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Warren

I would suggest Winston Peter’s and New Zealand First neutralized Labours promise of free detal care for those under Thirty that will take affect in 2025.
This will cause more damage to Labour than any other party as a inquiry and compensation for those that lost their jobs over the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Labour Parties mandate what many Left leaning voters want and compensation will be enticing.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/winston-peters-promises-millions-in-compensation-to-vax-injured-and-people-mandated-out-of-work/3656DKDNVJE6HC6HBMNQFD27SE/
This will do more damage to the left than it will do to a National Act partnership as the voter has already condemned Labour to under 29% in the polls leading up to the 2023 General Election.
I would hope that no centre right voter would be enticed to vote New Zealand First after 2017, so remember a vote for Labour , The Green’s, NZ First and the Maori Party is a vote for corruption, wasteful spending and racial division that could devide New Zealander’s for years to come.
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September 3, 2023 8:01am
- lastmanstanding
  
  Socialist Governments. They take $100 off you in tax piss $50 up against a wall and waste the other $50.
  
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  September 3, 2023 9:29am
  - Stellaboxer
    
    Do you all remember when this was considered subversive under a Labour Government? Well do you Paula Penfold?
    
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    September 3, 2023 12:19pm
    - Stellaboxer
      
      Well I guess it would help if I posted the Link!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6qmdqvItkM
      
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      September 3, 2023 12:40pm
  - bjools
    
    “Socialist Governments. They take $100 off you in tax piss $50 up against a wall and waste the other $50.”
    actually
    Socialist Governments. They take $100 off you in tax piss $50 up against a wall and waste the other $100.
    Leaving them to borrow $50 for the shortfall.
    There, fixed it for ya.
    
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    September 3, 2023 12:44pm
    - NZer In Exile
      
      “Socialist Governments. They take $100 off you in tax piss $50 up against a wall and waste the other $100.
      Leaving them to borrow $50 for the shortfall.”
      
      Then come election time shout from the rooftops about how much money their party has spent on this or that project (never mind that it was mostly wasted), and how mean the other party is going to be with “tax breaks for rich c**ts”, spending cuts etc etc.
      
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      September 3, 2023 1:26pm
Gravelroad

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/immigration/132853434/shambles-of-our-visa-regime-immigration-staff-reveal-their-truth
Another Labour government outfit not fit for purpose.
Explains a bit though.
Give a dog a visa.
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September 3, 2023 8:04am
- Martonman
  
  Little certainly has the Midas touch. First Health now Immigration!!
  
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  September 3, 2023 8:09am
  - Colville
    
    Poo fingers.
    
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    September 3, 2023 11:25am
    - Jack5
      
      So the immigration mess is wider than student-visa rorts and UN selection of refugees.
      
      Could Michael Woodhouse, a departing National MP, as a former Minister of Immigration, have interesting information on this? Will the issue be hammered in the election campaign?
      
      During earlier governments’ regimes, a Chinese man came to NZ under the rich, potential-investor provisions.
      
      He was murdered in Christchurch, and during the trial of the murderer it emerged that the man in fact had very little cash.
      
      He had borrowed a million or two from extended family to qualify for entry, and the loan was being repaid, or partly repaid, in dribs and drabs.
      
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      September 3, 2023 12:30pm
  - bjools
    
    But in midas’ case, everything he touched turned to gold, with Little, everything he touches turns to shit.
    
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    September 3, 2023 12:46pm
- slightlyrighty
  
  Is any part of our government actually doing a good job?
  
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  September 3, 2023 8:20am
  - bjools
    
    Short answer….NO
    Long answer….hell NO
    
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    September 3, 2023 12:46pm
- Vinicius
  
  Look at the list Labour ministers of immigration under Ardern and Chippy.
  Iain Lees-Galloway
  Kris Faafoi
  Michael Wood
  Andrew Little.
  
  Labour have had a big issue in the last 6 years, not enough of a talent pool in Parliament of capable people for ministerial roles.
  
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  September 3, 2023 8:26am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Health has had 4 ministers since 2017.
    
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    September 3, 2023 10:03am
    - imalwaysright
      
      S.O
      Hard to hit a moving target
      
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      September 3, 2023 11:00am
  - thetiedarch
    
    Normally one change of minister is tolerable and somewhat expected over a governments full time in power. Once per term is a bit much buts still somewhat ok.
    
    Labour seem to be changing ministers multiple times a term! No wonder nothing gets done.
    
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    September 3, 2023 10:07am
  - bjools
    
    Not so much a talent pool….more a puddle.
    
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    September 3, 2023 12:48pm
- Tricati
  
  Great coincidence this story gets released after parliament has risen for the election so minister can’t be held to account.
  
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  September 3, 2023 8:42am
  - rockape
    
    Oh, they will be held to account on 14 Oct. it’s a bit like the police and courts. The opposition is the police and can identify problems. But we are the courts and can decide the punishments on election day.
    
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    September 3, 2023 9:27am
- surfing
  
  Immigration lurches from barely processing any visas to issuing visas to cats and dogs and people with criminal convictions.
  
  Why can’t they sit somewhere in the middle? Issuing visas in a timely manner to people who meet the criteria!
  
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  September 3, 2023 8:43am
- rouppe
  
  That is disgraceful
  
  Green immigration spokesperson Ricardo Menendez-March said INZ had seen huge staff turnover, was under-resourced and needed better funding to “give integrity to the accreditation system”.
  
  Bloody Socialists. Their only response to problems is “more funding”
  
  It’s clear that the following should happen:
  1. A clear directive that proper assessment is required. Starting yesterday.
  2. a short sharp investigation to find out where this directive came from
  3. Start termination procedures for some of the middle and or senior managers involved. If the investigation is meet with uncooperative people, start termination procedures on them all. That’ll start some birds singing.
  
  If there is a throughput issue, get staff from other departments. Ministry for Women, Ethnic Affairs etc.
  
  It’s time to start cracking heads
  
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  September 3, 2023 8:51am
  - Close Hen Counters
    
    More funding zero accountability- here’s looking at te whatu ora as the best example of that lol
    
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    September 3, 2023 11:27am
- Piticus
  
  Having had first hand experience of INZ, I am not at all surprised by this article. INZ processing is the most dysfunctional working environment I have witnessed. The much heralded ADEPT system (known affectionately as INEPT) and the pressures to get numbers through have resulted in a process which has lost all integrity. Rewards for pushing through numbers of approvals (such as time off work), officers decisions being overruled despite the Immigration Act 2009 stating that a warranted officers decision is final, management reciting karakia whilst the remainder of the staff look blankly at them in meetings and online staff communication channels being peppered with such professional comments as ‘chur bro’ are a few small symptoms of a very concerning malaise in the organisation. The sad plight of the many migrants brought in by completely despicable individuals can mainly be blamed on INZ allowing this to happen using their ‘high trust’ model and I believe our country has an absolute obligation to care for these poor people – after all it is a government department which has been the enabler for this to happen !
  
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  September 3, 2023 8:53am
  - Jack5
    
    Piticus’s … it is a government department which has been the enabler for this to happen!
    
    The role of dodgy overseas agencies acting on behalf of would-be immigrants contributed to the mess, and so did desperation of those wanting to get here.
    
    If you wanted to migrate to the United States, then acted through some local agency in NZ, and the criteria you were given failed, do you think you could sue the American Government?
    
    Can you expect NZ citizens to indemnify foreigners from risk in their native countries?
    
    People affected aren’t doctors, nurses, engineers, and other skilled folk. Everyone wants these people, and they get in.
    
    This country is down towards the bottom of developed countries in wealth per capita. We have homelessness and huge, growing infrastructure problems. Can we afford to indemnify foreigners who want to come here?
    
    The background is that world population reached eight billion 12 months ago, according to the United Nations, which put the number of the world’s “displaced” people in August 2022 at 108.4 million.
    
