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Andrei

Quote of the day

“People today have been taught to be offended, people live to be offended. That’s why they need a ‘safe space’ and a ‘cry closet,’ and what they mean by that seems to be a space where they can be safe from hearing the voice of reason and truth,” he said. “If you speak the truth, you might not be safe.”

Bishop Robert C. Morlino
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May 30, 2018 8:02am
- EAD_TWO
  
  “If you speak the truth, you might not be safe.”
  
  – Jeremy Bedford Turner locked up for 11 months
  – Tommy Robinson locked up for 13 months
  – 89 year old Ursula Haverbeck hunted down and sent to the slammer for 2 years
  
  Yet it’s OK to call for the extinction of White Men:
  
  http://insider.foxnews.com/2016/11/03/lena-dunham-posts-video-celebrating-extinction-white-men-twitter
  
  “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise”
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:04am
  - stephieboy
    
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    EAD TWO , Jeremy Bedford Turner spreads anti-Jewish hate and lies
    Tommy Robinson ( who goes under numerous aliases ) has had a string of criminal convictions including common assault
    
    At least all three have not been sent to Gulags and Nazi styled Concentration camps.
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:13am
    - EAD_TWO
      
      Stephieboy,
      
      I suggest you read the other side (i.e. not the MSM version) of the argument about decorated Army Captain and father Jeremy Bedford Turner who served his country for over a decade and, having stared death in the face, is one who is not afraid of speaking truth to power or cowed by “social taboos”:
      
      https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2017/03/12/free-speech-jewish-activism-and-the-trial-of-jeremy-bedford-turner/
      
      As you manifestly know nothing about the case beyond the results of your google search, let me inform you of story:
      
      Jeremy made a speech in 2015 speaking of undue influence of Jews in Great Britain. He was found not guilty by the Crown Prosecution Service and the case was dismissed.
      
      However, certain influential members of the Jewish community, most notably the Campaign Against Antisemitism, were incensed at the allegation that Jews exercise an undue level of influence within our society, and in an act of supreme folly have before the eyes of the Nation exercised a startling level of political influence, brow beating the CPS into changing its decision not to prosecute.
      
      We must wonder just how much political influence organised Jewry must have when they can, without presenting any new evidence, force a government body like the CPS to reverse a decision that has taken several months of intense consideration to reach?
      
      In an article on the Guardian website in March 2017, it was reported: “The Crown Prosecution Service is reconsidering whether to prosecute a far-right activist for alleged antisemitism on the eve of a highly unusual legal challenge to its decision to let the case drop”. This challenge was indeed ‘highly unusual’ as the Guardian journalist states, and one might suggest is proof if ever it was needed, that Jez Turner’s assertion that Jewish groups exercise great power and influence within our society is undeniably established as fact.
      
      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/07/cps-far-right-legal-challenge
      
      http://www.westernspring.co.uk/jez-turner-our-champion-steps-into-the-arena/
      
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      May 30, 2018 9:37am
      - Rodney Randall
        
        The Yoga Pantry lurker can only downtick in response.
        
        If you look at Ralph’s fb profile you could swear he just missed out on Down’s Syndrome, either that or he is the product of brother sister relations.
        
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        May 30, 2018 11:05am
    - Kiwi Dave
      
      Turner appears to be a deluded, hating, anti-Semitic bigot, but should he be in gaol for expressing those views?
      
      Robinson might well be a less than saintly figure, but should he be in gaol? Because of the lack of detail, I’m withholding immediate judgement on this one with some difficulty, but six hours from alleged offence to sentencing and a news blackout should make anyone suspicious about the state of liberty and the even-handed application of the law in the UK.
      
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      May 30, 2018 9:50am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Kiwi Dave: Tommy has repeatedly stated that he is not racist, just doesn’t want sharia law and islamism in the UK.
        
        About Tommy’s previous convictions: done and dusted. This arrest and 13 month sentence was unjustified, since he was only reporting on a finished trial (sentencing day) and couldn’t influence a jury. Plus he had no chance of a proper hearing and defence.
        
        The worst of it is the gag order. Even the idiotic Stephieboy should be able to see that gagging the media from reporting on Tommy’s arrest is bloody dangerous: you know, SB: Martin Niemöller: ‘first they came for…’ etc.
        
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        May 30, 2018 10:42am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        The gag order at least has been lifted. Watch the infowars interview with Caolan Robertson who was in the court when Tommy was sentenced.
        
        Min 3 – 6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G3O7kSS2e4
        
        The most important points I understand Caolan is to be making:
        
        1. A claim that the judge admitted he hadn’t watched the full livestream Tommy made, just a short section he based the whole sentence on.
        
        2. A claim that Tommy’s appointed lawyer informed the judge that Tommy had been attacked before and had received several credible threats on his life; thus that his life would be in danger in jail. Caolan seems to think that the judge didn’t respond, didn’t seem to care.
        
        3. A claim that the judge said that ‘freedom of speech comes with consequences’ in his opening statement and repeated it a couple of times. If this is true it is HUGE. [What consequences? Jail, murder? That’s not freedom of speech then, is it!]
        
        4. A claim that the judge acknowledged that Tommy’s suspended sentence was irrelevant – that Tommy would have received this new sentence anyway. [So much for all those people claiming ‘Tommy knew what he was in for’].
        
        Note: this is all just my understanding of Caolan’s claims of what happened in court. Watch the video yourself if you care.
        
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        May 30, 2018 4:01pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        LOL, good example, thanks. Down-tick for trying my best to summarise what Caolan said happened in court.
        
        Shoot the messenger, eh?
        
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        May 30, 2018 4:28pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    “To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise”
    
    If there is such a thing as an identifiable group of “elites” who control society in a coordinated manner, then to criticize their tools* and methods would also be forbidden.
    
    *Could be a another group in society who the “elites” use as a tool to achieve their goals.
    
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    May 30, 2018 11:02am
- KevinH
  
  It is inappropriate for a Catholic priest to ridicule victims given the background of the child sex scandal rocking the church.
  One could be forgiven for assumming the priest is implying that the victims of the sodomite priests should take it on the chin and bend over for more.
  Or equally a vodka drenched Ukranian officer takes a day off from raping and looting only to be seized with the great idea of shooting down a civilian aircraft , after all the Americans are to stupid and soft to notice and will blame Putin.
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:24am
  - MrTips
    
    KevinH: Morlino is not ridiculing victims of priest sexual abuse. In saying this, Morlino has in the back of his mind not just those outside the Church who would condemn him (eg. you), but more acutely those WITHIN the Church who enabled and covered up the crimes, who still weld significant power and who aim their arrows at good Bishops like Morlino.
    As the saying goes: its the opposition in front of you, your enemies are behind you.
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:59am
  - peterwn
    
    Schoolboys who complained about such inappropriate behaviour had to bend over OK – in the Principal’s study.
    
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    May 30, 2018 1:14pm
Monique Watson

Hosking: “At what point is someone going to start suggesting that there is a very, very, very big difference between a person on the bones of their bum because of welfare, and a person pleading poverty on six figures”?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12061075

With all due respect, It’s called inflationary creep, Mike. Life sucks when you can’t afford to take a supermarket trolley down the aisles because the Government can’t manage the fiscal budget.
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May 30, 2018 8:03am
- cmm
  
  Sure there is some inflationary creep, but there’s a lot of expectation/entitlement creep too.
  
  50 years ago most families had one car, they lived in single-glazed houses, an overseas holiday was a luxury and nobody had credit cards.
  
  Now most families have a car for everyone over 18, even beneficiaries are turning up their noses at those same houses and they pop over to Oz for the week end to visit their rellies or take in a show.
  
  How many of those people supposedly doing hard on 100k a year are budgeting? How many are ever saying nope we can’t afford X?
  
  Nope they max out their credit cards on all sorts of crap. They extend their mortgages and keep in debt.
  
  Full disclaimer, my family would need to do some severe belt-tightening to live on 100k, but we could.
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:32am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    The last time New Zealand went through a serious financial crisis was over 30 years ago, in 1987.
    You would have had to have been working and paying off a mortgage in those days to really feel affected (say, aged 25 years or older). So, no one aged under 56 would have any real memory of the last time NZ was in trouble.
    
    And all the Chinese in this country will (if they are younger than 60) have no idea of what a serious economic slump is like. They have only known good times all their adult lives. Couple this with a penchant for “gambling” and you can see why speculative “investment” is so popular. Property only ever goes up, right?
    
    Wrong. In Japan, prices of less desirable real estate (most of it) have been slowly sinking since the early 90s.
    
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    May 30, 2018 8:59am
    - Chris R
      
      Post-1987 slump first mortgage interest rates hovered between 17.5% and 22%. I see those in their 20s and 30s struggling with much larger mortgages but with interest rates beneath 5%. All numbers are relative to other costs and income levels but what is not negotiable is the strict need to budget and occasionally say to oneself…”I can’t afford X.” Or “X is too expensive!”
      
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      May 30, 2018 9:23am
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        When mortgage interest rates are around 4%, it would only take a rise of a couple of percentage points to raise interest repayments by 50%.
        
        For example, if your loan interest rate is 4% but then rises over time to 6%, then that is a 50% increase in interest outgoings. (6 is 50% bigger than 4.)
        
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        May 30, 2018 9:43am
      - cmm
        
        On top of that, they take 30 year loans and make the minimum repayments. Dumb idea.
        
        When you taker a 30 year loan at 5 or 6%, almost all your mortgage payments are going into paying interest for the first few years.
        
        If you increase your repayments by a small amount (just 10%), you can repay your mortgage much faster. And yes, you can find that extra $70 a week if you really want to.
        
        For example, a 500k 30year mortgage at 6% is about $690 a week.
        
        If you increase the payments by 10% to $760 you will repay the mortgage in 24 years: 10% gives you 20%. After 30 years you will end up with about $120k more in your pocket.
        
        That’s a pretty good deal for just paying the money a bit earlier.
        
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        May 30, 2018 10:00am
    - GazzaW
      
      There’s another significant change in the mortgage repayment cycle too with house owners using the collateral built up by increased property valuation to extend their mortgage in order to purchase overseas holidays or other lifestyle choices such as leasing luxury cars or boats. Result, they get to retirement age still owing significant money on their mortgage.
      
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      May 30, 2018 10:43am
      - Rich Prick
        
        Using equity from a bubble driven capital gain to buy depreciating assets is a really dumb idea if you’re highly geared, but it’s so common. One sneeze and it’s game over.
        
        Christ, I’m starting to sound like Hugh. Sorry.
        
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        May 30, 2018 11:43am
      - oldgolfer
        
        I put pay increases straight into the mortgage. Figured if I could manage before, I could after.
        Paid it off – when mortgages went over 20 per cent – way earlier.
        
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        May 30, 2018 12:11pm
      - Piniwi
        
        Perhaps GazzaW we need to read between the lines of the latest utterance from the RBNZ as the new Governor puts his ore in. He obtusely hints that interest rates are likely to rise as inflation starts to rise rapidly since he has been hobbled from a more direct tone. He sees a lot more of where the monetary flow is heading and warns of borrowers overcommitting themselves at the point of purchase of a dwelling. The LVR was eased but if it starts to heat up the market it will be lifted again. Sadly this does not bode well for Kiwibuild though we hardly expect a rush of new houses from them anytime soon.
        
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        May 30, 2018 3:14pm
    - Grendel
      
      TL:DR Hosking is right, i see it every day.
      
      As part of my role i do budgeting work with people (not granny budgeting, i’m a certified financial planner), and it amazes me the number of people on very good incomes who cannot find $2 to rub together.
      
      but when we look at the budget (the first time they have done one usually), the food spending is out of control, they expect 10K a year for travel, the kids never miss out, they never have enough insurance for if it really gets bad, they live deep on credit cards, and they think that its too hard to change.
      
      $400 a week on groceries for a couple with one kid is not uncommon to see.
      
      60K consumer debt is not uncommon, and thats usually high interest and not even for a car.
      
      its not that you cannot be broke over 100K income, but (like at all levels), its self inflicted.
      
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      May 30, 2018 10:46am
    - RF
      
      Jeez… 1987. I was on a fishing trip with clients in an area with no cell phone or radio coverage.
      
      One of the Party almost had a heart attack when we came out a week later as he discovered he had lost over $400,000.00 on the share market.
      
      Poor bugger turned white as he had recently made investments without telling his wife.
      
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      May 30, 2018 11:00am
      - cha
        
        1987. I was on a fishing trip with clients in an area with no cell phone
        
        Hardly surprising.
        
        BellSouth New Zealand started building the cellular network in 1989.
        
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        May 30, 2018 1:53pm
      - RF
        
        Cha.
        
        You are correct. Was back there recently and still no phone coverage because of terrain.
        
        Radio coverage OK now.
        
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        May 30, 2018 4:50pm
- JibberJabber
  
  While journalists may not be able to afford to live on their six figure salaries, most of the rest of us don`t have any problem.
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:34am
  - cmm
    
    It’s all virtue signaling bullshit. People like to pretend they’re suffering heroes and write complaining articles.
    
    It has become heroic to be a pathetic loser (which is why our PM is so popular amongst that set).
    
    * How can I cope with being a mother? Yeah sweetie, women have been mothers for tens of thousands of years without the modern conveniences like washing machines, supermarkets providing all your needs, etc etc etc.
    
    * Isn’t the cost of a coffee terrible? Stop drinking 3 coffees a day then. Try water – it’s free.
    
    * I had to fly economy class on a 13 hour trip, it was all cramped! Yup, and you’re 5 foot nothing. On the same flight I bet there were 6ft 3 blokes shoe-horned into the same seats that weren’t bitching. In fact they probably didn’t get the seats with more legroom because you “needed” it. Spare a thought for the people who did the same trip by ship without complaining.
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:20am
    - MCos
      
      The people I know don’t grizzle about stuff like that.
      More likely to talk about how expensive a trip to the dentist is or the price of beer at the cricket (about the same as filling)
      
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      May 30, 2018 9:51am
  - oldgolfer
    
    You’re right, JJ.
    All these stories are based on office gossip: I can’t afford it (on my big salary, being so important) so how can anyone else?
    
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    May 30, 2018 12:33pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  The big problem is the size of the mortgages hanging around their necks. In our day we were saved by inflation. Now not so much, they will be carrying this burden for a long time.
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:42am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Remember the 4 L’s.
    
    If you don’t have wage inflation:
    Large Loans Linger Longer!
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:16am
- Left Right and Centre
  
  With all due respect, It’s called inflationary creep, Mike. Life sucks when you can’t afford to take a supermarket trolley down the aisles because the Government can’t manage the fiscal budget.
  
  Yeah, right.
  Go to a NZ supermarket – because I don’t believe you are in this country to comment firsthand now, correct ? Six odd years you’ve been gone, am I correct ?
  
  And see what people put in their shopping trolleys. Yeah – nothing but the bare basics.
  
  Labour / National doesn’t matter who is in. What’s always in is shit in trolleys – all social classes all income levels.
  
  hmmm – there’s a Monique Watson in an old Stuff story. Hey – we’ve both spent time in Khandallah. Small world. Small New World there. I’d love to see the shopping of these struggling 100K bracket folks – shamefully schlepping to Jville Countdown to get budget wine.
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:15am
  - trout
    
    If the bare basics are coca cola, coloured fizzy drinks, chips, and white bread I guess you are right. Even in winter veg and fruit are good value but not so popular.
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:48am
  - MCos
    
    If you want to save some money go to the Sunday Market at Avondale. Not the fancy pants one in Parnell.
    Cheap vegetables. Second hand gardening tools, books, and all sorts of other shit. Cheap coffee.
    Find out the Thai gossip, if you’re so inclined.
    I dare say that applies to numerous other cultural minorities the look of things.
    
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    May 30, 2018 11:00am
Inandout

P labs will move back into state houses..yeah!
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May 30, 2018 8:03am
- G152
  
  notice how the only objections to the science is from the ‘cleaning companies’..
  Now, who is going to pay back all the feel good wasted money to the victims of this scam ?
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:19am
  - artemisia
    
    Tariana Turia is already calling for compo for those turfed out of state houses for meth.
    
    Housing NZ had no option but to follow the rules at the time. They would have been pilloried if they ignored them, a child got sick and with or without evidence meth was blamed.
    
    As they say – the past is a different country ….
    
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    May 30, 2018 8:27am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Nobody on Red Radio this morning brought up the most obvious question: what if one of the tenants of the state house was doing the meth smoking? Is that OK now?
      
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      May 30, 2018 10:57am
      - sooty
        
        DPB/dole must be too high.
        
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        May 30, 2018 4:13pm
    - GoVege
      
      She would.
      How about some compo from the meth-heads who caused this situation?
      
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      May 30, 2018 4:05pm
- peterwn
  
  No. Higher level contamination because of P labs (or possibly unusually high levels of consumption) will still need to be cleaned up. Testing will still be needed for this in some cases although possibly high levels of contamination would be readily noticeable.
  What is the pity is that the responsible ministers (in the previous Government) did not get on the case far quicker and ask Peter Gluckman to investigate. However it could well have come under attack from the sort of people who tend to vote Winston Peters.
  The other problem is quackery. Those in the quackery business are quick to blame peoples’ ailments on whatever is in the news at the time whether it be radiation from power lines or cell phone sites, secondary exposure to P etc. Hence there tends to be some level of public hysteria which inhibits logical thinking.
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:40am
Paulus

Three simple questions re P Labs and P use in rental properties.
Why did Landlords request that their properties be inspected for P ?
Who set the accepted limits which were later reduced – Ministry of Health ?
Why did Gluckman take four years to form a conclusion ?
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May 30, 2018 8:10am
- VicParking
  
  Use of P is illegal.
  Allowing P use in a State or Private rental should result in eviction.
  If you or allow people to smoke P in your house you are an idiot.
  The house structure itself may not be a danger but what about people (Childern) in the room when the drug is being consumed or while the smoke etc is still “in the Air”.
  I would not move into a house if I new the previous tenants smoked P.
  Are people going to be penalised if they refuse the offer of a house that had been used to smoke P.
  ‘Phil of shit’ needs to be asked this question.
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:23am
  - Viking2
    
    P is easy cleaned off the walls etc.
    People eat and smoke more contaminant’s than you get from living in a house where p has been smoked.
    
