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December 20, 2018 8:00am
- Cobolt24
  
  Most intelligent thing you’ve ever said on this blog!
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:02am
  - Longknives
    
    I think he started to type then got distracted by a ‘Young Honeypot’ walking by…
    
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    December 20, 2018 8:06am
    - G152
      
      Aha. Did she get his goat?
      
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      December 20, 2018 8:26am
    - WaveyDavey
      
      Ample breasts?
      
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      December 20, 2018 8:39am
      - stigie
        
        Supple too !~
        
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        December 20, 2018 8:44am
  - Im Right
    
    It’s the clamber to be first to post, makes no sense unless you actually have something to say….and seems Stephieboy is true to form and indeed has nothing to say, whether he has just a full stop or a paragraph or 3 it actually ends up just the same as the full stop contribution.
    
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    December 20, 2018 8:13am
- tas
  
  Stephieboy, your comment is pointless.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:06am
  - sooty
    
    Just like all the other ones!
    Down tick and move on!
    
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    December 20, 2018 8:36am
- NoCash
  
  You say it best when you say nothing at all…
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:21am
- Harkman
  
  Sorry I accidentally gave you a thumbs up. Won’t happen again.
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:21am
- Rich Prick
  
  Congratulations on your first correct use of punctuation. Here’s a gold star.
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:43am
  - MH
    
    looks decidedly like a concentration camp one.
    He/she last seen in a crescent moon Mecca-nised transport heading for the Hajj.
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:03am
waldonz

I wonder how all those who voted for NZ First are feeling today?
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December 20, 2018 8:03am
- tas
  
  They’re probably feeling confused as usual.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:04am
- Doubledimp
  
  Judging by the comments and upvotes on an article on stuff today about population rising 231 percent, pretty annoyed. Now if only National could pass the press opportunity over to another party (maybe the new conservatives) to help them get over 5%?
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:19am
  - Tall Man
    
    If the MSM ever bothered to do a half decent job, ask questions, look into outcomes and stop photo shoots and feelz articles, plus the occasional attack on Simon Bridges National would win the next election on their own.
    
    Labour would revert to their usual 25%, winston would lurk around 4% and the greens would get their usual 7%.
    
    However, that is not going to happen with the current bunch of idiots in the media but I live in hope that 2020 will bring some form of change.
    
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    December 20, 2018 8:33am
  - All_on_Red
    
    A new Green Party
    
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    December 20, 2018 8:33am
    - Tall Man
      
      In the words of ardern the liar ummm, ahhhh, ummmmm.
      
      I say what do you mean a new green party, we haven’t seen one yet.
      
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      December 20, 2018 10:12am
    - stephieboy
      
      All on Red , how ” thought” provoking!
      
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      December 20, 2018 1:54pm
      - All_on_Red
        
        I could explain ‘how’ but let’s face it. You’re too dumb to be able to understand.
        Hey, how is your investigation going?
        I see Nostra was talking about showing St Albans some of your comments
        Would you like that Underwear Boy?
        
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        December 20, 2018 2:12pm
  - Inandout
    
    Getting over 5% when a percentage of your supporters have demised since the last election is a hard ask. Then there are others who are perplexed by Winston’s confusing behaviour, perhaps caused by the drugs he must be taking given his age and previous reckless lifestyle.
    
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    December 20, 2018 8:38am
    - freethinker
      
      Have you been reading between the Lines?
      
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      December 20, 2018 10:31am
    - Paulus
      
      It will be 3% so they can get back in along with their mate Peters.
      
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      December 20, 2018 1:26pm
    - MrsAnnie
      
      Whisky and Viagra
      
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      December 20, 2018 3:50pm
- Nermal
  
  I’ve long run out of vomit
  
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  December 20, 2018 3:28pm
Longknives

I see Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is taking a holiday already claiming she is ‘burnt out’ (Media are quite rightly ripping the shit out of her in the States)
She is so similar to our own People’s Princess (The ‘Part-Time’ Prime Minister) it is scary…
Will we see a ‘Part-Time’ POTUS in the future?
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December 20, 2018 8:05am
- Cobolt24
  
  She’s got teeth like the PriNZess too.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:07am
  - KevOB
    
    Is there a commie chick genotype?
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:05am
  - Longknives
    
    Ha Ha! If they ever meet it will look like the Quinella of the Kentucky Derby…
    
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    December 20, 2018 12:13pm
- MCos
  
  I’m confused.
  She’s being criticised for taking time off from a job she hasn’t even started yet.
  Looks like the knives are out for her alright.
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:21am
- Thought Criminal
  
  A lefty friend made the prediction that she’d be president one day. ?????????
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:42am
  - Colinxy
    
    If Ardern and Trudeau can be prime ministers. Ocasio-Cortez could be president.
    
    Ardern and Trudeau have shattered the concept that a supreme executive officer needs intelligence beyond a rotten turnip.
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:11am
- Steve (North Shore)
  
  Can’t wait until she starts making and passing laws – and sacks Trump.
  Silly bint is deranged. eg, the difference between a billion dollars and a trillion dollars is only 3 zeros; and as zero has no value there is no extra cost. No shit, she said it
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:13am
- freethinker
  
  Only if the president has tits.
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:32am
- Batman
  
  They already have one. The staff just brand it as “executive time” to cover over the fact that he’s watching tv and tweeting himself into perjury
  
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  December 20, 2018 12:55pm
alloytoo

Oh look, City Mission has just received a lesson in economics.

Free = near infinite demand
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December 20, 2018 8:05am
- kowtow
  
  The Mission gets so much free advertising from all arms of our media it was always going to attract unmanagable numbers of ,ahem , the poor.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:12am
  - igm
    
    There is a free food outlet in Palmerston North and quite ironic to watch some recipients walk around the corner and get into some rather nice cars, even saw one take his parcel and hand it to a pillion . . . on a late model V-Rod.
    
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    December 20, 2018 8:26am
    - MCos
      
      Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
      Did you ask them what was going on or were you too busy logging on to Kiwiblog?
      
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      December 20, 2018 9:24am
      - igm
        
        Would not lower myself speaking to that type of scum thanks.
        
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        December 20, 2018 9:51am
      - howitis
        
        Feeling Grumpy and run down…
        Listen to Dame Doozy Devoy
        You could need Centrum
        It will leave you feeling great from A to Zeeee
        
        (Consult Your Doctor first.. about talking to Doozy she could try to convert you to moozlem!)
        
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        December 20, 2018 9:53am
  - VicParking
    
    Driving up from Hamilton and down from Jonesville.
    
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    December 20, 2018 8:33am
  - GazzaW
    
    While waiting at the lights 100 metres down from the Auckland City Mission last year a woman knocked on my car window and asked if I wanted to buy a frozen chook for $5. She had got it in her City Mission Christmas food parcel and didn’t know how to cook it.
    
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    December 20, 2018 9:33am
  - In Vino Veritas
    
    Lol kow, as the said “poor” queue up making texts on their latest iPhone and dressed in their upmarket Nike trainers or Vans. Yep, dead set poor.
    
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    December 20, 2018 12:43pm
- pdm
  
  I struggle with the economics of driving in any rust bucket from Rotorua/Auckland/Rotorua to get free food. The petrol (and oil) probably cost more than stocking up at the local supermarket.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:17am
  - holysheet
    
    Yeah but it’s FREE….
    
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    December 20, 2018 8:19am
    - waikatogirl
      
      And a rustbucket holds at least 4 adults who can all individually go in and claim their FREE food. Christmas time is the best cause there are treats included for the kiddies.
      
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      December 20, 2018 8:23am
  - alex Masterley
    
    I drive past Eden park on the way to work everyday around 6.45ish.
    The queue waiting for the hand out needs to be seen to be believed. It is long.
    In the main well padded people clutching cell phones and having smokes in a no smoking area.
    That people see the need to drive to auckland is gobsmacking. the cost in gas would cover the cost of the food that these punters may receive.
    
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    December 20, 2018 8:29am
    - stigie
      
      “the cost in gas would cover the cost of the food that these punters may receive.”
      
      I have on good authority the gas is stolen !~
      
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      December 20, 2018 8:50am
    - flipper
      
      Alex….
      I reckon the number that really need that sort of help might be NO MORE than 1000 NATIONWIDE.
      One of my grandsons, a smart arse 20 year old, and four of his mates lined up at our local food bank “for a laugh”.
      They were each given a carton of cans (various content).
      When I got to hear of it I tore each of them a new arsehole and phoned the food bank organiser. Her response was ” we cannot judge”.
      Lordy !!!
      
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      December 20, 2018 8:57am
    - kevn
      
      Alex… Might be funded by a WINZ grant “to attend my mothers/fathers/brothers/sisters/uncles/aunty/random family member tangi”..
      
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      December 20, 2018 9:25am
      - igm
        
        Was on a car yard when a guy approached me to see if I wanted to buy $50 worth of MTA vouchers for $30.
        I checked around and found out it was a Winz voucher to attend a funeral and was not needed.
        How often does this happen?
        Taxpayers are being taken for a ride by this CoL, and can see why anarchy arises.
        
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        December 20, 2018 10:04am
  - JibberJabber
    
    LoL, it`s the mentality, I`ve met a couple that instead of taking a load of rubbish to the local tip for $15, they`d drive a 150km round trip to dump it for free.
    
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    December 20, 2018 8:35am
  - Sacha
    
    Come on, be nice, it’s Christmas, everyone gets presents.
    They’re going to the Marae to get their parcels. And it’s a day out to see the cuzzies in the city.
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:52am
- Paulus
  
  Heard that some as far as Rotorua and Hamilton driving all night to get to the three centres – dropping people off at each one to get early into the queues.
  How much fuel have they used for this exercise in futility.
  The more you give the more is wanted – not necessarily needs.
  Very Sad.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:19am
  - G152
    
    Must be bloody slow cars then if it takes ‘all night’
    
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    December 20, 2018 8:28am
    - VicParking
      
      You have to stop to syphon petrol, visit tinny houses and stop at each pub.
      
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      December 20, 2018 8:36am
    - kowtow
      
      Suspension gone due to overloading with fat fuck driver and passengers.
      
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      December 20, 2018 10:44am
- Fletch
  
  But what about the war on poverdy? Jacinda told us that she was going to end poverdy so why should there be a need for handouts at all?
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:15am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Welfare only works in a moral society in which people use welfare as a safety net rather than as a hammock.
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:17am
  - Jazzby
    
    Nicely put.
    
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    December 20, 2018 11:22am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    How does it function in Japan?
    
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    December 20, 2018 11:58am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Welfare is draconian and intrusive.
      Inspectors confirm that beneficiaries do not have “luxuries” such as fancy consumer electronics or air conditioners (in the 38 C heat and 95% humidity of the Tokyo summer).
      In addition, there is much shame in having one’s hand out while other able-bodied citizens work hard for the nation’s benefit.
      Neighbors will talk about lazy good-for-nothing sons. Maybe that’s why some of them refuse to ever leave their rooms.
      
      Call it bullying. Maybe it is. But it is the enforcement of cultural norms from the bottom up. Here in NZ the people are passive and expect the police and government officials to enforce norms from the top down.
      
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      December 20, 2018 12:41pm
  - Elaycee
    
    Well said, Odakyu-sen.
    
    L A C
    
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    December 20, 2018 12:23pm
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    “Welfare only works in a moral society”.
    
    Overly generous welfare can turn a moral society into an immoral one. That’s what has happened in NZ since the 70s.
    
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    December 20, 2018 1:19pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Correct welfare administration is a very delicate balancing act.
      If you don’t give enough welfare to the right people, they will suffer and fall into a condition where they will be little use to society. Do nothing for them, and they will give up hope, become desperate and resort to anti-social means to survive.
      On the other hand, give them too much welfare and they will become addicted to it. Feed the seagulls and eventually they will become fat, lazy birds who no longer know how to fish or look after themselves.
      
      Welfare ought to be privatized and left to societies and non-profit institutions such as the churches or temples to undertake. The state can act as inspectors to ensure that abuse at these institutions is surpressed (since vulnerable people tend to attract predators).
      
      Shrink the State. Reduce the number of bureaucrats. Let the people look after their own lives.
      
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      December 20, 2018 1:31pm
DifferentPerspective

NZ First now officially history

Looking at the visceral anger pouring in on NZ First’s facebook page – I’d say this is it for Winnie.

I don’t think there is any way back for a leader and party who’s defining feature is their stance on reducing immigration of animals from 3rd world shitholes – when they sign up to a pact that will open the flood gates to immigration from 3rd world shitholes!

Fuck you Winston and good riddance, heading out now to buy my yellow hi vis jacket before they’re sold out.
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December 20, 2018 8:06am
- tas
  
  Winston’s core voters will forget by next week.
  
  But his core voters thankfully aren’t enough to get to 5%.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:08am
  - Paulus
    
    But they will not need 5% which is why the secret agreement drops it to 3%.
    So if the Peters Party drops by half they still get back.
    
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    December 20, 2018 8:21am
    - Colinxy
      
      If the WinstonFirst voting pattern continues, WinstonFirst will be out in 2020, and unfortunately back in 2023.
      
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      December 20, 2018 9:33am
    - GazzaW
      
      Not at the 2020 election. The 5% threshold remains regardless. Finlayson predicted a two horse result in his valedictory
      
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      December 20, 2018 9:38am
      - lastmanstanding
        
        After our flirtation with MMP over the past 20 years we are heading back to a 2 party situation. IMHO the spread of politics and the number of voters wont sustain fringe parties.
        
        Its the 80/20 Rule. 80% of voters are around the middle of the spectrum with the other 20% spread either side.
        
        And some of that 20% have drifted towards the middle over the years and will continue as long as the 2 main parties fight at the margins.
        
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        December 20, 2018 10:01am
      - Jack5
        
        Can Barely Sober, that mate of Judas Peters, now pull the politician out of the Slough of Deceit?
        
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        December 20, 2018 1:23pm
  - Colinxy
    
    Well, the anger might last until after the 2020 election. I thought WinstonFirst had finally slaughtered themselves in 2008 with no chance of recovery.
    
    Unfortunately, WinstonFirst is like the proverbial bad smell. His core voters will have forgiven him by 2023.
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:02am
    - Paulus
      
      Peters could be dust by 2023.
      
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      December 20, 2018 1:52pm
      - Colinxy
        
        Death is the only thing that might stop him. I imagine all the whisky is preserving him.
        
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        December 20, 2018 1:57pm
- ldypen
  
  Winston is traitor.. Ardern is truth impaired.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:23am
  - kevn
    
    @Idy… whinney thinks ‘his’ interpretation of the UN bullsh*t is far more (convenient for JA/UN job beckons) accurate than our allies Australia and USA (plus all the other countries), who clearly see hooks in the loosely worded UN migration doco.
    
