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Lee C

Happy ‘First time Milky didn’t get in first’ Day!
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June 10, 2022 8:05am
- Pavel
  
  Now watch to see if his comment will be at the top.
  
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  June 10, 2022 8:07am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    I think Mike is spending a lot of time advising Jaspinda, hence he is not here.
    
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    June 10, 2022 9:35am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Great job, her ratings are plummeting.
      
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      June 10, 2022 5:45pm
- Ehlana
  
  A belated Happy National Donald Duck Day for yesterday.
  
  It’s also Love Your Burial Ground week.
  
  I can think of a duck who could be buried…
  
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  June 10, 2022 8:15am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Batman will be along for a chat with you soon.
    
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    June 10, 2022 9:33am
- wilderbeast
  
  Actually missed one or two recently. It’s a positive development.
  
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  June 10, 2022 8:17am
- pdm
  
  Maybe we could have `Mikey did not turn up day’.
  
  That would be a saver on downticks.
  
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  June 10, 2022 8:25am
- Lenticular
  
  He’s keeping his head low and hoping that we don’t all start complaining to the mods about his ill-intentioned “Milky was here” forum graffiti.
  
  I don’t know why they let him get away with it for so long (in fairness, they’re excellent in general); it contributed nothing to any debate on anything, and existed purely to disrupt better debate and bring the forum down.
  
  He’ll resurface in a few days.
  
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  June 10, 2022 9:52am
Benedict Yu

Yesterday I stumbled across this gem. From the “World Socialist Website”.

“The WSWS is the online publication of the world Trotskyist movement, the International Committee of the Fourth International, and its affiliated sections in the Socialist Equality Parties around the world.”
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Anyway they are blaming Jacinda for our 1,000 COVID deaths. Apparently she is not sufficiently socialist 🤡

Here goes…..

“More than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths in New Zealand”

“This week New Zealand’s total COVID-19 death toll passed 1,000, reaching 1,039 today.

The stark reality is that hundreds and hundreds of people are dead who would still be alive if the Labour Party-led government had maintained its zero COVID policy, instead of switching to the homicidal program of mass infection.

Acting on the instructions of the corporate and financial elite, the government has put an end to lockdowns and reopened all schools and nonessential businesses. As in every country, the pro-capitalist trade unions played a key role in preventing any organised opposition from the working class to this criminal agenda.”

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/05/20/sboe-m20.html
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June 10, 2022 8:09am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Care in the community, Benedict.
  
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  June 10, 2022 8:11am
- mandk
  
  That’s a special kind of bonkers.
  
  But it makes me wonder why the far left (incl. Chinese Communist Party and NZ Greens) are so in favour of futile and oppressive measures to try to stop COVID.
  
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  June 10, 2022 8:16am
  - mawm
    
    Have you not learned yet that the failures of communism are because it’s never enough communism and that this time it’ll be done right! //
    
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    June 10, 2022 10:19am
- Ehlana
  
  I’m not aware of anyone being forced to leave their home in New Zealand.
  I wonder how these Trotskyists imagine people would eat – or are they okay with the farmers, truckies, warehouse and supermarket staff working to feed them (for free?) while they stay in glorious isolation forever?
  
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  June 10, 2022 8:30am
- Loddenthinks
  
  Not wishing to defend the Princess in any way, in fact more to point out what a ridiculously overblown sledgehammer-meets-nut response she has engineered, but I feel it’s necessary to correct that figure.
  
  New Zealand’s Covid death toll is well under 100.
  
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  June 10, 2022 8:32am
  - Ra Henare
    
    Suggest that they are using official figures
    https://www.health.govt.nz/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-data-and-statistics/covid-19-current-cases
    
    1290 is a tad more than 100 🙂
    
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    June 10, 2022 10:28am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      If you believe that the “official figures” of the number who died with Covid bears any resemblance to the actual number who died of Covid then you haven’t been paying attention.
      
      Also, I have a lovely bridge to sell you, but I feel I should point out a number of other people are interested in it, so you’d better get your bid in soon.
      
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      June 10, 2022 10:47pm
  - Zoro
    
    You stole my thunder, it’s amazing how many people have bought the narrative that we have had over a thousand deaths because of covid. I talked to a lady in the vege shop yesterday who made mention of this over a thousand Stat. I carefully explained to her the difference between “of” and “with”, I don’t think she believed me.
    
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    June 10, 2022 11:01am
    - Nickc2
      
      They walk among us Zoro. Unfortunately, they also vote.
      
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      June 10, 2022 12:01pm
- Simon
  
  Did World Socialist Website advocate against mandatory jaxxs for the workers? The jerry built jaxx developed by capitalist chancers, who scored massive, when sold the jaxx to dimwits who run various governments.
  
  The dim wits were then able to on sell the jaxx via a massive program of propaganda / threats / coercion to general population together with the utter nonsence promise to keep everyone safe. What is the WSW position? These so proclaimed champions of the people.
  
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  June 10, 2022 8:40am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    It amazes me how nobody on either side of politics seems to be concerned about our government spending untold buckets of cash promoting the product of a private corporation. Why can’t Pfizer and Moderna promote and pay for its own air time? Perhaps it’s because the media are beholden to whoever is buying the advertising space so the government’s happy to pick up the tab.
    
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    June 10, 2022 11:06am
- Harry Knuts
  
  you’ve always got to be very suspicious of a website where they do not publish who they are and where they are. no email, phone # just this random call Tom Peters. Wouldn’t even give this site any credit even by reading it. probably some festering little weasel in his/her/them mummy’s basement wondering why the world hates them/she/him/whatever they are.
  
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  June 10, 2022 9:46am
- 1920x1080p
  
  WSWS must be a parody site.
  
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  June 10, 2022 12:28pm
Maggie Pie

I’m hoping they can finally sort out the Pavlova thing once and for all 😀

https://twitter.com/AlboMP/status/1534824926959456257
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June 10, 2022 8:09am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  You’re up early, Maggie
  
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  June 10, 2022 8:11am
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Haven’t even been to bed yet 😛
    
    Soon tho….
    
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    June 10, 2022 9:29am
    - Don Beckett
      
      Those night shifts are tough.
      
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      June 10, 2022 10:36am
- kevn
  
  @Maggie… The tactile two.
  
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  June 10, 2022 8:18am
- Muttonbird
  
  Hidden due to low comment rating. Click here to see.
  Who said the left is in trouble? Socially responsible governments on both sides of the Tasman. Boris on the ropes in Britain.
  
  All looks good to me!
  