    If, in economic desperation, we need to sell NZ citizenship, we should be auctioning entry efficiently.
    
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    September 3, 2023 1:16pm
    - Piticus
      
      Jack agree that there are other factors in play here other than the train wreck that is Immigration.
      I would suggest however, that if INZ went for ‘quality’ decisions rather than ‘quantity’ decisions and had someone own those decisions rather than a process where an application could pass through numerous hands, none of whom own the decision, things would be a lot better.
      If the article in Stuff is to be believed, multiple criminal records have been overlooked, alerts for breaching visa conditions ignored and staff were instructed not to make notes on the Adept/Inept system (wonder what it cost) if there were concerns uncovered – pretty damn serious if you ask me.
      When attached documents WERE opened false bank statements, CV’s and references were uncovered.
      INZ is obviously incapable of acting as a gateway to protect migrants (many who have lost their life savings to come here and live in squalor) and protect New Zealand by completing quality visa assessment. Not all INZ’s fault but I would suggest it is a HUGE contributor to the shambles !!!
      
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      September 3, 2023 5:34pm
- Matt Long
  
  Labour; Ruined it for You
  
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  September 3, 2023 9:07am
imalwaysright

https://youtu.be/s0rMbFSIXPw

This is worse than the jab
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September 3, 2023 8:05am
- ClanMcleod
  
  It’s all connected. It’s one more sign of our descent into totalitarianism and the gradual removal of any semblance of freedom or democracy.
  
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  September 3, 2023 9:58am
- mawm
  
  Imalways – God forbid that we have people spreading the truth on line. It might interfere with their indoctrination process.
  
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  September 3, 2023 1:13pm
Yvette

Luzon says he will excise co-governance from Three Waters
although he will keep the Water Regulator, Taumata Arowai
But will Luxon get rid of Te Puna, the Maori Advisory Council, which presides over the Water Regulator? As it exists now, that Maori Advisory Council Is total governance
three levels above the co-governance which so many
voters have condemned –

If you are going to remove a cancer
you should aim to cut it all out

including the overlooked Te Mana o te Wai statements – Consistent with a Te Ao Māori approach to all aspects of water, including economic, cultural, social and environmental expectations – from Auckland drawing on Waikato water, to commercial users being excluded from allocation hui – Te Mana o te Wai statements are available to Maori only.

It would be a bugger to miss cutting that out
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September 3, 2023 8:06am
- Tricati
  
  Luxon/National really need to be explicit on their intentions on all these co-governance areas and their plans over the He paupau report.
  The position to keep the Water Regulator, Taumata Arowai, is in my view the thin edge of the wedge to allow the activist to keep pushing the separatist agendas.
  National needs to clearly state all aspects of co-governance, including health, is going.
  
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  September 3, 2023 9:53am
  - Matt Long
    
    For people who aren’t connected to city water and sewerage networks The Water Regulator looks more dangerous than 3 Waters. It’s very disappointing that Luxon is planning on keeping it in place.
    
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    September 3, 2023 10:52am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    They have been explicit haven’t they? Three waters is gone.
    
    Erica was asked on the idiot box will 3 waters be gone, she said absolutely it will, it’s been our policy for some time, nothing has changed, except for Labour changing the name to try once again to hoodwink the dumb
    
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    September 3, 2023 11:04am
kevn

Gravel… True Month Python’esq performance.
Following whos orders?
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September 3, 2023 8:06am
artemisia

Chris Bishop in the media today giving a bit of a National heads up on social housing.

The National Party is promising to axe swathes of jobs and “clean out” Kainga Ora, the Government’s social housing landlord and developer.

No doubt there are delivery issues within Kainga Ora, but TBF they are seriously constrained by government policy and direction.

IMO a key cause of social housing failure is the magnitude and composition of the waiting list. The waiting list has quadrupled since 2017 despite a ramped up programme of build, and rent from the private sector. Half are households with no children, mainly working age singles (not necessarily working). And a huge ethnic imbalance.

Why? What has changed since 2017? Like to see some root cause analysis. What’s the point of continuing to solve the wrong problems?

On a personal note, in the market to buy a home for family members. The #1 consideration is what social housing is in the area or planned, definitely a very strong negative.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/132860241/nationals-chris-bishop-promises-radical-reform-and-job-cuts-at-kinga-ora
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September 3, 2023 8:08am
- greybeard
  
  First thing to do is change the name back to the meaningful English one.
  Same for NZTA, Tertiary Education etc etc
  
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  September 3, 2023 11:58am
- rouppe
  
  The landlord arm needs smashing first.
  
  The examples of appalling tenants not being held to account are disgusting. There are undoubtedly hundreds if not thousands of struggling yet decent people on the waiting list.
  
  That gang members or their proxies get to occupy public housing, terrorising neighbours, is unacceptable.
  
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  September 3, 2023 4:29pm
oldpark

Fools rush in. Grit your teeth on this lot . A con job or joke that Labour Keeps Giving .
First it was the $4.00 Dollars a week saving on veges and fruit paid for by the consumer.
Now the latest on the teeth bribe .A case of pay now buy later. Using wage earners taxes to accumulate enough to give out maybe so called “Free Dental Care” Perhaps in Two to Three Years time .
Now the joke not moving the Income Tax bracket creep like National have proposed for hard working NZs.
They cant be serious talking about so called “FREE Dental Care on maybe the Twelvth of never .
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September 3, 2023 8:11am
- Gravelroad
  
  Where are all the dentists going to come from to provide the free dental treatments?
  Wait times are considerable now – just for a check up.
  Makes the GST fiasco look a bit feeble though!
  
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  September 3, 2023 9:26am
  - Stu2
    
    Exactly
    
    I had a quick look at every story I could find on free dental visits, and none of them covered the numbers of dentists needed and where they would supposedly come from.
    
    Poor
    
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    September 3, 2023 10:21am
  - Matt Long
    
    Free dental, with a five year waiting list or one year wait for emergency cases.
    
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    September 3, 2023 10:53am
  - Ghost
    
    Could work out well for dentists down here as more aucklanders fly down and use our dentists instead of waiting months for an appointment
    
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    September 3, 2023 10:59am
- Tricati
  
  The words ‘Free Dental Care’ is the headline they wanted and yet they still prey on the social vulnerable and lazy to get their votes – Just despicable.
  
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  September 3, 2023 9:42am
- Keith White
  
  Luxon is Labour Lite.
  
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  September 3, 2023 4:12pm
  - Colville
    
    But he is as good as its getting for now so lets get behind him.
    
    We want him to BURY the Labour Party for a generation. 🙂
    
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    September 3, 2023 5:28pm
Yvette

How healthy is it to watch Shortland Street?

On 1 August 2022, the Minister of Health, Hon Andrew Little, in outlining a range of actions being taken to promote nursing recruitment, indicated that Manatū Hauora had been in discussions with the producers of the New Zealand drama programme Shortland St in promoting nursing as a career.

Up-Date
Marianne Infante, who plays Madonna Diaz on Shortland Street and who fronted Little’s recruitment drive, is now the driving force behind a Shortland Street staff strike for better pay and more nurses to avoid the conditions of overwork in burnout that have so far seen one death.
Just after the News, this regular weekday reminder of another Labour failure adds extra
schadenfreude to watching Shortland Street – Little wonder
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September 3, 2023 8:14am
- Steve Otto(North Shore)
  
  Wot is shortland st?
  
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  September 3, 2023 10:10am
  - G the giant from Dunedin
    
    It’s a street in Auckland not far from Queen st 😃👍🏻
    
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    September 3, 2023 11:09am
    - Steve Otto(North Shore)
      
      I was maybe there one day. Can’t remember, I was pissed.
      