    Ritalin supplies more P then living in a house contaminated with P.
    Afetr all the cold medicines which were good contained the precursor.
    Other food and drinks have more effect, especially high sugar drinks, Azio based food dyes and stuff like that.
    
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    May 30, 2018 8:41am
- Harkman
  
  Gluckman is your classic mandarin, he panders his ‘science’ to please whoever is in power.
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:38am
- mara
  
  And why did Gluckman fall for the hoax that is man-made global warming?
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:36am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  “Why did Gluckman take four years to form a conclusion ?”
  
  This announcement by Gluckman on P puts him in the same category as the Police Commissioner re Jethro – Gummint patsy.
  
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  May 30, 2018 10:14am
- peterwn
  
  Ministry of Health set low limits (probably following overseas practice). If tenants (not responsible for contamination) found the property was P contaminated above that low limit they could demand a refund of all the rent paid and as far as I know the Tribunal would agree.
  The limits were increased a while back which would have helped. Caution would have been called for in setting them still higher. Possibly Peter Gluckman’s research was commenced at the time higher limits were adopted with a view of increasing them still further.
  Prospective tenants could still decline a tenancy if they are not happy with P levels although in the current situation they could be limited in choice. Some prospective purchasers could still want a P testing clause in their contracts.
  Whether state tenants evicted over P issues should be compensated is a political issue, private tenants may have no such luck because they had breached the tenancy agreement applicable at the time.
  
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  May 30, 2018 1:08pm
- Piniwi
  
  But Paulus we have to follow the bouncing ball on this one the Housing Corp set the levels that they worked to and even they were contested by the then Minister in 2017.
  Gluckman said he had been working on this for 8 years as reported in one statement but all of a sudden it has been “released”. Good luck to those families who might get off the waiting list but we can only hope HNZ have them sign a waiver to any and all P related illness. The threat of second hand P smoke is a much bigger threat as a result of this questionable finding and has now been overtly sanctioned.
  
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  May 30, 2018 6:56pm
Longknives

You would have to be exceptionally ‘unlucky’ to have both of your kids die in (seperate) Police Chases…Wouldn’t you?

‘Maybe (As a Parent) I could have done better’
No shit!!!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/104285760/girl-involved-in-fatal-palmerston-north-police-chase-in-a-stable-condition-in-hospital
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May 30, 2018 8:10am
- alloytoo
  
  I was wondering if the parents lived in a house without mirrors.
  
  Because they need to take a good long look at themselves.
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:16am
  - softail 1450
    
    alloytoo , they wont look in the mirror, they’ll blame somebody else .
    it’s never their fault .i know this because I used to do it myself.
    
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    May 30, 2018 8:22am
    - jcuk
      
      I hear that 21 young folk were killed in police car pursuits ‘last’ year. Hardly a very effective way of bringing down the total of ferals in the country? Surely there is a better way. sarc.
      
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      May 30, 2018 8:36am
    - alloytoo
      
      We all used to do, then I had kids and grew up.
      
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      May 30, 2018 10:23am
    - rangitoto
      
      They were blaming “the system”.
      
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      May 30, 2018 11:06am
  - peterwn
    
    Be very careful with saying this. A child may go out with friends for what appears to be a quite legitimate social outing and then could get caught up with this. Cam Slater came under heavy criticism for calling a West Coast family ‘feral’ following a car crash. The family was not ‘feral’. They lost a son who was a passenger in a car crash through what appeared to be an OK outing and had previous lost another son in the Pike River disaster.
    
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    May 30, 2018 8:46am
    - Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes
      
      Peterwn – NZ version of Godwin’s law, known as Boag’s Law, has been triggered if you mention Cameron Slater or Whaleoil within a discussion thread, you’ve automatically ended whatever discussion you were taking part in.
      
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      May 30, 2018 9:06am
    - Nigel Kearney
      
      She was 12 and it was the middle of a school day, so unlikely to have been a ‘legitimate social outing’. Also, schools now phone or text parents when a kid doesn’t turn up. I wonder if that happened in this case. Probably if there had been a journalist involved in the story they would have enquired about this.
      
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      May 30, 2018 9:50am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        “The last I knew she was at her course. I came home from work. I find out she’s got in this car.”
        
        at her course??
        She was 12
        Why wasn’t she at school?
        
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        May 30, 2018 10:20am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Surely a 15 year old isn’t allowed to drive, let alone take passengers? What are a rules?
      
      Also, wasn’t the car stolen? And as people are saying: they should have been at school.
      
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      May 30, 2018 11:01am
      - Piniwi
        
        Sadly CL this is another example of an offender being on bail for previous serious road offences who stole a hot Subaru and took his groupies for a spin. The Media are again jumping at the chance to attack the police big time when the little scrote decided to fail to stop and tried to elude them. The headline should “Fleeing car thief found a pole to add to the road toll”. Jeez he was only a young fella having a bit of fun. What could go wrong?
        
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        May 30, 2018 7:09pm
    - lifesgood
      
      You can judge a person by the company they keep.
      
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      May 30, 2018 12:41pm
      - jcuk
        
        Yes I agree but how may adults had to mix with baddies before they learnt this in their youth?
        
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        May 31, 2018 9:55am
- timmydevo
  
  What I can’t stand from these articles how it generally portrays the kids as angelic or the best/kindest person they know etc…
  
  If they’re running from police, in a stolen vehicle none-the-less, it shows these kids are nothing but ratbags from failed families, supported by none other than the taxpayer.
  
  Welfare reform, my ass.
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:21am
  - Longknives
    
    “What I can’t stand from these articles how it generally portrays the kids as angelic”
    
    But notice all the photos the Media have of these wee angels are always them pulling ‘Gangsta’ Hand Signals or wearing Gang Colours etc
    
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    May 30, 2018 8:29am
    - kowtow
      
      Yes , the media really are drongos on this (and just about everything else) . Running that story and interviews , showing the country what I suspect everyone was already thinking ie Darwin awards , no loss , ferals etc.But the media seem to think that some kind of sympathy is in order?
      
      Are the media that out of touch ?
      
      Here’s a case from the ODT of more ferals ( how are we producing so many utterly nasty c#nts) . Click bait headline about racism , but the most serious aspect was the continued assaults.
      
      https://www.odt.co.nz/regions/wanaka/teen-sentenced-over-racist-rant-puzzling-world
      
      Meanwhile they won’t be breathlessly and continuously hyping up the carnage in Chicago over Memorial weekend. 38 shot , 8 fatally.
      
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      May 30, 2018 9:06am
      - oldgolfer
        
        I wouldn’t be surprised if they got the interview by promising to show junior in a good light.
        That’s how they work.
        
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        May 30, 2018 9:58am
    - Julian
      
      Spot on – eye witness I saw said they were yelling ‘F*ck the police’ as they sped past. Nice.
      
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      May 30, 2018 2:07pm
  - hullkiwi
    
    Yes, this case was a 15 year old out on bail, running from the police.
    
    What I don’t get are these idiots who tell us the police should give up car chases, because kids like this do exactly what happened in this case. Sorry, but the kid was in a stolen car, the cops don’t chase, what are the chances of being able to apprehend & convict in such cases? An educated bet would be, six tenths of zero.
    
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    May 30, 2018 8:37am
    - Viking2
      
      Much like the 13 year old who the police arrested on the weekend. And now DADDY IS CRYING ALOUD CLAIMING THE POLICEMAN PUNCHED THE ANGELIC LITTLE BIT OF SHIT.
      
      Sorry about the caps. Can’t be bothered fixing it today.
      
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      May 30, 2018 8:44am
    - KevinH
      
      Sadly a young 12 year old girl died from injuries as a result of the accident.
      The deaths associated with the chases demonstrate that joy riding in stolen vehicles is a big problem with rebellious youth. Girls have been for some time willing participants with in the theft of the vehicles for fun and excitement but pay the ultimate price with their deaths.
      Also young men simply lack basic driving skills, stealing a high powered motor vehicle and crashing it with dire consequences believing they are expert drivers.Shame.
      
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      May 30, 2018 9:09am
- VicParking
  
  Debra Manning says that police should not chase!!!
  They should use spikes, how do you know where to deploy them if you are not chasing?
  They should use helicopters, how do you know where to send the helicopter if you are not chasing?
  The Government should set a a coronial inquiry, more money for lawyers.
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:29am
  - cmm
    
    Then a kid will get killed by one of these low-lifes.
    
    Response from Manning will be: Where were the cops? Why weren’t they doing their job and keeping people safe?
    
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    May 30, 2018 8:43am
    - sooty
      
      Mount machineguns in the grill of all police cars. That’ll fix um
      
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      May 30, 2018 9:40am
    - lifesgood
      
      Deborah Manning, NZ’s answer to Golly Gee.
      
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      May 30, 2018 12:45pm
  - KevOB
    
    I once watched a Police chase in the middle of the night around the narrow neighborhood streets in Alicetown, Lower Hutt. Several Police cars following each other too.
    
    Have the Police started punching youth again–has the govt given them the green light?
    
    I have witnessed a Policeman set a dog on a 14 year old boy to teach him a lesson.
    Police don’t like complaints and are careful to cover up.
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:39am
    - alloytoo
      
      When I was a lad, the police would place belligerent offenders in the back of the police ute (Hilux with steel canopy) and than go about washing out the ute with a firehose. (Amongst other things)
      
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      May 30, 2018 10:28am
    - Random T Person
      
      I’m still kinda OK with that.
      Now, don’t get me wrong, I have been on the wrong end of the law. I once ran from the police on a motorbike, in South Africa, 1995. Eventually got caught. The cop who I ran from very nearly smashed me with a Mag Lite torch’ only the fact that my brother worked as a dispatcher for the cops (and other chaps in attendance knew that) stopped him from landing a blow. But I did get roughed up. I deserved it. Learned a lesson. Respect the badge. These toe rags treat the cops like sheet, they deserve a little fun punching and the odd reminder of who’s in charge.
      
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      May 30, 2018 10:57am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    As if the kid wouldn’t drive like crazy if helicopters were involved. As if the car would just stop safely if spiked.
    
    My god, I listened to a lot of Red Radio Rot this morning, it gets worse every day. Then they say ‘we’re getting so many texts in support of’ [whatever leftie extreme shit they are touting]. I guess people like me just can’t be bothered texting them.
    
    But I listen to the Red Radio Rot to know what NZ artery the C0L and their propaganda channel are going for next.
    
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    May 30, 2018 11:07am
  - RF
    
    Don’t you just love those armchair critics who scream blue murder about the failing to stops being pursued.
    
    In spite of the cars are usually stolen you get the “All you need to do is go to their address and wait until they get home” … or “Wait until they run out of petrol” or. “Just let them go and get them next time”.
    
    FFS
    
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    May 30, 2018 11:13am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Where is the father?
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:01am
- Inandout
  
  Cindy will have ‘another look’ at Police chases, which probably is code for she will stop the pursuits.
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:08am
  - VicParking
    
    Silly school kids stick together
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:54am
  - Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes
    
    another enquiry is clearly needed……
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:59am
- Northland Wahine
  
  Nail head, meet hammer.
  
  Maori whanau, heads up! You don’t have to worry about colonisation keeping you in those “chains”. We do that with the copious bad choices we make.
  
  Do you know your kids friends and where they live? Do you have their parents phone numbers? Do you know where your kids are? Do you trust them to make good choices? Are they safe? Do you know the person they are staying with. If those people have kids, do you like the behaviour of those kids?
  
  This isn’t nagging or being over protective. It’s called decent parenting! If your kids are that precious to you, you’d know these answers.
  
  I feel for any parent that has lost a child. But ffs, care more about being a good parent than being a cool one.
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:16am
  - GoVege
    
    You don’t know if the parents were “good” or not.
    They certainly seem pretty devastated.
    It’s the nature of youth to take risks and think they are bullet-proof.
    Both my two older boys were nearly killed/maimed speeding and crashing their cars.
    One had bad headaches for a year.
    We were just incredibly lucky they survived.
    What’s far worse than our road toll is the number of lost kids who give up on life and commit suicide.
    Two beautiful 14 year olds who topped themselves up north last year weren’t even living with their own parents.
    At least these poor kids who died in crashes seem to have had parents who loved them and hadn’t turfed them out of home at an early age.
    
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    May 30, 2018 3:58pm
    - GoVege
      
      But it’s so much easier to be a self-righteous prig and kick other people when they’re down…. 🙂 🙂
      
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      May 30, 2018 7:36pm
      - Northland Wahine
        
        I’d rather be self righteous mother knowing where my soon to be 12 yr old is and not jumping into random stolen cars for joyrides getting themselves killed, than a grieving mother whose 12 yr old is about to be buried because she thought her strong willed daughter was at course.
        
        Think vege…12 years old and not at school? Somethings not adding up. And thanks again for showing how unbiased you are to things I post.
        
        You’re welcome!
        
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        May 30, 2018 8:48pm
      - GoVege
        
        I always knew where my kids all were until they were 18, but I was lucky I didn’t need to work (outside the home) back then and was able to keep track of them.
        Not everybody has the opportunity to concentrate solely on their kids.
        Some people are just naive.
        I have seen nice people lose their teenagers and their grief is unbearable.
        There’s no need to add to it.
        
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        May 30, 2018 9:30pm
      - Northland Wahine
        
        So vege, you knew where your children were til they were 18. You were fortunate enough to be able to stay at home and concentrate solely on your children.
        
        Well, as a single mum, I agree, you and your children were fortunate.
        
        As a single mum, I work full time and make it my business to know where my son is. During school hours, he better be damn sure he’s at school. He understands there is a certain route he takes to get to his after school care. I do know all his friends and their parents names, numbers and where they live.
        
        I’m not kicking anyone while they’re down vege. I’m insulted you’d think so. But I wish to whatever gods people believe in, that we learn valuable lessons from these tragic waste of young people’s lives because our kids aren’t responsible/nature/sensible NOT to get into stolen cars. As parents, it’s our responsibility to teach our kids these things. Not society’s. Not the Police. Not schools.
        Kids deserve and have the right to be decently parented. So I’m glad I’m a tough parent. I make no apologies for it. So call me a self righteous prig. Beats grieving for a child I will never see grow up.
        
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        May 30, 2018 10:14pm
      - GoVege
        
        It’s not easy being a parent for anybody who takes the job seriously.
        Good to see any woman doing a good job, especially on her own.
        Bereaved people are in a terrible place and need support, not criticism.
        Sorry if you feel insulted.
        Other countries have cut the number of youngsters killed in police chases by desisting from chasing them.
        In our advanced technological age there are many ways we can prevent needless deaths.
        The nature of human beings especially young ones is not so easy to change.
        
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        May 30, 2018 11:51pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  It was reassuring to hear the grandfather of the boy driving the car saying that the Police were not to blame.
  
  Our Police are an easy target in cases such as this. But allowing people to run away when the lights and sirens go on is the first step towards anarchy.
  
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  May 30, 2018 11:31am
  - Piniwi
    
    But KS many would be shocked at the levels of hell that rain down on the District Commander from above when a road death occurs on their patch. Pursuits apart they cop it and then the Media party blow it out of all proportion by pandering to every objector and do gooder. Sadly it is destined to get a lot worse before it improves when Angry Andy rewrites the laws to pander to greater leniency. The only up side might be them knowing it is a wet but ticket bitch slap level crime so they might stop when first challenged. That’ll fix it Angry. Yeah right.
    
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    May 30, 2018 7:26pm
emmess

Free Tommy
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May 30, 2018 8:11am
- EAD_TWO
  
  The Jewish Voice UK is opposed to that:
  
  https://twitter.com/J_VoiceUK/status/1000735680845221889
  
  Tommy Robinson is a criminal & prison is the correct place for him but his followers are organizing & are even more dangerous than him so we all need to get to work, think & work out a strategy to defeat this new far-right. We cant sleep with this new growing threat #JeSuisMuslim
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:16am
  - EAD_TWO
    
    I’m not sure why people are downticking the sharing of news of Jewish Groups that are allying with Islam?
    
    It’s an alliance I have increasingly noticed as I’ve become more and more woke – its an alliance that stretches far long before the Jews opened the Gates of Toledo to allow the Saracen armies to attack the Spanish.
    
    Here’s the Jewish Chronicle:
    https://www.thejc.com/comment/comment/jews-who-ally-with-tommy-robinson-are-our-own-worst-enemy-1.440987
    
    Jews who ally with Tommy Robinson are our own worst enemy
    
    Here’s the Times of Israel
    https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-and-muslim-groups-join-to-help-refugees-in-greece/
    
    HIAS, the global Jewish nonprofit that protects refugees, and Islamic Relief USA, the US arm of the humanitarian assistance and advocacy organization, have formed a joint initiative to help the thousands of refugees in the country……
    
    The two groups have been collaborating to advance refugee rights for several years. In June, Islamic Relief USA honored HIAS with its Courage Award.
    
