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Monique Watson

Here’s a Communist: Disguised as a journalist.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12066124

Hooten is the real deal though.
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June 8, 2018 9:39am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  Not sure he’s a communist. I think he’s just very confused about the underlying economics and far too quick to use the word ‘fair’ to describe policies he approves of.
  
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  June 8, 2018 9:43am
  - sHr0oMaN
    
    “Brian Fallow is a former economics editor”
    Note “former”. Is there any definition of what “fair” means?
    
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    June 8, 2018 9:49am
    - Rich Prick
      
      The left love “fair” things. They get to define “fair [insert issue of the day they have feelings for, here]” to mean whatever they want it to mean.
      
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      June 8, 2018 9:58am
      - stephieboy
        
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        Rich Prick, little wonder that you occupy the lowest rung in terms of voter support.
        
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        June 8, 2018 10:18am
      - Rich Prick
        
        Argghh, talk to some one else. You’re too low rent for my liking.
        
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        June 8, 2018 10:21am
      - Chris R
        
        Yes, I recall when the IRD’s slogan was “It’s our job to be fair!” Now that was really fair wasn’t it?
        
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        June 8, 2018 12:42pm
    - Inandout
      
      He is ‘former’ because he wasn’t good at his job.
      
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      June 8, 2018 10:50am
- artemisia
  
  That is Brian Fallow in the Herald today – Who said tax was meant to be fair? He does make some good points though.
  
  The Government has given the Tax Working Group chaired by Sir Michael Cullen a well-nigh impossible task. Its terms of reference are peppered with the word “fair”. It occurs seven times. How can the tax system be made “fair, balanced and efficient”?But the terms of reference go on to rule out all the obvious ways of making it fairer.
  
  Tunnel vision then, minds made up. Surprised?
  
  Can’t help but be reminded of Thomas Sowell – “Since this is an era when many people are concerned about ‘fairness’ and ‘social justice,’ what is your ‘fair share’ of what someone else has worked for?”
  
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  June 8, 2018 9:46am
  - alloytoo
    
    In my submission to the tax working group I pointed out that Tax was of it’s very nature unfair and that they should rather measure tax by it’s efficiency and cost.
    
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    June 8, 2018 10:33am
- Monique Watson
  
  Hooton, dammit.
  Fat Fingers after Memorial Day:
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12066447
  
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  June 8, 2018 9:47am
  - Ross12
    
    Beat me to it Monique.
    A good piece by Matthew Hooton. Seems to be well researched and argued.
    What a way to govern a country! Destroy an industry to cover up other stuff ups and indiscretions.
    
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    June 8, 2018 9:58am
  - Justitia
    
    “Cavalier, shameful, dishonest, arrogant, non-transparent…” Yes all of that and more, simply downright evil in its disregard for the country’s energy security and the livelihoods of thousands. This information should be very useful to those preparing the case for judicial review. Keep it coming.
    
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    June 8, 2018 10:49am
  - niggly
    
    A good piece by Matthew Hooten indeed.
    
    The only thing that let his article down was his comparison of Jacinda’s actions to that of Murray McCully – the two do not remotely compare (McCully’s actions were small change in the scheme of things, although not well executed arguably had good intentions which was to free up trade and it didn’t cost anyone’s job nor wrecked a province and the national economy at the end of the day), as it gives the retarded Left a “way out” (eg “wah wa, see National did it too etc”)! Plus also Hooten gave Ardern too much credit near the end (“The one saving grace is Ardern’s reassurance this is not how other decisions will be made”), I wouldn’t put it past the vacuous Ardern to keep making absurd Captain Calls again, as she demonstrates logic does not come into her thinking, as she struts the world stage enhancing her own vanity.
    
    Anyway excellent analysis on the whole and I’d like to know if Hooten thinks perhaps another reason why NZF sided with this treasonous action is because that was the trade-off to ensure the Greens support NZF’s waka jumping bill? I guess if the Greens end up supporting the bill (despite many within the Green movement opposing it) then that perhaps does suggest some tie-in?
    
    After all what else would make NZF support screwing over thousands of NZ’ers and tanking the economy (O&G ban) and what else will make the Greens support such a draconian bill (if indeed they do end up supporting the waka jumping bill)?
    
    The other scary thing is, what else is there to come from the COL?
    
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    June 8, 2018 10:55am
    - sooty
      
      What’s the “stupid old cow” going to do when the baby has arrived and is chewing on the tit and making them sore, shitting calfshit yellow, bellowing it’s lungs out and keeping the parents awake at night. Is she going to have another brain fart and attack another industy, just because of the feelz? Whinney what did you give away to get the waka jumping bill agreed to?
      
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      June 8, 2018 11:49am
      - Ross12
        
        No sooty. Shaw has already started the process of attacking/ruining the agriculture industry so she does not have to bother trying.
        Also her right hand man Davis does not seem to be trying to help the Tourism industry, by getting on top of his portfolio.
        
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        June 8, 2018 12:28pm
      - Piniwi
        
        Hardly sooty the brat will be in the same category as the 122 committees and inquiries and clipped onto the shield of hypocrisy to counter criticism of the SLG. So funny they thought March was a tough month but has extended to June and in her absence might run right through the winter of discontent. Especially when senior citizens can only “think” warm and fuzzy thoughts because the COL can’t pay the heating allowance yet. Remember a smile exercises more muscles that a frown so at least they will have a warm face.
        
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        June 8, 2018 1:21pm
    - Batman
      
      For the answer to the Waka bill you should read Richard Harman’s outstanding Politik piece which provides a timeline of events.
      
      http://politik.co.nz/en/content/politics/1357/Waka-jumping-and-oil-exploration-offshore-petroleum-exploration–waka-jumping-James-Shaw-Winston-peters.htm
      
      There is a mention of “CMA implications”. I personally think that CMA stands for Coalition Memorandum Agreement, and THAT is the name of the secret 30+ page document that is the true policy programme for this Govt.
      
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      June 8, 2018 12:40pm
    - Piniwi
      
      Not bad niggly but it is just Hooton making a feeble attempt to scratch back some credibility while adding nothing new but rather assembling together in another manner what is known already. Then turns into more of the same from him as his true colours are revealed. If he now feels uncomfortable where he lays down he just needs a reminder that he made his own bed so suck it up petal.
      
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      June 8, 2018 12:57pm
      - Harkman
        
        Yes I too gave up on Hooton years ago.
        
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        June 8, 2018 1:18pm
- Manolo
  
  I will admit it: I expected much better from him.
  
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  June 8, 2018 10:14am
- Jack5
  
  Brian Fallow’s no communist. He’s an intelligent, highly educated journo. In and Out’s comment about him being a “former” economics editor, is also misguided. Fallow came from the pre-tabloid days of the Hooerald, when it was a real newspaper.
  
  Hooten, the real deal? Hooten is Red Radio’s designated spokesman for the Right. He’s a PR/lobbyist, and is often well off target.
  
  Fallow makes some interesting points in the article. It’s time NZ started experimenting with tax types. We’re a small, very easily changed country, so we should improve the tax system where we can.
  
  We don’t need more tax, but we need to raise it in ways that help resources go into productive enterprises, rather than into housing bubbles.
  
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  June 8, 2018 4:09pm
JibberJabber

Oops, Ztev busted in Brisbane?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/104548298/australian-executive-manager-resigns-after-being-identified-as-poo-jogger
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June 8, 2018 9:44am
- Monique Watson
  
  Haha! A Poo Jogger!
  That’s classic. When you’ve had too much coke and need to take a quick dump. That guy is seriously slashed.
  
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  June 8, 2018 9:58am
  - sooty
    
    Must have been on holiday, while banned here.
    Never mind, report ztev and he can go on permant holiday. Maybe Frazer house will give us one not so nasty.
    
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    June 8, 2018 11:53am
Keeping Stock

Oh dear. Poor old ztev will be inconsolable today, now that it has been revealed that his Labour heroes have clay feet:

Finance Minister Grant Robertson gave a post-Budget speech at a $600-a-head Labour fundraiser at the exclusive Wellington Club, drawing comparisons to the previous National Government’s “Cabinet club” scandal.

According to several attendees, about 40 people, including party supporters, business figures and corporate lobbyists, attended the dinner hosted by Labour president Nigel Haworth on Wednesday, at which Robertson was the key attraction.

A similar dinner is due to be hosted at the even more exclusive Northern Club in Auckland on Thursday night.

A spokeswoman for Robertson refused to make any comment, describing the dinner as “a party matter”.

The Prime Minister, who is charged with ensuring Cabinet rules are being adhered to, has also refused to comment.

At the Wellington Club dinner, Robertson spoke about May’s Budget and future Budgets. He also signalled policy announcements set to be announced in the coming weeks, one person who attended claimed.

Another person at the dinner described Robertson as “extremely on message”. After his speech, Robertson went table to table for more private conversations with small groups.

Haworth said, as Labour president, it was his right to invite any party member to a dinner.

The dinners were part of a series of events Labour ran and $600 was the standard price, he said.

He refused to reveal how much profit the party made from the event, saying “that’s for us to know”.

Haworth said Robertson should not be speaking about party matters, given he was there as an MP, not finance minister.

“He was there, invited by me, as a senior member of the party.”

Shortly after the story was published, an invitee supplied Stuff with a copy of the invitation sent out by Haworth, which suggested Robertson was at the event as finance minister.

“You are cordially invited to join me at a private post-Budget dinner with the Finance Minister, Hon Grant Robertson MP.”

Earlier, he insisted that Robertson’s speech was “about the economy, much more generally” rather than the Budget, before adding that “of course the Budget came into it”.

Wednesday’s Wellington Club dinner was the first of its type since the election, Haworth said.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/104524940/labour-hosts-business-and-lobbyists-at-600ahead-dinners-in-exclusive-private-clubs

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Hypocrisy, thy name is the New Zealand Labour Party.
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June 8, 2018 9:45am
- Rich Prick
  
  What’s the opposite of “cash for access”? I’d pay $600 to not be in the same room as sweet cheeks.
  
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  June 8, 2018 9:51am
  - Richard
    
    I raise you $100 and offer $700 not to be in the same room. Do I hear more? Going once..going twice…come, come ladies and gentlemen how often do you see an offer like this..
    