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      September 3, 2023 2:29pm
Warren

Labour and the promise of free dental appointments for those under Thirty
starting for most in 2026, so ask yourself this, when is a promise a bribe and for the majority they won’t come into affect until a few months before the 2026 General Election.
Chris Hipkins our Prime Minister described the policy as a bold Labour vision and ” game changer for many” whilst acknowledging that’s some aspects of Labours eight cost of living measures announced so far don’t kick infor a couple of years, making it difficult to claim they will help the back pocket of many Kiwi family’s when thy need it most.
https://www.newsroom.co.nz/politics/a-big-dental-promise-kick-starts-hipkins-fightback
So how long will the waiting list be before the hunt for hundreds of Dentists comes to fruition.
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September 3, 2023 8:15am
- Flossie
  
  Seeing some people interviewed in the street last night on TV news there’s going to be some disappointed dental patients. Most seemed to think they would be getting paid for wisdom teeth extraction or root canal treatment. It’s only basic checks cleans and fillings.
  However none of it’s ever going to come to pass as Labour will not win.
  
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  September 3, 2023 9:54am
Bridgenag

surviving the world of bought and paid for panic
inverting the grifter gradient and turning lies back upon the liars

“the polar bear was the “charismatic megafauna” of choice for “global warning.” but a funny thing happened: they absolutely thrived. a bear on an ice floe looks precarious, but polar bears can swim 10-20 miles without breaking a sweat. they do not drown. it was all a setup by fools who had no idea what they were discussing.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/boriquagato/p/surviving-the-world-of-bought-and?r=1aj1bv&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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September 3, 2023 8:16am
- Don Beckett
  
  Polar bears have been known to swim 70 miles over open ocean.
  
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  September 3, 2023 9:47am
  - Colville
    
    I didn’t realise how big they are!
    600 freaking kilos!
    
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    September 3, 2023 11:30am
    - Don Beckett
      
      I think they are the world’s largest land based carnivore/predator, along with the grizzly bear from which they partly evolved.
      
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      September 3, 2023 11:42am
Prince

National Tax Cuts.
Media ‘But they are not really fully funded. Millionaires get them too.’

Labour Free Dental
Media ‘Masterstroke. Game changer.’
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September 3, 2023 8:21am
- kowtow
  
  I was struck by te media pahti’s co ordinated ,possibly even regime orchestrated, response to the nat tax policy ; how they gunna pay for it .
  
  Strange how through the covid scam , now the ongoing climate scam and now this electoral bribe that there’s never any question from the wider te media pahti ;
  
  how to pay for it all ?
  
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  September 3, 2023 9:31am
  - hullkiwi
    
    Not only the how is Liebore going to pay for the dental bribe, but how quickly the media forgot Robbo/Chippie’s slash and burn on Monday because of the hole in the public finances.
    
    There was not even a hint of how this bribe will be funded!
    
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    September 3, 2023 10:11am
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  Did Hipkins mention funding?
  
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  September 3, 2023 11:11am
Tomtoddy

I go for long walks in an around Papakura including new housing areas like Kauri Flats. Little narrow boxes packed in, side by side, barely room for a mini clothes line. Slums in 30 years??

The streets are narrow making passing awkward. Either a small garage or none at all so cars are jammed in on all angles making traffic movement extremely difficult.

What is rather puzzling is the width of the footpath. Many are 2.5 metres wide – huge. Almost no pedestrians, of course. So people park on them, kids play on them making them dangerous as cars wriggle their way through the narrow streets.

Is this the best we can do? After all these years of billions invested in housing, fancy promises, all we have to show for it is an ugly, dangerous ghetto in the making.
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September 3, 2023 8:23am
- Benedict Yu
  
  It is just economics. Urban land has become so expensive that houses need to be on a small footprint to make them affordable.
  
  The wide footpaths are more ideological. All councils insist that people will walk and cycle everywhere, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
  
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  September 3, 2023 8:43am
  - Che Guava
    
    Land would be far more affordable if we turned off the immigration taps for 50 years, or even better, indefinitely. But like so much of the political paradigm, disastrous ideologies such as this one are taken as a given, and we must attempt superficial and ineffective measures to deal with the consequences – and inevitably fail in the attempt.
    
    No, so the argument must always be “we need to free up more land” (which is true to some extent), but we can never tackle the obvious problem and say “stop the extra people coming in” (which is the root cause of needing more land). The same failure to address the causes rather than the effects applies right across the spectrum of various social issues.
    
    Unless there is a fundamental change in approach, it will continue to not really matter too much if we have a Labour or a National government, because the root problems will remain.
    
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    September 3, 2023 10:13am
    - cmm
      
      Land is affordable for. It is artificially boosted by zoning.
      
      Closing down immigration would kill NZ in less than 5 years. However it might help to try to attract better immigrants and reject worse immigrants.
      
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      September 3, 2023 12:48pm
      - NeverMindTheBollocks
        
        Disagree. Closing immigration – especially open slather immigration – would force a few changes on people already here.
        
        Frankly, I’m sick of walking into meetings & being the only native New Zealander there.
        
        Not a poke at any individual; just the volume.
        
        We used to have a country that functioned alright with very limited immigration; and I don’t recall any politician campaigning on changing the nature of the people of the place by importing foreigners from all over.
        
        Rant over.
        
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        September 3, 2023 7:54pm
  - cmm
    
    Well, yes, it is partially economics. But it is also over tight zoning laws etc. as well as subsidies etc skewing things.
    
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    September 3, 2023 12:29pm
- Suze Wainwright
  
  I watched someone who was obviously a social housing planner, on their train ride home one evening.
  
  They were clearly gleeful in their work. A red coloring pencil stroke on the map here; a red coloring pencil slash on the map there… Such fun!
  
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  September 3, 2023 9:16am
- Faroffsound
  
  Kennels?
  
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  September 3, 2023 12:59pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    No, they are in Rotovegas
    
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    September 3, 2023 2:31pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

They’ve Developed A Disease Strain That Has An 80% KILL Rate.
I may have posted this before. These fools are playing with fire

https://2020conservative.com/theyve-developed-a-disease-strain-that-has-an-80-kill-rate-3/
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September 3, 2023 8:25am
- Jethrod
  
  OH…OH ……OH.
  Does this mean we could be in lock down by October 14th?
  
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  September 3, 2023 8:41am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    You can bet they are discussing it.
    Desperate.
    
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    September 3, 2023 10:14am
ClanMcleod

El gato malo has produced an excellent and timely piece, reminding us how to spot fear mongering lies and propaganda, both of which have increased dramatically during covid and now the ‘climate’ narrative.

surviving the world of bought and paid for panic
inverting the grifter gradient and turning lies back upon the liars

in the halcyon days of 2020, certain internet felines were heard to opine that “public health epidemiology is just the global warming scam on 100X fast forward.” and truly, it was.

it’s the same tricks, the same bad models, the same zero-move look ahead sensationalization of anything that happens. it’s the same endless pivots to “the new scary thing” when the last one fails to pan out. it’s the same manipulation of data, the same suppression of dissent and elimination of perspective, and the same interminable repetition of tall tale talking points to frighten, other, and enrage.

We were lied to and propagandised with the covid narrative. We are being lied to and propagandised with the ‘climate; narrative.
But as the cat points out, ultimately this scam becomes easily recognisable, like a bad magician trick, once the trick is seen it cannot be unseen.

but we will evolve around this.

this endless bag of tricks not only evaporates but inverts once you know what you’re looking at. you not only see the scam for what it is, but you also see the scammers for what they are.

once you have learned to rotate this shape in your head, these attempted attacks just discredit the attacker and make them look absurd and untrustworthy. it’s why they try so hard to suppress such speech.

but it’s not working, is it? covid has exploded like a novelty cigar in the face of “the experts” whose weaksauce woo-woo has been laid plain.

consider:

this was once a scam that worked.

