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Monique Watson

Brexit Opinion on BFB

http://is-a-cunt.com/2018/03/best-for-britain/
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March 27, 2018 8:02am
- Monique Watson
  
  And where is George Soros in all this?
  
  https://www.thedailybeast.com/hungarian-nightmare-viktor-orbans-war-on-george-soros-3
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:06am
Happychappy

Any bets on who is the next fool in the Coalition from hell is to show how many idiots we have in the new Government.
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March 27, 2018 8:04am
- Tarquin North
  
  Jenny Marcroft and Shane Jones are currently organising a tag team to compete in today’s event.
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:17am
  - RF
    
    Marcroft now in witness protection.
    
    Last seen being bundled into a Govt limo that quickly headed out of town.
    
    The driver was a greasy looking Italian Maori.
    
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    March 27, 2018 8:40am
    - Right of way is Way of Right
      
      She’s on the plane with Ron, and Claire, and Shane, and Kelvin, and Carmel, and Nanaia……
      
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      March 27, 2018 9:03am
    - SJ Actual
      
      Interesting parallels to the Australian cricket team; the most junior member of the team being sent out o do the dirty work.
      Will be interesting to see if this escalates on Winston in the same way events have gotten away from Steve Smith.
      
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      March 27, 2018 9:20am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      Wouldn’t that be ….”witless protection”?
      
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      March 27, 2018 10:08am
    - oldpark
      
      The good news is and rumour has it. Mark Mitchell was wearing a wire, and has has a recording of the alleged bribe when Peters MP Marcroft made her pitch.Will not be a good look if she tells lies about it under question time in Parliament.
      Dictator Peters will make the same allegations ,this time against Mark Mitchell that he did to sink Mr Horan,who once was an MP in Peters Party. making up lies. Under Parliamentary Privilege of course.Stand by for developments.
      
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      March 27, 2018 10:10am
      - KiWombat
        
        The rumour is WRONG.
        
        Mark Mitchell did not suspect he was being set up, he was attending an electorate event and didn’t dream of wearing a wire. He has kept the texts sent to him though, and these are incriminating !
        
        He might think differently next time Winston or one of his elves come a knocking !
        
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        March 27, 2018 10:26am
  - KiWombat
    
    Mitchell agreed to meet with Marcroft if she travelled up to Orewa Surf Club where he was attending an electorate event.
    
    Marcroft arrived at the Surf Club, and she and Mitchell moved to an outside table for their meeting. Marcroft stated that she had been asked to meet with him to discuss the funding of the Mahurangi River restoration project from the provincial growth fund. As stewards of this fund, NZ1st was in a position to allocate funds to this project – but there were two conditions. NZ1st required Mitchell to step back from his advocacy of the project, and not to criticise NZ1st for supporting the project. NZ1st also required that Mitchell stop attacking NZ1st MP Ron Mark for his misuse of military aircraft.
    
    Now Mitchell is a pretty straight shooter – and was taken aback by this suggestion, so he asked Marcroft whether this instruction had come from a Minister. She nodded. He then asked the name of the Minister, Marcroft would not provide a name !
    
    Mitchell then stood and closed the meeting.
    
    He told Marcroft that he was offended by her suggestion, and gave her two hours to supply him with a name, or else he would expose the planned treachery !
    
    Shortly afterwards he received a text from Marcroft asking him to forget their conversation !
    
    Later again, Winston says that the whole thing is just a misunderstanding !
    
    I don’t know where Marcroft came from, but I wonder whether, when she entered “Orewa Surf Club” into her NavMan – that might have been a misunderstanding too ?
    
    You can’t make this stuff up. Nicky Hager should be writing furiously right now !
    
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    March 27, 2018 9:35am
    - Muttonbird
      
      Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
      That’s only Mitchell’s version of events.
      
      Remember Slater and Lusk worked to discredit his opponents in the Rodney candidate selection and he can’t even tell us what he got up to in Iraq.
      
      Not the most honest of characters.
      
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      March 27, 2018 9:45am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        Any serviceman who spills the beans on what happened on active service isn’t worth listening to.
        A war zone is not a coffee date at Starbucks.
        
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        March 27, 2018 9:59am
      - GazzaW
        
        Mitchell is streetwise enough to have retained that text from Marcroft on his phone to produce at the most opportune moment.
        
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        March 27, 2018 10:13am
      - KiWombat
        
        Yes Gazza, he has shown extracts of some texts to the media, so he has retained the paper trail !
        
        As for the comment about Iraq – any sane person would probably not want to know ! When you’re in the middle of a war and you pull the trigger there’s always a better than fair chance that somebody will fall over !
        
        And that is paraphrasing something I heard him say once !
        
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        March 27, 2018 10:18am
    - Nermal
      
      Sending an opposition member a text asking him to forget the conversation! How dumb can she be? Oh, yes, I forgot, she’s a NZF MP, that’s how dumb. Walking in the shoes of Asenati Lole-Taylor
      
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      March 27, 2018 12:53pm
  - Komata
    
    Jenny Marcroft? Mark Mitchell?
    
    Recorded conversations? Attempted bribery?
    
    Evidently I (and no doubt others), have missed something here; can someone please provide the appropriate link, or at least tell us what has eventuated.
    
    Thanks.
    
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    March 27, 2018 10:52am
    - KiWombat
      
      Newshub did run an item on this issue last night at 6, but managed to bury the story before Newshub late. Naturally the taxpayer funded news service didn’t rate the story at all. No wonder the MSM is under threat of extinction !
      
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      March 27, 2018 12:49pm
- RalphT
  
  A tougher bet will be on finding a member of the government who isn’t an idiot.
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:20am
holysheet

The Australian cricket team have been found cheating in the Third Test against South Africa.
I can’t believe it! A country whose ancestors were convicts, caught cheating!
I’m shocked!
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March 27, 2018 8:04am
- G152
  
  As we all are.
  Of course its a one off.
  They’ve never done that before
  /sarc off
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:06am
  - Longknives
    
    Many cricket fans would consider Match Fixing and Spot Fixing worse than Ball Tampering (which incidentally Mark Richardson yesterday admitted NZ does as well) G152…
    
    Do we need to list the New Zealand players who have been caught up with Bookmakers?
    
    Glass Houses/Stones etc..
    
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    March 27, 2018 8:08am
    - cmm
      
      Sure everyone does it, but only a twat gets caught.
      
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      March 27, 2018 8:16am
    - dime
      
      your issues with NZ sports has you defending the aussie cricket team more than australian people, theur prime minister and the guilty players themselves!
      
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      March 27, 2018 9:52am
      - Longknives
        
        Nah Dime- Just don’t like Hypocrites.
        Both in Sports and Politics!
        
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        March 27, 2018 10:37am
      - dime
        
        yeah but its like saying we cant hate on a rapist cause we once knew a guy who slapped a chicks ass.
        
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        March 27, 2018 11:15am
      - Luke Piewalker
        
        Longknives: Lou Vincent has a life ban. What will Steve Smith get?
        
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        March 27, 2018 12:42pm
- Poppa
  
  And then lied about it being sticky tape with stuff from the pitch on it.
  
  Sorry boys, I know what sandpaper looks like & that is what was used
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:09am
  - holysheet
    
    You can tell a lot about a person by the type of paper they buy. …
    If a person buys the Guardian paper they’re liberal lefties. …
    If a person buys the Mail paper they’re right wing reactionaries. …
    If a person buys Sandpaper they’re Australian cricketers.
    
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    March 27, 2018 8:12am
    - pdm
      
      Worth more than one uptick.
      
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      March 27, 2018 8:18am
- Harkman
  
  Is this really yellow tape? To me it is more likely yellow sand paper that I have in my garage. Imagine star cricketers going up to the counter at Bunnings with sand paper? Hilarious.
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:46am
- MT_Tinman
  
  The Australian cricket team have been found cheating in the Third Test against South Africa
  
  Actually no, they weren’t.
  
  The Australian cricket team was caught attempting to cheat (and failing to cheat) in the third test against South Africa.
  
  That fail should assure none of the three named so far play any role in Ocker cricket leadership again.
  
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  March 27, 2018 10:23am
cmm

I see Cindy thinks gas is a crutch.

Well Cindy, since you probably passed junior school maths at least, you have all the knowledge required to figure out that hydrocarbons are required for our energy needs.

Your crown Beemer won’t run on unicorn farts.

Now you might argue that we could switch to electrics for all our land-based energy and transport. That will need the building of more gas and coal burning power plants.

Or perhaps you’re a big girl and prepared to sign the paperwork to go ahead and build some nukes.

Still going to need some Jet A1 to go island hopping though.
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March 27, 2018 8:04am
- srylands
  
  There are actually advisors in government who understand science.
  
  Natural gas is an essential feedstock for hundreds of manufacturing processes. Critically it produces the ammonia that is the feedstock for most fertilisers.
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process
  
  No natural gas and 6 billion people will starve.
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:32am
  - cmm
    
    Yup, they are required for just about everything. The other huge player is methanol: https://www.methanex.com/location/new-zealand
    
    But for Our Cindy we need to keep the message really simple and can start by focusing on just fuels.
    
    “There are actually advisors in government who understand science.” But Cindy doesn’t listen to them because of feelz and stuff….
    
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    March 27, 2018 8:45am
  - KevOB
    
    The oil & gas produced in NZ supported our balance of payments and has helped insulate us from oil shocks.
    It’s given freedom to open up our economy and to make the progress we have achieved. Thanks, Sir Robert Muldoon. Think big was needed and still is.
    
    Children don’t comprehend economic history and its present implications.
    
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    March 27, 2018 9:20am
  - Ross12
    
    I cannot believe the stupidity of the advice she is getting or how idiotic she is, if she ignoring the advice.
    We are already on 85% for renewables for electricity generation.
    I heard the other day the Aussie’s have finally woken up to their energy situation crisis and now they are subsidising companies to explore for gas. ( An Adelaide based company very recently got A$5mill ). NB. Not sure if it is Federal or State Government subsidies but given it is SA company I heard about I think it fair to assume it is Federal Government.
    
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    March 27, 2018 10:36am
- Simon
  
  “Cindy thinks gas is a crutch”
  
  She is right. If you can grow turnips, fertilized with your own shit, in the fields across the road from your tenement housing block what use is gas.
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:47am
  - srylands
    
    I guess they would be organic turnips so that is something. ?
    
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    March 27, 2018 9:10am
  - Piniwi
    
    But Simon the resulting sheep/cattle farts are so dense in especially colder air it is almost chewable grade. What a gas.
    
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    March 27, 2018 3:28pm
- Harkman
  
  A power company area manager told me that there is currently no electric car on the market that can tow a trailer up a hill.
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:50am
  - holysheet
    
    No but they can down hill, and that’s all the greens would require.
    
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    March 27, 2018 8:57am
    - hullkiwi
      
      …Yes, and with Cindy making decisions based on feel & which lobby group she has most affinity for….
      
      It’s all downhill from here.
      
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      March 27, 2018 10:28am
  - KevOB
    
    Can any car do over 300 km without an overnight recharge?
    
    The energy in the battery still has to come from somewhere. Transporting it by power lines is very expensive.
    
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    March 27, 2018 9:26am
    - pdm
      
      I worry about the chaos caused by the tangled extension cords of the electric cars.
      
      They will cause traffic jams all over town.
      
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      March 27, 2018 9:57am
      - simpleton1
        
        Do not fear, it is possible and requires discipline, skill, fleetness of wheel, ducking, diving and weaving.
        
        The cars/drivers will have to learn the intricacies of Morriss dancing around the May-pole.
        The entanglement, then the un-entanglement.
        
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        March 27, 2018 10:02am
      - Piniwi
        
        But pdm we forget the bigger problems looming for poor old Auckland apart from the hefty fuel tax. How will the gridlocked traffic issues look with so many electric cars stuck with flat batteries included. Priceless.
        
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        March 27, 2018 3:32pm
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      And to make power lines you need … oh, wait
      
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      March 27, 2018 10:02am
      - hullkiwi
        
        …and how is Cindy going to generate enough electricity to power all those electric vehicles. I know she’ll sprinkle fairy dust & magic up the electricity.
        
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        March 27, 2018 10:32am
    - Pharmachick
      
      Also,
      (1) Those batteries are eye-wateringly expensive to produce in terms of natural resources and rare earth metals consumed and
      (2) as demonstrated so well on The Grand Tour recently, if you crash it can set off multiple explosions as the cells ignite in series. [Hammond REALLY needs to stop with he supercars now]
      
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      March 27, 2018 2:19pm
  - KiWombat
    
    I’m waiting for them to invent an electric plane to do the cattle runs between our major cities. They would only need a couple of tons of batteries to have sufficient energy for a short haul flight.
    
    Then we could ferry hundreds of MP’s and staffers around the country on electric power ! And if they happened to hit a storm as they approached WellyWood and had to divert to another airport, that might just be a solution to another problem !
    
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    March 27, 2018 9:45am
    - hullkiwi
      
      No problem, they’ll just use the methane expelled from the cattle’s rear end. Got to do something with that green house gas, don’t you know?
      
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      March 27, 2018 10:34am
      - KiWombat
        
        I can see it in the stars – Fart Tax – where have I seen that before ?
        
