General Debate 29 April 2019

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Tony Stuart

It’s fair pissing down outside!
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April 29, 2019 8:02am
- pdm
  
  You keep it Inv – my work clothes are on the line and I need them for a 3pm start.
  
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  April 29, 2019 8:11am
- waikatogirl
  
  Saw a weather report yesterday warning of 7-8m waves hitting the west coast. They’ve had huge waves in Tasmania and the swell is now heading across the Tasman.
  
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  April 29, 2019 9:31am
- John Warren
  
  Absolutely bucketing down here in Chch right now.
  
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  April 29, 2019 5:12pm
All_on_Red

European Parliament voting intention:

BREX: 28% (+5)
LAB: 22% (-)
CON: 13% (-4)
CHUK: 10% (+2)
GRN: 10% (-)
LDEM: 7% (-2)
UKIP 5% (-1)

via @YouGov, 23 – 26 Apr
That’s now two different Polling companies with a similar result for Brexit Party.
It’s quite remarkable how Farage has taken it that far from nothing.
How can the Conservatives (and Mrs May) continue to ignore this?
Some pundits are calling this the start of a split from both Labour and Conservatives to a new Party
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April 29, 2019 8:04am
- mjw
  
  Thanks for posting this. It is truly amazing – an earthquake in British politics. I guess there are probably a lot of don’t knows and may not votes given the low turnout for European elections, but even so …
  
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  April 29, 2019 8:13am
  - kowtow
    
    Yes very low turn outs for EU elections , but this week the UK has local gubmint elections and it looks like a wipe out for the Tories.
    
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    April 29, 2019 9:00am
    - fernglas
      
      A single issue party is always going to poll better when that issue is the most important confronting a nation. By contrast, the average Brit could be forgiven for thinking that none of the other parties have a clue what their position is on Brexit.
      
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      April 29, 2019 1:48pm
- cmm
  
  ” How can the Conservatives (and Mrs May) continue to ignore this?”
  
  Easy. They’ve ignored everything else, why not this?
  
  MPs have a vested interest in the EU. Becoming an MEP is the sweetest gig out there – all gravy, no electorate. They don’t want that trough taken away.
  
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  April 29, 2019 8:31am
  - hullkiwi
    
    cmm, you are correct about the European gravy train. The poll is familiar territory for the Tories, look at the results in 1994, 2009 and 2014. The Tory problem is they shoot themselves in the foot and hand support to UKIP and other right of centre ant-EU parties. This is because they have never resolved the liberal pro-EU wing within the Tory party.
    
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    April 29, 2019 8:54am
- freethinker
  
  A split would be the first good news to come out of the whole Brexit debacle.
  
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  April 29, 2019 11:21am
Yvette

The alleged San Diego synagogue killer, John Earnest, admits to being inspired by Christchurch shooter Tarrant, who – “… was a catalyst for me personally. He showed me that it could be done. And that it needed to be done.”
He then quotes what he, John Earnest, claims to be “the most powerful words in his [Tarrant’s] entire manifesto”.

But, without actually reading Earnest’s account, I believe Andrew Little if challenged, would not identify what of Tarrant’s writing had crucially turned John Earnest. It is that unpredictably ordinary: just a simple, logical part of an explanation – and not, at that point, ‘hate’.

It indicates, in fact, that if Andrew Little and Ardern and Macron want censorship of any online material, they are facing censoring everything. It almost amounts to eliminating communication, since the audience to be catered for is actually irrational.
Not my opinion, and not – I think – what Little would foresee, but from the evidence that killer John Earnest has written.
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April 29, 2019 8:06am
- cmm
  
  The problem with absolute censoring is that it is never absolute.
  
  The real disturbed people who are motivated to go look for it will still find it and, likely, the places where they find it will feed them even more of the toxic poison they need.
  
  The only people that would be denied access to the information are the “reasonable” people that would not be going nuts anyway.
  
  Like gun control, and any other control, it only applies to the law abiding.
  
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  April 29, 2019 8:13am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    “I want the ‘censored list’ please!”
    “Do you want to upsize that with the video combo and tasty tidbits on the side?”
    “Sure, why not…”
    
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    April 29, 2019 9:22am
- KevO'Brien
  
  Socialist controllers accept only one way otherwise their control is at stake. They do not understand the nature of the irrational which I believe Ernest and Tarrant to be. Their broad brush bans will be completely objectively ineffective but will satisfy their sense of power. Meanwhile freedom limps along on crutches.
  
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  April 29, 2019 9:44am
Lance

Duncan Garner in full partisan Labour hack mode this morning. Didn’t let Simon Bridges finish a single sentence without interrupting. He was clearly not in the least bit interested in any of the issues, just ways to belittle Simon.
I was disappointing Mark Richardson didn’t tell him to pull his head in.

That said, Winston would have torn him a new one if he had tried even a hint of that shit with him.
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April 29, 2019 8:13am
- G152
  
  What else do you expect of our home grown leftist orientated fake news?
  However people are watching and their annoyance at such tactics end up in the polling booth
  
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  April 29, 2019 8:53am
  - Tricati
    
    Hopefully you are right G152 – This media crap is now beyond a joke and becoming extremely tiresome.
    
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    April 29, 2019 3:40pm
- alwyn
  
  I didn’t hear Garner but I did hear Espiner on Morning Report. He behaved in exactly the same way you describe. Whenever Bridges tried to say something Espiner jumped in and demanded to know when he had last spoken to Collins. Then he demanded to be told exactly what Bridges had said to his Caucus and so on.
  Obviously the orders went out from the Beehive over the weekend on the way that reporters are required to behave.
  What are they trying to cover up that the Government doesn’t want talked about and which therefore requires that Bridges be not allowed to bring up?
  
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  April 29, 2019 9:10am
  - Ian Boag
    
    Vintage Espiner. Not exactly the softest interviewer on the planet. He tends to be pretty hard on most of his subjects – from all sides of the spectrum. Morning Report has a lot of listeners, so some people keep tuning in ….
    
    Suzie is sort of a toned down version of the same.
    
    And of course Espiner – unlike Garner – does not peddle opinions about how NZ politics should be.
    
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    April 29, 2019 11:03am
- Nookin
  
  It is coming 5 months since I last watched Garner and have not missed him one iota. Try it. You’ll like it.
  
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  April 29, 2019 9:12am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    I have avoided breakfast TV since Paul Henry left, and I don’t miss it in the slightest. Jack Tame actually nailed it with his reported closing comment on Friday that he was going to miss sitting around and “talking shit” with his fellow presenters.
    
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    April 29, 2019 9:17am
    - Sacha
      
      Where is Tame going to – Newstalk Drive Time?
      
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      April 29, 2019 9:20am
      - Tony Stuart
        
        Q&A, to replace Corin Dann. TVNZ’s lightweight politics programme will become a featherweight one.
        
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        April 29, 2019 9:27am
      - hullkiwi
        
        NewsTalk Drive is get HDPA.
        
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        April 29, 2019 6:18pm
  - alex Masterley
    
    Garner? who is he?
    Mind you I haven’t watched breakfast TV in yonks so have no idea who reads the autocue now.
    
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    April 29, 2019 9:40am
  - Lizziep
    
    Longer for me, within a couple of days I was very happy I didn’t feel the total annoyance watching him incurred in me. Never watch the others either, the peace of mind is wonderful. Try it you will like it. Nookin I am sure there are so many of us out there.
    
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    April 29, 2019 11:03am
    - John Warren
      
      Gave up breakfast TV a few years ago. Never looked back.
      
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      April 29, 2019 12:31pm
  - freethinker
    
    If Garner continues this behaviour I too will switch him off so his opinion will no longer be heard and the advertisers lose the opportunity to influence me.
    
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    April 29, 2019 11:44am
- michael_s2
  
  How refreshing it was over the past fortnight to have Ryan Bridge and Eric Young conducting polite, objective, well-researched interviews as hosts of AM. Bridge’s interview of Ardern particularly showed how a host can ask penetrating questions without being offensive.
  Garner comes across as a not very bright sycophant of the left and his political bias is making his show unwatchable.
  
