General Debate 20 September 2017

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PhilBest

Steve Maharey in an Op-ed in the Herald this morning saying “like it or not, Jacinda has already shifted the political spectrum to the left”.
Nice work, National. Some of us were pointing out all along that failure to move the spectrum back towards somewhere to the right of Helen Clark, at any time over extended periods you are in office, means you are really just keeping the armchairs in Parliament warm for the socialists next onslaught.
But it is even worse; Maharey is spot on, as National has now in the context of the election, been attempting to at least partly match Jacinda’s bribes and virtue-signalling.
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September 20, 2017 8:02am
- kowtow
  
  I recall , but can’t find the reference of Maharey many years ago making a statement using the term “no persons’ land”.
  
  That’s “progressive”.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:07am
- cmm
  
  I disagree.
  
  She has shifted the attention to HERSELF. It is the Jacinda Party, not the Labour party. It isn’t about policy, but smiles.
  
  If she ducks out of politics (which seems pretty likely to happen within a year), then the people will be looking at Andy and co again and they’ll swing away again.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:19am
  - calendar girl
    
    Yes, the Jacinda Party is an apt description. The BBC online is currently running a flattering story on Jacinda Ardern and her chances in the election: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41226232 . Much of the usual stuff that we’ve heard repeatedly in a campaign strategy that has been more about personal style and age than about the hard issues of the country’s leadership, economy, taxation and direction of policy.
    
    Once again we read how Ms Ardern spent time in the UK advising PM Tony Blair on ‘policy’ (at a time when she would have been no more than 27). But still no evidence is presented on the substance of that claim which I consider, in the absence of substantiation, to be carefully-crafted CV puffery.
    
    And we learn about one of her close friends, the heavily-marketed and published Lizzie Marvelly. I hope, desperately, that that particular friendship is not an indicator of the kinds of personal advice that the Labour Leader has been receiving on how New Zealand should be governed.
    
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    September 20, 2017 8:41am
    - krazykiwi
      
      If Taxinda becomes PM, the world’s only younger national leader will be Kim Jung Un.
      
      While both have communist tendencies, Kim arguably has more leadership experience.
      
      On balanced I’d say she’d be the youngest, most inexperienced leader, and she’d be charge of an economy that is the envy of our peers.
      
      Doesn’t bear thinking about.
      
      Two ticks blue.
      
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      September 20, 2017 8:46am
      - KevOB
        
        ☑️☑️
        
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        September 20, 2017 10:58am
      - Peter
        
        Kim is probably less of a socialist.
        
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        September 20, 2017 11:36am
      - GazzaW
        
        ……but more transparent.
        
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        September 20, 2017 1:33pm
      - Piniwi
        
        True krazykiwi. In fact the OECD has an interesting summation in their latest economic survey of NZ.
        “As a small economy highly exposed to global shocks and natural disasters, it is crucial for New Zealand to continue to have low levels of government net debt. To this end the government’s fiscal strategy is to reduce net core Crown debt to 10-15% of GDP by 2025.”
        This is National’s plan or close as we can get to that target.
        On the other hand Labour with the tax flip flop now need to find yet another $7 billion gap their new taxes would have provided.
        
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        September 20, 2017 2:06pm
    - kowtow
      
      Haha
      
      The unBritishBC doing a puff piece on a left wing pollie , surprise surprise.
      They make it as if she was a personal adviser to that war criminal and traitor Blair.
      
      But the Guardian, in their puff piece, state clearly she never met the man or should I say person.
      
      “Labour’s former deputy leader Annette King first met Ardern when she was working for Tony Blair’s office in London in 2006 – a job Ardern says she took out of financial desperation, never meeting Blair in her time there. “Many of us recognised a long time ago she’s actually got the X factor,” says King.”
      
      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/15/jacinda-ardern-new-zealand-election-campaign
      
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      September 20, 2017 8:57am
      - Chris2
        
        So she says she worked for Tony Blair but never actually met him? Is that correct?
        
        I was a public servant 20 years ago, I’m going to start saying I used to work for Queen Elizabeth.
        
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        September 20, 2017 9:49am
      - Fisiani
        
        The earthquake we had an hour ago made me think about Labour’s economic plan that has no contingency built in for another quake let alone pay rises for the public sector for the next three years. Grant Robertson does not have a clue about public finance.
        
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        September 20, 2017 3:42pm
- Simon
  
  National are about as left wing as the country can handle. Though of course the country really can handle any left wing.
  
  For Clark regime left wing was handled by massive personal borrowing. From 60% to GDP private borrowing 1999 to over 100% by 2008.
  
  For John Keys left wing. Mass immigration which has caused a construction boom and somewhat stimulated a chicken shit economy.
  
  The party tricks to handle the colossal shit weight of the left wing state are running out.
  
  With Ardern it will be large state borrowing and a range of taxation to pay the interest while living standards fall for the general population.
  
  Society can not handle the shit weight of the State indefinitely.
  
  Sorry comrades NZ is a great country but it has been run by left wing mongs for too long. Bill English can probably reverse the damage as he aint John fucking Keys. But anything else forget it. Policitally with NZ first dont think he can do much,
  
  NZ future is higher taxation, higher state borrowing, rules and regulations that govern many aspects of our lives and declining living standards.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:22am
- Prince
  
  Yep, Act is the only party espousing proper right wing policy.
  How is that going down with the electorate ? 0.8% if I remember correctly.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:41am
- oldpark
  
  Lest we forget it was Maharey who dreamt up no smacking law before he ran away to tell lies at Massey Uni in Palmerston North.. Was then picked up by a Sicko greenie called Sue Bradshaw.Maharey is just the same type of bully like the wee whimp geoffrey Palmer .Lie-bour/Green mafias selected mouthpiece to help legistlate the law to put the boot into the backbone of our economy The Farming Community. Two Ticks Blue.
  
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  September 20, 2017 9:57am
Andrei

FFS: Stuff has turned into the women’ s weekly

Pass me a sick bag
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September 20, 2017 8:04am
- Longknives
  
  Clark ‘I’m a Ladies Man’ Gayford doesn’t brag about his sexual conquests as much as he used to.
  *Funny how those articles seem to have disappeared..
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:08am
  - KKKKatee
    
    He’s got form with the ladies. He is what the English would term a “Bolter”. Moves on usually around the 3 year mark and finds another conquest. I think there is something wrong with a man or woman who can’t commit to a longterm relationship. So it will be interesting to see if Jacinda is “the one” or not……..
    
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    September 20, 2017 11:23am
    - Paulus
      
      Understand he has history in the NZ non paper media women area , with conquests from within the TV media area.
      
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      September 20, 2017 2:55pm
      - KKKKatee
        
        Bit of a stud by all accounts. I mean, how can you trust someone with that baggage?
        
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        September 20, 2017 7:19pm
- igm
  
  Bloody disgrace . . . vomit fodder!
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:10am
- cmm
  
  Do these pieces really help?
  
  I can see it helping with the third-wave feminists that live inside the bubble, but they are very few and far between.
  
  But crowing about your incompetence is surely not a vote winner with the general public.
  
  Most voters do not follow her on twitter and lap up every word.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:16am
- oldgolfer
  
  Do you have another?
  I looked.
  Stuff is a joke.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:18am
  - igm
    
    They are a joke and must be close to trading insolvently in NZ.
    
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    September 20, 2017 8:22am
- Huevon
  
  What a pathetic excuse of a man. How is his almond milk working out for him?
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:25am
- tom hunter
  
  Why on earth do you pay any attention to Stuff? Or any of them for that matter?
  
  They don’t care if you’re outraged, annoyed, pissed off with their bias, angry, etc. They welcome that! It means that their tactics are working. You paid attention to them. You gave them eyeballs.
  
  Just stop doing that! They will never change and there is only one solution for the MSM:
  Don’t subscribe to them.
  Don’t buy them.
  Don’t watch them.
  Don’t listen to them.
  Don’t share them or link to them.
  Kill them by bankrupting them.
  
  Delenda est MSM
  
  Die, MSM, die.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:33am
  - Bullion
    
    Just about all of Kiwiblog’s material is from *the evil* MSM – without them DPF would have to quit his job as a pollster, pick up a notepad and pen and do the reporting himself.
    
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    September 20, 2017 9:33am
    - tom hunter
      
      Just about all of Kiwiblog’s material is from *the evil* MSM..
      
      As part of my campaign I’ve asked DPF not to link to them, just a quote will do.
      
      …without them DPF would have to quit his job as a pollster, pick up a notepad and pen and do the reporting himself
      
      Given that most of his responses are rebutting their Green-Labour propaganda that’s effectively what he is doing. See the bit on doctor and nurse numbers this morning. Since you’re a dedicated follower of the MSM perhaps you can show me where they’ve talked about that fact, or even used it in a Devils Advocate argument against the lovely Jacinda in an interview!
      
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      September 20, 2017 9:40am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Nuts, Bullion.
      
      Spend some time reading the comments… you’ll pick up more news and better analysis than in all of NZ’s MSM.
      
      Some folks around here have long memories and much more varied life experiences than newly fledged journos.
      
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      September 20, 2017 11:27am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Gayford obviously doesn’t think his girlfriend will win the election if he’s looking forward to it being all over on Saturday.
  Or does he think a newly elected leader will just sleep in on Sunday and have a long leisurely brunch, a walk on the beach in the afternoon, an spot of dinner and an early night? Idiot.
  Has he never heard of media calls, coalition negotiations, a country to run, not to mention the very very busy first hundred days target?
  The naive is strong in that one.
  
  I’ve got a lazy fiver says he’ll be rinsed in the first 100 days.
  
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  September 20, 2017 10:23am
  - KKKKatee
    
    He’ll become the ‘spare prick at a wedding” if Jacinda becomes PM. She won’t have time to wake up at 2 a.m. and soak almonds for his breakast cuppa. Crikey, if he thinks he’s busy now, he ain’t seen nothing yet. Keep doing the laundry Mr Gayford……
    
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    September 20, 2017 11:27am
  - GazzaW
    
    Rinsed in the first 100 days? Bloody hell, who will he get to squeeze his nuts every night?
    
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    September 20, 2017 1:39pm
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      I’m sure he’ll be able to charm some lady with a lot more time on her hands to squeeze his nuts.
      
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      September 20, 2017 7:12pm
- projectman
  
  Yep, mostly clickbait or left-wing opinion pieces.
  
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  September 20, 2017 11:57am
Left Right and Centre

Here’s a great way to take a break on your Heathcote River cycle . . .

Two Ticks Blue
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September 20, 2017 8:06am
igm

It is with disdain hearing our most hapless failed socialist ex-prime minister Geoffrey Palmer being given a lead item on Newstalkzb with Smalley to berate National. He who was responsible for stuffing the taxi industry, liquor industry, milk delivery, and saddling ratepayers with sickly left-wing legislation such as his Local Government Amendment which has given the nod to election of left-wing fiscally illiterate troughers who cost ratepayers millions in vile agenda-ridden decisions. Time for ratepayers only, to vote in local body elections, then we will see the purging of self-indulgent leeching councillors and that will flow on to appointments of over salaried and incompeten agenda-ridden CEOs and staff.
Bet this good-for-nothing trougher also supports Matthew-Wilson’s proposal (supported by Labour) to have stringent drivers’ tests for those over 65, many being silly enough to vote Labour.
Hope voters also realise that Labour will introduce legislation enforcing taxpayers to fund future election costs incurred by contesting parties. Will give left-wing leeches more time to plan destruction of commercial ventures and markets to sate their envies whilst filling their coffers with funds that their pathetic lazy supporters are not in a position to pay.
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September 20, 2017 8:06am
- krazykiwi
  
  Wasn’t Palmer the one who proposed the judicial abomination of ‘guilty until proven innocent’ in respect of rape?
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:18am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I believe it was Andrew Little…. as Labour’s Justice spokesperson.
    https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/07/28/nzrp-j28.html
    
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    September 20, 2017 8:32am
- MCos
  
  ” He who was responsible for stuffing the . . . . liquor industry”
  I’m not sure what you’re alluding to, but the liquor industry seems to be doing just fine going by all the outlets I see around about plus the fights, domestic violence, drunk driving I read about.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:28am
  - starboard
    
    What ARE you talking about McCheese?
    
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    September 20, 2017 9:13am
    - Brito
      
      His last few lines was a discussion about Labour’s recent after-Conference knees-up.
      
