General Debate 2 May 2018

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Steve (North Shore)

No new Taxes.
Let’s do this
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May 2, 2018 8:00am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  And that girls and boys, is todays’ lie
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:02am
  - MrLovebucket
    
    The weasels are saying these aren’t new taxes, rather they are threshold tweaks to existing taxes.
    
    As far as I’m concerned, if I have to pay tax this week on something I didn’t have to last week, it is a new tax!
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:03am
  - snowy
    
    “Hey, Hey, Jacinda A, How many lies you gonna tell today?”
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:37am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      ‘Taxinda’, please. That’s the name that fits and keeps telling her that it fits. I hear she doesn’t like it, but if the hat fits…
      
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      May 2, 2018 11:32am
- hullkiwi
  
  Especially when Twitford is in charge of a portfolio. A case of why be happy with $0.10/litre when you can give yourself the authority to change the amount later by an ‘Order in Council’ (& no, it’s not a matter of changing an order from 2 fish to 2 battered sausages and a scoop of chips!)
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:08am
- Paulus
  
  Its still not a Tax it is a Levy – there will be no tax increases by this Government until 2020.
  Must be right as Calamity Cindy said so, often.
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:17am
  - kowtow
    
    Yep and the so called Amazon tax is not a new tax either , it’s an extension of an existing one.
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:02am
    - hullkiwi
      
      Well if it’s not new, that means they have been taxing me already for it without the authority to do so. On that basis I want my money back!
      
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      May 2, 2018 9:15am
      - MH
        
        I will arrange a Boston Tea Party, no macrons please.
        
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        May 2, 2018 12:10pm
    - Holly Roggerz
      
      You always had to pay GST, now you have to pay it on more things, what has changed Kowtow? – Labour 2018
      
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      May 2, 2018 11:53am
- Inandout
  
  Leighton reminds us that ‘let’s do this’ is a line from ‘Animal Farm’.
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:40am
  - sooty
    
    Not wrong there!
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:48am
    - questions
      
      Yes wrong there. What chapter?
      
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      May 2, 2018 11:27pm
- Humble Capitalist
  
  I utterly reject that. This levy is not new and was clearly signalled by both myself and the Minister.
  
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  May 2, 2018 10:20am
- Northland Wahine
  
  This regime will need all the taxes they can collect to pay for all those on benefit who refuse to look for work yet there will be no financial consequences for their inactions.
  
  Thank you Carmel Sepuloni for absolutely nothing.
  
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  May 2, 2018 10:59am
- Holly Roggerz
  
  Fuel Tax, no not a new tax! Amazon tax, no we always had GST, not a new TAX! Introducing legislation to undo nationals TAX CUTS, not a tax increase or a NEW TAX as no one had paid tax at the new rate yet!
  
  Whew dodged a few bullets there, good news folks no NEW TAXES! Next up 50% income tax, not a NEW TAX folks! Isn’t it amazing, without passing a single new TAX look at how much extra money the government is bringing in! Labour truly are the experts at running budgest surplusses!
  
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  May 2, 2018 11:51am
RalphT

A new day, another chance for Labour to spin us a lie. I wonder what will today’s be?
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May 2, 2018 8:02am
- Harkman
  
  What about Winston, he has spent the last 20 years saying we should be more like Norway. Hmmm, Norway where they drill offshore for oil and gas.
  
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  May 2, 2018 9:17am
Dave Mann

Farming is under attack from the Ecomaniacs.

Stuff reports that a farmer ‘destroyed’ a third of country’s naturally-growing endangered shrubby tororaro plants in order to plant oats and… shock, horror… “The work is said to have also killed numerous other plants, lizards and birds and ruined their habitats.”

https://i.stuff.co.nz/environment/103507786/court-action-over-alleged-endangered-plant-destruction

This guy bought a farm which was basically full of fucking weeds and turned it into productive land …. and now Forest and Bird is taking him to court!

The end is close. Weeds are now more valuable than food for humans.
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May 2, 2018 8:02am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Moari medicine weeds. Neesd koha injection
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:04am
- timmydevo
  
  Depends. Was there a covenant protecting the tororaro? If there was, and the farmer blatantly ignored it, then there might be a court claim. However, if there wasn’t, then it’s his land and he can do as he pleases, despite what others may think!
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:08am
  - timmydevo
    
    Ahhh… always good to have a read eh?
    
    “Thomas, whose business Wongan Hills Ltd runs his family’s land interests around the Banks Peninsula, said that before buying the land they employed experts to ensure planning requirements were met.
    
    The business “continued to honour” an agreement from the 1990s to protect shrubby tororaro plants in a small, fenced-off area, and that after carrying out some initial work he was made aware of a further population of plants on the land.
    
    “We’re horrified to find ourselves in this situation and are working as fast as we can to reach a collaborative, long-term solution.””
    
    So as much as it pains me, F&B might not have much of a legal leg to stand on…
    
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    May 2, 2018 8:12am
    - G152
      
      Hopefully he can bring a counter suit against F&B as it appears he has done all he could.
      Time for greenies to be brought to account
      
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      May 2, 2018 8:20am
    - lilman
      
      Fuck Fish and Bird.
      
      bleating on about 55 Maui Dolphin for years, but NO ONE has seen one.
      
      lock Ness Monster= Maui Dolphin
      
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      May 2, 2018 8:27am
  - Dave Mann
    
    If you read the article, it reports that “It is not clear whether the land clearance has actually broken any laws”….. so there obviously wasn’t any covenant on the land.
    
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    May 2, 2018 8:19am
    - timmydevo
      
      Good point, Dave. There was an “agreement” but F&B should know only a formal covenant would do the job properly!
      
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      May 2, 2018 9:37am
- holysheet
  
  A weed is just another plant in the wrong place..
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:11am
  - VicParking
    
    It should be renamed Twyford after another weed that is in the wrong place
    
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    May 2, 2018 8:40am
  - Dave Mann
    
    Hahaha that reminds me of my youth when I was a gardener working in the Sydney botanic gardens. We used to have lively alcohol fueled mock debates in the smoko room about “Is a weed a plant growing in the wrong place or a plant which is growing in (its) correct place?”
    
    Those were the days….. Most of the staff were Eastern European or Greek professionals who either elected for a change of life or couldn’t get their qualifications accepted in their chosen fields 😀
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:20am
    - Don the Kiwi
      
      Dave.
      A weed is a plant for which no useful purpose has yet been found. 🙂
      
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      May 2, 2018 11:49am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I posted on this last night…
  Here’s a repeat:
  I feel a bit sorry for the Canterbury farmer who is being vilified for clearing a rare native shrub off his land.
  https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/canterbury-farmer-taken-court-after-clearing-rare-shrub-his-land
  
  DoC published a Recovery plan for Muehlenbeckia astonii in June 2000.
  http://www.doc.govt.nz/Documents/science-and-technical/tsrp31.pdf
  They and F&B have had over 20 years in which they could have:
  (1) purchased some of the land the shrub grew on,
  or
  (2) organised a QE2 covenant over the land,
  or
  (3) got off their chuff and informed the new owner of the land, that there was a rare shrub on his land.
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:16am
  - Dave Mann
    
    Good one Maggy. Thanks for the further detail.
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:23am
- KevOB
  
  Who are Forest & Turd? They seem to believe they are in charge. Aren’t they associated with activist criminals?
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:55am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Kevin Hague ex Green MP
    
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    May 2, 2018 8:59am
- Dave Mann
  
  Having said this, good on Stuff for the way they reported on this. Their report was objective and unbiased and simply laid out the facts with quotes from both sides. Well written.
  
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  May 2, 2018 9:07am
- alex Masterley
  
  Unbelievable.
  Reason one million not to support Forest & Bird.
  The planning rules enable the farmer to farm his land.
  I could not identify any limitation or restriction on farming activities.
  I think F&B may have issues.
  
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  May 2, 2018 9:39am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I think F&B may have issues.
    
    Yes, this is a change of tack for F&B..
    Advocacy is one thing, but threatening court action against a private citizen for the legal use of their own land is a new one, I think.
    
    I don’t think this approach will be appreciated by land owners. I find it much easier to inform land owners how they can manage their land whilst offering protection to the native species/ecosystems on their land.
    Often its just a matter of showing the farmer where a rare plant is located and discussing whether the track/stock etc can be relocated… or whether cuttings/seed can be collected. Most folks are keen to help as long as they are not being prohibited from earning their livelihood.
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:54am
  - hmmokrightitis
    
    Ive been off F&B for the longest possible time. Bought to a head years ago when I spoke at a NFP conference in Wellington, and the plump bespectacled girly from F&B started flirting with me afterwards, as my now deceased wife was standing next to me.
    
    Bless her, my wife took it all with a grin, and after said plumper left the scene, asked me if I was taking her (the wife) back to our room, or if I was going to save a whale in distress.
    
    So un-PC that girl. Ah, happy daze 😀
    
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    May 2, 2018 10:08am
- Philview
  
  Good point Dave. TVNZ ran a major report on this on the 6pm news last night. I did think that the story was very slanted against the farmer. He/She chose not to appear and apologised. The curious thing is how this was packaged as a major news event. It seems that TVNZ is rolling out political propaganda for the Government.
  
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  May 2, 2018 10:26am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Cui bono?
    
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    May 2, 2018 12:55pm
holysheet

Winston Peters is on a visit to England and meets with the Queen… Over a cup of tea he asks the Queen… “your majesty, I was thinking and wondered if we could become a Kingdom”… The Queen shakes her head and replies “No, to be a Kingdom, you must be a king and you sir, are not a king…” So Winston tries again… “how about a principality?” again the Queen says “No… To be a principality you must be a prince, and you sir, are not a prince”… In desperation Winston asks “an empire then?”.. Again the Queen replies “No, to be an empire you must be an emperor, and you sir, are not an emperor”… The Queen sips her tea and notices Winston ready to ask another question, so before he can, she says “you know, looking at your situation I can assure you that you shall remain a country”
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May 2, 2018 8:03am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  The downticker was quick, has no sense of humour though
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:06am
  - thedavincimode
    
    chuckie is very sensitive about the drunk.
    
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    May 2, 2018 8:48am
  - Komata
    
    Steve NS
    
    He / it evidently has three accomplices…
    
    (Must be all NZF voters).
    
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    May 2, 2018 11:51am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  The phantom downticker is up early.
  Good morning stupidboy.
  (You beat me to it Steve).
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:06am
- cmm
  
  Naah, Winston hasn’t got the useful stuff to make a country.
  
  Maybe we can settle for a dictatorship?
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:06am
  - holysheet
    
    Nah thats Robbos job.
    
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    May 2, 2018 8:08am
    - rightoverlabour
      
      What as in “shipping the dict”…
      
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      May 2, 2018 6:58pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Are you sure he still has a decent dict…
    
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    May 2, 2018 6:56pm
- KiWombat
  
  Best yet Holy !
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:08am
- stephieboy
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  holysheet ,?? The subtlety is lost on me with yet another attempt at corned and canned humour.
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:29am
  - Sideoiler
    
    ……The subtlety is lost on me …
    
    And not just this time it would seem.
    
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    May 2, 2018 8:33am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I could explain it:
      
      but if I was to do it in written form and not verbally… then I end up with Count Winston.
      
      and for some odd reason, that doesn’t make sense.
      
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      May 2, 2018 8:38am
      - MH
        
        to get to the bottom of it, he’d be a colony.
        
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        May 2, 2018 12:23pm
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    Perfect example of why no one wants a bitter socialist for a buddy and they stick to their own types, who would want to spend any time with someone with a permanent sense of humour bypass.
    
    No wonder they’re all so offended all the time.
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:42am
    - GoVege
      
      B/S, DP.
      I laughed my head off and I’ve voted Labour my entire voting life…..
      
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      May 2, 2018 9:54am
      - realityczech
        
        “I’ve voted Labour my entire voting life”
        
        I guess that saves making an informed choice at election time. Thinking can be such a drag.
        
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        May 2, 2018 5:38pm
      - Nev.
        
        It shows.
        
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        May 2, 2018 5:44pm
      - GoVege
        
        Shush, sweetie Czech.
        I do think about it, long and hard, but in the end Labour has always been the party with a heart.
        Though I do like that nice Mr Bridges….. 🙂
        
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        May 2, 2018 10:11pm
      - realityczech
        
        They say nice things. But outcomes are what improve peoples circumstances. Virtue signalling and ideology do not.
        
        You are brave replying to me, Kimbo might launch another one of his vile attacks. He is so triggered I wonder if he has been eating soy or something.
        
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        May 2, 2018 10:37pm
      - GoVege
        
        They HAVE improved people’s circumstances, RC.
        For years, National MP’s used to argue in Parliament that “any woman can find a man to support her”….just not her kids.
        We no longer have orphanages. ..thanks to Labour.
        Labour have brought in most of the enlightened social legislation.
        That’s why National eventually copy them.
        
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        May 3, 2018 12:23am
  - Kiwi Dave
    
    Stephieboy, for an earlier, non-subtle attempt at canned and corned humour, search the Internet for Hamlet + country matters.
    
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    May 2, 2018 12:25pm
cmm

Stuff are having a Q&A on what the government can afford.

The government does not have money. They can afford nothing. It is only us dickhead taxpayers that actually have to afford this.

Tax is only effectively paid by a few net tax payers – those who may more tax than they consume. That’s likely less than 100,000 people in NZ.
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May 2, 2018 8:11am
- Poppa
  
  Well I am one of the 100k & it hurts bad every week
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:15am
  - KevOB
    
    Taxpayers don’t get much thanks or credit.
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:00am
oldpark

Wouldnt we know it . The Peters selected Coalition of Corruption and Chaos strike again.
Fresh from screwing their electoral voter base by denying them legislated tax cuts on April 1 2018.
Guess what? the ex bible bashing Parson a clown called David Clark who now is performly badly as a Peters selected Health Minister.
Clark’s latest role seems to be bashing the Hoi Polloi with his cancelling the cheaper doctors visits which was used as a bribe to get his gang of no hopers elected.
Wait there is more, sorry Coalition of Corruption and Chaos voters there is no money for your visits to your doctor promised on July 1 2018.Yet there seems to be plenty of money for the NZs self appointed Dictator Peters and his Foreign Affairs caper.
To think that Peters gang with David Clark aboard finds it more important to throw NZs hard earned tax money to Foreign Affairs as against the needs of poor manipulated and exploitated voters is an abomination.
Whatever happened to the saying “Charity Begins at Home”. Probably normally does ,except it is not every day that pests like Peters are running NZ.
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May 2, 2018 8:17am
- KevOB
  
  Where is the mandate for massive increases for buying favour in the Pacific? We are too late to now compete with China.
  