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  April 29, 2019 9:56am
  - Tricati
    
    I saw the Bridge interview of Ardern and thought that will be his last one – She wasn’t happy at being scrutinized.
    
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    April 29, 2019 3:43pm
MCos

Quote of yesterday
https://twitter.com/dannews/status/1122432090090303488?s=21
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April 29, 2019 8:14am
- mic
  
  It was pretty hilarious, though the media should really stop undermining EVERYTHING Bridges says.
  
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  April 29, 2019 11:05am
hullkiwi

Politicising the road toll was a crass thing to in the first place. So now with the road toll rising faster than under National, and with the worst road toll in April since 2009, will JAG admit she put her own dogma ahead of the safety of road users admit she doesn’t have a clue what she’s doing, and resign? (I won’t hold my breath waiting).
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April 29, 2019 8:14am
- The Heat
  
  And will NZ Pravda & The Proletarian Stuff Daily hold her enviro-footsies to the flame?
  
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  April 29, 2019 8:56am
- kowtow
  
  I can’t help but guess though that our standard of driving is plummeting . Our culture has changed massively with mobile phones and people really need to start taking driving seriously .
  
  Heavy penalties are required and that’s for gubmint , but individuals need to take responsibility for their shit driving too.
  
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  April 29, 2019 9:03am
  - Sacha
    
    I have grave doubts about the safety of people movers – especially if they are full of people. They sway around the corners and tend to go too fast along the ‘straights’ and they look very unstable when they go round a curve.
    I keep well out of their way.
    
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    April 29, 2019 9:27am
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      I find that on the average, the drivers of “people movers” use them to ferry their large and expended families around. Sometimes I can see that the occupants are not wearing seatbelts, but in many cases the tinted windows prevent me from confirming this. They tend to hog the middle lane of the Southern Motorway, driving steadily at 85 km/h in the 100 km/h zones; then 90 km/h in the 80km/h zones.
      I try to keep well away from them.
      
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      April 29, 2019 9:35am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        The ‘van’ reported by the media looks very much like a Toyota Highlander, which is not a van but an SUV.
        If it is in fact a Highlander it has only 7 seats and had 8 occupants so obviously not everyone was belted in. Also, if it’s a Highlander it is very likely to be a rental.
        The crash happened about 200 metres north of the intersection of Ohakuri Rd. with SH1.
        Any chance that the vehicle turned right out of Ohakuri Rd. and continued on the incorrect side?
        In the absence of any news of the occupants, any chance that they were Chinese tourists?
        
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        April 29, 2019 10:41am
      - hullkiwi
        
        Captain, the vehicle with 8 people in it was a Honda Odessey – an odd cross between a people carrier and over grown station wagon. Unlikely to have been a rental.
        
        The report I heard was that the Odessey was heading north and as it went around a bend, it had broken the solid yellow line in the centre of the round and veered into the right hand lane.
        
        Seven of the 8 victims were in the Odessey.
        
        I’m not certain about the other vehicle involved in the unfortunate accident.
        
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        April 29, 2019 11:06am
      - Tony Stuart
        
        Interestingly, Honda Odesseys are the most popular people-mover in the car park at the local Exclusive Brethren church.
        
        In any event, it is a tragedy for the wider family of those involved, and especially for the nine-year-old who had his entire family wiped out in one fell swoop.
        
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        April 29, 2019 11:15am
      - Tall Man
        
        The families are only “expended” if they crash……..
        
        I know what you mean though but it’s not the vehicle or the roads killing people, it’s the driving.
        
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        April 29, 2019 1:31pm
    - Odakyu-sen
      
      Are we seeing a pattern here?
      Large sedans or people-movers, packed with large, lovely families. Many of the occupants are unrestrained. The driver shows a lack of understanding of the prevailing road conditions and loses control at high speed as a result.
      
      Is there a correlation between a happy-go-lucky large-family lifestyle and a happy-go-lucky attititude to seatbelts and driving safety?
      
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      April 29, 2019 5:10pm
      - hullkiwi
        
        Not allowed to say that though. It might be hate speech, targeting an ethnic minority.
        
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        April 29, 2019 6:22pm
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    I know the roads in Atiamuri. The motorcyclists speed on them (in the dry).
    They are dangerous because of:
    – tar bleed that turns slick and greasy when it rains
    – off-camber corners
    – deceptive decreasing-radius corners
    – trees and power polls on the roadside
    – lastly, there are so few other vehicles and the curves are so sexy that they tempt inexperienced or stupid drivers to really speed (120 km/h+) on them, i.e., it has the feel of a race track
    – however, there are other road users from time to time (even though the road really induces you to believe that you are the only car on it)
    
    Perfectly safe if you drive to the conditions; deadly otherwise
    
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    April 29, 2019 9:27am
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Hullkiwi, I know Honda Odysseys and it was not an Odyssey.
      The other vehicle in which the unfortunate lady was killed was a Kia Sportage.
      It will be interesting when all the details come out.
      
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      April 29, 2019 11:53am
      - Captain Mainwaring
        
        Correction.
        No, it’s not an Odyssey but on further analysis it seems to be a Honda Stream.
        So hullkiwi (and Clive Matthew-Wilson) are half right.
        But Matthew-Wilson (and Genter) are totally wrong in advocating for barriers down the middle of two-lane roads instead of proper divided four-lane carriageways.
        Totally impractical and a danger to motorcyclists.
        
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        April 29, 2019 3:08pm
      - hullkiwi
        
        Captain, I was going by the head of road policing being interviewed on Morning Report. I got the impression he had not been well briefed.
        
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        April 29, 2019 6:23pm
      - Ian Boag
        
        Captain
        
        4-lane divided expressways are great things. Cost is something like $30 million/km. So Auckland -> Whangarei for example would be about $6bn. Looks better when you write it as $6000 million …
        
        Scary numbers.
        
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        April 29, 2019 8:43pm
  - alien
    
    for some reason some of the worst drivers I have seen have this weird notice ont he back of their car “baby onboard”. I would expect those people would be the safer drivers, but without fail they are always the ones screaming past, passing into oncoming traffic. Funny thing is you always catch up to them at the red lights in town.
    
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    April 29, 2019 11:33am
Happychappy

The media going after Simon Bridges again even though he is right with his statement this morning. “Even though Labour are doing al right in the polls they should doing better but they are on 48% and we are on 40%” with all that has happened we are not far away.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/04/bridges-says-labour-would-be-much-higher-in-the-polls-if-they-were-doing-a-good-job.html.
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April 29, 2019 8:19am
- alien
  
  I kinda disagree here. National should be doing far better, I would be ashamed of a 40 with all the scandals around labour. Even before christchurch national under bridges just werent firing. Labour have so many scandals around the numbers should be far worse for labour.
  
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  April 29, 2019 11:35am
  - Happychappy
    
    Yes but we know you don’t like Simon Bridges.
    
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    April 29, 2019 1:12pm
    - alien
      
      how can you like him, he is useless in question time, he’s scored no hits against her, and i know some say mallard protects her which is rubbish. Sure he stops simon some times, but simon stops himself or moves on to another question when she just starts to bite back. As leaders go, he’s weak.
      
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      April 29, 2019 2:25pm
  - Tall Man
    
    “Unreported scandals”…”non analysed scandals”…..
    
    All hidden by the media or minimally commented on so what do you expect.
    
    ardern through an incompetent immigration minister gave PR to a convicted criminal…..Simon Bridges called an incompetent MP incompetent…..which did the media push?
    
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    April 29, 2019 1:36pm
    - alien
      
      whose fault is that. Where is the leader of the national pushing these to the media. I think Seymour fronts up more to the media for labour issues than bridges
      
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      April 29, 2019 2:29pm
      - Happychappy
        
        Well go and vote for him then, everybody is allowed a opinion but I think your just another left troll that likes to piss others off.
        
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        April 29, 2019 3:49pm
      - Tall Man
        
        ardern is the one that the media follow not Simon Bridges.
        
