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By JC
 

Jacinda, Grant, Chris, Megan and Phil, do me a favour and just naff off. I am sick to death of being told what instructions to follow on a daily basis. I wouldn’t mind quite so much if you could implement your own rules but you have shown consistently that you can’t.  But you expect the so-called team of five million to obey all the orders you trot out every day. Most of your edicts are nothing more than telling us how you would like us to live our lives.

After months of being ear bashed about how you went “hard and early”, the new catchphrase is “it’s a tricky virus”. It is not a tricky virus. It is only tricky because you are out of your depth when it comes to knowing how to handle it. The endless bungles have made that only too clear. Even Winston gets it, the man who gave you the path to power. Stupidly.

Your one o’clock stand-ups as you call them are aptly named. Are you aware it can take an amateur comedian about ten years to perfect the technique needed to become a professional; this is a constant process of learning through failure. As the name implies stand up comedians usually perform their material while standing. As has been all too obvious comedy and failure have been your constant bedfellows throughout the COVID crisis.

Practically all your instructions have had a two-fold effect: control and contract. Control the people and contract the economy. Take the latest two edicts. Aucklanders are being told it would be preferable if they didn’t attend a conference in Queenstown. Why not? Plane loads of them are going down for holidays. They’ll all be jamming restaurants and bars. Those venues will probably be more tightly packed than the conference. You are so fixated on control that common sense has gone out the window. It turns out that once again Hipkins hadn’t done his homework thus was unaware that the rules in place excluded conferences. He’s either lazy, has too much on his plate or is just plain incompetent.

The other dumb decision is to call off the Youth America’s Cup. Which Minister is linked to this decision? You guessed it, Phil Twyford. The event involving mixed crews from thirteen nations was to be held next March. Twyford weaselled his way out of it by saying that while the Government had invested $100 million in the America’s Cup they had not done so directly with the Youth Cup so there will be no travel exemptions. This is lunacy.

There will be no crowd at the North South rugby game; meanwhile we watch crowds attending the NRL games across the Tasman. As far as I am concerned you lot are a bunch of idiotic killjoys. People are over this obsessiveness with control and want to work and get on with their lives. Your contact tracing is another disaster in the making. You are now going to produce a silly little notebook for people to use if they don’t have a phone.

Here’s a little piece of advice. Stop throwing the rule book at us. There are so many rules even you can’t follow them. Stop treating us like little children. Most of us don’t want to be brought down to your level. This country is a democracy, not a dictatorship.

 
 

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It’s Not Easy Being Green

Shaw Played To His Voters But Got It Wrong

By Christie

I have always said that the Greens are people who live in an ideological world, but I have recently changed my view. Their world is not entirely ideological. It is, in fact, quite possible. They live in a world where there are cycle lanes everywhere, pop-up walkways, few cars (and those that exist are electric), lots of trains, welfare is rampant and those on it live a decent and lavish life.

I was travelling on the Kapiti Expressway recently with a Greenie friend who waxed lyrical about the fact that the new motorway has a cycle lane, blissfully ignoring the fact that the cycleway was completely empty and added millions of dollars onto the cost of the road. Greens don’t worry about trivial things like the responsible use of taxpayer funds. In their utopian world, all these things can be achieved… we just have to tax people more.

 

How else can a party that claims to want to see less inequality in the country want to give discounts on cars that cost in the region of $70,000 when the people they claim to care about will be lucky if they can afford a rust-ridden, 20-year-old smoky old Toyota?

The truth is that those people do not vote Green. Their voters come from the leafy suburbs of Auckland or the trendy parts of Wellington; wealthy urban dwellers whose wealth makes them feel guilty and whose world has to be the way they want it, whether it will bankrupt the country or not. They can always blame climate change if anyone gets antsy about the cost of things. I mean, a perfect world will never come cheap, will it?

Thus James Shaw has found himself in very hot water this week, not only with taxpayers, but with factions of his own party, and his political career hangs by a thread. But the Green Party has only itself to blame, because its various factions are likely to disagree with each other as their different priorities take hold. If you are not sure what I mean, then just think about the fact that, if Shaw is forced to resign, the next male co-leader of the party will be either Teanau Tuiono or Ricardo Menendez-March. The thought of either of them in government roles should fill a reasonably thinking person with terror, but here we are.

