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Paulus Gnome

Katie Hopkins quote of the day.

https://mobile.twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/979372437081960448

Apologies for HP presentation style
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April 2, 2018 8:02am
Manolo

Mr Khan, the Muslim Mayor of London, seems to be doing a sterling job:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5566689/London-murder-rate-overtakes-New-York-time-including-11-killings-just-16-days.html

London’s murder rate has overtaken New York City’s for the first time ever as the twelfth person has been killed in just 19 days.

February marked the first month in history books that London had more murders than the American city with a total of 15 homicides.
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April 2, 2018 8:02am
- RF
  
  I would be more concerned with what’s happening over the Tasman.
  
  The ethnic mix in Melbourne is a time bomb waiting to explode. People living in what used to be up market leafy suburbs are very concerned as some neighbourhoods are turning into no go areas run by African gangs.
  
  My sister in law has just come back and was gob smacked by the aggressive activity she saw in the malls etc and suburban shopping areas.
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:17am
  - holysheet
    
    Just seen a claim that there are more than 60,000 illegal immigrants in Australia.
    Aboriginal estimates, however, put the figure at nearly 24 million of the bastards.
    
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    April 2, 2018 8:34am
    - stephieboy
      
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      holysheet , what a novel approach sorting out our neighbour’s immigration problems and issues.
      
      Who spoonfed you that in your high chair?
      
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      April 2, 2018 8:46am
      - rightoverlabour
        
        FUCK OFF
        
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        April 2, 2018 8:54am
      - GazzaW
        
        We obviously have the smarmy abusive stephiesquad member on duty today rather than the unctuous poetry quoting Christian of yesterday and Good Friday. Wouldn’t Willis House front with the public holiday penal rates?
        
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        April 2, 2018 11:40am
    - kowtow
      
      “Police have arrested two boys, aged 10 and 16, and a 13-year-old girl after a string of violent attacks in Adelaide including the bashing of an elderly couple.
      
      The gang of youths, described as being Aboriginal in appearance, allegedly attacked and abused an elderly couple after climbing on the roof of their Hackham West home early on Sunday morning.
      
      CCTV footage shows the horrific moment a grandmother was kicked in the face by one of the attackers, while the couple were also spat at and slashed with a knife.”
      
      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5566741/Boy-10-girl-13-arrested-horrific-crime-rampage.html
      
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      April 2, 2018 9:09am
      - VicParking
        
        No doubt middle aged white males disguised as aboriginal youths
        
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        April 2, 2018 9:22am
- G152
  
  You can have to much of the religion of peace as evident in the latest numbers.
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5566689/London-murder-rate-overtakes-New-York-time-including-11-killings-just-16-days.html
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:22am
  - Alan Matt
    
    It won’t only be subcontinental, African and ME, also white Albanians, Kosovo Roma etc gangs. Basically all the shithole countries have major problems with following the law as their government s and police are shithole. Probably shit trickles down quicker than money. Is that a new shithole country trickle down theory?
    Why do Labour Greens traitors want to bring in thousands who have been inculturated in corruption, theivery, misogyny and lying since they were born? Ignorance?
    
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    April 2, 2018 11:44am
- Harkman
  
  Sadiq Khan is the most obvious example of Britain’s decline.
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:30am
  - tf78
    
    Aren’t there muslim mayors in most of London’s cities? They are totally doomed.
    
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    April 2, 2018 8:40am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Thank you Manolo – this is a glimpse of what NZ’s future will be. Brought to us more quickly if the CoL keep their promise to bump up the refugee quota t0 5000 per year (which with chain migration will end up being 25,000 per year).
  
  Anyone not violently opposing the increase in the refugee quota should be prepared to for those visits to the cemetaries to say farewell to your kids and grandkids after they’ve been stabbed in the neck at the bus stop.
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:53am
- kowtow
  
  The diversity dividend.
  
  Enoch was right.
  
  Where’s the riots , if a white cop kills a black youngster , the media go to town while other rat bags go ape shit burning cars and looting shops , but blacks kill blacks ,not so much.
  
  Where’re the calls to ban knives ?
  
  Immigration out of control and the political class bleats on about Putin!
  
  Meanwhile in the UK commenting on race crime could earn you a criminal conviction.
  
  The political class really have fucked that place up.
  
  “The violence would continue for another two hours, ending after a gunman opened fire on the venue – a favourite location of Birmingham’s premier league footballers.”
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5567239/Thugs-use-metal-crowd-barriers-weapons-brawl-outside-shisha-lounge-drive-shooting.html#comments
  
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  April 2, 2018 9:06am
duggledog

There is a commercial playing on Radio Live at the moment encouraging listeners to put in a submission to the TWG (Tax Working Group).

In it, the scenario played out by two (mature, white) male actors runs thus: (not word for word)

‘Boy I’m sick of paying so much tax’

‘Like the tax you paid when you sold your boat?’

‘Um yeah um well’

‘And the tax you paid when you sold your two sections’

Aw well yeah but…’

You get the drift. Listen out for it.

I believe the commercial (one would assume its purpose is to drive people to MAKE a submission not ADVISE what they should write in their submission) –

1: Frames up a partisan scenario (i.e. a guy who is privileged and is complaining about paying tax when he’s already well off)

2: Clearly tries to engineer a specific response by targeting ordinary punters who wouldn’t normally give a shit by invoking a reaction using the above

3: Does not have a partner / flipside commercial that has a scenario whereby, say for argument’s sake, somebody who does not pay any tax at all, say, a career criminal complains about being hard done by, even though they have access to billions of dollars of services paid for by net tax payers.

I want to know:

Who created this commercial
What advertising company employed this person
What was their actual brief
Who approved it, and paid for it
What does Michael Cullen think of it

Five questions, one journalist. It’ll never happen.
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April 2, 2018 8:02am
- Huevon
  
  Geez…they want us to pay tax on boats too. Is there no end to their envy and resentment?
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:33am
  - VicParking
    
    Don’t forget the tax on your ride-on mower.
    
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    April 2, 2018 9:25am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    It’s not as though anyone has ever made a capital gain on a boat (perhaps some amazing antique one). Isn’t the saying ‘instead of buying a boat, just stand under a cold shower and tear up money’?
    
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    April 2, 2018 12:04pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Well Huevon they will have done the numbers and with 15% of the population owning boats where would they find another group of this size who would actually be in a position to actually pay tax? In the end this is where the real burden of the new taxes will be felt the most with another increase in the number of neutral tax payers as a result of the grand Family Package. The substitute for the tax cuts now lost as of 1/4/18 as we see the biggest group of losers as the April fools they are.
    Funny even that equation is makes the COL look even more foolish as 50,000 children miss out being lifted out of poverty while 384,000 get more hand outs. Opposed to the 1.4 million who would now be paying less tax and being Kiwi’s feeling a little more charitable to those in need.
    
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    April 2, 2018 3:18pm
  - cmm
    
    More tax on boats???
    
    If Cindy wants to punish her boyfriend just make him sleep on the ironing board for a week.
    
    Why the hell must she make everyone else suffer too?
    
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    April 2, 2018 7:01pm
- Harkman
  
  What about the recent Census ad? That was a work of pure Marxism.
  
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  April 2, 2018 9:16am
  - MH
    
    or what electoral roll to be on. Brown or white.
    
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    April 2, 2018 9:52am
    - Piniwi
      
      But MH wait for them to demand a change in the colour of milk.
      
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      April 2, 2018 3:20pm
  - holysheet
    
    What census?
    Almost 3 million people have taken part in the census so far, Stats NZ said.
    https://www.stats.govt.nz/news/census-online-total-nears-3-million.
    That’s a lot less than the previous figures.
    Another Liabour and Winston first lie. Where are all the immigrants they have said that the Nats have flooded the country with?
    Housing crisis, what housing crisis.
    The population has been reducing all these years.
    
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    April 2, 2018 10:19am
    - KiWombat
      
      That story was from the day after census day holy. Lets hope the census people have managed to catch up with another million or so since, otherwise the whole deal will have been a waste of time !
      
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      April 2, 2018 10:52am
      - kowtow
        
        It’s a waste of time anyway.
        
        The gubmint lie and tell us it’s to help them plan for the future ,when they can’t manage the present .
        
        Top immigration skilled categories . Chefs , retail managers etc WTF?
        
        see croaking cassandra
        
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        April 2, 2018 1:18pm
      - KiWombat
        
        Very true kowtow
        
        Twitford will no doubt be looking for a few more sport stadium sized land parcels to build Mumbai MkII – the census will insist it is necessary !
        
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        April 2, 2018 3:49pm
- Southern Raider
  
  Under what scenario would you pay tax on a boat, or even a car. Basis of tax is you have made a profit. How many people ever in their life have made a profit on privately selling a boat or a car.
  
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  April 2, 2018 9:42am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Actually, now that I think about it: let them scare every owner of a little boat away from Liebore. Excellent!
    
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    April 2, 2018 12:06pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Sure SR but there are so many ways to tax boat owners through a more devious indirect method. We still imagine that all road taxes collected on motor vehicles is used for roads yet the COL think it can build train sets with it. So where do you think the new petrol tax in Auckland collected from boat owners (where the single biggest boat numbers are) will be spent?
    There is nothing stopping such and ideology driven mob using boating taxes for cleaning up water ways as an excuse for say a boat licence fee + GST naturally. Rates starting with non motor boats and graduated up in horsepower steps not forgetting the Green Gangs kayaks.
    
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    April 2, 2018 3:33pm
- burt
  
  In the end the only tax that will be paid by people who feel they are being unfairly targeted for political gain will be the tax associated with getting a passport and the GST on the coffee and snacks before entering the international departure lounge.
  
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  April 2, 2018 11:20am
- Keeping Stock
  
  A carefully worded Official Information Act request to the Minister of Revenue, Stuart Nash, should do the trick.
  
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  April 2, 2018 1:16pm
Left Right and Centre

Does any other sportsperson on earth . . .

Get two national anthems played before they start ?
What’s next ? Three ?
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April 2, 2018 8:05am
- Happychappy
  
  Don’t give Sweet Cheeks any ideas he is already looking into seeing if NZ can host another Commonwealth Games.
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:13am
  - GazzaW
    
    You can bet your bottom dollar that Sweet Cheeks will be spending the best part of the next two weeks on the Gold Coast exploring that possibility. He’s never too far from the trough.
    
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    April 2, 2018 11:47am
    - Paulus
      
      Assume Alfie will keep him under control with all that testerone on show.
      
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      April 2, 2018 12:35pm
- MCos
  
  Interesting you should say that because in fact Parker could have laid claim to all three national anthems because God Save the Queen is still an official anthem for NZ.
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:23am
- Paulus Gnome
  
  I always have three.
  
  The one finger salute, in deference to sign language, is always extended when the arty rower version mumble along starts
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:41am
- Longknives
  
  Joseph Parker was born in Auckland.
  Why did they play the Samoan Anthem? Because his parents are Samoan??
  
  My Mum was born in Scotland- If I represent New Zealand (unlikely I know but..) do they play both Anthems??
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:45am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Longknives , what immigration sailing ship did Mumsy arrive here on?
    
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    April 2, 2018 8:52am
    - Nostradamus
      
      Stephieboy:
      
      Do your friends at St Albans approve of your Kiwiblog behaviour, such as calling Longknives’ mum “Mumsy”, and asking Maggy for her underwear size (which you did the other day)?
      
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      April 2, 2018 9:03am
      - stigie
        
        Stiffy, you are disgrace to underwear and the people that wear it.
        
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        April 2, 2018 9:15am
      - VicParking
        
        Morning Stephie, how do you tell the difference between looking at a mirror and your goats arise before you mount it ??
        
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        April 2, 2018 9:28am
      - Nostradamus
        
        He seems to have an interest in lingerie. Stigie. Remember the pre-teen girls at St Lukes who, according to Stephieboy, had “small but ample breasts”?
        
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        April 2, 2018 9:28am
      - stephieboy
        
        Nostradamus , I ddn’t ask her underwear size. Merely suggested that the Victorian kind might be appropriate for her to wear given her decidedly IMO old-fashioned views .
        
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        April 2, 2018 11:14am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @ stephieboy
        I ddn’t ask her underwear size.
        The exact words you used were:
        “MW, what sized undergarments do you wear?”
        
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/03/general_debate_31_march_2018.html#comment-2175550
        
        Today, you have written a post to All_on_Red in which you suggest he is to find comfort in my arms.
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/04/general_debate_2_april_2018.html/comment-page-1#comment-2176353
        
        I will remind you that I am a private citizen who has been faithfully married to my husband for nearly 40 years.
        You know nothing about me, the community I live and work within, or the effect your filthy insinuations may have upon my family or business associates.
        
        I suggest you start looking for a decent lawyer.
        
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        April 2, 2018 1:14pm
      - Jack5
        
        Maggy, since the Stephies are a group, though apparently unincorporated, can your lawyer ensure each of them is jointly and severally liable for the damages you are almost ensured of getting.
        
        Your lawyer might may also request the court to hold the Stephieboys’ passports until the massive damages are received. If they can’t pay up, keep them working in car washes and pizza joints until they are 80.
        