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  May 2, 2018 9:02am
- backster
  
  The loathsome Peters is merely repeating his behavour under Clark. Then he also massively increased the staffing of Foreign Affairs to no greater purpose than to gratify his ego…Key tried to rectify matters by reducing staff and even putting a private sector CEO in charge but the staff rebelled and McCully quailed and caved. By that time embedded party hacks were leaking to Goff and the department was a shambles. Expect the same again.
  
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  May 2, 2018 9:53am
  - RF
    
    Ahh…. yes. Goof was a tricky bugger. Behaved like an out house rat and continually undermined National by involving public servants in his lies.
    
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    May 2, 2018 12:18pm
oldgolfer

Just heard a tax lawyer telling RNZ that the government must have ”industrial strength optimism” if it thinks many overseas online sellers will ”volunteer” to collect GST on the government’s behalf.
He thinks the govt may try to name and shame a few big operators, but people buy from thousands of companies in many countries, and most won’t even know of NZ, Nash, or GST.
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May 2, 2018 8:19am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Some may refuse to deal with NZ orders all together.
  
  Might pay to get a rellie in Oz to do all your O/S ordering.
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:26am
  - Fletch
    
    Yeh, I read someone saying that it may be easier for some online retailers to just change to “This item does not ship to New Zealand”.
    
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    May 2, 2018 10:44am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Our only hope for those companies is that they basically tell the NZ govt to ‘stuff off, you can’t force us to collect your tax’. And then just keep selling to us. I think the lawyer you refer to (Nat Radio this morning) did also say it was rather cheeky of our govt to ask overseas traders to collect NZ tax. Goodness me, the complexity of collecting different taxes for every dang country!!
      
      As I’ve said: level playing field OK, but there are plenty of things one simply can’t get in NZ.
      
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      May 2, 2018 1:05pm
- brett68
  
  Wouldn’t it be easier to collect the GST from Visa or Mastercard?
  
  Offer a 2% commission that would drum up some enthusiasm.
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:30am
  - cmm
    
    Fine, so long as Mastercard then also provide tax invoices so business purchases can be claimed back.
    
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    May 2, 2018 8:39am
    - brett68
      
      Couldn’t see it being a problem, you can get an itemized list every month if you want.
      
      You’d probably have a separate card for your business anyway?
      
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      May 2, 2018 8:43am
      - cmm
        
        An itemised list is not a tax invoice, but it could work the same way as when you pay GST to DHL etc.
        
        I only use one credit card for all my purchases.
        
        This is problem with regulation. Cindy just says a few sentences, but the impacts are huge: every business (large and small) has to muck around with new accounting details etc.
        
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        May 2, 2018 9:05am
- Paulus
  
  Ebay for example are only a conduit to a seller, who set out the individual sellers, from whom you choose which one you want.
  They are invariably a separate organisation and I cannot see them doing other than selling.
  That’s the real world.
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:31am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Solution
    Set up foreign exchange account (in say USD)
    Set up a buying account in the USA, buy via this account.
    Send to NZ (yourself) free of charge
    Net GST payable on a zero account….$0.00
    Label it as gift.
    
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    May 2, 2018 10:13am
    - Harkman
      
      You might need a false name though?
      
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      May 2, 2018 10:32am
    - Piniwi
      
      But RWC that is as bad an idea as somebody thinking it can be done in a brown paper wrapping. Easier solution deposit amount in a designated NZ bank account send details of item to be purchased it will be ordered and paid for from the Philippines and sent as a “gift” to you direct. A sort of order call centre which could be well in place by the intended introduction date in 2019. More Kiwi ingenuity being exercised.
      
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      May 2, 2018 6:17pm
  - Piniwi
    
    @Paulus it also easy to buy through Ebay for their buyer protection for goods that are shipped from other countries. Have had goods from Japan and China via Ebay with one on the way from China, made in the Philippines now on it’s way to being received in the Philippines. ALL postal items arrive duty and VAT free via post with the only catch being that the local Post Office charge a standard fee of P112 (NZ$3.00) per parcel. However have one recent delivery that took 4 days from China and was actually delivered to the door without any other charges. Ordered in Ebay USA and shipped through one of the major couriers postal service.
    
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    May 2, 2018 6:09pm
- cmm
  
  Quite a lot of shopping happens through aliexpress – which is a collection of many different online shops that come and go.
  
  Big questions are:
  1) How are the government going to monitor all those aliexpress shopfronts and determine which are selling more than $60k a year to NZ and are thus liable to collect GST.
  2) How are they going to force these people to have extra GST pricing for NZ?
  3) How are they going to ensure that the customers in NZ get the paperwork they need to claim back GST? I buy a few thousand dollars of stuff every year from overseas for business purposes. I will need GST invoices so I can claim it back.
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:37am
  - brett68
    
    Which is why you target the payment mechanisms not the sellers.
    
    Not like you can pop across to China and pay cash.
    
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    May 2, 2018 8:40am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    On imports, your customs agent will be forced to collect it from you as is currently the practice for importing over $400
    If you don’t have one the carrier will be forced to collect it, you won’t get your goods until you pay.
    It’s (for over $400) called “GST off set”
    They determine the value of the goods (in case you supplier lies, heaven forbid) and charge GST on that.
    
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    May 2, 2018 8:48am
    - cmm
      
      A thousands of dollars of imports are not in one hit. About 20% are over the current $400 threshold and the rest are under.
      
      The custom agent also charges a hefty fee ($60 or so) to process the transaction. Adding an extra $60 to a $100 purchase is going to cause problems.
      
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      May 2, 2018 9:08am
  - Piniwi
    
    Perhaps cmm although the problem of GST recovery from legitimate business expenses only serves to make this plan eve messier. However all Aliexpress purchases are paid through Alipay where those funds are held in “escrow” until the goods have been confirmed as received. The funds are then paid to the supplier providing there is no dispute raised by the buyer.
    The buyers has 15 days to raise a dispute and if no resolution is agreed then Aliexpress will arbitrate. It is all part of the Buyer Protection Plan and works very well as long as the dispute is justified by strong evidence provided when submitted.
    The BPP guarantees a full refund if goods not received or full or partial refund if the item is not as described. Never had a dispute fail which have included partial refund for quality/finish issues and a full refund for wrong goods supplied without the need to return wrong goods.
    
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    May 2, 2018 6:44pm
- VicParking
  
  For some of the smaller companies name and Shame? will be just free advertising.
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:47am
- Harkman
  
  This is going to be the same as what was wrong with the Tobin tax. It costs more to collect then what you get in revenue. Imagine the number of people Labour are going to hire to sift through everyone’s shopping? Imagine what this is going to do to Wellington rents?
  
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  May 2, 2018 9:06am
Left Right and Centre

General debate brings you a significant announcement from the Labour Party . . .

The Young Labour working group review committee has finished its latest reporting cycle and is proud to release the following changes to Labour’s party events social responsibility policy manifesto; reduction and management of harm. New health and safety message is to be shown to all participants with a signed acknowledgement and a pledge to conform to strict updated ethical and behavioral protocals.
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May 2, 2018 8:21am
- lilman
  
  Easy answer,keep Sexual Assault Victims away from press and hope it goes away.
  
  Best Practice.
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:30am
- RW Capitalist
  
  There needs to be definition suppliment to this.
  As the labour party has no idea of the meaning of the word.
  ethical
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:35am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Should be easy for them to find an ~~old mate~~ “expert” to deliver a discourse on ethical “best practice”.
    
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    May 2, 2018 8:49am
    - sooty
      
      Can’t be many left out there, with every party hack already on the 80 talkfeast.
      
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      May 2, 2018 10:00am
Happychappy

The real reasons Winston won’t stand a candidate for the Northcote By Election is that he wants Labour to get his Parties share of the vote and he can’t stand rejection especially now he can’t come up with a story like his Pension saga. NZ First will get a bath in the Election to replace Johnathon Colman and Winston does not want to let the public see his political rejection take hold. The Winston First Party is past its used by date.
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May 2, 2018 8:22am
- Gravelroad
  
  It was before, but that didn’t stop the oldies voting for him last time.
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:26am
  - Happychappy
    
    You can tell when things are changing when Barely Sober comes out accusing Winston of pulling the purse strings leaving Sweet Cheeks no room to change direction.
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:07am
- Poppa
  
  Never a truer word has been spoken sir
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:27am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Winston might find that the former NZF voters in Northcote are now in the National camp so it will all blow up in his wrinkly old face.
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:07am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Northcote: lots of hardworking Asians, many running their own business. Too intelligent to vote for anyone but National, I hope.
      
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      May 2, 2018 1:14pm
      - hullkiwi
        
        …and there is a good number of South African families. As a block they do not favour NZ Last or Liebore.
        
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        May 2, 2018 5:49pm
RW Capitalist

Buckle up sweeties, the first bump (budget) is coming and she’s going to be a doosie.
Broken promises….re doctors
But worse
Doing away with negative gearing on property investment
A few notes
Notice how it’s not “investment” any more it’s “speculation” so they can bring on the full hate.
Neg gearing is just another word for/type of business expense, so are we to be taxed on turnover soon?
Without this, it will drive private investment out of the housing market, can anyone say MASSIVE state house build and more taxes to pay for it. An excuse to bring in more govt./nanny state mother knows best/ socialism.
The private investor’s, will put the rents up (no brainer), wait for the govt. to cap rents, not just rises.
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May 2, 2018 8:25am
- brett68
  
  Lots of handouts for core Labour voters coming up.
  
  That’s what I hate about left governments, they are always so divisive, it’s never about governing for everyone, only left wingers matter.
  
  If you’re not a left winger you get nothing but pain.
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:37am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    and the “privilege” of paying for it all.
    
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    May 2, 2018 8:44am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    And they HATE the working class: working people who are trying to improve their wealth levels, working people who are trying to build their own small/medium business, farmers striving away on their land, working people who haven’t learned all the PC expressions and behaviour and might dare compliment a colleague or employee.
    
    Jordan Peterson has a whole lecture proving how much the far left really care about the working class both historically and now: not at all. Instead they just venomously hate the ‘wealthy’ and that includes working class people trying to improve their lot in life.
    
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    May 2, 2018 1:21pm
- KevOB
  
  Labour are on the way to adding to housing difficulties. Rents will escalate and private rental supply reduce.
  They know not what they do.
  How can an ignorant govt claim any mandate?
  Resign.
  
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  May 2, 2018 9:24am
- kaas
  
  As a kiwi in Australia will I still be able to claim my NZ rental losses against my Aussie income giving me an advantage over those looking to buy property but living in NZ?
  
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  May 2, 2018 9:29am
  - Viking2
    
    If you can we will all move there.
    
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    May 2, 2018 8:29pm
- backster
  
  But millions more for Winston and his portfolios.
  
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  May 2, 2018 10:05am
- Miller Fisher
  
  the housing speculation has caused billions of dollars to flow out of the economy in interest to overseas banks that should have been invested in businesses that create wealth. Instead we are all bidding against each other in a desperate scramble for a roof over our heads and making the country poorer in the long run. Something had to be done, so good on the govt for being brave enough
  
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  May 2, 2018 9:02pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Where does one start with such nonsense…
    
    Short version answer
    Kill immigration and the problem will go away
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:18pm
    - mikewasmild
      
      But look at the screaming against the present government’s very modest proposals to restrict immigration a tiny bit.
      
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      May 2, 2018 9:37pm
      - realityczech
        
        No milky they want to increase immigration of people who are incompatible with our culture and those who are useless, while restricting hard working and industrious Chinese.
        
        You really need to pay more attention to things milky.
        
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        May 2, 2018 9:50pm
Paulus

Why is the Parliament becoming an absolute shambles – is this a deliberate ploy by Labour to reduce time to answer questions properly.
I assume that the battered Duck is complicit in this as Margaret Wilson was.
Why do we have to have a sing song.
Next it will be Karaoke I assume, anything to hide the wreck that the COLL is.
Now she is climbing back from all her promises (although she never tells lies – no new taxes, only levies before 2020 – she said so) with the excuse we did not know what a shambles came to us – that presumes neither the brilliant she or that rattrap Robertson either saw or read the PREFU before the election or could understand it anyway.
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May 2, 2018 8:26am
- RW Capitalist
  
  My suggestion
  It’s the Muppet Show
  It’s time to play the music
  It’s time to light the lights
  It’s time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight
  It’s time to put on make up
  It’s time to dress up right
  It’s time to raise the curtain on the Muppet Show tonight
  Why do we always come here
  I guess we’ll never know
  It’s like a kind of torture
  To have to watch the show
  But now let’s get things started
  Why don’t you get things started
  It’s time to get things started
  On the most sensational, inspirational, celebrational, muppetational
  This is what we call the Muppet Show
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:30am
  - Gravelroad
    
    While a lot of people mock the Muppet Show, it was in many ways ahead of its time with its satire and foresight. Same with The Simpsons.
    Comparing the Muppets to the CoL is a an insult to Muppets really.
    
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    May 2, 2018 8:40am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Yes, I loved the Muppets! Please find a more insulting comparison for this crappy government!
      
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      May 2, 2018 1:25pm
  - KevOB
    
    The people didn’t vote for Muppets.
    The Muppets must go.
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:26am
  - tf78
    
    Or :
    The wheels on the bus are falling off, falling off ……
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:57am
RW Capitalist

Notice MP Nash on TV last night, re GST on imports under $400.
“The Minister of Finance will be pleased” re the tax collected.
WHY??? surely he knows it’s not his money?
OOOHHH sorry Labour Govt., almost forgot, they believe it is THEIR money.
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May 2, 2018 8:28am
- Harkman
  
  On line shopping is the only thing keeping inflation low. Just imagine in a year’s time, a collapsing currency, local retailer’s jacking up prices on clothes etc, exploding current account deficits and interest rates will need to climb, whether they will be allowed to is another question.
  