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  June 10, 2022 8:37am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Sometimes you need to ‘read between the lines’
    
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    June 10, 2022 9:21am
  - Fuzzysnuggleduck
    
    That’s because you are a fool in more ways that one.
    There are more leftists lately who are seeing that Labour fails on the core issues that actually matter to its traditional base.
    
    On what ‘social’ measure will the ejected Labour government leave NZ for the better?
    (- the only growth we know of is people on jobseeker, national debt, child poverty, troughs for Maori sovereigntists, ramraids and shootings, gang membership and social housing waiting lists).
    
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    June 10, 2022 9:26am
  - RightNow
    
    Can you see past your colon?
    
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    June 10, 2022 9:48am
  - Swifty
    
    Note Mutton’s reply closely.
    
    He refers to the fact that there are lefty governments in power and that that is a good thing.
    
    Note though what he doesn’t say.
    
    Does he say that Labour is delivering great outcomes in NZ? Does he reel off a list of their achievements? Does he parade a host of measures of where they are outperforming previous governments? Does he point to polls hailing how wonderfully people think Labour are doing in various areas?
    
    No, none of these.
    
    What Mutton is is the worst of voters in NZ – those that back their side irrespective of their total failure to deliver. That back an ideology even though that ideology repeatedly not only fails to achieve the outcomes sought but actively ruins lives in the process.
    
    Shame on Mutton.
    
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    June 10, 2022 10:05am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      Very well said, Swifty
      
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      June 10, 2022 11:21am
    - Tom Hunter
      
      Meh…. Muttonbird has been around Kiwiblog for over a decade now, posting the same, dumb shit-posting Lefty troll stuff to get reactions.
      
      However, he’s been absent from here while Labour were cruising. The fact that he’s back now with his usual pathetic shit means they’re in deep trouble – and he thinks he’s helping.
      
      Idiot.
      
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      June 10, 2022 2:03pm
  - Cinematic
    
    Heh. Denial.
    
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    June 10, 2022 10:12am
    - Muttonbird
      
      It is you who is in denial. Labour governments are on both sides of the Tasman. Dems in the US, and Boris won’t last the year.
      
      What have I missed?
      
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      June 10, 2022 12:52pm
      - Don Beckett
        
        You’ve missed that if this leftism continues, our Western civilisation as we know it is doomed – look at China, which is a prefigurement of what we will become.
        That is why Jacinda & her mob will be out in November next year, why Biden & co. are going to lose bigly after their stolen election, and why An Al will not last long. He is dumb as a sack of hammers anyway – almost as bad as Vaxinda.
        
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        June 10, 2022 4:48pm
  - NZer In Exile
    
    In Australia the left are committing the country to economic suicide under the delusional and dangerous belief that “renewables” can power modern civilisation at an affordable cost. They completely ignore energy economists and listen to renewables “industry” zealots and dodgy nations laughing all the way to the bank selling the energy-suicide equipment. So yes, they are all patting themselves on the back while the nation goes under. Such clever people.
    
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    June 10, 2022 2:55pm
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, the sycophantic twitter comments are almost bot-like. The poor buggers don’t even realise what lies ahead. Oh, and can’t our mask freaks see how the elite hug without face coverings?
  
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  June 10, 2022 8:41am
  - Loddenthinks
    
    Check again, you’ll find some of us have been doing God’s work in the comments 🙂
    
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    June 10, 2022 11:22am
NeverMindTheBollocks

In what world is it ok to break into a house, steal a body & have the Police decline to enforce the law?

The value of tikanga pakeha can be seen, right there.
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June 10, 2022 8:10am
- Rich Prick
  
  It’s kulcha and no one can interfere with it.
  
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  June 10, 2022 8:19am
- Tony Stuart
  
  The deceased man is apparently a cousin of the Harawira family. ‘Nuff said.
  
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  June 10, 2022 9:38am
  - Nickc2
    
    I noticed that other blow-hard Shane Jones couldn’t resist having a say on the matter.
    Now you’re in a talkative mood Shane, what did us NZ Taxpayers get for our money you threw around when you were part of that corrupt Labour Govt?
    
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    June 10, 2022 10:01am
    - Opie
      
      Shane Jones 3 billion cash splash looks like responsible spending compared to what’s happening now
      
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      June 10, 2022 10:26am
    - Loddenthinks
      
      What a blow-ass Jones is. Had the cheek to suggest that if only the deceased person had taken the time to make a will, all his poor widder would have had to do is show them the will, and they would have immediately ceased their body-snatching home invasion.
      
      Tui ad, right there
      
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      June 10, 2022 11:23am
    - marleybob
      
      The road out to East cape light house is excellent, Thank you. Shane Jones
      
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      June 10, 2022 12:47pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    I did see a comment somewhere, from his widow IIRC, to the effect that Tommy had been effectively ostracised by his family when he had been up North, which is why he decided to be in Wellington.
    
    Regardless, the case is a salutary lesson to put one’s wishes in writing, & preferably in the hands of a reputable law firm.
    
    Would be interesting to see how the Public Trust handled such a case.
    
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    June 10, 2022 1:24pm
Jethrod

Never been up this early to comment!
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June 10, 2022 8:10am
Simon

Its the post-West/NATO/Merican Globalist vs the Russia / China alliance.

See how quick the NZ government folded into AGE. Ardern groveling around Washington / NY. The heart of the Empire. NZ prostrating itself to America is embarrassing and shameful.

NZ could be neutral / non-aligned. Much like India. Chart our own course. But in the end NZ is still a nation of sheep wanting for a shepherd.
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June 10, 2022 8:13am
- JimBobJoe
  
  Gday Simon bot. Russia Good – West Bad. Gotcha. Any other instructions from the disinformation unit?
  
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  June 10, 2022 2:15pm
slightlyrighty

Remember how Grant loves to tell us how well we are doing according to the OECD??

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2022/06/cost-of-living-crisis-oecd-warns-government-actions-to-fight-inflation-should-be-more-targeted-as-further-covid-ukraine-impacts-could-spell-trouble.html
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June 10, 2022 8:14am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  I see it as a splendid opportunity for a Labour backbencher to ask a patsy at Question Time.
  
  What reports has the Finance Minister read about the state of aotearoa’s economy?
  
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  June 10, 2022 9:23am
- ClanMcleod
  
  “it’s not our fault, covid/russia/global warming dunnit…..”
  
  Pathetic.
  
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  June 10, 2022 9:25am
  - amospicton
    
    But funnily enough the low unemployment rate (ignoring ballooning jobseeker numbers) is entirely due to Grunter’s genius!
    
