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Viking
3 months ago

Major left-wing donor tops up Opportunity Party donation to $100kAs much as Rich Lister Phillip Mills would like to see a Labour-led government, he believes it is paramount NZ First is kept out of power and that the Opportunity Party has a ‘genuine shot’ at being the saving grace.

Phillip Mills has always been a Labour and Greens supporter and a major funder on the left. But this year, he also sees value in a different player in the election – the Opportunity Party. 
The minor party has been around since the 2017 election but has never been close to meeting the 5 percent party vote threshold needed to get into Parliament. 
Mills, the founder of gym franchise Les Mills International, says he has always liked its ideas and admires Gareth Morgan, economist and founder of the party. However, in the past, he feared support for Opportunity, previously known as the Opportunities Party, would risk cannibalising the Green Party vote and end up as wasted votes.

read morehttps://newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/12/major-left-wing-donor-tops-up-opportunity-party-donation-to-100k/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawRy9kpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeBlX7JB4yvJipxSwyQoS6DuDys7bLwAp5X5yCQDjsnaWwNUC0TomXpwgfLCI_aem_KU_ivtMXHNwGAkO9SBu5CA#Echobox=1778526043-3

The Ancient Hooligan
Reply to  Viking
3 months ago

Phillip Mills was not the founder of Les Mills International as your post claims, his old man Leslie was, along with his Mother, Colleen who founded this business in the late 1960’s. Phillip was still attached to his mothers tit at that stage I would imagine.

However, if the left leaning Phil has anything to do with TOP or funding it, then count me out. The man obviously has too much money to fritter it away on a lost cause like this. Surely there are more constructive things to do with the loot.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  The Ancient Hooligan
3 months ago

Still is attached to the tit. What has he achieved in his life?

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  The Ancient Hooligan
3 months ago

A leftie businessman – that’d be an oxymoron. 🤣

Trust a leftie to claim he established a successful business just by adding “international” to the name.

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Viking
Reply to  The Ancient Hooligan
3 months ago

Hey I didn’t write that, just put it there for you grumpy buggers to read.
But you are right. Les and Collen started it.I would hazard a guess and say that Philip has grown it way beyond what Les. did.

The Ancient Hooligan
Reply to  Viking
3 months ago

Well if you are just putting up crap for grumpy bastards to read, then it says little of the quality of the research, knowledge or understand of history of the idiot who wrote it.

Viking
Reply to  The Ancient Hooligan
3 months ago

Obviously still gumpy then,

Tarquin
Reply to  The Ancient Hooligan
3 months ago

You tend to find people who have started their own business and worked their way up wouldn’t touch TOP with a barge pole, there are far better options on the right. The left are full of the Philip Mills of this world, they think inheritance and privilege make them more knowledgeable. TOP is like an beacon to these dullards and goes to prove a fool and his money are easily parted.

Viking
Reply to  Tarquin
3 months ago

Add Abel and a few others to that list. You can tell. They never have real jobs, just live off trust money.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Editor
3 months ago

Far as I know, he never put a brass Razoo into the Anglican Cathedral rebuild, other than his bloody great honker!

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Sooty
3 months ago

Not even a bequest, or even a legacy from his estate.

Tarquin
Reply to  Editor
3 months ago

Laila Harre of the Alliance and internet party fame would be hard to beat.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Tarquin
3 months ago

Her of best first friends of HOOTY!

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Viking
3 months ago

If his parents had not set him up in life with a profitable business to fund his wanky ideas, where would he be today, another idiot like Phil Twyford down the crapper!

Viking
Reply to  Sooty
3 months ago

Aside from the shit here, he has built a very credible international organisation.

What have you done?

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Viking
3 months ago

Not been a wanker!