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        April 2, 2018 3:27pm
      - Longknives
        
        Today’s Stephieboy-
        A word of advice mate- I don’t care that you fling shit at me about my old age (I’m 43 by the way) but your constant creepy behaviour toward Kiwiblog females is…well..creepy.
        You also have previous for making bizarre comments about stalking young girls at shopping malls.
        I’d probably quit while I was still ahead…
        
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        April 2, 2018 3:54pm
    - Paulus Gnome
      
      I thought you had been told to fuck off?
      
      That probably is the root of your problem, too busy talking and not enough listening, the reason the Marquis of Queensbury rules came about was for dealing with people like you
      
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      April 2, 2018 9:04am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Not only that LK, will TVNZ send a reporter to Scotland, as they did for Samoa Joe, to cover the celebrations and church services, for your participation in sports? ?
    
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    April 2, 2018 9:08am
  - wreck1080
    
    Who cares? He can play jingle bells if he wants.
    
    I think it is getting petty to complain about the anthems he chooses.
    
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    April 2, 2018 11:51am
    - Jack5
      
      Yep, it only matters if he wins.
      
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      April 2, 2018 3:34pm
  - Piniwi
    
    But Longknives judging by the fact he lost he might have been at least one prayer too short.
    
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    April 2, 2018 3:37pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  They did it for David Tua
  
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  April 2, 2018 10:06am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    I remember thinking how silly it was that a two man contest had three national anthems in four languages.
    
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    April 2, 2018 3:11pm
- burt
  
  My biggest concern with the all blacks is the lack of racial diversity. The team needs to be controlled to be 70% white, 20% Maori/Polynesian and 10% Asian. Anything else is unacceptable.
  
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  April 2, 2018 11:23am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Yep, it’s just racist and unacceptable that any ethnic group is better at something than others! And what about the sexism: 50% female please.
    
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    April 2, 2018 12:10pm
    - VicParking
      
      Don’t forget the transgenders
      
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      April 2, 2018 2:18pm
      - Jack5
        
        The proportion of left-handed players in the team, should also reflect the proportion in the population.
        
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        April 2, 2018 3:36pm
  - Alan Matt
    
    And 50% women
    
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    April 2, 2018 12:14pm
Inandout

Why are North and South Korea getting friendlier? Well NK is essentially bankrupt but I think the main reason is that Trump is waving the big stick, and baby Kim is beginning to shit his fat pants.
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April 2, 2018 8:07am
- DigNap15
  
  Yes, and just the other day the UN sanctioned several shipping companies for shipping to Korea!
  They will never listen.
  If they find anymoree, the allies should board them and confiscate their ships.
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:13am
- GazzaW
  
  As much as I would like to think you are correct I think it’s more a case of President Xi waving the big stick.
  
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  April 2, 2018 11:55am
- cmm
  
  Like I said a few weeks back, the Norks are just waving their dicks. They are used to dealing with pathetic politicians.
  
  Trump knows how to wave dick far better than they do. He’s been doing it longer and he has a bigger dick.
  
  Right now it looks like it is working. Nork are being more ready to engage than they ever have been.
  
  Will it keep working? Who knows, but let’s hope so.
  
  If Nork becomes a bit more like South Korea they could become a formidable part of the world.
  
  Koreans are extremely intelligent: average IQ 106. They leave us Westerners looking like idiots. Sure, malnutrition etc will have damaged a generation of Norks, but in time they they can come back from that.
  
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  April 2, 2018 7:13pm
Left Right and Centre

“One less to clog the prisons! Congratulations to the New Zealand Police, our thoughts are with the officer who was forced to take this action to protect the public.”

Well said. Hear, hear.
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April 2, 2018 8:10am
- Inandout
  
  But, but, 500 ‘offended’ SJWs have signed a petition. How is Bob’s Knighthood one going? I think the more the merrier and hopefully by their overuse they will eventually fade away.
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:21am
- peterwn
  
  This can go too far and probably has in this instance especially as it would add distress to his wider family. I made myself unpopular with a posting in the same vein on an old fashioned newsgroup. Guy was to be sentenced for commercial quantity cannabis cultivation and threatened a hunger strike if imprisoned. I thought it was great news for the long suffering taxpayer – Corrections would save on food costs in the short term and custody costs in the medium term. That comment did not go down well.
  So even if this is SST’s sentiment it is one best kept to themselves, especially as SST and co is about to have a big fight on its hands over Labour’s penal policy.
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:22am
  - flipper
    
    Prison food costs ??? Less than $4 per inmate per day. It is the officers and their pernicious pay/manning scales, plus excessive capital costs, that increase the bill to about $100,000 per,per…
    
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    April 2, 2018 9:04am
    - stephieboy
      
      flipper , so pay the prison officers below the minimum wage US style?
      
      Small wonder your decidedly stupid views never get beyond KB or WO!
      
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      April 2, 2018 11:29am
    - cmm
      
      Half the reason for the high costs in staff are the huge staffing levels required to keep the peace in prisons.
      
      If prisoners “knew their place” rather than “knew their rights”, it would be a bit eeasier to keep them under control with less staff.
      
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      April 2, 2018 7:15pm
- NZpatriot
  
  @Left Right and Centre.
  
  I’m a supporter the police, the SST approach, and general anti-SJW conservative, but I definitely thought Garth McVicar should not have said that “One less to clog up the prisons”.
  
  It’s crass, distasteful, and just not a fucking kind thing to say. Doesn’t help his organisation and I hope his Board queries him on it.
  
  Cheers.
  
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  April 2, 2018 9:36am
  - fernglas
    
    Given that the indications are that the guy was in the throes of a psychotic episode at the time and thus unlikely to have been sent to prison but rather treated for an illness over which he had no control, McVicar has run the risk of making a twat of himself, yet again
    
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    April 2, 2018 10:43am
    - KiWombat
      
      Who would you rather have on the loose – McVicar or a psychotic twat swinging a machete?
      
      I’m pretty sure I know who most would choose !
      
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      April 2, 2018 10:55am
      - MCos
        
        It’s not that sort of an either/or situation.
        
        I’ve never met anyone in my life who would want some out of control, wild eyed guy flailing a machete on the streets of our country.
        
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        April 2, 2018 12:01pm
  - peterwn
    
    It is rather similar to the blogger who called a West Coast family ‘feral’ after their son was killed in a car accident. The son had a job, was a passenger in the car unaware that he was in potential danger and his brother was a Pike River mine victim – ie a decent hard working West Coast family. Blogger had egg all over his face.
    
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    April 2, 2018 11:54am
    - Kimbo
      
      Yeah, but the blogger in question still played the victim and got his cheerleaders rallying around him.
      
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      April 2, 2018 12:00pm
    - burt
      
      Just think, if he’d used the full descriptive term ‘feral inbreds’ the left may have decided he was the best blogger this country has ever had.
      
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      April 2, 2018 3:07pm
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      The great white hunter shooting from the lip.
      His justification was ‘calling it like it is’ despite the facts not supporting his call.
      
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      April 2, 2018 10:38pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    There are some things best left unsaid.
    
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    April 2, 2018 10:34pm
Paulus

Amazed that Clare Curren appears to have the so called media in her hands as she explains why she was never wrong and Carol Hirshfeld is only in the poop because of her own failure and nothing to do with Curren.
Curren is a nasty piece of work – even Trevor must have been very drunk to “look”at her” – probably only the once as understand they got caught in the act.
Why is she ruling the media roost assume that she is the only COL creep not on holiday or gone to the Commonwealth Games or of course most importantly moving house – hope to see the pictures very shortly from Miss Ardern the gutless Winston’s Prime Minister of her new millions of dollar house.
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April 2, 2018 8:14am
- Inandout
  
  But Paulus, could Bouncing Trevor get anything better? I mean Clare’s lift hardly goes to the top floor.
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:24am
- Kimbo
  
  I got the impression that because the media all liked and respected Carol Hirschfeld and blame Curran for her resignation, they now take the opposite opinion concerning Curran, and they will now do everything they can to help Melissa Lee and National get her scalp…by the painful and slow method of death by a thousand cuts.
  
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  April 2, 2018 9:27am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Melissa Lee was a respected journalist long before she entered Parliament.
    She has been on top of this episode well before she started asking questions.
    She is a class act.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Lee
    
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    April 2, 2018 10:28am
    - Kimbo
      
      Didn’t know about Lee’s journalism background. Which means she already has plenty of contacts and knows well how to cultivate them…and keep on asking the right questions that will slowly tease the story out for maximum damage to Curran and the government. There is nothing reporters love more than a cover up scandal, where all the hard work is already done for them! ?
      
      Lee has sure improved since her gaffs in the ill-fated Mt Albert by-election in 2009. Mind you, she is helped by Curran’s arrogance, incompetence and stupidity. Those of us who encountered her propaganda and “moderation” when she ran Labour’s I’ll-fated website, Red Alert knew it was only a matter of time before she got into trouble…we just never thought it would be this soon! Had to laugh when her initial response to one of Lee’s questions was, “that’s a stupid question!” Love it, and not even Mallard could save her. ?
      
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      April 2, 2018 10:43am
      - KiWombat
        
        All that aside, we are still sitting in the dress circle watching a junior backbencher eviscerate a Minister. On what planet should that be allowed to happen ?
        
        Keep digging Melissa. There’s more !
        
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        April 2, 2018 11:00am
      - peterwn
        
        “she is helped by Curran’s arrogance, incompetence and stupidity”. A skilled barrister pretty well knows what answer a witness is going to give and Melissa would be similarly placed and would take advantage of the ‘victim’s’ traits too. And she will not let on what she already knows – until the right time.
        
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        April 2, 2018 12:02pm
- peterwn
  
  Someone commented on Clare’s physical fitness. Clare could have killed two birds with one stone by meeting at Carol’s gym. More plausible and less visible than the Astoria.
  
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  April 2, 2018 11:49am
  - kowtow
    
    Here’s hoping two birds are knocked off their perch by that secret meeting. One down , one to go.
    
    Squawk.
    
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    April 2, 2018 2:18pm
DigNap15

There are a lot of loose cannon and P addicts walking round our streets.
It would be great if we could report them via text eg *666.
Get them off our streets.
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April 2, 2018 8:15am
- Inandout
  
  DN15, Garth has the answers to that poser on loose canons. P addicts rarely return to normality.
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:27am
- NZpatriot
  
  Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.
  
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  April 2, 2018 9:43am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXn9ZKPx6CY
    
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    April 2, 2018 10:42am
DigNap15

Yes if the COL want more NZ programming and documentaries etc why not
Cut back on the money paid to all the Maori radio stations.
And give more money to NZ on air.
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April 2, 2018 8:16am
- stephieboy
  
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  DigNap15 , another of your dispirited and pointless posts.
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:55am
  - Harkman
    
    “another of your dispirited and pointless posts”
    
    Kettle called pot what?………..
    
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    April 2, 2018 9:18am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    You forgot “alt-right”
    Sqwark
    
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    April 2, 2018 10:10am
Manolo

The rewriting of history continues unabated:
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-native-american-statue-removal-20180401-story.html

The push follows the rapid fall of Confederate memorials across the South in a victory for activists who view them as celebrating slavery. In the nearly eight months since white supremacists marched in central Virginia to protest the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue, cities across the country have yanked dozens of Confederate monuments. Black politicians and activists have been among the strongest supporters of the removals.

This time, it’s tribal activists taking charge, and it’s the West and California in particular leading the way. The state is home to the largest Native American population in the country and more than 100 federally recognized tribes.

In February, San Francisco officials said they planned to remove a prominent downtown monument depicting a defeated Native American at the feet of a vaquero and a Spanish missionary. In March, the San Jose City Council booted a statue of Christopher Columbus from the lobby of City Hall.
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April 2, 2018 8:20am
- stephieboy
  
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  Manolo , much like Stefan Molyneux and associates rewriting the same history telling us how marvellous and beneficial slavery was for slaves,
  
  https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/stefan-molyneux-on-slavery/
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:57am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  They’ll be after the great Colin Meads one day, after all he did lead the Cavaliers tour to South Africa (back at the terrible time when white farmers weren’t being murdered left right and centre and SA was a major economic powerhouse and major cities had clean water supplies)
  
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  April 2, 2018 9:00am
Komata

DigNap15

Re: ‘Cut back on the money paid to all the Maori radio stations’.

While a sensible suggestion, it’s not going to happen unfortunately, ‘cos that would be ‘wacist’ AND loose the Labour party the Maori vote…
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April 2, 2018 8:22am
fernglas

I went with family to have a pre-dinner beer yesterday at a local brew bar. I was told I had to have a meal with my beer. EACH beer. Either two entrees, a main course, or 8 of the excellent finger food items they sell. This is a holiday centre currently packed with people for the last time before the weather turns. The sun was shining, the sea was warm, and some idiot told me that I couldn’t have a nice beer with my family without having to stuff my face. I can see absolutely no reason for this restriction. I hasten to say that I am not critical of the bar itself. They have been told that they could lose their licence if people take their drinks to an immediately adjacent park instead of being crammed into their deservedly popular bar, so understandably they were being cautious about Easter trading. The last Government chickened out of this issue by trying to devolve responsibility to local councils. Isn’t it time we recognised Easter for what it is? A public holiday for all with religious significance for some. If you don’t want to buy something on Easter Sunday, don’t buy it. If you don’t think you should be able to have a drink without a meal, buy a meal to go with your drink. But don’t treat me like some naughty child who needs to be told what to do.
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April 2, 2018 8:25am
- Viking2
  
  Winston has been going to fix this shit for years.
  We are still waiting.
  
