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Well im quite sure that pic wont get a reaction lol
While it is sad seeing people living like this i am offering a bonus point if anyone can guess who & what is being blamed for their situation maybe Pania Newton should get her ass up there and try and do something positive for Maori instead of denying her people much needed housing and soaking up her 15 minutes of fame
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/115119602/historic-hreke-a-village-with-everything-and-nothing
Final day in the joy of moving houses such fun have a great day YSB
It is easy to do protests, but for their own people? regular working bees? and being such societal loving supportive people? 🙁
As even mentioned in that article, sort of a “cargo cult” of expectation of that Wellington with all the money resources will arrive.
Just a small finger pointed,
“there’s no one coming from Wellington, there’s no one coming over the hill, not even the iwi down the road are coming through to bring a bit of kai to have a cup of tea with them”. “There’s no one”.
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Another “cargo cult”, of tax demanding people
Still they keep on immigrating, and leave perfectly good houses in their homeland.
Think of the children 🙁
Two points from Garbageman’s link:
1) WTF are successive governments doing bringing refugees into a country that has no hope of housing its own people? Eg. Masterton has about 100 people on the waiting list for social housing while the dogooders prepare for the welcoming of work shy bludgers from the 3rd world.
2) I warm easily to He Korowai Trust chief executive Ricky Houghton where he says, “cut out the bureaucracy and exorbitant consent fees”. Nit pickers & pen pushers create nothing. Maori own the land, Maori will live in whatever is built. Let them get on with it.
There is no excuse for this.
You vegans…..you know what you can do.
These sick bastards are following the cruelest ideology.
https://www.dw.com/en/sydney-parents-who-fed-daughter-growth-stunting-vegan-diet-avoid-jail/a-50123229
Yes but the NWO want us to shift to meat once a week – malnourishment was always an important tool of the old-time feudal overlords. No reason why the neo-feudalists wouldn’t try to employ the same tried and tested tools.
(Off to cook up some black pudding, sausages and bacon)
I think the authorities got the sentencing completely wrong.
I would have thought negligence of this level would incur one of the harshest penalties.
These so called parents buy into any half arsed fad and want us to as well.F.O
The judicial system are the enablers and by doing so set up to civilization to implode.
Hypocritical bunch of f#%ktards.
The mother said she was so tired, she didn’t understand how other parents did it. How about you eat some meat, proper protein your body is craving. That’s how others do it, they don’t starve their system of energy producing food.
And from the TV clip.. the parents looked very well dressed… not like young wierdos at all.
She needs the iron from beef and lamb. Children need the iron and all the other benefits from eating meat. Apart from the fact that they get filled up so don’t need all the junk food its important for their growth. Sorry to the woke and not to be offending to any of the snowflakes out there but women also need the iron and meat supplies it.
If he shakes his head you’ll hear the rattle.
It’s good for us to have that reminder Ed.
The loons on the left think that their echo chamber is reality, Melahi mentioned this earlier in the week. Got to keep it real.
IRB gone mad on diversiddy
So how on Earth is this going to work? The IRB have just announced that there is not going to be any more Women’s Rugby World cup – they’ve announced it’s going to be a gender neutral Rugby World Cup???
So we’re having the Rugby World Cup in September this year, then we’re having the Rugby World Cup again in 2021! Then another RWC in 2023! So all the broadcasters are going to start making rugby very confusing indeed. There’s still going to be the real RWC (which advertisers and fans will flock to and pay outrageous sums to watch amazing athletes in an exhibition of world rugby), and then there’s going to be a tenth rate RWC where the winner would be able to be comfortably beaten by the average boy’s first 15?
Of course, now that it’s a gender neutral RWC – it’ll be tough to work out that one is a massive financial black hole that has to be heavily subsidised by the other one – which will continue to make a mountain of cash for the ‘fucked-in-the-head’ IRB.
Also, when are the transgenders going to get their shit together and get into women’s rugby – if ever there was a sport that was perfect for domination by a minnow team augmented by a few rubby playing TGs – the gender neutral RWC was the one.
(Shakes head)
They should just get rid of “gender” designated sports anyway. We’re all equal now. I’m sure females can compete just as well as males in rugby on the same field. No need to have two competitions.
And the Rugby Union are wondering why interest in the game is dropping off.
They need to drop all this PC crap.
With the likelyhood of SBW being named in the WC team I won’t be watching.
Women should not play rugby.Or League.
Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
All those Brazilian forest fires are really going to accelerate the climate change emergency!
Instead of 8 or 10 years to Armageddeon its going to be 4 or 5.
Genter will need to replace every petrol car with an EVF next year.
We will all have to start eat lentils next week
And every house will need to be moved one mile inland.
Act now!
The emergency is here now!
Anyone would think these Amazonian fires were something new. They are not. There has been a regular burning season every year for the last fifty years or so if not longer. The land is burned to clear it for the production of palm oil, gasohol and to graze the vast herds of McDonalds raw material. Yes it is damaging and very unwise from an ecological point of view but nothing has been done about it before so why now?
