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duggledog

What really gets me about this whole Sroubek debacle is this ‘very last chance’ thing.

‘You’re on your LAST CHANCE you naughty boy!!’

Reminds me of numerous parents I know who never disciplined their kids when they were small, because of Sue Bradford and now try to blame their teenager’s appalling behaviour on some bullshit ‘syndrome’ dreamed up by a psychologist.

It’s basically part of the reason nobody wants to be a teacher anymore. ‘If you do that ONE more time…’

No swift and meaningful consequences. And we’ll never put the genie back into the bottle.

The Chinese love it. They watch us floundering around, unable to address basic fundamentals that keep a society ticking over because the Progressives have wiped away any long-standing, successful traditions refined over thousands of years, like effective discipline.

Like I’ve said often enough on here, the Chinese will be back.
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November 4, 2018 8:00am
- Right of way is Way of Right
  
  Do you think we could arrange a celebrity kick boxing match between Sroubek and Dotcom? Winner gets to stay.
  
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  November 4, 2018 10:33am
  - calendar girl
    
    Nah, Sroubek v. Jethro if we can find him.
    
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    November 4, 2018 10:55am
- GoVege
  
  Of course, duggledog, beating the crap out of kids really works wonders.
  One of my nieces told me many years ago that her dad said I should give my cheeky 2nd son a hiding.
  My son’s doing fine now, got an honours degree and makes a fortune, whereas his cousin had learning difficulties brought on by fear of his father and is violent also.
  
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  November 4, 2018 4:22pm
SJ Actual

Interesting article about NZ First buried down the page on stuff.

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/108334129/nz-first-party-president-denies-laying-down-the-law-in-nelson

Perhaps linked to the leaking of the NZ First confidentiality contract??
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November 4, 2018 8:04am
- stephieboy
  
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  SJ Actual,
  
  “Perhaps linked ….”
  
  Perhaps not!
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:30am
  - pentwig
    
    why not steffiething
    tell us your thoughts
    LOL
    
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    November 4, 2018 9:23am
    - Tall Man
      
      Steffy girl…thought?
      
      You are giving her to much credit. All steffy girl does is spout the labour texts of the day, nothing more and nothing less.
      
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      November 4, 2018 10:02am
      - sooty
        
        Nothing between the ears either.
        
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        November 4, 2018 11:09am
      - pentwig
        
        TMan
        I just gave it a chance to tell us why it thought “perhaps not”
        Obviously far too difficult for the thing called steffieboy.
        How sad, never mind.
        
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        November 4, 2018 12:47pm
      - Sam
        
        When little boys are grown but remain single it informs all the other girls to stay away. The latter of which makes little boys very angry.
        
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        November 4, 2018 12:55pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @sam
        
        I gave you the uptick…
        
        Most sensible thing you’ve written on KB, to date.
        Keep up the good work.
        
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        November 4, 2018 2:19pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Ha ha. That’s funny.
  Love the reference to how easy it is for “Chinese whispers” to start.
  Also the boast about having several “ very well dressed “ young NZF members attending. How old fashioned is that.
  Leadership? No.
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:36am
  - Prince
    
    Imagine if anyone from the National Party talked about ‘Chinese whispers’… Oh the outrage.
    A ‘representative’ from the Chinese community complaining about inherent racism etc etc.
    Here it is buried half way down the article.
    
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    November 4, 2018 8:42am
    - igm
      
      What about that obese Labour messenger’s load of pathetic tripe in “Stuff”?
      Gnashers must have promised the cow a PR position when Fairfax close their rags down.
      
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      November 4, 2018 8:51am
      - Woz
        
        Are you referring to the Watkins kool-aid induced vomitfest on the Labour Party conference?
        
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        November 4, 2018 9:24am
      - Tricati
        
        It’s so bloody nauseating – every article Watkins writes has been a puff piece over Ardern, and what a great job she is doing for NZ.
        Clearly Watkins is after a job, or she is in another world to the rest of us.
        
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        November 4, 2018 10:25am
      - peterwn
        
        Re Tracy Watkins – she seems sane and reasonable compared with Stuff’s Verity Johnson who tried to tell Judith Collins over the Kiwibuild business. Her ‘opinion’ covered a major portion of the DomPost’s editorial page the other day. I have news for you, Verity – It was no ‘petty rant’ as you put it but a well aimed attack on Labour’s Kiwibuild policy. What is surprising is Phil Twyford and his (and Jacinda’s) did not see it coming. They painted a target on their backsides and Judith aimed right for it. Far from a ‘petty rant’ one expects opposition MP’s to hold the Government to account for its stupidity and that is just what Judith did.
        
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        November 4, 2018 3:00pm
    - BananaLlama
      
      They need to stop bowing to political correctness if they want to get away with it like NZF whose voters and supporters simply don’t care. If you refuse to apologise they lose power over you.
      
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      November 4, 2018 10:10am
  - Keeping Stock
    
    “Young NZF members” are those under 65.
    
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    November 4, 2018 9:14am
    - artemisia
      
      Last election there was focus on showing voters there were some young members of NZ First. One photo opp showed a group of them bunched in a corridor. They were all well under 65 but there were not many of them.
      
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      November 4, 2018 9:42am
- peterwn
  
  Winnie must be concerned if he sent Brian Henry along presumably to lay down the law. I doubt Brian would have spent a day on this as a labour of love. The exercise would have cost into four figures, so the threat to NZF must have been pretty serious.
  
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  November 4, 2018 3:57pm
starboard

Good morning all from Phuket
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November 4, 2018 8:04am
- Swifty
  
  Sawadee krap
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:09am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Phuk you too.
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:12am
- DJ Ward
  
  My 1/2 brother was staying with his boyfriends father, who lives in a small village, went to a local food joint. Some local girls offered them BJ’s for $5.
  
  I guess seeing 2 early 20’s foreign males together was a sure bet to them. They were disappointed they weren’t interested in the offer.
  
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  November 4, 2018 9:27am
  - starboard
    
    Phooo 5 bucks is cheap. As I understand it “cough” err, a spit and polish is usually around 20 bucks nz.
    
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    November 4, 2018 2:59pm
I've been to Mecca and you have not!

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Salaam Kiwibloggers.

Do try to be nice today.

🙂
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November 4, 2018 8:06am
- Swifty
  
  What are you talking about – we’re nice everyday.
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:11am
- softail 1450
  
  Mecca,,,NO.
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:15am
- simpleton1
  
  Will you be nice to Asia Bibi?
  Would you be out protesting on the streets, loving her so much that you make the government put her on “exit control list”?
  
  Pakistan works to stop Asia Bibi leaving after blasphemy protests
  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/02/outrage-as-pakistani-government-vows-to-stop-asia-bibi-leaving
  
  Can you deny Mohammad’s points about blasphemy?
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:30am
- kowtow
  
  Yep it’s a pretty vicious world.
  
  ‘Hundreds of Egyptian Coptic Christians gathered Saturday for a funeral service south of Cairo to bid farewell to six of seven people killed the previous day when militants ambushed three buses carrying pilgrims on their way to a remote desert monastery.’
  
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/03/egypts-coptic-christians-bury-dead-shooting-attack/
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:32am
- Tall Man
  
  Molested any babies this morning to assuage your moslem needs?
  
  Married a 9 year old today?
  
  Pushed a poof of a building?
  
  Sent a retarded young girl into the markets to blow innocent people up?
  
  How about stoned a couple of blaspheming women to death?
  
  Still plenty of time eh?
  
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  November 4, 2018 10:06am
- peterwn
  
  שלום
  
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  November 4, 2018 1:06pm
Pete George

A Dermot Nottingham update – over the last week or so he has failed in two bids seeking leave to appeal with the Court of Appeal (four respondents, myself, APN, Allied Press and Lynn Prentice).

His record in litigation has been abysmal, as has the way he has conducted litigation, with numerous breaches of law, court rules and timetables. The courts are dealing to him now but not stopping him – he currently has three appeals to the Supreme Court in the system after previous failures.

In my opinion and experience (over three years) the courts have been far too lenient with him. Just in the one Court of Appeal proceeding he:
– filed his application seeking leave to appeal out of time
– failed to file a submission as directed by a judge to give reasons for applying out of time
– failed to file his submission as Applicant by the due date
– after being told he had not filed by the court he set his own timetable
– he finally filed his submission after both respondents had filed our submissions on time
– two hours prior to the appeal hearing he filed another submission.

None of this was addressed. I believe that the courts should demand reasonable standards of conduct from lay litigators – their current laxity is patently unfair on targets of vexatious litigation, and it wastes a lot of court time and resources.

https://yournz.org/2018/11/03/nottingham-fails-again-in-court-of-appeal-judicial-system-faltering/
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November 4, 2018 8:08am
- Chuck Bird
  
  “I believe that the courts should demand reasonable standards of conduct from lay litigators – their current laxity is patently unfair on targets of vexatious litigation, and it wastes a lot of court time and resources.”
  
  I agree. I have been the victim of one. However, it is a balance. People should be able to represent themselves but there should be some logic and merit in their claim. In my case, the judge accepted and illegible scrawl from a retired lawyer.
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:14am
  - Pete George
    
    In my case there have been I think 13 hearings (failed private prosecution, costs and three appeals). I initially had counsel but when it was obvious the case was hopeless I took the risk of representing myself – a steep learning curve).
    
    I and Allied Press always filed on time. Nottingham rarely filed on time, and was often quite late – right from the start his disclosure, required by law within 15 working days, took 3 and a half months which included ignoring court timetables and admitting deliberately withholding it. On quite a few occasions he filed submissions the night before, the morning of, two hours before and even during (twice) hearings. And the courts did nothing about it.
    
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    November 4, 2018 8:23am
    - G152
      
      Why didn’t the judge throw his claims out and declare him a vexatious litigant ???
      
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      November 4, 2018 8:28am
      - Pete George
        
        Good question, but this was criminal proceedings (a private prosecution) and I think that declaring a litigant vexatious applies more to civil proceedings.
        
        But multiple courts – District Courts (Auckland and Dunedin), the High Court and the Court of Appeal have all given him a lot of leniency, which has made things much harder and more costly for those he has harassed through the courts.
        
        Effectively the courts have aided and abetted his vexatious litigation.
        
        And as he has now admitted being insolvent and claims to have debts of $2m (a quarter of a million in unpaid court costs) he appears to have no means and no intent of paying costs.
        
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        November 4, 2018 8:33am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      Pete, have you asked for security of costs?
      
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      November 4, 2018 8:53am
      - Pete George
        
        As far as I’m aware you can only do that in civil cases, so doesn’t apply for me in criminal proceedings.
        
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        November 4, 2018 8:55am
    - Chuck Bird
      
      “And as he has now admitted being insolvent and claims to have debts of $2m (a quarter of a million in unpaid court costs) ”
      
      Pete, have you been in contact with the other parties? If one or more of you take action you can make his an adjudicated bankrupt. This will make it more difficult for him to initiate legal action.
      
      In my case I worked with 2 other parties who were represented. This helped a lot although the bar is too to get someone ruled a vexatious litigant.
      
      We exchanged information and documents.
      
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      November 4, 2018 9:32am
      - Pete George
        
        One part owed over a hundred thousand in costs has already had him adjudicated bankrupt.
        
        HONEY v NOTTINGHAM [2018] NZHC 2382 [11 September 2018]
        
        I and others owed outstanding costs were involved in that.
        
        The Court of Appeal proceedings were started before he was adjudicated bankrupt.
        
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        November 4, 2018 9:46am
      - Jack5
        
        This report of bankruptcy is easier to follow for us lay folk:
        
        https://autofile.co.nz/dermot-nottingham-declared-bankrupt-
        
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        November 4, 2018 9:52am
- freethinker
  
  I agree and the same if not tighter restrictions should be enforced on the Lawyers and ADLS.
  
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  November 4, 2018 1:08pm
Monique Watson

On the way to rehab I ran over my neighbour’s cat.
I went to the door and told him.
“I thought cats had nine lives”, he said.
That’s the problem”, I said.
“I ran over it nine times”.
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November 4, 2018 8:10am
- Biscuit
  
  ‘Rehab’, Monique?
  
  Has Jacinda’s ‘Re-education’ begun already?
  
  Remember ‘1984’?:
  
  “He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother…”
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:16am
  - stephieboy
    
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    Biscuit,
    
    Remember ‘1984’?:
    
    Did you ever read it?
    
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    November 4, 2018 8:32am
    - Biscuit
      
      Yep, stephieboy.
      
      And I saw the film that had Richard Burton in it, too – his best-ever role, I often thought.
      
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      November 4, 2018 8:49am
    - Tall Man
      
      You continually demonstrate what a twat you are, excellent labour material.
      
      Is Ardern a liar?
      