        Get it through your head, he could dance naked on the top of the beehive handing out hundred dollar bills but they’d still go to a kindy opening with ardern for hugz and feelz.
        
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        April 29, 2019 4:54pm
Albert_Ross

So “freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences” is frequently trotted out these days. But it’s meaningless and unhelpful and could even be dangerous, for example it can quite logically be used to justify violence (yes I burnt his house down, it was a consequence of what he said and after all fosdnmffc) or oppression (yes the authorities punished him for what he said, what did he expect, fosdnmffc).

Similarly, many argue that freedom of speech does not include hate speech, or speech against certain groups, defamation, incitement, dangerous misinformation etc.

But what then does it mean? What does it include? Because I’m starting to fear that the definition of what freedom of speech isn’t, is becoming so broad that there is precious little left for what it is.
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April 29, 2019 8:23am
- Nigel Kearney
  
  The U.S. definition is a good one. Unprotected speech is anything “directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action” and “likely to incite or produce such action”. This would also include incitement to suicide.
  
  The key words being ‘likely’, ‘lawless’ and ‘imminent’.
  
  Of course there are other specific situations such as disclosure of legally protected information, or obscenity (which should be limited to images not words alone) .
  
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  April 29, 2019 8:49am
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    I would add that freedom of speech only restricts what may be punished by the government. There can be plenty of other consequences. If your employer sacks you (Folau) or you miss out on a contract (Destiny) because you talked about your religious views, your freedom of speech has not been infringed. The issue in those cases is religious discrimination which is prohibited by the Human Rights Act.
    
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    April 29, 2019 8:54am
  - Albert_Ross
    
    That’s still a definition of what free speech isn’t.
    
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    April 29, 2019 9:04am
    - Nigel Kearney
      
      It includes everything apart from the exceptions. I’m not sure how you could define it any other way. The important thing is to have very limited and precise exceptions and stick to them.
      
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      April 29, 2019 9:24am
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    How are all these proposed laws going to give a pass to the Quran then? It is at least as nasty as Tarrant’s manifesto with all it’s exhortations to bigotry and violence against infidels, women, gays etc. Much of Old Testament and Talmud is awful too.
    
    Control left are going to be tying themselves in knots trying to figure out some bullshit justifications to excuse them – some hate speech is more equal than others?
    
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    April 29, 2019 9:57am
- mark15
  
  I agree with physics,just not gravity.
  
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  April 29, 2019 12:16pm
cmm

Am I the only person that sees Harry and Meghan moving to Africa as dumb thing?

It is fine for royalty to jet in, tell everyone they’re doing a fantastic job, then jet off home again. That way they get to spread the good feelz and raise awareness.

But moving and living in Africa is another matter. It’s a security disaster. The Somali pirates and other warlords would love to get a royal as a hostage. Heck even NGO workers are a prime target. This would just heighten the security situation.

That basically means it becomes dangerous to embed them in any practical fieldwork. Before they go build a water tank or a new school building, the security people need to scope the place out, guard the convoy etc etc. It would have been more efficient to just get the security squaddies to do the work instead.

They don’t bring any particular skills and will thus be pushing a skilled person out of a critical role. Having them permanently assigned to some office position endangers everyone in the office. Just a trip to Starbucks will need security planning.

Then of course almost all NGOs need to be involved in bribery etc to get anything done. If you don’t bribe the warlords your aid trucks don’t go through. Having royalty embroiled in bribery gets messy for PR.

Nope, I know they want to feel like they’re doing something nice for the world, but in this case costs and negative impact are just too large.

They just need to understand that their lifestyle denies them some choices available to the rest of us.
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April 29, 2019 8:28am
- kevn
  
  @cmm…. Just meghan trying to ‘be a Diana’.
  
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  April 29, 2019 9:16am
  - Sacha
    
    In the time-honoured tradition of American women doing Good Works for the Natives, maybe?
    This one has a willing accomplice. I hope it all works out for them.
    
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    April 29, 2019 9:30am
  - Paulus
    
    Imagine Katherine and Meghan having Diana as a Mother in Law !
    
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    April 29, 2019 1:47pm
- alien
  
  i doubt they will, sounds like a pissy media putting stories out because harry and megan have frozen them out of the birth.
  
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  April 29, 2019 11:37am
  - John Warren
    
    My friend has a theory that the baby is already born, but it came out black with frizzy hair and the Royal household is wondering what the hell to do. Meanwhile they’re keeping it hidden well away.
    
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    April 29, 2019 12:34pm
    - Close Hen Counters
      
      I was thinking it might look like a Jaffa and that was the problem -brown on the inside and red everywhere else … frizzy red hair no no
      
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      April 29, 2019 1:16pm
      - John Warren
        
        A bit like a baby orang utan!
        
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        April 29, 2019 5:11pm
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  This is what you get for marrying unwisely – a trip to the colonies.
  
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  April 29, 2019 12:25pm
Justitia

Issue of the Day: “Are prisoners themselves getting their lips around these slushies? ”

Simon Bridges displays yet again outstanding leadership on a matter many right-thinking citizens regard as deeply alarming.
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April 29, 2019 8:29am
- cmm
  
  I know Arthur Taylor is no longer in prison, but there must be more like him.
  
  It will be ruled as cruel and unusual punishment for prisoners to be denied slushies when they know the screws are getting refreshing beverages.
  
  Prisoners would have to get them too.
  
  That’s the only thing that explains the need for 200 industrial slushie machines.
  
  A commercial slushy machine can make about 60 large servings an hour (500ml). 200 machines give them the ability to make 12000 servings an hour.
  
  There are only about 2000 front-line staff on duty at any time, so they will have capacity to provide 6 servings per hour (3 litres of slushy per corrections officer per hour).
  
  Does that sound realistic?
  
  If, however, they are serving both the inmates and the staff (12000 in total)0 then it comes out to be a more manageable one 500ml slushy per hour.
  
  You be the judge.
  
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  April 29, 2019 8:49am
  - Liberty
    
    Slushies are basically cold sugar.
    This is completely at odds with labours coalition partner The Greens
    with its dreams of a Fat Police and sugerTax
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/87353490/green-party-criticises-health-ministers-stance-on-sugary-drinks-tax
    
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    April 29, 2019 10:01am
  - hullkiwi
    
    cmm, too much maths there for Kelvin of the witless protection programme fame. So that Kelvin can understand, please can you put it in simple terms like.
    
    1. This is a good waste of taxpayers money on people who have been locked away from society;
    2. Slushies are a public health menace and with all the added teaspoons of sugar in the slushie syrup, the outcome will be obesity amongst prisoners and prison officers (so much for the do gooders fighting obesity); and
    3. Did he think about the message he was sending to other public sector workers – what about policemen walking the beat etc – surely they are entitled to a slushie while on duty?
    
    Kelvin clearly didn’t do enough thinking here, thinking only of Corrections staff and the prisoners.
    
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    April 29, 2019 10:32am
    - Gravelroad
      
      Mr Davis inferred when interviewed on the news last night that it was the National Govt’s fault that the prison employees had to have slushies.The Nat govt having outsourced the prison management to Serco resulting in the air conditioning not working efficiently in some buildings.
      So why wasn’t the $1m spent on fixing the air con then?
      
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      April 29, 2019 11:04am
      - hullkiwi
        
        What all the slushie machines were put in one prison? Ove just seen a pink farm animal fly past my wind. Kelvin really is low IQ!
        
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        April 29, 2019 11:42am
      - Surely Knott
        
        Certainly very unusual expenditure. Which company got the company for the slushies.? And who owns it? Because one slushie company on trade me has the same name as someone interesting.
        
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        April 29, 2019 12:53pm
Lee C

Is socialism Jacinda Ardern’s replacement religion after she turned her back on her mormon upbringing?
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April 29, 2019 8:31am
- cmm
  
  List of 100? Nope make that 101. This Lee C nutter needs watching!
  