  Mind you the Nats were to gutless to do it.
  
  I note that Liddell was thinking of forming a political party last year. Can we have him back when Trump has finished and lets get it done.
  Trump is on the go. Ratings up 7% last month.
  we need a Trump, fast.
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:57am
  - stephieboy
    
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    V2 , the answer could be closer at hand ,
    
    Meet Donald Trump’s diehard supporter Bill Burr in Piopio
    
    “ In the week Kiwi Chris Liddell won a top role in Donald Tump’s office, Charlotte Carter meets a dairy farmer backing one of the most polarising American presidents of all time.
    
    Among the rolling green hills of middle New Zealand, some 12,000km away from Donald Trump’s Oval Office in the West Wing of the White House, Bill Burr flies the American flag high.
    
    It’s not without hassles, he’s had to scrub vandalism from his “Go the Donald” sign on more than one occasion.
    
    When I first phoned the 63-year-old at his farm in Piopio – a town halfway between Hamilton and New Plymouth with a population of 396 – to request an interview, his response was abrasive……”
    
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12011884
    
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    April 2, 2018 9:04am
- GazzaW
  
  I honestly thought that this last bastion of wowserism had gone out the door years ago but then I was equally surprised to turn up at my local supermarket yesterday to find their doors shut. Nothing is going to change while the unions govern our country.
  
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  April 2, 2018 1:23pm
G152

Liebor will NEVER lose the Maori vote.
No matter how they get screwed over its Liebor all the way for them
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April 2, 2018 8:27am
- Komata
  
  G152
  
  Sadly, you are absolutely correct; Maori will continue to vote ‘Labour’ despite evidence to the contrary that it may not be in their best interests to do so.
  
  ‘Tribalism’ at play and at its worst…
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:33am
  - holysheet
    
    Maori vote? Do They in enough numbers to make a difference?
    
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    April 2, 2018 8:42am
    - Right of way is Way of Right
      
      They have 7 seats allocated for Maori, which in an MMP parliament holds a significant amount of power. Voting for a Maori based party would allow Maori to have a say at the top table, and the Maori Party were very aware of that. National knew that as well, which is why they chose to work with the Maori party and saw them as a viable coalition partner, even when they didn’t even need them to gain a majority.
      
      What did Labour offer Maori again? More benefits? Meanwhile the Maori voice is lost in the caucus, because they are now a part of the whole, not a stand alone voice!
      
      Meanwhile, the top two positions in the National Caucus are held by people with Maori ancestry.
      
      Honestly, when will Maori finally be sick and tired of being taken for granted by a Labour party that simply wants to consign them to the role of vote delivering beneficiaries?
      
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      April 2, 2018 9:40am
      - KiWombat
        
        Think back ROW. One of the benefits touted for the Maori seats and MMP was that it would give Maori an independent voice – which is basically what you are saying above.
        
        MMP did deliver an independent voice to Maori, and the Maori Party used that to good advantage, even while their percentage of the vote in Maori electorates was being eroded by Labour.
        
        Now all those platitudes about Maori having an independent voice are meaningless. Since the last election Maori have lost their voice, and we now see the most senior Labour Maori member backing away from his heritage to tow the party line.
        
        If the very premise upon which MMP was implemented no longer exists, then the time has come to dismantle MMP and replace it with another another electoral model. Our MMP model was and remains apartheid in nature, and this should not be the case in a nation like ours.
        
        Personally, I believe we should have a 99 seat Parliament. We should begin the process by culling 21 underperforming list MP’s – God knows, there are plenty to choose from !
        
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        April 2, 2018 11:12am
  - dubya
    
    There was an article the other day bemoaning the ‘Maori pay gap’. Blaming all the usual non-reasons, of course. My theory is that Maori are poorly paid on average because many do not do what is best for them – they are anti-individualist, and liable to act how they believe their peers think they should, which is often belligerent and scathing of academic success.
    
    It also explains why they keep voting Labour.
    
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    April 2, 2018 8:49am
    - KevOB
      
      Maori average IQ measured on an international comparative basis put them about 1 std deviation below the euro NZeder. That class are not likely to finish college and represent the lowest 16% of Kiwi euro society. How can Maori then achieve any better?
      
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      April 2, 2018 9:22am
    - Inandout
      
      dubya, I have in the past worked with both Islanders and Maoris. In one instance the Island chaps were happy to work their day out and pick up their reward on payday. The Maori workers on the other hand were union men one day, and the next were the boss’s men. They seemed to be fair weather types driven by whatever issue affected them on a particular day. A couple of them seemed to have an endless supply of dead ‘Uncles’ which required lengthy tangi-leave. I can only recount this situation, but speaking to other employers this is not that unusual.
      
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      April 2, 2018 9:25am
      - Longknives
        
        Ha Ha I had a bloke who disappeared for three weeks on Tangi Leave as his ‘Aunty’ had died up North.
        I phoned him after two weeks and some woman jumped onto the phone and threatened to get a lawyer onto me. A sneaky Facebook search showed the funeral was well over and he was actually in Australia.
        I spoke to my lawyer who told me this sort of situation is all too common but to tread carefully because Employment Court would almost inevitably rule in his favour. (He also advised me on another way to ‘skin the cat’ so to speak..)
        *Oh and it turned out it wasn’t his real Aunt after all…
        
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        April 2, 2018 4:07pm
    - KiWombat
      
      dubya I think the answer to your theory is in your own text – “Maori are poorly paid on average because – – ”
      
      Maori have the ability and the resources to be doing the paying, rather than working for somebody else.
      
      I know Maori who are bloody good farm managers and farm workers – they get good pay because they use their initiative, no doubt bolstered by endless contributions of resources from successive governments !
      
      And in the farm environment they are willing to get their hands dirty to get the job done !
      
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      April 2, 2018 11:22am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I wouldn’t be too sure.
  Labour lost the Maori vote when Peter Sharples and Tariana Turia mobilised support away from them.
  There is a growing well-educated population of middle-class Maori who are not falling for the old platitudes from Labour.
  If Labour fails to perform for them, these folks will again look elsewhere.
  
  It’s the PI vote that remains solidly Labour.
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:59am
  - KevOB
    
    What you are highlighting is that tribal Maori has no commonality: it’s each tribe for itself. The North is so fragmented with aspirant warring wannabe leaders they are barely a tribe.
    
    Pacific peoples have strong attachments to their respective islands. Where their leaders go they go.
    
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    April 2, 2018 9:31am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    With respect Maggy, the Māori Party lost support because Underpants Morgan was party leader. He has no respect in Māoridom either.
    The other problem was the Māori Party endorsement by the Ngaruawahia truck driver. Māori are more able to think for themselves than their ‘cash for appearances’ king gives them credit for.
    I think the Māori Party have got the message that there are some people you just don’t need on your side.
    
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    April 2, 2018 3:25pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Yep, I agree..
      the Maori Party only ever held a certain section of their potential vote.
      The alignment with Tainui seems to have been a death-stroke for them.
      
      But the possibilities are there for some strategic thinkers who can meld together the Maori with business and media acumen.
      
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      April 2, 2018 3:32pm
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Exactly, which makes it all the more bemusing that National decided they had to play the Maori card hard with Soimon and Paula as the leadership team.
  
  Virtue-signalling never works! If it did then the CoL wouldn’t be in such a mess!
  
  There is no point courting the Maori vote under MMP, there is a point in courting those floating votes on the centre-right that are deeply disturbed by the creeping racism against the majority non-maori population.
  
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  April 2, 2018 9:03am
  - stephieboy
    
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    DP, the irony factor here is that your deluded alt right ideas belong to a slither thin minority.
    
    Let us say umm 0.005 %?
    
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    April 2, 2018 9:07am
    - DifferentPerspective
      
      Sqwawk
      
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      April 2, 2018 9:14am
    - Inandout
      
      Echoooooo chamberrrrrrrrr!
      
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      April 2, 2018 9:27am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      “Sqwawk, screech, alt-right, screech, alt-right, sqwawk, pfft, small but ample breasts, alt-right, sqwawk.”
      
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      April 2, 2018 9:55am
      - Longknives
        
        “Sqwawk, screech, alt-right, screech, alt-right, sqwawk, pfft, small but ample breasts, alt-right, sqwawk.”
        
        Comment of the Day!
        Kudos Sir..
        
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        April 2, 2018 4:09pm
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      I just knew you’d fit that in somewhere.
      Galah
      
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      April 2, 2018 10:19am
- burt
  
  The fact we have a ‘Maori vote’ should be a source of shame but we take this apartheid and call it progressive.
  
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  April 2, 2018 11:28am
DigNap15

I see that many US teachers only get $40,000 a year and have to do other jobs to survive.
Another proof that our minimum wage is far to high.
(And our costs are too high as well)
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April 2, 2018 8:28am
- fernglas
  
  Perhaps it’s proof that US teacher salaries are too low? I agree, though, that NZ is too expensive. Let’s get it right. We are a third world economy with first world aspirations, and everybody is gouging everybody else to keep up.
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:34am
  - Viking2
    
    Yep. 11 people at $160,000 to run Plunket. Non for the nurses.
    Known as the Plunket Junket.
    
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    April 2, 2018 8:59am
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      This will hurt them too.
      They’ve had the last doller of mine they’ll see until they remember what they’re there for.
      
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      April 2, 2018 12:56pm
- noskire
  
  There is only one true minimum wage and it is $0.00.
  
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  April 2, 2018 9:29am
DigNap15

Its also time to get rid of the extra pay for workers on statutory days.
Many bars and restuarants are closed as they cant afford to pay the extra.
More proof that if the govt and union get involved workers are the ones that lose out. As they earn nothing on those days.
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April 2, 2018 8:30am
- tf78
  
  Maybe some restaurant/bar owners like time off too.
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:57am
  - fernglas
    
    They can take time off whenever they like. No-one is forcing them to open on statutory holidays, or on any day for that matter
    
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    April 2, 2018 9:29am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Fernglas is right. And stat. holidays are just when people would love to go out for an (affordable) meal.
    
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    April 2, 2018 12:30pm
- Happychappy
  
  Bullshit they get a day in Lou if they usually work that day. And many owners close through their religious believe which only amounts to three days a year.
  
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  April 2, 2018 9:43am
  - KiWombat
    
    “day in Lou”
    
    I just fell off my chair HC !
    
    Is that Louise or Louella ?
    
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    April 2, 2018 11:26am
    - Longknives
      
      I knew a 6 ft blonde girl called Lou at Varsity.
      Plenty of guys had a day in Lou…
      
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      April 2, 2018 4:11pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    ‘In lieu’, Happychappy :). French.
    
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    April 2, 2018 12:53pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    The day in lieu is only if they work the stat day.
    If an employee works a stat day they get time and a half and a day in lieu.
    If the employee does not work they get ordinary time for the hours the would normally work if the day was not a holiday.
    So, if the shop/cafe opens, the wage bill is 2.5 times higher than a normal day, and if the business closes they miss out on revenue.
    It is up to the employer to choose which suits best, but s/he should consult with staff as they cannot be forced to work a stat holiday.
    
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    April 2, 2018 1:04pm
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Quite so Shaun, and as I have pointed out frequently, Easter Sunday is NOT a Statutory Holiday. Good Friday and today are the Statutory Holidays over Easter weekend, and if anyone paid a surcharge yesterday, they got ripped off.
      
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      April 2, 2018 1:28pm
- Piniwi
  
  But DigNap15 things are about to get a whole lot worse and it was a bit of a surprise to see this headline on TV1. “Shots fired over Government’s labour law reform – puts in place ‘compulsory unionism’ Business NZ says.”
  Submissions closed on Good Friday and will now be before the select committee until August. It is a devious means to try yet again for compulsory unionism but there is a sliver of hope with worker rights to choose covered by some other heavy weight laws.
  
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  April 2, 2018 11:33pm
holysheet

Cheer up you miserable bastards, smile

A chap sees an advert in a pet shop window for a talking centipede, priced at $500. Thinking he”s found a bargain, he buys it and takes it home in a box. After about 30 minutes, he opens the box and politely asks if the centipede would like to go down the pub for a pint, but the centipede doesn”t answer, so a couple of minutes later, he asks again, but still no response. He starts to get a bit pissed off, and thinking he”s been done he shouts the question again, at which the centipede pops his head out of the box and says, “I heard you the first time you twat, I”m putting my shoes on!”
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April 2, 2018 8:30am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  holysheet thank you – that’s a gem!
  
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  April 2, 2018 9:05am
- kowtow
  
  What goes 99 clomp
  
  99 clomp ,99 clomp
  
  A centipede with a wooden leg.
  