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    June 8, 2018 10:11am
- ztev
  
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  What exactly is Nationals concern here ? Access is being sold ?
  
  http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/96019247/national-party-auctions-off-ice-axe-signed-by-sir-edmund-hillary-to-raise-funds-for-campaign
  
  The Princes Ballroom at Auckland’s Pullman Hotel caters up to 650 people, and on Thursday evening, it was coloured National Party blue.
  
  Deep-pocketed donors, mostly wealthy Chinese business leaders, filtered through the doors after 6pm for one of National’s more lavish fundraising dinners and auctions.
  
  It is understood tickets to Thursday’s lavish fundraiser were nearly $2000 per person, or $18,000 per table.
  
  That is considerably more than a $150 a head Indian community fundraising dinner, booked for Auckland’s Alexandra Park on September 3 to raise more funds for National.
  
  $2000 per head for the Chinese, $150 per head for the Indians
  
  Are auctions of the leaders time with a private dinner a way of circumventing ‘donation’ rules, as of course its not strictly a donation?
  
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  June 8, 2018 9:51am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    Here’s what The Standard said about Cabinet Club in 2014 ztev:
    
    Whether or not the National Party has done anything illegal with its Cabinet Club/s fundraisers, there are wider issues about values, who the National government represents, and how they insert themselves within networks of influence. A major part of the opposition and media focus has been that of people with a lot of money buying political influence, as posted on by NRT.
    
    Now we find that the Labour Party thinks it’s fine to “insert” Grant Robertson into “networks of influence”, charging him out at $600 a seat. Presumably there weren’t too many beneficiaries, people from the “squeezed middle” or union members at the dinner, given that $600 is not an inconsiderable sum of dosh.
    
    And Nigel Haworth has made an absolute dick of himself, trying to justify inviting people to hear the Finance Minister, Hon Grant Robertson MP, rather than the MP for Wellington Central. Even hardcore Labour supporters on Twitter are struggling with Haworth using the “two hats” defence, one saying “had enough of that ‘which hat’ bullshit with the last crew #grrr”
    
    Let’s face it ztev; Labour has been busted as being hypocritical. Unleash all the squirrels at your disposal, but nothing can change the FACT that Labour has enough egg on its face (and its hats) this morning to make several omelettes.
    
    Three cheers for the Labour Party; hyp, hyp, hypocrisy!
    
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    June 8, 2018 10:09am
    - Lance
      
      You are trying to use logic on a far left troll like ztev?
      
      Good luck with that
      
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      June 8, 2018 10:25am
    - ztev
      
      So ‘an author’ at the Standard is an oracle of sense.
      Most labour Mps hate the place and laugh at any suggestions it represents them or labour voters.
      Its mostly greens and hard left ideologues like Preslands
      
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      June 8, 2018 3:06pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Keeping Stock:
      
      the Labour Party thinks it’s fine to “insert” Grant Robertson into “networks of influence”
      
      Could you please, in future, avoid references to “inserting” Grant Robertson into anything? 🙂
      
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      June 8, 2018 4:43pm
  - mandk
    
    Wah, wah, wah!
    
    Billy did it too, Miss!
    
    Run along now. It’s mat time.
    
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    June 8, 2018 10:38am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    I don’t give a rat’s arse that Robertson attended some dinner or other.
    It’s a breach of the Cabinet Manual, that’s all.
    Didn’t give a rat’s arse when National did it either, but the opposition were apoplectic and the hysteria went on for days – aided of course by our media as there were no cats up trees at the time.
    
    Now that Robertson and Labour have breached the cabinet manual, how could you not expect a dose of the same medicine?
    
    Telling though that the Nats were clearing $2k a head and Robertson is only worth $600.
    Amateurs.
    
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    June 8, 2018 10:40am
  - labrator
    
    Is there a way to limit ztev’s posts to say 10 a day? It was so nice without him/her. I don’t want an outright ban but a rev limiter on a free running two stroke would be great.
    
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    June 8, 2018 4:39pm
    - rightoverlabour
      
      I am a bit torn between him consigned to the Gulag and having a good laugh at his feeble attempts to defend the Labour Party and their monumental fuck-ups. What he does do is clearly demonstrate that most die-hard labour supporters are fucking morons. Those that are not are scurrilous, two-faced, lying scumbags. He is a bit of both. Have you stopped defaming the dead, ztev?
      
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      June 8, 2018 10:53pm
- Nigel Kearney
  
  I have no problem with Robertson doing this. Parties are entitled to raise funds by inviting people to hear speakers. The idea that he can only attend in his capacity as an MP is just silly. Everyone knows he is the finance minister. Is it fair that people will pay more to hear a government minister than an opposition spokesman? Not really, but life isn’t always fair.
  
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  June 8, 2018 9:54am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    You may have no problem Nigel, but the Cabinet Manual is very clear on what Ministers can and cannot do. The mere fact that Haworth is trying the “two hats” defence suggests he is in damage limitation mode.
    
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    June 8, 2018 10:10am
    - Nigel Kearney
      
      No, take the patch off the other eye for a minute. The Cabinet Manual is very clear this is ok, as it was when National did it.
      
      Robertson isn’t getting paid. It is a party fundraiser. And the mere fact that the finance minister goes to a dinner and talks about what the government is doing, does not mean he is carrying out a “ministerial function”.
      
      On any non partisan interpretation of the rule against accepting payments for performing a ministerial function, that rule is referring to conduct that is very different from what happened here.
      
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      June 8, 2018 10:39am
      - sooty
        
        If Robbo could only get $600, when NAtional got $2,000, they should have added bit of excitment to the draw card. Robbo in his queer pants, those ones with both butt cheeks hanging out, maybe! The Wellington luvies would be queing up.
        
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        June 8, 2018 12:01pm
    - Piniwi
      
      Actually KS it is yet another glaring example of Labour struggling to emulate National by attempting to do similar but failing sadly in the process. In fact so far the same seems to be the case in Governing the country where the biggest failures are trying to be covered up. That is apart from waiting for directions from 120 odds expert groups. Lol
      
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      June 8, 2018 1:34pm
- Richard
  
  This being a Labour party event perhaps the real question to ask is: did anyone get sexually molested while there and were they then told to shut up about it and go home?
  #NeverForgetWaihiCamp
  
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  June 8, 2018 10:08am
  - MrLovebucket
    
    and if not, why not!
    
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    June 8, 2018 10:18am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    All under the table, no doubt.
    
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    June 8, 2018 10:34am
    - sooty
      
      I thought they got bent over the table? Remember Pants Down Brown, he must have graduated from the sex camps!
      
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      June 8, 2018 12:04pm
- RF
  
  Keeping Stock..
  
  No, no … not hypocrisy…. it’s pure corruption.
  
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  June 8, 2018 10:10am
- alex Masterley
  
  40 people willing to shell out for Robertson?
  idiots parted with their money.
  
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  June 8, 2018 10:17am
  - Lance
    
    Sounds like art auctions.. which aren’t art auctions
    in reality
    
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    June 8, 2018 10:27am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Quite probably 39 of them have it in their job descriptions to attend such things. And the other one would have been Alf.
    
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    June 8, 2018 10:47am
  - Piniwi
    
    @Alex it was those who still had the discounted amount in their pocket after Clinton drop the price & were struggling to find a way not to pay it back.
    
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    June 8, 2018 1:28pm
secondcumming

OK…maybe it wasn’t ‘Miss America’, but a few years back my missus won a ‘Wet T-Shirt’ competition over at the Poenamo..

Now it looks like beauty contests are dead! Are we going to punish all the beautiful women because plain, fat, or ugly ones have their feelings hurt. Maybe the intention is to pave the way for hijab wearing competitions?

The day is fast approaching where *Beauty Pageants* will only be worth viewing on the radio.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyTQBMtSbsk
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June 8, 2018 9:51am
- Longknives
  
  It’s kind of weird because in America the ‘Ellen’ show is the most popular chat show.
  Ellen, staunch Leftie and Feminist that she is, regularly has a ‘rate the beefcake’ section on her show where the screaming female audience bray for the guys to take their shirts off.
  Now this doesn’t bother me at all.
  But the hypocrisy does!
  I’m not the only person to have noticed-
  
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3388902/PIERS-MORGAN-Ellen-DeGeneres-sexist-pig-treating-Chris-Hemsworth-like-slab-meat-night-just-bit-fun-Time-cut-hypocrisy-ladies-consistent-sexism.html
  
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  June 8, 2018 10:11am
  - Harkman
    
    Ellen is the reverse of Simon Dallow, she turns
    Lesbians straight.
    
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    June 8, 2018 10:19am
    - Lance
      
      Ouch 🙂
      
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      June 8, 2018 10:28am
  - Harkman
    
    I went to see my 94 year old grandfather (he’s a bit of a Colin Meads type, big solid farmer type) a while back for his birthday. I walked in as Ellen came (he was watching something else that finished) and then outburst the funniest thing, “That woman wants to be a man!” ?
    
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    June 8, 2018 10:25am
Captain Mainwaring

WoO will be mortified that there was nowhere for him to post his crap at 8.00.
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June 8, 2018 9:52am
peterwn

Mercury’s Globug pre-pay power system has come under attack (again) from Consumer. The principal claims are that some customers are being forced into the scheme, power is more expensive under the scheme and there are charges associated with topping up.
The scheme seems profitable for Mercury as it has the money up front and there is no ‘bad debt’ problems, but it does come at a cost (installing the special meter and extra administration) but this raises the issue whether this should be borne by Globug customers (some of whom have no option but to use Globug) or spread among Mercury customers at large (thus making Mercury slightly less competitive compared with the others). There are also complaints about the 75c top up fee at dairies, but then Mr Raj would expect a commission for ‘selling’ Globug power.
Should there be cross subsidisation?
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June 8, 2018 9:56am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  When you have a bad credit history, people are less likely to want to do business with you, and if they choose to do so they will probably charge you more than they charge other people. I wouldn’t expect Consumer to understand that though.
  