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  May 2, 2018 9:12am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    I, like many others, import the technology that advances business/manufacturing efficiency.
    It is NOT manufactured here and if it was, it would be at least twice the price.
    So lets hope, for our:
    Dairy industry
    other primary produce industries
    Export manufacturers
    Technology industries
    Education providers
    etc that the dollar doesn’t collapse.
    Because none of them can afford to keep up with the times.
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:59am
    - Piniwi
      
      But RW Capitalist you forgot the Health sector where technology has become a very big part of the “cost of service” adding extended life expectancy . Sadly as a result of the COL that just got a whole lot more expensive to provide and in a funny way see them actually end up “underfunding” to a greater level than they so often accuse National of.
      In real terms the Health budget will contain a very high degree if imported content with equipment, drugs and suppliers. If the NZ$ continues as it has in the last couple of weeks then whatever is allocated in sweet cheeks budget will only be a starting point. We can expect most DHB’s to struggle to maintain current care levels let alone increase their productivity without serious blowouts. When considered along with the warnings of the need to lower expectations by Ministers and Departments in this budget it does not bode well. Not forgetting they have yet to find a solution to meet nurses pay demands without even thinking about the groups ready to get some “shared wealth”.
      There biggest elephant like drawback is that even with so many tax increases that are not new taxes (sarc) none are instant lifelines and will not be flowing very soon. The best is yet to come but one can’t but get a bit of a queasy feelz about the future.
      
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      May 2, 2018 7:40pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Too late Harkman the currency started to tank after the O&G announcement and did not respond to the Commie Chick “arranging” a trade deal with the EU and the UK. It has not shown this level of slump since the big drop when the COL was formed as it bottomed out at NZ$0.68 to the US$. It is now again looking like dropping below NZ$0.70 perhaps by Friday.
    It’s a double edged affair for NZ since it is good for exports but tough on those who suffer most from increased prices while the Government grows even without the budget borrowing rush starts. Not to mention making offshore buying more expensive even before the new GST is applied. Expect also a rapid change in attitude to the regional fuel tax above the Bombay Hills as those Fool Factors (unintended consequences) kick in way ahead of it being applied. On the other hand it might bring a rush of freedom campers who get more for their buck and enjoy pinching off a loaf in the open air.
    
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    May 2, 2018 7:12pm
MCos

I read this morning that in the first quarter the US borrowed nearly half a trillion dollars. That’s a lot of money.
There was a time, for example a couple of years ago, when this would have been cause for prophesies of doom & gloom. Now, however, the Secretary of the Treasury says he’s unconcerned.
Such is politics.
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May 2, 2018 8:29am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Coming to a govt. near you, just wait for these clowns to realise that borrowing is the only way to spend this kind of money, in this time frame, more taxes take too long to collect.
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:38am
- RW Capitalist
  
  So Trumpy is ahead of the game
  Obama DOUBLED the debt from 9 trillion to 21 trillion in 8 years.
  so 0.5 trillion in one year, is ahead of the curve.
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:41am
  - VicParking
    
    Shame on you its all Trumps fault.
    
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    May 2, 2018 8:52am
  - MCos
    
    That would be a quarter of a year, RW.
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:10am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      and it’s not Trumps borrowing, it’s congress’.
      Obama owns all the borrowing he did, as it was all at his behest.
      
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      May 2, 2018 10:01am
Maggy Wassilieff

For folks who are keen on bike share for getting around cities:
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2018/may/01/unexpected-beauty-china-bicycle-graveyards-share-bikes-in-pictures
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May 2, 2018 8:29am
- niggly
  
  Expect an announcement any day now from an excited Julie Ann Genter saying the govt has a solution to fix Auckland’s traffic congestion, millions of bikes will be redistributed from China for free to all households and cars will be banned!
  
  Another great leap backwards courtesy of the COL!
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:44am
  - KevOB
    
    That really will get the motorists out in the streets.
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:29am
- MH
  
  wow, I have noticed in trips to China the mass of silent no lights, no helmeted cyclists are getting fewer as better under ground transport systems are being built and more cars and buses are seen.
  
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  May 2, 2018 12:36pm
Wangas Feral

On a happier note – I saw something I never thought possible the other day on a trip into Wanga-vegas.
A line of traffic coming along the river road (Anzac Parade) and a long line of traffic coming down Dury Hill to a give way sign. Guess what happened

The traffic merged perfectly. It was like a choreographed movement. Nobody was impatient and everyone played their part.

First time I have ever seen traffic actually merge like a zip.
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May 2, 2018 8:35am
- VicParking
  
  Now drive down Victoria Ave and the smile will be wiped off your face. The other day there was a large ute angled parked on one side and a delivery van angled parked directly opposite. There was only room between the two for a bicycle to pass. The whole street ground to a stop until the delivery van wanted to exit. Problem, all the cars behind it needed to backup to let it out. Took five minutes to orchestrate this. Great entertainment while I drank my coffee.
  
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  May 2, 2018 9:02am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  https://teara.govt.nz/en/map/25732/durie-hill
  
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  May 2, 2018 9:06am
Odakyu-sen

The Col government can pretty much do as it likes, until people start to feel the effects.
If you are on National Super and have some passive income, or are paid by the State, you probably won’t notice a thing.
When unemployment hits 8% and there are mortgagee sales and “For Rent” signs everywhere, then you know something is up. Could be a while to go before we get there.
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May 2, 2018 8:36am
- Gravelroad
  
  With all the lies, stuff-ups and mistakes we are seeing from the Labour Party, there are misgivings and doubts starting to erode confidence in their actions and ability – around here at any rate. But, of course, we are not part of the urban elite – being just ordinary workers.
  All the same- not so many crowing, happy faces from those with socialist ambitions that we saw earlier.
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:47am
- Classic Liberal
  
  ‘If you are on National Super and have some passive income, … you probably won’t notice a thing.’
  
  Huh? Surely Super won’t keep up while the govt doesn’t admit to the huge inflation problems it’s causing? And how will passive income, e.g. shares/bonds keep up?
  
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  May 2, 2018 1:33pm
  - Paulus
    
    There has been discussion about Income and Assett testing for Super recipients.
    Current Super was made universal by the hated Muldoon so must go.
    
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    May 2, 2018 2:09pm
cmm

With less 6 weeks to go, our elderly primagravida is showing the strain. You would expect that and anyone in that position should be dialing it back. In fact they should have never tried to do both at the same time.

I have predicted that she will get a doctor’s note, pull a sickie and step down soon (next two weeks). I was expecting she might not come back for the May sitting, but now I think the budget announcement on 17th May is a much better bet.

They have already crowned Robbo as the next Labour leader. The budget is likely to be a roaring mess.

That makes me think she’s going to step down just before the budget and do a hospital pass to Robbo.

Lots of MSM drama over “Is Our Princess Sick?”, “She’s a hero who nearly worked herself to death for us.”, “Doctor says Cindy must rest.”, “Baby OK, here are the ultrasounds”.

This will provide a massive squirrel-bomb for when Labour will need it most: diverting attention from the budget.
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May 2, 2018 8:50am
- All_on_Red
  
  The mask slipped yesterday in Q Time.
  She was snarling and angry. It was pretty ugly to watch.
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:55am
  - VicParking
    
    Have brought extra chips and wine for todays Question time.
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:04am
    - Paulus
      
      Hope the Karaoke machine has been installed in the House after yesterday’s sing song, but only Maori songs will be on the machine.
      
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      May 2, 2018 2:10pm
  - Poppa
    
    She is always ugly to watch in my opinion.
    
    The worst PM in living memory
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:05am
    - stigie
      
      You are correct Poppa, what other Prime Minister and their losers would fuck over a whole industry such as oil and gas..?
      
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      May 2, 2018 9:48am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    The hormone soup was on overdrive – she was like an Alsatian bitch snarling over an old soup bone and you could see the anger and adrenaline the way she was springing up and down. Incidentally, isn’t that bouncing up and down going to be bad for the first fetus?
    
    I particularly loved the way Seymour trapped her on the first question – she looked like an utter emotional idiot.
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:48am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      I can’t get a link to this on http://www.parliament Can you provide a link? I’d like to see the fairy dust fly away.
      
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      May 2, 2018 1:57pm
      - stephieboy
        
        And so would I and to see whether the usual bunch are telling fibs or not?
        
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        May 2, 2018 2:11pm
      - Piniwi
        
        Sorry Classic Liberal the Parliamentary On Demand are short of cash and have nothing since April 12th as they have a “problem”. Even they are redirecting viewers to You Tube. Easiest way is via WO who have featured that little saga and then click on YouTube in the RH corner to see other questions. It remains the best show in town but don’t expect answers and Mallard is letting the Commie Chick waffle on as usual.
        
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        May 2, 2018 7:52pm
  - lifesgood
    
    It was a disgusting display. The real Jacinda came out, a nasty, snarling, angry woman. That poor baby being inside that.
    
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    May 2, 2018 11:34am
    - stephieboy
      
      lifesgood , understandably it needs to be corroborated than relying on your piece of hearsay/ gos?
      
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      May 2, 2018 2:12pm
    - Piniwi
      
      But lifesgood we must give David Seymour a big tick for leading her so casually into the trap. Two moons stuff right there.
      
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      May 2, 2018 7:55pm
  - KevOB
    
    She was angry today too. She seems very tense.
    
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    May 2, 2018 7:11pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  “Lots of MSM drama over “Is Our Princess Sick?”, “She’s a hero who nearly worked herself to death for us.”, “Doctor says Cindy must rest.”, “Baby OK, here are the ultrasounds”.
  NO!!!
  
  Here’s another cindy’s view, of our princess.
  She’s just showing her:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPn0KFlbqX8
  
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  May 2, 2018 12:07pm
4077th

Taika Wititi.. NZ is racist as fuck..Just ask Marama Davidson! Brown people cannot be racist, it is only us skinny white boys who are racist.
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May 2, 2018 9:05am
- Harkman
  
  Somebody say Anika Moa?
  
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  May 2, 2018 9:14am
  - lifesgood
    
    Uggh, an embarrasment to maori, that one.
    
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    May 2, 2018 11:35am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  When someone claims “____ can’t be racist,” you know you are either dealing with a postmodernist or a virtue-signaler (or both).
  
  BTW, I have noticed that people who claim to be victims usually deny their personal responsibility for their situations.
  
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  May 2, 2018 9:25am
  - 4077th
    
    Someone mentioned yesterday, for someone with a chip on her shoulder about white folks, she is doing her best to try and look like one. One of these days white people will not be allowed to get a suntan because it could be considered cultural appropriation.
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:33am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      You reminded me about the anti-tanning sentiment among Korean, Chinese and Japanese women, where the whiter your skin the better.
      (Laborers who toil in the sun get tans. Who wants to be considered a laborer?)
      This is why you will see many ladies in Auckland with their sun-shading parasols and long gloves in the summer.
      Ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_F8ILNUqXw
      
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      May 2, 2018 9:42am
      - 4077th
        
        Yes, I am very familiar with that situation. Mrs 4077th is from south east Asia and covers up when in the sun for the very reasons you mention.
        
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        May 2, 2018 9:53am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Plus the desire to be wrinkle-free for longer, no doubt.
        
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        May 2, 2018 1:59pm
      - Piniwi
        
        Wakilimas O also funny how much “whitening soap” dominate the shelves of stores in Asian countries.
        
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        May 2, 2018 8:02pm
  - RW Capitalist
    
    “When someone claims “____ can’t be racist,”
    They are to stupid to realise, that this very statement is RACIST.
    
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    May 2, 2018 12:09pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  We’re sooo racist, in fact, that now teachers are going to be taught (forced) to deal with their *subconscious* anti-Maori bias. News this morning.
  
  That’s the only reason Maori aren’t doing so well at school, according to the people making this decision: subconscious anti-Maori bias by teachers.
  
  Not a word about why, then, are Asian pupils doing better on average than Pakeha. Not a word why, if mispronouncing a Maori name can cause such grief that a child does badly at school, mispronouncing Asian names, which no doubt happens, would then somehow cause them to excel at school?
  
  Nothing to do with parental involvement in the child’s learning. Nothing to do with a huge Asian learning ethic.
  
  Good grief, this government gets madder every day.
  
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  May 2, 2018 2:08pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Classical Liberal, at least we can give prayerful thanks that we have leaders like Simon Bridges running the opposition show and not you.
    
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    May 2, 2018 2:15pm
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Do you actually hear yourself?
      
      What, let’s not have people like me who would like parents to be involved in their children’s education? Who want them checking on what the homework is and making sure it’s done? Who help the kids with rote learning skills? Who know that teachers can’t do it all: children need a lot of home support to do really well at school?
      
      Yeah, I’m sure Simon Bridges hates well educated children and involved parents and will do all he can to oppose them.
      
      I guess you just hate me so much that you’d oppose anything I said just for the sake of it.
      
      Super: I love being hated by racist EAD and by crazed left SB :). Puts me pretty much where I want to be in the political spectrum.
      
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      May 2, 2018 2:36pm
    - hullkiwi
      
      Dipstickboy instead taking your lead from Fraser House or the Labour parliamentary research unit each morning, do yourself a favour, at least listen to Morning Report on RNZ. You might at least have some background to facilitate your trolling.
      
      CL is correct, the news item was on Morning Report this morning. Basically, Maori educationalists ate wanting the govt to resume funding an expensive intervention programme to make Maori students feel good about themselves. The programme was abandoned in 2013 because it was expensive & had limited results.
      
      Now you are the foolish one.
      
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      May 2, 2018 6:09pm
  - KevOB
    
    It’s not colour its genetics. Maori have a mean IQ of 85 on an international comparative basis and Asians 105 with the typical Kiwi whitey at 100. That puts the average of Maori achievement likelyhood at the bottom 1/3 of the white population. No schooling can fix that.
    
    The Battle of Howick has already been decided.
    
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    May 2, 2018 7:23pm
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lol @ chompers and her campaign against oil companies putting prices up.

she knows shes full of shit. shes just trying to get it into the publics mind that when they see increased prices, it wasnt “i just care so fucking much” jacindas doing.. it was all the evil oil companies.

scratch that

BIG OIL!
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May 2, 2018 9:18am
- Deadly pony
  
  Yes it’s funny how putting ‘BIG’ in front of something makes it more evil. Works for business, pharma and other things too.
  
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  May 2, 2018 12:56pm
  - Luke Piewalker
    
    Think you will find Cindy doesn’t know many more words
    
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    May 2, 2018 5:23pm
MrTips

Good ol’ Clare Curran knows how to pick the top shelf supporters!!
https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/court-news/drug-conviction-woman-backed-curran
Do they have a branch of Astoria in the Octagon?
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May 2, 2018 9:19am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Close personal friend?
  Supplier?
  