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  April 29, 2019 8:33am
  - namron
    
    After reading the “newsroom” report this morning, by Thomas Nash of Whinney’s sudden and unexpected visit to Norway, it seems he did a very “greasy” job and Norway is highly likely to think very well of Whinney and NZ.
    I wondered if his visit might have anything to do with the fact that Nobel Peace awards come from Norway and are not too far away!!
    
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    April 29, 2019 8:48am
  - sooty
    
    It’s alright Matt Nippert will have him on the list already for roundup day.
    
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    April 29, 2019 8:50am
- Gravelroad
  
  I didn’t see many (any) refrerences to Ms Ardern’s Mormon upbringing during the election campaign or since.
  Just as well it wasn’t a Bretheren upbringing cause the media would have been all over it, eh?
  Oh wait……..
  
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  April 29, 2019 11:24am
  - freethinker
    
    Did you mean her Moron upbringing?
    
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    April 29, 2019 12:02pm
secondcumming

Had a few beers with my Uncle over the weekend. He’s a decorated *Vietnam War vet* and was telling me he attended a small Anzac Day ceremony at St Heliers. Refuses to attend any gathering where Phil Goff is present. After all this time he still holds people like Goff and Helen Clarke in absolute contempt for the disrespect they exhibited towards the returning soldiers in 1971. Last night he emailed me an excerpt from an article [published 2008] which goes someway to explaining why he still feels like he does…..

‘….they were front and center on the 12th May 1971 when 161 Bty RNZA marched down Queen Street after returning from Vietnam. They physically disrupted that parade by throwing red paint at the members of 161 Bty, throwing themselves in front of moving vehicles, screaming “baby killers”, setting fire to prams and pushing them into the parade. They were lucky that our troops had more discipline than long haired communist louts like Goff and Clark at the time’

https://www.w3vietnam.org.nz/images/goffandclark.bmp

Lest we forget…….
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April 29, 2019 8:39am
- hullkiwi
  
  As they say, nobody does hypocrisy like the left. Also, how the media choose to omit the past transgressions of those in power, least we the sheeple have our delusions of our leaders blown away.
  
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  April 29, 2019 9:23am
  - kowtow
    
    Yep , this ‘Green’ became Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany.
    
    “Fischer was a leader in several street battles involving the radical Putzgruppe (literally “cleaning squad”, with the first syllable being an acronym for Proletarische Union für Terror und Zerstörung, “Proletarian Union for Terror and Destruction”), which attacked a number of police officers. Photos of one such brawl in March 1973, which were later to haunt Fischer, show him clubbing policeman Rainer Marx,[5] to whom he later publicly apologized.”
    
    From wiki
    
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    April 29, 2019 9:51am
- freethinker
  
  I would say NZ was unlucky the returning Vets had such discipline, had they treated Goff and Clarke as Vietcong NZ would be a better place.
  
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  April 29, 2019 12:05pm
Happychappy

What will Phil Twyford be telling these Pensioners in the Waikato and how will they try to pin the blame on National.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/pensioners-go-hungry-under-waikato-council-16-per-cent-rent-hike-says-budgeting-service
I hope they are part of NZ Firsts loyal fans.
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April 29, 2019 8:45am
- artemisia
  
  Not sure about this council but usually councils only charge income related rent if they want to. Unlike state and social housing where the taxpayer picks up the tab. The general idea is that council supplied housing has to wash its face rather than be subsidised by ratepayers. Common for rents to be less than market rates though.
  
  These council tenants can apply for the Accommodation Supplement, whereas state / social housing tenants can’t.
  
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  April 29, 2019 9:30am
- alien
  
  i dont think it has anything to do with phil, as the article says the council is putting the rents up. Council flats are pretty cheap well down here they are anyway and the council make zero profit on them. First stop for the pensioners should be to WINZ to talk about an increase in their accomdation supplement.
  
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  April 29, 2019 11:50am
- Liberty
  
  Just another cry of the week by the lefty media. Which as usual left out some key points.
  They fail to say how much rent the tenant is currently paying.
  Most council rentals tend to be artificially low.
  If the tenant is on the bones of their bum.
  The state pays a housing allowance.
  
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  April 29, 2019 1:24pm
krazykiwi

Some segments to look forward to on RNZ this week:

Tuesday
10:00. Health. Can diet impact the inclination of white supremacists? Dr Alan Smyth investigates
10:40. News. In depth report on the world of white supremacy
11:59. Bird call
12:01. News. White supremacy report continues.
14:00. The Panel. Todays guests include a Prof Jed Jedson, a white supremacist from Texas responding to called for white supremacists to be incarcerated and castrated
16:00. Segment content TBC
16:10. The Human Mind. Today we explore the way white supremacists think
17:05. Parenting. Dr Lilly Scott examines the family backgrounds that produce the more virulent forms of white supremacy.
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April 29, 2019 8:51am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Rumour has it that the 16:00 segment is likely to be Golriz Ghahraman on “Blocking white supremacists on Twitter”…
  
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  April 29, 2019 9:11am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Do you need to add the word supremacist? Surely white is sufficient?
    
    I think she might be suffering from race envy.
    
    Yes I know that it is a piss take.
    
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    April 29, 2019 10:55am
- jcuk
  
  Sunday Morning RNZ programme on white supremacy lost much of its impact on me because of the left wing views of many in the Media.
  
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  April 29, 2019 9:46am
  - hullkiwi
    
    I heard a prequel of it on Friday morning and it sounded like a shoddy piece of journalism. The pieces I heard involved an interview by a so called academic researcher. To say his input was full of contradictions and massive leaps un logic, highlighted how bad the piece of investigative journalism was.
    
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    April 29, 2019 11:12am
Tony Stuart

Well, there is certainly no shortage of issues for National to attack the government over from 2pm tomorrow; the CGT backdown, the resignation of Stiassney, continued Kiwibuild issues, Nash x3, Jones’ slush fund and Davis’ slushy fund. Where do you start?
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April 29, 2019 9:09am
kowtow

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us”

A tale of two human rights lawyers.

‘ Human rights lawyer who defends Muslim women who remove headscarves in public is sentenced to 148 lashes and 38 years in jail in Iran’

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6969485/Human-rights-lawyer-sentenced-148-lashes-38-years-jail-Iran.html#comments
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April 29, 2019 9:11am
- Scott
  
  Kowtow – very sad about what is happening in Iran. What happened to that new leader who was supposed to be “moderate”?
  It appears that Iran has got worse in its human rights abuses.
  
  Two good things I see – the Americans are continuing to crack down on Iran and the sanctions are biting. This means that the government is becoming more unpopular at home as people are struggling to put food on the table.
  
  You won’t hear this reported in the media but many Iranians particularly the young are utterly sick of the government and the Imams who repress them. There is a growing underground church in Iran which gives the young people hope of a better life and more freedom.
  
  We continue to pray for Iran and the hope that they will throw off their repressive ideology and look for something better.
  
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  April 29, 2019 10:37am
  - freethinker
    
    Totally agree, Iranians are lovely hospitable and intelligent people and their history inspiring-just look at the architecture and so sad a bunch Arsehole Ayatollahs have been able to dominate and impoverish their country. Good luck Donald in causing short term pain which hopefully results in long term gain for Iranians – Ditto Venezuelans.
    
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    April 29, 2019 12:12pm
Maggie Pie

My partners sister works in London and has become an ardent Royal-Watcher since shes been living there. She was saying that the ‘arrival’ of Baby Sussex will be announced within the next 10 days and be a very carefuly stage managed event. She reckons the real thing to watch out for is when Hazza and Megs move to Africa there will be an announcement that they have also decided to adopt a beautigul little colored baby boy as their own. Their new bub will be 7th in line to the thone.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D5K74xgWkAYZipA?format=jpg&name=900×900
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April 29, 2019 9:12am
- greybeard
  
  I watched a doco yesterday about possible conspiracy theories regarding princess Diana’s death.
  One theory was that the Royal Family had her and Dodi assassinated to avoid having her marry a muslim, which would have been unsupportable for the Royals.
  It occurred to me that Harry, having married a divorced, coloured American actress is, in his own way, giving the Royal Family the finger , as some sort of payback.
  