  • sanitise-630x450.jpg The BFD. Cartoon credit Boomslang

Shaw knows many of his voters really want the Green school. The wealthy urban elites can probably think of nothing better than composting toilets and crystals for their kids. Shaw knows it would have won votes for the party, but the activist wing of the party wants nothing to do with the kooky elite wing. They want to burden white people with guilt, force everyone to speak Te Reo and increase tax rates to such a level that working people will leave the country in droves. No, the country will never be able to afford what the activist wing wants, but it cannot afford what the elite wing wants either. Cycle lanes and pop-up walkways don’t come cheap, no matter how many “car fascists” there are. And if it means you can’t get to work on time, never mind. Such things are not important to an elite Green.

However, either despair or over-eliteness has finally driven James Shaw too far. Aware that his party is on the brink of annihilation, he has acted in desperation, as supposedly he refused to sign off on $3 billion of ‘shovel ready’ projects unless the green school was included. Holding up projects that will create thousands of jobs for New Zealanders in an economic crisis unless he can get a pet project funded is blackmail. He deserves to lose his political career over it, and apologies simply don’t cut it. Such a person is not fit for the responsibilities of being a minister, and many ministers have stepped down for much less. It is as simple as that.

The prospects for the party are not great. If the activist wing takes over, in a conservative country, oblivion awaits, but pandering to the Green elite probably has no future either. Still, in Shaw’s utopian world, the green school was a great idea. Pair it up with Jacinda’s unicorns and rainbows and New Zealand would be a fabulous place indeed. It would be bankrupt, but no matter. No one ever said it would be easy being Green.

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Guaranteed to Raise your Hackles and Blood Pressure

Common “Cop Out” Phrases

 

By Suze

The PM’s skinny frame and tired face is an indication of the tough road she’s on. Faced with hard questions from Ryan Bridge on the AM show earlier this week she pursed her lips and sniffed when asked to accept responsibility for the border failure that allowed COVID back into Auckland. “Where’s the evidence? she demanded, and immediately threw the blame at her “team of five million”:

“We actually need people to do the right thing as well. We can’t be solely reliant on every single time the assumption that we’re going to stop everyone’s bad behaviour. We need a team effort. When we set out a rule, when we make an ask we need everyone to play their part as well.”

The PM pushes a juvenile “dob in your neighbour” policy. I’m not sure what’s worse: police making up COVID rules as they go along when they hauled people off beaches and out of parks, or asking the public to spy on their neighbours. Both are highly incendiary.

 

Whatever happened to openness and transparency? It was neither smart nor honest to shift the blame onto the imaginary “team of five million” cowering at home during the first lockdown, but once bitten twice shy judging by Auckland’s blatant disregard for the second lockdown.

If something can be stuffed up expect the government to do it. Below are phrases the PM and her media protection squad trot out to confuse and divert attention from the disasters now coming thick and fast. Impeccable timing prime minister.

“A tricky virus” All virus are tricky. This is a lie to divert attention from their latest lapse. What happened to alleged gold standard tracing, or arrivals tested on days 3 and 12, or border officials regularly tested?

“Again” and “well, again” The PM uses this as a small break to gather her thoughts in a losing debate. Used as a last ditch, mostly unsuccessful, attempt to make the interviewer back off.

“Aotearoa” We have been New Zealand since 1642 so why the recent undemocratic name change to Aotearoa or the equally awful Aotearoa New Zealand?

“Be kind” A demand made of the “team of five million” that was not reciprocated by the government, e.g. over 220,000 people on the dole, annihilating the travel and tourism industry and forcing the closure of up to a quarter of retail stores. Due to hypocrisy please disregard this governmental instruction and adopt your own view of kindness. Example: it would be a kindness toward the poor and jobless not to support the current prime minister on October 17th.

“Bin” Translation: “been.” A grating example of sloppy diction rampant among Ardern’s sycophantic media protection squad.

“But ultimately” Used to gain breathing space and change the subject. Ask yourself why.

“COVID election” This might have worked if elimination had been achieved but now it’s just another failed strategy. Also reinforces political bias in the government’s handling of the COVID crisis where economic consideration didn’t get a look in. Count your failures one by one….

“COVID longhaulers” Just in case you’ve recovered from the first round of COVID scaremongering, meet round two. COVID longhaulers have ongoing health issues after ‘recovering’ from COVID. All viruses affect the immune system, some people suffer longer, but how many and whether it’s permanent is unknown.