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      September 20, 2017 11:01am
- wally
  
  He just wouldn’t shut up despite multiple attempts by Smalley to stop him. He said that lack of experience is no problem for Ardern as she has many experienced politicians around her. How would that work for any other top job? We’ve appointed a new CEO of Air NZ who has bugger all experience in anything but don’t worry, there are plenty of experienced people around her.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:42am
  - marcw
    
    The 2 “experienced” politicians he quoted were David Parker and, get this, princess Mahuta!! FFS, what the … She who has done SFA on the taxpayers dime for 18 years, and whose only claim to fame is making herself unemployable in any other industry by getting Moko’d up. Jesus wept, is this it?
    
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    September 20, 2017 9:25am
    - KKKKatee
      
      I was on the same flight as Mahuta ages ago. She was so full of her own importance, chewing gum and pushing past people like she was the bloody Queen! First opinions count and I thought she was extremely arrogant – “Don’t ya know who I am?” reeked from every pore of her…..
      Ghastly encounter indeed, so obviously Geoffrey Palmer doesn’t see it that way.
      
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      September 20, 2017 11:32am
    - softail 1450
      
      marcw. ain’t that the truth ? she’s done nothing but pick up the perks and taxpayers cash for all those years ,fricking sickening actually .
      
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      September 20, 2017 11:36am
- ex-golfer
  
  Its good to have you back Ian – we’ve missed you.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:43am
Inandout

Fuel crisis is being downgraded to fuel shortage. I seem to remember plane disruption after the Christchurch earthquake., and that was National’s fault.
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September 20, 2017 8:08am
- Tarquin North
  
  I was talking to one of the engineers working on the pipe line leak last night, he seemed to think it would be up and running in a day or two. The Herald will be so disappointed.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:23am
  - MCos
    
    Let’s hope that he knows more than the big boss.
    
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    September 20, 2017 8:29am
    - Tarquin North
      
      Never listen to anything that comes out of the refinery. Everything that happens in that place requires one worker, five green hats (safety people) a couple of watchers, several administrators and about twenty meetings. The bloke I was talking to is a pipeline specialist up from Taranaki, not a refinery employee.
      
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      September 20, 2017 8:35am
    - kevn
      
      MC… Of course the repair will be quick, slow bit is flush/checks. Plus the fuel needs to settle for 30-40 hours after being pumped. Probably to let the air rise. Aerated jet fuel would be a no no..
      
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      September 20, 2017 8:49am
      - starboard
        
        They let the jet settle for a period of time because it has water in it from condensation. Water is heavier than jet fuel so after the water settles into the low point of the fuel holding tank at the airport, they flush it out, as well as the stadis, which is a static dissipator. The fuel is tested again at the airport, a batch sample is sent back to the refinery for final sign off..then the jet tank is released at the airport for use.
        
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        September 20, 2017 9:24am
      - kevn
        
        starboard has kindly clarified the fuel process. Repair is the easy bit. Safety first chaps.
        
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        September 20, 2017 9:51am
      - starboard
        
        …Oh, I forgot to tell you. Flushed fuel is what they call ” slops “. Slops is basically a combination of all the shit. The flushed product from jet, diesel, 95, 98, black oil tanks, intercepter pits etc etc. Gota put it somewhere. Now, slops are injected into 91 fuel at terminal usually when there is a fuel tanker off loading to shore. So if say 3 million litres of 91 is being sent down the line into a 20 million litre 91 storage tank, slops is injected into the line at the same time and all mixes together yum yum..long story short..you then put it in your car. Stick to 95 ( if you can find any lol )
        
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        September 20, 2017 10:08am
  - Paulus
    
    I see there is a big tanker in Tauranga fuel berth today.
    
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    September 20, 2017 2:58pm
- kowtow
  
  Despite TV1’s best efforts to turn it into a full blown 5th alarm panic. Leading its news , ahem , propaganda , broadcasts with ” Z stations run out of juice”.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:34am
- MCos
  
  Three thousand people have had there flights canceled. I rate that as a minor nuisance.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:35am
  - kowtow
    
    Oh dear, yesterday you had a go at some punter over sentence structure . Glass houses?
    
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    September 20, 2017 9:18am
    - starboard
      
      Good spotting that man
      
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      September 20, 2017 9:29am
    - MCos
      
      A few days ago one of the contributors here suggested more money should be spent on Maori education so that they could learn how to string a sentence together proper.
      I’ve taken the opportunity a couple of times to point out that he’s not too flash himself, eh.
      
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      September 20, 2017 11:40am
  - Brito
    
    Gobby the House Elf is the only minor nuisance MCos.
    
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    September 20, 2017 11:04am
  - CHFR1
    
    Actually most of those 3000 are flying today. The flight from Saigon was cancelled last night but all pax are on alternatives with some arriving home earlier than the NZ flight would have had hem back.
    When the shit hits the fan the airline industry helps each other out.
    
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    September 20, 2017 2:26pm
oldpark

Message to Pensioners and Superannuands.The money promised to them by National and Bill English $26.00 a Fortnight.Should they win.
“Commie Chic” Comrade Ardern and joined at the hip liebour/Green mafias.
Her message to Pensioners and Superannuands
“No Money Where Her Mouth Is”. “You Will Not Get It If We Win”.My Generation is what it is all about,havent you people heard me talking.
Sounds like subtle Ageism and Elder Abuse .Hope Not.
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September 20, 2017 8:12am
- Viking2
  
  It would be a good idea if the now genberation read this and asked some of their grandies how they survive.
  No $100.000 salaries as a retiree
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/96986251/housing-strategies-of-retirees
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:17am
  - jcuk
    
    As an oldie I am fortunate that as life had it for me that I didn’t move to the country as such people have problems getting to doctor and hospitals.
    Stay in the larger cities and you will more likely get the health care old age requires.
    A catch 22 question I think for many.
    
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    September 20, 2017 9:56am
    - fluffykiwi
      
      Kerikeri, straight to Auckland Hospital if you have a heart issue, a bad one by helicopter. Quicker than living in some suburbs in Auckland with the traffic. Healthcare in the outlying districts is fine, experienced it. Thank National for that, big changes during their time in office.
      
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      September 20, 2017 10:45am
      - jcuk
        
        Lucky you .. there is usually an exception.
        
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        September 20, 2017 11:00am
- VicParking
  
  Labour dont care about the elderly as they think a great chunk of them will be dead in three years.
  They have a whole generation who are being brain washed by their teachers to “Time for a change”.
  Free education for life and social welfare without the responsibility to look for a job. Legal marijuana and the ability to change sex back and forth on the government.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:33am
  - Piniwi
    
    You forgot one VP. Removal of a baby bump will become free cosmetic surgery.
    
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    September 20, 2017 2:24pm
- KevOB
  
  It’s not subtle. The commie revolutionary chick will sour generational relations.
  
  One 74 year old = 2 x 37 year olds.
  Twice the know how.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:34am
  - jcuk
    
    Once upon a time the old folk’s views counted for something, and were respected. Now it is wise to keep your mouth shut.
    
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    September 20, 2017 10:00am
  - MCos
    
    On the other hand twenty goes into eighty a hell of a lot more than eighty goes into twenty.
    
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    September 20, 2017 11:44am
- ex-golfer
  
  Its a pity that the doyen of older New Zealanders Tom O’Connor, President of GreyPower has not been reminding his dwindling membership base of this fact.
  GreyPower appear to be happy for people to miss out on their increased income from Nationals legislated family incomes package.
  No wonder GreyPower membership is declining – they have become an irrelevant organisation.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:49am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    My elderly mum dislikes GP but joined up because they had a cheap power promo for members. She’s now very annoyed because the cheap offering would have cost her more than she was already paying.
    She didn’t transfer, and now she’s waiting for her membership to expire. Hopefully that will happen before she does.
    
    She also wants to know if JAs granny voted early, and what would happen to the vote of someone who didn’t make it to polling day. Anyone know?
    
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    September 20, 2017 1:12pm
- Paulus
  
  But understand that this Tax reduction for everybody has already been legislated so can only be cancelled by legislation voted in Parliament.
  Not much time after election to do this as Parliament time limited.
  
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  September 20, 2017 4:38pm
103PapPap

How come we have had cattle on earth for about 12,000 years, but now they have to be taxed because there farts cause global warming?
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September 20, 2017 8:14am
- krazykiwi
  
  It’s not about climate.
  
  It’s not about change.
  
  It is about control.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:22am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Yep, look how the Unions in California are taking over its climate funds
    
    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/09/17/another-climate-scam-money-intended-for-climate-goes-to-union-boost/
    
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    September 20, 2017 8:37am
- cmm
  
  Because they’re White Man cattle farting and burping guilt.
  
  The 60 million or so American Bison that lived in North America until 1800 farted rainbows.
  
  The cattle in India, the nguni cattle of Africa and the wild windebeest do not emit carbon. It is only modern White Mans Cattle that do that.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:28am
  - Lance
    
    And methane gas breaks down in UV in less than 10 years.
    It is not an ash like CO2
    
    Friggin ridiculous
    
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    September 20, 2017 8:59am
    - cmm
      
      Que? Ash?
      
      Yes, methane breaks down into CO2 and water when it reacts with oxygen.
      
      CH4 (methane) + 3O2 (oxygen) -> CO2 + 2H20 (water)
      
      Photosynthesis then takes that CO2 + water and makes it into grass (and releases O2). The cows then eat that grass…
      
      So we have a carbon neutral cycle, but we must still feel guilty, so it must be bad! And screw the farmers!
      
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      September 20, 2017 9:21am
      - Lance
        
        What I was saying is methane is not a stable chemical. It is purported to be vastly worse than CO2 and in effect equivalent to many times CO2.
        Because it has energy to spare (unlike CO2 which is the end result – as in an ash – no more energy available) it is broken down by UV and splits apart into H2O and CO2
        It breaks down quickly and becomes vastly LESS damaging even by the AGW standards.
        
        So the methane calamity is bullshit on a stick – pun intended
        
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        September 20, 2017 11:40am
      - Flash
        
        “methane breaks down into CO2 and water when it reacts with oxygen.”
        
        So THAT’S why we’ve had so much rain. Must be my neighbour’s cows. I’d better tell him –
        
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        September 20, 2017 3:09pm
  - Bullion
    
    60 million Bison – that pales in comparison to the over 200 million cows now in Brazil (just one country for comparison) – on land that was mostly Amazon Rain Forest and a carbon sink.
    
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    September 20, 2017 9:48am
- Gruffydd
  
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  Number of cows in New Zealand 250 years ago.
  Zero.
  
  The idea of the ETS is to place a cost on emissions and allow the market to find solutions.
  Some possible solutions are being research here.
  
  The result of not taking action on climte change will be increasing costs of natural disasters .
  Yours and mine insurance premiums will rise.
  We will also need to rebuild large amounts of infrastructure . Some of it is not worth rebuilding
  Cheap land in Florida anyone ?
  
  Global warming /Climate change is not going away no mater how much some of you wish it would.
  The longer it takes humanity to get to Carbon neutral the more it is going to cost us all.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:30am
  - cmm
    
    Cattle do not produce the emissions people are worried about.
    
    It is the bacteria that break down plant matter that live in the cattle n that actually generate methane & CO2 etc.
    
    Guess where else you find bacteria that break down plant matter into methane/CO2 etc? In the soil, in the leaf litter in forests, in swamps, seaweed rotting on the beach, in compost heaps and composting toilets.
    
    Any grazing animal (including moa) needs those bacteria to break down their food. We do too: especially GoVege.
    
    But no, it’s just the special methane that comes out of cows that is the problem.
    
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    September 20, 2017 8:37am
    - Gruffydd
      
      When you start your comment with outright dribble your ideas can be ignored.
      Methane is a very strong green house gas. Our farming industry produce far more than NZ’s environment did before we introduced intensive agriculture .
      
      Our trading partners will eventually force us to reduce our CO2 footprint.
      Better to be proactive and solve the problems with our farming practices before we are forced to from pressure from the global community.
      
      Sticking your head in the sand and denying the problem is not a solution .
      
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      September 20, 2017 8:49am
      - Shawn Herles
        
        “Our farming industry produce far more than NZ’s environment did before we introduced intensive agriculture .”
        
        So what? NZ’s total contribution to any AGW is so small it’s pathetic. Reducing it will have no impact on the global climate, especially as China and India have no intentions of seriously lowering theirs. The stupid Paris Accords actually allowed them to expand coal production.
        
        “Our trading partners will eventually force us to reduce our CO2 footprint.”
        