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  April 29, 2019 9:29am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    OMG we’ve heard sooo many conspiracy theories from my partnwers sister about the birth of the new bub as well. The best one she told us was that Prince Phillips so called car accident may have actually been a suiside attempt after the details of Megins ultrasound were made known to him. Mind you, any things possible. Even Charlie is on record telling Camila he wants to come back as a tampax. LoL!!
    
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    April 29, 2019 10:07am
  - Brian Marshall
    
    Or he might have married for love. I hope it’s the later one.
    
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    April 29, 2019 10:13am
- mark15
  
  Sorry,can you never say ‘bub’ on the internet in relation to a child ever again please?
  
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  April 29, 2019 11:45am
artemisia

So Sri Lanka has banned face coverings, including burqas and masks. Will Ms Ardern commit to banning masks if The Avengers come to town? Not sure she could credibly ban burqas or niqabs under any circumstances. Bad optics.
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April 29, 2019 9:14am
- Sacha
  
  Long ago a friend adopted the Muslim faith. The first overt evidence of this was her taking to wearing head coverings.
  I am watching the PM with interest. Is it possible that she is taking instruction?
  
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  April 29, 2019 9:38am
  - sooty
    
    With the islamaphacation of NZ, in the near future it will be interesting to watch the LGBT crowd been removed from the media positions now held and their removal from staring in advertising ads!
    
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    April 29, 2019 2:08pm
Hugh Pavletich

Rent growth much lower in Auckland and Canterbury than the rest of NZ … Greg Ninness … Interest Co NZ

https://www.interest.co.nz/property/99383/rents-increasing-more-twice-fast-wellington-compared-auckland

By Greg Ninness

Rent increases are much lower in Auckland and Canterbury than they are in other parts of the country, according to interest.co.nz’s latest analysis of bond data.

Across the entire country the average rent charged for new tenancies was $437 a week in the first quarter of this year, up 4.9% compared to the same period of last year.

But there were big regional variations. The biggest rate of increase occurred in Upper Hutt where the average rent increased from $369 a week in the first quarter of last year, to $412 in the first quarter of this year, an 11.6% rise.

The area with the lowest increase was Timaru. There the average rent was $319 a week in the first quarter of this year, down 0.2% (just a few cents) compared to a year earlier. Upper Hutt was also the only area in the country where there was a significant number of new lettings, recording a double digit percentage increase in average rent.

Of the main centres, the areas with the lowest percentage increases compared to a year ago were Auckland (+2.8%) and Canterbury (+1.5%). The main centres with the highest increases were the Wellington region on +6.4% and Dunedin on +6.9%. … read more via hyperlink above …
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April 29, 2019 9:30am
- artemisia
  
  Hugh that is pretty old data. Some will be up to 4 months old (quarterly data plus time allowed to lodge a new bond plus bonds lodged late). And it is average data, whereas many consider median a better view.
  
  Trademe’s monthly rental analysis provides a more up to date view – rentals advertised on their site that were rented during the previous month. And median rather than average.
  
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  April 29, 2019 1:50pm
  - Hugh Pavletich
    
    Artemesia … I agree.
    
    The Ninness / Interest Co NZ article needs an airing as well.
    
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    April 29, 2019 6:04pm
Ross12

So Trudeau has discussions with Prime Minister Abe of Japan and TWICE says China instead of Japan

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/04/oh-canada-blundering-justin-trudeau-twice-calls-japan-china-in-meetings-with-shinzo-abe-video/

How much more embarrassing can Trudeau get for Canada?
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April 29, 2019 9:40am
- Odakyu-sen
  
  That is just beyond the pale..
  
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  April 29, 2019 9:55am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    That’s a pretty dodgy idiom to be employing in these PC days….
    
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pale
    
    https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/beyond-the-pale.html
    
    Catherine the Great created the Pale of Settlement in Russia in 1791. This was the name given to the western border region of the country, in which Jews were allowed to live. The motivation behind this was to restrict trade between Jews and native Russians. Some Jews were allowed to live, as a concession, ‘beyond the pale’.
    
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    April 29, 2019 11:49am
    - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
      
      wrong meaning Maggy. Beyond the pale is Ireland – where all the bog heathens lived, and the Pale is the English settlement around Dublin, where civilised people lived…
      
      still offensive, but a different sort of offence
      
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      April 29, 2019 12:39pm
      - Twinkletoes
        
        Yes, this is what I grew up believing and my family lived both in Dublin and Belfast. Although the Russian version sounds just as convincing.
        
        It was often used when we children went too far in the naughty department so is an expression burned on my brain
        
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        April 29, 2019 2:53pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        wrong meaning Maggy. Beyond the pale is Ireland
        Yep,
        that’s why I placed
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pale
        as my first link.
        
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        April 29, 2019 3:33pm
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Which Pale, Irish or Russian?
    
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    April 29, 2019 12:42pm
    - kowtow
      
      Bah , the Pale of Calais .
      
      And deity needs to study his Oirish history as many non Hibernos lived and prospered well beyond the Pale . In the cities such as Waterford , Limerick and Galway as well as on the huge tracts of lands that the Normans seized from the native Gaels eg the Earldoms of Kildare , Ormond and Desmond.
      
      That’s not to say the natives were slouches , they weren’t .
      
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      April 29, 2019 2:39pm
- hullkiwi
  
  I suppose it is a bit too late to give the bloke an atlas?
  
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  April 29, 2019 9:56am
  - Colville
    
    an atlas and a torch… and he still wouldnt be able to find his own arse.
    
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    April 29, 2019 10:29am
    - sooty
      
      How about a mirror on a stick?
      
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      April 29, 2019 2:10pm
- cmm
  
  Maybe Trudeau knows something we don’t…
  
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  April 29, 2019 10:11am
- rangitoto
  
  I see that since Trump has been POTUS, renewable electric power generation in the US has overtaken coal generation. Trump saving the planet as well as making America Great Again.
  
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  April 29, 2019 12:48pm
  - Batman
    
    But I thought the planet didn’t need saving because climate change is a hoax, “beautiful” clean coal is a real thing, and wind turbine cause cancer? ??
    
    How odd.
    
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    April 29, 2019 1:02pm
    - mikenmildagain
      
      Well, duh. Trumpista capable of holding multiple conflicting beliefs simultaneously.
      
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      April 29, 2019 2:01pm
      - Johnboy
        
        Sort of like holding multiple conflicting/complementing personalities simultaneously really! 🙂
        
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        April 29, 2019 3:10pm
krazykiwi

In 2019, more people will vote than ever before.

Nearly two billion voters in 50 countries around the world will head to the polls this year to elect their leaders.

Some of the biggest elections include India – the world’s largest democracy with 800 million eligible voters, Indonesia – 187 million registered voters and Nigeria – 84 million registered voters.

Here’s how different voting systems work around the world
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April 29, 2019 9:55am
Fletch

To the surprise of no one, the real collusion in the 2016 U.S election leads back to the Obama White House, who conspired with the Ukraine to reopen a case (that was closed in 2014) against Paul Manafort.

The January 2016 gathering, confirmed by multiple participants and contemporaneous memos, brought some of Ukraine’s top corruption prosecutors and investigators face to face with members of former President Obama’s National Security Council (NSC), FBI, State Department and Department of Justice (DOJ).

The agenda suggested the purpose was training and coordination. But Ukrainian participants said it didn’t take long — during the meetings and afterward — to realize the Americans’ objectives included two politically hot investigations: one that touched Vice President Joe Biden’s family and one that involved a lobbying firm linked closely to then-candidate Trump.

That makes the January 2016 meeting one of the earliest documented efforts to build the now-debunked Trump-Russia collusion narrative and one of the first to involve the Obama administration’s intervention.

Kostiantyn Kulyk, deputy head of the Ukraine prosecutor general’s international affairs office, said that, shortly after Ukrainian authorities returned from the Washington meeting, there was a clear message about helping the Americans with the Party of the Regions case.

“Yes, there was a lot of talking about needing help and then the ledger just appeared in public,” he recalled.