    Seperatley – I see even Zerohedge is covering Tommy:
    
    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-29/britons-rage-over-robinson-arrest-mass-protests-break-out-worldwide
    
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    May 30, 2018 8:52am
    - stephieboy
      
      Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
      EAD TWO,
      
      “As Mass Protests Break Out Worldwide” ????
      
      You mean here on Kiwiblog as an example?.
      
      LOL
      
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      May 30, 2018 9:02am
      - EAD_TWO
        
        People are waking up Stephieboy and becoming active.
        
        Just last month, thousands of people marched against White Genocide in Perth Australia:
        
        https://citizen.co.za/news/news-world/1884483/3people-march-in-perth-against-genocide-in-south-africa/
        
        Then there are brave public figures like Tommy Robinson and Politicians like Patrick Little and Paul Nehlen who are awakening the sleeping Lion.
        
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        May 30, 2018 9:10am
      - stephieboy
        
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        EAD TWO,
        
        Thousands turn out in Perth?
        
        The cause is here ( from your link )
        
        ”Perth has one of the largest expat South African communities in the world. The city has become synonymous with white South Africans who, in frustration at the politics of their country of birth, start “Packing for Perth”
        
        South African White farmers are not being systematically exterminated in Nazi and Pol Pot style.
        
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        May 30, 2018 9:19am
      - VicParking
        
        Stephie: One death of a SA farmer is one to many.
        
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        May 30, 2018 9:57am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        SB ‘South African White farmers are not being systematically exterminated in Nazi and Pol Pot style.’
        
        Maybe not quite so ‘systematically’ but you have to be blind to not know about the amount of rape and murder going on.
        
        I am totally against racism, include black against white racism.
        
        Do you have any values at all? Otherwise, you’re really just a troll here.
        
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        May 30, 2018 11:12am
      - Jack5
        
        EAD, can you take a position on anything without bringing “the Jews” into the discussion.
        
        The Nazis lost. Move on.
        
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        May 30, 2018 12:02pm
hullkiwi

H2 to chair the latest govt review. Clark is setting up a health review to look at health outcomes for the next 30 years. With particular emphasis on Maori & Pacific Islanders.
Potentially, they’ll look at changing the DHB model, “to remove duplication”.
So, they know the results of this review, why can’t they just be honest, and:
1. Shower their mates with more taxpayer money; and
2. Just make the changes to the health system that they want. As was highlighted in yesterday’s piece the Col ministers don’t listen to advisors or experts.
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May 30, 2018 8:17am
- cas
  
  So the Govt has delegated its health policy to H2. This follows delegation of the oil and gas policy to Greenpeace; fisheries protection to NZ first; education to the unions; agriculture to the greens; welfare to a bunch of left leaning protect the beneficiaries; transport to a bunch of Auckland based bloggers; security to a bunch of lefties such as Nicky hager. What have I missed out?
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:24am
  - VicParking
    
    Don’t forget the Bovis fiasco. Why dont all the scientists and “Overseas experts” stand up and explain their reasoning and put their reputations on the line. Why dont all the economists who predicted the costs front up and put their reasoning and reputations on the line.
    Why doesn’t the minister step up and state what are the goals for mid 2020 and if they are not being meet he will resign.
    It seems to me that its easy to pull the wool over the eyes of a “School Girl” and her group of playground friends.
    
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    May 30, 2018 8:35am
  - hullkiwi
    
    No, it is a very good analysis of the current state of NZ govt policy making. You might add, that not one of those groups have any expert experience in any of the fields they are advising on.
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:00am
    - kowtow
      
      No , but they are all in some way allied to those in power ,who have just awarded them sinecures at the tax payers expense.
      
      Jobs for the boys , cronyism, corruption , call it what you will.
      
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      May 30, 2018 9:10am
      - VicParking
        
        Agreed: It’s going to take Ten years “Wifey you can buy that new car and plan your trip to the UK to visit our son”. I’m going to be able to join Remurea Golf club.
        
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        May 30, 2018 10:01am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Sickening really. Cronyism is one thing. But to create reviews, panels, boards etc stuffed with your lobbying mates is another. Even more reprehensible is the lack of qualification/experience of some of the people appointed to these tax payer troughs.
        
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        May 30, 2018 12:59pm
      - sooty
        
        Don’t forget, it’s all about the feelz!
        
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        May 30, 2018 4:24pm
- Happychappy
  
  Does anyone have any doubts now that the show pony is the mouth piece for HC and H2 in their push to control NZ Politics.
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:54am
  - Paulus
    
    Helen Clark appears to be the new the spokes person for the changes in our Abortion Laws.
    Now Heather Simpson is going to save Maori and Pacifica Health.
    Cullen is going to tax the shit out of us as he always wanted.
    Good going Catastrophe Cindy – only six months.
    
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    May 30, 2018 1:43pm
- oldpark
  
  @hullkiwi.
  Hard to believe that Simpson working hand in glove with the person known as Helen Clark,closed down the mental hospitals and turfed the inmates into the streets of NZ. As well as ill equipped relatives left to their own devices receiving them.
  What a bloody indictment to think that a sicko like Simpson aided and abetted by “Commie Chic Comrade” Arderns puppet mistress Helen Clark are now being afforded the job of looking at NZs Health system.
  Dictator Peters has a lot to answer for with his selection of a smogasbord of also rans allowing them to make a political comeback.Damn you Peters.
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:01am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Look at the blue-bar chart on the cover page of this report.
    https://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/MMHC-Country-Press-Note-Japan.pdf
    
    In Japan (in 2011) there are 269 psychiatric beds per 100,000 people, while in New Zealand the figure was 20.
    
    This will help you to understand the reason for some of the “homeless” in Auckland.
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:50am
- tf78
  
  How may of the old Labour guard are on the payroll now – Cullen, H1&H2, Annette King plus plus plus. Just shows how incompetent these young idiots are.
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:10am
  - tf78
    
    Just remembered, Margaret Wilson for the nurses.
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:23am
    - RF
      
      And Dr. Death in Dunedin – Pete Hodgson.
      
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      May 30, 2018 11:16am
  - Piniwi
    
    @tf78 it is a serious challenge to keep track but you have overlooked Palmer. Mr not miss.
    
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    May 30, 2018 7:33pm
oldgolfer

Bit cold for planting trees today.
Oh, that’s right – we’re not.
There was that one Shane popped in.
I trust he and Phil are comparing notes.
Shane: Any houses today?
Phil: Nah. Nothing today.
Phil: You? Trees?
Shane: I have taken advice and wandered the hills of the great land, and when I have spent the $3b to maximise our vote, it will be done.
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May 30, 2018 8:17am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  If the air temp is above 0C and the soil is not frozen, then you can plant trees.
  Should be ok today for planting over most of NZ.
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:23am
  - sooty
    
    But you have to bet them out of bed first.
    Then pick them up in a van.
    Then give them breakfast.
    Then take them to site.
    Then a coffee.
    Then give them a tree each and plant.
    Then a coffee.
    Then go home.
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:46am
    - VicParking
      
      Don’t forget time off for a quick smoke/toke or two.
      
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      May 30, 2018 10:05am
      - GazzaW
        
        You have to make time for a quick toke to ensure that you fail the drugs test.
        
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        May 30, 2018 10:56am
  - Piniwi
    
    @MW it is quite funny but as cold as it gets it only takes about a half hour in the bush working before you are down to your trusty black singlet even on a modest slope. The Jones boy will continue to babble on in the House trying to hone his brand of satirical eloquence. Help might be at hand though as there is now a big push to lift the abatement rate for earnings while on the benefit. Despite all the complaints it is now the only semblance of what was to be the safety net for people in need.
    
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    May 30, 2018 7:43pm
secondcumming

After 22 years with the same firm, my younger brother was made redundant in October last year. His missus has finally realised she’ll need to find herself a job……

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DdrL8-ZV4AcwvDv.jpg
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May 30, 2018 8:19am
Monique Watson

The Greens fucking introduced the Bacterium. But they weren’t as clever to disguise their tracks as those who bought in RHD. And those who bought in RHD were motivated by keeping their livelihoods intact.
I’ve said it before. First, the energy Industry, then farmers and now the NZDF is taking a whack.
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May 30, 2018 8:23am
- VicParking
  
  Greenpeace’s Russell the crim has said there should be prosecutions. Pot calling the kettle black
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:39am
- stephieboy
  
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  Monique Watson,
  
  ” …introduced the Bacterium.”
  
  Based on what evidence and set of facts?
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:58am
  - KevOB
    
    It’s entirely consistent with green followers’ beliefs in their rights to do the greater good as they define it. They take no prisoners.
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:51am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    stephieboy talks sense.
    Based on what evidence and set of facts?
    
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    May 30, 2018 10:24am
    - GoVege
      
      Yeah…where’s your evidence Monique?
      I voted Greens because they promised to free the chooks and pigs.
      Not to infect innocent cows with a horrible disease, leading to mass killings and the destruction of farmers’ livelihoods.
      Name your source…if it exists!
      
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      May 30, 2018 7:42pm
Longknives

Ali Mau now wants the Police prosecuted for assaulting a child (Reading the various discussions online it seems Ali is pretty much the only person in New Zealand with any sympathy for this little shit)-

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/104312605/alison-mau-when-is-it-ok-to-punch-a-child

Honestly, after her ‘#MeToo’ investigation flopped this Mau woman is losing the plot. Last week she was shrieking about a ‘Right Wing’ conspiracy on Dancing with the Stars!…
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May 30, 2018 8:25am
- JibberJabber
  
  A millenial turd getting a free lesson in consequences `aint gonna garner much sympathy from those of us who live in the real world.
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:36am
  - GoVege
    
    The average South Auckland kid would be eternally grateful if their dads used the same amount of restraint these officers did.
    Is the “child” injured/ in hospital?
    (Or, more likely, is there a chance of compo?)
    Remember about 15 years ago some poor young cop lost his career and the family of some kid sued the police for “wrongful arrest” for briefly putting cuffs on him, and got several thousand in compensation.
    
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    May 30, 2018 8:06pm
- cmm
  
  Ok, I’ll call her a race-bating bitch who is bent on rabble rousing rather than doing her job: informing the people.
  
  “He then gets a punch in the kidney from close range and the cuffs go on.”
  
  What an inflammatory thing to say.:The punch is nowhere near his kidneys
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:39am
  - G152
    
    Now if any of us punched another in the same way we’d be up on an assault charge.
    It was claimed (by Police -the perps) that it is a tactic.
    Would that claim stand if it were any of us ?
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:55am
    - Longknives
      
      You are aware that Police have Powers of Arrest? (And with it the Power to use reasonable force in effecting this arrest) G152?
      
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      May 30, 2018 10:21am
      - RF
        
        Longknives.
        
        Do you want to borrow my GIs ?
        
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        May 30, 2018 11:27am
      - G152
        
        We also have powers of arrest.
        Would the law condone OUR using force?
        
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        May 30, 2018 3:50pm
    - cmm
      
      Look at the video. The “punch” is not a smack to the body, head or to the kidneys as the race-baiter claims.
      
      The “punch” is clearly directed below the body to the arm to loosen up his hand so the cuffs can be put on.
      
      If the little scrote had stopped holding onto his pants and let the cop pull his arm out then there would have been no need to do this.
      
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      May 30, 2018 11:02am
    - Jack5
      
      G152: explain how the police would otherwise handcuff this little twit and take him into lawful custody?
      
      The video shows other ferals taunting the arresting officers, and a situation arising.
      
      The constables did the right thing. Mau is an air head. Will she still be a media personality when she gets a few more wrinkles? That will be a challenge.
      
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      May 30, 2018 11:58am
  - VicParking
    
    Why do we supply them with truncheons if they are not going to use them. A quick smack on the ear by a truncheon and a taser in his balls and he would have been begging to be handcuffed.
    
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    May 30, 2018 10:10am
- Harkman
  
  I was out and about during the day some 2 years ago and I turned on Radiolive. Honestly, I was stunned, her and Willie were both on but it was Mau that was telling everyone to vote for the Greens and Labour, “You need to vote for the Greens and Labour next time to change this……” and it wasn’t a one off, she was saying it to every caller. Yet nothing was said about this, no complaints or reprimands. I flicked over to tunes. It was ghastly.
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:49am
  - fernglas
    
    You make the mistake of thinking that these people have anything to say which is not designed to pander to their audience. You should also appreciate that their audience is you. Ignore them, and they will go away.
    
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    May 30, 2018 8:52am
    - Harkman
      
      As I wrote above I only listened for a few minutes and she was openly campaigning for the Greens and Labour. So I flicked it over. But it is amazing how far downhill Radiolive has gone.
      
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      May 30, 2018 9:51am
- Inandout
  
  Ali should just munch carpet and leave politics to those who we pay well.
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:12am
- oldpark
  
  Mau an Australian and the stupid wee bitch pieface partner of Barely Sober on Newstalkzb Wellingtons morning show, are a carbon copy of each other. Not a good look or sound for their better sex NZs women.
  Barely Sobers partner got the dont come Monday from TV3 when she was found to be putting the boot into our Police over the gun debate. Yesterday on that radio Newstalk ZB talkback rant she emulated the Aussie Import called Mau,once more concerning the Police.
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:26am
- RF
  
  Her former husband / auto cue reader is one lucky guy not to still be married to her.
  
  He sure dodged a bullet.
  
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  May 30, 2018 11:22am
- Keeping Stock
  
  How would you like to be Simon Dallow? It would be tough enough when your wife left you for another man, but…
  
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  May 30, 2018 12:04pm
- Nermal
  
  It’s OK to use any force necessary to detain a person actively resisting arrest.
  
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  May 30, 2018 2:07pm
Monique Watson

Is Susie Ferguson a Twat?
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May 30, 2018 8:27am
- oldgolfer
  
  Yes.
  An arrogant one.
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:48am
  - RalphT
    
    Show me a twat that isn’t arrogant.
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:23am
  - lifesgood
    
    And another bloody foreigner talking s**t.
    
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    May 30, 2018 12:51pm
flipper

The huge number of Ardern/Redmelon dead rats (like tax, oil and gas, irrigation, penal policy, BS aid to Pacific nations while cancelling medical cost subsidies … just a few examples ) that Peters’ voters are required to swallow, almost daily, confirms my belief that their ages are measured by Carbon Dating rather than a calendar.
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May 30, 2018 8:29am
- RalphT
  
  You mean carbon dating which is based on the rate of decay of cells? Very appropriate in the case of the brains of NZF supporters.
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:26am
  - G152
    
    No prison building in the future.
    The death of cells is a fact then ?
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:58am
    - sooty
      
      They will have to build more houses then.
      
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      May 30, 2018 4:29pm
tedbear

Suddenly the govt is believing the advice of one expert on P contamination while rubbishing a ton of expert advice from MBIE, Reserve Bank, Treasury and Certified Builders CEO on future housing.

So after getting a hundred or so families off the waiting list and into those ex-p contaminated houses, they still haven’t started one kiwibuild.

We’ve had the what-happens-when-you’ve run-out-of-other-people’s-money story and now have the what-happens-when-you’ve run-out-of-other-people’s-houses story.
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May 30, 2018 8:32am
Monique Watson

And if Susie’s not a twat then she’s by all accounts, possibly a knob troller.
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May 30, 2018 8:35am
- jcuk
  
  Generally Susie is a damm sight better than the twit on the programme.
  Yes the one whose diction is terrible and slurs his words at least half the time
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:48am
RW Capitalist

So..lets see….
Phil can’t build a single house
Phil commissions a report (tells nobody) into ‘P’ contamination in state houses.
The report comes out
Suddenly there are 250 state houses available.
Thinking
What would Phil have said if National had done this last year?
Will Phil be living in one of these houses?
For a party that lives and dies on PERCEPTION,
looks corrupt to me.
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May 30, 2018 8:44am
- Lance
  
  Hosking pointed out this morning on ZB dear Phil is relabelling houses already under construction (initiated by National) and claiming them as ‘Kiwibuild success stories’.
  Smoke and mirrors.
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:48am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    He tried to label existing houses sold, as part of the “overall” build and therefore part of kiwibuild.
    
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    May 30, 2018 8:51am
- RW Capitalist
  
  Funny thought I just had
  A report that nobody knew about (‘P’ clean up)
  and helps the govt. in it’s housing portfolio
  Came out immediately.
  BUT
  A report that showed “partnership schools” were having a massive and positive impact, on student under achievers (and contradicted EVERYTHING the current minister has been saying)…Seemed to take an age to release.
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:49am
Rich Prick

Another fucking working group. This time because … old white men. Labour must be useless if they have to out-source this much policy.
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May 30, 2018 8:57am
- Piniwi
  
  But RP with the pace of change picking up very rapidly they desperately need a large collection of scape goats to lay the blame on. Sadly they have also failed in the blame game even though it is the strongest loud noise they make.
  
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  May 30, 2018 7:54pm
Ross12

So it looks like the EU elite have had another “win”. They has successfully stopped the installation of new democratically elected Government and it looks like a second election will take place. I hope the Italians show the EU who should be in control of Italy.
Even those who would have been in opposition are mad.
The German EU Commissioner says in an interview
““The markets and a ‘darkened’ outlook will teach Italy’s voters not to vote for populist parties in the next elections.” Bullying in desperation.
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May 30, 2018 9:08am
- Manolo
  
  Not for long. It will come back to bite Brussels in the bum.
  