“As is normally the case, the latest climate crisis is just confected media/BBC/political alarmist nonsense. Turns out the Amazon fires are declining year on year and preliminary estimates for this year indicate its nowhere near a record, more like one of the lowest of the last 16 years. More at this link”
https://wattsupwiththat.com…
https://i2.wp.com/wattsupwi…
76,000 fires in Brazil and we in HB are not allowed to burn our prunings until September and then only for a short time.
There is a women on the hill in upper class Havelock North that is reputed to be watching the plains all the time and reporting any fires to the council.
America wanted a woman on the hill(ary)
She wanted to fire the flaming arrows though.
This was all covered in the book ‘Fast Food Nation’ by Eric Schlosser which released in 2002.
Perhaps if these people read more…. oh, yeah, right. Forgot.
A good read but the movie in 2006 that was derived from it was awful.
As Alice says > its not new- but we have selective reporting of what to get nervy about today.
I guess if Jacinderella sees it on the TV ‘news’ she will find out about it …if they get reception in the Islands!
Not that she needs to be any more nervy and jumpy.
I would not trust her with a knife and fork. All that jiggling and fidgeting!
Perhaps her staffers job is to cut up her (one day a week) meat and veges to be on the safe side.
A twofor. Cut up Neve and Jaccy’s food at the same time 🙂
I think all blogs are echo chambers to some extent, after all we normally tend to gather with like in any given situation. Ones goes to a social occasion and you gravitate towards those who you like, respect and wish to be with, not the loudmouth who annoys you with every word/breathe they take. After you if you were given tickets to a concert of your choice you would know what type of artist you would choose to go to.
The W/O blog suffered from this in that from reading one gained the impression it was only a matter of time before the ACT Party and the New Conservatives with the new Messiah Elliot Ikilei were each going to explode into the +5% poll range and combine to toss that nasty COL group out, despite W. Peters, the former crowd favourite being part of that. Unfortunately each poll would confirm that no, the 1% limit had not been threatened and life was to go on sitting, reading and commenting with the under 50 percenters.
That is the definition of an echo chamber.
So long as we all recognise we’re participating in an echo chamber, some sanity will prevail. I doubt any contributor here believes what they write reflects the average NZ person.
The average NZ person elected Ardern, so no, I can’t see YSBers reflecting that 🙂
Even if you only account for the NZ first votes your average kiwi would have elected nats. Id imagine your average NZ first voter sure wouldn’t be too crash hot about the way that all went down. Although watching the way nats are playing opposition I doubt it really matters.
Yeah, Nats / Labour – does it really make a difference? You get a different colour banner but the same shite policies.
Maybe its time for a dictator. Trumpesque like.
So many countries pushing populism indicates the world is changing rapidly and unfortunately, NZ will be last to catch the boat as usual.
We tend to be a bunch of procrastinators.
There must be someone out there in gumboots ready to take the mantle.
A no shit, promises made promises kept, authentic individual who can steer this country toward the prosperity it so desperately needs.
The whiners can keep whining, the whingers whinging, and the doubters doubting.
During times of war the very best leaders were renown for their decisiveness, right or wrong.
No one would follow a snowflake into battle. They would turn and high tail it.
Yet here we are now, in a snowstorm, standing still, being rammed like a fence post into
a woke dystopian earth.
Not your average person concerned with mum in the rest home, Micky struggling at school, the blocked drain and so on. But as the blog climbs up the ranking the Wellington political office staff will be reading it to understand trigger points.
It is far cheaper and easier to read these comments than do a political survey and here people are candid which cannot be relied upon in a survey – as shown by near universal failure of political polls on close events in the last 4 years.
One would like to think however that there is some recognition that 74 % of people on the mediaworks poll yesterday do not trust the cops.
That is significant unless in fact the current political controllers want them to be The Sturmabteilung in which case it is working.
Gentle of real criminals and hard on thought crimes. 1930s redux.
The best echo chamber I’ve ever visited was “Trueblue”. About half a dozen gin soaked relics from the 19th century offered comments to Baity’s posts along the lines of “Good Boy Red”, “You tell them them Red” & other puerile crap based on “shoot all the progs & let God sort them out”.
Then Baity would address each comment with a congratulatory cyber blow job. 🙂
Haha “Cyber blow job”. Of that Baity is a master…..
“Kea kea kea” will be a salute to the resident parrot who was asking whether YSB was an echo chamber? I’m guessing as there was no squark of protest that Kea took it as Ed would have intended. ?
It is nice to consort with people who share similar views on a range of subjects. It helps lessen the stress of having to deal with all the other blithering idiots out there one encounters in everyday life.
Of course this place isn’t an echo chamber…
Look at the Trump supporter poll…
One (maybe two) of us is a clear thinker.
Tainui prevent a blood bath is the headline from Duncan Garner, when really all it has done is probably opened the gateway for more protests on private property to gain the exact same result as long as the Coalition Govern this Country.