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      November 4, 2018 10:09am
  - Monique Watson
    
    Read it when I was 12. That and Daphne Du Maurier which are compulsory reading material for my kids as young teens. I wonder if Ardern has studied anything but the Communist Manifesto in depth.
    The cat story isn’t entirely true btw. I didn’t drive myself to rehab.
    
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    November 4, 2018 8:35am
    - stephieboy
      
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      Monique Watson, but she is not a commie nor a card-carrying member of a communist party.
      
      Clown!
      
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      November 4, 2018 8:41am
      - Vory v zakone
        
        Fuck off Ralph. Scuttle off down to St Albans and start scrubbing the floors you degenerate old cock smoker
        
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        November 4, 2018 8:52am
      - pentwig
        
        steffiething
        you great big bully you!
        
        LOL
        
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        November 4, 2018 9:38am
      - Tall Man
        
        Well steffy girl, your bitchiness is to the fore today.
        
        Is Ardern a liar?
        
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        November 4, 2018 10:10am
    - Biscuit
      
      Monique told an untruth?
      
      You gunning for pre-selection for Labour in the next General Election, Monique?
      
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      November 4, 2018 8:51am
    - wiseowl
      
      Monique
      If you do like cats have a look at simonscat.com
      You will wet your pants laughing……….maybe
      
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      November 4, 2018 8:55am
      - jcuk
        
        Sadly wiseowl’s link is not a link
        I remember a wonderful French booklet where cat was found in vaious word and cartooned.
        ie Chateau Brian with cat sliced on a plate and so on 🙂
        
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        November 4, 2018 9:17am
- Komata
  
  Monique:
  
  Welcome back. Your absence was noted with some concern…
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:40am
  - Monique Watson
    
    Yeah, my phone was in lock up Komata. For six weeks would you believe. Looks like nothing much changed on the political landscape since I was gone though. Oh yeah. Baby North Star has a red hat. Big fucking deal.
    
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    November 4, 2018 9:00am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Welcome back Monique. ?
      
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      November 4, 2018 9:18am
    - holysheet
      
      Were you with the phone in lockup?
      Did they jail you for your last DIC?
      You can tell us here, we are all your friends.
      Reading between the lines of course as Cindy has suggested we all do.
      
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      November 4, 2018 10:03am
      - Monique Watson
        
        No DUI’s Holysheet. And the liver is fine. Thanks for asking. Lost the license though temporarily due to a medical condition that alcohol withdrawal causes.
        Too much of a good thing became dangerous three months ago.
        Actually two years ago. Little known fact is that alcohol withdrawal can kill. I’m just happy I got this in my 40’s. I’m Day 43 in Camp Rehab in Sonoma. It’s been a blast. Mixture of rustic and luxury and I don’t have to cook.
        Five kids. A wonderful husband and I’ve survived a traumatic brain injury twelve years ago that paralyzed me.
        Great day to be alive and I’m off to Bodega Bay for dinner. Then home to my kids and dog.
        
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        November 4, 2018 11:31am
      - holysheet
        
        Good to hear you are Ok.
        Now get out and vote for the republicans.
        MAGA, and more importantly, put the stinking lefties in the gutter where they came from.
        
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        November 4, 2018 12:24pm
    - toby1845
      
      Welcome back Monique. We have missed your funny comments. All the best for the future.
      
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      November 5, 2018 1:38am
- krazykiwi
  
  Welcome back Monique. Hope life is bright and shiny for you after a break. Same old same old around here, as you’ll see 🙂
  
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  November 4, 2018 9:15am
Justitia

Well said duggledog. The Chinese are not only back, they’re on our doorstep having just signed Niue and the Cooks up to their team. While these islands are self-governing “in free association” with New Zealand, I thought we were responsible for their foreign relations and defence? So we now have China projecting its power to our immediate north in the South Pacific and to our immediate south in the Ross Sea, as well as buying its way into our two main political parties. Nothing to be alarmed about of course….luckily there are no Uighurs here…
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November 4, 2018 8:11am
- Happychappy
  
  Immigration, Mental Health, Kiwi build and Chinnese influence in the Islands creating heat on the Coalition from hell in the Media today and a kick in the guts to Winston with his bribes of giving more money to try and stay in control. Jacindas promise to fix the suicide rate in our youth has turned out to be just all talk and no substance as the rate keeps climbing. Then we have a corrupt media that has only one thing on its mind and that is to keep Jacinda profile up with a stardust agenda instead of holding her and Labour to account.
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:35am
  - Tall Man
    
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2018/11/Otaki-principal-calls-out-dhb-over-lack-of-support-after-student-s-suicide.html
    
    Remember the strident calls from the horse faced bitch about suicide…”Let’s do this”, “all National’s fault”.
    
    Well, what now bitch?
    
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    November 4, 2018 10:00am
    - Tricati
      
      And Ardern’s mob removed funding from the Rural Support Trust that aided farmers suffering mental illness, and given the stress this COL has placed on farming, I’m calling bullshit on her claims of ‘a caring society for all’.
      
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      November 4, 2018 10:30am
      - sooty
        
        Only her part of society!
        
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        November 4, 2018 11:17am
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        But aren’t farmers rich pricks (and mainly men)?
        So who cares.
        //
        
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        November 4, 2018 12:35pm
      - waikatogirl
        
        Yes, she did. They are raising funding themselves for the care of those farmers in danger of committing suicide. A young farmer who did kill himself had a black dog, which is now the mascot for the cause. The ebony black Hunterway, is to lead a ‘Bark Off’ in Hunterville, the home of the hunterway to raise money to help farmers help their own.
        
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        November 4, 2018 12:57pm
      - sam green
        
        “And Ardern’s mob removed funding from the Rural Support Trust ”
        
        ????? No they didn’t. Stop the lies Tricati.
        
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        November 4, 2018 10:29pm
- Harkman
  
  Here’s a funny one for you. I munched my USB stick about 2-3 weeks ago and couldn’t get certain MS Office files to open, they just would say “corrupted” and wouldn’t open. So I went to one Chinese guy, “I do for you $150 per file.” Considering I’d lost numerous files, it didn’t sound like a good deal. So I went around the town to data recovery expert after data recovery expert that would only charge if they found the files, which sounded better and nothing. So I went back to the original Chinese guy, then he called up wanting my laptop because they’d screen the hard drive for historic saved for too. So last night at 10-11PM I was at some Chinese guys home/office because he wanted to identify any files found. Anyhow he had someone on the other side of the world screening the laptop and USB stick. And they did find some older saved files from February, something no one else could do. So I asked him if he had friends in special places, he nodded his head. He told me he had a 24 hour a day business with people in Australia and the US (and obviously China). I asked him who taught him and his “friends” to do all this because they certainly are A grade and he more or less told me the Chinese govt. Ha I LMAO, they’re everywhere. There’s a digital cold war going on and we may have already lost.
  
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  November 4, 2018 9:29am
  - Harkman
    
    BTW the Chinese guy also told me that Facebook isn’t safe. “Poor encryption”
    
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    November 4, 2018 9:30am
    - G152
      
      Tell us something that we don’t already know.
      As are most of the media platforms we use daily
      
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      November 4, 2018 9:39am
      - Harkman
        
        I actually don’t use Facebook, but this guy seemed disturbed by their weaknesses. Seems odd considering we were all sold the myth Zuckerberg and concluded were the smartest kids at Harvard.
        
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        November 4, 2018 10:00am
    - Paulus
      
      Twitter too I am told.
      Don’t go near either if you want a measure of security.
      
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      November 4, 2018 2:03pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    When your phone/laptop/tablet crashes… take it to any young Indian, Chinese, Korean, East European.
    
    They’ve been pulling the things apart and reassembling them since they were weaned.
    
    (Yonks ago.. I was delivering some of my school’s hockey boys home after an evening game… they couldn’t believe I didn’t have a car radio installed….
    next day (saturday), there’s a knock at my door and young Indian student tells me he’s got a radio to install in my car… so I take him out to the garage and let him start wiring it in…. decide to tell hubby what’s happening (Ph.D – Physics)… Hubby goes berserk, rushes down to the garage… then goes very quiet, and mutters to me… he knows what he’s doing.
    Exactly, I thought!)
    
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    November 4, 2018 10:25am
    - Jack5
      
      In the early desktop computer days, when NZ had a 40 per cent duty on imports of them, Kiwis were notably adapt at hardware hacking and adaptation.
      
      But, as with other technology, as devices progress and become easier to use, you need less knowledge. In early radio days, kids made crystal set radios and knew about valves and wave lengths. Who spends time on making a radio when you can get a workable tiny one for $5 or $6?
      
      Britain has a great scheme, run by the BBC, for giving all 11-year-olds Micro Bits, basic computers similar to the Raspberry Pi. These lure those with aptitude into the technical digital technology world.
      
      If you want to find the hacker kids in NZ who are tech-capable like the young Indians Maggy talks of, you don’t go to the regular schoolrooms. Look at the rebels and alternative-school kids and others who will likely drop out of tertiary education, like most of the great technology industry pioneers, such as Gates and Jobs. There are plenty of these kids.
      
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      November 4, 2018 11:43am
- kowtow
  
  And yet our media obsess about all things Trump.
  
  You really have to wonder , are they shit , shallow , followers, activists , what ?
  
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  November 4, 2018 9:36am
  - Tall Man
    
    They all “aspire” to greater things in the party in the future. Most are shallow and stupid, much like “steffy girl”.
    
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    November 4, 2018 10:14am
- Jack5
  
  We could easily cut off open entry to NZ for Cook Islanders and people from Niue if they want to play us off against China.
  
  Jacinderella’s Dad, Ross, is the High Commissioner in Niue. He could deliver the message.
  
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  November 4, 2018 10:38am
  - gump
    
    They are NZ citizens and have NZ passports.
    
    How exactly are you proposing to cut off entry?
    
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    November 4, 2018 11:33am
    - Jack5
      
      If a territory adopts a separate foreign policy and behaves like an independent country, obviously the law should be changed on citizenship.
      
      Happens not infrequently. Czechoslavakia splits into two countries, Yugoslavia into several. Bangladesh splits from Pakistan.
      
      New Zealanders were once British citizens.
      
      Right of entry to New Zealand is a national asset that should be used in relations with Pacific island countries.
      
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      November 4, 2018 12:59pm
      - Justitia
        
        The Cooks have floated the idea from time to time they might apply to join the UN and it has been made clear to them they will no longer be entitled to NZ passports in that event. This has given them pause for thought. They are continually pushing the boundaries however and they and Niue are a risk to NZ’s good reputation, or whatever remains of it.
        
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        November 4, 2018 3:24pm
- backster
  
  Winston has given the inhabitants of these nations full entitlement to NZ Pensions. Maybe the Chinese will relieve us of that burden.
  
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  November 4, 2018 1:20pm
  - Jack5
    
    What Backster is talking about.
    
    The rules which came into effect on July 1, 2015, residents of Cook Islands, Niue, and Tokelau are eligible for NZ pensions is they were resident in NZ for at least 10 years after they turned 20, and spent at least five of those years in NZ after age 50.
    
    So the rules were introduced under National. Backster, are you saying that these rules have now been extended?
    
    Ardern seems to have extended rights to eligible pensioners living in these islands (second link below).
    
    Is anyone able to give us a clear picture?
    
    https://www.workandincome.govt.nz/eligibility/seniors/superannuation/cook-islands-niue-and-tokelau-portability.html#null
    
    AND
    
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/03/jacinda-ardern-announces-more-pacific-islanders-to-get-nz-pension.html
    
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    November 4, 2018 1:33pm
Nukuleka

I have been pretty positive about the Lime Scooters whizzing all over the roads and footpaths of Christchurch but after being woken at 4.00 am by a bunch of Lime Scooter employees in the business of very noisily collecting the discarded scooters I am changing my tune. Their response to my request that they quieten down their shouting and just take their scooters in their collection vehicle and leave and stop waking up the neighbourhood was to turn aggressive and threatening. ‘We know where you live’ and all that belligerent nonsense. Upshot is that when I got up at this morning I see my letterbox has now been vandalised. Thanks Lime Scooters
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November 4, 2018 8:11am
- krazykiwi
  
  Daughter, who is a lawyer, took a Lime scooter out yesterday. Her comments: Fun, really dangerous, can’t imagine the scale of liability insurance Lime would need if operating in the States.
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:37am
- Woz
  
  I hope you are complaining loudly to Lime about this.
  
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  November 4, 2018 9:33am
- Harkman
  
  Yesterday, near the bottom of Columbo Street I drove past an “Esaver” van with like 5-6 loaded in the back. People must be being paid to collect them up. Anyhow around town last night younger folks are getting drunk and racing them around while recording themselves, it’s the new buzz. ?
  