  ——————-
  
  Guy goes into a pet shop .
  I want to buy a wasp .
  We don’t sell wasps .
  
  There’s one in the window.
  
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  April 2, 2018 9:13am
- noskire
  
  What’s the difference between a poor marksman and a constipated owl?
  One can shoot, but can’t hit…
  
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  April 2, 2018 9:32am
  - Don the Kiwi
    
    What’s the difference between an egg and a beetroot?
    
    You can beat an egg……………………….
    
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    April 2, 2018 9:58am
    - kowtow
      
      What’s the difference between a vitamin and a hormone?
      
      You can’t hear a vita min…….
      
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      April 2, 2018 11:26am
      - noskire
        
        And the only way to make a whore moan is by not paying her…
        
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        April 2, 2018 12:27pm
DigNap15

Re Hate speech.
Will the government be recording all the speeches made in mosques and publishing them so we can read what they are saying. (Hate speech ?)
Mosques can turn into madrassas, which are really evil.
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April 2, 2018 8:31am
- Komata
  
  DigNap15
  
  Re: ‘Will the government be recording all the speeches made in mosques and publishing them so we can read what they are saying. (Hate speech ?)’
  
  Surely Sir you jest; the CoL LOVES Middle Eastern immigrants (so long as they aren’t ‘Christians’; whom they instinctively hate), and wants to ‘import’ as many as they can. On that basis why would they even want to record such speeches let alone publish them? Islam is, after all ‘The religion of Peace’ and so fits in so well with the unicorns and rainbows, kittens and pwitty flowers that inhabit the minds of both Ms Adern and her compatriots…
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:39am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Indeed, after decades of criticising Christianity ‘progressives’ now seem to defend every religion and every cultural practice, however sexist, homophobic or violent. The hypocrisy is shattering.
    
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    April 2, 2018 12:58pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Classical Liberal, totally untrue. I for one have defended Muslims in our midst against every piece of paranoid hate and lies directed towards all of them.
      
      BTW tell us more about your Christian practice and observance ?
      
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      April 2, 2018 1:05pm
      - Manolo
        
        It is only fair. You are one of those Muslims, aren’t you?
        
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        April 2, 2018 1:12pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        SB: I’m an atheist. I’ve always criticised sexism and homophobia in Christianity and and want the same standards applied to all other religions too.
        
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        April 2, 2018 1:28pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Classical Liberal, all people living in our country are required to observe our laws whether Christian, Islamic or Atheist etc
        
        As an Atheist what concern is it to you if progressives like Sir Stephen Hawkings or Lord Russell criticise or attack Christianity?
        
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        April 2, 2018 1:35pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        SB, your stupidity is incredible. Every ideology should be analysed and criticised. ‘Progressives’ need to apply the same analysing and criticising ability to *all* religions.
        
        As for your belief that people won’t do anything illegal in NZ even if their ideology strongly guides them to – I lived in Europe long enough to know that that is vastly naive.
        
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        April 2, 2018 4:31pm
- stephieboy
  
  DiNap15 , on Kiwiblog too?
  
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  April 2, 2018 9:09am
- MH
  
  Aye,hoots mon.
  
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  April 2, 2018 10:03am
waikatogirl

Curran said yesterday on Q+A that “we need more NZ content”.

Do we?
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April 2, 2018 8:33am
- fernglas
  
  Not enough happens here to justify more NZ content in news and current affairs, and the entertainment programming is just plain bad . It’s bad enough to have to put up with the inane drivel we currently get without increasing the amount.
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:37am
  - waikatogirl
    
    There will be enough if the CoL are controlling that content. Anyone really believe RNZ+ won’t be the NZ version of CNN?!
    
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    April 2, 2018 8:52am
    - stephieboy
      
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      waikatogirl , we can take pride that it much more has not become another Faux Fox news.
      
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      April 2, 2018 9:11am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Bored yesterday morning I listened to some kids’ stories on National Radio. Some were quite amusing, but every single one had Maori children as the main (or only) characters.
    
    I’d call that pretty racist, actually.
    
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    April 2, 2018 1:02pm
- mandk
  
  A better question might be: Why do we need publicly funded broadcasting at all?
  
  If the govt wants to put out public information messages, they can be paid for in the normal way.
  
  The right to cut into broadcasts of commercial stations in the event of a civil defence emergency can be dealt with through the licencing system.
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:44am
  - stephieboy
    
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    mandk , so says a key member of 0.005% the country’s alt-right elite.
    
    LOL
    
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    April 2, 2018 9:14am
    - All_on_Red
      
      Stephie has Elite Creepy Status
      
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      April 2, 2018 9:19am
      - stephieboy
        
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        All on Red , honoury self appointed leader of that 0.005 % ?
        
        BTW , grasp the mettle at long last. Your cherished border wall is not going to be built.
        
        Have a sulk in MW’s arms
        
        LOL
        
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        April 2, 2018 9:25am
      - All_on_Red
        
        What on earth are you doing asking a 64 yo married woman the size of her underwear?
        What’s the matter with you
        
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        April 2, 2018 9:29am
    - mandk
      
      Instead of trying to insult me, stephieboy, why don’t you answer the question?
      
      Your reputation here on KB is well earned.
      
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      April 2, 2018 9:45am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      “Sqwawk, screech, alt-right, screech, alt-right, sqwawk, pfft, small but ample breasts, alt-right, sqwawk.”
      
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      April 2, 2018 9:59am
      - stephieboy
        
        CM , more to do with my defence of minorities here like Muslims who are constantly abused and denigrated by a bunch of inept and incompetent alt right fools that infest this blog.
        
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        April 2, 2018 11:21am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        And it’s best that Muslims are kept in the minority (small one) because look what happens when they get critical mass.
        
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        April 2, 2018 11:49am
      - stephieboy
        
        Critical mass??
        
        Such as?
        
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        April 2, 2018 1:37pm
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        France.
        
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        April 2, 2018 5:25pm
  - Kimbo
    
    @ mandk
    
    The rationale for public broadcasting is that the privately-owned, commercially-driven alternative in practice serves up “lowest common denominator” content as the primary offering. If you look, for example, in the US, their news media has gone down hill dramatically from, say 40 years ago. Major networks such as FOX, or MSNBC and CNN are deliberately tribal, and eschew any attempt at balance or objectivity. That’s fair enough in so far as any one media outlet is entitled to its editorial slant, but if in that collective process nuance and also important but non-commercially viable niches are ignored, then there is a rationale for public broadcasting. Not just in news, but in programming. The ad-free ABC in Australia, for example, is outstanding. But it costs.
    
    The problem comes that left-wing activists are not happy to leave it at that. Instead, they view public broadcasting as necessary to “even up” the propaganda battle that the VRWC is waging upon the workers and their interests through commercially-driven media. Sounds far-fetched, I know, but here, let Chris Trotter tell you how he and the likes of Curran view the rationale for public broadcasting:
    
    That was how Labour rolled back in the 1930s. Its socialist leaders understood what today’s Labour politicians do not. That the media – be it print, electronic and/or digital – is crucial to the success or failure of any government; and that without the support of at least a very substantial fraction of that media, the government’s ability to implement its policies will be severely compromised.
    
    Savage was well aware that his right-wing opponents could rely upon the unwavering support of the daily newspapers. That is why he was so keen for the new Labour Government to take control of the airwaves and appoint someone he could trust to run them. The Left needed to even-up the odds.
    
    It still does.
    
    http://bowalleyroad.blogspot.co.nz/
    
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    April 2, 2018 10:00am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Wow Kimbo, great find! Chris Trotter at least is being transparent about the Left bias.
      
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      April 2, 2018 1:10pm
      - Kimbo
        
        No, no credit to me. One of Kiwiblog’s “Four Horsemen of the Labour/Green Parliamentary press corp”, Psycho Milt (the other three are ztev, ross001, and marquess)
        
        …posted it here a few days ago. And with precisely that argument.
        
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        April 2, 2018 1:19pm
      - Kimbo
        
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/03/verdicts_on_labour.html
        
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        April 2, 2018 1:24pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Well, they really can be great chaps :)!
        
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        April 2, 2018 1:31pm
- holysheet
  
  Get it right WG.
  By “NZ content”, she meant maori content.
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:45am
  - noskire
    
    And PI content.
    And lesbian content.
    And transgender content.
    etc ad nauseam…
    
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    April 2, 2018 9:36am
    - MH
      
      i never tune into Noisy M, ( 1YA )
      
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      April 2, 2018 10:07am
- AgainstTheFlow
  
  The arts community/tax spongers certainly feel that way.
  
  And they can be relied upon come election year to talk up Labour’s achievements (well, good intentions).
  So it’s another CoL supporter group getting a nose in the trough.
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:50am
- Harkman
  
  Yes, and she said more “pasifika” content. Yes, but in what Pacific Islands language, I don’t think she realises that there is more than one.
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:57am
- tf78
  
  Probably more fishing shows with Clark and scone baking with Cindy.
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:59am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  waikatogirl – but what she meant was:
  
  “We need more state-funded leftist propaganda”
  
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  April 2, 2018 9:07am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Do we?
  
  I would prefer a lot less in the music, short-story, “light entertainment” line.
  There’s a whole world of music, literature, general knowledge articles that we could be exposed to.
  I have no need to hear a Dave Dobbyn or Bic Runga song every day.
  It is such a relief when a BBC item is played on ~~National~~ RNZ.
  
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  April 2, 2018 9:07am
  - Longknives
    
    Dear God- If I had to listen to Dave ‘Bring all the Boat People here’ Dobbyn or Bic Runga every day I would quite likely go Postal..
    
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    April 2, 2018 4:16pm
    - Kimbo
      
      And Split Enz or any manifestation of the Finns. Over bloody rated. Plus I remember Neil Finn a few years ago opining, as artists who are smarter than the rest of us do from time to time, that taxpayers should fund youth radio so that “teenagers have a voice”. Yeah, like teenagers don’t already let you know what they don’t like, and yet you want to pay them to complain to thousands more via the wireless?!
      
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      April 2, 2018 4:25pm
      - Longknives
        
        Now Dragon- there was a real Kiwi band Kimbo!
        No political involvement or pontificating from the mighty Hunter brothers from Taumarunui!
        
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        April 2, 2018 4:45pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        So Neil hasn’t heard of that new thing, the ‘internet’, in which anyone wanting to write a ‘blog’ or create a ‘video’ can just – well, do it! Ah, the poor old bugger, thinks the teens still want the wireless…
        
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        April 2, 2018 5:43pm
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    About 10 years ago I did a tour around Europe.
    No sooner on the bus, the guide welcomed us aboard with a round of Dobbyn and was stunned when all the Kiwis groaned and asked for that shit to be turned off. It was the first time I realised it wasn’t just me.
    
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    April 2, 2018 11:05pm
- Southern Raider
  
  There is shit loads of NZ content. It’s all tied up by TVNZ and will never see the light of day as TVNZ has no incentive to broadcast it instead of all that shit reality TV.
  
  TVNZ controls the NZ archives
  
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  April 2, 2018 10:02am
- Peter
  
  The internet is stuffed full of NZ content. Like this site, for example.
  
  I guess it’s not “state approved” content.
  
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  April 2, 2018 10:25am
- KiWombat
  
  Don’t take her too seriously WG.
  
  There’s rarely an iota of common sense coming out of her mouth !
  
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  April 2, 2018 11:28am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Thanks for the heads up KiW, but I’m up to play on Curran, and her vacant expression. ?
    
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    April 2, 2018 12:17pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Hard not to take it seriously when a government wants to up our taxes to pay for more propaganda!
    
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    April 2, 2018 5:44pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Haven’t watched any local content in years, suspect majority of kiwis are like me. Reality TV and soaps are unwatchable shite, and news/current affairs is stomach turning with brain dead level of insight and over the top push of leftie agendas.
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:27pm
Happychappy

I read somewhere this morning that Andrew Little was going to release a policy on prisons in the next couple of weeks and now I can’t find the article, so am wondering if Labour have decided to get rid of all their bad news to go with their summer camp and
sexual assaults, with their inept Ministers fuckups of the past two weeks.
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April 2, 2018 8:38am
- holysheet
  
  Dream on HC. As time progresses, we will see more self inflicted fuckups from this useless bunch of wankers.
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:55am
- Viking2
  
  Be interesting to see it when it comes. He has taken a bit of a stand against the Justice system and its obnoxious bits as well as the some of the Law practices used.
  
  We wait.
  
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  April 2, 2018 9:41am
  - Happychappy
    
    What I want to know will the the health and safety law that they have just changed after owners got away with out being charged over the ChristChurch earthquake apply to politicians when releasing prisoners from jail early and they commit a violent crime that results in death.
    
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    April 2, 2018 9:53am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  He was planning a “national conversation”, i.e. a criminal justice summit… at a date unspecified.
  https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/little-lays-out-plan-cut-prison-population
  
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  April 2, 2018 10:51am
Manolo

The Green lying never stops:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/102690562/Climate-change-is-a-global-problem-and-one-we-can-all-help-tackle
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April 2, 2018 8:40am
- stephieboy
  
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  Manolo, lying or not they at least can command more votes than the abysmal NZ alt right could ever hope to gain.
  