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    June 10, 2022 9:51am
- Hugh Jarse
  
  I wonder if there will be a patsy question on Tuesday from some low ranking Labour back bencher to the Finance Minister asking “what reports has he seen by the OECD on New Zealand’s economic performance” like there normally is ?.
  
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  June 10, 2022 10:06am
artemisia

Australia is soon introducing a new web based points system to retain full unemployment benefits, based on meeting a range of obligations to reach 100 points a month. For example, 5 points for making a job application, 20 points a week for full time employability skills training. There are nearly a million Australians on these benefits.

Maybe Ms Arden can have a word with Mr Albanese for a discounted purchase price on the system.

https://jobsearch.gov.au/points-values-tasks-activities-pbas
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June 10, 2022 8:15am
- Loddenthinks
  
  A great initiative introduced by the Liberals, will almost certainly be dismantled by the socialist Albanese.
  
  Would love to see it here, it’s in a similar vein to English’s social investment programme, perhaps even a bit more strict. In other words, no chance of it coming in here for at least another 18 months…
  
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  June 10, 2022 11:30am
Tony Stuart

The main legislation empowering Three Waters passed its First Reading in Parliament yesterday, with Labour, the Greens and Te Pati Maori predictably supporting it.

National and Act MP’s spoke in opposition to the legislation, and National’s Local Government spokesman Simon Watts gave an excellent speech, which began with this paragraph:

SIMON WATTS (National—North Shore): Yesterday, I said that this bill was a 134-page severance letter to Labour’s back bench, and I can tell by the way that those members on the opposite side are looking that they agree with that statement. It is more than that. This is about the spirit of this Government and their approach. National will oppose this bill, and we will fight for our communities every step of the way. National will repeal three waters.

Watts hit the nail on the head with his comments about the “134-page severance letter” for Labour’s backbench MP’s. Many of them are from rural or provincial electorates or locations, and that is where opposition to Three Waters is most entrenched. Last night 550 people attended a public meeting at the Invercargill Workingmen’s Club, and big crowds have attended every meeting so far on the Taxpayers’ Union’s Stop Three Waters tour. With Labour’s poll numbers dropping steadily, and likely to drop more as winter bites and prices continue to rise, a number of Labour backbenchers will feel as though the sword of Damocles is hanging over their heads.

Here’s Simon Watts’ full speech – https://vimeo.com/718550366
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June 10, 2022 8:18am
- Yvette
  
  Tony
  I wonder it at one level (the top level) Labour do not mind so much if National and ACT discuss this “3 Waters” bill readings “until the cows come home” (if you are still allowed to say that).
  Already in place is _
  Tipa Mahuta, Nanaia Mahuta’s sister, chair of a Māori Advisory Group which conveys Māori interests and knowledge to Taumata Arowai, now the new water services regulator – the first key ‘pou’, or pillar, of the Government’s Three Waters Reform Programme.
  
  So why such concern at 3 Waters iwi / Māori “co-governance” at lower entity level – why, in fact, the need for Maori input there – when Tipa Mahuta chairs a Māori Advisory Group to “rule them all”?
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  Supporting reference –
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  The Māori Advisory Group was appointed by the Acting Minister of Local Government on 20 May 2021 and is chaired by Tipa Mahuta. Established under the Taumata Arowai–the Water Services Regulator Act 2020 the Māori Advisory Group advises on Māori interests and knowledge as they relate to the objectives, functions, and operating principles of Taumata Arowai and the Board’s collective duties. [1]
  Chair Tipa Mahuta said that the Māori Advisory Group is pleased to be able to support the Board and Taumata Arowai to build its understanding and knowledge of how to uphold its responsibilities with regards to Te Mana o te  Wai [2]
  
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   Taumata Arowai now new water services regulator
  15 November 2021
  Media Release
  From today Taumata Arowai begins its role and powers as the new independent water services regulator for Aotearoa, replacing the previous responsibilities of the Ministry of Health, under the Water Services Act 2021.
  … Taumata Arowai Board Chair, Dame Karen Poutasi, says that the new Crown entity will begin by focusing on regulating drinking water services to help ensure safe and sufficient drinking water across Aotearoa.
  … Taumata Arowai was established following the inquiry into a 2016 outbreak of waterborne disease in Havelock North’s drinking water supply. It is the first key pou, or pillar, of the Government’s Three Waters Reform Programme. [2]
  
  [1] Water Services Regulator Act reference – https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2020/0052/latest/LMS294393.html#LMS294393
  [2] https://www.taumataarowai.govt.nz/news/articles/taumata-arowai-now-new-water-services-regulator/
  
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  June 10, 2022 8:47am
- Than
  
  A large chunk of Labour’s current MPs were always going to have very short political careers.
  
  Labour’s 2020-election result was due to a massive COVID-induced popularity bubble. Their polling was never going to stay that high long-term, so a lot of Labour’s 2020-intake of new MPs were always likely to be single-term (they might just have managed two-terms if the pandemic had lasted longer, but it didn’t). Realistically, the lowest 20-25 ranked Labour MPs are gone next election, and by now they must know that.
  
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  June 10, 2022 9:02am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    Yes, I agree, but it also doesn’t mean that many of them will fight tooth and nail to get a higher list placing and possibly survive. For many, I suggest they will fight harder for their own survival than they do for any ordinary constituent..
    
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    June 10, 2022 9:40am
    - krazykiwi
      
      For many? C’mon Tony. You’re being a tad gracious IMHO. I’d suggest that 99% of politicians of all stripes care more for their personal survival than for the needs of their constituents.
      
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      June 10, 2022 10:42am
  - fightingtemeraire
    
    How many of the electorate MPs will go???
    
    Will Jacinda still be MP of Mt Albert???
    
    If she lost that, and it has always been labour, that would be a blot on the escutcheon
    
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    June 10, 2022 9:54am
    - Paulus
      
      Dr Ardern will be well gone before the next election – she cannot be seen to be totally humiliated which will happen.
      
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      June 10, 2022 1:27pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Is that why she left Auckland Central? She could never run that one because she had some actual opposition.
      
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      June 10, 2022 5:54pm
  - Cassandra
    
    So we’ll get a team of burger flippers at a Maccas near you who can tell their customers that fries are good for you (and other lies, having has 3 years’ experience).
    
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    June 10, 2022 10:27am
- slightlyrighty
  
  The Greens are too beholden to Maori, Labour is being held ransom by the Maori Caucus.
  
  and they have the temerity to call National the racist party?
  