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  May 30, 2018 1:43pm
  - Ross12
    
    I hope you are right Manolo.
    I see Soros is preaching doom and gloom again about the EU, in a recent speech. But I bet he is shorting any investment he can.
    
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    May 30, 2018 3:24pm
Harkman

So I got a Labour pamphlet in the mail a couple of days ago and in it are some utter classics:

Cindy on the cover smiling away

First page, “we have some really big and exciting plans for New Zealand.”

“100,000 affordable homes over the next ten years” then a chart 1,000 in 2018/19, 5,000 in 2019/20, and 10,000 in 2020/21. Everyone is saying this ain’t going to happen. So their big plans are their own forecasts, classic nonsense.

Claims lower income families will be better off by $75 per week. Though rent is up $35 per week since September and oil is up too.

Next page, “We know that for New Zealanders to do well, our economy needs to do well. That’s why growing our economy is our top priority.” This is a joke, right? Right below it is a chart with the surpluses National left them in the fine print it says “HYEFU 2017″

Back page, Cindy, ” I’m proudly ambitious for this amazing country and those of us who call it home.” Yep typical empty Cindy nonsense.
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May 30, 2018 9:08am
- MCos
  
  Sounds like a typical party political piece of propaganda of the sort that’s been ctuffed in people’s letter boxes for as long as I can remember.
  I’m suprised you took the time out of your busy day to read it.
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:13am
  - KevOB
    
    Who paid for it?
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:55am
    - Harkman
      
      Certainly not the private sector. ?
      
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      May 30, 2018 9:59am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Have you not received your invoice for your share of it Kev?
      
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      May 30, 2018 12:09pm
- tf78
  
  Harkman, I hope you have a fireplace to dispose of it properly.
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:20am
  - sooty
    
    Yep, you don’t want to put them in the bin.
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:53am
  - Harkman
    
    You’ll like this one, it will go in my recycling bin. The nanny state banned fireplaces and log burners down here. When I was out for my walk last night, I gave up counting the number of them in gutters and on footpaths. So that’s what people really think. ?
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:58am
- Poppa
  
  Cindy really hasn’t left college yet. She acts like a school prefect with the arrogance that goes with it
  
  The sad thing is, she actually believes she is good
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:20am
  - MCos
    
    The last person I’d want as PM would be someone who thought they were useless at the job.
    On the other hand if the voters think they are useless there is the chance to chuck them out.
    Or on the other hand again if the party thinks their leader is useless they are replaced; as happened regularly to Labour & will happen to Simon if he doesn’t pull his finger out.
    
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    May 30, 2018 10:45am
- RW Capitalist
  
  1. Does she actually know the definition of the word “PLAN”?
  2. Surely the planning stage finished shortly after the election? It’s NOW time for action. Unless of course you are lying and you don’t actually have any plans and are making it up as you go.
  Notice how there is no mention of a start time for these 100 000 houses?
  8 months ago, they said “100 000 houses in 10 years”. They are still saying 100 000 house in 10 yrs.
  Surely it’s now 100 000 houses in 9yrs 4 months?
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:41am
  - Harkman
    
    I know, the math gets away from them from here on. They won’t do 10,000 in 3 years. So that leaves 90,000 in six years or 15,000 pa to fulfill a campaign promise that they have been making since around 2013. Cindy should have sacked Twyford while she had the chance and blamed it all on him.
    
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    May 30, 2018 10:08am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      The plan was bull, the day they said it.
      Maths, at the time.
      $500 000 per house x 10 000 houses
      $5 bill, not enough surplus, so need to borrow (said they wouldn’t).
      A builder can build a house about every 6 weeks ie about 7 houses per year (he needs holidays too)
      So…about 1400 EXTRA builders needed, or Mrs Jones in Christchurch, won’t be able to get any building work done.
      Process
      Buy the land…..2 months
      get subdivision plans, resource consent, building permits etc……..3 months
      Put in infrastructure, roads, drainage, sewage, electric, internet etc…….3 months
      Start build after about 6 months (can start while infrastructure is going in). Now you have 6 months to build to completion and sell them ALL ready to start again next year.
      So
      Need twice as many builders, plumbers, electricians etc
      and
      No allowance for increased costs over 10 years
      More borrowing or
      Price cap on materials and land costs
      BTW have you told the workers on these projects, they are not going to get a pay rise for 10 years?
      
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      May 30, 2018 11:27am
    - Piniwi
      
      But Harkman there is another snag ahead as interest rates start to rise pushing those affordable houses further out of reach even further.
      
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      May 30, 2018 8:07pm
- Piniwi
  
  @Harkman it is funny that the list of broken promises and the list of failed policies is running level it seems. The best yet is sweet cheeks telling us it will be a high income, high productivity future ahead for NZ. As we note how little they did for 9 years lolling on the opposition benches. Then after all those rash promises WHAM and the old drunk propelled them into office. In opposition they were physically challenged and now they have graduated to fiscally challenged. Choice.
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:02pm
AgentBallSack

How long do you think I will have to avoid the news for to not see anything about Ardern and Gaylords little brat, his take on fatherhood (already done I know, but now he will be a real father not an expectant one), her eating a placenta omelet and Helen Clark grinning over the child like its a dressed lamb roast?
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May 30, 2018 9:10am
- stephieboy
  
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  ABS, bring some much long-needed balance and perspective into your overheated, and hysterical imagination.
  
  Visit your Doctor ASAP.
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:25am
  - VicParking
    
    Stephie take your hands off your awrahs for five minutes and think what you are saying.
    
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    May 30, 2018 10:24am
- MrTips
  
  LOL.
  Dish’otheDay: placenta omelette & soy Chi tea. M. Bovis free.
  
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  May 30, 2018 10:06am
- Rich Prick
  
  At the risk of giving the media ideas, I just hope they don’t live-stream it.
  
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  May 30, 2018 10:17am
  - MCos
    
    These may be desperate times.
    However.
    Somehow I don’t think the media scours social media looking for your ideas, mate.
    
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    May 30, 2018 1:04pm
    - AgentBallSack
      
      Are you sure? They seem to source half of their stories from Twitter and Facebook these days.
      
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      May 30, 2018 2:38pm
- RF
  
  Ardern is not the first unmarried women to get knocked up and won’t be the last.
  
  I am over her telling us about her bloody pregnancy problems.
  
  Talk to the hand girl the face an’t listening.
  
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  May 30, 2018 10:52am
Monique Watson

Ardern said yesterday it was a tough decision.

“I empathise fully with those farmers going through the pain of losing their herds.”

Bull Fucking Shit. She’s incapable of empathy. Borg Personified.
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May 30, 2018 9:11am
- Inandout
  
  But she will eventually destroy dairying, and for that she is quietly pleased. Both her and Clarko digest almond milk anyway.
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:16am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    Always wondered about “Almond Milk”
    Do you use a particularly small stool to milk one?
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:34am
    - VicParking
      
      You end up with sloppy stools if you drink it
      
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      May 30, 2018 10:25am
    - RalphT
      
      Grab the nuts and squeeze hard. What the government’s intent on doing to me.
      
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      May 30, 2018 10:29am
      - VicParking
        
        Well said
        
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        May 30, 2018 11:51am
  - Paulus
    
    Read that Clarke is due to do another fishing programme in the Pacific in a couple of months time.
    As a house father hope the baby will not be too seasick.
    
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    May 30, 2018 1:52pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  Ardern is a sociopath. The Mormon church must have touched her in a bad place.
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:21am
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    ABS, you do need a much long overdue visit to your Doctor.
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:26am
    - Jack5
      
      What is it with today’s rostered-on Stephie?
      
      This Stephie is always telling posters to see their doctor, that a visit is overdue.
      
      What is it you get from your regular doctor visits, Stephie X? Seroquel?
      
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      May 30, 2018 11:12am
      - sooty
        
        Prostate exam?
        
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        May 30, 2018 12:07pm
      - UrbanNeocolonialist
        
        Someone who has to talk to him (even if he has to pay for it), cos no one would do it for free.
        
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        May 30, 2018 1:43pm
    - AgentBallSack
      
      I would rather visit your doctor. If he lets a nutcase like you out to roam the streets, I am all good.
      
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      May 30, 2018 1:23pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  and coming out of her mouth, in particular, it sounds like the start of a really sick joke.
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:35am
- Longknives
  
  She certainly showed a lot of ‘Empathy’ to the families of those 7 thousand Oil and Gas workers in Taranaki whose jobs she axed…
  
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  May 30, 2018 10:24am
EAD_TWO

As if the stereotype of the cosmopolitan Globalist Banker working against the natives needed further reinforcing, along comes ~~Soros György~~ George Soros who is the gift that just keeps on giving:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/may/29/george-soros-drastic-action-needed-for-eurozone-to-survive

Soros-backed campaign to push for new Brexit vote within a year
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May 30, 2018 9:16am
Left Right and Centre

Further proof of the scientific fact that the dumber the name, the more at risk of early death.

Meadow – pfff – never stood a chance.
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May 30, 2018 9:26am
- stephieboy
  
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  Left Right and Centre, you an individual devoid of any kind of moral feelings or sensibilities.
  
  Sociopathetic tenancies emerging there.
  
  Seek help.
  
  Meadow, April, May ,Spring, Summer etc?
  
  What of it!
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:34am
  - Left Right and Centre
    
    Sikh help yourself.
    Kiss my greenticks.
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:46am
  - cmm
    
    Sometimes you need to care about people enough to point out that they are entering into self destructive behaviour. Ten times so if you are a parent.
    
    If your 12 year old is running around with a 15 year old committing crimes and you don’t know there’s something going on then, well, not much of a parent.
    
    Just shutting our eyes to all this because it feels uncomfortable is much less caring than raising the problem and addressing it to reduce further incidents.
    
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    May 30, 2018 10:32am
- Rich Prick
  
  One is an accident, two is looking decidedly careless. On bail, stolen cars, fleeing Police. Shall we consider poor parenting?
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:49am
  - sooty
    
    The money tap will turn off now, any more?
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:56am
  - GoVege
    
    The mum was working apparently, a big improvement on many families.
    I haven’t heard any mention of the father.
    It takes two to produce babies.
    Let’s not load all the blame on the poor bereaved mum.
    
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    May 30, 2018 10:57am
holysheet

What do you call a Pakistani lesbian?
Minjita
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May 30, 2018 9:28am
Philview

Stuff are going after Simon Bridges again the morning. I didn’t think Simon’s comments were controversial. He said something like. “Lets see what comes back from the Law Commission” and mentioned that change will create a divisive situation where there isn’t one now.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/104304952/bridges-risks-being-caught-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-country
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May 30, 2018 9:34am
- Scott
  
  Yes but Simon Bridges is going against one of the holy writs of the left which is abortion on demand for any reason.
  This is a terribly extremist position that labour and the left have embraced now. Once there would have been at least the appearance of feeling sad about the deaths of unborn children. But now there is celebration on the streets when a country decides it can have abortions.
  
  Apparently there were 15,000 abortions last year in New Zealand? Who among us thinks that that’s a lot? Like that’s the size of a whole town. No wonder we need so much Third World immigration. We are determined to kill our young New Zealanders before they can even draw breath.
  
  So much abortion is a tragedy. It’s a stain on our country. What Simon Bridges says was quite good I thought – abortion should be safe legal and rare. Now that’s a reasonable compromise I would have thought?
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:45am
  - cmm
    
    Yeah but I feel embarrassed asking boys to use a condom. I mean it’s not like I know them well enough to talk about such personal stuff.
    
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    May 30, 2018 10:27am
    - GoVege
      
      cmm: “wish I had a daddy to protect me from guys who coerce me into sex and refuse to wear a condom.
      But dad took off when mum was pregnant and all these busybodies forced her into having me.
      I’m just looking for the love and security I missed out on this is the only way I think I might get it”.
      
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  - cmm
    
    Yup we’re killing off a whole town a year, but whether or not that’s a good or bad thing for society will depend very much on which town that is (ie. the demographics of the babies being aborted) and where we source the immigrants to make up the difference.
    
    Note, that “good for society” is a very different thing from the morality of killing off the baby.
    
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    May 30, 2018 10:45am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      ‘whether or not that’s a good or bad thing for society will depend very much on which town that is (ie. the demographics of the babies being aborted)’
      
      Exactly. Sorry pro-lifers, but unless you’re prepared to 1. Keep pushing effectively for abstinence or at least effective contracaption and 2. really ensure these 15000 kids get a good childhood (ie you help supervise, pay, educate), you’re not really helping.
      
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      May 30, 2018 11:30am
  - GoVege
    
    I think you’re right.
    We could really do with 15,000 more troubled people per year, especially gang members/sickness beneficiaries etc.
    
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    May 30, 2018 11:12am
- Huevon
  
  The feminist complaint is that abortion is still technically a crime under NZ law unless a medical certification process is followed (that 2 doctors certify that the need for abortion falls into certain permitted causes, the most common being negative impact on mental health). It doesn’t seem to matter that that process effectively means we have abortion on demand in reality in this country.
  
  Abortion is a hugely controversial issue. The current law reflects a very hard fought compromise that was made in the late 1970s. The medical certification process might be legal window dressing in practice, but at least it ensures some justification is made for terminating the life of an unborn child.
  
  I think Bridges is taking an entirely sensible approach. The problem is we have a naive and inexperienced PM who wants to stir up this issue. For what? It’s not like women have issues getting abortions – 1 in 5 pregnancies end each year for this reason.
  
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  May 30, 2018 9:59am
  - Paulus
    
    Helen Clark is now the lead spokesperson on changing the Abortion Laws.
    Cindy has delegated as she has sweet fa currently.
    
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    May 30, 2018 1:55pm
- Anne Glen Eden
  
  I agree. They also say:
  
  “It was Key who allowed the National Party to catch up with New Zealand on physical discipline of children, by building a bridge with Labour to support anti-smacking legislation. It was Key who made the legalisation of gay marriage inevitable by signalling early in the debate that he would be voting yes. Although in a conscience vote he represented less than 1 per cent of MPs voting, his stance effectively sealed the fate of the legislation.”
  
  So he did – and I didn’t vote for him subsequently.
  
  The Left/liberal desire for women to have abortion on demand is a denial of the true rights and responsibilities of women (and by extension, men), and a blatant desire to keep them in the workforce. They, in fact, want to get to the position where they can positively push for abortion wherever they deem it preferable, irrespective of sometimes very bad long term consequences for the mothers.
  
  Ireland will find out – after they have a massive increase in abortions and the women have to face the reality over their lifetime. You can persuade women, at a given point in time, that a foetus is just a ‘collection of cells’, but at some point, they’re likely to want a child. At that point, that ‘collection of cells’ is going to become a desired human being – and they’ll know the one they killed wasn’t ‘different’; just their narrative has changed. One they choose to kill; one they don’t. They’ll also find out that they may have gained the right to kill their child but they’ll eventually no longer have a ‘right’ to be mothers. Previously they may have been shipped out to ‘homes’ where they were ill-treated. Now they’ll just be sent to an abortion clinic.
  
  Firstly, they don’t provide the mothers with the true picture e.g. not showing them scans of the foetus with a beating heart and formed organs – already a little human being. The foetus has to be dehumanised to go through with it – especially the ripping apart and/or burning. (And let me just say, compare that with the emotional pleas of the farmers wife trying to protect unborn calves being dropped out of the bodies of their mothers. It seems doctors/nurses don’t suffer such squeamishness.)
  
  Secondly, the arguments pro-abortion are very simplistic, ideological, and entirely circumstantial. They don’t consider the bigger picture which can result in terrible errors. E.g. – we all know that hygiene is ‘good’ and the modern health cult is always pushing it – who knew that lack of exposure to bacteria would result in more children getting leukaemia?
  
  So much of everything we do is in spite of the natural world and natural processes – and we really have little genuine knowledge of how it all works together. But it does – all work together. You can’t change one element without it resounding throughout the entire system, often with very negative unintended consequences (like the argued ‘climate change’?).
  
  And yet, ideologues and profiteers blithely set about social engineering without any care/concern for the wider possible consequences. We’re at war with the natural environment far more extensively than around climate change. Without question, nature will restore itself one way or the other – then we’ll call it a ‘disaster’.
  
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  May 30, 2018 10:51am
  - GoVege
    
    B/s Anne.
    I’ve had a few older women tell me they wish they’d had a abortion with their first child.
    They were usually too young and unprepared for motherhood and the kid was ballsed up as a result, making both their lives hell and forcing them to stay with a violent man.
    If they could have had an early termination they would probably have made a better, lasting marriage and had some happier, undamaged kids.
    
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    May 30, 2018 11:05am
    - Anne Glen Eden
      
      What utter rubbish.
      
      Hindsight always appears perfect. That’s the sort of irrational belief and wishful thinking that causes such disasters.
      
      If their judgement was so off that they got into a relationship with a ‘violent man’ in the first place, not to mention getting pregnant in an age where that’s totally unnecessary, the chances of making a ‘better, lasting marriage’ are very slim. It would have been just a different violent man at best.
      
      If their kids are ‘unhappy’ and ‘damaged’, that’s entirely their own doing – their decisions, all the time.
      
      It’s extraordinary the lengths people will go to in avoiding both the reality and responsibility of their own behaviour. Entirely predictable, but extraordinary.
      
      Mind you, that sounds judgemental. I’m sure they made the best decisions they felt they could at the time. However, trying to pretend that the fault lies with the children would tend to imply they’re judgement is no better now. The choices were always theirs, at every stage.
      