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  November 4, 2018 9:36am
  - Viking2
    
    Just been in Detroit and Philadelphia and scooters and bikes are every where. Also cars that you can grab and go place to place. Its coming.
    Seems to work although scooters are left anywhere.
    
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    November 4, 2018 9:59am
lifesgood

What planet does space cadet John Armstrong of the Herald live on? Obviously a bright red one. His grading of ministers would be laughable if not utterly depressing. In nearly every case he gets it completely wrong…Jacinda 9/10 for Pete’s sake!
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November 4, 2018 8:14am
- Biscuit
  
  lifesgood, I see those dolts in the media who are so keen to ‘rate’ other folk – and not just in politics: in sport too – and often wonder how loudly they would whimper if we were able to similarly ‘rate’ them…
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:22am
  - Shaun the Sheep
    
    Are there enough numbers on the scale with a minus in front?
    
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    November 4, 2018 12:40pm
- Pete George
  
  That’s from 1 News:
  https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/john-armstrong-s-opinion-rating-ministers-in-labour-nz-first-cabinet
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:28am
- septic skeptic
  
  All it takes is a few beers to turn a 5 into a solid 9.
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:34am
  - sooty
    
    John Armstrong is hanging on trying to last the distance till the newspaper folds and he gets his redunancy payment.
    
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    November 4, 2018 8:45am
  - Tall Man
    
    Or a couple of toothy selfies…..
    
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    November 4, 2018 10:17am
- Harkman
  
  See Robo yesterday? They’re planning a diversion for cold, internationally standardized measurements (GDP, incomes in USD) to how happy dole bludgers are. They know the figures next year won’t be good and they need a distraction. What’s the bet One News and the MSN shallows this hook, line and sinker? I bet the Guardian will applaud them, which One News will further use to applaud the nonsense.
  
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  November 4, 2018 9:45am
  - Viking2
    
    Actually think that if they get this right (and they probably won’t first up), its not a bad idea.
    If they use Bill English’s data idea’s then we should be able to learn a lot more about ourselves and what is needed. GDP is a crock of shit and forever has been.
    Its just a measure of the money go round and nothing else. It doesn’t tell us if we are betting better, if people are better off nor does it tell us as Kiwi’s if we are getting wealthier as a country. which of course we aren’t.
    Lets wait and see.
    
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    November 4, 2018 10:03am
    - KevOB
      
      GDP for what it measures is a useful international economic activity comparison. The COL are just seeking a diversion. Poohbah doesn’t understand the numbers anyway.
      
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      November 4, 2018 12:16pm
- Kiwi Dave
  
  Though a 9/10 score is risible in terms of administration and policy, Armstrong is mostly right in claiming, ‘The public is entranced with her.’ So long as that is the case, a high rating is inevitable.
  
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  November 4, 2018 9:49am
- Piniwi
  
  Right lifesgood the poor old sod is back on the Koolaide from what we might have arrived ahead of the Labour talk-fest this weekend. Obviously it was all part of the preparations to quickly make sure the Media party key supporters are all “plugged into” the intended message. In the absence of any good to report Armstrong did his bit with can only be an internal rating scale. Good for laugh though.
  
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  November 4, 2018 3:03pm
duggledog

Labour is the Big Red Shed
Destroys small businesses.
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November 4, 2018 8:16am
- sooty
  
  The Royal NZ Herald was once a large business, now its not so big!
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:47am
  - G152
    
    The trouble is that when they go under there’s lots of trades people who will become redundant and through no fault of their own.
    The editors though are the rats in the woodpile in this case.
    They decree what is going to be printed
    
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    November 4, 2018 9:42am
    - septic skeptic
      
      Said tradies should see the writing on the wall and diversify.
      
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      November 4, 2018 9:57am
      - sooty
        
        Wouldnt have thought there was many tradies left in newspapers! Trained monkeys and keyboard worriers.
        
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        November 4, 2018 11:26am
    - peterwn
      
      No sympathy for the tradies since it was their union who started interfering with editorial policy leading to the situation where tho owners are expected to but out of editorial policy. Look what happened when mining heiress Gina Rinehart purchased a chunk of Fairfax and want a board seat. She was basically told to butt out.
      
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      November 4, 2018 1:44pm
artemisia

So not much demand for the new Kiwibuild Wanaka homes, to the point that the developer has asked for the time for ballots to be extended. 20 ballot entries received, and some places have no entries at all. It is probable that some have entered for more than one place. This happened with the McLennan development where it was reported that shortly before ballots closed there were 55 unique entrants but 650 entries.

What happens to developers and their subbies if some don’t sell? Is there something in the contract with the government that covers them? If not they, and other developers, will be very wary of further development.

http://www.odt.co.nz/regions/queenstown/northlake-ballot-extended
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November 4, 2018 8:17am
- artemisia
  
  And speaking of the McLennan development Ms Collins tabled some photos in the House last week at OQT showing the temporary ‘security fix’ done by Housing NZ. This was for a tenant burgled with intent to rape, and apparently involved duct tape.
  
  Can someone point me to where these pics might be available? Had a look, couldn’t find, probably looking in the wrong place.
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:23am
- krazykiwi
  
  Demand too low? Perhaps the minister could throw in a lifetime supply of ski passes and cases of chardonnay .. to really connect with the target market
  
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  November 4, 2018 9:09am
- gump
  
  There’s almost no meaningful work available in Wanaka other than in the construction trades.
  
  I’m not surprised that people aren’t rushing in to secure properties. No point in buying a house if you can’t service the mortgage.
  
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  November 4, 2018 11:38am
  - GazzaW
    
    The Wanaka Kiwibuilds would make great Air BnBs. I wonder how long they will sit empty for before Twyford has to sell them off to the highest bidder who will probably be someone with a Chinese sounding name.
    
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    November 4, 2018 4:58pm
- Piniwi
  
  Amusing artemisia we may well expect there is an option for HNZ to “buy” any of these shiny new houses that do not attract private buyers. Just as we might suspect this would be part of the secret agreement to prop up failing developments. Remember HNZ have an even more direct line to any additional funding they require by doing their own borrowing. No extra funding need be sought from the normal channels but Twyford will sure take credit twice. Firstly for the success of Kiwibuild and secondly for increasing housing stock in which ever order suits the audience he is addressing. The Wanaka failure indicates that in the price point they have ended up rising to there are only a limited number of buyers willing to compromise on location. It is far from their kiwi dream to be surrounded by state houses not only threatening their peaceful dreaming but limited potential resale prospects. That is more like getting on the real estate ladder and moving down instead up the ladder.
  
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  November 4, 2018 3:23pm
simpleton1

Freed to be killed by righteous riotous muslims!
A wonderful Pakistan government where the muslim judges acquitted Asia Bibi prove to be wonderful muslims, but just not muslim enough.
yeah right. Even the defence lawyer has fled overseas.

Pakistan’s government has been accused of signing the “death warrant” of Asia Bibi after it said it would begin the process of preventing her leaving the country. ….

The ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) administration signed an agreement with the anti-blasphemy group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) on Friday night, giving in to many of its demands in the face of massive, countrywide protests calling for Bibi to be put to death. …..

……. It also pledged to work in the meantime to put her name on the exit control list (ECL) which would prevent her leaving the country. ……

Afzal Qadri told the Guardian “the government has almost accepted our maximum demands” and that if it backtracked “we can come [out on the streets] again”. …. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/nov/02/outrage-as-pakistani-government-vows-to-stop-asia-bibi-leaving

It seems that muslims are applying justice as Mohammad (the most perfect man to follow) would wish.
Can one deny Mohammad?
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November 4, 2018 8:20am
- Swifty
  
  I deny him.
  
  The whole thing was made up by Arab Bedouin men, for men, and to control others.
  
  In this it has been quite successful to date – but it is long overdue to call it for the bullshit, and great evil, that it is.
  
  There, that’s my good deed for the day.
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:30am
- Justitia
  
  Lees Galloway could salvage some tiny part of his laughing-stock reputation if he immediately offered Asia Bibi asylum and refugee status in New Zealand. But as she is not a muslim or a drug dealer she doesn’t meet the criteria…
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:32am
  - simpleton1
    
    Can only really work if we do not have muslims here, as some can be deemed not to be on the right side of muslim laws.
    
    A murder in a democratic first world country.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Asad_Shah
    Sadly the shop keeper was not muslim enough.
    “Because orthodox Sunni Muslims believe that Muhammad was the final prophet, Ahmed regarded Shah’s claims as blasphemous and disrespectful to Islam.”
    Who can deny Mohammad’s guidance, actions and deeds.
    
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    November 4, 2018 8:46am
  - holysheet
    
    You left out the qualification of being able to run a sex camp infested by predatory sons of politicians.
    
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    November 4, 2018 10:06am
- stephieboy
  
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  simpleton1, well-chosen alias! And thank you for sourcing much maligned MSM!
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:35am
  - simpleton1
    
    Are you denying Mohammad?
    
    since Muhammad is no longer alive, forgiveness is not possible when Muhammad is blasphemed, and the Muslim community must punish his blasphemy by avenging blasphemer’s death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_blasphemy
    
    The problem is that democratic governments should not be recognized if they do not abide by muslim laws.
    
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    November 4, 2018 8:55am
  - Vory v zakone
    
    He’s got more clues than you Ralphie. You will always be known as the King of the ILLITERATE and IGNORANT asswipes of Mt Eden
    
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    November 4, 2018 8:57am
  - simpleton1
    
    So CNN oK?
    
    The terms of the TLP agreement, reached Friday night, include a pledge by the government not to oppose an application by movement members to add Bibi to a list preventing her from leaving the country.
    
    So the deal of putting her on the “exit control list” is done ! and stephieboy seems to support righteous riotous muslims ! in accepting the teachings, sayings, guidance, by deeds and actions of Mohammad, a most perfect man.
    
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    November 4, 2018 9:05am
  - Tall Man
    
    Not many ticks to go steffy girl but I reckon at least 10 swing voters have left your ill informed bilious labour camp and joined with the coming tide that will sweep your pathetic party back to the 25% they deserve.
    
    Is Ardern a liar?
    
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    November 4, 2018 10:23am
Lee C

I think it is imperative to the grand scheme of things that no one actually tells Ardern how incompetent she is.

Otherwise how else can she be ‘Chief Incompetent’.

For pity’s sake, we have a situation where she and Twyford are breathing sighs of relief over the lack of blowback over the stupid photo-shoot at the first ‘kiwibuild’ because the incompetence of Galloway is taking the heat off them.

Armstrong merely does our work for us.

Unwittingly, of course, and therein is the crux of this whole media/CoL Dunnings-Kruger f**kfest.
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November 4, 2018 8:20am
- stephieboy
  
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  Lee C, do something useful for a change by sending her a letter reminding her.
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:37am
  - Tall Man
    
    Is Ardern a liar?
    
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    November 4, 2018 10:24am
    - gump
      
      Did National raise our net government debt from $10 billion to over $60 billion between 2008 and 2016?
      
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      November 4, 2018 11:42am
      - Tall Man
        
        Sure did but they probably shouldn’t have should they? I mean in times of a global crisis the first thing they should have stopped was paying a benefit to a useless prick like you but hey, I guess they were too soft to tell you to go fuck yourself.
        
        And don’t get me started on uninsured Christchurch earthquake victims, like labour probably would have, National under Sir John Key should have told them to fuck off.
        
        You really need to think before you post those little snippets that labour HQ text you because like the bug you are, they are easy to squash.
        
        By the way…
        
        Is Ardern a liar?
        
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        November 4, 2018 3:30pm
    - sam green
      
      Answer the question short girl.
      
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      November 4, 2018 2:49pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Jeez little sammy boy, you’re an impatient little tosser aren’t you?
        
        So labour HQ has decided to send two little boys to do man’s job and try to have a crack at me because you are all too soft to answer the question,
        
        Is Ardern a liar?
        
        Anyway, I’ve been far too busy this morning counting my fortune, swimming in the heated pool and devising more ways to exploit the poor. All you have to do is sit on your lazy arse and post little snippets from labour HQ. You should be nicer to me though as my exorbitant taxes pay your benefit.
        
        Is Ardern a liar?
        
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        November 4, 2018 3:34pm
      - sam green
        
        Are you a short girl? Answer the question troll.
        
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        November 4, 2018 10:33pm
softail 1450

Lifesgood, Id have to dissagree L G ,at lying,sidestepping,misspeaking,bullshitting ,and pulling the wool I would give Ardern 10/10.
Perhaps the fool Armstrong was grading those achievements, or is there another trip to Europe on air force 1 coming up that he wants to be on?
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November 4, 2018 8:21am
- sooty
  
  Christmas shopping?
  