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  June 8, 2018 10:49am
  - peterwn
    
    Seems Mercury (Globug) developed the most effective prepay system with automatic cutoff and the other players (card meters or keypad meters) have dropped out or not accepting new customers. And you can only get Globug if you agree to pay extra to pay off previous arrears with Mercury or some other power companies. There are other prepay companies (eg Powershop) but they do not have an automatic cutoff facility so would still require credit checks etc.
    So it is not surprising that Globug is as popular as payday moneylenders.
    
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    June 8, 2018 11:33am
  - Piniwi
    
    @Nigel Kearney it is a bit like trading online using the pay first method of selling well priced items below the SRP. Often asked is it COD? They fail to understand it comes at a cost that would push the purchase price up compared to shopping from home for goods shipped freight free to their door. So I tell them you pay I ship same day while providing a safe secure means to pay.
    The most noticeable thing is a that the lower the value of the item the lower the level of mutual trust they display. Buyers of higher priced goods have always done their checking before their first contact while the budget buyers don’t how to.
    
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    June 8, 2018 2:02pm
Gravelroad

A light hearted contribution for the end of the week:
Horses look after their own-

Horses are very clever, community minded animals.
We have three horses (A, B and C) which live in a large paddock and, being herd and hierarchal animals, they seldom leave each other.
Yesterday OH saw B standing at the paddock gate by herself, so detoured over to have a few words.
B was unsettled and as soon as she saw OH approaching, she unusually turned tail and started trotting off, but glancing behind her as she did so.
(You don’t usually leave until you are sure the human is not bringing food).
OH followed and found A isolated from sight and tangled in wire, unable to free herself. Horse C, last in this pecking order, was standing dutifully alongside.
Once A was freed, she typically tried to bite C (you have to blame someone, don’t you), before trotting off in search of a bit more hay.
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June 8, 2018 9:57am
- RF
  
  Fantastic !!!
  
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  June 8, 2018 10:15am
- GoVege
  
  Lovely story, Gravelroad.
  I used to have some horses living down the road.
  Once I was going for a drive at sunset and saw the big one and little one cuddling with their necks entwined.
  (Apparently in Denmark it is illegal to keep a horse alone without a companion .)
  
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  June 8, 2018 11:31am
  - Nermal
    
    Goats make brilliant horse companions
    
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    June 8, 2018 12:05pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      But the horses might get upset by stephie chasing the goats around the paddock.
      
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      June 8, 2018 3:01pm
- VicParking
  
  If only Twitford had half as many brains
  
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  June 8, 2018 1:59pm
artemisia

On Morning Report today – Evan Thame interviewed at length about being charged for meth contamination is a state house, and also having his belongings destroyed. Details are in the decision, link below.

This one is a bit unusual in that it is acknowledged that it was probably a boarder causing the contamination, as tenants had left town and later gave notice. Mr Thame wants compo for belongings destroyed, said on the wireless he did not know that was happening. This aspect is not mentioned in the TT decision, though it is stated that contamination was at the lower end of the scale. So assume it would not now trigger decontamination.

Seems to me there is a case for some compo here, though the Thame’s definitely contributed to the situation wittingly or not.

https://forms.justice.govt.nz/search/Documents/TTV2/129117060.pdf
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June 8, 2018 9:57am
- rangitoto
  
  Boarders are allowed in state houses?
  
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  June 8, 2018 10:10am
  - artemisia
    
    Boarders supposed to have prior consent. From the decision –
    
    The tenants had a tenancy agreement with Housing New Zealand (HNZ) commencing on 13th June 2016. A term of that agreement is that only two persons will occupy the dwelling being the
    named tenants. There is a very simple reason for this requirement in the HNZ wish to bothknow who is living in their houses as well as have the opportunity to security vet them as to suitability. Without consent the tenants took a boarder known as Kelly into the property around 24 March 2017. Kelly lived with the tenants for approximately 1 week before the tenants had to visit Wellington for unexpected family reasons.
    
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    June 8, 2018 10:24am
Left Right and Centre

Meanwhile at the Ministry for Women . . .

Here we have some inspirational before and after pictures of enlightened staff having transformed fully into strong liberated and empowered women. Wow.
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June 8, 2018 10:00am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Left Right and Centre, thank you for bringing that to our attention. Lovely droll Aussie humour.
  
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  June 8, 2018 10:49am
Longknives

Yikes!
They remind me of this old favourite-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millie_Tant
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June 8, 2018 10:02am
hullkiwi

Oh dear…seems Kelvin is in need of Rehab, and needs to go back into the Witless Protection Programme.

https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018648371/national-slams-kelvin-davis-over-parliament-performance

I heard the news clip this morning. It sounded a bad mix of ignorance and cluelessness all dressed up with Col arrogance.
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June 8, 2018 10:06am
- Longknives
  
  Should Kelvin Davis be in Politics?
  He doesn’t seem to be able to handle any kind of pressure or cross examination at all.. (Giving smart arse answers or slipping into ‘Te Reo’)
  Why on earth would he chose a career where you have to think real quick on your feet?
  
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  June 8, 2018 10:13am
  - Richard
    
    Well…it was that or school teacher.
    
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    June 8, 2018 10:17am
    - Harkman
      
      The real question is what’s worse? Him in Parliament or ruining kids lives?
      
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      June 8, 2018 10:44am
  - hullkiwi
    
    I’ve heard Mike Williams a couple of times enthuse about Davis.
    Williams line was, Davis was this exceptional teacher in Northland teaching Maori kids to read & write. So Williams, encouraged him to be a MP.
    
    It is a case of 1 of 2 things:
    1. He is way out of his depth as a MP & minister; or
    2. Going beyond being a school teacher for Davis is a perfect example of the Peter Principle in action. To paraphrase shut has risen to the top….
    
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    June 8, 2018 10:21am
  - VicParking
    
    If you want to see an expert in evade-onisim wait till the next Question time when Winston has to front up.
    
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    June 8, 2018 10:23am
    - sooty
      
      And cop the blame for the oil and gas.
      
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      June 8, 2018 12:14pm
  - Piniwi
    
    But Longknives who in their right mind would have him in charge of NZ biggest earner? While we are on the subject why is it now Tourism Aotearoa? This aotearort needs to be nipped in the bud. FFS enough people struggle to know where NZ is in the world without making even it harder to promote with that rubbish. It reminds us to remember: “If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.”
    Although attributed to Lenin it was written by Isa Blagden (The Crown of a Life) in 1869, before Lenin was even born. It is understandable that Labour would promote this dogma thinking it to be from Lenin while establishing a fundamental failing when we know it is “failing” that is fundamental to them.
    
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    June 8, 2018 2:45pm
  - Gravelroad
    
    And now we have stuff reporting that Davis kicked off at Nat MP, Jacqui Dean, at a select committee meeting calling her “hysterical”.
    He has since apologised for making a sexist judgement remark.
    A lot of the CoL trolls in the comments are backpedaling furiously saying it’s all a fuss about nothing and calling a woman hysterical is not sexist and so on.
    Strangely, no mention of “silly little girl” so far.
    
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    June 8, 2018 3:23pm
- Classic Liberal
  
  He was unbelievably rude and arrogant when people were quite politely asking important, searching questions. Questions Kiwis of the left would surely also like answered, esp re tourism employment!
  
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  June 8, 2018 10:44am
brett68

If National loses the Northcote by election I think you can pretty much write NZ off.

With a government this bad and this destructive to lose a seat with a 6000+ majority would be quite hard to comprehend.

Personally I’d start making plans to get out, if that’s the thinking of your average voter then stick a fork in NZ, because it’s done.
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June 8, 2018 10:07am
Captain Mainwaring

Twitford proves himself to be a useless twat, so gives himself a bigger job.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/104550866/housing-minister-sets-up-ministry-to-advise-on-house-prices-and-homelessness
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June 8, 2018 10:08am
- VicParking
  
  Because they have been called out for setting up 122 committees they are now setting up Ministries. Should be right up the alley for the Reverent David Clark.
  
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  June 8, 2018 10:19am
- backster
  
  Maybe Kelvin should be nominated to head the new Ministry in order to maintain the speed of progress set by Twitford in the main porfolio. A large staff with equal gender and ethnic representation will provide a harmonious example.
  
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  June 8, 2018 10:38am
- oldgolfer
  
  Yup, it looks like what you do when nothing has been built, when developers can’t get cash because foreign buyers are fleeing, when there are not enough builders, or land, or materials or even inclination.
  My dog is smarter that Phil, by a wide margin.
  
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  June 8, 2018 11:22am
  - Piniwi
    
    But oldgolfer we at least het a laugh when we see the comment regarding the funding used because of the meth contamination problem. “It could have built 3000 new state houses?” Yeah right. Who and when would that all came to pass? In four (4) years like so many other things they pushing out now?
    
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    June 8, 2018 3:04pm
- Piniwi
  
  But CM it is another glowing example of obfuscation now extending to the higher level of a Ministry. A bit like those that Marknopfler sings about in ecclesiastical sense it “Ticket To Heaven”. The Twit is trying to sell this to the sheeple as the answer to their housing crises. While we watch it becoming more and more each “their” housing crises as they continue compound it.
  Noting also that while in opposition almost every thing they tagged a crises seemed to turn around as soon as they attached that label. The manufacturing industry was in crises. (was). Now in the hot seat they are instead creating so many new crises with their bumbling style of Governance. Lol.
  
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  June 8, 2018 2:58pm
Justitia

Scorned by more than nine out of ten of the citizenry he nevertheless enabled a Marxist coup against his country;
Without compunction he colluded in the destruction of the nation’s energy industry for political expediency;
Censured as a liar by his peers, now the greatest bauble- the Regency – is within his grasp. As his redqueen lumbers towards confinement how will the stunted inebriate use his magical powers of obfuscation and half arsed rhetoric? Coming to your next nightmare, a story so awful the streets empty at the approach of any silver BMW, “Revenge of the Drunken Dwarf”.
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June 8, 2018 10:08am
- stephieboy
  
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  Justitia,
  “Scorned by more than nine out of ten of the citizenry he nevertheless enabled a Marxist coup against his country..”
  
  Your voices getting to you again?
  
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  June 8, 2018 10:23am
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Your goat complaining about being fucked by a moron?
    