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    December 20, 2018 9:30am
- Justitia
  
  I have read the advice provided by Crown Law and MFAT on whether the Compact contains obligations for New Zealand. It is tendentious to say the least. How the authors can purport to know the minds of individual judges when they come to interpret the government’s political commitment to the compact in deciding cases involving immigration law – such as asylum or deportation cases eg Mr Sroubeck – is beyond me. They also assert that the government’s support for the compact will have no impact on New Zealanders’ human rights such as freedom of speech despite the plain text in Objective 17 of the compact. That is their view, tailored to what their masters want to hear at this time, but no more than that. The only useful suggestion they propose is that New Zealand should make an Explanation of Vote when the compact is adopted setting out its understandings on these and other matters. Have we? If so let’s see the text.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:26am
  - Jack5
    
    MFAT – bunch of liberal-leftist arts graduates. The brighter ones good at languages, the others typically with education in political science and other pseudo-sciences.
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:00am
  - KevOB
    
    I suspected what you have said. Winston’s prevarications suggested he was waiting on confirming advice.
    
    Advisors to the COL if they want pay next week have to give agreeable opinions. The COL are self driven ideologues–announced commies.
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:14am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Now watch for “hate crime” laws as required by the compact. Quickly followed by litigation jihad. The welfare whores always have time for that.
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:19am
    - Jack5
      
      If Jones and the other NZ First MPs want another term in Parliament they better roll Judas Peters during the holiday racing season.
      
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      December 20, 2018 10:34am
      - Sacha
        
        I saw Jones on Question time yesterday – what an appalling man, so full of self conceit he could barely speak – and what emerged was incomprehensible.
        Awfully awful.
        
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        December 20, 2018 10:58am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      RP, everyone who cares should be up-ticking you. But most Kiwis, even here, still haven’t caught on to how dangerous this is. ‘Litigation jihad’ as Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff suffered will be coming to NZ.
      
      Criticising misogynist, homophobic religious ideologies will become illegal. But religious texts will be exempt from the hate speech laws: e.g. telling men to *beat their wives* (sura 4:34), an actual call to violence, is acceptable to these Leftard morons.
      
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      December 20, 2018 12:09pm
- Tall Man
  
  “Maori seats will be gone by lunchtime…all Chinese will be deported and their houses seized and sold at auction. There will be an immediate increase to national super of 50%. Parliament will be decreased by 50 seats”.
  
  Vote for me as these are all “non negotiable” I really really promise.
  
  Job done, back in the house for more baubles.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:41am
- Classic Liberal
  
  The way he treated the very mild Mike Yardley on Newstalk ZB this morning – and Yardley too clueless to be asking the right questions. Newstalk ZB has totally let this go, even since Hoskings said it was ‘non binding’ and wasn’t ‘fazing’ him.
  
  NZ does not know what is going to hit us! One really needs to have a close eye on Europe to see how bad this could get.
  
  To Winston, those of us concerned are ‘alt-right’. Winston, I guess that would include people who are actually social liberals who want to maintain a society of equal rights for women and homosexuals. Parts of Europe have lost that due to flooding by a particular ideology that oppresses women, gays and non-believers.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:56am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    OMG, poor Bridges being ‘interviewed’ (constantly interrupted) by a TV1 idiot who thinks the plural of ‘crisis’ is ‘crisissis’. And that we have to play our part when these ‘crisissis’ happen in the world.
    
    That’s the level, sigh…
    
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    December 20, 2018 9:47am
  - freethinker
    
    The invasion of Moo Slimes to Europe will see them as the New Joooos and Germany may treat them the same way.
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:41am
- slightlyrighty
  
  There will be a sizable faction of the Core Labour Vote that will be pissed as well. The next round of polling will be very interesting. I expect National to be over 50%
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:41am
- Happychappy
  
  What a fine post DP and worthy of the score 63 you have already but will you gaurentee that you won’t change your mind at the next Election like you did with Bill English at the last Election. Great post even tho you helped put him there this time.
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:01am
- Liberty
  
  Different Perspective
  How times have changed. It was only last election.
  The sun shone out of your little buddy Winston arse.
  And you were was going to teach National a lesson.
  I hope you a enjoying living in a socialist cesspit.
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:13am
- madamezucchininz
  
  ….I am starting to wonder where the outrage is over the sneaky signing of the Compact…..where are the protests…where are the media articles…..I know the Compact is non-binding….but….in the hands of an incompetent government such as we have is dangerous….the SLG is in awe of the mighty UN and will do anything they ask of her…..Winston…..how could you do this?….Obviously you do not give a toss about the people who voted for you….they voted for you on your “less” immigration stance….wtf…..I think Winston has lost his mind at best and at worst is just a lying scum bag who will do anything for power…..
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:36am
  - Sacha
    
    I can see it now: the UN will decide it wants to clear out its refugee camps. It will suggest that the Compact supporters take – oh, 10,000 for each million of population?
    If the NZ government of the day demurs, there will pressure from other signees, and howls of horror from the emotional blackmailers, and in they’ll come.
    Ardern will shrug her shoulders and say that we will have to be a responsible international citizen and do our bit.
    If I was younger. I’d be packing my bags for Aussie, and filling out citizenship forms by the end of the week.
    
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    December 20, 2018 11:07am
    - Hard Cheese
      
      The day you start seeing 10,000 migrants inbound to NZ as a result of the Compact, Australia will have already closed off free migration for NZ’ers. There’s no way they’ll allow NZ to be a back door into Australia for the unchecked and unwashed masses.
      
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      December 20, 2018 8:18pm
  - Piniwi
    
    @madamezucchininz quite amazing to see the worst predictions coming true as two political fools driven by their own agenda combine. As the regal trappings of parliament are being locked away until next year stalled announcements are starting to flow. The old drunk confirms our worse prediction of all that the UN Migration Compact is being signed. Then with the new day the SLG announces she can not sack Haumaha but instead slaps a coat of whitewash over him to compliment his dyed hair. A sort of reverse black and white minstrel who has a unique act of his own.
    Most memorable lie from the SLG this year is “read between the lines” being ranked right up there with Lets do this. It is always apparent how significant the content to read between the lines is by the number of lines the SLG takes to say nothing. Most noticeable on those limited occasions the SLG manages to fit some real work into her busy self promotional program to face OQT. It is taking a lot more words to “address” questions allowed to stretch out by a compliant Speaker who remains ready to run interference. Who better to act tough than an established bully.
    The majority on the other hand have been getting better at joining the dots since it is actions that speak louder than words. Thus the year ends with another work complete as the last two dots are added. The old drunk finally announcing at the last minute as expected the UN Migration Compact will be signed. Followed the very next day by the SLG in her umpire roll declaring Haumaha SAFE!
    While those last dots compete two complete two cartoon like images they are the start of a new image pair of new lines that will eventually ring fence the great divide. The area where the people will be facing the consequences as law and order as we knew it has been eroded. Yep that is as open and transparent as we can expect providing we fill in the lines of the dots.
    
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    December 20, 2018 2:49pm
    - Woz
      
      Haumaha has “cunt” written all over him.
      
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      December 20, 2018 8:53pm
- Southern Raider
  
  The pissed dwarf has just done another post claiming that the anti signing negative comments NZ First is getting is all due to “the Alt Right”!!!
  
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  December 20, 2018 3:48pm
  - Surely Knott
    
    Haha haha ? his problem now is the sheer size of the “ALT-right” who voted for him who will now be looking for an ALT-ernative place to put their vote. ?
    
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    December 20, 2018 7:53pm
- rightoverlabour
  
  I suggested I shed tear in 2017 and got a strike. Winston is a treasonous terrorist. The sooner I read his obituary the better. Fuck you, you traitorous lying, deceitful, treasonous, dishonorable, narcissistic, egotistical, dishonest worthless scum. (Please feel free to add to the list….)
  
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  December 20, 2018 4:22pm
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Even better Winston is doing a Hilary Clinton and insulting the voters. Apparently if you are even remotely nationalistic (like 95% of the NZ First voting base) you are alt-Right.
  
  He has totally jumped the shark – this IS the most Monty Python year in politics, so entertaining and so lunatic.
  
  And brought to us courtesy of MMP.
  
  Still waiting for the MMP defenders to pipe up and shout out again about what an amazing electoral system it is and how much better it is that FPP.
  
  (Reminder – under FPP, National would have had a landslide victory in 2017 and Bill English would be PM. Under FPP – Winston’s political career would have been over in 1996. Under FPP we would never have had the Green Party in Parliament. Under FPP NZ wouldn’t have become a vassal state of the UN etc etc)
  
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  December 20, 2018 4:47pm
- Odakyu-sen
  
  NZ FIRST
  
  JUMPS
  
  SHARK
  
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  December 20, 2018 6:04pm
lifesgood

Man oh man! Go take a look at New Zealand First’s Facebook page. Winnie’s supporters are furious that he signed the UN immigration pact. Comment after comment telling him what they think of him, most are his voters. Might have signed his death warrant. Oh dear, how sad, never mind.
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December 20, 2018 8:06am
- srylands
  
  I confess I don’t understand the ramifications of signing this. I can’t be bothered reading it. However it is clear that if Winston was in opposition and a government had signed it, he would have been incendiary.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:09am
  - kevn
    
    @sry…. Check out the countries who Won’t sign. That gives you a very good clue.
    
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    December 20, 2018 9:31am
  - Sacha
    
    The dreaded Stefan Molyneux has a video on youtube. It’s a bit of a rant, but he draws attention to various clauses (which are onscreen), and shows how the wooffly wording can be interpreted to suit.
    Worth 30 minutes of your time.
    
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    December 20, 2018 11:12am
- Tricati
  
  Next year he will come out with a magnanimous policy (bribe) to aid the pensioners and all will be forgiven.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:14am
- igm
  
  Stuff once again stopped comments . . . were not conducive to editorial policy!
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:28am
  - septic skeptic
    
    Perhaps they were worried that they amounted to a violation of the article about not criticising immigration and that they would be liable under the new scheme.
    
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    December 20, 2018 8:51am
- LTA1955
  
  Ditch the treasonous little bastard…..or incur the wrath of the Yellow-Vis Army
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:32am
  - freethinker
    
    Winston/Micron/May/Merkel take your pick or pick em all.
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:45am
- KevOB
  
  Winston First has been crusading on a policy of NZ first for years–None or severely restricted immigration.
  
  Open season from the UN is not what NZ was expecting from NZF.
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:20am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Look, I’m sure the UN will pick the very best jihadists for New Zealand. You, your wife and your daughters have nothing to worry about.
    
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    December 20, 2018 11:30am
- Gravelroad
  
  Apologies if someone has already commented similarly, but heard Mr Peters on the Heather DPA radio show this morning.
  What a condescending, arrogant man he is – telling people who disagree that they are no nothings – he knows more and best.
  Dont think I have ever heard a so called leader prevaricate like him – blatantly twisting and turning to protect his position.
  I feel sorry for the people who voted for him.
  Peters has no respect for you and is now openly laughing at how he has used well- meaning supporters to promote himself.
  His reputation is now beyond repair.
  As for Ms Ardern, this migration pact signing is just another step up the ladder to a cushy job at the UN for her.
  
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  December 20, 2018 2:19pm
  - KevOB
    
    There’s a vacant position in Somalia: mother to headless chickens.
    
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    December 20, 2018 2:26pm
srylands

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/109468927/heres-how-much-new-zealands-population-would-change-if-everyone-who-wanted-to-migrate-here-actually-did
The comments on this are scathing.
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December 20, 2018 8:06am
- Woz
  
  Jeepers, not a lot of support for the gummint there.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:17am
  - DifferentPerspective
    
    But don’t worry Heifer du Plesbyalien on ZB is leaping to the defence of SLG – started off this morning by saying
    
    “Well the pact got signed and those getting themselves in lather must be feeling pretty silly as the sky hasn’t fallen in”
    
    Which to my mind is seriously scraping the barrel. I cannot recall any of the opponents of the Global Migration pact ever suggesting that “the sky would fall in”. Further I seriously question the intelligence of any radio journalist who can even conceive of “the sky falling in”. I can only imagine that her brain was broken in to by the same moron who emailed Finlayson.
    
    And this is someone who considers them-self to be a “serious journalist”. I do not understand why ZB continue to stick leftist morons between the two biggest ad-revenue generators in the business (Larry and Mike) when it is clear there is no appetite for “woke” libtards like HDPA.
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:24am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      “as the sky hasn’t fallen in”
      
      What an absolute idiot, and completely backstabbing true supporters of women’s rights and gay rights.
      
      She doesn’t seem to read any news from Europe about what Merkel’s open borders did for German women!
      
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      December 20, 2018 12:14pm
- tas
  
  The polling data is really interesting. How would populations change if people could move anywhere?
  
  http://news.gallup.com/migration/interactive.aspx
  
  I’m surprised that the US is only +46% while Russia, China, and India are only -5%. NZ appears to be #1 at +231%. Wow!
  
  Of course, the data is only indicative, since respondents have probably not thought very much about their answer.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:20am
  - srylands
    
    I’m not surprised. Most people in India don’t have the means to leave and they have strong family and social connections. But remember that 5 percent of India is 65 million people. Let’s say that only 1 in 100 of those leaving chose New Zealand, which seems plausible, that is 650,000 Indians arriving in New Zealand.
    
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    December 20, 2018 8:39am
    - tas
      
      I would have guessed that at least 10% of both India and China wants to move to the US.
      
      I suspect a lot of people said “I want to move the NZ/Canada because of Trump/Brexit/etc.” and that’s the driver of NZ’s numbers. 231% of 4.9 million is 11 million, which would only be 3% of the US population.
      
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      December 20, 2018 9:06am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Comments closed already- so for an article that was posted at 21.49 – they stopped the flow of negativity pretty quickly.
  
  The PM’s office must’ve been on the phone pretty quickly to pull that off before 8.30am. We’re in 1984!
  
  Most open and transparent …. my arse!
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:25am
  - flipper
    
    Pity about the useless fucking “Press Council” or whatever they call it these days.
    
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    December 20, 2018 9:52am
- The Heat
  
  Yes, indeed.
  
  The stupidest defence by COL supporters – of which there appear to be few left – is that it is “not binding”, which implies that if it were, then that would be a major problem.
  
  Jesus wept. Why sign it, then? The only way to eliminate the risk of it becoming binding is to not have signed it.
  
  It will become binding. Guaranteed.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:33am
  - howitis
    
    ..and
    When Britain joined the EEC 45 years ago it was merely a free trade bloc.
    Roll forward to drunken Junker’s EU and see what there is today.
    
    Next stop …the EU army.
    The US army constitutionally cannot be used against its own people.
    In Europe, the worst way seems to be the only way.
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:05am
  - Pascal
    
    You only need to look at the ATT agreement, also started non-binding and look at it now. Anybody that expects a politician to leave you any freedom is a fool.
    
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    December 20, 2018 3:56pm
- LTA1955
  
  The Coalition of Losers are in for a crap year in 2019, no Happy New Year for them! The Yellow Vis Army has just found themselves 10,000 plus hardcore recruits!
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:10am
  - LTA1955
    
    https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/350961/tradies-outnumber-profs-for-visas-for-first-time-figures
    
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    December 20, 2018 9:25am
- Ross12
  
  Has Peters or Ardern come out and said why it is good for NZ to sign the UN Compact?
  Just to say, do not worry it is not binding is rubbish.
  There has to be a positive reason to sign it otherwise why bother.
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:13am
  - septic skeptic
    
    Jobs for the girls?
    