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        March 27, 2018 1:05pm
- KKKKatee
  
  Well she and Clarke are going to use cloth nappies. Although they are very different to the cloth nappies I used with our kids. These are rather chunky items and will take a hell of a lot of drying. Probably made from bamboo and will need to be dried off in a dryer. I know, because my kids started off using them and found how inconvenient they are to dry. They got reassigned to the too-hard basket. So, guess what? Disposables in – cloth nappies out.
  So all this virtue signalling about using cloth nappies is just a load of tosh…….
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:15am
  - KevOB
    
    Having had children in two generations give me the new disposables any day.
    
    Our new line of RubItOn anti-nappy rash balm is ready for market.
    
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    March 27, 2018 9:37am
  - Rich Prick
    
    What a strange announcement. Cindy and Clarke are going to look odd in cloth nappies.
    
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    March 27, 2018 9:39am
    - alex Masterley
      
      Bugger, need a new key-board after reading that. Coffee went everywhere!
      
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      March 27, 2018 10:22am
    - KKKKatee
      
      Oops. Apologies for lack of clarification. Shoulda mentioned the ?
      
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      March 27, 2018 11:11am
  - KiWombat
    
    The new fashion trend, to match the worn out op-shop boots she continues to wear !
    
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    March 27, 2018 9:48am
- KiWombat
  
  Does anybody know how all our pollies got to the Chathams last week ?
  
  I have seen Air Chathams mentioned as their carrier, but I have also seen a photo of Tracy Martin in a C130 Hercules transporter allegedly sitting on the ground in the Chathams.
  
  Now if she managed to get RonAir to transport her to the Chathams, I think we ought to be given a little detail – ?
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:20am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    I understand there were eight government ministers present to open the wharf they voted against building.
    Maybe they all arrived on separate transport?
    
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    March 27, 2018 10:04am
    - KiWombat
      
      There wouldn’t be too many options Shaun, and the photo I saw showed only one person on the Hercules !
      
      I can’t understand the need to send one of the biggest planes we taxpayers own to deliver a single MP to the Chathams, it just doesn’t make sense unless there was some intervention by Ron Mark !
      
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      March 27, 2018 10:37am
- RW Capitalist
  
  and without it, our economy would be crawling around on the floor.
  By all means look to the future and replace it with better options, But note…the car replaced the horse AFTER it was invented.
  We need the replacement BEFORE we run out of gas.
  
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  March 27, 2018 10:13am
  - Ross12
    
    RW
    
    They have made the big announcement today
    
    http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=266445&cat=976&fm=newsmain%2Cnarts
    
    For me this a MAJOR test for Bridges and National. Bridges understands this industry, so if he cannot come out with all guns blazing he is hopeless and National can certainly forget my little 2 votes.
    
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    March 27, 2018 12:15pm
    - Piniwi
      
      Oh dear Ross12 feels like another committee/group grope fest will be needed for this one. Hard to challenge any decisions when there are not any decisions to challenge.
      
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      March 28, 2018 3:14am
Andrei

Iceland is boycotting the World Cup – imagine that

I wonder who decided that for them?
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March 27, 2018 8:05am
Inandout

Genter is not actually wrong about white males, says our appointed PM.
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March 27, 2018 8:05am
- Longknives
  
  There is a massive backtrack from the Left all desperately trying to justify or reword Genter’s revolting comments..
  They all still want Bob Jones’ Head on a Platter though!
  One was a Minister of the Crown- One was writing a Satirical piece…Hmm which was worse?
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:12am
- rangitoto
  
  So why isn’t she telling her father to move on.
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:14am
  - lifesgood
    
    Oh but those holidays in Niue……
    
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    March 27, 2018 8:24am
- pdm
  
  Perhaps Ardern prefers Genter to Davidson as Greens co leader and is showing her support/bias.
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:39am
Longknives

Another day and another interview where Jacinda looks like a Rabbit caught in the Headlights.
Getting asked about the impending Nurses strike this morning- She looked like she was about to break down and cry.
I was busy with kids etc but heard her babble something about ‘Forming a working Group’
Christ! Another one?
Is this woman for real?

What are the TAB odds on her not returning from Maternity Leave? It’s blindingly obvious that she really isn’t coping with her first real job..
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March 27, 2018 8:07am
- cmm
  
  Cindy, what happens when your working groups go on strike?
  
  Being an Elderly Primagravida means there is a huge increase in the likelihood that she will need to take time off and be an early admission.
  
  79 days to go to mid-June, but most likely she will need to bail a few weeks before that.
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:13am
- Harkman
  
  “What are the TAB odds on her not returning from Maternity Leave? It’s blindingly obvious that she really isn’t coping with her first real job.” She isn’t coping but she wants the money. But this could get really amusing.
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:55am
- RF
  
  Cindy was wearing her sad crying face this morning. It would be interesting to know how many hours are spent standing in front of a mirror practicing her many faces…
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:13am
  - KKKKatee
    
    Cindy’s knackered. The hours any PM puts in are ridiculously long, let alone being a pregnant one AND telling the Nation she’ll be back at work at the 6 week post-natal mark.
    
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    March 27, 2018 9:18am
  - Happychappy
    
    I thought that was what she went to Uni for to master in drama.
    
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    March 27, 2018 9:23am
Inandout

Did I see a nurse’s spokesman on TV, or was that a Zimbabwe clip? Possibly the latter.
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March 27, 2018 8:07am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  He wasn’t pale, male and stale was he?
  
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  March 27, 2018 10:06am
G152

No doubt she thinks the same of her male relatives ?
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March 27, 2018 8:08am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Socialists want to impose their rules on others not themselves. If she needed major surgery you can bet she wouldn’t be taking race and gender into account in choosing the surgeon. It would be purely merit based.
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:30am
Paulus

I don’t suppose that Calamity Cindy can wait to go on Maternity leave.
The Nurses and Midwives 2% offer is a long way from their 12%.
Suddenly she is learning that those who voted for her and sang her praises are no more that those who hope they can hold her to ransom.
The Unions are actually not her friends as she thought. This is just the start by the various Unions. Andy can sort it out.
And that means a committee indecision
– Winston will sort it out in the short term though.

Robertson continues to make a …t of himself being pushed by the Unions to change the Reserve Bank mandate and now make it subject to a committee.
I can see the new members such as Rod Oram, Debs Russell (Labour MP), Bill Rosenberg (FOL – probable Chairman) and many other University Economists (probably from Waikato Uni).
With Unemployment a new lead they can blame the Bank when unemployment goes up and not the Government – they form another committee,
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March 27, 2018 8:12am
- KiWombat
  
  Why aren’t the nurses having their strike in 2 months time ?
  
  Cindy will give them whatever they want, particularly once the contractions begin !
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:24am
- rangitoto
  
  I wonder how the $11b shortfall is going. What’s it up to now?
  
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  March 27, 2018 10:02am
Happychappy

Winston Peters showing the public his true colours again with saying it was a miss understanding by Mitchell when taking offence at one of his MP’s attempted to blackmail him. Yet when National MP’ s were found to make the same mistakes it was a crime and the senile NZ First Leader preached this on Todd Barclay for months.
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March 27, 2018 8:13am
- KKKKatee
  
  Everything, according to Mr Peters, is a misunderstanding. But it’s okay when he says it. As for anyone else being backed into a corner – Pfff! Peters wants to skin them alive.
  What an odious little man he’s turned out to be and he’s the Deputy PM FFS!
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:56am
  - RF
    
    You have not seen nothing yet.
    
    Just you wait until the dwarf is sitting in the high chair.
    
    A nightmare in the making…..
    
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    March 27, 2018 9:23am
    - peterwn
      
      Jacinda may have to do it the 1960’s Communist Chinese way – work right up to contractions and back to work straight after delivery (so I understand). She may dare not do otherwise or Winston may end up being acting Opposition leader.
      
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      March 27, 2018 9:34am
      - KKKKatee
        
        The PM can’t afford to take her eye off the ball. She’ll probably be giving press conferences during labour (sarc). She tweets a hell of a lot so I imagine her Twitter page will go into overload during her confinement. I somehow think, though, that Peters is too bloody lazy to want to sit in the big chair after all.
        
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        March 27, 2018 9:48am
- KiWombat
  
  Mitchell is a trained negotiator – he has been trained to listen and absorb.
  
  To suggest he misunderstood this relatively amateurish bribe is ridiculous !
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:27am
- peterwn
  
  Mark Mitchell is not dumb. He together with Simon will be plotting their revenge and it will not be pretty. A Police complaint perhaps (it took place outside Parliament). An experienced Detective Sergeant would have Jenny Marcroft singing like a canary very quickly.
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:28am
  - alex Masterley
    
    Section 103 (corruption and bribery of an MP) of the Crimes Act is relevant as is section 237 (blackmail) to a lesser extent, but you would have to engage in semantic contortions to get a charge under that section.
    
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    March 27, 2018 11:20am
    - peterwn
      
      Yes, book her on a 103 and turn her over to a psychiatrist (remember Stan Freberg’s “St George and the Dragonet”). That should do fine – she would have to leave Parliament.
      
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      March 27, 2018 12:53pm
kowtow

That dress like a refugee day at the Canterbury school could have had all the kids coming to school with knives.

‘Woman fighting for life after Syrian asylum seeker children follow her home and stab her’

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/937049/germany-news-Burgwedel-stabbing-syrian-asylum-seeker-refugee-migrant

Thanks Angela.
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March 27, 2018 8:13am
- holysheet
  
  Dress like a refugee day came about because some school had a visit from Cindy. It appears a refugee ‘s dress style is the closest they could get to try and emulate Cindy ‘s fashion sense.
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:54am
Steve (North Shore)

Comrade says there are no Russian spies in NZ?
Of course she says that – she is one of them and does not want to kick herself out of NZ
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March 27, 2018 8:17am
- oldgolfer
  
  There are no Russian spies and all Australian cricketers are honest and believe in fair play.
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:24am
  - RalphT
    
    Where can I buy what you’re on. It sounds great.
    
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    March 27, 2018 8:56am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    It’s funny watching the NZ MSM getting in a lather about likely non existent “Russian Spies” in the latest chapter of the hate-Russia-a-thon.
    
    What about when actual spies are discovered here or those paying off our political parties?
    
    Nothing to see here folks – move right along. Only “conspiracy theorists” look deeply at facts ??
    
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2017071/Christchurch-earthquake-unmasked-team-Israeli-spies-New-Zealand.html
    
    https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/china-casts-long-cloud-over-new-zealand-poll/news-story/b1a02c5cab34474cd02d2f4d3c0d6da7
    
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    March 27, 2018 9:35am
- kowtow
  
  We’re obsessing about Russians when the danger here is the Chinese.
  
  https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/353084/foreign-states-attempt-to-access-sensitive-nz-information
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:25am
  - Dave Mann
    
    Of course the Chinese are trying to get into our systems. Its what states do to each other. Even Australia probably spies on us and we spy on them.
    
    The New Zealand Security Intelligence Service told Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and MPs in a select committee hearing that foreign agents also tried to interfere with expatriate communities in this country. They had tried to prevent them from exercising their human rights, such as the right to protest.
    
    Hahaha…. ‘expatriate communities’. Read FalungStupidGong and DalaiHalfwitLama. If the Chinese weren’t keeping tabs on these idiots, then they would be remiss in looking after their own internal and external interests.
    
    This is at the level of ball tampering. What we need to worry about is the possibility of a trade war and the probability that Russia has been financing one of our political parties in order to sow discord and chaos in our parliamentary system.
    
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    March 27, 2018 8:57am
    - kowtow
      
      ‘This is at the level of ball tampering’ , yeah right, you sound like you’re part of the United Front .
      
      “A major research paper into China’s soft-power campaign in New Zealand has detailed how dairy farms have been used for near-space balloon launches by a Chinese company developing “high-precision monitoring” of Earth from satellites.
      
      The study also details extensive links between China and former New Zealand politicians and their families, and also highlights significant political donations.”
      
      http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11924169
      
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      March 27, 2018 9:01am
      - Dave Mann
        
        Who are the United Front and is it a NZ organisation?
        
        Yes I’ll grant you that China is probably exercising influence or ‘soft power’ here, and it’s good to know about this. I had a few things to say on this blog about that Chinese spy fella (Yang I think) in the National Party too, so I’m with you on this.
        
        But seriously, would we want to be an American aircraft carrier in their coming war against China (one of our major trade partners), or maybe an outpost of the FSB? Obviously, our natural ally is Australia, but we seem to be doing our best to alienate them and, as we have deleted our armed forces and are in the process of deleting our economy, we had better sort out our priorities, don’t you think? 😀
        
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        March 27, 2018 9:29am
- DigNap15
  
  Well Jacinda has asked them all if they were spying and they all said no.
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:25am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Cindy can’t recognise a lie, even one from her own lips.
    
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    March 27, 2018 8:52am
    - RalphT
      
      I think the problem is that she rehearses her statements in front of the mirror where things come out back to front and she thinks that we will see the reflection she sees, and not the lie on her lips.
      
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      March 27, 2018 8:59am
    - KKKKatee
      
      Which is a very frequent occurrence from the PM. She lies like a bloody flat fish! Campaigned on transparency and all that jazz but has turned out to be rather good at telling porkies. And she thinks we don’t notice!
      
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      March 27, 2018 9:22am
    - Paulus
      
      Buchanan a considered professional expert says that there are he believes three Russian spies in the Embassy.
      
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      March 27, 2018 1:06pm
  - rangitoto
    
    Everyone one just says no or ignores her. It’s not fair. Mr Trump wouldn’t even take her letter asking for a tariff exemption seriously. Poor Cindy.
    
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    March 27, 2018 10:12am
- hullkiwi
  
  FFS Steve, I was at Rangitoto College in the 1970s, while there I learned Russian for 3 years.
  
