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Right of way is Way of Right

What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.

This debacle over the Labour Party’s handling of the ‘alleged’ sex pest in the Prime Ministers office, employed by parliamentary services yet apparently well connected within the Labour Party is now in the public domain, and is getting some serious legs.

Andrea Vance and Alison Mau have now come to the party, https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/115652892/labour-took-six-months-to-investigate-serious-sexual-assault-complaint and their summation of the omni-shambles that this has now become is somewhat precise. Mike Hosking’s interview with the Prime Minister this morning was scathing, and it’s fairly certain that the princess of posidividy is not enjoying her media engagements this morning. The timing of the Spinoff article release the day before Jacinda’s Tuesday media rounds is devastating.

Nigel Howarths role at the centre of this lunacy is pivotal, and if the Spinoff’s information is correct, then he must go.

Then we have to ask the question if the manner in which this very serious matter was managed is through incompetence or by design. Either option is unpalatable.

The fact that the complainants testimony was never passed back to the complainant for verification prior to it being considered as evidence immediately nullifies any decision made by the committee. This is exacerbated by the fact that the testimony was given to the alleged perpetrator prior to the conclusion of the process, but not passed back to the complainant until after the decision was made, and after the email from Howarth that there would be no right of appeal! Howarth then disappears for 5 weeks!

The complainant even asked Howarth if she needed a lawyer, and Howarth said she didn’t. A first year law student would have ripped this process to shreds! Howarth is either stupid or disingenuous, and he must resign.

Is that how the Labour Party do stuff like this? Party first, justice second?

Abysmal, just abysmal!
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September 10, 2019 8:01am
- Colville
  
  How is it possible to tell an employee not to bring a lawyer to an employment hearing?
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:43am
  - srylands
    
    It is not. In the real world there is only one answer. “That is for you to decide. If you decide to obtain legal representation we will cooperate fully with your lawyer.” These folk must occupy some other world.
    
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    September 10, 2019 11:03am
  - Rachael Membery
    
    Where do volunteers fit in the employment schema?
    
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    September 10, 2019 1:35pm
  - Bush Apologist
    
    this lawyer evidently was unavailable – hanging out in the UN looking for the next tyrant to defend!
    
    https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/09/green-mp-golriz-ghahraman-meets-us-congresswoman-ilhan-omar.html
    
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    September 10, 2019 9:37pm
- Random T Person
  
  Just heard Jacinda is ‘fustrated’. That some next-level I want to be very clear expectation.
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:48am
  - Nigel Kearney
    
    I believe the word you’re looking for is ‘fussdraided’.
    
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    September 10, 2019 8:53am
    - Random T Person
      
      My mistake, sorry….but it is a moving target!
      
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      September 10, 2019 9:34am
    - Right of way is Way of Right
      
      For Jacinda, the ‘r’ is silent, but for the Labour Party, the ‘arse’ cannot shut up, they seem to be continually talking out of it!
      
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      September 10, 2019 9:59am
- Ruahine
  
  Well that is the way they run their Party behind closed doors. It is all closed doors for them. Just think how they are running the country. It certainly is not out in the open for all voters to see. Secret squirrel every one. The hypocrisy of Labour is just absolutely appalling. In fact I think deceit, lying and coverups of criminal acts is about all that has been achieved in the last two years by this useless bludging lot.
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:01am
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    And are we to believe that the MSM journos haven’t known details of this attempted cover-up for months?
    
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    September 10, 2019 9:25am
    - igm
      
      For goodness sake, vile Little is still a strong voice within the union movement, hence his position in Labour. Reckon he subs most articles of political value with Fairfax and APN publishing his copy verbatim.
      
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      September 10, 2019 1:00pm
- oldpark
  
  So what part is #METOO playing in the battle of Peters selected M/s Ardern and the Labour hacks and the past by use by date electoral experiment ,for touchy feely huggy, holier than thou too sweet to be wholesome hypocrites, in the latest sexual abuse claims by many young women who are part of the Labour Party staff.The sound of silence by an encompassing MSM and Labour Hierachy is deafening. Go figure.
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:15am
  - kowtow
    
    Someone pointed out that Ardern at the UN last year made a big deal of saying metoo should be wetoo .
    
    Reading between the lines ” Don’t do as I do , do as I tell you”
    
    Hypocrite.
    
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    September 10, 2019 10:49am
- plc
  
  But….but….but…. Baby Neve!!!!
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:20am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Mental picture of Michale Jackson dangling Blankey over the balcony . . . .
    
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    September 10, 2019 12:17pm
  - Right of way is Way of Right
    
    Perhaps she should be asked how she would feel if baby Neve was placed in a position such as this when she turns 19?
    
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    September 10, 2019 2:56pm
- Michael
  
  Right of Way
  
  1. Not just the Labour President Nigel Howarth.
  2. Dianna Lacy (asst Gen Sec) both read “Sarahs” statements and interviewed her.
  3. The “3” members of the Labour Council who read “Sarah’s ” statement and heard her read from it as her testimony.
  
  ALL knew it was attempted rape, sexual assault. ALL…
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:55am
  - Right of way is Way of Right
    
    I agree, but it needs to be determined at what point the sexual assault testimony was sanitised from the ‘transcript’ and then submitted as evidence without first having the evidence checked and annotated by the person making the statement in the first place. It then needs to be determined, on the balance of probability, if this sanitising was deliberate obfuscation or incompetence.
    
    Either is disgusting, but given how this is being presented, I am sadly inclined to lean towards the former rather than the latter.
    
    Then we need to look very carefully at Section 71 of the Crimes Act.
    
    71 Accessory after the fact
    (1)
    An accessory after the fact to an offence is one who, knowing any person to have been a party to the offence, receives, comforts, or assists that person or tampers with or actively suppresses any evidence against him or her, in order to enable him or her to escape after arrest or to avoid arrest or conviction.
    
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    September 10, 2019 10:15am
    - Rich Prick
      
      That’s all well and good, but from recent lessons we’re all well aware that the law doesn’t apply to the Labour Party.
      
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      September 10, 2019 10:35am
  - Old.Mickey.Blue.Eyes
    
    And, we are epxetced to beleive that the mule-toothed (self-Mod) PM had no knowledge, none whatso-ever. Nonone in her office, or chief of staff had an inkling or had knowledge about any of this. And, in the “unlikely” event they knew something, no-one bothered to tell the boss ? Yeah right. I get the Mule (sefl-mod) Communist PM is a part Time PM, but surely no-one from labour HQ had an opportunity to mention this to the (self mod) toothed communist PM at all ? I cant belive that. The fish rots from the head, and (no pun intended) this smells of fish.
    
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    September 10, 2019 1:45pm
- LTA1955
  
  Lying, divisive, corrupt Marxists! There…. fixed that one!
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:56am
- KevO'Brien
  
  What about the PM’s culpability?
  She seems to have been aware at a very early stage their was a big problem with a staffer. He was her staffer in her office precincts so its was her duty to protect the complainant and to call the Police as the allegations were serious.
  
  Ardern cannot absolve herself from responsibility by saying it is a “Party matter”. It’s a Police matter.
  Ardern too should resign.
  
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  September 10, 2019 10:49am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    Speaker Mallard said today in the House that the staff was HIS problem no the PM’s.
    Imagine if the Courts worked that way–“I’m off for golf today, get another duty Judge”.
    A duty of care has to be personal and fall on the person who becomes aware.
    
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    September 10, 2019 4:07pm
Captain Mainwaring

Morning all.
Anybody else, like me, enjoying watching Labour tear themselves apart?
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September 10, 2019 8:01am
- cmm
  
  Not too soon I hope.
  The longer they keep going, the more longer lasting the crater they leave and the longer people will remember.
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:15am
  - sooty
    
    Isn’t it sad that Whinestone is relegated to a has been at one of the most important days of NZ political days!
    Maybe Barry Soper could go and do a bedside interview and give us the goss!
    If this does not bring the old fool out, he is in his last days and going to pop his clogs!
    
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    September 10, 2019 8:38am
- hullkiwi
  
  Meanwhile, over at the Standard….
  
  The locals are upset with Pete George – one called Sanctury even calling him a troll….oh boy talk about living in a bubble.
  
  The Standard locals are annoyed that:
  1. This is a public matter;
  2. Jacinda is wasting her “political capital on dealing with this issue” (demonstrating to all of us, why the Labour Party can’t even run a party in Waihi with matters getting out of hand);
  3. The media (and in particular Hosking) for not being sympathetic to PriNZess.
  
  What the dumb Standard Locals don’t get is:
  1. This is 2019, you don’t bully, harrass or assult people in the workplace;
  2. You don’t do a snow job, and blame the people reporting the incidents;
  3. You don’t lie to the victims and then try to prevent things going public;
  4. You don’t try to bury criminal activity; and
  5. Your opponents will make hay out of the opportunities presented to them, so rather than attack Bennett, they would be better turning their anger back on Ardern for her lies and covering for the “Staffer”; Hawthorn for his ineptitude; and seeking answers as to how they plan to improve things.
  
  Beca use their blaming everybody else for their party’s stupidity, makes themselves look stupid.!!!
  
  PS. Fools at the Standard, PrNZess’ fairy dust is gone and her crown looks like a cheap plastic job from a $2 shop! She is a part-time PM, and through her own lies she will be history.
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:32am
  - srylands
    
    You should have commented that “This just shows that you ARE a Labour Party blog”.
    
    At the risk of saying the obvious, can you picture the reaction of The Standard if similar events had occurred in the office of the PM in the last government?
    
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    September 10, 2019 11:09am
    - Rich Prick
      
      It would have been off the scale. Their airhead yoof branches would have marched on ~~Russell McVeagh~~ the PMs office, Lambton Quay would have been brought to a standstill and there would have been hell to pay. But this is Labour so … *crickets*. Fucking hypocrites.
      
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      September 10, 2019 12:38pm
- kowtow
  
  As long as the Labour Party PR department ( our msm ) stays loyal to the leaders’ faction then low info/low IQ voters will continue to keep them ruling us.
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:33am
  - Ruahine
    
    The news media is the other real culprit in all these coverups. They have tacitly given Labour the nod that they will play the no nothing card on Labour’s behalf. If it ain’t in the papers and if it ain’t on TV then it could not have happened. Kudos to Spinoff though.
    