        No they won’t.
        
        “Sticking your head in the sand and denying the problem is not a solution .”
        
        Claiming NZ should sacrifice farming and rural communities when it will make no serious difference to the global climate is outright dribble.
        
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        September 20, 2017 9:15am
      - cmm
        
        Yes, methane is a strong green house gas, but it breaks down into CO2 again and is then photosynthesized back into grass for the cows to eat.
        
        If that was not happening then there would need to be some other ways for cattle to add carbon back into the atmosphere. When did you last see a cow drink diesel or eat coal?
        
        Do you even know what a cow looks like?
        
        Methane comes from many sources. Most of the methane comes from rotting vegetation in forests, marshes or wherever. Every plant that grows is going to die and rot back (unless it is trapped and turned into coal).
        
        It’s all basic chemistry. Ignore the guilt and the ideology.
        
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        September 20, 2017 9:27am
      - Gruffydd
        
        Yes Shawn .
        As usual you make statements that are unsupportable when we examine reality.
        
        What I just stated is a view shared by every political party in this country and our diplomats. NZ also has other issues with the distance to our markets pushing up our carbon footprint. Both methane and food miles are attract growing pressure from the global community.
        
        National has presently exempted Agriculture from the ETS. National have never ruled out its introduction at some time in the future. Labour and/or the greens will win the keys to the economy eventually and will include agriculture in the scheme.
        
        Emissions per capita.
        India and china emit far less per person than we do.
        Both country’s are making efforts to reduce their emission growth at the same time as expanding their economy’s.
        
        If your political position involves denial of reality sooner or later your views become redundant .
        
        PS CMM
        
        Sorry mate we have a scientific community studying this .
        Our farming practices result in increasing our emissions. Sooner or later we will see more effort from the NZ government to reduce this impact
        If the left wing wins this time it will be in the next three years if its national a few years more .
        
        Failing to acknowledge the reality of Climate Change just leaves many of you bewildered nutters baying at the moon as the world passes you by.
        
        Poor whacks.
        
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        September 20, 2017 10:02am
      - gravedodger
        
        A daft prick comment.
        NZ cattle numbers are a very small number of the worlds total bovines and many of those are no longer roaming plains and prairie as wild aanimals.
        
        Just as Arctic ice is greater than a decade ago such misinformation may well be causing disruption to the environment.
        
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        September 20, 2017 10:16am
      - cmm
        
        “Sorry mate we have a scientific community studying this .”
        
        What a ridiculous argument.
        
        There are nutritionists working a crisp factories. That does not make crisps healthy.
        
        We have theologians studying God. That doesn’t make God real.
        
        Yes we do have scientists studying this stuff for two reasons:
        1) It is work in a field that is hard to find jobs in.
        2) NZ is trying to find ways to reduce the methane emissions from cattle by changing the microbes in the gut. If they can do this then it gives a commercial advantage against other farmers that do not have this tech.
        
        It does not make the problem real.
        
        As I already said, other animals and biological processes generate methane and there are natural chemical processes which break down methane into CO2.
        
        Human-induced methane (including agriculture) is small compared to natural methane production (forests, swamps, wildlife…) and much of the man made production is only replacing natural methane production (for example cattle replace bison in USA).
        
        And, BTW, rice paddies produce more methane than all the world’s cattle put together.
        
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        September 20, 2017 12:39pm
      - Gruffydd
        
        much of the man made production is only replacing natural methane production
        
        Methane is rising.
        Like CO2 human activity has resulted in increasing concentrations in our atmosphere. We have upset the balance of the planets normal cycles.
        Messing around with the planets atmosphere in an uncontrolled experiment is not a good idea we have no planet b to fall back on.
        
        I find it amazing that conservatives refuse to look at the forward impact of this experiment.
        Hurricanes are getting stronger.
        Sea level rise is accelerating.
        Rainfall patterns are shifting.
        These changes are predicted by basic uncontroversial physics and confirmed by measurement.
        
        Increasing costs of natural disasters are costing the global economy growth.
        
        look at the comments on climate change CMM
        They contradict each other along with logic and measurable fact.
        Living in a dream world makes you politics unable to resolve real issues like our response to Climate change.
        
        Methane emissions from our diary heard is recognized as contributing to rising amounts in the atmosphere. Pressure is being placed on limiting emissions by our trading partners. Global effort to reduce emissions will have an increasing in impact no our economy.
        
        NZ inc has successfully leveraged our clean green image into trade and tourism opportunity. This branding leaves us exposed to a perception as a laggard when it comes to limiting emissions on the world stage.
        
        We will see more effort to reduce emissions as impacts become apparent .
        Better we start to answer such questions as methane from our herds now than kid our self’s its not happening .
        Fortunately this view is universal among our political party’s.
        
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        September 20, 2017 1:28pm
    - Piniwi
      
      cmm. Increased substantially again by rotting native trees the Greens wanted left alone. What a sad waste of natural resources. They are so thick that they ignore the example native forests they feature have been cut over. Selective logging would have actually reduced that pollution while enhancing the forests.
      
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      September 20, 2017 2:33pm
      - cmm
        
        There are very few ways to actually remove carbon from the natural cycle.
        
        Nature mainly does it by making coal, but that takes millions of years.
        
        One way to do it would be to take logs and sink them somewhere to the ocean floor to some place where there is lots of pressure and little oxygen – really deep, say Kaikoura.
        
        However, I am much more confident that nature will sort it all out.
        
        Global warming predictions depend on “feed forward” multiplier effects leading to unstable “tipping points”. These very rarely exist in nature.
        
        What is far more common are self-regulating “feed-back” mechanisms such that systems adapt to cope with extra nutrients (CO2 is just plant food).
        
        For example, there’s now new growth in African desert regions because the extra CO2 is allowing plants to grow in marginal areas. This will absorb more CO2 and if we stop, those plants will die off again.
        
        Nature is really good at adapting.
        
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        September 20, 2017 5:02pm
  - KevOB
    
    You wish.
    What about the risk of being wrong and we are actually entering a long term cold period?
    
    Did you know:
    (1) The IPCC reports Summaries for Policy Makers differ materially from the actual reports;
    (2) The UK now imports wood chips from the USA to burn produce electricity.
    
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    September 20, 2017 8:39am
    - Ross12
      
      A report on a new paper worth looking at. Lead alarmist scientists saying things are not quite what they thought they were
      
      http://www.cicero.uio.no/no/posts/nyheter/commentary-did-15c-suddenly-get-easier
      
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      September 20, 2017 9:51am
  - cmm
    
    The idea behind ETS is to exploit guilt for profit.
    
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    September 20, 2017 8:41am
    - krazykiwi
      
      Exactly!
      
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      September 20, 2017 8:53am
  - Brito
    
    Are you insane? Where the hell have you been, under a rock? The human influenced global warming bullshit is just that.
    
    Go back to your mung beans and leather sandals and stop dibbling into you food encrusted beard.
    
    CAN THIS PERSON BE BANNED FOR STUPIDITY???
    
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    September 20, 2017 11:07am
    - Gruffydd
      
      Hello Nutter.
      
      Failing to acknowledge the reality of Climate Change just leaves many of you bewildered nutters baying at the moon as the world passes you by.
      
      Q E D.
      
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      September 20, 2017 11:22am
      - Brito
        
        MUST I SPEAK LOUDLY TO THIS DEAF DORK? BAN THIS TYPE OF LUDIT- ISM. HE OR SHE IS CLEARLY A HEAVY DRINKER.
        
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        September 20, 2017 11:46am
      - Gruffydd
        
        Keep gibbering whacko.
        Shouting makes you seem slightly more deranged than the average nutter on here .
        Only slightly….
        
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        September 20, 2017 12:04pm
      - starboard
        
        Smoker..Griffs a smoker of Mary Jane, even though its ILLEGAL..
        
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        September 20, 2017 12:14pm
    - Garbageman
      
      Go easy on Griff he is a recent convert (late last year i believe) to the cult of global warming which will explain his extreme passion on the topic
      
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      September 20, 2017 3:03pm
  - Brito
    
    HAS YOUR STILL BEEN WORKING OVERTIME GRIFF???…I SAID…GRIFF (LOUDER NOW) HAS YOUR …never mind, clearly in need of help. I have some space available for a new patient.
    
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    September 20, 2017 12:16pm
- VicParking
  
  The american plains used to be black with Bison, no global warming then.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:35am
- fluffykiwi
  
  Indeed and no fencing of streams back then.
  It always amuses me how the environmentalists etc., wish to save all creatures, then bang on about too many cows, eating meat etc is bad and we should be vegetarian.
  So I take it from that either we allow unfettered breeding by all animals and no selective slaughter for eating or we get rid of those naughty dirty cows and salmonella filled chickens altogether. So at what stage do the cows and chickens become endangered species and the animal rights people pick up the mantle and wish to save them.
  (Yesterday someone was going on and on about the dirty salmonella chicken meat she didn’t like bringing into her kitchen – how she couldn’t kill her chickens as they were her friends – I wonder at what point she gets overrun by the creatures a bit like Alfred Hitchocks “The Birds” film)
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:35am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Its the kangaroos we have to watch out for.
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australia-kangaroos-culling-killing-murder-deaths-a-year-a7583186.html
    
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    September 20, 2017 8:41am
  - kowtow
    
    ‘It always amuses me how the environmentalists etc., wish to save all creatures,’
    
    Funny how their concern for life on this planet does not extend to humans. “Environmentalists” of the noisy publicity seeking agenda type tend to be ultra leftists who are very comfortable with abortion and birth control.
    
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    September 20, 2017 9:22am
    - oldpark
      
      Yes as well as the humans’ already born ,are great advocates for abortions. Was reading about a poor wee baby who died in Waikato Hospital. The sicko media went berserk,including the ZBs Lardo Woman Smalley. Yet the same hospital performs 2000 Abortions every year.,thats around 5 each day. Wonder why our selective morality Media and waste of space mouthpieces like Smalley,perform the crime of omission.the word hypocrits is too kind for the mentioned losers and ratbags.
      
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      September 20, 2017 3:37pm
- Psycho Milt
  
  How come we have had cattle on earth for about 12,000 years, but now they have to be taxed because there farts cause global warming?
  
  How come we’ve had humans on earth for about a million years and so many of them are still morons?
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:48am
  - tom hunter
    
    The public education system?
    🙂
    
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    September 20, 2017 8:58am
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      left wing teachers in The public education system.
      
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      September 20, 2017 9:32am
  - jcuk
    
    Because morons breed and sensible folk have self control.
    
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    September 20, 2017 10:10am
    - KevOB
      
      If the “sensible” don’t care to maintain the population by low or nil breeding don;’t be surprised if they are replaced in time by the less sensible.
      
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      September 20, 2017 11:09am
  - dime
    
    “How come we’ve had humans on earth for about a million years and so many of them are still morons?”
    
    simple. america.
    
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    September 20, 2017 10:19am
- Bullion
  
  Because we have more ruminants now than at any time in history, we are continually destroying many of the worlds carbon sinks and have been burning fossil fuels for more than a century.
  
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  September 20, 2017 9:36am
  - cmm
    
    Rice paddies generate more methane than cattle.
    
    As for more ruminants? Sure, tht’s true for NZ because we don’t have natural ruminants, but elsewhere?
    
    America has about 60 million bison and very few cattle before 1800. Now they have about 90 million cattle and bugger all bison., so the nett increase is not that big.
    
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    September 20, 2017 12:48pm
krazykiwi

Labour’s industrial relations policy is often referred to as a return to the 1970’s.

I suggest ‘return’ is the wrong word. Return tends to have positive implications, eg
– I return home after a lovely holiday
– My income generates a return
– The successful government was returned

What Labour is proposing is a giant leap backwards in to a dark age of unions strong arming workers, unions holding industries to ransom, unions disrupting the lives of NZers, and unions taking money out of workers’ pockets and donating it to Labour
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September 20, 2017 8:16am
- KevOB
  
  It’s actually back to the 1950’s. I remember the 1951 strike.
  
  How is it that the parliamentary Labour Party can have their leadership voting rights under NZCTU control?
  Is that proper for our Parliament.
  That needs to go.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:43am
- Brito
  
  I returned to Auschwitz.
  I returned to the Labour Party conference after throwing up in the toilet.
  I returned to the reality of having a misbehaving House Elf (Gobby).
  I returned….
  