  Now Cindy, here are some questions to answer:
  1. How did a school teacher from NZ not only afford, but also get the visas to travel to the USSR, not once but twice in the late 1960s/early 1970s ie right in the middle of the cold war. This gentleman travelled throughout the USSR. How, if he wasn’t a paid spy?
  2. He then in 1975 arranged for the Georgian State Dancing Troupe who were touring NZ at the time to come and do a command performance in our school hall (I know because I saw the performance). He then repeated this effort in the 1980s when the Bolshoi Ballet were touring NZ. How, if he wasn’t a plant for the Soviet Union?
  
  The bottom line, the Soviets had spies in NZ during the cold war as this and the Sutch affair showed, Cindy has got to take her blinkers off! Most embassies in NZ will contain spies acting as diplomats. So yes, there will be Russian spies in NZ!
  
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  March 27, 2018 11:23am
  - Steve (North Shore)
    
    Blinkers? LOL!
    
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    March 27, 2018 5:19pm
EAD_TWO

This is the beginning of Genocide – where are our Politicians speaking out on this?

http://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/world-economy/bury-them-alive-white-south-africans-fear-for-their-future-as-horrific-farm-attacks-escalate/news-story/3a63389a1b0066b6b0b77522c06d6476

LAST month, British woman Sue Howarth and her husband Robert Lynn were woken at 2am by three men breaking into a window of their remote farm in Dullstroom, a small town in the northeast of South Africa, about 240km from the nearest capital city.

The couple, who had lived in the area for 20 years, were tied up, stabbed, and tortured with a blowtorch for several hours. The masked men stuffed a plastic bag down Mrs Howarth’s throat, and attempted to strangle her husband with a bag around his neck.
The couple were bundled into their own truck, still in their pyjamas, and driven to a roadside where they were shot. Mrs Howarth, 64, a former pharmaceutical company executive, was shot twice in the head. Mr Lynn, 66, was shot in the neck….

In any other country, such a crime would be almost unthinkable. But in South Africa, these kinds of farm attacks are happening nearly every day. This year so far, there have been more than 70 attacks and around 25 murders in similar attacks on white farmers.

Earlier this month, for example, 64-year-old Nicci Simpson was tortured with a power drill during an attack involving three men at her home on a farm in the Vaal area, about two hours drive from Johannesburg
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March 27, 2018 8:24am
- burt
  
  Genter has been appointed to a committee to decide what help we should give to the old white men and a 20 year old political staffer has been sent there to put his hands down peoples pants at parties.
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:29am
  - rangitoto
    
    As long as they don’t put their hands down the pants of an Aussie cricketer. I hear they have small yellow things down there.
    
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    March 27, 2018 10:15am
- EAD_TWO
  
  Why would people downtick sharing this? This is the reality of life for White Farmers in South Africa at this very minute
  
  Are there people out there too brainwashed by the “equality” shibboleth to believe that this wouldn’t be the end game?
  
  The truth is nature doesn’t believe in “equality”. A world of “radical individualism” is only possible in homogenous white socities. Even the higher IQ societies of East Asia are very collective in nature. When it comes to low IQ savages, society will always revert to the rule of the jungle.
  
  No matter how much evidence one presented at the time – there were (and still are) people who thought this wouldn’t be the end game for the so called “rainbow nation”.
  
  Australian rice farmer Graeme Kruger, who emigrated from South Africa to New Zealand in 1997 before coming to Australia in 2012, said an increasing number of white farmers were getting out.
  
  “I would like to say, I certainly have never been and was never a supporter of the apartheid regime, and I certainly didn’t immigrate because I wanted to get away from South Africa,” said Kruger, now executive director of the Ricegrowers’ Association of Australia.
  
  “We supported and openly celebrated the changes. But equally what is happening now is not right
  
  Just because it “is not right”, doesn’t mean it is not all so predictable.
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:39am
  - burt
    
    People should just leave immediately. Sure they might leave with nothing but why would they stay. Take what they can carry and let the idiots crash their economy. The people who voted this shit into law will not feel the burn unless the farmers just take flight.
    
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    March 27, 2018 8:47am
    - Dave Mann
      
      Yes, but how and where would they go? Would they just walk a few hundred kilometres to, say, the Zimbabwe border and expect to find sanctuary there? Or maybe jump into the sea and swim to Australia?
      
      What are we in NZ doing to help these people….anything at all? Or are we afraid that the JAGs of this world might not approve?
      
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      March 27, 2018 9:06am
    - EAD_TWO
      
      The Blacks of SA will have to learn the harsh lesson that those from Zimbabwe learned and, scared from their experience, eventually welcomed the Whites back as heroes:
      
      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/22/white-farmer-gets-land-back-under-zimbabwes-new-leader/
      
      hite Zimbabwean farmer evicted by the government of Robert Mugabe has returned to a hero’s welcome as the first to get his land back under the new president, in a sign of reform on an issue that had hastened the country’s international isolation.
      
      With a military escort, Robert Smart made his way into Lesbury farm about 124 miles east of the capital, Harare, on Thursday to cheers and song by dozens of workers and community members
      
      The only successful model of a minority white population living amongst Blacks is that of Botswana. Over there – because of the huge demographic majority of one tribe – it means there is only ever one party in power and thus unlike most Africans, take a long term view of things.
      
      Despite being just 3% of the population, they let the Whites run all the farms, engineering firms etc. + most of the civil service. Unlike South Africa, the government there has a respectful tone towards whites for the wealth they provide.
      
      In turn, the Whites give Africans (comparatively) well paid jobs in (most importantly) well run enterprises.
      
      It may seem artificial and “a throwback to the days of empire”, but you know what – it works. Botswana is ranked in the top 100 countries in the world in terms of GDP per capita which is just incredible for a country with its demographic makeup.
      
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      March 27, 2018 9:18am
- dime
  
  identity politics always leads to wonderful things like this.
  
  luckily our govt doesnt engage in such things
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:59am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Wrong ethnicity, doesn’t matter to left. CoL refused to pass a motion condemning the land theft by RSA’s racist government. Again they are on the side of evil (just as they wree through the 20th C with support of communist regimes)
  
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  March 27, 2018 11:05am
- Komata
  
  And because President Trump’s piccadiloes many years ago are SOOOOOO much more ‘entertaining’, the MSM say absolutely NOTHING about any of this…
  
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  March 27, 2018 11:05am
mandk

Hoskings says: if you stay in the nurses union, you’re destined to be poorly paid:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12020707

Lefties will hate him all the more for saying so, but he is correct.

The same applies to teachers -they are paid about half of what they would be if they were a profession, rather than a trade.

Unions depress the earnings of their members.
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March 27, 2018 8:26am
- burt
  
  He’s absolutely correct. The same applies to teachers. They have apparently been underpaid for decades and they are haven’t been smart enough to join the dots on who has been in charge of negotiating their conditions and pay for decades.
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:31am
  - wreck1080
    
    Then why do non unionised nurses get paid less at resthomes?
    
    That is why so many foreign nurses work in resthomes. Because they’ll work for nothing.
    
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    March 27, 2018 9:02am
  - Harkman
    
    Burt I was thinking about this yesterday. I always thought that if I was to start a really good business and then sell for hundreds of millions if not billions. I would pay the best teachers to teach at the poorer state schools here in Chch. But the truth is there is no real metric I can use to measure their performance which is shocking for the year 2018. If you day trade, sell cars, run a marathon, play cricket or basketball there are metrics to measure performance but not high school teachers individually. This is just ridiculous. A purely union derived scam.
    
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    March 27, 2018 9:05am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Unions derive their political power from their number of members, not how well they are paid. Therefore they are more interested in campaigning for lower workloads than higher wages, so you need more staff to do the work. In fact lower wages suit them because it makes it easier to hire more union members with a limited salary budget.
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:44am
  - waikatogirl
    
    And if you are happy with your income level you are less likely to feel the need to belong to a union.
    
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    March 27, 2018 8:58am
- wreck1080
  
  He is far from correct.
  
  If the union were to go overnight, nurses would be on minimum wage in a very short time.
  
  Filipino and nurses from low wage economies will work for minimum wage. Even our minimum wage is a fortune compared to their home countries.
  
  They already work for minimum wage (or less) at privately owned facilities.
  
  e.g, when my partner worked at a resthome , she was given a 0 hour contract with no holidays, no sick leave, no overtime rates. After adjusting for these factors, she was effectively on minimum wage.
  
  How long would it take government funded hospitals to adopt these contracts? DHB’s ruthlessly search for cost cutting measures.
  
  Hospitals will complain that they cannot find skilled nurses and that they need to import them. Nursing graduates will never get jobs. They’ll be replaced by skilled foreign nurses, who gain experience in their home countries.
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:00am
  - burt
    
    Simple question:
    
    How long do you consider nurses have been underpaid and how long have they been highly unionised?
    
    Same question for teachers.
    
    hint: Charter school teachers do not complain about being underpaid and neither do nurses in private practice.
    
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    March 27, 2018 9:12am
    - wreck1080
      
      Did you not just read what I said? My partner was working as a nurse for a private company and she was on minimum wage! You take it or leave it, otherwise a foreign nurse will take it.
      
      My partner was returning to nursing after a few years off raising our children. Hospitals would not hire her as no recent experience. There were up to 150 applicants for each hospital nursing job.
      
      I don’t know how long nurses have been underpaid.
      
      If you do know of anyone wanting to become a nurse, tell them to run for the hills. It is the worst degree anyone could take, they will get rubbish wages, the working conditions are worse than ever.
      
      And, they will get worse as hospitals are always searching for more efficiencies (ie, more patients per nurse).
      
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      March 27, 2018 9:18am
      - Paulus
        
        I head one Midwife last week say that she wanted a basic of $107,000.
        Teachers and Nurses start at around $59,000 I understand.
        Please may we have some facts and not bullshit.
        
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        March 27, 2018 1:10pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Who is Hoskings?
  It’s HOSKING, idiot.
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:27am
  - MCos
    
    Who gives a shit?
    
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    March 27, 2018 9:40am
cmm

Listing to CommieRadio yesterday and he roading/infrastructure people say another $7bn needs to be spent in Auckland in the next 10 years.

$700m a year? Are they taking the piss? That’s about half the Auckland rates take.

That’s approx $700 per person per year. Where is the average household of 2.7 people going to find an extra $2k per year?

I suspect the single-mum baby factory won’t stump up $4-5k a year but will pay nothing, meaning the average household will have to find $4k a year instead.

Perhaps we really have to ask if people are just expecting too much in the way of services. If Auckland prices itself out of the market, people will go elsewhere and that would surely be a good thing over all.
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March 27, 2018 8:27am
- burt
  
  How can Auckland price itself out of the market when it’s a basic human right to choose which city you live in and have other peoples money support you there if you can’t afford it ?
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:43am
  - cmm
    
    Sorry. I was thinking like a Rich Prick. I hang my head in shame. Being a white male in my fifties I should move aside.
    
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    March 27, 2018 8:48am
    - burt
      
      You and me both brother, we have far to much experience and wisdom in how things actually work to just nod and agree with the SJW’s so we need to stand aside.
      
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      March 27, 2018 9:14am
      - sooty
        
        How would they spend 700mil a year?
        Cycle lanes down every street?
        
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        March 27, 2018 11:23am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Sooty Auckland has 860km of unsealed roads, it wants a second harbour crossing, it wants to build an East West link from Onehunga to East Tamaki, there is Mill Road in the south (another parallel road to the Southern Motorway & Gt South Road), & last but not least Penlink and motorway to Wellsford.
        
        That should soak up the money.
        
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        March 27, 2018 4:26pm
- waikatogirl
  
  Not for the rest of us cmm. The ‘golden triangle’ is far too crowded as it is. Anyone leaving Auckland needs to move further south, way past the Mighty Waikato. Please! ?
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:01am
  - wreck1080
    
    Frankly , I don’t know why anyone chooses to live in Hamilton .
    
    No one ‘goes’ to hamilton, it is a place you just want to drive through as quickly as possible to get somewhere good. Thank god for the new roads that will eventually bypass hamilton completely.
    
    I suppose they offer jobs which people might not get elsewhere.
    
    Hamilton is truly the second worst city in the country (Palmerston north gets the worst).
    
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    March 27, 2018 9:15am
    - waikatogirl
      
      There are some great parts in Hamilton but sadly Hamilton is just a large service town these days. The new roading will help people pass through and leave my hometown, as I have too!
      
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      March 27, 2018 9:37am
      - cmm
        
        “There are some great parts in Hamilton”
        
        My favourite is the airport departure lounge.
        
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        March 27, 2018 10:26am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Sorry, WG, but cmm has stated a truism that mossy JAFAs believe. Hence the turn off on to SH2 & south via Matamata or right at Ngaruawahia to Otorohanga.
        
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        March 27, 2018 4:43pm
    - Poppa
      
      The growth in Hamilton at present is quite staggering actually.
      
      Once the inland port is finished it will grow plenty more.
      
      The main problem in Hamilton is that the CBD was built on the wrong side of the river. If it was on the eastern side it would have provided much more opportunity for business to take advantage of the river
      
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      March 27, 2018 9:55am
      - wreck1080
        
        I agree, the waikato economy is on fire . They are lucky to have the uni… That fosters the ideas economy.
        
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        March 27, 2018 10:38am
    - MCos
      
      Hamilton should have changed its name while it had the chance. That way some folks might’ve been fooled into thinking they weren’t going there.
      Same with Palmerston North. Sounds like a poor relation of Palmerston. Why not give it an exciting new name like Ross Taylor Village.
      