“extra! extra! scary new variant! this time be super duper double secret afraid because we really mean it!”

now it reads like lame, out of date comedy.

This all leads to totalitarianism. It always involves more government control and less personal autonomy. Like the ‘kind and caring’ Ardern and her ‘team of 5 million. It is all lies and fakery.
This is socialism cum marxism in disguise.

It is the path we have been forced along under the worst government in NZ history, a horrendous mix of ideological madness from dangerously incompetent students and activists, based on fraudulent claims regarding health, race, climate and gender.

but “grift shift” is the name of the game for this crowd and as the covid horse dies out from under them, many seek to switch to climate for the next leg of the ride to authoritarianville because while these two purported maladies have nothing to do with one another, isn’t it interesting that they always have the same cures: more government power, fewer rights, more collectivism and diktat, and less free speech.

and the way of the watermelon (green on the outside, red on the inside) is by far the more dangerous path. covid is just the annoying little brother of this gang. climate alarmism cum activism is the nasty older sibling who is almost certainly going to kill someone one day.

A superb article and well worth 5 minutes to read it all.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/surviving-the-world-of-bought-and
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September 3, 2023 8:50am
- Che Guava
  
  Look, you are right in outline, but as I have to often remind readers, this so-called “socialism” in the form of the agenda disguised by Covid fear and climate crisis is being pushed by multi-billionaire capitalists, not socialists.
  
  Please point to all of these so-called “socialists” who are foisting their ideologies on us. The Masters of the Universe (be it Blackrock, Vanguard, Wall Street banks, Bill Gates, or the Davos crowd) are hardly motivated by “socialism” don’t you think? If anything, it is neo-feudalism in late-stage capitalism.
  
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  September 3, 2023 10:04am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    Che Guava – I agree with you. Socialism is a tool used by people to gain power. The masters of the universe you refer to use it as a tool. They fund idiots like BLM, Stop Oil, gender activists, nutters who glue themselves to the roads.
    
    These organisations aren’t organic, they are well funded and designed to destroy our system of democracy. It is divide and rule on steroids, it is funded by the people you talk about, and it tricks useful idiots into doing the job on behalf of those people.
    
    When you have more money than you can spend in a hundred lifetimes, what do you do for entertainment? Play God. Treat the planet like a version of ‘The Sims’. The only thing left is power over others and the only way to achieve that is to destroy the democratic process.
    
    So yes, you’re correct. But ultimately it is a version of ‘socialism’ which is being employed to attract the foot soldiers needed to achieve this.
    If the billionaire class simply decided to impose their will without this cover and support, they would very quickly arrive at their own personal Marie Antoinette moment.
    
    The concern for me is, either willingly or because they are too stupid to see through it, too many of our politicians go along with the ludicrous premise of covid, climate and gender etc.
    
    All of these need to be treated with the derision they deserve, they are all moronic concepts that have been sold to the public with the biggest and most expensive propaganda campaign in history.
    
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    September 3, 2023 10:28am
    - Che Guava
      
      “The masters of the universe you refer to use it as a tool.”
      
      This applies to capitalism too (not the same as free market exchange). Concrete people rule, not abstract ideologies. Ideologies are just the clothing these people wear.
      
      The debt-based system of “infinite” growth is purely instrumental – it makes some extremely rich and able to wield power, but it is inessential. Power is the goal, and it doesn’t matter how the goal is reached. It can be dispensed with when it has served its purposes.
      
      Hence, the Great Reset – the old order of the last 500 years is ending, and those who benefitted from it the most aren’t going to yield to an organic replacement. They intend to bring the temple down in a controlled manner (pandemics and climate scams etc.) and build something new in its place. But they intend to keep us their slaves.
      
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      September 3, 2023 10:41am
      - ClanMcleod
        
        Couldn’t agree more.
        
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        September 3, 2023 10:50am
  - miltonF
    
    Che,
    People are judged by their actions and not their labels.
    
    You can call Bill Gates a capitalist all you like. The fact remains, that if Bill Gates is paying large sums of money to governments in exchange for beneficial policy, then he is literally a socialist.
    
    I think people get confused by the term socialism. They think it is a system to help poor people at the expense of the rich. It literally has nothing to do with any of that. Socialism is an economic system in which the government controls and manipulates the economy. Just because the govt is making policy which benefits the rich and corporations does not suddenly make it capitalism. It makes it corporate socialism.
    
    Do you really think that Bill Gates investing in Pfizer, and then paying large sums of money to governments around the world to mandate their vaccines, is capitalism? Give me a break…the govt forcing you to buy and consume Pfizer’s products is as far away from capitalism as you can get.
    
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    September 3, 2023 3:26pm
Benedict Yu

Ian Wishart and Sean Plunkett are after James Shaw.

Shaw’s biography and LinkedIn profile states that he is a graduate from Victoria University, with a Bachelor of Arts degree. However Wishart claims that Shaw dropped out of university and never graduated.

https://twitter.com/investigatemag/status/1697315713130868749?t=jsdvPVkQolGE3WyhL63jSw&s=19

https://twitter.com/theplatform_nz/status/1671272919622905856?t=ukVCcxFwkNgAy9IJyuf8Xg&s=19

Victoria University has an online portal where you can search for graduates. If you type in “James Shaw”, you get no results. 😳

https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/students/graduation-and-careers/roll-of-graduates

This is potentially serious. There have been a few high profile cases in New Zealand where people have lost their jobs, and in one case prosecuted for falsifying claims about qualifications.

The media are silent. Of course. Can you imagine the fire storm if, say, David Seymour was accused of falsifying his degree qualifications, in the middle of an election campaign? 🤯 A perfect example of media bias.

Sean Plunkett has said he is running a story on the Platform tomorrow.
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September 3, 2023 9:02am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  Oh dear.
  
  Who would have thought a Green MP, with all of their “integrity(tm)” would have been just another lying grifter?
  
  How vain, how stupid, and how utterly predictable.
  
  The only real question is which of the gurlz decided to take him out?
  
  Any comment from Chloe?
  
  This is a dangerous game, hope whoever did it has their Parliamentary asset declarations up to date, and isn’t going to find a couple of parcels of shares down the back of the sofa, or a bag of coke in their handbag, or a PG from a couple of staffers …
  
  popcorn season.
  
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  September 3, 2023 9:21am
- kowtow
  
  ‘Green’ voters and other leftists don’t care .
  
  One of their recent leaders who was outed for dishonesty/lack of integrity is now a law lecturer.
  
  Comrade, these people are out to radically change our society and their supporters want the same .
  
  They believe the ends justify the means.
  
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  September 3, 2023 9:26am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Even if his supporters don’t care, there could be a fish hook.
    
    If you look at his Wikipedia page you discover…. “Before returning to Wellington in 2010, Shaw worked in the consulting division at PricewaterhouseCoopers.”
    
    Did he tell PricewaterhouseCoopers that he graduated from Victoria University? Maybe he did graduate. Maybe Ian Wishart is wrong. Maybe the graduates database at Victoria University has him missing. Errors happen.
    
    Of course all this could be cleared up in 5 minutes.
    
    At the end of the day, this allegation, even if proven, is not going to change the Green vote. My major issue is with media hypocricy. If such an allegation was in circulation about the ACT or National leader, the screams in the media would be audible in Pitcairn Island.
    
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    September 3, 2023 9:38am
- DimChappie
  
  The Platform twitter link has no info about Shaw, I suggest someone remove it.
  
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  September 3, 2023 9:40am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Yes it does.
    
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    September 3, 2023 10:31am
- Michael Sommerville
  
  We need to check out the facts. I have done the search. There is no plain “James Shaw” but does he have other names that should be in the search. Also the Green party bio on JS says “While completing a Master’s in sustainable development and business leadership at Bath University,”.
  