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  November 4, 2018 11:28am
- Paulus
  
  ASEAN meeting this month in PNG.
  757 might just abut make it with a fuel top up in Darwin, if it does not break down again.
  Is Bubba going too ? – but not sure that Jethro is still around ? perhaps she will just go for the day for the photoshoot.
  Then to Europe – ex Paris Climate talkfest and photoshoot in Poland later in the months.
  Then Santa will be with her.
  
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  November 4, 2018 2:15pm
- Piniwi
  
  Perhaps softail 1450 we might expect in the fullness of time it will be labeled the “Ardern response style” a bit like the Freudian slip is so commonly used for so many slips of the lip. Or a little more direct by the alternative Oh it’s OK they just have a case of “Ardern Mouth” since it has become the norm for her.
  
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  November 4, 2018 3:48pm
- toby1845
  
  I recall that John Armstrong has a history of substance abuse, including the white stuff.
  
  What is it with Labour and cocaine? Stephie? Sam Green? Care to enlighten us?
  
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  November 5, 2018 2:04am
Liberty

Has Comrade Ardern just given Galloway ’s Sir Humphrey the DCM?
In the grand plan underlings are expendable.
Stalin will be happy on his cloud.
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November 4, 2018 8:22am
- CHFR1
  
  Apparently he was at Dunedin airport last night looking sad. One of my colleagues put out the most pathetic Facebook reminding us he has kids and we need to be nice to him. FFS he is one of the nastiest in parliament and I say if he can dish it out he can bloody well take it back.
  
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  November 4, 2018 9:46am
  - sooty
    
    Running out early?
    No one would talk to him!
    Curran, Muss, Megan and Kelvin were dancing in the streets, they have been released from whitless protection.
    
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    November 4, 2018 11:32am
Chuck Bird

What has not been made clear by anyone is if the claim by HDA is totally true. Would the 108 cases be just those case where someone has appealed their deportation? If this case the criminal would have been deported if his lawyer did not appeal the deportation order. Maybe the system needs to change and the Court decides these cases and not a Minister.

Labour and NZF have mentioned cases where the person has committed very serious crimes without giving details. If someone gets here with no passport or is from a country in civil war like Syria they cannot realistically be deported.

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Immigration Minister needs to go

These decisions come up more frequently than you might think. They came up 108 times for the last Immigration Minister. He was in the job nearly five years. Which means he made tough immigration calls like this every three weeks.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12153965
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November 4, 2018 8:30am
- sooty
  
  Yes, Iagree he needs to go! The trouble is there will be no cabinet reshuffle before monday morning. He should not be there.
  Sack him NOW!
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:53am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    He could stand in the hallway behind a pillar pretending to being included in cabinet; have to be a big pillar because there is Curran, Davis and the labour party ‘Here’s Wally’ team there already.
    
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    November 4, 2018 9:13am
    - G152
      
      He’ll stand behind the minister for munchies and be totally invisible
      
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      November 4, 2018 9:44am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I wouldn’t mind a couple more days of amusement during oral question time.
    Let’s all see what new information has come to light over the weekend.
    
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    November 4, 2018 9:48am
- Paulus
  
  Chuck
  But they are not specifically signed off by the Minister !
  That is very unusual.
  
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  November 4, 2018 2:17pm
- Piniwi
  
  Careful Chuck Bird not to be swayed by HDPA just quoting from the Labour handout she got just like all the party people. Sometimes it is 100 or a little inflated for more impact. The system works fine when used in accordance with the relevant acts with appropriately detailed information passed to the Minister where his decision is required. It can be a simple matter of his sanction for an intended decision of the department that might have complications beyond their level. The key issue is that the Minister must read, comprehend and decide on all the details submitted. Or any additional information he requires on other relevant issues or impacts the decision is made.
  The problem ILG is he made a monumental stuff up for reasons known only to him that may or not have come from the department. His incompetence is his downfall and not the system. There is absolutely NO need for another tier in this process and that is just another example of the Labour type thinking. All too hard so lets have it sidelined to somebody else. Like 150 odd special inquiry groups needed after 9 years of doing nothing in opposition.
  
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  November 4, 2018 4:06pm
Fletch

I heard on the radio (haven’t been able to find a link yet) that the economy is so bad that NZ is going to abandon the GDP measure and instead use “well being” to quantify how well we are doing???

Gee, that would translate into real life well. Kid not doing too well in school? Let’s ditch NCEA and just concentrate on what his manners are like…

Let’s just abandon the standard of measurement that every other country uses if we’re doing badly.
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November 4, 2018 8:32am
- krazykiwi
  
  The govt might abandon it, but GDP will still be calculated and published by the private sector. Even so, it is still a measure that should be taken with a grain if salt. Why? Well for example in Oz the GDP of NT is greater than QLD
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:44am
  - Fletch
    
    I still can’t find a link about it. I can see older links about them using it in conjunction with “well being”. Maybe they aren’t abandoning it altogether.
    
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    November 4, 2018 8:54am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Robertson has been talking about the “well-being budget”. I presumed he was announcing a targetted financial ‘lolly scramble’ for next April.
      Easy to spend taxpayers money eh Grant.
      
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      November 4, 2018 9:51am
- wiseowl
  
  As I said yesterday the ‘ well being’ idea is from the United Nations.
  
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  November 4, 2018 9:04am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    That’ll be a winner for sure then!
    
    U.N. involvement, what could go wrong, ex-popular holiday destinations and assorted shit-holes, Bosnia, Rawanda, Haiti, Congo, Dutch ‘Peace-keepers’, new Toyota sales (one carful owner, white ute, immaculate condition, small blood stain, dusty, roof machine gun mount . . . )
    
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    November 4, 2018 9:22am
    - Piniwi
      
      Funny Paulus Gnome perhaps the UN is about to get some sorry results as the start to reap some of what they have sown. Having falsely persuaded to label the earliest settlers as indigenous, at their request a youth group is off to the UN climate talk fest in Poland. Seven native delicates are heading there saying: “It’s hard because inherently the UN wasn’t built to uplift indigenous voices and so it’s very much being alert enough all the time to catch those opportunities where we can speak to our own power, whilst also using that opportunity to better communicate with our communities back home about what’s going on around climate change.” The ringleader who goes by the name of India Logan-Riley ( I kid you not) is on her forth climate conference but their collective qualification seems to be hard to pin point. Must be the self proclaimed label of indigenous perhaps.
      Lucky for the taxpayer so far but it will be done with somebody else money naturally. : “The group has to raise around $30,000 to get to Poland and with three weeks out, are only a third of the way towards their goal.” Sorry there was no link in the article for willing contributors. Have to wonder if there are far now that far now to accommodate them?
      
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      November 4, 2018 4:40pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    And being preached from the OECD
    
    https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/how_life-2017-en/index.html?itemId=/content/publication/how_life-2017-en
    
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    November 4, 2018 9:53am
- Piniwi
  
  Right Fletch it is the standard Labour MO and has already started with the biggest issue that drew the silly little girl into politics. Child poverty. They are changing the way it is measured to what might be described as a flexi-fit system. The various numbers will be chosen from their system to suit the argument as required. Also lets not forget the RBNZ has been massaged with new insiders to provide suitable support when when another Orr is needed for the round boat.
  However there is a big truth void being created by the vast spread of misinformation being put out by a compliant Media party. The majority are struggling to get real true information which sees places like KB being the only safe source. DPF is open and honest about where he stands personally but a much stronger position of right and wrong to our benefit.
  
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  November 4, 2018 4:22pm
kowtow

Chancers from shit holes.

Our gubmints need to stop this abuse of taxpayers.

‘Following the Commonwealth Games held on the Gold Coast in April, around 250 athletes and officials, mostly from African nations including Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Uganda and Cameroon stayed in Australia, with 200 lodging asylum applications.’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11/02/six-members-afghani-invictus-fail-depart-australia/
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November 4, 2018 8:34am
- toby1845
  
  WTF was Cameroon doing at the Commonwealth Games? It was never a British colony.
  
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  November 5, 2018 2:17am
big bruv

Every single work is true, there is nothing more arrogant than the NZ rugby team and its fans.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/opinion/108248202/mark-reason-why-new-zealand-rugby-is-as-morally-bankrupt-as-australian-cricket
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November 4, 2018 8:36am
- stephieboy
  
  big bruv , 69-31 win over Japan with a second string tea, not good enough???
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:39am
  - Tall Man
    
    Is Ardern a liar?
    
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    November 4, 2018 10:30am
    - gump
      
      Did National raise our net government debt from $10 billion to over $60 billion between 2008 and 2016?
      
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      November 4, 2018 11:44am
      - krazykiwi
        
        Not on their own. Nationals partners in that achievement were the Labour-created recession, the GFC itself, Canterbury and Kaikoura quakes.
        
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        November 4, 2018 5:16pm
  - Longknives
    
    Two upticks for Stephieboy?
    Most popular comment of his Kiwiblog career…
    
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    November 4, 2018 11:48am
- Gravelroad
  
  I am a fan of NZ rugby, Big Bruv, and my family has a considerable honourable history with it that you wouldn’t dream about.
  Your insults don’t resonate with me. And neither do those of Mr Reason.
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:47am
  - big bruv
    
    Gravelroad
    
    There is nothing honourable about NZ rugby. Neither Mr Reason, nor my good self are insulting you, we are telling the truth.
    The ironic thing about your comment is that your own words confirm and demonstrate that Mr Reason is dead right.
    NZ rugby = Arrogance.
    
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    November 4, 2018 8:59am
  - Morrissey
    
    So what’s your take on that farcical 2011 RWC final?
    
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    November 4, 2018 9:44am
    - Longknives
      
      2011 RWC final was the end of Rugby for me.
      France were 20 points better than arrogant, allegedly ‘invincible’ NZ on that night but a terrified referee had a script to follow-
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XBqetaCfgo
      
      The most appalling Refereeing performance in International Rugby History.
      
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      November 4, 2018 9:50am
      - Morrissey
        
        “Sir” Graham Henry has been shameless ever since that farce….
        
        https://thestandard.org.nz/open-mike-23052013/#comment-636639
        
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        November 4, 2018 10:16am
  - Morrissey
    
    Gravelroad, can you tell us what was “honourable” about the All Blacks’ performance in that 2011 farce? And especially in their arrogant conduct after the game—how was that “honourable”?
    
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    November 4, 2018 10:02am
    - flipper
      
      Fuck off shit head……ALONG WITH YOUR DISCIPLES.
      You might like to try using your head … but not to kick a ball. It would be good to shove up your arse.
      Shits like you discussing such matters are Kappernick clones.
      Reason? His is a family problem that can be traced back to a grubby old school tie attitude.
      
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      November 4, 2018 10:39am
      - big bruv
        
        Flipper
        
        Why do you have such an issue with the truth?
        
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        November 4, 2018 1:07pm
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      You mean when Aurelian Rougerie eye gouged Richie McCaw and escapes any punishment during or after? How were the All Blacks “arrogant” after that game?
      
      I’ve heard firsthand some of the shit the French pulled in that game. But then to you and the other whiners above it’s ok when foul play is committed by other teams.
      
      http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/rugby/all-blacks/6089812/Richie-McCaw-breaks-silence-on-eye-gouge
      
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      November 4, 2018 10:53am
      - Longknives
        
        Strangely no mention of McCaw ‘accidentally’ smashing the French First Five’s face to bits Salacious Crumb? (incidentally their crack Drop Goal specialist)
        If that had been a nasty Frenchman you would have been shrieking for a Red Card and a life ban!
        You All Blacks fans are honestly the most biased, one eyed morons on the planet…
        
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        November 4, 2018 11:37am
      - Salacious Crumb
        
        @Longknives – actually I am a rugby fan with strong connections to the game at a number of levels but thanks for the insult. I am all for players being held accountable for genuine foul play – do you only when a perpetrator wears a black jersey?
        
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        November 4, 2018 11:52am
      - Longknives
        
        Salacious Crumb- I am a Rugby Fan as well.
        I also have strong family connections to the game.
        (I also played the game for 20 odd years.)
        
        Difference between you and me is I watch a game of Rugby with both eyes open.
        And we know the French are thugs (they always have been) but mate the All Blacks (these days) get away with Blue freaking Murder…
        
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        November 4, 2018 12:04pm
    - Gravelroad
      
      Morrissey read my post again.
      What I said was that “my family has a considerable honourable history with it” (rugby). This is a personal reflection based on my experience of rugby teams and players over a lot of years.
      Big Bruv asserted that “there is nothing more arrogant than the NZ rugby team and it’s fans.”
      As a fan, I take exception to that blanket generalisation.
      
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      November 4, 2018 10:56am
      - big bruv
        
        Gravelroad
        “This is a personal reflection based on my experience of rugby teams and players over a lot of years.”
        You’ve experienced a truck load of bashings and sexual assaults then I guess.
        