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      March 27, 2018 10:15am
- Harkman
  
  I heard someone in Labour referring to wasting money as “investing in” when I heard that I knew we were stuffed.
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:08am
- wreck1080
  
  You can blame osh, engineers , and the various consultants.
  
  Auckland is not a rich city. GDP per capita is actually not great compared with so many other western cities.
  
  So, why must we build gold plated, best in the world infrastructure?
  
  Or why can’t we import foreign workers to build infrastructure such as Saudi/Qatar/Dubai?
  
  Tunnel costs for example. Icelands just finished constructing a 7.9km tunnel through a mountain for $137 million USD. If NZ built that same tunnel, we’d be looking at billions!
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:10am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    To Fix Auckland:
    1. Build a motorway + services tunnels to provide fast arterial routes. This can no longer be done economically overground.
    2. Fill in all the small tidal estuaries, perhaps including Waitemata to west of bridge. Value of reclaimed land would make this cost neutral and would eliminate a lot of traffic choke points.
    3. Construct (in shipyards) submersible motorway tunnels to run length of Auckland Coastlines in dredged trenches.
    4. Move Port to backside of Chamberlain Island off Beachlands, connected by submersed tunnel, paid for by sale of port land.
    
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    March 27, 2018 11:33am
RF

It’s going to be interesting watching how Peters is going to wriggle out of the Marcroft lies.

As Mike Hosking said this morning there is a paper trail.

Interesting that I could not find anything on Stuff about this and several posts I made there about this were not published. Just supports my suspicions about “Stuffed.”
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March 27, 2018 8:28am
- srylands
  
  I tried commenting on a few stuff articles. None were ever published.
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:35am
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    They will blacklist you. Maybe not for centre right views but they will for anything that questions the quality of journalism on their site. No solution except to create a new user account and try again.
    
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    March 27, 2018 8:46am
    - srylands
      
      I’m not that interested.
      
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      March 27, 2018 8:51am
  - wreck1080
    
    Ha ha yep, stuff heavily censor comments.
    
    I don’t know why reddit didn’t catch on more here.
    
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    March 27, 2018 9:44am
  - stephieboy
    
    srylands, judging by your posts here can you blame them ?
    
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    March 27, 2018 10:47am
    - Don the Kiwi
      
      Pot……Kettle.
      
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      March 27, 2018 11:09am
  - RF
    
    I see comments on Stuff concerning Hirschfeld and Curran have been stopped.
    
    Interesting that Weka over on the Standard comments that both Hirschfeld & Curran have both been caught telling lies.
    
    Strong words from a lefty.
    
    Popcorn time….
    
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    March 27, 2018 11:16am
- cmm
  
  Oh no! She’s likely one of the most loyal NZFers.
  
  The others are realising the ship is sinking and are trying to find an alternate waka, but Marcroft is one of the loyal ones.
  
  Winnie has a problem though. How can he hold her feet to the fire when he has been caught out with far worse?
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:36am
- KiWombat
  
  By Monday afternoon NZ1st leader Winston Peters had forced Marcroft to apologise to Mitchell, and modify her story to no longer implicate the Minister to which she had alluded on Saturday.
  
  Perhaps it is worth mentioning that Mark Mitchell is a trained negotiator, so there is no chance that he “misunderstood” the conversation, as now alleged by NZ1st – and the text messages he has saved will confirm complicity !
  
  Another nail in your coffin WeeWinnie.
  
  The list is growing longer Cindy – time for the axe to fall !
  
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  March 27, 2018 10:00am
  - Justitia
    
    This is potentially explosive – the full details must be made public. If this kind of alleged behaviour is ignored we are well on our way to shithole status.
    
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    March 27, 2018 10:19am
  - Paulus
    
    Now known as Calamity Cindy.
    
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    March 27, 2018 1:13pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Wonder KiWombat if there is a lot more to this than we have seen so far? The line of questions Mitchel was putting forward was probing at something he suspected or even knew Skid Mark had been up to. Skid was in witless protection so the old drunk came armed with questions rather than answers to cover for Skid Mark. Even they were shown to be about falsities or wild things even the old drunk was confused by.
    
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    March 28, 2018 3:47am
- waikatogirl
  
  It was more like Peters slithered out from under the questions, with the help of the speaker.
  
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  March 27, 2018 3:20pm
DigNap15

Yes we all, and Winston need to come out and condem this!
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March 27, 2018 8:28am
VicParking

The Reserve Bank now has to fall in line with the Politburo and show no disrespect.
Robbo on Red Radio also said that they had received advice that to have employment as part of the banks issues it must take into account when settling the interest rate has worked well in countries that used it. Other than the USA, were it has been a failure, the only countries that use it are failed Marxist states.
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March 27, 2018 8:34am
- burt
  
  Welcome to New Venezealand.
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:41am
  - stephieboy
    
    burt , select an oversized and overweight tin foil hat this morning ?
    
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    March 27, 2018 10:45am
    - VicParking
      
      Morning Stephie, ??
      
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      March 27, 2018 11:59am
- Piniwi
  
  Fishy VP as it appears the COL are trying to deflect responsibility for setting a solid platform and economy to generate jobs. Sure we know Labour are renowned for making jobs in the public sector. Now with so many more with TWG, committees and inquiries but they are non-productive as well as high ticket priced folly. Chances are it will turn out like the Labour designed horse that ended up with two humps that so confused the natives they called it a kamera.
  
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  March 28, 2018 4:02am
Chuck Bird

I heard on Larry Williams last night talk about Tamati Coffey and that young Green bimbo joining the anti-gun protest in the US and highlighting it. I hope Cindy gets asked if the will be helpful with our steel and aluminum exports to the US.
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March 27, 2018 8:47am
- RF
  
  Presuming that’s business class flights to the US on us.
  
  F……n unbelievable.
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:00am
- Gravelroad
  
  Coffey is nothing more than an attention seeking “celebrity” living the high life on the taxpayer.
  Quick, let’s appoint him to a company board of directors.
  Unfortunately, he would soon find out just how dull it can be- hours and hours of reading board papers and budgets, going to meetings and listening to CEO’s always wanting something they can’t have.
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:07am
- Harkman
  
  Labour and Cindy want the aluminum smelter closed. They think that the diverted power will lower power bills, make everyone happy keep them in power for longer. But that will require enormous spending to divert it to the rest of the country. In the mean time the country losses a $1b or so in exports/GDP, which will lower the NZD and push up wholesale interests rates, thus mortgage rates. It is Russian Roulette.
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:16am
  - KevOB
    
    Children in government?
    
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    March 27, 2018 9:45am
- Chuck Bird
  
  Chlöe Swarbrick@_chloeswarbrick
  
  An incredible privilege to be present and tautoko the #MarchForOurLives in Washington DC at the very end of our #ACYPL cross-party delegation. So much hope, but even more organising, mobilisation, and mahi for positive and inclusive change.
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:17am
  - Harkman
    
    I bet we paid for this trip. Disgraceful.
    
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    March 27, 2018 9:22am
  - geoff3012
    
    Can you please translate that for me?
    
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    March 27, 2018 11:05am
    - Piniwi
      
      @geoff3012 like most of their driven it is bullshit as the native gibberish is forever under construction, totally indecipherable and seemed to pass away with the last full blooded users.
      
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      March 28, 2018 4:22am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    2000L jet fuel for a return trip business class to LA, that’s some very environmentally unfriendly virtue signalling by Parliaments youngest hypocrite.
    
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    March 27, 2018 11:39am
    - Piniwi
      
      But UrbanNeocolonialist what a great consolation prize for getting her first attempt at putting forward a bill trashed. These two must have been the first on the witless protection program.
      
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      March 28, 2018 4:26am
  - KevOB
    
    NZ Government representatives in a street march in Washington? What does our diplomatic staff say about that?
    
    Swarbrick is a foreigner in the USA–possible subject to arrest.
    
    The quality of Government is not strained it’s marinated in incompetent childlessness.
    
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    March 27, 2018 5:08pm
    - Piniwi
      
      Right KevOB but wait until they get back and they are busting to tell us all about it as they rush to find somebody to “report” to.
      
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      March 28, 2018 4:31am
  - Piniwi
    
    Right Gravelroad got it. You mean appointing Coffey to a DHB then?
    
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    March 28, 2018 4:07am
  - Piniwi
    
    @Chuck Bird maybe Coffey got his latest edition (69th) of the native gibberish dictionary and they have been waiting to try some new words. She really id such a dim whited snowflake.
    
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    March 28, 2018 4:16am
- Longknives
  
  I will re-post what I wrote about Tamati Coffey’s perk trip last night-
  
  This Government continues to astound me!
  
  I just saw a link on Facebook- It’s Chloe Swarbrick and Tamati Coffee at one of the ‘Anti- Gun’ protests in the States.
  Jesus this mob just love spending taxpayer $$ on travel don’t they??
  It gets better- Tamati Coffee has his hat on backward and looks like a teenage delinquent- While Chloe is speaking he pulls some ‘Gangsta’ hand signs in the background.
  How very professional for NZ MPs supposedly representing us.
  I stopped watching when Tamati started ranting about how the Republicans have been “Paid off by the NRA”.. (But you get the drift about how biased and awful it was)
  Wasn’t this character involved in the Labour Sex-Camp Scandal? You might think he would have the brains to pull his head in…No??
  
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  March 27, 2018 10:35am
  - Gravelroad
    
    With Coffey being a celebrity and all, I am thinking of offering him a starring role in my next blockbuster NZ movie.
    It will involve a lot of fighting and car chases, and, of course, his character in the film will be required to shoot at people with guns ……….
    
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    March 27, 2018 1:04pm
- Komata
  
  If she’s asked; usual answer ‘We’ll form a committee…’
  
  (Works every time 🙂 )
  
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  March 27, 2018 11:09am
Swifty

Anyone getting excited at the thought of the Parker/Joshua fight?

How do you think it’ll go?
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March 27, 2018 8:54am
- kowtow
  
  Don’t care , but if that’s what you’re into , then knock yourself out .
  
  Ba dum tish.
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:03am
- waikatogirl
  
  Joseph Parker had secret surgery last November on his elbows to remove bone chips. Bone chips would have been extremely painful and hindered his boxing significantly. His reach has also improved since the surgery. Go Joe!
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:12am
  - Longknives
    
    Waikatogirl- Re Joseph Parker’s ‘Injury’,
    Take anything Kevin Barry says with a grain of salt…
    He used to fabricate injuries for Tua all the time (Gamesmanship or Excuses or both)
    
    *Remember he was almost laughed out of the post fight press conference when he came up with an injury as the reason Tua got thrashed by Lennox Lewis..
    
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    March 27, 2018 10:30am
    - RF
      
      Barry and his father were birds of a feather and basically not very nice people.
      
      Unfortunately boxing tends to attract lowlifes.
      
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      March 27, 2018 11:10am
      - Longknives
        
        “Unfortunately boxing tends to attract lowlifes.”
        
        Can’t argue that RF! My Grandad ,Father and Uncles were all Boxers.. (I gave it up when I was young, my face was too pretty to get smashed up)
        
        I always feel a bit sorry for David Tua- He achieved some amazing things- went to America, worked his arse off and beat some genuine top fighters on his way to his Title shot against the great Lennox Lewis.
        Kind of the exact opposite to Joseph Parker..who has been hidden away in NZ fighting absolute bums..
        But Barry now rubbishes his former Money machine Tua while proclaiming Parker the ‘Greatest since Ali’ etc etc
        Beware anything Kevin Barry says-He is a Boxing shyster..
        
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        March 27, 2018 11:38am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Then they must have shown someone else’s x-rays, and the surgeon must have been speaking about someone else’s surgery? ?
      
      I agree on your description of Barry.
      
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      March 27, 2018 3:27pm
cmm

I’m a fat bastard (but less so every week).

I notice the BMI calculator is racist. Pasifika people are given about 5% more BMI allowance before they are called fat.

Does anyone know if there’s a solid medical reason for this or is this just cultural (ie. don’t make the brown people feel bad).
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March 27, 2018 8:55am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yep,
  
  There has been selection over the centuries for different body types in different populations.
  
  Asians on the whole are smaller-framed than Europeans.
  Pacific Islanders carry more muscle than Europeans with the same BMI. (PIs have lower levels of body fat for same BMI)
  
  There is increased risk associated with obesity at lower BMIs with Asians than with Europeans and PIs.
  http://www.wpro.who.int/nutrition/documents/docs/Redefiningobesity.pdf
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:34am
- Longknives
  
  BMI is a bit of a joke mate.
  If it doesn’t take body shape and muscle into account- Not everyone is (or wants to be) a skinny 55kg Jockey!
  
  I first hit ‘Obese’ on the BMI in my mid 20s- I was hardcore into the Gym, the fittest I had ever been and even had Abs (Sadly now long gone..)
  I remember querying this BMI thing with one of the Trainers at the Gym- He pointed to a poster of Evander Holyfield (then the Heavyweight Champ) on the wall “Don’t worry mate you are in good company- He is Obese as well!”
  
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  March 27, 2018 10:25am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    BMI is simplified to make calculation easy for the minimally numerate. Should really have an exponent of 2.3ish, as makes all tall people obese, and short fatties ‘thin’
    
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    March 27, 2018 11:45am
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    Michael Jordan, in his playing days flying over people’s heads to dunk the ball, was merely overweight on the BMI scale. Imagine what he could have done if he stayed in shape.
    