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/opinion/115246462/tainui-saves-the-government-from-a-seabed-and-foreshore-moment
The media must really think that people in this Country are politically inept or dumb which ever way you take it but surely the public must see by now this is all about Jacinda not about the benefit and laws of our Country.
Just to back up my previous post the next Land Grab for Maori is in progress already.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503449&objectid=12260324
All they are waiting is for tlTainui to wrap up the purchase of Ihumatoa from Fletchers and the next protest will be in full swing.
But here’s a 30 year-long Land dispute that looks like it might be settled
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/397385/retiree-becomes-first-waitara-leaseholder-to-buy-her-property
Finally. They have arrested some scammers!
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-49446845
But …. He’s a Prince…. and his Mum needs surgery.
I’m sure my long-lost brother and Nigerian prince who’s trying to give me $20 million isn’t one of those scammers 😉
I see our Special bunch are practising post birth Abortion again. These sick fuckers need to go to jail and never be released. However, try and read the stuff article and try not to puke. https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/115235510/whangrei-neighbours-devastated-by-death-of-baby-next-door
need to go to jail and never be released.
You’re wrong. These animals don’t need to go to jail at all. They need to be garotted. Failing that they need a bullet through the head.
There’s absolutely no excuse for infanticide. It is perhaps the most evil thing that a human can do.
I think its better to target the women/girls that get pregnant to these guys and then shack up with similar ones.
Its all about the money.
Time to end the dpb.
Is the world fucking mad?
https://www.foxnews.com/world/dad-babysitter-canada-gender-discrimination
Yes, the socialists are in charge.
“The commission has not dismissed the case, although Crynowski, who filed a similar case against a mother of a five-year-old boy seeking “an older lady with experience,” lost a case that went to the Supreme Court of Canada, in which he was seeking more than $1,000 in “damages to dignity.”
“It is unclear why the Human Rights Commission has now accepted Mr. Cyrynowski’s complaint against Todd, giving the precedent set by the test case,” John Carpay, Justice Centre president and lawyer, said in a statement.”
That’s an easy one to answer. The Canadian Human Rights Commission is similar to ours and has an incredibly low bar to scale when it comes to this type of crap.
Got to keep the trough going or they would lose their jobs.
YEP
For those interested in the Climate Change issue between Michael Mann ( Hockey Stick Arsehole) and Tim Ball ( Skeptic) read this and the comments. There is hope …
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/08/22/breaking-dr-tim-ball-wins-michaelemann-lawsuit-mann-has-to-pay/
That is good news: the humourless Mann has been nobbled!. (Ball quipped years ago that “Mann belonged in the State Penn not Penn State”.)
Nothing wrong with telling Jacinda to put a sock in it
I have regaled anyone who’d listen since the mid-80s with the dangers of political correctness. What was I told? “Never happen here.”
Now it has spawned numerous offspring that have transitioned society into a state of absurdity. PC provides umbrella protection for any sort of nuttiness and it’s being exploited by plenty who should know better. Sadly, rather than stand on principle, many adopt the old fail, “If you can’t beat them, join them.”
Is woke culture totalitarian?” The woke brigade label anything they disagree with as dangerous, fascist or evil.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=122608
For those that are too miserable to pay, here is the complete story. Well worth the read.
Earlier this century the incumbent Prime Minister of New Zealand opined that the country existed in an “incredibly benign strategic environment”. That might have been true once but how things change and keep changing. It would be easy but unnecessary to include a long list of changes, so let’s not.
I will though refer back to what I believe was the first development that has plagued the country, and the rest of the world, faster than anyone expected, including me. It would be tedious if not so important. I have regaled anyone who’d listen since the mid-80s with the dangers of political correctness. What was I told? “Never happen here.”
Now it has spawned numerous offspring that have transitioned society into a state of absurdity. PC provides umbrella protection for any sort of nuttiness and it’s being exploited by plenty who should know better. Sadly, rather than stand on principle, many adopt the old fail, “If you can’t beat them, join them.”
This week I came across a commentary on a new book. Well, it’s not new but that was the claim: “In his edgy and thought-provoking new book.” Except, I’ve had a copy of it since 2016. It ain’t new but maybe it’s his attempt to sound “edgy”. Not that the published date is the point. Eric Kaufmann is writing about The Demon in Democracy, by Polish professor Ryszard Legutko, a book I’ve previously mentioned. It’s the content that matters. “Political correctness is the tyrannical demon in democracy. A majority of people in the US, Canada and the UK say pc is a problem.” And no wonder. “Today, mainstream politicians, parties, think tanks and bureaucrats tie themselves in knots to avoid sound bites that could be portrayed as racist, sexist or homophobic.” According to Legutko, the terms “reactionary” and “progressive” were staples of communist doctrine.
Did I mention the headline for Kaufmann’s piece? No, because it uses that detestable word “woke”. Here it is anyway. “Is woke culture totalitarian?” The woke brigade label anything they disagree with as dangerous, fascist or evil.