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  June 10, 2022 11:08am
- oldfella
  
  Tony, unfortunately our MSM will simply ignore this speech, even though it makes some good points.
  Luxon needs to be the one saying this in public to try and get cut through.
  He should call a press conference while the bill is still before the house, and stress in a few bullet points what’s wrong with this legislation – including the whole co-governance rort, which I suspect a lot of Kiwis are unaware of.
  
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  June 10, 2022 11:23am
  - Tony Stuart
    
    There’s no panic oldfella. The Bill is off to select committee, and isn’t due back until November. There will be a call for submissions to the select committee soon, and THAT will be the time for National and Act to ensure that the select committee hears the views of hundreds of thousands of Kiwis who oppose the legislation.
    
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    June 10, 2022 11:51am
    - Tricati
      
      Tony, National & ACT will have to ensure that slippery Labour, if they see nation wide objection increasing, don’t just raise it as an ‘urgency’ bill and ram it through. I wouldn’t trust them with this bill on any level.
      
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      June 10, 2022 12:54pm
- Justitia
  
  I see we have until 22 July, just six weeks, to make submissions to the Select Committee (Finance and Expenditure) on the bill. We must take the opportunity to do so. There are plenty of solid reasons to oppose it. Among other things, the equal suffrage issue is as pertinent here as it was in the Rotorua Representation Arrangements Bill where we achieved great things. People should also ask to appear before the Committee when they submit.
  
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  June 10, 2022 3:46pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Is this the future of Health delivery in NZ?

An independent review into the fiasco was released today and uncovered a “chaotic” work environment, vaccines stored in a fridge at the directors’ home and missing temperature data logs.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/468811/otago-vaccine-blunder-home-storage-no-temperature-data-logs-review-finds
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June 10, 2022 8:18am
- Tomtoddy
  
  “You aint seen nuthin yet”. Health reforms centralise decisionmaking and force patients to us a service determined by the centralised bureaucrats. Like Three Waters it is the absolute epitome of a communist system.
  
  There will be more and more stuff ups – many of which will get buried by the elitist commies and their lapdogs in MSM.
  
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  June 10, 2022 8:26am
- pdm
  
  Maggy – par for the course with this Government.
  
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  June 10, 2022 8:28am
Ehlana

If you’re over celebrating Pride month, some June options more appropriate to our weather: Care for your Grandparents, Audiobooks, Mud (How winter is that?), Country Cooking and Soul Food.
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June 10, 2022 8:22am
- Maggie Pie
  
  PRIDE MONTH IN THE BIG-APPLE 😛
  
  Where the Cops used to say…”Put you hands up!”
  
  Now it’s….”Grab your ankles!”
  
  https://twitter.com/SebGorka/status/1534715196635217920
  
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  June 10, 2022 8:29am
  - Suze Wainwright
    
    Oh Maggie… at least we are grateful that you didn’t say “spread ‘em!”
    
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    June 10, 2022 8:51am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    I love Bob Moran’s cartoons, always on point. This one especially.
    
    https://www.bobmoran.co.uk/downloads-1/aqfx1mv1suw9lrvnr1771ylz4ru5bi
    
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    June 10, 2022 9:38am
Maggy Wassilieff

PointofOrder blog pointing to the need for a Cabinet reshuffle (probably not the Great Reset, yet)

https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2022/06/09/a-cabinet-reshuffle-must-be-among-the-options-as-ardern-considers-how-to-halt-growing-public-disenchantment/
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June 10, 2022 8:31am
- 70andstilllearning
  
  “As Labour backbenchers recognise the unpopularity of the government has deepened rather than gone away, it could be expected they would be agitating in caucus for a reshuffle of the Cabinet. It rests on them if they are to extend their parliamentary careers to do so …”
  
  Best thing that Labour could do – lifting the likes of Mahuta, Verrall, etc at the last one has been an outstanding success……
  
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  June 10, 2022 8:53am
- ClanMcleod
  
  They could shuffle that cabinet for a week and it would still come up with nothing but jokers.
  
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  June 10, 2022 9:01am
  - MiddleclassTrash
    
    You could argue that their current policy effectively removes most, if not all, sensible & competent operators. Only ideologues and sycophants remain. They haven’t had a good team since they tried to force David Shearer to accept all the current far left stasi nonsense, that no sane, civic minded Kiwi could possibly stand.
    
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    June 10, 2022 9:57am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  When will Jaspinda realise that ‘she’ is the problem?
  No control over her Ministers – she needs to own her own shit, and not deflect the problems.
  
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  June 10, 2022 10:10am
  - Hebe123
    
    i agree she is one of the problems. But the rest of them are hardly the solutions, i mean look at them! (but Mods, i don’t mean look at them in terms of race or body shape, in case you were thinking that!)
    
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    June 10, 2022 11:52am
- slightlyrighty
  
  https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rearrange_the_deck_chairs_on_the_Titanic
  
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  June 10, 2022 12:47pm
- Paulus
  
  A reshuffle will make no dfference whilst Dr Ardern and Mr Robertson are there.
  The puddle is too shallow.
  
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  June 10, 2022 1:29pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Oh Good Grief!

NZ Herald web header: Dump Ardern

Why Labour’s best bet for a third term is to dump Jacinda Ardern

Main headline:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/matthew-hooton-labours-best-bet-for-a-third-term-replace-jacinda-ardern-with-grant-robertson/UWV32OWF47WHWZURES2JFQTODQ/
Paywalled of course…

So I’ll never discover why Matthew Hooton thinks Grant Robertson as Labour Leader will be an election winner.
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June 10, 2022 8:40am
- kiwikidsnz
  
  NZdrs are generally pretty sensible, changing their leader won’t make any difference: we’re just going to vote out this Govt while we’ve still got a democracy left to do it with.
  
  BTW I’ve voted Labour (with 2 exceptions) every election since Kirk.
  
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  June 10, 2022 8:50am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Leaving the ‘Plantation’ are you?
    
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    June 10, 2022 10:13am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Add: Get yourself a ‘MAGA’ hat. Make Ardern Go Away.
      
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      June 10, 2022 10:14am
  - Cassandra
    
    Why? Masochist?
    
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    June 10, 2022 10:29am
- Nickc2
  
  I’m informed that the most important piece of documentation in Cindy’s carry onboard baggage when traveling overseas is her CV.
  
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  June 10, 2022 8:58am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Interesting. The CV goes along with “Do you know who I am?”
    
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    June 10, 2022 10:16am
  - Paulus
    
    She is off to Madrid shortly for another PR exercise.
    