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    June 8, 2018 11:06pm
Manolo

It will be a fun meeting. Guaranteed.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-trade-clash-dooms-prospects-g7-consensus-005228036.html
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June 8, 2018 10:11am
VicParking

Soper’s article in the failing newspaper this morning had a headline that got me excited “Why David Seymour has a point about state housing”. Although I’m not a Seymour fan I was surprised Soper would even come close to saying he could be right. It did not take long however for Barry’s dislike of David to appear. For some reason Davids ideas cannot be taken seriously because of “his truckie toes on the dance floor, he’s in no position to be casting aspersions.” What dancing has to do with housing is beyond me……Woops… no I’m wrong because currently Phil of Shit is dancing on the point of a pin.
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June 8, 2018 10:16am
- Lance
  
  Someone I know uses the saying “It’s OK I have a bicycle parked outside” whenever someone is talking illogical or irrelevant drivel.
  Barry seems to be doing the same, but to his own words.
  Kinda messed up
  
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  June 8, 2018 10:38am
Manolo

Even our Trump-lover stephieboy would agree:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/07/buffett-says-economy-is-feeling-strong.html

Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett and J.P. Morgan Chase chief executive Jamie Dimon told CNBC the U.S. economy is in rare form and could continue to prove strong for years to come.
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June 8, 2018 10:18am
- stephieboy
  
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  Manolo, thanks to Trump’s predecessor’s bringing the US economy out of the debt crisis 2007/8 and stable and solid economic management hence.
  
  https://www.ft.com/content/b5b764cc-d657-11e6-944b-e7eb37a6aa8e
  
  Ranking the Obama Economy
  
  Trump says the last eight years have been disastrous. Nope, not when compared to other recent presidencies.
  
  https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-01-19/ranking-the-obama-economy
  
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  June 8, 2018 10:26am
  - Inandout
    
    Does Soros pay for your Financial Times paywall stephie, or does the local mosque?
    
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    June 8, 2018 10:34am
  - Fletch
    
    You must be delusional if you think Obama or his policies had anything with the current prosperity of the U.S. Show me in what way.
    
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    June 8, 2018 10:46am
    - stephieboy
      
      Fletch , I do believe Obama policies are largely credited with the US’s present economic situation
      
      The present one cant wave wands in less than two years.
      
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      June 8, 2018 2:03pm
      - RW Capitalist
        
        No wands, just good policy
        Tax cuts for all especially business’
        cut “repatriation tax”…funds POURING back into the states for investment
        Lower taxes attracting US companies back and even “foreign” companies to expand into the states
        Threat of tariffs on US companies who move abroad and try to export back to the US
        RESULT
        Record low unemployment
        3-4% growth, DOUBLE anything Obama even dreamed of
        BTW…this is the exact opposite of this CoL, expect the opposite result
        
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        June 8, 2018 6:25pm
  - Manolo
    
    Not even you would believe a word about Obama’s competency. Your messiah is now a discredited figure and poor former president.
    
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    June 8, 2018 10:54am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    “thanks to Trump’s predecessor’s bringing the US economy out of the debt crisis 2007/8”
    Really? What stone have you been hiding under?
    The US debt (described as unacceptable, by senator Obama) in and around 2008 was approx.
    $9 TRILLION by 2016 it became nearly
    $21 TRILLION.
    Tell me, what adjective should we use now?
    
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    June 8, 2018 11:15am
    - Inandout
      
      The Left will use any excuse in the book to discredit Trump, but the big man knows how to deal with swamp dwellers. He just brushes the crap aside and carries on, like any businessman. Really, the Left should watch ‘Dragons’ Den’ to see how aspiring people pitch their products. In laid back old NZ we rarely see such aspiring talent, but if we did this country would be so prosperous. I realise the Dragons infuriate our beneficiaries, but the former have made millions by sheer guts.
      
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      June 8, 2018 12:10pm
    - stephieboy
      
      RW Capitalist, now what is the current President doping about it?
      
      https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-how-the-us-got-to-20-trillion-in-debt-2017-03-30
      
      DUH!
      
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      June 8, 2018 2:06pm
      - RW Capitalist
        
        So you agree, it was Obama who screwed the economy
        The graph shows
        The debt to GDP went from 65%- 105% between ’08 and ’16
        About $9 trillion to $21 trillion
        and has almost leveled off since then, as a % of GDP
        
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        June 8, 2018 4:03pm
- Scott
  
  The delusions of the never Trumpers are amazing. If something bad happens it’s all to do with Trump, he is at fault. If something good happens, it’s nothing to do with Trump, the booming economy is due to Obama!??
  
  Well Obama presided over the most anaemic economic recovery in US history. Excessive regulations, high taxation meant that 3% economic growth rate was seen as a pipe dream in Obama’s time.
  
  Suddenly in comes Donald Trump. His administration slashes regulations, cuts corporate taxes, promises to focus on economic growth and jobs and frees up the energy sector. Now 3% economic growth is seen as very likely, in fact some pundits are predicting 4%! Unemployment is now below 4% and black unemployment is at its lowest level ever recorded.
  
  Donald Trump has done everything differently to Obama. The Obama era is almost entirely over. The US economy is booming as a result of the Trump policies.
  
  Interestingly enough here in New Zealand we are doing the exact opposite and focusing on income redistribution, more taxation, more regulations and killing off the energy sector.
  
  Scott predicts that the US economy will continue to boom while the New Zealand economy will be at best anaemic. Our government inherited a steadily improving economic situation and is doing its absolute best to drive our country into recession. The next election cannot come soon enough in my opinion.
  
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  June 8, 2018 10:55am
  - RW Capitalist
    
    It took them 8 months to go from
    Multi billion dollar surplus AND tax cuts.
    to
    (according to robertson)
    $3.3 billion surplus
    if we don’t look at the
    $2.9 billion of borrowing by housing New Zealand
    So
    $3.3 – $2.9 = $0.4 billion (real surplus) and NO tax cuts.
    Q: How does Labour make a good economy?
    A: They take a great one and work down from there.
    
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    June 8, 2018 11:11am
    - Harkman
      
      Also RWC I think that they counting pure capital expenditures like the Dunedin Hospital in the surplus (but don’t quote me, it came up by accident when I was looking for budget forecasts). Probably also using the Cullen trick of departments reducing spending in March to throw it into next year’s figures.
      
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      June 8, 2018 1:31pm
  - calendar girl
    
    Well said, Scott. In addition to United States black unemployment being at its lowest level ever (5.9%), the country’s overall level of unemployment is now at is at an 18-year low (3.8%).
    
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    June 8, 2018 11:36am
Goreon

Had to laugh at this, sure seems like a Tui add
PM Ardern as reported by stuff:

“I’ve always said we are going to do Government differently, and one of the main ways we’re different is that we listen to experts and make sure everyday people have a say about the public services they rely on.”

Lets break it down
1. “I’ve always said we are going to do Government differently,
Well can’t argue with that, that is now becoming self-evident.

2. and one of the main ways we’re different is that we listen to experts

Not true, well certainly not for the oil and gas industry and Treasury when it comes to Kiwibuild

3. and make sure everyday people have a say about the public services they rely on.”

That’s nice, but do you have to wait to be in Government to listen to the people to form policy. This suggests, either there is no policy or the policy will scare the masses and is kept under wraps until an opportune time to release.
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June 8, 2018 10:19am
Left Right and Centre

When is the Green party going to start heavily preaching family planning as being by far the number one way to ‘save the earth’ ?

And they’re worried about single use shopping bags !!
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June 8, 2018 10:23am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I don’t think they are likely to.
  Back in the 2000s they had a policy about population – maximum Population NZ could sustain was put at 5.7M.
  
  But they got themselves into a tizz whenever there was a recommendation that families limit their size.
  
  It soon gets interpreted as an attack upon poor solo mums, or a plot to control ethnic groups.
  https://blog.greens.org.nz/2011/03/08/the-welfare-working-group-and-the-injection/
  
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  June 8, 2018 10:53am
  - brett68
    
    The Green party is now full of hardcore feminists. population control equals oppressing women.
    
    You can’t tell a women she can’t have as many children as she wants! the right for women to breed excessively and indiscriminately trumps the environment any day!
    
    Green party is one huge joke and contradiction
    
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    June 8, 2018 11:06am
- Classic Liberal
  
  They used to. In Europe, Green ideology was a huge influence in the 70s and 80s, brainwashing many Europeans to feel that having children would be destroying the earth.
  
  All so that the countries could now be flooded with people who have plenty of children and have far fewer green or liberal ethics.
  
  Good call Greenies \sarc
  
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  June 8, 2018 10:54am
- RW Capitalist
  
  I don’t have single use shopping bags.
  I use them in the kitchen tidy bin.
  So 2 uses.
  
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  June 8, 2018 11:05am
  - alloytoo
    
    Indeed, they’re great for wrapping up the disposable nappy. 🙂
    
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    June 8, 2018 1:36pm
    - hullkiwi
      
      Pass that on to Choppers.
      
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      June 8, 2018 2:02pm
- VicParking
  
  That’s the problem there are so many Sinlge use shopping bags on the DPB.
  
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  June 8, 2018 2:04pm
Fletch

Donald Trump trolling Obama and Hillary expertly –

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1004750401709715457/video/1
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June 8, 2018 10:27am
- stephieboy
  
  Fletch,
  
  https://mobile.twitter.com/real_farmacist/status/1004751228692295680/photo/1
  
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  June 8, 2018 10:32am
  - Inandout
    
    Trust stephie to get into cross dressing pics.
    
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    June 8, 2018 10:36am
Lance

I see the towering intellect that is Kelvin Davis fails to see why National were asking about broadband and cellphone coverage in relation to tourism.
Because shit.. who wants cellphone or the internet when on holiday?
What a cock
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June 8, 2018 10:46am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Reminds me of the cow cocky down Opunake way; he was on holiday in Prague and went to a cyber café to see if he could monitor production figures down on the farm. He was astonished at the speed of delivery. Downloading those figures on the computer at home takes 120 seconds as it trundles down the copper wires.
  
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  June 8, 2018 10:56am
Monique Watson

Under the headlines: “Didn’t see that coming”, they didn’t have anyone on this basket faced mong. Of course: Destruction:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12066860
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June 8, 2018 10:49am
Jack5

A tactics move by the Stephiestani Trolling Syndicate Ltd posters.