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  April 2, 2018 9:17am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    What do you even mean by alt right?
    You senselessly parrot the term several times a day.
    
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    April 2, 2018 11:09pm
lilman

Why would anyone listen to anything Curran says as she is a proven liar.
She lies all the time.
Dumb and a liar.

Jacinda -we can do better!
-we can go into the mine !
-we have no spies!
-NZFirst says they didnt pressure anyone!
-it was victim lead response to assault
-I wasnt aware of this!

A lying bunch of arseholes.

Christ it makes you sick.
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April 2, 2018 8:47am
- stephieboy
  
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  lilman , I bet they can’t match the father of all lies, Donald Trump
  
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  April 2, 2018 9:18am
  - lilman
    
    No the father of all lies is your dad,when he says he proud of what you have become.
    
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    April 2, 2018 9:34am
    - pseudonymous
      
      I thought the stupid one was pissed on the wall and hatched in the sun!!
      
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      April 2, 2018 11:02am
  - Viking2
    
    at 42% approval and rising. you are a fuckwit silly boy.
    
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    April 2, 2018 9:42am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Why would you bring Trump into a discussion on NZ politics?
    Please try to stay on the same half of the planet as the rest of us.
    
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    April 3, 2018 12:56am
Harkman

While on here yesterday, I looked up what percentage Winston First actually got, I couldn’t remember if it was 6%, 7% or 5.something%. My quick “2017 NZ election” google search revealed a Wikipedia page with one little pic underneath of the walking, talking, breathing dentistry-bill with caption “winner.” Amazing how the left have already sanitized the history of the event. In 20 years the teacher’s curriculum will have changed it so that the Airhead beat Bill by 20% for self-assurance. Then some industrious student will investigate it for a masters thesis and prove that Bill English actually beat the Airhead by 6-7%, only to be shafted by Winnie, who rorted the democratic process. Naturally, that kid will be banned from all uni campuses for hate speech and labelled a fascist, with his thesis completely rejected as a fantasy by clones of Steve Maharey and Bryan Gould.
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April 2, 2018 8:52am
- dubya
  
  Very prescient, but I don’t think it’ll be clones of Gould and Maharey in twenty years time – they’ll both still be sucking at the tit in their dotage.
  
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  April 2, 2018 9:01am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Bryan Gould is 79 years old.
    I think he well and truly qualifies as an old white man.
    Perhaps Ms Genter can have a word in his ear as he is on the Board of TVNZ.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Gould
    
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    April 2, 2018 9:13am
    - Viking2
      
      Hahahaha. 😆
      
      Couldn’t happen to a nicer chap.
      Call GAG today.
      
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      April 2, 2018 9:44am
- KiWombat
  
  Interesting what you can do with numbers, isn’t it Harkman?
  
  “Bill” received about 620% more votes than “Winnie” yet WeeWinnie gets to drive the ship (“Airhead” is just the helmsman!)
  
  Not to forget that WeeWinnie had so little support that he actually lost his electorate seat, for the third time !
  
  Surely that qualifies for a new Wikipedia page under heading “The Biggest Loser!”
  
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  April 2, 2018 9:11am
  - Right of way is Way of Right
    
    The fact is, after all of that, he is still the Deputy Prime Minister, which is even more of an indictment of MMP than Alamein Kopu ever was!
    
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    April 2, 2018 9:44am
- GoVege
  
  I’ll never forget Steve saying “family size is a matter of personal choice”.
  But apparently not supporting and educating the family…
  
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  April 2, 2018 9:22am
cas

I see the house isn’t sitting while CHOGHM is on and Winnie/Cindy are away. is this to protect Kelvin?
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April 2, 2018 9:30am
- Anne Glen Eden
  
  Protect everyone. The best possibility of staying out of trouble is to shut it down and go on holiday. As I say, ‘nothing to see here’. No ‘nose to the grindstone’ required.
  
  A lot like riding the bike or driving the car and letting go the steering, joyously crying, “Look! No hands.”
  
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  April 2, 2018 9:44am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Are they all off on the junket?
  
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  April 3, 2018 12:57am
Anne Glen Eden

Further example of Labour’s ‘honesty’ – or more to the point completely fraudulent PR spin on the truth, including by the MSM – can be found in the NZH this morning – announcement/headline “Roberston to check out how to host games”.

You have to say he IS being transparent:

“…he is making no commitment for New Zealand to host or even bid to host for the next unallocated hosting rights in 2026 or 2030… I’m certainly not committing to that … But I’m certainly not committing to us hosting it or even bidding for it…”

The truth is, Roberston wants to go and is going to the Gold Coast and/or Commonwealth Games for a holiday. I’m sure a lot of people in Labour need one but I don’t know that he needs it more than some others.

In order to make it acceptable to the public that he swan off to the Gold Coast, as probably a lot of people would like to do, he says, “one of the things I want to do WHEN I go to the Gold Coast …”

I know they all do it, all the time, but it’s just a junket with a fraudulent veneer, typical of everything else Labour do. Clearly, he’s very laid back about the NZ economy – none of that ‘nose to the grindstone’ for him.
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April 2, 2018 9:30am
- KiWombat
  
  McDonalds is offering a new McRobbo value meal – you order anything you like and the bloke behind you gets to pay for it !
  
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  April 2, 2018 11:31am
- KKKKatee
  
  He’s in denial about the Budget he’s about to present. He needs a distraction at the moment because his worst nightmare is about to come true i.e. the $11.6B fiscal hole is far greater than Steven Joyce predicted. He’s been away an awful lot for a genius who’s supposed to be working on the Budget. In reality, what’s he running from?
  
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  April 2, 2018 11:39am
  - stigie
    
    In reality, what’s he running from?
    
    Alf’s introduced a new friend, hung like a horse !~
    
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    April 2, 2018 12:51pm
Hugh Pavletich

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In case you missed this yesterday …

Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/03/macro-afternoon-393/#comment-3079568 … and … https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/04/general_debate_easter_sunday_2018.html/comment-page-1#comment-2175880

WHY BUILDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS A NONSENSE ISSUE …

… WATCH THESE THREE IMPORTANT SHORT VIDEOS …

… NOTE IN PARTICULAR HOW BILL LEVITT (NEW HOUSING) AND MALCOM McLEAN (CONTAINERIZATION) TALKED STRAIGHT. THEY DIDN’T WAFFLE …

Bill and Alfred Levitt figured out how to supply new housing at or below $10,000 after World War 11 … when access to low cost products was extremely difficult and often impossible … VIEW & READ more via hyperlinks above …
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April 2, 2018 9:38am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
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  THE LIKELY KIWIBUILD TRAINWRECK …
  
  A repeat of the British housing disaster … another bureaucratic lunatic asylum …
  
  Inquiry. The Great British Housing Disaster (Adam Curtis, 1984) – YouTube
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch5VorymiL4
  
  Notice how the language within the above video is eerily similar to the Kiwibuild drivel.
  
  Repeating the mistakes of history.
  
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  April 2, 2018 9:52am
  - Harkman
    
    Hang on a minute, for the last year on here you have been rubbishing the “Tories” for not doing a Kiwibuild-like scheme. You have even promoted Kiwibuild on here. Then you get to see that Kiwibuild is really a Marxist malaise, and then suddenly you no longer like Kiwibuild. Disappointing consistency Hugh.
    
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    April 2, 2018 10:13am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      Harkman … wrong.
      
      What I have consistently supported within Labours housing policies is the following …
      
      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.
      .
      .
      Check out the following as well …
      
      1 Demograsphia Survey Media Release and my message within the Survey Introduction … http://www.demographia.com
      
      2. The Ardern / Twyford section at http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org
      
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      April 2, 2018 10:25am
  - Happychappy
    
    And you watch the know all Hugh jump ship as soon as Labours plan starts to fail. Hugh is a bitter twisted moron that only backs his way of thinking.
    
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    April 2, 2018 11:17am
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      … while others, such as Happychappy, who were willing to support National and Nick Smith for another 3 years !
      
      Note what economist Rodney Dickens had to say about the Nick Smith years …
      
      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
      
      … and too … the GONE GONE GOING section at http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org
      
      All that Labour has to do really ( by abolishing urban limits and bond financing infrastructure ) is allow increasingly affordable new housing to be built on the urban fringes … which will in turn allow all other forms of development to become increasingly affordable as well.
      
      If that happens … they could be in government for the next 15 years … not 9 as I suggested elsewhere to Captain Mainwaring.
      
      Housing is THE BIG political decider.
      
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      April 2, 2018 12:20pm
      - Happychappy
        
        Lets get it right Hugh I did not and do not support Nick Smith as housing Minister,and I do support him being the them MP for Nelson as he won the seat and has maintained a healthy majority for over eighteen years. This seat was a Labour strong hold for several years and there is no way and no one other than Smith that could have retained it for National.
        
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        April 2, 2018 2:08pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  “In case you missed this yesterday …”
  
  Yes Hugh, I and thousands of others DID miss it yesterday.
  On purpose.
  
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  April 2, 2018 10:03am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
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    Captain … no doubt you already fully understand the structural basics of affordable housing markets … excerpt from yesterday …
    
    … so that today …
    
    1. Standard detached housing should not cost any more than 3.0 times annual household incomes of specific metros ( refer Annual Demographia Surveys ; recent Glaeser & Gyourko paper ; recent Reserve Bank of Australia paper ).
    
    2. New fringe starter house and land packages should cost around 2.5 times … at development ratios of 20% serviced lot and the balance construction ( Definition of an affordable housing market http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning ).
    
    3. Apartment / townhouses should be around 2.0 times ( to illustrate refer Houston Association of Realtors Monthly Report ).
    
    4. Fringe manufactured house and land packages should be around 1.5 times ( refer Leaky Homes And An Architect’s Musing’s | Scoop News March 2010 published Interest Co NZ as ‘Houston: We have a housing affordability problem’ … extract below General Email) .
    
    Following 13+ years of intense public discussion of these issues in New Zealand, there is no excuse not to have a sound grasp of these ‘structural basics’.
    
    After all … housing development and construction is a very formulaic business today.
    
    With the gross annual median household income in Auckland now about $94,000 (refer Demographia Survey schedules) … the detached median house prices should not exceed $282,000 … fringe starter house & land packages $235,000 … apartments / townhouses $188,000 and fringe manufactured house & land packages about $141,000
    
    Have Auckland Mayor Phil Goff and New Zealand Housing Minister Phil Twyford told you this ?
    
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    April 2, 2018 10:16am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Hugh, try and direct your crap at someone who gives a fuck.
      
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      April 2, 2018 10:26am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
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        … which is why the Tories got tossed on to the Opposition benches late last year … because they didn’t care.
        
        You should be treating the next nine idle / irrelevant years as an opportunity to read and learn.
        
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        April 2, 2018 10:32am
    - KevOB
      
      Housing costs are theoretical for bystanders but not buyers. We are a very small country with our supply lines I suspect well tied down by hopeful monopolists. Building costs are what the market will bear. Also we are living through an asset bubble in global house prices caused by excessive central bank credit creation. It’s a dream until the money supply is reigned in for house prices to get back to even 6 x income. I sure that buildings costs are priced to reflect the asset bubble selling prices. The rule in the market is buy cheap sell dear. It would appear absurd for the components of a house to only add up to ½ the market selling price.
      
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      April 2, 2018 12:13pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Zoning regulations adding hundreds of thousands dollars to price of new houses: RBA – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
        
        http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-08/zoning-regulations-adding-fortune-to-land-prices/9527882
        
        Fancy handing over an extra $500,000 for your brand new house just because government regulations restrict the supply of land for property
        
        No? Too bad, because that is the effective tax extracted for the average new house-and-land package in Sydney due to the impact of zoning regulations.
        
        It’s not just Sydney. … read more via hyperlink above …
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        Back early 2005 … 13+ years ago … I explained in $ terms, the whopping differences at the time between Houston and Sydney … within the 1st Annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey …
        
        International Housing Affordability Rankings: Pavletich Properties Press Release
        
        http://www.demographia.com/dhi-pavrls.htm
        
        Demographia: International Housing Affordabilty: February 2005 Issue
        
        http://www.demographia.com/dhi-200502.htm
        
        … extract …
        
        … Lets compare Houston, USA and Sydney, Australia. Expressed in local currencies, the median household incomes for both cities were, during 2004 ( in local currencies ) $50,400 and $57,100, with median house prices of $138,350 and $505,000 respectively. So it would take 8.8 years of median household income for a Sydneyite to purchase a median priced home, but just 2.7 years of median household income for an Houstonian.
        
        Expressed another way, if the Sydneyite on the median household income, was to get the same deal as her counterpart in Houston, she should only be required to pay 2.7 times her household income of $57,100 – that is $154,170 ( $57,100 x 2.7 ), some $350,830 ( $505,000 – $154,170 ) less than she is currently forced to pay. … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        April 2, 2018 12:31pm
- Peter
  
  Hugh, you post some interesting stuff (Watching the Great British Housing Disaster)
  
  Might I suggest you change your approach slightly? Capitalisation looks like shouting. Constant long posts on a single topic just looks like spam, no matter how compelling the content.
  