      They needed protection in their own childhoods from those who taught them it’s normal to be abused. So that they could make better decisions for themselves and their children.
      
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      May 30, 2018 11:19am
      - GoVege
        
        Nobody’s blaming the kids, Anne.
        We’re blaming the sanctimonious busybodies dictating everybody should subscribe to their religious beliefs.
        Yes, those young women did need protection, but who’s gonna step in and give it if their own parents are dead/mentally unwell/ whatever.
        Don’t give me that sh*t about “choices”.
        Some people are so neglected they don’t even know they HAVE choices.
        If people are depressed/isolated they make the wrong choice because they don’t know what else to do.
        It’s all very well for older people with decades of life experience to judge them.
        Old people don’t get pregnant. .. young people do!
        
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        May 30, 2018 11:46am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      I know quite a few women and men who have been very glad of an abortion when they were teens who made a big mistake or had a contraception failure. They regretted the pregnancy, but not the abortion. They continued their continued their studies or apprenticeship, later married/partnered and had good stable families.
      
      Not going to argue the morality of it but this is the fact: many people are glad that abortions were available and enabled them to have careers and families. Probably they ended up having more children (and in a much more stable environment) than they could have had if they’d continued the teen pregnancy and struggled for years.
      
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      May 30, 2018 11:43am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Sorry, my writing is full of mistakes today. Didn’t get enough sleep…
        
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        May 30, 2018 11:50am
      - Anne Glen Eden
        
        It’s not a surprise to me that you really don’t understand what I’m saying. And it’s not about morality.
        
        Hindsight is valueless. You don’t know that one of the children aborted wouldn’t have found the cure for cancer or revolutionised economics, etc. You also don’t know what goes on more deeply inside people, as opposed to what they say.
        
        Surprisingly, that one person economically benefited from an abortion doesn’t necessarily make it a good thing. And gosh, people regretted being faced with consequences of their actions – how revolutionary (not) as is relishing the possibility of avoiding them.
        
        We live in a world where, increasingly, the rule is ‘If it’s not convenient to your goals or you don’t like it, kill it” – for the supposed ultimate ‘good’ defined at the time or just because you feel like it. Of course, no-one likes that when it’s done with a bomb or an AK47 pointed at them – or when the Amazon rainforest is being destroyed.
        
        The more rational process would be for humanity to be aware of the issues, take responsibility for their behaviour, and not create the problem in the first place. The undoubtedly better option is for the species to retain all its humanity, as part of the natural world, rather than deciding who is ‘disposable’ to promote their immediate, personal interests or self-gratification.
        
        ‘Struggling’ clearly did not do John Key et al any harm in youth.
        
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        May 30, 2018 12:13pm
      - Anne Glen Eden
        
        More to the point, Classic Liberal, if Darwin’s finches had decided to eliminate their progeny as the environment got more challenging, they wouldn’t have been around for him to study.
        
        Every individual is unique. Any of them could have a natural resistance to HIV, cancer, Ebola, or some other adaptive feature we don’t know about.
        
        By eliminating natural processes – and totally unthinkingly other than on personal whim/advantage – we are actively interfering in evolutionary adaptation, without any thought whatsoever. Indeed, those most likely to be ‘disposed of’ are more likely to be the healthiest and/or with the most potential (to our view anyway); the less ‘healthy’ or more challenging being either ignored, or of more medical interest, and/or attracting more ‘sympathy’/belief in their ‘rights’.
        
        That’s a concern because nature produces change according to the real and viable need of the time to ensure survival. We do not.
        
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        May 30, 2018 1:10pm
      - GoVege
        
        John Key was hardly “struggling”, Anne.
        He had a nice home provided by the state, two married parents who were not teenagers, and apparently a very devoted mother.
        
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        May 30, 2018 2:06pm
      - GoVege
        
        True CL.
        I also know a fair few young women who had unplanned pregnancies in their teens.
        In most cases, that first child was their last, and had a difficult upbringing.
        Some do go on to marry later on and have more children.
        If they are lucky enough to find a man who will accept the first child, or their mother takes them, things might turn out alright.
        One woman I know had 2 kids as a teenager.
        She didn’t particularly want them (except for the income stream) so she foisted them on reluctant relations.
        Eventually she married and ditched the kids completely.
        Knowing they were unwanted, they ran away, got into drugs and gangs.
        This is a common occurrence.
        
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        May 30, 2018 2:16pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Anne, sorry but I find your lengthy speeches predictable and dull. And since you always disagree with me for some reason, let’s just agree to disagree.
        
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        May 30, 2018 4:08pm
  - Philview
    
    In some countries women have abortions because they or husbands don’t like the gender of the child. If abortions are easily granted for any reason then that is part of our future.
    
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    May 30, 2018 4:53pm
cas

Just got an email from MSD about the winter energy payments. It says if you are a couple and have separate bank accounts they can’t split it this year but are working on it. I thought Jacinda said it was delayed as it was the most comprehensive correction to the welfare system and they wouldn’t do it till they got it right. Another little white lie
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May 30, 2018 9:56am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Yep, Mrs. Mainwaring got that email but I didn’t. They’re paying her the money when I’m the one who pays the power bill, now there’s going to be a battle to get the money out of her.
  Christ this rabble couldn’t organise a root in a knocking shop. Thanks Winston and all the dickheads who voted for you ‘to teach National a lesson’.
  
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  May 30, 2018 10:46am
  - cmm
    
    Worse still, now she’s getting warmed up on Cindy-Power she won’t need you in bed any more.
    
    You pay the tax, Cindy gets the thanks.
    
    Cool eh?
    
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    May 30, 2018 11:05am
  - Nostradamus
    
    Captain Mainwaring:
    
    there’s going to be a battle to get the money out of her
    
    Too late old chap – she’s already booked her ladies’ weekend in Venice!
    
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    May 30, 2018 3:25pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Interesting panel discussion on Morning Report today.
Rhys Jones was stating that the Health Review needs new voices. It mustn’t be led by or present the views of the same old people who created and maintain the structures of the current Health system.
In particular we need to “stop privileging the voices of older pakeha men.”
(From 0.50s – 1.56s)
https://podcast.radionz.co.nz/mnr/mnr-20180530-0818-what_needs_to_change_in_nz_health_-_panel_discussion-128.mp3

Well, thank goodness Helen Simpson (former CofS for Helen Clark; former senior private secretary for Health Minister (H.C.) in the 1980s, isn’t an old pakeha man.
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May 30, 2018 11:04am
- Jack5
  
  I’ve sometimes wondered whether Her Eminence, Helen Clark, herself, is an old white man.
  
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  May 30, 2018 11:14am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  You mean Heather Simpson, aka H2.
  
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  May 30, 2018 11:14am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I do indeed, txs.
    
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    May 30, 2018 11:16am
- Jack5
  
  Rhys Jones is interesting. He’s a “public health physician”, which presumably is the specialty that provides local medical officers of health.
  
  Jones’s blurb, at the University of Auckland, where he is a senior lecturer, says he oversees “Maori Health teaching, learning and assessment in the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences”.
  
  The blurb includes: “I have been the principal investigator of the Educating for Equity study, an international research project examining how health professional education can reduce inequities and improve health outcomes for Indigenous populations.”
  
  The blurb lists Jones as being of Ngati Kahungunu, a Maori tribe on the eastern side of the North Island.
  
  From his name, Jones is also of Welsh descent. I wonder whether he has any ambition to speak Cymraeg?
  
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  May 30, 2018 12:14pm
Jack5

The MMP electoral system’s working really well for Italy: Chamber of Deputies – 37 per cent FPP, and 61 per cent proportional, 3 per cent threshold.
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May 30, 2018 11:08am
Poppa

Breaking news

Our beloved PM talking about the countdown to birth

Be careful people this is going to be sick inducing. I think we need to introduce some type of warning system to avoid serious illness
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May 30, 2018 11:12am
- Lance
  
  With wall to wall coverage of the first woman to ever give birth.
  
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  May 30, 2018 11:21am
  - ex-golfer
    
    Its amazing isn’t it?
    How did anyone cope before our beloved PM became pregnant.
    Will tomorrow have a story about a first time mother in West Auckland’s struggle with pregnancy? I doubt it.
    
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    May 30, 2018 11:28am
    - sooty
      
      MSM all have the headlines on hold ready at the drop of a hat to roll out the birth off nations baby. There will be hakas on every street corner.
      Baby placenta milkshake avaliable to the twitterarty. Won’t be none left to have a burial.
      
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      May 30, 2018 11:55am
      - ex-golfer
        
        Will there be a national holiday – “First Baby Day” ??
        
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        May 30, 2018 12:22pm
    - sooty
      
      To be called Gayford day! But what happens when Labour loses power? Cindy loses seat?
      
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      May 30, 2018 4:39pm
- Longknives
  
  I see her and Clarke are talking about Baby names etc
  Surely to raise this child as anything other than ‘Gender Neutral’ is an affront to the Rainbow Community??
  
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  May 30, 2018 11:25am
  - Poppa
    
    So where is the media on line poll for baby names? Surely they won’t forget to do that
    
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    May 30, 2018 11:41am
    - Inandout
      
      A Labour working party will soon be set up to deal with the baby’s name. Hager is seeking a seat on the committee.
      
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      May 30, 2018 11:49am
  - sooty
    
    It will have to have a maori name as well.
    
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    May 30, 2018 12:01pm
kowtow

There’s that enriching diversity dividend , again.

‘Defence counsel Sarah Saunderson-Warner told the court today that Jalilzadeh’s experiences in war-torn Iraq before he moved to New Zealand had a significant impact on his psyche and the subsequent addiction issues.’

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/crime/prescriptions-faked-deal-trauma-court-told
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May 30, 2018 11:21am
- stephieboy
  
  kowtow, much like the enriching diversity dividend with this expat Dunedin South African Doctor?
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/96458476/dunedin-wife-murderer-colin-bouwer-paroled-and-to-be-deported-to-south-africa
  
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  May 30, 2018 1:13pm
kowtow

And a Muslim terror attack in Belgium.

‘Officials said Herman approached the officers, aged 45 and 53, from behind and stabbed them repeatedly before taking their handguns and shooting them.

Prosecutor Philippe Dulieu said: “Armed with a knife, the suspect followed and attacked two police officers, and used their own firearms to kill them.”

“He continued on foot, attacking a parked vehicle where he opened fire on a 22-year-old man in the passenger seat. The young man died.

“He then continued and entered the Leonie de Waha school. He took a woman working there as hostage.’

https://news.sky.com/story/belgian-police-launch-terror-probe-after-shooting-of-police-and-bystander-11388883
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May 30, 2018 11:36am
- Inandout
  
  The Belgian police officer holding his hands over his face is probably thinking, ‘who the fuck allowed this Muslim invasion to happen’? Well mate, those politicians are either retired or live in select suburbs.
  
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  May 30, 2018 11:46am
  - kowtow
    
    TV1 mid day “news” just covered this using a BBC report , no mention of “Allah Akbar”
    
    or that the same authorities who are flooding Europe with Muslims let this guy out on some sort of parole.
    
    The social contract is broken.
    
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    May 30, 2018 12:08pm
    - Inandout
      
      I am perplexed on this Muslim reporting blackout. Is there an order sent out to the news media that if they mention anything anti-Islam they will not get any more Reuters type feeds? Surely all media heads can’t be socialists.
      
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      May 30, 2018 12:16pm
      - stephieboy
        
        Ianandout, no blackout here with this report,
        
        http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-29/gunman-shoots-police-in-belgium-four-dead/9813568
        
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        May 30, 2018 1:17pm
    - stephieboy
      
      kowtow ,” Allah Akbar” is mentioned in this BBC report ,
      
      http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-44289404
      
      Get your facts sorted first before your blah, blah blathering.
      
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      May 30, 2018 1:20pm
Monique Watson

What The Fucking Fuck? Just hope the Nation doesn’t go fucking hysterical.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12061223

It’s Sperm meets Egg. Results in a miracle but you’re not responsible, necessarily.
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May 30, 2018 12:23pm
- Longknives
  
  The Biblical Magi have reportedly saddled up their Camels and are on their way Monique!
  
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  May 30, 2018 12:57pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    What, Jacinda a Virgin? That’s not what the Rumours suggested……
    
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    May 30, 2018 2:56pm
    - RF
      
      Tell the man he’s dreaming…….
      
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      May 30, 2018 5:10pm
Duxton

Now, now.

I’m SOOOOOO excited about the pending arrival of Primus Illegitimus Ardernis.
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May 30, 2018 1:01pm
- stephieboy
  
  Monique Watson, now stand back a bit and try and think for a moment ( hard as that might be ),
  
  1 Who out there actually care?
  
  2 Especially a post liberally laced with hysterical expletives.
  
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  May 30, 2018 1:08pm
- stephieboy
  
  Duxton, illegitimacy is an ancient concept that was removed back in 1965 by the Status of young persons Act.
  
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  May 30, 2018 1:10pm
  - Inandout
    
    Maybe it was, but when searching for ancestors it made the task much easier when bastards and non bastards were mentioned.
    
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    May 30, 2018 2:33pm
Monique Watson

Anybody knows what went the Fuck Down in this case, and who knows the Bain details. Will keep their mouths fucking Shut.
Lest they get hammered by the MSM.
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May 30, 2018 1:04pm
Poppa

The saviour of us all Ms Mahuta is warning that water systems could be taken over by the government. Fantastic we will have her oversee all of that & with her undoubted expertise we will never have water issues again
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May 30, 2018 1:12pm
- sooty
  
  Will she make flooding illegal as well?
  
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  May 30, 2018 4:44pm
backster

If Simon Bridges wants an example of tremendous election oratory he should watch President Trumps address in Nashville Tennessee today.
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May 30, 2018 1:17pm
wreck1080

The sorry Tommy Robinson saga. The UK government has made a huge mistake and abused its contract with citizens.

Regardless of what tommy was saying, he had a right to say it! This quote is critical to the core values of freedom and justice upon which western culture is built….

“I wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend to the death your right to say it”

I suspect citizens will fight to the death on this. People need to rage against the UK government!!
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May 30, 2018 1:30pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  Despite there being a BILLION followers of the religion of death, they are so paranoid that you MUST NOT SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUT ISLAM EVER!!!!!!!!
  Or they’ll go batshit fucking crazy and kill us all.
  (Especially don’t mention the last bit about them being violent murdering rapists, it sets them off)
  
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  May 30, 2018 1:36pm
- stephieboy
  
  wreck1080. one need only look no further than this masterly summing up about the case aginst Tommy Robinson ( going under numerous aliases including Stephen Lennon – why is never explained by his supporters)
  
  “What on earth happened to poor Tommy Robinson? 10 Things You Should Know, ”
  
  “It can now be reported that Tommy Robinson, the former leader of the English Defence League, convicted fraudster, sometime-football hooligan and self-reinvented free speech advocate, was on Friday 25 May 2018 imprisoned for 13 months for contempt of court after livestreaming footage of participants in a criminal trial outside Leeds Crown Court.
  
  Some people will have seen reference to this on social media; others may have had the plight of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – to use his real name – drawn to their attention by the hordes of protestors storming London over the May bank holiday weekend. But there has not, until today, been mainstream coverage of the case due to a reporting restriction – what is known as a “postponement order” – that forbade publication of these facts until after the conclusion of the trial (and subsequent related trial) upon which he was purporting to “report”.
  
  While, as we’ll see below, the reasons for the postponement order appear sound, the consequence of preventing fair and accurate reporting by responsible journalists was that there was no factual counterpoint to the selective and inaccurate details of Yaxley-Lennon’s situation that were inevitably flooded through social media by his knuckle-dragging cheerleaders, not least his racists-in-arms across the pond. Thus sprung a (largely unchallenged and unchallengeable) narrative of Tommy The Brave being arrested outside court for no reason and imprisoned in secret by the deep state, culminating in petitions for his release and a Nazi-themed march on Downing Street.
  
  On the day itself, I attempted a post aimed at shining a little light on what might have happened (having no knowledge of the proceedings myself), but having been alerted by a reporter to the terms of the reporting restrictions, took the post down out of an abundance of caution. Now, however, with the restrictions lifted we can try to restore a little order.
  The full judgment is still awaited (expected imminently). For now, let’s take this story in pieces based on what we know…”
  
  https://thesecretbarrister.com/2018/05/25/what-has-happened-to-poor-tommy-robinson/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
  
  A careful read will end the myths and faux outrage against Tommy ( flakey ) Robinson this and that .
  
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  May 30, 2018 1:49pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    Oh I loved him in Black Adder.
    
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    May 30, 2018 2:33pm
    - Harkman
      
      I loved Blackadder.
      
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      May 30, 2018 4:35pm
  - Inandout
    
    The Left have quickly mustered to blacken Tommy’s reputation. They tried the same with Trump except he was a lot smarter than them.
    
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    May 30, 2018 2:37pm
  - UpandComer
    
    1. Why was Tommy Robinson arrested?
    
    “Robinson was arrested outside Leeds Crown Court having video recorded a number of men – including defendants involved in a live trial – entering the court building, and livestreaming the footage on Facebook in what he claimed was an attempt at legitimate court reporting”.
    
    This individual is incorrect. There are no restrictions on the reporting of accused entering into a court even for a substantive trial hearing, let alone a sentencing hearing where guilt has already been ruled.
    