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    March 27, 2018 11:53am
  - cmm
    
    The other stupid thing about BMI is that it is based on the square of your height. If you assume ratios stay the same, then it should rather be based on the cube of your height.
    
    The taller you are, the more you are “cheated”.
    
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    March 27, 2018 1:20pm
    - Nigel Kearney
      
      Not really because the ability of muscles to support weight does not increase with the length of the muscle and depends only on the cross-sectional area. So if all your proportions were exactly doubled, you would have eight times the mass but only four times the strength, therefore your power to weight ratio would be halved.
      
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      March 27, 2018 3:14pm
LisaGinNZ

FYI, recent win for Kim Dotcom:

“Kim Dotcom Wins Human Rights Tribunal Case Over Kiwi Government Withholding Info
from the another-mistake-by-nz dept

It’s really quite incredible how, at nearly every turn, the New Zealand government has managed to mess up the legal case against Kim Dotcom. The raid on his house was later declared to be illegal, using invalid warrants. Evidence that was seized from his home and illegally turned over to the FBI was ordered to be returned. Oh, and then there was the whole bit about conducting illegal surveillance on Dotcom, deleting evidence of that illegal spying, and ordering officials to “bury” information about that illegal surveillance to avoid embarrassing the Kiwi government.

And now we have the latest: A Human Rights Tribunal in New Zealand has declared that the New Zealand government violated Dotcom’s rights in withholding information from him. Specifically, in July of 2015, Dotcom had made an information request (in New Zealand it’s an “information privacy request” which appears to be a quasi-privacy/data protection-type right in New Zealand) to various officials in the government requesting whatever personal information they held on him. The recipients of the demands sent them to the Attorney General, who refused to comply with the demands, claiming they were “vexatious and included information that was trivial.”

from: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180326/01550939496/kim-dotcom-wins-human-rights-tribunal-case-over-kiwi-government-withholding-info.shtml
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March 27, 2018 9:01am
- peterwn
  
  No one (except the Feds) seems to care about the small time Kiwi software developer who was driven to desperation playing ‘whack a mole’ with Megaupload. As soon as he had his program ‘taken down’ from Megaupload it kept reappearing (it was the same image but new links). It seems there was some ‘quality’ with kiddie porn that if it was taken down by Megaupload it stayed down, but not so with movies, software etc. The Feds case to my mind is utterly convincing.
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:19am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Isn’t this hilarious.
  
  Clearly, the lunatics are taking over the asylum in the pursuit of all things PC.
  
  We’re gonna be stuck with this ball of blubber forever aren’t we?
  
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  March 27, 2018 11:42am
RRM

Jacinda doesn’t know about her own party’s youth camps… she doesn’t know about NZ First’s corrupt manipulation of regional development fund…

…but somehow she knows there aren’t any Russian secret agents operating here! Righto…
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March 27, 2018 9:05am
- Harkman
  
  The Airhead Oracle.
  
  Wasn’t she at one of those Kim Dotcom, John Campbell events back in 2014 moaning about the government spying on us? Oh the hypocrisy.
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:21am
Maggy Wassilieff

Nutty school teachers…

why punish good kids by locking them out of the dunnies?

Why not find out who is doing the vandalism and teach the little blighters to take better care of public property?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/102587815/parent-furious-pupils-have-to-find-teacher-to-use-school-toilets
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March 27, 2018 9:25am
- kowtow
  
  These people suit themselves .
  
  Collective punishment is contrary to the principles of human rights.
  
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  March 27, 2018 10:42am
RF

Soper is in love with the commie chick. Waxing on how wonderful she is making scones for some singer who is doing the rounds.

How can he be an objective political reporter if he gets his rocks off every time the chick does a publicity stunt.
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March 27, 2018 9:37am
- Gravelroad
  
  Perhaps Soper is feeling the pressure of being a stale, old (presumably) white man.
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:44am
- Manolo
  
  The hack Soper should’ve been pensioned off a few years ago. He is well past his use-by date.
  
  I turn NewstalkZB off every time he comes on.
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:47am
  - stephieboy
    
    Manolo, and allow the chronically frequent commercials rattle inside your head ?
    
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    March 27, 2018 10:41am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Breaking News. Barely Sober was on ZB at about 12.10 getting stuck into Comrade Stardust over her stance (or lack of) regarding Russian diplomats.
    Has he really changed his stripes or is it too much to wish for?
    
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    March 27, 2018 1:09pm
    - Piniwi
      
      Well Captain it might been an early lunch of dodgy curry after leaving without breakfast and even struggling to get his way with words when HDPA is asleep.
      
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      March 28, 2018 4:42am
Hugh Pavletich

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AUSTRALIA … FALLING HOUSE PRICES

FINANCE SECTOR ANALYST MARTIN NORTH … LOWERING MORTGAGE LENDING MULTIPLES …

Were you aware Banks in Australia had quietly generally dropped their lending multiples by 20% this past 12 months … according to Martin North (note 7.40 min in on this vid) ?

Has the same thing happened in New Zealand ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmZ6pJ-5q-I

Google search ‘Australia Banking Royal Commission’ …

https://www.google.co.nz/search?source=hp&ei=F6S4WvTCPMyW8QXU6bLICQ&q=australia+banking+royal+commission&oq=australia+banking+royal+commission&gs_l=psy-ab.13..0l2.4666.19517.0.21747.36.13.0.22.22.0.276.2815.2-12.13.0….0…1c.1.64.psy-ab..1.34.3237.0..0i131k1j0i3k1j0i22i30k1.196.YsbO6OZWmZI
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March 27, 2018 9:38am
- Dave Mann
  
  Damn. I thought I was the first downticker…. but when I pressed the empty red button it came up as ‘5’.
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:49am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
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    Aussie bank credit crunch to trigger mortgage repricing – MacroBusiness Australia
    
    https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/03/aussie-bank-credit-crunch-trigger-mortgage-repricing/
    
    More on looming out-of-cycle rate hikes today from Deutsche: … read more via hyperlink above …
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    AUSTRALIAN BANKING ROYAL COMMISSION: WHAT IS THE FALLOUT ?
    
    Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/03/links-26-march-2018/#comment-3075768 … and …
    
    … POLITICALLY CORRUPTED HOUSING MARKETS ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE …
    
    Banking royal commission could spark credit crunch that drags down wider economy: analysts – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
    
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-24/banking-royal-commission-cause-a-credit-crunch-and-hit-economy/9579654
    
    … Note in particular Commissioner (former High Court Judge) Kenneth Haynes in the ABC video above …
    
    It has been going just two weeks but the royal commission into the banks has had a vastly more material impact than most observers expected.
    
    Banks have been absolutely crunched as evidence of all manner of dodginess and outright fraud mounted up.
    
    The Big Four have lost around 4 per cent of their value since Commissioner Ken Hayne and his redoubtable counsel assisting, Rowena Orr, started turning the screws earlier this month. … VIEW & READ more via hyperlinks above …
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    March 27, 2018 10:08am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
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      NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENTS KIWIBUILD FIASCO … BLUNTLY UNBANKABLE …
      
      Q+A: Housing Minister Phil Twyford – YouTube
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpxPTVqAHBk
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      We planned those KiwiBuild homes – National … Newshub … (NATIONAL SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER … but that’s another story refer GONE GONE GOING section http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org ) …
      
      http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/03/we-planned-those-kiwibuild-homes-national.html
      
      National was going to build 3000 homes in Auckland’s Mt Albert before it lost the election, but didn’t reveal the plans because it would have been seen as pork barrelling, Simon Bridges said on Monday. … read more via hyperlink above …
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      EARLIER REPORTS … NOWHERE NEAR ‘AFFORDABLE’ …
      
      Doubts over KiwiBuild’s affordability: MBIE … Newshub
      
      http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/02/doubts-over-kiwibuild-s-affordability.html
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      … ECONOMIST RODNEY DICKENS EXPLAINS WHY AFFORDABLE DENSE DEVELOPMENT IS HOPELESS WHILE AUCKLAND FRINGES REMAIN STRANGLED …
      
      Rodney Dickens says section prices are the key to solving the housing affordability problem, not higher density around transport hubs. He warns against force-feeding in areas that won’t deliver the intended outcome
      
      https://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/92556/rodney-dickens-says-section-prices-are-key-solving-housing-affordability-problem-not
      
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      March 27, 2018 10:36am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Just ignore him folks.
        
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        March 27, 2018 10:53am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Captain … Clearly you support Kiwibuild.
        
        Can you tell us why ?
        
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        March 27, 2018 10:57am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        The Government’s plans to build 3000-4000 affordable homes in Mt Albert will be a litmus test for both its KiwiBuild scheme and Auckland Council’s Unitary Plan | interest.co.nz
        
        https://www.interest.co.nz/property/92836/governments-plans-build-3000-4000-affordable-homes-mt-albert-will-be-litmus-test-both
        
        By Greg Ninness
        
        The Government’s plans to build up to 4000 homes in the Auckland suburb of Mt Albert will not just test its KiwiBuild policy, it will also be a major test for Auckland Council’s Unitary Plan with its emphasis on densification.
        
        Certainly, the plan announced on Sunday to build 3000-4000 homes on land that is currently part of the Unitec campus at Mt Albert marks a major turning point in the Government’s KiwiBuild policy, which aims to build an average of 10,000 affordable homes a year over the next 10 years, with half of them in Auckland.
        
        Up until now KiwiBuild has been all posture and policy. … read more via hyperlink above …
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        … INTEREST CO NZ REPORT FROM DECEMBER …
        
        Speech from the throne pledges that Auckland’s urban limit will be removed and density controls will be freed up in this term of Government | interest.co.nz
        
        https://www.interest.co.nz/property/90780/speech-throne-pledges-aucklands-urban-limit-will-be-removed-and-density-controls-will
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        Housing – New Zealand Labour Party
        
        http://www.labour.org.nz/housing
        
        … extract …
        
        Remove barriers that are stopping Auckland growing up and out
        
        Labour will remove the Auckland urban growth boundary and free up density controls. This will give Auckland more options to grow, as well as stopping landbankers profiteering and holding up development. New developments, both in Auckland and the rest of New Zealand, will be funded through innovative infrastructure bonds.
        
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        March 27, 2018 1:20pm
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      STOP DREAMING … WELL PAST TIME TO HONESTLY RESEARCH AND REPORT AFFORDABLE / NEAR AFFORDABLE NORTH AMERICAN HOUSING MARKETS
      
      Many factors push up cost of building new, construction industry says | Susan Edmunds | Stuff.co.nz
      
      https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/102501413/many-factors-push-up-cost-of-building-new-construction-industry-says
      
      Building a new house is an expensive business – and builders warn it’s becoming dearer all the time.
      
      Data from CoreLogic shows the cost of building a standard home in New Zealand was 6.9 per cent higher in December last year than at the end of 2016, the fastest rate of growth in five years.
      
      Over that same period, the number of people wanting to build increased, too: September 2017 had the highest monthly number of dwelling consents since 2001.
      
      What’s adding to the cost of a new home – and how can we make them more affordable?
      
      The most obvious contributor is land. … read more via hyperlink above …
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      I made clear within the Introduction Section of this year’s Survey, that following 13+ years of discussing these issues (as repeated by the Edmunds / Fairfax Stuff article above) New Zealand is now in the ‘implementation phase’ …
      
      2018 14th Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey
      
      http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf
      
      … A crystal clear and simple structural definition of an affordable housing market … via http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org …
      
      DEFINITION OF AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING MARKET
      
      For metropolitan areas to rate as ‘affordable’ and ensure that housing bubbles are not triggered, housing prices should not exceed three times gross annual household earnings. To allow this to occur, new starter housing of an acceptable quality to the purchasers, with associated commercial and industrial development, must be allowed to be provided on the urban fringes at 2.5 times the gross annual median household income of that urban market (refer Demographia Survey Schedules for guidance).
      
      The critically important Development Ratios for this new fringe starter housing, should be 17 – 23% serviced lot / section cost – to balance the actual housing construction.
      
      Ideally through a normal building cycle, the Median Multiple should move from a Floor Multiple of 2.3, through a Swing Multiple of 2.5 to a Ceiling Multiple of 2.7 – to ensure maximum stability and optimal medium and long term performance of the residential construction sector.
      .
      .
      Google search ‘New Homes ………..’ (city / metro of your choice North America) … for example … ‘New Homes Atlanta’ … ‘New Homes Dallas Fort Worth’ … “New Homes Houston’ … here is an example from Pulte Homes, Phoenix Arizona …
      
      Pulte Homes Suburban Development Phoenix Arizona
      
      https://www.pulte.com/homes/arizona/phoenix/florence/parkside-at-anthem-at-merrill-ranch-7739#CommunityDetailsView
      
      … PUT BRAINS IN TO GEAR … LET THE NUMBERS DO THE TALKING ! …
      
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      March 27, 2018 11:49am
      - Swifty
        
        Oh, I rubbed it and look all the Brasso has come out!
        
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        March 27, 2018 1:04pm
      - stigie
        
        Oh fuck hugh !
        
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        March 27, 2018 1:10pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        From March 2016 … Catherine Harris of Fairfax NZ reports …
        
        The missing piece of the Auckland housing puzzle | Catherine Harris | Stuff.co.nz
        
        https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/77529177/The-missing-piece-of-the-Auckland-housing-puzzle
        
        In Houston, Texas, there’s no such thing as a housing shortage.
        
        The state’s biggest, blue-collar dominated city rolls out as much as is needed, and land is cheap. Real cheap.
        