Alan Jones was forced to backtrack on his criticism of Jacinda Ardern. Photo / Getty Images
Alan Jones was forced to backtrack on his criticism of Jacinda Ardern. Photo / Getty Images
That’s Alan Jones, of course, all three and more. I’m not interested in entering the fray over what he said about Jacinda. Okay, so I will. There was nothing wrong, nothing, with the sentiment involving the sock. “Put a sock in it” has a long history in Australia. Parents would say it to kids. Time to stop talking was its basic meaning. Colloquial to the ultimate. Polite, even elegant by today’s standards. He did, however, express the sentiment in a less delicate way, thereby exposing himself to the left-wing aggressiveness of those who would exploit any opportunity to execute his career.
Focus: Diary of PM Jacinda Ardern’s Pacific Islands Forum trip. Video / Jason Walls
Retired but never silent Australian Labor cabinet minister Graham Richardson, who’s had his own share of media issues, wrote in his Monday column, “It seems to me that far too many people in this day and age spend too much time looking for offence.” He continued, “Jones also suffers from tall-poppy syndrome, with too many people death-riding him and salivating each time he errs. My advice to them is get a life.” The problem is that everything now is politicised and we are poorer for it. There is Soros money contributing to activism in Australia.
Is New Zealand still too benign for George?
It was the Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu that produced the Alan Jones commentary, but there is a far greater issue involved. That of the supposed threat to the Pacific Island countries that make up the bulk of the forum. Each of them has their own issues, some of them shared; but becoming climate refugees is not one of them.
Fiona Kotvojs says the main cause of erosion on Pacific islands such as Tokelau is not sea level rise but poor design and construction of sea structures. Photo / Nasa
A recent study published in the journal Geology concluded that sea-level rise will likely not drown low-lying Pacific atolls. The study lead authors were from, wait for it, The University of Auckland and others from Canada and the UK. That’s not the sort of news forum leaders want publicised. It makes it harder to play us off against China. Added to that is the latest input from Dr Fiona Kotvojs. Published in the Australian Financial Review, Kotvojs has an honours degree in coastal geomorphology. She is a development specialist with almost 30 years experience working across the Pacific including Kiribati, Tuvalu and Tokelau, having spent many years working on coral atolls. She comments, “The main cause of erosion on these islands is not sea level rise. Instead, it is the construction of poorly designed boat ramps and boat channels, sea walls and reclamation works. Until the real cause of the problem is identified, it will never be solved.” She backs her comments with fulsome detail.
“The population of Tuvalu will be destroyed by diabetes long before the island is drowned by rising sea level … the creation of unjustified fear is inexcusable.”
Her conclusion, “We have to continue to support our Pacific Island neighbours where they have the greatest need — rather than investing where there is the greatest media focus.”
I concur! Leighton Smith.
It’s not necessarily a case of “too miserable to pay“. It’s a case of “not going to financially support a socialist mouthpiece that publishes shit content“.
So being a good socialist you want to get your news and all free. Keep it up and go join the Standard and the Labour party.
hypocritical much.
No, I am not the type of idiot that will spend money on shit. I don’t buy Woman’s Day for the same reason I do not buy nzherald.co.nz.
There are better sources, paid or not, for actual news.
Jones made the mistake of not simply saying ‘put a sock in it’ which is a colloquialism.
He actually suggested the Morrison take a sock and shove it down her throat.
That IMO was a mistake and possibly caused Morrison’s high degree of backlash.
Man critically injured after reported shooting in Manukau, South Auckland
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12261508
Another shooting in South Auckland. Those licensed gun owners sure are the only threat the cops need to confiscate guns from. //
So comforting to know the government and police have their priorities so well sorted isn’t it?
See my latest post just below too.
I think he meant Harry Potter and the chamber of echos?
Either way there’s wizardry involved.
Trump orders US companies to stop trading in China, ‘better off without them’
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2019/08/trump-orders-us-companies-to-stop-trading-in-china-better-off-without-them.html
“Our Country has lost, stupidly, Trillions of Dollars with China over many years. They have stolen our Intellectual Property at a rate of Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year, & they want to continue. I won’t let that happen! We don’t need China and, frankly, would be far….
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 23, 2019
The US President said he also was ordering shippers including FedEx. Amazon.com and the US Postal Services to search out and refuse all deliveries of the opioid fentanyl to the United States.
China on Friday said it would impose retaliatory tariffs on US$75 billion of US goods, targeting crude oil for the first time and renewing punitive duties on American-made autos.”
What do you think?
A question doing the rounds lately:
Will Assange be Epsteined?
I was in a restaurant in Paris and ordered the ‘Napoleon Chicken.’
When the dish arrived, I was surprised to find very little meat on it, and it was mainly carcass.
I asked the waiter why, and he said ‘We only use the ‘Boneypart’
A poor old couple shopping in New World were buying food as cheaply as they could – eking out their money. They passed a special offer on ladies knickers and the wife put them in the basket.