    If this ‘secret barrister’ was correct, then the entire Tabloid industry doesn’t exist. There are tens of thousands of photos, all preserved in perpetuity on the internet, of people the subject of photos and journalistic activity on their way into courts. There are no restrictions extant on the identification and reporting of individuals involved in court cases. New Zealand is part of the same common law.
    The Daily Mail for example, under Piers Morgan, were happy to hack cellphones to find dick pics, snatch pics, evidence of individuals in the closet to force them out, marriage troubles, financial problems, and engage in gerneralised Voyeurism. The British Pravda Zionist organs have no problem reporting on matters before the courts, except when it involves pedophilia, something with which they are extremely familiar as the friends and protectors of Jimmy Savile, and the rape of 1million English girls by muslims since 1980.
    
    “The initial reports suggested that he was arrested for a suspected breach of the peace but what is now clear from the facts published today is that his actions in broadcasting details about the trial were in breach of reporting restrictions”.
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwitkPBsHdo
    
    Whoever wrote this is a liar. The reason we all know he was arrested for ‘suspicion of an intention to commit a breach of the peace’ is because he fucking was – here it is, on Video – one of the Videos that the (((British))) pedo-establishment won’t allow to be shown in England. It’s at 1.47, to be precise for the benefit of the ‘secret barrister’ who I suspect is himself a ‘secret nonce’ along with Mr Geoffrey Marson QC, the laughing judge.
    
    What a hilarious lie. I guarantee this person is lying about everything else in this little ‘piece’.
    
    2. What are reporting restrictions?
    
    Everything this idiot states in this section is countermanded by the fact that, as I stated, the trials were in three separate sections BECAUSE THEY WERE THREE SEPARATE TRIALS WITH THREE SEPARATE JURIES.
    
    These snakes lie like spoiled oil flowing out of a diseased bottle.
    
    There is no possibility of prejudicing juries by revealing PUBLICLY AVAILABLE INFORMATION like names printed on an online court Gazette of individuals involved in separate matters. It would be like saying that you could ‘prejudice’ David Bain’s murder case by revealing that Mark Lundy was a suspect in a separate case.
    
    The English really can go suck the superior benis of the New Zealand legal education. What is this errant fucking trash.
    
    Not only were they separate matters, it was a fucking sentencing hearing. Not a trial under deliberation formulation. They were trying to stop a journalist from reporting on the identities of actual rape-pedophiles who had been adjudged guilty and were being sentenced and who were walking the streets of Leeds without a care you may.
    
    “To avoid jurors having their deliberations contaminated by what they might read or hear about the earlier linked trials, reporting of all of them is often postponed until the end”.
    
    That is a lie as well – the court had already stated that all sections of the unrelated trials were to be governed by total secrecy. There was no ‘intent’ of release of information relating to any of them at any time.
    
    Show me a single barrister in NZ who would argue that the public administration of the sentencing of pedophiles, outweighs the public interest in knowing who the rape-torturers are walking around eating Kebabs in the streets on bail? Show me.
    
    3. But I heard Tommy Robinson was arrested for a breach of the peace. What is a breach of the peace? How is a breach of the peace caused by someone simply filming?
    
    “Robinson provocatively filming defendants and streaming on Facebook for the edification of his cult, is the kind of thing which could, it might be argued, lead to a breach of the peace”.
    
    Ah, right. So the entire concept and practice of ‘court journalism’ therefore constitutes breaches of the peace.
    
    Isn’t it so very interesting that none of the reporting on any white individual the subject of proceedings for alleged crimes against muslims constitutes a ‘breach of the peace’.
    
    And what was the liklihood of an ‘affray’ directed at individuals who were going to be in prison?
    
    The ‘suspicion of an intention to commit a breach of the peace’ was pure garbage – and I’ll note, utterly unrelated to the terms of Tommy’s suspended sentence which he observed to the ‘letter’.
    
    4. How can it be legal for somebody to be arrested for breach of the peace and then imprisoned for contempt?
    
    “It is perfectly common for a person to be arrested on suspicion of one offence, and then ultimately charged or dealt with for another”.
    
    No it isn’t. Not in the context of journalism. Not even close.
    
    “It appears that Yaxley-Lennon was arrested and detained for causing or threatening a breach of the peace, and that the court, upon being made aware of his activities, directed that he be brought to court to be dealt with for contempt of court”.
    
    So Tommy did this voluntarily did he? Well that sounds pertinent – let’s see it substantiated. Oh wait, it can’t be.
    
    “The “breach of the peace” angle is a red herring”.
    
    No it isn’t nonce. Because ‘breach of the peace’ was the offence trigger for which he was arrested, and the precedent has now been set as to what constitutes a ‘breach of the peace’ in England – namely, journalism the government and the muslims pedophiles who have raped 1million girls in England since 1980 don’t like.
    
    It’s not a ‘red-herring’. It’s the key element to the English government’s tyranny. It was the only possibly employable provision that could be used against Tommy. And it was completely unrelated to his suspended sentence, because he was observant of it’s terms.
    
    5. So back up a step – what exactly is contempt of court?
    
    Again – there was no ‘substantial risk of serious prejudice or impediment’. For the reasons already stated.
    
    The court does not have unfettered discretion to ban freedom of assembly on public spaces outside court precincts, as this cretin himself/herself observes with reference to the Criminal Justice Act 1925 which I’ve described earlier.
    
    There was no ‘criminal contempt’ because Robinson was conforming to the terms of the judge’s earlier order – which was strictly prohibitive of inferences of guilt. He made no such inferences.
    
    6. What happened at Canterbury Crown Court?
    
    This rendition is irrelevant. Journalist’s do what Tommy did every day of the week in the Commonwealth. Not only that, but the judge in the 2017 Canterbury case acknowledged that Tommy had complied with earlier instructions given to him prior to the Rebel Media litigation.
    
    Not only that, but the specific court rules are capricious and as I stated in earlier comments, are not publicly disclosed. No can fucking KNOW what the rules in for a given court anymore in England.
    
    Why should an individual obeying earlier judge-given instructions comply with contrary instructions given by junior court staff absent confirmation from a residing judge? Particularly when the behaviour is clearly journalism of a form utterly trite. The court’s authority doesn’t reside in every person employed by a court. It resides in the Judge, and to a lesser extent, the Clerk in specific circumstances.
    
    7. So what you’re saying is that Tommy Robinson was given a suspended sentence simply for trying to report on a case? Free speech is truly dead.
    
    Tommy made no inferences of guilt. Again, is it, or is it not, a fact that every day journalists report on the identity and particulars of individuals ‘suspected’ of crime? They certainly do that with reckless abandon in England with regard to Tommy himself, or any white person generally, don’t they.
    
    The quote provided is from the earlier Canterbury 2017 case, and, as I said, states the prohibition against inferences of guilt.
    
    But these fucking idiots published the fucking identities of the suspect in the fucking gazette of their own corrupt institution – how is it ‘contempt of court’ to re-state information the pedo’s have already fucking published?
    
    A complete misnomer – that excerpt was from an earlier case where Tommy accepted the decision and modified his behaviour accordingly.
    
    8. How is all that relevant to what took place on 25 May 2018?
    
    “In short, Mr Yaxley-Lennon, turn up at another court, refer to people as “Muslim paedophiles, Muslim rapists” and so and so forth while trials are ongoing and before there has been a finding by a jury that that is what they are, and you will find yourself inside. Do you understand?“
    
    Except, in this particular section of the trial – the verdict had been found. It was a fucking sentencing hearing.
    
    9. What did he go and do?
    
    He did NOT infer guilt. Unless the publishing of muslims names in a court gazette infers guilt.
    
    Unless saying that it is illegal to state that muslims who have been adjudged guilty of pedophilia and are receiving sentence are muslim pedophiles – which is what they are.
    
    Again, this ‘barristers’ logic is not applied to any other case ever. These were ‘Tommy Robinson’ rules under a ‘Tommy Robinson’ line of cases.
    
    10. He was tried in secret on the day he was arrested, with no lawyers and the media were banned from reporting what had happened. This is Kafka on steroids, surely?
    
    Yes it, is. Oh, so there were ‘journalists’ present – and they’re barred from reporting on the matter. But because they were ‘there’ it’s not secret, right commoner? You see, as long as there are ‘journalists’ apparated in the visible spectrum, regardless of whether or not they can emit sound waves and record material in writing, it’s not ‘secret’. What a fucking idiot.
    
    The latest reports are that Tommy was judged in a hearing that lasted ‘minutes’. Not hours. Minutes. Now Andrew Geddis might want to chime in, but it seems to me that if you assign a lawyer no time whatsoever to consider a highly technical and contentious case – that is a monumental breach of due process. This was a conveyor belt matter stitch up job.
    
    Look at the easy defence I’ve just mounted. Imagine what a defence lawyer could have done in the normal course of affairs of due process. The court has no right to prevent the enactment of a defence.
    
    “There is no suggestion of any prejudice; Yaxley-Lennon was legally represented by an experienced barrister and would have received full legal advice”.
    
    Hi Mr lawyer man – you have ten minutes to prepare one of the most technical and fundamental matters regarding journalism in the history of the United Kingdom. By and by, note we have the prison cell warmed up and we expect him to be in it by 2 o’clock, on the dot, presently.
    
    Fair defence.
    
    “As for the suggestion (by UKIP among others) that nobody has ever before been found in contempt of court and a postponement order made preventing the media from immediately reporting it, a handy example can be found on 22 May 2017, where one Stephen Yaxley-Lennon was found to be in contempt at Canterbury, and a postponement order was made restricting publication until the end of the substantive trial”.
    
    Well exactly.
    
    The only instance it’s ever been done was to the same, Tommy Robinson. So you use the first manifestly unjust Kangaroo court decision to justify the second.
    
    Almost everything in that piece is snake-oil.
    
    The British government and it’s cronies in the judiciary don’t want people to know about the rape of 1million British girls by muslims and their quisling facilitators in the judiciary, and the various organs of government. So they invent an entire set of rules that apply only to muslim cases, and then get upset when the ‘colonies’ pierce their totalitarian Stasi media blanket.
    
    Whoever that person is a tool. Without question. And they are wrong to various degrees in every single assertion they have made.
    
    The English are so used to their scummy, dirty, befouled Stasi Communist Pedo-Caliphate, that apparently they’ve been robbed of their legal skills.
    
    Whoever this Quisling is, he or she should come to a New Zealand court, array themselves against New Zealand jurists, and see themselves revealed against a people still immersed in the traditions of English liberty and freedom and free speech that this person has declared their enemy.
    
    What a Quisling tract that is. I wonder who it was. If they appear to have privileged, and embargoed, access to the materials denied everyone else, I think it’s fair to assume they’re friends with the Jimmy Savile set.
    
    What a disgrace. Any lawyer in New Zealand would tear this pale flabby excuse for a legal opinion to pieces.
    
    England – fuck thine ownself. Thanks.
    
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    May 30, 2018 3:07pm
    - UpandComer
      
      I withdraw and apologise about any assertions of fact made with respect to Geoffrey Marson QC.
      
      Otherwise – this is what free speech is, and what Tommy was denied.
      
      The effrontery of that piece is staggering.
      
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      May 30, 2018 3:17pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Downticked purely on the basis of ridiculous length.
      If I wanted to read a novel I’d go to the library or visit Whitcoulls.
      
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      May 30, 2018 7:54pm
AgentBallSack

I note the Health Minister has instructed media to use his honorific “DOCTOR” David Parker when talking about him and his utterances.
Can someone remind me which medical field he studied and earned his degree in please? Inquiring minds want to know.
Thanks in advance.
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May 30, 2018 1:32pm
- RalphT
  
  Clark I think, not Parker. I believe that he studied divinity and that his PhD was on a German scholar of some sort. Perhaps studying the soul counts as a medical field?
  
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  May 30, 2018 1:43pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    Sorry you are right. Too many Davids in the Labour Party.
    
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    May 30, 2018 2:18pm
    - RalphT
      
      Too many ~~Davids~~ in the Labour Party>
      
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      May 30, 2018 3:44pm
- calendar girl
  
  David Clark is entitled to use the honorific “Dr” as he has a PhD. Funny that he makes it clear now that he wants to be called “Dr”, just after he’s made Minister of Health. Seems to me to be no more necessary now to be described as “Dr” than it was before he was elevated to Minister – it looks a bit tricky. Here are a couple of paragraph’s from Clark’s Wiki profile which suggest that he’s no more familiar than I am with the practice of medicine at any level:
  
  “Clark undertook university study at the University of Otago and Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen. He completed degrees in German and theology before a PhD on the work of German/New Zealand refugee and existentialist thinker Helmut Herbert Hermann Rex.
  
  “Ordained in 1997, Clark is a Presbyterian minister. He was the celebrant at the civil union of MP Grant Robertson. He has also worked as a Treasury analyst and the warden of Selwyn College at the University of Otago.”
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:32pm
Fletch

Irishman John McGuirk tweets on the abortion referendum outcome –

Rarely in my life have I seen people angrier about winning than the repealers. Cheer up folks, it’s not that bad. There’ll be something along shortly for you all to focus your never-ending anger on, I’m sure.

Today I went to Stonehall Wildlife Park in Limerick (which is brilliant – take your kids) and petted a parrot, and several rabbits and goats. I come home to another 2,000 tweets from the angriest, craziest people in Ireland. Your unhappiness will never be fixed by a vote, folks.

The problem is the 8th amendment was never what was making you angry in the first place. It’s not the schools or the hospitals, or the ban on euthanasia either. No social reform is going to make you people happy. You’re all looking in the wrong place

The deep injustice many people feel, and the power to change the country that they now wield, is missing something – there’s no vision in it for how to make people feel happy. Once all the “oppression” is gone, they’ll have to confront the fact that their misery is their own.

It was never the journey that was lonely. It was never the country that was cruel. It was never the church that was oppressing you. The movement you are in won’t leave you fulfilled and happy. It will just leave you all angry in company.

In terms of the calls to silence me, or others – hah. You guys own the country now. You own the media, the political class, the culture. You can keep pretending that a minority voice is holding you back, or you can realise that it’s actually an oppression of your own making.

One thing I kept hearing yesterday was that this was a “symbolic” victory. There are many more symbolic victories to be had – blasphemy, the role of women, the pre-amble. Lots more totems of the past to tear down. None of them will fix the problem.

The problem is that all of those victories are empty of meaning. Even this one. Having an abortion in Louth will not be more fun than having one in London. It remains an abortion. You’re not “free”. You’re just miserable, probably in greater numbers, closer to home.

The Irish liberal left has nothing to offer you whatsoever, beyond days like yesterday. A momentary feeling of togetherness. It can’t provide you with a good job, or a loving partner, or security. All it does is provide you with an enemy to hate.
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May 30, 2018 1:39pm
- kowtow
  
  ‘Lots more totems of the past to tear down. None of them will fix the problem.’
  
  Yep , I’d sum it up there. And it doesn’t matter what country in the west it is , they’re out there angry and on the rampage.
  
  And if something as inoffensive as a work sign can trigger them ……..
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2242617/Builders-forced-stop-construction-sexist-Men-Working-signs-removed.html
  
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  May 30, 2018 2:15pm
Manolo

stephieboy reckons it is just “another” lone wolf:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/three-killed-in-suspected-terror-attack-in-belgium-1527599674

Belgian authorities are investigating a potential terrorist attack after a man Tuesday killed three people and took a woman hostage before being shot dead by police in the eastern Belgian town of Liege.
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May 30, 2018 1:42pm
stephieboy

Manolo

“stephieboy reckons it is just “another” lone wolf:”??

Where did I say that?
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May 30, 2018 1:53pm
- Manolo
  
  No need, I can read your Islamic mind. 😀
  
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  May 30, 2018 2:18pm
- AgentBallSack
  
  On the alt-right blog you like to visit to talk about your fantasies of a fourth reich and budding nubile breasts of course. Dumb ass!
  
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  May 30, 2018 2:30pm
  - Salacious Crumb
    
    Also how he hates women. A life time of rejection will do that apparently.
    
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    May 30, 2018 4:13pm
- pentwig
  
  it is exactly what you do sillyboy
  take a comment out of context (lack of intelligence)
  and reply with a disparaging comment, – stupidity
  
  I note that 95% of your inane comments have been sent to oblivion today.
  Does that make you proud? or do you feel foolish?
  
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  May 30, 2018 7:06pm
cha

Golly, I wonder who would do such a thing.

Arkadiy Babchenko, a prominent Russian journalist is assasisnated in Kyiv.— Maxim Eristavi (@MaximEristavi) May 29, 2018
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May 30, 2018 2:12pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Critics Putin Graveyards.
  
  Wonder if his eventual replacement will let him have a long quiet retirement, or will everyone be so anxious to nab his (guessed) $200Billion that he ends up dead for it. Know which outcome I’m rooting for.
  
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  May 30, 2018 6:23pm
Chuck Bird

I just got back from lunch with a couple who are both prison guards. They were telling me how they had to do sensitivity training for how they would address trans.

The would have to ask them how they wanted to be addressed – him, she, zim or whatever. I kid you not.
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May 30, 2018 2:27pm
Captain Mainwaring

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/104288206/repeat-sex-attacker-jailed-for-nine-years-for-rape-of-homeless-teen-in-hamilton-park

Lovely. What are the chances of this prick being deported back to Somalia on completion of his sentence?
Zero, unfortunately.
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May 30, 2018 2:29pm
- Inandout
  
  These pricks always use the excuse of ‘how bad things were in Africa’. I think a doctor used the same crap reason today.
  