Viking
3 months ago

7.00AM and not a not a cat, mouse , dog or human to be seen.
WTF

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Viking
3 months ago

Jumping cats, filled with the revenge of doggy nightmares.

https://nitter.poast.org/i/status/2054369597416255659
1 mins 07 secs

The change of “sense of humour” by AI 😀😁😂🤣🙃

Hooker Phil
3 months ago

A public meeting was held in Waimate last night regarding the proposed Local Body 90 day forced amalgamations, (Head Start). I’ m not sure that many people appreciate just what this is going to entail, especially to those living outside of the, perhaps, 3 main city centres.
It could leave many being included in large areas, for instance the South Island could be down to 5 to 7 “local” regions.
There were about 350-400 people present at this quite short notice (3/4) days meeting and for over an hour many supportive views of the Council were expressed. It was basically accepted that amalgamations would take place and the Council should enter into discussions with other Councils both north and south of us.
I am a ex County Clerk and have been through this before in 1989.

My view is that in the South Island everything is going to hinge on the Christchurch City Council and what they wish to do. Currently they have Rolleston sitting at the end of the Southern Motorway and Rangiora and Kaiapoi on the Northern Motorway. If they decide that they want to include them in a Canterbury Council, think rugby and not region. The inclusion of both the Selwyn and Waimakariri Council areas would also mean Hurunui goes into that and we have the exact boundaries of the Canterbury Rugby Union.
It is now important that Ashburton is not added to that mix as it would leave the possible South Canterbury region too small. So again, think rugby, the old combined Hannan Shield Districts that played overseas teams, Mid Canterbury, South Canterbury and North Otago. This would bring the catchment of the Waitaki River and all the lakes under one jurisdiction of one authority as suggested last night.
This would give the new Council the larger towns of Ashburton, Timaru and Oamaru with Waimate sitting comfortably in the middle and now the area large enough to survive on its own. The rest of Otago could then end up along with Southland – gee, the Highlanders. Nelson/Marlbourgh and Westland would make 5 regions.
Back in 1989 at the time of the last amalgamations there were over 850 or so Councils, Boards and all sorts of bodies. The are now 78 and I recall at the time that it was always suggested that future amalgamations would take place.

A feature of the meeting and what was greeted with disproval was the absence of the Local M.P. Miles Anderson. It was said that he was in transit from Wellington, interestingly though the confirmed Labour Party candidate for the area – Damian O’Connor – heard of him, ex Coast now living in Dunedin, was able to be there. This is of course very much a National Party area – I would feel that overall this may cost them some Party Votes with this process outcome meant to be announced by August and implementation at the 2028 local government election cycle.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Hooker Phil
3 months ago

theres no point doing all this if the root cause of council failure isnt addressed…. unelected staff/ceos that control the direction etc of councils.

the govt needs to include provisions that the ceo and all top level staff contracts cease at election time and they can be rehired by newly elected council if theyve been deemed fit for the job and going in the wanted direction.
there should also be recall provision so the very traitorous scum that get elected on certain thigs then do a 180 can be held to account.

freethinker
freethinker
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
3 months ago

An excellent idea that should be applied to all senior staff capable of decision making or implmentation to provide accountability that elected coucilors decisions are implemented as intended and not subverted by staff

Dougal10
Reply to  Hooker Phil
3 months ago

I think you are right , it could probably still work without ashburton but would be better with it . Labour used to win waitaki for years with jim sutton as the member , we are always better served with someone who lives here than someone who lives in dunedin , I remember when that odious little prick from dunedin david parker was our mp , but then i do quite like miles hes ok for a Catholic.

Mike Hunty
Reply to  Hooker Phil
3 months ago

I’ve got relos down at Wainakarua.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Mike Hunty
3 months ago

the hills have eyes there, is it uncle dad?

Mike Hunty
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
3 months ago

I’ll smash you with my banjo..

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Mike Hunty
3 months ago

coupled with a 6 fingered fist punch?

Tarquin
Reply to  Editor
3 months ago

A common mistake, you would appear to be confusing Maoris with Golly’s.

