  Wholly shit, I thought you were a chink.
  
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  August 31, 2017 8:28pm
sam green

Let’s see if you’re racist:

Use of perjorative racial term ✔️
Ascribing negative stereotypes based on race ✔️

Nah ….
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August 31, 2017 1:28pm
- rangitoto
  
  Like “white mofo” ?
  
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  August 31, 2017 2:21pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    ‘Stale pale male’
    
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    August 31, 2017 2:52pm
    - sam green
      
      Purely descriptive.?
      
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      August 31, 2017 4:10pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Racist
        
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        August 31, 2017 4:40pm
      - sam green
        
        Cannibal
        
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        August 31, 2017 4:57pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Are you alluding to how I’m Nga Puhi?
        WOW, you really are racist!
        
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        August 31, 2017 5:03pm
      - sam green
        
        Sorry I thought you were a white mofo.
        
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        August 31, 2017 5:26pm
Jack5

A pat on the back for the Christchurch Charity Hospital.

It has treated 14,000 people (mainly surgery, I’m guessing) in the ten years since it was set up. The patients are people who can’t get treatment in the State-funded health system.

The Christchurch Press reports the hospital’s founder, Phil Bagshaw, as saying that all Governments had rationed elective medical procedures since the health reforms of the 1990s, but funding levels had dropped more substantially in the last nine years.
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August 31, 2017 2:18pm
Surely Knott

Hmmmm maybe I’m late as usual on social media but, Facebook page: National Party Billboard Makeovers. It seems the left was a bit slow and well behaved in my neighbourhood at the begining of the campaign, and the billboards were left alone. But now all the National billboards are defaced. And only the National Party billboards. No other partys are defaced. The police should take action on this site and find out who the admin is.
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August 31, 2017 2:31pm
Stars And Stripes

Red Fox Tavern cold case: Two men charged over 1987 murder of Chris Bush
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/96350914
“Two men have been charged with the murder of Chris Bush following a breakthrough in the 30-year-old cold case”.

Still remember this case quite vividly as it really rocked NZ at the time so top marks to the police for hanging in there and finally arresting a couple of people for this grubby crime.
Not sure why it took so long though as I’m sure Notsofast knew about 25 years ago who were the culprits☺.
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August 31, 2017 2:42pm
waikatosinger

Yet more articles about Winston over on Whaleoil. At this point I’m starting to wonder whether perhaps Winston is paying Slater for coverage. We all know Slater runs a pay for say operation over there. So which political parties are paying? Is this gushing stream of articles about Winston completely genuine commentary (whatever that is on Whaleoil), or is it paid for? And if Winston was paying Slater – how would we know?

Presumably if this was the case the spending would need to show up at some point on NZ1st accounts and statements of election spending. But is there any way we would find this out before the election? If Winston were paying Whaleoil directly to run ads then we would expect some note on the ad itself as to who paid for it. But what counts as an ad? What if Winston was simply paying Slater for coverage – so many articles per week in the run up to the election.

The big problem with Whaleoil is that you never quite know which of those articles has been bought and paid for. Given the prime coverage Winston has been getting over there over the last couple of weeks you really have to wonder.
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August 31, 2017 2:42pm
- SPC
  
  Once one is not a mouthpiece for government, ones influence is realised by being a critic. He has simply gone from one position to another – he has a penchant for the “peddler of influence strand of journalism” – albeit posing as a fearless critic at the moment.
  
  The other strand is personality and ego, being seen as someone to be reckoned with. Siding with NZF as a means to an end. The Murdoch media is well versed in swinging from pro government (p)sycophancy to opposition over the course of government – to be seen as kingmaker and then undoer.
  
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  August 31, 2017 3:02pm
- sam green
  
  “And if Winston was paying Slater – how would we know?”
  
  And if CT or some of their operatives were paying Cathy Odgers to run hits on Ardern, how would we know?
  
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  August 31, 2017 5:06pm
  - Gabby
    
    I’m pretty sure she’s still in Honkong being ‘hot’ and mental health is not an issue at all.
    
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    August 31, 2017 8:25pm
    - sam green
      
      I think narcissistic personality disorder sums the kkkkodger up very well. I’m sure that’s in the DSM5.
      