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    June 10, 2022 1:30pm
- Suze Wainwright
  
  I think you need to understand the nuances of Hooton’s writing – there’s no way he would believe Robbo would make a good PM.
  
  It’s a bit like the article he penned some weeks ago, where he seemingly wrote seriously about the inner mechanisms of the Green Party of Aotearoa/New Zealand, whilst at the same time demonstrating what an utter Punch & Judy show they really are…
  
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  June 10, 2022 8:59am
- JB.49
  
  @ Maggy Wassilieff 8:40AM
  Just right click on article and view page source if you really want to know
  
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  June 10, 2022 9:29am
- MCōs
  
  Mathew Hooten has a marvelous recent track record of picking winners.
  And that’s for the National Party, his mates, let alone a party he despises.
  Apart from that Grant Robertson can’t challenge for the leadership in quite the same way as the Nats.
  
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  June 10, 2022 9:42am
- Philview
  
  I haven’t read the article. There is no denying Jacinda Ardern is very talented in certain directions but her weaknesses are killing Labour. She hasn’t been strong enough to shut down the Maori Caucus and their extreme demands. Helen Clark would have kicked ass. Jacinda promises all things to all people and it seems has just done that in the US much to the disgust to many on the Left.
  
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  June 10, 2022 10:40am
- James Stephenson
  
  I love how the photo chosen appears to show what Robertson thinks of the idea of him as a leader.
  
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  June 10, 2022 10:56am
- Matt Long
  
  He’s comparing Robertson with English, trolling both parties.
  Robertson to follow populist air head Ardern, like English followed Key.
  That’s like comparing Billy Bunter with Richie MacCaw.
  
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  June 10, 2022 12:12pm
Maggie Pie

RANDOM IMPERTINENT QUESTION

Wonder if this post is from the same Matthew Tukaki…Chair-of-the-Oranga-Tamariki-Ministerial-Advisory-Board?

https://twitter.com/MaryAnneGrace9/status/1534985715469103105
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June 10, 2022 8:40am
- Harry Knuts
  
  wouldn’t be surprised. Matthew is forever angry and bitter and it’s everyone else’s fault.
  
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  June 10, 2022 9:50am
- Frank the tank
  
  A question for his new best mate and lawyer – Chris Finlayson?
  
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  June 10, 2022 9:54am
- oldfella
  
  Maggie, where did that post come from? Anyone know? Not on Tukaki’s twitter feed. //
  
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  June 10, 2022 11:43am
Lee C

Grant Robertson if made leader of Labour, will raise one primary question for the media:

What’s the biggest elephant in the room?
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June 10, 2022 8:57am
- Maggie Pie
  
  Alf?
  
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  June 10, 2022 9:03am
  - David Garrett
    
    LOL..if a poli on the right had said his “husband” isn’t present when he quite clearly was, we’d still be hearing about it
    
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    June 10, 2022 9:36am
    - David Garrett
      
      ….and clearly whatever attracted the Fat Controller to his husband wasn’t his brain…
      
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      June 10, 2022 9:38am
      - Frank the tank
        
        In fairness we don’t hear from Grunter’s better half therefore I believe we don’t criticise. He’s not like the fisherman in that sense – a smart arse political hack.
        
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        June 10, 2022 9:57am
      - Steve Otto(North Shore)
        
        A right shunt:
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8vs4UsScRw
        
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        June 10, 2022 10:21am
- Suze Wainwright
  
  Equal pay for All Blacks and Black Ferns…?
  
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  June 10, 2022 9:09am
  - Yabster
    
    why?
    
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    June 10, 2022 12:50pm
  - JimBobJoe
    
    hahahahahaha
    
    When the Black Ferns earn the NZRU some money they should be paid.
    
    The All Blacks earn the NZRU virtually all the money the get. The Black Ferns not so much.
    
    If the Ladies want equal pay the should start by trying to make the grade in provincial mens club rugby….. The best of them might sneak into a club 2nd side and an absolute freak maybe in a small provincial unions club comp top tier…
    
    Equal pay for equal work – there is zero comparison between these two – could be different sports…
    
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    June 10, 2022 2:40pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Sure, if they generate the same income levels.
    
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    June 10, 2022 5:59pm
- Harry Knuts
  
  has he got his fly down?
  
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  June 10, 2022 9:51am
- Inandout
  
  Lee, looking back on previous deputies is interesting and I suppose most of their partners were quite well known at the time.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deputy_Prime_Minister_of_New_Zealand
  
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  June 10, 2022 11:06am
Surely Knott

The Herald…””Māori and Pasifika ethnicities don’t have a great tendency to access medical services … It’s a part of the population that doesn’t tend to have a great deal of cash available. If they get sick, they go to bed. They don’t do what Waipareira Trust’s John Tamihere described to me as Pakeha warrant of fitness tests, where you go along to the doctor, check how you’re doing and pay your 30 bucks.”

Pakeha warrant of fitness tests. Sorry that’s racist as f*ck and I’m sick of the double standard. While the rest of us are expected to pussy foot around and not offend anyone or make generalisations Tamihere consistently getting stuck in making racial jokes and stereotype that create negative outcomes for both races and society as a whole.
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June 10, 2022 9:14am
- Stellaboxer
  
  Surely Knott don’t be concerned like Jackson it’s himself he diminishes not you and I .
  
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  June 10, 2022 11:28am
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  $30 bucks? That must be a heavily subsidised medical practice.
  
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  June 10, 2022 2:01pm
  - Hebe123
    
    That’s expensive if you have a CSC
    
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    June 10, 2022 5:34pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  The Herald hitman David Fisher had moved from covid to race baiting. He’s a muppet.
  
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  June 10, 2022 6:03pm
cas

I went to a play the other day. Of the 70 plus people who were there only one was wearing a mask and he was with the production and clearly from out of town. We are all over it
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June 10, 2022 9:32am
Captain Mainwaring

So Auckland Port has a wonderful new electric tugboat.
They’ve been very quiet about how it got here from the builder in Europe but I bet it wasn’t under electric power.
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June 10, 2022 9:36am
- fightingtemeraire
  
  Built in SE Asia and came under its own power. It has two generators on board
  
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  June 10, 2022 9:50am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    So it is diesel powered?
    
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    June 10, 2022 10:47am
    - James Stephenson
      
      It certainly looks to be, in motoring terms, a Plug-in Hybrid.
      
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      June 10, 2022 11:09am
      - Paulus
        
        Whilst we re told this Hybrid boat it will last much longer than the traditional Diesel boat it costs, I am told it cost four times, that of the traditional boat.
        Don’t ask !
        