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    December 20, 2018 9:24am
  - waikatogirl
    
    Cindy and her lefty ideologues love the UN. It is the troughing pinnacle. Run by like-minded perpetual trougher twits all empire building to increase the size of the trough available – driving its own growth on the massive funding it receives from the west.
    
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    December 20, 2018 9:27am
    - Ross12
      
      That maybe the case WG but Bridges should jump all over this and firstly highlight in simple terms what the ramifications could be and secondly hound Peters and Ardern to give a positive reason ( I know they will not respond but he can use that as well by saying “Well there cannot be a good reason”).
      It seems talkback is running hot against them on the issue.
      
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      December 20, 2018 9:42am
      - Paulus
        
        Do you think that the media a care one stuff about what Bridges and anybody in National have to say.
        COLs time will come, but not with this media.
        
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        December 20, 2018 1:57pm
      - Ross12
        
        You are right about the MSM Paulus but that does not mean you give up. National have to find ways around them.
        Put a billboard on the Ak. Wgt, ChCh motorways , make a video about the issue and get it going viral,
        go onto talk back as I mention below, take out a couple full/half page ads in the newspaper, go on Twitter like President Trump etc. etc.
        
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        December 20, 2018 5:13pm
  - Colinxy
    
    I’m not entirely sure on Peters’ motivation for all this but Ardern is straightforward: Ardern is padding her CV for a UN gig. Whether it is good for NZ or not, would be the last thing on Ardern’s mind (e.g. her Captain’s call against the Oil and Gas Industry).
    
    No doubt they’ll be some baubles in it for Peters. He’s always been a snakeoil salesman. Like Ardern, Peters has never given a second thought to what might be beneficial to NZ and has only ever thought of himself.
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:19am
oldpark

Not a word on todays Wellingtons’Dominion Post on NZs decision to vote or sign the 24 Islamic Federation fuelled UN Migration Pact.
If the waste of space and waste of money newspaper were doing their job ,and their so called “Journalists” reporting on it is should have read.
Peters and Ardern with the help of the far left Lunatic Green Party message to them.
‘You Sold Your Country Out’.’You Sold Out NZs Sovereignty’.
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December 20, 2018 8:10am
- VicParking
  
  Red Radio mentioned that it was passed and that the USA (Trump) and rightwing European Countries did not. No mention that NZ had or not.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:41am
- Surely Knott
  
  Nothing on the Herald either. They must have received their UN media training and financial inducements already.
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:01am
- Prince
  
  So, yet again, STOP SUBSCRIBING to this trash.
  You are only encouraging them.
  
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  December 20, 2018 2:04pm
  - DigNap15
    
    I don’t think many people still subscribe to that trash.
    But unfortunately Stuff and the Herald are still very highly ranked on the Alexa NZ website ratings.
    So that means that many of us (me included) are still supporting them.
    Where else can we get some news?
    
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    December 20, 2018 7:21pm
Sofia

The minister [Lees-Galloway] said the 398-page file contained several points in Sroubek’s favour, including a letter from his wife, which he gave weight to in particular; “That from his wife who spoke highly of him and stated that even though they had separated, she was still supporting him financially and mentally.”

Lees-Galloway reiterated on Tuesday the coerced letter from Sroubek’s estranged wife called into question the information he relied upon to make his original decision.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/109443203/karel-sroubek-wife-releases-threatening-taped-conversation-of-the-drugsmuggler

At what point does coercion become a crime.

In a letter “Re: Your liability for deportation”, Lees-Galloway told Karel Sroubek, his a resident visa was subject to 3 conditions, with the last one reading –
3) That you do not provide false or misleading information, or conceal any relevant information, in your dealings with any government agency during the next five years (starting from your release from prison).

What right did Lees-Galloway have to define a time when false or misleading information applied from.
If coercion will be unacceptable “starting from your release from prison”, is it acceptable while Sroubek is in prison?

The Coalition has just turned Sroubek’s business – drugs – into a health issue, but as a “violence against women” matter, he still exists for us and “50 influential women” to watch the Coalition handle.

So far Ardern and Lees-Galloway are displaying nothing but a total reluctance to engage with it.
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December 20, 2018 8:10am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  And is it possible that our PM is doing all she can to denigrate Sroubek’s ex-wife?
  
  Hon Simon Bridges: Have any staff from her office been briefing the media against the estranged wife of Karel Sroubek after yesterday’s revelations trying to discredit her side of the story?
  
  Rt Hon JACINDA ARDERN: As I have said in this House—and I absolutely take responsibility for the actions that I have taken in this regard—as soon as we were advised of concerns about safety, we raised those with the appropriate channels, which was via the Minister of Immigration. And I absolutely stand by that.
  
  Hon Simon Bridges: Have any staff from her office been briefing the media against the estranged wife of Karel Sroubek after yesterday’s revelations to try to discredit her side of the story?
  
  Rt Hon JACINDA ARDERN: Again, why would there be any interest in engaging in that manner? As I’ve said—I’ve been very clear—when concerns were raised, I directly raised it with the Minister of Immigration, and that was how it was dealt with. When I was advised that there is an issue that Mark Mitchell raised, I checked in with the Minister to check on their activities. That was the appropriate thing to do, and we stand by that.
  
  Hon Simon Bridges: Will she do the right thing and check and instruct them to stop?
  
  Rt Hon JACINDA ARDERN: Of course, I would need to take the member at his word, but I, after question time, will ask the question.
  
  Hon Simon Bridges: You know it’s true.
  https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/combined/HansDeb_20181219_20181219_08
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:22am
  - alloytoo
    
    Simon’s treating her like an adversarial witness. (especially since JLR, perhaps Simon lost some innocence there)
    
    Good, she’s evasive and vacuous at the best of times.
    
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    December 20, 2018 8:28am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      Indeed. I like the way he repeats a supplementary question if the PM gives an evasive reply.
      
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      December 20, 2018 8:36am
      - freethinker
        
        Would be better if Simon said after repeating the question – a SIMPLE yes or no will surfice.
        
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        December 20, 2018 11:34am
    - sooty
      
      Corruption!
      
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      December 20, 2018 8:42am
    - KevOB
      
      It’s a delight to watch. Ardern may yet blow her fufu valve she gets so exasperated.
      
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      December 20, 2018 10:27am
    - Rachael Membery
      
      Should be treated as a hostile witness.
      
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      December 21, 2018 12:39am
  - Tall Man
    
    She still didn’t answer the question.
    
    ardern is a liar
    
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    December 20, 2018 8:52am
    - KevOB
      
      Ardern does not answer questions: she responds to speaking opportunities.
      
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      December 20, 2018 2:29pm
Keeping Stock

If you want some fun this morning, go and check out the NZ First Facebook page, in particular the post about the UN Migration Compact:

https://www.facebook.com/NZFirst/

Peters is getting an absolute shellacking; here are a few examples:

Government Legal Advice.. What a load of cobblers. If that advice which given and posted in the link, was true, then there is hardly any need to sign such a document. Winston selling out to his green and red mates, all for the baubles of a knighthood. Arise, Sir Winston Quisling. What a disgrace to the name of person he was probably named after.

I wrote to both this account and Winstons , I said if you sign this treacherous pact I will never vote for NZF again , I have voted for NZF the last 4 times , I have never wanted to ever vote for National , but because you cobbled together this shambles of a government , you have left me no choice but to vote national for the first time since I first voted in 1981 , good bye NZF , and good riddance

Goodbye NZ first. You have lost a lot of support for this and it will show in the next election. This is how you will be remembered Winston, the man who sold out to become a DEPUTY.

The next round of polls will be VERY interesting…
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December 20, 2018 8:11am
- Im Right
  
  But…But KS, you as well as readers of this site will know that come January 2020, he will start his Anti-(insert cause/name here) crusade and make outlandish claims that he will never be asked to prove or provide evidence of by MSM, who are scared of him! remember the ‘Huka lodge has been sold to Asians’ lie that was news to Huka Lodge as it wasn’t even up for sale…he just needs to fire out slurs/slanders/innuendo and lies and enough will stick to get him above 5%, this has been his MO for the last Cpl of elections and 2020 will be no different.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:21am
- Shaun the Sheep
  
  First impressions count.
  Photo of the NZ First MPs spread across the page, arranged to accentuate the fact that the drunk is indeed a dwarf, three slobs with hands in pockets (their own for a change) and Shane Jones couldn’t look more like a penguin if he tried.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:25am
  - Captain Mainwaring
    
    And what about the grinning idiot with the LIGHT BROWN shoes?
    
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    December 20, 2018 9:08am
    - Woz
      
      Never mind the shoes. What’s with the pink tie!?
      
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      December 20, 2018 8:57pm
- MCos
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Looking at NZF Facebook page is not what I would consider ‘fun’ at the best of times.
  
  The insinuation that because some I ratified piece of paper has been signed is going to cause hundreds of thousands of migrants to flock here is laughable.
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:42am
  - Jack5
    
    Here, for liberal supporters of Judas Peter’s signing, is a very moderate criticism of the UN Global Impact on migration from Canada.
    
    The writer draws an anology with the effect of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which was also sold as a non-binding, aspirational document.
    
    This is the writer’s conclusion:
    
    “The global compact’s intentions may be pure, but there will be consequences to its adoption that could over time impact Canada’s ability to set its own course on migration.”
    
    The article, MCos:
    
    https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/john-ivison-the-uns-global-pact-on-migration-sounds-nice-but-dont-sign-it
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:09am
- VicParking
  
  All for the free piss at Government House.
  
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  December 20, 2018 11:02am
secondcumming

May I say I’m shocked!

Not so much at Winston’s *act of treachery* in signing the UN Immigration Pact, thereby completely betraying the founding principles of *NZ First* and its bewildered supporters, (that’s something most New Zealanders have come to expect), but shocked, that for the first time since I met her, my mother-in-law used the word, “cunt”.

The in-laws have featured in the Top10 donors to NZF for many years……she says never again!

Actually, I was reminded of my own late Gran’s words when she would say, “Never trust a Maori in a suit”
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December 20, 2018 8:16am
- Sofia
  
  Monday will be the second anniversary of the passing of UN Security Council Resolution 2334.
  Last anniversary roughly, in response to “Do you support the substance of 2334?” Winston told RNZ –
  “Look, this is something that happened a long time ago, about a year ago now, and so it’s really academic. What I don’t support is Ministers behaving the way one did at that time without any consultation on the face of it, in terms of an official recorded process with Cabinet or indeed the country
  
  But, Hey – Look, that comment of Winston’s is something that happened a long time ago, about a year ago now, so Winston himself clearly thinks he can act “without any consultation on the face of it, in terms of an official recorded process with Cabinet or indeed the country“.
  
  Fucking strange how history can repeat itself.
  Not really
  All it takes is a hypocrite of enormous proportions in the wrong place at the wrong time.
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:34am
- Classic Liberal
  
  “Never trust a Maori in a suit”
  
  Huh? That’s Simon too, and he’s doing a good job.
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:13am
- Inandout
  
  I would suspect Winston has had these checkups, because even a whisky and tobacco hardened male in a double breasted suit is not immune to these problems:
  
  https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/007466.htm
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:34am
Cobolt24

It’s now the perfect time for a new centre right party to come around, also time for the greens to die considering labour has bowed down to their every command it seens, their voters still seem to be clinging on.
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December 20, 2018 8:24am
- Dave Mann
  
  Sadly I have only one tick at my disposal. Please accept these virtual ticks though, in lieu.
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  December 20, 2018 8:36am
- Keeping Stock
  
  Cobalt – National is the one party in the current Parliament which has already give a guarantee that they will withdraw New Zealnd from the UN Compact if elected in 2020.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:39am
  - Dave Mann
    
    Sure, but Cobolt24 was talking about a new centre right party. National is an existing centre left party. Big difference….
    
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    December 20, 2018 8:47am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      I don’t want social conservatism, but I do want financial conservatism.
      
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      December 20, 2018 10:22am
      - CHFR1
        
        I am in the same camp.
        While I am socially conservative I get that not everyone else is and my views, while OK for me will not suit the vast majority of my fellow Kiwi’s. Fiscal conservatism is another beast and one I am happy for my fellow Kiwi’s to share with me.
        
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        December 20, 2018 11:53am
      - Paulus
        
        Cannot be both -can’t work.
        
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        December 20, 2018 2:05pm
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Yes, you can have both: the government can keep out of my bedroom and out of my wallet.
        
        Have basic government services, and people who want to provide more can contribute to charities.
        
        No longer pay sole parent benefit: a sole parent needs to get a job, have investments or be supported by family or a charity. If unemployed, then work/ work training for the dole, including sole parents.
        
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        December 20, 2018 3:47pm
  - Viking2
    
    That’s worked well in the past. Explain to us what the Nats have ever rescinded that Labour put in place.
    
    Like Key did with WFF and Smacking et al.
    
    Will they get rid of Unions and their use of unionists funds on the Labour Party. No
    Will they change the RMA No.
    The list goes on and on and on.
    
    Will the clean out Smith, Barrie and a few other lay abouts. Probably not. Pleased to see the retreat of the Treaty Master.
    Appeasement is all these nut cakes know.
    
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    December 20, 2018 9:03am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      When she spoke in Whanganui recently, Judith Collins confirmed that she is working an on alternative to the RMA that will actually allow people to do things again; all power to her!
      
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      December 20, 2018 9:16am
      - howitis
        
        The same Judith Collins who never made a decision in years on David Bain;
        the same Judith Collins who was going to crush boy racer cars.
        Just another talker.
        A Lawyer.
        Paid by the hour not by results.
        
        Viking2 is correct above.
        Nats are the do nothing Party
        Simon Power was truly an exception in National ranks for actually doing things..and then he was gone.
        Most of what National announced last year was set for 2050. 2040 etc.
        Nothing they were accountable for.
        They even set the tax cuts for 2018 instead of for 1 Oct 2017 so that an incoming changed Govt would have to roll back the cut and in fact overtly increase income tax.
        
        Read my lips: They won’t do a fkg thing!
        Nada; Zip; Bupkis.
        
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        December 20, 2018 10:26am
      - wiseowl
        
        There is nothing wrong with the RMA except for the racist clauses National added.
        Any attempt at an alternative would be stupid .If National believe there should be no legislation to protect natural resources then they are mistaken and do not understand the RMA.
        Allowing developers to ride roughshod over sound planning is a recipe for further ruination of what was a fine country.
        
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        December 20, 2018 5:04pm
      - Dave Mann
        
        Where is this Whanganui?
        
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        December 20, 2018 5:38pm
  - Durden
    
    Apparently you can’t “withdraw”. It’s a majority vote in UN. If vote succeeds and you are a member of the UN you are bound by it. You can withdraw only by withdrawing from the UN. Not sure if Vetos apply
    
    And it will succeed because expectant bludging piss-ant countries vastly out number countries that have a reason to protect their borders and asssert their sovereignty. The Labour party should have broken down list of countries that support this compact by countries that are net sources of migration and migration destination countries.
    