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    September 10, 2019 9:09am
- oldgolfer
  
  I can’t imagine too many will be keen to donate when the party puts the begging bowl out next year to try to fund an election campaign.
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:35am
  - Paulus Gnome
    
    Tea towel sales will be rock bottom, and those mugs, coffee mugs that is . . . .
    
    The wankers have had two years of neglect so far to squirrel money away all over the place to be drawn upon at election time I am sure.
    
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    September 10, 2019 12:23pm
    - Rich Prick
      
      I’m sure there is a ready market for anti-rape whistles.
      
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      September 10, 2019 1:32pm
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No I am bored by the whole mess
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September 10, 2019 8:03am
- rightoverlabour
  
  Hmm, bored with Rape allegations? Says a lot about you… Let’s not forget that we are dealing with a 19 year old female volunteer that has been raped by a person in Jacinda’s employee. Now I am quite sure when she signed up, being raped was not part of the employment contract.
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:08am
  - Right of way is Way of Right
    
    Sadly, the legal definition of ‘rape’, as defined in Section 128 of the Crimes Act, is the penetration of the vagina by the penis without consent, so, legally speaking, no rape has occurred.
    
    This is more accurately legally defined as ‘Unlawful Sexual Connection’, which is subject to the same level of punishment as is applicable for rape.
    
    Although it’s a legal term rather than an emotive one, it does tend to sound as if the assault has been minimised. “Oh well, it’s not like someone has been raped!” Yeah, a man can anally penetrate a woman with his penis without her consent, but as long as he doesn’t penetrate the vagina, he ‘legally’ cannot be charged with rape!
    
    It’s a very strange part of NZ Law, and one that probably needs to be changed!
    
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    September 10, 2019 10:08am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      There is a crime of attempted rape.
      
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      September 10, 2019 10:51am
- calendar girl
  
  Bored by the largest Party in our Government failing to deal with allegedly-criminal behaviour within its own ranks and work premises?
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:09am
Maggy Wassilieff

Some reading about the latest Labour balls-up:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA1909/S00065/labour-must-stand-down-staffer-accused-of-assault.htm

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/09/jacinda-ardern-won-t-say-if-she-has-confidence-in-labour-party-president-nigel-haworth.html

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/09-09-2019/editorial-labour-has-failed-vulnerable-young-members-for-second-time-there-must-be-consequences/
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September 10, 2019 8:05am
- cmm
  
  The papers are still not digging to the real issues:
  1) These are criminal matters, not Party matters. The Party should not be investigating. Handling these as internal matters is a perversion of justice which is, in itself, a criminal matter. Why do they think they are above the law? Why has plod not been around?
  2) Why is a serial cock-up artist like Haworth still in the picture? Does he know where all the skeletons are?
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:13am
  - Poppa
    
    As I understand it the victims have not lodged a complaint with plod so they cannot be involved until there is an official complaint lodged
    
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    September 10, 2019 8:15am
    - cmm
      
      “As I understand it the victims have not lodged a complaint with plod so they cannot be involved until there is an official complaint lodged”
      
      True for the sexual assaults (alleged), but what about the perversion of justice?
      
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      September 10, 2019 8:29am
    - Ruahine
      
      Which begs the question.as to why they have not gone to the police. Have they been threatened and bullied and blackmailed or bribed by Labour Party officials not to go to the police?
      
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      September 10, 2019 9:16am
      - Batman
        
        Trusted the party to do what was right, and didn’t want to go to the Police due to the terrible reputation that process has amongst women.
        
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        September 10, 2019 9:17am
      - alwyn
        
        They will have seen what happened to the two girls who were brave enough to make a complaint about their being sexually assaulted at the Young Labour drunken party.
        His lawyer said about one of them that it wasn’t a sexual assault because “she wanted it”. Would you go to the Police after something like that, knowing that the Labour Party would rip your reputation to shreds?
        
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        September 10, 2019 9:38am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    In answer to 2), the President of the Labour Party is elected by party members, not appointed by the PM. Ardern can demand Haworth resign, but equally, Haworth can tell her to sling her hook and tough it out.
    
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    September 10, 2019 9:36am
- thetiedarch
  
  “Ardern said she wasn’t aware the allegations were sexual in nature and had she known she would have acted earlier.”
  
  I find that very hard to believe that she wasn’t aware the allegations were sexual in nature. I suspect that statement may come back to haunt her.
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:15am
  - Evadne
    
    1. Of course she knew. Paula Bennett discussed it in the house. Every main news channel discussed it. Adern herself was questioned about it and said the process hadn’t been handled well, and it would be reviewed.
    
    2. Even if the complaints weren’t sexual in nature, but “just” assault and bullying, she should still have done something earlier.
    
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    September 10, 2019 8:39am
    - Charmaine Hawke
      
      If Jacinda did not know then her office is keeping things from her because either
      a) They do not trust her
      or
      b) She is not in control so doesn’t need to know
      Either way we have a PM going into an election next year telling us she is either a liar or incompetent, not a pretty prospect.
      
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      September 10, 2019 8:56am
  - cmm
    
    Everyone knew.
    How could she not know?
    
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    September 10, 2019 8:43am
    - Colville
      
      She didn’t see it on TV? maybe she was on a beach in the islands?
      
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      September 10, 2019 8:45am
    - Random T Person
      
      This is Jacinda we’re talking about cmm. Easy for her to plead ignorance.
      
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      September 10, 2019 8:55am
  - kevn
    
    Wasn’t the perp part of her staff and considered a most important employee with special skills in the election area.
    How could she not know. I gather JA staff is a caustic workplace.
    
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    September 10, 2019 8:43am
    - Rich Prick
      
      Has it been confirmed that Labour’s perp is a male?
      
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      September 10, 2019 1:39pm
  - alloytoo
    
    This was in her own fracking office. if she doesn’t know what’s happening in her own office, FSM help the rest of us.
    
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    September 10, 2019 8:45am
  - Bobba Fret
    
    That is Jacinda basically saying, Nigel Haworth did not tell her everything so she is completely “surprised” again and can distance herself slightly from the mess. Now she knows she will of course have a review done immediately. She has lined up Nigel to take the bullet, but Jacinda brand stays squeeky clean.
    
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    September 10, 2019 9:02am
    - Right of way is Way of Right
      
      Oh, of course she didn’t know that this man was under some very serious allegations. She knew nothing…..
      
      …but she then said that the man had not been working within the parliamentary precinct for 5 weeks.
      
      Is it normal practice to bar someone from a workplace when, as far as you know, he’s done nothing wrong?
      
      Something isn’t adding up.
      
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      September 10, 2019 1:20pm
  - Ruahine
    
    Yes. It would seem that everyone else knows but not her. What sort of a person has the country been saddled with that is supposed to be the Prime Minister. Is this woman an idiot?
    
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    September 10, 2019 9:12am
    - septic skeptic
      
      Rhetorical question?
      
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      September 10, 2019 9:53am
    - Lizziep
      
      Yes unfortunately for NZ she is .
      
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      September 10, 2019 3:08pm
  - alwyn
    
    I am old enough to remember the Watergate affair. At the time I followed it with a great deal of interest as I found it very hard to believe that Nixon could have been so foolish in his actions.
    Now I am beginning to wonder who, among the New Zealand politicians is going to have the Senator Howard Baker role. Who is going to be asking, about Ms Ardern.
    “What did the Prime Minister know and when did she know it?”
    I suspect the answer is “Everything” and “Right at the beginning”.
    
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    September 10, 2019 9:43am
  - freethinker
    
    So what lesser misdemeanor results in being stood down for last 6 weeks surely this would indicate even to a dunderhead like ardern the problem was serious, On the other hand the perpetrator has been seen in Bowen House and one of the victims state she actually bumped into him.arden is wrong on many levels and 2019 will prove to be here anus horiblis.
    
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    September 10, 2019 1:07pm
- chaos
  
  The scapegoat is already lined up to take the fall
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:54am
Souvlaki

The Prime Ministers credibilty is shot to shit. No one possibly could believe her abysmal Sgt Schultz “defense” .
Listening to ZB huddle on HDPA show ladst evening..Tim Wilson I think it was, described Ardern as ” the Meghan Markle” of NZ politics…very apt I thought??
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September 10, 2019 8:05am
cmm

So the poor wee PriNZess is fus-traded. How long did she practice the fus-traded face in the mirror I wonder?

frustration: “a deep chronic sense or state of insecurity and dissatisfaction arising from unresolved problems or unfulfilled needs”

No doubt we will soon see some tweets from Auntie Helen saying she is being let down.

Sorry sweetie, when your own people lie to you then it is because either:
A) A fish rots from the head. They have watched you bending the truth so much that they follow your lead and lie too. You have grown up in the company of truth benders and surrounded yourself with truth benders. It is all down to your leadership.
B) Plausible deniability: You ask them to shield you from the truth because you don’t want the hard job of leadership and decision making.

Either way, it’s incompetence.
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September 10, 2019 8:07am
- hullkiwi
  
  cmm, bags you help Cindy with her frustration, because I sure as hell am not interested in helping her.
  
  If, I was Gay***, I’d be frustrated too, that PriNZess had spoken about such private matters so publicly.
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:10am
  - cmm
    
    Sorry mate, not my type either.
    
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    September 10, 2019 8:44am
    - RW Capitalist
      
      I wouldn’t touch her with yours.
      
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      September 10, 2019 10:29am
- jv
  
  Not good enough at all. Even if as she asserts
  she wasn’t told she should have probed, asked, sought reassurance – that is what a Minister, let alone the Prime Minister, is supposed to do. Why didn’t she challenge her advisors at the beginning and especially so after the Party’s handling of the Young Labour camp mess.
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:16am
  - hmmokrightitis
    
    Because thats what experienced leaders do. Can you imagine for a single second either Key or Clarke allowing this to fester as it is? Both would have lanced the boil in hours.
    
    Thats what leaders do. This impostor who sits on the chair at the moment isnt fit to govern. Hell, she isnt fit to lead anything more than a chorus, and that at a stretch.
    
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    September 10, 2019 8:43am
    - septic skeptic
      
      Cindy could lose her way even if she was only leading the Santa parade!
      
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      September 10, 2019 9:31am
      - RW Capitalist
        
        Cindy could lose her way even if she was only standing in a phone box.
        There fixed it!
        