  I totally agree that if he does not have a BA from Victoria University and he says that he does, then he should suffer the consequences of lying.
  
  However, before the attack starts you have to make sure you have all the ammunition required. This is my military background coming out.
  
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  September 3, 2023 9:41am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Totally agree. Right now it is just an allegation. However as of yesterday his LINKEDIN page did state that he graduated from VUW.
    
    James Shaw – New Zealand Government – LinkedIn https://nz.linkedin.com/in/jamespeshaw
    
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    September 3, 2023 10:04am
  - Taieri
    
    does he have other names
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    James Peter Edward Shaw. Search returns no applicable results.
    Perhaps he’s graduated in pectore?
    
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    September 3, 2023 10:06am
  - Mrs_Right
    
    His LinkedIn profile says he graduated in 1994. The roll of graduates on their website only goes back to 1998.
    
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    September 3, 2023 4:48pm
- JJ56
  
  In fairness the VUW list of graduates starts in 1998, Shaw’s Linkedin pages suggest completion in Sept 1994 (although a strange date if you think about it).
  
  I would note the Linkedin entry is ‘Authorised by Miriam Ross, Level 5, 108 The Terrace, Wellington’ who is the Green’s GM.
  
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  September 3, 2023 9:53am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Thanks for that about the database. I was unaware. In that case it is just an unproven allegation by one journalist, potentially defamatory if it is false.
    
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    September 3, 2023 10:08am
    - JJ56
      
      However the lack of a quick production of proof of degree seems a little strange, unless it is a trap to catch a [insert some PC term].
      
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      September 3, 2023 11:47am
    - Matt Long
      
      Wishart is one of NZ’s most experienced investigative journalists, all Shaw has to do is show his degree, show what his true shareholdings were/ are, or correct the record.
      I think Shaw is trying to freeze Wishart out because Wishart gave the ” unprecedented cyclone caused by climate change” narrative a total smackdown, or Shaw is scrambling his spin as the non-white-cis-male sisters smell blood in the water.
      
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      September 3, 2023 1:42pm
      - Taieri
        
        all Shaw has to do is show his degree
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        As much as I despise Shaw, I don’t see any reason why he should “show” his degree, just because somebody demands it? Having it is not a condition of his job. The onus is on the accuser not on the accused.
        
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        September 3, 2023 1:57pm
      - Maggy Wassilieff
        
        @ Taieri
        
        It’s the fact that James Shaw’s Linked-in page publicly displays the fact:
        
        Victoria University of Wellington
        BA – International Political Economy / World Religions
        1991 – 1994
        
        https://nz.linkedin.com/in/jamespeshaw
        
        Either that is true or it is not… and as a Co-leader of a Political Party, it is surely in our interest to know whether or not Mr Shaw is a straight shooter or a fantasist.
        
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        September 3, 2023 3:13pm
      - Colville
        
        Taieri.
        So that would be like Trump not showing his tax returns??
        
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        September 3, 2023 5:34pm
- Prince
  
  Be careful.
  The Vic Uni website give graduates from 1998 onwards.
  Shaw turned 25 in 1998 – quite probably graduated before then.
  I certainly wouldn’t use this as definitive proof.
  
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  September 3, 2023 10:13am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    Agree. Thanks for pointing that out.
    
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    September 3, 2023 10:32am
- ClanMcleod
  
  I published the story about Mary Ann Thompson a few days ago. Nor only did she forge her CV to get a very high paying job, she used her position to get relatives into the country bypassing the normal immigration channels.
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/former-immigration-boss-escapes-jail-for-cv-fraud/KLD4VZEOZGX2RT7KM73IS72WSU/
  
  She barely escaped jail. If this story is true, why should Shaw be any different?
  
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  September 3, 2023 10:32am
  - Benedict Yu
    
    I guess the difference is that James Shaw having a degree form VUW does not have much to do with his election to Parliament. It is certainly not a criminal offence. For example, an engineer getting a job designing bridges with a fake qualification is a criminal offence.
    
    Lying is a bad look, but not in itself a crime.
    
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    September 3, 2023 11:00am
    - cmm
      
      Yes it is a criminal offense. Fraud.
      
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      September 3, 2023 12:36pm
      - Benedict Yu
        
        No it is not.
        
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        September 3, 2023 3:49pm
      - cmm
        
        BY
        Lying to gain an advantage is fraud.
        If he has lied to bolster his image to get an appointment then that is fraud.
        
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        September 3, 2023 7:30pm
      - kisekiman
        
        Bullshitting on LinkedIn signifies nothing other than Jimmy is a bullshitter who wished he had graduated with a worthless BA from Vic before heading off on his OE to piss up for couple of years. But he didn’t, he dropped out early. Jacinda Adern’s LinkedIn page currently has her still listed as Leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister…we always knew she was full of shit
        
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        September 3, 2023 11:57pm
- JJ56
  
  I did idly wonder how he could have gained entry to the MSc at Bath without a first degree but it appears there is a way through:
  
  ‘Participants will normally hold a first degree (not necessarily in a management discipline), or will meet the School of Management entry requirements by demonstrating appropriate intellectual and professional competence
  to undertake the programme.’
  https://www.peterreason.net/wp-content/uploads/MSc_resp_bus_prac_brochure.pdf
  
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  September 3, 2023 1:12pm
  - NeverMindTheBollocks
    
    ‘by demonstrating appropriate intellectual and professional competence’
    
    INZ-level vetting, then
    
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    September 3, 2023 8:00pm
- Maggy Wassilieff
  
  Perhaps James Shaw completed his BA papers sometime after 2015.
  
  I didn’t finish my BA. I’m more of a practical learner.. (Final two sentences in this interview article)
  
  https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/twelve-questions-james-shaw/CNO4YVOGO4VMJ5RBTRGWYD6ARI/
  
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  September 3, 2023 1:13pm
  - JJ56
    
    Nope, he’d appear on the VUW database then.
    
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    September 3, 2023 1:37pm
- Apteryx
  
  The database starting at 1998 has already been pointed out. (Earlier graduates are listed in the university calendars, so easy to check.)
  
  However there may also be problems with the database. I graduated from Vic in 2000, but a search for my name produces no results. Yet if I browse the list for that year my name and degree details are listed. 🧐
  
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  September 3, 2023 1:19pm
  - JJ56
    
    Not listed in the roll of BA graduates 1994, 1995, 1996 or 1997 so the options are narrowing.
    
    https://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/xmlui/handle/10063/5486/browse?type=dateissued
    
    NB list of graduates are two years earlier.
    
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    September 3, 2023 2:05pm
- kisekiman
  
  He admits in an interview with Critic in a roundabout way that he never graduated.
  
  https://www.critic.co.nz/news/article/7292/james-shaw-talks-speights-three-ways-and-avoiding-
  
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  September 3, 2023 2:36pm
- rouppe
  
  That online search is for records back to 1998. Shaw says he graduated in 1994 so you have to access the individual calendars.
  
  I looked. His name is not listed in the roll of graduates in the 1994 calendar. His name is mentioned as being on the executive of Victoria University students association in 1993 but again not listed on the roll of graduates.
  
  Calendars are here
  http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/5486/advanced-search
  
  Then I discovered that the 1994 calendar doesn’t have the list of 1994 graduates, but the 1992 graduates. So I ended up looking through the 93, 94,!95 and 96 calendars but still couldn’t find his name.
  
  There’s also a gap on LinkedIn between his leaving Victoria and doing anything else ..
  
