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1 hour ago, jack said:

.... Is this a threat to the " NATIONAL PARTY IDEOLOGY " ,  A normal family with a new born ... Gutless 

 

Normal family , yea rite , a baby produced and occasionally used for political gain , a baby with a nanny , a father who likes his tv performances , a mother who has tripled her income and has overseen the demise of the wellbeing many family's .

Watch out for the wedding just before the next election , I suspect comrade cindys election chances will require a stunt like that , the polls are looking perfectly logical at the moment .

Jack please , pay attention to how this government is performing , not one single policy success , God help us if we have another GFC or a Christchurch earthquake .

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1 hour ago, tripple alliance said:

Normal family , yea rite , a baby produced and occasionally used for political gain , a baby with a nanny , a father who likes his tv performances , a mother who has tripled her income and has overseen the demise of the wellbeing many family's .

Watch out for the wedding just before the next election , I suspect comrade cindys election chances will require a stunt like that , the polls are looking perfectly logical at the moment .

Jack please , pay attention to how this government is performing , not one single policy success , God help us if we have another GFC or a Christchurch earthquake .

 
 

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58 minutes ago, jack said:
 
 

So what , Key was a wealthy man before he entered parliament , he never received payment for his stint in parliament , he donated his salary , this sale just proves he knows what he is doing . Comrade cindy bought her first house when she was appointed pm , she actually has no idea how to make money for herself or improve the lives of others .

What is important and should concern you is under comrade cindy  the less well off were MUCH WORSE  off today than they were under Key and that's an undeniable fact . Comrade cindy has failed those who she pretended to care about .

Reducing child poverty , providing housing , failure after failure .

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Heather du Plessis-Allan: Jacinda Ardern's reaction to Winston Peters is spineless

The Prime Minister should be embarrassed by government she's leading. What is this, the government of anything goes?

What does it take to get stood down in this Government? What do you have to do to get reprimanded by Jacinda Ardern?

I would argue this business with Winston Peters is taking the mickey now. All of last week the media and the public asked questions about New Zealand First. About the donations, about the Serious Fraud Office inquiries, about the covert photos of journalists given to a Whale Oil-linked website.

We asked those questions because, to most of us, it was obvious that there are reasons to be seriously concerned.

The Prime Minister? Did she ask questions? No, she didn't. Nothing to see here. She didn't even ask Peters who took the photos.

She says it's not her job. She doesn't run the New Zealand First party.

Well, that's pathetic. She runs the Government. She is literally Winston's boss. If she doesn't ask questions and demand satisfactory responses from her Cabinet subordinates, who else is going to?

The problem for Ardern right now is that she looks either completely spineless or completely disinterested in running this country with integrity. She either can't muster the courage to have a difficult conversation, or she can't muster enough interest in whether the people around her are squeaky clean.

And, for the record, I think it's the former. It must be that she isn't up to actually reprimanding and disciplining her subordinates. I mean, Claire Curran had to fire herself in the end because Jacinda wasn't going to do it.

This Winston Peters thing has the potential to drag on. The least the PM can do is sit him down and ask him what is going on.

 

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On 2/7/2020 at 8:57 PM, tripple alliance said:

And here it is .

"" UN Ruling Says ‘Climate Refugees’ Cannot Be Returned Back to Their Home Country 

It is unlawful for governments to return people to countries where their lives might be threatened by the climate crisis, a landmark ruling by the United Nations human rights committee has found.

The judgment – which is the first of its kind – represents a legal “tipping point” and a moment that “opens the doorway” to future protection claims for people whose lives and wellbeing have been threatened due to global heating, experts say.

Tens of millions of people are expected to be displaced by global heating in the next decade. ""

So there you have it ,  comrade cindy has opened up our country to anyone who claims it's a bit hot in the country where they come from and if we obey UN laws then we have no say in how many or who arrives here .

The UN is funding programs that encourage people in third-world countries to leave their homelands and migrate to the United States and European nations, according to Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjárt. 

This mass migration process poses “a very serious threat to the whole of humanity,” said Szijjártó.

“We call on the UN to include in its budget counter-terrorism … and to spend less on migration,” the minister told the conference, which was organized by the UN. Passed in 2018, the UN Compact on Migration is not legally binding, but governments are under international pressure to follow its mandates.  

British MEP Janice Atkinson warned that the pact could lead to Europe being flooded with 59 million new migrants within the next 6 years.

Dutch MEP Marcel de Graaff also said that the pact would grease the skids for laws that would criminalize criticism of mass immigration as hate speech. While Britain and numerous other western countries signed the migration pact, the United States refused to do so. 

SO there you have it , the future if comrade cindy and the UN get there way .,.

