The previous slogan of “Vote for Winston First to keep National honest” was promoted by Slater.

Do you reckon this one will be promoted by Martyn Martin Bradbury? It would seem fitting.

But there is hope?

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12236970

Lawyers are worth gold when you need one MT 🙂

Not as stooopid as you might think. They are everywhere nowadays. Bloody social media has given every stooopid person an easy way of showing you how stooopid they are.

Well that’s not entirely accurate. I’m watching this series and I can assure you that the unfortunate victims of acute radiation poisoning depicted were of tremendous colour by the time it had advanced.

England deserved to lose, fielding was abysmal, batting not as bad but lost Roy and Morgan cheaply, Roy played a shocker. Starting to get interesting, could be NZ, Aussie,India, West Indies make the cut. In saying that, India are yet to play.
The diversity team are finding that picking people on their colour isn’t a great idea, meanwhile killing more white farmers, Zimbabwe 2 coming up. South Africa look like being ready to return home on India’s first outing. Maybe they can solve it by only playing teams with a certain percentage of colour. The world has gone crazy.

I guess their are also many from Taranaki seeking out opportunity in Australia instead of sitting and waiting to learn how to be a vegan and knitting hemp or bamboo socks for a living. Don’t mention filthy wool grown by dirty emitting disgusting sheep.
I think any person wearing wool should be publicly shamed, disgusting attitude to our terminal existence on this planet.
Taranaki can do what Queensland did, but need to fight back.
One of their mayors looks like he has rolled over and taken the pittance on offer.
Start showing these idiots just how stupid they really are.

Not the son-in-law then? Oh god I am so old fashioned.

Trump tweeted “Sadiq Khan is a stone cold idiot”. So you wonder why on earth he would do that before he has even landed in Britain for a State visit. Well, that little nugget was left till after the click bait headline. Trump responded to Khan giving approval for the street protesters to float their Trump baby blimp while Trump is being hosted by the British Govt and Queen Elizabeth. Go Trump!

And the Lamestream keep going parading their biases. This time with headlines like “Trump, still making it awkward”. In case any “journalist” bothers to look your Messiah, Obama, was a bungling idiot back in his day as well. The difference is you didn’t bother to report it.

Oh, look at this nitwit who didn’t follow protocol and who made it awkward:

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

Why was this never national news if Trump’s faux pas are?

Journalists = retards.

Work in the social field..? Is that like reading between the lines with Clarke on a Friday night in the city? Or just PR and woman’s weekly photo shoot assistant to Cindy every other week?

She has had a hard upbringing and is slowly getting her shit together.

Haven’t we all?

Someone told me years ago that there were children that had worse childhoods than me. I replied with “That’s true, I survived”. I have permanent physical injuries thanks to the loving embrace of socialist parents.

Be nice to her? Is she nice to us? Not that ‘we’ require sycophancy. I would say that those on this blog are more open to other views than a left leaning blog would be. Trolling on the other hand is different. Anyway posting here is a choice, are you saying that Fairydust is a masochist by posting here?

I express my objection to the word ‘nice’.

Hi Char-mayne. I take it from your comment that you are here to “give another side to these debates you are having”. So what is your politics? Are you a died in the wool lefty/socialist dreamer, or perhaps you see increasing irresponsible demands on services that the taxpayer cannot keep paying for?

Tough? It is entirely voluntary. I would love to hear your views on this Government, if Fairydust needs you as a crutch then she is more like Jacinda than I previously thought.

Although I have suggested that they get some friends, (you I think have just confirmed she), is that the same as getting someone to give a personal plea for niceness? Are you ‘woke’?

How would you like ‘nice’ to be expressed, by agreeing with things that are not what I agree with?

Well welcome Char-mayne. I hope you are a little more able to add reasoned and fact-based input than your friend, if so you will be a very valuable addition to the general debate here. The great weakness of the ‘woke’ left is their inability to present any rationale at all for the policy positions other than ‘the feelz’. Fairydust seems only able to offer ‘Waacist’ or ‘Hayte speech’ to rebut any ideas or observations put forward here.

I for one would be most grateful for anyone who can illuminate with insight and intelligence the position and direction adopted by the political left.

Again you are many times welcome.

Curb you hate speech and bigoted labeling of me! Im so outraged! That will lead to death threats against me, even if they are from myself!

Im hardly alternative, just a general old fashioned right leaning New Zealand who would prefer that our country stay as it is/was.

Interesting that your point is “to oppose”, rather than discuss. It signals to me that you can and will see no view other than your own and that you are closed to the idea of liberty, personal freedom and personal accountability.

There is a better world than the jackboot, authoritarian socialism of Jacinda. Promise! You will however have to debate it, not just oppose it.

The pain you feel is merely the weakness leaving your body.

Alt-right? What do you base that descriptor on? As that is used as an insult, you have a bit of a cheek. Chars might see you as ‘not nice?’