    It’s amazing that the promoters of this compact kept this procedural “majority vote” trickery/treachery hidden from even countries like US etc until a few days ago. Unless it was a freshly minted plan to force it through.
    
    US should veto the damned thing.
    
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    December 20, 2018 5:59pm
  - Durden
    
    Double post and no delete optioni
    
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    December 20, 2018 6:07pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    I wonder how easy that will be?
    
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    December 21, 2018 8:26am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  Comment of the day, of the week – bugger it OF THE YEAR!!!
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:40am
- Classic Liberal
  
  No, don’t split the National vote. All National needs to do is promise a better approach to immigration than its last few years: i.e. accept that the infrastructure of much of NZ can’t take much more, and that many Kiwis enjoy what we have left of space, beaches and parks without wanting far more people.
  
  National needs to promise only people really needed by NZ will be allowed in and only into areas where the infrastructure can handle it.
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:19am
  - KevOB
    
    I thought that was our immigration policy. The whammy we took when Kiwis came home and we went from years of negative migration, then zero then 45,000 in successive years has not been recovered from. The overseas student industry (implied Kiwi residency rights) took off uncontrolled since. Should we not expect regional housing problems?
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:55am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      You’re not entirely wrong on that point, Kea, but National needs to keep spelling it out. Because the other side spins the truth with strong media support.
      
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      December 20, 2018 11:33am
      - KevOB
        
        The Stats Dept have the facts on their website. Ten years or more of losing people then wham. NO govt would have been prepared to handle the changed infrastructure requirements.
        As for National doing nothing a successful earthquake and GFC recovery were masterly. True we did not get much further on but the fix ups occurred and the economy was stable. Prices were contained and our standard of living not damaged. The rest of the world saw that, wanted to return or were envious.
        
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        December 20, 2018 2:37pm
  - howitis
    
    Who would believe that shit.
    
    National flooded Auckland with over 200,000 people in their last four years in Govt with no improvement in infrastructure.
    They let people in from shit holes knowing about all the employment scams like Indians paying for a ‘job’ from an ’employer’ .
    They knew about dodgy ‘tertiary schools’
    They knew and went ahead.
    Unless you are saying they were the ‘Tommy’ Govt i.e. the deaf dumb and blind kid!
    
    They also set up Auckland Council under dreadful terms.
    After 8 years Akl Council have not even standardised rubbish collection across the old main four cities.
    What was the rush especially when Nats tell us they did not have time to reform the RMA with their clear majority in 2008 to 2011…but heaps of time to fuck up Auckland.
    
    The result of destroying the 4 larger Cities that were running well (N Shore. Waitakere; Akl Central, Manukau ) is that building new houses stopped as the previous liberal approach by Waitakere and Manukau to granting building consent came to a screeching halt.
    This meant no new houses, major house price rises on existing stock, and cramming people into a city where they don’t add value and just pile on to the service industry.
    You don’t get rich selling existing houses to each other and importing more fridges and washing machines from China.
    
    Every Mayor of the major cities under National came from the Labour party . Akl, Wtn, ChCh.
    This is pretty much locked in now.
    
    There would have been no need for the Auckland Council if idiot Bolger’s Govt in the early 1990s had not stripped the newly created planning powers from the 1989 created Auckland Regional Council (ARC).
    That was vindictive and stupid behaviour but everything Bolger has ever done has been a cock up including his time at Kiwirail and NZ Post.
    Bolger gave NZ leaky homes.
    
    Down tick me all you like in blind fury that I criticize Nats but also take some action and kick your Nat MP in the arse until they move away from UN directives and centre left policies.
    
    It was National that snuck through UN policy 2334 berating Israel on 23 Dec 2016 (our Xmas eve by then) two years ago this week!
    I wasted my vote last year on those c*nts. It won’t happen in 2020.
    
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    December 20, 2018 11:01am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      OK, partly right too. But who are you going to vote for?
      
      Bridges seems to be a leader who actually listens to the populace. Write to him with your main concerns.
      
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      December 20, 2018 11:35am
    - KeaRea
      
      Good. Israel are trash. No one wants fake right in National. If you think they didn’t do anything you’re a moron.
      
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      December 20, 2018 11:35am
    - Jazzby
      
      We also should remember that, shortly after he became PM, John Key slyly sent Pita Sharples to slink off to the UN, to get Maori officially recognised as the indigenous people of New Zealand (despite the fact that no ethno-racial group is indigenous to these islands). There was no preceding public announcement or debate; their bogus status has greatly aided Maori in making many outrageous claims on the largess of the state.
      It was Key’s ‘captain’s call’ – so National isn’t squeaky-clean, either.
      
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      December 20, 2018 11:39am
- MCos
  
  ‘It’s now the perfect time for a new centre right party to come around’
  The National Party is a supposedly centre right party.
  The only thing I can take from that is you are unhappy with either their positioning in our political spectrum or the calibre of their people.
  Under Key they drifted superficially to the left, but as we are now seeing they didn’t address some key areas that any government must tackle around state sector renumeration and housing speculation.
  Anyone that’s been in kahoots with the Nats previously has been rejected by the voters except NZF. I think rather than look for another partner & right now there’s none on the horizon, they should undermine Labour’s mates to make it a two horse race.
  Labour ain’t dumb, however, and have come up with the binding Cannabis referendum to prop up the Greens. On current polling, that’s all they need. I doubt if they care if Winston dips out.
  
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  December 20, 2018 11:39am
Paulus

Is by signing it makes it contrary to the famous Treaty of Waitangi ?
What Koha have Maori been given to accept Peter’s word.
Jones’s $3,000,000,000 should be enough but probably not.
That in itself is a lie but par for the course with Peters.
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December 20, 2018 8:24am
RiP NZ

We need a snap election – if NZF’s support collapses then there is no mandate to govern.
This is a generational defining issue which the global traitors have deliberately timed to draw the least amount of attention.
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December 20, 2018 8:26am
- DifferentPerspective
  
  RiP NZ – well said.
  
  Who’d have thought that the SLG fish’n’chip shop girl would get her “nuclear-free moment” after all.
  
  Little did she think that she’d be on the wrong side of it. Proves once again that one should be really careful about what one wishes for.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:36am
  - KevOB
    
    What is selected can be de-selected.
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:58am
- srylands
  
  There will be no early election.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:44am
- Dave Mann
  
  That is never going to happen. Much as you’d like one, a snap election needs to be called by the government of the day and can you see this crowd committing political suicide like this?
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:55am
  - RiP NZ
    
    Yeah – it was wishful thinking.
    
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    December 20, 2018 9:02am
    - Keeping Stock
      
      What would need to happen would be an internal row in NZF, resulting in Peters losing the confidence of his MP’s, or a mighty falling out within the coalition. If one or other of the Greens or NZF pulled out, Labour could no longer govern and would have to go to the polls.
      
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      December 20, 2018 9:19am
- stephieboy
  
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  RIP NZ, idiotic post of the day!
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:09am
  - Tall Man
    
    Not idiotic steffy girl, you have that well wrapped up.
    
    We all know that you are the stupid supporter of a gutless cowardly government under the sway of a nasty vindictive short man with 40 years of scores to settle. Do you really think he put the human vacuum, ardern the liar, into the hot seat because he just loves her and labour? You and the rest of your stupid interns are so enamoured with ardern the liar you are incapable of seeing the true motives of the toxic little bastard which is to destroy labour and he is setting her up for a massive fall.
    
    You forget that he learned his craft at the feet of Rob Muldoon, a man who never let a “slight” go unrewarded with total vindictiveness.
    
    However, you and the rest of your ilk are as dumb as a donut so take you benefit while you can, it will not be greatly enhanced by ardern the liar and watch the empire crumble as winston takes as many down the gurglar as he can.
    
    steffy is a girl
    
    ardern is a liar
    
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    December 20, 2018 9:43am
  - KevOB
    
    It’s going to get tougher for the COL. Best bail while you can. The GFC is now seriously underway and our govt are going to have their annus horribilus. Grant is a good schoolboy politican but we are going to need a Minister of Finance not a facsimile.
    
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    December 20, 2018 11:04am
- jcuk
  
  What is the point of having National in Govt when the other parties can stop it doing anything with meaning … I assume the current govt will maintain their position more or less to have more votes in the House than a minority Nat Govt …. no thank you!
  
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  December 20, 2018 5:36pm
Left Right and Centre

Alison Mau is wrong about ‘missing white woman syndrome’. She didn’t get any vigil when her relevance went missing . . .
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December 20, 2018 8:31am
- Woz
  
  Fuck Alison Mau.
  
  Not literally, of course.
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:01pm
oldpark

Like a thief in the night.That figures. The Judas Chameleon known as Peters in Parliament yesterday after question time ,and just before Parliament was closing down for almost Two Months dropped the bomb shell that most people hoped NZ would not sign or vote on.. Yes the Muslim fuelled UN Migration Compact. All week Commie Chic Comrade Ardern was ducking and diving on the question .Would NZ sign . Ths SLG hid the truth. So did our so called number one Picture News outlet TVNZ ,probably under instructions to the 263 bludgers in the news room by the Coalition of Corruption and Chaos to ignore it duly obliged. Why are NZs being compromised and denied the truth and information of the direction the Peters gang of selected losers are taking a once open and democratic NZ to .
Surely NZs were at least given some type of respect by Ardern and an explanation. Was not to be. Ardern did not even have the good grace to wish NZs a” Merrie Christmas and a Happy New Year”.Of course its all about her ,and proves she is still a small town twerp.
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December 20, 2018 8:32am
- KevOB
  
  When the govt given the Crown Law opinion? Peters said they were waiting, and waiting… Was he just “playing” Parliament or was there deliberate deceit?
  
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  December 20, 2018 11:08am
lifesgood

I wonder what Winnie’s greatest supporter, Whaleoil, thinks about this. What a moron he is, ‘vote for Winnie to keep National honest’…hahahahaha!
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December 20, 2018 8:32am
- RiP NZ
  
  Lifesgood
  But W.O knows sooooo much about politics….and meat
  he’s a fkn retard
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:53am
holysheet

Two five year old boys are standing at the toilet to pee. One says, “Your thing doesn’t have any skin on it!”.

“I’ve been circumcised.” the other replied.

“What does that mean?”

“It means they cut the skin off the end.”

“How old were you when it was cut off?”

“My mom said I was two days old.”

“Did it hurt?” the kid asked inquiringly.

“You bet it hurt, I didn’t walk for a year!”
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December 20, 2018 8:34am
Odakyu-sen

Hot news stories soon drop off the radar.

What has happened to that Honduran(?) caravan poised to rush the US border? No news in the last 3 weeks, it seems.

Where is the response to Massey University’s whitewashing report exonerating the vice chancellor? I thought there were credible e-mails that indicated that she lied. This would be a wonderful opportunity for someone to look into the university’s cover-up and smooth-over. Do nothing, and the university (and their fellow institutions) will be emboldened to attempt the same strategy next time.

I have heard nothing in the NZ Herald about the threat to sovereignty that the UN “non-binding” pact poses. All entities must have borders that they can control; otherwise they can no longer be considered to be entities (but maybe that’s the whole idea…)
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December 20, 2018 8:44am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  It’s Holiday time, Odakyu-sen.
  All the ~~hard working journalists~~ copy-paste artistes have buggered off.
  
  Check-in time mid-Feb
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:18am
  - stephieboy
    
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    MW, what are you going to whinge about in the meantime?
    
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    December 20, 2018 9:21am
    - waikatogirl
      
      Why don’t you take a LONG holiday SB. You may not enjoy it, but the rest of us would love you to be absent.
      Merry Christmas!
      
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      December 20, 2018 9:30am
      - Colinxy
        
        Everyone brings joy to this blog, some as they engage and some as they leave?
        
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        December 20, 2018 9:48am
    - stigie
      
      Are you trying to get Maggy to bring her underwear into the discussion you filthy perverted little man..?
      
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      December 20, 2018 9:36am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      Whinge? Moi?
      
      I have no time to whinge, stephieboy.
      I have to spend my time cleaning my dirty underwear…
      
      You know, those bits of my personal underclothing that you have such a fascination with; that you keeping sending me requests about here on KB.
      
      Oh by the way, I couldn’t download that videoclip you posted here last night…I got a 404 when I clicked on it.
      
      Perhaps you could paint a word-picture for me (and the rest of KB), so we can all see exactly what you get up to.
      
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      December 20, 2018 9:40am
    - JibberJabber
      
      Stalker
      
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      December 20, 2018 1:44pm
- Ross12
  
  The Tax Payers Union are onto it and sent out one of their regular emails on issues about. The Freedom of Speech group have ripped the report apart just on it’s inaccuracies alone —it was part of the same email.
  ( I don’t know how to link an email )
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:23am
  - Classic Liberal
    
    Can you link to their sites please?
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:56am
    - Ross12
      
      https://www.taxpayers.org.nz/
      
      But what I was referring to above was via email which they send out to donors. It may appear in their news section later–not sure on that.
      
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      December 20, 2018 12:29pm
- tf78
  
  Odakyu-sen, re Massey University – if you google the free speech coalition’s website they released an article yesterday.
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:28am
- Paulus
  
  The Massey Report was released last night – but wouldn’t you know how wonderful then Canadian Vice Chancellor is in that she prevented a riot.
  Blameless of course.
  Report, I think, written by a woman so that’s allright.
  
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  December 20, 2018 2:11pm
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Australian?
    
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    December 21, 2018 6:47pm
Keeping Stock

Yellow hi-viz vests for sale here:

https://www.safetyvests.co.nz/product/yellow-regular-vest/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI9Zf8wKKr3wIViw4rCh3qvQAJEAQYASABEgKUh_D_BwE

They’re $6.50 each, $6 if you buy 50 or more, of $5.50 for orders of 100 or more. I would suggest there’ll be a run on them today, and already there are lots of them appearing as profile pictures on social media, including this one:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Iw_zV7fLsTmuignLTKo7RsJOB5kDPJHa
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December 20, 2018 8:46am
- srylands
  
  Mainstream New Zealanders don’t have a record of demonstrating. The ones who demonstrate are all scruffy screamers. Think of the TPPA demos. Of course all the scruffy screamers will love the UN migration pact.
  
  The UN migration pact is potentially one issue that could bring people on to the streets. But it would need National to promote it. The media won’t. There is also a risk that the great National Slumber that is about to begin and run for 5 weeks will mean that people forget.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:55am
srylands

I have to give credit. I thought Simon was a bad choice as leader. But I’m coming around. Watching him in question time he is really growing into the role.
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December 20, 2018 8:49am
Poppa

Goodbye Peters, you are burn’t toast!!

My God I will celebrate the day he is gone forever never to be seen again. What a great legacy he leaves behind, a charlatan to the end.
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December 20, 2018 8:51am
slightlyrighty

One wonders how the UN compact on Migration sits with their statements on the rights of Indigenous Peoples. Also, Where does the Treaty fit into all this.