        A decent house that might cost more than a million in Auckland will set you back US$200,000 to $300,000 in Houston. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        March 27, 2018 5:08pm
      - Swifty
        
        Don’t tell Sir or he’ll get jolly batey!
        
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        March 27, 2018 5:42pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        ANZ NZ Mortgage Calculator (Mortgage Debt to Income Estimate) … New Zealand & Australia
        
        Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/03/survey-interest-reset-crashes-specufestor-spirits/#comment-3077070 … and …
        
        ANZ NZ Mortgage Calculator … New Zealand & Australia (the Australian bankers appear to have become very shy)
        
        https://tools.anz.co.nz/home-loans/borrowing-calculator/
        
        Joint Income … $NZ 100,000 pa
        
        Borrowing capacity … $NZ 573,000 (5.73 times annual household incomes
        
        20% deposit … $NZ 144,000
        Term 30 years
        Initial Interest Rate … 5.79%
        Monthly payments … $NZ 3,358 ( annual $NZ 40,296 pa … 40.3 times gross annual household income)
        
        … WHILE ANZ IN AUSTRALIA APPEARS TO BE CURRENTLY ‘REVIEWING’ MORTGAGE CAPACITY … Website calculator not working …
        
        https://www.anz.com.au/personal/home-loans/calculators-tools/much-borrow/
        
        WONDER WHY ?
        .
        .
        Were you aware Banks in Australia had quietly generally dropped their lending multiples by 20% this past 12 months … according to Martin North (note 8 min in on this vid) ?
        
        Has the same thing happened in New Zealand ?
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmZ6pJ-5q-I
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        .
        In normal housing markets housing should be at or below 3.0 times annual household incomes … requiring a sensible mortgage load of about 2.5 times … refer … Demographia Survey http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf
        
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        March 27, 2018 7:40pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Hosking on Labour’s KiwiSlum plans … Whaleoil
        
        https://www.whaleoil.co.nz/2018/03/hosking-on-labours-kiwislum-plans/
        
        Let’s have a look at what the government is delivering as part of its KiwiBuild programme.
        
        Nine hectares, 4000 houses. And they’re affordable, or what passes for affordable, or what someone decides is affordable.
        
        Do remember the last time we talked about this, the number crunchers came up with the cold hard facts that calling something affordable and it actually being so in the real world are two different things. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        March 27, 2018 7:53pm
- Luke Piewalker
  
  Seriously dude?
  
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  March 27, 2018 12:59pm
Manolo

Crazy lelels of volatility:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/dow-posts-biggest-point-gain-since-2008

The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 669.40 points, or 2.84%, to 24,202.60 at the close. The Nasdaq Composite rose 227.88, or 3.26%, to 7,220.54, while the S&P 500 Index gained 70.29, or 2.72%, to 2,658.55.
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March 27, 2018 9:55am
- stephieboy
  
  Manolo, your patience must be wearing very thin .
  
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  March 27, 2018 10:39am
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    So must your brain – tiny as it is.
    
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    March 27, 2018 11:17am
Chuck Bird

I wonder if this one will get life without parole. I am hopeful as Justice Katz is a good judge.

Guilty plea to Hamilton murder

He was remanded in custody until his sentencing date of May 18 by Justice Sarah Katz.

Davis is on his third strike for violence convictions, meaning he faces the prospect of life imprisonment without parole.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/102616947/guilty-plea-to-hamilton-murder
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March 27, 2018 10:02am
- MCos
  
  America seems to sentence people to life without parole on a regular basis. Good one them, you might think, the bastard deserved it for what he did.
  I’ve read that problems arise sixty years later when these people are old and feeble and are in constant need of expensive medical attention.
  
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  March 27, 2018 10:30am
  - kowtow
    
    Best shoot them early on after the conviction. No prisoner , no problem.
    
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    March 27, 2018 10:37am
  - Chuck Bird
    
    If they have medical needs they can get them dealt with often in prison. If they have a medical problem that means they are no possible threat then they should be treated wherever is the cheapest. Prisoners can nurse other prisoners for little pay. There is a nursing shortage so that is no putting anyone out of a job.
    
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    March 27, 2018 10:37am
- GoVege
  
  What kind of toxic excuse for a home spawned a sadist like Dylyn Davis?
  Anyone know?
  Don’t we have a right to know?
  Hopefully this savage will never be freed.
  
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  March 27, 2018 1:33pm
Chris2

Carol Hirschfield of Radio NZ has been forced to resign for lying about her meeting with Claire Curran ….

“RNZ chief executive Paul Thompson said Ms Hirschfeld had repeatedly assured him that as Head of News, her meeting with Ms Curran last December was coincidental and that she and the minister had talked after bumping into each other in a Wellington cafe.

However, Mr Thompson said Ms Hirschfeld told him on Sunday the meeting had been pre-arranged.

He said it was disappointing but it was important he set the record straight, and Ms Hirschfeld has resigned, effective immediately.”
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March 27, 2018 10:06am
- Justitia
  
  That’s excellent news Chris2. At last some accountability. Now for Curran to resign.
  
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  March 27, 2018 10:13am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Curran will have to resign, and Melissa Lee will see to it that she does.
    
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    March 27, 2018 10:28am
    - Poppa
      
      It will be interesting to watch that one.
      
      Melissa Lee has been grilling Curran for a while so I think we may see the fatal blow inflicted this week
      
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      March 27, 2018 10:32am
  - Longknives
    
    Hirshfeld will just move sideways into another well-paid Taxpayer funded job.
    Mabye a spot on one of Jacinda’s Magical Committees?
    
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    March 27, 2018 10:42am
  - geoff3012
    
    No she can’t. Best comedian since I’m sorry to be a man….man!
    
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    March 27, 2018 11:18am
    - sooty
      
      Won’t be to far from the trough.
      
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      March 27, 2018 11:35am
- cmm
  
  Does the other shoe drop too?
  
  Or is this going to be one of those absurd cases where one side is guilty and the other is innocent.
  
  I remember there being many of those in apartheid era South Africa when it was illegal for people to have sex across the “colour bar”. It was quite common for one party to be found guilty and the other to have their case thrown out for lack of evidence.
  
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  March 27, 2018 10:31am
- 3-coil
  
  Chris2 (10:06am) – thanks for that, great news to start the day! Radio NZ senior executive Hirschfield has always been rated way above her ability (because of her skin colour and gender) while in reality she’s as thick as pig shit. She gave it her best shot trying to lie her way out of this piece of corruption, but once again..she is too thick to pull it off. Best to stick to the truth in the future Carol (I know that’s sounds a bit strange to you) but it won’t be easy – you’re a proven liar now, and shit sticks.
  
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  March 27, 2018 10:32am
  - RF
    
    It appears Curren was ducking and diving over this and has scrambled trying to do damage control.
    
    Initially it was not declared as a formal meeting but as the story broke she quickly added it to her list of meetings.
    
    Too late chook.
    
    Now another test for our weak PM. Will she be a leader and take action or will she form a committee of experts.
    
    FFS
    
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    March 27, 2018 10:47am
    - sooty
      
      Do you think she will be missing for this afternoons parliament?
      
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      March 27, 2018 11:37am
    - rangitoto
      
      I’m sure Cindy will have a convsersation about it and then form a committee to report back after the next election. That’s the proper way of running the country.
      
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      March 27, 2018 12:12pm
- BeaB
  
  Don’t hold your breath. Twinkletoes just wants to be loved.
  
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  March 27, 2018 10:40am
  - RF
    
    Just picture this. Curran, her old boyfriend Mallard and the commie chick in a huddle trying to work out how to get out of this mess.
    
    The exclamation…… “What the fuck do we do now” ….. can be repeatedly heard.
    
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    March 27, 2018 11:30am
    - Longknives
      
      “What the fuck do we do now”?
      
      TAB Odds-
      
      Another Woman’s Day cover- $1.20
      Appear on Stage at Ed Sheeran Concert $1.60
      Announce Engagement- $2.00
      Show some responsibility/accountability and actually do your job- $100
      
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      March 27, 2018 11:49am
      - Swifty
        
        Heh heh.
        
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        March 27, 2018 12:57pm
      - cmm
        
        Baby ultrasounds: $1.05
        
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        March 27, 2018 5:36pm
    - kowtow
      
      “What the fuck do we do now”
      
      They might suddenly discover a Russian or 2 under the bed ?
      
      That’s serving as a great distraction from something in the UK at the moment.
      
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      March 27, 2018 2:38pm
    - cmm
      
      Cindy: “Well screw you all, we’ll just set up another investigation that will last until I’m gone then it’s not my problem.”
      
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      March 27, 2018 5:34pm
- Paulus
  
  Did I not understand some time ago that Hirshfeld and her husband are proprietors of a very wealthy media production (mainly Maori) company and have been for some years.
  Not on the breadline – expect to see her get a high Labour list placing soon.
  
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  March 27, 2018 1:19pm
  - simpleton1
    
    “expect to see her get a high Labour list placing soon”
    The greatness of some mmp candidates 🙂
    
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    March 27, 2018 1:22pm
    - sooty
      
      Nah. Everyone will remember about crap sticking to the blanket.
      
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      March 27, 2018 2:48pm
BeaB

‘But Ms Ardern doesn’t expect company directors to leave before they think it’s necessary.
“There’s talent on our boards as well. What we’re trying to do is make sure that we’re able to keep that renewal and bring in that balance,” she told host Duncan Garner.
“How that happens, whether it’s through people naturally resigning, that’s an easy way to do it.
“Do I expect people to stand down before they’re ready? No I don’t.
But I do absolutely acknowledge what she’s saying.”‘

What the hell does this mean?
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March 27, 2018 10:45am
- Komata
  
  BeaB
  
  Re: ‘What the hell does this mean’?
  
  Absolutely Nothing; except she honestly believes that it does.
  
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  March 27, 2018 11:14am
  - RF
    
    Christ that’s the way the MP Mike Moore used to speak.
    
    No one could understand what he was talking about.
    
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    March 27, 2018 11:23am
    - Swifty
      
      Well he was the Minister for Overseas Talk after all…. 🙂
      
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      March 27, 2018 12:56pm
  - Piniwi
    
    @Komata it is “absolutely” that is her favourite when the porkies start rolling out. Another example of asking/answering her own inserted questions. We see the rising Gang Green start on the way up and the Commie Chick reaching Genter’s level on the way down. Genter rising from a fall of her bike and the Commie Chick scratching a bit of a hole to crawl into. And we thought all they had in common was a bun in the oven?
    
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    March 28, 2018 4:58am
- burt
  
  What the hell does this mean?
  
  It means Mallard will step down immediately to make way for a young fresh face lesbian.
  
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  March 27, 2018 12:48pm
  - kowtow
    
    Fresh faced lesbian ?
    
    That would make a pleasant change .
    
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    March 27, 2018 2:40pm
- Poppa
  
  I absolutely acknowledge you are full of shit Cindy
  
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  March 27, 2018 1:31pm
DigNap15

Best to cut down the number of DHBs from whatever it is now to say 4.
Much less bureacrats.
And board payments!
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March 27, 2018 10:57am
- backster
  
  Like the Auckland SuperCity you mean.
  
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  March 27, 2018 12:46pm
RW Capitalist

Considering Auckland is to have a 10c/litre fuel tax
and considering all these building materials will have to be delivered to Phil’s housing project.
How much extra will each house cost?
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March 27, 2018 10:59am
Manolo

For those of us who love accents:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3AgxhGU4JU
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March 27, 2018 1:01pm
GoVege

When are we going to hear why Plunket are paying 180gs to its CEOs, when it’s us taxpayers footing 77% of the bill?
And how come the daughter of the top CEO has been given a job there too.
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March 27, 2018 1:13pm
Swifty

She may love God, but I respect physics more….

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12020961
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March 27, 2018 1:24pm
- nasska
  
  It’s a risky business being brought up by halfwits who believe in the Great Skydaddy.
  
  Imagine how Issac felt.
  
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  March 27, 2018 4:20pm
  - Kimbo
    
    You mean Sir Isaac Newton, who believed in God?
    
    Yeah, ok, he also had a punt on biblical numerology and alchemy too. ?
    
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    March 27, 2018 5:21pm
    - nasska
      
      Nah. I was thinking of the poor little bugger whose delusional father was going to knock him off as a sacrifice to something that doesn’t exist. Probably out of his head on kaneh-bosm.
      
      Legend has it that Abraham looked up & saw a ram so that unfortunate beast got the chop instead.
      
      Bloodthirsty pack of primitives you Godwhacks are. 🙂
      
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      March 27, 2018 5:27pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Do you mind?! The Godwhacks of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, thank you very much! ?
        
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        March 27, 2018 5:30pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        A God that would ask you to murder your son is truly evil. (On top of all its other Malevolent OT shenanigans).
        
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        March 27, 2018 8:25pm
Manolo

Will Ryan the RINO bite the bullet?
https://www.rgj.com/story/news/politics/2018/03/26/hagar-rumor-paul-ryan-resign-u-s-house-speaker-scalise-replace-him-amodei-says/460544002/
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March 27, 2018 1:30pm
Gravelroad

I see Aunty Helen has stepped up to protect her struggling protege, Jacinda, over the Labour camp sex affair.
Not a good look for Labour though – having to have Aunty do the explaining for the current leader of our country – and attributing blame.
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March 27, 2018 2:20pm
- holysheet
  
  It’s different when it’s an old white woman. It appears they can do no wrong, especially if they are members of the stinking lefties.
  