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  May 2, 2018 12:10pm
Manolo

Labour government’s motto: “Tax, tax, tax!”
https://www.nbr.co.nz/opinion/twyford%E2%80%99s-tax-plunders-britomart-developers
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May 2, 2018 9:20am
dime

received an email yesterday…

tickets to see that godawful piece of shit hillary clinton at the vector are now $99.

can you imagine paying money to see that witch?

the only interesting thing would be to see which excuse she uses for losing the election.

my current fav – women are so weak and dumb they were convinced by their husbands to vote trump.

a true feminist.
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- Manolo
  
  stephieboy will be there. Front row seat.
  
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  May 2, 2018 9:48am
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    probably get thrown out for touching himself and yelling “tell obama stories”
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:49am
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      Buggar you Dime.
      I now have tea all down my shirt.
      
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      May 2, 2018 10:40am
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    Don’t believe you are correct here, unless the tax payer is picking up the tab, he will standing at the stage door….waiting.
    
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    May 2, 2018 12:12pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  “my current fav – women are so weak and dumb they were convinced by their husbands to vote trump.”
  
  Indeed. Is it possible for a Western man to convince his wife to do anything against her wishes?
  
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  May 2, 2018 9:49am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Hillary was specific…. it’s WHITE women who cave in to their husbands.
    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/clinton-women-caved-voting/
    
    And my hubby of many,many years can vouch for the fact that I have always followed his requests with regard to voting.
    
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    May 2, 2018 10:11am
    - cmm
      
      “I have always followed his requests with regard to voting.”
      
      but only after doing your other wifely duties like bringing him a beer and snacks when he’s watching TV.
      
      Trying to link Trump voting to male oppression was pathetic.
      
      Not quite as pathetic as saying she always has a bottle of hot sauce in her handbag and is therefore an honourary black person, but pretty close.
      
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      May 2, 2018 11:36am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        You seem to have misunderstood our relationship….
        
        He asks me who he should vote for….
        I always tell him the right choice.
        
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        May 2, 2018 12:06pm
      - cmm
        
        Maggie, I hope he also brings you a beer.
        
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        May 2, 2018 2:37pm
    - MH
      
      I bet he does the census form without you looking.
      
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      May 2, 2018 12:45pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        The silly bugga refused to do it online… and demanded paper copies.
        Muggins here filled them in and sent them off.
        Then we got a letter from Stats (no longer Statistics Dept) stating that our household had been selected for a household interview survey- which one of us legally had to complete.
        
        So “Murray” Stats Dept turned up last Sat morning to interview me as to whether I am “Gay”, happy, live in a mouldy house, scared to walk around the neighbourHOOD at night, etc.
        I asked if this interview was revenge for not doing the census on-line…
        He assured me it wasn’t.
        
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        May 2, 2018 2:11pm
  - RW Capitalist
    
    If tried it, last year, I can say with certainty that my ears would still be ringing and molded into the shape of a specific caste iron fry pan.
    
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    May 2, 2018 12:14pm
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Down to $99 each – wow that’s a bad sign for Hillary. Imagine that old hag playing to a half empty stadium – I’d guess they’d get more people turning up if there was a promise that the rape enabler would enter in the middle of the stage down a flight of stairs.
  
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  May 2, 2018 9:51am
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    I wonder if they will sell the tickets at the Warehouse?
    
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    May 2, 2018 10:11am
  - Piniwi
    
    Wow DP is there a subliminal message here since NZ$99 is only now worth US$69 as it slides down.
    
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    May 2, 2018 8:10pm
- stephieboy
  
  dime, thinking of getting off your keyboards and lazy butt and doing something practical about this heinous visit?
  
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  May 2, 2018 10:52am
  - cmm
    
    No need for active intervention.
    
    It’s going to be a flop all by itself. Just like her marriage. Just like her “liberation” of Libya. Just like her campaign. Just like her book.
    
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    May 2, 2018 11:38am
- Fletch
  
  On the plus side, Def Leppard are coming at the end of the year 🙂
  
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  May 2, 2018 10:53am
- cmm
  
  Even Soper is going off-script – that she’s doing it for the money.
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12041988
  
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  May 2, 2018 11:31am
- Paulus
  
  Prices started at $495 but there has been few feminist Public Servants available where the Departments will pay – so drop the price – must be desperate.
  Mind you anybody going to hear he diatribe must be desperate – she wants to sell her book of excuses and lies about Trump.
  
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  May 2, 2018 2:16pm
Prince

You have to admire the Labour spin machine.
Consider the results nearly eight months on from the election.

Anyone with income over $25K is paying $1,000 more tax annually than they would have under National, from April 1 2018.
– Doctors visits are more expensive than they would have been under National.
– New taxes are announced daily despite the ‘no new taxes’ pledge.

Where’s the money gone ?
– First year Uni drinking fund.
– Some Pacific Islanders super payments (who have never contributed to NZ) .
– Multiple committees etc for ex Labour MP’s and hangers on.
– Shane Jones NZ First re-election fund.
– To fill the $B hole National was castigated for pointing out pre-election.

And still the Beehive media team fluff and gush over what a wonderful job our PM is doing.

Pre-election, both parties agreed the economy was in good health and offered plenty of options.
Now Labour cry ‘crisis’ and the media suck it up.

Concerned about Child poverty and homelessness ? Not so much now.
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Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/05/links-2-may-2018/#comment-3096761

New Zealand government intense housing affordability pressure to perform … One News Colmar Brunton (public support down 5%) and ANZ polls (construction sector confidence collapses) the drivers …

… Long overdue structural changes for new housing finally underway … Budget 17th May 2018 ? …

The scale of New Zealand’s infrastructure deficit is ‘massive’ and can’t be fixed without billions of dollars of private capital – Jason Walls takes a look at how the Government plans to woo investors | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/news/93445/scale-new-zealand%E2%80%99s-infrastructure-deficit-massive-and-cant-be-fixed-without-billions

By Jason Walls

“New Zealand is open for business,” Infrastructure Minister Shane Jones declared to some of the country’s top transport officials last month.

With his trademark swagger and flair for the theatrical, he left the stage after just three minutes.

Jones had done what he needed to do – alert would be investors the Government is looking for infrastructure investment partners.

The message he sent was clear: without private capital and large-scale investment, New Zealand’s infrastructure deficit cannot be repaired.

Finance Minister Grant Robertson and Transport and Housing Minister Phil Twyford have both said as much in recent weeks.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern highlighted the extent of the problem. It’s so bad, she claims, that the Budget’s primary focus will be repairing the deficit.

But her comments were not news to Infrastructure New Zealand chief executive Stephen Selwood, who describes the issue as “massive.” … read more via hyperlink above …
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Note my extensive posts on MBs Tuesday article thread …

Despite immigration pullback, NZ housing shortage worsens – MacroBusiness

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/05/despite-immigration-pullback-nz-housing-shortage-worsens/
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  Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/05/links-2-may-2018/#comment-3096842
  
  FMA’s CEO Rob Everett & RBNZ Governor Adrian Orr tell NZ’s big bank CEOs to prove their banks are different to their Aussie parents | interest.co.nz
  
  https://www.interest.co.nz/news/93506/fmas-ceo-rob-everett-rbnz-governor-adrian-orr-tell-nzs-big-bank-ceos-prove-their-banks
  
  The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) CEO and Reserve Bank Governor have told New Zealand’s big bank CEOs to prove their banks are different to their Australian parents in the wake of the damning revelations from Australia’s Royal Commission on Financial Services.
  
  FMA CEO Rob Everett told RNZ on Wednesday morning he and Reserve Bank Governor Adrian Orr spoke individually to the big bank CEOs on Tuesday. ANZ NZ, ASB, BNZ and Westpac NZ, which dominate NZ’s banking industry, are all Australian owned. … read more via hy[errlink above …
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  ANZ NZ’s message to its regulators in the wake of the Australian Royal Commission on Financial Services is ‘come and have a look’, CEO David Hisco says | interest.co.nz
  
  https://www.interest.co.nz/news/93500/anz-nzs-message-its-regulators-wake-australian-royal-commission-financial-services-come
  
  ANZ New Zealand CEO David Hisco says his bank has told local regulators, in the wake of the Australian Royal Commission on Financial Services, “to come and have a look” inside the country’s biggest bank.
  
  Speaking on Tuesday Hisco told interest.co.nz he was surprised by the revelations from the Royal Commission, noting they don’t make for good reading. Although ANZ NZ, like ASB, BNZ and Westpac NZ , is part of an Australian banking group, Hisco pointed out the NZ units are separately governed and separately regulated from their Aussie parents, and offer simpler products. … read more via hyperlink above …
  
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  May 2, 2018 10:08am
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    Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
    Is Australia’s Housing Boom (Finally) Coming to an End? – Wall Street Journal … behind paywall …
    
    https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-australias-housing-boom-finally-coming-to-an-end-1525202112
    
    … extract …
    
    … All of Australia’s five major housing markets are listed as “severely unaffordable” by research firm Demographia, which ranks Sydney as the world’s second least affordable city, trailing only Hong Kong. UBS investment bank said in a September report that Sydney was one of an increasing number of world … read more via hyperlink above (paywall) …
    
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      Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
      Unfettered capitalism “can solve the housing crisis” says Patrik Schumacher … Dezeen
      
      https://www.dezeen.com/2018/05/01/capitalism-solve-housing-crisis-patrik-schumacher-zaha-hadid-architects/
      
      Height restrictions, space standards and rent controls should be scrapped in order to solve the housing crisis, according to Zaha Hadid Architects’ principal Patrik Schumacher.
      
      Instead, market forces should be allowed to determine where and what type of housing is built, the architect argues.
      
      Schumacher sets out his thinking in an essay written for free-market think-tank the Adam Smith Institute, titled “Only capitalism can solve the housing crisis”. … read more via hyperlink above …
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      Only Capitalism Can Solve The Housing Crisis — Adam Smith Institute
      
      https://www.adamsmith.org/capitalismcansolvethehousingcrisis/
      
      The ‘housing crisis’ is basically a housing affordability crisis. It manifests itself in the form of extraordinary housing prices and rents after three decades of nearly uninterrupted price increases. A much larger part of our income is now being spent on housing than in past decades. Whereas 20 years ago the house price to earnings ratio in London was about 4:1, it has now reached 10:1, and the mean rent-to-income ratio has climbed from 1:5 to 1:3 in the last 15 years. This situation implies that resources keep flowing to land owners and homeowners. The population is divided into owners who keep receiving windfalls and aspiring owners whose attempt to board this train is made harder and harder as this distortion progresses. The political attempt to ameliorate all this via so called “affordable housing” has further exacerbated the problem. … read more via hyperlink above …
      
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      May 2, 2018 11:07am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Obviously everyone’s ignoring Hugh today, which is as it should be.
        Oh shit, what did I just do?
        
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        May 2, 2018 11:48am
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        The Kiwi Tories are much less of a problem if they are sleeping on the Opposition benches … rather than in government.
        
        9 years of sleepwalking was more than enough !
        
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        May 2, 2018 1:22pm
      - Happychappy
        
        And Hugh more than 9 years of hate from a bitter twisted moron like you and you still can’t let it go.
        
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        May 2, 2018 1:37pm
      - Hugh Pavletich
        
        Union calls for Royal Commission into NZ banking practices | Scoop News
        
        http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1805/S00028/union-calls-for-royal-commission-into-nz-banking-practices.htm
        
        Banking probe deepens as top officials meet … Newsroom
        
        https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2018/05/02/106986/banking-probe-deepens-as-top-officials-meet
        
        New Zealand Banks Feel Heat From Australia’s Bad Behavior – Bloomberg
        
        https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-01/new-zealand-banks-feel-the-heat-from-australia-s-bad-behavior
        
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        May 2, 2018 4:40pm
Stars And Stripes

Food bank supplies run low as Auckland hits peak poverty, and it’s not even winter
https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/103514452/food-bank-supplies-run-low-as-auckland-hits-peak-poverty-and-its-not-even-winter
“Since January, the City Mission had provided more than 3000 emergency food parcels, containing more than 49,000 cans of food, a 28 per cent increase on the 2334 distributed in the same period last year”.

So the poverty gravy train just keeps on rolling.
Despite the governments promise to eliminate it but after the election “corrected” to reduce it, poverty according to this article is in fact still getting worst, yes not better but worst.
So what have all the apologists and sycophants for the government got to say about this situation?.
Oh give them a chance, soon you will see change and things will improve.
Yeah well keep blowing smoke out your ass because that is not going to happen for two good reasons:
1.If you had 9 years in opposition to come up with solutions but now in government you need more time then put quite simply you are either incompetent or just out of your depth. You choose which.
2.Poverty if you want to call it that has always been around and always will be for a myriad of reasons so any organisation or person claiming they are going to fix it is either delusional or a liar. Again you choose which.
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- cmm
  
  There used to be a different value system around charity: Charity was there for the most needy, but if you didn’t absolutely need it you didn’t take it.
  
  Now that’s changed. It’s seen by many as a “free shopping” and you’d be a fool to go pay for something when you can get it free at the food bank.
  
  You can’t tell me all those people turning up for the free Chirstmas meals are all homeless and downtrodden. Nope, for many it’s a good free feed – no cooking required and someone else even does the washing up. It’s like going to a returant and somebody else pays. Got to be a fool to pass that up.
  
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  May 2, 2018 10:16am
  - marcw
    
    I imagine the price of P eats into the food budget these days. Priorities must …
    
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    May 2, 2018 10:58am
  - 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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    May 2, 2018 1:13pm
- Happychappy
  
  People have woken up to the fact that if they keep donating the queue grows longer so they have cut back on what they give. When you get something for nothing the news gets around and the only way to stop the queues is to only give to the needy not those that are continually their for the free lunch.
  
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  May 2, 2018 10:33am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  I was going to donate canned tomatoes and lentils, but I don’t think they will be well received…
  
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  May 2, 2018 11:06am
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https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12043351

So the rumours about Gayford are false… Let’s hope they stay that way!

Desperation dredging up Hager for a quote “They are trying to gain partisan advantage through damaging the Prime Minister by a campaign of innuendo.”

“Hager said the aim was to steer the public’s political focus away from policy to personal issues which didn’t even need to be true.”

Well, let’s face it, Labour did use Cindy as a way to personalise Labour and turn the focus away from Labour’s terrible policies which nobody wants.
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May 2, 2018 10:12am
- backster
  
  Is the Police Commissioner now committing himself to absolve all the false accusations on Social Media or will he be content to play Politics.
  