This could be an opportunity for the Maori Party to stick it to Labour again….
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December 20, 2018 8:52am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I don’t think the Maori Party will be going anywhere.
  
  Can you name the Current Leaders of the M.P.?
  Have you ever heard of them?
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:22am
  - MH
    
    they used to be known as Chiefs, but since last century have been downgraded to Kaumatua, – demock-racy in action.
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:28am
secondcumming

My brother-in-law turned down a part-time job at the local *Big Fresh* yesterday……
he was telling us they wanted to pay him in vegetables.

The celery was unacceptable.
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December 20, 2018 8:55am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  You need to add this at the end:
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpaOy8b8X6A
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:18am
  - secondcumming
    
    BoL!! Thanks Odakyu-sen – great vid 😎
    
    Here’s one you can get the family with at Xmas…….
    
    Q. What do you call a Japanese girl with one leg?
    A. Irene.
    
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    December 20, 2018 9:47am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Sigh!
      
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpaOy8b8X6A
      
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      December 20, 2018 10:08am
KeaRea

If Winston agreed to this he will agree to a Capital Gains Tax on businesses.

I’m amazed.

National need only a little rhetorical skill and nzfirst is gone and Labour lose 2-3%
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December 20, 2018 8:56am
Lee C

Winston Peters has agreed to allow a binding referendum on legalising drugs to run concurrently during the next General Election.
NZ Fist
NZLP
GPNZ (Aotearoa)
Vote to ‘leave deciding’ who to arrest to the police
Vote to legalise personal drug use.
Vote to restrict tobacco and liquor.
Vote to tax sugar.
Vote to sell out the future to gang-culture.
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December 20, 2018 9:02am
- Rachael Membery
  
  NZ Fist? That, anecdotally would get votes, in some circles.
  
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  December 21, 2018 6:49pm
waikatogirl

I do hope National have a crack-advertising team this time ready to hit the wavering voter hard from the beginning of the election cycle with all the rich pickings the COL is providing on a weekly basis.

Peters is a complete sellout to this great little country. FO Winston. ?
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December 20, 2018 9:05am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  I do hope National have a crack-advertising team
  If they employ old tactics /techniques like TV debates, or wanting Newspapers to tell their “stories”, then the Nats shouldn’t waste their money.
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:27am
  - waikatogirl
    
    True Maggy. The difficulty is not everyone is on the web, not everyone has a FB page to watch NP ads on, so how to get full coverage with a biased media?
    
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    December 20, 2018 9:34am
    - Surely Knott
      
      At least Newstalk ZB and actually Newshub have covered the UN Migration pact. I’ll be checking the Newstalk ZB website first for my news from now on. And make sure I give them plenty of clicks (revenue) And try and give less clicks to Stuff, NZ Herald and Spinoff ( a complete boycott)
      
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      December 20, 2018 9:57am
    - Tall Man
      
      Trump was getting the same treatment early in the election cycle so he went directly to the people via social media and his rallies.
      
      He received virtually no positive media coverage other than a bit through Fox but he galvanised the American people against the media.
      
      When you look at his election, it is a remarkable effort considering the absolute vitriol, lies and accusations heaped on him by the media.
      
      The media here are doing the same to Simon Bridges. A day doesn’t go by without a snide article appearing in the media phrased by a snivelling little sycophant wannabee journalist.
      
      Hopefully it backfires as it did in the US.
      
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      December 20, 2018 10:02am
    - Sacha
      
      Come election time, people might be angry enough to go to town hall meetings, and protest (peacefully) in the town squares.
      Of course the rabid anti-free speech voters will protest (angrily), at their right to protest.
      
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      December 20, 2018 11:52am
  - Ross12
    
    Agree Maggy
    Here is a simple idea for them –will cost nothing but a little bit of time.
    Today the talkback is supposedly running hot against the Govt on this UN issue. Why doesn’t Bridges ( or some other senior Nat MP) organise a group of the National MPs and get them on the phone to call some of the talk back stations ( just as an ordinary listener would) and put the parties position out there. It would only take 10-15 minutes of their time and they would, if they were any good, show they are just like any other concerned NZer –one of us, just like John Key had the natural ability to do.
    They could do this on any topical issue.
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:20am
    - tf78
      
      I’m sure National MP’s would be willing, but no one seems to ask them. Leighton nearly didn’t have Simon Bridges on ZB last week.
      
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      December 20, 2018 10:36am
      - Ross12
        
        I am not saying they wait to be asked. They just ring up like you and I would and state their case.
        
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        December 20, 2018 10:48am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      They need some young, tech savvy kids to put it out onto all the instant messaging/social network chat lines…and keep it up.
      
      Simple message:
      1. Identify the problem
      2. Offer a simple solution
      3. Identify and blame the Enemy
      4. Dismiss “alternative” solutions
      
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      December 20, 2018 10:49am
  - MH
    
    Well Labour will use the experience of former Dotcom PR person Martyr Harre to clash horns with National. Pass me a macron, no that’s an accent I need.
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:41am
- tf78
  
  I think showing Jacinda’s “comrade” speech when she was head of the Socialist Youth Group or whatever it’s called around election time should do the trick. You might find it if you google Youtube Jacinda Ardern.
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:36am
- KevOB
  
  The National PR team need to be operational now. Labour had theirs functioning the whole of 2017 if not earlier.
  
  Labour don’t fight clean and National need to work accordingly.
  
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  December 20, 2018 11:21am
  - Tall Man
    
    However, their strategy was useless so they grasped at a vacuous liar and managed to get the media to promote her ceaselessly.
    
    Even with all the overt media support for ardern the liar plus the “freebie” for the students, they still only managed 37%. The “victory” was handed to them by the vindictive prick winston who abandoned all his “bottom lines” and flicked the “bird” at his supporters so he could maximise his bauble hunt.
    
    Sir William English and a few other very senior National members have all stated that they “dodged a bullet” by not acquiescing to winston’s self aggrandising demands.
    
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    December 20, 2018 2:55pm
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First post of the day!

Who has hacked my account?

Man or Woman up and own up!
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December 20, 2018 9:06am
- stigie
  
  Don’t tell ya goats your password !~
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:11am
- Tall Man
  
  steffy girl, you are a waste of space so why would anyone bother to impersonate a silly immature twat like yourself.
  
  I think you are now treated like the “village idiot”.
  
  Outside the virtual world you live in we’d be throwing rotten fruit at you.
  
  ardern is a liar
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:12am
- stephieboy
  
  Hehehehe… go to this page and change the nickname and the name displayed publicly, it can be whatever so it’s not using your account.
  
  https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/wp-admin/profile.php
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:32am
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    .
    
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    December 20, 2018 11:06am
  - stephieboy
    
    No, I am stephieboy!
    
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    December 20, 2018 11:07am
    - stephieboy
      
      No, I am stephieboy!!!
      
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      December 20, 2018 11:12am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        ?????
        
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        December 20, 2018 11:16am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Maggy, just illustrating that you can change your handle.
        
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        December 20, 2018 11:20am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Thanks, Kea
        
        But, after 40 years of being a Waffle-leaf, i’m happy to stick with the status-quo.
        
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        December 20, 2018 12:03pm
      - stephieboy
        
        MW, they call that hacking one profile!
        
        Approved?
        
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        December 20, 2018 12:15pm
Sofia

A war on women is raging in the UK – the femicide statistics prove it
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/18/women-uk-femicide-statistics-died-male-violence

The article goes into some detail –
The brutality used by the perpetrators is highlighted in the report and named as “overkill”, because almost half (42%) of the cases used multiple methods of murder such as beating, stabbing, strangling and setting on fire – in other words, the use of gratuitous violence far greater than that necessary to end life. One woman was stabbed 175 times and another hit 40 times with an axe, bludgeoned repeatedly and battered virtually beyond all recognition. Additionally, a number of cases involved desecration, mutilation and the hiding of the body after death.

This shows hate and rage towards the victim, which is at odds with the accommodating and exculpatory narrative that often accompanies men’s killings, for example that he “just flipped”, was “upset”, “lost the love of his life”, was “depressed” or “momentarily lost control”.

Writer Suzanne Moore headlines another article as “Lone-wolf terrorism and domestic violence: it’s time to start joining the dots”
Two dots, though, that she fails to join above, are femicide and immigration.

This UN Migration Compact is an attempt to make hijra (Islamic migration) a human right, while at the same time undermining a nation’s sovereignty.

The government has welcomed the release of an open letter from 50 influential women calling for more to be done to stop violence against women.
So Winston signs UN Migration Compact

I guess in due course something will reveal itself so Winston’s actions are understood.
Because they are beyond understanding at the moment.
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December 20, 2018 9:08am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yep, the Left are in a bind.
  
  Do they support oppressed misogynists or
  oppressed misandrists?
  
  Pity they haven’t figured out that violent, abusive folks are never worth supporting.
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:22am
- Rich Prick
  
  I suppose once all of Africa comes to the West for welfare, women and jihad, all of us could move there. Is the Compact a two way street?
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:31am
  - kowtow
    
    Asia for the Asians . Hurrah!
    
    Africa for the Africans . Hurrah!
    
    Europe for Europeans . Racist!
    
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    December 20, 2018 11:00am
- Classic Liberal
  
  Pfft, she claims to be joining dots but doesn’t mention islam or muslim or even religion once.
  
  Nothing about sura 4:34 that instructs men to beat wives from whom they fear disobedience.
  
  These are the dots that need to be joined. It’s not ‘racist’ to criticise any misogynist ideology.
  
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  December 20, 2018 11:15am
NoCash

Why was a gay man fired from his job at a sperm bank?

He was caught drinking on the job.
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December 20, 2018 9:16am
- stephieboy
  
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  Sicko!
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:19am
  - Tall Man
    
    Self descriptive again steffy girl….
    
    ardern is a liar
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:03am
Than

I haven’t ventured to the cesspit that is WhaleOil lately (don’t want to give it the benefit of an additional page-visit), but I’m guessing that Cameron Slater will not be a happy camper about Simon Bridges recent performance.

So far Bridges is doing extremely well as National leader. He navigated through the JLR disaster with little or no lasting damage. He has kept his caucus disciplined and on-message with no external signs of dissent. He has kept the pressure solidly on Labour and Ardern over the Sroubek issue, and looks set to continue to do so into 2019. And my observation (purely anecdotal) is that he seems to have even won over a lot of his doubters here on KiwiBlog.

I’m guessing that Slater, like the resident lefties here on KB, will be obsessively focusing on the one negative spot for Bridges – his low rating in the most recent Preferred Prime Minister rankings. Never mind that for an opposition leader in the middle of an electoral cycle that number means 3/10th of sweet FA.
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December 20, 2018 9:23am
- KH
  
  Yep. Simon has won me over.
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:51am
  - Paulus
    
    We have not faltered TWO BLUES.
    
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    December 20, 2018 2:16pm
    - DigNap15
      
      Yes enough two ticks blue and Simon wil be the next Prime Minister.
      
      National need to ditch their last ad agency and hire Labours one. At any cost.
      
      And yes they need to crank up on social media now.
      
      If they did that I’d donate to to them.
      
      But I’m still waiting for my refund for my donation in 2017 which they used on a weak campaign
      
      Arden was on the tv and the radio at all the right times (for them)
      
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      December 20, 2018 7:33pm
- Wangas Feral
  
  You might be surprised. Bridges was given props on a number of posts recently.
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:00am
  - fernglas
    
    A couple of elocution lessons and he’d be a star
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:05am
    - tf78
      
      I was wondering (it may sound silly), but if Simon were to have singing lessons would that strengthen his vocal cords. That sounds to be the problem to me. After he’s been talking for a while he seems to improve quite a lot.
      
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      December 20, 2018 10:41am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        tf78
        
        I don’t think that sounds silly at all.
        
        I don’t sing.. but I’m pretty sure decent voice coaches would be able diagnose Simon’s problem and devise some drills to assist him.
        
        He seems much better in the House when asking questions than he does doing interviews.
        
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        December 20, 2018 11:00am
      - Classic Liberal
        
        Maggie Thatcher trained her voice, I think.
        
        Anyone doing public speaking could benefit from some voice training (doesn’t have to be singing).
        
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        December 20, 2018 11:18am
      - KevOB
        
        I consulted my wife who has converted from Ardern to Bridges. She is a highly skilled singing teacher.
        
        Simon’s voice is OK but his accent needs a speech therapist.
        
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        December 20, 2018 11:29am
      - Kiwi Dave
        
        Why do people dislike the way SB talks? He speaks with a very definite NZ accent, but so what?
        
        When I attended a meeting where he delivered a semi-prepared (I guess) speech and answered audience questions he came across as articulate, clear, enthusiastic and sincere, though he could have improved a bit on focus and concision.
        
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        December 20, 2018 12:02pm
    - Tall Man
      
      However, ardern the liar speaks like she’s still being a vacuum and it’s done her no harm.
      
      Probably because the dimwits she appeals too also speak like simpletons. Most of the interns that post here certainly write like simpletons.
      
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      December 20, 2018 2:00pm
- peterwn
  
  Cam has posted little if any since he was ordered to take down a major portion of a posting at the start of the Bloomfield trial. One can speculate whether he is keeping his head down for legal reasons or if there is some other issue. Seems ‘Spanish Bride’ and associates such as ‘Christie’ are keeping the Whaleoil site ticking over.
  The anti Bridges brigade presumably want to see Judith installed as National’s leader and National to swing right. Trouble is, they are out of touch with reality. I suspect National’s caucus would only vote Judith leader out of desperation, similar to Labour appointing Jacinda at the last minute. Those who want National to swing right are dreaming – it will lose more votes than it will gain. Any idea that voting Winston to get him to get National to swing to the right are out of the window. It is quite apparent that Winston’s objective is survival for NZ First.
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:26am
  - tf78
    
    How about, keep Simon as Leader and Mark Mitchell as deputy – sounds good to me. Men in charge is the answer!
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:42am
    - Classic Liberal
      
      Competent people in charge, thanks – either gender. Enough already with the stinking identity politics.
      
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      December 20, 2018 11:19am
    - Paulus
      
      Nothing wrong with Paula – doing a good supporting role for Simon.
      Mark will come.
      
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      December 20, 2018 2:21pm
      - Tall Man
        
        I agree.
        
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        December 20, 2018 2:44pm
    - Tall Man
      
      You forgot the smile 😉
      
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      December 20, 2018 2:45pm
  - Than
    
    Yesterday I would have agreed that was Winston Peters’ goal. But then today he goes and signs the UN Pact on Migration, which has done some pretty major damage to NZ First’s chances of re-election (which weren’t looking that great to begin with).
    
    I’m struggling to think of a motive for Peters to agree to this. About the only thing I’m coming up with is he has decided to retire from politics and has horse-traded NZ First support for some new bauble (a knighthood maybe?).
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:47am
    - peterwn
      
      I suspect Jacinda ‘bottom lined’ it. The thing about the present government is any of the three COL partners can pull the pin on the Government so there will be continuing brinkmanship on keeping the thing going or it imploding over policy differences. Because Simon continues to consolidate his position and score effective hits off the government, the probability of the coalition surviving after any implosion is diminishing. This will put increasing pressure on the Labour/Green relationship with NZ First.
      