No need to oppose my comments. I’m a political slut and am ready to sell my vote to the highest bidder.
What’s on offer, Fairydust?

How does being a National voter make me an alt right?? If you think this is the case New Zealand is in more trouble than I thought.

You give truth to my response to Char-mayne.

Our ideas are totally strange to them

You are so correct!

You never know it, but I might just show you the compassionate side in all this. If you don’t have a closed mind then we might get along well.

Welcome ABS and thank you for your post below. I was pondering pointing out the deafening silence on the shooter’s id (you forgot to mention also a registered Democrat – again), but you saved me the trouble.

I wonder when the letters went out, was hers sent out prior to the ChCh shootings or after?

Goes to show you were the CoL is leaning when it comes to the review of “Hate Laws” in NZ. Not that I doubt anyone here would be surprised by that revelation.

The whole thing surely can’t have much value anyway.
There are 180 awards, twice a year.
That is one a day. Not really unique are they.
Here’s some MNZM recipients:-

>Ms Allison Muriel Dobbie, Auckland, for services to library and information management and the arts
She was paid as a public servant to be head of the Library at Auckland Council.
She was just doing her paid job.

On a similar vein, prior to Geoff Palmer’s messing up local Govt in 1989 and introducing paid councillors perhaps they could get awards for community service. Now they are paid they can also get awards.
Double dipping. This is OTT.
If you volunteer it is one thing but if you are paid to do a job – usually from the public purse- then there should not be these awards.

How about this one:
>Mr Ewen Robert Pirie, Wyndham, for services to clay target shooting
I suppose when you throw millions and millions at rich fellas yachting events you have to sprinkle some other fairydust. But still…

and
>Ms Phylesha Brown-Acton, Auckland, for services to the Pacific and LGBTQI+ communities
…. yay for the alphabets

and
Hinemoa bloody Elder. Clearly that was not an award for good parenting!
Face Painting perhaps?

One award a day handed out.
They must be running around looking for them.
It is all so racist. But we won’t hear about that.
When was the last time there was an award for services to white people?

Oh, and this whole gamut is sexist.
If a bloke gets ‘Sir’ his wife can be ‘Lady’
Forever.
Frank Renouf’s wife of a few months was there at the right time and spent the rest of her life being Lady Susan Renouf when it suited.
For 30 years after the marriage ended and even 20 years after he died.

However if a woman becomes a Dame, her husband gets nothing.
This is soooo sexist.

She is the woman who, as well as ranting and raving about hate speech, has been making noises about the Government consulting Muslims re any decision making (i:e Islamic Law by stealth)

Do children of a US President usually get banquet invitations too?

What a class act Melania Trump is…
Could you imagine that dreadful Michelle Obama in the same scenario? She wouldn’t be able to contain her sneer…

What a Motley looking bunch of weirdos!
As an aside- Jevan himself caused a bit of embarrassment for the Labour Party back in the day…

She should have waited until next year- When the boat people start arriving and causing mayhem….Deluded New Zealanders are going to get a jolt of reality then!

Imagine what the world would be like without the UN to be a forum for the worlds nations to talk out their differences without resorting to war.

Given that the abusers and wreckers are now running the UN, more than time to exit. Unfortunately we have another PM looking for a job amongst them, so unlikely to happen.

May that person get a smack in the ear for their trouble!

A good article with this bit sticking out like a sore thumb: “Now, fortunately Labour aren’t insane. But they are fiscally loose, and the numbers now prove it.” Unfortunately, Labour are insane, are fiscally loose and the numbers prove it.

Both; add “senile” to the list!

“Not sound for the economy”? Not sure how he knows given he is responsible for a coalition that has done considerable harm to the economy and heading to do more. At least the log shipments have generated work in the community and are exports. Yes, there are issues with fair apportionment of roading costs and land use but these are nothing compared to the potential impact on farming by the Zero Carbon Bill.

The Zero Carbon Bill will impact negatively on more than just the farming industry. We will all get clobbered as we have been by the latest Excise tax to fund rail and public transport.

Mr Peters government has allowed the “captains Call” to decimate the Taranaki economy and thus the whole economy. They have form with economic waste. It is the soundness of the economy that is their weak point.

Never trust the polls Chuck. The only one that matters is election day, but even the last election let us down with the highest voting party being dunked by a drunk due to MMP.

You could always say you’re a Transgender Maori Muslim.

“The kind no one can live in now because the damp and the mould make them so unhealthy” LOL! I’ve lived in a rural farm house built in 1911 for going on 4 winters now. My family is perfectly healthy, and a simple wood burner keeps us warm and cozy.

Kitties RULE nasska!

Yes thanks. Its surprising what a gentle rev up achieves?

The only real downside to medical support away from the main centres is the quality of the service offered. I’m not suggesting that it’s third world but cutting edge techniques take longer to filter through.

But by & large we don’t know how lucky we are.