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        June 10, 2022 1:35pm
      - Alan Wilkinson
        
        Apparently thats how the big icebreakers work too. Diesel generators for electric motors. So electric in name only. I suppose they could be nuclear powered alternatively.
        
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        June 10, 2022 2:25pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    That’s very energy efficient. 🤡🤡🤡
    
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    June 10, 2022 6:04pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  “Sparky” How original. But, how come it does not have a Moari name?
  
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  June 10, 2022 10:25am
  - kowtow
    
    They must a bin in a real quandary over which bit of virtue signalling they’da hadda chose between .
    
    And yes I recall when the boat was first touted you had to search deep to find out the facts are it still had a fossil fuel engine . E by itself just don’t cut the mustard.
    
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    June 10, 2022 10:54am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      Wonder how much the diesel generators are silenced? Getting flat batteries in the middle of moving a ship, and noisy diesels fire up – how embarrassing if the climate change wankers hear that!
      
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      June 10, 2022 2:43pm
    - ClanMcleod
      
      Maybe they can put some foils on it from the America’s cup boats? //
      
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      June 10, 2022 6:08pm
  - david
    
    “Old Sparky” was the nickname for the electric chair at one stage.
    
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    June 10, 2022 12:38pm
- Colinfrog
  
  But what about the electric buses run by NZBUS which are charged up with diesel burning generators
  
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  June 10, 2022 12:12pm
Lenticular

Joe Biden is now openly suggesting sending Republicans to jail for opposing his agenda, using a Monopoly game metaphor as a fig leaf.

The centre right which was outraged every time Trump opened his mouth is silent, of course.
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June 10, 2022 9:44am
- UrbanNeocolonialist
  
  Biden is now the least popular president since WW2. Politics in USA has become extremely chilling with judicial targeting of opposition by Democrat controlled FBI and DOJ and House committees. Reminiscent of the McCarthy era persecutions.
  
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  June 10, 2022 11:01am
  - kowtow
    
    And still nothing in our media pardy about those photos of naked Hunter, the gun and floosie.
    
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    June 10, 2022 12:44pm
Surely Knott

To sign up for the Uni open day they ask you which ethnic group do you most identify and there is a drop down list from which you can chose only one. Interesting because at High school you are asked on the form and can identify with multiple ethnicities. But at Uni you can select only the one that you *most* identify as. There’s no way to identify as ethnically diverse.

But for Gender the first answer on the drop down is gender diverse. So you can identify with more than one gender but not more than one ethnicity.

Why they need to know your gender or ethnicity at an open day is offensive anyways and I encourage my kids to just leave it all blank.
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June 10, 2022 9:57am
- alloytoo
  
  wrong.
  
  Encourage your children to choose the option with the most victimhood attached.
  
  If everyone is a victim then no one is.
  
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  June 10, 2022 12:48pm
Frank the tank

Is anyone amongst the feckless going to report that the current health crisis is caused by the common cold/flu?

So the virus that is creating the surge in South Auckland we don’t require mandates, nor masks, passes or locking off the border or indeed Billions of dollars in propaganda. Hmmmmm.

Also is anyone going to report that this virus seems to target overweight individuals of certain ethnicities with breathing complications. Is the science telling us we need to fix our “fat bastard” problem?
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June 10, 2022 10:11am
- trout
  
  Call me sceptical but are there rewards for calling in that you have the Rona. Like do you get 10 days paid leave and food parcels?
  
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  June 10, 2022 10:29am
  - RightNow
    
    In government departments – yes.
    
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    June 10, 2022 11:36am
- Cassandra
  
  Of course a segregated health authority will fix that. Assuming that the Maori Health Authority will only employ Maori doctors and nurses, its waiting lists will be several years. For neurosurgery and other specialisms it’ll be forever. I suppose Maori science will take up the slack.
  
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  June 10, 2022 10:36am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Covid eliminaded the flu
  
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  June 10, 2022 10:45am
- krazykiwi
  
  Good questions. One technical correction. ILI’s are more harmful for anyone overweight, and also for anyone with low Vitamin D3 levels. People from dark-skinned ethnic groups produce less Vitamin D3 than do fair skinned people, so their risk factor is higher, but during winter everyone will have lower natural Vitamin D3 than they did over summer.
  
  Regardless of ones ethnicity, good advice for everyone might be
  1. Exercise and loose a bit/lots of any excess weight
  2. Eat healthy foods
  3. Get good quantity of sleep
  4. Supplement with advised doses of Vitamin D3, Zinc and Quercetin
  
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  June 10, 2022 11:06am
  - alloytoo
    
    Imagine if we had spent the 2 Billion allocated to mental health on a national get fit campaign.
    
    Not only would it have been more efficient that the vaccine, it would have certainly done more for mental health.
    
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    June 10, 2022 12:50pm
  - mawm
    
    Add to the list intermittent daily fasting which has a profound effect on promoting immune system homeostasis, the removal of damaged cells and mitochondria, and clearing foreign proteins.
    
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    June 10, 2022 2:12pm
  - ClanMcleod
    
    You should have been in charge at the beginning of covid. The country would have saved billions, the health sector would be thriving and the nation in general would all be much healthier. Oh, that’s right, Labour thrives on weak and needy people.
    
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    June 10, 2022 6:13pm
- Surely Knott
  
  Why are people with the flu and other respiratory illnesses going to a general emergency department and sitting in the ED waiting room for 8 hours if we are focussed on spread. Surely respiratory illness should be in a physically separated area. Surely we have improved our processes and capacity during the *pandemic* which has been going on for 2 1/2 years?
  
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  June 10, 2022 11:22am
Captain Mainwaring

Why does Kane Williamson only have to isolate for 5 days in the UK but I have to endure 7 days here?
Anyone got an explanation?
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June 10, 2022 11:01am
- krazykiwi
  
  Because it suits government policy. No more, no less.
  
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  June 10, 2022 11:08am
  - Don Beckett
    
    Just don’t tell anyone & please yourself. 🙂
    
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    June 10, 2022 12:19pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      I have to tell my wife and she’s a stickler for the ‘rules’. But she’s not a Cindy fan.
      
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      June 10, 2022 12:49pm
oldfella

Dear Prime Minister
With huge numbers of Kiwi kids no longer attending school, with a disproportionate percentage being Maori, could you please add EDUCATION CRISIS to your current lists of thing to address when you get back from Australia.
Thank you.
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June 10, 2022 11:31am
Littletramp

NZ Herald bringing us the really important news at the head of the website.
Britney Spears ex husband update, Rebel Wilson has a girlfriend and Prince Harry upset about something. Appreciate the updates – good to know.
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June 10, 2022 12:32pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Quality journalism funded by Brenda. At least you know your tax dollars are being well spent…….
  