“We can’t afford these”, said the husband. “
But I haven’t got any at all”, said his wife.
“Christ”, said the husband, “here’s 10p – go and buy a comb and tidy yourself up a bit”.
lol
1op at New World?
Frugality at New World?
Here is just the latest piece of anti firearm hysteria from the Daily Mail Australia:
https://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-7370191/How-deadly-rifle-fire-six-shots-three-seconds-exploiting-Australias-tough-gun-laws.html
As a friend of mine has just pointed out in an e mail to me this morning:
LAST YEAR THERE WERE 1,140 VEHICLE DEATHS IN AUSSIE & 379 IN NZ. AND NOBODY GIVES A FUCK!
WE GO TO MASTERTON AT LEAST THREE TIMES/WEEK AND WE SEE LARGE NUMBER OF IDIOT DRIVERS – AND NEVER SEE A POLICE CAR. THE ACCIDENT RATE IS FARCICAL AND NOBODY GIVES A FUCK.
YET THE NEWS MEDIA HATE SHOOTING SPORTS – IN SPITE OF SHOOTING SPORTS NEVER EVEN BEING LISTED ON THE ACC WEBSITE!
ON TOP OF THAT THERE ARE MAJOR RUGBY INJURIES EVERY DAY AND ACC PAYS OUT $500 MILLION/YEAR! AND NOBODY GIVES A FUCK!
MANY OF THOSE INJURED ON THE RUGBY FIELD DIE AND THOUSANDS SUFFER PERMANENT BRAIN INJURIES, AND NOBODY GIVES A FUCK!
SOMETHING IS SERIOUSLY WRONG!
Brenton Tarrent kills alot all at once and the bros do it one by one. It all adds up to the same!
They are there to protect other muslims!
Personally I do not want to see one western soldier’s life risked to protect any muslims.
They get what they deserve
The same as Argentina
And Venezuela
And Italy and Greece
I think I heard right with the ACC reporting on the radio this morning that there have been 129 deaths in 10 years from farm bikes and Quads.
Its a pity the USA did not have a president with some balls ten or twenty years ago.
When China was first starting to steal US trade secrets etc and manipulate the currency.
Its too late now.
US factories have all closed.
“Its too late now.
US factories have all closed.”
Is that you Barry?
Never fear, The Don is here.
Epsteins ex missus Ghislaine Maxwell is Robert Maxwells daughter.
His ties to Mossad are well documented.
Upon his death he was buried in Israel not the UK.
Maxwells 2 older daughters, Isabel and Christine were put in places of influence and co-founded the Magellan global fund. (Alphabet,Apple,Microsoft,Mastercard,Visa etc)
Since Ardern got in there seems to be more baby murders than ever.
Such a caring sickly white liberal, maori fawning government.
No child poverty
No homeless
No strikes
And coming soon
No industries
No cars
No cows
No meat
No accountability
Here already.
Doing it, not watching others doing it.
So it’s the ladies buying all the toys?
What are there girly boys in that town!
Next time someone mentions sea level rises and how we need to worry about it, just say “Obama & Gore do not seem to worry”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/08/what-about-climate-change-internet-has-a-blast-after-obamas-buy-15-million-beachfront-mansion/
Thank goodness someone at Massey University can correctly identify an auspicious moon
https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/
I should take up a case against Massey for neglecting this part of my Undergraduate education.
That’s so unhelpful Kea..
I just want to know if I should plant my seed potatoes tomorrow, and is Monday a good day to go fishing.
Honestly, if I can’t interpret Moon signs, what good am I as a Massey Graduate?
Have a dinner party coming up?
How about this for entertaining your guests.
Hasbro has produced a version of Monopoly – socialist version.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/monopoly-like-socialism-wants-to-take-your-money
Woke folk are already protesting to get it removed from shelves, so get yours quick.
In my younger days there was a local lass referred to as the “Community Chest”
I don’t think she ever managed to collect $200 for passing go, but I do remember she was generous enough to pass other things on.
For those following the Brexit situation, like I have over the last couple of years, there are interesting new developments. Former Chancellor, Phillip Hammond and his remainer mates are planning to hold their own talks with the EU to try to facilitate further extensions. In other times I suspect this would be classed as treason and in the US the Logan Act would apply ( whether that Act is of any use given what John Kerry got up to with talks in Iran, is another matter).
But here is an interesting post from another blog on the developments:
Hammond: “Our next step is likely to be something that seeks to direct the British government to seek an extension”
Well, good luck with that. For starters, according to the terms of Article 50 of the EU Constitution, the only person with the power to request an extension from the EU is the Prime Minister; if he refuses to do so, Parliament cannot force him. Secondly, any such attempt would give him the perfect cause and opportunity to prorogue Parliament (impose a temporary closure) until the clock runs out on 31st October.
