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Captain Mainwaring

What shall we talk about today?
Oh, I know. Wellington has perfect weather for the cricket while up North it’s a bit ……..?
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January 19, 2018 8:01am
- Harriet
  
  Humans having sex.
  
  And words having gender. 😎
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:02am
  - hmmokrightitis
    
    Words after my own heart Harriet 🙂
    
    Wonderful few weekends coming up. Attending Fat Freddy tomorrow with The Blond and friends; collect my new car on Sunday. Road trip next week to Wellington then a few long weekends to follow.
    
    Life is pretty bloody good 😀
    
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    January 19, 2018 8:09am
    - Awww C-mon
      
      Please confirm that is not Audi!
      
      #dejavu
      
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      January 19, 2018 8:15am
      - hmmokrightitis
        
        No, one is enough so The Blond tells me 😀
        
        I cant bring myself to buy anything Asian, I just prefer the fit, build and engines of Euros. Well, until now. Lexus GF 350 Sport, 3.5L, to replace my aging (15 years old) daily which goes to #1 son in his last year at home.
        
        Think Im still taking the RS5 to Wellington though 😀
        
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        January 19, 2018 8:30am
    - Harriet
      
      “….Wonderful few weekends coming up….”
      
      I can beat that Hmmokritis.
      Truthfully, I’m going out tonight to the pub to score…..first time in 15yrs!
      Mrs passed away last august after long illness over several years….housebound all that time….hence why ex-patriot spends time discussing homecountry’s politics daily, for several years! Thanks for everything everyone over the years.
      No comments please…thoughts are appreciated as you would all have them…..didn’t know how to thank you all but you deserved to all be thanked. That’ll do.
      I’ll be around at KB but not to often from now……knowing myself….she’s going to be hot! 😎
      PS. Special thanks to Kimbo. Top bloke.
      
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      January 19, 2018 8:19am
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        Good luck Harriet! May the beer goggles work wonders
        
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        January 19, 2018 8:24am
      - Harriet
        
        Sorry forgot. Thanks David Farrar.
        
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        January 19, 2018 8:26am
      - hmmokrightitis
        
        Harriet,
        
        Something we share. The mother of my children passed in early 2016, after a short brutal run in with cancer. the 12 months that followed were the toughest Id ever been through. The kids and I helped each other through, and the bond we have now is beyond compare.
        
        Id made the decision, in my mid 50’s, not to bother dating any more, couldnt be arsed with gold diggers, fakes and ‘the scene’. And about 4 months ago an old work colleague got in touch to ask for a reference. We met up over coffee, I asked her out 2 months later, and weve been inseparable ever since. She is the most kind, loving, spirited and intelligent girl Ive ever met, and we make each other incredibly happy.
        
        Life can be a right trial sometimes. But then life gave me The Blond. Ill forever be grateful.
        
        Good luck and go well.
        
        Yours in fellowship.
        
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        January 19, 2018 8:37am
      - waikatogirl
        
        Good luck Harriet, happy hunting! ?
        
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        January 19, 2018 8:39am
      - starboard
        
        I can confirm I had intercourse last night at 2300hrs thai time? .
        Thank you and good night.
        
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        January 19, 2018 8:42am
      - holysheet
        
        Talking to yourself doesn’t count starboard
        
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        January 19, 2018 8:48am
      - Harriet
        
        hmmokrightitis@
        
        Sorry to hear that………we knew what was coming, unlike yourself it wasn’t a shock…..you would have done it much much harder……glad to hear things are going well for you……..I’m leaning the same way, if she’s not right I can’t be bothered.
        I’m really just going out with the boys for beers…..and an intent to poke fun at and amuse a more respectable woman…..I’ve of course had the future in mind given it was a long illness, emotionally I’m good as…..I’m ignoring the ordinarily average women. 😎
        
        Thanks for putting those personal matters out there……for me……I’ll have a beer for you tonight – thanks so much. 😎
        
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        January 19, 2018 8:58am
      - hmmokrightitis
        
        My pleasure Harriet, you’re most welcome.
        
        The Blond and our extended families are BBQ’ing tonight around the pool, assuming the weather gods smile on us. Ill raise a drink in your general direction.
        
        Roald Dhal said it for me: Kindness is everything.
        
        Mind you, it helps that The Blond is a 6 footer with a fabulous body 😀 Sally forth young man, go enjoy!!
        
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        January 19, 2018 9:14am
      - rightoverlabour
        
        @hmmorightitis
        
        What kind of fucked up, deranged people downtick a post like yours? Maggy has warned about the sickos on this blog. Maybe DPF should have a system where we can see who ticked what.
        
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        January 19, 2018 9:32am
      - thedavincimode
        
        Hmmokey, so sorry to hear that. I noticed you’d disappeared off the radar for a while. Fantastic that you guys pulled through together – it doesn’t always happen that way from what I’ve observed. Big credit to their Mum as well for that I expect.
        
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        January 19, 2018 3:29pm
      - hmmokrightitis
        
        ROL, TDM, thanks. Yeah, their Mum did a great job. By her own admission, she wasnt the best wife, but that I forgave her for and she knew that before she died.
        
        As for the downtickers, I figure its castoffs from life, the intransigent labour voters on the alt-left who try and find some glory in the misery and suffering of others, and hate seeing people succeed despite what life throws. Frankly I feel nothing but pity for them. Ive been through some tough shit, thats for sure. But Im still alive, and I feel nothing but love for life and those around me.
        
        And just now, as the kids and I left The Blonds house, she said something that made me smile. Thank you for loving me in the way I need to be loved.
        
        Sun came out, beers were had, kids swam, BBQ. And tomorrow FFD. And who knows, maybe Harriet got some!!
        
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        January 19, 2018 10:41pm
    - softail 1450
      
      H K S ,wake up and discover your name is walter mitty.
      
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      January 19, 2018 9:11am
    - KKKKatee
      
      Ooh! Hope Dame Susan not reading this otherwise you’ll be in the gun for using the word “Fat” or maybe she’ll go after “Fat Freddy” and demand a name change! “Not so Slim Freddy” would be ok as it would hardly offend the senses of the perpetually offended. Yeah, Susan would be ok with that I reckon.
      
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      January 19, 2018 9:37am
    - Gabby
      
      The Blond likes Fat Freddy does he.
      
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      January 19, 2018 1:46pm
- Simon
  
  What you talking about? Auckland weather is very fine and sunny with soaring temperatures. Hottest January ever
  
  Just like the state promised that burning fossil fuels would lead to barmy weather we could all enjoy
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:08am
- hullkiwi
  
  It’s North Island weather in January.
  
  Yeh, the weather up here is in the crapper (& will be on the beaches for Goofy to read about), but we need some rain after a dry Nov & Dec.
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:08am
- RalphT
  
  You have to admit, Captain, that usually in Wellington if cricket is planned the rain comes rather than goes away. God must be supporting our winning streak.
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:25am
- G152
  
  Trees. I see no trees.
  Treeless is what I see.
  I was promised
  It was sworn
  This morn
  I found the truth
  No trees. I’ll have no trees.
  Treeless I’ll be
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:28am
  - Que Sera Sera
    
    G152, and why are there no trees planted ?
    
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    January 19, 2018 8:52am
    - waikatogirl
      
      According to Shane Jones on TV3 this morning, there are already 50m trees planted. That’s right, he’s including pine plantations already planted in years past! Shane’s officials are acquiring land as he doesn’t have the funds to purchase land so Shane is looking at planting on the DOC estate. Getting prisoners to raise seedlings and plant. As well as pine, manuka and other natives are to be included in the number planted.
      
      Awaiting actual planting to start. Plenty of Shane bluster and “gunna-do this and that”. ?
      
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      January 19, 2018 9:07am
      - Que Sera Sera
        
        You would start planting in the middle of summer ?
        
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        January 19, 2018 9:13am
      - KKKKatee
        
        What a load of crap from Jones. Full of it from head to toe that bloke. The PM really had this plan well thought out from the start – NOT. And now she’s got Jonesey spinning this at 1200 rpm and trying to baffle the nation with bullshit on her behalf!
        
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        January 19, 2018 9:47am
      - Gabby
        
        kkkakti groww in the summer. Maybe he should plant kkkakti.
        
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        January 19, 2018 1:48pm
      - starboard
        
        Shane Jones is a big fat windbag.
        Show us the trees windbag.
        
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        January 19, 2018 3:55pm
    - Humble Capitalist
      
      Shane J. still working on getting neph out of bed. After he’s scratched his arse, peeked through the curtains and turned the Xbox on he’ll be all over planting planting planting the crop
      
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      January 19, 2018 9:09am
- Biscuit
  
  You should have just run with words 10 through 13, Captain!
  
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  January 19, 2018 9:25am
- rightoverlabour
  
  How terrible Trump is, oh wait..
  
  http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/01/18/dr-manny-alvarez-fda-makes-incredible-progress-under-trump-administration-approving-new-life-saving-drugs.html
  
  Bugger, all those people not dying now…
  
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  January 19, 2018 9:37am
  - ztev
    
    Thats just random noise as the number jumps around each year between 20 and 40 or so.
    Strangely there was a big drop with the recession but the highest was the Clinton years.
    Nothing to do with whos President though
    http://www.raps.org/Regulatory-Focus/News/2014/10/03/20488/How-Many-Drugs-has-FDA-Approved-in-its-Entire-History-New-Paper-Explains/
    
    The real problem is the newer drugs are trending towards very rare cancers or other diseases which affect tiny numbers of people- the reasons? They are eye wateringly expensive
    
    The USA numbers arent the full picture as the EU approves twice as many
    
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    January 19, 2018 10:23am
- oldpark
  
  Arderns baby due in June 2018 . Peters will be NZs PM.
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:30am
  - Harkman
    
    Yes I just saw this, oh no.
    
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    January 19, 2018 11:35am
  - KKKKatee
    
    Well this means that Ardern will have to decline an invite to the Royal wedding – she was hoping to go – as she will be unfit to travel. So that means will the DPM take up the invite instead – that is, of course, if an invite actually arrives…..
    
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    January 19, 2018 2:34pm
flipper

Good day for ODI cricket ….. and … NZ ????
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January 19, 2018 8:04am
- hullkiwi
  
  Yes. Hoping for a good result. Serious though, are the Black Caps that good or is there a huge gap between the top 3 & the rest? Even Australia, made England look ordinary, admittedly without Stokes (but 1 player shouldn’t make that much difference in a pro team).
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:13am
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    They have played some really good cricket this summer with Pakistan much better opposition than the Windies. England will be a stern challenge (good ODI team) but for me the Aussies in a few weeks will the best gague (as they always are).
    Interesting hearing the Pakistan coach saying that he thinks this NZ team is a very good team and probably the best he’s seen.
    
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    January 19, 2018 8:27am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    The Black Caps are playing very good cricket. But best of all, when they get their foot on the opponents’ throat, there’s not letting off. That hasn’t always been the case with our cricketers. There’s a sort of ruthless efficiency with the current team, and I am impressed.
    
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    January 19, 2018 8:32am
  - GazzaW
    
    Ben Stokes didn’t exactly set the house on fire when playing provincial cricket for Canterbury last month particularly as the opposing teams were minus their Black Caps who were playing the Windies.
    
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    January 19, 2018 8:33am
oldpark

Talk about the “Face of the Day”. As reported on another blog site. What an indictment,and an embarrassment for the good ship NZ.
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January 19, 2018 8:04am
- Humble Capitalist
  
  That’s the new President of Planet Earth. The Labour Party finished a very creditable runner up in the NZ election so they know what’s best for every nation on the globe
  
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  January 19, 2018 9:28am
- cmm
  
  A head of state needs some level of tact and diplomacy.
  
  Slagging off the POTUS on South Koreans TV???
  
  South Koreans LOVE the US and all things US because they keep Rocket Boy on his side of the fence.
  
  However they’re polite so they probably just smiled and made a note to never have her back again.
  
  Sweetie, you aren’t having a schoolyard gossip any more saying “Hasn’t Jane’s bum got big”. You need to learn to bite your tongue and not blurt out stuff about the Aussies or how Trump isn’t as orange as you though he was.
  
  Big girl’s job. Big girl’s pants. Big girl’s mouth.
  
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  January 19, 2018 10:02am
  - Gabby
    
    Who’s oar head of state cmmiebokkie?
    