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      August 31, 2017 9:52pm
cha

GET OUT OR DIE!

http://www.ksbw.com/article/east-texas-county-tells-residents-get-out-or-die/12142731
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August 31, 2017 2:50pm
RF

Interesting that some residents of a large local Ryman Nursing home who would normally vote for Winnie are now looking at supporting Labour. I know a nurse who works there and she has heard discussions amongst the residents.

She told me that it’s nothing to do with their policy as it’s Princess Jacinda they want as PM.

I am also getting feedback from other friends who I never believed would vote labour. Some are now seriously considering voting for them and again it’s because of Jacinda,

I hope Bill kicks arse tonight as I can see National is in trouble.
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August 31, 2017 2:52pm
- Manolo
  
  …as I can see National is in trouble.
  
  Complacency, arrogance, and third-termitis are always dangerous friends.
  
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  August 31, 2017 3:00pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    And incredibly vapid media and voters who promote and vote for the candidate with the biggest tits.
    
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    August 31, 2017 5:15pm
CharlieBrown

Now that our comrades in national have declared an extension of paid parental leave affordable when 6 months ago it wasn’t, does that mean national will reduce it when economic conditions take a turn for the worse? Or is this nothing more than an election bribe that will stay until we sink under the weight of decades of election bribes and require a center right government to remove the unnecessary welfare and restructure our economy?
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August 31, 2017 2:54pm
- Stars And Stripes
  
  We already know the answer to that don’t we.
  Once welfare is given it is impossible to take it back as it becomes a right and is expected by the spongers so taxpayers just have to suck it up, affordable or not.
  Working for Families anyone, I think John Key described it as communism by stealth if I remember rightly.
  Didn’t have the stomach to abolish it when he had the chance though did he.
  
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  August 31, 2017 3:14pm
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    One of the legion of “missed opportunities” of Key’s time as PM
    
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    August 31, 2017 4:19pm
    - CharlieBrown
      
      To John Key, opportunities were votes. And as he saw votes in increasing the size and scale of the state so he took up those “Opportunities”, and the party faithful ate it all up as it was beating labour, too stupid to see he was doing the lefts bidding.
      
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      August 31, 2017 6:59pm
  - CharlieBrown
    
    lol nah, he saw a vote in it so the vote whore increased it.
    
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    August 31, 2017 6:56pm
Fletch

Some writer on Stuff is already talking about making Jacinda: The Movie, and putting forward ideas of who could play each person (eg, Temuera Morrison as Winston). Oh, good grief….

http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/film/96349603/the-campaign-of-her-life-jacinda-ardern-the-movie
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August 31, 2017 3:00pm
fluffykiwi

I am making sure I am with my mother when she votes, I have informed the resthome that I will be there. The problem is not the resthome, it is the “caring” people who turn up to help and the little old lady says thank you dear, and who was I am supposed to vote for.
My mother knows full well who to vote for, she is a creature of habit and she is entitled to that habit. She is compos mentis if she can still do the cryptic crossword and read books and recite poetry.
You know the type of caring person, those that offer to drive people to the voting booth with red ribbon on their car aerials, with a captive audience in the car espousing the virtues of the labour party during the journey.
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August 31, 2017 3:03pm
- krazykiwi
  
  From earlier in GD today.
  
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  August 31, 2017 3:08pm
- Longknives
  
  The Left are scum and will stop at nothing.
  I was abused by a group of people waving Maori flags as I pulled in to vote at the last election.
  ‘Fucking Rich Boy eh?’ ‘That’s a flash car Bro- Sure you want to park it there?’ ‘Bet you voting for John Keys’ etc etc
  I’n not easily intimidated by dickheads like that- But I bet a hell of a lot of older people would be…
  
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  August 31, 2017 4:05pm
  - mikenmild
    
    Not to mention the illegal Mexican immigrants who will be voting in their thousands.
    
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    August 31, 2017 4:26pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      I’m looking forward to finding out how the many (legal) Chinese and Indian immigrants vote.
      Bet it won’t be for the loony left.
      
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      August 31, 2017 4:56pm
    - sam green
      
      Those bad ass hombres.
      