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  September 3, 2023 5:13pm
Warren

How can this Country trust Labour in another term of Government, all we hear from Labour is look at the Housing we have built and how National stuffed up , not a peep at the promises to build 100,000 new houses by 2021 in which they still haven’t accomplished.
But I want to get on to their dishonesty on how they have achieved a minor amount of their goals argument that I have had with many over Covid-19, Megan Woods the Housing Minister and those that run Kianga Ora took $3.8 billion from the Covid-19 fund and deposited in the Housing Excellaration Fund the Minister made so they could buy houses on the open market or build them, this was money that Grant Robertson promised when it was borrowed that it would only be used for Covid-19 related expenses.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-coronavirus-where-has-the-covid-fund-gone-5b-left-in-62b-recovery-fund/WXRKT56JASVZXKS53X4JTSMWME/
Labour is lead by frauds, cheats and the dishonest so a vote for them is a vote for corruption.
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September 3, 2023 9:02am
- septic skeptic
  
  The 100,000 houses were to be delivered in 10 years, thus ( hopefully) sidestepping the question of failure unless they got a 4th term. Of course the delivery rate was so utterly abysmal failure was obvious during the first term.
  
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  September 3, 2023 11:15am
- RdM
  
  Links self explanatory:
  
  https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2307/S00013/more-kainga-ora-staff-than-kiwibuild-houses.htm
  
  And they’re still advertising for more:
  
  https://www.seek.co.nz/Kainga-Ora-jobs
  
  Meet Our Team is hardly revealing…
  
  https://careers.kaingaora.govt.nz/meet-our-team
  
  A tiny bit more under this:
  
  https://kaingaora.govt.nz/about-us/our-structure/
  
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  September 3, 2023 8:27pm
mawm

There are threats of a new “variant” and more masking, lockdowns and vaccinations. Give this talk by Dr Peter McCullough on the origination of SARS-Co-V 2, who created it, the pandemic planning and vaccine industry, and decide what you want to do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG38_53SEbU
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September 3, 2023 9:05am
- Master Mariner
  
  Here an interesting research done by Japanese researchers on the Origins of Omicron.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsEm_nVx2dM
  It seriously looks like it was not possible by a Natural
  pathway ?
  If not, Then what was the intention ? Watch and come to your own conclusions.
  
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  September 3, 2023 9:44am
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    “A slow poisoning” Makes sense to me.
    
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    September 3, 2023 11:04am
  - Dougal10
    
    My conclusion has always been, it was released in africa to provide natural immunity to the escaped virus, due to the fact that the mrna vaxes weren’t working and africa could never pay for them anyway.
    
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    September 3, 2023 12:12pm
  - mawm
    
    MM – Dr Robert Malone was very careful to avoid answering the question as to whether Omicron came from a lab. It’s been long known that it came from an early lineage that had essentially died down and that there were so many mutations that researchers had said it could come from nowhere other than a lab. I quietly suspected that some Good Samaritan virologist had worked on it and released it. The South African Institute of Virology (now the SA Institute of Infectious Diseases) was highly regarded.
    
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    September 3, 2023 1:01pm
Ruahine

Do I get the feeling that the State Funded Media are getting a bit ‘braver’ now that their bullying overlord the Labour Gov’ts likely demise is imminent. Criticism of the incompetence of this Gov’t is only now happening.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/497160/immigration-staff-tell-of-behind-the-scenes-visa-dysfunction
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September 3, 2023 9:07am
- the deity formerly known as nigel6888
  
  That’s because the editor has decided to pivot to “neutral” to try and avoid the defunding bloodbath coming.
  
  Fortunately the Nats are still scared of the media, so will probably fall for it.
  
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  September 3, 2023 9:22am
- kowtow
  
  Dysfunction?
  
  Has the distinct whiff of corruption.
  
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  September 3, 2023 9:33am
- Colville
  
  Ruahine.
  It’s worth noting that the staff of INZ have seen the writing on the wall and decided to speak out.
  They know a National government is on the way and are happy to help it happen.
  
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  September 3, 2023 11:37am
Southern Raider

Yesterday morning the Herald had a story about how A+ students weren’t getting into Dentist school as was only 60 places each year in the whole of NZ

Hours later Labour promises free dental care for all under 30

Do they not understand supply and demand. The costs that the dentists will charge when there is no supply will be horrendous
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September 3, 2023 9:19am
- Benedict Yu
  
  Pesky unintended consequences 😅 The government would need to negotiate a schedule of fees that it will pay to the dentists for treating under 30s. The government will screw down those prices. So dentists will have incentives to maximise their over 30s clients, who they can charge whatever.
  
  The other thing is that over 30s have more complex and profitable procedures.
  
  So if you are under 30 expect to join a long queue for your appointment for your free care.
  
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  September 3, 2023 10:14am
  - the deity formerly known as nigel6888
    
    I don’t know why we are even bothering to debate this:
    
    1. Its vapourware from a desperate labour party
    
    2. Even if they tried to implement it, we know they would fuck it up, for exactly the reasons outlined above. No dentists available, years long queues unless you go private. (aka “bad luck”)
    
    Must be a year with a Y in it?
    
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    September 3, 2023 11:23am
  - Prince
    
    Also there will be a three year waiting list when/if the ‘free’ service starts. Who would want to pay when it’s free in the future ?
    It’s a stupid, desperate policy. Tailor-made for the boys and girls in the media.
    
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    September 3, 2023 11:56am
- oldpark
  
  @Southern Raider 9.19am
  
  Here was a wake up call for NZs Health Department just under Two Years Ago .was not reported on at the time .or since .
  
  Ten young qualified School Dentists resigned and walked out never to return .
  It appears they were undervalued and underpaid as well as allegedly being bullied by senior people in that field, who should have known better .
  
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  September 3, 2023 11:05am
- cmm
  
  They will import Cuban dentists.
  
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  September 3, 2023 12:42pm
  - kevn
    
    cmm… or the more wealthy go to Thailand.
    
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    September 3, 2023 5:20pm
Ghost

Huh

Have you destroyed our current system so bad that you are admitting it is now beyond repair?

“We’re building a new mental health system from nothing,” Hipkins said. There is more to be done there.

Article
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September 3, 2023 9:26am
Tony Stuart

Grant Robertson on 6th August 2023:

Labour’s finance spokesperson Grant Robertson says “it’s not going to be possible to make big promises” this election and suggested the global economy is “starting to deteriorate further”.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/08/06/not-possible-to-make-big-promises-this-election-robertson/#:~:text=in%20this%20election.-,%22It's%20not%20going%20to%20be%20possible%20to%20make%20big%20promises,about%20China%20the%20other%20day.

How does this square with the “big promise” Chris Hipkins made yesterday to give under-30’s free dental care? Interestingly, as recently as three weeks ago free dental care was a non-starter because New Zealand lacks the capacity to train enough clinicians to administer it.

I guess that’s why Labour used an image of joke teeth on their social media posts yesterday proclaiming this policy…
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September 3, 2023 9:32am
- Ghost
  
  Sorry Tony, need to correct your posts
  
  Labour’s finance spokesperson Grant Robertson says “it’s not going to be possible to make big promises” this election and suggested the books are a bloody mess, I’m scared and embarrassed for them to be opened up, and it is “starting to deteriorate further much quicker, I thought I would be out of office before it got this bad”.
  
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  September 3, 2023 9:38am
- Gravelroad
  
  It is just an empty electioneering bribe – same as removing the GST off fruit and vegetables.
  Does anyone seriously believe that even if Labour and their fellow travellers win the election they would have the capability (or even the intention) to deliver?
  No.
  These announcements are just an opportunity for their media supporters to proclaim “election game changer”.
  
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  September 3, 2023 9:44am
  - Swifty
    
    “Election campaigns are a sort of advance auction of stolen goods.”
    
    H.L Mencken.
    
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    September 3, 2023 12:50pm
- G the giant from Dunedin
  
  It’s only those rotten Nats that can’t spend any money, remember the tax money we pay is all Labours, so there
  
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  September 3, 2023 11:20am
Maggy Wassilieff

How many Elephants has Labour brought into your living room?

https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/rodney-hide-the-elephant-in-the-room-this-election
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September 3, 2023 9:43am
- Master Mariner
  
  Thanks MW, Could not agree more.
  Regardless what people think, The Covid repercussions are only beginning.
  