Blanked into oblivion by downticks in yesterday’s General Debate, they re-entered yesterday’s thread this morning and peppered it with Stephie posts.

Stupid! Little read, and obvious post-game play.The Stephies are mentally enslaved losers, their brains addled by madrasa rote-indoctrination of the Koran.

But keep it up, Stephies. You are NZ’s best advertisement for the dangers of Muslim immigration.
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June 8, 2018 11:09am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yes, it is an interesting technique..to try and smear people in a debate ex post facto.
  
  A similar technique was commonly employed against me by an anonymous poster who put up posts in the wee hours.
  
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  June 8, 2018 1:54pm
GoVege

Thanks for that, Maggie.
“This an extreme form of state violence against women”.
(Encouraging the use of contraception for beneficiaries. )
By Metiria Turei.
Then how come she apparently only has ONE child?
What Fn idiots we have in politics.
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June 8, 2018 11:11am
- GoVege
  
  MT claims that the state has been deliberately targeting Maori and Pacifica women to “control their fertility “.
  What BS!
  I personally know several Pacifica women who were thrilled to have the chance to control their fertility and not be forced to continue pushing out babies for their violent chauvinists.
  
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  June 8, 2018 11:22am
  - GoVege
    
    They don’t let women get away with that back in the islands….it’s all DIY there.
    
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    June 8, 2018 1:26pm
Jack5

What’s going on in Southland?

The dairy industry, probably now with aluminium, the lifeblood of the area, is about to be hemmed back by environmental rules, but the Southland Chamber of Commerce wants a lift in immigration.

The Department of Labour has been funnelling refugees from Colombia, near the Equator, but you can bet they’ll be through the back door to Australia and headed for sunny Queensland as soon as residency allows them.

The real opportunity for Southland is recruiting and retaining some of the hundreds or thousands of young people coming there for education under the local subsidy scheme.

The answer of course is to pay them a decent wage. That might keep them there, at least for a while, and some would put down roots.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/104471292/southlands-business-harvest-is-plentiful-but-the-workers-are-few
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June 8, 2018 11:24am
kowtow

What has Merkel done to Germany and indeed all of Europe.

‘A 20-year-old Iraqi refugee urgently wanted by police for questioning over the death of a 14-year-old girl from the German city of Mainz has left Germany, police said on Thursday.’

http://www.dw.com/en/suspect-in-14-year-olds-murder-has-left-germany-police-say/a-44107751
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June 8, 2018 11:29am
rangitoto

“Let him out” sez Andy and Taxinda.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12066845
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June 8, 2018 11:39am
- Sideoiler
  
  ……The court heard how Warren walked up to Williams’ Marsden Rd home on October 22 – where there were seven children inside the house, including her own three children – on the Sunday afternoon with a loaded .308shotgun under his jacket….
  
  Bugger me who writes this shit and who is the friggin editor?
  
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  June 8, 2018 12:32pm
  - Swifty
    
    Pathetic, isn’t it?
    
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    June 8, 2018 2:43pm
  - GoVege
    
    This is one bast*rd I would really like to see get killed in prison….
    
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    June 8, 2018 7:22pm
Monique Watson

Under the headline: “Oh Fuck,” Putin is about to take a slice of Lithuania.
Rick-rollin’ Estonia but will carve out Lithuania.
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June 8, 2018 11:56am
MrTips

Green MP Davidson goes off the reservation again:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12066902

Surprised she didn’t say the IDF are tracking her as well. Where will she get her tinfoil from when we can’t make it here anymore?
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June 8, 2018 11:56am
- Longknives
  
  “A young man caught with cocaine had escaped charges after an unprecedented exploration of racial bias by the country’s second-highest court.
  The man’s legal team had argued police had no basis to approach the man’s tidy, registered and warranted vehicle, and had only done so because its occupants were Pacific New Zealanders.”
  
  And the Police were 100% correct and caught them using/dealing drugs!
  But that’s ‘Racism’???
  
  The World is going crazy!
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNPn0cGwfHw
  
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  June 8, 2018 12:45pm
- KevinH
  
  I would remind Marama that she is now an MP, and a co leader of a political party that is now the government.
  Instead of running to the media with sob stories, you instead pick up the phone and call the appropriate colleague for a korero.
  It also pays to visit dept. heads and get a briefing, this may include a field visit.
  I would also recommend an oversea’s trip to Europe to study the UN in action, I’m sure Helen can help out with an itinerary.Included in that trip should be a couple of cities such as Berlin and perhaps Warsaw.
  
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  June 8, 2018 1:44pm
  - ztev
    
    Not government.
    Greens are a support party outside government – for their |Mps whop arent ministers
    
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    June 8, 2018 3:11pm
KevOB

Are the Police and shopkeepers expected to ignore the more likely crime prospects in their midst?
If you’re brown you are more likely to be stopped or watched.
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June 8, 2018 12:18pm
Nigel Kearney

For a change of pace, if you would like to see a 13 year old solve three Rubik’s cubes while juggling them non-stop, the video is here:

http://www.bit.ly/GWR-RubiksJuggle
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June 8, 2018 12:41pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Wow! Be very afraid of the Chinese.
  
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  June 8, 2018 3:19pm
Ross12

This is quite a long read but well worth the effort

https://mises.org/wire/these-us-states-have-higher-incomes-nearly-every-european-country
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June 8, 2018 12:42pm
- stephieboy
  
  Ross12 , one of Mises many priceless items of cant,
  
  https://mises.org/library/libertarian-case-monarchy
  
  Also, they doubt Einsteins theory of relativity and other dumb conspiracy theories ,
  
  https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ludwig_von_Mises_Institute
  
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  June 8, 2018 1:52pm
  - Ross12
    
    As usual you attack the “messenger” and do not debate the points made.
    The words used must be too big for you.
    
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    June 8, 2018 2:49pm
    - stephieboy
      
      Ross 12 , Ok give us a summary notion as to what Mises is driving at?
      
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      June 8, 2018 3:29pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Why should Ross12 do that?
        
        He’s provided a link.
        
        Most of us are capable of reading and absorbing the information ourselves without having everything run through someone else’s filter.
        
        Have a look at the final figure in the article.
        
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        June 8, 2018 3:39pm
- cha
  
  well worth the effort
  
  Meanwhile, nearly two thirds of Americans can’t find $500 for an emergency, more than a third have a tough time providing the necessities and healthcare costs for a family of four covered by an employer-sponsored preferred provider hit $28,166 this year.
  
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  June 8, 2018 4:47pm
Ross12

OMG. Maybe it is the criticism of the number of working or just another decision on the fly but they are setting up another ministry to sort out the housing situation !!
https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/359138/stand-alone-ministry-will-help-fix-housing-crisis-twyford
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June 8, 2018 12:47pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  “stand alone ministry will help fix housing crisis”
  Admission that he can’t?
  
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  June 8, 2018 4:08pm
Monique Watson

Chinese are going to have some influence in the next decades. Won the currency war and are directly duking.

http://www.businessinsider.com/chinas-dark-sword-fighter-jet-is-a-nightmare-for-the-us-military-2018-6?r=UK&IR=T
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June 8, 2018 12:52pm
- UpandComer
  
  http://fortune.com/2012/12/14/2030-chinas-coming-water-crisis/
  
  https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/nature/fresh-water-supplies-are-going-to-run-out-so-what-can-we-do-to-make-the-taps-keep-running-2304481.html
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bAEr8Waffo
  
  80% of China’s water is undrinkable. 40% of the rivers are too dangerous to touch.
  
  Their pollution levels are so high it kills 250k people per year.
  
  As long as the United States contains China, they will asphyxiate on their own corruption & pollution within 25 years – unless they find tech solutions for their environmental problems. Which is why they’re investing record amounts in quantum computing, ethics-free genetic manipulation, and germ science.
  
  The Greens have a tiny gem of truth in their lies – but they think NZ is China.
  
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  June 8, 2018 1:43pm
  - stephieboy
    
    Upandcomer, after your debacle with Tommy Robinson ( with other numerous aliases) why should we believe this latest attempt?
    
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    June 8, 2018 1:56pm
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      What the hell is your point?
      
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      June 8, 2018 2:10pm
    - UpandComer
      
      ‘Debacle’
      
      I’m right about Tommy Robinson.
      
      What are you talking about? Does the left like China again now?
      
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      June 8, 2018 2:21pm
      - stephieboy
        
        UpandComer, Tommy is not a martyr and pleaded guilty to the contempt of court charges of which he had a prior conviction.
        
        A 13-month icy shower in the FEMA camp.
        
        LOL
        
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        June 8, 2018 3:28pm
Monique Watson

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12066902

Jayzus. Just tell him to wear his hoodie down. MP sob-story everywhere you look these days. Age of 42. Should know how to fly under the radar.
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June 8, 2018 1:17pm
- Harkman
  
  Marama Davidson’s family are hypocrites, remember the show “More Issues?” Her old man played a stereotypical Maori taxi driver named “Darrell Huna all the way from Takapuna” where he was a real cousie “douche douche.” He has never apologized for reinforcing negative stereotypes. Now they are screaming racism.
  
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  June 8, 2018 1:41pm
- Longknives
  
  Talk to any frontline Cops (Of any Ethnicity) and they will tell you they don’t ‘Racially Profile’ anyone- You will get pulled over if you looks like a piece of shit (Hoodies, Facial Tatts etc etc),are acting suspiciously, or drive a piece of shit car.
  It’s quite simply how they catch Criminals..
  
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  June 8, 2018 3:36pm
  - rangitoto
    
    Wonder what sort of car he drives. LMG Nissan Skyline with lowered suspension and tin can exhausts?” Or is that out of date these days.
    
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    June 8, 2018 4:12pm
Keeping Stock

I wonder if, right at the moment, heavies from the PM’s office are trying to stop media from running this story:

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/08-06-2018/alan-duff-threatens-violence-against-spinoff-cameraman-at-labour-event/
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June 8, 2018 1:51pm
- Piniwi
  
  @Keeping Stock was “Once were Warriors” an autobiography? Duff seems to have really lost his shit then turns around to tell all how wonderful the SLG is for having a baby. They really are struggling up there in this by-election campaign with this coming on top of the mall incident. Can we expect another sex scandal coming up here like the camp fiasco?
  