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      August 31, 2017 5:24pm
  - sooty
    
    Instant no vote for you!
    
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    August 31, 2017 5:19pm
  - CharlieBrown
    
    > The Left are scum and will stop at nothing.
    
    So thats about 99% of MP’S + or minus 1%.
    
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    August 31, 2017 7:00pm
  - Gabby
    
    Why didn’t you vote in your own neighbourhood where everyone knows and loves you, and why did you take the boss’ car?
    
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    August 31, 2017 8:22pm
  - Left Right and Centre
    
    flash to some people is ‘current wof and reg’.
    
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    September 1, 2017 1:59am
Manolo

While in NZ Labour and Taxcinda continue to push for higher taxes:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pushes-tax-cuts-hopes-he-isnt-disappointed-by-congress/2017/08/30/a5f4fee8-8d98-11e7-84c0-02cc069f2c37_story.html?utm_term=.7109ad0eb0a1
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August 31, 2017 3:05pm
- fluffykiwi
  
  Has she got to death duties yet. Lets do this tax em to death and then when they are dead kick them to touch and tax their estate. That’ll show em.
  
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  August 31, 2017 3:09pm
  - sooty
    
    Dead Granny Tax!
    
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    August 31, 2017 5:17pm
  - KevOB
    
    Death duties will kick in with any estate exceeding $100K. That’s about the limit of Grants numeracy.
    
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    August 31, 2017 5:36pm
JasonJohns

Have been in personal touch with Bill English (e mailing him) about his approach to tonight’s election debate. Telling him he must play to win and hit Jacinda hard. Focus on his status as a godly man with six kids versus her admitted atheism, living in sin and childlessness. Talk about the security consequences of a menstruating PM during a dramatic international incident. And hammer home the fact that Jacinda, despite all the talk about her youth and beauty, is visibly beginning to age. Approach one of her billboards and inspect it closely and you can see the telltale signs – wrinkles, blotches – of the flesh beginning to decay. The progressives dream of utopia, of abolishing god and conquering death, but they cannot even prevent the rotting of their bodies. Hammer that home, Bill.
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August 31, 2017 3:46pm
- mikenmild
  
  Did you remind him to ask how she would cope being pregnant as prime minister, or breast feeding at cabinet meetings?
  Also, check if is possible for him to move around the stage to intimidate her while she is answering questions.
  
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  August 31, 2017 3:52pm
  - JasonJohns
    
    No Mike I do not believe in personal attacks or intimidation. I prefer to use a scientific and Biblical approach.
    
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    August 31, 2017 4:00pm
    - sam green
      
      Fuck you’re funny.
      
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      August 31, 2017 4:15pm
    - KevOB
      
      Consider also pregnant women may get brain fog and exhausted.
      
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      August 31, 2017 5:38pm
      - cha
        
        And your excuse is…?
        
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        August 31, 2017 5:40pm
  - sooty
    
    If she don’t bred soon, she will be mirror image of Klarke.
    
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    August 31, 2017 5:16pm
- JasonJohns
  
  Thankyou for the upticks my fellow Kiwibloggers. The more we uptick and the more we lobby Bill and the other the more chance we have of making Jacinda’s fornication, atheism, and menstruation into significant election issues.
  
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  August 31, 2017 4:03pm
Inandout

It is not so much that Labour may wreck our economy with Robbo as Finance Minister, it is the PC that will explode. Helen is back with a vengeance; she has unfinished business. My elderly neighbour who usually praised Winston now says that Jacinda is a breath of fresh air. I did not have the heart to explain that the first fresh fart is often closely followed by a putrid one.
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August 31, 2017 3:54pm
- mikenmild
  
  I think I’ll have to bow to your superior experience of sniffing arseholes.
  
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  August 31, 2017 3:59pm
  - Inandout
    
    I have a keen sense of smell m&m, in fact all my senses are keen. I can sense a socialist at a hundred paces.
    
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    August 31, 2017 4:09pm
JasonJohns

Bill English should not be afraid to use technical words that some liberals have tried to ban as un-PC and offensive. As the patriot Huevon has explained here, ‘bitch’ is an appropriate technical term to signify Jacinda Ardern’s animalistic behaviour, and ‘cuck’ is a technical term that Bill could use to good effect against male Labour MPs.
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August 31, 2017 4:02pm
- mikenmild
  
  How about “zip it, sweetie”?
  