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      December 20, 2018 12:39pm
      - Shaun the Sheep
        
        I disagree Peterwn.
        Peters needs Labour.
        National are openly talking of dodging a bullet.
        If the drunken dwarf knocked on the door seeking baubles he would very likely be told to *** off.
        
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        December 20, 2018 10:26pm
  - Sofia
    
    “Even if she was the only survivor of a bus crash that wiped out the entire caucus, she still won’t say if she’d stand for leadership of the party.”
    That was Ardern
    But it is the same with Judith, except for the subtle difference – it is the National caucus saying she won’t be leader, not Collins
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:53am
  - septic skeptic
    
    Not if enough of us continue to abstain until we get a centre right alternative. I’m not voting centre left as a means of voting out COL.
    
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    December 20, 2018 3:01pm
Manolo

Will our own stephieboy celebrate Christmas? Will he or she eat pork?
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December 20, 2018 9:27am
- Tall Man
  
  She’s such a lonely little twat she’ll try to eat herself.
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:04am
  - Inandout
    
    That would take a contortionist, and he is not that young.
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:39am
    - Tall Man
      
      But I’ll bet she’s pretty keen!
      
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      December 20, 2018 2:41pm
  - softail 1450
    
    Tall Man ,pak & save have a special on small boxes of “goats rectums”, I hope septicboy is aware of this…
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:43am
    - Tall Man
      
      I am, however, quite concerned that you know this….. 🙂
      
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      December 20, 2018 2:42pm
      - softail 1450
        
        Tall Man ,It was a huge unmissable sign.LOL.
        
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        December 20, 2018 6:21pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Pork is haraam, more likely a festive repast of goat dick, a troll favourite.
  
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  December 20, 2018 11:05am
Viking2

It was interesting that Findlayson made no mention of Simon and his team whilst noting Kaye and Brownlee. Brownlee very deserved of course and Kaye yet to distinguish herself but hard working no doubt.

Clearly there was/is a faction in National that didn’t like people like Findlayson and he didn’t like them.
Simon so far is doing better than most people though and seems to have discipline in hand.

National need to move more to centre right and abandon the left. They need to constrain the conservatism that has bound them in the past. the drug debate is a prime example of that. Despite spending more and more money, alienating more and more people they have achieved fuck all because they are attempting to change Human Nature and people don’t respond to that.

Wait till the new social wage rises impact on everyone. There will be more cries to increase benefits, more cries about the cost of living and so on./ The country needs a regig of all that stuff.
Airnz of course will be happy with people TRAVELLING ON THE STATE.

AND NO MENTION IS THE NEWS SITES OF WINSTONS TREASON.
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December 20, 2018 9:41am
- Tall Man
  
  I think the media are trying to insert something into his speech that didn’t exist.
  
  You may be right that he may not like Simon Bridges but who cares. He has now left and so becomes irrelevant.
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:07am
  - Jazzby
    
    I’d like to agree with you, but if he returns to representing iwi, as he did before entering parliament, he may yet be a significant figure in Maori-Crown relations. Unfortunately, he now has a good deal of inside knowledge which he can use to secure advantages for his clients.
    We can be sure that we’ve not heard the last of him, I’m sorry to say. I feel that he’s a fragile man who readily bears a grudge, and one way to get his own back (as he possibly sees it) is to screw the government for all it’s worth – and then the rest of us will be the poorer for it.
    
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    December 20, 2018 12:59pm
    - Tall Man
      
      I don’t agree with your pessimism.
      
      There is only one vindictive fragile old man with a grudge that we should fear and unfortunately he has already been installed as the most powerful man in the house.
      
      My only palliative thought is that hates labour as passionately as he hates National and I think he will eventually destroy as many careers as he can.
      
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      December 20, 2018 2:40pm
Viking2

Was Findlayson hinting at a Kaye/
Collins partnership?
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December 20, 2018 9:44am
- Tall Man
  
  Seriously, who cares what an Ex minister thinks.
  
  The only idiot in the house is ardern the liar who keeps recycling rejected labour twats and paying them fantastic money to sit on endless committees.
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:08am
  - sooty
    
    Spends a fortune to listern, then no money to do do anything!
    
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    December 20, 2018 12:29pm
Rich Prick

Get ’em hooked while they’re young.

a basic income payment of $60 a week being extended to all 1.22 million children living in New Zealand, from ages 0 up to 17

Where does all this magic money ($3.8b a year in this case) come from … oh, yes, that’s right. But I suppose that’s Tarquin’s piano lessons paid for.
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December 20, 2018 9:55am
- softail 1450
  
  child bashings will go thru the roof with the ferral parents thieving the money from the kids to buy the piss and p….
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:39am
- KeaRea
  
  Can you see the madness of Labour’s rampant ‘proportionate universalism’.
  
  Probably 75% of those kids dont need any of it. Or need only one fifth etc.
  
  We know that 3% of those kids encompass 50% of the longitudinal cost through social investment. That 3% need 20 times the resource. Dedicated targeted programs.
  
  Giving them 60 bucks a week will achieve nothing – we know this. They need intensive individualised services. Giving them the same as a kid building up Ryman Healthcare and Air NZ shares is so demoralizingly stupid.
  
  When will anyone learn the power of social investment and that it is a right wing policy that shrinks government, promotes self independence and reduces our tax burden whilst helping those who really need it?
  
  Despite all the madness its the social damage Sepuloni and Labour are doing that is most indictable. Just blowing the bequeath of better men with a caring chortle. How I hate obsolete cretinous social democrats.
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:45am
  - Tall Man
    
    We used to restructure loans to assist people who had over committed, a sort of pro bono service attached to our primary business at the time.
    
    What a waste of time. Generally, they were back within months having used the “excess” income we had generated for the to sign up more HP or personal loans for more useless shit.
    
    We gave up eventually as it was just so frustrating seeing complete idiots determined to remain “broke”. I guess it was like having steffy girl post mindless drivel on here almost daily, some people just can’t be helped.
    
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    December 20, 2018 2:35pm
- KevOB
  
  It’s already there: WFF. Only the amounts need to be changed to meet political whims.
  
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  December 20, 2018 11:36am
MH

looks decidedly like a concentration camp one. Last seen in a crescent moon Mecca-nised transport heading for the Hajj.
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December 20, 2018 10:01am
Wangas Feral

As an old feral I harken back to the days when the company Christmas do was a Bacchanalian orgy of excess and next morning regrets. My work do last night – 7pm after two drinks – sorry, the bar tab is done. What sort of lessen are we teaching the young starting out in their careers these days?
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December 20, 2018 10:02am
- Tall Man
  
  Many are “too smart” to be taught anything.
  
  Ask an older police officer his/her opinion of the newbies….
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:10am
RF

Quiet miserable day in Rotorua so catching up on news.

Can someone please explain why Labour want to ban smoking virtually everywhere yet are trying to legalise Cannabis.

I always thought that you usually smoked it.
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December 20, 2018 10:33am
- kevn
  
  @RF… They are also trying to tackle drink driving. Sooo where does the recreational cannabis fit in??
  Angry andy has made it a BINDING referendum. First ever.
  Whale has a very good summary
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:58am
  - KevOB
    
    A “binding” referendum is a political fiction. It can only mean that the COL will accept the outcome. A successive government can do as it pleases. The COL does not have a sufficient majority to enact entrenched provisions.
    
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    December 20, 2018 11:42am
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Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Here is a review of Making a Murderer season 2. If anyone here has watched it, this review leads to an extraordinary conclusion. This guy quickly proved Amanda Knox was innocent and helped orchestrate her exoneration. The US state department put intolerable pressure on the Italian government. That is what happened.
He is deeply involved in the Mark Lundy case.

“My approach is to pare the evidence down to the key facts that are reliable and relevant, and use those facts to figure out what most likely happened.

The facts lead to implications, which are not absolute, but are probable.

With Halbach, here are the key facts:

– Her blood was found in the back of her car, in the form of transfer stains that appear to be from bloody hair. This implies that her body was loaded into the back of her car after she was killed.

– Cast off blood spatter was found on the inside of the rear cargo door on her car. This implies that someone attacked her with a blunt weapon when she was standing behind the car with the door open.

– Her incinerated remains were found in Avery’s burn pit, in a nearby barrel, and at another location in a gravel quarry. That implies her body was incinerated, and the remains were transported to Avery’s yard.

– The last time her cell phone connected with a tower, it was several miles from the Avery property, along the route she would have taken to get home. This implies she left the Avery property before she was murdered.

– Small-caliber bullet holes were found in skull fragments recovered from the burn pile in Avery’s yard. This implies she was shot in the head.

– Various elements of physical evidence appear to have been planted on Avery’s property. The car seems to have been moved to Avery’s junkyard by Ryan Hillegas under the supervision of the police. Avery’s blood in the car appears to have been smeared on with a cotton swab. The incinerated remains were obviously transported because they were in a barrel as well as the burn pile. The car key was only found after the room had been thoroughly searched three times, and the DNA test was off the charts for touch DNA. The bullet in the garage appears to have been dug out of a piece of wood. This implies that someone set out to frame Avery for the murder.

So what happened in this case? I think the most likely answer is that Halbach left Avery’s property, and someone intercepted her. He lured her to a remote place, he killed her, and he loaded her body in the back of her car. Over the next several days he incinerated her body and planted physical evidence linking the crime to Avery.

Many people who follow this case can see that something like this happened. But they have conjured up a two-party scenario in which Party A committed the murder, and Party B stumbled on the evidence and used it to frame Avery. I don’t think so. As you say, I want to keep the moving parts to a minimum.

I think one party, which could include more than one individual, engineered this crime from the start. They bore no animosity toward Teresa Halbach, but they were desperate to discredit Avery, who was bearing down on all they held dear with an eight-figure lawsuit.

It worked like a charm. The lawsuit was settled for pennies on the dollar.

I cannot see how anyone but a cop could have pulled that off. His badge placed him above suspicion and allowed him to act with near impunity. He could approach the victim and get her to do whatever he asked. His experience vested him with the skills of a professional killer. He could steer the investigation from the inside. He had access to the crime scene and knowledge of what other investigators were thinking and doing at all times.”
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  Notso fast, observed below one can easily edit a film to make it look like Police officer Colbourn planted the evidence .,
  
  “ ..According to the complaint, filed in Manitowoc County Court in Wisconsin, Mr Colborn claims the series “falsely led viewers to the inescapable conclusion that (Colborn) and others planted evidence to frame Avery for Halbach’s murder”.
  
  It said: “The defendants omitted, distorted, and falsified material and significant facts in an effort to portray Colborn as a corrupt police officer who planted evidence to frame an innocent man..
  
  Mr Colborn claimed the filmmakers did so “to make the film more profitable and more successful in the eyes of their peers”.
  The former detective said his examination by a prosecutor in court was left out of the film.
  
  He also claimed parts of his cross-examination were edited or left out.
  
  Michael Griesbach, a lawyer for Mr Colborn, said the former officer had been exposed to contempt around the world, and had received death threats….”
  
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/18/making-murderer-detective
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:49am
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    Colborn is upset because he has been exposed as a deeply corrupt officer. This sort of exposure is rare, it is a process that is underway in the Lundy case.
    
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    December 20, 2018 11:26am
    - KevOB
      
      Kiwis make good home armchair jurors. If we took polls it might be cheaper than running Courts.
      
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      December 20, 2018 11:45am
    - Notsofast
      
      New Zealand juries convict when the facts are clear.
      They also convict when instructed by authority, they are useless in both respects. However judges are worse. We see this all the time, there is a yearning for scientists and ethicists to replace them all.
      
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      December 20, 2018 1:41pm
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        Notsofast, except the David Bain retrial Jury?
        
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        December 20, 2018 1:51pm
      - Notsofast
        
        Robin Bain died with the muzzle of the 22 hard on his temple. He shot himself, the jury were morons here too, because one of them went public and said David Bain might have done it.
        No, he didn’t.
        
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        December 20, 2018 2:14pm
      - Paulus
        
        Bullshit – No time, but have sat on three Juries all ending in rubbish.
        
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        December 20, 2018 2:26pm
      - KevOB
        
        With the present state of science for many driven by beliefs forget it. NZ judges have much more integrity.
        
        Is it our Irish rump that brings the anarchic response to authoritarian decisions to the fore? My English, Scots and German lines stand firm for justice and integrity of our Courts. My Irish is more free wheeling.
        
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        December 20, 2018 2:55pm
      - Rachael Membery
        
        Computers, data in, data out. Be an interesting comparison at any rate, one subjective one objective.
        
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        December 21, 2018 2:47pm
    - Tall Man
      
      You and steffy are made for each other.
      
      Both are self obsessed irritating twats.
      
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      December 20, 2018 2:28pm
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        I get a good readership here, so will carry right on helping you with your misapprehensions.
        
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        December 20, 2018 4:14pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Take your libelous comments and f..k off.
      
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      December 20, 2018 2:29pm
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        My comments are based on unassailable facts, so are not libelous.
        
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        December 20, 2018 4:17pm
softail 1450

Wall St dropping like a lead ingot ,,,,,,,
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December 20, 2018 10:36am
- Inandout
  
  More money for shareholders.
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:40am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  Excellent!
  If levels fall back to what they were around 2 years ago, I’ll be able to buy more shares for the same price…
  
  (Of course, it’s dangerous to try and catch a falling knife…)
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:49am
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  softail 1450, impossible under wonder worker Donnie Trump?
  
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  December 20, 2018 10:50am
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    septicboy, IDIOT, if anything the markets are nervous about having Nancy Pelosi,Maxine Waters,Elijah Cummings and Chuck up Schumer in charge of the house.
    
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    December 20, 2018 12:07pm
    - stephieboy
      
      softail 1450,
      
      garbage in garbage out!
      
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      December 20, 2018 12:17pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Self descriptive again steffy girl.
        
        You really are a self obsessive twat aren’t you.
        
        I have yet to see a single post of yours that even resembles a sensible point.
        
        However, thank you for your retarded comments throughout the year as they driven more and more people away from the left as the polls continue to show.
        
        Intelligent people have no desire to be associated with a tiresome little troll like yourself.
        
        steffy is a girl
        
        ardern is a liar
        
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        December 20, 2018 2:18pm
  - Tall Man
    
    A quick note to our host, can the down tick limit to hide the post be reduced for serial idiots?
    
    ardern is a liar
    
    steffy is a ………….
    
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    December 20, 2018 2:24pm
- secondcumming
  
  Time to scoop the mug-punters money off the table of the Wall Street casino…..
  
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  December 20, 2018 11:12am
- All_on_Red
  
  Fed Reserve just raised rates and said they will do it two more times.
  
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  December 20, 2018 11:15am
- Notsofast
  
  European sharemarkets are trading below 1999 levels, and Japan is half the capital value from 30 years back.
  The myth that shares are growth assets is being exposed for the accidental fraud it has always been.
  