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  March 27, 2018 3:26pm
  - sooty
    
    They had to knock off the cobwebs and moss first.
    
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    March 27, 2018 6:59pm
Manolo

For my fellow followers of chess:
2018 Candidates Tournament is an 8-player event to decide the challenger. Here is the tiebreak order:
1) # of points
2) Head to head results
3) # of wins
4) SB tiebreak

So here are the possible scenario:
If Caruana and Karjakin tie, then Karjakin will challenge Carlsen again.
If Caruana, Mamedyarov and Karjakin tie, then Mamedyarov will challenge Carlsen.
If Caruana and Ding Liren tie, Caruana will challenge Carlsen.
If Mamedyarov and Karjakin tie, then Mamedyarov will challenge Carlsen.
If Caruana, Ding Liren and Mamedyarov tie, then Ding Liren will challenge Carlsen.
If Caruana and Mamedyarov tie, then Mamedyarov will challenge Carlsen.
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March 27, 2018 2:23pm
Maggy Wassilieff

The shit is being flung around within the Labour Party.

Its the old Guard against the New Kids on the block.

Sorry Helen, you’re old and white… time to bow out.

My money is on the Young ones (in the long-term).
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March 27, 2018 2:26pm
- Kabull
  
  But, But, But, Maggy – eventually the young ones will become old, wrinkly and incompetent . Whoops, sorry – they are already incompetent. And isn’t it amazing how those who call for the voice of the young to be heard forget that truth – how will they react when the next generation tells them to get out of the way …
  
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  March 27, 2018 3:21pm
- Anne Glen Eden
  
  How about Stuff’s reporting. Prior to the result of any review by the lawyer:
  
  “[Andrew Kirton] said he wouldn’t change the way the party had handled the situation but in future would tell Ardern if that was what she wanted.” He clearly has no respect for Ardern, either.
  
  Well, that really shows an ‘open mind’. Not.
  
  Who’s the ‘old Guard’ and who’s the ‘New Kids’? I don’t think I care. They all hold deviant attitudes to my mind and/or are prepared to tolerate it in their environment.
  
  Get them young and groom them. Wipe out their minds with alcohol/drugs/sex, indoctrinate them with rousing speeches, glittery ‘smiles’, TV personalities, and pop stars, and point them where you want them to go.
  
  Anyone ‘suffering’ from damage should be shut down and ignored, having probably assured them they’ll have no ‘future’ if they complain.
  
  The youth of NZ deserve far better than this. I hope they’re all reading Jacob Petersen. He may have oriented a lot towards boys but it applies equally to girls. Independent thought, self-respect, and self-esteem – don’t let any ‘movement’ devalue you.
  
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  March 27, 2018 3:45pm
  - nasska
    
    …..”but in future would tell Ardern if that was what she wanted”…..
    
    Obviously there are a few more cases of perverted senior Labourites molesting kids to come.
    
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    March 27, 2018 4:23pm
  - wiseowl
    
    I think you mean Jordan Peterson.
    How does one explain Kirton being in the Labour party when I heard someone say his father stood for National ?
    
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    March 27, 2018 4:36pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      His father was the mayor of Taumarunui so that may well be the case.
      And his uncle is Earle Kirton, ex All-Black.
      
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      March 27, 2018 4:53pm
    - Happychappy
      
      Who cares if his father stood for National Andrew Kirton tried to cover up a sexual assault on four known youngest and couldn’t care less apparently just like your mate Winston is trying to cover up a blackmail threat by one of his MP’s who was doing dirty work for a Government Minister. I can’t hear or see you condemning that like you did to Bill English over the Todd Barclay affair but I suppose being the hypocrite you are we should know that.
      
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      March 27, 2018 4:59pm
      - wiseowl
        
        I’ve had a gutsfull of your personal attacks on me Happy.
        I never voted for NZ First.I have nothing to do with Peters or NZ First.
        I DID however spend 15 years in the National Party volunteering my time to many meetings ,going to conferences ,going to policy meetings and was on a campaign team that won three elections.
        I find your personal attacks distasteful.
        
        Frankly I couldn’t give a toss about Labour or the Greens.
        Any constructive observations I could make would be lost on you.
        
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        March 27, 2018 7:15pm
      - Happychappy
        
        You made plenty of comments backing Winston Peters against Bill English over the Todd Barclay affair and you attack Maori at every opportunity. Then you say you have had a gutsful of my personal disgraceful attacks on you and you find them distasteful well that the pot calling the kettle black. You are a fucking hypocrite.
        
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        March 27, 2018 7:33pm
  - lifesgood
    
    Remember Kim Dot Com plying kids with booze and getting them to shout anti John Key/ National slogans? He didn’t get many votes did he? Kids will go where there is free booze and to hell with the reasons behind it. Labour Party suckers…probably made quite a dent in their budget.
    
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    March 27, 2018 6:34pm
    - sooty
      
      Never heard of any kiddie fiddlers at that party.
      
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      March 27, 2018 6:56pm
thetiedarch

Man overboard from one of the yachts competing in the Volvo Ocean Race. 1,400miles from nearest land with 3 degree water and 30 knot winds. Sadly, It’s unlikely to be a good outcome.

Seems now as well, after 7 hours of searching, the crew has made the decision to turn towards nearest land without recovering him.

https://www.volvooceanrace.com/en/news/11353_Man-overboard-on-Team-Sun-Hung-Kai-Scallywag.html

RIP John ‘SiFi’ Fisher
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March 27, 2018 2:38pm
- alex Masterley
  
  Not good.
  Unless they found the fellow within 30 minutes he was a goner.
  RIP John.
  
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  March 27, 2018 2:41pm
Longknives

So now Helen has waded into the scenario and is pretty much saying she would have sacked Kirton-

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/102623029/helen-clark-pm-ardern-was-let-down-when-she-wasnt-told-about-sexual-assault-allegations

“Asked if there should be ramifications for Andrew Kirton or those in party management, Clark said: “If you get out the book and ask what would Helen have done, well, draw your own conclusions.”

Intriguing! Any ideas what Clark is playing at here?
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March 27, 2018 3:30pm
- Kimbo
  
  Is interesting, isn’t it? Maybe, as Clark is no longer in the game, she doesn’t give a fuck anymore and has decided to call it publicly how she sees it. Bolger and Shipley are at that stage, and I’m sure Key has the same attitude.
  
  Or maybe sending a message to Ardern she needs to harden up fast. As Richard Nixon observed on how he did not take William Gladstone’s advice that a good political leader has to be a good butcher, and instead got into trouble by not dealing with his wayward subordinates as he should have right from the beginning with Watergate, “I was not a good butcher”.
  
  But if you really believe Clark always will always be cynical manipulative politics, personified, she does not want Ardern to succeed as Prime Minister as it will in some way detract from Clark’s reputation and legacy. Kinda like how reptiles devour their own young. Don’t think so myself, but I’m guessing that may be more to your tastes, Longknives! ?
  
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  March 27, 2018 3:52pm
  - Longknives
    
    “Kinda like how reptiles devour their own young..”
    
    Years ago there was some drug-addled Conspiracy Theorist here on Kiwiblog who used to bang on about Reptilian Shapeshifters being our overlords…
    Maybe he was right?
    
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    March 27, 2018 5:30pm
    - Kimbo
      
      Was that UglyTruth? Or was there someone even more out there?! ?
      
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      March 27, 2018 5:32pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Or Kimbo it might have been too many skeletons in her own cupboard busting to get out for their guest appearance in “Bones”.
    
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    March 28, 2018 5:28am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Whatever game she is playing, she’s not fooling the great unwashed.
  Look at some of the comments on Stuff’s article;
  It is apt that Helen describes it as unbelievable that Jacinda was not told, because she is right, we don’t believe it. Nor should you. Jacinda’s govt. are as transparent as an oil slick.
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/102623029/helen-clark-pm-ardern-was-let-down-when-she-wasnt-told-about-sexual-assault-allegations
  
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  March 27, 2018 4:35pm
  - lifesgood
    
    Wow! Just read a heap of those comments. Didn’t get to one single one in support of Jacinda or Labour (didn’t read them all, but plenty) The worm is turning. Finger in the dyke time methinks.
    
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    March 27, 2018 6:47pm
    - sooty
      
      Or the dyke in the finger? That’s the Labour way.
      
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      March 27, 2018 6:53pm
- RF
  
  Clark is playing damage control for her fledgling.
  
  Ardern must be feeling the pressure to bring in Auntie Helen.
  
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  March 27, 2018 5:58pm
  - sooty
    
    It’s got to be bad to trott out the snaggle tooth one. Secret Cindy about to throw a taddy and get wheeled out to spend the next thee months in bed. What about bringing out Lalia Harria in her Star Trek uniform as well.
    
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    March 27, 2018 6:51pm
- Piniwi
  
  Perhaps Longknives the old dyke is trying to rearrange the deckchairs as the Labour heads for another iceberg since she knows how big it is below the waterline. Maybe it should be “If you get out the book and ask what does old Helen have noted in her little black book?” We might also expect she is moving back out of the shadows to reinforce the lessons on cover-ups the Commie Chick flunked on the first test.
  
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  March 28, 2018 5:16am
UrbanNeocolonialist

Trevor Mallard has destroyed any credibility he may have had in today’s QT, in his lame attempts to cover for the many scandals.of the CoL Making Margaret Wilson look good.
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March 27, 2018 4:19pm
- Longknives
  
  Trevor Mallard had credibility?
  
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  March 27, 2018 5:31pm
  - nasska
    
    Must have been before my time.
    
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    March 27, 2018 5:51pm
- waikatogirl
  
  Absolutely appalling cover-up by Peters, Adern and Mallard in our House of Parliament today. The Speaker completely shut down any questions from several National MP’s. Both Curran/RNZ and NZFirst v Mark Mitchell off limits!
  Transparent govt, my arse.
  
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  March 27, 2018 6:49pm
  - Johnboy
    
    But broad and all inclusive waikatogirl. ?
    
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    March 27, 2018 6:51pm
Happychappy

What’s happened to Journalism in NZ and holding a corrupt Government to account after a MP was confronted with blackmail yesterday and even the Speaker of the house thinks it is funny with no recourse to holding a Government MP to account. The Speaker Trevor Mallard is a joke and the world will be laughing at the circus he has created in the Debating Chamber which allows Ministers to escape being held responsible for their arrogance and stupidity.
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March 27, 2018 4:35pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Parliament came within a whisker today of having all the Nats do a mass walkout. One day it’s bound to happen. Mallard is a complete disaster.
  
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  March 27, 2018 4:51pm
  - RF
    
    Yep… I was waiting for it.
    
    Pity…..
    
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    March 27, 2018 6:00pm
    - UrbanNeocolonialist
      
      It’s the nuclear option, and can come off as petulant. I think if they all remained and chanted “shame” or similar at Mallard, and refused to leave it would get a lot more media air time.
      
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      March 27, 2018 8:33pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Even funnier Captain as it is readily available on You Tube but it is better to get it from the Parliamentary site for todays coverage. There is a lot of relevance in the sequence of questions culminating with Nick Smith closing the OQT at no12. The party hopping bill will hinder MP’s freedom of speech in the house and outside it coming on the heels of Mallard shutting down questions like he did. He pulled out all the stops by first docking 6 supplementary questions from the opposition. Then having Parker compelling him to restore them for using patsy questions to make political attacks. A sort of double own goal as a result of earlier application of the Speakers power for the same misuse of patsy questions. And yes he referred to them as “patsy” questions.
    It is also another indicator of the old drunks age concessions seem to have ended as Mallard sits him back down constantly with his wisecracks.
    The repetitive fall-back of blaming everything on the last nine years has worn thin as the number of decisions being put on hold stacks up. Then topped off when sweet cheeks tried to get in on the porkies parade by denying his pending “bump” in nurses pay statement last week. Then tried for a point of order about a ruling on somebody telling him to “speak the truth” as a frazzled Mallard tempted to tell him to STFU. Suspect they will both resort to a stiff one how they like it after all that mess.
    
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    March 28, 2018 6:07am
sooty

NZ media the mouth piece of the NZ Labour party. Come on prove it ain’t so.
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March 27, 2018 4:43pm
- stephieboy
  
  sooty , what other silly games do you enjoy ?
  
  Pocket snooker ?
  
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  March 27, 2018 6:25pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Your balls sooty’s pocket! 🙂
    
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    March 27, 2018 6:29pm
  - lifesgood
    
    It has been blissful without you today sb. I suppose you have been busy in the labour bunker cooking up some more lies and deceit. Did they tell you to run along like a good boy/
    
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    March 27, 2018 6:38pm
Ross12

School fund raising idea for Hipkins

https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2018/03/26/teachers-in-singapore-to-pay-for-parking-in-schools-from-august/
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March 27, 2018 5:23pm
nasska

Maybe you blokes can help me out…..

I’ve been having an argument with the wife & she’s just said that I’m right.

What the fuck do I do now?
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March 27, 2018 5:53pm
- Kimbo
  
  Stand by for a bout of depression when you realise that’s as good as it gets? ?
  
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  March 27, 2018 6:00pm
- waikatogirl
  
  Take the win with grace nasska. Very occasionally we have to let you win one, but don’t make a habit of it! ?
  
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  March 27, 2018 6:12pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Shhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
    Don’t give away our secret techniques.
    
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    March 27, 2018 6:14pm
    - waikatogirl
      
      Sorry Maggie. You’re right. A bit of mercurial intrigue is the way to keep them on their toes. ?
      