The legislative and treaty documents are perfectly clear. Unless the PM has requested an extension, and unless it has been unanimously agreed to by all EU member states before 11pm GMT on 31st October, 2019, then the default options laid down in both Article 50 of the EU Constitution and the EU Withdrawal Act (2018) rule that our membership of the EU ends, immediately, automatically and in every respect – regardless of whether or not any agreement as to future relationships has been agreed.
Hammond and his supporters know that perfectly well, as they were all in Parliament when the EU Constitution – which includes Article 50 – was ratified by a clear majority in 2009. They were also in Parliament – and many of them in government – when the EU Withdrawal Act was voted through with a clear majority in 2018.
As for lies put about by the Remainders that for Johnson to prorogue Parliament would be “unconstitutional”, and that it would “cause a constitutional crisis”; if they had bothered to study the relevant sections of our Constitution (and yes, contrary to widespread rumour, we DO have one, and it is IS all written down, though not in a single document), they would be aware of the following facts.
“Institutional writers such as A. V. Dicey, author of the seminal ‘Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution’, have been clear that Parliamentarians “can in accordance with the Constitution be deprived of power [when] there is fair reason to suppose that the opinion of the House is not the opinion of the electors.”
Edmund Burke, considered the founding father of British conservative thought and often invoked by EU loyalists suggesting that MPs revoking Brexit would be in line with “Burkean representative democracy”, was similarly clear that:
“The virtue, spirit, and essence of a House of Commons consists in its being the express image of the feelings of the nation. It was not instituted to be a control UPON the people, as of late it has been taught. It was designed as a control FOR the people.”
As proof of the fact that the opinion of the Remainder-dominated House of Commons is NOT the opinion of the electorate, Johnson can quote the following, none of which relies on possibly dubious opinion polls:
1. In 2016, the electorate were given two simple and clear-cut choices in the referendum; “Remain in the EU”, or “Leave the EU” – and the second of them had NO proviso, such as “but ONLY if we can get a deal with the EU beforehand”.
2. By a clear majority, 52% of the votes cast were for Leave’ – and that 17.4 million votes was the largest political mandate ever given to any British government in history.
3. Of the 650 constituencies in the United Kingdom, two-thirds of them voted ‘Leave’.
4. In the 2017 general election, 82% of all votes cast went to the three parties which campaigned on a promise to take us out of the EU.
5. In the Euro elections of 2019, the Brexit Party, which had only been launched six weeks earlier, topped the poll on its unequivocal support for total freedom from the EU and a return to sovereign nationhood – pushing the governing party led by Theresa May into fifth place.
It’s true that we are currently in a Constitutional crisis – but that crisis has been deliberately and directly caused by the subversive actions of the Remainder MPs in Parliament, and their equally treacherous allies in the senior ranks of the civil service. “
OK folks, time to go mushroom hunting.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2213787-extinction-rebellion-founder-calls-for-mass-psychedelic-disobedience/
(Just not sure of the date for ingesting magic mushies)
No surprise with this headline:
Children’s Commissioner Andrew Becroft supports separate childcare system for Māori
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/shows/2019/08/children-s-commissioner-andrew-becroft-supports-separate-childcare-system-for-m-ori.html
“There’s a common cry for ownership by Māori and delivery of services by Māori for Māori. I think the time has come, as a nation, for us to seriously consider that.”
When pressed on what that system would look like, Becroft said he could picture working alongside a Māori Children’s Commissioner.
“Oh, on that point, it may well be that there is a Commissioner for New Zealand Children, Commissioner for Māori Children; maybe the same for children in care.
Perhaps implementing something called “kumera currency” so Maggie can be confident enough to comply with the stringent diversity ethos of the gweenies when planting seeded spuds.
Who needs an auspicious moon when mooning auspiciously?
What a weak lilly livered sickly while liberal apologist that Beecroft guy is.
Yes, I think the police should stop attending any maori child killings.
Just let them go ahead.
They don’t want their children, neither do I
Less ferals in the future.
Why would you want to slog up a slag of greywacke rubble to see a dirty old chunk of ice?
Who knows what goes on in the strange & unfathomed mind of a tourist. Busloads of the gullible wankers front up at Rotorua everyday to sniff the aroma of rotten eggs, gawk at a bit of overheated mud & listen to a load of Maori bullshit.
Who knows what goes on in the strange & unfathomed mind of a tourist.
I must admit to waking early, travelling in public transport so I could join a queue before opening time to the Munch Museum/Art Gallery in Oslo.
I should have slept in.
Europe was a continent of castles, hovels & cathedrals well representing the aristocracy, the peasantry & the scum of the Earth religionists.
The latter lived comfortable lives under the patronage of corrupt nobles by selling smoke & the promise of a next life to the poor. Had democracy not prevailed they would have suffered the fate of their fellows when Tsarist Russia fell.
It looks like Kea and Naska just copy and paste each other!
Depends on how you do it, I suppose. Mama Bear and myself, we normally pick a random direction every day and just walk. We try to avoid public transport and taxis and those things and spend a week or two walking around wherever we’ve gone, meeting people and seeing places. It changes how you see the world when you see how other people live.