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  June 8, 2018 7:15pm
stephieboy

Keeping Stock, I would say the horse has already bolted with The Spinoff kicking off.

Pretty pointless post if you ask me.
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June 8, 2018 1:59pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  The Spinoff isn’t who I was thinking of Stephie. If the story doesn’t get to the Herald, Stuff or either of the TV networks, you’ll know someone from the PM’s office was running interference.
  
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  June 8, 2018 2:37pm
- Garbageman
  
  The resident goat shagger has 23K comments that no-one read and has the audacity to call someone elses post “pretty pointless” you should avoid those hoof to the head kicks ya pillock
  
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  June 8, 2018 3:09pm
  - Harkman
    
    In mid-January he was only at 19800, so he has done 3,500 in less than 5 months. Further proof he is a paid troll.
    
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    June 8, 2018 4:28pm
GoVege

There were some pix of Freddie Mercury in the Herald yesterday.
I had thought he was half Indian but in fact both his parents were Parsi (Persian).
Just think if he hadn’t made it to the west, what a loss to the world.
(Plus he could have been murdered for being gay.)
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June 8, 2018 2:19pm
- Keeping Stock
  
  He was born in Zanzibar but did his early schooling in India at a British-style boarding school.
  
  He was a rare talent indeed, and this set with Queen at Live Aid in 1985 is thought by many to have been his finest moment. He had the crowd literally in the palm of his hand.
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A22oy8dFjqc&t=1223s
  
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  June 8, 2018 2:43pm
  - Longknives
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DuoBTJdmds
    
    Awesome!
    
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    June 8, 2018 3:32pm
Manolo

He is not taking it kindly:
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/07/trump-ribs-trudeau-macron-on-trade-ahead-of-g7-summit.html

President Donald Trump on Thursday took more jabs at Canada and France on the eve of the G-7 summit.
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June 8, 2018 2:44pm
Fletch

Another day, another something banned by the people who think they know best –

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/104566849/foodstuffs-earmarks-cotton-buds-in-latest-clampdown-on-plastic?cid=facebook.post.104566849
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June 8, 2018 2:49pm
- stephieboy
  
  Fletch, better search for stocks of non-biodegradable shopping bags before the rapture strikes.
  
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  June 8, 2018 3:25pm
- Inandout
  
  All the supermarket gift cards are plastic, all batteries are packed in plastic, oh and all Apple products. It seems that both Countdown and Foodstuffs are in a race to get rid of plastic, but will they refuse to stock all offending products? Anyone worked out the back of these shops and seen the amount of plastic wrapping, which by the way is handy to keep the products dry.
  
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  June 8, 2018 3:51pm
  - Fletch
    
    Plastic is a modern miracle, but somehow it has become evil.
    
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    June 8, 2018 3:53pm
    - Inandout
      
      Let’s get rid of all auto tyres, now that would please the Greens.
      https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39042655
      
      But how would the supermarkets deliver?
      
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      June 8, 2018 3:59pm
Hugh Pavletich

Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/06/links-8-june-2018/#comment-3119972

Associate Finance Minister David Parker says the price of New Zealand homes should be set by buyers in this country, not those from overseas | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/94195/associate-finance-minister-david-parker-says-price-new-zealand-homes-should-be-set

Associate Finance Minister David Parker has confirmed the Government is proceeding with its plans to restrict the sale of residential property to overseas buyers.

Parker said figures released by Statistics NZ showing a high level of house purchases by overseas buyers in New Zealand’s least affordable areas, vindicated the Government’s move to ban foreign buyers of existing homes.

The figures showed that 7.3% of homes sold in the Auckland region in the first quarter of this year were sold to overseas buyers, and in some central suburbs overseas buyers accounted for almost 19% of purchases.

In Queenstown-Lakes, overseas buyers accounted for almost 10% of purchases.

“That shows the concentration of buying is in the areas of worst affordability and where price rises have been the highest,” Parker said.

“Kiwis were right to be concerned and that is why we are passing the foreign buyers law.”… read more via hyperlink above …
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Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/06/links-8-june-2018/#comment-3119821

Housing Minister Phil Twyford says Ministry of Housing and Urban Development will help drive KiwiBuild and will be operational by the end of the year | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/94193/housing-minister-phil-twyford-says-ministry-housing-and-urban-development-will-help

The Government is setting up a new housing focused ministry, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, in a bid to help make houses more affordable and cities “more liveable.”

Housing Minister Phil Twyford says the new ministry will provide “focus and capacity” to help the Government deliver its housing policies.

The Ministry will be the Government’s lead advisor on housing and urban development and will provide advice on various housing issues, such as responding to homelessness and supporting first home buyers. … read more via hyperlink above …
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Auckland business confidence in ‘free fall’ – Chamber of Commerce – NZ Herald

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12066348

The spiking price of fuel, slow progress on housing and infrastructure and the threat of rising labour costs has sent business confidence in the country’s biggest city into “free fall”, says Auckland Chamber of Commerce boss Michael Barnett.

The chamber last week surveyed 800 businesses and found nearly half (44 per cent) believed the economy will deteriorate over the rest of this year.

Only 15 per cent thought the economy would improve during that time.

Compare that to June last year, when a third of businesses surveyed thought the economy would improve while only eight per cent believed things would get worse. … read more via hyperlink above …

… John Armstrong at TVNZ opines …

John Armstrong: Labour’s record so far on affordable housing builds is pathetic … John Armstrong OPINION … TVNZ

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/john-armstrong-labours-record-so-far-affordable-housing-builds-pathetic

When Labour unfurled its flagship KiwiBuild policy back in 2012, the party thought it had come up with something special.

It thought it was onto an absolute winner.

And with good reason. The policy had a number of virtues for a party in Opposition, the chief one being its sheer simplicity. … read more via hyperlink above …

Inaugural New Zealand IPSOS Survey …

UPDATE – New (IPSOS) survey reveals housing, poverty and healthcare most concern New Zealanders – NZ Herald

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12047092

Opinion: Let the builders build – Kevin Atkinson of Generation Homes | Fairfax – Stuff.co.nz

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/property/104213530/opinion-let-the-builders-build

Salvation Army questions ability of government departments to handle the flagship house building plan; seeks establishment of group to deliver houses ‘quickly and at affordable cost’ | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/93961/salvation-army-questions-ability-government-departments-handle-flagship-house
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June 8, 2018 3:47pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Three more reports and he’s gone.
  Thanks team.
  
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  June 8, 2018 3:56pm
Inandout

Commissioner Bush is coming on ZB at 4pm to explain they don’t profile Maoris and Pacifics, and he can’t shit on his own staff can he? Of course cops should just ignore any dark faces and let them be, and I am sure crime stats will drop.
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June 8, 2018 3:54pm
- Longknives
  
  Commissioner Bush is Susan Devoy’s puppet.
  He will likely apologise profusely and once again promise to no longer employ those horrid White males..
  
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  June 8, 2018 4:20pm
  - sooty
    
    Will he apologise for not catching the MPs son the sex camp groper.
    
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    June 8, 2018 5:39pm
  - RF
    
    It’s a pity he did not release his precious police resources to investigate the dodgy Labour sex camp scandal.
    
    If he delays it long enough it will be pushed to the back page…
    
    I am so ashamed of our Police.
    
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    June 8, 2018 5:41pm
  - Piniwi
    
    @Longknives already in hand as seem by the ceremony of the new police graduation doing the native gyrations minus bare arses thankfully. That will instil some confidence in the majority. Yeah right.
    
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    June 8, 2018 7:20pm
- Piniwi
  
  But Inandout it might be too little to late as the crime rates seem to be racing to keep up with the rising petrol price. Three robberies in Christchurch yesterday and finally one with diversity as one also in Dunedin has the picture of a partly obscured woman who wears her hair up by the look of the hoodie. Probably easier for Bush to tackle the jibes from an activist like Davidson than crime rates.
  
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  June 8, 2018 7:26pm
Longknives

What’s the rules re campaigning on an Election Day?
I say this because..well just check out Shanan Halbert’s Facebook page-He appears to be asking for doorknockers for tomorrow.
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June 8, 2018 4:22pm
- Happychappy
  
  Longknives :You should realise by now the Electoral Commission turns a blind eye when anyone complains about Labour rorting the system. There was about three serious breeches of the system by Labour Leading up to the last General Election and they didn’t even get slapped with a wet bus ticket.
  
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  June 8, 2018 4:35pm
  - Piniwi
    
    @Happychappy have we seen any soundings from KB’s who are among the voters and at ground level?
    
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    June 8, 2018 7:29pm
Captain Mainwaring

The clown Hugh gone in less than half an hour. Brilliant work team.
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June 8, 2018 4:23pm
- Jack5
  
  I can’t see any of Hugh’s comments blacked out. Has he been banned?
  
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  June 8, 2018 4:31pm
  - Nostradamus
    
    Jack5:
    
    The difference is between a net 30 downticks (comment is hidden) and 5 reports (comment and all nested replies to that comment are removed from the thread)
    
    Think about it this way:
    
    1. Hugh farts.
    2. Hugh’s fart stinks up the thread.
    3. Captain Mainwaring and his clean-up crew spring into action.
    4. The smell disappears and the thread is clean – as if Hugh was never here to fart in the first place!
    
    🙂
    
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    June 8, 2018 4:54pm
Jack5

More on the student visa rorts …

Agents taking English tests for university applicants.

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/358882/staff-told-to-take-english-tests-for-overseas-students-agents
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June 8, 2018 4:25pm
softail 1450

FFS,Sean Hannity made a joke about smashing cellphones and the left wing media are calling for his head.
seriously,the mainstream media in the US make ours appear to be rabid right wingers.
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June 8, 2018 4:26pm
- cha
  
  Nah, he said folk should consider perverting the cause of justice, but said he was only joking.
  
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  June 8, 2018 4:51pm
Captain Mainwaring

An excellent verdict.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/104568206/son-found-not-guilty-of-murdering-his-abusive-father
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June 8, 2018 4:27pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  Yup agree. I don’t know why this was brought to the courts in the first place. He was basically protecting his mother. There is no chance of re offending, and he was consumed by remorse. Very tragic.
  