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    January 19, 2018 1:51pm
- hullkiwi
  
  BREAKING NEWS
  RNZ & the Horrild are reporting the face has announced it is pregnant!!!!!
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:02am
BananaLlama

Fact/Rant: The Mori Ori had settled in New Zealand around the same time that Maori under Kupe arrived and the Maori committed a genocide comparable to the Jewish holocaust against them. Rape, Murder, Cannibalism, Slavery and Genocide were all practiced against the Mori Ori people. Polite society ignores this past preferring instead to lecture European New Zealanders about colonialism and how you must pay for past grievances committed against the Maori people. Think about that the next time some “White Left” Metropolitan like Susan Devoy or Kim Hill gives you a lecture on race relations and being a “White Male” because they certainly don’t mind discriminating against you or the Mori Ori people thats for sure.
IIRC as matter of fact the Crown (that’s the rest of us white mystery meats) had to pay compensation for the Maoris Genocide of the Mori Ori people which makes us the Maoris slaves. Cheers for that Chris Finlayson i hope you turn bald.
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January 19, 2018 8:08am
- tf78
  
  There is an excellent doco on Youtube called “New Zealand -Skeletons in the Cupboard” – well worth a look, it is very very interesting.
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:17am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  I could imagine an alternative history in which the Ainu held on to Hokkaido a little longer.
  
  In this parallel world, there would be compulsory Ainu language lessons in Japanese state schools. Modern Ainu words (created by a committee in Tokyo) would feature prominently above the Japanese names on government buildings and websites. There would be a separate electoral role for Japanese of Ainu decent; scholarships for the same.
  
  Do you think I am joking?
  Here is a United Nations video on the subject. Does any of this ring a bell to you Kiwis?
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKZOmRNarj8
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:29am
  - BananaLlama
    
    Most historical revisionism of indigenous peoples is coming from Gulf States exerting their soft power through the UN. Al Jazeera pushes that particular narrative in Africa and here in Australasia (plenty of white looking Maori working for them) i wonder what they would make of being an Indigenous European though hahaha or the fact that MENA has been colonised by Arabs.
    
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    January 19, 2018 8:57am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      If you consider the British Isles, with its waves of immigrants over the last 3,000 years. It really is a bastard country (like Japan).
      Is it a good thing for every ancient tribe (the Celts, the Cornish, the Picts, the Scots, the Welsh) all to push for their own language revival and separatism?
      What happens to national integrity?
      And the process of immigration continues to this day. Is it a good idea for the newcomers to treat their new home as a colony?
      
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      January 19, 2018 9:23am
      - stephieboy
        
        Japan invaded and occupied by the Chinese , Koreans , Indonesians , Burmese, Philippines etc ???
        
        I don’t thinks so ?
        
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        January 19, 2018 9:36am
      - cmm
        
        Correct.
        
        The best thing to happen to the Brits was colonisation by the Romans in particular. That kicked off the two thousand or so year transition into what Britain became.
        
        The British colonisation of other parts of the world exported the best of that.
        
        Many other colonisations did not go so well. The Arabian colonisation of Africa was pretty ugly. Very little effort in helping the people and heavy-duty slavery that continues today.
        
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        January 19, 2018 10:11am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        stephieboy,
        
        Yes, over the last 3,000 years, the Japanese archipelago has been colonized by peoples from various parts of the Asian mainland, and islands to the south.
        
        You can see this in the considerable variation in body form among members of the modern population (ignoring the similar hair and eye color).
        
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        January 19, 2018 10:29am
      - ztev
        
        Colonised by various peoples?
        
        I notice you refer to the ‘archipelago’ as of course the central home islands are remarkably ethically homogeneous.
        
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        January 19, 2018 11:06am
      - Kiwi Dave
        
        The best thing to happen to the Brits was colonisation by the Romans in particular. That kicked off …
        
        Would you like to briefly elaborate on this or recommend a book on this topic? My understanding is that the Roman occupation left very little permanent cultural impression, but this is not a historical area with which I’m at all familiar.
        
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        January 19, 2018 1:23pm
- VicParking
  
  “Rape, Murder, Cannibalism, Slavery and Genocide were all practiced against” Maori by Maori. That is all been sweep under the moenga as well.
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:58am
  - cmm
    
    And the Evil White People stopped it and brought peace and prosperity.
    
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    January 19, 2018 10:12am
    - BananaLlama
      
      Winner winner chicken dinner.
      
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      January 19, 2018 10:56am
- KiWombat
  
  Perhaps we should be referring to them as the first invaders? Shame that Maori chose to eat Mori Ori rather than integrate with them.
  
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  January 19, 2018 9:55am
  - VicParking
    
    That’s a form of integration.
    
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    January 19, 2018 10:19am
    - KiWombat
      
      Right again !
      
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      January 19, 2018 10:33am
- GoVege
  
  When Mori Ori descendants tried, a few years ago, to take a case against Maori for robbing their lands and slaughtering their forebears, the Maori responded by saying they beat the Mori Ori “by conquest”.
  If that’s their answer after committing infinitely worse crimes against Mori Ori, then why the hell are they demanding endless compensation from Pakeha (who at least ended slavery and cannibalism and established rule of law)?
  Is it:
  Racism against Mori Ori, or just taking Pakeha for mugs?
  
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  January 19, 2018 12:38pm
Tarquin North

My alarm goes off at 6am. The news comes on and I can safely predict the lead item will be the same as the front page of the Horrid. Today we have the cost of childrens education, apparently a fortune according to the Australian Scholarship Group (who ever they may be). I suppose I could look at stuffed instead where doom and gloom weather “events” are the main source today’s drama. We desperately need a new independent news outlet in this country.
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January 19, 2018 8:16am
- alloytoo
  
  Listening on the radio it would appear that they were very very generous in adding in expenses but less generous in taking off expenses that had a duel function.
  
  For example, adding in the total cost of bring your own device, but ignoring the personal use aspect of such devices.
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:21am
  - Paulus
    
    My parents in the late 1940’s, in UK, father a senior seaman in the war and my mother in service decided that they would do all they could to give their three children the best education that they could afford. They worked very hard all hours to do this for which we have never forgotten with love.
    My children here have had the same private school opportunity and have achieved all that we wished for them, and their children, now finished, have had the same opportunity and wonderful result. The sooner New Zealand wakes up to the best for the country is education, and stopped farting around with Teachers Unions
    continually lowering to their standards.
    Why do so many families still continue to pay for an alternative education – this Government will do all it can to get rid of private schools – but they will have a fight from those who see a different value in private education.
    
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    January 19, 2018 8:57am
- GazzaW
  
  There are plenty of independent, freethinking alternatives Tarquin – Radio NZ and breakfast TV. 😉
  
  Isn’t it a disgrace that our newspapers and largest commercial radio network is controlled by foreign corporates and the only real alternates owned by the state and administered by left wingers.
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:27am
  - hullkiwi
    
    GW, not just foreign corporates, but foreign corporate advertising companies.
    
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    January 19, 2018 10:18am
- calendar girl
  
  That’s a bit tough on the Herald, Tarquin N. This morning it brings you, on its ‘front page’, this fawning story about “New Zealand’s First Man”, Gayford, and his fan mail received from children:
  
  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11977607 .
  
  What more could you possibly want from the nation’s leading daily ‘newspaper’?
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:30am
  - Tarquin North
    
    I deliberately avoided mentioning the Gaylord bit – just thinking about it nearly makes me chunder. What a hopeless bunch of fawning drop kicks our so called media have become.
    
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    January 19, 2018 8:35am
    - Paulus
      
      What will happen when the Gayone gets left behind and gets bored ?
      He has a history.
      
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      January 19, 2018 9:00am
      - RF
        
        There has been much talk about Gayman soaking his nuts in almond milk. Presumably for the pleasure of him and his current partner as I hear it’s good for your complexion.
        
        Might I suggest the use of the tea bag treatment.
        
        I hear this can be very beneficial for ones wellbeing and a great stress reliever.
        
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        January 19, 2018 10:02am
      - KKKKatee
        
        Too late now – he’s going to be a Daddy!
        
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        January 19, 2018 11:57am
    - hullkiwi
      
      You also failed to mention last night’s head line on the web version…Auckland had purple rain, didn’t you know (shit, that reads like a line out of the Gruffalo, shows how low the Horrild has sunk).
      
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      January 19, 2018 10:15am
  - RalphT
    
    “What more could you possibly want from the nation’s leading daily ‘newspaper’?”
    
    Is decent reporting and real news too much to ask for?
    
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    January 19, 2018 8:54am
    - VicParking
      
      That it cost $5 million to consult with Maori over the land bill. You would have thought by now that we all understand that when “Consult” and “Maori” are used in the same sentence money will flow like water. Koha Koha and more Koha.
      
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      January 19, 2018 9:03am
      - cmm
        
        C’mon dude, be fair. Taniwha food is bloody expensive.
        
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        January 19, 2018 10:15am
  - Gabby
    
    I want more about ponyboy’s djboy. The colander rolls round and I think where’s maxipad? what’s he riding? what’s his latest bangin choon?
    
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    January 19, 2018 2:00pm
- doggone7
  
  Who ever they may be? They’re a company in the business of making money through education and will be in the media trying to see that that happens to best effect.
  
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  January 19, 2018 9:08am
- KevOB
  
  Headlines too that integrated school parent costs have risen 30% over 10 years. That’s only 2.65% p.a.–basic inflation.
  
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  January 19, 2018 9:44am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Isn’t ASG an insurance-type outfit that charges you plenty to look after some your money in case the kids decide to undertake tertiary training?
  Native advertising=News.
  
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  January 19, 2018 12:16pm
GazzaW

The cost of a private education has risen to $360,000 over the course of a child’s education. The GST amounts to $54,000 which I believe is higher than the Government subsidy provided to private schools. And yes ztev before you leap into the fray I am aware that the subsidy was frozen in 2009 by the evil John Key which does in a way prove his egalitarianism. Are private schools therefore a cash cow for the Government?
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January 19, 2018 8:17am
- Lance
  
  Nope, it was frozen under Hulun’s govt. The first thing they did when they got in because Labour HATE private schools.
  The sad thing was it drove away the struggling families.
  Very disappointing JK govt didn’t fix it.
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:31am
kowtow

Jobs for the boys and the special people.

‘Dunedin Hospital rebuild leader Pete Hodgson has taken the first step in stamping his identity on the project, appointing an advisory group to provide local government, iwi and transportation advice.’

Why iwi ahead of kiwi?

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/composition-hospital-rebuild-advisory-group-criticised
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January 19, 2018 8:19am
- Digmen1
  
  Yes are Maori at the cutting edge of medicine?
  
  Or do they just want the hospital to have some mumbo jumbo name and each ward to be Te aoeteroa this or that.
  How many Maoris live in Dunedin?
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:30am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Maybe it’s all about “mana.”
    
    Substitute “feelz” for “mana” and things make a lot more sense.
    
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    January 19, 2018 8:37am
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      What is the difference these days between “ethnicity” and “identity”? If one has a minority proportion of a certain ethnic lineage how can this be claimed as identity? Why do some chose to ignore their “majority” lineage?
      
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      January 19, 2018 9:06am
      - Digmen1
        
        Most maoris talk and enduce their off spring to believe that they are “maori” and need to move to their maori side.
        Forgetting the fact that they are probably far more European than maori and that moving and thinking about your maori side is condemiing you to a live in a backward world.
        
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        January 19, 2018 9:09am
      - cmm
        
        “What is the difference these days between “ethnicity” and “identity”?”
        
        White males are allowed an ethnicity, but not an identity.
        
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        January 19, 2018 10:17am
  - stephieboy
    
    Digmen! etc ,
    
    OTAGO DAILY TIMES,
    
    ’Nothing off-limits’: 45 new Maori doctors
    
    The largest number of Maori medical graduands in New Zealand’s history will graduate from the University of Otago today.
    
    The 45 Maori students will become doctors at 1pm.
    
    https://www.odt.co.nz/news/campus/university-of-otago/nothing-limits-45-new-maori-doctors
    
    LOL
    
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    January 19, 2018 9:41am
    - Sideoiler
      
      Nothing off-limits’: 45 new Maori doctors
      
      The largest number of Maori medical graduands in New Zealand’s history will graduate from the University of Otago today.
      
      The 45 Maori students will become doctors at 1pm.
      
      And well they should, the academic standard was lowered especially for them.
      LOL
      
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      January 19, 2018 10:08am
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        Yep. Lower standards in medicine. What could possibly go wrong?
        
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        January 19, 2018 2:00pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Sideboiler , actually that was not the case !
        
        LOL
        
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        January 19, 2018 5:40pm
  - KevOB
    
    How much are Ngai Tahu contributing to the build cost to acquire naming rights?
    
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    January 19, 2018 9:45am
    - GazzaW
      
      Just add the naming rights cost to their tax bill. Oh, hang on!!
      