Dougal10
Reply to  Mike Hunty
3 months ago

You and that labour columist chris trotter

Viking
Reply to  Hooker Phil
3 months ago

All sounds very sensible. Maybe rugby could get back to that.Its a disaster currently.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Viking
3 months ago

No, fold their tents and go off!

Viking
3 months ago

Bill banning under-16s from social media put on hold, Erica Stanford confirmsThe government has confirmed legislation aiming to ban under-16s from social media is now on hold.
Parliament debated the matter on Wednesday after a select committee inquiry into the harms the online platforms cause.
Labour agreed to support National’s proposal for a ban – while the Greens and ACT were opposed to the idea, saying it would be too easy to get around the rules, that at-risk groups could become more isolated as a result, and that social media harms more than just young people.
National’s Catherine Wedd’s bill – which would impose the under-16s ban in line with Australia’s – was drawn from the biscuit-tin ballot in October, having been lodged last May.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360979209/bill-banning-under16s-social-media-put-hold-erica-st?cx_testId=87&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=2#cxrecs_s

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Viking
3 months ago

delayed social media ban, delayed school curriculum… losing week for nats.

fwiw tho the same ban is here in aussie, all it does is fuck off adults go no end and the kids just use vpn and it goes away.

i tried logging onto substack ffs and had to go through age verification bullshit… yea yea get a vpn i know, i been too lazy and theres so many fuck knows what one to use.

Curious
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
3 months ago

I use Norton anti-virus which comes with a free VPN.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Curious
3 months ago

your daily pornhub visits will continue unimpeded once the ban finaly comes into effect 🙂

it was hilarious, australians were outraged and in a huge panic at the start cuz pornhub couldnt be bothered with the age verification thing so just withdrew from aussie entirely. it was like armegedon here for a time, then pornhub lost alot of money over it so came back with age verification much to the relief of the australian people

rightoverlabour
3 months ago

Did anyone listen to HDPA yesterday when she had that cunt Hipkins answering questions. He made some comment about the only people worked up about Covid was news Talk ZB. I need the actual question and answer.

rightoverlabour
Reply to  rightoverlabour
3 months ago

Never mind

“Chris Hipkins says Aucklanders have moved on from long lockdowns, and don’t hold a grudge against Labour. 
The Labour leader gave a speech today on the city’s future, batting away questions on whether the Party kept the city too long in lockdown in 2021. 
Chris Hipkins clarified that more Aucklanders are focused on the future of the city than what happened years ago.
“Covid-19 was a very difficult time for everybody, and Auckland bore a disproportionate brunt of the effects of the Covid-19 restrictions compared to the rest of the country.”

from

https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/on-air/heather-du-plessis-allan-drive/audio/chris-hipkins-labour-leader-says-aucklanders-have-moved-on-from-long-lockdowns-in-2021/

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  rightoverlabour
3 months ago

Arsewipe! Who’d expect anything other than denial, deflection and lies from that little prick.

Tarquin
Reply to  rightoverlabour
3 months ago

What an absolute wanker. Hosking ripped into him at 6 this morning – gave him absolute death even called him a twat on the radio. Lucky the BSA is no more.

Sooty
Sooty
Reply to  Tarquin
3 months ago

Should have given him a bloody good clip around the ears and sent him on his way! I am hoping Labor will do no good until they shaft the cunt.
He needs his day in court, standing in the dock!

rightoverlabour
3 months ago

Huntavirus? Ivermectin!!