  You may get more take-up if you play to the audience. Spoonful of sugar and all that….
  
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  April 2, 2018 11:06am
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Peter … thanks for the thoughtful comments !
    
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    April 2, 2018 12:34pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    And try to shorten your messages, too.
    
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    April 2, 2018 1:18pm
    - Hugh Pavletich
      
      Classic Liberal … there is a MUCH BIGGER issue here …
      
      Why has National handed the housing issue (… and the government) to Labour … on a plate ?
      
      Former Deputy Editor of the UK (Tory) Telegraph has been beating up on his fellow UK Tories for years, about the failures on housing issues … e.g. this cracker from back in 2015 …
      
      The real ticking time bomb for the Tories is home ownership – Telegraph
      
      https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/11917816/The-real-ticking-time-bomb-for-the-Tories-is-home-ownership.html
      
      … with access to plenty more …
      
      https://www.google.co.nz/search?source=hp&ei=bbPBWruLIMLS8wWSu5SICw&q=telegraph+heath+tories+housing&oq=telegraph+heath+tories+housing&gs_l=psy-ab.12…5765.30630.0.33832.32.29.0.2.2.0.468.5843.2-16j5j1.23.0….0…1c.1.64.psy-ab..7.20.4779.0..0j0i131k1j0i10k1j0i22i30k1j33i22i29i30k1j33i160k1.191.lE9aqN8soDk
      
      When does the NZ National Party intend to start analysing why it handed the housing issue … and government … to the Labour Party on a plate ?
      
      Suburbia is supposed to be ‘the cradle of conservatism’.
      
      Unbelievable failure !
      
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      April 2, 2018 4:59pm
      - Luke Piewalker
        
        Seriously dude. Go away. No one reads your shit.
        
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        April 2, 2018 5:34pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Not untrue, Hugh. I’d agree that housing (and, related, immigration) is the topic that handed Liebore the election.
        
        But people are tired of your one topic.
        
        Ah well, I guess we all have our pet topics we like to bring up here – as Lefties do on their forums.
        
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        April 2, 2018 5:58pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        That’s enough masturbation for today, Hugh. Give it a rest for goodness sske!
        
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        April 2, 2018 6:42pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Classic Liberal … Unfortunately, housing is still very much the major issue … mainly because the previous National led government failed to deal with it effectively over an extremely long period of 9 years.
        
        It is not realistic to expect the National Party to just brush the issue under the carpet.
        
        I sure do wish National had solved the problem !
        
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        April 2, 2018 6:50pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Oh, goody, a downtick. I can downtick you too, Hugh, you self-absorbed bore!
        
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        April 2, 2018 7:27pm
      - nasska
        
        …..”you self-absorbed bore”…..
        
        Abject flattery!
        
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        April 2, 2018 7:35pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Nasska:
        
        I think Hugh’s wanking hand blocks his view of the screen. So any praise from us for his copy-and-paste efforts are wasted! (I see he’s swapped mouse hands to do some more downticking…)
        
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        April 2, 2018 7:43pm
      - Viking2
        
        For some one so involved in housing Hugh you make a cock of yourself.
        Hugh Pavletich
        
        Classic Liberal … Unfortunately, housing is still very much the major issue … mainly because the previous National led government failed to deal with it effectively over an extremely long period of 9 years.
        
        If you can recall (well maybe you can’t with demntia), 9 years ago NZ was losing a plane load of people each week. A shaming statistic that was the reality of the two previous govt.’s.
        At that time house prices went well down and indeed there were empty house all over the place and tenants became rarer than rocking horse shit in many area’s.
        The Nats managed to turn that failure of the previous 18 tears around and people started coming home. The movement became a torrent and was boosted by other immigrants, but still the biggest number is returning Kiwi’s. Many in our area reclaimed their houses that they had rented out a low rates because they couldn’t sell the.
        
        The so called shortage of houses has only been around for 3 years and then it is a false construct of the Labour Party. More it was a shortage of decent tenants with the scum being booted out to live in a hedge till they learnt some respect.
        We still are not short of houses. We only have 2.7 persons per dwelling. compare that to say Mumbai. I know we don’t like that but the reality is that we are not short of housing. We just have a lot of people who don’t like living together. ( I’m one).
        Of course our success in tourism helps. Airbnb and Book a batch have an effect but without them out tourists would be sleeping on the beeches.
        
        This govt. will stop house building in its tracks. I am already aware of people who are slowing their building programs. The just think that there ain’t going to be a market.
        
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        April 2, 2018 7:56pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Viking2 … Clearly you are clueless about the structural basics. To repeat …
        
        1. Standard detached housing should not cost any more than 3.0 times annual household incomes of specific metros ( refer Annual Demographia Surveys ; recent Glaeser & Gyourko paper ; recent Reserve Bank of Australia paper ).
        
        2. New fringe starter house and land packages should cost around 2.5 times … at development ratios of 20% serviced lot and the balance construction ( Definition of an affordable housing market http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning ).
        
        3. Apartment / townhouses should be around 2.0 times ( to illustrate refer Houston Association of Realtors Monthly Report ).
        
        4. Fringe manufactured house and land packages should be around 1.5 times ( refer Leaky Homes And An Architect’s Musing’s | Scoop News March 2010 published Interest Co NZ as ‘Houston: We have a housing affordability problem’ … extract below General Email) .
        
        Following 13+ years of intense public discussion of these issues in New Zealand, there is no excuse not to have a sound grasp of these ‘structural basics’.
        
        After all … housing development and construction is a very formulaic business today.
        
        With the gross annual median household income in Auckland now about $94,000 (refer Demographia Survey schedules) … the detached median house prices should not exceed $282,000 … fringe starter house & land packages $235,000 … apartments / townhouses $188,000 and fringe manufactured house & land packages about $141,000
        
        Have Auckland Mayor Phil Goff and New Zealand Housing Minister Phil Twyford told you this ?
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        Point 4 above. Back early 2010 I wrote ‘Leaky Homes And An Architect’s Musing’s ( http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1003/S00799/leaky-homes-and-an-architects-musings.htm ) , which appeared around the same time at Interest Co NZ as ‘Houston: we have a housing affordability problem’.
        
        … extract …
        
        … I was in Houston a couple of years back as part of a housing study tour. At that stage, 235 square metre new fringe starter housing on 700 square metre lots, was being put in place for $US140,000. These comprised a double garage, 4 bedroom, master with ensuite, separate dining room and ducted air conditioning. The serviced lot cost was $US30,000 and the actual housing construction cost $US110,000. The construction cost for the 235 square metre house worked out at $US468 per square metre – all up development costs (land and building) for the 235 square metre house with 700 square metre lot – $US595.
        
        Manufactured housing of 160 square metres on large lots was being put in place for $US73,000 – $53,000 for the manufactured house and around $US20,000 for the serviced lot. $US331 per square metre manufactured unit construction – $US456 per square metre all up (land and manufactured house). … read more via hyperlink above …
        
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        April 3, 2018 4:13am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        WHY BUILDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS A NONSENSE ISSUE …
        
        … WATCH THESE THREE IMPORTANT SHORT VIDEOS …
        
        … NOTE IN PARTICULAR HOW BILL LEVITT (NEW HOUSING) AND MALCOM McLEAN (CONTAINERIZATION) TALKED STRAIGHT. THEY DIDN’T WAFFLE …
        
        Bill and Alfred Levitt figured out how to supply new housing at or below $10,000 after World War 11 … when access to low cost products was extremely difficult and often impossible …
        
        This Man Is the Father of Modern American Suburbia | Smithsonian
        
        https://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/smithsonian-channel/this-man-is-the-father-of-modern-american-su/
        
        … then … soon after … Malcom McLean created the modern container industry … dropping shipping costs dramatically … for example with what cost $6 with break – bulk cargo handling to just 16 cents with containerization ! …
        
        The Power of Outsiders – Video – NYTimes.com
        
        https://www.nytimes.com/video/business/100000004807604/the-power-of-outsiders.html
        
        … note here the extremely small costs of shipping selected items around the planet … so that transportation costs are pretty much irrelevant today in the whole scheme of things (thank you Malcom McLean ! ) …
        
        Malcom McLean and Containerisation | Maersk Line – YouTube
        
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq8UU9kafJ0
        
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        April 3, 2018 4:34am
Justitia

New Zealand is in serious trouble. We have an incompetent and rudderless government with no credibility. We have lacklustre opposition which appears to have been penetrated by the Chinese Communist Party. We have 500 Maori claims to the whole New Zealand coastline coming down the pike which have the potential to blow communities apart and cause civil disorder. All this on top of the immense social and infrastructure pressures generated by excessive low-skilled immigration to bump up GDP figures. It is a deeply worrying recipe for disaster.
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April 2, 2018 10:02am
- MH
  
  some of the above facts could only be sourced from spy sites. Has the jaws of life, Ms Ardern, been informed?
  
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  April 2, 2018 10:17am
- wiseowl
  
  Justitia
  Correct on all counts.
  
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  April 2, 2018 11:18am
  - Justitia
    
    Thank you Wiseowl. As a kiwi born and bred who is committed to this wonderful country I don’t take any pleasure from making these observations but I make them because I am very concerned by what I see. There don’t appear to be any solutions on the near horizon.
    
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    April 2, 2018 11:46am
    - stephieboy
      
      Justiita , the wheels fall completely off with this inane and dumb comment,
      
      “We have lacklustre opposition which appears to have been penetrated by the Chinese Communist Party”
      
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      April 2, 2018 4:04pm
      - Justitia
        
        stephieboy, and it is a great pleasure to receive a comment from you for the first time, I consider Professor Anne-Marie Brady has demonstrated this point very clearly with her substantive research paper “Magic Weapons”.
        
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        April 2, 2018 5:58pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Justiita , I would like you to furnish more in terms of facts and evidence with so-called ” lacklustre opposition “
        
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        April 2, 2018 6:07pm
- kowtow
  
  Justitia , you clearly haven’t got the memo.
  
  We’re meant to be obsessing over Trump , Putin or Maori grievances and other identity politics issues.
  
  You must ignore the fact that our political class have sold New Zealand down a Chinese/Maori river without a paddle.
  
  Our infrastructure is falling apart and for the past 20 years the pollies have been throwing away taxpayer money on the Maori elites and what has the rest of New Zealand got to show for it?
  
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  April 2, 2018 11:40am
  - Justitia
    
    Yes indeed Kowtow.
    
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    April 2, 2018 11:48am
    - wiseowl
      
      Justitia.
      If you watch skynews on ch 85 ,in particular Peta Credlin, Andrew Bolt and the ‘Outsiders’ programme they cover many issues in Australia that are similar to NZ.
      Not worth watching anything on NZ TV.
      
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      April 2, 2018 12:01pm
      - Justitia
        
        Thanks for that.
        
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        April 2, 2018 3:56pm
- Anne Glen Eden
  
  I think that’s an understatement. We have an incompetent and rudderless (global) society with proliferating laws about all manner of things and the least observance which anyone can manage if it’s in their particular interests. All energy goes into covering up the ‘sins’ and projecting ‘nirvana’.
  
  Every interest group claims all special rights to everything. It’s an exercise in exponential growth of human greed for everything, contingent upon removing it from everyone else.
  
  All communities have been ripped apart, cannibalised, and recreated in a fantasy image with consequent civil disorder right down to an anarchic individual level which is only growing, everywhere.
  
  Much of the ‘growth’ people talk of, certainly in financial terms, is based on absolutely nothing – let alone nothing of value.
  
  All past civilisations have self-destructed and none of their ‘great and good’ saw it coming – or if they did, believed they’d be ‘okay’- the masses just believing the lies and so inured in the daily slog, they don’t see the forest for the trees.
  
  It’s our turn.
  
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  April 2, 2018 12:00pm
  - stephieboy
    
    drone on… ZZZzzz …!
    
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    April 2, 2018 4:05pm
- stephieboy
  
  Justita,
  
  Insiders panellists mock Peta Credlin over her excruciating TV moment
  
  PETA Credlin was at the centre of an excruciating TV moment this week, and the ABC’s Insiders panel could not resist having a few digs at her.
  
  http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/insiders-panellists-mock-peta-credlin-over-her-excruciating-tv-moment/news-story/14cdb1390732e573d9bb719c534c2b74
  
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  April 2, 2018 6:11pm
noskire

Christchurch City Council’s flash new Lichfield St car park building loses $18k in a month:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/better-business/102701466/christchurch-city-councils-flash-new-lichfield-st-car-park-building-loses-18k-in-a-month
How the fuck does it cost $87k a month to run a frickin car park!!!
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April 2, 2018 10:46am
- calendar girl
  
  How much was the capital cost of the facility, including the value of the underlying land?
  
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  April 2, 2018 3:31pm
  - noskire
    
    $31.3 million according to the article.
    
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    April 2, 2018 7:03pm
    - noskire
      
      Which raises an interesting point – did the Council borrow the money? If so, what interest rate is Council paying on a $31m loan? And add to that $18k every month.
      