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      January 19, 2018 10:25am
- Huevon
  
  As the elders say, when the koha flows like summer rain, the roots of the mighty totara drink deep. Kia kaha, Kia kaha, tena koto katoa
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:39am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Is this not identity politics?
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:58am
  - VicParking
    
    If it looks like “Identity Politics”, smells like “Identity Politics” and the Koha flows like water it must be Trough Feeding to me.
    
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    January 19, 2018 9:07am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Identity politics is divisive. It panders to the emotion of jealousy–one of the most destructive of them all.
      
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      January 19, 2018 9:37am
      - stephieboy
        
        Odakyu sen , so it’s not Ok to be proud that one is Japanese ?
        
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        January 19, 2018 9:44am
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        There’s a difference between feeling pride of ones identity and demanding special considerations because of it.
        
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        January 19, 2018 11:45am
      - BananaLlama
        
        Failing to engage in identity politics once it has become popular is stupidity as well as those who mobilise under a collective will advance their interests over your own so yes it would be very wise to become a proud Japanese while at the same time acknowledging the destructive nature of Idpol. That is the cancerous Nature of the Americans and Europeans constantly exporting their Identity Politics around the globe it is going to lead to a fracturing and balkanisation of the west. Thanks to Social media and click bait journalism this cancer can rapidly spread and is why we had BLM protests in New Zealand despite our police force being unarmed.
        
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        January 19, 2018 12:09pm
- RF
  
  Is that old prick still haunting us.
  
  Thought he had been taken by angels.
  
  Jobs for the boys is still a labour perk….
  
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  January 19, 2018 2:32pm
Simon

20.3 degrees in Auckland. It’s burning up here. The roads are melting and the sea levels are rising so fast Auckland CBD reclaimed land is flooded during high tide.

All the shit on Auckland beaches is but a side issue. We need trans down Dominion road or something (Maybe they could move them from K Rd).

Where is Cindy and Goof? We need them more than ever.

Or the Greens could show the way. Everyone washing their clothes in a river. That would be wonderful. Suck on that MAGA.
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January 19, 2018 8:21am
- RalphT
  
  “Where is Cindy and Goof? We need them ~~more~~ less than ever.”
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:29am
- BananaLlama
  
  Send choppers out my way, wet summer praise be to Al Gore, stick her up the back with my ewes since there is plenty of grass about i’ll paint a ram orange and she can go at.
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:38am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Sorry, but choppers/the face/taxcinda/tooth fairy or whatever else you want to call her, will be otherwise engaged. RNZ & the Horrild are reporting she is pregnant. Be scared folks!!!
    
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    January 19, 2018 11:07am
  - Gabby
    
    bangamama when did you tire of the job and get a ram in?
    
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    January 19, 2018 2:05pm
- VicParking
  
  I could Tram up Dominion road to the beach. Whoops we good do that up until 1953.
  
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  January 19, 2018 9:10am
rightoverlabour

Part of my browsing routine is to check the headlines on stuff, the BBC, Fox News and the Uk Guardian amongst others. Stuff is dominated by trivia, whereas the others tend to be focused on more serious issues. (I don’t bother with the Herald or any other NZ paper, and I don’t watch any TV). I came across eskeptic and read this article that is pertinent to both the political and climate debates here on kiwiblog. It’s well worth a read.
https://michaelshermer.com/2017/04/science-makes-america-great/#more-5254
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January 19, 2018 8:25am
- Digmen1
  
  Yes, but why would you read the Guardian unless you are a Labour voter?
  
  Yes Stuff really is just trivia, and its Aussie owned, so we should not patronise it too much.
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:34am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    It’s well written, and I believe in reading both sides of the political spectrum. I read Breitbart too, and Al Jazeera. NZ journalism is just crap, no matter what the political leanings.
    
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    January 19, 2018 8:46am
- rightoverlabour
  
  Another good article by the same author
  
  https://michaelshermer.com/2018/01/for-the-love-of-science/
  
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  January 19, 2018 9:20am
- stephieboy
  
  righterloverabour ,
  
  Like this one ,
  
  Why Climate Skeptics Are Wrong
  By Michael Shermer
  
  https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-climate-skeptics-are-wrong/
  
  LOL
  
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  January 19, 2018 9:48am
Digmen1

Lets hope there is not too much mindless drivel on here today.

We could talk about
Turkey planning to invade Syria and attack a Kurdish area.
Finishing the Mexican wall

Global warming and oceanic pollution and the need to cut the world’s population drastically especially in poor, shithole countries.

The lack of a war on drugs in New Zealand
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January 19, 2018 8:28am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  War on drugs is pointless, creating crime to finance users and enabling gangs.
  Legalise it all and create cheap dispensaries, but require drugs be used only at dispenseries (death penalty for possession and use elsewhere), and Drug users should not have access to free medical treatment for any health problems it causes.
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:58am
  - Gabby
    
    Death penalty? You are a wag and no mistake ubernecrocolon.
    
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    January 19, 2018 2:10pm
- VicParking
  
  But we talked about:
  PM’s spouse swamped with Fail mail.
  Hairy Holt leaves “The crowd goes wild”
  Our TV hosts are all the same, just different names
  Woody Allan is lying
  Sam Smith (who) adds second show
  
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  January 19, 2018 9:15am
- rightoverlabour
  
  New Zealand goes on about the storm hitting us.
  
  This is a storm.. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/18/amsterdam-schiphol-flights-storm-chaos-europe
  
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  January 19, 2018 9:24am
Catons

NZ is just a flea on the international stage. It does not really matter what Ardern says about Trump until she wants something for this country. But I guess Ttump has a soft spot for a pretty young woman so that might work.
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January 19, 2018 8:32am
- holysheet
  
  If toothy is pretty, what did you call her mentor helun?
  Toothy young?
  What meds are you on?
  Better go see your optician
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:42am
  - geoff3012
    
    She looked fine in those photo shopped pics…..
    
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    January 19, 2018 8:52am
- igm
  
  If you think she is pretty you have poor taste in women. She is what we, as young men, referred to as a huck!
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:50am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Doing vogue opened her up to such criticism, but it’s rather tedious and juvenile at best. Judge her on her actions not her looks.
    
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    January 19, 2018 9:01am
    - holysheet
      
      If she actually did something, we may do just that.
      
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      January 19, 2018 9:10am
  - Gabby
    
    You were chock full of unwanted jigm then jigm, so you and your mates prolly said a lot of things.
    
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    January 19, 2018 2:12pm
- VicParking
  
  Rubbish she is world Famous on Morrinsville
  
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  January 19, 2018 9:16am
  - KKKKatee
    
    She IS Miss Morrinsville!
    
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    January 19, 2018 9:53am
    - RalphT
      
      But does Morrinsville miss her?
      
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      January 19, 2018 10:45am
      - G152
        
        Very droll 🙂
        
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        January 19, 2018 11:10am
- KevOB
  
  I suspect Trump will remember insults so trade may be at risk.
  It’s not good manners for young upstarts to criticise their elders.
  International leaders show respect to each other so they can govern in peace.
  
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  January 19, 2018 9:49am
  - Gabby
    
    Chump’s big on the respect thing alright. Very respectful.
    
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    January 19, 2018 2:13pm
igm

See now Labour are in power weirdos coming out of woodwork seeking gender reassignment paid for by taxpayers. No bloody way, come and see me, I have applicators and rubber rings, and would love to see a pervert jumping around a paddock with its nuts freshly ringed.
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January 19, 2018 8:52am
- RalphT
  
  Are you competent enough to do the job igm, or should it be left to an expert with decades of experience; I’m sure Johnboy would be up to the challenge.
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:58am
  - VicParking
    
    Stephie will do it once he gets back from the mosque and finishes downticking every post to date.
    
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    January 19, 2018 9:19am
    - GazzaW
      
      …..or maybe gobby after he has finished calling us silly names.
      
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      January 19, 2018 9:30am
  - igm
    
    I don’t mind castrating animals as they are clean, but I would draw the line touching a faggit’s nuts.
    
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    January 20, 2018 10:21am
- howitis
  
  Callahan Innovation would pay $2000 to see that although it appears they have a preference for cocks in frocks.
  
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  January 19, 2018 10:23am
Southern Raider

So three election promised down

1) 100K new homes: nothing started and now playing deflection
2) get rid of poverty: nothing has changed and all quite
3) 100B trees planted: millions behind already and now saying it was just over optimistic
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January 19, 2018 8:54am
- holysheet
  
  I think the words you are looking for are “aspirational goal”. One billion trees suddenly become 500 million?
  Back at work 3 days and they are already backtracking.
  Liars, liars, liars.
  
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  January 19, 2018 9:02am
  - Southern Raider
    
    By next week 500M will be 50M
    
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    January 19, 2018 9:08am
    - Rich Prick
      
      And that 50m will be what private industry plants, but Labour will claim it as their doing. That is the way of socialists.
      
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      January 19, 2018 9:29am
      - ztev
        
        But not so:
        But Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson says 2014 was always a “goal” rather than a deadline.
        http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/5643180/Nats-admit-treaty-settlements-goal-will-be-missed
        
        So went from ‘deadline’ to goal to ?
        “Finlayson is reported as saying his “best guessed estimate” was for all claims to be settled by 2016″
        
        Guesstimate . Who would have thought even the guesstimate wasnt reached after 9 years.
        
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        January 19, 2018 10:44am
    - KKKKatee
      
      And the following week down to 25M. It’ll end up in the ‘too hard’ basket and Jones won’t be able to get the lazy arses out of their beds to the job. Yeah, nah mate.
      
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      January 19, 2018 9:57am
  - G152
    
    Some-one in the trade might have told them about seedlings and the length of time required to grow them to such a size that they can be planted out.
    Slightly most of a parliamentary term
    
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    January 19, 2018 9:30am
    - ztev
      
      The aim is over 10 years.
      
      Someone in the trade should tell you about the details
      
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      January 19, 2018 10:46am
    - ztev
      
      You seem to be wrong about the time taken for seedlings to be planted as well
      These people do it in roughly a year
      ‘In late winter the seed is sown into prepared seed beds. Over the next 12 months the seedlings will be wrenched, and undercut to prepare them for the shock of being moved to new open ground in the following spring.’
      
      http://christmastrees.co.nz/more-information/production/
      
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      January 19, 2018 10:51am
  - ztev
    
    Like this one?
    http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/5643180/Nats-admit-treaty-settlements-goal-will-be-missed
    
    or the ‘Aspirational’ Grand daddy of them all
    Catching up with Australia
    
    How did that go after 9 years ?
    
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    January 19, 2018 10:38am
    - KiWombat
      
      The NZ$ and AU$ were neck to neck until a couple of months back, since September petrol has risen 30-40cpl and our dollar has dropped. Looks like the gap is widening again !
      
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      January 19, 2018 10:11pm
Digmen1

They’ve probably run out of rooms to have conversations and working groups.

No one in the COL knows what work is.
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January 19, 2018 9:06am
- doggone7
  
  So much for your “Lets hope there is not too much mindless drivel on here today.”
  
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  January 19, 2018 9:10am
- ztev
  
  Well they can recycle the 2010 Tax Working Group set up by Bill English then.
  https://www.victoria.ac.nz/vbs/about/publications/twg-whatlessonsforpolicydevelopment.pdf
  
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  January 19, 2018 10:41am
- Gabby
  
  Maybe skycity could shout them a conference centre.
  
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  January 19, 2018 2:16pm
dime

Why is the cricket a day game today?

Mrs Dime will be pleased our friday night wont be watching cricket til 10pm… but i would have liked to have seen the entire thing!

instead im at work paying a ton of tax so jacinda can say “students, next year is on me!!!”
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January 19, 2018 9:14am
- VicParking
  
  Tell the boss you are not well. Must of been the wild Boar Curry you had last night. Go home and I will set up the Give A Little page to pay for your Beer and Chips.
  
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  January 19, 2018 9:22am
  - dime
    
    ive always said you were a good bastard!
    
    Dime has a big meeting today so is screwed.
    
    I’ll still be here to spout my unwanted opinions though!
    
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    January 19, 2018 9:26am
- Nookin
  
  I think you should plan on working tomorrow as well, Dime.
  Now that the government has found that cancellation of all the tax cuts et cetera as well as other largesses will only take a fraction of the number of children out of poverty, the government will have no option but to tighten the screws on rich pricks like you even more.
  
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  January 19, 2018 9:59am
  - VicParking
    
    We are “Rich Pricks” because we don’t pay Tax, well minimise it.
    
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    January 19, 2018 10:27am
stephieboy

Digmen1 ,could you tally the bill on those items of military hardware to see if the voter will buy into it ?
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January 19, 2018 9:50am
- VicParking
  
  Stephie it’s sarcasm. It’s your head still spinning from listening to the Oman this morning
  
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  January 19, 2018 10:24am
Yvette

Te reo Maori is dying … still

Academic says te reo ‘on life support’, Bill English says it’s not up to government to save ‘someone else’s language’ – stuff

Before throwing more funding at this, as NZF/Labour/Green coalition is likely to do, I challenge anyone who is a genius with Google to find what the annual total is for funding te reo Maori.