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  December 20, 2018 11:30am
- KevOB
  
  About time.
  The massive upheaval in liquidity and assets values is going to affect us in NZ too. Grant R. basks in the warm fuzzies of ingratiating reports and doesn’t have the basic capability to understand the advice on offer.
  
  History shows the central banks have created too much credit. Since when have savers agreed to not be compensated for their foregoing consumption? The CB’s have broken the rule of common sense. The affect has been massive hikes of asset prices as the newly created money is re-homed. That wealth increase has been available to the already extra wealthy and manipulative at the future risk to the rest of the people. Criminal?
  Commodities like milk powder have all had their prices increased through excessive liquidity. Standby for a shock NZ.
  
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  December 20, 2018 12:12pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Sad but almost a certainty now.
    
    Sir John Key and Sir Bill English may have had a chance to mitigate the worst of the coming storm but ardern the liar and silly grant haven’t got a clue and winston is only ever concerned about winston.
    
    I’m sure his nest has been well feathered by grateful donors/recipients of our largesse as directed by winston.
    
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    December 20, 2018 2:22pm
  - Paulus
    
    Robertson is playing possum in the hope that his cabal will rise above Ardern. May not be as far away as people think. The Unions do not like her and it remains their choice to get Pike Little back in.
    Nothing new from him – except ignorance but that does not matter in the Wellington scheme of things.
    
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    December 20, 2018 2:29pm
    - KevOB
      
      Andrew Little would be a good swap temporarily. He’s not driven by the same commie vigour causing our present damage.
      
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      December 20, 2018 3:00pm
Lee C

As the year ends, I think it is interesting that the CoL has managed to succeed in one signal way.
They have succeeded in raising Simon Bridge’s credentials and mana about a hundred-fold.

This is mainly because the set out to do the total opposite of course.
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December 20, 2018 10:57am
kowtow

While the world’s media literally obsess about Trump , I don’t expect this to get an overly wide circulation.

This from the media that suppresses migrant sexual emergency cases , and which accuse the Big Fella of “fake news”

‘Germany’s weekly news magazine Der Spiegel revealed on Wednesday that one of its star reporters had for years falsified stories “on a grand scale.”

https://www.dw.com/en/der-spiegel-admits-star-reporter-falsified-stories-on-a-grand-scale/a-46808277
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December 20, 2018 11:11am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Crikey, how could they tell which was the fake news and which was the fake “news”?
  
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  December 20, 2018 11:15am
  - sooty
    
    That’s my media, lying useless shits.
    
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    December 20, 2018 12:19pm
  - stephieboy
    
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    MW, at ;least Der Speigel owned up to the reporter’s ” fake”news stories.
    
    I very much doubt if Fox, Gateway Pundit, Breitbart have ever done the same.
    
    For example Breitbart and Pizzzagate , Dortmund etc .
    
    Not forgetting your climate change denial luminaries like Anthony Watts, Hames Delingpole and of course Christopher Monckton
    
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    December 20, 2018 12:22pm
    - Tall Man
      
      ardern is a liar
      
      steffy girl adores a liar
      
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      December 20, 2018 2:14pm
Poppa

Oh dear………the September quarter GDP figure is out showing growth at .30%

If you multiply that by 4 it doesn’t sound too flash Robbo.

I wonder if the December quarter could be heading into negative territory? I think it could be
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December 20, 2018 11:19am
- Manolo
  
  A few sleepless nights in a posh Wellington suburb.
  
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  December 20, 2018 11:28am
- KevOB
  
  But you haven’t read the heartwarming reports which Grant has been quoting daily at Question Time.
  Is their life actually happening outside Parliament?
  
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  December 20, 2018 12:14pm
Captain Mainwaring

Slowest economy for 5 years. What’s your take on this, Chubby Cheeks?

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/109497685/nz-economy-slows-dragged-down-by-construction-and-manufacturing
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December 20, 2018 11:20am
- Manolo
  
  We all have confidence in the 2020 Nobel Prize of Economics, don’t we?
  
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  December 20, 2018 11:26am
- Poppa
  
  No worries Capt, we will have a feel good budget next year without mentioning GDP
  
  Funny that
  
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  December 20, 2018 11:30am
- GazzaW
  
  The last of the English-Joyce downstream magic has been exhausted. You’re on your own now Chubby Cheeks.
  
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  December 20, 2018 11:35am
  - stigie
    
    But there’s Alf still there to prop Sweet Cheeks up !~
    
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    December 20, 2018 12:06pm
    - skyblue
      
      I wonder what Alfie’s 0.3% looks like? Less than 1%.
      
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      December 20, 2018 12:29pm
      - Paulus
        
        But Alfie has a huge increase in his minimum wage thanks to Cinderella at Christmas.
        
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        December 20, 2018 2:31pm
- Piniwi
  
  Thanks Captain Mainwaring it will e interesting while being totally predictable what sweet cheeks reaction to this latest result is. Most will recall hearing sweet cheeks grabbing any quarterly that moved downwards as the sky falling for NZ. Always cautioned quietly by Bill English to see it as just part of the big picture as well as where things were in respect of forecast movements.
  However this sharp slump is more significant since there has been a longer lag time as the good times resulting from previous fiscal responsible approach have continued to flow. It is now starting to move at what might be an accelerated rate to confirm predictions of realistic observers as the free spending moves from allocation to expenditure. The snowball effect will be visual as the even greater follow on expenditure of annual and future commitments being reached. It will be interesting when it gets to the June quarterly 2019 where more of the unintended consequences have started to kick in. Already on the back of this slump and perhaps signing the UN Migration Pact the NZ dollar dropped almost $0.015.
  
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  December 20, 2018 4:03pm
Hal Umi

Serious question,

Is anyone protesting today? Any plans?
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December 20, 2018 11:54am
UrbanNeocolonialist

Musk has just done a demo of their first boring company tunnel – 2km long, $10million.

He says they can do a complete 30km long 2way tunnel system for about $1 billion. 200km/hr+ travel. Eventually expecting that to be equivalent to a 4 lane motorway, but with 2-3x the speed of travel.

Shut down the Auckland tram project now before anymore money is wasted on it.
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December 20, 2018 11:54am
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  UN, nobody cares or is listening beyond the alt-right bubble chamber on KB!
  
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  December 20, 2018 12:25pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Then why is a dimwitted twat like you commenting.
    
    You really are as thick as a post aren’t you steffy girl?
    
    ardern is a liar
    
    steffy girl is an idiot.
    
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    December 20, 2018 2:10pm
softail 1450

So here’s the story ,The drunken dwarf fucks off to N Y no doubt with his multi millionaire squeeze with him ,1st class everything , wine whisky, travel limos, hotels etc etc and whats the payback for the taxpayer back home?
The fucking ferret learns a new word and starts throwing it around immediately,”alt right” FFS.
I guess it will save us from hearing “demonstrably” for a little while .
He could have saved us probably 100 k and stayed home and looked up Kiwiblog ,one of septicboys comments would have introduced the treasonous
C—-T to the term for nothing…
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December 20, 2018 12:00pm
- KeaRea
  
  Wait slow down. Link.
  
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  December 20, 2018 12:23pm
- KeaRea
  
  https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/mike-hosking-breakfast/audio/winston-peters-peters-blames-alt-right-for-un-migration-pact-criticism/
  
  The state of him.
  
  Centrist globalist WP calling out the alt right like Hillary Clinton.
  
  He must have dementia. He has forgotten who his base are.
  
  He also clearly hasn’t read the compact.
  
  The principles annunciated in it are reprehensible. The principles form a referent for precedent. 150 plus countries don’t agree to international frameworks for no reason. There is well settled law on how such agreements become influential absent ratification.
  
  He is a feckless liar. And he is hilarious. Bye Winston. I hope he got his hair implants adjusted in San Fran or wherever he was having tea with hia fellow SJWs.
  
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  December 20, 2018 12:29pm
  - GazzaW
    
    A good read of NZF’s Facebook page should sober him up in an instant. Countless very unhappy punters about his decision on the UN compact.
    
    ‘bye Winston………….
    
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    December 20, 2018 1:10pm
  - RF
    
    As Dennis Connor once said about a fellow yachtsman- He’s full of shit.
    
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    December 20, 2018 1:39pm
Steve (North Shore)

What shit is going to be released at 4.30pm tomorrow? Friday bombs are becoming a habit.
Maybe tomorrow we might get a break and just get told a few lies instead??
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December 20, 2018 12:15pm
Fletch

re: minimum wage – I will just leave this here (all prices in U.S dollars) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwcHRyvrNCE
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December 20, 2018 12:40pm
- stephieboy
  
  Fletch , give us your idea of what the minimum wage should be here and convince Joe and Jane Public?
  
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  December 20, 2018 1:41pm
  - rangitoto
    
    Joe and Jane will not be happy when they see the resulting price rises.
    
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    December 20, 2018 2:24pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

September quarter growth down to 0.3%, lowest in 5 years. Wheels coming off the CoL’s economy. Merry Xmas 🙁
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December 20, 2018 12:48pm
Jack5

An example of how the Leftists in the academic world are shutting down free speech ….

An Oxford University academic who held a conference on beneficial aspects of the legacy of colonialism has had to hold the meeting in private because of fear of disruption by activists.

Not that we’re exempt from this totalitarianism, as is shown by the Massey University council’s endorsement of the shameful blocking of a speech by Don Brash.

Oxford mob censorship:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/12/19/oxford-professor-had-hold-academic-conference-inprivate-fear/
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December 20, 2018 12:51pm
KeaRea

Found an interesting comment on Winston’s FB – a National person who gets paid to do research should corroborate:

Here’s an example of the last Non-Binding UN Agreement NZ Signed. Remember this wasn’t going to affect NZ Firearms Owners at all. United Nations UN – Programme of Action (POA) – combating and eradicating illicit trade of small arms. The POA have previously stated that they would not interfere with sovereign laws. At the July 2018 UN POA meeting they amended their programme so they now say that they want to strengthen national laws. This is a concerning turn of events and something COLFO will watch closely as to how this could be implemented going forward.

So you already have a case of a ‘non-binding’ agreement signed by NZ subject to efforts to bound New Zealand.

This is a pretty solid point to be made by anyone engaged in debate on this issue from the National Party.
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December 20, 2018 12:59pm
- Jack5
  
  Similarly, as a Canadian points out my post above at 10.09, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was also sold as a non-binding document.
  
  The creepy, Leftist UN bureaucracy is intent on eroding the concept of nation states.
  
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  December 20, 2018 1:17pm
Fletch

Guess what happened when they raised the minimum wage in Seatlle to an unsustainable US$15 an hour? Restaurants closed left and right and earnings for the low-wage earners also went down.

The policy has caused serious damage to low-wage workers in Seattle. The number of hours worked by low-wage workers fell by a staggering 3.5 million per quarter. This is reflected both in thousands of job losses (or, more precisely, in jobs that would have been created but never were) and in reductions in hours worked by those who retained their jobs. These effects were so dramatic that total payroll accruing to low-wage workers fell by about $120 million per year, with workers actually losing $125 per month on average.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/06/seattle-minimum-wage-university-washington-study-critics-wrong/
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December 20, 2018 1:03pm
- KevOB
  
  Resthomes here reduced staff hours last time. No more pay.
  
  As a manufacturer this will mean a significant change at retail for my product pricing. With intermediate margins/costs and taxes any production cost is over 5x at the counter.
  
  A recipe for wage/price inflation from those who do not know better but have the responsibility none the less.
  
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  December 20, 2018 3:13pm
Jack5

NZ economic performance is medicocre in the September quarter GDP figures:

GDP per capita growth is zero for the quarter, or actually down about 0.04 per cent.

GDP itself rose just 0.3 per cent for the quarter.

https://www.stats.govt.nz/
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December 20, 2018 1:14pm
- srylands
  
  All eyes will be on the December quarter. If it is negative….
  
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  December 20, 2018 1:17pm
  - rockape
    
    Quick change the rules so happiness trumps financial management!
    
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    December 20, 2018 4:36pm
- stephieboy
  
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  Jack5, consumer confidence shows very differently with lower fuel prices, mortgage rates etc leading a spend up big time for Christmas,
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12179699
  
  I do note an air of desperation and despair among some KB posters amidst such good news!
  
  Now, why could that be?.
  
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  December 20, 2018 1:46pm
  - Tall Man
    
    Because idiots like you keep posting simplistic garbage.
    
    None of the multiple posters using your login have even a basic comprehension of economic or fiscal matters despite trying to look clever.
    
    steffy girl, just like your beloved leader you are not clever and the next 18 months will drive that home to you in the worst possible way.
    
    You will then understand that
    
    ardern is a liar
    
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    December 20, 2018 2:05pm
  - KevOB
    
    Is it wise to repeat GR? He does not know enough to critique the opinions he encounters.
    NZ’s economy floats on an international trade and financial whirlpool. The lower fuel prices are due to the global oil markets dropping. Mortgage rates are low because of the surplus liquidity created by global reserve banks to rescue themselves from a previous crisis. That is now being readjusted and it will be worse than before.
    
    Some recent government benefit increases will give Christmas spending but they also are reflected in the balance of payments. What we spend in NZ affects our accounts with the world so our export receipts are critical.
    
    Confidence was what we had at Christmas 2016–now it’s hoped for.
    
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    December 20, 2018 3:45pm
Hugh Pavletich

NEW ZEALAND: Economic growth slows more than expected; GDP growth falls to 0.3% in the September quarter, while annual growth falls to 3.0% | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/business/97494/economic-growth-slows-more-expected-gdp-growth-falls-03-september-quarter-while

Quarterly economic growth slowed more than expected to its lowest level in nearly five years in September, according to the latest Statistics NZ figures.

Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rose 0.3% in the three months to September, down from 1.0% in the previous quarter.

This is the lowest quarterly growth rate since December 2013. … read more via hyperlink above …
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December 20, 2018 2:09pm
- Happychappy
  
  You better look foward to worse results than this as everything concerning finances from Winston or Sweet Cheeks normally turns to shit.
  
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  December 20, 2018 3:43pm
All_on_Red

Gosh, won’t Obama be thrilled to learn he has just defeated ISIS
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December 20, 2018 3:19pm
Jack5

Diversity is going to kill the jury system.

A jury in Londonistan has failed to convict an ISIS supporter who attacked police with a sword while shouting “Allahu Akbar”!!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6512385/Uber-driver-not-guilty-plotting-terror.html
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December 20, 2018 3:24pm
- Longknives
  
  London Cops should all walk off their beat in protest at that decision.
  That is utterly disgraceful…..
  
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  December 20, 2018 4:11pm
GazzaW

Current Herald headline

“Shambles – family stuck on tarmac for over an hour at Auckland Airport”

Hey, welcome to the world of international travel snowflakes. Shit happens at peak holiday time and it’s not the end of the world if your aircraft has to wait for a gate. To cap it off they want a refund for an hours parking for the extra hour that their friends had to wait for them.