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        September 10, 2019 10:30am
- BobbyS
  
  Very good points cmm
  however Option
  C) Those in the party know she is incapable of making a decision, she is out of her depth and pretty much useless, so they figured no point in involving her cause she will just nod her head & say nothing, so they figured they would deal with it themselves
  D) She is hardly ever there #PartTimePM, has little interest in actually making decisions cause “they are hard” & even when they did tell her she was too busy preparing for a fluff piece or photo shoot that she just nodded, said Um Ahh about a dozen times, said “Look ….. Look…..Absoludely” and did nothing
  
  Either way, incompetence at its finest & everyone including #PartTimePM are F u s t r a t e d !!!!!
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:23am
hullkiwi

Last night I was reading KB re: the spot of bother that Jacinda and the Labour Party are in. Oh dear never mind!

However, while looking at at KB, Maggy Wassilieff had posted a link to TDB and a blog post by Chris Trotter, suggesting Jacinda has 24 hours to look decisive (that’ll be a first), but what caught my eye was a post by Bradbury – which I thought was a good piece of fun…..

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2019/09/09/cough-cough-that-old-rugby-injury-of-winstons-has-now-taken-3-weeks/

So, the key questions are, after he got upset with Paula, where is the old prick and was it really an old rugby injury???
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September 10, 2019 8:08am
- oldgolfer
  
  I doubt it very much.
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:39am
- Tony Stuart
  
  The Daily Blog also had a post from Chris Trotter ripping into Labour and the PM. The interesting comment was that Trotter has apparently heard that Paula Bennett intends naming the alleged bully/sex pest this afternoon under parliamentary privilege.
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:44am
  - G152
    
    Oh that such will be so…
    Quoted:
    The interesting comment was that Trotter has apparently heard that Paula Bennett intends naming the alleged bully/sex pest this afternoon under parliamentary privilege.
    
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    September 10, 2019 9:42am
    - Tony Stuart
      
      Here’s Trotter’s actual quote:
      
      Word has it that the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Paula Bennett, will name the accused staffer under the protection of Parliamentary Privilege as early as Tuesday afternoon (10/9/19). It was to Bennett that a number of aggrieved young women went with their grievances about Labour’s handling of this matter, so the DLO has skin in the game.
      
      https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2019/09/09/warning-warning-danger-jacinda-ardern-danger-marama-davidson-warning/
      
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      September 10, 2019 9:50am
- softail 1450
  
  hullkiwi, there is only one injury that really hurts Peters and that is any interruption of the “brown paper bags” he’s being handed at the viaduct basin as he drinks the worlds best whiskey….free of course..
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:55am
- Rich Prick
  
  It was a liver transplant, except that it rejected the patient.
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:14am
Than

The government has announced it’s plan to get 1 million Kiwis speaking Te Reo by 2040. Mostly I just regard this as a pointless and futile waste of time and resources. But there was one point that seriously pissed me off;

Other priorities include: getting more New Zealanders to value te reo Māori

No. Just absolutely no. It is not the government’s place to tell people what they should value. That’s not how democracy works.

A government trying to tell voters what they should value is getting things arse-backwards. In a democracy people damn well get to decide for themselves what they value, and elect a government to implement policies that fit those values.

Government money should not be being spent on shoving blatant propaganda down people’s throats.
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September 10, 2019 8:08am
- SJ Actual
  
  I’m surprised that the government has set a hard target. It will be about the only one they still have.
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:37am
  - Than
    
    Oh, that’s easily enough explained – the target date of 2040 is far enough into the future that the current crop of pollies won’t still be around to be held accountable for it.
    
    See also curbing emissions, which again the targets are decades down the line.
    
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    September 10, 2019 8:52am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    100,000 houses, 1,000,000 trees … dream away.
    
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    September 10, 2019 11:08am
- alloytoo
  
  They’ve got this arse about, if it had value people would speak it.
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:50am
  - The King
    
    Underrated post.
    
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    September 10, 2019 3:05pm
- Swifty
  
  Very well stated Than.
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:56am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Kelvin Davis’ Grandparents didn’t think their kids needed to learn Maori…
  
  “I actually blame my grandparents because they were of the mind it’s going to be a Pākehā world, that’s the language of the future – and how wrong they were. I blame them, two fluent speakers, not speaking Māori to their five sons.”
  
  https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/kelvin-davis-encourages-m%C4%81ori-to-teach-their-kids-te-reo/ar-AAGXPQ9
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:05am
  - KevO'Brien
    
    The elders spoke against Te Reo as the way ahead 80 years ago when they sensed their people would move into the cities. The language is primitive and was suitable for 1835 use but not later. Some cultural matters are dealt with on the marae by assigned people. Other Pacific Islands like Samoa, where the Palangi population is insignificant, have developed their language but have been taught English as well.
    Te reo is too primitive now to be developed.
    
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    September 10, 2019 11:18am
    - IC5000
      
      I heard it is possible for people to speak two or more languages. In Singapore and Switzerland this is compulsory. I don’t expect this mindset to take off in NZ as these countries are much more advanced.
      
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      September 10, 2019 12:08pm
      - Than
        
        That only has value if there are significant populations which don’t speak the most common language. Sure in Singapore there are enough people who don’t speak English that there is value in knowing Malay, or Cantonese, or Tamil. Likewise in Switzerland there is value in non-native speakers learning German/French/Italian.
        
        But in New Zealand the number of people who speak only Maori is insignificant, if there are even any left. As a functional means of communication, learning Maori has exactly the same value as learning Klingon.
        
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        September 10, 2019 1:20pm
- G152
  
  How about this week we remember the Chatham massacre ??????
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:43am
- DigNap15
  
  I don’t value maori language.
  In fact as far as I am concerred it could die tomorrow.
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:44am
  - Odakyu-sen
    
    Urban Maori youth don’t seem to value Te Reo either.
    They have developed their own style, based on US black urban culture. They seem to take great pains to sound like the character voiced by Taika Waititi in that Thor movie.
    
    Oddly enough, the ethnic-Chinese youth who have grown up in this country all sound exactly like white Kiwis.
    
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    September 10, 2019 12:04pm
    - Batman
      
      Taika’s Thor character voice is modelled from that stereotype urban Maori accent, not the other way around.
      
      That’s why it’s so funny for kiwis to hear
      
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      September 10, 2019 12:21pm
      - Odakyu-sen
        
        On YouTube, the Americans frequently comment about the Taika’s Thor character voice as having a “New Zealand” accent (when it is really an urban Maori accent).
        
        I suspect that the next Caucasian or Asian New Zealand character in a Holywood movie will also have that same accent, as it is now what American audiences have grown to believe New Zealanders all sound like. (On the bright side, it may help differentiate New Zealanders from Australians, as far as the Americans are concerned.)
        
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        September 10, 2019 1:09pm
    - BrownSnake
      
      In the other unfenced mental asylum net door
      Arsestraylia
      the Multi Cultural Fruit Cakes refer to white people
      as……….
      
      Wait for it
      
      Wait
      
      Anglo-Celtic
      
      So pop that into Conversation?
      
      I mean only an Australian Retard with Zero Knowledge of European Culture could use the word
      
      Anglo FN Celtic
      
      I mean even the 6 figure F wits
      
      Use the work Anglo Celtic
      
      I mean the people out to stamp our racism
      are obsessed with race and colour and nothing else.
      
      Now how to say
      
      Multi Culturalism and Diversity
      
      you mumble
      Multi Culturalism fast
      
      and then Jump with Glee when you say
      
      Diversity
      
      Practice it if you get good at it you will either
      get a high paid job doing nothing
      a pay rise or
      
      Some form of Government Funding
      
      For something or other
      
      Make up something anything
      
      Trust me they will rubber stamp it
      
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      September 10, 2019 11:46pm
- Komata
  
  Than@0800
  
  Re: ‘Government money should not be being spent on shoving blatant propaganda down people’s throats’.
  
  If it buys votes and loyalty, then anything is fair game and open for exploitation.
  
  This is one of those situations.
  
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  September 10, 2019 3:00pm
G152

Mallard is also complicit when he ‘threw’ some-one out of Parliament for the same claimed behaviour.
Very touchy feely our government.
They have (and can give) a hand in many situations
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September 10, 2019 8:09am
- chaos
  
  Mallard kicked the person out, he should not of told the media but did more than labour and Jacinda did with this case.
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:00am
PaulDunmore

Headline in Stuff: Lessons in Climate Catastrophe. How should we teach children about climate change without scaring them witless?

Answer: If you teach them the scientific facts instead of the alarmist lies spread by the environmental swamp, children would be concerned but not scared witless. That would set a sensible basis for discussing adaptation pathways over the lifetimes of the children and their descendants.
But of course, Stuff no longer allows answers like this.
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September 10, 2019 8:11am
Maggie Pie

Driving home this AM heard Jacinda talking to Duncan Garner. She was saying how she found the sexual assault allegations “….fusstrading, contradicktering, and needed more klaridy from the pardy” 🙂

https://twitter.com/paulabennettmp/status/1170951290626531328
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September 10, 2019 8:11am
- SJ Actual
  
  I do find it strange that Simon Bridges gets so much grief for the way he speaks, given how poor Jacinda is at her pronunciation.
  Simon seems to be fair game while Jacinda remains a protected species.
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:38am
  - Albert_Ross
    
    Jacinda gets plenty of grief on KiwiBlog for the way she speaks. And it’s just as wrong here as it is when the Left does it to Simon, and just as indicative that the mocker hasn’t, or can’t be bothered to set out, any real arguments.
    
    Come on, folks. Jacinda has left the goalmouth enormous and wide open with substantial failures of policy and governance, things that actually do matter, and here we are giving away penalties by focusing instead on things that it’s low and unfair to focus on.
    
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    September 10, 2019 9:13am
  - calendar girl
    
    SJ Actual: Ms Ardern’s mispronunciation of the English language (especially her constant use of the letter “d” in the place of the letter “t”) creates a very poor example for young people who grow up and develop their own speaking styles and habits, substantially, from people in the public eye and news media.
    
    Our PM could fix this personal idiosyncrasy readily by (a) obtaining some decent / honest advice from Party colleagues around her; (b) engaging a top speech trainer; and (c) doing the hard yards of practising repeatedly the correct pronunciation of the letter “t” .
    
    But our PM, not the most industrious person at the best of times, lacks the personal determination and energy to rid herself to this minor-but-important personal distraction. Our young people, in particular, deserve better from a public figure whom they seek to emulate.
    
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    September 10, 2019 9:46am
    - Fletch
      
      Let’s face it – Ardern is common. She may be PM but she speaks the way common people do.
      