  Nothing positive there!
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:49am
- Psycho Milt
  
  Labour’s industrial relations policy is often referred to as a return to the 1970’s.
  
  By right-wing spin doctors and the dim bulbs they’re pitching to, yes. To the rest of us it’s just a partial rolling-back of some of the anti-worker excesses of the last 30 years.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:51am
  - Johnboy
    
    You can’t be much of a worker PM. You spend far to much time here old chap! 🙂
    
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    September 20, 2017 1:24pm
- cmm
  
  The 1970s sucked. I didn’t get laid once!
  
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  September 20, 2017 12:49pm
kowtow

Yesterday RNZ ran a story about Nick Smith being jeered at a Timaru meeting .
The issue , Ecan forcing people to not use their log burners that are over 15 years old.
While Smithy blamed Ecan for this fascism , the problem for me is that this shit is being allowed under a Notional gummint , it was the same with the Health and Safety ramp up , and the pandering to the Maoris over smoking and the attendant attacks on private property rights that that entailed.

I wish Ngati Notional had some balls.

Unfortunately they are merely the best of a bad lot.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/89422622/Got-an-old-log-burner-You-may-need-to-apply-for-an-extension-to-use-it-in-Timaru
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September 20, 2017 8:17am
- tom hunter
  
  See PhilBest’s comment at the start of GD today – and note that it already has, as of 8:21am, six downticks from National Party partisan fanatics.
  
  Two ticks blue of course – but purely and sadly as a defensive move that gives me three years of breathing room.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:19am
- Psycho Milt
  
  …Smithy blamed Ecan for this fascism…
  
  Did he mention that his government appointed all the Ecan members so it could rely on Ecan’s compliance? That makes him responsible, not that he’d ever admit that being a cabinet minister involves actually being responsible for anything.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:53am
  - gravedodger
    
    Not quite Milt the appointed commissioners included old socialists and public servants to actually do what the elected members had spectacularly failed to do in nineteen years of procrastination and talking.
    
    The governance and management functions split has delivered much of the dross delivered by crusading agenda driven middle management.
    
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    September 20, 2017 10:22am
    - Psycho Milt
      
      So, it’s not Nick Smith’s fault because some of the people he appointed to Ecan weren’t up to the job? Actually, that is his fault.
      
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      September 20, 2017 10:40am
- wiseowl
  
  Pat Palmer has a post on nzcpr .
  The concentration of PM10 in Christchurch has halved in the last 20 years.
  The ecan scientists said there were fewer hospital admissions because of ecans policy on logfires.
  But no they only estimated the figures and the admissions to hospital and deaths have gone UP. They had claimed around 100 fewer admissions when actual figures from Canterbury Health Board show there were around 1500 more.
  The scam over pm10 and logfires should have been dealt with by National but Smith and co have allowed millions to be spent for no reason.
  
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  September 20, 2017 9:31am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Air quality is almost entirely an urban issue, and in NZ really just a christchurch issue. But christchurch urban voters/Ecan are determined to make everyone in Canterbury suffer in sympathy for their problem.
  
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  September 20, 2017 9:40am
- MCos
  
  Timaru has a population of a bit over 25,000 of whom 85 were at that meeting.
  Obviously not a burning issue in the town.
  
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  September 20, 2017 11:57am
Digmen1

If you vote Labour, you will get

The Greens and Miteria
Kelvin and his Captain Idern
More taxes
More refugees
More beneficiaries
More feral children
More state oppression and control
Helen and Cullen in the background.

So please vote two ticks Blue
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September 20, 2017 8:21am
- KevOB
  
  ☑️☑️
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:45am
Fisiani

Labour means more tax and lower pensions
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September 20, 2017 8:23am
103PapPap

How does taxing cow farts fix global warming?
Where does the money go?
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September 20, 2017 8:27am
- Dafixeruppa
  
  Down the toilet of course…
  
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  September 20, 2017 9:21am
- Bullion
  
  The Greens would use that money to plant about 1 billion trees and expect to give every one over 18 $250 annually.
  
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  September 20, 2017 10:00am
Happychappy

Is Winston Peters going to pull a miracle out of the bag and be the king maker or is the last big push for survival for him and his party. He must be pissed with Paddy and the TV 3 crew for all the tips he gave them and the information for hits on National to then be passed aside for Jacinda with Paddy and the crew throwing their support to Labour. Personally don’t write off the king but I really think Politics in NZ will be far better without him.
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September 20, 2017 8:27am
Huevon

What’s with the auto generated Labour ads on this site, DPF?

I come to kiwiblog to avoid the fake news and see everyone rip into the lefties. I don’t want to be confronted by those teeth.
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September 20, 2017 8:29am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  If you were targeting advertisements, you would go after people who might be convertible, rather than safe voters wouldn’t you?
  
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  September 20, 2017 9:41am
Mobile Michael

Finally got to see a candidates meeting last night. Thankfully the more the Labour candidate spoke the less she made herself an option. But even if she loses she will be an MP thanks to her List placing. She is shallower than a petrie dish.

The tl:dr is that 9 years ago was when everything started going wrong, and if we tick red on Saturday everything will be fixed in three years.

The National candidate was miles ahead in policy knowledge and talked up solutions – not necessarily ones I agree with, but he knew his stuff.
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September 20, 2017 8:34am
evergreen

Great speech by President Trump to the UN this morning I thought. I particularly liked his comment that the problem with Venezuela was not that socialism was implemented, but that it was faithfully implemented. Brilliant. USA leads the world once again.
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September 20, 2017 8:37am
- Inandout
  
  And his reference to Rocket Man.
  
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  September 20, 2017 9:01am
  - Gabby
    
    He stole it downanout.
    
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    September 20, 2017 8:39pm
    - Brito
      
      The House Elf returns with cutting wit and insight!!
      
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      September 20, 2017 9:57pm
EAD_TWO

Morgoths Review latest on the insane tribalism associated with Soccer in his hometown of Newcastle, England and how it’s turned all the men into Cucks:

http://nwioqeqkdf.blogspot.com/2017/09/cucks-united.html

Abridged:

10,000 healthy white men chanting and parading through England’s cities, their cities, but for what? what purpose does this bravado serve? They march proudly to shower an African with their meager wages while worshiping him as a demigod. Foreign men have settled in their cities and are sexually exploiting their womenfolk by the 100’s, upon arriving at their precious stadium, which will be owned by a Jewish or Arab oligarch, they have to be watched over like lambs lest the foreign men who’ve settled in their cities blow them up, and when they finally get inside they’ll be bombarded with ant-racism propaganda and cameras watching for racist remarks directed toward the African millionaire they’ve come to fawn over.

Do any of these men question this? does Dave not turn to Brian and ask:

”Hang on a minute, Bri, if this is our town and we own it, we’re the boys here, then why are we the ones under armed guard for our own protection?”

As Way Of The World pointed out, it’s the circus part of ”Bread and Circuses for the masses” and every circus needs its clowns…
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September 20, 2017 8:48am
oldpark

Wonder could our so called Mainstream Media be classed as in a different form of Bribe-o-Meter.
Rumours are that our disgraceful trade union infested media all got together to discus tactics to put the boot into Bill English and our very succesful National Government.
Every day it seemed in the election campaign that there was a competition to see which media out let could denigrate Bill or National.Lets grade them,to see who are the biggest fake news outlets.
Start with TVNZ = Corrin Dann scaled on ten being the best on the media bribe-0 meter.
Corrin Dann =4 every comment he makes is anti National .
Next Newshub = Patrick Gower.
Gower = 4.5 every comment he makes is usually made up to suit the way he got out of bed and looked in mirror.
Radio New Zealand known as RNZ. = A bunch of no hopers rat bags liars station should be closed down. They are probably the worst in the medias sinister plans to destroy Bill English and National.
RNZ = Minus the $38 Million Dollar bribe Lie-bour/Green mafias have promised them.Go figure.
Next our Print Media. The Commerce Commission knew what they were about when they declined an amalgamation between the Australian owned Dom-Post and NZ Herald.It is a photo finish between the three sicko biased news out lets.
Dom-Post= Vernon Small, Tracy Watkins just two of the too many names to mention on their daily assault on Bill English and National.Each day to read the articles ,it certainly got sicker and sicker ,full of lies ,and untruths. my perception was maybe they were being out done by the even worse reporting of the election Campaign. The sociopathic NZ Herald=There is nothing good to say anything about such a fake newspaper full of one sided articles putting the boot into bill English and National.Of course they own Newstalk ZB where the so called Election “News” is controlled by a nest of Lie-bour/Green sycophants. in the course of one day on their “News”. I counted 21 bulletins with massive support for Commie Chic Comrade Ardern their anointed.Bill English got one ,a blatant negitave.
To Grade Dom-Post =2.5
To Grade NZ Herald =2
Last of all he gets first prize on the media bribe-0 -meter.
An arse Licking Lie-bour/Green Ratbag ,the lowest of the low in many many ways. A complete two faced bastard called Barely Sober..
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September 20, 2017 8:52am
Happychappy

Great to see Jim Bolger come out and give a plug for Bill English and National on the Rachel Smalley show. Jim warned voters not to make their vote on personality and said people should not be looking for the most exciting candidate as they cast their vote this week. Bolger also said personality does’t feed your children, keep the rivers clean, or make the Country safe, it takes leadership strong intellect and the right policies.
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September 20, 2017 8:55am
- kevn
  
  Yes, lardo couldn’t empty him off the show quick enough as he was not in agreement with her pushing for a generational/personality, clearly JA theme.
  
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  September 20, 2017 9:04am
- Scorpion
  
  B U L L S H * T
  
  Since WHEN DID HE
  
  MAKE THE COUNTRY SAFE
  
  WHAT TOTAL BULL SH*T
  
  LABOUR AND NATIONAL
  
  YOU ARE F U CKING KIDDING ME
  
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  September 21, 2017 1:35am
flipper

Does anyone seriously regard Maharey as anything other than a TUC-PSA-Labour shill whose roots are still firmly planted in the crazy, dictatorial world, of H1 and her real partner, H2 ?????

Mahareyt’s views are worth the contents of a douche bag!
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September 20, 2017 9:03am
lastmanstanding

Can I let you into a little secret. I know place where there are many thousands of students gathered every day and only a handful have voted so far. Lab/Greens are not getting the Yoof to either enroll or vote. So forget all the polls. Its one thing to say ‘Im voting Lab/Green” and another to actually so into a polling booth and tick the ballot paper.
Im sure Nats internal polling is telling them to polls are way out as regards Lab/Greens as their scrutineers are in the places and can observe the age of the voters voting.
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September 20, 2017 9:04am
- fluffykiwi
  
  Hopefully their parents are as important in these student’s decision making processes as their “teachers”.
  Cutting off the money supply is a good start.
  
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  September 20, 2017 10:55am
  - Piniwi
    
    Interesting point fluffykiwi. The no2 son has left me since he was told there was no more money for uni. Income went from $30000 to $13000 back in the day so one of us had to miss out. He’d spent his first year studying DB & Sky TV. A long orientation period but he finally knuckled down and got a degree.
    
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    September 20, 2017 2:53pm
- oldpark
  
  A relative of mine who goes to Uni said the existing Paying students already there are very angry that new students will get so called free education to satisfy ‘Commie Chic’ Comrade Arderns’ bribe. They said there is no way they will vote for Lie-bour/Green mafias. They consider the bribe for votes,has caused a huge divide at the UNI.
  
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  September 20, 2017 3:25pm
kowtow

Look at what’s happening in Sweden…..housing for the horde.

“One of these has been allocated to a 57-year-old man, his wife and their children.

Another two apartments have been allocated to two other women, who are also registered in official Swedish records as both married to the same 57-year-old man, and their children. The women are all in their 40s.”

https://www.thelocal.se/20170919/did-a-swedish-council-buy-apartments-for-a-man-and-his-three-wives-nacka
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September 20, 2017 9:05am
- GoVege
  
  It goes on HERE, kowtow.
  We suckers are paying for chauvinist immigrant men to commit bigamy or even trigamy.
  And these ones claim to be CHRISTIANS!
  Once I got so pi**ed off about it I printed off some copies of the Ten Commandments with the one about adultery highlighted, to shove in their letterbox.
  But I knew when it sunk into his thick brain what it meant, he’d just take it out on wife #1.
  
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  September 20, 2017 1:44pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Sure you did.
    
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    September 20, 2017 1:49pm
    - GoVege
      
      Shut up AoR.
      