Kulyk said Ukrainian authorities had evidence that other Western figures, such as former Obama White House counsel Gregory Craig, also received money from Yanukovych’s party. But the Americans weren’t interested: “They just discussed Manafort. This was all and only what they wanted. Nobody else.”

What follows is info about a “black ledger” that was released to the media, which was supposed to be.

A Ukrainian court in December concluded NABU’s release of the ledger was an illegal attempt to influence the U.S. election. And a member of Ukraine’s parliament has released a recording of a NABU official saying the agency released the ledger to help Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

Oh, and they also managed to get Joe Biden’s son off the hook for dirty dealings, with Joe’s help. And people want this guy for president???

The other case raised at the January 2016 meeting, Telizhenko said, involved Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian energy company under investigation in Ukraine for improper foreign transfers of money. At the time, Burisma allegedly was paying then-Vice President Joe Biden’s son Hunter as both a board member and a consultant. More than $3 million flowed from Ukraine to an American firm tied to Hunter Biden in 2014-15, bank records show.

According to Telizhenko, U.S. officials told the Ukrainians they would prefer that Kiev drop the Burisma probe and allow the FBI to take it over. The Ukrainians did not agree. But then Joe Biden pressured Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to fire Ukraine’s chief prosecutor in March 2016, as I previously reported. The Burisma case was transferred to NABU, then shut down.

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/440730-how-the-obama-white-house-engaged-ukraine-to-give-russia-collusion
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April 29, 2019 10:03am
- tf78
  
  I see there is going to be all sorts of attacks on Biden in the upcoming elections with things he’s done and said going back to about 1984 – he doesn’t have a show IMHO.
  
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  April 29, 2019 11:46am
krazykiwi

Spanish Elections:

Since the 1980s, Spanish politics had been dominated by the Socialists and the People’s Party; however, with the nation experiencing austerity, recession, and disenfranchisement with the political system in recent years, voters have been giving their support to a wider spectrum resulting in five parties dominating this year’s general election.

This election saw the arrival of the right wing Vox party taking 24 seats and helping ensure the Socialist Workers Party needs coalition partners to govern. Of course they’ll partner with far left parties, delivering Spain with more of the policies that have wrecked their economy, and further strengthening Vox’s showing in regional parliaments.
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April 29, 2019 10:10am
- Tall Man
  
  Why can’t the voters of New Zealand look past the bullshit and actually judge based on “promises” vs “delivery”?
  
  I fully understand that the media offers a very distorted view of the world and that social media runs on likes not substance but surely the voters of NZ must see that as a country we aren’t doing really well.
  
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  April 29, 2019 12:52pm
Colville

Rental inflation hit an 11-year high of 6 per cent a year in March.

On Trade Me, the national median advertised rent hit $495 a week, up 5.3 per cent on last year.

So Jacinda has beaten National but still has work to do to go higher than Clarke.

We know she can do it, just give her time.
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April 29, 2019 10:31am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Remarkable. Its almost as though driving up the cost of rental housing, demonising landlords, and making it harder to get rid of difficult tenants has consequences…
  
  Who would have thought it?
  
  I am sure the cars, tents and garages now occupied by the formerly renting will all have insulation, double glazing, extraction fans, and a build in means of maintaining a temperature of 18C….
  
  You really have to wonder if the government has any grown-ups in it at all.
  
  Bwuhahaha
  
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  April 29, 2019 12:42pm
dave_c_

With the gender equation moving the dial to enable ‘boys to identify as girls’, and ‘girls to identify as boys, can I claim to be ‘black’ now ?
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April 29, 2019 11:00am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Why not get a DNA test?
  you can even change what your results mean….
  
  https://pressfrom.info/au/news/tech-and-science/-120005-time-to-get-that-viking-tattoo-removed-ancestry-updates-dna-results.html
  
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  April 29, 2019 11:39am
JibberJabber

User expectation.. zero… guess I`ll have to give the RWC this year a miss,

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12225999
Given that the Spark website, for a telecommunications provider, is the most worthless slowest useless crock of shit on the entire net, I won`t be getting any hopes up that they`ll be able to show anything prerecorded let alone Live.
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April 29, 2019 11:09am
Monique Watson

Moby the thick **** couldn’t get his shit together despite fame, fortune and and banging Hollywood princesses:

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=12226066

Kids are currently yelling out: “Build the Wall”, And jabbing the wall map on the U.S. Mexico border.

So many editing errors in that online ‘article’ it makes my eyes hurt.
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April 29, 2019 11:30am
- freethinker
  
  I notice that the Horrid has moved New York to the UK but Google hasn’t been updated as they show NY in the USA. My bet is Google is right.
  
  Moby, portrait, at his apartment East Village, New York, United Kingdom, 1995. Photo / Getty
  
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  April 29, 2019 12:32pm
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  So just another mentally ill loser put forward as a role model?
  
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  April 29, 2019 12:44pm
  - Monique Watson
    
    Yep.
    
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    April 29, 2019 1:16pm
Maggie Pie

I am actually starting to think i’ll never be old enough to know better.
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April 29, 2019 12:00pm
RW Capitalist

Considering there are 15 prisons in NZ
also
Considering only about 4 got “slurpy” machines at
$1mill
and the Union says they are necessary
Does that mean we are still to spend about $3mill more so ALL officers have access to “Slurpy’s”?
One more question:
In this day and age of healthy options and anti sugar campaign.
Are the balances being weighed between the negative of the sugar content of slurpy’s vs the positive cooling effects?
and in the winter? Is there such a thing as HOT “Slurpy’s” or have they purchased $5000 espresso machines?
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April 29, 2019 12:44pm
howitis

Why would Simon Bridges die in a ditch over slushy machines for Corrections staff whom much of the country would have some degree of respect for in that they deal with the scum de la scum and assist in keeping them away from civilised society – for a while.
He looks like a silly little boy.
With his speech impediment and lost puppy look he really needs to be commanding in other ways… like content .
At present he is an topic-taker – admittedly against a crooked, biased press but this is not new – in NZ or USA – so does not show any leadership promise. Commander in Chief Trump has it far worse.

I thought I’d a have glance at the teev one this morning to see Uriah Heep aka Johnny Campbell rubbing his ‘ands with very ‘eavy very ‘umble sanctimony.
Bridges was on.
He is a lost soul.
If he could get to 20% in the PM poll by Dec 1,2019, will give $1000 to every ‘child in poverty’ for Xmas.
One biiiillion dollars. It does not matter.

I have no antipathy whatsoever for Bridges.
He is just the wrong guy at this point in history and looks like a subset of Ardern in attitude.
= Ardern lite.
If you look back at 1972 to 1975 you can see with R.D. Muldoon as opposition leader Labour had to get some things right to get a second term. They did not succeed.
Bridges is more like the personality of Rowling and the latter never won a General election as leader.

Bridges does not get it right, again!
The Taupo Mayor had just said that the 8 death accident was on a decent bit of road, with double yellow lines so clearly someone was on the wrong side of the road.
All Bridges could offer is that roads need improving. His message was well off the mark in this circumstance. It sounds like bad driving by at least one party in daylight, open road conditions.
Bridges must stand aside.

Interesting to note that it was the platinum blonde who interviewed Bridges.
I wonder if Bridges has spoken to Campbell since Campbell wound him up on his show 6 or so years ago?

I’m ready for the card carrying Nats downticks out of blind loyalty.
I say look at the UK Conservative Party major disconnect with voters since they got a clean majority in 2015. Roll forward to 2019 and it is a whole new ball game esp 23 May. There will be blood!

Support is not a given.
It is earned by aligning with followers, not agreeing with the Govt most of the time (Guns) and taking pot shots at public servants/Prison guards over a million bucks when nearly a billion extra is thrown at the Pacific islands and many more topics to draw Govt blood over. HTFU.
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April 29, 2019 1:08pm
- RW Capitalist
  
  “Why would Simon Bridges die in a ditch over slushy machines for Corrections staff…”
  Because it is the same wasteful spending as this was.
  justified in the same pathetic way.
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3558823
  It is TAXPAYERS money.
  Labour’s “back to the future” moment.
  Deja Vue….all over again.
  To quote a famous quotation attributed to Yogi Berra:
  
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  April 29, 2019 2:22pm
- tf78
  
  howitis – how is it that people hate Trump who is doing a great job for America and people love Jacinda who is doing a terrible job for New Zealand.
  How contrary do we need to be these days pray tell?
  