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  June 8, 2018 11:18pm
Fletch

The shameful ‘knighting’ of a prostitute here in NZ gets mention on Tucker Carlson –

https://youtu.be/EzOGZUC55n4?t=3m49s

Steyn is correct though – on the one hand liberals cancel the swimsuit competition in Miss America because it is deemed degrading to women, and on the other hand they are honoring porn star Stormy Daniels, giving her the key to the city of West Hollywood by Mayor John Duran who had to settle a sexual harrassment claim in 2016 for $500,000 and also making a Dame out of a prostitute here in NZ; for aiding women in doing the most degrading thing a woman can do.

It’s the old story of straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel. Liberal;s have no fkn idea.
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June 8, 2018 4:51pm
milkmaid

So. I have been in contact with David Garrett regarding my identity etc, and he has asked me to explain why the word “cunt” is any worse than the word “dick”. What are others’ thoughts?
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June 8, 2018 5:01pm
- Rodney Randall
  
  They’re just words. Grow a spine! If you are looking to censor free expression politely piss off to another blog.?
  
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  June 8, 2018 5:16pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Milkmaid:
  
  Yesterday you posted a comment regarding Paul Moon (which DPF deleted):
  
  [deleted by DPF. Repeats will get a strike]
  
  Today you’ve followed up with another comment on that thread:
  
  I am very surprised that you would defend a sexual predator, DPF, but it’s your call, of course.
  
  DPF doesn’t appreciate it when people like you use Kiwiblog to defame named individuals.
  
  As for your exchange with David Garrett, which seems to have been deleted, I recall that he offered to assist you with preparing a statement to back up your allegations regarding Paul Moon, which would be capable of being used in court proceedings against you. Has your email discussion moved on from that to a linguistic analysis of “cunt and “dick”?
  
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  June 8, 2018 5:22pm
  - milkmaid
    
    I stand by everything I have said. I am not “defaming” anyone.
    
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    June 8, 2018 5:35pm
    - Rodney Randall
      
      Go and buy the latest Women’s Weekly mag a box of Roses’ chokkies and some Cleanex tissues.
      
      Have a good long weep and get back to us.
      
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      June 8, 2018 5:42pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      I am not “defaming” anyone.
      Of course you are.
      
      You’ve written in a public forum that DPF is defending a sexual predator.
      
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      June 8, 2018 5:49pm
- nasska
  
  The world is a magical place full of people waiting to be offended by something.
  
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  June 8, 2018 5:38pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Both can be used in a pejorative sexist sense.
  ” What a limp dick!”
  
  Both can be used in informal banter
  “He’s a mad cunt”
  “Don’t be a silly dick.”
  
  Anyway, I thought we girls were meant to reclaim cunt, cuntish, cunty, cunted, etc
  https://mic.com/articles/85639/why-women-are-celebrating-the-addition-of-cunty-to-the-oxford-english-dictionary#.GDyQPtWul
  
  (Disclaimer – I read Glaswegian novels, perhaps I’ve been over-exposed to naughty words)
  
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  June 8, 2018 5:44pm
  - milkmaid
    
    Thanks Maggy, possibly I took it the wrong way.
    
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    June 8, 2018 5:50pm
  - nasska
    
    …..”we girls were meant to reclaim…..”….
    
    I think I’ve been here too long. I can remember when DPF slammed you with twenty demerits before you’d typed the ‘T’. 🙂
    
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    June 8, 2018 5:53pm
  - rightoverlabour
    
    Wish there was still “Gropecunt Lane” as in London?
    
    https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/36111
    
    Imagine having to fill out your address…. Australians often refer to a top bloke as a “Good Cunt”. I like calling trolls on kiwiblog cunts. Refer Ztev, Stephieboy. But they are not “Good Cunts”
    
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    June 8, 2018 11:28pm
Rodney Randall

DPF runs free speech posts while allowing Hugh P’s posts on housing to be removed completely?

I understand some find his posts longwinded however allowing Vichy National acolytes to deliberately downtick him into oblivion confirms at least to me that David Farrar is a charlatan.
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June 8, 2018 5:24pm
- All_on_Red
  
  ‘ Advertising spam however is always unwelcome and is deleted and blacklisted on a regular basis.’
  https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/comments_policy
  Hugh ‘link whores’ to his own blog repeatedly and his posts reek of self promotion
  
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  June 8, 2018 5:55pm
Rodney Randall

Hugh’s health/eyesight us failing him and you miserable bastards would prefer he be banished from here after all the years of contributing to housing reform and local govt reform

Shame on all if you! You miserable bastards denying him his free speech here.

YOU MASQUERADING VICHY QUISLINGS.
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June 8, 2018 5:34pm
- stigie
  
  Oh poor Hugh, we will see what we can do then..?//
  
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  June 8, 2018 5:40pm
- nasska
  
  It’s not my fault. Even his mother warned him that he would end up weak & sickly not to mention blind if he didn’t stop! 🙂
  
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  June 8, 2018 5:41pm
  - stigie
    
    That’s a point, how are they going to continue with the Vaseline range if they’re banning oil and gas..?
    
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    June 8, 2018 5:45pm
    - nasska
      
      Shsssh! The future’s in mutton fat. 🙂
      
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      June 8, 2018 5:46pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        The future’s in mutton fat.
        Not if the Greens have their way.
        Invest in rape oil.
        
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        June 8, 2018 5:54pm
      - stigie
        
        What’s this “rape” oil Maggy.? would one be safer sticking to mutton fat..?
        
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        June 8, 2018 5:59pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        There must be a joke in there somewhere about rape oil futures and Labour conferences
        
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        June 8, 2018 6:00pm
      - Johnboy
        
        I’m happy to firstly invest in mutton fat as an easy way to slip into rape futures Maggy. 🙂
        
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        June 8, 2018 6:00pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        ‘Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker!’
        Especially at Camp
        
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        June 8, 2018 6:03pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        What’s this “rape” oil
        
        You may know it by another name – Canola.
        
        @Johnboy
        I think some Mainlanders have pipped you.
        https://thegoodoil.nz/
        
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        June 8, 2018 6:40pm
      - Johnboy
        
        You’d be lucky to find one virgin south of the ditch let alone an extra one Maggy! 🙂
        
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        June 8, 2018 6:45pm
      - rightoverlabour
        
        How do young Labour Interns hold their Liquor? By “its” ears.
        
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        June 8, 2018 11:30pm
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  Hugh can see well enough to cut and paste.
  He is perfectly free to participate in discussion but not to bore the bejeezus out of everyone with over long and repetitive posts.
  
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  June 8, 2018 5:49pm
  - Rodney Randall
    
    Jesus, listen to yourself!
    
    “Bore the bejeezus”
    
    So ‘boring’ posts should be banned?
    
    Is a boring post not subjective?
    
    Are you ascribing objectivity to boring?
    
    The downtick function is fair enough. It allows everyone to see what is going on and the post is still available for me to read. I often read Steph’s posts for example to see what this person has actually said and whether they have a valid point.
    
    You make a rod for your own back when you deny yourself and others the ability to judge the contents of a post and whether or not one has the right to respond to such posts.
    
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    June 8, 2018 6:22pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Rodney:
      
      I often read Steph’s posts for example to see what this person has actually said and whether they have a valid point.
      
      There are plenty of other more pleasurable ways to punish yourself old chap! And, as for the “they”, how many people do you think live at Stephieboy’s house and post on Kiwiblog? Jack5 thinks more than one and has given each of the Stephistanis a nickname. We could run a sweepstake – the prize for the correct guess is coffee with Stephieboy at St Lukes (or a personalised reading at St Albans on Sunday)!
      
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      June 8, 2018 7:16pm
      - nasska
        
        ….”the prize for the correct guess is coffee with Stephieboy at St Lukes”….
        
        Any word on whether staring at ‘honeypots wearing their Nijabs with stylish jeans and blouses’ is absolutely mandatory or can we just pretend to peruse the centrefold of “Goat Lovers Monthly” to maintain cover? 🙂
        
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        June 8, 2018 7:30pm
      - Rodney Randall
        
        Boring: Objective or subjective?
        
        “Boring”, “Uppercase”,” Self Referencing”, “Longwinded”, “Links to own page”.
        
        “Come on team let’s downtick the bastard into oblivion”
        
        “Gone by nine”
        
        “Good show ‘team’ ”
        
        Vichy National
        
        http://www.historyinanhour.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Petain-and-Hitler.jpg
        
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        June 8, 2018 7:32pm
- artemisia
  
  Look, I happen to be more than a little interested in housing issues, and have seen some good links and info in his posts. I’ve given up now – too long, too repetitive, too boring. It’s not gaining him readers or debaters, obviously.
  
  Maybe Hugh needs a hand to make his posts much shorter, one link per, and no need to keep repeating stuff.
  
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  June 8, 2018 6:40pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    He’s been offered advice a number of times on how to make his posts shorter.
    
    He has been informed that his posts play merry havoc for folks trying to view posts on their cell phones, ipads etc.
    
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    June 8, 2018 7:30pm
    - Rodney Randall
      
      I suspect user error in the case of phones/ipads☺
      
      I have had no issues at all reading his posts on these platforms.
      
      Longwinded is subjective.
      
      Relative to other post lengths yes, they are longer, but your short attention span and penchant for tidbits/ mindless trivia is not my concern.
      
      Apologies if that sounds rude.
      
      “Uppercase” “longwinded” “self referencing” “too many links” “doesn’t work on phone or ipad” “repeating material”
      
      “FUCK OFF HUGH:
      “REPORT”
      “BAN”
      
      freespeech yeah!!
      
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      June 8, 2018 8:33pm
  - Rodney Randall
    
    Can’t read two pages. Too long. Too boring.
    
    Upandcomers gets accused of the same thing. I enjoy reading Upandcomers posts as well. I read most of them. They are not too long. I read Hugh’s posts as well not all but many of them.
    
    I wanna read this stuff and I don’t give a flying shit that it riles people up here.
    
    Scroll past if the posts knots your sphincter.
    