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  May 30, 2018 2:42pm
  - Rodney Randall
    
    “We can’t send vibrant home. He will be killed”
    
    He must stay here and repeatedly rape.
    Any news on vibrant Ackbari? Another serial sexual offender “who can’t be sent home because,…he might be killed”
    
    There is no pattern here. Nothing to see.
    Import more dirt world vibrants!
    
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    May 30, 2018 2:48pm
Rodney Randall

Judge: “I’m ultimately influenced that there is no pattern of serious sexual offending in your case,” he said.

“Rehabilitation cannot be ruled out entirely.”

NO PATTERN. Judge is corrupt libtard.

Diversity Dividend.

Bring more. WE WANT MORE. We must house and feed the invaders. We must pay out of our taxes to support the invaders.

We must SUBMIT to the invaders.
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May 30, 2018 2:44pm
- Inandout
  
  The head bashers unfortunately know where the judge lives.
  
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  May 30, 2018 2:53pm
Rodney Randall

Attended Cultural Conference recently. They brough out a diversity panel largely comprised of Somalian women dressed in their colourful garb

Mc interviewing them was expecting responses on how wondeful New Zesland was and how warm the people were.

NOPE. Every single one “longed” for Somalia? Found life odd in New Zealand and despite all the wrap around support preferred to be back in Somalia.

Mone of the women so much as smiled. All sour bitches longing for Somalia!

Massive backfire on the MC and deafening silence from conference audience.

FUCK OFF BACK TO YOUR PREFERRED SHITHOLE THEN YOU UNGRATEFUL C#$TS
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May 30, 2018 2:55pm
- Longknives
  
  No generous State Houses or truckloads of WINZ money in Somalia mate!
  Easier just to stay here, breed like flies, and turn Mt Roskill into ‘Little Mogadishu’..
  
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  May 30, 2018 3:28pm
- GoVege
  
  Probably just homesick, but they could have said something nice about the kind nation that invited them here, and has spent a fortune on them.
  Ingratitude is not a nice thing.
  
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  May 30, 2018 6:36pm
cha

Is Gowdy cooperating?

.@TGowdySC: "I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got, and that it has nothing to do with @realDonaldTrump." #TheStory pic.twitter.com/hD35CyMzx4— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 29, 2018

https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1001601905230012417
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May 30, 2018 2:55pm
Manolo

Worth a laugh:
http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/05/nz-craft-brewery-attacked-by-trump-supporters.html

Behemoth Brewing Company is an Auckland-based company known for zany labels and creative names.

One of their most popular beers is an IPA called ‘Dump the Trump’, the packaging for which features a monstrous-looking caricature of the 45th President.
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May 30, 2018 3:20pm
- Longknives
  
  I’m just wondering what would have happened if they did one with an unflattering Caricature of Obama..
  
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  May 30, 2018 3:42pm
  - Inandout
    
    Here is an Obama one.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEcXYb2xNSA
    
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    May 30, 2018 5:20pm
  - igm
    
    Longknives: Mapp would be threatening action. You cannot abuse the Muslim-loving jerk, just Trump.
    
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    May 30, 2018 5:26pm
- kowtow
  
  Alot ( not all )of micro brew beer drinkers are pretentious twats.
  
  Dump should sell well with that lot.
  
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  May 30, 2018 5:03pm
UpandComer

Towns and mainstream media outlets reporting on muslim rape gangs.

Aylesbury (bbc)
Barking (standard.co.uk)
Birmingham (birmingham mail)
Blackburn (Itv.com)
Blackpool (Daily Mail)
Bolton (The Bolton News)
Bradford (Dailymail UK)
Bristol (BBC)
Burton (derby telegraph.co.uk)
Bury (manchesterevening news)
Chesham (bucksfreepress)
Coventry (express.co.uk)
Derby (dailymail.co.uk)
Halifax (Halifaxcourier.co.uk)
Harrow (getwestlong.co.uk)
Keighley (thetelegraphandargus.co.uk)
Leeds (yorkshireeveningpost)
London (dailybalenew.com)
Middlesbrough (thenorthernecho)
Nelson (pendletoday.co.uk)
Oxford (Telecgraph.co.uk) – this one is a doozy google ‘Police don’t have time to keep girls safe’
Peterborough (bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire)
Preston (lancashiretelegraph.co.uk)
Rochdale (telegraph.co.uk)
Stevenage (the coment.net)
Telford (shropshirestar.com) – Telford is even worse then Rotherham.
Wycombe (bbc)

As you can see it’s quite a long list – and that’s just the stuff that’s reported. Tip of the iceberg.
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May 30, 2018 3:28pm
Keeping Stock

Is this what we can all expect from Phil Twyford’s tram out to Auckland Airport?

https://youtu.be/4frj_z_6zs0
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May 30, 2018 3:37pm
Nostradamus

Can we expect a “LOL” from Stephieboy when he reads this article: Gunman kills two police officers, one civilian in Belgium terrorist attack?

A gunman has killed two police officers and a passer-by before being shot dead in the centre of the Belgian city of Liege, in what a public prosecutor called “a terrorist incident”.

The man was named by public broadcaster RTBF as a 36-year-old petty criminal and drug dealer who was let out of jail on day-release on Monday (local time). A Belgian politician said the man had been on an anti-terrorist police watchlist after being radicalised in jail, apparently as a convert to Islam — raising questions about why he seems to have been freed unsupervised and expected to return.

Just imagine the conversation: we’re letting you out to play for a day, but be good, and do come back won’t you?

La Libre Belgique newspaper quoted a police source as saying the gunman shouted “Allahu Akbar” — God is greatest in Arabic. A Koran and prayer rug were found during a search of his cell, Paris-Match magazine said.

What a pity they didn’t search the cell before letting this creep out.
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May 30, 2018 3:37pm
Nostradamus

From the Kiwiblog archives: Taxpayer funded jihadists

Stephieboy:
Maggy Wassilieff , hows your Muslim bashing campaign shaping up in Gisborne ? Gone beyond your bum and keyboards ?

Maggy Wassilieff:
@stephieboy
Please explain what you mean by referring to my bum. I don’t consider that my bum is any business of yours. I don’t consider my bum is of any interest to any other person here on KB. Is there some reason why you are expressing an interest in the bum of a 63 year-old married woman?

Nasska:
Good grief! First he’s on about the pert young breasts of Muslim kids. Then it’s the POTUS’s wife’s bits & pieces [note: it was actually the POTUS’s daughter’s bits and pieces]. Now it’s Maggy’s bum. If Kiwiblog had a sex offenders register stephieboy would have the first page to himself!
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May 30, 2018 3:50pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  What are you doing to me Nostradamus?
  
  I am an old lady. I am trying to forget the filthy abuse I have been subjected to here on KB by a couple of anonymous cowards.
  
  I had completely forgotten the mention about my bum…
  I must admit between the posts requesting information about the size of my underwear, the condition of my vagina, the state of my saggy tits, the implications that I am a slut, references to my hormonal levels, I had managed to overlook my bum….not easy to do, but there you are.
  
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  May 30, 2018 4:01pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Maggy:
    
    I was looking through an old thread for something and came across that exchange. Griff has long departed this place but Stephieboy still comments here. You have many supporters here who value your contributions.
    
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    May 30, 2018 4:11pm
    - Longknives
      
      Where is Griff? (I kind of miss his addled rants)
      And where is Kimbo?? (A much more sensible chap)
      
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      May 30, 2018 4:30pm
      - Harkman
        
        Did somebody say Kimbo was serving suspension? Eye-gauging, biting or steriods?
        
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        May 30, 2018 4:40pm
  - Northland Wahine
    
    Maggie, I think Stephie has a thing for your bloomers. Take it as a compliment. I know, you’ve gone a sickly green colour, but chin up!
    
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    May 30, 2018 4:15pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I have stopped wearing underwear, NW.
      I sent my spensers, corsets, brassieres, garters, smalls, unmentionables, etc to the Sallies.
      
      It seems the safest option.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwear_fetishism
      
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      May 30, 2018 4:27pm
      - RF
        
        Good idea. Takes away your VPL
        
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        May 30, 2018 4:39pm
      - Northland Wahine
        
        I’m sure all the Sallie captains are secretly adorning them under Sallie uniforms! (Picture that if you dare!)
        
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        May 30, 2018 4:51pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @NW
        
        And I’d begun to like you!!!
        
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        May 30, 2018 4:53pm
      - Northland Wahine
        
        Maggy, I just had a Dick Emery moment! “You’re naughty, but I like you!”
        
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        May 30, 2018 4:56pm
  - Manolo
    
    Cara Maggy, non ti fermi. Ti vogliamo bene!
    
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    May 30, 2018 4:21pm
    - rightoverlabour
      
      Hey some of us understand Italian. Behave yourself!
      
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      May 30, 2018 8:27pm
  - GoVege
    
    Jeez Maggie….you must have a photographic memory to remember all that! 🙂
    
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    May 30, 2018 4:35pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I don’t have a photographic memory; I know how to use the search facility on KB.
      
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      May 30, 2018 4:49pm
    - sooty
      
      Maggie, I wish you could reach down the internet lines and smitt, that stephieboy. That would teach him!
      
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      May 30, 2018 4:57pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        I’m not into violence, sooty.
        I have no wish to touch people that write untruths about me.
        
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        May 30, 2018 6:13pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Maggy:
        
        I’m not into violence, sooty
        
        No need for violence. Just imagine Stephieboy is sitting at his computer and a virtual Maggy pops out of the monitor (like in The Ring movie) and says Boo!
        
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        May 30, 2018 6:30pm
starboard

Hand wingers in action again

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/104330561/golliwogs-cause-stir-at-oamaru-restaurant

I want one.. No, I want half a dozen.
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May 30, 2018 4:33pm
- Fletch
  
  LOL. My sister and I had gollies when we were kids. Never did us any harm. In fact, my two best friends at primary school for a while were Indians.
  
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  May 30, 2018 4:44pm
  - sooty
    
    I want a nigger doll!
    
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    May 30, 2018 4:47pm
    - igm
      
      Be careful, you will have Mapp on your case, like he did me.
      
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      May 30, 2018 5:21pm
    - Tauhei Notts
      
      There might be one in the wood pile.
      
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      May 30, 2018 8:15pm
  - milkmaid
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBrb6eptVgk
    
    Golliwog song
    
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    May 30, 2018 5:10pm
  - Inandout
    
    I was always a cowboy with six gun attached.
    
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    May 30, 2018 5:13pm
- Inandout
  
  You can have these though.
  http://www.giftsnz.com/dolls.htm
  
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  May 30, 2018 5:15pm
  - sooty
    
    Not real ones.
    
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    May 30, 2018 10:04pm
EAD_TWO

Not sure if anyone is following the Elon Musk saga but in a conversation on Twitter he said “Who do you think *owns* the press? Hello.”

https://www.rt.com/business/428007-musk-media-anti-semitism-row/

It’s interesting reading the responses to his tweet:

https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1000560049389907969?lang=en

Skimming through them, I estimate
➡️20% of the comments actually continue with conversation
➡️40% are what the MSM would call “anti-semites” who use facts and figures and graphics to insinuate Jewish ownership
➡️ the other 40% appear to be pro-semites or people with names like Cohen, Topolsky, Feinberg, Goldstein who appear to be goading Musk to tell them who he thinks owns the media.

These folk are literally patrolling public discourse with the “anti-Semitism” magic boo word cocked and loaded like a gun. Get out of line, and they’ll use it to destroy you.

Who needs the British “Justice” system to send you to the slammer when you’ve got folks like these❗
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May 30, 2018 4:35pm
- UpandComer
  
  So he says ‘who owns the press’
  
  And then you get a tweet from none other then the son of Evelyn De Rothschild, David De Rothschild saying ‘worried about where this is going’.
  
  It’s quite amazing.
  
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  May 30, 2018 6:12pm
  - AgentBallSack
    
    Who owns the Press?
    The same people who own Hollywood, the music industry, social media, and television stations.
    Everything that is printed, broadcast, pressed, released or streamed.
    So they’re in control of your social happiness, the message your children receive, the news you are allowed to hear about, down to what ads you see when you come even to Kiwiblog.
    
    But it’s a Question with it’s own acronym and an army of people brainwashed or paid to shut it down. A bannable offence many places.
    
    The “JQ”
    
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    May 30, 2018 6:43pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      AgentBallSack:
      
      ads you see when you come even to Kiwiblog
      
      I’m not making this up – some weird Arab Girls ad popped up on Kiwiblog the other day. I’ve never so much as done a Google search for “Arab” and “girls” – or anything like it. I figured that GoogleAds had mistaken me for Stephieboy!
      
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      May 30, 2018 6:51pm
      - AgentBallSack
        
        I use adblock and rarely see ads unless they are embedded jpegs. Some sites don’t like them and ask me turn it off, at which point I navigate away. I get sick of being force fed unasked for content. Especially slugs that look like dicks.
        
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        May 30, 2018 7:03pm
UpandComer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NyVYaI_V6w

Look at this.

Cyril Ramphosa who cures his Aids by showering has stated that not only will farms be seized by expropriation without compensation.

They are going to seize ‘urban land’ as well.

‘Urban land’ – that means people like you and me living in houses in suburbia.

70% of the land claims in the government are for ‘urban’ land – and all connected chattels.

According to a land bank study – more then 90% of the farms re-distributed already by expropriation since the end of Apartheid in 1994 have failed, and are now squatter camps or subsistence farms.

Gee, this sounds like almost catastrophically serious civilizational ending news.

The South African government, so inept they ran out of fresh water in Cape Town despite inheriting some of the finest water salination technology in the world because of neglect, are going to send 56million blacks plus mercanaries from central Africa to literally force people out of their homes at gunpoint because of spurious claims of improper ownership.

When they do it, the concept of property rights will end in South Africa. Every farm they seize will cease to produce food, and all foreign investment will pull out. Whatever is left of South Africa will starve to death, and the entire horn of Africa will descend into utter chaos.

I’m sure the media is on it.

Where is the (((media)))?

This is titanic stuff. Full white genocide in South Africa based on utterly false lies about history. Will the police enforce these laws? Will the military?

I wonder if Golriz will say it’s racist to take any of the Boer as refugees into New Zealand?

Where is New Zealand First on this?

Send them money and send them weapons.

The future of ‘diverse’ nations is South African anarchy and failed state status, or iron fisted Stasi government by aliens in Britain.

I don’t care if real journalism is delivered in a Russian accent.

What exactly do people think will happen when urban houses and rural farms are seized at gunpoint?

For ‘Social Justice’.
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May 30, 2018 4:43pm
- UpandComer
  
  Is the media dead in this country? Nothing on Tommy Robinson, with all the elements of critique of a fascist Tory government readily to hand. Why is the leftist NZ media not piling into what can only be described as Nazi Tory government (to use their no doubt preferred nomenclature even though it’s really a Stasi Caliphate as I keep saying) on behalf of a working class lad trying to bring justice to the rape of 1 million little girls in the age of feminism’s ‘Metoo’? Where is Lucy Lawless? Where is Taika ‘I decide who is black – Kanye isn’t black’ Waititi? Where are the social justice fetishists in the Greens? Where is the ‘minister for children’s welfare’ and Prime Minister Ardern? All of this information is just sitting there, and the longer it sits unrendered, unclaimed the more of a lie every word that oozes from the mouths of these charlatans becomes.
  
  A big South African diaspora in New Zealand black and white screaming out to comment on a complex matter absolutely replete with nuance and journalistic potential – as demonstrated by Lauren Southern, who most of our journalists would hate because she’s a) white b) hot c) shows courage. New Zealand is a farming nation with it’s own history of land appropriation and compensation – where are the relative, comparative analyses?
  
  And nothing.
  
  Where is NewsRoom? Any journalist worth their salt could cover themselves in glory, not infamy, if they were to cover the Tommy Robinson case and the rape of England the way it should be covered – with reference to truth. Or South Africa and the stunning legally authorised genocide and displacement of 4million white people.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq0GReiZyKc
  
  This is journalism. Go and see Lauren when she comes to NZ in August. This is stunning journalism. But nothing. Fucking nothing. From our media.
  
  The left affirms every day that one must ignore everything they profess, and discern the truth of matters for oneself. Spineless liars living in worthless castles in the sky that are tumbling down, and those of us who see it are rendered outcast, whilst the architects of the fall are in charge of the structure.
  
  Just bizarre. Let the great secular schism between the empirical and the fantastical continue. Let them keep their bullshit diversity. Their worthless non-existent ‘social justice’.
  
  Another story came out today about the UN in the Australian – 15 different charities were involved in child trafficking and food for sex schemes.
  
  Fuck the left. Let the schism continue.
  
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  May 30, 2018 5:52pm
  - UpandComer
    
    And notice all the comments repeating lies that the whites ‘deserve it’ for non-existent events that didn’t happen under Apartheid. When the Bantustans were so desirable compared to the surrounding shit-holes pretending to be countries that the population swelled from 2 million to 40million in the space of three generations.
    
    Let them have what they want, and see how they go with it. I suspect it will end the same as every other attempt – Liberia, Zimbabwe, Darfur.
    
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    May 30, 2018 6:09pm
- UpandComer
  
  Fuck the African National Congress. Let those incompetent swine turn the whole country that used to have a higher currency then the United States into a fallow farm and let them call it ‘Wakanda’.
  
  Let New Zealand take the Boer.
  
  Let Australia take the Boer.
  
  Malcolm Turnbull’s wife wants to double the population of Sydney in 10 years. Let Australia swell it’s population with people who resemble Australians.
  