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  May 2, 2018 10:25am
  - doggone7
    
    Nah, he’ll just play politics.
    But would you want the police sorting out the issue if someone got around your town and on social media, suggesting for example, that you were a child molester? Doing that to destroy your credibility and that of any political party you belong to or support? Would that make police involvement political?
    
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    May 2, 2018 10:42am
    - lilman
      
      So then….its not true that Clarke is a smart operator?
      
      Ok,if you say so Mr policeman.
      
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      May 2, 2018 1:47pm
  - cmm
    
    Bush himself is not above reproach.
    
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/89767953/police-commisioner-mike-bush-admits-drink-driving-conviction
    
    Drink driving convictions are a no-no for cops and one would expect the TopCop to be squeaky clean and not get away with “it was years ago” which would not work for a new recruit.
    
    From the article: “Nash (then Labour police spokesman) said he would not call for Bush’s resignation”.
    
    Of course I am making no actual allegations of deals behind closed doors, but these little bits of give-and-take can blur the line and can make later actions look a bit like paying back favours.
    
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    May 2, 2018 10:46am
  - cmm
    
    Perhaps he could also update us on MeTu?
    
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    May 2, 2018 10:47am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      And the Labour groper.
      
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      May 2, 2018 11:11am
  - Piniwi
    
    But backster this is a very strange development to have such a blanket thrown over something rather like extinguishing somebody on fire. The fire might go out but the smell of smoke will linger on the blanket as well as the burner.
    
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    May 2, 2018 8:21pm
- 4077th
  
  Is it coincidence both Hager and David fisher are told to push this story? Seems both, given their recent appointments, should not be commenting on any sort of “speculation” unless they are privy to information the rest of us are not?
  
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  May 2, 2018 10:38am
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    Told to push? By whom?
    
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    May 2, 2018 10:43am
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      Don’t be so naive.
      
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      May 2, 2018 10:49am
- Harkman
  
  Hager’s career is built about innuendo.
  
  What are these rumours anyhow?
  
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  May 2, 2018 10:38am
  - wreck1080
    
    I hadn’t heard any of these rumours myself. Not really interested either.
    
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    May 2, 2018 10:46am
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    “it seems standard for diplomatic agent’s families”
    
    Except there’s no family relationship called “current boyfriend”.
    
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    May 2, 2018 11:06am
    - SGA
      
      lol – like it or not, welcome to the 21st century 🙂
      
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      May 2, 2018 11:10am
    - wreck1080
      
      Ever heard of ‘de facto’. In my view that is equal to marriage. Why should the state/church be needed to rubber stamp the nature of the bond between a couple?
      
      You are stuck in the past big guy.
      
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      May 2, 2018 11:27am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Remember the Three Wise Monkeys.
    
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    May 2, 2018 12:25pm
    - Flash
      
      Mum: don’t listen to gossip from idle tongues! (pause) But there’s no smoke without fire.
      
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      May 2, 2018 1:28pm
- brett68
  
  Notice how Ardern said it was “dirty politics”.
  
  Bridges needs to hit her up in Parliament or the media about that and get some clarification, because she’s implying that this was been done by National.
  
  If he doesn’t front foot this the media is going to cover National and Bridges in shit.
  
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  May 2, 2018 10:53am
  - RF
    
    I see Audrey Young has smacked down the commie chick for making the Dirty Politics comment as it reflects on National. In Youngs eyes it makes the commie no better than those spreading the story.
    
    Pleased that the Police now have more time to investigate the Labour sexual assault now that Jethro has been cleared.
    
    I still just cannot believe that this Govt has only been in for 6 months. It’s bloody mess and looks like a 3rd term Govt on its knees.
    
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    May 2, 2018 11:02am
    - brett68
      
      Yeah I just read that.
      
      Ardern once again shows her complete lack of class and nous.
      
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      May 2, 2018 11:12am
    - MCos
      
      “I see Audrey Young has smacked down the commie chick for making the Dirty Politics comment as it reflects on National.”
      Young made the link to National not Ardern.
      However even she did not capitalize the expression dirty politics, as you have, to make the book reference unmistakable.
      Your reference to Ardern as a communist is a bit of a give away . . . . .
      
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      May 2, 2018 12:33pm
    - realityczech
      
      “However, police have taken the unusual step of saying Gayford isn’t the subject of any investigation. ”
      
      So is an investigation concluded?
      
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      May 2, 2018 12:40pm
      - realityczech
        
        I’m confused. What did the flash lawyers do?
        
        Am I missing something? Police the PM and lawyers are all making statements to the media…. about nothing ?
        
        How terribly odd !
        
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        May 2, 2018 12:52pm
    - KevOB
      
      The issue of the interns has never been resolved nor the Labour Kids Booze (& Sex?) Fest.
      
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      May 2, 2018 7:33pm
      - realityczech
        
        Have a top law firm, head of police and the Prime Minister, said there is no investigation?
        
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        May 2, 2018 7:35pm
  - doggone7
    
    Why? The covering in shit is immediate on taking the blame or feeling guilty as soon as someone says ‘dirty politics’.
    
    Bridges will look like a blithering idiot trying to cover his arse for something that’s got nothing to do with him or the party. He’d do better in the eyes of the intelligent to come out saying something about maligning politicians and politicians’ families as being totally unacceptable and such as this latest episode being a sad state of affairs.
    
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    May 2, 2018 12:17pm
    - brett68
      
      https://twitter.com/MatthewHootonNZ/status/991454040591552512
      
      If Hooton is correct, it’s only the beginning.
      
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      May 2, 2018 12:45pm
    - Happychappy
      
      Did you call for the same from Labour when the scum were talking about raping Key’s daughter. Again it shows what a hypocrite you are.
      
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      May 2, 2018 1:48pm
  - Piniwi
    
    True brett68 but what a response from the Commie Chick to try the “dirty politics” label when they continue to do such a good job of looking so bad.
    
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    May 2, 2018 8:27pm
- waldonz
  
  But are the rumours false? It sounds like some high level people are running some serious diversion tactics – ‘Nothing to see here! Move on!’. As the old saying goes ‘Where there’s smoke…..’.
  
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  May 2, 2018 11:10am
  - Debbie
    
    Streisand effect much…..
    
    I hadn’t heard of any rumours before this, but I’ll admit I googled Gayford after reading this article about “false rumours” and defamation threats.
    
    I doubt I was the only one.
    
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    May 2, 2018 1:49pm
  - realityczech
    
    It would help to put all this to rest if they made public the things that are not being investigated.
    
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    May 2, 2018 5:43pm
  - doggone7
    
    If they were running serious diversion tactics with one tenth the delirium and a millionth of the intelligence of lowlives spouting garbage like that they’d be well and truly tuckered out by now.
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:24pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  “Media commentator and Public Address blogger Russell Brown said the comments
  appeared to be driven by a “troll pack” of users who were pushing the false rumour on the social media platform.”
  
  What are the motives of this “troll pack,” if such a pack exists?
  I can see two possibilities:
  a) Make Gayford look bad.
  b) Make Gayford look like a victim.
  
  Have I missed anything?
  
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  May 2, 2018 12:24pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  What makes Hagar a policy genius, all of a sudden?
  He should stick to writing novels (fiction)
  
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  May 2, 2018 12:26pm
  - KevOB
    
    He has been implicated in publishing work obtained by dubious means from others.
    
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    May 2, 2018 7:35pm
- UpandComer
  
  For all we sat about Ardern I think she’s a nice attractive girl who shouldn’t be PM or doing anything consequential but could do much better then Gayeford, an odious little gamma who is being helped, a very very great deal, shall we say. Boy has that boy dear factoed up. Why can’t Labour produce normal first people?
  
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  May 2, 2018 1:18pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Upandcomer etc , what has Gayford done precisely to raise your ire and outrage?
    
    Partner of the PM ?
    
    Who ar haviing a child of wedlock
    
    What else ecactly ??
    
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    May 2, 2018 1:22pm
    - KiWombat
      
      Stupidity does not appear to be confined to just one sex !
      
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      May 2, 2018 1:54pm
    - softail 1450
      
      septicboy is pissed going by that last post FFS.
      
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      May 2, 2018 2:46pm
cmm

Just got an email from ANZ reminding me my Kiwisaver account will be getting a free $521 dollars from the government.

Free? FREE? Fuck off! It isn’t free. I’m paying for it!

But due to the extra administration costs running it through government bureaucracy it is not costing $521, but probably $600.

Then most of the 2.7 million Kiwisaver participants (say 2 million) are getting the $521 and only the 100,000 or so net tax payers are paying.

That means I’m paying 20x$600 = $12000 and getting back $521.

Free my arse!
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May 2, 2018 10:30am
Harkman

So I just jumped in the car for 2secs and heard Sainsbury promoting Scotland’s minimum price for alcohol, “all the Healthcare experts support it.” Well if you narrow the gap between alcohol and drugs, soon you have a drug problem, geniuses, solve one problem by creating an even greater problem. And we all know that Sainsbury is a puppet of this government. So watch out.
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May 2, 2018 10:47am
- Evadne
  
  Genuine question: if the minimum price goes up for the consumer who pockets the difference?
  
  Say, for the sake of argument, the government mandates that a bottle of beer can’t be sold for less than $8.
  
  OK Beer Co makes beer, and sells it for $2 a bottle wholesale.
  Countdown prices it at $4
  Liquor King sells it at $4.50
  Rugby club sells it at $5
  A mid-range restaurant lists it at $7
  Poncy wine bar sells it at $9.
  
  Who gets the difference, now that Countdown and restaurant alike put it up to $8?
  – OKBeer Co? (along with an incentive to make masses of cheap beer)
  – The retailers? (thus receiving a government-mandated profit hike, and the sports clubs etc a great fundraising option,thus incentivising and rewarding the sale of cheap alcohol – the type beloved of binge drinkers)
  – The government? (an effective tax on cheaper brands of alcohol drunk by the “poor”)
  
  What about the consumer? If OKBeer Co’s cheap beer is now $8, but QualityBrewPub’s prize-winning beer is unaffected at $10, then what does that do to the market?
  
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  May 2, 2018 11:23am
  - Holly Roggerz
    
    Well why stop at Beer, if ‘bad things’ should be priced high to decrease consumption good things should be priced low, lets take beans for instance, why shouldn’t the government take their price and make it $1 a KG or $0 a KG or whatever…
    
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    May 2, 2018 11:59am
  - cmm
    
    Well the answer is clear.
    
    Fiddle enough and themarket will still find a way to serve the customers.
    
    This will just drive up the black market. It will make home brewing profitable.
    
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    May 2, 2018 12:00pm
- lilman
  
  So Alcohol goes up and the price of Meth stays the same.
  WINNERS.
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:49pm
ex-golfer

This is a relief:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/103547374/jacinda-ardern-will-work-until-shes-physically-in-labour

I was wondering what the first woman to ever have a baby while working was going to do!
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May 2, 2018 11:14am
- cmm
  
  Of course she’s saying this. I think it is part of The Plan.
  
  When she takes off in a week or two she can say: “I really, really wanted to stay in the job but the doctor said I must stop.”
  
  Elderly primagravida + high-stress job is not a healthy mix – for mum or baby.
  
  Putting your ideology ahead of your own health – fine. Putting it ahead of someone else’s life – not so fine.
  
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  May 2, 2018 11:21am
  - srylands
    
    “Elderly primagravida”
    
    This is tiresome. Would you ever actually say this to a pregnant woman? Regardless of my personal views on any Governnet policy, I wish her well. Whether she works up until labour is none of my business.
    
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    May 2, 2018 12:05pm
    - Flash
      
      It’s a common description in obstetric circles –
      
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      May 2, 2018 1:39pm
      - lifesgood
        
        Not only common but correct, biologically speaking. Women are not meant to be pregnant in their late 30s
        
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        May 2, 2018 2:31pm
    - cmm
      
      “This is tiresome.”
      
      Tell that to: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25185379
      
      Quote: “CONCLUSION: Elderly primigravida remains a high risk pregnancy and the incidence is high. They were significantly associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes and operative obstetric interventions. Early booking and more obstetric vigilance shall improve their pregnancy outcomes.”
      
      In other words, Cindy shouldn’t be a hero and go into labour in the beehive.
      
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      May 2, 2018 2:13pm
      - KevOB
        
        Unfortunately Jacinda and those relying on her have no idea what is to come in the next few weeks or even days. We can only wish all well.
        
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        May 2, 2018 7:40pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      primagravida means first pregnancy.
      
      An elderly primigravida is defined as a woman who goes into pregnancy for the first time at the age of 35 years or older.
      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25185379
      
      @lifesgood
      Women are not meant to be pregnant in their late 30s
      
      As the average age for menopause in NZ women is 52 years… there’s a few years between late 30s and
      mid-late 40s when a woman could become pregnant.
      
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      May 2, 2018 2:42pm
    - srylands
      
      Yeah I know what it is. I have 4 kids. I am not denying the factual accuracy of your references to the Prime Minister as such. I am simply asking why? Why is it any of your business. By all means get stuck into government policy. But I do not agree with disparaging comments about her pregnancy. And by using that term, you are not trying to be obstetrically accurate. You are attempting to be derogatory.
      
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      May 2, 2018 3:52pm
- Fletch
  
  And, of course, by “working” they mean “f_cking up the country”.
  
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  May 2, 2018 11:22am
- backster
  
  Well so long as Dr Clarke and Dr Woods are in close attendance.
  
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  May 2, 2018 11:29am
  - sooty
    
    Sorry backster, Ihit report by mistake.
    
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    May 2, 2018 12:04pm
- Piniwi
  
  OMG ex-golfer can the Chamber become even more of a circus than it really is already. Imagine if it a quick birth with the whole thing played out in the House.
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:39pm
Berend de Boer

On this defamation warning post, does anyone if a claim by the police is covered by some “history wipe” legislation? I.e. after 7 years they wipe your convictions, and then they can report you have never been convicted. I think the US may have such a thing, do we too?

I’m not suggesting in anyway that this is the case with Clarke Gayford, he should be totally out of limits, as he is not running for office.

But in case some lawyer knows how things work here with historic convictions.
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May 2, 2018 11:27am
- Lance
  
  I do note the Herald headline was “Dirty Politics”
  
  FFS
  
  I have NEVER, EVER seen any of the shit the left constantly hurl labelled as dirty politics.
  
  And was it started by people with political motives or just that being someone in the political eye (rightly or wrongly) gets attention, and no danger of any proof of political basis furnished?
  