Some antiviral or repurposed therapies such as ribavirin, hydroxychloroquine, and ivermectin have been discussed in portions of the medical literature, but supportive care remains the standard accepted treatment for HPS and evidence for these therapies is limited or mixed.”

from

https://open.substack.com/pub/stevekirsch/p/hantavirus-what-you-need-to-know?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=548354&post_id=197234945&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=127oyu&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2NDE4NDM1OCwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTk3MjM0OTQ1LCJpYXQiOjE3Nzg3OTE2NTYsImV4cCI6MTc4MTM4MzY1NiwiaXNzIjoicHViLTU0ODM1NCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.bbzEKNIfYDhZg4bFzq9pj0PzTTUZIBEtgM2vUX8ISds

rightoverlabour
3 months ago

Love this quote:

“”The WHO’s decision to send Peter Daszak to Wuhan to investigate the origin of SARS-CoV-2 is like the LAPD sending Charles Manson to investigate the Sharon Tate murder.”

https://www.malone.news/p/the-cias-war-on-oversight?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=583200&post_id=197678690&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=127oyu&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

rightoverlabour
3 months ago

CO2 alarmists, take note .

In 190 years since 1835, temperatures at the West Point Military Academy were unrelated to CO2 levels.
Warmest year on record is 1871, followed by 1925.

from

https://x.com/newpositivism/status/2054262817511895329?s=43

rightoverlabour
Reply to  rightoverlabour
3 months ago

Here is the graph.

Screenshot-2026-05-15-094434
Simpleton1
Simpleton1
3 months ago

A summary in a rant of what the paywalled Herald reported.

What The Waipareira Trust Scandal Tells Us About Corruption
https://youtu.be/vboR0ZMTNjY
5 mins 27 secs : 14th May 2026 : The Platform : Michael Laws.

What the Waipareira trust scandal tells us about corruption, double standards and central government failure.

The so called public servants, the unelected, being far too well paid, where their various guilds & unions also a form of protected mafia in a gravy trough.
Our so called democratic representatives are not doing their job in not calling all of this out, as also the 4th estate in not questioning the politicians & the lead government employees in not doing their jobs.
It is brazen thievery by the likes of John Tamihere to continue with his Waipareira Trust.
This has also allowed other forms of “Trusts” to sprout, like Willy Jackson’s MUMA, “Manukau Urban Maori Authority”, let alone a few others with devious names like “Te Kaika” down in Dunedin.

NZ needs an Elon’s Musk’s DOGE program to expose a sweep this corruption out. Follow the Money as it taxpayer’s money that is demanded with menaces !

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waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  Simpleton1
3 months ago

The 2nd part with Farrar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAvhsbsGvvs
The Platform : Michael Laws.

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  waikatogirl
3 months ago

Thanks wg..
The full interview here for a further, that continues circa on from 6 mins 40 secs for a further 16 minutes

https://theplatform.kiwi/podcasts/episode/the-john-tamihere-timeline-the-poll-fact-the-msm-didnt-report
23 mins 35 secs : 14th May 2026 : The Platform : Michael Laws

David Farrar breaks down the John Tamihere timeline and the poll fact the MSM didn’t report.

Interesting questions about how Helen’s Clarks Foundation Charity trust?
Green Peace?

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Viking
Reply to  Editor
3 months ago

Is that the same as rude bastartd? asking cause i can’t speekda engliais

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Editor
3 months ago

I am sure that in the terms & conditions in signing up to YSB that it was they were members of your new party, so all set to go to collect the $78,000 that would perhaps last you to the end of year??

A good reason like Helen Clark’s charity to continue on & find some other government funding???? for YSB
A tad of iwi will get you to be certified 😁

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I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Editor
3 months ago

photographic evidence of barcoded face and also weight of the tiki you wear around your neck.

Viking
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
3 months ago

NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

nasska
Reply to  Editor
3 months ago

Your perpetual victimhood status.

Tarquin
Reply to  Editor
3 months ago

Using my avatar should help no end.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  Editor
3 months ago

Elderly?, white, right politically: FUNDING APPLICATION DENIED

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Viking
Reply to  waikatogirl
3 months ago

No help at all. gotta be rough caste I.E. have a whakapapa that has plenty of black and white and brown with a sprinkle of ROLs favourite flavour, Slave history would help, long-term social welfare bene, with a good record from prison.

I guess some real disabilities, i.e., left hand limp, as well as a mental one.

Wth a sprinkle of fairy dust and air freshener, that should do it.