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      September 20, 2017 9:37pm
Dave Mann

Here’s an example of how good the Labour advertising machine is. This morning I found a pop-up ad for Labour with Adern’s toothy grin on my phone coming through an Android YouTube downloader app! The only way to get rid of it was to delete the app’s notifications otherwise it kept appearing.

These people are frighteningly good and what’s more, their ‘Lets do this’ slogan has real cut-through. I’m a National voter, but I can’t for the life of me remember if they even have a slogan…. Fuck….
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September 20, 2017 9:08am
- sooty
  
  Them slaves have been busy!
  
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  September 20, 2017 12:01pm
- Gabby
  
  ‘There’s a fiver in it if you look the other way.’
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:34pm
kowtow

But wait there’s more .

‘Police did not want to say if there was a known threat against people in the building. A teenager was in the apartment when the explosion happened, but did not suffer any injuries.

Biskopsgården is one of the areas labelled “vulnerable” by Sweden’s police due to high crime rates and poverty levels. There have been previous instances of attacks with explosives like grenades in the Gothenburg suburb in recent years.’

“Vulnerable ” is Swedish for “immigrant” .

https://www.thelocal.se/20170919/police-launch-attempted-murder-investigation-after-explosive-object-is-thrown-at-gothenburg-apartment
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September 20, 2017 9:08am
cmm

I am not a pollster and I freely admit that what I am writing here has absolutely no factual backup – just a bit of hunch.

Jacinda peaked about 2 weeks ago and is on the decline. A very rapid decline. Once people see through the Jacinda lipstick and see the Labour pig beneath it, things start going into free fall. The flip-flopping on tax and all the wimmins weekly stuff might play to here core fans, but not voters in general.

National definitely got a bit stuck for a bit, especially while Bill was trying to find his own way. Now he has and people are generally warming to him. Two months ago he lacked the “bbq factor”, now he has it.

Most people these days get alarmed by talk of taxes and unions and busines-hostile policies. The days of class warfare – setting the blue collar against the “rich pricks” – is gone. We are all now “rich prick” factory owners through Kiwisaver etc. We all want to see the stock market (and thus industry) thrive.

A lot of the polling only samples people who say they are definitely going to vote or are likely to vote. I call bullshit on the “likely to vote” crowd. That’s the crappy response you make if you are not going to vote, but don’t want to lie and still want to sound like you will do the right thing and vote. I suspect that those are mostly the left leaning voters who are less likely to vote anyway (eg. Greens always under perform). To this we add Facebook and other social media. Once these sorts of people have liked on Facebook it ticks their mental box for having done their bit.

I think there is a good chance National will be able to govern alone. I also think there’s a good change for ACT to break its 1-man-band problem.

Anyway, who knows, I’m probably reading this all wrong.
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September 20, 2017 9:09am
- Digmen1
  
  I hope you are right.
  You do not present any evidence
  
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  September 20, 2017 9:28am
  - cmm
    
    Like I said in the opening sentence: “what I am writing here has absolutely no factual backup – just a bit of hunch.”
    
    However there are things we do know:
    * Greens do tend to do worse on the day.
    * There is a well documented psychological phenomenon that many people feel they have “done their bit” by virtue signaling, then fail to follow through with real action.
    * As of 2015, the average Kiwisaver balance was over $11k (it is probably $15k by now). That’s riding on the stock markets and would be severely threatened by Labour policies.
    
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    September 20, 2017 9:45am
- starboard
  
  If liarbor/greens get in..I’ll be playing this on Sunday morning..over and over and over..
  https://youtu.be/qt0-4FzoNgw
  
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  September 20, 2017 10:45am
  - Longknives
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55FP1LfkkVQ
    
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    September 20, 2017 11:12am
    - Brito
      
      You win, I’ll chose that one.
      
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      September 20, 2017 11:25am
    - MrTips
      
      Maybe this: https://youtu.be/oW9uN-wOYJA
      
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      September 20, 2017 12:46pm
  - Brito
    
    This is where I’ll be going to live.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW-lXjOyUWo&list=PLEQdwrAGbxncZFLH4KETau3-uncnqVtWD
    
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    September 20, 2017 11:13am
  - cmm
    
    There’s always an aspirational song to play:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2YtFykr8CM
    
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    September 20, 2017 3:23pm
- KevOB
  
  ☑️☑️
  
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  September 20, 2017 11:14am
  - Gabby
    
    Tulixpu
    
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    September 20, 2017 8:31pm
- Piniwi
  
  True cmm. Don’t let modesty get in the way of your clarity of thought it can be as bad as the evil ego. We see that taking over the chosen one who “did not want the top job” until it fell in her lap.
  Watching any live exposure is the crunch for her. First it soon becomes plain how little she knows about their policies. Then if you can stand all the waffle it illustrates how little she knows about anything.
  
  Now we see her avoiding any interview that might not be as easy as she needs to get through it. Even defaulting to Robbo to announce the tax flip flop was the soft option and perhaps a turning pint. Not just the backward move but what that change does to their already shaky fiscal outlook.
  
  It is in fact standard Labour panicking as we have seen with intervention being a standard MO. They panicked when Angry Andy tanked in the polls and what we laughingly saw suggested a few short months earlier happened. They passed the poison challis to Taxinda. So no the polls are vague at best and the massive variance indicates some higher degree of selectivity in the sampling.
  
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  September 20, 2017 3:15pm
  - cmm
    
    I’m really happy whichever way it goes:
    
    1) National: Yeah, that will work for me.
    
    2) Labour: They will prove their incompetence really quickly and inoculate an entire generation to having another Labour government. They won’t really be able to achieve much in 3 years. Nat will get the wake-up call they need and a chance for some down time (it must be hard work being a Minister for 9 years). Nat come back re-energized in 2020 and everything is fine and dandy until 2032 or so.
    
    Win/win :-).
    
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    September 20, 2017 3:28pm
Than

So, there has been a lot of talk (mostly on left-wing blogs) about the possibility of a “youthquake” – a high turnout of young, predominantly left-leaning voters propelling Labour to victory.

The early evidence is this doesn’t seem to be happening. However expanding on the concept, I wonder if this election we might instead see a “farmquake”. Labour’s water tax has evoked very strong negative reaction in rural communities. These voters are already predominantly National voting, so vote share probably won’t change much. But if these feelings resulted in high turnout in these areas, that could make the difference and give National the election.

This is admittedly pure speculation (with a large dash of wishful thinking). But given the data we have so far, it’s also a completely plausible possibility.
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September 20, 2017 9:11am
- BananaLlama
  
  I posted this yesterday, Labour are in for a fucking hiding. Pardon the Language.
  https://www.libertas.digital/blog/2017/9/15/no-youthquake-yet-but-there-is-a-greyquake
  
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  September 20, 2017 9:16am
  - Surely Knott
    
    Interesting. A friend had an 88 mum in hospital, sand when he came to visit she had an I have voted sticker on. The nice ladies had bought the forms round for early voting and helped her. So that may help explain the large elderly turnout. Lets just hope they weren’t too guided by the Unionised staff.
    
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    September 20, 2017 9:42am
    - fluffykiwi
      
      I am making sure I am present when my mother votes, she is entitled to vote the way she always has, this will possibly be her last vote 98 years old. Still able mentally. I am not having any do-gooder tell her how “nice” that little Jacinda is, my mother would dislike her on sight given her lack of actual hard work and repetitive speak. there is one thing my mother is very keen on and that is substance in what you utter.
      
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      September 20, 2017 10:51am
    - Longknives
      
      What’s a bet those ‘nice ladies’ were wearing Red and carrying Red Balloons?..
      The Left are immoral scum.
      
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      September 20, 2017 11:11am
      - KKKKatee
        
        Probably. But one thing we know is that Toni Street wears a red dress and is most likely Jacinda’s BFF on Facebook……
        Jack Tame most likely wears red boxers…..
        Ditto for cute wee Matti………
        Hilary Barry prefers a red dress as well….
        The list goes on…….
        
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        September 20, 2017 11:43am
      - Gabby
        
        Red is most illustrious and auspicious colour in honkong kattee.
        
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        September 20, 2017 8:30pm
- kowtow
  
  I look forward to the post election analysis of the breakdown by age of the people who did turn out.
  
  There’ll be no youth quake (huge numbers still aren’t even registered) and as in past elections it will be us grey hairs who turn out in the biggest proportions.
  
  But meanwhile we have to put up with the Lying Press and their agenda.
  
  It’s a wee bit like when the Great Half White Warlord ran for the White House , there was no end of Hopey Changey push from the media , but in the end they got no change and plenty of disappointment.
  
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  September 20, 2017 9:30am
- Digmen1
  
  Lets hope we have
  A farmers quake
  A rural people quake
  A workers quake
  A pensioners quake
  A small businesspersons quake
  A tradies quake
  A hard working immigrants quake
  
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  September 20, 2017 9:31am
- cmm
  
  We all know how tightly our economy is coupled to dairy. Everyone shits themselves silly when there’s a downturn in milk price.
  
  Thus, the “farmquake” need not be just limited to rural people even though Labour have tried their damnedest to make a rural/urban divide.
  
  Perhaps Labour read the UK play-book a bit much. I would argue that the rural/urban divide is much easier to exploit in UK because:
  1) They have much larger cities.
  2) The UK farmers get heavy subsidies and that builds resentment – as it should.
  
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  September 20, 2017 9:33am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Good point Than.
  I’m hoping that National will be saved by the rural and provincial city electorates upping their party vote for National from 65% to 70%+. This will cancel out the previous Nat-voting old ladies in the cities who are switching to Labour because Jacinda’s such a ‘nice young thing’.
  Lots of Greenies are switching to Labour but this doesn’t change the overall balance, and the Nats will get a few back as the ‘I’m voting NZF to teach National a lesson’ brigade comes back home.
  Youngies, as always, find voting too hard despite what they might say is their preference, so my forecast is (whatever tonight’s poll might say).
  National: 46%
  Labour: 38%
  Green: 5.5%
  NZF: 4.5% (and Winnie loses Northland)
  TOP: 2.5%
  Maori: 2.5%
  ACT: 2.0%
  With the wasted NZF and TOP votes National’s share of 93% will be almost 50% and with ACT they will be home and hosed.
  
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  September 20, 2017 9:34am
  - cmm
    
    Do you really think there are nice old ladies voting for sweet Jacinda?
    
    She can’t even sort her washing!
    
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    September 20, 2017 9:47am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      I was talking to one the other day, couldn’t believe what she was saying.
      I hope she’s in the minority.
      
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      September 20, 2017 9:55am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        They are out here in the wops in droves.
        
        Frightening, I know…
        
        But this generation grew up in the hippy era and imbibed the works of Friedan, Greer and co.
        They remember their bra-less days and forget the horror of tanktops and bell-bottoms.
        Something about Jacinda (long-hair, skinny) takes them back to their misspent youth.
        
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        September 20, 2017 10:23am
      - cmm
        
        Yup, the free love chicks of the 1960s who were mostly baked until they got into their 30s.
        
        I suppose they see a lot of lot of a kindred spirit in Cindy.
        
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        September 20, 2017 3:30pm
- Poppa
  
  Yes I definitely agree with that idea. Not just farmers but all the small town folk who rely on the farmers spending in their town. If farmers are giving heaps to the government it will be far less money in retailers pockets which will result in loss of jobs in small towns.
  
  Labour never consider consequences, in fact I doubt they are capable of thinking of them
  
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  September 20, 2017 10:38am
flipper

Received a robocall (ex a Wellington number) from Angry Andy Biglittle last night. Well my daughter happened to answer the ‘phone and told him (presumbly his electronic brain) to fuck off (she did!). Jacindageddon’s internal polling will probably describe the response as “undecided”.
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September 20, 2017 9:19am
- Brito
  
  I have two young voters at Uni. One involved in a liberal arts degree one pursuing a science degree. So, the science block hang out with the accountants, lawyers and young Drs. and they are enrolled and voting National. The liberal arts block are chanting Labour, Labour in their sleep. I have had it reported that they are neither enrolled nor likely to vote. Both my liberal arts and science scholars are blue.
  
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  September 20, 2017 9:29am
  - kowtow
    
    Your kids have more sense than you do.
    
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    September 20, 2017 10:52am
    - Brito
      
      Careful cow-tower. You’re coming into this discussion fundamentally ill-equipped.
      
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      September 20, 2017 12:06pm
      - kowtow
        
        Ill equipped?
        
        You told us the other day you were voting labour , today you’re skiting about how smart your kids are voting blue .
        