  BTW I agree this should be out of bounds
  
  EDIT: I see this was covered above..Doh
  
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  May 2, 2018 11:39am
- stephieboy
  
  Berend de Boer, the facts are that Clarke Gayford is not the subject of a police investigation. The rumours were false.
  
  Simple!
  
  “Police have taken the unusual step of saying the Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s partner Clarke Gayford has not been investigated or charged with anything, after widespread rumours.”
  
  https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/356437/police-quash-clarke-gayford-rumours
  
  I can imagine the deep dejection and bitter disappointment of certain posters on KB and the usual suspects.
  
  Time to move on.
  
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  May 2, 2018 12:27pm
  - UpandComer
    
    It’s very surprising.
    
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    May 2, 2018 1:23pm
  - mandk
    
    stephie – how do you know that the police statement about fake news is not fake news?
    
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    May 2, 2018 1:28pm
    - stephieboy
      
      mandk , can you repeat that?
      
      You should stick to Pizzagate and Clinton body count etc stupidity
      
      DUH !
      
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      May 2, 2018 2:18pm
      - Nev.
        
        Pizzagate is real. Avicii was about to expose what he knew before they got to him.
        
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        May 2, 2018 2:42pm
- Huevon
  
  Ok, so the rumours are false but Gayford is still a self-serving, thin-skinned layabout, latched onto his partner’s high income, and regularly making a fool of himself. All that is true, so it can’t be defamatory.
  
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  May 2, 2018 2:23pm
  - Faroffsound
    
    The rumours might be false but the rest of your comments seem to be pretty accurate.
    
    The idea that after six weeks he will effortlessly transform into a house husband with considerable responsibility for a new born baby might be a tad optimistic.
    
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    May 2, 2018 2:37pm
  - doggone7
    
    And those who tried character assassination on him are still arseholes still regularly making fools of themselves except to the other sad children who are impressed by the bullying?
    
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    May 2, 2018 2:39pm
SGA

Hmmmm… DPF has done a little housekeeping above, I notice.
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May 2, 2018 11:36am
- Holly Roggerz
  
  Yes the mass censorship has begun, first you can’t criticize Clarke, next you won’t be able to criticize anyone at all associated with the labour party, its how dictatorships work, built on opression and everything…
  
  Nationals silent as usual, what is it that they say, silence is a gift or whatever to tyranny…
  
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  May 2, 2018 12:04pm
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Never get in the way of an opponent hell bent on destroying themselves…people are noticing.
    All National has to do is hand out the popcorn and give them (the people) a little nudge in the right direction.
    CoL will do the rest to themselves.
    
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    May 2, 2018 12:23pm
    - Holly Roggerz
      
      Or they lower the voting age, change the electoral law to remove the threshold or give their buddies seats, then she is in for life, and she doesn’t need to justify it:
      
      https://www.labour.org.nz/government_to_provide_greater_protection_of_rights_under_the_nz_bill_of_rights_act_1990
      https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12003769
      http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/102458566/Sixteen-is-the-future-age-of-reason-and-responsibility
      
      Its very easy for that rhetoric from the childrens comissioner to spill into the Human Rights Court, and from there a ruling that the electoral act violates human rights, and in a single session of parliament, under urgency with a simple majority vote the law is changed reducing the age from 18 to 16…
      
      Then they allow early voting or whatever in schools during school time, under supervision of the union… This is all it takes to ensure she is president for life.
      
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      May 2, 2018 12:49pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Hooly Roggrez, it is really quite simple. You cannot publish material and information that is defamatory and the police ( re above ) have squashed rumours that he is the subject of their investigations.
    
    No censorship!
    
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    May 2, 2018 12:34pm
    - Holly Roggerz
      
      You are not allowed to question leadership in most left-wing dictatorships, like Turkey or Venezuella or North Korea… Really there is little difference… And I am pretty sure defemation was never meant to extend to supression of criticism against the ruling class by the people.
      
      Ofcourse if it were the media, and it were john Key being criticized, and the media were being threatened under defemation and the police were getting involved, then you would be screaming from the rooftoops what a dictatorial tyran John Key is….. Don’t deny it, we all know it is true… And your buddies would be screaming about freedom of speech, and freedom of the Press..
      
      To the left, freedom and rights are not for the people, they are for the upper rulling political classes, we all know it is true stephie! One rule for the masses, another rule for their betters!
      
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      May 2, 2018 12:53pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Holly Rodggerz , fatuous nonsense. Again Clarke Gayford is not subject to police investigation.
        
        Period.
        
        NZ is not a Venuzuala or North Korea etc.
        
        Fact
        
        Get over yourself!
        
        You can continue to make accusations and rumour monger against Gayford but they must be factually based .
        
        I’m sure if this was Simon Bridges or David Seymour’s spouses I’m confident your position would be very, very different.
        
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        May 2, 2018 1:17pm
      - KiWombat
        
        You’re about as sharp as a mashed potato sandwich !
        
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        May 2, 2018 1:57pm
    - UpandComer
      
      Lol let’s just say I’m surprised by this.
      
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      May 2, 2018 1:22pm
      - emmess
        
        The lady doth protest too much.
        
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        May 2, 2018 2:05pm
  - MH
    
    maybe we can get him on his Fishing license.
    
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    May 2, 2018 12:55pm
    - Brigitte
      
      Ah yes, a fishing licence…. https://www.facebook.com/nostalgickiwi/videos/1028625353852252/
      
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      May 2, 2018 1:54pm
  - Surely Knott
    
    Any defamatory statements made are wrong. But is Bridges statement right? “My heartfelt sympathy to the Prime Minister and Clarke Gayford. It is entirely unacceptable and politicians families should be left out of politics.” Should politicians families be left out of politics? Sure. If they chose to keep a low profile. But Gayford has been a key part of the packaging and the story and the sales pitch of brand Labour, and the stardust of the celebrity couple Jacinda and Gayford. From how their romance started, to his twitter responses, to his celebrity photoshoots. Gayford has been very much part of the campaign. Any defamation is wrong. And the stupid article about last week was wrong. But honest discussion of Gayford’s behaviour should be fair game if he decides to be activilely involved int he politcal media with Jacinda.
    
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    May 2, 2018 2:00pm
    - Nev.
      
      He’s constantly described as “The First Bloke”.
      That suggests to me he is fair game, especially as the media run puff pieces on him minus all the stories about his slutting about pre-Jacinda.
      
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      May 2, 2018 2:39pm
    - Anne Glen Eden
      
      I really agree – with all points.
      
      Families should be left out of politics – by everyone. It’s Jacinda, Clarke, and Labour who are bringing him ‘into’ politics.
      
      Bill English managed to have a long career and I have to say I had no idea who his family was until he resigned. But they weren’t thrust in front of cameras on frequent occasions or writing media statements haranguing the public for one thing or another. Key’s family was similar – apart from the media chasing them, which was increasingly often and often negative.
      
      Jacinda and Clarke make a habit of his presence in the media to promote ‘their’ image – and occasionally ‘lecture’ the public. Like the Kardashians, if you do that, you’re setting yourself up and have no justification for complaint when people comment. Probably, the same is going to apply to the baby.
      
      But, of course, it’s okay when the left-wing MSM do it to those they’re against.
      
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      May 2, 2018 2:49pm
      - MH
        
        yes but what political plank was Max Key supporting ?
        
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        May 2, 2018 3:09pm
      - itstricky
        
        Jacinda and Clarke make a habit of his presence in the media to promote ‘their’ image – and occasionally ‘lecture’ the public.
        
        Disagree. Strongly. Rubbish.
        
        It’s just ADS, pure and simple.
        
        MH, I know – won’t someone think of poor old Max Key – for just a minute?
        
        Actually, you know what, I was getting sick of Max standing up and promoting his image and ‘lecturing’ me – never mind him.
        
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        May 2, 2018 4:47pm
    - Holly Roggerz
      
      Well we have long since past ‘leaving families’ out of politics with the Jacinda Ardern Royal Family, appointment of Her father to high position of office, and the Baby of the Nation, and the First Man and that all that carry on….
      
      Frankly her entire family are up to their eyeballs in political involvement, I am only surprised that her boyfriend (yes the royal marriage is being saved for when popularity hits a low) wasnt ran as the joint, Labour-Green-Winston First party candidate for the Northcote by-election, really surprised me with that one. Perhaps he will be made Governor General or some such instead? (although that position was only recently filled)….
      
      And the attempt to build a cult of personality arround this person and all the tagger alongs, it’s the same sickening BS that sees the Dictator of NK worshipped, litterally deified and turned into a god, and worshipped in schools….
      
      Speaking of such, she is awfully fond of those school photo-opps isn’t she…. Kind of reminds me of those North Korean-murals of the deer leader in the schools with the children…
      
      And it may seem like an exageration, but if we get another 3 or so terms of this, I don’t think it will be far from the truth! Certainly not after a Generation, if she decides to change the electoral law, and drop voter ages, as I suspect she could, sort of like a NZ version of the fears of Obama pardoning millions of illegal immigrants so that they could vote in the elections….
      
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      May 2, 2018 3:59pm
    - KevOB
      
      He took a pot shot at Simon Bridges the other day so for me the gloves are off–he was an MP’s spouse now he’s an activist.
      
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      May 2, 2018 7:46pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Holly Roggerz, stick to Alex Jones type CT stupidity!
    
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    May 2, 2018 2:20pm
Left Right and Centre

New light rail proposals from the WCC – cost effective and also will address NZ’s shocking rate of train versus people fatality rates at crossings . . .
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May 2, 2018 11:49am
cas

What to do? we have been offered another 5 weeks free Herald under a special rural delivery scheme but the Herald is rubbish. on the other hand it’s starting to be time for lighting the fire.
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May 2, 2018 11:53am
- Holly Roggerz
  
  But Cas your fire will be built on dishonesty, lies and fake news? Even worse it will be poorly written by interns who could barely pass a primary school english test! Is that the sort of fire you want to have in your house?
  
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  May 2, 2018 12:01pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Holly Roggerz, you have never, never cited or sourced MSM ” Hooreld ” or Stuff etc ??
    
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    May 2, 2018 12:43pm
  - MH
    
    where there’s smoke….you’ll be burning the NZF accord next.
    
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    May 2, 2018 12:58pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Maybe the Herald will generate a smoke screen?
    
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    May 2, 2018 1:42pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Odakyu sen just stick to Alex Jones, Fox and Breitbart etc
      
      DUH !
      
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      May 2, 2018 2:22pm
- lifesgood
  
  My brother does this every time there’s a free offer. They get it delivered, don’t even open it just put it straight into the firewood basket.
  
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  May 2, 2018 12:02pm
Philview

I see the Guardian ran a story today saying that Kiwi businessman Chris Chandler masterminded Brexit.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/01/christopher-chandler-founder-of-pro-brexit-thinktank-has-link-with-russian-intelligence-mp-says
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May 2, 2018 11:54am
Left Right and Centre

I did not, and let me make myself perfectly clear here, most certainly did *not* hear any rumours of any kind, type, nature or description in any way whatsoever relating to the first partner of NZ’s PM.
And anyone accusing me of hearing gossip that Helen is the real father will be flogged.
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May 2, 2018 12:04pm
- Ultima
  
  I didn’t inhale either and will continue watching the fishing, including the one on Prime.
  
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  May 2, 2018 1:39pm
- Philview
  
  I don’t know anyone who knows what this is about. They say more “Dirty Politics” suggesting that another political party is running a smear campaign. This “dirty politics” allegation needs to be rebutted by other political parties. Incidentally, Labour sending people round the world to dig up dirt on John Key was dirty politics. Their frequent innuendos about his ancestry being connected to his success were antisemitic and also dirty politics.
  
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  May 2, 2018 2:34pm
  - sooty
    
    Where was the police during all the shit fung during John Keys term about him and his family? Missing is where they were?
    
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    May 2, 2018 3:01pm
  - KevOB
    
    The “Dirty Politics” came from that Aussie rag, the NZ Herald. No evidence, but it has the bad taste of a vino harga.
    
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    May 2, 2018 7:52pm
RW Capitalist

Just did a survey
Asked to place, in order, what the priorities of the govt. should be to improve my business.
10 subjects
Not one of them was “Resign”
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May 2, 2018 12:19pm
- Pateke
  
  The best laugh I’ve had in a year!
  
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  May 2, 2018 5:16pm
Viking2

What bothers me about this is that the truth is submerged in the interests of one person.
It has been submerged by Judge, Police, Media and the various others who have aided and abetted this.

I simply have no faith in the Justice system nor the police on the basis that they are covering up alleged crimes.
If they are wondering why police on the front line have low moral they need to look no further than their management and its policy.

Same applies to the Judges. What principles do they live by?
Are they bought so cheaply. Its seems they are.

Not good at all.
Where there is smoke there is fire. There is every reason to say we disbelieve those promoting this lack of Transparency.
We actually don’t give a shit what he did really. Like the rest of us he needs to stand up and be accountable and apologize to others for his misdemeanor.
Its is more important for his future than for most others.
Not My PM.

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May 2, 2018 12:21pm
- SGA
  
  Where there is smoke there is fire.
  
  meh – and sometimes it’s there because people are blowing smoke. No idea which is the case here, but your use of that hackneyed expression isn’t compelling by itself
  
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  May 2, 2018 1:44pm
Nev.

Dirty Politics purveyor Nicky Hager talking about how insinuation and rumours can destroy lives just broke the internets Irony Meter.
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May 2, 2018 12:32pm
rangitoto

So now people will now want to know what the rumours are.
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May 2, 2018 1:15pm
- Nev.
  
  I heard it from a source that for the last 5 months Jacinda has been buying pre-squeezed almond juice
  
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  May 2, 2018 1:52pm
- lifesgood
  
  Streisand effect.
  
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  May 2, 2018 1:54pm
  - sooty
    
    Taxinda did not need to squeese the nuts anymoreto milk them?
    
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    May 2, 2018 2:58pm
- Anne Glen Eden
  
  O heavens, perhaps that’s the point – not enough people talking about them/him and nothing of substance to get them to.
  
  So now it’ll be people asking each other if they know what the rumours are – but there aren’t any allowed to be spoken about – and apparently nothing to find.
  
  I’ve said often, the Left really are past masters at PR spin of illusion and delusion. How to create ‘news’ out of absolutely nothing 101. Once again, Clarke has done absolutely nothing and the media are going to talk about it for ?????
  