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  September 3, 2023 9:51am
  - kevn
    
    Promises…. winnie style.
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/winston-peters-promises-millions-in-compensation-to-vax-injured-and-people-mandated-out-of-work/3656DKDNVJE6HC6HBMNQFD27SE/
    
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    September 3, 2023 10:17am
    - ClanMcleod
      
      True, but still better than Seymour and Luxon refusing to acknowledge the last 3 years even happened.
      
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      September 3, 2023 10:44am
      - kevn
        
        Clan… You missed mentioning hipkins. One of the insider perps with the whole caper.
        
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        September 3, 2023 11:05am
  - ClanMcleod
    
    The longer it takes to address these blatant abuses of human rights, the longer it will take to resolve and move on. It isn’t going away, no matter how much Luxon and Seymour want it to.
    
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    September 3, 2023 10:43am
    - Colville
      
      99% of New Zealand has moved on.. Which is why a sensible politician won’t touch the subject.
      
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      September 3, 2023 11:40am
      - mawm
        
        @ 15.30 – 6 upticks, 4 down. On this blog it looks like 40% haven’t.
        
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        September 3, 2023 3:33pm
      - Colville
        
        mawm
        You really think this blog represents average New Zealanders??
        
        🙂
        
        9 to 4 at time of writing. I think 3 of them are Clan under different names!
        
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        September 3, 2023 5:39pm
      - mawm
        
        Col – Must be Clan. What aliases does he use?
        
        [Mod – No others]
        
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        September 3, 2023 6:37pm
      - ClanMcleod
        
        I have only one presence on KB.
        
        You’re dreaming if you think 99% have moved on. Who do you think is giving Peters support???
        
        If you were correct (you aren’t) re 99% having moved on, it would be a tragic indictment of the lack of moral fibre of vast majority of the population.
        Since when do you ‘move on’ from a scenario that saw medical apartheid inflicted on a substantial number of the population? The physical, mental and financial damage inflicted?
        
        The question has been asked many times, how did the German people let something occur as it did in that country in the 1940s. Well your response explains it very clearly. In 1936 identical policies were imposed on the Jewish population.
        No, nobody is comparing covid to the holocaust. I’m directly comparing it to the period in Germany that eventually led to the holocaust.
        
        It began with discriminating against a minority who were accused of being a health danger to the rest of the population. They lost their jobs and businesses and were socially shunned and shut out of society. Just as they were in NZ.
        
        Sure, let’s all just ‘move on’. /s
        
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        September 4, 2023 8:01am
- kevn
  
  Anyone for Cuban c19 ‘vaccines’? …
  https://otaihangasecondopinion.wordpress.com/2023/08/31/cuban-health-system-lessons/
  
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  September 3, 2023 10:08am
Maggie Pie

What a difference a month makes 😀 😀 😀

https://waateanews.com/2023/08/08/verrall-rules-out-universal-free-dental-care/
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September 3, 2023 10:15am
- Inandout
  
  Maggie, can you imagine our Labour lot drawing up rules like the NHS has? It will be chaos, and then there is the Maori factor.
  
  https://www.nhs.uk/nhs-services/dentists/what-dental-services-are-available-on-the-nhs/
  
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  September 3, 2023 10:50am
- NZer In Exile
  
  Dental and Optical included in public health makes sense to me. However, once again, a country needs a flourishing economy to fund such things. NZ’s red/green/woke tape bound NIMBY economy can’t currently support such nice things.
  
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  September 3, 2023 1:33pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  ‘Prime Minister Chris Hipkins confirmed it would not be Labour policy’
  
  So is this a U-turn? Or a bare-faced lie?
  
  I haven’t seen the useless media ask this question
  
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  September 3, 2023 8:08pm
BeaB

Now James Shaw, a minister and party leader, is being exposed. Far worse than old social media comments.
But the media have left him alone. Why? Perhaps the funding they love so much. Perhaps their own bias.
Not one has commented that Hipkins’s great announcement of free dental care is a rerun of 2018 and yet an0ther pie in the sky fantasy of Labour. It is becoming a very long list.
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September 3, 2023 10:24am
Warren

Well who would thought that after all the shit he has thrown about National and Act not being honest he has opened the door for some to accuse him of not being honest or truthful.
James Shaw could find himself out of a job if those that have called him dishonest prove it.
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September 3, 2023 10:38am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Stop Co-Governance. Julian Batchelor.

3 links and video.

https://stopcogovernance.kiwi/blog/another-maori-leader-attacks-julian-batchelor-this-time-front-page-of-major-bop-newspaper/
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September 3, 2023 10:42am
stiff cheese

Is NewsHub’s Lloyd Burr going to be reporting on KJK (also known as Posie Parker) when she returns this month to give evidence in Court? Just asking for a friend who thinks Burr might not be the dispassionate voice we need at that moment.

Here are some excerpts from what Burr wrote on TodayFM’s now defunct website, back in March under the title “Why I’ll protest Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull”:

“Kellie-Jay doesn’t want trans people to have what she has. She doesn’t want them to feel comfortable in their own skin, in their own bodies, or in their own society.

“Kellie-Jay also has a history of Islamophobia and white supremacy. Look at some of her previous commentary. It’s pretty vulgar.

“She punches down, bullies and uses her power and platform and privilege to spread her hate. . .

“As Kiwis, we can’t stand by and let people bully those who are different and just want to fit in. . .

“11am Albert Park, Auckland. See you there.”

When you read pieces like that, you end up wondering how much vitriol they’d spew on the women in your own circle — women who continue to want some spaces and events to be reserved for biological women. They’re not asking for something extra, they just want to hold on to what they’ve got.
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September 3, 2023 10:50am
- Che Guava
  
  “She punches down, bullies and uses her power and platform and privilege to spread her hate”
  
  This is precisely what the MSM does.
  
  “Kellie-Jay also has a history of Islamophobia and white supremacy. Look at some of her previous commentary. It’s pretty vulgar.”
  
  Even if true, who cares? She has a certain opinion on X, therefore all of her other opinions are invalid? This is like saying that someone believes that the earth is flat, but also believes that New Zealand has a population of about 5 million people, therefore New Zealand doesn’t have a population of about 5 million people.
  
  Even if, for example, she had uncontrollable homicidal tendencies towards all “trans” people, this wouldn’t make the pro-trans argument any stronger. There is no logical connection.
  
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  September 3, 2023 11:10am
- Notsofast
  
  New Zealanders are an uneducated rabble. Islamophobia is a legitimate concern, for example Michael Wood triumphantly declared KJK’s views wrong, when they are fundamentally correct. On the other hand Islam is a religion that parades demonstrable lies in a strict form, beginning with their children. Sarah Haider is a lapsed Muslim in America, who understands both that religion, and the cult of gender ideology. I recommend people like her to Michael Wood and Lloyd Burr for their reeducation.
  
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  September 3, 2023 11:18am
  - Paulus
    
    I have never trusted Burr and never will – he is twisted in his interpretation and has to compete with the women of the newsrooms in making things up.
    
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    September 3, 2023 2:10pm
- CJames
  
  As she was only about 5 foot high and pretty small build, almost every trans person would be significantly taller and heavier than her. How could she punch down, bully and use her power? Or is it just someone doing a cliche attack because they can’t answer her argument. Whatever else he is, Mr Burr isn’t an impartial journalist. What was the old line about “just the facts”?
  
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  September 3, 2023 1:28pm
- NZer In Exile
  
  The funny thing is many self-described feminists I’ve bumped into in life have been extraordinarily abusive and arrogant bigots who similarly do not tolerate scrutiny/discussion about their echo-chamber derived beliefs.
  