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        September 20, 2017 1:31pm
  - starboard
    
    “One involved in a liberal arts degree”
    
    Just what we need..more artists..
    
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    September 20, 2017 3:16pm
    - Brito
      
      No Cow Tower, I said they voted blue and that was their choice – I had nothing to do with it. They can read and write and make their own choices. That’s not skiting brain surgeon, that’s a proud father happily watching his off-spring grow independent and make the right choices. If any whelps spring from your foul loins I daresay they’ll be either Green or ToP, and like you, ill-equipped.
      
      As for you Starboard, liberal arts have produced more millionaires and business leaders than any business school or accounting faculty. Haul in your anchor it’s slowing you down.
      
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      September 20, 2017 10:07pm
- GoVege
  
  Or uncivilized. ..
  
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  September 20, 2017 12:17pm
Inandout

Car ploughs into school kids on North Shore. What gives?
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September 20, 2017 9:32am
- starboard
  
  The kids ??
  
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  September 20, 2017 11:42am
  - Brito
    
    Will nobody think of the children!!!????
    
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    September 20, 2017 12:07pm
  - Gabby
    
    The girl in critical condition thinks you’re as funny as fuck starfish.
    
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    September 20, 2017 8:27pm
    - Brito
      
      Nobody thought you’d understand Gobby. We need to give you more credit.
      
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      September 20, 2017 10:08pm
cmm

Shaw bitching he’s not getting enough aritime:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/97025359/live-three-days-to-go-till-the-election

Dude: Every time you open your mouth you say something even more stupid than last time. The very last thing you need is more opportunity to make a twat of yourself.
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September 20, 2017 9:35am
cas

Just listened to Kathryn Ryan’s interview with Bill English this morning. She sounded exasperated that he could answer all her questions. I thought he gave a masterly performance even when she was butting in. Now will wait to see if the Jacinda interview tomorrow is as tough or do I feel a Tui ad coming on.
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September 20, 2017 9:47am
- cmm
  
  I can tell you what it is going the be like:
  Hello Jacinda
  You did say $38M more for RNZ right?
  It’s time for a woman in the driver’s seat again.
  Sorry about your granny, tell me about how wonderful she was and how she helped form you as a woman.
  Tell us about how she cared for other people and puppies and how she passed on all those caring attributes to you.
  Thank you for your time and once again we all feel for you with your loss and tell us if there is anything we can do for you.
  
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  September 20, 2017 9:53am
  - tom hunter
    
    A couple more of Ms Ryan:
    
    Why do you think the National Party lack empathy with the poor?
    
    In what way have Labour successfully moved away from the Old, Male and Stale world – and can this also show National the way forward to better representing New Zealand?
    
    Why haven’t the female National MP’s had a similar effect on their party? Would a higher transgender quotient help them feel people’s pain?
    
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    September 20, 2017 10:05am
    - MCos
      
      Sent her an email with your suggestions
      Ninetonoon@radionz.co.nz
      
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      September 20, 2017 12:02pm
- flipper
  
  Can anyone direct me to a RELIABLE assessment of the DAMAGE that would be caused by any increase in world temperatures? I would enmjoy a temperature
  Please do not reference rising sea levels… that is all BS – just try the ice in a glass of water test.
  
  The biggest real problem faced by NZ is the BS on the ever changing climate that is pushed at6 schoolchildren (including idiots like Jan Wright, bureaucrats and most politicians).
  
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  September 20, 2017 10:11am
  - Brito
    
    Good luck finding impartiality Flipper. Years ago I was studying geology and my lecturer said, ‘the earth is cooling we’re tilting slowly back into an ice age – albeit a minor one’. Then out of no where comes ‘the world is heating up’.
    
    It started to heat up about the same time Al Gore lost his job and was sniffing around for a new one. Interesting report last week of kauri die back from 30,000 years ago. The sudden increase in temperature caused the south pole to discharge huge amounts of fresh water into the ocean. Sea level rise meant that the feet of the coastal kauri got taste of salt and died off.
    
    The temperature rise was 16degrees C. The world continued and a balance was restored. The tossers are currently bleating about a 2 degree rise.
    
    The volcano in South America which upset our flights in the Southern Hemisphere (few years back) dumped more CO2 and methane into the atmosphere in a few short weeks than humans have managed to do since we began farting.
    
    Go to any reputable University and speak to geology lecturers who will gladly divulge the story of the past through the strata and rocks which are around you.
    
    Climo- palaeontologists will gladly share the profiles from the ice they drill out of the Antarctic. This cross section of trapped gases tells you what was in the atmosphere year by year, layer by layer.
    
    Al Gore, carbon trading and climate scaremongers are up to their trendy armpits in deceit and lies about this issue. The world climate waxes and wanes over the centuries. Change is a natural function of the atmosphere.
    
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    September 20, 2017 10:46am
    - starboard
      
      But but but..Griff said..
      
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      September 20, 2017 10:50am
      - Brito
        
        Starboard I’m beginning to doubt the veracity of your comments. Griff is a patient of mine.
        
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        September 20, 2017 11:16am
- Tarquin North
  
  He looks like an undertaker on downers and sounds like my accountant when he opens his mouth.
  
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  September 20, 2017 10:55am
WineOh

I’ve been out of action for a wee while, occasionally lurking in the wings here but not posting. I’ve not voted yet (but definitely will). In the past I have voted for 3 different parties over my voting ‘career’. While I wouldn’t exactly consider myself a swing voter I’m still open to persuasion.

Give me your best succinct reason or pitch why I should vote for your favourite party & I will consider this in earnest when I got to the ballot box.
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September 20, 2017 9:55am
- Black with a Vengeance
  
  …because there’s far to many cats and rich pricks fucking things up for the rest us here in Godzone!
  
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  September 20, 2017 9:57am
  - Brigitte
    
    Oi hold on a second. There can NEVER be too many cats. There can be too many Gareths however.
    
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    September 20, 2017 12:33pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  WineOh.
  This is the best I can do to help you.
  Would you rather live in New Zealand or Venezuela?
  
  TWO TICKS BLUE !!!
  
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  September 20, 2017 10:17am
  - skyblue
    
    Come Sunday I would say most people will have voted Venezuela.
    I am afraid it will be a landslide to Labour going with Greens or NZF.
    I am buying USD today.
    
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    September 20, 2017 10:26am
    - GoVege
      
      The Nats are still in with a chance.
      All those bribes to pensioners and those on high incomes might just tip it their way.
      “Never underestimate the other guy’s greed”.
      
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      September 20, 2017 12:13pm
  - KevOB
    
    ☑️☑️
    
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    September 20, 2017 11:21am
    - Gabby
      
      Tulixpu
      
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      September 20, 2017 8:22pm
  - Gabby
    
    TULIXPU !!!!!! !!!!!! !!!!!! !!!!!! !!!!!!
    
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    September 20, 2017 8:22pm
- BeaB
  
  Can’t you use your own brain, do a bit of reading and make up your own mind?
  I worry about people who have to be persuaded.
  
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  September 20, 2017 10:49am
  - WineOh
    
    Thanks Bea, I’ve done plenty of my own reading and often debate politics within my friends and family. I’m keen on extra perspectives though before casting the final ballot.
    
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    September 20, 2017 11:22am
    - kowtow
      
      Bottom line is Labour Green for a massive growth in the state , as well as a fundamental change in the nature of the state (think republic with TOW written into a constitution), blue for a slower rate of state growth.
      But with L/G your life will be subject to even more control than we have at the moment , which is actually currently more than reasonable.
      
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      September 20, 2017 1:35pm
- krazykiwi
  
  @WineOh – Every single Labour-led government since 1960 has led New Zealand into a recession. Recessions cost jobs, reduce health and educational opportunity, and lead to societal breakdown. If you want that, vote for Change™, and see it unfold again.
  
  If you want stability – even if there are things you wish were better – then two ticks blue.
  
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  September 20, 2017 12:18pm
  - WineOh
    
    Crikey thats an eye opener kk!
    
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    September 20, 2017 2:50pm
    - krazykiwi
      
      Have I got you thinking blue, baby blue ?!?
      
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      September 20, 2017 5:47pm
- wiseowl
  
  wineoh
  votefornewzealand.com
  may help
  
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  September 20, 2017 3:40pm
Black with a Vengeance

Are we there yet ? Did we win ? Did I do da damage ? Can i get an an icecream now ?

I think i need to pee !
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September 20, 2017 9:56am
Surely Knott

RNZ Article. Teacher Jo Cameron physically takes her students to the Polling Booths in article about high rate of young Maori enrolled. Does this cross a line. Jo Camerons Twitter accounts shows her tweets are almost exclusively political, and Labour party politics, retweeting Grant Robertson, Helen Clark, Jacinda etc. What checks and balances do we have to ensure our kids are getting unbiased information at school.
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September 20, 2017 10:01am
- Black with a Vengeance
  
  Doesnt Winnie organise vans to get his not so mobile fanbase to the polling booths also ?
  
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  September 20, 2017 10:16am
  - Surely Knott
    
    I have no idea. But a school is a mandatory state institute. I wonder if she had signed permission from the parents.
    
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    September 20, 2017 10:18am
    - AgentBallSack
      
      Do the parents know their kids are at school or even care?
      
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      September 20, 2017 10:24am
    - Black with a Vengeance
      
      As long as it’s not on school time and they’re over the age of consent, i don’t have a problem with extra curricular activities.
      
      truckin the oldies to the poling booths and giving them a nice cuppa and a bikkie after, if you vote Winnie first ?
      
      tsk tsk !
      
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      September 20, 2017 10:27am
      - Surely Knott
        
        It was during school time . 11.45 on a Monday.
        
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        September 20, 2017 10:44am
      - Black with a Vengeance
        
        Off with her head. Put it on a pike outside the school, wait til it shrivels, shrink it then mount it in the schools trophy cabinet.
        
        That’ll fucking learn her !!!
        
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        September 20, 2017 12:08pm
      - kowtow
        
        I thought nasty honkey stopped the shrivelled head business 150 years ago.
        
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        September 20, 2017 1:38pm
      - starboard
        
        When did you get out on parole BWAV?
        About time you left those dairy owners alone eh.
        
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        September 20, 2017 3:12pm
  - MCos
    
    It’s quite normal for political parties to arrange transport to polling booths for voters.
    
    (In Thailand they paid the voters petrol money even if they could walk. Voters I knew could easily collect $300 or so.)
    
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    September 20, 2017 12:11pm
- krazykiwi
  
  What checks and balances do we have
  
  None. Impressionable minds are at the mercy of their teachers
  
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  September 20, 2017 5:49pm
Ross12

There is another important election going on –Germany.
Bill Still gives a very good overview, mainly around immigration issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBuLTQ-QGvs
The interesting bits are around 5-7mins in.
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September 20, 2017 10:09am
Macfre

Yesterdays day’s article in the ODT plays down the risk of strikes from Fair Pay Agreements. Jacinda Adern cites the Aged Care pay equity settlement as an example of how “nice” the process will be.

She forgets that that deal was paid out of a single purse – the government’s. The government paid no more than it could afford.

However, Fair Pay agreements will be paid for by all affected business, large and small. Most businesses won’t be at the table to influence the deal, but they will have to live with the outcome whether they can afford it or not.

This is the reason there were so many strikes in the 1970s and 80s. Award deals were kept low so as to help the businesses least able to pay. Frustration with low award settlements led unions to seek better deals at the company level, and they frequently went on strike to this end.

In other words it’s not the awards (Fair Pay Agreements) that cause strikes, it’s their failure to deliver and the subsequent need to resort to taking frustrations out on individual companies.

Labour is offering no comfort saying their awards won’t cause strikes. They never did. But how will Labour stop second tier strikes happening? They can’t unless they deny the right to strike altogether. Yeah right.
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September 20, 2017 10:10am
- Paulus
  
  Look at how many old people’s homes are closing or about to close in Auckland. I know of three on the Shore because with wage increase they are out of business. They are in very nice large older style houses, worth a fortune in their own rights, with no business attached.
  
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  September 20, 2017 4:51pm
dime

Stuff & the Herald call the last leaders debate for Jacinda!!!!

just saving you guys from having to check back at 830 tonight.
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September 20, 2017 10:21am
- KevOB
  
  The questions are already in her hand.
  