“Elimination” The government’s chosen COVID strategy receiving worldwide acclaim for 102 vainglorious days. It didn’t work, won’t work, and any honest politician would stump up and admit their failure at the border. Second in command (apologies to Winnie but you are MIA) was Robbie who recently tried to pass off an AVSEC failure as entirely the fault of airport security, forgetting he’s part of the small (incompetent) team supposed to be running the show.

“Facilidate, facilidy” More recognisable as facilitate and facility, used to inspire confidence in the clown show but only works on the clueless.

“In this space” Your response should be: What space? I see idiots occupying that space.”

“I’ve made my views very, very clear” “very, very, clear” and “clearly” Means this is a stupid question. The PM is always right so clearly, very clearly, you are wrong. Delivered in the kindergarten tone the PM is so fond of.

“I will have to get back to you on that” Means I’m not up to speed, let’s hope you forget to ask this question again next week.

“Leading the world” and “World Class” This is futile tall poppy territory. In the globalist world faring well against other countries is more important than addressing your own nation’s problems.

“Not my expectation” and “we had an expectation” This is the PM’s usual response when confronted with failure. It means she is not (and never will be) held responsible for the latest stuff up. Also known as passing the buck.

“Settings” A tricky way of saying “rules”, or this is how things will be, until we tell you otherwise. The government can change the “rules” at a moments’s notice.

“Single source of truth” A statement that preceded several government failures, one of the funniest being their website instruction that everyone in South and West Auckland should immediately take a COVID test. Testing stations were inundated and the PM was “very angry” at the screwup. Time to adopt a “single source of responsibility” prime minister?

“Stay in your bubble” The correct response now is “what bubble?” The initial scaremongering with the threat of tens of thousands of deaths faded after the departure of 17 (22-5) elderly souls with pre-existing conditions. That bubble has well and truly popped.

“Test, test, test” This instruction didn’t stop the virus re-emerging, or the government reneging after their ridiculous instruction for 700,000 Aucklanders to get tested — see “single source of truth”.

“That’s one of the things we’ll be looking at” I can’t answer your question, in fact, it’s not my fault because someone else stuffed up and I don’t know when, how or if they can fix it.

“The long tail” This is pseudo-science that was supposed to garner public confidence in the failed elimination strategy which failed after round one on all but the naive and the clueless.

“The new normal” is an oxymoron. If it’s new it’s not normal. Don’t believe them. Korau’s comment in General Discussion 31 August nailed it:

“Hello Auckland. Welcome to the new normal, Level 2.5. It’s a Claytons level apparently. The level you have when you’re not having a level”.

“The team of five million” An imaginary concept Ardern uses to pretend full national support for her disastrous and unsuccessful elimination strategy. It has a very short tail.

“Tools in the toolbox” Meaningless words offered up when the latest failure becomes public. A failing attempt to promote false optimism.

“Unprecedented” Also known as “excuses, excuses” but sounds better than the whiny “no one has faced the challenges we have”.

“We can beat this!” Where’s the “we” white woman? Others might, but you can’t. You allowed the biggest cluster yet to develop in Auckland after the monumental border failure you still haven’t owned up to. Donald Trump was paying attention.

“We will get to the bottom of that” The anticipated response to yet another stuff up. Do not expect resolution.

“We’re working hard” and “we’re working very hard” Explaining yourself is losing (Cam Slater).

“What something might look like” Pure speculation. Tell the truth so we can see what something actually looks like.

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Will Miss Ardern be ensuring that all cannabis users are tested each fortnight like port workers & others are required to for Covid?

Will those who use it for Medicinal & other purposes have to Socially Distance from others & immediately put on a mask after washing their hands & signing in with a Contact Tracing App?

 

Just wondering  if her sidekick Helen Clark very close pal of UN & WHO has ensured she will be so that ALL people can go safely about their lives without any detriment to "Public Health".

 

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5 hours ago, Uriah Heap said:

Re: "Guaranteed to Raise Your Hackles and Blood Pressure"  - Is Suze the pen name for David Wong-Tung; the husband Judith Collins can't keep on the leash?

Don't care if it's Judith's hubby who she admits she can't control , he's a strong free individual , excellent , not cowered by media or anyone 10 out of 10 .