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  August 31, 2017 4:05pm
JasonJohns

As I said earlier Mike, I do not seek to use pejorative or sexist language. Biblical science is my guide.
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August 31, 2017 4:07pm
- mikenmild
  
  Which biblical text do you rely on to call a woman a ‘bitch’?
  
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  August 31, 2017 4:24pm
  - JasonJohns
    
    Exodus 22:19
    Leviticus 20: 15
    
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    August 31, 2017 4:34pm
    - mikenmild
      
      The Exodus text commands that whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. The Leviticus text backs this up, but adds that the animal must be out to death also.
      So nothing about calling women names there Kea, just information about the consequences of your hobby.
      
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      August 31, 2017 4:39pm
  - Kimbo
    
    Maybe:
    
    Saul boiled with rage. “You son of a bitch!” he yelled at him. “Do you think I don’t know that you want this son of a nobody to be king in your place, shaming yourself and your mother (I Samuel 20:30 in the Living Bible – which is a paraphrase rather than a translation as such, but it does capture the intent).
    
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    August 31, 2017 4:35pm
    - mikenmild
      
      That’s just putting in a generalised modern equivalent insult.
      
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      August 31, 2017 4:40pm
      - Kimbo
        
        No, it is not generalised. Much more specific: “These words possibly meant that Jonathan was born of a prostitute”.
        
        https://www.studylight.org/commentary/1-samuel/20-30.html
        
        Bear in mind Old Testament Hebrew often used euphemisms, e.g., “covering the feet” = going to the toilet.
        
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        August 31, 2017 4:57pm
      - nasska
        
        ….”So, “water of the feet” means urine; “hair of the feet” (Isa. 7:20) means “pubic hair.” Dt. 28:57 speaks of a formerly pampered woman as being reduced by famine to eating the afterbith that comes out from between her “feet.” Ezek. 16:25 personifies Jerusalem as a wanton nymphomaniac, who spreads her “feet” to every passerby.”…..
        
        https://bycommonconsent.com/2006/01/24/weird-ot-euphemisms-uncovering-the-feet/
        
        You Godnutters ©️ are stark raving mad! 🙂
        
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        August 31, 2017 5:52pm
- Kimbo
  
  But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. (Letter to the Hebrews, 12:8, KJV).
  
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  August 31, 2017 4:33pm
  - JasonJohns
    
    That text is illicit, kimbo, as you probably know.
    
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    August 31, 2017 4:36pm
wiseowl

I wonder if she will have a pony tail?
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August 31, 2017 4:21pm
All_on_Red

@ComradeJacinda
Omnomnomnomtaxesnomnomnom #letstaxthis #nzpol #letsdothis
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIhzBkPVYAAJHQD?format=jpg&name=large
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August 31, 2017 4:24pm
Captain Mainwaring

Wow, Gabby has almost caught me in the number posts.
I wonder if Lucia Maria is able to tally up the relative totals of upticks and downticks for each of us.
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August 31, 2017 4:42pm
- mikenmild
  
  Will you then able to wear a badge saying “More Popular on Kiwiblog the Gabby”?
  Your Mum will be proud.
  
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  August 31, 2017 4:45pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    I have a feeling I will be more popular by a factor of tens of thousands.
    
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    August 31, 2017 4:59pm
- Lucia Maria
  
  Today, you have a 109/7 positive/negative karma ratio over 7 comments and Gabby has a 18/151 karma ratio over 21 comments.
  
  Sorry, haven’t done the stats for a while. Need to make them less labour intensive and I’ve got too much going on right now for that.
  
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  August 31, 2017 5:02pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Appreciate your hard work Maria, but maybe it’s a bridge too far to collect all the stats for each of us since we’ve been on here.
    I’ve been here about 3 years but I think Gabby is a comparative newbie.
    You can make a lot of comments in a short time if you don’t think too much about what you’re saying.
    