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        November 4, 2018 1:24pm
  - Longknives
    
    So Gravelroad reckons because he has family history in the game he has the final word? And we aren’t allowed to DARE say anything nasty about NZ Rugby??
    Honestly mate- Have a listen to yourself…
    It’s not Sacred- It’s a bloody sports team!
    
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    November 4, 2018 11:53am
    - Gravelroad
      
      Ok Longknives, I give up.
      Don’t base your comment on what I actually said.
      Just make up a reply which fits in with your own agenda.
      
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      November 4, 2018 12:35pm
- dime
  
  I skimmed it. My favourite bit was when he had a crack at Adidas for being nazis and using slave labour and aig causing the 2008 meltdown. That’s clearly all on the all blacks.
  
  I shouldn’t give the loser clicks.
  
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  November 4, 2018 9:29am
  - Morrissey
    
    Quite right, dime—Mark Reason’s way out of line with those bizarre connections. However, he gets the following exactly right:
    
    …They routinely stand offside or kill the ball when threatened 10 metres from the line. That is cheating. They were previously coached to stand blockers in offside positions and hold people of the ball. That is cheating. After they were beaten by Ireland in 2016, the All Blacks responded with a display of sickening violence in Dublin. There were further incidents of illegal violence in the series against the Lions, one of which resulted in a sending-off. The drawn Lions series has been followed by a constant verbal assault by coach, players and media on a French referee who made far, far fewer mistakes than the referee who presided over the All Blacks victory in the first game of the series. New Zealand rugby cheats on the field every bit as much as Australian cricket. “The ends justify the means”. There is little integrity left in a pursuit of victory that has almost become a commercial imperative.
    
    For all his criticism, however, I note he is still too afraid to even mention the real Banquo’s ghost in this farce….
    
    https://morrisseybreen.blogspot.com/2018/02/ignoring-elephant-in-room-jul-28-2013.html
    
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    November 4, 2018 9:54am
    - Salacious Crumb
      
      That is a joke. Does Reason not watch for the infringing by every top level team? And has Reason seen the shit that was leveled at Poite by the British fans after that farcical 3rd test decision last year? Poite is a top test referee and was furious with his own performance in that test.
      
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      November 4, 2018 10:59am
      - sooty
        
        Pushing your useless blog again!
        
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        November 4, 2018 11:36am
- toby1845
  
  Stuff and Mark Reason.
  
  That makes two good reasons to not read the article.
  
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  November 5, 2018 2:18am
DigNap15

Did they rate Baby Neve?
She’d probably do bedda than many of the COL minister!
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November 4, 2018 8:39am
- sooty
  
  I see that Jethro is out and about in dunners.
  Just not putting his scribling out. But will he be in all the next editions of womans weekly?
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:57am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    What is the difference between Neve and Jethro?
    
    One wears nappies and the other is a nappy!
    
    I’ll get my coat . . . .
    
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    November 4, 2018 9:26am
Sofia

As Ardern flails about now trying to blame the quality of information, or lack of it, in the Sroubek saga, one should also remember the absolutely adamant support of Winston for Ardern as well as Lees Galloway.
Winston is the disaster-mind behind this whole coalition Government.

The Deputy Prime Minister has voiced support for the Immigration Minister over his decision to grant a convicted criminal from the Czech Republic residency.
Winston Peters says he has reviewed the case and is comfortable with the outcome, telling RadioLIVE that criticism over Minister Iain Lees-Galloway’s decision is unjustified because people don’t know the details of the case.
[Winston so loves knowing anything he can tell you – you ignorant pleb – that he knows and you don’t ]

Mr Peters pointed to the minister’s right to make decisions with “absolute discretion”, which means he does not have to provide a reason for the decisions he makes.
[That must have great appeal to Winston]

The deputy PM said he’s read over the case and is fully satisfied with the minister’s conclusion.
“There is an enormous amount of precedent for a minister to make a decision like this, and one of the things that is bound with the decision is the privacy issue, because it goes to the very safety of the people involved,” said Mr Peters.
“Do I like it? No, I don’t. Do I understand it? In the circumstances, yes I do.”

Mr Peter’s comments came after Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern also defended Mr Lees-Galloway’s decision …
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/10/privacy-is-critical-in-sroubek-s-residency-case-winston-peters.html

It is of course worth comparing the decision in Sroubek saga with the decision of banning of gas and oil exploration, which was more premeditated than most think, when you remember the Ardern placard Greenpeace displayed on the steps of Parliament. But trying to blame the quality of information, or lack of it, in the decision banning gas exploration is immaterial, since no information whatsoever was sought !

The policy was apparently agreed at a confidential meeting of three MPs, and then announced. The three authors were unaware that their covert plan was (a) illegal and unenforceable and (b) financially and environmentally disastrous – because all the normal protections for bureaucratic advice were by-passed. No formal consultation was undertaken with the industry or anybody else. The plan was not considered by the cabinet or any other constitutional organ of government. This was the worst example of autocratic and unaccountable governing since the days of “King Dick” Seddon.
– Barry Brill, former Under-Secretary of Energy, a former president of both the New Zealand Manufacturers Federation and the Electricity Supply Association – https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/11/a_good_submission_on_the_oil_and_gas_ban_bill.html#respond
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November 4, 2018 8:58am
- waikatogirl
  
  It is clear that Winston has Cindy wrapped around his little finger, gaining any policy movement he chooses to benefit himself and NZF. He is working her puppet strings superbly. Would Winston have survived in his role with the COL this long with an experienced and competent leader? Would Bolger, Shipley or even Clark allowed the manipulation of themselves? NO! Under a competent leader Winston would have been on a short leash, or out the door already. Cindy believes they work well together and that Winston is misunderstood. No dear, Winston is just manipulating you.
  
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  November 4, 2018 10:06am
Monique Watson

Regarding that photo of Clarke with an “e” holding baby Neve hole Jacinda Laurel sold coals to Newcastle at the Labour Conference in Dunedin.
Clear case of moving on from “Red under the bed” to “Red on my baby’s head. Pretty blatant.
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November 4, 2018 9:10am
Vory v zakone

Will Sambo turn up today one wonders? The smarmy twat sure took it up the pooper yesterday going by the replies and down ticks. That sort of opprobrium is usually reserved for Ralphieboy, the infantile St Lukes cafe pervert.
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November 4, 2018 9:14am
lastmanstanding

So Grant Robertson has promised a Wellness Budget for 2019.

This is code of tax the rich pricks and the middle class and give to the lazy and slothful. Along with the Tax Working Group this will see the largest transfer of wealth in the countries history.

For the past 40 years Labour has been operating a Communist policy by stealth. Slowly but surely it has been ensuring more and more citizens are reliant on the State for all or part of their income and support.

Even to the extent of taking taxes off them only to return them after incurring significant costs to do so. Think WFF.

But the Nats haven’t reversed any of this and wont reverse any of Labours future actions.

This is because to do so would consign them to the Opposition benches for a long time. As the saying goes turkeys don’t vote for an early Xmas.

So the rich will move their capital and income to countries with a less punishing regime meaning the Government wont get any tax. Think Michae Fay and David Richwhite el al.

The plan is to move all citizens to a low income base with the Government deciding who will get more and who will get less.

You have been warned.
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November 4, 2018 9:26am
- DigNap15
  
  True, but most of us already know that!
  
  National need to reverse all that shit!
  
  But they need to do it gradually so people don’t notice
  
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  November 4, 2018 9:42am
  - septic skeptic
    
    The last government that reversed a whole lot of that leftist state control shit was Lange/Douglas. And Douglas did it very quickly indeed. I doubt National have the guts to do what it takes.
    
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    November 4, 2018 10:08am
    - waikatogirl
      
      If National continue the changes Bill English was to make to social welfare where they left off they could make some significant changes in the first 3 years. The trouble with the Nats is they took too long to implement and then found themselves in opposition. No time for pussy-footing around, jump straight in and get the job done. People will adapt.
      
      The existing safety net is vast and being made larger by the COL, so is supporting even those who can be independant and not living off the taxpayer, if they had to.
      
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      November 4, 2018 10:49am
- Philview
  
  Ardern and Robertson are being clever with words. Kindness and Wellness sounds like nice words and who wouldn’t want more of that in society. As you point out, the reality is the same old socialism concepts that always fail. Now we have some vague legislation that lets the Commerce Commission do “market studies”. Another piece of bullshit terminology that is really setting us up for price controls which also don’t have a good history.
  
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  November 4, 2018 2:22pm
- Scott
  
  Well National could win the next election and then get stuck in boots and all. Cut taxes. Open hundreds of charter schools. Buy some fighter planes. Protect NZ businesses and insist on fair trade. Open up the energy sector and let it flow. Cut job killing regulations.
  
  Stand back and watch the economy boom.
  
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  November 4, 2018 2:31pm
  - srylands
    
    Also make fixing local government a priority.
    
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    November 4, 2018 5:35pm
    - Wired-one
      
      Absolutely.
      
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      November 5, 2018 12:57am
- simpleton1
  
  Lets do this!
  No doubt about it.
  Do not worry about facts, just carefully omit the “scientific analysis”.
  There is a cure for the Black Death. Lets use Cholera.
  
  edit Just a little bit of plagiarism. 🙂
  
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  November 4, 2018 3:08pm
  - simpleton1
    
    “as Clarke Gayford noted the “positively infectious” of the conference, something new to plenty of delegates. https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/04-11-2018/ardern-scatters-mailbag-confetti-in-her-first-leader-speech-to-labour-conference/
    
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    November 4, 2018 4:07pm
- simpleton1
  
  “Wellness”
  Housing will be come a co ownership with the government. Yes.
  
  Tenants will also have a co ownership with the landlord. Just a ‘little’ bit more to do.
  A lot more lighter on the Budget of Wellness too.
  Such a beautification of the Budget. 🙂
  
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  November 4, 2018 3:24pm
Yvette

…the fact that Sroubek’s ex-wife has taken out a restraining order against him.

… is interesting. Could she indeed be in more danger if he stays in New Zealand, than he would be to return to the Czech Republic – as it is reported he has done twice already?

And there is usually a shit-load of documentation required for residency – who did all that? And as that was supposedly under a false name (why was that not detected then), who transferred that approval to his real name – if they now have that?
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November 4, 2018 9:31am
- big bruv
  
  Yvette
  
  I suspect Sroubek has all the documentation he needs. Probably a little black book with names, dates, times and contact details and a memory stick with one or two video clips that would deeply embarrass the NZ Police and the NZ Government.
  
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  November 4, 2018 10:16am
Morrissey

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Allan Nairn: The U.S. Is Facing Incipient Domestic Fascism, But Rightist Revolution Can Be Stopped

“….for years, I’ve been documenting how many of the senior Democrats are complicit in war crimes, how they belong in prison. But we are now in an emergency situation in which there is a huge, fundamental difference between the Democrats and the Republicans at this moment. The Republicans would abolish democracy. They’re looking—because that’s the only way they can perpetuate their power. They have a minority of the votes. They have to rig the system so they can stay in power, as their minority of votes diminishes over time. The Democrats, their interest is in maintaining, even expanding, democracy, because that will help bring them to power….”

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/11/1/allan_nairn_the_us_is_facing
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November 4, 2018 9:41am
- Harkman
  
  It’s Democrats who want to abolish democracy. Democrats have given up caring about actual Americans and now only care about foreigners who need welfare.
  
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  November 4, 2018 9:49am
  - Morrissey
    
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    Idiot. Ignoramus. Fool.
    
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    November 4, 2018 10:04am
    - septic skeptic
      
      Your well reasoned argument has won me over.
      
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      November 4, 2018 10:11am
      - Morrissey
        
        Read Allan Nairn’s interview. If you can come up with a reasoned response to what he says, please feel free to do so. Harkman’s crazed post doesn’t merit any more time than it took to type those three accurate descriptors.
        
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        November 4, 2018 10:14am
    - Swifty
      
      Nope, he’s got you there.
      
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      November 4, 2018 10:14am
      - Morrissey
        
        ????
        
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        November 4, 2018 10:35am
    - Tall Man
      
      IsArdern a liar?
      
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      November 4, 2018 10:41am
      - gump
        
        Did National raise our net government debt from $10 billion to over $60 billion during their nine years in government?
        
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        November 4, 2018 11:48am
      - stephieboy
        
        Tall Man, in comparisons to you she’s not !
        
        Fixed!
        
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        November 4, 2018 12:17pm
      - Tall Man
        
        I see gump and steffy girl have received advice from labour HQ.
        
        Boys and girls you’re just not up to the task and every post you make reinforces the fact that you are backing not just a party that’s the slow horse in the ace but one with a leader that actually gives a horse a run for their money in the imagery department.
        