I believe from an earlier source, that I cannot now find, funding is is in excess of $200 million a year, including tv channels, radio and other media.
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January 19, 2018 10:15am
- Digmen1
  
  Yes,not only are Maori not satisfied with having their own tv channel they want to ram Maori programs down our throats on tv1.
  
  All at our expense!
  
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  January 19, 2018 10:48am
  - G152
    
    The Maori language has two channels.
    One of which sometimes has a variety of programs of interest.
    No channels for the Pacific Island languages.
    Or the Dutch or Dalmatian or the Danes ..
    
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    January 19, 2018 11:17am
  - Piniwi
    
    Funny Digmen1 as we see the increasing use of native gibberish by the Media party in an attempt to marorification it leads to a double failure. It has become fact less an illegible all at the same time.
    
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    January 19, 2018 5:02pm
- kowtow
  
  Ngati Notional will be responsible for most of those millions , the price of keeping blue pigs at the trough ,rather than the red ,green or pink ones.
  
  Imagine all the money spent on the eternal grievance /guilt/ keep me in power industry being spent instead on infrastructure for ALL New Zealanders , rather than on creating a cosetted elite Bro’aucracy that is of no benefit to the vast majority of part Maoris and certainly of absolutely no benefit to the rest of New Zealand.
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:33am
- KevOB
  
  It’s on life support because almost no one wants to use it for basics. It was predicted 40 years ago this would happen and there would be no native teachers.
  Real Maori is used on the Marae and is hidden because it contain cultural treasures. This will not be imparted to those without cultural standing. I have met this elsewhere in the Pacific.
  
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  January 19, 2018 1:02pm
- Piniwi
  
  Yes Yvette it is becoming the longest and most expensive wake in history. It is like a banana skin in the fire. It sits up and sings when the heat (money) is poured on it.
  
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  January 19, 2018 5:06pm
Harriet

“…..Who could possibly have foreseen, I ask with tongue firmly in cheek, that the feminist and transgender activist war against gender, traditional families and patriarchal society, and the elevation of the sexual and gender revolutions into the mainstream consciousness these past few decades, would lead to a society where monogamy doesn’t matter, traditional families are viewed as oppressive, and where an impressionable generation has been raised by the state and feel the need to embrace the notion that to be truly free is to opt for whichever gender identity one feels like, for to do otherwise is simply not progressive enough?
As with all revolutions, destruction and deconstruction have been the central themes; overthrowing the status quo, the chorus. But like most revolutions, the radicals at the forefront of the gender revolution have never constructed anything meaningful in their lives; they’ve only broken down once meaningful institutions.
Statistics for depression, divorce rates, and single-parent households are up. Dating apps and meaningless sexual encounters; the isolation of social media use; the Men Going Their Own Way movement (the feminist leanings of so many millennial women is enough to turn any man away); millennials remaining single for longer or living in their parents’ basements – all signs point to a breakdown in our cultural norms and the way that Western societies meet, date, procreate, and raise their children – indeed birth rates across the West have been declining steadily for years.
But try telling that to rabid feminists – they’re too busy comparing victim narratives with their transgender allies, and shrieking that it’s time for men to sit down and shut up. To them, this is all working out perfectly, and we’ve been too blinkered to bother taking the fight to them…..”

It’s an easy fight to win………..all one needs to do is publicly slap an agreeable wife or girlfriend on the bum, often. The disagreeable woman can always join the police and help put a stop to those who really do disrespect women as the law implies; abdication of applying the law to individual women is nothing less than disregarding their individuality; women are not a narrative and feminists are not commissioned to run the police service. 😎
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January 19, 2018 10:15am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  It’s not just a Western thing.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS5ZeXXmlQs
  
  ROK is already experiencing this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKcm6DGZcgQ
  
  China will follow.
  
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  January 19, 2018 10:44am
GazzaW

The continuing saga of the six brand spanking new Housing NZ apartments two blocks away from me. They have been completely kitted out since well before Christmas yet remain stubbornly empty despite the housing ‘crisis’. Where are all those people sleeping in cars? The latest development is the placement of garden waste bins so presumably the taxpayer picks up the tab for a garden waste collection every month or so.

There are also two two empty one acre blocks of land near our shopping centre that had Housing NZ homes removed and are now awaiting multi apartment development. The sections have been empty for the last 100 days Phil so where are the tradies? Not so easy delivering as making rash promises is it comrade? Oh, you know the sections are there because the taxpayer is paying to keep the weeds down.
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January 19, 2018 10:22am
- ztev
  
  You should write to Housing NZ or request the details under FOIA.
  
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  January 19, 2018 10:25am
  - ztev
    
    You have a primary school pupils view of how government runs. The Minister would have no knowledge or role in allocating houses.
    Part of the issue with a new site is money is allocated by financial years, so they could be working on consents but a new contract cant start till the new financial year.
    
    Raise it with your local MP and see what happens, they often can get answers faster than OIA
    
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    January 19, 2018 10:29am
    - GazzaW
      
      Don’t try telling me that Twyford the Crusader can’t get the ‘message’ out to the management that there are to be no empty houses in the housing stock while there are homeless people. Fuck me ztev he spent half his time fulminating in the last Government about houses laying empty. I don’t want to hear the BS about HNZ having its own independent board – Twyford can kick arse if he wants to.
      
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      January 19, 2018 8:29pm
Manolo

The traitors at work:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/18/government-shutdown-2018-trump-republicans-345532

The possibility of a government shutdown grew dramatically Thursday as House and Senate GOP leaders struggled to round up the votes to keep the government open past midnight Friday.
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January 19, 2018 10:28am
- ztev
  
  really ?
  
  You do know the republicans are in majority in both House and Senate.
  Its the same as here , when Bill English said ‘its not our job to keep things running.
  
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  January 19, 2018 10:33am
- Digmen1
  
  Let them shut down.
  Its the public servants who will suffer first!
  
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  January 19, 2018 10:52am
Ross12

Time for Friday laugh. Cut and pasted from comments another blog on a thread about the Fake News awards

“7 things more trusted than CNN:

– Breast milk from Bruce Jenner
– Unprotected sex with Madonna
– Having a drink with Bill Cosby
– Casey Anthony’s babysitting service
– Getting text messages from Anthony Wenier
– Mainstream media polls
– Flint, Michigan tap water “
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January 19, 2018 10:42am
RF

Breaking news.

The commie chick is pregnant.

The almond milk worked……
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January 19, 2018 10:52am
- Huevon
  
  Gawd, we are never going to hear the end of this.
  
  Winston will no doubt reluctantly step into the acting PM role, while Jacinda and Clarke fufill their essential social media and womens’ magazine responsibilities.
  
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  January 19, 2018 10:59am
  - RalphT
    
    And her biggest challenge will not be handling the baby but getting the job back from Winston…
    
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    January 19, 2018 11:30am
  - oldgolfer
    
    Warning: do not, repeat, do not turn on your television tonight, unless it is pre-set to Sky 51 for the cricket.
    
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    January 19, 2018 12:19pm
- Harriet
  
  “….benefits of almond milk…..”
  
  But breast milk is still the same………..and their female babies breast milk years later on is also still the same…….some women are still then the same……pretentious and deluded. 😎
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:03am
- Doubledimp
  
  She knew on 13th October (according to Sky News). Before she finalised the coalition. Is this a case of electoral fraud, in that she refused to answer questions about parenthood on the campaign trail, yet was obviously trying to get pregnant?
  
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  January 19, 2018 12:05pm
  - Gabby
    
    You’re upset also that we don’t know what Mrs Bingles is planning of course dribblechimp.
    
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    January 19, 2018 4:48pm
Harriet

“…….Women around the world will again return to the streets marking one year after millions marched to protest President Donald Trump’s election, with a new goal – electing more women’s rights advocates.
Multiple accusations of sexual misconduct against male actors, filmmakers and agents in Hollywood, the #MeToo campaign…..”

#MeToo is not really about violence against women – it’s about getting rid of Trump and republicans – and replacing them with women.
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January 19, 2018 10:53am
jp_1983

Has a PrimeMinister anywhere given birth while leader?
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January 19, 2018 10:54am
- ztev
  
  Ask the Queen ?
  
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  January 19, 2018 10:57am
  - cmm
    
    The Queen is a Prime Minister?
    
    I always had you down as understanding politics a bit better than that!
    
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    January 19, 2018 11:06am
  - GazzaW
    
    Robbo isn’t pregnant ztev?
    
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    January 19, 2018 8:32pm
- Zapper
  
  The word “leader” is a stretch for Jacinda isn’t it?
  
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  January 19, 2018 10:59am
- Huevon
  
  Probably need to go back to medieval monarchs for the last time this happened.
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:01am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Didn’t Mrs Ghandi do that?
  Not sure.
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:02am
  - Harriet
    
    yep she did.
    
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    January 19, 2018 11:03am
    - SGA
      
      You sure?
      
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      January 19, 2018 11:14am
  - ex-golfer
    
    I think you mean Bhenizir Bhutto of Pakistan.
    
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    January 19, 2018 11:27am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      Thank you.
      They all look the same.
      
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      January 19, 2018 1:58pm
- cmm
  
  Well there’s a quick up-tick in the polls with the Wimmins Weakness voters.
  
  So if the baby is due in June then she was getting pregnant at the time of the elections. She was already planning to make this a short term in office.
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:05am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Last line from The Horrild was that she found out 6 days before she became PM elect.
    
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    January 19, 2018 11:15am
  - ztev
    
    Women can work before and after giving birth .
    
    After all even men take time off for holidays
    
    A 2 week break is all thats needed, oh and a nursery next to the office along with a nanny.
    
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    January 19, 2018 11:15am
    - CHFR1
      
      The hell they can. I am the least maternal person I know and once my daughter was born all I wanted to do was be with her, this feeling didn’t change when I went back to work 7 months later, hence why I now work from home.
      She is talking about 6 weeks off and Clarke being a stay at home Dad, well if this is your choice why the hell have a kid. We know what it is like when your father is PM, well a mothers relationship with the kids is totally different how hard will it be on them if she is PM??
      
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      January 19, 2018 11:28am
      - cmm
        
        Quite.
        
        Taking a few weeks off then handing over to a nanny etc is child abuse.
        
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        January 19, 2018 11:42am
      - Piniwi
        
        True CHFR1 but it also multiplies the problems facing the country as a result of the COL.
        The Deputy party leader who found that roll “very stressful” is now the anointed PM. Now it seems she has been operating all this time with an artificially induced pregnancy that she has to keep intact for another 6 months. Added to which she is at the outer edges of passing through her productive stage of life. Some say she has never been productive in the other means of the term and now likely less so.
        It is noted the delay of 3 months to release this news while many expected it helped explain he flakiness seen so far which we can expect to increase as she increases to expect. In her case it might be a more nervous time to wait to be “sure” so to speak.
        Many happy parents have battled setbacks and heartbreaking moments to achieve their planned family while savouring the good times. Likewise they also know there is nothing easy about it. Many also recall her statement of “being there for a good time and not a long time” overlooking it might end up being a hard time instead.
        
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        January 19, 2018 5:36pm
    - PaulL
      
      Depends on how you’re planning to do it. One of my staff was back at work 2 weeks later. She didn’t really like babies, her husband looked after her. Others, 9 months. I would have thought Jacinda was at the 9 month end, but it’s always hard to predict.
      
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      January 19, 2018 11:30am
    - RalphT
      
      “…a nursery next to the office along with a nanny.”
      Winston’s new role?
      
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      January 19, 2018 11:32am
    - rangitoto
      
      I though it was essential to have 26 weeks paid leave.
      
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      January 19, 2018 12:10pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Yes, but lefties don’t think things through.
        Only 6 weeks off is a bad message.
        Leaving the job to look after the kid is a bad message.
        Being childless is a bad message.
        Women are royally screwed really.
        
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        January 19, 2018 2:01pm
    - GazzaW
      
      Is there anything you don’t know ztev?
      
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      January 19, 2018 8:34pm
- SGA
  
  Has a PrimeMinister anywhere given birth while leader?
  
  Benazir Bhutto?
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:11am
  - cmm
    
    Hmmmm not very high on my list of people and places to emulate.
    