In NZ we are about to have a flow of new refugees from Somalia ,  Levin , Masterton , Blenhiem Timaru and Wanganui are the destination for these people , comrade cindy and the UN will be pleased . 

OOps theres a problem , 

A refugee resettlement meeting in Whanganui was cut short by Whanganui Tupoho iwi representative Ken Mair on Monday night.

The hui, organised by Immigration New Zealand (INZ), was intended as an information and planning event to assist international refugees to settle in Whanganui.

THE RESULT . Whanganui's intake of refugees on hold: Immigration NZ, iwi in talks  . perhaps the other areas should also be in talks .

NOW LET'S GET THIS STRAIGHT , REFUGEES ARE NOT THE PROBLEM , once a government allows them in then that's it , we must accept it , The problem IS THE GOVERNMENT AND THE DECISIONS they make , comrade cindy and her communist/socialist ideology is doing harm to our less well off in a big way , Housing for starters .

 

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2 hours ago, eljay said:

The number of pro-Jacinda and pro-Labour letters to the editor have dramatically risen over the last week in the dailies.   Is there an election due?    Has the Labour propaganda machine been launched?    

Well the papers themselves are just propaganda outlets as they are so far pro-left wing it is not funny. BTW critical letters just end up in the rubbish bin. They don't print them. 

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She's getting desperate , this was disproved long ago .

" Public health officials are denying Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's claim human waste breached the walls of south Auckland's Middlemore Hospital.

But the prime minister is refusing to back down, with her office on Wednesday issuing a statement saying the comment is in line with remarks by Counties Manukau District Health Board's former acting chief executive.

 Middlemore Hospital denies Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's 'sewage down walls' claim 

CMDHB, which in 2019 said such claims were untrue, has now responded to the prime minister's statement.  

Despite the dramatic language used previously around sewage issues at Middlemore Hospital, the sewage leaks were small," a spokeswoman said.

She confirmed one incident in the Scott Building in November 2017, but said it was the result of a cracked sewer pipe joiner.

Pipe joinery also required replacement in one of Middlemore's retail areas in October 2017. "

NOW this whole beat up was used before the last election and was disproved then , comrade cindy is just rehashing complete crap , she doesn't know what she is doing .

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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has appeared on the international  cover of Time Magazine.

New Zealand actor Sam Neil is also quoted in the feature.

"Wherever I go, people say: 'You think we could have Jacinda this week? Could we just borrow her for a while?'"

 

The magazine piece hails Ardern's leadership style, tracks her rising global prominence and sets the scene for battle for the September 19 election.

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15 hours ago, shodsie said:

jack i reckon who ever wants jacinda can have her????  

National leader Simon Bridges offered up fulsome praise for the Chinese Communist Party during an interview with a Chinese state TV network.

National leader Simon Bridges offered up fulsome praise for the Chinese Communist Party during an interview with a Chinese state TV network.

Praise for the role of the communist regime in China's "amazing story" would seem an unlikely line for a right-wing leader to take in an interview, let alone with a state-run television network in the country.

Yet National leader Simon Bridges' glowing remarks at the tailend of a visit to the Asian superpower were not the most puzzling thing about his interview with a CGTV journalist.

 

Bridges offered up a paraphrase of an alleged Xi Jinping quote that New Zealand was the cherry to China's watermelon but that both were delicious - a line he shamelessly reused about the relationship with India, the other country he visited during his week-long tour.

Some watchers suggested an answer to a question regarding the unrest in Hong Kong appeared to have been altered; a spokeswoman for Bridges confirmed only half of his response had been used, but denied there had been any tampering and equated the editing with standard practice in New Zealand media.

Of greater concern to some was Bridges' meeting with Guo Shengkun, a member of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) 25-man Politburo.

Bridges snapped at the suggestion Guo was the man "in charge of China's secret police," as University of Canterbury academic and China expert Anne-Marie Brady suggested on social media.

At least Jacinda isn`t kissing chinese ASS!!

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On 2/21/2020 at 4:53 PM, jack said:

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has appeared on the international  cover of Time Magazine.

New Zealand actor Sam Neil is also quoted in the feature.

"Wherever I go, people say: 'You think we could have Jacinda this week? Could we just borrow her for a while?'"

 

The magazine piece hails Ardern's leadership style, tracks her rising global prominence and sets the scene for battle for the September 19 election.

 

Obviously these overseas people don't want someone who can actually run a country but rather someone who continuously just wants to do cover shots for fluff pieces and go around putting on a concerned face and hugging people (looking for the next tragedy in order to do so). 

I would be quite happy to drive her to the airport and make sure she gets on the plane Jack. 

Please advise the flight time.  