I thought she handled the issue very well , married for 40 years suggests stability dedication and both will have excellent temperaments , good temperament is the  most common trait most good horses have . Nothing wrong here . 

Anyone know where the fisherman is , it's election time , he seems to be m i a 

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Trust Us They Say, They’re Our One Source of Truth…

By CS
 
The Prime Minister and her Health Minister are constantly telling us that they are our one source of truth. That when they speak from the podium of truth, it is right and we can believe them.

It’s nonsense of course.

 

And so it has proven yet again. Again it was Chris Hipkins speaking mistruths.

#UPDATE The new case at St Dominics was not a close contact of the initial Mt Roskill Evangelical cases, contrary to what Health Minister Chris Hipkins said this morning. https://t.co/2j6Jxk9DfR

— RNZ (@radionz) September 9, 2020

On top of that, yesterday morning Chris Hipkins was singling out members of the church for some public embarrassment and Police action.

Clearly the Government is looking to sheet home the blame for ongoing infections on some of the so-called team of five million, rather than acknowledging that their incompetence at the border let the plague back in.

We’ve also seen blame-mongering from Labour-aligned public health officials. It certainly looks like the “team of five million” slogan is out the window as the luvvies move to protect the COVID Queen:

Then there was this from Dr Siouxsie Wiles, who assists Labour with their fundraising.

“The reality is that we have a current government that has a strategy and we have a pandemic that is raging overseas and there is no guarantee that a different government would stick with the same strategy.”

She has decided to use her new found fame to blatantly politick against a change of government. She’s an academic, not a politician.

But there is clearly a move on, of which she is a part, to silence dissenting voices when it comes to alternative strategies for dealing with the Chinese plague. She and Shaun Hendy have both been pushing Hendy’s shame list where they even label other academics with different ideas, like the Plan B people, as conspiracy theorists.

Latest #COVIDー19 graphic from @XTOTL & me is on information hygiene & the difference between #misinformation & #disinformation. Let's see if we can make this one go viral! More in the accompanying @TheSpinoffTV piece here: https://t.co/TgScnx7JNj #COVID19 #covid19nz pic.twitter.com/oyYNqhPHAc

— Dr Siouxsie Wiles (@SiouxsieW) September 7, 2020

There is a real push for us to all comply with their thinking and strategy. No alternative must be tolerated, which is the antithesis of the scientific method.

It is becoming more and more obvious that the wheels on the strategy are coming off. It shouldn’t really be a surprise, after the stuff-ups of Kiwibuild, light rail and child poverty, that the COVID strategy is similarly flawed and destined to fail.

The problem is though, when your sole strategy relies on meek compliance with harsh lockdowns and you keep stuffing up and financially destroying the economy through your strategy, the compliance gets less and less the more pain we suffer.

Which is why we are having the false war of Level 2 and Level 2.5, cajoling people into compliance with mask wearing by using fear. It can’t continue, mainly because sensible people start asking inconvenient questions, like why are you mandating mask wearing in Level 2 when you never did under level four?

We now have more people in the community with the plague than when the first lockdown occurred. It doesn’t add up and it doesn’t make sense.

The only people who now want lockdowns are basically those employed by the state or councils, who haven’t suffered the loss of a single dollar, let alone their entire income or business.

All those telling us to take the medicine of lockdowns aren’t the ones having to swallow it. I’ll bet their enthusiasm for lockdowns would dissipate rather quickly if they lost 10% of their salary for each week we have to spend locked down.

Expect the rhetoric against alternative views to escalate. They must protect the strategy and the COVID Queen at all costs.

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39 minutes ago, Uriah Heap said:

rdytdy - Who are these writer's Suze and CS? Why are they hiding behind initials and pseudonyms? I think it's cause they're embarrassed at pushing conspiracy theories.

Maybe you can show us all the scientific proof that the PCR test actually works for testing C19....no one else has come up with it as far as I know.

You are gunna find a huge rise in cases before the US election but miracuously very few deaths....scam

Then the day after the election...poof ...just like that Covid disappears.

So Cindis team are part of the deep state to take Trump down and the tests are fake to keep the lie going.

 

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18 hours ago, tripple alliance said:

Don't care if it's Judith's hubby who she admits she can't control , he's a strong free individual , excellent , not cowered by media or anyone 10 out of 10 .