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    January 19, 2018 11:16am
    - SGA
      
      lol – yeah, cmm, I’m sure that emulating Bhutto was high on her list of priorities 🙂
      
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      January 19, 2018 11:25am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Not that I know of..
  Benazir Bhutto was pregnant when she ran for election in 1977. Her baby was born prematurely, but she won the election.
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/wiwp/statcon/bhutto_pro5.shtml
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:23am
  - SGA
    
    this is what Wikipedia says –
    “On 18 December 1987, Bhutto married Asif Ali Zardari in an arranged marriage at Karachi. The couple had three children: a son, Bilawal and two daughters, Bakhtawar and Aseefa. When she gave birth to Bakhtawar in 1990, she became the first modern head of government to give birth while in office.”
    ?
    
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    January 19, 2018 11:27am
- Mobile Michael
  
  I don’t think that there has been a modern Head of Government give birth while in office.
  
  Anyway, despite the difference of political opinion (and that Winston will be Acting PM) congratulations to Ms Ardern and Mr Clarke.
  
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  January 19, 2018 12:28pm
- Gabby
  
  Ponyboy had snipsnip, Lange hadn’t seen his todger for years, Palmer was dry and Muldoon was past it.
  
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  January 19, 2018 2:19pm
RF

Must admit I am not happy that the role of PM has taken a nose dive since the commie chick was gifted it.

Now we have an unmarried mother as PM.

Classy…… Not !!!!
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January 19, 2018 11:02am
- cmm
  
  So if she goes on the DPB will she declare who the father is?
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:07am
  - hullkiwi
    
    And what address she is living at & who is paying the rent/running cists?
    
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    January 19, 2018 11:16am
    - ztev
      
      Well it was English who tried the ultimate : Got the taxpayers to pay him to live in his own house.
      
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      January 19, 2018 11:27am
- Digmen1
  
  As least does not wear trousers as her mentor always did.
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:08am
  - ztev
    
    You mean like Merkel does too.
    
    And what they wear matters because ?
    
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    January 19, 2018 11:17am
    - dime
      
      Merkel – human garbage
      
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      January 19, 2018 11:24am
      - stephieboy
        
        dime,
        
        very deep .
        
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        January 19, 2018 11:30am
      - Gabby
        
        dim’s gettin metaphorical
        
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        January 19, 2018 2:22pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Marriage isn’t important to people like it used to be.
  (Like it ought to be, in my opinion)
  Only gays are clambering to get married these days.
  
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  January 20, 2018 12:50am
Zapper

Who thinks this was mentioned in the negotiations? She would have been at least trying during the election campaign.

So now we have someone who isn’t very smart to start with, now operating with compromised health (and save the misogyny comments, it’s a fact).
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January 19, 2018 11:05am
- Gabby
  
  Women beef up during pregnancy zitter. Your mum must’ve been a titan to push out your fat head.
  
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  January 19, 2018 2:24pm
Rich Prick

Betcha Winston gets his stint as PM after all. I wonder whether Cindy knew at the time of the coalition deal, the timing works. That could explain why it remains secret.
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January 19, 2018 11:06am
- cmm
  
  These days there are dozens of ways to not get pregnant.
  
  Of course she knew this was a likely outcome and I’m sure Winnie has it all lined up.
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:09am
- MrTips
  
  He does. Stuff report she has asked him to take on PM for 6 weeks after she has her child.
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:10am
  - KevOB
    
    I hope Winston’s health is up to it.
    
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    January 19, 2018 1:12pm
- Digmen1
  
  The German planned coalition document is apparently made public.
  
  But then who would want to make love to Merkel?
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:13am
  - ztev
    
    Dont have a coalition document
    They only have agreed on the ‘format of negotiations’
    
    In reality they are just playing for time as a new election is required where the alt-right will do better/worse
    
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    January 19, 2018 11:19am
  - stephieboy
    
    Digmen1 , and what woman would want to share a bed with you ?
    
    Seriously !
    
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    January 19, 2018 11:33am
- KKKKatee
  
  I would think not – pregnant or otherwise.
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:20am
marquess

Congratulations to Jacinda and Clarke on their announcement. Hopefully people from across the aisle can reach out and support our Prime Minister in her personal journey to motherhood, and wish her all the best
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January 19, 2018 11:07am
- RF
  
  What a load of BS.
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:11am
- Digmen1
  
  Hand me a sick bowl please.
  
  Will the child be named Ardern or Gayford?
  Will the child be baptised?
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:11am
  - marquess
    
    There’s no need to be nasty.
    
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    January 19, 2018 11:12am
  - SGA
    
    Will the child be baptised?
    
    Seriously?
    
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    January 19, 2018 11:18am
    - ztev
      
      I know…. Its so ….out of date
      
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      January 19, 2018 11:20am
      - dime
        
        like socialism
        
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        January 19, 2018 11:25am
    - Digmen1
      
      Maybe Golriz will officiate?
      
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      January 19, 2018 11:35am
    - stephieboy
      
      SGA , and if the child isn’t ?
      
      What t does it matter and who out there cares about your tinpot posts ?
      
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      January 19, 2018 12:30pm
  - Gabby
    
    Ardern Ardern would just be silly dicman.
    
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    January 19, 2018 2:26pm
- cmm
  
  “support our Prime Minister in her personal journey”
  
  and fuck the responsibilities she put her hand up for.
  
  I have no problems with Jacinda becoming a bother. I think it will help her grow up and stop being a 17 year old in a 37 year old’s body.
  
  However, if you take on the job of PM then you should not also be going on “personal journeys” that take you away from the job.
  
  People who voted for Labour really voted for Jacinda. To just turn up for the elections then cut and run is deceptive.
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:14am
  - artemisia
    
    So Ms Adern knew about the pregnancy before the coalition was announced. Perhaps that was why the 38 page document was kept secret.
    
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    January 19, 2018 11:22am
    - Manolo
      
      Methinks more than perhaps…
      
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      January 19, 2018 2:48pm
  - RalphT
    
    “I have no problems with Jacinda becoming a bother”
    While I have no problems with her becoming a mother, her being a bother is another matter.
    
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    January 19, 2018 11:36am
    - hullkiwi
      
      She is already a bother.
      
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      January 19, 2018 11:47am
      - KKKKatee
        
        Agree….
        She surely must go down in history as one of the most despised PM and not even 6 months into the role.
        
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        January 19, 2018 2:41pm
- Zapper
  
  Of course I wish her the best for the birth. Now would be a good time to stand down.
  
  Someone who never wanted to be PM because she can’t handle stress now plans to be PM while pregnant then with a baby while breastfeeding.
  
  I need a beer
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:15am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Another “first” for New Zealand, no?
    
    First country in the modern world to give women the vote, and the first to have its leader announce pregnancy.
    
    The editors of the women’s magazines will be rubbing their hands with glee…
    
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    January 19, 2018 11:23am
    - PaulL
      
      Well, if we start electing leaders who are very young, they yeah, we’ll end up with some of them having children in office.
      
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      January 19, 2018 11:32am
      - RF
        
        Taking into account that the role of PM is a very important position in this country and in fact if the Governor General is number 1 in the pecking order, the PM is number 2.
        
        I am disgusted that a pregnant unmarried woman holds that position as I believe that it reflects badly on this country.
        
        Its only been a few months and Labour has royalty fucked this beautiful country.
        
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        January 19, 2018 3:06pm
      - Gabby
        
        rf rf have you heard what Shagger Banxie thinks? His moral input must be worth considering.
        
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        January 19, 2018 4:53pm
      - Viking2
        
        Not a leader, just a figure head fronting for Little, Robertson and Peters.
        $500k a year for a part time job.
        
        Given the hours that JK put in as PM one is left bewildered about how JA thinks she can do his job.
        
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        January 19, 2018 7:58pm
    - V
      
      I think Pakistan was the first as far a pregnancy in high office goes.
      
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      January 19, 2018 11:50am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        I don’t know if Pakistan can be considered to be a “country in the modern world.”
        
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        January 19, 2018 11:55am
      - stephieboy
        
        Odakyu sen , yet Pakistan is a close US ally . Did the President miss something ?
        
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        January 19, 2018 12:32pm
  - KKKKatee
    
    26 week’s paid maternity leave – bloody brilliant!
    Winnie will need to actually do some work now as the PM’s sidekick, Davis, ain’t up to much but can he be trusted more importantly!
    Jeezus – Jacinda thinks she’s stressed now – wait till the baby hits the deck then she’ll truly begun to know what stress is!
    
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    January 19, 2018 11:27am
    - labrator
      
      $250k, not bad
      
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      January 19, 2018 11:55am
  - calendar girl
    
    Will she be breast-feeding? Don’t know whether the nation has been advised yet on that minor detail.
    
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    January 19, 2018 8:05pm
- Rich Prick
  
  Barfff. A “personal journey” is just that. Anyway, at $550k we’re already “doing our bit”.
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:18am
- Rachael Membery
  
  Really? Seems quite irresponsible to me.
  
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  January 19, 2018 12:24pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  Bill English already has, because he is a fundamentally decent person:
  
  Mary and I would like to extend our sincere congratulations to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and her partner Clarke Gayford on the news of the Prime Minister’s pregnancy.
  
  It is an incredible privilege to be a parent. A new child will bring real joy to their lives.
  
  We wish them all the best.
  
  Well said Bill.
  
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  January 19, 2018 1:10pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Keeping Stock:
    
    The positive message from Bill English contrasts sharply with the negativity at the Standard:
    
    Muttonbird: [presumably the same Muttonbird troll that we’ve seen here] Nothing on Kiwiblub yet. Must still be working out the attack line although I’m surprised Farrar didn’t have something ready to go.
    
    Sanctuary: The Kiwiblog sewer will finish making a moral exception and writing excuses for Trump and the hookers (and all while his wife was nursing their new born son) in order to be outraged – OUTRAGED – at having a sinful PM setting a bad example by having a child out of wedlock.
    
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    January 19, 2018 3:30pm
    - Gabby
      
      They got it about right didn’t they nosy.
      
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      January 19, 2018 4:54pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Gabby the Troll:
        
        My goodness – you smell worse than a sewer rat. Please take a shower before responding to my comments. I recommend using Drano® to wash yourself.
        
        Drano® Clog Removers can unclog a drain fast. They contain chemicals that quickly dissolve hair, soap scum and gunk. You can use Drano® Clog Removers to unclog a kitchen sink, bathroom sink, shower or clogged bathtub, but DO NOT use them in toilets. For clogged or slow-running drains, apply the product and let it work 15 minutes, then flush with hot water. For tough problems, allow 30 minutes before flushing.
        
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        January 19, 2018 9:01pm
- KevOB
  
  I wish them both well. Children are precious.
  I don’t have to like her politics but she is PM for the time being. That’s MMP.
  
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  January 19, 2018 1:16pm
Manolo

First Cuck is a glorious monicker!
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January 19, 2018 11:13am
Digmen1

I’ll just head over to Stuff to get the latest trivia.
And cancel my subscription to the Womans Weekly.
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January 19, 2018 11:14am
Lance

Of course we can’t ask after the pregnancy because that will make one a misogynist bastard.
Just ask Mark Richardson
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January 19, 2018 11:16am
- RRM
  
  Oh no, you don’t get to say anything.
  
  She is a woman, and women can do no wrong. Only a sexist misogynist male rapist would think otherwise.
  
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  January 19, 2018 12:13pm
- Gabby
  
  More of a nosy fucker than a misogynist bastard lannts.
  
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  January 19, 2018 2:30pm
mikenmild

This will blow up Kiwiblog. DPF will probably need separate daily (or hourly) threads on the subject of the PM’s pregnancy.
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January 19, 2018 11:16am
- Manolo
  
  stephieboy has already bought a hijab in case comrade Ardern has a girl.
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:18am
- cmm
  
  “This will blow up Kiwiblog.”
  
  Correct. I bet you even see mikenmild coming back to comment….
  
  Oh wait!
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:24am
- stephieboy
  
  mm, yes and those alt right posters needing treatment for PTSD.
  
  As if anyone out in the real world actually cares .
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:35am
  - Harkman
    
    When the crash comes, Cindy is in “Labour” and Winnie is the Prince Regent. I’m buying my popcorn now.
    
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    January 19, 2018 11:47am
    - cmm
      
      Once Winnie has been seat warming for 6 weeks will he give it back?
      
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      January 19, 2018 2:51pm
BeaB

If she is due in June she knew during the negotiations. So she and Winnie had a very cosy deal, No wonder it’s all secret.
Of course as a woman I have to say I am absolutely thrilled to bits we have a PM who is pregnant, will give birth as PM and share with us every moment along the way! What a thrilling little groundbreaking country we live in! What a first again for little NZ! What world leaders we are! What an inspiration she is for every little girl in the world!
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January 19, 2018 11:16am
- Longknives
  
  Excuse me while I grab my Puke Bucket…
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:20am
  - stephieboy
    
    Just think about pouring it all over yourself just to refreshen your day !
    