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      September 10, 2019 10:37am
      - Batman
        
        I didn’t realise this was Victorian-era Britain, Fletch.
        
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        September 10, 2019 10:45am
      - KevO'Brien
        
        My background is no better than Arderns but I don’t swap “d” for “t”.
        Is her hearing defective or is this her Waikato upbringing?
        
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        September 10, 2019 11:23am
- herb1
  
  wow , the mindless Labour enablers of sexual abuse are answering dear leaders call for support , going by the responses to Paula Bennetts twitter .
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:40am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Yes i saw that herbie – as my partner said when he read them, “It’s funny as a fart!”
    🙂
    
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    September 10, 2019 8:59am
Happychappy

Surely people like Clare Trevett aren’t this stupid or are they really trying to take the dick out of concerned voters who might be thinking of changing their vote .
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/headlines.cfm?c_id=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw8NfrBRA7EiwAfiVJpUZH1n5bqibtRDXznHQ_o3SFkIB_LwuTJHtAmdZjYtpJlDPHHreSPhoCE1UQAvD_BwE
The media is showing how politically corrupt they are by suggesting that Jacinda has not known the facts.
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September 10, 2019 8:14am
- softail 1450
  
  HappyChappy, It’s an indication of the state of a country when the media will be picking our next government in 2020,and also an indication of how thick the average voter is ,FFS this place is full of people that still hang off every word that Suzanne
  Paul utters…
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:40am
Simon

Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
Simon Bridges, leader of New Zealand’s main opposition party, is in China for a five-day visit. He shared his views with CGTN on China’s rapid development, poverty alleviation program, measures to boost bilateral cooperation and rising protectionism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=29&v=1tFiaz4A9Ys

CCP & its 70 years of achievements. WTF?

[Mod – deleted and warning]

Down tick all you like. The truth hurts.
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September 10, 2019 8:16am
- herb1
  
  Yeah , what a scum to be furthering New zealands interests and trade.
  he should be more like that woman temporarily infesting government , and destroying New zealand’s interests.
  Keep it up Simon (the leftie one) and you’ll soon be next in line for a crack at the young Labour females.
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:43am
- alloytoo
  
  The Squirrels have been unleashed.
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:53am
- chaos
  
  What you mean bridges is there continuing the relationship that Helen Clark and labour built.
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:04am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Indeed. Bridges also had a very successful trip to India, and when National becomes the government again, he has built valuable relationships that will take our trade relationship with India forward.
    
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    September 10, 2019 9:38am
    - DigNap15
      
      As long as India takes all of its diaspora back.
      Immigration and corruption from India was the one think that put me off National.
      
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      September 10, 2019 9:46am
      - IC5000
        
        As well as bring bootlickers of the CCP.
        
        National are a disgrace and should be ashamed that they are prepared to betray their country for 30 pieces of silver.
        
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        September 10, 2019 12:10pm
    - igm
      
      At least Bridges does not go virtue signalling at mosques . . . in fact Ardern’s preoccupation with Islam is scary.
      Big difference, Bridges is a capable and intelligent successful male . . . Ardern is a failed fish and chip wrapper.
      
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      September 10, 2019 11:58am
      - IC5000
        
        Yes its far better he prostates himself to Beijing.
        
        One can hope Comrade Yang is filling favourable report on Bridges as a fellow traveller to the Ministry of State Security. I expect there to be a slew of consultancies, directorships and other goodies from CCP linked companies for Bridges once he is ousted.
        
        If you’re going to buy someone then buy them throughly.
        
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        September 10, 2019 3:40pm
- tf78
  
  I thought he went to India.
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:41am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    He went to India first, then on to China.
    
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    September 10, 2019 9:55am
Maggy Wassilieff

Barry Soper is reporting that the Cops are investigating something to do with complaints at Parliament…but it’s a bit of a confusing read.
Cone of silence surrounds the man who was stood down from Parliament
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12266240
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September 10, 2019 8:18am
- Tony Stuart
  
  The case Soper refers to is the man described by Trevor Mallard as a rapist walling the corridors of Parliament. He was stood down, and has since taken legal advice and is understood to be taking legal action to clear his name.
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:38am
  - Rich Prick
    
    Is he the same bloke from Cindy’s office, or are there two Labour predators prowling Parliament?
    
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    September 10, 2019 9:21am
    - srylands
      
      There are two. But the first one seems to have been cleared by a previous inquiry. He may have exercised less than perfect judgement around women, but there has been no evidence presented to support the “rapist” label.
      
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      September 10, 2019 11:18am
- Fletch
  
  Must be this cone of silence –
  
  https://youtu.be/HWtPPWi6OMQ?t=50
  
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  September 10, 2019 10:40am
Paulus

Heard last evening after Ardern’s spiel the question from a Labour supporter to an older lady.
Why do you think she is lying ?
Old Codger piped up ” because she opened her mouth”
Great amusement all round.
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September 10, 2019 8:26am
softail 1450

Surely the stupid people that voted for the old bludger Peters are starting to regret their decision.
That POS Peters is solely responsible for the worst government this country has ever produced.
And “WHERE’S WINSTON”?????????
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September 10, 2019 8:27am
- chaos
  
  Where’s Winston? I think there is a chance he is looking at what is going on, realise what it will be doing for his numbers and considering pulling the pin
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:06am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Does anyone else think it a trifle weird that when Winston went into hospital for what he called “…an old rugby injury to his knee” – that in her postcab, Jacinda described it as “a medical event”.
  
  My partner reckons the man deserves an early Knighthood.
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:48am
- Biscuit
  
  softail, Winston is resting up before his visit to Japan for the Rugby World Cup.
  
  Priorities…
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:51am
  - softail 1450
    
    Biscuit, Damn of course you are right…He’s probably volunteered for the hooker position in the A/Bs just as he did so for the 1st into the Pike River entry the little blowhard shit.
    
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    September 10, 2019 10:12am
- Inandout
  
  I agree, where is peg leg Peters?
  
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  September 10, 2019 10:10am
Tony Stuart

Ardern has had a couple of trainwreck interviews this morning. She says she has taken control of the issue, and that had she known about the sexual nature of the allegations, she would have acted.

She was told five weeks ago that the accusations were sexual in nature; the stories were all over the media, and complainants had taken their complaints to Paula Bennett. If the PM was going to be the one to sort this out, why did the complainants not go directly to the PM.

Yes, she has been let down by the party, and MUST demand the resignation of senior party officials including the President, Nigel Haworth. But that does not excuse the fact that Ardern presides over a party that has given serious sexual complaints the once-over-lightly, because of the importance of the alleged offender to the party.

This is an indictment on Labour, and an indictment on Jacinda Ardern, leader of the Labour Party.

AM Show interview this morning is here – watch right to the end when Duncan Garner poses some questions of the PM that, in the best traditions of politics, he clearly already knows the answers to:

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/09/jacinda-ardern-won-t-say-if-she-has-confidence-in-labour-party-president-nigel-haworth.html
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September 10, 2019 8:33am
- Poppa
  
  I believe she is donkey deep in this but Haworth will be chucked under the bus to protect her
  
  I suspect that will happen very quickly in order to dampen down the flames
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:51am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    The issue is that Haworth as president is elected by the party, so Ardern cannot simply sack him. She can publicly express no confidence in him (as she almost did this morning with Garner), and she can suggest to him in strong terms that he resign, but if he wants to stay on in spite of that, he can.
    
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    September 10, 2019 9:06am
- kevn
  
  @Tony…. A major squirm time for JA. Looks very uncomfortable.
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:51am
  - softail 1450
    
    Kevn ,it was amazing ,she is under huge stress so much so that she has gone from her usual side to side interview movements to a slow up and down movement that was truly bizarre …..
    
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    September 10, 2019 9:31am
- hullkiwi
  
  Tony, I loved Garner’s question about whether the “Staffer” has been seen around Parliament. Seems Cindy has misinformation or is guilty of repeating a lie. Because Garner, certainly seemed to know the truth……
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:54am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Absolutely, hence my comment about Garner asking a question he already knew the answer to. I am sure swipecard evidence, or a statement from a member of the Press Gallery who has seen the man around Parliament will emerge if the PM continues to deny he has been on the premises.
    
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    September 10, 2019 9:08am
    - ross411
      
      She didn’t deny it completely, but qualified it heavily with “what she had been told.” Everything she said was qualified when challenged by Duncan, in the same way. While I do believe she is misleading on some aspects, a lot of the interview I felt was a waste of time due to her lack of knowledge.
      
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      September 10, 2019 9:45am
      - greybeard
        
        H1 & H2 would have been advising her from the very start of this mess.
        Protect the PM at all costs, and throw someone else
        ( Haworth ) under the bus.
        
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        September 10, 2019 12:21pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Yep,
  and Morning Report RNZ has failed to upload a copy of her interview with Suzie Ferguson (around 7:30am).
  
  Ardern asserted that the first she knew of the sexual nature of the complaints was yesterday when she read Spinoff.
  
  Ardern also could not give an accurate date as to when the alleged abuser left her office… Ardern stated that she was told it was 5 weeks ago.
  
  Ardern kept referring to the Labour Party as an entity distinct from her…. She seems unaware that She is the Leader of the Labour Party.
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:14am
  - Swifty
    
    ‘Ardern kept referring to the Labour Party as an entity distinct from her…. She seems unaware that She is the Leader of the Labour Party.’
    
    And, unfortunately for New Zealand, this is the first real leadership role she’s ever occupied.
    
    And boy does it show.
    
    Key’s honeymoon went on for at least 6 years (he of course had a career-full of leading teams and organisations) – this rabble have fallen apart, under Ardern’s management, well short of completing their first term.
    
    What an utter shambles.
    
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    September 10, 2019 9:53am
  - softail 1450
    
    M W, absolutely ,she is the leader of that omnishambles but possibly only when it suits her narrative .
    
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    September 10, 2019 10:20am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Maggy, after seeing the Garner interview on “AM”, I followed it up by listening to her Morning Report interview with Susie Ferguson. It was one long series of lies, one after another.
    
    Then, i listened to her interview with Hosking. Once again, it was one contradictory lie after another.
    
    For example:
    “We appointed a QC 4 weeks ago to investigate serious allegations”
    
    She claimed
    “The first she knew of the sex allegations, was yesterday when she read of the in ther Spinoff”.
    