I thought she handled the issue very well , married for 40 years suggests stability dedication and both will have excellent temperaments , good temperament is the  most common trait most good horses have . Nothing wrong here . 

Anyone know where the fisherman is , it's election time , he seems to be m i a 

Probably planning the wedding.....🙄

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22 hours ago, Ohokaman said:

Probably planning the wedding.....🙄

Hes living in Milford with the pregnant Nanny im told from multiple sources, but there has been an article on smear around Clarky so who knows 😐

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On 9/10/2020 at 11:21 AM, 100 1 said:

Maybe you can show us all the scientific proof that the PCR test actually works for testing C19....no one else has come up with it as far as I know.

You are gunna find a huge rise in cases before the US election but miracuously very few deaths....scam

Then the day after the election...poof ...just like that Covid disappears.

So Cindis team are part of the deep state to take Trump down and the tests are fake to keep the lie going.

 

This is the day after the US election??? No more Covid. That's very specific 100 1. You don't want to pull back on that one and give yourself a bit of room to manoeuvre?

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24 minutes ago, Uriah Heap said:

This is the day after the US election??? No more Covid. That's very specific 100 1. You don't want to pull back on that one and give yourself a bit of room to manoeuvre?

Na don't need to ...Q and Trump both said it.

Still waiting for your scientific proof that PCR tests actually work for Covid

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4 hours ago, Uriah Heap said:

This is the day after the US election??? No more Covid. That's very specific 100 1. You don't want to pull back on that one and give yourself a bit of room to manoeuvre?

i think stories like this explains "after the election"

https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/09/10/la-county-schools-health-barbara-ferrer-election-reopen/

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8 hours ago, Gruff said:

Hes living in Milford with the pregnant Nanny im told from multiple sources, but there has been an article on smear around Clarky so who knows 😐

Basically much of what you have heard is the same as I  was told by A labour party Mino don't know about Milford but I  was given a name , beware don't believe it until officially  confirmed that won't happen until after the election or until the media grows some balls and asks .

In the mean time be wise and distrust this rumour  , I  originally thought it was a trap for Nat's and it might be just that .

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On ‎9‎/‎10‎/‎2020 at 9:52 AM, rdytdy said:

Trust Us They Say, They’re Our One Source of Truth…

By CS
 
The Prime Minister and her Health Minister are constantly telling us that they are our one source of truth. That when they speak from the podium of truth, it is right and we can believe them.

It’s nonsense of course.

 

And so it has proven yet again. Again it was Chris Hipkins speaking mistruths.

#UPDATE The new case at St Dominics was not a close contact of the initial Mt Roskill Evangelical cases, contrary to what Health Minister Chris Hipkins said this morning. https://t.co/2j6Jxk9DfR

— RNZ (@radionz) September 9, 2020

On top of that, yesterday morning Chris Hipkins was singling out members of the church for some public embarrassment and Police action.

Clearly the Government is looking to sheet home the blame for ongoing infections on some of the so-called team of five million, rather than acknowledging that their incompetence at the border let the plague back in.

We’ve also seen blame-mongering from Labour-aligned public health officials. It certainly looks like the “team of five million” slogan is out the window as the luvvies move to protect the COVID Queen:

Then there was this from Dr Siouxsie Wiles, who assists Labour with their fundraising.

“The reality is that we have a current government that has a strategy and we have a pandemic that is raging overseas and there is no guarantee that a different government would stick with the same strategy.”

She has decided to use her new found fame to blatantly politick against a change of government. She’s an academic, not a politician.

But there is clearly a move on, of which she is a part, to silence dissenting voices when it comes to alternative strategies for dealing with the Chinese plague. She and Shaun Hendy have both been pushing Hendy’s shame list where they even label other academics with different ideas, like the Plan B people, as conspiracy theorists.

Latest #COVIDー19 graphic from @XTOTL & me is on information hygiene & the difference between #misinformation & #disinformation. Let's see if we can make this one go viral! More in the accompanying @TheSpinoffTV piece here: https://t.co/TgScnx7JNj #COVID19 #covid19nz pic.twitter.com/oyYNqhPHAc

— Dr Siouxsie Wiles (@SiouxsieW) September 7, 2020

There is a real push for us to all comply with their thinking and strategy. No alternative must be tolerated, which is the antithesis of the scientific method.