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    January 19, 2018 11:38am
  - Harkman
    
    Pass me the bucket when you’re finished.?
    
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    January 19, 2018 9:26pm
- cmm
  
  I really hope you’re trying satire.
  
  Just when the single mother statistics were heading in the right direction, we have Jacinda being “an inspiration for every little girl in the world!”
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:31am
  - RRM
    
    It’s definitely satire. 😉
    
    +1 Beab
    
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    January 19, 2018 12:15pm
- hullkiwi
  
  Yes Bea, while she was busy getting “up the duff”, she didn’t give a second thought to how she was going to be f*****g up NZ. Great leadership from the immature b***h.
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:38am
- rangitoto
  
  Winnie to Taxinda’s brat:
  
  “I am your father”
  
  “Nooooooooooooo”
  
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  January 19, 2018 12:16pm
- Viking2
  
  Yep of course, now watch the pregnancy rate zoom over the next few months. There will be another 50000 lefties born in the next 12 months.
  
  What an inspiration.
  Grant better up the provisions for the DPB.
  OPPs he has spent all the money already.
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:03pm
BeaB

Bugger! Beaten by Bhutto!
Never mind, she and Gayford are happily ensconced on the gravy train while the crowds cheer and wave and faint with delight.
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January 19, 2018 11:18am
V

If this were an employment situation, would they take a dim view of someone new into a job and then immediately away on leave, at least without giving some prior notice that those were your plans/situation?
If you are a small employer, even more so because you can’t afford the staff cover, and the whole point of hiring in the first place is presumably because there is work that needs doing.
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January 19, 2018 11:22am
- Rachael Membery
  
  Not entitled in the real world for maternity leave until a year of employment has passed?
  
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  January 19, 2018 12:27pm
  - Gabby
    
    Is your membery playing tricks? How long’s she been an MP?
    
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    January 19, 2018 2:33pm
    - igm
      
      Did she not fail in winning a seat, and had to be gifted one by Shearer. Not unlike greasy slimey Miner Little.
      
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      January 21, 2018 7:58am
cmm

First Cuck!! I wish I could give more than one up-tick.

Attach more upticks here. All kudos to Harriet.
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January 19, 2018 11:22am
- Harriet
  
  I honestly thought of that last night – while drinking beer – I got up very early this morning to put it up first on GD – and then forgot what the fuck I was going to write! 😎
  
  Edit: But then if you read my post up the top I did have another thing on my mind – manliness and respectable women – the natural order of things. 😎
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:35am
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    I don’t uptick much that Harriet posts.
    
    But First cuck is worthy.
    
    😆
    
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    January 19, 2018 12:10pm
infused

So a couple of things:

1. We all know now why Winston has been so quiet
2. We all know now why he went with Labour
3. National cannot attack Jacinda now for at least 6 months without a big public backlash
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January 19, 2018 11:26am
- ztev
  
  he went with labour because , last 9 years, national attacked Peters.
  
  You forget during Clarks time she had governing arrangements with Peters
  Not a snowballs chance of NZF- national agreement
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:30am
  - UpandComer
    
    Clark’s governing arrangement with Peters was a bribe from Owen Glenn lol.
    
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    January 19, 2018 11:40am
- KKKKatee
  
  Pregnancy is not an illness. It’s a natural process and if she can’t stand the heat in the kitchen from the Opposition pregnant or not then she’ll crack. Giving birth is even harder and more painful btw. Pregnancy did not stop me from doing my bit in the bloody cowshed! I didn’t expect to be treated like a princess. That is not to say the PM will be unable to get on with the job of being PM. It will be all the lefty lovelies who will be howling the loudest if they perceive the PM to not be treated as precious cargo me thinks. So my advice to the PM will be to ‘harden up cupcake’ and show us what you’re made of. I certainly hardened up and never used my pregnant state to score special privileges….
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:53am
Belinda

She should do the right thing and resign as Prime Minister, at best she can only give 50% of her time to the baby and 50% to the country. Not good enough I want a prime minister who can give 100 per cent to the country,. You really can’t have it all Jacinda. Not fair on anyone
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January 19, 2018 11:28am
- V
  
  On the bright side it is also 50% of her time she won’t be spending stuffing up the country.
  
  And with the incompetant Labour trio of Winston/Kelvin/Grant et al. in charge it’s going to be a comedy fest.
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:33am
- Rich Prick
  
  The cynic in me thinks we ended up with this Government because they knew she was pregnant and Winston saw a pathway to his Holy Grail – to one day be called a former PM of NZ. I bet odds on that this scenario is dealt with in the secret coalition agreement.
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:45am
  - Viking2
    
    As an employer who has employed lots of ladies over many years I find that I can usually pick that they are pregnant before they figure it themselves. ( Had a bunch of sisters as well.)
    I suspect that around Parliament there would be a few like myself who sniffed the breeze way back.
    seems morning sickness was about just after election time. A dead giveaway to anyone waiting to each afternoon to negotiate an agreement.
    
    Times will get tough for her,especially once she has the baby and maternal instincts kick in. Toughing out the daily grind with Peters, Robertson and Little with the inevitable back stabbing and attempts to be the new leader will take its toll.
    
    Aunty Helen. Godmother.
    
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    January 19, 2018 8:13pm
- BeaB
  
  Agree. As someone said you can have it all but not all at the same time.
  I think she has played us for fools, lied through her teeth and covered us all with a sickly sugar coating that the media have fallen for hook, line and sinker.
  
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  January 19, 2018 2:02pm
dime

why does stuff have a picture of giant hooks with the words:

PM Pregnant

Shes keeping it right?
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January 19, 2018 11:30am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  If she had not intended to, we would never have known.
  
  This is going to be great! National will have to watch themselves. One must not upset a mother-to-be.
  
  I can see the Prime Minister milking this for all that it is worth, if you pardon my choice of words.
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:35am
- ex-golfer
  
  That’s taken directly from her Twitter and Instagram announcement. It’s a play on Clarke being the “first man of fishing”. So small hook inside larger hook represents the baby.
  
  Of course it could also mean they might throw it back……to be sustainable, and keep the Greens happy.
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:38am
- dubya
  
  Hooks seemed an odd choice, I thought the preferred method was a coat hanger.
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:57am
  - kevn
    
    dubya… he fancies hisself as the outdoors man. Trying to be creative I guess.
    JA doesn’t seem the go fishing (for actual fish) type to me.
    Get married last it seems. Whatever…
    A wild winnie ride coming up.
    At least we know the contents of the missing 33+ page doco now. She knew, he knew.
    
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    January 19, 2018 12:07pm
The only red for me is that of Manchester United

For those six weeks that Winston is in charge I really hope that National throw everything they can at him and the CoL.

I can’t help thinking that Jacinda was thinking that Labour wouldn’t be in government. She then could have announced her pregnancy after the election and disappeared for the duration of her parental leave.
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January 19, 2018 11:31am
- MrLovebucket
  
  And did she know and share this info during negotiations?
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:42am
  - kevn
    
    Mr LB… winnie knew, it would have beena big part of the missing 33+ page doco. NZer’s? Nah. Too bad.
    
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    January 19, 2018 12:18pm
Longknives

Will the child be ‘Assigned’ a Gender at Birth?
*The Left are always shrieking that is akin to child abuse…
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January 19, 2018 11:33am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  At least we can look forward to an exciting winter in 2018.
  
  The media will go gaga. There will be a population spike some 9-10 months from now…
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:36am
gump

I find it very amusing that commentators on this blog are pivoting from attacking Jacinda from being childless to attacking Jacinda for having a child.

The hypocrisy is breathtaking.
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January 19, 2018 11:38am
- 4077th
  
  What is the gestation period for a foal?
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:43am
  - Digmen1
    
    Will the child be born with its teeth fully developed.
    
    Oh now we are just being nasty
    
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    January 19, 2018 12:44pm
  - Gabby
    
    Back in the 8063rd we had a maternity unit. We left the vet stuff to Potter’s rabble.
    
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    January 19, 2018 2:38pm
- UpandComer
  
  No everyone here thinks it will be good for her and might help her grow up a bit. Hopefully. There must be a pay-off to the NZ Media becoming Ardern’s personal photo album.
  
  But it is pretty funny that Winston Peters is going to be Prime Minister for the span of Ardern’s maternal leave.
  
  It’s also funny in a dark way that Ardern will be un-touchable for at least 6-9 months as they go about dismantling NZ.
  
  But whilst she is un-touchable, it will mean the blow torch gets applied entirely to her team, particularly Winston and Grant.
  
  Whilst she is taking care of her kid, those two will have much more responsibility and work load lol. I can’t think of two people better suited for it.
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:47am
- hullkiwi
  
  No dump, for the past 9 years she has spouted about something she had never experienced (ie motherhood). Now, she has taken on leadership of our country, meanwhile she knew all the time she was not going to be able to fulfill the obligations & responsibilities that she was asking voters to trust her with. Meanwhile, during the election campaign Mark Richardson got bollocked for even daring to ask her about pregnancy. So, the hypocrisy is with all her & her support base. Also once again she misled NZers about her intentions, yet another example of her lack of honesty. So, don’t accuse KBloggers of hypocrisy
  
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  January 19, 2018 12:22pm
  - Gabby
    
    Hulky wee, tell me more about how much time Obama wasted playing golf while Chump showed his winningness playing golf.
    
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    January 19, 2018 2:40pm
  - KKKKatee
    
    We all know Ardern was slippery from Day #1. I, personally, don’t believe a word she says. Got help it if Mark Richardson enquires after the pregnancy, but Hayley and Hilary on TV One will be able to ask a thousand and one questions. Thanks is to be given, also, to Toni Street for stepping down from Seven Sharp. Her gushing and giggling about the pregnancy every bloody night until d-day would’ve been nauseating. I’m thankful for small mercies……
    Hilary might not be so gushy and nauseating about the pregnancy but she’ll be bloody annoying all the same…..
    
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    January 19, 2018 2:52pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  I tend to agree, but then the months and months of touching someone’s ponytail being sexually predatory and demands for resignations did my head in and I can’t think straight any more.
  
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  January 19, 2018 2:08pm
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    You never could. Seek help.
    
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    January 19, 2018 8:17pm
- Gabby
  
  Wait ’til she takes up golf. They’ll be down on that frivolity so fast it’ll give you whiplash.
  
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  January 19, 2018 2:37pm
Odakyu-sen

The Prime Minister should set a good pro-family example by resigning from her position to become a stay-at-home mother (until the child starts primary school at the age of 5).

Motherhood has been undervalued in the modern word since the 1960s, and who knows what social harm this has done.

Anyone care to comment?
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January 19, 2018 11:44am
- kevn
  
  Oda… I am inclined to agree. I don’t know how she could contemplate only 6 weeks to get back on the saddle. PM job is not a part-time number.
  What if jnr is a needy baby in some way? Older Mums have higher risks.
  
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  January 19, 2018 12:15pm
  - KKKKatee
    
    ‘Cos at this point she’s showing-casing her naivety because she hasn’t a bloody clue how demanding and exhausting and exhilarating all rolled into one motherhood can be.
    Ms Ardern has a lot to learn – she think she knows everything at this point in her life, but she ain’t seen nothing yet.
    Motherhood will either make or break her – as some Mums will agree…..
    
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    January 19, 2018 2:57pm
- wiseowl
  
  I’m with you Oda.
  I flicked to Sainsbury to hear the response and have to say it was sickening .
  Sainsbury – it’s a step change. ??
  Nissen it is true equality.Woman now have true equality.
  Other reporters falling over themselves with comments totally missing the seriousness of the event.
  Some Black African caller saying New Zealand leads the way.
  Switched off at midday.
  
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  January 19, 2018 12:23pm
niggly

Well firstly congratulations to Jacinda and Clarke, having a baby is probably the most precious thing in one’s life and they will be wonderful parents. Well done!

But in terms of the optics of politics – WTF – who on earth would go into an election, riding high in the polls and assured of victory, then deliberately getting pregnant? Becoming the PM is not a part-time role or to be treated as a plaything depending on how one feelz?

No I’m not being nasty, Jacinda has said publicly that she is anxious under pressure, does not want the top job, does not want all that responsibility.

In fact it’s Labour that put her there, so in many respects this is not actually her fault!

Frankly Labour can’t be trusted (especially after promoting an inexperienced and pretend or interim PM, who didn’t want the role). She says she’ll step down for only 6 weeks then resume the PM role (after handing it to Winston)? I call no-way on that, she’ll understandably want a lot more time off with baby and who could blame her for that? It’s the best thing one can have as a parent – a lot of time bonding with baby (everything else is just noise and unnecessary pressure), and if she does then good for her!