        Is Ardern a liar?
        
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        November 4, 2018 3:43pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      “Idiot. Ignoramus. Fool.”
      
      Yes, you are. Thanks for confirming it.
      
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      November 4, 2018 11:16am
  - Swifty
    
    Yep, the left are the new fascists.
    
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    November 4, 2018 10:15am
    - alloytoo
      
      They were usually the old Fascists too.
      
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      November 4, 2018 4:55pm
- DJ Ward
  
  Morrissey you clearly can’t see propaganda when you read it.
  
  The republicans are trying to stop non citizens voting. The Dems want illegals to vote.
  
  Hannity supports legal immigration, always has. He does not support illegal immigration.
  
  I have spent many hours of watching Trump. Not once has he expressed support for racism. Being anti Antifa and making comments on that does not make a person racist. Plus he has done many initiatives to support black communities and even women as well.
  
  The commentator is anti war. Whoever is in power becomes the enemy in his eyes.
  
  There you go, read his comments, summary mostly biased irrational bullshit.
  
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  November 4, 2018 2:06pm
flipper

I believe from careful daily study that this is an accurate summary that can be transposed from USA to New Zealand. For Trump read Bridges or Bennett or Adams or Uncle Tom Cobly. The media in NZ have gone full retard for the silly toothy bint and her shabby (it the very worst sense) mob. I doubt that just one of the bunch could, on their merits, secure and hold any middle management job in NZ. In Aust, UK and USA they would join “job seekers.”

“https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/hypocritical-obama-and-liberal-medias-efforts-to-condemn-trump-have-backfired
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November 4, 2018 10:10am
Jack5

Free speech shut down at Oxford University.
It ain’t what it used to be.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6349033/AfD-leader-Germanys-main-far-right-party-pulls-Oxford-Union-talk.html
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November 4, 2018 10:15am
- Tall Man
  
  Next election motivate all friends family and acquaintances with half a brain or more to get out and vote.
  
  If enough people can be galvanised into action the votes of those with a brain functioning will begin to rid this country of the plague currently infesting it.
  
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  November 4, 2018 10:46am
  - sam green
    
    Oh dear. Still weeping and wailing. It’s not fair is it.
    
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    November 4, 2018 10:56pm
Odakyu-sen

Biological men (XY) claiming to be female are beating women (XX) in some sporting events.

Why do we let a man become a “woman” if he claims to be female? Would we let a 25-year-old claim they were 65 so that they could gain national superannuation?

How can a man think like a woman? He can only attempt to think and act in a way that he perceives to be “female.” In other words, he is acting out the “image” in his mind of what it is to be female. He can never truly know.
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November 4, 2018 10:20am
- lifesgood
  
  It is a disgrace that mentally ill people who think they are the opposite sex are being aided and abetted instead of treated. Years down the track people will laugh at the stupidity of 21st century people who fell for this nonsense.
  
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  November 4, 2018 10:42am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    I would agree that transgender people are suffering mental anguish. Research suggests that the suicide rate among transgender people is significantly higher than the normal population.
    Ref: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-transgender-teen-suicide/trans-teens-much-more-likely-to-attempt-suicide-idUSKCN1LS39K
    
    How does society best assist such tortured individuals? Is playing to their feelings and participating in their fantasies really helpful in the long run?
    
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    November 4, 2018 12:29pm
Viking2

Having just spent two weeks there and some time talking lots of people I reckon that the Repubs will fly in.
Detroit which has been very depressed is growing again and building and rebuilding is massive. All the car companies are rebuilding plants there. People are happy because they are working.
At a conference with small business people from all over and the common theme was “can’t get staff”. Have we not heard that here.
Unemployment is down to 3.7%.
Wages are rising quite quickly in many area’s although some inland companies are still trying to get staff for $10 and hour. Not succeeding though.
Ford have just bought the Central Rail Station building in Detroit and are spending a fortune revamping it to house 5000 new technology workers for their plans. Google just signed a deal with Chrysler in Detroit to build 60,000 driver less cars. Not a small chunk of change.
What do you think those cars are for?

Philadelphia is much the same. the inner city is full of building refurbs for apartments. again staffing is an issue.

People happy and no problem walking around day or night in the city.

Airlines busy as anything. Planes full.

Something is happening and just like here the lefties are nasty vitriolic pieces af crap. anyone with an opinion other than theirs is attacked very personally. Sound familiar?
It is going to be interesting.
You know that they are failing when they are dragging Obama back to plead their case. Hillary not seen about although Chelsea managed to get a bit of press. Asked if she would stand for President she said” if someone else would step down she would consider it”.
God Help America if that’s the best they can do.

Obama and Clark should be seen and not heard. Had their frightful times.
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November 4, 2018 10:25am
- DigNap15
  
  Its the economy stupid.
  I hope people see through the democrats and celebs an news media campaign against Donal Trump
  
  Make American even more great!
  
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  November 4, 2018 10:45am
- Rich Prick
  
  I think so too. Hopefully there will be rivers of liberal tears as they totally freak out.
  
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  November 4, 2018 12:20pm
- Piniwi
  
  Thanks Viking2 with the unemployment sliding to 3.7% as so many Black?/Hispanic and low income workers gaining work things are booming. Was there any mention of the 2.7 million vacancies that proving hard to fill at the gathering? Opportunities abound so it is critical that the Immigration policy is sorted soon so they attract the best that can be had to fill those gaps being generated by such rapid growth. Imagine a good IT prospect considering to opt for USA on the rise or NZ on the slide. Or a capable untwisted teacher for that matter. It’s a no brainer.
  
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  November 4, 2018 4:59pm
Swifty

‘My pasty’s f****** fell on the floor you stupid c***s, get the ambulance out now.’

Mrs Taylor?

Which KBers mother could this be then?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6349737/Pensioner-90-hundreds-abusive-999-calls-demanding-lifts-BINGO.html
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November 4, 2018 10:31am
Hugh Pavletich

… California … The painful process of repeating (very) recent history …

In California, Home Sales Are Plunging Like It Is 2008 All Over Again | Zero Hedge

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-11-02/california-home-sales-are-plunging-it-2008-all-over-again

For years, the California housing market was on the cutting edge of “Housing Bubble 2” as we witnessed home prices in the state soar to absolutely absurd levels.

In fact, it got so bad that a burned down house in Silicon Valley sold for $900,000 earlier this year, and a condemned home in Fremont sold for $1.2 million. But now things have changed in a major way. The hottest real estate markets in the entire country led the way down during the collapse of “Housing Bubble 1”, and now it looks like the same thing is going to be true for the sequel.

According to CNBC, the number of new and existing homes sold in southern California was down 18 percent in September compared to a year ago… read more via hyperlink above …
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… What I wrote following the collapse of ‘Housing Bubble 1’ … clearly setting out the differences of land supply strangled California and open and normal Texas.

For housing bubbles to be triggered, land supply must be strangled. Finance in all its forms (equity; bubble equity; debt) is simply the ‘fuel’ …

Housing Bubbles: Jumbo Mortgages = Jumbo Problems | Hugh Pavletich | | Scoop News

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1003/S00019.htm
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… If housing prices exceed 3.0 annual household incomes (median multiple) it is evidence that basic structural land supply and infrastructure financing issues need to be sorted out …

Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey: All Editions

http://www.demographia.com/db-dhi-index.htm
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… flowing on from yesterdays posts …

https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/11/chris_trotter_on_kiwibuild.html/comment-page-1#comment-2350161 … and … https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2018/11/general_debate_3_november_2018.html/comment-page-1#comment-2350164
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November 4, 2018 10:35am
- Hugh Pavletich
  
  House prices: Are real estate agents hiding bad sales results? … News Com Au
  
  https://www.news.com.au/finance/why-its-so-hard-to-figure-out-what-price-a-house-sold-for/news-story/e4190982f01135d9f8aa8d10fb3512f5
  
  THE Aussie housing market is tanking and there’s something real estate agents don’t want you to know. They’ll do anything to hide it. … read more via hyperlink above …
  
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  November 4, 2018 1:32pm
  - DJ Ward
    
    Its nearly impossible to find out the price in NZ. When I look in the real estate adds everything is price by negotiation or similar. It used to be people just put up their asking price, which was generally fractionally higher than the selling price.
    
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    November 4, 2018 1:39pm
waikatogirl

Did anyone else see this bus crash of the brige in China. Reason, passenger hitting the driver because he missed her stop. Head on crash with car and 15 on the bus dead after 164m drop into the river. (2 videos)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-02/passenger-fighting-driver-caused-bus-to-crash-off-chinese-bridge/10461036
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November 4, 2018 11:00am
- Tall Man
  
  Awesome, Darwin at work maybe?
  
  Not thinking race, just really stupid people.
  
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  November 4, 2018 11:07am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Clearly the woman was foolish and impulsive. The driver failed in his duty of safety to his passengers. (He’s getting assaulted but continues to try to drive at the same time.)
  
  Mind you, the driver did steer to the left for no apparent reason, so maybe he had intended to commit suicide and the woman had noticed that something was wrong.
  
  Also, the bridge barriers should have been able to restrain a heavy vehicle like a bus.
  
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  November 4, 2018 12:34pm
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    “Also, the bridge barriers should have been able to restrain a heavy vehicle like a bus.”
    
    Chinese steel. Plenty of it here. And the bus wouldn’t be as heavy as a fully-loaded truck.
    
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    November 4, 2018 12:41pm
Tall Man

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/opinion/heather-du-plessis-allan-iain-lees-galloway-needs-to-go/

What a surprise, a media nobody stating the minister must go but it’s not really his fault.

According to reports, he spent 8 minutes with the file, probably had a coffee waiting for some serious treatment.

I very much doubt the the file was scarce especially as the Dept recommended deportation. The previous minister had not seen the file as deportation was the decision so why bother the minister. Who requested that the decision be reconsidered and why? That is a more pressing issue and perhaps the dept thought anyone with half a brain would endorse their decision so kept only the pertinent points on the front page, because that is all he gave himself time to read.

If there is an error by the department it is that…they incorrectly assumed that their minister had more than half a brain.
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November 4, 2018 11:30am
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  “Who requested that the decision be reconsidered and why?”
  
  That is a very good question. There is a very fishy smell here and there must be a very interesting reason why Cindy chose to throw the Department under the bus.
  
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  November 4, 2018 12:44pm
- Kabull
  
  But the department did NOT make a recommendation to L-G – they never do. They provide the decision-maker (whether a departmental senior officer or the minister) with all the information pertaining to the case but do not express an opinion. This has been the case for many, many years. The decision was Lees-Galloway’s to make based on his interpretation of the facts. Neither he nor Toothy can blame the department for giving them an incorrect steer.
  
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  November 4, 2018 1:09pm
  - Tall Man
    
    They may not physically make the recommendation but as the sentencing judge already had the default action was deportation, at least that’s why I have been led to believe and trust me, the “minister” does not make these decisions on his or her own. They have department staff permanently seconded to their office.
    
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    November 4, 2018 3:37pm
  - Piniwi
    
    Partly right Kabull but Michael Woodhouse explained the real path it takes through two other Government official on it’s way to the Minister. It is not just a direct simple handing it over from INZ to the Minister. Thus it makes the COL look even worse apart from suspicions that another unofficial third party “guided” the Ministers strange quick decision. It is staggering to even imagine they were so stupid to assume it would just slip past any public scrutiny. They must feel almost bullet proof by being so well protected by the Media party. It has ended up again with another self-inflicted cut that will lead to their downfall helped in large part by ignoring or being ignorant of the the established Parliamentary process. It also blows their attempt to through the department under the square wheeled bus especially as at least 2 other officials already distance the Minister. He stuffed up end of story.
    
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    November 4, 2018 5:38pm
- Piniwi
  
  But Tall Man she can’t help herself and reading stopped at the second sentence with this gem : “He’s usually a capable and smart operator”. Well that mean there are at least two who think that, Him and her. He is nothing but a dedicated follower of the union line as he illustrates every-time his mouth moves supplemented by the standard position dictated by the old drunk and the silly little girl. “No decision has been made. As an inclusive coalition it will be made by cabinet”.
  But please leave the sacking long enough for the full story to be revealed or instead it be like all the other shameful moves swept under the diversionary carpet.
  
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  November 4, 2018 5:14pm
kevn

@Tall… Stupid ‘person’ maybe?
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November 4, 2018 11:32am
Manolo

Money, big money:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/warren-buffetts-berkshire-hathaway-repurchases-more-than-900-million-of-stock-1541248428

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. repurchased $928 million of its stock in the third quarter, a rare move that indicates Chairman Warren Buffett sees a dearth of appealing investment options for his company’s large cash pile.
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November 4, 2018 11:33am
- MrTips
  
  It means they think the storm is about to hit.
  