Like we have no idea what wealthy means here. Nor do we have the faintest clue what real poverty is. Seeing how people gather in Hanoi around the lake in the evenings and the games they play even in a city that big, it’s beautiful man.
It’s an amazing world we live in with so much to explore.
“The science is settled!”
Yeah. Right.
She does not even impress the Muslims. Does she support FGM? Does it happen in NZ? Does she care?
If the Muslims were in charge her friend Roberson would be tossed off the ninth floor.
“Jacinda Ardern dons hijab as she fronts Islamic Women’s Council national conference”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12261534
This is what happens when muslims get to 5%
They start forming groups, councils, institutes etc for muslim this and islamic that.
then they start imposing demands on us to help them or worse to give into their requets.
No way
Send them back
MNZGA
Just like the Chinese fund the Confusious Institutes and MP’s.
Drove through Hastings today.
Election hoardings up of course but one had Vote for Sayed Ahmed.
But…..he’s the Mayor of London…
So now she has three things to visit.
Schools
Kintergartens
and
Mosques.
Go ahead Ardern
Make our day
Don’t forget the overseas! She looves the overseas bit so much shes leaving shortly!
Anything to report from the National Party event in Hamilton last night Chuck?
Yes, the function went well. I am sure they made a profit but do not know how much at this stage. However, more importantly, we signed several new members.
Paul Goldsmith had not heard of the announcement about the train from Hamilton to Auckland when he arrived so he could not announce National’s policy. I hope they have a decision by the next sitting. It does not make financial sense.
I drove to Orakei Bay in my Holden V8 in an hour thirty. Buggered if I would take a silly train even if it was free on my gold card.
There will be a meeting in Huntly with Mark Mitchell as a guest on 6 Sept. It could be worth going to.
Thanks Chuck, a bit under the weather so didn’t bother.
Yes but what happened?
Wat did they say?
What about their first 100 days (and make it 60)
What was the grass roots feeling about Simon bridges?
Do you think at an electorate fund raising and membership event they are going to make such announcements?
Well I wont bother to go to one then.
I’ll just hit Lonestar and try to have a one on one with Simon.
Good luck. Loyal party members do get a one to one with Simon. Are you a member?
I was I’m not sure I’f I’m still paid up!
If you came along Friday the $25 would have included your membership. If you pay your dues and come along most MPs will be happy to talk to you.
Most will not like being approached when they are not working especially when with family. Simon is very much a family man.
I have met Simon with his wife several times, and I found him very friendly
This was all announced last December 2018 with the same detail.
Goldsmith must be pretty dozy.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/109401742/hamiltonauckland-train-trial-gets-tick-from-nz-transport-agency?rm=m
This was a re-announcement because the >very expensive< proposal is well behind schedule.
There have been further announcements since plus a survey in May for a name for the service,
Its not like Goldsmith has electorate duties or a Ministerial position to fill.
This policy, in a draft form, was announced in 2018. It was recently confirmed. How could National not know about it and not have a response ready?
I am trying to make sense of your comment. Maybe you stick to bashing Jews.
Maybe being a converted NZF voter trying to make up for your mistakes you struggle, Chuck. And while jokes aren’t half as funny if they have to be explained, I’ll try …
1. National has almost invariable retained all legislation imposed by Labour, no matter how bad it is. Think WFF, tax creep, etc.
2. National tinkers with basic worker rights, like tea-breaks, while not only ignoring, but also supporting the growing loss of freedom we experience. They supported Ardern in getting us into a state where the police visit people at home. They support increasing dependency on the state. There are much bigger priorities they ignore.
The basic point? National is not really different to Labour; they’re just a different colour of stupid, no matter how much we hear about their delegates and events.
“Customs Agents Make ‘Unusual’ Seizure Of Nearly 53,000 Chinese Gun Parts”
This is bullshit.
Longbeach has always been a primary trafficking port of entry ever since the Dems sold/gave it to the Chinese.
It recently had the biggest drug seizure ever, there.
Its the hub of all smuggling in the US. People, drugs, arms etc.
MSM blatantly trundle along thinking they can make fairy tales believable.
Don’t they know the people are awakening.
Tards!!!
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/23/753687623/customs-agents-make-unusual-seizure-of-nearly-53-000-chinese-gun-parts
Here’s my theory on the global warming, climate change money/resource gathering exercise.
When the heatwave hits……… we’ll freeze to death.
Don’t make threats against MPs
(and don’t say anything that could be interpreted as being a threat….)
https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/115253203/threats-to-andrew-little-trigger-late-night-police-visit-says-pike-river-reentry-critic
What was the final score on whether we like plod or not poll?
74% dont
Better to just carry them out (the threats that is) then its too late!
I think it was fair enough to be interviewed. Threatening anyone is not a fair thing to do in my opinion. Especially over politics.
I’d go along with that. He ” left a message on Little’s phone saying he wanted to “eyeball” the minister and tell him “what is coming next” “.