Do you think Ed qualifies?. We could find someone he could bribe, oops, I mean pay to run it.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
3 months ago

Europe panicking over fuel supply
Trump shows US military power with a surfacing nuclear sub

https://rumble.com/v79umjo-trump-just-taught-europe-a-lesson-theyll-never-forget.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
Trump Just Taught Europe a Lesson They’ll NEVER Forget!!!
Dr Steve Turley

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I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Editor
3 months ago

how easy for china to do the same?

setting a precedent is pretty fucking dumb, monkey see monkey do.

blockade taiwan, hell if america can supply taiwan with weapons/defence then why not china supply iran?
there would be epic trump tantrums and empty taco threats.
trump begging china to buy more iphones was pretty fucking pathetic and shows how weak and desperate america really is

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Editor
3 months ago

the same way the piece of shit americans have done to cuba and venezuela.

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Viking
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
3 months ago

Geography not your great strength then?

nasska
Reply to  Editor
3 months ago

…..”what’s the big deal with Taiwan?”…..

One word. ‘Superconductors’.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Editor
3 months ago

you can build factories and buy the machines but its the people who run them that are key to success.
thats why fuck all are made in america, the exact same machine in taiwan vs america with exact same input material yet america made many duds and taiwan produce useable chips, they even bought in lots of taiwan staff yet still struggled to produce useable chips. the tech in those lithography machines is insane, the laser hits a tin droplet twice in an insanly short time to make a chip and then repeats it many times per second with incredible accuracy.

nasska
Reply to  Editor
3 months ago

That is good news for the USA & the free world but it must be pointed out that Musk has announced plans to build a superconductor factory. The shortages are now.

From https://globaltaiwan.org/2025/03/taiwans-shortage-of-chipmakers-a-major-threat-to-the-industrys-long-term-growth/

#. “Over 60 percent of the world’s semiconductors, and almost 90 percent of the most sophisticated chips, are manufactured on the small island.”

Not only is production held back by facilities, not even Taiwan has the expertise to ramp up output. The Yanks have been poaching talent over the past few years.

#. “For the past three years, the Taiwanese government and its semiconductor industry have struggled to recruit new chipmakers.”

There are geopolitical ramifications:

#. ” While Taiwan’s semiconductor industry may currently be the most prosperous in the world, its dependency on China as its largest export market—with nearly 60 percent of its chip exports directed to China in 2023—and its reliance on the United States for advanced manufacturing equipment places the small island at the very center between the two industrial giants in the hyper-competitive artificial intelligence (AI) race.”

The Democrats, like socialists everywhere, have been so absorbed in cutting the economic cake that they took their eyes off the ball. While they protested BLM, genders & DEI their manufacturing base was shipped overseas. As luck would have it the Taiwanese were gifted superconductors. Had they gone to China the Yanks wouldn’t even have a means of manufacturing armaments to defend itself.

When the story of Democrat treason is written this technology will have a chapter of its own.

nasska
3 months ago

Any time we think the NZ Green Party are barking mad we should take a deep breath & consider the plight of voters outside of Godzone. In Australia a “Greens Senator attacks Labor for ‘grandpersoning’ – not ‘grandfathering’ – changes to negative gearing ahead of expected broken promise”.

https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/greens-senator-attacks-labor-for-grandpersoning-not-grandfathering-changes-to-negative-gearing-ahead-of-expected-broken-promise/news-story/1500de6d0c4f69ef92c8aac5dfb5fd4b

They walk amongst us!