    What a lie!!! Doesn’t she listen to or read NZ media
    
    Here is the Herald from 8th August (a month ago)
    
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12256846
    
    The headline to this article was:
    
    “Labour Party sex scandal: ‘Fearful, intimidated, crying’ complainant contacts Paula Bennett”
    
    Bennett also posted about what the victims had told her on Facebook.
    
    So, under her “No Surprises Policy”, we are meant to believe everybody lied to her, when she asked them a question.
    
    It appears, Jacinda and the Labour Party operator a policy of “Plausible Deniability”. The only problem for Labour they didn’t make sure they had control of the story and events. The result is they are now reacting to what has been published, and are making matters worse through:
    Obfiscation;
    Half truths;
    Lies; and
    outright denials……
    
    The result, Haworth will be gone for a price and Jacinda will have another start to a new year looking like she is managing a shambles….only it will be election year…..oh dear how sad, never mind!!!
    
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    September 10, 2019 6:39pm
Sofia

“I’m afraid you are going to have to work from home for a while at least”
“Why?”
“I’m afraid I can’t tell you without compromising my transparency, honesty and integrity. But we desperately need you to still work for us – for the next Election”
“Why?”
“To ensure I don’t compromise my transparency, honesty and integrity”
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September 10, 2019 8:35am
- Yvette
  
  A minor example involving “transparency, honesty and integrity”:
  
  All that came out of that Sunday was $60 million for Pharmac, which isn’t really $60 million, it’s $20m per year over three years. Remembering of course that once you give someone a $20m pay rise to have them not go backwards next year it’s another $20m, so in essence you’re only getting $20 million more drugs
  – Mike Hosking: “Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s cynical Sunday ‘policy’ rollouts
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:19am
Billy Collins

So Jacinda is claiming that she had no idea whatsoever that the allegations were sexual at all until a month ago.

How can the investigation in to sexual assault go for a year and a half and the PM not know at all that it was sexual?

Either she knew or her party is toxic beyond her control.
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September 10, 2019 8:36am
- cmm
  
  Choices:
  1) She’s lying.
  2) Wilful ignorance. She protects herself by not allowing anyone to tell her things like this.
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:57am
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    September 10, 2019 10:14am
    - sooty
      
      Maybe she was in the dark because she is never in her office, been a part time PM!
      
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      September 10, 2019 11:17am
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September 10, 2019 8:51am
david

Re the LP sexual assault claims, it has now got to the point where the public need some clarity over several contradicting issues.
The PM claims that she only knew of the claims 4 weeks ago and immediately engaged a QC to investigate. In the next breath she advises us that the alleged perp has not been in the Parliamentary precinct for 5 weeks. When a critically important member of the Leader’s office is vanished from sight (site) and the Leader doesn’t notice or her COS does not brief her, there is something highly dysfunctional about how the country is being run.
The PM has dodged the question about who told her what, she mentions ‘the Labour Party’ at every turn as if the Party is a functioning organism seperate from the individuals who interact with the PM. She knows who briefs her and who tells her what but is trying to get cute when this is the time for truthful clarity.
The PM claims that there has been no formal complaint made, hence no investigation by Parliamentary Services, the Speaker’s office, or Police. It has been clearly claimed that at least one victim made formal reports to functionaries in the Leader’s Office and that formal interviews were conducted. Even a bear of very little brain can connect the dots between these uncontested events and the ability of any one of a number of people to refer the matter on to PS or Mallard, or Police. You can only conclude that a conscious decision was reached to keep it all in-house in the LP and go into stealth mode. That this was done relative to an employee of PS. Is bordering on criminal, certainly is amoral and cynical to the point where words are starting to fail me.
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September 10, 2019 8:54am
- Tony Stuart
  
  When Paula Bennett fronted the media a few weeks ago on behalf of four of the complainants, she had already been to see Mallard and brief him.
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:10am
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Bad day for PriNZess, not even stephie is batting for her!
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September 10, 2019 9:03am
- chaos
  
  Is Clark with an e tweeting to help her yet. Hmm, maybe Stephie is Clark with an e
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:10am
- Tony Stuart
  
  Don’t tempt fate!
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:10am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  He’ll be along soon with some diversionary Islamaphobia accusations or warning us of Thermageddon.
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:20am
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    [Mod – deleted. You can do better than that stephie]
    
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    September 10, 2019 9:37am
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      septicboy ,no it would have been the “alt right’with a faint barnyard smell and a lot of pig shite..
      
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      September 10, 2019 10:33am
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      Mod, IMO the comment was appropriate in the circumstances (with an added inoffesnive tounge and cheek)
      
      Please let the post stand!
      
      [Mod – leaving aside your appalling spelling, your snide remarks aimed at Maggy have gone too far. Back off.]
      
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      September 10, 2019 10:34am
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        Mod, take no notice of him please.
        
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        September 10, 2019 10:59am
      - All_on_Red
        
        I disagree Capt
        Moderate all his crap off the blog.
        With six strikes, he should have been culled when the moderation change was made.
        
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        September 10, 2019 11:11am
      - The King
        
        Leave the lady be!
        
        That’s a nice shine on your Armour there mod. How many internet maidens have you saved today?
        
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        September 10, 2019 3:19pm
  - coge
    
    Saved. By the coming vast climate apocalypse!
    
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    September 10, 2019 9:47am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Maggy, he is definitely stalking you!
    
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    September 10, 2019 10:44am
    - Maggy Wassilieff
      
      He’s been stalking me for a couple of years.
      
      I alerted DPF to this yonks ago, especially after he accused me of being Alt-Right.
      
      I can no longer be bothered notifying anyone.
      
      [Mod – it is being monitored Maggy, and stephieboy(s) has been warned to back off]
      
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      September 10, 2019 11:00am
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        Maggy. It’s like DPF has exactly what Labour has in their ranks. A sexual deviant in house and both are doing bugger all about it!
        
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        September 10, 2019 11:13am
      - Maggie Pie
        
        steph can stalk me if he wants? i’ve got tons of really rad goat memes i’m dying to post 🙂
        
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        September 10, 2019 12:59pm
      - Nostradamus
        
        Maggy:
        
        Let’s not forget that Stephieboy said it’s a “consolation” that a 6-year-old girl was kidnapped, raped and murdered by a European and not a Maori. I can’t believe Stephieboy (fucked in the head as he is) would show such disrespect to Teresa Cormack. I’ve emailed the Kiwiblog moderators about the comment, and suggested that they take it down, but for some reason it hasn’t happened.
        
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        September 10, 2019 1:48pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @ Nostradamus
        
        well it’s a proposition/concept I had never encountered in my 66 years on Earth.
        But what really stunned me is when I challenged stephieboy about posting his racist view on this forum, he turned around and wrote that it was the view of many Kiwibloggers.
        https://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2019/09/general_debate_8_september_2019.html#comment-2553077
        
        stephieboy acts like he is not the full quid, but time after time he posts nasty inflammatory comments about Kiwibloggers (collectively and individually) on this forum.
        
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        September 10, 2019 3:56pm
chaos

So many posts attacking Jacinda I think we need to look at the positives of her. List your positives, i’ll Start..

After a Jacinda government NZ won’t elect a labour government for a while
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September 10, 2019 9:08am
Shut the hell up you Fascist!

I wonder if the proprietor of the Matamata Fish ‘n Chippie ever allowed Jaci anywhere near dangerous equipment such as the fat fryer?
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September 10, 2019 9:12am
- Tauhei Notts
  
  You are as close to the truth as Matamata is to Morrinsville.
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:51am
Bobba Fret

Nigel Haworth’s To Do List:

Clean out office.
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September 10, 2019 9:13am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  *Negotiate a damn fat redundancy
  *Accept Chairmanship of some Committees.
  *Retain little Black Book
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:23am
  - chaos
    
    Drop a file outside Winston’s office?
    
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    September 10, 2019 9:25am
  - alex Masterley
    
    You forgot write “tell all memoir…”
    
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    September 10, 2019 9:53am
  - softail 1450
    
    M W, quickly delete any references to “lawnmowers” or phone numbers with “she didn’t fight much could be worth a second try” next to them..
    
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    September 10, 2019 10:37am
- kevn
  
  @Bobba… He won’t go, like sh*t to a blanket, he stays.
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:33am
MrTips

Andrew Kirton will be pretty happy with his 2018 shift to AirNZ right now….
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September 10, 2019 9:30am
jv

The biggest questions of all now. Why doesn’t she know? Why didn’t she know?. Why didn’t she find out?
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September 10, 2019 9:30am
TripeWryter

On a related (sort of) matter:

Last week a jury in Auckland found a taxi driver not guilty of a crime against Jay-Jay Feeney, an apparently popular broadcaster.

I’ll repeat that: he was found not guilty.

In post-match comments Ms Feeney told Anna Leask of The New Zealand Herald, who breathlessly recorded:

“I am absolutely dumbfounded and devastated,” she said.

“I stand with all victims of sexual assault who have never been believed.”

Cleverly, Ms Feeney has turned herself back into the innocent, disbelieved victim rather than a complainant whom a jury did not believe.

The man must be guilty, of course he is, is the subtext.

After all, he is brown, has a brown man’s name (that means he must be dodgy), and so all brown men with brown men’s names who drive taxis are prone to letting their hands get a bit gropey when they have a peroxide blonde woman riding in their vehicle.

How impertinent of the bloody jury to believe a brown man with a brown man’s name and who thus by definition must have gropey hands instead of a middle-aged white woman with peroxide blonde hair who works in radio and is ‘known’ to thousands.

This is subtle racism.

It is made worse in Stuff – that bastion of rampant and shrill anti-racism these days – in a piece penned by Michelle Duff.

She continues the ‘she’s the real victim here because she is another real victim woman’ theme.

Remember? The brown man with the brown man’s name – Baljeet Singh – and so must be dodgy with gropey hands was found not guilty of the crime.

Yet white, middle-class women with media power and influence at their fingertips continue to disregard the verdict and portray him as a villain – because he is brown with a brown man’s name, probably an immigrant trying to earn a living far less than privileged white women with media power at their fingertips. He must be guilty, eh.
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September 10, 2019 9:32am
Maggie Pie

While we’re on the subject of sexual assaults and all that sort of stuff, there may be a few of you interested as to where pedo ‘Jeffrey Epstein’s’ body has been buried. According to authorities, it was placed in an unmarked grave next to his parents in a Jewish Cemetery.