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  May 30, 2018 6:07pm
- cmm
  
  Some astute observations, but in the interests of accuracy I will push back on a few points.
  
  1) Zuma was the one that showered after sex to “cure” AIDS. To the best of my knowledge Ramaposa did not. People were delighted to see the back of Zuma and his corruption, but Ramaposa is far, far worse.
  
  2) The water situation in Cape Town is indeed appalling and Cape Town was only biled out by farmers giving up the water they had saved in their own dams for their own needs. Many of those farms are orchards and such, so the loss of water has wiped those farms out for many years – killing off some food production and many rural jobs. They did not really have any significant desalination installed., however one of the world leaders in desalination design is based in Cape Town – they sell mainly to the Middle East etc.
  
  Most of the best land (KwaZulu-Natal and Transkei) is already in black hands. Most of the land farmed by whites is arid (semi-desert) and thus needs technology (irrigation etc) to farm. Black people never lived there because they could not farm it.
  
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  May 31, 2018 9:05am
Inandout

I believe record numbers of budding lawyers, especially female, are desperate to get a law degree. Funny that with all this sex abuse going on.
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May 30, 2018 5:12pm
- nasska
  
  Not really. You’re associating the world’s second oldest profession with the first. Law, although much better paid doesn’t offer the higher social status involved with giving anal in a K Road doorway. 🙂
  
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  May 30, 2018 5:39pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Nasska:
    
    Law, although much better paid doesn’t offer the higher social status involved with giving anal in a K Road doorway
    
    I may need to check with Dad on this one, but I’m sure there’s a logical reason why no one has set up a community law centre in Hagley Park!
    
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    May 30, 2018 5:58pm
    - nasska
      
      …..”why no one has set up a community law centre in Hagley Park”…..
      
      It would be seen as a desperate & blatant attempt by the law profession to raise their standing in society? 🙂
      
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      May 30, 2018 6:15pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Nasska:
        
        I was thinking more along the lines of a one-stop-shop model. Normally, like a medical centre, you have to wait to be seen. But at Hagley Park you could pop “next door” for a bit of action until your name is called. So many people have waited for the day when their name is called out while they’re in the middle of an intense sex session!
        
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        May 30, 2018 6:25pm
      - nasska
        
        Good thinking Nostra.
        
        You’d never believe that today I received the final bill from the shyster who acted for us when we sold the property last year. 🙂
        
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        May 30, 2018 6:30pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Nasska:
        
        the shyster who acted for us when we sold the property last year
        
        I never realised that there’s such a thriving property market in Eketahuna. Your lawyer has been too busy documenting property deals to send out invoices!
        
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        May 30, 2018 6:33pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Not so Nostra. It’s just that nasska’s lawyer only got of jail last week! 🙂
        
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        May 30, 2018 6:36pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        Hagley Park?
        Meh, I’m currently in Marbella.
        Man, what happens in the early hours here is just amazing.
        Johnboy would like it. Quite a bit of English Mutton dressed up as Lamb.
        
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        May 30, 2018 8:20pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  As Larry Williams pointed out, 18% of the respondents claimed to be harassed. The number of respondents? 25% of the profession. So 75% were not bothered and it can be assumed have not been harassed. Assume 13000 lawyers 25% = 3250. 18% of that equals 585. Grand total 4.5% of the total. In other words not a perv behind every desk, but claiming 18% sounds so much worse. Idiots.
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:07pm
Johnboy

Fuck I’m angry! The MSD have decided to give our $31.82 a week to Flossie instead of me! I look after the electric fences not her! Jeeze there’s no justice at all in this COL world! 🙂
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May 30, 2018 5:45pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Johnboy:
  
  This may be of interest:
  
  Just in case wearing high heels wasn’t difficult enough, three women have added a degree of difficulty by walking along a slackline 1300m in the air while wearing them. The three participants, Mimi Guesdon from France, Faith Dickey from the US and Canadian Mia Noblet are all competitive slackliners and took to the highline above Zhangjiajie National Forest Park in China as part of their latest challenge. Onlookers watched from hundreds of metres below as each of them had three attempts to walk 55m of the slackline without falling (wearing safety harnesses), all the while wearing 5cm high-heeled shoes.
  
  Have 5cm high-heeled shoes ever been this sexy? Who can we ask to express an informed opinion on this?
  
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  May 30, 2018 6:01pm
  - Johnboy
    
    I don’t think it’s sexy Nostra. The reason we like Wimmen (or Ewe’s) in high heels is so we can admire the beautiful definition it gives to their calves and ankles.
    Not so we can look up their skirts with binoculars! 🙂
    
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    May 30, 2018 6:07pm
    - nasska
      
      It’s a form of handicapping not unalike that used in horse racing. A ewe running down the race in high heels is no match for JB pushing his walker. 🙂
      
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      May 30, 2018 6:21pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Johnboy:
      
      Not so we can look up their skirts with binoculars!
      
      It didn’t occur to me that the spectators might have been there for a bit of a perve!
      
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      May 30, 2018 6:22pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Don’t get me wrong old chap. I’d be the first one to get my 12×50 Swarovski’s out if the occasion presented itself! 🙂
        
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        May 30, 2018 6:28pm
- Johnboy
  
  Further to this the electricity account is in MY name not Flossie’s plus MY initial is earlier in the alphabet than Flossie’s! Do I detect a certain amount of sexism in this decision making process from the MSD? 🙂
  
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  May 30, 2018 6:17pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    F comes before J in our alphabet Johnboy.
    I hope you haven’t been pulling the wool over Flossie’s eyes.
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:56pm
Brigitte

NZ MUSIC MONTH

Tonight Jules Issa with Dangerous Game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10pq-0FEjoM
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May 30, 2018 5:52pm
Tom Barker

I am concerned at the length of the sentence given to the man who likes to be known as Tommy Robinson.
Thirteen months seems lenient for someone with a long record for violence and hate-crime offences.
If he was non-white, he would probably be looking at a more distant release date today.
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May 30, 2018 6:21pm
- nasska
  
  …..”a long record for violence and hate-crime offences.”…..
  
  Bullshit! To describe him as being involved in a few scraps would about cover it. The average South Aucklander would have a more lurid criminal record before they hit their mid twenties.
  
  If he wasn’t white & having a crack at rapey Muslim paedophiles your sick lot would have him presented with a community award!
  
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  May 30, 2018 6:54pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Ignore Tom.
    Given his view above it seems he doesn’t like women and is obviously not concerned about what’s happening to them.
    Stephie is the same- which we all know already.
    
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    May 30, 2018 8:17pm
Viking2

Another piece of shit escapes being incarcerated forever.

At his sentencing on Tuesday, Crown prosecutor Rebecca Guthrie called on the judge to impose preventative detention.

This was because Omar had been deemed as posing an ongoing threat to the public and the similarities to his 2008 and 2015 offences – non-consensual sex acts in public places with women he had not previously known – indicated there was a repetitive pattern to his offending.

Omar continued to deny his offending and had either not adequately engaged or had declined to take part in rehabilitative programmes following his earlier conviction.

He had also been assessed by two psychologists. One had found him to be at high risk of further violent and sexual offending within 10 years of his release from prison.

The other had balked at making such a conclusion and said it was very difficult to predict future offending based on past offending.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/104288206/repeat-sex-attacker-jailed-for-nine-years-for-rape-of-homeless-teen-in-hamilton-park
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May 30, 2018 6:21pm
RF

Silly me.

I was confident Ardern could not cause anymore damage to NZs reputation but wait……. there’s more – we belong to 5 eyes however according to the other 4 eyes we are the soft underbelly (weak link) that could allow China & Russia access to the organisation.

Big embarrisment for Ardern as no one in the remaining 4 eyes has bothered to tell her.

I can see us getting the arse… maybe that’s what the SLG wants.
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May 30, 2018 6:36pm
- Johnboy
  
  If only she could learn to speak Mericenglish like Jim Bolger did surely they would forgive her naivety! 🙂
  
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  May 30, 2018 6:42pm
- Nostradamus
  
  RF:
  
  the SLG
  
  It’s fascinating that “SLG” has achieved the same depth of public recognition as other acronyms like “COL”. Jacinda and Winston can point to this as one of their joint achievements!
  
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  May 30, 2018 6:46pm
  - Johnboy
    
    I prefer the “WAG”….Winston Appointed Government!
    Sort of tail and dog suggestion about it! 🙂
    
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    May 30, 2018 6:50pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Nice Johnboy. And, sticking with the NZ First theme, change one letter in “WAG” and you’re on your way to Wogistan!
      
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      May 30, 2018 6:54pm
Viking2

The Three Strikes law will be repealed in two weeks, Newshub has reported.

Justice Minister Andrew Little would push for sentences of less than two years to be served as home detention.

Government documents obtained by Newshub Nation revealed plans to soften bail, sentencing and parole laws.

“If you have a sentence of two years or less, you’re at the lower end of the offending. It’s better that you’re out in the community,” Little said.

Little was also planning to reinstate a sentencing council to provide guidance to judges and changes to bail would see people on electronic bail could count bail time as time served on their sentence.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12061558
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May 30, 2018 6:37pm
- Northland Wahine
  
  Yep, Angry Little will place these thugs in a community near you. The moron.
  
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  May 30, 2018 6:59pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Northland Wahine:
    
    If Labour is hell-bent on introducing an Adopt-a-Crim scheme, then I think tt’s only fair that Graeme Burton goes to live with Andrew Little!
    
    And from that 2009 article:
    
    Court suppression orders forbid Stuff.co.nz from discussing Burton’s history or explaining why he is in prison.
    
    FFS – as if that POS wasn’t already a household name.
    
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    May 30, 2018 7:01pm
- All_on_Red
  
  This is really going to back fire.
  Unfortunately people will suffer from this moronic decision.
  Let’s not deceive ourselves. It’s being done purely to save money.
  Stuff the people’s safety.
  It seems to me it’s actually quite hard to get sent to prison.
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:14pm
Johnboy

I’m beginning to get a little worried about Chris Bishop. He keeps sending me invitations to morning tea’s that I keep tossing in the bin!
Now if he invited me to a Whisky tasting I’d be round like a shot! 🙂
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May 30, 2018 7:01pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Johnboy:
  
  You’re just holding out for an invite from Trevor. Then you can join the Wainui A-list for a night of frivolity!
  
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  May 30, 2018 7:07pm
  - holysheet
    
    Is that the same as the goings on at the liabor sex camp?
    Will Johnboy have to take his own ewes?
    The Liabour ones are nothing to get excited about.
    
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    May 30, 2018 8:55pm
Viking2

Bryan Gould:

Sharp-eyed observers of the political scene will have noticed over recent weeks the emergence of a new slim-line version of Paula Bennett, National’s deputy leader. The change is, we understand, deliberate, and is presumably designed to improve her image, both with the public at large and with her parliamentary colleagues.

The person who should take particular notice of Paula Bennett’s new “lean and hungry look” and her successful attempt to capture the headlines with her aggression is, in other words, Simon Bridges.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503343&objectid=12059752

For the sake of our democracy, we must hope and expect Simon Bridges to lift his game – and Paula Bennett can then go back to enjoying her pastries.
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No one does nasty better than the left. Written by Bryan Gould.
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May 30, 2018 7:20pm
MrLovebucket

The stupid little bint said in Parliament a few weeks back that they way prison rates were going, we would need a new prison every couple of years and “no one in NZ wants that”.

I want that! If it takes violent scum off the street and away from where they can hurt innocent people, I’m more than happy.
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May 30, 2018 7:21pm
- GoVege
  
  An awful lot of people in jail are gang members.
  I’d prefer if we stopped paying women to drag up future gang members, than pay for more prisons to house them.
  
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  May 30, 2018 8:12pm
Morrissey

“Fat, vicious and stupid is no way to go through life, Roseanne.”

That unfunny talking toilet has finally gotten what she deserved.

https://theintercept.com/2018/05/29/roseanne-barrs-apology-racist-islamophobic-tweet-confirms-racism-islamophobia/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkoPq5AOCOA
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May 30, 2018 7:37pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Morrissey:
  
  Any word on when you’ll release your much-awaited Labour cheats series? There’s a general feeling at Kiwiblog that you’re a bit soft on the left, so this would be a perfect opportunity to show how much you value reader feedback!
  
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  May 30, 2018 7:44pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    There’s plenty of fodder from commentators on the US left too.
    April Ryan, Joy Reid, Joy Behar, Keith Olbermann, Keith Ellison etc etc
    Say, why do they all still have jobs?
    
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    May 30, 2018 8:09pm
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    Are you going to put Ralph on it?
    
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    May 30, 2018 9:56pm
    - All_on_Red
      
      Does meeting and greeting at Bunnings count as a job?
      
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      May 30, 2018 10:17pm
RRM

Some of these advertisers on your page are getting pretty pornographic DPF!

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May 30, 2018 8:38pm
Monique Watson

A computer geek goes to prison for fraud, they put him in a cell with a 300 lb guy, Having heard what happens to geeks in prison and being nervous he figures he had better introduce himself, He extends his hand and says with a quivering voice, Hi my name is John Smith. The big guy who actually is a nice guy extends his and says my name is Turner Brown. The geek passes out. The big guy fans him and brings him too. Why did you pass out he asked? The geek replies, what did you say your name was? “Turner Brown”, the cellmate replies. “Oh God”, the geek says. “I thought you said “TURN AROUND”.
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May 30, 2018 10:09pm
Viking2

I agree Karl.

I shouldn’t have to shut up just because I’m ‘male, pale and stale’

Karl du Fresne: As an older, white male, I, and others like me, now find we’re expected to shut up.

Karl du Fresne: As an older, white male, I, and others like me, now find we’re expected to shut up.

OPINION: I am writing this column as a member of a despised minority. I will be 68 next birthday. I’m fair of skin and male of sex.

To put it another way, in the language of “progressive” millennials and people who, with no sense of irony, describe themselves as liberals, I’m male, pale and stale.

There is no more crushing condemnation in the 21st century political lexicon. To be male, pale and stale is to be racist, sexist, bitter and selfish. Don Brash and Sir Bob Jones are prime examples of this wretched form of humanity. I am too, albeit of a lower order of celebrity.
Ageing white males are considered fair game because we’re seen as having enjoyed privilege for too long, says du Fresne.
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Ageing white males are considered fair game because we’re seen as having enjoyed privilege for too long, says du Fresne.

It goes without saying that I can’t help being old. I can no more control the ageing process than I could dance the prima ballerina’s role in Swan Lake. Neither did I have any say over my ethnicity or sex.

READ MORE: It’s liberating living a life of splendid isolation

Perhaps if I’d been born six decades later I might have been encouraged to decide for myself what gender I wanted to assume and to alter my sexual identity at will, regardless of physiology. But I’ve been a bloke all my life and it’s a bit hard to reinvent myself at this point in my life cycle.

Having said that, I’ve been happy being a male and never felt any desire to have it any other way. Nor have I felt ashamed about it, which is not to say I’m not regularly appalled by the behaviour of some of my fellow blokes.

Moreover, I don’t hate or fear women and have never felt that I was in competition with them, still less perceived them as a threat. So I’m not sure that I deserve the implied accusation that men like me are by definition misogynistic.

The women who have been closest to me throughout my life have been stroppy and strong-willed. If I preferred women to be submissive, I’ve been either desperately unlucky or spectacularly unwise.

But never mind all that. I’m stuck with being a bloke, just as I’m stuck with my skin colour and my inexorably advancing age. Yet I, and others like me, now find ourselves regularly being pilloried for having the temerity to express an opinion about things. It seems we’re expected to shut up.

Let’s unpick that phrase “male, pale and stale”. The first thing you notice is that it explicitly criticises people on the basis of their skin colour.

Ah, but that’s okay, because we’re white. And as I heard a moronic talkback host assert recently, only minority groups – i.e. non-whites – can be subject to racism.

You can forget all that warm, inclusive talk on the Left about celebrating diversity. The embrace of diversity mysteriously stops short of ageing white blokes. We’re the one demographic cohort against whom it’s permissible – in fact fashionable – to display undisguised and often venomous bigotry.

In any other context, attacking people on the basis of their age, sex and skin colour would be labelled a hate crime, but no-one should expect the Human Rights Commission to take up our cause.

Being white and male, we are seen as being in a position of power and therefore unscathed by discrimination and immune to insult. And if we are discriminated against, we’re expected to suck it up because … well, because we deserve it.

Ageing white males are considered fair game because we’re seen as having enjoyed privilege for too long. Now the tables have turned and we’re expected to pay the penalty by keeping our supposedly rancid opinions to ourselves.

This treats freedom of expression as a zero-sum game where one person’s right to speak can only be achieved by silencing someone else. But that’s not how free speech works.

In any case, if white males dominated newspaper opinion columns in past decades, as has been alleged, then any imbalance has been more than redressed. The media today is awash with comment that uncritically embraces the “progressive” agenda (there’s another word that’s used with no sense of irony) and sneers at anyone who stands in its path.

Am I pleading for sympathy here? Not a bit. We curmudgeonly tuataras can look after ourselves. All I’m doing is highlighting the double standards of social justice warriors who shriek with outrage at any perceived slight against a favoured minority group, but pile in for the attack when it’s an old white bloke who’s on the ground getting kicked.

One last thought. Today’s angry social justice warrior has a funny way of turning into tomorrow’s crusty reactionary.

One day the people who rant about ageing white men will themselves become old, and they can’t discount the hideous possibility that they too will morph into conservative dinosaurs, because by then they might have learned a few things about life, politics and the human condition.

– The Dominion Post
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