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  November 4, 2018 1:19pm
DifferentPerspective

Merkel or Hitler – who was worse for Germany

With the news this week that Merkel’s iron grip on the German political scene is broken, it seem apposite to consider her legacy vs Germany’s only other significant leader in the past 100 years.

I know that the “feelingz” brigade like SB, MM and M will be losing their collective hysterical marbles over this comparison but no other German leader has come close to having the shattering effect that Merkel has had on Europe in the past 100 years.

Who has done more damage to Germany?
On this one I have to say Merkel wins hands down, she started off so well presiding over the highs of the successes of re-unification – I for one thought that Germany was going to be carrying the DDR cot case for several generations but miraculously the united Germany just went into high gear. However, her insane mass importation of sub-humans from sub-Saharan Africa looks set to tear Germany apart. Everything that made Germany so powerful on the world stage (even though they were sans the nuclear arsenal usually required) is being watered down. The social cohesiveness is gone forever and the creeping influence of Islam will constitute an incurable social cancer that will destroy Germany from within. Given how quickly West Germany bounced back from the Hitler years, where the damage was really only to bricks and mortar, Merkel is way out in front in this regard.

Who has done more to damage Europe?
Again, while there was a massive loss of life in Europe as a result of Hitler’s tenure and it triggered the Cold War, at least it was over by 1990 when the Berlin wall came down and Europe blossomed into a new age soon after the 50s ended. Merkel’s leadership brought in massive social disharmony across the continent. I would go so far to say that she was the catalyst that pushed Britain over the edge into Brexit far earlier than it would if Merkel had been satisfied to follow the hithertoo largely successful strategy of creeping federalism. If she’d stuck with just settling for taking an inch every few weeks, her federal European dream would have been realised and it would have been her greatest legacy. As it was Britain is going and much sooner than it might have happened (if at all). Brexit and the subsequent flourishing of an independent Britain will trigger hope from the sane in Europe that they can escape to a brighter future. Merkel’s legacy will be that she tore the EU dream apart, Hitler created the context that gave birth to that dream. There is no end in sight for what Merkel has done to Europe – the continent will suffer for her vanity for generations now.

Other areas?
Largely, it’s a tie. I find it hard to tell the difference between the rise of brown-shirted left wing fascism under Hitler and the rise of black-shirted left-wing fascism under Merkel. They tie on the strangulation of free speech. They tie on the massive use of propaganda to hide the truth from the population and to brain-wash the populace. And finally, there’s a tie on loss of democracy, I see little difference between the effects of unelected EU mandarins and the early days of Hitler’s dictatorship.

The real winner however, are the German people who saw the danger of another Hitler in the making and they booted her out before she hopped off the democracy bus like her mate Erdogan has already.

Merkel wins by a country mile – but only if you are interested in the long-term effects and the facts.

If you judge things by “the feelz” then well you’d better resort to ad hominem attacks – hadn’t you?
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November 4, 2018 11:46am
- stephieboy
  
  Berlin in Ruins 1945 tells it all about your false and silly comparison,
  
  https://warthunder.com/en/news/565–en
  
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  November 4, 2018 12:11pm
  - DJ Ward
    
    The comparison was made with the bricks and mortar comment.
    The mass immigration of Islam will last profoundly longer than the effects of WW2. It can even be argued that the rebuilding efforts, and modernisation by western powers created a better Germany. Economically it’s certainly the case with the U.K. In comparison crippled by war debts.
    
    As Muslims will easily out breed native Germans and other Europeans the biggest fault of democracy comes into effect. Once they gian the majority the minority becomes oppressed.
    
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    November 4, 2018 1:03pm
    - stephieboy
      
      DJ Ward ,
      
      “As Muslims will easily out breed native Germans and other….”
      
      Rubbish!
      
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      November 4, 2018 2:58pm
  - lilman
    
    Now that Muslim tolerance is to be ensconced in the German culture I can’t wait to see all the other religions flourish.
    
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    November 4, 2018 1:05pm
    - Jack5
      
      Atheists and agnostics will be up for the chop, too.
      
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      November 4, 2018 1:45pm
      - Swifty
        
        Fair warning though – we won’t be a pushover.
        
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        November 4, 2018 2:03pm
dcrown

RIP freedom of speech, this is PC run amuck?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/11/03/idaho-teachers-border-wall-latino-halloween-costume/1872399002/

Hopefully Trump will pardon them.
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November 4, 2018 12:23pm
lifesgood

Laugh of the day. Jacinda asked a very old man at the Labour party conference what was his secret for a long life and he said “Don’t tell lies”!!!!! She won’t have a long life then.
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November 4, 2018 12:42pm
Chuck Bird

What is unclear to me is who made this decision – the officials or the minister? If it was the officials did the minister have to rubber-stamp their decision? Does anyone know for sure how the system works? I believe the wife has made a bad call putting the scumbag ahead of her children and should be deported.

Wife of New Zealander who sexually abused step-daughter allowed to stay in country

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/108341270/wife-of-new-zealander-who-sexually-abused-stepdaughter-can-stay-in-country
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November 4, 2018 12:55pm
- Sam
  
  Applying for exceptional circumstances has to be bumped up to the minister as a last appeal to get deportation orders reversed.
  
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  November 4, 2018 1:05pm
- DJ Ward
  
  She is putting the children’s education ahead of anything. Neither does she have responsibility for his offences decades before he met her.
  
  Raise the kids without a home in Vanuatu or with a home and good schooling in NZ.
  
  I don’t get how she has put the scumbag before her children. He will not be allowed contact with them. She is an adult and can make her own decisions about being in a relationship with him.
  
  She was legitimately in NZ and it’s his actions that changed her status. The children are NZ citizens and don’t deserve extradition.
  
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  November 4, 2018 1:32pm
  - Chuck Bird
    
    “He will not be allowed contact with them.”
    
    He was not allowed to sexually abuse children. Did that stop him?
    
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    November 4, 2018 1:43pm
  - GoVege
    
    I totally agree, D J.
    Why should the kids suffer?
    And it sounds like they will be an asset to this country.
    Domestic violence is a huge problem in Vanuatu.
    Maybe why a woman would be keen to marry a NZer.
    
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    November 4, 2018 4:38pm
  - Jack5
    
    ? New Zealand’s Immigration and Protection Tribunal is a soft touch.
    
    “We can’t get married where we are because we are different religions so we want to come to New Zealand” – and they are in.
    
    Except for the times difference, the dopes on the tribunal might have let Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun settle in NZ on romantic grounds.
    
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    November 4, 2018 10:08pm
rightoverlabour

I am starting to read between the lines on Twitford and the building industry. Who is mates with who, who has been given contracts, what is really going on?
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November 4, 2018 1:02pm
- Sam
  
  What’s really going on is little Eno boy keeps getting clapped by Jacinda.
  
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  November 4, 2018 1:09pm
- DJ Ward
  
  When Aucklands Pokeno development can manage the same price or cheaper houses without Twyfords interference then something is dodgy.
  
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  November 4, 2018 1:22pm
  - Sam
    
    Does the government even own any land in Pokeno?
    
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    November 4, 2018 1:32pm
  - gump
    
    Why is land cheaper in Pokeno than land in metropolitan Auckland?
    
    It is truly a mystery…
    
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    November 4, 2018 1:51pm
    - DJ Ward
      
      It’s clearly a mistery to Twyford. If he is buying expensive land to build houses on then he can never build cheap houses.
      
      Why would you buy blocks of land in the metropolis. Isn’t it already a metropolis.
      
      Pokeno is now just a suberb of Auckland. There is room for a million homes in that area. Papakura, Takanini, Karaka, Drury, Clevdon, Pokeno, etc. If purchased at the present farm prices, undeveloped sections would be $20,000 or less.
      
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      November 4, 2018 2:33pm
      - Swifty
        
        And destroy the productive land which grows a large proportion of Aucklander’s food and provides large export receipts?
        
        I very much hope we don’t.
        
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        November 4, 2018 2:49pm
      - DJ Ward
        
        @Swifty
        
        I agree. The Pokeno developement was 2 diary farms. I was just making a point. They have no real choice but to build up like the rest of the world is.
        
        I have no problem with low productivity hilly areas being developed. That’s worth less per section but higher developement costs.
        
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        November 4, 2018 5:48pm
      - Swifty
        
        Understood.
        
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        November 4, 2018 6:17pm
krazykiwi

Aussie judges:

A mixed race woman who has repeatedly assaulted, spat on, and racially abused police officers has been allowed to walk free from court by an Australian magistrate who called her “wonderful”.

20-year-old Leilani Clarke, who describes herself as an Aboriginal activist, was found in an agitated state in Sydney just two days after she had been bailed for another incident in which she had spat at police officers, kneed one in the groin, and called them “white dogs” after they caught her stealing a chicken curry from a 7-Eleven, the Daily Mail reports.
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Despite Clarke’s repeated pattern of assaulting and racially abusing police officers, however, magistrate Erin Kennedy opted not to punish her, instead expressing great concern for her wellbeing and even heaping praise on her.

“The worst thing we see happening to wonderful people like you who have a great future ahead of them is if you don’t get the proper treatment and you start taking something to self-medicate and we lose you,” the female judge gushed.

“Let’s not see you back in here,” she added, handing her a 10-month ‘good behaviour bond’ and declining to even record a conviction.

Miss Clarke has self-diagnosed herself with “transgenerational trauma” passed down through her Aboriginal genes.

She dropped out of Sunshine Coast University and deferred studies for an environmental science degree earlier in the year.
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November 4, 2018 2:15pm
- GoVege
  
  I’m sure her “trauma” is more likely to come from useless parenting.
  
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  November 4, 2018 4:14pm
krazykiwi

I’m a big fan of people who do stupid things having to live with the consequences. Sometimes the consequences are insignificant, so it’s a get-out-of-jail-free situation. Other times stupidity results in more severe consequences as per the Darwin awards. In this instance the stupid man (yes, 18=man) will probably need to look over his shoulder for many, many years.

A teenage boy who pelted a disabled woman with eggs and flour before posting a celebratory photo of the attack online is now “too scared” to leave his UK home.

Cohan Semple, 18, said he’s “struggling to go outside” after receiving death threats from strangers following the sickening attack on 49-year-old Janice Morris, the Daily Mail reported.

The teen was among five boys who targeted the vulnerable woman as she cowered on a park bench in the Suffolk market town of Bury St Edmunds.

An image showing them posing behind their victim, smiling and pointing at her sparked an online witch hunt after being posted on Snapchat and Facebook.
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November 4, 2018 2:27pm
- Swifty
  
  Perhaps he’ll think twice about bullying the weak again.
  
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  November 4, 2018 2:51pm
- DigNap15
  
  Perhaps his parents will think twice about giving hi a stupid name!
  
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  November 4, 2018 7:11pm
Philview

Just catching up with news over the last week. I was interested to read that Ngai Tahu are going to pull down a forest in Canterbury and convert to 15,000 dairy cows. I haven’t read any howls of protest yet.
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November 4, 2018 2:35pm
- DJ Ward
  
  As soon as a greeny complains they will mention Treaty.
  
  Being intelligent the greeny will be confused by the support of both things.
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:15pm
MrTips

Dear Stuff

Your website, and your company in general, is pants. Please allow me to indicate where it has gone wrong:

– too many ads. This leads to slow loading, incorrect by-line loads and fishing in the extreme by you into my PC.
– sub-editors who can’t spell, providing links to stories by contributors who can’t write. Seriously, so many stories have double entries, poor spelling, incorrect links and headlines that overstate a minor component of whatever the article is about.
– very little actual journalism. In contrast, there is a lot of opinion, deliberately written to influence the public, as well as lots of stories about stuff no-one cares about. No-one really cares that Wendy Petrie is 50 or that Jason Gunn repeatedly tries to mutilate himself via household implements.
– over-zealous comment control, yet paradoxically coupled with promotion of discord between opposing political views. For example, most opinion piece comments get shut down when their utter stupidity becomes apparent, yet on some reports of current issues (eg. JLR, HideAndSeek loser ILG), you allow comments that are irrational and simply ridiculous from both sides of the fence.

These are some of the issues that are immediately apparent. There are many others, much more serious in nature, which will hopefully come to evidential light soon.

You can take heart though: NZME is just as bad. No wonder the CC knocked back your merger.
Yours faithfully,
A simple observer
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November 4, 2018 2:40pm
- greybeard
  
  Agreed. Especially about their control of comments: woe betide anyone who tries to make a valid criticism of the journalists / writers.
  And the whole site is becoming more of a platform for social-engineering pieces.
  
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  November 4, 2018 2:59pm
- DJ Ward
  
  As a men’s advocate I have to self moderate every comment just to have a chance.
  