When reporters asked Jeff’s brother where the grave was, he told them in no uncertain terms “TO F~~K OFF!”
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September 10, 2019 9:33am
- The King
  
  It’s funny how Epstein is the caricature everybody insists a certain [religious group] is not, luckily its not 1280AD and there are less wells.
  
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  September 10, 2019 3:25pm
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Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
To all Boris’s uncritical adulators , Brexiters , Trumpistas etc,

Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s Rasputin, Is Feeling the Heat of Brexit,

(And Boris’s Puppet master extraordinaire )

LONDON — In the melee that was the British Parliament last week, at least one person seemed to revel in the brutal politics of the era of Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

In his customary crumpled white shirt, Dominic Cummings, the prime minister’s chief aide, could be heard cursing over the phone at lawmakers and seen prowling the corridors of Parliament, laying waste to the careers of Conservative politicians who stood in the way of an abrupt withdrawal from the European Union.

He saved some opprobrium for the opposition, too, interrupting a tipsy, late-night stroll to goad the opposition Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, into backing an early election, a Labour lawmaker recounted publicly. “Don’t be scared!” Mr. Cummings screamed.

Throughout the first weeks of Mr. Johnson’s leadership, Mr. Cummings was a shadowy figure, depicted as the Rasputin directing his boss’s scorched-earth strategy to deliver Brexit by Oct. 31, with or without a deal governing future relations, “come what may.”

To his fans he was a genius, the man who directed the successful Leave campaign in the 2016 referendum and was sure to chain saw his way through the political underbrush to achieve Brexit. To his opponents, he was a genius, but an evil, unprincipled one who would go to any lengths, even subverting the democratic process, to accomplish his goals.

Yet, since Mr. Johnson began unspooling his Brexit strategy, and particularly in this first real week tangling with the reality of Brexit’s complex politics, the mantle of genius has begun to slip from Mr. Cummings’s shoulders….”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/08/world/europe/dominic-cummings-brexit-boris-johnson.html

And if you don’t believe this shredding of the UK PM and his “ Rasputin” then ask his brother , Jo Johnson

Boris Johnson’s brother quits government in protest at PM’s leadership

‘In recent weeks I’ve been torn between family loyalty and the national interest – it’s an unresolvable tension and time for others to take on my roles as MP and minister…’

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/jo-johnson-resigns-boris-mp-conservative-party-protest-brexit-no-deal-parliament-family-latest-a9092751.html
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September 10, 2019 9:35am
- chaos
  
  Must be time for more distraction to try keep people away from the mess the government and country are in.
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:48am
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    Yep, the technique is employed to great effect over at the Standard.
    
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    September 10, 2019 10:15am
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    chaos, they call it a coincidence but I will re post it later when the dust has settled , ( as it surely will )!
    
    The uncritical adulation of PM Boris Johnson by KB posters beggars belief. But then it could be seen as the age of populism and demagogues offering simplistic answers to complex problems as Brexit is proving to be.
    
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    September 10, 2019 10:30am
    - chaos
      
      The uncritical adulation of a few kB posters to a government that has protected sexual abusers within their party, staff and youth camp beggars belief. Their ignorance to the damage to woman and children and their attempt to cover it up and pretend it didn’t happen speaks volumes of these people.
      
      Fixed for you
      
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      September 10, 2019 10:56am
    - KevO'Brien
      
      You have very little discernment. BJ appeals because he has intellect and is instinctively English. He understands the rule of law.He appears to be an able politician too with the will to restore stable government.
      
      The British Parliament is a real mess. What’s the point in attempting delay after delay–the people need certainty through Government. At times it look like a bunch of headless chooks in charge.
      
      The EU have done themselves in. What started as easing commerce has turned into rule by faceless unelected officials in Brussels. Britain and Europe have been at war for centuries so this was continued by proxy. English waterways were not allowed to be cleaned by edict of Brussels–the flooding was horrendous. The Roman law legacy of Europe doesn’t mesh well with the Magna Carta freedoms of the British.
      
      Commerce can always be renewed but not the remote controls.
      
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      September 10, 2019 11:47am
      - Komata
        
        KevO’Brien@1147
        
        I can’t find the quote (it may not even be on Google), but in the early 1960’s ago a German Chancellor (Adenaur I believe), when commenting on the (then) EEC and Britain, observed that ‘Although German had lost the shooting war, it fully intended to win the economic one’.
        
        His comment has come perilously close to being fulfilled…
        
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        September 10, 2019 3:50pm
    - The King
      
      Don’t be such a bigot steph, some of us don’t care and just want to watch it all burn.
      
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      September 10, 2019 3:30pm
- softail 1450
  
  Septicboy,doing what he does best,plagiarising..
  
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  September 10, 2019 10:41am
- hullkiwi
  
  stephie, you’ll believe all of that because it was published in papers that have been and are pro-EU. What dont you get?
  1. Some of us lived in the UK and know what and how the EU operates;
  2. London sold its soul to be a “financial centre” owned by European, US and other international interests;
  3. UK media is all London based, and London supported remain, so nearly all media on the left support remain;
  4. The majority of the UK is not London and they did not support remain;
  5. Despite what you and the London media say, Boris’popularity and that of the Brexit Tory party is growing.
  
  As oppose to Jacinda’s popularity which she happily allowed to be flushed away….
  
  Your problem stephie is you are adept at supporting lost causes!
  
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  September 10, 2019 10:54am
Maggy Wassilieff

When Jacinda Ardern ordered an independent review of the complaints on Aug 5th she knew that some were of a sexual nature.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/08/exclusive-labour-forced-to-review-investigation-into-bullying-sexual-assault-allegations-against-staffer.html

She must think we are all gullible fools to believe her assertion that the first she knew of any “sexual” nature was yesterday.

Jacinda Ardern confirms independent review after sexual harassment complaints
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12256021
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September 10, 2019 9:37am
- chaos
  
  Maybe she just thinks no one listens to her so won’t remember what she said.
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:42am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Thank God Maggy’s here to remind us 🙂
    
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    September 10, 2019 9:51am
    - chaos
      
      Is it, thank god maggy watches and read a the important stuff so we can focus on reality tv?
      
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      September 10, 2019 10:54am
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        Alas, for some folks around here…
        
        I remember lots of things that I read (not so much what I watch).
        
        Text and words interest me.
        
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        September 10, 2019 11:05am
      - Maggie Pie
        
        Didn’t even get to watch MAFS last night 🙁
        My partners gaydar went off so he changed channels and took the remote. God that Aljazerra News is sooo…. boring!
        
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        September 10, 2019 11:59am
      - chaos
        
        I was busy watching the block AU, more drama filled than mafs.
        
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        September 10, 2019 12:24pm
- Swifty
  
  Maggy smells blood…..
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:46am
- chaos
  
  *She also said victims have told her they saw the alleged perpetrator at Parliament after the allegations surfaced, contradicting what Ardern said earlier on Tuesday.
  
  “They’re still seeing him in the building, I’m sorry I did hear her this morning and she is being misled yet again.
  
  “I have it from one of the victims that they saw him in the buildings of Parliament after the QC had been appointed.”
  
  “He still has been around,” she said. *
  
  https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/09/labour-party-alleged-sexual-assault-victims-feel-jacinda-ardern-didn-t-care-paula-bennett.html
  
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  September 10, 2019 11:42am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Does the prime minister stand by all her statements? Methinks she’ll be in witless protection tomorrow.
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:23pm
Yvette

Barry Sooper says some questions the Herald asked the Police were declined in regards to the alleged offender in the second complaint due to Section 6 (c) of the Official Information Act 1982
… if the making available of that information would be likely—
(c) to prejudice the maintenance of the law, including the prevention, investigation, and detection of offences, and the right to a fair trial; or …

Is there not other but similar law relating to other agencies interfering in Police inquiries?
Did not the earlier Labour Inquiry into the Summer Camp issue have to avoid any issues the Police were investigating in the same matter?
So what is the legal position of the QC whom Ardern mentions –

Ardern was grilled by Mike Hosking on Newstalk ZB this morning in which she said the party had bought in a QC four weeks ago to help her get to the bottom of the employee’s complaints
“I absolutely need to be the one to fix it and that’s what I plan on doing“

When Ardern has directed the New Zealand Council of the Labour Party that they are not the appropriate body to investigate a sexual assault complaint, why is she undertaking to do that herself?
Is she not already in a position of prejudicing the Police investigation or perhaps a fair trial?
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September 10, 2019 9:40am
- cmm
  
  “I absolutely need to be the one to fix it and that’s what I plan on doing“
  
  Fix what exactly? Does she mean:
  * Fix Labour’s long history of ducking and diving.
  * Get rid of these particular offenders.
  * Lean on the victims.
  * Fix the PR disaster.
  
  Insert “alleged” where needed.
  
  I am quite sure her definition of “fix” does not fit the general population’s definition of “fix”.
  
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  September 10, 2019 10:05am
Bill felt

Rudderless!
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September 10, 2019 9:41am
lastmanstanding

Ive just read the employment contract clauses DPF posted yesterday.

Can someone enlighten me. They seem to me to breach the employment law.

I understood Fire at Will was illegal.

Is the PM above the law. Seriously do we now have a Two Step legal system.
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September 10, 2019 9:58am
- KevO'Brien
  
  The PM, Ardern, is not above the law but there is no mechanism to impeach her.
  
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  September 10, 2019 11:54am
herb1

Dear Stephie and Physco Milt.

There are only 2 options with your PM in this sexual assault cover up and her claims of not knowing about it.

1) she’s lying and not fit to lead the Government ( but entirely fit and qualified to lead the Labour Party)

2) She didn’t know , when most of the country knew , as did fellow MPs , media and Parliamentary staff, and therefore not fit for her job
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September 10, 2019 10:01am
- Biscuit
  
  herb, it beats me why Jassy doesn’t have a ‘No surprises’ clause that is applicable to her dealings within staffers.
  
  But, surely, being the clued-up person she is (or fancies herself to be), why didn’t she ask, at the time, ‘Are you SURE that this is all there is to it?’
  
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  September 10, 2019 10:59am
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    “Please tell me there is nothing more to this.”
    “There is nothing more to this.”
    “Ok, moving on…”
    
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    September 10, 2019 1:43pm
harvey wilson

Over at the standard Pete George is going to be banned soon for discussing labour sexual assaults.
He seems to be the only one there with any integrity, the rest are trying to downplay it or smear national.