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      April 2, 2018 7:13pm
      - GazzaW
        
        Just to service the interest around $135,000k monthly so $18k is plain petty cash to Ch’ch City.
        
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        April 2, 2018 8:32pm
Manolo

Will he make money?
http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/381145-comeys-book-tour-is-a-colossal-mistake

Announcements of scheduled appearances for the widely anticipated $850-to-attend book tour by fired FBI Director James Comey foreshadow a much-ballyhooed return to the public square. Media outlets eagerly booked the former director, and his opus, “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership,” briefly jumped to No. 1 on Amazon’s best-seller list.

But should Comey — a central witness in special counsel Robert Mueller probe — be making public his version of events which will certainly differ significantly with what President Trump, the central target in the special prosecutor’s probe, has repeatedly stated?
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April 2, 2018 10:49am
- Viking2
  
  You can bet the Demo’s have paid for this. Or their funders.
  
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  April 2, 2018 11:00am
  - stephieboy
    
    V2, as if you would know!
    
    Sigh
    
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    April 2, 2018 12:55pm
Komata

HUGH

‘Tories’!! Really? So ‘English’ and SOOO last century! Not a word used in NZ politics old chap; suggest you get with the times.

(Your ancestry appears to be showing…)
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April 2, 2018 11:07am
stigie

Im just getting a working group together along with an advisory committee to have a conversation on who Kiwibloggers would rather prefer:- Stephieboi or Philu (Phool)
Who’s got the most talent..?
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April 2, 2018 12:35pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Stigie:
  
  Hugh is spraying his load above – left, right and centre. Perhaps he wants to be in the running for Kiwiblog’s Got Talentl?
  
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  April 2, 2018 1:36pm
starboard

I thought Phil U had died? Visiting his Whoar ‘blog’
you would think so, distinct smell of stale death about it..few tumbleweeds, couple of vultures walking around, eerie silence..
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April 2, 2018 12:39pm
- Longknives
  
  Philu told us he had sold ‘Whoar’ for massive $$$ to a wealthy American buyer remember??
  
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  April 2, 2018 4:20pm
cmm

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12024585

Well there’s one voter for Jacinda. Need another 999,999 to make up the missing million.
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April 2, 2018 1:04pm
- niggly
  
  “However, one person wasn’t impressed with the hilarity replying “no wonder they not getting any real work done”.”
  
  The person who said that deserves 10 out of 10!
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:19pm
SPC

Palestinians of Gaza planned a protest at the border (involving a tent settlement until May 15) over their refugee status (most of the Palestinains in Gaza are 1948 era regfugees).

Israel told them not to go to close to the border fence, or they would be killed (they sent in hundreds of snipers). Two picking parsley from a field near the fence were hit by a tank shell, those killed since unarmed men in Gaza territory shot by snipers.

Reminds me more of unarmed protestors shot in the streets of Damascus some years ago, than justified self defence by Israel.

Naturally there has been criticism, but of all people it has come from Erdogan of Turkey – who criticised Israel over the occupation of Palestinian land and killing of unarmed civilians, this while Turkey is occupying parts of Syria and shelling the Kurdish town of Afrin.

Tough neighbourhood, the only place in the world where governments supply weapons to their favourite armed group of militants.
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April 2, 2018 1:12pm
- kowtow
  
  Jamaica , a Commonwealth member was one .
  
  “In both Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, the state has played an integral role in combating crime, but it is also responsible for creating the conditions for it to proliferate. In the 1970s the two main political parties in Jamaica helped to organise and arm residents in urban slums, producing “garrison communities”, where gangs controlled the streets at the behest of politicians and marshalled voters at election time.”
  
  https://www.economist.com/node/10903343
  
  Any number of commie shitholes arm ‘militias” , Venezuela’s another.
  
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  April 2, 2018 3:41pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  Hamas, a terrorist organisation, started that ‘peaceful’ demo. The Palestinians “began hurling stones, tossing Molotov cocktails and rolling burning tires at the fence, the Israelis responded with tear gas and gunfire. The Israelis said they also exchanged fire with two gunmen across the fence and fired at two others who tried to infiltrate into Israel.”
  
  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/world/middleeast/gaza-israel-protest-clashes.html
  
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  April 2, 2018 6:24pm
  - Classic Liberal
    
    And more Hamas-led love and peace:
    
    “A seven-year-old girl was sent by Hamas into Israel, to face the IDF forces stationed along the border fence with Gaza.
    
    The IDF confirmed that the suspected terrorist was a young girl, received her, and ensured that she returned safely to her parents.”
    
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/243871
    
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    April 2, 2018 6:29pm
starboard

Do we know yet which tribe it was from ?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/102748997/investigations-continue-into-shooting-death-of-29yearold-man-near-pohuehue-auckland
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April 2, 2018 1:25pm
- stephieboy
  
  starboard, all that needs to be said at least we don’t have a clown like you in charge of the criminal investigation.
  
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  April 2, 2018 1:28pm
  - starboard
    
    heh..you know don’t you shariaboy..we all know.
    Another victim of colonisation blah..
    
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    April 2, 2018 1:46pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Why I gave up tramping during the Roar.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/102761847/hunter-shot-in-kaimai-range-near-te-aroha
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April 2, 2018 1:33pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Speaking of the Roar, Maggy, I see you’ve put Stephieboy on notice above – “I suggest you start looking for a decent lawyer”..
  
  I’ll paste the link here as it’s important that Stephieboy sees it: https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/04/general_debate_2_april_2018.html/comment-page-1#comment-2176552
  
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  April 2, 2018 1:47pm
  - starboard
    
    Bwhahahaha you filthy dirty little cretin shariaboy..this is gona be good. Popcorn check, Coke check..
    
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    April 2, 2018 2:06pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    It’s not a path I want to go down as I know how expensive defamation lawyers are.
    But there seems little ground to reason with when the abusers either deny that they have written something or (in Griff’s case) declare openly that the intent is to destroy my reputation.
    
    It will also open a can of worms for KB, but perhaps that has been the intent of the abusers all along.
    
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    April 2, 2018 2:12pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Complain to Netsafe using the Harmful Digital Communications Act.
      Their lawyers will do the work for you.
      https://www.consumerprotection.govt.nz/consumer-law-and-your-rights/online-safety/harmful-digital-communications-act/
      
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      April 2, 2018 2:16pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Red , its given me ideas also in respect of your stalking and the threatening notice put up on the St Albans’ church door some two weeks ago.
        
        RALPH TAYLOR
        ( stephieboy from kiwi blog )
        is a
        Cyberbully and a
        
        PERVERT
        
        Familiar?
        
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        April 2, 2018 4:13pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stephieboy:
        
        I don’t think anyone should take online disagreements to another level that has real-world consequences. So, if what you say is true, and someone really did put a notice about you on the St Albans church door, then I don’t approve of it.
        
        But I think you need to reassess the way you comment here, and in particular, the way you interact with Maggy – who uses her real name and is potentially affected by real-world consequences based on what you say about her. I’m not sure if you realise, but what may seem to you like harmless banter comes across as something much worse.
        
        You could try a commenting style like Mikenmild’s? Many people disagree with his position on various issues, but he sometimes has interesting things to say – particularly regarding military history and Official Information Act matters, where he seems to have particular knowledge.
        
        Of course, you’re free to ignore me, and carry on doing your thing. But eventually the legal chickens will come home to roost. Up to you really.
        
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        April 2, 2018 4:29pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Not me Bendonboy
        You’re the Stalker
        But do what you like- you creepy little man.
        
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        April 2, 2018 4:31pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @stephieboy,
        Today you linked my name to All_on_Red.
        Now you link him/or imply that he has been involved in some harassment involving you.
        
        I have no wish to be associated with any illegal activity.
        I will be notifying DPF forthwith about the sexual harassment and otherwise I am being subjected to.
        I have no wish to involve the cops or lawyers, but I have family, staff and $$$$$ to protect.
        
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        April 2, 2018 4:39pm
      - stephieboy
        
        MW, sexual harassment ??
        
        Victorian women’s undergarments?
        
        Get a life!
        
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        April 2, 2018 4:49pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Nostradamus ,
        
        you may have a point regarding milkenmild and we all (including you) could learn a lot from his less abrasive and disarming style.
        
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        April 2, 2018 4:53pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        ‘you) could learn a lot from his less abrasive and disarming style’
        
        Hahahahahahahahaah. He just got a ban for calling someone a kiddifiddler!
        
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        April 2, 2018 4:57pm
      - stephieboy
        
        All on Wed,
        
        mm , just got a ban?
        
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        April 2, 2018 6:13pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Stephie
        When you say this was on a ‘notice’, what did you mean?
        RALPH TAYLOR
        ( stephieboy from kiwi blog )
        is a
        Cyberbully and a
        
        PERVERT
        
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        April 2, 2018 8:07pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Stephie
        When you say this was on a ‘notice’, what did you mean?
        RALPH TAYLOR
        ( stephieboy from kiwi blog )
        is a
        Cyberbully and a
        
        PERVERT
        
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        April 2, 2018 8:08pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        All on Red:
        
        You liked the “PERVERT” label (in block capitals) so much that you said it twice!
        
        By the way, Stephieboy, did someone else discover the notice and give it to you? Was that an awkward conversation?
        
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        April 2, 2018 8:29pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Nostradamus , yes the Vicar advised me. A parish member found it and past it on .
        
        His thoughts were is the internet is a haven for cranks and crackpots. Best ignored .
        
        He is right with that. The notice tells us more about the mental deficiencies of the poster than anything else.
        
        Best ignored unless the idiot strikes again.
        
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        April 2, 2018 8:53pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Oh noes
        I posted this twice
        
        ‘Stephie
        When you say this was on a ‘notice’, what did you mean?
        RALPH TAYLOR
        ( stephieboy from kiwi blog )
        is a
        Cyberbully and a
        
        PERVERT’
        
        Sorry, my mistake
        
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        April 2, 2018 8:58pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Stephieboy:
        
        Best ignored unless the idiot strikes again
        
        I’m not sure what your options are if it happens again. And, yes, Mikenmild was naughty so DPF gave him a strike.
        
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        April 2, 2018 9:13pm
Jack5

The international bureaucrats just keep wanting to boss independent nations …

The World Bank is telling Australia that it should consider abolishing three-month work permits for backpackers, and give more temporary work to Pacific Third Worlders.

NZ’s in the same boat, with white backpackers working in horticulture and tourism, but Melanesians and foreign Polynesians as well.

There are hidden dividends in the backpacker trade. Backpackers increase awareness of New Zealand in the the First World markets they come from. Second, when they are much older they might well return to New Zealand as nostalgic, wealthier tourists.

What an uproar there would be if the World Bank were to tell Australia and NZ to shut down temporary work for brown people to create more temporary jobs for white working tourists.

So, fuck the World Bank and its meddling bureaucrats.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/apr/02/pacific-workers-not-backpackers-should-do-australias-regional-work-world-bank
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April 2, 2018 2:06pm
- Jack5
  
  Here’s the relevant conclusion in the World Bank report:
  
  There are a host of interventions that could help the Pacific extract additional value out of the programme; chief amongst these is increasing the numbers working in Australia annually. This will require reforms that level the playing field between the SWP [seasonal worker programme] and other sources of agricultural labour, such as the Working Holiday Maker Programme.
  
  The bank doesn’t note that one of the problems of cheap (to the user country) temporary migrant labour is its effect on productivity. Labour price pressure is one of the key factors in driving productivity growth. Temporary imported labour also helps keep local wages low.
  
  The authors of the World Bank report are listed thus:
  
  This report has been prepared by Jesse Doyle (Social Protection Economist, World Bank) and Manohar Sharma (Senior Economist, World Bank). They have been supported by a team consisting of Felix Leung (Consultant, World Bank), Ronald Duncan (Emeritus Professor, Australian National University), Anuja Utz (Senior Operations Officer, World Bank) and Priya Chattier (Consultant, World Bank). It has been prepared under the initial oversight and management of Jehan Arulpragasam (former Practice Manager for Social Protection and Jobs, East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank) and Franz Drees-Gross (former Country Director, Pacific Islands and Timor-Leste, World Bank) and more recently under the guidance of Philip O’Keefe (Practice Manager, Social Protection and Jobs, East Asia and Pacific region, World Bank) and Michel Kerf (Country Director, Pacific Islands and TimorLeste, World Bank).
  
  The peer reviewers included John Gibson (Professor of Economics, Waikato University).
  
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  April 2, 2018 2:34pm
- MrLovebucket
  
  Give us another year with this incompetent collection of idiots in charge and kiwis will comfortably qualify as “pacific third worlders”
  
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  April 2, 2018 7:31pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Looks like German Parliamentarians don’t give a stuff about their Climate Change policies limiting CO2 emissions.
http://notrickszone.com/2018/04/01/climate-skepticism-storms-into-germanys-bundestag-as-parliamentarians-more-concerned-about-getting-out-of-town/#sthash.1hnYNADM.dpbs
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April 2, 2018 2:44pm
- stephieboy
  
  MW, so much for No Tricks Zone ,
  
  Did 58 Scientific Papers Published in 2017 Say Global Warming is a Myth?
  