  I had a couple of comments rejected today as well as a few that got in.
  
  Rules:
  Don’t add facts into your comment.
  Avoid the term feminism.
  Don’t say “hates men”
  
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  November 4, 2018 6:04pm
- KevOB
  
  I’ve abandoned Stuff too.
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:29pm
- Woz
  
  I’m spending less and less time on Stuff now. I run down the headlines and gag at most of them, scan one or two articles to glean what few hard facts I can, then leave for somewhere that offers harder, better edited, more authoritative news – the Daily Mail, for example.
  
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  November 4, 2018 10:03pm
Monique Watson

And whomsoever asked if I was planning to run for office? Yeah. One day I’d like to come back and give back to the country that gave me so much for the first 37 years of my life.
But I’ve got a lot to do here before I do including becoming a dual citizen, finishing some writing projects and raising said five kids. I’m a great believer in having adequate life experience before you’re a suitable candidate for office.
In the meantime I’ll continue to be opinionated and amused across many forums.
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November 4, 2018 2:41pm
- KevOB
  
  Electorate MP’s min age 40.
  List MP’s min age 50.
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:27pm
wiseowl

DJ
Have been working through the Law Commissions review of the RPA.
They say the law (2002) would ‘help redefine the role of women in society’
I’m scratching my head.
Is that what the law should do? Should it not provide justice for all?
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November 4, 2018 3:07pm
- DJ Ward
  
  Correct.
  
  All laws are reviewed by the Ministry for Women for bias agianst women. By default laws are neutral or biased agianst men.
  
  The Law Commision is playing two roles here. It uses our natural instinct to protect women and it’s protection of the Law industry. In the 2002 change under Clarke and probably the worst man hater of all Wilson, we got the simply abhorrent injustice of pre relationship asset theft that overwhelmingly benefited women. The presumption was women could asset strip males and lawyers would be engaged in the resulting fight asset stripping both parties. The end result however is women are getting preyed on by the false love sexual predator as well, some judges, lawyers, and people with influence. 14 years later the current law became unsustainable and a review was asked for.
  
  Be scared however.
  The new law fixes the pre existing asset flaw but cements and introduces more anti male bigotry and increases conflict for the legal parasites to feed on.
  Alimony for stay at home mums.
  Plus 50% for the custodial parent.
  Automatic, get the house for the custodial parent.
  Best interest of the child principles, which is code for best interests of the mother.
  
  This adds more incentive to reject males from parenting roles as the financial rewards can be huge.
  It adds more incentive to have a child without consent of the man.
  
  Custody fights will merge artificially with property fights.
  With men presently getting custody in only a tiny percentage of disputes the desire to reject consential shared care will be maximised when relationships end.
  
  Lawyers will see increased workload. Men can easily be strung along by the legal system for $100,000 just trying to see their kids every second weekend. And they have done nothing wrong to deserve it.
  
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  November 4, 2018 6:33pm
  - wiseowl
    
    Thanks DJ.
    You have confirmed what I was thinking.
    Intend to respond to certain parts because there is too much to deal with in total.
    Was reading today how the whole change from fault to no fault divorce was started by feminists in California in the 70’s.
    The more I learn the worse it gets.
    
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    November 4, 2018 7:47pm
rightoverlabour

Now Cindy could do a lot to change people’s opinion of her if she sorted this shit out.

Fucking mongrels, and we are playing cricket against them.

Time to finish the Crusades. God Wills It.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46085577
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November 4, 2018 3:28pm
- simpleton1
  
  Not for the lack of trying to get to her in the name of Mohammad, the “perfect” leader of muslims.
  
  Authorities also stepped up security near the facility where Bibi was being held for her safety.
  
  On Thursday, prison officials said two inmates were arrested last month for planning to strangle Bibi to death. They said the men were still being questioned, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/asia-bibi-christian-pakistan-blasphemy-barred-from-leaving-acquittal/
  
  Two assassinations, death threats, kidnapping, as some muslims realize that there is a “The Neglected Duty” as advised by Mohammad.
  
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  November 4, 2018 3:41pm
Viking2

So whats going on here?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/108265524/K-piti-Coast-councillor-David-Scotts-victim-seeks-restraining-order-to-protect-family

something dodgy?
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November 4, 2018 3:35pm
noskire

About 1200 jubilant Labour Party supporters crowded into Dunedin Town Hall to hear Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern address her first party conference as leader, and there was a surprise guest speaker for the big day – Ardern’s partner Clarke Gayford.
Hundreds more supporters were turned away after queues stretched down the street for Ardern’s speech.
Gayford was the warm-up act before Ardern used her speech to announce 600 extra teachers for children with learning problems.
Seriously?
Seriously Tracy Watkins, 100’s were turned away?
I have to go and poke my eyes with red-hot needles.
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November 4, 2018 3:55pm
- simpleton1
  
  Black Death, cured by Cholera, perhaps as “Positively Infectious” as noted by Clarke Gayford, may be same as red hot needles in the eye? 🙂
  https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/04-11-2018/ardern-scatters-mailbag-confetti-in-her-first-leader-speech-to-labour-conference/
  with ‘beautification’ cures in budgets.
  
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  November 4, 2018 4:18pm
  - sooty
    
    Did he have squrriel with him on stage?
    
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    November 4, 2018 5:50pm
- Viking2
  
  Only in Dunedin. Nothing else to do all day.
  
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  November 4, 2018 6:10pm
- KevOB
  
  The new promise will never be fulfilled. Teachers for special needs children require further special including personality characteristics. My daughter became one but eventually retired because it was too onerous.
  
  Amateurs again.
  Can’t organise housing.
  Can’t marshall teaching resources.
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:24pm
- RF
  
  Jesus. The serial philanderer is on day release.
  
  Noskire. When you finish with your red hot needles can you loan them to me.
  
  Also throw in a spare bucket as I have this urge to chunder.
  
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  November 4, 2018 10:18pm
Lee C

Wow looks like we have a new ‘Posh And Becks’.

I like how the media’s constantly hammering on about Jacinda’s ‘celebrity’.

It is very entertaining.
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November 4, 2018 4:12pm
- Swifty
  
  If they continue to be forced to rely on her alone – it will all come crashing down before too long.
  
  Lipstick always wears off – the pig remains.
  
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  November 4, 2018 5:02pm
krazykiwi

We must stop creating new crimes to police and conditions to cure

The chief constable of Hampshire police pretty much nailed it last week. Objecting to the pressure put on police to pursue an ever greater catalogue of hate crimes, Olivia Pinkney said, with a succinct lucidity that professional commentators might envy,

“…there are lots of horrible things that happen where police are not necessarily the first or best service”.

In other words, not everything horrible that happens is a crime. Language that is hateful, behaviour that is hurtful (or even frightening), attitudes that are cruel or unjust, are deplorable but they are not – except in a metaphorical sense – criminal.
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November 4, 2018 5:41pm
- Swifty
  
  Yep, the left are the new fascists.
  
  The evidence is clear.
  
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  November 4, 2018 5:44pm
- nasska
  
  …..”Language that is hateful, behaviour that is hurtful (or even frightening), attitudes that are cruel or unjust, are deplorable”…..
  
  All these imagined horrors can be treated by ensuring that no mad, lonely, strange woman has less than six cats!
  
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  November 4, 2018 6:16pm
  - stigie
    
    And for a moment there Nasska i thought you were talking about our dearest Penny ?
    
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    November 4, 2018 7:50pm
    - nasska
      
      Well, to be fair stigie, she admitted to owning six cats. From time to time she popped down to the SPCA to top up when the incumbents made an escape bid from the waterless wasteland! 🙂
      
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      November 4, 2018 7:57pm
Viking2

I see labour want to subsidize ladies sanitary items.
Lots of uses other than what you might think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcdKep5H4dk
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November 4, 2018 6:08pm
- DJ Ward
  
  Will they pay for extra food as males have higher energy intake.
  Will men get to retire earlier as we die younger.
  Will we get child support subsidies as we pay most of the child support taxes.
  Will we get a workers tax rebate for our higher risk jobs and injuries.
  Will we get a pay subsidy as compensation for the school system failing us as boys.
  Will we have subsidised shaving.
  Will they give male MP’s a suit (uniform) subsidy as females get to use normal clothes.
  Will male parents get a free parenting course as Plunket refuses to deal with fathers.
  Will males get a viagra subsidy.
  Will male DV victims get free passes to stay at Women’s Refuge as the footpath is the present option.
  
  Make the $2.00 budget version tampons free then. But only at schools. The financial burden is obscene, help the ladies.
  
  What’s next?
  
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  November 4, 2018 7:18pm
  - cmm
    
    Of course making the government funding of a $5 per month expense is going to end up costing the taxpayer something like $10 per month.
    
    There will have to be a Department of Sanitary Products with expensive offices. They’ll commission that “artist” who did murals in her own menstrual fluids to do a $350k panel.
    
    There will be a separate funding for a Commissioner of Maori Periods.
    
    Trannies (male to female) will be given tampons so their feelings are not hurt (as well as offers of a pap smear).
    
    Trannies (female to male) will not get free tampons because we don’t want to hurt their feelings. No pap smear for them either. They will get prostate checks if those ever get the same degree of support.
    
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    November 4, 2018 7:41pm
    - nasska
      
      Possibly but although I think it’s a hare brained idea offering a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist the actual distribution will probably be put in the hands of the various ‘family planning’ clinics who already hand out free contraceptives.
      
      If they’re not delivered door to door most of the intended recipients are too fat & lazy to walk to the nearest clinic so all may yet turn out well.
      
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      November 4, 2018 7:46pm
  - KevOB
    
    A local uni has a sign up offering them free.
    
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    November 4, 2018 8:17pm
DigNap15

Ardern’s speech was all about how much money we can give away to losers.
Hopefully only two more years of putting up with this cringe.
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November 4, 2018 7:14pm
stigie

All this fucking money going to the ones that can’t budget because they don’t need to, the fucking current government does it for them.
Isn’t time the government started looking after businesses and the top earners in the way of a tax cut..?
I may as well say…..Pass me a fucking Tui !~
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November 4, 2018 8:00pm
stephieboy

We have heard of the witching hour but KB takes it a step further and gives us the gormless hour courtesy nasska, Nostradamus, stigie and at odd times Viking 2. etc.

Never in the field of human tedium has so much being owned by so few.
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November 4, 2018 8:20pm
- nasska
  
  I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man. 🙂
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:29pm
  - stephieboy
    
    You’ll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.
    
    Earl Nightingale
    
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    November 4, 2018 8:37pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Must be why we find your 30,000+ comments boring.
      
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      November 4, 2018 8:41pm
      - stephieboy
        
        MW, applies to you too!
        
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        November 4, 2018 8:44pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        None of my comments have ever disappeared into the aether.
        
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        November 4, 2018 8:47pm
- stigie
  
  Just for you Stiffy !~
  
  https://i.pinimg.com/236x/1e/ff/51/1eff510bfb776d351aa24d8b3ffbff53–muslim-girls-hijab.jpg
  
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  November 4, 2018 8:29pm
  - stephieboy
    
    The brain drainage game!
    
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    November 4, 2018 8:43pm
Jack5

The international tide seems to be on the turn, with international support falling for daylight saving time.

How long before NZ follows?

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/2171587/daylight-saving-here-are-countries-trying-ditch-it
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November 4, 2018 9:16pm
Jack5

If only we could …

With petrol prices soaring in NZ, wouldn’t it be a boost for our motorists and truckers if we could sneak into Marsden Point one or two of Iran’s “dark” oil tankers?

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/11/03/business/bid-keep-selling-oil-iranian-tankers-go-dark/
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November 4, 2018 9:23pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Restarting people smuggling to Australia?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/nov/04/sending-refugees-to-new-zealand-a-giant-magnet-to-people-smugglers-ciobo-says
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November 4, 2018 9:32pm
- Jack5
  
  Australia’s demand for a lifetime ban from Australia for Nauru refugees settled in NZ would surely mean visas for New Zealand citizens entering Australia. How else could it be enforced?
  
  Below is another link, this time to Australian discussion of the issue. I notice Australia’s Home Affairs Minister is reported as saying the Nauru refugee children will never permanently settle in Australia.
  
  When “boat people” began crashing Australia’s border, and Australia announced it would take a tough line, there was strong criticism, even from within the US State Department. That was before the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the United States.
  
  Times have changed, with the Middle East and African Mediterranean invasion and with crowds of Central Americans aiming to storm their way into the United States.
  
  The liberal spotlight is no longer locked on Australia.
  
  https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/more-nauru-children-moved-to-australia-as-fresh-bid-for-new-zealand-solution-rejected-20181102-p50dnr.html
  
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