rightoverlabour
3 months ago

Climate Change Alarmists have blood on their hands…

“Honda posts first annual loss on $9 billion EV writedown, scraps EV sales goalsTOKYO, May 14 (Reuters) – Honda Motor (7267.T), opens new tab posted its ​first annual loss in nearly 70 years as a listed company on Thursday, hit by more than $9 billion in costs ‌to restructure its electric-vehicle business, and the firm scrapped its long-term EV sales target.
Revealing its worst financial report since Honda listed on the stock market in 1957 underscores how risky an aggressive bet on EVs can be for a legacy automaker when it slams into weaker-than-expected demand.
Toshihiro Mibe, CEO of Japan’s second-largest automaker, on ​Thursday said Honda is scrapping its goal of having EVs make up a fifth of its new car sales in 2030 ​as well as a target of a full shift to electric or fuel-cell vehicle sales by 2040.
And remember, the oil crisis is making things as good for EVs as it possibly can.

from https://www.joannenova.com.au/2026/05/9b-ev-experiment-failure-honda-posts-first-annual-loss-in-70-years-abandons-target/

Viking
Reply to  rightoverlabour
3 months ago

Never ever hear anyone complaining about Honda cars.
The truth is that Tesla and the Chinese are flooding the market with them.
Not worth the cost to carry on.
Ford did the same a few weeks ago.

Ross12
Reply to  Viking
3 months ago

“are flooding the market with them.” or put another way –producing more than there is demand for.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
3 months ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-UjgWIM-t8
I’m Suing Keir Starmer
Rebel News

Ezra Levant reveals, like many others, he’s been banned from the United Kingdom ahead of Tommy Robinson’s Unite The Kingdom rally on May 16 in London — and details his plan to fight back

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waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  waikatogirl
3 months ago
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waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  waikatogirl
3 months ago

“Biggest test for Met Police” – will they enforce “two-tier” tactics?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BV3YsqlY4g
“It’s Two-Tier Policing AGAIN!” | Met-Police To Use Facial Recognition For Unite The Kingdom Rally

Former Met Police detective Peter Blexley

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Viking
3 months ago

The latest Trojan Horse.

Society Insider: Whangārei National candidate Lloyd Budd has the backing of Sir John Key and Paula Bennett
Former Prime Minister Sir John Key says the sooner Lloyd Budd gets to Parliament, the better.
Budd, the former CEO of Bayleys Auckland, was announced earlier this month as the National candidate for the Whangārei electorate. Should he win, he will replace retiring incumbent Dr Shane Reti.
At present, the only other candidate selected to contest the seat is Labour’s Dr Gary Payinda.
Key, who has known Budd for many years, tells Society Insider that his move into politics is a very natural progression.
“Lloyd brings a real-world experience and a load of energy,” Key says.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/society-insider-whangarei-national-candidate-lloyd-budd-has-the-backing-of-sir-john-key-and-paula-bennett/premium/IASUD6I6ABE6PBIT3GBFN2AKAE/

Really just like key did and continued the nat rot, wef, to citizens etc.
Key no better than clark

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
Reply to  Viking
3 months ago

Yeah/Nah. Once bitten, twice shy. Key recommended Luxon as the saviour of National

Viking
3 months ago

So what will whinny say about all this then?
What will be his excuse for this?
Something they denied.

The costs of the Interislander replacement project are growing more quickly than initially anticipated, as Ferry Holdings becomes more involved in portside infrastructure now underway
behind the wall but will come out later.

I am a stupid boy
Reply to  Viking
3 months ago

and i love how you think labours gold plated plans wouldnt have continued to blowout as things progressed.

personally i dont see the ferries as a govt problem. all govt seem to do is fuck shit up so should be the last ones we want involved

Viking
Reply to  I am a stupid boy
3 months ago

You mean like Air NZ isn’t their problem?

Get your head around a few things. Anyone can operate the ferries, but what happens when they can’t be bothered anymore?

The structures are the Harbour Board’s responsibility, and in WGTN, Ponder and Co spent the money on everything except infrastructure, so they deserve Govt rule. Think sewer Plant and pipes.

Picton was geared up to work.
The rails are the responsibility of the rail.
The roads NZTA off the wharf. But no

A team effort that was busted.
Riuned by the efforts of the welly clowns who insisted the new wharf be built right on the fault line rather than use the wharf they had just repaired and from which they ship logs and a few containers. All of which could go via Napier at less cost.

nasska
Reply to  Viking
3 months ago

….”All of which could go via Napier at less cost”…..