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  September 20, 2017 11:24am
AgentBallSack

Jacindas new Aunty Annette King provides free party political broadcast for Labour. Since she is still a sitting MP shouldn’t propaganda like this be authorised?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/96970681/election-annette-king-happy-to-be-jacinda-arderns-aunty
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September 20, 2017 10:23am
- sooty
  
  When are they not an MP? When parliament is dissolved or at election night?
  Auntie Annie is retiring. When does it take affect?
  Is the fat green frog allowed to fly to Auckland for electioneering outside her electrite?
  
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  September 20, 2017 11:51am
  - GoVege
    
    Do stop being nasty, Sooty..
    
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    September 20, 2017 12:10pm
  - MCos
    
    Uncle Todd is campaigning in London.
    
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    September 20, 2017 12:13pm
tom hunter

Stanislav Petrov died in May, with no fanfare:

Stanislav Petrov was the duty officer monitoring an early warning system from a bunker outside Moscow on Sept. 26, 1983, when the radar screen suddenly appeared to depict a missile inbound from the United States.

“All my subordinates were confused, so I started shouting orders at them to avoid panic,” Petrov told the Russian news agency RT in 2010. “I knew my decision would have a lot of consequences.”

The alert siren wailed. A message on the bunker’s main screen reported that four more missiles had been launched, he said. Petrov had 15 minutes to determine whether the threat was real and report to his commanders.

“My cozy armchair felt like a red-hot frying pan and my legs went limp,” he told RT. “I felt like I couldn’t even stand up.”

The famous 007 flight had just been shot down and things were pretty tense.

Petrov, thinking that any U.S. attack should have involved even more missiles to limit the chance of Soviet retaliation, told his Kremlin bosses the alert must have been caused by a malfunction. He persuaded Moscow not to shoot back.

It was later determined that Russian satellites must have mistaken sunlight reflecting off clouds for nuclear missiles.

Petrov’s reward? He was chastised for failing to provide proper paperwork, he said.

In this time of talk of elections, politics and putting the right people in control, it pays to remember the countless, unknown souls who just may have saved your ass without you knowing.
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September 20, 2017 10:28am
flipper

Watched the TV One pitch by the pollies to school kids. I like W English and have known him for about 20 years. Nevertheless I never thort that I would conclude that he related to those kids far better than I ever saw from J Key (who accepted my grandson’s invitation to visit his school). English was brilliant, far, far better last night than his rivals and clearly welcomed the absence of a media filter. His use of Samoan in talking about his wife, children and grandfather was brilliant. Best it was genuine and, best of all, obviously resonated with the kids. The smiles, nay wide grins, contrasted with the response to those delivering them a lecture. And one kid appeared to score a momento – W English’s tie.
Good stuff Bill!
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September 20, 2017 10:34am
- GoVege
  
  Yes Flipper, Bill is a nice guy, buy all he did was make a sandwich!
  And I heard his Samoan brought shrieks of laughter from Samoans listening…apparently he said something inappropriate.
  
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  September 20, 2017 12:06pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    You ‘heard’.
    Another one of your ‘stories’
    
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    September 20, 2017 12:12pm
    - GoVege
      
      Actually, I was sitting right next to one, honest.
      My “stories” are all true, AoR.
      
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      September 20, 2017 1:30pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Yeah, like this?
        ‘My chemist once told me that their profession are held up daily at gunpoint in Auckland.’
        http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/05/general_debate_2_may_2017.html#comment-1920858
        
        Clearly untrue. This example is the tip of the iceberg.
        You’re a liar.
        
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        September 20, 2017 1:52pm
      - GoVege
        
        That’s exactly what my chemist TOLD me a few years ago.
        I can’t guarantee she got it 100% right.
        What’s your problem?
        
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        September 20, 2017 6:57pm
      - GoVege
        
        Btw: when English spoke Samoan last night, he used the special matai version.
        You’re NOT supposed to use it about yourself!
        But good on him for trying.
        
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        September 20, 2017 7:00pm
  - MrTips
    
    Yeah he probably said Robbo was competent
    
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    September 20, 2017 12:37pm
  - Inandout
    
    Official sources said.
    
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    September 20, 2017 3:23pm
Cunningham

Anyone see the radio nz interview this morning? Why didn’t they just get Jacinda to run the interview! People talk about Mike Hosking being biased, he’s got nothing on that women
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September 20, 2017 10:37am
Fletch

Meanwhile, in Australia where they are going to have the plebiscite on same-sex marriage, the “no” voters are getting harassed, losing their jobs, and attacked etc. No surprise really.

https://www.facebook.com/theboltreport/videos/496771347347666/

The advocates for same-sex marriage are exactly the bigots and bullies they claim to oppose. You’re not allowed to dissent from the liberal orthodoxy. If you do, you’re somehow immoral and it is OK to target you.
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September 20, 2017 11:17am
- MCos
  
  I watched about half of Mr Bolt’s rant and he indeed came up with one case to back up his arguement. He didn’t mention the millions that didn’t.
  Having said that it must be said the way the Aussies are going about the whole process couldn’t have been better designed to cause the most lunacy.
  
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  September 20, 2017 12:32pm
  - Fletch
    
    If you look at the other videos on his Facebook page you’ll see his interviews with the woman who was fired for her views, the Archbishop who says posters around his church are being torn down and that he and other church leaders are getting threatening phone calls, and the university student’s video showing ‘yes’ advocates attacking campaigners for the other side of the vote –
    
    https://www.facebook.com/theboltreport/videos/496325484058919/
    
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    September 20, 2017 12:37pm
  - MrTips
    
    Yeah, how dare they let the public have a say. Can’t be trusted those normal people and taxpayers….
    
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    September 20, 2017 12:38pm
    - Fletch
      
      That’s just it – it’s a referendum. People should be free to promote their views for either side without fear of intimidation. If a gay man had been fired for promoting the ‘yes’ view, what an uproar there would have been. Just last week the Australian government passed emergency laws to make it illegal during the same-sex referendum to say anything someone else might find intimidating or vilifying. What’s the bet the law will only be used against conservatives? It basically limits the speech of anyone who is against same-sex marriage.
      
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      September 20, 2017 12:48pm
      - MCos
        
        It’s not even a referendum. It’s little more than a poll with a huge sampling. Costing $120mil plus
        When the dust settles it will still be a conscience issue in parliament from what I understand.
        Also, from what I understand the outcome is not in doubt.
        
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        September 20, 2017 2:23pm
- GoVege
  
  “Bigots and bullies”?
  Next you’re gonna tell us about “straight-bashing”, Fletch.
  
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  September 20, 2017 1:32pm
  - Shawn Herles
    
    “Next you’re gonna tell us about “straight-bashing”, Fletch.”
    
    You’ve never heard a gay person bashing “breeders”?
    
    I have.
    
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    September 20, 2017 2:52pm
    - GoVege
      
      I presume you mean an ear-“bashing”.
      Big difference.
      
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      September 20, 2017 6:51pm
Sublime

RE that sign in Morrinsville that local cockie was holding the other day ‘She’s a pretty communist’ (which in my view was a bit low-rent; play the policy, not the person) and the lipstick/looks-based attacks the media has been lamenting every chance it gets … who remembers this?

[Edits mine. Decorum!]

Whale Oil notes that Labour’s Welfare Spokesperson Jacinda Ardern tweeted:

I heart @homebrewcrew #NZMA

This is the band whom at the Music Awards said John Key was a c**t who should suck their dicks. They are a Labour favourite who plays at gigs to raise funds for Labour. They encourage people to chant “F**k John Key” at concerts.

http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2012/11/ardern_on_homebrew.html

Can you imagine the coverage we’d get if Davey Seymour or a Nat endorsed something even half as colourful as the above that was directed at Jacinda?
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September 20, 2017 11:18am
- GoVege
  
  They’re KIDS!
  I’m sure you said similar in your time.
  
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  September 20, 2017 12:08pm
  - dime
    
    govege – its not the band thats the issue.. its chompers love of them.
    
    if dime starts a death metal band and writes songs about violence/rape towards labour leaders/ gween members e and judith collins said she loved it, the world would end.
    
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    September 20, 2017 12:31pm
    - GoVege
      
      You’re so cute the way you talk about yourself in the 3rd person, dime!
      Please go ahead and start a band…
      
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      September 20, 2017 1:28pm
      - dime
        
        youre still missing the point..
        
        and my band days are over. i was a drummer for a short while though 😀
        
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        September 20, 2017 1:54pm
      - Longknives
        
        So if Dime and I started a band and wrote a song about raping a Labour Politician or perhaps their child Go Vege?
        You are clearly okay with that??
        *Or is it ‘different’ when your friends on the Left do it?
        
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        September 20, 2017 4:03pm
      - Gabby
        
        dim’s gettin riddim
        
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        September 20, 2017 5:28pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    They’re KIDS!
    
    Tom Scott (HomeBrew) is 32 years old!!!!
    http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/nat-music/audio/201835457/home-brew's-tom-scott-on-new-life-new-work-and-homegrown
    
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    September 20, 2017 4:24pm
- Black with a Vengeance
  
  Seriously talented artists who have made some of the best kiwi music to come out of Godzone in a good while!
  
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  September 20, 2017 12:12pm
Fletch

As some have mentioned on here already, it turns out the threat of climate change is not as great as was previously thought, and those models? They are running “too hot”.

Climate change poses less of an immediate threat to the planet than previously thought because scientists got their modelling wrong, a new study has found. New research by British scientists reveals the world is being polluted and warming up less quickly than 10-year-old forecasts predicted, giving countries more time to get a grip on their carbon output.

Experts now say there is a two-in-three chance of keeping global temperatures within 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels, the ultimate goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement.

They also condemned the “overreaction” to the US’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord, announced by Donald Trump in June, saying it is unlikely to make a significant difference.

According to the models used to draw up the agreement, the world ought now to be 1.3 degrees above the mid-19th-Century average, whereas the most recent observations suggest it is actually between 0.9 to 1 degree above.

The discrepancy means nations could continue emitting carbon dioxide at the current rate for another 20 years before the target was breached, instead of the three to five predicted by the previous model.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/09/18/immediacy-threat-climate-change-exaggerated-faulty-models/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_fb_tmg
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September 20, 2017 11:31am
KevOB

A family man and it shows.
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September 20, 2017 11:32am
Manolo

It would also apply to NZ under a socialist Labour-Green government:
https://news.grabien.com/story-trump-problem-venezuela-not-socialism-has-been-poorly-implem

The problem in Venezuela is not that socialism has been poorly implemented, but that socialism has been faithfully implemented.

From the Soviet Union to Cuba to Venezuela, wherever true socialism or communism has been adopted, it has delivered anguish and devastation and failure.
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September 20, 2017 11:33am
Manolo

Did the incompetent know?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/did-obama-know-about-comeys-surveillance-1505852932
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September 20, 2017 11:35am
marcmywords

What happens when socialists like Adern drive their crazy agendas?
https://thenextweb.com/gaming/2017/09/19/venezuelans-farming-videogame-gold-real-money-some-gamers-arent-happy/#.tnw_zaKdSHPb
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September 20, 2017 11:38am
Surely Knott

More top reporting from RNZ. “A veteran of the swamp kauri industry, Milton Randell, had reported seeing a kauri dig in progress near Ruakaka last Wednesday, the day before the pipe broke, at what he later assumed was the site of the break. But Mr Randell told RNZ that on reflection, the dig he spotted as he drove to Waipu may not have been at the pipeline site.” Ah. Yeah. So it was total fabrication. The eart at the site was undisturbed and the dig at the site in question was 2-3 years ago! So how did Milton get it so wrong. Was this a political hit (and a miss)?
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September 20, 2017 11:44am
- Gabby
  
  So if if was 2 or 3 years ago, who still ran the tabletop export show.
  
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  September 20, 2017 5:14pm
Prince

Finally something Ardern says I can agree with.
“Staff taking ballot boxes home at day’s end “leaves room for error”, Labour leader says. ”

What the hell is the Electoral Commission up to ? Not only are early voters exhorted to ‘Vote for Change’ by wading through crowds of unemployed Labourites wearing red tshirts, but the voting papers are then taken home by staff (by definition they do not hold full time jobs).
Is Joanne Harrison managing this ?
NZ ranked no. 1 as the least corrupt country. This election has blown that out of the water.
Whatever the result on Saturday, these practices need to be exposed and shut down asap.
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September 20, 2017 12:21pm
- Digmen1
  
  This whole early voting thing needs to be stopped.
  