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  June 10, 2022 6:15pm
Muttonbird

The owner of this blog is a vocal supporter of vaping but:

A leading researcher into achieving smokefree targets says more needs to be done to protect young people from the ‘terrible burden’ imposed by vaping addiction.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/468855/vaping-imposing-terrible-burden-on-young-people-researcher

How long before David Farrar accepts vaping is damaging our kids? How long before he drops his advocacy of the vaping industry?
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June 10, 2022 12:58pm
- Swifty
  
  Your beloved Labour Party are actively harming NZ kids through both their policies and their inept delivery.
  
  When will you drop your support of them?
  
  How much more harm must they cause before the scales drop from your eyes?
  
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  June 10, 2022 3:31pm
- JimBobJoe
  
  That article contained zilch on physical harm and only mentioned addiction. It was a bunch of words saying Prof. Hoek was concerned… (As an aside it would have been more impressive if she was called Dr. Hook then all her research assistants and acolytes could have been called the Medicine Show….)
  
  So whats the issue? People with free will vaping – some will get addicted as many people do to all sorts of things. Freedom of Choice (great song btw) – its what you want no? (Or as Devo rightly suggested in the same song Freedom from Choice is really what you want)
  
  And so why the fuss over vaping when Labour and the Greens promote the use of recreational drugs – some of which wreak havoc on peoples lives – but I don’t see the Muttonbird calling that out.
  
  What I see is Muttonbird planting smear attacks on DPF for what ever purpose is driving the the active leftie activist today.
  
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  June 10, 2022 4:17pm
Maggie Pie

“No one actually needs an AR-15”
– Hillary Clinton.

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1532711083487657989

No one actually had 56 friends commit suicide. LOL!!
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June 10, 2022 1:25pm
- Libertarians are right
  
  Hanging from a tree with a shotgun blast to the chest.
  
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  June 10, 2022 1:27pm
- Nickc2
  
  Every country has its lunatic Politicians eh?
  
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  June 10, 2022 1:35pm
Libertarians are right

FBI raided and arrested the top Republican Michigan Gubernatorial candidate today. The day after Biden said to put all his political opponents in jail and the same day as the Prime Time, professionally produced Jan 6th Kangaroo Court. He was arrested for 4 misdemeanors relating to Jan 6. He basically stood outside on the steps but they’re arguing that he told people to go inside or something.

They already took out 5 Michigan Republican Gubernatorial candidates with fake signatures and now they’ve effectively taken out a sixth.

I’m sure this might make Gretchen Whitmer feel a bit better about the FBI.
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June 10, 2022 1:33pm
Maggie Pie

And did you realise, every time you put $200 worth of petrol in your car….the government takes $108.00

Just saying.
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June 10, 2022 1:46pm
- Nickc2
  
  Thieving bastards!
  
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  June 10, 2022 1:49pm
- cas
  
  Our local Gull put its price up for 91 by 5 cents a litre in the hour between my passing it on the way into town and on the way out today. Another few cents for the Govt.
  
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  June 10, 2022 3:24pm
greybeard

If Boris Johnson is “BoJo”, and Scott Morrison is “ScoMo”, then Antony Albanese must be “AnAl “.
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June 10, 2022 1:57pm
- Blog-aholic
  
  Does that make ours JacArd? Maybe the new PM will be GRob?
  
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  June 10, 2022 2:03pm
- fightingtemeraire
  
  What is Jacinda??
  
  JACA
  
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  June 10, 2022 2:59pm
curry4me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J17d5isi_GU
It’s Revenge O’ Clock!

Kyle Rittenhouse now has the Covington kids lawyer on his team. They want to go after Face Book etc for defamation. [9:44]
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June 10, 2022 1:57pm
curry4me

https://www.thedailyexaminer.co.nz/new-zealand-citizens-under-house-arrest-for-pfizer-non-compliance-ross-ardern-suddenly-resigns/
New Zealand Citizens Under House Arrest for Pfizer Non-Compliance, Ross Ardern Suddenly Resigns.

In 1962, Samoa became the first Pacific Island Nation to move from being New Zealand administered to self-governing successfully. An entity with a Samoan administration, endorsed by the United Nations and made up entirely of qualified Samoans.
It is easy to get caught up in the moment. Samoans are so proud of our independent status among the nations of the World, and as a fellow Samoan, I can’t help but share in that same sense of pride and accomplishment. Today, in New Zealand, we commemorate this auspicious moment in Samoan history by celebrating an entire week of Samoan-themed activities known collectively as Samoan Language Week.
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June 10, 2022 1:58pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Just watching the Jan 6th hearing of attacks on the Capitol. Fuck, what a kangaroo Court. Everything is cherrypicked – including witnesses and videos.
6 Democrats and 2 Republicans on the bench. The two Republicans are fucking RINOs!!
It is all about trying to stop Trump.
The Chairman just said it was a Coup. So he is bought as well.
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June 10, 2022 1:59pm
- All_on_Red
  
  Is Chuck Schumer going to be impeached for inciting an assassination attempt against a Supreme Court Justice?
  https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/06/08/is-chuck-schumer-culpable-for-the-death-threat-against-justice-kavanaugh-n1604111
  
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  June 10, 2022 2:08pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Sounds like a violation of the Law – but he is a long term Democrat so nothing will happen. Just like the rest of the corrupt thieving bastards
    
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    June 10, 2022 2:48pm
- mawm
  
  Steve – we all know that this is progressing towards throwing Trump in gaol so he can’t run again.
  
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  June 10, 2022 2:18pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Correct – but Trump is coming back 2024.
    If Trump is guilty, the Patriots will crush the Dems and the mad left. Remember, Republicans are the ones with the guns, the Dems have insults.
    Mad Dems like Beto say “The people want to hand in the guns – they say ‘come and get them'”
    
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    June 10, 2022 3:24pm
Nickc2

Cindy’s trip to Aust was a roaring success eh?
Albanese sticks with regulations regarding deporting NZ criminals.
If her Media Consultants had read Aust News Papers, they could have saved her the effort. Maintaining the Status Quo was one of Albanese’s election gimmicks FFS.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/jacinda-ardern-fronts-media-with-australian-pm-anthony-albanese-after-talks/RA2MIEJFC3VSPMCK5U2XP2RI3U/
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June 10, 2022 2:09pm
Maggie Pie

Tennis bestie comes in for nasty criticism from STUFF reporter Kylie Klein-Nixon, simply for suggesting…. “Fat women should consider taping over their mouths with gaffer tape”

https://twitter.com/NewshubNZ/status/1534386751841701888
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June 10, 2022 2:37pm
- graham
  
  For a moment I thought you were talking about Rachel “What-a-bunch-of-lardos” Smalley …
  
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  June 10, 2022 2:42pm
- JimBobJoe
  
  Twitter is a sewer… and most of the replies to that twitter demonstrate it. You must bathe often to get the crap off from voyaging in the Twittersphere
  
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  June 10, 2022 2:47pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    Can’t be that bigger a sewer…
    we know someone that want’s to buy it for $55 Billion. LOL!!
    