Might be a few forestry owners willing to debate you on that. It’s long been the rule of thumb that if you have to roadfreight the logs over 250 Kms you’ll make a loss.

Masterton to Napier is 228 Km. Ngaumu Forest (2900 sq Km) to Masterton is another 24Km+.

waikatogirl
waikatogirl
3 months ago

Exploiting immigration loopholes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iZ6pngLypY
Michael Laws breaks down the immigration/universities scam that is being deliberately ignored, and why. 

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Viking
3 months ago

IT IS NOW ALL VOLUNTARY
The Government is hoping that by setting minimum standards for carbon market offers will bring more demand to the carbon offset industry, and has now codified those standards in its “Guidance for Voluntary Climate Change Mitigation“.

Simpleton1
Simpleton1
Reply to  Viking
3 months ago

So it would seem that it is a hint of that the government on the down-low knows about the IPCC’s scaremongering “implausible” scenarios.

that RCP 8.5 was implausible and inappropriate for banking assessments of climate risks in previous Open Letters to OSFI and the Bank of Canada.
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/climate-emergency-scenario-officially-sidelined-162000966.html

NZ Reserve Bank, and other NZ legislation is also based on this “implausible” concept.

So the NZ government is in parts just quietly dropping the IPCC 8.5 scaremongering, but at the same time leaves the notion, to the convinced activists to pressure & virtue signal like today in Wellington.

School Strike 4 Climate

reinstate the ban on oil and gas exploration;introduce free public transport fares for under 25-year-olds;lower the voting age to 16;recognise Palestine as a state; andscrap the fast-track approvals regime.https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/595350/striking-students-call-on-the-government-to-do-more-to-fight-climate-change.

Well we know the school teachers & principals are not up to study, learning, to know new curriculms, & so they would intend to continue their conniving socialist ways on to their pupils.
Those teachers will have no intention to teach their pupils of the IPCC fuck-ups, & the false prophets of doom over the past 50 years & more.

Last edited 3 months ago by Simpleton1
nasska
Reply to  Curious
3 months ago

Hunty may have his faults but he’s not fussy. 🙂

Tinder-for-Hunty
Viking
3 months ago

Liarcarditus

Another common trait for those who suffer pure wankerism like Chris Hipkins MP and the ” river of filth himself” Michael Wood ” may also be suffering.
Trevor Mallard, Christopher Luxon, The Greens ( who remembers Benjamin Doyle?)
Te Patai Maori, David ( no one cares about you mate), Seymour have all clearly got it.
For our safety, the need to double mask and shut their mouths because it’s known to be spread through public speaking.

We must encourage them publicly in their upcoming election campaigns to social distance themselves and pray that a vaccine is available from Pfizer within weeks( safety data not needed) because they infect grandma.
It’s now an endemic in parliament, and we may need to “lock it down” for ” two weeks” to flatten the curve!!

Judith Collins is a potential super spreader so the law commission are now at serious risk.

State broadcasting has had if for so long that they seem to have developed” natural immunity “, so they may just be ok.
It’s spread through Grant Robinson, Michael Baker at Otago University and the whole medical council, shit it’s in pandemic proportions.!!

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=981308044716698&set=a.134972182683626

Last edited 3 months ago by Viking
waikatogirl
waikatogirl
3 months ago

Worth a giggle.
Not sure if the clip of Hosking (ZB) calling Chippie a “twat” was found this morning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kxkgxNylxE
“As arrogant as they were last time”

Last edited 3 months ago by waikatogirl
rightoverlabour
Reply to  waikatogirl
3 months ago

That is gold. Hopefully Labour’s support in Auckland tanks now.

Curious
3 months ago

Tough day at the office for John Campbell. Hilarious.
https://x.com/i/status/2055101842917617705

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