I can well understand that he wasn’t exactly happy with the fuckwitted minister but that isn’t the statement of a rational man.
Facial recognition to mental recognition, a little bit of PVA glue here and here…..there job done!!
Trump admin eyes proposal to curb gun violence by monitoring mental states with Alexa, Apple Watch, and more
https://reclaimthenet.org/trump-administration-smart-speakers-mental-state/
The G7 is going to be fun.
With Tag Team Donald Trump and Boris Johnson against Macron and his bitches Merkel and Trudeau.
And Abe will be watching on.
Just because it is awesome. Happy Saturday arvo everyone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHjieD6CTYs
Thats the only good thing about Cadbury these days. Their chocky is still shit.
The only Cadbury’s thing I still like is their Flakes.
The rest is just sugary mud.
They must be paying the supermarkets fro all their shelf space.
Ed.
I do suggest Darrell Lea’s “Mega Minty Moments”. Dark choc center.
They’ve done a really good job of duplicating snifters.
Warewhare lolly aisle.
Man them greens are going to be pissed with the Mad Queen!
The plod went and raided the Dak club and arrested a few!
Looks like their weed is not liked as much as lawnmowers!
Col with Labour is on shakey ground!
Yes I don’t buy their razors
Its seems there is a big hate move on Proctor and Gamble!
What happened to Wilkinson Sword?
Thats not Johnny Wilkinsons sword is it. Cos he really f@#ked rugby as a spectacle.
I always liked the way he ran the english rugby team.
Some new tactics for once, and a good kicker.
Go to Goodfella.co.nz
The have the original razor with blades you replace and they are cheap.
Stuff
What does it matter that he was Autistic?
He could have been blind, or diabetic, or normal, or a stuff journalist
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/115224425/autistic-and-unable-to-defend-himself-upper-hutt-man-thought-he-could-die#comments
The other sad thing is that these are just Colladeral damage.
Probably.
As I have said many times, its time for a curfew on all male maori after 7pm.
Does that include Simon?
Don’t forget Winston 20’s
Would you like to walk down a street at night with a group of Maoris coming the other way?
OK so what is your answer?
See you at church tomorrow.
Nah. They’ll be writhing in the aisles & talking in tongues.
It’s a BYO. You supply your own choirboy! 🙂
One for DigNap15 Jacinda wants to start boot camps to teach Muslim woman how to get ready and enter NZ Politics.
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/jacinda-ardern-suggests-hosting-politics-bootcamp-muslim-women-aspiring-leadership
So in a few years we might have these inspirational woman as our MP’s or even Prime Minister, all on the taxpayer.
At an annual Bosses Night dinner for Auckland Law Society lawyers,
sponsored by legal secretaries it was time to announce the
Boss of the Year.
The master of ceremonies began: “First of all, our winner is a
graduate of the University of Auckland. So that already eliminates
some of you as candidates.”
“Our winner also is a partner in a downtown Auckland law firm.
That eliminates some more of you. “Our nominee is honest,
upright, dedicated…”
A voice from the audience cut in: “Well, there go the rest of us!”
90% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
Please read this article:
We are in for a real shit storm.
The gods is angry. Apparently.
Check out the date of the article first.
https://www.apnews.com/bd45c372caf118ec99964ea547880cd0
Do you smell something?
1989. It seemed that we’d been listening to this warmist, alarmist crap for longer.
Doesn’t time fly? 🙂
It’s why the AOCs of the world can prophesy about the end of the world in 12 years…most people forget the passage of time.
Maybe we did get wiped off the face of the Earth and practically everyone went to Heaven..except for a few of us unbelievers stuck in the ether.
Imagine the end of the Earth. Volcanos erupting, earthquakes, the sea boiling & hordes fighting over the last tin of baked beans. Finally all signs of life are gone.
Except for climate alarmists, conservative religious nutters who know best & cockroaches.
Not baked beans Naaska…..methane causes gerbil warming remember…
That’s cheerful. // Can’t we at least have something other than bakies for our final meal? ?
If we linger on for much longer, it’ll be a slurp of some disgusting plant-juice extract and a nibble of lentil burger.
Charlton Heston said it best (From Planet of the apes where the statue of Liberty was sticking out of the beach)
Nooooooooooooooooo…………
How about I go out sampling our liquor cabinet. Some of ours is very mature after years of neglect. ???
My money is on these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrade
Good catch Themistocles.
Tardigrade mishap on the Moon sparks questions on if we should restrict unusual spacecraft payloads.
https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/59nbm5/tardigrade-spill-on-the-moon-inspires-need-for-rules-on-spreading-life-beyond-earth
…..”My money is on these”…..
Possibly. But they’ll be socially conservative tardigrades who are anti-marijuana, abhor assisted suicide & love Jesus! 🙂
Oh…you mean retardigrades.
Oh this is sex on wheels. Even better, Mama Bear saw my face and said: “How much are you spending?”
I think that counts as a yes, right?
And this has to be the best advert for my favourite motorcycle.
Hahahaha.