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      March 27, 2018 6:17pm
      - Swifty
        
        Heh.
        
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        March 27, 2018 6:23pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Well, on reflection…
        
        I would like to backtrack from what I said.
        I mispoke.
        We females do not have secret techniques.
        Please disregard the previous post.
        It was just a coincidence…
        
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        March 27, 2018 6:35pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  @nasska
  Buy a lotto ticket…
  you could be on a winning run.
  
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  March 27, 2018 6:13pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Watch for the left hook. Close eyes is better than seeing it coming
  
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  March 27, 2018 6:36pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  I’ve seen that movie, take the blue pill!! Ignorance is bliss.
  
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  March 27, 2018 7:52pm
Ross12

Adern/Peters. Nothing to worry about , it’s a learning experience, lets just move on. Translation ==we don’t see corruption as a problem

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/102621775/Junior-NZ-First-MP-trying-to-use-Govt-fund-to-heavy-Opposition-acting-alone-PM

PS. Bridges response is very weak.
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March 27, 2018 6:12pm
- Happychappy
  
  How could it be anything different with Mallard running the show. Same wth Paula cut off as soon as she spoke fact, Parliament Question Time has become a joke and the only way it can be fixed is by a walk out with MSM printing the facts.
  
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  March 27, 2018 6:44pm
Johnboy

You could tell her this one nasska! 🙂

The wife came home early and found her husband in their bedroom making love to a very attractive young woman.

And she was upset. ‘You are a disrespectful pig!’ she cried. ‘How dare you do this to me — a faithful wife, the mother of your children! I’m leaving you. I want a divorce right away!’

And the husband replied, ‘Hang on just a minute love, so at least I can tell you what happened.’

‘Go ahead,’ she sobbed,’ but they’ll be the last words you’ll say to me!’

And the husband began — ‘Well, I was getting into the car to drive home, and this young lady here asked me for a lift. She looked so down and out and defenseless that I took pity on her and let her into the car.

I noticed that she was very thin, not well dressed and very dirty. She told me that she hadn’t eaten for three days.

So, in my compassion, I brought her home and warmed up the enchiladas I made for you last night, the ones you wouldn’t eat because you’re afraid you’ll put on weight. The poor thing devoured them in moments.

Since she needed a good clean-up, I suggested a shower, and while she was doing that, I noticed her clothes were dirty and full of holes, so I threw them away.

Then, as she needed clothes, I gave her the designer jeans that you have had for a few years, but don’t wear because you say they are too tight.

I also gave her the underwear that was your anniversary present, which you don’t wear because I don’t have good taste.

I found the sexy blouse my sister gave you for Christmas that you don’t wear just to annoy her, and I also donated those boots you bought at the expensive boutique and don’t wear because someone at work has a pair the same.’

The husband took a quick breath and continued – ‘She was so grateful for my understanding and help that as I walked her to the door, she turned to me with tears in her eyes and said,

‘Please ….. Do you have anything else that your wife doesn’t use?
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March 27, 2018 6:16pm
- nasska
  
  Thanks JB. It’s just that after 48 years I never bothered preparing for the possibility. 🙂
  
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  March 27, 2018 6:21pm
- Monique Watson
  
  That’ll be hard to top tonight.
  
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  March 27, 2018 6:21pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Whooossshhh for most, even if they read it 10 times
  
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  March 27, 2018 6:41pm
holysheet

I met Prince Harry earlier at a civic function. Although things got a bit confusing when I invited him to take part in my triathlon charity event by asking, “Sir, how would you like to enter a mixed race?” He gave me a wink and said, “I already have mate, I already have ….”
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March 27, 2018 6:38pm
noskire

I was taking my morning stroll along Sumner Beach the other day and happened upon a young lady in a wheelchair and in tears. I inquired why she was so upset, apart from the fact she had no arms or legs.
I wiped away her tears and she told me that she had never been hugged by a man. As I strive to always to do my bit for the less fortunate, I picked the young lady up out of her wheelchair and gave her a hug, then continued on my stroll.
A couple of days later, I encountered the poor wee soul again, and again in tears. What is it this time, I asked.
Apparently, she had never been kissed by a man. I bent down, and gave her a peck on the cheek, and said “There you go, you have now”.
Just yesterday this girl in the wheelchair was yet again on the beach, and again in tears.
“What’s wrong now?” I asked with slight trepidation.
“I’ve never been f****d by a man!” she exclaimed. I pondered this and looked around the beach. It was still early in the morning and no-one was in sight.
“Ok” I said, and picked her up and threw her in the sea. “There you go, now you’re f****d”.
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March 27, 2018 6:54pm
holysheet

Three men are in a jail cell, discussing their crimes. The first man asks the second man, “What are you in here for?”. Second man says “Armed robbery”. “What did you get?” “12 years”. First man to third man, “What are you in for?” “Murder”. “What did you get?” “20 years”. Third man then asks the first man, “And what are you in for?” “Burning Blacks with petrol”. “What did you get?” “Eight to the gallon”.
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March 27, 2018 7:13pm
publicwatchdog

URGENT REMINDER FOLKS!

You have until 8pm Wednesday 28 March 2018 (tomorrow night)

to get your ‘submission’ into Auckland Council 10 year budget and Auckland Plan 2050!

Email to akhaveyoursay@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz

This was my ‘submission’.

Help yourself to anything you like or agree with and feel free to add anything else you feel strongly about ?

27 March 2018

‘Submission’ on the 10-year budget and Auckland Plan 2050.

First name: Penny
Last name: Bright
Postal address: 86A School Rd, Kingsland Auckland 1021

* I believe there is not enough time or detailed financial information provided in the “Consultation Document” for the 10-year budget and Auckland Plan 2050.

Exactly how much public money is being spent – on what?

Exactly how much money is being borrowed, from whom exactly and for what exactly?

Exactly how much public money is being exposed to derivatives trading across Auckland Council and Auckland Council Controlled Organisations (CCOs)?

* I do not accept that all this ‘growth’ has to come to Auckland.

There should be a national population growth, migration and regional employment strategy, in order to stop overloading our transport, water services, housing and related infrastructure.

* This Auckland (forced) ‘Supercity’ amalgamation may have been successful for corporates, property developers, investors, bankers, land-bankers, but it has been a disaster for local communities, residents and local small businesses.

* There is now very little ‘local’ about Auckland local government.

* The Auckland region is now being run ‘like a business – by business- for business’, and the mechanism for this effective corporate takeover, has been the replacement of 8 former democratically-elected Councils, with 1 ‘Supercity’ Council, and first 7, now 6 unelected, (CORPORATE) ‘Council’ Controlled Organisations (CCOs).

* CCOs need to be abolished and key Auckland infrastructure and trading functions brought back ‘in-house’ under the direct control of Auckland Council.

* Water, wastewater and stormwater need to be integrated and brought back under direct Council control.

* Auckland CCO Auckland Transport (AT) is particularly ‘out of control’, destroying local communities and causing significant congestion, by pushing urban cycleways on main arterial roads and suburban shopping centres, to help drive intensification.

How? By removing parking (for cycleways) to help kill off local small businesses ‘no parking – no stopping – no shopping’.

Who will benefit when these small businesses wither and die?

Property developers and corporate shopping malls.

* I do NOT support a ‘Regional Fuel Tax’.

There is no such thing as ‘PUBLIC’ transport in Auckland.
Bus, ferry and train services are privately owned / operated / managed.

* Make Auckland transport PUBLIC again – PUBLICLY owned, operated and managed.

* Stop the proposed spending of another $635 million on another 150kms of Auckland cycleways, in order to increase the number of cycling commuters from 1-4%.

The 99% of commuters who are not cyclists are entitled, as directly-affected residents, businesses, customers and local communities to proper, lawful consultation.

* I am opposed to ANY further rates increases when Aucklanders do not know exactly where public monies are being spent on private sector consultants and contractors, and the NZ Public Records Act 2005 is not being lawfully implemented and enforced:

The Public Records Act 2005;

http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2005/0040/31.0/DLM345729.html
17Requirement to create and maintain records

(1)Every public office and local authority must create and maintain full and accurate records of its affairs, in accordance with normal, prudent business practice, including the records of any matter that is contracted out to an independent contractor.

* Provide the following details of awarded contracts on the websites of Auckland Council and Auckland CCOs:

The unique contract number; name of consultant/contractor; brief description of scope of contract; contract start/finish dates; exact dollar value of every contract, including those sub-contracted; how contract was awarded, by direct appointment or public appointment or public tender.

* Auckland Council and CCOs cannot check for ‘value for money’ or ‘cost-effectiveness’ if you don’t know exactly where the costs fall.

* Auckland Council and CCOs cannot provide genuine transparency or accountability without full and accurate records available for public scrutiny.

Wherever possible, public services should be brought back ‘in house’, as international research has proven that the contracting-out of public services can be twice as expensive:

http://www.pogo.org/our-work/reports/2011/co-gp-20110913.html

“POGO’s study analyzed the total compensation paid to federal and private sector employees, and annual billing rates for contractor employees across 35 occupational classifications covering over 550 service activities.

Our findings were shocking—POGO estimates the government pays billions more annually in taxpayer dollars to hire contractors than it would to hire federal employees to perform comparable services.

Specifically, POGO’s study shows that the federal government approves service contract billing rates—deemed fair and reasonable—that pay contractors 1.83 times more than the government pays federal employees in total compensation, and more than 2 times the total compensation paid in the private sector for comparable services.”
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March 27, 2018 7:19pm
- Swifty
  
  Penny – are you going to save your house?
  
  Genuine question.
  
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  March 27, 2018 7:23pm
- nasska
  
  Seldom have we ever shared this forum with anyone more delusional!
  
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  March 27, 2018 7:47pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Fuck off you stupid woman, and pack up your dump before the new owners arrive.
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:21pm
- Awww C-mon
  
  Hey Penny,
  
  Im selling a house in the Mount, as I plan to leave town (I would never offer you this if I planned to stay) we could do a little deal privately if you like, you should have a clean mill after ACC takes their cut, I know you prefer any money that enters your bank account to be done ‘privately’ so we can do this on the down low too.
  
  Got your back P-dawg
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:16pm
Happychappy

Can anyone she’d any light òn
why Clare Trevets column criticising Jacinda Ardern has been removed at the Herald.
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March 27, 2018 7:20pm
- noskire
  
  The editor probably had dinner with Clare Curran.
  
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  March 27, 2018 7:34pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Nice paper you have there, be a shame if there was a strike.
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:38pm
Andrei

And while Western ~~leaders~~ mediocrities spew forth their bile and hate to distract their subject populations from their failures President Putin has other things on his mind
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March 27, 2018 7:31pm
- holysheet
  
  Fifty eight dead in Russian mall blaze. The Russians and their nerve gas are no match for Theresa May and her box of matches.
  
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  March 27, 2018 8:16pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Good Grief..

New Zealand is such a tin-pot country , we can’t
even get a single Russian to spy on us.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/27/new-zealand-expel-russian-spies-cant-find-any
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March 27, 2018 8:57pm
- rangitoto
  
  What a disgrace. Cindy should be writing a letter to Mr Putin to complain about Russian indifference.
  
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  March 27, 2018 9:52pm
- mandk
  
  We only know that there are no Russian spies in NZ because retired KGB Colonel, Viktor Popovich, phoned Jacinda Ardern from his home near the Waihopai listening station to tell her that there none. Well, hardly any.
  
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  March 27, 2018 10:21pm
- Swifty
  
  Ha!
  
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  March 27, 2018 10:59pm
Inandout

Interesting theory on ‘The Wall’.

https://www.facebook.com/Deep6TheDeepState/videos/421223298289362/
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March 27, 2018 10:05pm
- stephieboy
  
  Inandout , money for which is not being granted nor Mexico will pay for
  
  The allocation of 1.3 billion is for existing repairs and renovations to what is already there . Not extending it across all of the 1900 mile. border !
  
  Epic Fail .
  
  That Morris guy seems as loopy as Alex Jones .
  
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  March 27, 2018 10:12pm
noskire

Ardern said ‘no strikes’ when her workplace relations policies mandates union negotiations with industry for national awards, and between businesses and unions because unions will be able to start collective bargaining at will, and businesses by law must reach agreement…
Stuff, Sep 13, 2017
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March 27, 2018 10:21pm
noskire

If you are bored, and have seen the new “game-show” on One, The Wall, check this out…https://squared2020.com/2017/03/01/nbcs-the-wall-markov-simulation/
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March 28, 2018 1:02am
Manolo

Some have had enough:
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-anti-sanctuary-movement-in-oc-20180327-story.html
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March 28, 2018 6:56am
Manolo

Caruana is the challenger:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/mar/27/fabiano-caruana-magnus-carlsen-candidates-tournament

The American grandmaster Fabiano Caruana will challenge for Magnus Carlsen’s world chess championship in November after winning the candidates tournament in Tuesday’s final round of competition in Berlin.
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March 28, 2018 9:16am
chiz

Q: What’s the difference between a lentil and a chickpea?
A: You’d have difficulty finding anyone willing to pay money to have a lentil on their face.
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March 28, 2018 11:41am
Fletch

This interview that Tucker Carlson did with lawyer Ceaser Vargas (who is not a legal U.S citizen) will tell you all you need to know about what liberals think about immigration. Libs have got their undies in a twist because the new census will ask people if they are a legal citizen or not.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJlgpl6-8t8

Somehow, they argue, that if you’re in the country, you’re somehow as entitled as anyone else – illegal or not.
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