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  May 2, 2018 2:56pm
  - MH
    
    it’s the 1839 Bedchamber crisis all over again.
    
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    May 2, 2018 3:21pm
  - Philview
    
    I think you are right. No one has heard about this. The Otago Daily Times has a headline pointing the finger at National. This is a smokescreen by Labour to take the heat off something else.
    
    https://www.odt.co.nz/news/national/nats-involvement-gayford-rumours-denied#comments
    
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    May 2, 2018 4:26pm
    - Anne Glen Eden
      
      No doubt. When you’re in trouble, make yourself a ‘victim’ and scream long and loud.
      
      Labour is the ‘poor little underdog’ who can’t live up to all those nasty public expectations based on their own false election promises.
      
      Weep and wail to attract sympathy as you’re screwing the population in every way you can while having no idea what you’re doing. It’s all someone else’s fault – they’re in power, claiming to be ‘disempowered’. If that doesn’t work, create a new ‘victim’.
      
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      May 2, 2018 4:41pm
      - itstricky
        
        Weep and wail to attract sympathy
        
        Yeah – quite right – he should have released a rap diss track instead:
        
        https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11939497
        
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        May 2, 2018 4:51pm
    - KevOB
      
      This is a smokescreen by Labour to take the heat off something else.
      
      Poohbah’s Budgie: all the money has flown away.
      
      I’ll believe the winter power handout when I see it. Meanwhile student’s are enjoying their bribe.
      
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      May 2, 2018 7:56pm
    - Suze Wainwright
      
      That’s fascinating – all of a sudden Winnie’s trying to get traction and establish some mileage from this one.
      Who seems to benefit most (or tries to benefit most) from stories that point the National Party out to be the scurrilous, underhanded, dirty politic shysters…?
      Superannuation overpayments, defamatory statements.
      Interesting…
      (Someone must be donkey deep).
      
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      May 2, 2018 8:05pm
- Que Sera Sera
  
  Only busy bodies like you Rangi.
  
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  May 2, 2018 3:26pm
- mikewasmild
  
  I had to laugh at DPF’s sanctimonious ‘reminder on defamation’.
  As if one of the main way these rumours were spread wasn’t Kiwiblog.
  
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  May 2, 2018 4:15pm
  - Nev.
    
    I have to laugh at 99% of the 30 thousand odd comments you have made of little or no substance. When in the asylum, do as the nutters do
    
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    May 2, 2018 6:07pm
    - itstricky
      
      I have to laugh at the posters who did wander around, here, between a week & two back saying “GASP, Did you hear about Gayboy?”
      
      (disclaimer: I’m not sure they said “Gayboy” – I just tried to come up with the most ‘side-splitting’ name mangling I could – because you know how funny those are)
      
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      May 2, 2018 6:22pm
      - Kimbo
        
        Wasn’t it more a case of them indignantly demanding the police make an arrest, and implying the reason they hadn’t thus far was due to political pressure?
        
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        May 2, 2018 6:27pm
  - realityczech
    
    milky what rumours are you talking about?
    
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    May 2, 2018 6:30pm
    - Kimbo
      
      No, there is no rumour about you. It is a fact that you post lurid graphic details about child molestation, and it is a fact that many around here believe it is highly suggestive. Are you allowed to be alone with children?
      
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      May 2, 2018 6:33pm
      - realityczech
        
        Best you write to Rabbi Nuchem Rosenberg directly demanding he immediately stop fighting child abuse in his community and to never speak of it again. Because for some weird reason it triggers you. Greatly. Look him up and flick him an angry abusive message. I can’t help you.
        
        It has served to reveal what sort of person you really are though. I always knew, but now it is clearly on display for all to see.
        
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        May 2, 2018 6:41pm
      - Kimbo
        
        No I’m more concerned about potential child abuse that’s a bit closer to New Zealand. And I notice you didn’t answer the question about whether you are allowed to be left alone with children. Along with that “I always knew” it looks like yet more projecting, the question marks about what you get up to are beginning to accumulate.
        
        And then there’s your aggression. You seem like you are full of self-loathing. Is there something you do in your personal life, of which you are ashamed that makes you hate yourself, and then project that hate onto others?
        
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        May 2, 2018 6:44pm
      - realityczech
        
        You mean the article by the Rabbi? The one where you could not bring yourself to be critical of the abusers, so instead launched into a sordid abusive crusade against me for posting a link?
        
        Funny you don’t get triggered by details of Muslim rape gangs etc. Funny that.
        
        Seems protecting religious bias comes way ahead of protecting kids for you. Which is exactly what the Rabbi says is his biggest problem in addressing the issue. It is a common problem across all religious sects. People like you attack the messenger not the abuse.
        
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        May 2, 2018 6:51pm
      - Kimbo
        
        So can I take that as, “no, I am not allowed to be alone with children”?
        
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        May 2, 2018 6:56pm
Left Right and Centre

Thanks, I’m here all week . . .

Isn’t it funny – people say that life begins at forty.

But no-one says life will definitely be over by a hundred – er – hmmm
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May 2, 2018 1:24pm
rangitoto

Bad news for California train set.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/01/feds-could-be-coming-for-californias-over-budget-bullet-train.html
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May 2, 2018 1:25pm
- stephieboy
  
  rangitoto, note the magic word, ” could ” !
  
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  May 2, 2018 2:23pm
  - sooty
    
    Same as the Vicar “could” be coming to get you to explain yourself to St Albains church!
    
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    May 2, 2018 3:07pm
Fletch

According to a Horizon Research poll commissioned by New Zealand Doctor magazine (see cover), when doctors were asked, “would you administer IV drugs to assist patient death”, 68% of doctors said NO.

Good for them.
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May 2, 2018 1:30pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Why would you admit to something that was illegal (no matter how sensible) in a poll when it would likely only lead to more difficult and tedious oversight?
  
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  May 2, 2018 5:34pm
  - Fletch
    
    I believe the question was likely in reference to a change in the law. Most of the article is behind a paywall. Here is what is able to be read –
    
    A Horizon Research poll commissioned by New Zealand Doctor suggests widely felt reluctance among doctors to be involved in assisting death in cases of terminal illness and suffering. But male and older doctors may be keener on a change to the law, as Virginia McMillan reports
    
    Even doctors who support a change don’t all want to be the one writing the fatal prescription or administering the fatal injection
    
    https://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/article/news/spotlight/majority-new-zealand-doctor-medics-say-no-job-helping-people-die
    
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    May 2, 2018 6:45pm
Nev.

Rotorua Council loses almost 3 quarters of a million dollars on Mudtopia, says it could be “considered a success”.
Shit for brains!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/103552677/controversial-mudtopia-festival-not-set-to-stick
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May 2, 2018 1:50pm
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Should have used Korean mud and make it $1M
  
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  May 2, 2018 2:27pm
- Poppa
  
  Councils consider any money they spend a success story
  
  That is all they are there to do, spend other people’s money. Most of the time wastefully
  
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  May 2, 2018 2:33pm
- Paulus
  
  Nev
  Never let it be said that Rotorua Council have shit for brains.
  Their Mayor, with a man’s name, is a failed Labour MP.
  So cannot be true.
  Should have tried Ladies Mud Wrestling.
  
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  May 2, 2018 2:35pm
- cmm
  
  Draw me a picture how a bit of mud and a bouncy castle or two can cost $750k without some massive rort going on.
  
  Here’s a few sacks of special taniwha-blessed mud. Only $200 per kg.
  
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  May 2, 2018 2:45pm
  - Nev.
    
    I would draw you a picture but its easier to imagine backhanders and pockets full of payola cash mate
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:03pm
Surely Knott

Waitakere Local By-election postal ballots have just arrived in mail boxes, and Labour announces, after ballots arrive, a get out the vote meeting including door knocking. It’s extroadinary that this is legal. Will they be asking people to give them their voting papers to post on their behalf? Will people feel pressured to vote labour because they are standing at their door and potentially asking for their papers. It’s legal here but illegal elsewhere. I’d like to see a change to legislation where door knocking on private residences is illegal after the voting papers have been posted.
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May 2, 2018 2:28pm
cmm

Anyone still think teachers are primarily focused on helping children?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12043497

Fucking scum.

What the pamphlet should say is:
“If you have used meth, or are thinking about it, or know someone that is using meth, then talk to someone that can help.”

Helping people to be discrete and evade the law is NOT helping anyone. For many, the first help they get is only because they get bust, so getting bust is a GOOD THING.

Fucking scum (worth repeating).
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May 2, 2018 2:42pm
- doggone7
  
  When it was handed out or made available to kids what did the teacher say? What was the context? Did the teacher say “look at this pamphlet. What do you think about it?” And then a discussion followed with the Level 3 Health classes (kids 16-18 years old)?
  
  “It is not explicitly taught to the students. However, when taken in context of the rest of the booklet, which is aimed at current users who are looking at ways to stop, the dangers of using methamphetamine are apparent.”
  
  “It is a document which is provided from the Ministry of Health, for public distribution. It is used in our Level 3 Health classes, where they are dealing with a health issue in NZ,” a Massey High School spokesperson.
  
  Saying ‘fucking scum’ a million times it won’t disguise the fact that your reaction is hysterical. Who’d want to work in schools?
  
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  May 2, 2018 3:07pm
  - cmm
    
    Hysterical? I’m surprised that there are not parents down at MinHealth and the school with sharpened pitchforks.
    
    Getting caught would help these kids get the help they need. Being discrete is not helping them. So why does it suggest that?
    
    I have no problems with the health messages and warnings, but telling them to avoid detection and how to get the biggest highs is not helping.
    
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    May 2, 2018 3:45pm
  - Holly Roggerz
    
    The only hysteria here is the hysteria of the School Teachers Union whom own the entire public school system in this country, and their arrogance in putting out such propaganda, what is next, pamphlets to convince children they are gay?
    
    I mean encouraging children to do drugs, really is a step to far over the line, now I think there trully is nothing that they consider to out off it for these degenerate unionists too do to our children, and our country!
    
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    May 2, 2018 4:18pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    I do, and I despair at the future, The kids and the profession are both fucked…. Good thing I can retire in 10 years ( if I last that long).
    
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    May 2, 2018 7:41pm
Nev.

Why is the Nevada Police Department deliberately delaying the release of the Las Vegas shooting records?
Something to hide?
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May 2, 2018 2:47pm
- Inandout
  
  That Nevada incident is stunning in its secrecy. The longer it drags on the more lawyers become involved, and the worse it gets for the Police.
  
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  May 2, 2018 4:56pm
cas

Such graciousness. Jacinda just walked out of the House as Nicola Willis started to make her maiden statement. Didn’t see whether Winnie stayed.
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May 2, 2018 2:51pm
- KevOB
  
  The best initial speech I have heard. An excellent new member with obvious ability.
  
  Now, on the other side of the House…
  
  ☑️☑️
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:05pm
Inandout

Massey High…. take me high on P.
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May 2, 2018 3:11pm
Manolo

Will Mueller’s farce ever end?
https://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Mueller-raised-possibility-of-presidential-12879676.php

In a tense meeting in early March with the special counsel, President Donald Trump’s lawyers insisted he had no obligation to talk with federal investigators probing Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.

But Special Counsel Robert Mueller responded that he had another option if Trump declined: He could issue a subpoena for the president to appear before a grand jury, according to four people familiar with the encounter.
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May 2, 2018 3:12pm
- Inandout
  
  Apparently the President cannot be forced to answer Mueller’s questions, or attend a Grand Jury for that matter. As the weeks go by Mueller is getting deeper and deeper into the mire, and Session’s position becomes more untenable.
  
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  May 2, 2018 3:51pm
- Holly Roggerz
  
  Well thats what they say, one law for the Clinton Crime Family, another law for the Trump Family. Same thing over here no?
  
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  May 2, 2018 4:10pm
Manolo

Tragic.
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/65-public-school-8th-graders-not-proficient-reading-67-not-proficient

65% of eighth graders in American public schools in 2017 were not proficient in reading and 67% were not proficient in mathematics, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress test results released by the U.S. Department of Education.
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May 2, 2018 3:17pm
- Surely Knott
  
  Just got my first nz high school report. They have 4 columns for each subject. 1 Attitude towards learning, 2. Self Management Skills 3. Relates well to others in class 4. Understanding of Ideas and Skills.
  Only 1 of those has anything to do with proficiency in the subject. Attitude and Relating. Lots of emphasis on how well you are liked by your teachers and your peers. Only 1 out of 4 is about proficiency in the subject.
  
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  May 2, 2018 6:14pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Those are PC bullshit speak for Works Hard, Is not Lazy, Behaves Well, Has a brain and uses it. Suprised they are not in Maori with macrons.
    
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    May 2, 2018 7:37pm
Manolo

Will Muslims in Iran ever reach the 21st century?
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-43964178

Several Iranian women have caught people’s attention by revealing the lengths they go to to attend a football match.

Donning beards and wigs, they disguised themselves as men so they could watch their team, Persepolis, play rivals Sepidrood at the Azadi stadium in Tehran last Friday
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May 2, 2018 4:45pm
- Nev.
  
  Come on Brian, we have a stoning to go to!
  
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  May 2, 2018 6:13pm
Inandout

Police Commissioner makes a statement on a non prosecution; most unusual.
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May 2, 2018 4:54pm
- milkmaid
  
  Unprecedented, I would think.
  
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  May 2, 2018 5:18pm
- rangitoto
  
  So why was there no prosecution? What is he hiding.
  
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  May 2, 2018 5:19pm
- Paul Marsden
  
  Raises more questions than answers to me. Why is our top cop frequenting the ninth floor of the Beehive?? And now Labour but in particular, NZ First are trying to turn it political. This is going to get nasty.
  
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  May 2, 2018 5:26pm
- realityczech
  
  I am awaiting a top tier law firm, a top cop and the Prime Minister, to all confirm there is no investigation into me.
  
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  May 2, 2018 6:19pm
  - Kimbo
    
    Why? What have you been doing to attract suspicion and rumours? Oh, that’s right, you are obsessed with posting the lurid and graphic details of child molestation.
    
    I hope there is a register some place with you name on it. Do the woman in your life, especially the ones with children, know what you do for kicks?
    
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    May 2, 2018 6:23pm
  - Nev.
    
    So is Ballsack you cretinous villain.
    Or an apology to all those you impugned with your filthy baseless accusations.
    Or not. You have your own row to hoe in the end.
    Nev.
    