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  September 20, 2017 1:37pm
- Inandout
  
  When sanity reigned and voting was restricted to one day the boxes at the end of the polling day were opened and counted at least twice. The sealed boxes were then taken to a pickup point from where they were taken to a central point. When the Electoral people get the collected boxes the votes are counted again. So yes, with voting extended 2 weeks it leaves much room for hanky panky. What did surprise me was there were no Police patrols of voting stations, especially late at night when the boxes were loaded into the supervisors cars. In some countries this would be mandatory.
  
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  September 20, 2017 3:38pm
  - Prince
    
    I guess it fits with the Labour/Green “choose your own benefit” swindle, but I was hoping for more probity in the NZ electoral system.
    
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    September 20, 2017 4:09pm
Johnboy

Stupid parents allow wanker son to pose in heap of crap to his mates. Lack of skill shows through as shit happens.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/north-shore-times/97028901/emergency-services-at-serious-crash-on-aucklands-north-shore

Wish they’d get the headlines right! 🙂

Thank Christ we’ve got that old bugger on the NZTA ads to sort this sort of crap out. 🙂
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September 20, 2017 12:24pm
publicwatchdog

National have NOT delivered housing in Tamaki Auckland, and responsibility, IMO, goes straight to Bill English, Steven Joyce and Nick Smith, as Crown Shareholding Ministers in both the Tamaki Redevelopment Company Ltd (59% Crown – 41% Auckland Council), and Tamaki Regeneration Ltd (100% Crown).

Under this National Government, more houses have been removed in Tamaki – than have been built.

Since 2012, 237 former Tamaki State houses have gone.

In FIVE years – only 213 new houses have been built, of which only 92 have been ‘social’ houses.

IMO, Bill English, Steven Joyce and Nick Smith are thus personally responsible for increasing the Auckland ‘housing crisis’ and homelessness.

It has happened directly ‘on their watch’.

20 September 2017

LIFTOFF in today’s NZ Herald!

‪‪Will Tamaki Regeneration meet its target 7500 builds in 15 years?, via @nzherald http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11923958

Penny Bright

‘Anti-corruption whistle-blower’

2017 Independent candidate for Tamaki.
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September 20, 2017 1:35pm
- Prince
  
  Liar. pay your rates.
  
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  September 20, 2017 1:53pm
  - Happychappy
    
    The bright penny thinks &caming people to go on overseas trips is what you call a whisle blower.
    
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    September 20, 2017 2:19pm
    - sooty
      
      Will you increase your vote in this election. Will you disappear in a cloud of stardust if you don’t. My wish is that you never post here again and take hugh with you.
      
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      September 20, 2017 4:50pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  ‘Anti-corruption whistle-blower’ in quotes.
  Makes sense. I always use finger quotes when describing something thats not true.
  
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  September 20, 2017 6:29pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  See?
  I Spray and Walk Away
  Rubbish Stays
  I walk away
  
  Steve (NS) Anchorage, Alaska
  
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  September 21, 2017 7:45am
tom hunter

Ahem….

DPF?

I’ve just “deleted”, for the 2nd time from YOUR blog, the lovely Ms. Adern’s face promising all sorts of things….

It’s all just advertising of course, but I do wonder when I’ll see Bill’s craggy features peering out at me from KIWIBLOG!!!!

And promising lots of stuff also. ‘Cause that’s important!
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September 20, 2017 1:57pm
- Gruffydd
  
  Ahem tom
  I doubt there would be more than a handful of possible votes from the audience here.
  
  Every time one of us clicks on the labour ads our DPF gets some money from the left….click away .
  
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  September 20, 2017 2:09pm
  - tom hunter
    
    I guess. It’s more that I’m concerned about what it says about Joyce’s campaign skilzz. Is National putting out similar digital adverts on other sites?
    
    That’s my concern.
    
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    September 20, 2017 2:35pm
  - Brito
    
    It’s after midday. BACK ON THE SAUCE GRIFF? I SAID…oh never mind.
    
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    September 20, 2017 10:13pm
- RalphT
  
  Are those ads? Bugger, from their placement in what appears to the personal column of this blog, among the ads for lovely Asian and Russian ladies, I assumed that the picture of Jacinda saying “We can’t afford to wait, it’s time” was a private message to Clark about her biological clock.
  
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  September 20, 2017 2:28pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  What ads?
  
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  September 21, 2017 7:43am
krazykiwi

Forget the Yoofquake for a minute, that was a genuine earthquake felt here in Welly.

5.1 and 35km deep near Seddon. Poor buggers. The last thing those guys need is another shake, road/track damage etc

Obviously this quake is National’s fault.
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September 20, 2017 2:48pm
Jack5

Invercargill City Council is working hard to justify the junket trips from the sister city arrangement with a Chinese city.

Today’s Southland Times gives an ocean of space to articles by two Invercargillites’ sponsored trips to China.

I doubt that newspapers of a few decades ago would have puffed such a local body perk.

One of the writers of the articles, Eirwen Harris Mitchell, the Invercargill City Council’s “manager of secretarial services,” includes this in her report:

“ I have met wonderful, generous, kind-hearted people – and the many ridiculous, preconceived ideas I had about China, and its people, shaped by my own ignorance, scaremongering, and the western media, have been well and truly whisked away.”

The shame of the the Invercargill City Council’s squandering of its ratepayers cash on international junket travel and the complicity of the Southland Times by printing such a promotional plug is compounded by Harris Mitchell’s absurd report. That portion could have been written by the propaganda section of the Chinese Communist Party,.

The Southland Times is owned by Stuff, reportedly the new name of Fairfax New Zealand though “Fairfax New Zealand” is still the official registered name on the Companies Register.
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September 20, 2017 2:55pm
- EAD_TWO
  
  I have met wonderful, generous, kind-hearted people
  
  Thank you Jack for your insights. This is nothing but out and out propaganda by Stuff – I mean what were they expecting people to find there? Evil, horrible, mean-spirited Communists?
  
  The most “wonderful, generous, kind-hearted people” I’ve met on my travels have probably been Greeks, Colombians and fly-over state Americans. Doesn’t mean though that we should open the borders to every Greek, Colombian and fly-over state American that wants to come here though!
  
  On the topic of Invercargill – do you know much about the goings on of the Community Trust down there which has been in the new recently?
  
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  September 20, 2017 10:16pm
  - Jack5
    
    No, just that like most of the community trusts, it was set with money from the sale of the local savings bank when these were flogged off to a company that later disappeared.
    
    The exceptions were the Auckland Savings Bank, which became the ASB and is now fully owned by the CBA of Australia, the Taranaki Savings Bank, which evolved into the still NZ owned and local TSB, and a tiny West Coast bank which I think may have merged with the ASB.
    
    The Community Trust is quite distinct from the two licensing trusts in Southland.
    
    This is all I can find out about the Community Trust:
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/94363134/southlanders-ask-minister-to-investigate-community-trust-of-southland
    
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    September 20, 2017 10:50pm
doggone7

On August 24 a headline on here was
“James Shaw says he can’t afford a house on $250,000 a year” and everyone put the boot into him.

Gee, it’s going to be interesting tomorrow reading all the comments on here on the David David Seymour: ‘I can’t afford my own house in Auckland’ story.
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September 20, 2017 2:55pm
- cmm
  
  Both of them were stupid for saying that.
  
  However I’d prefer to judge a person on the entirety of what they say.
  
  I’ve heard a few sane things come from Seymour. I haven’t heard one sane thing from Shaw.
  
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  September 20, 2017 3:33pm
- Inandout
  
  Move to a cheaper town you wanker.
  
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  September 20, 2017 3:43pm
rightoverlabour

Jacinda, what are your feelings on this? This election is all about feelings, so please tell us

https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2017/09/pro-choice-case-infanticide/#more-334493
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September 20, 2017 3:57pm
- Gruffydd
  
  She doesn’t read whaletard so wouldn’t have feelings for the dicks futile ranting.
  
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  September 20, 2017 4:03pm
nasska

I don’t think the government do enough for some minority groups in this country. Take the white working class male for example.

I know there’s not many of them but they get fuck all & pay the most.
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September 20, 2017 4:08pm
Prince

Where’s ztev ? Gabby ?
Does their absence mean they have seen the polls and know the battle has been won ? Damn them.

Or like Gallipoli, have they smelt defeat and snuck off during the night.
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September 20, 2017 4:12pm
- All_on_Red
  
  ‘Voters cannot be this thick’: Gareth Morgan on ‘Jacinda effect’
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11924483
  
  Lol
  
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  September 20, 2017 4:24pm
  - Lance
    
    Albert Einstein had something to say about that;
    “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
    
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    September 20, 2017 4:49pm
doggone7

Voters are not thick!?
Read this today: “Just got off the phone from a friend who was intending to vote National….largely because another friend had told her that “Labour would give all our money to the United Nations because of Helen Clarke.”
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September 20, 2017 4:32pm
- starboard
  
  Whos’ Helen Clarke?
  
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  September 20, 2017 5:28pm
starboard

Did you know that in North Korea, fertiliser is so scarce that all North Koreans have to crap in a bucket and save it for the Government so they can plant crops?
True fact trendsetters.
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September 20, 2017 5:27pm
- Jack5
  
  You’d think NK would have a blog like the Standard where they could post the stuff. NK is a Leftist country, after all.
  
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  September 20, 2017 5:51pm
- Brito
  
  You should head up there, I think it’s your calling. Take Griff and Cow Tower and maybe the House Elf (for light entertainment) and you could all go into business.
  
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  September 20, 2017 10:16pm
Jack5

An All Black hijab…

Muslim propagandists never stop playing the gullible liberal media…

The hijab wearer’s husband’s vierw

“Ali said it was important for the Muslim community to come forward and share their identity as it should be commonplace in such a multi cultural country as New Zealand.

Multicultural? Really?vAnglo-saxon type law and commerce in NZ, English the dominant language, overwhelmingly Western in culture, with a nod to Maori culture.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/96956211/sonny-bill-williams-fan-wears-all-blacks-rugby-hijab-with-pride
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September 20, 2017 5:59pm
slightlyrighty

Nice poll result….
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September 20, 2017 6:05pm
fluffykiwi

Corin dann can’t help himself a blatant pitch for labour stating that National were wrong stating that labour would tax more. He stated that Labour is not going to tax people more. How on earth does he know.
Yes, Dann certainly showed his colours tonight. Red all the way. Does something of that nature come under the party political broadcast allowance on TV. It was blatant to me, making a statement of intent on behalf of the labour party.
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September 20, 2017 6:11pm
- fluffykiwi
  
  In fact a reduction in tax has been legislated. Therefore if labour legislate to remove that tax reduction then from april 1st 2018 people will pay more income tax. So Mr Dann get your facts right, by dint of cancelling the reduction in income tax, the tax is therefore higher, or an increase.
  
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  September 20, 2017 6:26pm
- Piniwi
  
  He’s a dud fluffykiwi. It is more of the same old narrative. They just don’t get it. Bet if they went to the pub and a $10 jug for $8 they’d freak if the next one was back to $10. They are doing the same with Labour’s increased income tax as the $11.7 billion hole (now $14.5 billion). But is OK to lie if you are on the left.
  
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  September 20, 2017 8:38pm
Digmen1

Yes I am sick of the media bias towards Labour.

If they print an article it has 3 pics of Jacinda and one of Bill.

Every headline is angled towards a Labour win.
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September 20, 2017 6:22pm
- GoVege
  
  Well she IS prettier than him….
  
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  September 20, 2017 9:49pm
sooty

Prime tv channel has a promo ad running promoting Back Benchers tv program. My question is why would the male owner operator have a handheld microphone in his hand as well as a microphone on his head in front of his mosh. Is he just a wannabe, but was just a never was!
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September 20, 2017 6:47pm
Maggy Wassilieff

RIP Kea
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/97046494/nelson-man-who-admitted-to-shooting-kea-sentenced
Just think, if KB had a Conflicts Resolution Coordinator, Kea could still be here.
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September 20, 2017 7:26pm
Fletch

Bill getting slaughtered atm in the debate over health.
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September 20, 2017 7:32pm
sooty

Labour , still the same old Angry with a new wrapper. Whats changed?
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September 20, 2017 7:53pm
nasska

South Auckland….. the only place you can buy “Happy 30th Birthday Nana” balloons.
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September 20, 2017 9:15pm
- GoVege
  
  That’s coz 13 to 17 year olds having babies = “our fertility”:
  Dame Tariana Turia.
  
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  September 20, 2017 9:45pm

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