It is becoming more and more obvious that the wheels on the strategy are coming off. It shouldn’t really be a surprise, after the stuff-ups of Kiwibuild, light rail and child poverty, that the COVID strategy is similarly flawed and destined to fail.

The problem is though, when your sole strategy relies on meek compliance with harsh lockdowns and you keep stuffing up and financially destroying the economy through your strategy, the compliance gets less and less the more pain we suffer.

Which is why we are having the false war of Level 2 and Level 2.5, cajoling people into compliance with mask wearing by using fear. It can’t continue, mainly because sensible people start asking inconvenient questions, like why are you mandating mask wearing in Level 2 when you never did under level four?

We now have more people in the community with the plague than when the first lockdown occurred. It doesn’t add up and it doesn’t make sense.

The only people who now want lockdowns are basically those employed by the state or councils, who haven’t suffered the loss of a single dollar, let alone their entire income or business.

All those telling us to take the medicine of lockdowns aren’t the ones having to swallow it. I’ll bet their enthusiasm for lockdowns would dissipate rather quickly if they lost 10% of their salary for each week we have to spend locked down.

Expect the rhetoric against alternative views to escalate. They must protect the strategy and the COVID Queen at all costs.

@rdytdy

CS says

Wiles an Academic??

Really?

 You could have fooled me, she lacks basic common sense to have ever attended primary school.

 

I bet as she's of the generation where computers & internet was readily available in schools & at university that she did what we call cheated using someone else' s answers via Google rather than her own critical thinking. 

 

 It's unfortunate that some in this younger generation who have grown up using such devices don't get it they are causing many unnecessary harm with their fixated opinions.

 

WHO are equally as negligent for allowing these so called "Academics" research papers to so much as be uploaded on it's website that wouldn't get a look in in The Lancet.

 It only takes a competent person to ensure a vast number of them are removed for failings to adhere to Code of Ethics, Rights to Privacy & failing to adhere to Data Protection Regulations...

 

 

 

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We Lost the Rugby

The Rugby Championship Is Going to Australia

By Christie

 

t has really surprised me how compliant the New Zealand public has been over COVID. We have had most of our human rights and civil liberties taken away by a benign dictator who has persuaded us all that it is for our own good. Yes, the country is locked off to the world, we are not allowed to travel, gather in large groups or stand less than 2 metres away from others. We are asked to log our movements in a way that any Soviet dictator would be proud of. All this for a disease that kills only small numbers of people, usually only those with serious health conditions anyway. But we have done it, mostly willingly, with maybe a few grumbles but with the majority of people being totally compliant.

Probably the thing that makes me laugh most is watching people actually queue up to access the COVID tracer sign at shops and restaurants. They are not queuing for the hand sanitiser. They are queuing to tell the government all about their whereabouts. You couldn’t make this stuff up.

 

However, there was always going to be a turning point, and I think we may have just reached it, because on Friday, we lost the rugby.

We were in the running to host the Rugby Championship this November, this tournament being a sad second best after the loss of the full Super Rugby and All Blacks tours this year. Rugby fans were really looking forward to it, and with New Zealand being the most rugby-mad country in the world, of course it had to be held here.

Unfortunately, it is going to be held in Australia.

No, the Aussies have not pulled the rug from under us, like they did over the 2003 World Cup. We lost the hosting rights of this tournament because the government would not relax its rules around quarantine and social distancing for the players arriving from overseas. Australia saw sense and realised that it would be imperative for teams going into a top level tournament to be able to start training almost as soon as they arrived in the host country, and amended the rules, allowing players to commence training almost straight away. New Zealand didn’t. It stuck with its quarantine policy, bending the rules a little, but not enough to make it attractive for players to be able to reach a suitable level of match fitness by the time the tournament started.

The rugby-loving New Zealand public is furious. Not only have we lost a major sports event, but we have also lost a huge economic opportunity, providing some relief for bars, hotels and restaurants, not to mention the sports venues themselves. It would have been a welcome boost to businesses that have done it hard for most of this year, with the COVID outbreak and repeated lockdowns.

But no.

Now people are beginning to wonder if we are ever going to have anything nice again. After all, this tournament is being held in November. We all keep hoping that these lengthy periods in lockdown are going to come to an end before too long. But now we have clear evidence that the government does not see an end to it all any time soon. We are caught in a witches curse, destined to be in lockdown for a hundred years or more.