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20 hours ago, rdytdy said:

Here is the correct cover Jack.

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Former MPs and their perks - salary, free travel and taxpayer-funded cars

Former Prime Minister John Key is entitled to $50,000 a year and free travel - if he wants it. Photo / Greg Bowker

Former Prime Minister John Key is entitled to $50,000 a year and free travel - if he wants it. Photo / Greg Bowke

Their time in Parliament might be up, but MPs can still look forward to a few perks.

All 34 MPs who resigned or lost their seat at the election still get paid a salary for three months - around $40,000 in total, or $3300 a week.

That includes disgraced National MP Todd Barclay, who quit at the election over a secret recording scandal in his Clutha-Southland electorate office.

Outgoing ministers like Peter Dunne get paid a slightly higher rate - about $4400 a week - until a government is formed, after which their income falls to the lower rate of $3300 until December.

All of the departing MPs will lose their taxpayer-funded travel and accommodation subsidies, except for return flights to Wellington to clear out their offices.

Some of the ex-MPs' perks are lifelong.

As a former Prime Minister, Sir John Key will get $51,725 a year for the rest of his life, a taxpayer-funded car, and free travel if he is carrying out duties as a former leader. It is not known whether he is claiming this entitlement. His predecessors Helen Clark, Jim Bolger and Jenny Shipley have all benefited from it.

Four long-serving MPs - Annette King, Murray McCully, Maurice Williamson, and Dunne - will get free international travel for themselves and their spouses for the rest of their lives.

The travel perk only applies to MPs who served three terms before 1999 and is capped at the cheapest Air New Zealand business class flight to London each year and 12 domestic return flights.

Former MPs and their partners spend about $700,000 a year through this entitlement - though the MPs received less pay when working at Parliament because of it.

 

Some new MPs, on the other hand, may miss out on getting paid at all.

Any list candidate who made it into Parliament in the preliminary election result can get their airfares to Wellington paid for.

But if they lose their seat when the special votes are counted on October 7, they will not be paid for any work since the election.

What do former MPs get?

• 3 months' salary
• Free return travel to Wellington to clean up offices
• MP's pension ($2.50 for every $1 invested)
• Free international travel (pre-1999 MPs only)
• $50,000 annuity, taxpayer-funded car and free domestic and international travel (ex-Prime Ministers only)

Departing MPs

National

Sir John Key (entered Parliament in 2002)
Murray McCully (1987)
Hekia Parata (2008)
Sam Lotu-Iiga (2008)
Craig Foss (2005)
Chester Borrows (2005)
Jo Goodhew (2005)
Maurice Williamson (1987)
Lindsay Tisch (1999)
Paul Foster-Bell (2013)
Todd Barclay (2014)
Jono Naylor (2014)

Sir John Key sells mansion for $23.5m in what was NZ's second biggest house sale of 2017

 

 

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Mike Hosking: Child poverty is the KiwiBuild of social failure

If you're looking to vote on accountability and delivery this election, Labour is in increasing trouble.

Another social indicator lays bare yet another promise not met. Child poverty is up, the stats department released the cold hard truth yesterday.

This was the Prime Minister's calling card. This was the one dear to her heart. Unlike climate change, which was her generation's nuclear moment, where you can fudge your way out of any real sort of accountability.

Although a zero carbon bill has been passed, the fact it will achieve nothing and has exemptions in it you can drive a bus through, you can at least fill time during the campaign wittering on about your intent and hope, and of course using her favourite line: there is more work to do.

No, with poverty, specifically child poverty, things were going to get better. They haven't. They've got worse.

It's a KiwiBuild of social failure.

When you measure material hardship, one in eight kids lives below the line, that is over 4000 more than there were.

At the time of the promise, we were in the in the halcyon days of early government and campaigning where anything was said.

Ardern had just been newly minted as leader and hadn't thought far enough down the road to consider the fact that Winston would pick her and therefore one day be held to account.

She was busy waxing on about 50 to 70,000 kids being lifted out of poverty.

In fact, the three-year target, the three years coming to an end in September, she was going to shrink the figure from 16 per cent of kids to 10 per cent. She hasn't.


It is the danger of the over-promise. It is the danger of a lack of knowledge around the complexity of the problem. It is the danger of being superficial when you're dealing with other people's lives.

Of course, poverty is such a hopelessly emotive word to start with, and it's a world of averages where you never really get to see the specifics of any given case.

The measure is based around kids and lunches, how much access they have to vegetables, the material possessions in their lives.

It's woolly, and it fails to consider the role of the parent and the quality of expenditure of the actual money in the house.

All the more reason not to make promises around it, I would have thought.

But yet again, a warning of the dangers of the redistribution approach this Government has embraced with alacrity.