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    June 10, 2022 3:18pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Maybe it’s not to stop them eating?///
  
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  June 10, 2022 2:52pm
- Biscuit
  
  “Fat women should consider taping over their mouths with gaffer tape”?
  
  Hmmm…
  
  Dons his titanium testicle protectors and muses out loud ‘JUST fat women?’
  
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  June 10, 2022 5:15pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Let’s go Brandon. Part of John Deere to move from Iowa to Mexico.
https://redrightvideos.com/lgb-john-deere-to-send-assembly-production-plant-from-iowa-to-mexico/
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June 10, 2022 2:50pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Now a guy retweeted a tweet and got in trouble at the Washington Post – like I care. Don’t shoot the messenger. Tucker Carlson talks with the original repeater who heard a 1990s joke at a party. Sensitive bitches out there!
“Every girl is bi. You just have to figure out if it’s polar or sexual”
https://rumble.com/v17rsj0-washington-post-suffers-internal-crisis-over-columnist-sharing-dad-joke.html?
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June 10, 2022 3:31pm
Maggie Pie

ClarkeGayford…..JUST IN 😀

https://twitter.com/mrsrosieb/status/1535098668352557056
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June 10, 2022 3:42pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  First reply to the tweet, “mummy still plummeting in the polls then? 😂
  
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  June 11, 2022 7:39am
surfing

My daughter has the flu — influenza A, confirmed via pcr. I’m vaccinated as of 4 weeks ago, therefore low chance of getting sick.

We were pretty sure it was the flu, high temp, run over by a bus feeling.

Vomiting bug circulating too. Combined with the nasty weather, makes me wanna do a trip to someplace warm….maybe Hawaii or Las Vegas.
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June 10, 2022 3:53pm
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Hawaii, stay at Aston Waikiki Beach. Not a plug, it is just the Hotel we use, and will not change.
  
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  June 10, 2022 4:28pm
- Hebe123
  
  That 16% effective flu vaxx will “almost certainly” stop you catching it.
  
  Bet it doesn’t.
  
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  June 10, 2022 5:42pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  Are they still running the PCR at over 40 cycles? If so she could just as easily have dengue fever. It’s a completely meaningless test performed in NZ.
  Flu sucks. Chicken soup, fluids and bed rest.
  
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  June 10, 2022 6:24pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Lefties, before you go catch your train, or go to the pub for a craft beer shandy.
Open letter to whining and entitled college students:
https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/let-executive-director-pens-an-open-letter-to-entitled-college-students/?
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June 10, 2022 3:54pm
- info@cruzpro.com
  
  As a business owner and employer I can empathize with that article.
  
  Over the years we’ve been lucky to have had mostly really good employees. Unfortunately there have also been a few that think they don’t actually have to show up if the surf is running or believe that four weeks vacation, twelve holidays and ten sick days a year isn’t enough.
  
  Showing up on Friday with a sunburned face after calling in sick on Thursday when the Shihad Big Day Out vestival was in town was one great example. A lady that did piece work had no work because of his absence.
  
  The lady that regularly dissapeared into the toilet for 20 minutes at a time with her cell phone was another unrewarding experience.
  
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  June 10, 2022 6:30pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Taxpayer’s Union – 3 waters. Stopped at Moeraki boulders.
https://fb.watch/dywfZ-uimN/
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June 10, 2022 4:30pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Do not debate Ben Shapiro unless you can shut him down. This guy loses big time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMrzNdkQps4
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June 10, 2022 4:39pm
Biscuit

I see, in Breaking News that the new Labor Party that govens Australia WON’T be stopping the 501 Deportations despite our Princess putting up some ‘forceful’ feedback…

Something NEW for Jacinda to add to ‘What I didn’t Achieve’ CV…
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June 10, 2022 5:13pm
- ClanMcleod
  
  “forceful”. 🙈🙈🙈
  
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  June 10, 2022 6:25pm
Maggie Pie

And in case anyone’s interested in moving over our way…..just letting you know that the late Pauline Polkinghorne’s beautiful home is back on the market.

Yours for $6,850,000.
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June 10, 2022 5:39pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  There’s no duck pond.
  
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  June 10, 2022 6:35pm
  - Maggie Pie
    
    The kitchen and bathrooms are to die for.
    
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    June 10, 2022 6:52pm
    - Captain Mainwaring
      
      Maggie, surely you know that our Keystone Cops struggle to solve crimes that the thickos commit.
      When intelligent people get involved they are well out of their depth.
      
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      June 10, 2022 9:23pm
snowy

Yeah saw that. Do they include the reason for sale in the marketing?
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June 10, 2022 5:57pm
Maggy Wassilieff

Add stabbings to the Auckland crime “spike”

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300610688/train-manager-stabbed-at-auckland-transported-to-hospital-by-rail
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June 10, 2022 7:02pm
- Niz
  
  Reason #356 to avoid public transport.
  
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  June 10, 2022 7:39pm
Maggie Pie

Inflation is becoming a real concern.

Even I worry about getting in the bath in case the soap goes up.
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June 10, 2022 7:33pm
surfing

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/128896044/government-initiatives-to-reduce-whnau-violence-stall-despite-praise

Maori are getting so much money that even a lazy 30 million doesn’t spike their interest these days.

I will guarantee that this 30 million dollars to stop maori men beating up their partners, achieves nothing. In fact, we will see an increase in violence given the propensity for labour dreams to backfire.
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June 10, 2022 9:12pm
Rusty

Global warming is really causing havoc in Aust and NZ at the moment –yeah right!

Record cold temperatures in Queensland and NSW and high snow peaks in NZ must be a result of global warming — yeah right!

Even our tv news weather folk can’t help telling us how cold its going to get for the following days but that doesn’t stop them having news reports on the dangers of global warming around the world

Global warming alarmists are a lefty/socialist cult who want to destroy capitalism.
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