What it really proves, once again, is that this government has no Plan B. Lockdowns and quarantines are the only tricks they know. They cannot be flexible, they cannot compromise and they cannot find a way out of the hole that we are in. Lockdown is all they have.

Most rugby fans will not be able to go to the games, of course, and the really sad thing is that Australia is not really a rugby nation. Nevertheless, Australia saw an opportunity for its flagging economy that our government was too stupid, too inflexible or too naive to consider.

However, it has been said before. Elections held in World Cup years often go badly for the incumbent government if our team loses. Judging by the comments on talkback radio this weekend, losing this tournament because of inflexibility and a lack of vision is not going to go down well with voters.

Labour dropped the ball. And it will have lost us at least $100 million.

 

 

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Another giveaway with BORROWED money , ultimately who pays YOU DO .

Contractors working for the government will be paid the living wage under a new Labour Party policy announced today.

The current Government extended to living wage to all people employed in the core public service, but that change excluded contractors.  When fully implemented, Labour estimates the policy would cost $18 million a year.

NOW  nothing wrong with people doing better earning more with increased productivity and profitability but this reeks of the government services as they were 40 years ago

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Labour Dropped the Ball…again!

By JC
 
What a bunch of killjoys in the Labour Party. We have now been denied the chance to hold the Rugby Championship. Of course, don’t for one moment think it was solely their doing. They have all these so-called health experts in the field of academia giving them advice. If you, as a Government, take someone else’s advice when making a decision then effectively it’s their fault, not yours. In this particular case, it appears even they have avoided blame. So whose fault could it be?

Well, according to the Prime Minister, who’s the Past Master at apportioning blame, it’s the rugby people themselves. Evidently they were really keen to have New Zealand host the tournament but just not keen enough to adhere to the Government’s silly training rules. Who would blame them? If another country is going to allow teams to train in such a way as to prepare properly for games that’s where they are going to go. The idea that you can’t have more than fifteen players training at one time shows just what an imbecilic lot we have running this country.

 

They are devoid of any semblance of intelligence on anything, even a game of rugby. According to Ardern, the Government worked really hard to accommodate the needs of the tournament and the players. If we’re not successful she blames “Sanzaar politics”. No lady, you might not be bright enough to recognise it but you can blame your own politics. The responsibility for this fiasco, yet another one, lies fairly and squarely at your door. Once again you have stuffed up big time. If one country offers the means for teams to train together and another doesn’t, who do you think is going to win the day?

This isn’t rocket science dearie. In terms of recognising the obvious this is kindergarten stuff. You, Sports Minister Robertson and Health Minister Hipkins are akin to The Three Stooges. They were before your time I know but while you three are around they’ll never be dead. For your information they were a vaudeville and comedy team. Their hallmark was physical farce and slapstick, not unlike how you run the country. Your overcautious nonsense caused New Zealand to be put in the too hard basket.

Sport at this level isn’t just a game sweetie. It’s big business, something you have no experience of or understanding of. Again, your obsession with the health side of COVID has cost this country big time. Just when something of this size and interest was needed you kicked it for touch. You need to now reflect on the further economic damage you have done to the business sectors crying out for such a thing to happen. A couple of COVID bubbles in Auckland and you drop the ball.

It might not have occurred to you yet — after all, we’ve only had COVID for six months so you might need a bit more time — but this country can’t go on like this. We need to divest ourselves of your draconian edicts and get back to normality quick fast. Hosting the Rugby Championship would have been a great way to signal that was happening. That was never going to happen though, was it? With you, it’s always control over commonsense. That’s how you operate. 

The reality is that there will be those who are not in your team of five million who may penalise you for this. Maybe others as well. Two Bledisloe Tests won’t suffice. Rugby coffers, restaurants, cafes, bars, hotels etc, all those who desperately need the patronage of the size this tournament would bring have all missed out again. All because of you. Not Sanzaar, not anyone else, YOU!

It’s time to face reality Jacinda, time to be a big girl, and start taking some responsibility and some blame!

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On 9/11/2020 at 12:12 PM, 100 1 said:

Na don't need to ...Q and Trump both said it.

Still waiting for your scientific proof that PCR tests actually work for Covid

Q and Trump both said it.......well it must be true, they don’t lie......fuck me, one born every minute......😆

 

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