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  April 29, 2019 6:23pm
- Humble Capitalist
  
  Uptick for the double Uriah Heep reference. Great work.
  
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  April 29, 2019 7:09pm
Poppa

I am starting to become very excited thinking about Grant “sweet cheeks” Robertson announcing his new wellness budget. I no longer will have to worry about what GDP figures look like, how much debt the country now has or any of those pesky things.

I feel so much better about the whole thing……until he sticks his hand in my wallet for more tax. That I can see as a certainty & of course it won’t be new, it will just be a large recalibration because I am a rich prick
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April 29, 2019 1:12pm
- alien
  
  this is worth reading
  
  https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2019/04/26/552310/roots-of-wellbeing-budget-reach-back-to-national#
  
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  April 29, 2019 2:43pm
- tf78
  
  Can we then write “well-being” cheques to pay for our “stuff” that makes us “feel well”. Idiots!!
  
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  April 29, 2019 7:30pm
- simpleton1
  
  A interesting part of the “well being budget” is Share the Prosperity.
  This has been in train for a while, and so well ensconced in academia.
  This is why Ardern did not know about GDP as it is considered well past it is use by date, and is replaced with the, Shared Prosperity Index
  http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=91F94D30-B19D-4E01-B2D7-FE9FE8C496C2
  
  “What is yours is mine,and becomes theirs, as I am forced to flow it through my hands”.
  I just wish they would “share the work, the stress and my tax payments”.
  
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  April 29, 2019 8:51pm
Monique Watson

Because you’re all my friends even the Left Wingers and I haven’t friended you all on FaceBook:
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/lifestyle/2019/04/new-zealand-accent-voted-sexiest-in-the-world.html
I cant tell you how many times I have heard people say: ” I Love Your Accent”!
Me to my son: “Haha I have an accent that’s been voted the world’s best and you don’t”. Showing him the article.
Son: “I’m already sexy enough” 🙂
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April 29, 2019 1:37pm
kloyd0306

I wonder if DPF has the courage to reprint a WO report (10:15am today) of the popularity of political blogs in NZ?

It seems that KB’s decline is due to their new weak-kneed policies and stance on free speech.

Just like the National party, some spine is needed to stand up to the PC crowd.
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April 29, 2019 1:43pm
- Johnboy
  
  Well said old chap. I suspect DPF has had a suggestion from Nat Party Central not to rock the boat too much. Once the gloss rubs off the turd we have as leader (Winston? 🙂 ) things may get slowly back to normal! 🙂
  
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  April 29, 2019 2:26pm
- alien
  
  i wouldnt believe anything WO publish
  
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  April 29, 2019 2:42pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  Have you ever noticed on WO, that only the first few paragraphs of each post come up on the front page? As soon as you click on “see more” it’s another click for rankings.
  
  There’s nothing illegal about it, or even unethical. It does however show how open blog rankings are to manipulation. Take them with a truck-load of salt.
  
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  April 29, 2019 3:11pm
Johnboy

Anyone else read this shit?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/112311772/kiwis-need-to-halve-car-use-by-2050-to-sufficiently-improve-health
I think it’s time we took away half their funding, all of their carparks, any free cars they get supplied and tell most of these useless fucks to get a real job.
Going by the shit they keep producing there should be plenty of work for them on the comedy circuit! 🙂
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April 29, 2019 2:22pm
- alien
  
  in a way I agree with some of it. We have an obesity problems today. Living 5 minutes from a school I was surprised ot see that the school bus comes down our street to pick kids up. As for the pollution from cars, I thought by then we were meant to be mostly electric cars that don’t cause pollution.
  
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  April 29, 2019 3:10pm
  - Johnboy
    
    Bear in mind the bus may come from ten miles away and the poor old driver has an obligation to pick up all the kids on the way to school alien. Blame the lazy parents.
    However I can see the wider picture where all the poor old pensioners will have to walk/cycle/get the bus/pay for a taxi to get their shopping home.
    All these academics/greenie folk need a sharp jab of reality fair up their lycra/hemp clad arses! 🙂
    
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    April 29, 2019 3:30pm
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      no, this bus, unlike the rural one for the school kids just drives around the local streets all within easy walking distance to the school.
      
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      April 29, 2019 4:10pm
chiz

Kelvin Davis calls Brian Tamaki a liar:

Tamaki has repeatedly criticised the Government for not funding him to deliver his programme in New Zealand prisons, despite never making a formal application as part of the Corrections tender process.

Davis said there was no verified, independent research showing the programme has achieved success, and lashed out at Tamaki, calling his claims duplicitous.

He said that, despite what Tamaki claims, Man Up has never been shut out of prisons, and has never followed the proper application process.

“If they’re going to lie about the small stuff, how am I going to trust them with the big stuff?”
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April 29, 2019 3:24pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  Why would Tamaki lie if all he needed to do was submit an application?
  
  Different if he had and been declined.
  
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  April 29, 2019 7:51pm
  - mikenmildagain
    
    Why wouldn’t he lie? That’s what he does for a living.
    
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    April 29, 2019 8:02pm
alien

To me this is the sort of person we should be listening to, not some woman who rides a bike (maybe it was electric), to the hospital give birth

https://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/news/112321299/kiwi-drivers-lack-of-ability-on-our-roads-scares-former-supercars-driver-greg-murphy
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April 29, 2019 3:36pm
alien

fix issues, how about fix them by doing it again.

“Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has made her first pre-Budget funding announcement, saying the Government spend almost $6 million to fix issues with the Census.

Ardern, along with Minister of Statistics James Shaw, also announced $10 million would be provided to enable Stats NZ to get ahead of the next census.”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12226231

meanshile doctors and teachers are told there is NO money
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April 29, 2019 4:13pm
- alien
  
  this is an important comment from shaw
  
  “The previous National-led Government decided to shift the Census to a mostly online survey and, at the same time, directed Stats NZ to cut costs over two census cycles,” Shaw said.”
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12226231
  
  “Yang said the five-year budget of $120 million for Census 2018, granted by the previous Government, was adequate. Stats NZ had poorly chosen how to apply it.”
  
  https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/109245089/statistics-nz-pushes-census-2018-deadline-further-as-issues-continue
  
  so the five years leading up to this census they had $120 million, and James, who never met once with them thinks that was not enough. Damn.
  
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  April 29, 2019 4:52pm
  - tf78
    
    The good thing is they didn’t test the on-line with the general or local body elections. On line should now be forgotten – if you can’t be bothered getting of your bum you shouldn’t be counted. It didn’t help with Cullen I think getting rid of our regular street post boxes. Posting a letter is a real bugger these days.
    
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    April 29, 2019 6:38pm
  - Happychappy
    
    When are the public going to wake to Jacinda saying when anything goes wrong that like every thing else it is Nationals fault it was under funded and they told statistics to cut the cost. Eighteen months into their term and they still think what goes wrong is the previous Governments fault.
    
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    April 29, 2019 7:40pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  You mean their unions?
  
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  April 29, 2019 7:52pm
Hugh Pavletich

NEW ZEALAND: Statistics NZ … Where is the accountability ? …

David Hargreaves says the harsh reality of what will pass as Census 2018 information demonstrates the urgent need to bin the whole thing and bring forward the next census … Interest Co NZ

https://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/99405/david-hargreaves-says-harsh-reality-what-will-pass-census-2018-information

By David Hargreaves

Well, we knew it was going to be bad. Now we know how bad. And it’s BAD.