Contrast this with the daily blog which constantly champions free speech , has two scathing articles and a mea culpa from Bradbury for not taking the allegations seriously at first .
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September 10, 2019 10:13am
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  The CONTROL over what can and cannot be expressed at the Standard is frightening.
  
  It was very discouraging reading through Yesterday’s comments on the Labour sexual abuse allegations.
  
  Still, I begin to recognise certain techniques that are employed to divert a topic or shut down a commenter…..
  
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  September 10, 2019 10:23am
- Bobba Fret
  
  I don’t agree with much that Bradbury says, but I have to respect the fact that he is not defending or spinning this so good on him.
  
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  September 10, 2019 10:37am
  - harvey wilson
    
    I disagree with Bradbury about most things but appreciate he has integrity. No one at the standard appears to have any .
    
    They are basically leftwing Whaleoil
    
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    September 10, 2019 10:48am
    - IC5000
      
      They’re probably not clinically obese, engage in insurance fraud and take money to smear and defame the innocent and are not likely involved in asset stripping companies to stymie attempts of receivers to repay creditors so no they are quite unlike whaleoil.
      
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      September 10, 2019 12:20pm
      - alloytoo
        
        Heh, what you mean since they’re probably on a labour party retainer, they have no need to seek external clients.
        
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        September 10, 2019 2:20pm
      - Tall Man
        
        Are you referring to robbo or his dad?
        
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        September 10, 2019 7:48pm
- Michael
  
  Well done Pete George.
  
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  September 10, 2019 1:58pm
Thought Criminal

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12266217

Looking for someone to throw under a bus to save herself?

Or, just another example about how Jacinda’s light on important facts and not really in control.
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September 10, 2019 10:26am
- MH
  
  the bus is out, light derailment is in.
  
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  September 10, 2019 5:01pm
Bobba Fret

Over at the Standard, its a case of “Don’t mention the war” as Basil Fawlty once said.
If any one says anything slightly negative about the princess’ handling of the Labour situation, they are threatened with being banned.

I guess they only like positive news over there!
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September 10, 2019 10:29am
softail 1450

M W, quickly delete any references to “lawnmowers” or phone numbers with “she didn’t fight much could be worth a second try” next to them..
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September 10, 2019 10:43am
JibberJabber

Ardern has form for protecting “alleged” sex pests/ offenders and assorted pervs amongst her coterie, on the other side of the house a National party MP got the arse card for saying “do you know who I am”, Collins got demoted for holding a glass of milk.
The reality is that every member of this coalition of the Damned is in way over their capability and competence and earning way above anything they could demand in the private sector and there is no way they would have the gumption or honour to relinquish their unearned status.
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September 10, 2019 11:00am
- chaos
  
  Clark and Key knew how to run, control their government and deal with issues, she doesn’t know how to do anything but smile and look ill. She seriously does not look well. Most likely stress and not able to actually do the job she was selected to do
  
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  September 10, 2019 11:22am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    As one who has had significant issues with depression and anxiety, I have some empathy for Ardern. But the buck stops with her, and whether she is up to it or not, her job requires her to make decisions that will piss off the people she doesn’t want to piss off.
    
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    September 10, 2019 11:28am
    - Michael
      
      Absolutely Tony
      or she must leave and let someone who can do it, do it.
      
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      September 10, 2019 2:00pm
    - cmm
      
      “As one who has had significant issues with depression and anxiety, etc etc”
      
      Nobody is forcing her to take the job. She can take her hand out of the $500k cookie jar any day she wants.
      
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      September 10, 2019 6:03pm
  - barnacle bill
    
    Key knew how to run.
    
    He sure did, as fast as his little legs would carry him.
    
    But we never have found out why ..
    
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    September 10, 2019 2:15pm
    - chaos
      
      Key said why he was retiring, just some nutters from the left and the whale lot decided that it couldn’t be that and started making up things or hinting at things. Personally the way the media attacked his kids I’m surprised he stayed that long.
      
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      September 10, 2019 4:47pm
    - Tall Man
      
      You must be a labour loser as you seem to have forgotten his much publicised reasons although it was on the telly…..
      
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      September 10, 2019 7:33pm
Kabull

Stefan Molyneux is producing a very good You Tube series on the demise of California. It is a somewhat terrifying portrayal of a failing socialist state. Last night I watched episode 7, the second of two on political corruption. There are obvious similarities between what is going on in California and the direction taking hold here. Pay close attention to the very, very smart woman (Ellen Lee Zhou) who is standing for Mayor of San Francisco.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFum-SxmMTI
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September 10, 2019 11:08am
slightlyrighty

Is the TAB giving odds on the PM being in parliament today?
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September 10, 2019 11:13am
- chaos
  
  She will be there, so he will use the I don’t have ministerial responsibility for all the exhale offending going on from labour members.
  
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  September 10, 2019 11:20am
  - chaos
    
    Damn, sorry autocorrect made a hash of that post.
    
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    September 10, 2019 11:29am
Maggie Pie

Just having my jam Krispy Kreme and listening to Magic. Can’t believe Shaun Punkett is actually standing up for the accused sexual predator and comparing ‘Sarah’s’ allegations as being like something out of the Salem Which Trails!
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September 10, 2019 12:34pm
- chaos
  
  Well that is his monthly exercise taken care off, sit back down now.
  
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  September 10, 2019 1:58pm
Inandout

Oooh Maggie, do witches leave trails?
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September 10, 2019 12:55pm
- Tauhei Notts
  
  Legless ones leave snail trails.
  
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  September 10, 2019 1:11pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Good for extra stability on a broomstik as well 🙂
  
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  September 10, 2019 1:35pm
Michael

Was it rape or attempted rape? Whatever it was don’t forget that the National Party paid a mass murderer $925000.
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September 10, 2019 1:00pm
- Tall Man
  
  Whereas labour merely let one correspond at will.
  
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  September 10, 2019 7:30pm
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Paying Bain out was pragmatic way to end the ongoing costs to the crown given the (farcical) not-guilty verdict as his retrial. A miscarriage of justice.
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:21pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Finally RNZ has put up a recording of the PM’s Morning Report Interview.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/audio/2018712607/pm-i-ve-been-given-contradictory-information
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September 10, 2019 1:10pm
- Rachael Membery
  
  And where are Helen’s comments? Normally we can’t get her to shut up.
  
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  September 10, 2019 1:36pm
Swifty

‘Stay in the closet! Make sure your closet is in another closet!!!’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ7MAWpa3jI

(Safe for work)

Lol!

Another lovely example of religious tolerance.
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September 10, 2019 1:29pm
Rachael Membery

And where are Helen’s comments? Normally we can’t get her to shut up.
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September 10, 2019 1:36pm
chaos

Well today’s speaker briefing was actually interesting to see some Maori words in sign language.
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September 10, 2019 2:00pm
- MH
  
  what, no display of buttocks ?
  
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  September 10, 2019 4:57pm
atomic drop

I took a peek at The Standard website and NOT ONE SINGLE POST about the rape scandal!!!

I looked every where, refreshed the web page a few times. Nothing!

Just comments in the daily open mike post.

That’s just evil, isn’t it?
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September 10, 2019 2:01pm
Gravelroad

Have just watched QT in parliament with Ms Ardern in full handwringing mode, grave frowny face, earnestly faux tearful.
Then hid behind the Speaker.
And can’t answer questions which might contravene the “conventions of the house.”
What a drop kick of a woman.
Ps : Ms Bennett’s questions made very little impact.
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September 10, 2019 2:37pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  Bennett’s questions made very Little impact because Trevor Mallard ruled her first supplementary question out of order, and Ardern was thus able to duck for cover. In between that, and Mallard’s reflection on Simon Bridges earlier in QT, the Speaker has had an absolute Betty Crocker today.
  
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  September 10, 2019 3:00pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    I’m not so sure that Paula Bennett’s question made no impact.
    
    https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/hansard-debates/rhr/combined/HansDeb_20190910_20190910_04/tab/video
    
    We can clearly see that Ardern is not on top of the issue.
    She is now trying to blame ” our Justice system”
    We learn that Grant Robertson has known of this matter for months
    and Trevor tells us He has been dealing with the matter for weeks.
    
    All up, it tells me that Labour is in a big hole.
    
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    September 10, 2019 3:29pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    PTPM was clearly rattled. Giving answers to questions that were not aske – IE diversions. Dunno why Bennett did not call her out on that
    
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    September 10, 2019 5:37pm
    - Tall Man
      
      Hard to get around a motivated duck.
      
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      September 10, 2019 7:28pm
  - cmm
    
    Having the Sword of Damoclese hanging over her head will mean PriNZess is perpetually rattled until 2020.
    
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    September 10, 2019 6:06pm
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Fucked unit. I have no need to be kind to her
      
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      September 10, 2019 6:51pm
- Maggie Pie
  
  Did anyone else think like me – that Jacinda and Stuart Nash are sharing the same bottle of “Just for Men”?
  
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  September 10, 2019 3:33pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Who mows the lawns?
    
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    September 10, 2019 6:52pm
- KevO'Brien
  
  PB’s questions were effective–they put Ardern on notice that PB is on her tail. That will worry Ardern. Paula has shown she can be relentless in picking away Ardern’s facade. Every nuance from today will be chewed over for use tomorrow. Speaker Mallard has put his head up too as defender. Ducks can be spit roasted.
  
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  September 10, 2019 4:14pm
  - Gravelroad
    
    It’s a bit ironic that the female leader of our nation is so reliant on a man to bail her out and protect her constantly in Parliament.
    Maybe she’s not such a feminist icon after all.
    
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    September 10, 2019 6:01pm
chaos

Labour assault, bullying claims: Everything you need to know

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/09/labour-assault-bullying-claims-everything-you-need-to-know.html
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September 10, 2019 2:42pm
Captain Mainwaring

Winston still not at work after over three weeks.
He’s the Deputy PM FFS, and we are paying his exorbitant salary.
Aren’t we entitled to know where he is and what is wrong with him?
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September 10, 2019 2:44pm
- chaos
  
  https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/winston-peters-continues-recuperating-home-three-weeks-after-surgery
  
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  September 10, 2019 2:48pm
- barnacle bill
  
  If this is so important to you, Why don’t you phone him up and ask him ?
  
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  September 10, 2019 3:10pm
- srylands
  
  I thought he had a knee replacement. 3 weeks off is not unusual.
  