What’s even more pathetic is the Herald publishing this crap. Silly season is obviously upon us already.
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December 20, 2018 3:43pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Don’t go hiking in the Atlas Mountains.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/20/morocco-killing-of-scandinavian-women-linked-to-militants-says-prosecutor

Investigations are also seeking to authenticate a video tape shared on social media claiming to show the killing of one of the tourists, the general prosecutor said in a statement.

The video purportedly shows the killing, with a woman screaming while a man cuts her neck with what appears to be a kitchen knife.
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December 20, 2018 4:11pm
- Inandout
  
  Why do these hikers pick dodgy countries?
  
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  December 20, 2018 5:57pm
  - simpleton1
    
    “Been there, Done that”
    
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    December 20, 2018 8:20pm
kowtow

You don’t have to visit Morocco from Europe , European elites are bringing Morocco to Europe.
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December 20, 2018 4:23pm
MH

wot has Turkey got against Saudi Arabia?
At this time of year-It’s definitely an ear of Mal-pheasants.
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December 20, 2018 5:03pm
Classic Liberal

Australia’s position outlined here: https://www.spectator.com.au/2018/12/the-uns-backdoor-attack-on-free-speech/

Very good points on Objective 17: “Objective 17 explicitly puts an impetus on governments to “shape perceptions of migration”. This effectively requires governments to intrude into public debate to shove sanitised progressive-academia views down people’s throats.”
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December 20, 2018 5:25pm
Nostradamus

An Australian article: New Zealand police score viral Christmas hit with carol singalong

A video of the four uniformed officers performing a cappella versions of Silent Night and Winter Wonderland in a stairwell has attracted close to a quarter of a million views on Facebook, with Kiwis praising the officers’ singing talents.

Surely “Bad Boys” by Inner Circle (the theme song for the Cops TV programme) would have been a better choice? 🙂

Bad boys, bad boys
Whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do
When they come for you
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December 20, 2018 5:28pm
- stigie
  
  You listening Stiffy..?
  
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  December 20, 2018 5:38pm
- Longknives
  
  Maybe I’m ‘Old Fashioned’ but I wish New Zealand Police would do some actual Police work.
  Less ‘Hip Hop Dancing’ videos and grovelling to the Gay Community (‘Pweease can we be in your Pawade?’) and more Crime solving would be nice….
  
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  December 20, 2018 6:05pm
  - Tall Man
    
    When I was a younger fellow, we had a couple of cops who were short on patience but long on education. I never saw a drunk, a bully or a crim stand up to them and for very good reasons.
    
    Unfortunately, society has determined we no longer need a policeman to stand up for the little guy or the law nor one to provide a deterrent to the occasional bully.
    
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    December 20, 2018 6:11pm
maintiens le droit

How many months until a UN Special Rapporteur breezes into town and tells the world New Zealand should be ashamed for not living up to its commitments made in the non-binding Global Migration Pact?
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December 20, 2018 5:58pm
- Longknives
  
  Just wait until a boat or three loaded up with ‘Refugees’ arrives (They will ALL be eyeing NZ up now)
  Golriz and co will be screaming ‘But the Migration Pact says we must welcome them!’ etc
  We are royally fucked.
  Thank you Winston.
  
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  December 20, 2018 6:01pm
  - secondcumming
    
    I can see the locals at Ninety Mile Beach with a bulldozer, burying them in the sand dunes.
    
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    December 20, 2018 7:15pm
    - simpleton1
      
      A good action to be had by the “home guard”, holding back the ‘government officialdom’,
      while repelling invaders in the surf.
      One of the few times I would cheer a real haka.
      
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      December 20, 2018 8:07pm
KeaRea

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-6511589/Ryanair-fires-pilots-cabin-crew-Netherlands-refused-locate.html

Stay away from Ryanair. They just fired all their Dutch personnel and replaced them with Muslims. Muslims particularly Morrocan ones don’t into regular engineering maintenance. A plane is going to crash. Emirates etc have Chinese and European engineers supervising.
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December 20, 2018 6:11pm
Hugh Pavletich

Posted at … ( behind paywall ) https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/12/nz-gdp-growth-stalls/#comment-3253608

Latest Reserve Bank monthly figures show the share of borrowing by the housing investor is continuing to drop sharply to new lows | interest.co.nz

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/97501/latest-reserve-bank-monthly-figures-show-share-borrowing-housing-investor-continuing

The galloping retreat of the housing investor witnessed in October has been repeated – and more so – in November, according to the Reserve Bank’s latest monthly borrowing by lender type figures.

The figures show that investors accounted for just $1.091 billion of the $6.224 billion worth of mortgages advanced by both banks and non-banking institutions in November.

That’s a share of just 17.5%, which is easily a new low since these figures were first released by the RBNZ in August 2014.

It beats the previous low of 18.7%, which was also easily a new low and which was just in October. … read more via hyperlink above …
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Check out the political initiatives underway to restore housing affordability via the recently updated archival website Performance Urban Planning http://www.PerformanceUrbanPlanning.org
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December 20, 2018 6:12pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Hugh:
  
  the recently updated archival website Performance Urban Planning
  
  All work and no play makes ~~Jack~~ Hugh a dull boy!
  
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  December 20, 2018 6:21pm
  - Longknives
    
    “All work and no play makes Jack Hugh a dull boy!”
    
    Maybe Hugh will ‘fire it up’ and show us a different side at our Kiwiblog Christmas Party?
    
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    December 20, 2018 6:26pm
    - Nostradamus
      
      Longknives:
      
      If Stephieboy and “Billy” turn up then space will be at a premium, but I’m sure we could find space for Hugh in a corner somewhere, in case anyone wants to discuss housing with him!
      
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      December 20, 2018 6:50pm
Southern Raider

Classic line from NZ First supporter on his Facebook site

“This UN Compact is well above my head and I confess I don’t understand any of it, but I support it because I trust Winston”
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December 20, 2018 6:44pm
- Longknives
  
  Always Vote Winston- He will NEVER form a Government with those bloody Greens and he will keep those other bastards honest….
  
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  December 20, 2018 6:58pm
- kowtow
  
  Before the last GE when Angry was rolled and the SLG came in ,there was no shortage of vox pop on radio and in the papers where they said , ” I usually vote National , but she’s a breath of fresh air so I’m voting Labour”
  
  No shit .
  
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  December 20, 2018 7:49pm
DigNap15

What really annoys me about this signing is that the deceitful bastards never told us that they were going to sign it.
Or gave us a chance to have some input.

Plus the fact that I hate muslims (in western countries)
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December 20, 2018 6:59pm
- Sofia
  
  Plus the fact that I hate muslims (in western countries)
  
  Which under the UN Immigration Compact is an opinion you are no longer allowed to express. Sorry about that.
  
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  December 20, 2018 7:11pm
- kowtow
  
  Wait for the new definition of “islamophobia” from members of the UK parliament. Now Islam is a race, kind of.
  
  ‘Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness.
  
  – DEFINITION OF ISLAMOPHOBIA PROPOSED BY CROSS-PARTY GROUP OF MPS’
  
  https://www.itv.com/news/2018-11-27/islamophobia-is-so-prevalent-in-the-uk-it-has-become-the-countrys-bigotry-blindspot-mps-say/
  
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  December 20, 2018 7:11pm
  - simpleton1
    
    With in islam, Arab muslims are the the ‘top dog’ as supposedly the koran can only be understood in Arabic.
    Quran.“Ye are the best of peoples, evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong, and believing in Allah. If only the People of the Book [Christians & Jews] had faith, it were best for them: among them are some who have faith, but most of them are perverted transgressors”. [Sura 3:110]
    
    The Tafsir of Ibn Kathir explains the meaning in this way:
    “You are the best of peoples ever raised up for mankind; you enjoin Al-Ma`ruf (all that Islam has ordained) and forbid Al-Munkar (all that Islam has forbidden), and you believe in Allah. And had the People of the Scripture (Jews and Christians) believed, it would have been better for them; among them are some who have faith, but most of them are Fasiqun (rebellious)”.
    
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    December 20, 2018 8:32pm
  - Rich Prick
    
    Machete Monkeys will be an illegal term for Lee Rigby’s killers. But Lee doesn’t matter, his murderers do.
    
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    December 20, 2018 8:35pm
- Longknives
  
  Remember it was only a couple of days ago that Ardern was asked about this by Media.
  She replied with her usual ‘Ummm Ahhh Ummm..’
  She clearly knew full well we were signing- But she didn’t have the balls to fucking tell us!
  She isn’t a leader’s asshole….
  
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  December 20, 2018 7:15pm
  - RF
    
    Please don’t insult assholes.
    
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    December 20, 2018 7:53pm
    - Scooter
      
      At least arseholes have a purpose, she’s just full of bullshit.
      
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      December 20, 2018 8:20pm
  - DigNap15
    
    She for a communication expert, Ardern uses lots of errs and ahhs and ums in Parliament.
    Even when not in question time and just making a statement.
    
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    December 20, 2018 8:04pm
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      She doesn’t have a good grasp of many topics.
      
      She is too lazy/incompetent to improve her knowledge.
      She is only comfortable talking in pop culture sound bites and political sloganese.
      
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      December 20, 2018 8:13pm
      - nasska
        
        I don’t reckon that I’ve ever heard a NZ politician use more words to say less.
        
        And the bar’s pretty high on that challenge.
        
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        December 20, 2018 8:22pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Morrinsville High is not noted for its academic standards.
      
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      December 20, 2018 8:38pm
DigNap15

And Winston First had the cheek to say that Mike Yardley should shut up as he did not understand it, as he was not a lawyer.

Well fuck all lawyers.

We all understand it.
We also understand what signing a non binding treaty means.
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December 20, 2018 7:01pm
- simpleton1
  
  “non binding migration pact”
  
  This becomes best “international practice” that will be “heavied” by a lot of NGO’s and progessive educated, ‘do gooders’ that with the incrementally precedence setting judiciary soon will become NZ law.
  
  As they say NZ ‘punches above its weight’, so it becomes a knockout blow, to housing the locals, education system, welfare system, health system, police system, tax system.
  
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  December 20, 2018 7:45pm
- simpleton1
  
  “non binding” as we become progressively modern, like France and Germany.
  
  Like expanding our roadways another lane or two, so that trucks can whoosh down the footpaths and cycle lanes.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:03pm
nasska

When you mix shit with ice cream it doesn’t improve the shit.

It just spoils the ice cream.
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December 20, 2018 7:23pm
DigNap15

NZ punches above its weight when it comes to king hit assualts
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December 20, 2018 8:02pm
- simpleton1
  
  That is a tragedy.
  
  Well we have strengths and weaknesses.
  A good stint in the army to be disciplined, to give a purpose, fine tuned for greater effect where needed.
  
  Just a matter of harnessing them for the best effect, so that the UN migration pact is sorted.
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:17pm
Kiwi_in_Paris

Well, bye-bye Winston, forever this time, no one is either going to forgive or forget.

Bye-bye Jacinda too, just signed a political death warrant, this one clearly binding.
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December 20, 2018 8:31pm
- Captain Mainwaring
  
  Agreed, but the Nats have to keep reminding the voters what a couple of traitors are running the country.
  But will the Media Party pass the message on?
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:41pm
  - Kiwi_in_Paris
    
    The Internet Party clearly out-trumps the disgusting political propoganda now rusting machine, formerly known as mainstream media. No pun intended.
    
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    December 20, 2018 8:48pm
    - sooty
      
      I wonder what baubles Comrade Jacinduh had to do to take Whinney to his happy space?
      
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      December 20, 2018 10:03pm
- DigNap15
  
  I hope you are right!
  
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  December 20, 2018 8:42pm
  - Kiwi_in_Paris
    
    A nice, and may I say, well-deserved Christmas gift for Simon.
    
    It’s been a tough year for him.
    
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    December 20, 2018 8:52pm
DigNap15

Yes the first duty of a government is to protect its borders and its people.

Health, education, and welfare come a distant last.
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December 20, 2018 8:44pm
Souvlaki

Can someone shed light on why the Herald think it is in anyway appropriate to publish what convicted felon/general all round A hole Sroubek writes from prison ?https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12180500
Are they being “leaned on”from a high place to publish his bullshit as some “miscarriage of justice”??
Can we therefore expect every incarcerated crook to get the Herald to publish”why I am misunderstood”on a regular basis ?
This smells more and more like the “deadhole”on a farm each day……he must be threatening to squeal??
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December 20, 2018 8:45pm
nasska

If Sroubek tells all Labour are fucked.

I will happily contribute should he ask for funds to appeal his deportation.
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December 20, 2018 8:57pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Hold onto your money, Nasska.
  
  I’m sure the drug fraternity can come up with mega$$$$ without your input.
  
  @Souvlaki.. yes, isn’t it fascinating that the NZ Herald is continuing to run with Sroubek’s -the confessed and convicted drug importer & fraud – side of the story.
  
  Still, as Simon Bridges told us in Parliament yesterday, there are forces afield who are intent on bringing Mrs Sroubek down.
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:19pm
  - sooty
    
    I wonder what employment the dud cheque will get when he is released from prison if he is not deported?
    
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    December 20, 2018 9:59pm
Maggy Wassilieff

I wonder if the PM forgot to put the dogs back on the leash before she left for jolly hols.

Hon Simon Bridges: Have any staff from her office been briefing the media against the estranged wife of Karel Sroubek after yesterday’s revelations to try to discredit her side of the story?

Rt Hon JACINDA ARDERN: Again, why would there be any interest in engaging in that manner? As I’ve said—I’ve been very clear—when concerns were raised, I directly raised it with the Minister of Immigration, and that was how it was dealt with. When I was advised that there is an issue that Mark Mitchell raised, I checked in with the Minister to check on their activities. That was the appropriate thing to do, and we stand by that.

Hon Simon Bridges: Will she do the right thing and check and instruct them to stop?
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December 20, 2018 9:35pm
- Nostradamus
  
  Maggy:
  
  She doesn’t address the question. It’s no answer to a “did you do A” question to say “I did B”.
  
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  December 20, 2018 9:59pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    And Simon had to ask it twice.
    
    The woman is a fool.
    
    Now, even if we accept that she has no involvement in the Sroubek affair, she has let the affair drag on and play out in such a manner that we all have good reason to doubt her words every time she opens her mouth.
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:05pm
  - nasska
    
    …..” “did you do A” question to say “I did B”. “…..
    
    It was either that or waving Squirrel around in order to deflect!
    
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    December 20, 2018 10:09pm
DigNap15

I like Simon’s slow measured questions.
And the fact that he keeps on at them until one day she will crack.
He asked her about stopping the media and she did not answer that.
Just some prepared notes she had made.
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December 20, 2018 10:22pm
Inandout

Cindy buckles again, so what did Wally know?
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December 20, 2018 10:59pm
softail 1450

5.47 am and the Dow drops into the 22,000s,fffuuuck , don’t panic ,don’t panic…..
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December 21, 2018 5:49am
softail 1450

And its plummeting ,very worrying ,
Robbo will be shitting himself especially after yesterdays figures.
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December 21, 2018 5:51am
softail 1450

5.52 ,another 120 points down ffffuuucckkk…..
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