Screw Labour (and Winston) though for using and abusing her, what rotten scheming desperate pricks!

Good grief, the COL circus sideshow continues …. what next? Winston as PM …. more popcorn times ahead!
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January 19, 2018 11:45am
- Harriet
  
  “…..She says she’ll step down for only 6 weeks….”
  
  The installation of socialism should not be disrupted.
  
  The 26 week narrative?…….
  
  …..to disrupt business, to install socialism…..WFF etc.
  
  It’s never different when the left do it……it just appears different.
  
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  January 19, 2018 11:56am
- Rich Prick
  
  I have a lazy hundy that says she won’t be back and we will be stuck with Winston as PM for the remainder of the term. The 7.2% have a lot to answer for. You might take her word that she will be back in six weeks, but she also said that she didn’t want to be PM. Such is the openness and transparency.
  
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  January 19, 2018 12:20pm
  - tusker
    
    ‘she also said she didn’t want to be prime minister’
    
    I understand some of Cindy’s schoolmates are calling bullshit on that one – she was reportedly always openly ambitious for the top job. A comment was apparently even made at assembly by the head of school when either Shipley or Clark ascended to the throne, that comrade Ardern will not now be NZ’s first female PM.
    
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    January 19, 2018 12:45pm
    - RF
      
      Her parents admitted she always wanted to be PM.
      
      As I have previously warned…. she is a very dangerous scheming little madam.
      
      Not to be trusted.
      
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      January 19, 2018 2:24pm
dime

Kelvin Davis will make a fine Prime Minister HAHAHA
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January 19, 2018 11:50am
UpandComer

Well any-one with lingering regrets on National has another confirmation Winston was never going with us. He knew Ardern was pregnant, and accordingly he would have a de facto PM role for at least one year. I’m not sure that’s what people voted for, but its what we’re getting. Pretty hard for Bill to compete with that.

Honestly, I wonder if there is a clause in the secret coalition agreement the media has memory-holed that actually says something like ‘in the event that the PM becomes incapacitated due to personal events for a period’…

Sometimes pregnancy can have a profound effect on someone’s neural configurations. There is a tiny chance that Ardern might become less of a communist during this time. That would be lovely.
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January 19, 2018 11:52am
- cmm
  
  “Sometimes pregnancy can have a profound effect on someone’s neural configurations. ”
  
  Well Horrid tells us baby brain is real: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11975268
  
  So can we expect her to be more of a prat than she has been so far?
  
  Apart from that, yes, having children does make you think about the future and stop seeing humans as vermin.
  
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  January 19, 2018 12:08pm
- BananaLlama
  
  Winston would have been silly not to take that if he was offered PM.
  
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  January 19, 2018 12:15pm
KH

good for her. Nothing wrong with a PM having a baby. It ain’t going to cause me more reason to vote against her or for her (I already have voted against her.) I’m still going to criticise her approach when she gets it wrong.
But all the same – congratulations.
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January 19, 2018 11:54am
Longknives

So hang on-

Girls with their tits out in front of twenty thousand people at concerts is ’empowering’ and ‘a display of feminism’- But Air Hostesses have to cover up because it upsets the feminists??

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/kiwi-woman-disgusted-by-air-asia-uniforms-writes-to-malaysian-govt/ar-AAuQ5g7?ocid=ennz-wrap-am-p3

I’m so confused.
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January 19, 2018 12:06pm
- gump
  
  One woman wrote to Air Malaysia to complain.
  
  So why are you generalising from one woman’s opinion to all women?
  
  Did Patricia Bartlett speak for all women? Did Evita Peron? Did Margaret Thatcher? Does Oprah Winfrey?
  
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  January 19, 2018 12:25pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    I wish people would stop telling ‘us’ what to do.
    
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    January 19, 2018 12:35pm
  - Yvette
    
    No, Gump, “one woman” supposedly wrote to Malaysian Senator Datuk Hanafi Mamat, who objects to the AirAsia uniforms as non-sharia compliant.
    
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    January 19, 2018 4:35pm
    - Gabby
      
      I’m sure the senator is above inventing a complaining foreigner to reinforce a politicoreligious point.
      
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      January 19, 2018 5:01pm
      - Harriet
        
        Are you fat Gabby? 😎
        
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        January 19, 2018 6:19pm
- Yvette
  
  Various Google inquiries by WhaleOil suggest the woman “Dr Robertson” may not exist.
  
  That the photographed letter begins by saying the writer was pleased to read reports in NZ media of Malaysian Senator Datuk Hanafi Mamat’s objections to the AirAsia uniforms as non-sharia compliant, would also seem doubtful. Robertson’s letter has been pushed by Facebook but where was Mamat’s original NZ news media coverage?
  
  Mamat said, “Robertson wrote this letter after reading news reports in New Zealand over my rejection of a sexy sexier dress.”
  “In the letter Robertson said he had come to Malaysia twice a year since 10 years ago because of his love for the country. She felt too ‘disgusted’ to see her flight attendant wearing a skirt that was too short and her experience faced with a flight attendant from the airline.”
  – http://www.bicara.news/wanita-new-zealand-jijik-pakaian-pramugari-malaysia-seksi/
  
  Oddly, the photo of the letter displayed with articles on the matter, is watermarked “Utusan ONLINE”, a Malay news outlet.
  
  That one woman’s letter of complaint is catapulted to such considerable news coverage suggests it is being pushed by Senator Datuk Hanafi Mamat, in his Islamic cause of sharia-compliant dress for AirAsia female host staff.
  
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  January 19, 2018 4:29pm
kevn

LK… Look ok to me. Red jumps out as well.
It is a bit odd from Malaysia being such a cover-up muslim nation. Marketing ploy I guess, just being pragmatic. Thye are playing catchup in the flights dept.
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January 19, 2018 12:11pm
- hullkiwi
  
  From what I saw, in the photo they seem to have taken a lead from Branson’s Virgin Atlantic uniforms.
  
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  January 19, 2018 12:28pm
Morrissey

Man versus Stupid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9N7XUFn8WQ
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January 19, 2018 12:14pm
- Morrissey
  
  Two people have registered their support of Canada’s stupidest man.
  
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  January 19, 2018 12:40pm
  - kowtow
    
    Is the clip about Turdeau?
    
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    January 19, 2018 12:44pm
    - Morrissey
      
      No, it’s about David Dum, who is possibly the dumbest man on the planet other than Donald Trump.
      
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      January 19, 2018 4:06pm
Odakyu-sen

The Prime Minister will step down, and Winston will become the new Prime Minister.

A year later, he will resign and Ardern will return…
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January 19, 2018 12:19pm
- hullkiwi
  
  I don’t think it will pan out that way. In theory, it should be someone in Labour who gets the job in her absence. Problem is can anyone consider seriously Davis or Robertson? This is despite Robertson running for leader 3 years ago.
  
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  January 19, 2018 1:05pm
- Piniwi
  
  Funny O we got another bonus with the illegitimate COL and an illegitimate baby to too boot. Twice duped?
  
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  January 19, 2018 5:56pm
Catons

I bet this was discussed during the coalition negotiations
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January 19, 2018 12:20pm
- kevn
  
  Catons… The missing 33+ page doco. Nothing surer. I guess a succesion plan was needed. Too bad NZer’s didn’t get to know.
  
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  January 19, 2018 12:32pm
RF

Jesus wept. Some idiot called Tim who is the Newstalk ZB host is absolutely creaming his jeans about the unmarried mother.

Best thing since sliced bread in his opinion.
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January 19, 2018 12:20pm
- gump
  
  I’m not sure you can listen to Newstalk ZB and then accuse another person of being an idiot. Just saying…
  
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  January 19, 2018 12:26pm
  - RF
    
    gump.
    
    Correct. I walked into the room to hear the ZB host.
    
    I covered my ears and ran out screaming but too late. I got infected.
    
    Just think… another 6 months of crap.
    
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    January 19, 2018 2:20pm
    - Gabby
      
      The muzzle’s coming out if you’re infected again rf rf.
      
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      January 19, 2018 5:04pm
      - RF
        
        Gabby.
        
        It’s ok. I wear a mask.
        
        Got sick of waiting for you. Tea is in the oven.
        
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        January 19, 2018 7:17pm
- hullkiwi
  
  FFS the Horrild website has got a Live Watch on the Jacinda Pregnancy. What on earth? Have they got a webcam following her belly? Don’t worry folks 6 months of this we’ll be suffering nausea.
  
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  January 19, 2018 12:48pm
Huevon

One night in Grey Lynn, October 2017….

“But, Jacinda, this month…. ”

“No Clarke, don’t stop….it’ll never happen anyway”
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January 19, 2018 12:36pm
Rachael Membery

I wonder if that was a reason that Jacinda’s parents were recalled to Auckland?
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January 19, 2018 12:39pm
Yvette

With all that Ardern has said in pushing 26 weeks maternity leave … and she will take six?
Disingenuous, pregnancy-induced cognitive dissonance, or naivety?
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January 19, 2018 12:46pm
Digmen1

I’d rather have mindless drivel than this!
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January 19, 2018 12:48pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  There’s a difference?
  
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  January 19, 2018 2:13pm
kowtow

Ethnicity , identity and loyalty……..

‘Lee was arrested on Monday night at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, after he had flown there from Hong Kong, on charges of unlawful retention of national defence information. He made an initial court appearance on Tuesday afternoon in the Eastern District of New York.

Suspicions have been raised that Lee – who was a CIA agent from 1994 to 2007 – might have played a key role in Beijing’s dismantling of the American spy network in China, although he is not facing any charges related to such allegations. The New York Times reported that some investigators believed Lee had left the CIA discontented after his career plateaued, and begun spying for China.’

Chinese spies everywhere , it would seem , but is not at all surprising……goodness , gracious I wouldn’t be surprised to hear there’s a few operating here.

Our media love to make a big hullabaloo about Israeli ones , not so much about Chinese ones, I wonder why.

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2129582/arrested-ex-cia-agent-quit-spy-agency-investigate
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January 19, 2018 1:10pm
- Gabby
  
  I don’t suppose he’s one of Uncle Jian’s Boys.
  
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  January 19, 2018 5:06pm
UpandComer

Now that Ardern has her own thread.

This is one for Stephieboy, to try and make him understand the reality of fake news.

Remember when everyone rubbished Trump for talking about no-go zones in Sweden?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/world/europe/last-night-in-sweden-trumps-remark-baffles-a-nation.html

‘Trump remarks about lawless Sweden baffle the nation’ says the failing fake New York Times.

The failing New York Times busily trying to bury their own many Weinsteins, ridicules any suggestion that the influx of migrants has caused any problems whatsoever – saying it’s all an ‘alt-right’ Breitbart conspiracy, and suggested everything anyone said was highly exaggerated and ‘not based on facts’.

https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/02/22/pro-trump-media-push-myth-muslim-no-go-zones-sweden/215420

Here is David Brock’s and George Soros and John Podesta and David Alefantis’ mediamatters, the organisation that probably killed Andrew Breirbart, saying the idea of ‘no-go’ areas in Sweden are a complete myth.

https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/02/22/pro-trump-media-push-myth-muslim-no-go-zones-sweden/215420

Here is ‘Snopes’ who Stephieboy likes to refer to all the time:

https://www.snopes.com/sweden-crime-no-go-zone-police/

Snopes report the locals merrily spending time in their ‘tight knit communities’, and laughing about ‘going’ in the ‘no-go zones’.

So fast-forward now to reality:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-18/sweden-preparing-civil-war-pm-wants-deploy-army-no-go-zones

“On Wednesday, Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said that Sweden would do whatever it takes, including sending in the army, to end the wave of gang violence situated in the no-go zones around the country. Sweden’s murder rate has been relatively low over the years, but thanks to the migrant crisis, police are powerless in many areas across the country”.

“It’s not my first action to put in a military, but I’m prepared to do what it takes to ensure that the seriously organized crime goes away,” Lofven said after the party leadership discussion in parliament.

Fucking. Lol.

“But it is also obvious that there are social problems. Last year 300 shootings occurred, 40 people were killed. The new year has begun with new launches. We see criminals with total lack of respect for human life, it’s a terrible development I’m determined to turn around,” he added.

Even the Swedish Democrat leader Jimmie Akesson “declared war” against organized crime and suggested that Sweden should deploy the military to no-go zones to counter the out of control violence.

“Peter Imanuelsen, an independent journalist in Sweden, summed up the recent developments in a timeline:

Government sends out leaflets to 4.7 million households telling them how to prepare for war
Leader for Swedish Democrat party says “A war is being waged on Swedish society”
Swedish PM is considering deploying the army in no-go zones”.

hahahahahahahahahahaha.

https://www.thelocal.se/20180117/bring-in-the-military-to-fight-gangs-swedens-pm-told-at-debate

You have every leader of major political parties in Sweden thinking it appropriate to send the army into no-go zones.