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    August 31, 2017 5:10pm
    - Lucia Maria
      
      That’s what you meant. Collecting stats on everyone from a certain time would be pretty easy, btw. I just wouldn’t do it without DPF’s permission. The stats I do now are generated on the fly and not saved. But if I were to do this seriously I have the tools and the knowledge to do it.
      
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      August 31, 2017 5:23pm
  - sam green
    
    Wow Captain Mainwaring. You’re so popular.
    
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    August 31, 2017 5:14pm
    - stigie
      
      Hard to believe that Gobby has almost 5000 shite comments..?
      
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      August 31, 2017 5:29pm
    - sam green
      
      Popular on an anonymous blog where no one gives a shit – but popular nevertheless.
      
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      August 31, 2017 6:49pm
Tauhei Notts

Today’s piece on Chis Trotter’s Bowalley Road is worth reading. I do not know how to link it to here.
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August 31, 2017 4:53pm
Ross12

Some interesting comment from Peter Dunne

“Ohariu MP Peter Dunne says since he decided not to stand for re-election he’s realised how voters feel about the media circus surrounding the campaign.

“Already I have come to see many of my soon-to-be former colleagues through a different prism,” he said in an article posted on Thursday.

“I smile quietly but cynically at their strutting earnest ways and the egregious ever-so-keen-to-please and not offend tones of the political wannabes – now realising that until recently I too was playing the same games.”

He describes media coverage of the campaign as having “all the trappings of a circus” rather than a serious democratic event to elect a government.

“If this is how a soon-to-be former politician views things, just over a week after deciding to leave, one can only begin to imagine how long-suffering voters must feel about all of this, all the time.”

H/t NZ News Wire
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August 31, 2017 5:39pm
dad4justice

Oh well National are doomed. Makes Kill Bill look like a big gay out.
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August 31, 2017 6:02pm
EAD_TWO

People can’t recognise a war waged against them when they think themselves individuals and the weapons are ideas:

Today the people who control the Guardian are telling us – “Europe is a shrinking and ageing continent. We need migration”. (the author fails to mention she has been campaigning for ~~white genocide~~ liberal abortion policies in her time in Parliament.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/30/block-migrants-wont-work-europe-realistic-plan-africa-dubious-deals

Yet just a month earlier – they were telling it’s Goyim readers that in the name of “combating climate change”, that Europeans should have fewer children:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-fight-climate-change-have-fewer-children

The story changes faster than their underwear. One minute they claim that they are all running from torture and then the next minute they are happy to say that these people are coming for gibs and to do “jobs Europeans won’t do”. Then they admit they are basically importing these people but claim it’s to “pay for our pensions” and “boost economic growth” (I.e. to try and pay back impossible to pay Bankers loans).

These people in the MSM are centuries old professional liars – it’s time to call them out.
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August 31, 2017 7:26pm
Left Right and Centre

I cycle past a billboard – ‘drinkable rivers’.

That’s nice. Ok.
It’s not high on my own list of interests.

Oooo – you know what I can’t do enough ? Find a river and then drink from it. Who’s drinking from rivers all the time ?
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September 1, 2017 2:23am
- Left Right and Centre
  
  Aha – someone Michael Mayell is behind ‘drinkable rivers’ campaign.
  He also says reduce meat and dairy intake.
  Hey – why not try an ‘animal free’ day each week ?
  
  Fark. Off.
  
  The planet will be healthier. Will it ?
  No – the planet is being ruined by overbreeding.
  No amount of stingy diet tinkering can counter the skyrocketing global population increase.
  
  I’d love to see how Mikey floats above the earth leaving a near zero eco footprint.
  
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  September 1, 2017 2:33am
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    Now I see Michael Mayell made his moolah flogging firkin biscuits. He’s the Cookie Time overlord.
    
    What – a – firkin – *hypocrite* – what a filthy arsewipe pos he is !! Oh yeah – it’s always Cookie Time – seriously, pass a dairy, that’s the advertising. Junk food. It’s tasty tasty junky junk.
    
    Telling people to eat healthy and save the planet – well – stop buying the biscuits that made him wealthy for a start then.
    
    Gee – I wonder if those biscuits come with any health warnings or recommendations on packaging ? Not a chance eh ! Full of shit. Wouldn’t want to put people off, would we ? Ruin all their fun with a health message.
    
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