The confirmation by Statistics New Zealand on Monday that long-delayed information from last year’s ill-starred Census will be rolled out from September onwards comes with the very unpleasant confirmation that try as they might the good folk at Stats haven’t been able to sufficiently paper over the gaps in some key information – notably that around iwi affiliation. So there will be no release of that information. … read more via hyperlink above …
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- Hugh Pavletich
  
  Posted at … https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/04/links-29-april-2019/#comment-3337566 …
  
  … It just gets worse … as the Government Statistician Liz McDonald admirably makes it clear it is not necessarily a money problem ( 1 min 50 sec in ) …
  
  New funding totalling $16 million made avaiable to fix troubled Census, stop next one failing … TVNZ
  
  https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/new-funding-totalling-16-million-made-avaiable-fix-troubled-census-stop-next-one-failing
  
  … Why is Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern not being as clear and candid as the Government Statistician Liz McDonald ? …
  
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  April 29, 2019 7:04pm
Micky

I actually can’t understand Jacinda Ardern anymore. She has become so adept at deflecting the media that her sentences are now just a load of puffed up meaningless authoritarian nonsense. A true politician.

Also she can’t stand anyone else taking her lime light during media conferences. It irritates her if the cameras are turned away from her for too long, to the point that she becomes rude.
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April 29, 2019 4:33pm
- alien
  
  what annoys me is in question time she wont even answer the questions, and national can’t even be bothered ot point of order and get an answer, instead bridges will ask the same question over and over, wasting questions.
  
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  April 29, 2019 4:58pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    DO YOU HAVE ‘CAPS LOCK’ ON YOUR KEY BOARD alien?
    
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    April 29, 2019 5:54pm
  - brett68
    
    Bridges is hopeless, he’s destroying any chance National has of winning in 2020.
    
    If Bridges is still leader at the next election I’m party voting NZ First.
    
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    April 29, 2019 6:23pm
    - alien
      
      https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/04/simon-bridges-leadership-uncertain-as-he-faces-more-criticism-from-his-own-mps.html
      
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      April 29, 2019 8:16pm
      - PhilP
        
        All media driven “alien”. If National swapped
        Simon for Judith, the media would only go after her contrasting her to Jacinda’s “kind” approach as abrasive and call her Crusher Collins instead of Judith or Mrs Collins. Then there’s Judith’s problem around Oravida. The media would not let that bone lie so why would National want to change leaders now or before the 2020 election?
        
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        April 29, 2019 10:41pm
    - Micky
      
      The more Labour fail to deliver – the more likable Bridges becomes.
      
      The more Ardern sets herself up as an overexposed pretentious leader with no substance to back it up – the more likely she will succumb to tall poppy syndrome.
      
      National would be wise to swap out Paula Bennett for Amy Adams asap.
      
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      April 29, 2019 8:43pm
      - alien
        
        we’re just over a year out from an election. Bridges isn’t firing. the public do not like him. slidding in the polls. Him and Paula need to go. His slushie today like going into the house and holding up two fish. It was like apologizing for being a man. National need a strong leader, someone who can command the media nd the public.
        
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        April 29, 2019 9:54pm
tf78

Johnboy – ACTIVE TRANSPORT you say – Haha! Allowing lime scooters were a really good start as people don’t seem to be able to WALK 100 meters any more! They shouldn’t knock cars as they won’t have any workers ever turn up let alone on time if they try the public transport.
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April 29, 2019 6:33pm
MrTips

Say what you like about Brian Tamaki, but he’s starting to become a monumental problem for Ardern and her team of almond nutters. He’s pushing her social buttons and winning. Davis is proving useless and now Grant Robertson is lashing out like a dick-on-twitter.* He scares them because he’s actually got the balls to take them on. Bridges could learn a thing or two about “in your face” from Tamaki, just on the right message.

They ought to make a Cockumentary on the number of useless stuff ups in Labour.

*To be fair, Robertson’s not alone. Golriz, Davidson, Bishop, Lubeck and a parade of others all use Twitter badly. Which is funny as they sound just like their accusations about their favourite hate-fan, Trump.
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April 29, 2019 7:11pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Ive always liked Brian Tamaki – hes got a lot of front and hes not afraid to call it like it is. My partners mum was saying she remembers when his parents used to dive for pennys off a bridge in Rotovagas
  
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  April 29, 2019 9:07pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Brilliant..

I’ve just seen this clip on why Dairy Cows are the answer to Climate Change.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-48074629/how-cow-dung-can-help-fight-climate-change

Greens might have to do a rethink.
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April 29, 2019 7:25pm
- howitis
  
  Rethink?
  
  That is assuming they think in the first place.
  A brave supposition.
  
  They are followers of dogma.
  Rationale does not come into it.
  
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  April 29, 2019 7:44pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  well managed dairy farms in Canterbury are add about 10mm of top soil (mostly organic additions) per year, making them very attractive for future horticultural development. That is an enormous amount of carbon sequestration going on.
  
  But cow bad. Farmer bad. Business bad. Only late model audi driven by rich urban vegan greenie good.
  
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  April 29, 2019 8:09pm
- Doctor Who
  
  No, dairy cows are not the answer to climate change, but traditional farming does not harm the environment the way intensive industrial-style farming does. Unfortunately farmers cannot supply enough dairy or meat using traditional methods.
  
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  April 29, 2019 8:23pm
  - simpleton1
    
    Traditional farmers would go under as they need to be able to pay the rates demanded with menaces, to District Councils, Regional Councils, which often like to build stadiums, airports, swimming pools, pensioner housing, civic centres, statues, all for the diverse vibrant sustainability of the community. Then to meet mortgages, up grade housing to government standards for workers, and pay the GST that they have to charge as extra on the milk, plus general taxes.
    Comply with fertilizer nutrient consents, effluent disposal consents, stock and dairy shed water consents, and employ a person full time to do all the tick boxes for the authorities.
    The dairy companies also have a lot of hoops also to comply with, hygiene, quality of water, water ways fenced off and plantings, safety & health.
    
    Divide it up and sell off lifestyle blocks, or subdivision if handy to a town or city. Although that is not very profitable, as electricity, resource consents, etc…. etc… all flow to another bureaucracy.
    Thank goodness for some that some things are worth millions of dollars. 🙂 and so maybe there is something left at the end of the long day.
    
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    April 29, 2019 8:49pm
  - UrbanNeocolonialist
    
    Rubbish, traditional low-intensity farmers cannot afford to pay attention to the fine details of environmental management given their low productivity. It costs a lot of money to manage nutrient budgets, irrigation, fencing, stock movement, herd management/genetic development, effluent processing and spreading in a manner that minimises environmental damage. You are indulging in fantasies of romantic luddism like most ill-informed urbanites – old style low intensity farms did more damage, it’s just that it wasn’t noticed, measured or commented upon during the era where it was economic.
    
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    April 29, 2019 10:58pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh dear,

Bishop Brian is going to organise some Prison riots.
https://twitter.com/NgatiBird/status/1122713947931467776/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1122729553279848448&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fyournz.org%2F
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April 29, 2019 8:02pm
Nookin

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/112311146/safety-barrier-could-have-saved-lives-in-crash-near-taup-expert-says.

So, it’s all the gummint’s fault? JAG also says that the ordinary NZ driver makes mistakes and we have to look at the driving environment. I may be wrong on this but it appears that the accident occurred when one vehicle drove on the wrong side of the road, overlooking the fact that this tends to bring two vehicles into the same, converging, line of traffic. The outcome is foreseeable. You don’t need barriers or a brick wall down the middle of the road to tell you that.
IMHO, ordinary New Zealanders don’t do that. If they do, they should not be driving.
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April 29, 2019 9:10pm
Don the Kiwi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eteSZpCCyQ

What’s this about global cooling? History says so.
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April 29, 2019 9:37pm
Don the Kiwi

Or this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1KYvz7FFrE
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April 29, 2019 10:03pm
UrbanNeocolonialist

Gawd bless that heroine Greta.
She just wants to make the world better.
She’ll ban cars, planes and meat,
Except for the elite,
And she’ll sell us our chains if we let her.
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April 29, 2019 11:23pm
jedmo

Has Whaleoil been hacked, getting security warning when try to visit the site?
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