So hold on a second.

You have a narrative from the piece of shit New York Times, from pedo s mediamatters and their pet website Snopes and all the Buzzfeed tier shitlibs that says there is no issue at all in Sweden. It’s all a ‘Steve Bannon’ fantasy.

Then you have a reality of the Prime Minister and leader of the Social Democrats openly talking about civil war and instituting emergency mobilisation leaflets for the citizenry after talking about sending the army into ‘No-go zones’ not long after a hand grenade thrown at police in Malmo causes a huge explosion.

Lol. The degree to which the socialist media worldwide lie about pretty much absolutely everything can’t be overstated.
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January 19, 2018 1:13pm
- stephieboy
  
  UpandComer , basic question . Does local regard IMt Roskillstan a no go zone ?
  
  LOL
  
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  January 19, 2018 2:35pm
  - Manolo
    
    Yes, I reckon. Nobody of sound mind would venture out there! 😀
    
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    January 19, 2018 2:37pm
  - rangitoto
    
    Don’t rush it. Taxinda needs a bit more time to work on it. So far the Aussies foiled her plan.
    
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    January 19, 2018 3:39pm
- kowtow
  
  I posted this yesterday.
  
  Even the Swedes themselves recognise a problem , but it’s all Trumps fault ,according to the media.
  
  So who’s the liar , Trump or the media?
  
  Thinking people can see the constant lies in the media , no wonder they are trusted less than the professional elitist politicial class and other cheats.
  
  ‘A new report looking at how children in Sweden are pulled into violent Islamic extremism shows that they often live with the presence of violence and a feeling of hopelessness in their everyday lives.’
  
  https://www.thelocal.se/20180117/violent-upbringing-and-feeling-of-hopelessness-leaves-kids-vulnerable-to-islamic-extremism-swedish-report
  
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  January 19, 2018 2:55pm
- dime
  
  its amazing what some countries have done to themselves
  
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  January 19, 2018 3:35pm
Manolo

Money talks:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/18/trump-called-and-thanked-ceo-tim-cook-after-apples-jobs-announcement.html

President Donald Trump sang Apple’s praises on Thursday, a day after the company unveiled an ambitious — but vague — U.S. investment plan.

“Tim Cook is a great guy — the head of Apple,” Trump said at an event in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania on Thursday. “In the news, I heard $350 billion, I thought, ‘You mean $350 million? That’s going to be a beautiful plant.’ They said, ‘No, it’s three-hundred and fifty billion dollars.’ And I just called Tim Cook and I thanked him. But I don’t imagine there has ever been an investment that big in this country.”
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January 19, 2018 2:18pm
RF

Funny that whilst the media are gushing about the unwed mother to be, today along comes Jones to admit he over estimated his tree planting and has reduced the total to half.

Labour is full of shit.
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January 19, 2018 5:43pm
- nasska
  
  On 25th Oct last year:
  
  …..”Jones will also be in charge of the new Forestry Service, which will plant 100 million trees a year – with the goal of planting a billion over 10 years.”…..
  
  http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2017/10/revealed-shane-jones-minister-for-100-million-trees-1-billion-regional-fund.html
  
  Now the goal is halved. A meaningless number has been replaced with another meaningless shifting target. Give it up Shane…..back when you were rubbing one out over a video paid for by the taxpayer you were at least an honest wanker.
  
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  January 19, 2018 6:05pm
  - Harriet
    
    Trees?……They may have to now build another house. 😎
    
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    January 19, 2018 6:17pm
    - nasska
      
      Another house……we’re still waiting for the first!
      
      But it doesn’t matter. The MSM haven’t showcased anyone living in a garage or a car for nearly six months so it’s obvious Chomper’s magic is more powerful than we thought. 🙂
      
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      January 19, 2018 6:28pm
      - Johnboy
        
        The only thing worse than a cynical c**t is a cynical c**t thats hit the nail right on the head. I tried to watch Prime news re the new first sprog tonight and switched back to the Living channel after I started to heave! 🙂
        
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        January 19, 2018 6:44pm
      - Que Sera Sera
        
        Nasska
        OK Adonis. Please place a photo of yourself on here for us to look you over.
        You are so critical of others looks but hide behind your keyboard, all very easy for you.
        
        My guess, if you have a few years on the clock, you will likely have a couple of teeth missing, lost a bit of your hair,, have freckles and warts.
        But you still get your jollies by being all so critical of our Prime Minister,
        It is school boy bullying.
        Knock it off.
        
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        January 19, 2018 7:15pm
      - Johnboy
        
        You’ll never escape those Catholic school prefects as long as you live nasska! 🙂
        
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        January 19, 2018 7:22pm
      - nasska
        
        ….”by being all so critical of our Prime Minister”….
        
        Go piss up a rope. You jerks had over eight years of attacks on John Key.
        
        Now it’s my/our turn…..live with it!
        
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        January 19, 2018 7:23pm
      - Johnboy
        
        You really can get a fucking good laugh reading all the earnest comments of socialist champions here on KB. 🙂
        
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        January 19, 2018 7:28pm
      - Que Sera Sera
        
        Typical, revert to personal attacks.
        Like its your default setting.
        
        Feel free to put a photo of your great looking self here.
        But please smile big, I would love to see your Chompers.
        
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        January 19, 2018 7:32pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Here’s one of me.
        https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51klQhddFWL._SY450_.jpg
        And one of nasska. 🙂
        https://www.askideas.com/media/24/Weird-Teeth-Man-Funny-Smile-Picture.jpeg
        
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        January 19, 2018 7:40pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Nasska:
        
        Go piss up a rope.
        
        But what goes up must come down?
        
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        January 19, 2018 9:05pm
- Gravelroad
  
  There is an advert currently running on newstalkzb extolling the virtues of forestry, the Govt’s fabulous Plan to plant trees, so on and so forth.
  It sounds like a party political broadcast.
  There doesn’t seem to be any attributing to a group or company.
  Does anyone know who is paying the bill? It sounds an old fashioned format – not your usual,whizz bang stuff.
  
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  January 19, 2018 6:54pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Twigford Enterprises? 🙂
    
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    January 19, 2018 7:30pm
Ross12

Wikileaks is offering US$1 million for anyone who gives a copy of the memo about FISA abuse that is has been shown Congress but not the public.
Those who have read it says it makes Watergate look like kindergarten stuff. The Democrats are absolutely desperate for it not to get out.
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January 19, 2018 6:08pm
- stephieboy
  
  Roos12 , source please while your about it !
  
  Fox ?
  
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  January 19, 2018 6:27pm
  - nasska
    
    WikiLeaks
    ✔
    @wikileaks
    
    #ReleaseTheMemo: Do you know someone who has access to the FISA abuse memo? Send them here: https://wikileaks.org/#submit
    
    WikiLeaks will match reward funds up to $1m sent to this unique Bitcoin address: 3Q2KXS8WYT6dvr91bM2RjvBHqMyx9CbPMN
    
    or marked ‘memo2018’: https://wikileaks.org/donate
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    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/wikileaks-offers-reward-1-million-access-fisa-abuse-memo-releasethememo/
    
    Trying sliming or squireling your way out of that.
    
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    January 19, 2018 6:33pm
    - stephieboy
      
      I’ll file this away for the tine being and await this unfolding story . The Gateway Pundit ( t evidently the President’s favourite ) is often a spreader of fake news as shown here ,
      
      https://www.gq.com/story/fake-news-after-las-vegas-from-donald-trumps-favorite-news-sources
      
      Not a very encouraging start .
      
      Nor Zero Hedge it seems,
      
      https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-18/explosive-shocking-and-alarming-fisa-memo-set-rock-dc-end-mueller-investigation
      
      Due to this kind of thing,,
      
      https://www.snopes.com/tag/zerohedge/
      
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      January 19, 2018 8:49pm
stephieboy

It’s timely ,given the hysteria over Jacinda and those trying to justify Trump’s multiple adulteress liaisons , to recall Seth Rich and Fox News ,

“No Apology, No Explanation: Fox News And The Seth Rich Story”

On Monday, lawyers for Fox News must submit court filings addressing how the network mishandled a story about the unsolved killing of a young Democratic Party staffer named Seth Rich.

Assuming Fox answers those questions in any detail, it would be the first time the network has done so publicly.

Fox News was compelled to retract the story, which involved presidential politics, international intrigue and a man’s murder.
When a story of this scale crumbles, most news organizations feel obligated to explain what happened and why.

Not so far at Fox, which stands apart journalistically from its competitors in many ways. Unlike the other networks or major newspapers, for example, Fox has no office or executive dedicated to standards and practices. That falls within the larger portfolio of the network’s general counsel, Dianne Brandi….”

https://www.npr.org/2017/09/15/551163406/fox-news-has-yet-to-explain-what-what-wrong-in-seth-rich-story
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January 19, 2018 6:26pm
- Inandout
  
  Ah, but Hannity is unravelling the Clinton maze, the FBI and the Dept of Justice. This so far makes Watergate look like kindergarten stuff.
  
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  January 19, 2018 8:46pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Inandout , from which alt right fake news agency ?
    
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    January 19, 2018 8:54pm
    - Ross12
      
      Keep on denying the existence of this scandal stephieboy.
      You’ll catch up on it soon because your favourite MSM sites will ultimately be forced to cover it. Like you they’ll be in denial for a while but they’ll come around to it.
      
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      January 19, 2018 9:06pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Ross12 , an unfolding story from two discouraging fake news sources ,
        
        The Gateway Pundit and Zero Hedge .
        
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        January 19, 2018 9:14pm
    - Inandout
      
      Hannity is naming people, and when you get to that stage (in litigatious US) you must be onto something. Stay tuned echo chamber stephie.
      
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      January 19, 2018 9:21pm
nasska

The day when Jesus was supposedly miraculously resurrected from the dead falls this year on April Fools Day.

Seriously, they just write themselves …….
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January 19, 2018 7:14pm
- Johnboy
  
  The ghosts of Reid’s past, present and future will be here soon nasska. 🙂
  
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  January 19, 2018 7:32pm
  - Que Sera Sera
    
    Thanks for the photo of yourself.
    
    Just as I imagined.
    
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    January 19, 2018 7:46pm
    - Johnboy
      
      Well we might be the ugly face of capitalism Que old chap but at least we’re honest about it! 🙂
      https://www.beehive.govt.nz/sites/default/files/images/Clark_Helen_portrait.jpg
      
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      January 19, 2018 8:01pm
      - Que Sera Sera
        
        You are telling jokes now JB.
        Honest, like that Fis Cal Joyce, Blunder Bus Bill and lets not forget J Key..
        
        The three stooges, if ever there was.
        
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        January 19, 2018 8:42pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Que Sera Sera:
        
        You seem to be interested in photo commentary.
        
        Could you give us your opinion on this one and this one? Personally, I think the first one indicates a need for Photoshop, and the second one shows what a difference Photoshop can make!
        
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        January 19, 2018 9:16pm
Que Sera Sera

My view is this, If we are to go by looks to choose a Prime Minister, the Robert Muldoon would not have made it, but he turned out ok, maybe the best socialist PM ever.

I also reckon to be nit picking the current PM is rather juvenile.
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January 19, 2018 9:40pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Que Sera Sera:
  
  I agree that politicians should be judged first and foremost on their actions, not on their looks or their platitudinous speeches. That’s why I didn’t wet my pants with excitement when, say, Andrew Little made his 2017 state of the nation speech. Having said that, I think it’s human nature – consciously or subconsciously – to judge people by their looks. And for politicians in a 24-hour news cycle, that’s a tough reality.
  
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  January 19, 2018 9:50pm
  - Que Sera Sera
    
    It is a tough life for the Pollies, it is also there choice to enter Politics.
    Some are more suited than others to do so.
    I personally like what JA brings to her role, others may disagree, but it is not called democracy for no reason.
    And that is very important.
    
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    January 19, 2018 10:01pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Que Sera Sera:
      
      Politicians live in a transparent fishbowl. Sportspeople (competing at the top level) likewise have to come to terms with armchair critics on social media. I’ve read plenty of disparaging comments on Cricinfo.
      
      I think Jacinda is, at this stage, unproven. But there are signs that she lacks political judgement and experience – such as knowing when to have private conversations instead of lecturing overseas politicians publicly.
      
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      January 19, 2018 10:13pm
Manolo

A good article from Forbes:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/01/18/trumps-economic-scorecard-one-year-post-inauguration/#63d2f2266b67
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