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  September 3, 2023 1:41pm
- Gravelroad
  
  Mr Burr is clearly compromised and biased.
  Let’s hope his employers have a more rational and balanced view of the news and send someone without an already set agenda to report on anything to do with Ms Parker.
  
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  September 3, 2023 2:59pm
Inandout

Here Victor Davis Hanson quietly describes the condition of many dying US cities. Well worth a watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7e34f22HXY
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September 3, 2023 11:01am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Drinking too much?
It did not work last time Joe.

https://therightwingclub.com/americanpatriotclub/prohibition-2-0-joe-biden-wants-to-restrict-how-much-alcohol-americans-can-drink/

I would have thought there are more important things for a President to do.
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September 3, 2023 11:30am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Joe built a wall, why?
There are ‘special Police cars and Police. How did all of these cars and people get onto a small Island?
The only reason I can think of is looters.
Or, what are the Govt really covering up?

https://uniondailypost.com/joe-biden-finally-builds-a-wall-to-block-out-what-happened-in-lahaina-maui/
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September 3, 2023 11:43am
- kevn
  
  SteveO… Thanks for those links.
  
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  September 3, 2023 11:57am
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Biden dictatorship?
Using the global warming cultists? Biden is losing the plot and getting dangerous.

https://uniondailypost.com/biden-to-seek-new-dictatorship-powers-with-climate-emergency-declaration/
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September 3, 2023 11:46am
Maggie Pie

Twitter bestie questions if James Shaw also has a BDS to go with his BA from Vic?

LOL!!

https://twitter.com/jamespeshaw/status/1697806077423911102
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September 3, 2023 11:57am
kevn

Maggie… When will we get a free EV?
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September 3, 2023 11:59am
CAKE FACE1

National policy was pretty pointless.

This extreme left government (described as the “centre” by The Team of $55 million) will always outbid you in terms of increasing the size of the State, so why bother trying to compete on this?

Perhaps National’s thinking is that an honest approach will only seem to secure you about 15% of the vote maximum. Sadly, this could be true…

The problem is that the relative size of the looter, moocher and grifter group has grown exponentially in recent years, while the group paying for this largesse contracts at an alarming rate.

I understand that about 50% of households don’t pay net tax? Approximately 500k work for the State, 50k for the Council, and 200k are on welfare completely (11.3% of households). 750k total. That’s a lot of mouths to feed…

This leads to a socialist doom loop. Economic failure begets more socialism, as tax revenues are crushed, and welfare remorselessly rises.

Still, socialists believe that they can treat the few remaining contributors like farm animals, milking them for ever-increasing subsidies.

There is one problem with the neo-Marxist’s cunning plan. In the unlikely event Labour / Green / Māori win the election, the wealthy will leave, and leave the moochers to it.

The economy and society will collapse.

The Team of $55 million will then deliver sad outpourings about how the “blatant failure of capitalism” has ruined everything…
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September 3, 2023 12:09pm
Waipuk

RNZ has a article call “Scrutiny of candidates prompts pushback and claims of ‘agendas’”

Basically news outlets being criticised for trawling through candidates social media to put anything which does not fit with the news outlets views. Ie left wing. Climate change, Covid. And so on.

Who made these organisations judge and jury?

I wish the politicians had more of a backbone, well a backbone to stomp on these gutter hags
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September 3, 2023 12:47pm
- Gravelroad
  
  We saw all that last year during the local body elections where “journalists” being paid by the government’s Provincial Journalists fund (or whatever the bribe was called) scoured the countryside to “out” allegedly unsuitable candidates who had views contrary to those held by the Labour Party.
  
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  September 3, 2023 2:00pm
Maggie Pie

TRENDING…

Labor pledges to put a Maori on the moon by 2026.
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September 3, 2023 1:30pm
- Ghost
  
  Fake news, Maori landed the sky Waka on the moon, Mars and Uranus before white people had even discovered them.
  
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  September 3, 2023 1:32pm
- kevn
  
  Maggie… I recall one well known early settler ‘mooning’ at a govt function a few years ago.
  Does that qualify?
  
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  September 3, 2023 2:19pm
  - Steve Otto(North Shore)
    
    Dun someone?
    
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    September 3, 2023 4:36pm
    - kevn
      
      He dun it…
      
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      September 3, 2023 5:18pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

David Seymore on oil and gas ban.
“The decision to ban new offshore oil and gas exploration in 2018 was done without analysis, without a Cabinet decision, and without public consultation,”
I saw Ardern saying this. To do this was legal? Who gave the PM this power? The way it was done was a Captain’s call. Who the hell does she think she is?
I mention this because David Seymore is the first Politician I have heard mention this.
Everyone seemed to be scared of her. Tyrant!

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/national/act-vows-to-reverse-ban-on-oil-and-gas-exploration-make-offshore-wind-easier-to-permit/ar-AA1g9CMd
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September 3, 2023 2:25pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Obama is in control. Well he does interfere a lot.
Also, many think Michele is a bloke – I do.

https://www.thepoliticalglobe.com/unmasking-obama-the-untold-story-of-a-manchurian-candidate/
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September 3, 2023 2:47pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Now four Dems with declining health and age. Why are they kept there? Obama I reckon. McConnell is a RINO.

https://www.thepoliticalglobe.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-demands-accountability-for-aging-leaders/
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September 3, 2023 2:55pm
Steve Otto(North Shore)

Melania told to have an escape route? Things will get bad for her if Trump does not win. I don’t think so Tim.
Really? I don’t think they will ever split.

https://freedombulldog.com/red-rebel-news/melania-trump-is-told-to-have-an-escape-route-ready/?aff_id=1037&utm_placement=redrebelnews
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September 3, 2023 3:23pm
- RichardX
  
  I’m sure his current marriage is as stable as his previous marriages.
  
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  September 3, 2023 9:58pm
Pineapple Lumps

Last Sunday Andrea Vance wrote an opinion piece titled “National’s factions: from the zombie MP’s to the Taliban.”

Vance states in the article that a group of socially conservative evangelical Christians are known by more centrist MPs as the ‘Taliban’.

Vance does not substantiate who or how many centrist MPs hold this view.

If you are a centrist MP who does not call this group the Taliban, could you take Vance to court for slander and reputational damage?
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September 3, 2023 3:46pm
- lifesgood
  
  Good grief, you live by a moral code and you get called the Taliban. Is there no end to the left’s nastiness?
  
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  September 3, 2023 4:54pm
James Stephenson

The left and their media cheerleaders are going hard on this possible “international legal dispute” with China over the foreign buyers tax but I have to say they’re leaving me a tad perplexed.

I mean, what country is going to take legal action because they’re upset about a measure that would tend to decrease the capital outflows from their jurisdiction? Wouldn’t China, with all their property-related problems, rather have that money invested in shonky tower blocks at home?
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September 3, 2023 6:27pm
- NeverMindTheBollocks
  
  Correct me if I’m wrong but I thought foreigners are unable to buy freehold land in China
  
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  September 3, 2023 8:13pm
  - Ghost
    
    So, can foreigners buy property in China? The answer is yes, foreigners are allowed to purchase property in China! The essential requirement is that you have studied or worked in China for at least one year on a residence permit. Foreigners are allowed to only own one residential property for dwelling purposes.
    
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    September 3, 2023 8:19pm
    - NeverMindTheBollocks
      
      Flats, maybe. Not land, IIRC.
      
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      September 3, 2023 9:15pm
      - Ghost
        
        As that link says, no one owns land in china, including Chinese, they all lease it form the government.
        
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        September 3, 2023 9:19pm
- kevn
  
  James… MSM doing their best to spin anything that Nats/Act put up. No matter how tenuous the connection.
  Paymasters say.. do it.
  
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