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    May 2, 2018 6:25pm
    - realityczech
      
      He made the baseless allegations and I called him out on it and questioned the motives for his bizarre behaviour. You do understand people can just go and look for themselves so your lying about what was said just makes you look foolish?
      
      Interestingly he is real big on revealing child abuse in other religions, but shoots the messenger with that one. Another who puts religion ahead of kids.
      
      Anyway I have engaged enough with your sordid little cabal and need to go wash.
      
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      May 2, 2018 7:10pm
      - Nev.
        
        Yes Kea, wash that foreskin hard and fast just like always. See you back here in 3 minutes?
        
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        May 2, 2018 7:29pm
Maggy Wassilieff

How do you put a rumour to bed?
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May 2, 2018 5:28pm
- Nev.
  
  Smack her on the arse and call her a naughty girl just before you shower.
  Wait that’s what I would do to Stevie Nicks. Ignore me.
  Nev.
  
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  May 2, 2018 6:18pm
  - realityczech
    
    “Smack her”
    
    So here we have him now promoting violence and abuse against women.
    
    Nice guy.
    
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    May 2, 2018 7:13pm
    - Nev.
      
      Its soyboy millenials like you that are leading the charge to the destruction of healthy sexual appetite. I am sorry, sorry the type of women you date are all cowed by the fist, and not titillated by the hand or cock.
      
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      May 2, 2018 7:26pm
      - Awww C-mon
        
        The type of woman he dates have a cock
        
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        May 2, 2018 8:35pm
Nostradamus

Stephieboy will approve of this: Iranian women disguise themselves in fake beards and wigs to defy male-only stadium ban

A group of female football fans donned fake beards and wigs to sneak into a major soccer match in Iran in defiance of a ban on female spectators. Photos and video of the fans sitting in Tehran’s Azadi Stadium disguised as men on Friday have gone viral on social media.

The stakes are high:

The Islamic Republic has long banned women from attending men’s football matches and other sports fixtures, based at least partly on the theory that women should not hear fans swear. In 2014, a British-Iranian woman was jailed for a year after trying to attend a men’s volleyball match.

It’s a weird criminal justice system that jails someone for a year for “trying to attend a men’s volleyball match”.
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May 2, 2018 5:30pm
- Brigitte
  
  That’s an idea that could catch on. The Blues could ask for a year’s jail for any spectators that leave before full time….
  
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  May 2, 2018 5:47pm
  - lilman
    
    It would only put up the prison population buy 6 people.
    Three of them sideline commentators.
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:05pm
- Johnboy
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffwFXGPRDu4
  🙂 🙂
  
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  May 2, 2018 6:35pm
  - Nev.
    
    https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/05/general_debate_2_may_2018.html/comment-page-1#comment-2201652
    
    I think our parents are related.
    
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    May 2, 2018 6:37pm
- mandk
  
  Women in Iran disguising themselves as men in order to watch football?
  
  Makes sense really. Iranian football is completely bonkers. It has been reported recently that eight members of the Iranian women’s national football squad are actually men: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/11903290/Eight-of-Irans-womens-football-team-are-men.html
  
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  May 2, 2018 6:41pm
Skinny White Boy

After watching question time in Parliament recently ‘The Screeching Skull’ appears a suitable description for our ‘esteemed’ leader… what happened to the ‘relentless positividy’??
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May 2, 2018 5:41pm
Brigitte

NZ MUSIC MONTH

It wouldn’t be NZ music if you didn’t include the Dunedin sound. So here is Look Blue Go Purple with Cactus Cat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtmlfuEukMs
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May 2, 2018 5:49pm
- Nev.
  
  The downvoter is obviously a ginger person with no soul.
  
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  May 2, 2018 6:21pm
- Fletch
  
  Why did I think NZ Music Month was October? OR am I getting confused with what Radio Hauraki used to call ‘Rocktober’…
  
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  May 2, 2018 6:48pm
  - Nev.
    
    I stopped listening to Hauraki when they sacked Willy and Deano. Its complete shit these days going by the negative feedback on the Steinlager Pure ad
    
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    May 2, 2018 7:16pm
    - Fletch
      
      Yeh, I stopped when they stopped playing classic rock that rocks. Thomas The Tanked Engine was always good value, too.
      
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      May 2, 2018 8:09pm
Nostradamus

Winston Peters returns from the political wilderness to talk about dirty politics™:

“The Prime Minister might be reserved about it [circulation of rumours over Clarke Gayford] but this is part of a dirty campaign and it’s clearly been going on for some time, and it’s baseless, clearly from the police denial. It’s just a part of the black ops politics that have been happening in this country for some time. The only people who would be behind it would be the people who would seek to be politically advantaged by it. Have a wild guess who that might be?”
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Peters wouldn’t go so far as to name anyone or any organisation, telling media they could draw their own conclusions. But he said he had been a victim of a black ops campaign himself. “I’m not going to stand around here and let people plead their innocence when their background has been one, in some cases, of engaging in political filth and dirt.”

So Winston Peters won’t let people “plead their innocence”, but he’s yet to prove in a court of law that they leaked revelations that he received higher superannuation payments than he was entitled to for seven years: Peters’ supersized super – the missing letters.

I wonder how his court case is going.
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- stigie
  
  Winston Peters is what i would call an old flog Nostra..?
  
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  May 2, 2018 6:31pm
  - Happychappy
    
    Germ is more appropriate stigie he is what gives politicians a bad name and as most people say probably the most selfish MP or Leader of a Party that NZ has ever seen.
    
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    May 2, 2018 7:58pm
- mandk
  
  Could it be that Peters is behind the false stories about Gayford?
  
  It’s obvious that he hates National with a passion, so he has got to be a suspect for undertaking a psy-op and blaming it on National. There’s also the possibility that he fabricated the superannuation over-payment scandal because he wasn’t getting enough coverage in the run up to the last election.
  
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  May 2, 2018 6:59pm
  - KevOB
    
    Is Haggard at it again?
    
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    May 2, 2018 8:12pm
stigie

This from funstigator at the Stranded and the delicate LP gives the person one month….For what ? Y0u never see DPF abusive ever !~

“I peruse a few blogs regularly and had never even heard that there were any rumours. Even if the guy is obviously a bit of a smarmy dick there isn’t much excuse to throw mud”.

[lprent: Banned for 2 weeks for peddling what is probably faux news ‘fact’ without a verifiable link. And another two weeks for being a complete fuckwit doing it on this post. Have ‘fun’ with that you miserable dimwit. ]
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May 2, 2018 6:25pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Stigie:
  
  So the world’s greatest sys-op (because he tells us so) wants a verifiable link for the proposition that “[Gayford] is obviously a bit of a smarmy dick”. My goodness – where to begin? The link to him cross-dressing?
  
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  May 2, 2018 6:28pm
- Nev.
  
  A recent picture of lprent
  
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  May 2, 2018 6:29pm
  - nasska
    
    That’s not him.
    
    The world’s greatest sysop is ginger & has never been seen with two hands on his keyboard. 🙂
    
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    May 2, 2018 6:43pm
    - Nev.
      
      Not enough built up residual cum around his mouth in my pic either.
      
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      May 2, 2018 7:19pm
- Nev.
  
  Kiwiblog is the only mainstream blog you can disagree with the owner and not get canned for your fuckwittery. We all owe DPF a heartfelt thank you for that. Hopefully it never changes or that he decides to ban by IP.
  Nev.
  
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  May 2, 2018 6:35pm
- realityczech
  
  The Standard gives a great insight into the left. What vile people. No wonder millions die when these sort get the degree of power and control they crave.
  
  I am a liberal and could never support them.
  
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  May 2, 2018 7:01pm
  - nasska
    
    ….”I am a liberal and could never support them”…..
    
    Understandable. Yet the people who vote for the half fried socialists only hear the “free” part of the word freedom.
    
    So long as the working rich pay for their lifestyles they’ll happily ignore the possibility that their leaders will consign them to the salt mines & gulags.
    
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    May 2, 2018 7:11pm
    - realityczech
      
      Increasingly real liberals are forced towards voting for parties described as right wing. The left has become so hysterically intolerant and controlling. There is nothing liberal about them.
      
      Really there is not a single party that even goes halfway towards having the policies I would like to support. The Nats are the best of a very dodgy bunch.
      
      They will look even better after a few years of the communist forces currently occupying parliament.
      
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      May 2, 2018 7:27pm
      - Nev.
        
        God you talk some shit.
        “I am liberal but no one is right wing enough for me.”
        “I hate people because some of them are bad”
        “Jews are great but they rape kids that sit on them”
        
        You will be telling us you are a Fucking Nazi next 🙂
        Nev.
        
        PS who the fuck upticks the retard formally known as Kea?
        
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        May 2, 2018 7:34pm
      - nasska
        
        …..”The Nats are the best of a very dodgy bunch”…..
        
        They always have been & that’s why they’ve always had my vote.
        
        Yet they have no concept of freedom. Indeed they make a mockery of their founding principles which include “individual freedom and choice; personal responsibility; competitive enterprise and rewards for achievement; limited government” on a daily basis.
        
        To me dictating how you should die & what social drugs you can use is as far from “freedom” as a frog from feathers.
        
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        May 2, 2018 7:39pm
      - nasska
        
        …..”PS who the fuck upticks the retard formally known as Kea”…..
        
        Frequently me if he makes sense. That does not include his diatribes against Jews but he knows that.
        
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        May 2, 2018 7:41pm
      - realityczech
        
        nasska I agree with all that.
        
        I reckon legalising dope would be a great move. It would win them a few votes, make them look progressive, and save a ton of money. A few folk might throw their ~~bibles~~ toys, but they would come right.
        
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        May 2, 2018 7:47pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I miss Kea.
        Has she turned up on any other blog?
        
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        May 2, 2018 8:01pm
      - Nev.
        
        I often uptick RC too but I enjoy plucking her feathers on occasion. It’s remarkably vain about how it is viewed and self concious about the squawk.
        Nev.
        
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        May 2, 2018 9:11pm
      - GoVege
        
        When is Gabby coming back????
        
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        May 2, 2018 10:15pm
Inandout

Interesting stuff about TonyAJ:

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/celebs/a14457670/princess-margaret-tony-armstrong-jones-marriage-the-crown-facts/
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May 2, 2018 6:51pm
Fletch

Seven Sharp are being stupid about the rumors story.
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May 2, 2018 7:01pm
- Nev.
  
  Cant agree my tolerance for bullshit is low so why would I try to inoculate myself by watching that crap? Flipping Bangers on Choice is the place to be if you watch FTATV
  
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  May 2, 2018 7:14pm
Paul Marsden

And is it a coincidence, but why has our top cop high tailed it out to Australia..??
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May 2, 2018 8:11pm
realityczech

The story about their being no story about Gayford is being reported all over the world. They all make a frantic point of telling us a ~~man in a costume~~ policeman said it, so it must be true.

Everyone will now want to know what it was that is not being investigated. This will invite all sorts of interesting speculation, creating even more rumours.

Gayford’s lawyer, hired to represent him (for what we don’t know) has threatened immediate legal action if anyone says a word (about what we don’t know)

Somehow I don’t think the damage control is helping her client 🙂
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May 2, 2018 8:43pm
- Paul Marsden
  
  Otherwise known as The Streisand Effect. This is all going to end very badly.
  
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  May 2, 2018 8:59pm
- nasska
  
  …..”Somehow I don’t think the damage control is helping her client”…..
  
  You’re missing the fiendishly cunning strategy that’s being brought into play:
  
  You have to poison the patient before you can effect the cure! 🙂
  
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  May 2, 2018 9:08pm
- Nev.
  
  A couple of points to note RC,
  
  1. A few weeks back media was running a story about the well acknowledged prolific use of A class drugs amidst unnamed Auckland Glitterati, especially cocaine, due to a secret court trial.
  
  2. Gaylord is well known in the Auckland Glitterati circles due to his high profile position as a man who kills innocent fish and fucks the PM senseless
  
  3. ??????
  
  4. Profit.
  
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  May 2, 2018 9:18pm
  - realityczech
    
    Nev. If I, just for example, snorted coke overseas and rooted around, would the NZ police investigate me?
    
    No. The first thing is in another jurisdiction. The other is not a crime.
    
    The fact the police are not investigating [me] is different to saying I am a saint. Also the police do not pursue morality matters. They also need evidence and a chance of securing a conviction. So the fact there is no investigation underway does not say much.
    
    We don’t know what was said and we can’t say anyway… or the high priced lawyers will come after us.
    
    I’m just curious
    
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    May 2, 2018 9:42pm
    - sam green
      
      Interesting spin you’re now putting on the unsubstantiated gossip.
      
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      May 2, 2018 10:09pm
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        Gossip about what? I have no idea.
        
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        May 2, 2018 10:15pm
      - sam green
        
        Exactly!
        
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        May 2, 2018 10:16pm
      - realityczech
        
        spam it is a bit troubling that we don’t know what we can’t say when Gayford has his legal attack dog tugging at leash.
        
        Seems the message is you can’t talk about this very public and very political man, or else the full weight of the law will come down on you.
        
        This is a very disturbing thing to have the PM, Police and lawyers threatening people in this way.
        
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        May 2, 2018 10:27pm
      - sam green
        
        No realitydick – you can talk about whoever or whatever you want – you just can’t tell lies about people and present them as fact because it suits your wanky narrative. Allusion might get you in the shit as well. Your choice though. (Notice I said “your” and not “you’re”).
        
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        May 2, 2018 10:35pm
      - realityczech
        
        spam you tell lies all the time and attribute statements and views to people that they have not expressed.
        
        Will a flash lawyer, the Prime Minister, and Police, all come out soon to shut you down too?
        
        The problem here is that the NZ public are being threatened with legal action for discussing something about Gayford. We have not been told what. So any innocent remark could result in legal proceedings based on Gayford’s denials, which you seem to uncritically assume makes it a “lie”.
        
        This is very ominous .
        
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        May 2, 2018 10:46pm
      - sam green
        
        You’re funny ?. (Notice I said “you’re” and not “your”).
        
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        May 2, 2018 10:49pm
      - realityczech
        
        spam I see that special high-needs class is helping you with your grammar, if not your critical thinking skills.
        
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        May 2, 2018 10:55pm
      - sam green
        
        What a tired game you play. ? Got a job yet?
        
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        May 2, 2018 11:19pm
- sam green
  
  You know nothing about nothing you wankers. Ha! Sprung for the bottom feeders you are.
  
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