The billions that have been put into the social side of the equation, and for what return?

Every social indicator has gone backwards - food handouts, housing queues, jobless payments and poverty. Every single one of them in the wrong direction.

A cheque doesn't solve the issue, and the numbers prove it.

 

 

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Interesting full page article in today’s “The AUSTRALIAN” newspaper which has the title, “Show Pony or Stayer?” According to the Australian National University Professor of Australia and NZ Politics, John Wanna, “She is regarded as a bit of a Show Pony who is not delivering”. It’s quite a fair assessment of Ardern (a bit kind some would say) but it’s worth a read. 

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55 minutes ago, Trump said:

Interesting full page article in today’s “The AUSTRALIAN” newspaper which has the title, “Show Pony or Stayer?” According to the Australian National University Professor of Australia and NZ Politics, John Wanna, “She is regarded as a bit of a Show Pony who is not delivering”. It’s quite a fair assessment of Ardern (a bit kind some would say) but it’s worth a read. 

Very kind I’d say Trumpy......;)

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Mike Hosking: KiwiBuild's ongoing failure as another government hype job falls flat

Well, it's not like we weren't warned.

We had Meghan Woods on the show the other day. I asked her about her KiwiBuild progress. You remember the reset? The reshuffle and desperate attempt to try and put the biggest infrastructural cluster in modern political history behind them? Well, sadly it isn't working.

It's not dissimilar to their kids' poverty promises. A lot of hype, happiness, Kumbaya and good feels but no real results.

The January numbers for KiwiBuild have been posted. Do remember, this is still a live policy. The policy didn't die with Phil Twyford's reputation as a minister. It carried on, just without the same grandiose nonsense that masqueraded as a promise or target of 100,000 houses over 10 years - or an average of 10,000 per year.

Given we are two years into the programme; things should be ramping up nicely, although perhaps predictably, they are not. In December, they managed to build seven houses. Seven. Not 70 or 700 or, God forbid, 7000. Seven.

 
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Photo / Mark MitchellPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Photo / Mark Mitchell

At the time of the interview, Woods didn't have current figures despite the fact it was late February, which seemed odd because it's not like they had a lot of stock to count. It's not like they were telling the minister "look we think it's around 1600-ish were just finalising the numbers, could be 1630 or 1639". It's seven.

You could have sent Bob out in his lunch hour to count the lot. Anyway, low and behold come February 26 they finally manage to tally up the numbers for January.

Drum roll please. Could they top December? Could some sort of new roll be on? Could they put the year of delivery behind them, and give a bit of life to their otherwise hopelessly embarrassing attack on housing? Ah, no. No, they couldn't. For January it was seven. Another seven. Fourteen over two months.

Woods, at the time of interview perhaps, gave us a clue by saying it was December and January after all, and we all need a holiday.

Brilliant, we also need houses; well that's what they told us ad nauseum when they were campaigning for office. Housing was a crisis, no one could afford a house, and they were going to change things dramatically.

They have done nothing of the sort. Haven't fixed poverty, haven't fixed a single one of their myriad social issues they promised they would and certainly haven't fixed housing. In fact at its current rate, to build the 100 000 houses they promised, is going to take more than 1190 years.

The dash board was an attempt at transparency. For that, they can be commended. For the result, all we can do is yet again shake our heads in dismay

 

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On 2/16/2020 at 1:57 PM, tripple alliance said:

Normal family , yea rite , a baby produced and occasionally used for political gain , a baby with a nanny , a father who likes his tv performances , a mother who has tripled her income and has overseen the demise of the wellbeing many family's .

Watch out for the wedding just before the next election , I suspect comrade cindys election chances will require a stunt like that , the polls are looking perfectly logical at the moment .

Jack please , pay attention to how this government is performing , not one single policy success , God help us if we have another GFC or a Christchurch earthquake .

The world now has the Corona virus, and that looks like it will be much bigger than the GFC, with so much grinding to a full stop. 

It will be interesting to see how Jacinda and her government performs in comparison to the Key regime. 
 

 

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1 hour ago, Insider said:

The world now has the Corona virus, and that looks like it will be much bigger than the GFC, with so much grinding to a full stop. 

It will be interesting to see how Jacinda and her government performs in comparison to the Key regime. 
 

 

She’s already started - she’s telling her neighbour to stop sending back criminal, meth peddling, no good bikie NZ Citizens. If they want to stay in Oz and go to Jail in Oz then they should naturalise. They would then be able to stay - at the pleasure of Her Majesty’s Prisons ! Good on Scott Morrison - he just let her hang herself. The media in Oz do not like a NZ PM telling them how to run their Country - especially non- performing Far Left Socialist types. 

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