  An article on Breitbart News used flawed interpretations from a climate skeptic blog to amplify a grossly inaccurate understanding of climatological research.
  
  X FALSE
  
  A total of 58 peer-reviewed papers published in the first half of 2017 conclude that global warming is a myth.
  
  On 6 June 2017, Breitbart News ran an article titled “‘Global Warming’ Is a Myth, Say 58 Scientific Papers in 2017”. This article, which is in essence merely a link to a post from a blog that goes by the name “No Tricks Zone” and some added musings on “grant-troughing scientists,” “huxter politicians,” “scaremongering green activists,” and “brainwashed mainstream media environmental correspondents,” claims that this ragtag collection of studies proves that the long-standing scientific consensus on climate change is nothing but a myth.
  
  The blog post Breitbart linked to is a list of 80 graphs (so many graphs!) taken from 58 studies. The analysis of the findings presented by No Tricks Zone is crude, misinformed, and riddled with errors. …”
  
  https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/scientific-papers-global-warming-myth/
  
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  April 2, 2018 4:22pm
Jack5

South Korean girl pop band Red Velvet sings “Bad Boy” for Kim Jong-un:

http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2139857/kim-jong-un-red-velvet-superfan-praising-k-pop-girl-band-who

And, if you’re interested, the pop band singing “Bad Boy”:
https://youtu.be/J_CFBjAyPWE
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April 2, 2018 2:56pm
- Inandout
  
  Go Trumpy, you the man.
  
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  April 2, 2018 3:36pm
Manolo

The face of the snowflakes:
http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/mc-nws-david-hogg-bully-laura-ingraham-20180401-story.html

Critics have questioned whether 17-year-old David Hogg and the other high school students demanding that the nation’s gun laws be strengthened are mature enough to understand the complex policy positions they’ve staked out.
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April 2, 2018 3:33pm
- Kimbo
  
  The face of the snowflakes
  
  …critics have questioned whether 17-year-old David Hogg and other high school students…are mature enough to understand the complex policy positions…
  
  Just as well we have you to add the necessary maturity of both thought and…expression to the conversation! ?
  
  Then again, as most of your posts are links, the accompanying brief editorial comments with obligatory snark seem to be about it from you, Manolo. Wish I had a dollar for every time you write, “the religion of peace”. Not forgetting your ability to make Maggy purr over your selection of shoes. ?
  
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  April 2, 2018 3:42pm
- Inandout
  
  If those companies continue boycotting they will have few customers remaining.
  
  Johnson & Johnson, Nestlé, Hulu, Jos. A. Bank, Jenny Craig, Ruby Tuesday and Miracle-Ear.
  
  I wonder about wheels within wheels.
  http://www.the-saudi.net/business-center/links-usa.htm
  
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  April 2, 2018 3:46pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Inandout , the President certainly has no qualms about doing personal business in Saudi Arabia,
    
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-saudi-arabia-911-business-deals-a7038991.html
    
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    April 2, 2018 4:35pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Manolo,
  The poor boy has just seen his schoolmates mown down by another student with a gun.
  That makes it very difficult to disagree with his point of view without appearing to bully the victim.
  It’s a classic leftist ploy to stifle argument counter to their own. These kids are being wound up by the anti-gun, anti-Trump lobby.
  
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  April 2, 2018 11:43pm
GazzaW

Any other cricket watchers fed up to the back teeth with the mindless repetitive chanting of the Barmy Army echoing around their lounges? They seem to be universally overweight middle-aged yobs with no interest whatsoever in the cricket. Maybe cricket venues can invest in double glazing in the commentary boxes before England and their brainless supporters visit our shores again.
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April 2, 2018 4:15pm
- Longknives
  
  I enjoy going to matches where the Barmy Army are there- Singing loudly and enjoying themselves…
  That’s what sport is about mate!
  Beats the absolute crap out of going to a NZ rugby game in a freezing half-empty stadium with ‘doof doof’ music playing as the teams trudge out onto the Stadium for yet another meaningless Super Rugby yawnfest..
  
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  April 2, 2018 4:25pm
  - Kimbo
    
    Agreed, but if it was Kiwis doing a haka at Lords, based on your past form, I’d be backing you to have a grizzle about how “embarrassing” it is. Then again, as we are both of Ngati Scottish heritage, grizzling is our national sport! ?
    
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    April 2, 2018 4:31pm
    - MrLovebucket
      
      I can’t remember the last time I saw a haka without cringing with embarrassment. That includes the All Blacks
      
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      April 2, 2018 7:27pm
  - GazzaW
    
    Each to his own Longknives.
    
    It wasn’t my intention to set you off on a hatefest against NZ rugby but now I know you are of Scottish heritage (thanks Kimbo) you have every reason to with your fantastic international record against NZ. 😉
    
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    April 2, 2018 4:35pm
    - Longknives
      
      Ha Ha I’ve never even been to Scotland! But I tell you- I went to England vs Wales Five Nations at Cardiff Arms Park once..(Maybe twenty years ago?)
      The atmosphere at those matches is something NZ Rugby can only fantasise about…Oh that singing! (The less said about that embarrassing Maori song NZ Rugby tried to inflict on everyone during last year’s Lions Tour the better..)
      
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      April 2, 2018 5:25pm
  - Prince
    
    Blues supporter, lk?
    
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    April 2, 2018 8:08pm
- Brigitte
  
  Haven’t you got the memo – ToW will apply in all matches in NZ. You must support the local tribe or iwi as better called. Already football fans have complied as you often hear them chanting “Iwi go! iwi go! iwi go!”.
  
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  April 2, 2018 4:53pm
Fletch

For anyone computer savvy, CloudFlare has set up its own secure, free DNS at 1.1.1.1. It’s supposed to be faster and more secure than Google’s 8.8.8.8.

Here’s how to set it up –

https://1.1.1.1/

The story has been mentioned heaps of places, including Wired, Engadget, and Slashdot.

https://www.wired.com/story/new-encryption-service-adds-privacy-protection-for-web-browsing/

https://www.engadget.com/2018/04/01/cloudflare-1111-dns-privacy-service/
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April 2, 2018 5:10pm
stephieboy

Fletch, appears to get the thumbs up from CNET,

This new privacy tool would speed up your internet, too

It’s no joke how much data your internet service provider can collect about you. A new service from Cloudflare aims to change that.

These days, you may wish you had a magic switch you could flip to keep your data more secure.

The misuse of Facebook user data by Cambridge Analytica is only the latest consumer privacy flap to create outrage. Remember the Equifax hack? That affected more than 230 million people. And in 2017, US lawmakers reversed Obama-era rules that forbade your internet service provider from making money off your web-browsing history.

Suddenly internet users are realizing that their internet service providers have been amassing huge troves of data on all the websites they visit. People aren’t happy about that, and it seems there’s nothing we can do about it.

So a magic switch would be nice. And that’s essentially what website performance and security giant Cloudflare set out to create with its new tool called 1.1.1.1. Announced Sunday, 1.1.1.1 aims to speed up your internet connection and make it impossible for your ISP to collect your browsing history. That’s big news at a time when consumers are demanding more control of their data.

“If you switch to 1.1.1.1, then that ledger of where you’re going online is not being kept by your ISP,” Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, said in an interview.

With 1.1.1.1, internet users can let Cloudflare take over the process of resolving requests to the Domain Name System, also known as DNS. That’s the crucial process of matching up a URL — like facebook.com — with a website’s true location on the internet, called an IP address (for Facebook, that’s 157.240.18.35)….’

https://www.cnet.com/news/cloudfare-new-1111-dns-privacy-tool-would-speed-your-internet-too/
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April 2, 2018 5:23pm
- Fletch
  
  I just switched and my internet seems to be cutting in and out. I wonder if it’s Spark being pissed off? lol
  
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  April 2, 2018 5:31pm
  - Rodney Randall
    
    Many reviews confirm this?
    
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    April 2, 2018 7:04pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  Wow SB, a useful comment – that’s a first!
  
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  April 2, 2018 6:23pm
- Rodney Randall
  
  Stephanie: The NSA can tap into anything including your goats and the onion router.
  
  Safe to say nothing is safe from prying eyes.
  
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  April 2, 2018 7:00pm
- MrLovebucket
  
  So rather than the ISP collecting data, the 1.1.1.1 service collects it?
  
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  April 2, 2018 7:26pm
- rangitoto
  
  So instead of your ISP, then Cloudfare collect the information.
  
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  April 2, 2018 11:18pm
Rodney Randall

https://www.thelocal.se/20180329/swedish-agency-backtracks-following-child-marriage-brochure-storm

“Swedish agency backtracks following child marriage brochure storm.”

“”Since children under the age of 15 have an absolute right to protection from sexual acts it is improper for you to live together if the child is under 15”.

The leader of the Moderates in the Riksdag was not impressed with the content.

“The biggest failing is that the word ‘prison’ isn’t present, but rather it gives a bit of advice and tips on how to respond if you have a relationship our marriage laws forbid,” Tobias Billström told news agency TT.

“Facepalm. Unacceptably flat. The brochure has to be withdrawn without delay. Child marriage should be completely forbidden,” Liberal leader Jan Björklund wrote on Twitter.”
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April 2, 2018 5:27pm
Fletch

Business NZ saying that Labour’s new law reforms pretty much put in place compulsory unionism.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/shots-fired-over-governments-labour-law-reform-puts-in-place-compulsory-unionism-business-nz-says

Is anyone really surprised?
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April 2, 2018 5:28pm
Rodney Randall

https://diversitymachtfrei.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/swedish-feminists-systematically-having-sex-with-refugees/?relatedposts_hit=1&relatedposts_origin=12375&relatedposts_position=0

SWEDISH FEMINISTS SYSTEMATICALLY HAVING SEX WITH REFUGEES
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April 2, 2018 6:54pm
- simpleton1
  
  Feminism ending in a new wave of “batikhäxa” tye-dye-hags tyrannize Swedish society
  
  WARNING Some language is very expressive and crude with some cuss words.
  
  “”Refugee “Children” & The Women Who Sexually Exploit Them”” by “Angry Foreigner”
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sass4jgyEUY&t=1032s
  
  31 minutes 09 seconds
  
  A summation.
  
  In some countries it has become normal, and that the age of “unaccompanied children” with cries of “what about the children?”,
  
  This has been going on for 5 years, but so it continues, particularly in SWEDEN
  
  The deception and lies, that are woven as power is used to not only abuse people and the “children” but end up abusing their own people.
  
  First 4 minutes 30 secs facts and data about so called children’s ages when many were really older than 18.
  
  5 minutes on then the effect on all of Swedish society, young school age, pensioners, and handicapped.
  
  Then some of the perverseness starts to become apparent from
  
  5 m 30 secs which shows as “psychosis of political correctness” and the effects of putting “white guilt over commonsense”
  
  8 m then he shows the costs, and why some make profits from refugees, and comparisons to other forms of giving foreign aid.
  
  10 m showing the cost of immigration to Sweden and they cut foreign aid
  
  11 m the “”underage children”” benefit greatly in the Swedish justice system. and to accept “cultural actions” because”cultures are equal” and of course the Dr’s debate ethics of judging the age of these people.
  
  12m 40 sec then it becomes a “lawyers goldmine” not “humanitarianism but profit”
  
  13m 30 government feminism defends the system
  
  14m 25 “batikhäxa” the explanation and then their power with in feminism.
  
  17m 10-18m warning very expressive and crude
  
  19 m protests about deporting
  
  20m 14 – 21m 22 strong expression and h
  
  22m 30 so many more cases
  
  23m 12 – a notorious profitable case but the media reasoning is amazing !
  
  28m 24 -30 Celebrating a rapist murder; that victims are men?. Is this is what Feminism has come too? A tribute, Would you do it forAnders Brevick or Ted Bundy?
  
  28m 37 Then the reverse, if it was many underage girls, showing the double standard of feminism and media.
  
  29m 25 #activists, is the call, not that it really is perverts
  
  29m 34 A suggested solution to the refugee problem
  ————
  Understandably that some language is a bit strong and expressive, though I understand his frustration, seeing this happen in Sweden for at least the past 5 years and more.
  
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  April 2, 2018 8:20pm
starboard

“Looking forward to reading Stephen Hawking’s new Autobiography…

Around the House in 80 Days.”

“Just had Steven Hawking over for dinner. The bag of gravy he brought with him tasted fucking disgusting!”
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April 2, 2018 8:58pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  “There is no God” Stephen Hawkings 1987
  “There is no Stephen Hawkings” God 2018
  
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  April 2, 2018 11:52pm
starboard

“The BBC has said it’s efforts to persuade Michael Schumacher to appear in an episode of “Who do you think you Are” came to nothing, because he didn’t have a bloody clue.”
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April 2, 2018 9:02pm
noskire

The Government is proposing a fuel tax increase of between nine and 12 cents a litre to fund a raft of new land transport plans that focus on investing in road safety and rapid rail AND The speed limits on some roads around the country have been described by Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter as “inappropriate” and it’s possible the limits could be lowered in some cases.
These muppets really don’t want to be in Government, do they.
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