    “Keeps repeating stuff”, “Uppercase”, “Self references”,” long winded”, “Boring” “Too many links” “Boring”?
    
    Always the same criticism from a select few, most are of the protectionist flavour.?
    
    Easier to Ban him. Report him. Downtick him into oblivion.
    
    “Come on team”
    “Let’s see him gone by 9”
    “Good job team”
    
    “Yeah we got em”
    
    “Yeah”
    
    “Yeah.. that showed him. We got him”.?
    
    “YEAH FREE SPEECH YEAH”
    
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    June 8, 2018 7:51pm
    - Shaun the Sheep
      
      If you want to read Hugh’s stuff, may I suggest you go to his own blog. The address isn’t hard to find, just follow the link he provides in every blatantly self-promoting post.
      
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      June 8, 2018 10:26pm
Rodney Randall

Listen to yourselves!

“We downticked him into oblivion”

“Good job team”

VICHY NATIONAL
QUISLINGS
ANTI FREE SPEECH

NOT ONE PERSON IN NATIONAL SPEAKING OUT AGAINST HRC SUBMISSION

ALL SUBMISSIVES

VICHY NATIONAL

THE ENEMY WITHIN

NATIONAL IS A DEAD PARTY
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June 8, 2018 5:50pm
- nasska
  
  For the record Hugh’s waffles of 6.49pm & 7.18pm last evening disappeared when the clean-up crew reported them.
  
  BUT DPF eventually reads those ‘reports’ & the comments were reinstated by morning. It’s too early to set up Hugh as a martyr.
  
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  June 8, 2018 5:57pm
  - Rodney Randall
    
    Nice try Nasska.
    
    I fully anticipate DPF getting out the big stick.
    
    I welcome it.
    
    DPF is lauded as a champion of providing a platform for free speech, however it is obvious to me, at least, that his recent albeit “late to the party” posts on free speech are somewhat superficial given the mechanisms with which Vichy National apparachiks can MEMORY HOLE commentators they prefer to stay quiet.
    
    Yes, it is not in their ‘interests’ Hugh be heard.
    
    Dress it up anyway you like. “Boring”, “Longwinded”, “self referencing”, “Uppercase.”
    
    BAN HIM! SILENCE HIM! REPORT HIM TO THE AUTHORITIES ?
    
    FUCKING PUSSIES
    
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    June 8, 2018 6:29pm
Johnboy

Why don’t we run a sweep for the imminent first sprogs name?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/parenting/baby/104457501/names-that-probably-rule-themselves-out-for-the-arderngayford-baby
Just to kick it off may I suggest:
For a girl…Tinkerbelle-Stardust Ardern-Gaylord.
For a boy…Octopus-Groper Gaylord-Arden. 🙂
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June 8, 2018 5:58pm
- nasska
  
  I’ll go for unisex : Coca Cola Aroha.
  
  Should get the corporate sponsorship & the bro vote sorted out in one hit. 🙂
  
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  June 8, 2018 6:02pm
  - All_on_Red
    
    Shimano Tesla Ardern-Gayford
    
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    June 8, 2018 6:09pm
    - RW Capitalist
      
      AAHH I see what you did there, not sure if it’s true
      Conceived on a push bike, born in a taxi?
      
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      June 8, 2018 6:31pm
- Brigitte
  
  Baby McBabyface
  
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  June 8, 2018 7:16pm
  - axeman
    
    Horsey McHorseface (© from Thursday)
    
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    June 9, 2018 2:06am
RW Capitalist

Phillis Twitford on the 6pm news tonight.
They will build a ministry.
But not a house eh phil.
Estimate they will build 1000 houses over the next year….only 15666 short.
at 10 000 per year after 20 months they should have built 16666 houses.
this 1000 in 20 months will leave 99000 in 100 months left of the 10 years….ie 990 per month or 11880 per year
better hurry phil, cos at this rate (18 by september) you have a further 8 months to build
982, just to reach your 1000.
I am not confident and if I had to hire someone to organize this, any of the characters from Hannah Barbera (Yogi bear perhaps) would get the job before you.
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June 8, 2018 6:12pm
- Rodney Randall
  
  And look what Vichy National achieved.
  
  9/10th of sweet fark all.
  
  Handed the election to the commies.
  
  Can Kicker Key.
  
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  June 8, 2018 6:35pm
  - RW Capitalist
    
    I think the number was between 13000 and 16000 per year.
    A record house build, I believe.
    By largely leaving it to the private sector, instead of interfering.
    Don’t forget the head wind to over come, called the Auckland Council refusal to speed up and at one time they stopped, building permits and resource consents.
    
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    June 8, 2018 7:27pm
All_on_Red

So Tariffs don’t work huh so why does Canada have these tariffs on imports?
270% dairy
69.9% Sausage
57.8% Barely Seed
49% Durum Wheat
26.5% Bovine/Meat
18% Table Linen
Why did Canada create an “ingredient strategy” tariff in 2015?

To protect those important industries and curb US imports.
Free trade is good if it’s Fair Trade.
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June 8, 2018 6:24pm
All_on_Red

Latest stats for LONDON
Knife crime up 18%
Muggings up 30%
Youth homicide up 25%
Moped muggings up by 50% – average 60 a day.
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June 8, 2018 6:48pm
- Johnboy
  
  Moped muggings!! …That’s something we don’t have here. Our scum must be fit enough to run away with Granny’s handbag thanks to our healthy, sporting culture. 🙂
  
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  June 8, 2018 6:51pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    Nah, our scum move about in stolen Subarus.
    
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    June 8, 2018 8:19pm
All_on_Red

More than one out of every five federal prisoners is foreign-born, according to a joint report from the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security released on Thursday.

There were a total of 183,058 prisoners in Bureau of Prisons (BOP) custody as of Dec. 31, 2017, according to the government’s quarterly assessment.

Of those, 38,132 — or 21 percent — were known or suspected aliens. Nearly two-thirds of that foreign-born prison population did not have lawful immigration status, the DOJ/DHS report stated.
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June 8, 2018 6:50pm
Nostradamus

Dad doesn’t comment much these days and we haven’t had a meltdown on Kiwiblog for a while. Is Rodney Randall about to explode? He’s giving the block capitals a good work out…
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June 8, 2018 7:20pm
- Johnboy
  
  Dad’s depressed cause now Ritchie’s got his full licence he doesn’t give Dad free flights anymore while getting his hours up! 🙂
  
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  June 8, 2018 7:29pm
- Rodney Randall
  
  Kiwiblog – The Free Speech Blog!
  
  DPF: “Yeah… Free Speech is trending this week. Had to watch the numbers for a while. Might get brave and pop an article up by Prof. Moon to get the traffic cranking to Cherry Tree.”
  
  “Fuck Tommy Robinson, too hard basket. Mustn’t offend NZ Muslims being member of Press Council and All.”?
  
  “Isn’t Macron doing well?”
  
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  June 8, 2018 8:11pm
  - stigie
    
    We are long overdue for a fucking good meltdown, bring on the capitals Rodney.
    
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    June 8, 2018 8:38pm
    - nasska
      
      Don’t worry about offending us Rodney. Say it straight (in capitals to make it stand out) & let us know what you really think. Get it off your chest man!
      
      It’ll be therapeutic. 🙂
      
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      June 8, 2018 8:42pm
      - stigie
        
        Funny that, Dad was putting it on his chest !~
        
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        June 8, 2018 8:46pm
    - Rodney Randall
      
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      June 8, 2018 9:21pm
- Rodney Randall
  
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  June 8, 2018 9:19pm
niggly

A (true) tale of two TV news organisations and what they decide Kiwi’s should see!

Tonight TV3’s Newshub carried the Alan “F**k, I could f**king nail you up against the wall” Duff on-camera melt-down against a Spinoff journo (because he dared mentioned not everyone in NZ adores the PM Select) during their coverage of the Northcote by-election, including stating both the Labour candidate and the PM herself refused to comment.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/06/once-were-warriors-author-alan-duff-lashes-out-at-cameraman-at-labour-event.html

Meanwhile on TVNZLP (TV – NZ Labour Party) they very briefly covered the Northcote by-election and with NO mention of Alan Duff defending the PM Select by threatening GBH on a journo – their own kind even!

(TVNZLP’s news coverage was so lame anyway, they don’t appear to have bothered even putting up their brief news clip on their website)!

Yet again, more evidence of TVNZ’s bias protecting the reputation of Ardern and the NZ Labour Party, so that everyday Kiwi viewers remain covered in fairy dust and still smitten with the “people’s princess”!

Hello TVNZ – anyone home??!!! Don’t you strut around saying your job is to “speak truth to power” and to “hold the powerful to account”??? Are you really “TVNZ” or pretty much the “NZ Woman’s Weekly” nowadays???
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- RF
  
  Corruption……
  
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  June 8, 2018 9:50pm
MrTips

Sweden just activated its entire volunteer army, days after they sent out 4.8m notices to every home about what to do in the event of an attack or some type of national disturbance:
https://www.thelocal.se/20180606/sweden-mobilises-entire-home-guard-for-first-time-since-1975
Measure twice and cut once the Swedes do.
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June 8, 2018 8:28pm
nasska

How to be a good conservative:

1) You have to believe that government should stay out of people’s lives, except to regulate opposite-gender marriage & what form of birth control, if any, they should use.

2) You believe that those with views dissimilar to the majority may restrict the fair practice of those in the majority if their Skydaddy says so.

3) You oppose indoctrination of children in school but love it in church.

4) You love Jesus & Jesus loves you so you just know deep down in your tummy that Jesus shares your hatred of AIDS victims, homosexuals & liberals.
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June 8, 2018 8:29pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  The fuckwit tries to strike again, but misfires.
  
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  June 8, 2018 8:46pm
Monique Watson

I can leave you with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrXP5zoFxss

Bugger Off, you bastards, bugger off.
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June 8, 2018 10:16pm
Monique Watson

And:

“Five of the six alleged drink drivers were processed for excess breath alcohol between 390 mgms to 701 mgms.

Of those five, two – including a 55-year-old man who was arrested for breaching his bail conditions – received their third strike.”
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June 8, 2018 10:27pm
Monique Watson

The link:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12067144
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