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  September 10, 2019 3:34pm
  - MH
    
    a genuflector has been inserted in preparation for upcoming knighthood.
    
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    September 10, 2019 4:53pm
  - barnacle bill
    
    That’s what has been reported .
    
    And W Peters is entitled , like most people in the work force to take leave for health reasons.
    
    I have had a full knee replacement and it took six weeks off work before a could get back to work.
    
    The work was physical.
    
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    September 10, 2019 4:57pm
    - Tall Man
      
      The only “physical” work that old conman does is heft his bauble bag over his shoulder after every “meeting” with the idiots we call the coalition.
      
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      September 10, 2019 7:26pm
      - barnacle bill
        
        Geez, look who’s back.
        
        The biggest drop kick of the Right.
        
        Tall Boy with the smallest brain.
        
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        September 10, 2019 7:46pm
  - chaos
    
    Rehab is usually up to six weeks physical therapy
    
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    September 10, 2019 5:19pm
  - Happychappy
    
    In your dreams and at his age I would suggest 6 weeks and I know I am few months off 70 and have mine done twice.
    
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    September 10, 2019 6:18pm
    - barnacle bill
      
      Happy, just as a matter of interest, how long did your first transplant last ?
      
      Mine was done 16 years ago now, and still seems fine.
      I had believed that something around 13 years was about normal ?
      Longer the better as far as I am concerned.
      
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      September 10, 2019 8:27pm
srylands

So after meeting the head of Twitter to discuss how to stop online extremism, the Prime Minister reported that “I think we will certainly have an ongoing conversation about it….” ??

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/115679265/simon-bridges-says-christchurch-call-was-a-big-talkfest-in-paris
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September 10, 2019 3:33pm
- rangitoto
  
  The Twitter CEO has now joined the list of those who know what an airhead the NZ PM is.
  
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  September 10, 2019 4:48pm
- chaos
  
  You can read anything at the link, but while cindy is busy trying to get world wide attention Aussie is doing more than her
  
  https://www.ft.com/content/3238d574-d2ab-11e9-8367-807ebd53ab77?segmentId=a7371401-027d-d8bf-8a7f-2a746e767d56
  
  This is readable
  
  https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-09-09/australians-being-stopped-from-watching-live-streamed-murders/11490580
  
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  September 10, 2019 5:17pm
MH

seave ereal commentators on this blog have not appollodisguised to Dover Samuels for giving maori a thorough good whacking with the leather strap for talking in class. There needs to be detention after school if this continues. Bring out the roll book. I on’t care if you were talking Swearhelli, I said no talking.. ..right outside, that includes you Neave. I don’t care who your mother and father are.
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September 10, 2019 4:50pm
- Nostradamus
  
  MH:
  
  Are you referring to this Dover Samuels?
  
  I’m sorry but this is just disgusting behaviour. Urinating in a hotel corridor is unacceptable from anyone, let alone an MP and Minister of the Crown.
  …
  It would have taken only a minute to get from the corridor to the lobby toilets. Even if you are bursting, you wet your pants rather than risk other hotel patrons seeing a Minister of the Crown (and No 10 on Labour’s List) with his trousers down, urinating in the corridor. No-one sober could have possibly decided this was an appropriate course of action.
  …
  UPDATE2: I understand the allegation from the hotel staff member is quite explicit and it is not simply a case of could not hold on, but some very specific undesirable behaviour. Hopefully the staff member concerned will not be gagged and can clear the issue up.
  
  So how did Dover Samuels respond to the media reports?
  
  Samuels is quoted as saying “he does not know what all the fuss is about”. In another story he denied the incident all together.
  
  Labour people really aren’t big on individual responsibility and transparency, are they?
  
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  September 10, 2019 6:12pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Another claimant about the Labour staffer’s abuse is talking on RNZ Checkpoint now.
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September 10, 2019 5:13pm
- Swifty
  
  Oh my god.
  
  https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2018712678/labour-assault-investigation-retraumatised-victims-witness
  
  Damning. Truly damning.
  
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  September 10, 2019 6:02pm
  - Maggy Wassilieff
    
    Yep,
    Powerful people protecting their own.
    
    The poor guy being interviewed is scared shitless.
    
    Too late to make this go away.
    
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    September 10, 2019 6:19pm
    - chaos
      
      National should put forward a motion of no confidence in this government. Let’s see which parties have confidence in a government that hides sexual abuse, that threatens those who are abused.
      
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      September 10, 2019 6:34pm
Hugh Pavletich

NEW ZEALAND: Is the NZ Government aware of the serious social costs of dense apartment slums ? …

… Michael Joseph Savage and John A Lee of the 1st Labour government were … and had no intention of bringing the British density failures to New Zealand …

Build-to-rent apartments must not become slums, property specialists warn …Marta Steeman … Stuff NZ

https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/115666909/property-specialists-at-massey-university-warn-buildtorent-apartments-must-not-become-slums?cid=app-iPad#comments

Property specialists at Massey University caution that mass rental housing like apartment blocks need to be well managed and good quality to avoid becoming slums.

Debate is building on the benefits of “build-to-rent” housing, often large scale apartment blocks overseas, as a way of tackling New Zealand’s housing crisis.

New Zealand has little mass rental housing like these apartment developments which are viewed as solid and steady investments by large investors overseas. New Zealand developers build apartment developments to sell rather than rent. … read more via hyperlink above …
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Learning from the British … a documentary classic …essential viewing …

Inquiry. The Great British Housing Disaster (Adam Curtis, 1984) – YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch5VorymiL4
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The ‘New Zealand Dream’ is still alive … Wendell Cox … New Geography
( noting the important Westpac Bank Dwelling Preference Survey)

http://www.newgeography.com/content/006327-the-new-zealand-dream-still-alive

… extract …

… The New Westpac NZ Housing Preferences Survey …

… Among the respondents, nearly one-half (49 percent) considered a back yard “essential,” while another 42 percent rated the back yard as “nice to have.” Only nine percent considered a back yard to be “not important.” Among first home buyers, there was an even greater larger 55 percent considered a back yard as “essential.”

A house with a yard is even more important that one close to work. Only 18 percent of respondents considered proximity to work to be “essential,” well below the 49 percent wanting a backyard. While nine percent of respondents considered a backyard to be “not important,” nearly four times as many said that proximity to work was “not important” (33 percent).

House location also scored much lower in proximity to schools or child care, which was considered “essential” by 22 percent of respondents and parks/recreational facilities, “essential” to 21 percent. Only 11 percent considered living in social hubs (with “eateries and bars”) to be “essential.”

Finally, access to mass transit was considered “essential” by only 28 percent of respondents and “not important” to 26 percent. This contrasts with the 65 percent who considered a “lock-up” garage “essential” and only four percent who considered it “not important.”

These results are not surprising for a high income nation. … read more via hyperlink above …
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September 10, 2019 6:11pm
Swifty

For the Scotsmen and women among us:

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

Rousing stuff. 🙂
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September 10, 2019 6:40pm
chaos

Dear nz first and greens, this is what you are supporting, continue to support rape and sexual abuse at your own risk

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/09/emails-show-labour-was-sent-details-of-sexual-assault-allegations-against-party-staffer.html
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September 10, 2019 6:54pm
- Nostradamus
  
  From Chaos’ link:
  
  Newshub revealed in August Finance Minister Grant Robertson was aware of the investigation and some complaints, but he’s refusing to say how much he knew. “I am not going to comment any further than what I have on that because I will be undermining the privacy,” he told Newshub.
  
  So Grant Robertson is using the victim’s privacy as a basis for refusing to acknowledge that he knew about the sexual assault allegations and did nothing?
  
  I’m beginning to think that a few people – MPs and back-office staff – are about to experience “career deflation”.
  
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  September 10, 2019 7:11pm
  - chaos
    
    And yet I get the feeling there is more to come.
    
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    September 10, 2019 7:48pm
Happychappy

Oh no the 19 year old that was sexually assaulted by Jacinda staff member has had her email that was sent to a Labour MP that was on the panel that was looking into the complaint confirmed Labour did know about the sexual assault several months ago.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/09/emails-show-labour-was-sent-details-of-sexual-assault-allegations-against-party-staffer.html
You could never take Jacinda for her word again she is all about making sure that no can prove she was involved, it’s all about Jacinda and fuck everyone else,
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September 10, 2019 6:58pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh Grief…

The Guardian paints Jacinda as someone who is on top of this crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/10/new-zealand-labour-faces-sexual-assault-crisis-as-jacinda-ardern-sets-up-inquiry
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September 10, 2019 7:21pm
- chaos
  
  Well she is on top of it that is for sure, she’s on top of trying to cover it up and almost got away with it.
  
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  September 10, 2019 7:21pm
- kowtow
  
  Elenor Ainge Roy , shilling for Ardern since for ever.
  
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  September 10, 2019 8:05pm
  - WaveyDavey
    
    Pretty much. One of the most mistaken and pointless hires my newsroom ever made.
    
    Precious darling daughter of a couple of meejah types – couldn’t bring in a story to save her life.
    
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    September 10, 2019 11:11pm
Tall Man

“It’s becoming increasingly hard to believe her version of events, and possibly this is the first time that we’ve had reason to question Jacinda Ardern’s honesty.”

Really Heather… I think you need to get out more.

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather-du-plessis-allan-drive/opinion/heather-du-plessis-allan-we-must-question-jacinda-arderns-honesty-over-labour-sexual-assault-allegations/
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September 10, 2019 8:06pm
chaos

Two racist meet and pretend they aren’t racist

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/09/green-mp-golriz-ghahraman-meets-us-congresswoman-ilhan-omar.html
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September 10, 2019 8:34pm
- The King
  
  Ah the dynamic ‘legal immigrants’ duo, boomers tell me are soo great for our countries…
  
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  September 11, 2019 12:37am
Scooter

Was there no post cabinet press conference this week, or is JA scared of the questions that might be asked?
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September 10, 2019 8:55pm
- Tony Stuart
  
  Yes, there was a post-Cabinet presser yesterday.
  
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  September 10, 2019 9:21pm
tranquil

I think I saw a comment somewhere that said that our part-time PM is flitting off to the UN again soon ( to tell the world how great she is….. /sarc *spit* ).

I think she deserves a nickname –
“Airmiles Ardern – the part-time PM”.
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September 10, 2019 9:31pm
BrownSnake

If no one objects can you still tell everyone to

F off

without being arrested
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