Keep digging BP.
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Puzzles me why you are trying to convince us of something that was clearly a description of the NRA, not you. It was very clear that BP was pointing out that what you had posted “sounded” like something the NRA would say.
I find it very telling that you took exception to his comments, but you are apparently fine with someone like Balance, whose personal attacks on people, are beyond disrespectful, nasty and accusatory. The double standards around here are unbelievable.
BP is being very sneaky, something I think he excels at. My interpretation and totally different to yours was that BP was implying that Jonu was like the NRA, because by saying "you sounds like" it could be inferred that BP is meaning Jonu has those characteristics. My interpretation could be wrong but from experience BP is clever in creating double meaning statements that border on the inflammatory.
I am not sure Jonu is fine with Balance at all. Maybe he is, maybe he is not, we don't know. It's just Balance has not attacked him personally and thus Jonu has not seen the need to respond and defend himself to Balance. No double standards to see as far as I can make out.
I don't agree with all of Balance's personal attacks (where they may be made) but I don't go calling them out. If he were to attack me personally, then I might.
If I said to you that you sounded like a "murderous and corrupt" organisation I think I can safely presume you would find it offensive. If I then tried to disingenuously try and wheedle my way out of it I think I can safely presume you would think I was a prize ars*hole.
Why insert the words "murderous and corrupt" if he didn't mean to associate them with me? It was a lazy slur and I called him out on it. He doesn't like it. He gave me a new negative rep for exposing him with his other favourite slur "stupid" for good measure. He's a class act that BlackPeter.
If the shoe fits, wear it. You guys are such hypocrites! You dish it out all the time, but you can’t take it when someone does it to you. The only reason you people dislike BP, and me, for that matter, is because we call you out on your own behaviour.
This place is beyond ridiculous. It is impossible to have a civil discussion about anything anymore. Just a total waste of time and energy.
According to some senior MPs, Hipkins did a great job!
So great that he crashed Labour’s votes and lost safe seats to National, Greens and the Maori Party.
What a great leader indeed!
Meanwhile, read David Parker’s comments as to what is going to happen:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political...g-on-as-leader
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I think a special mention, and thanks be extended to Guarev Sharma.
I believe he was an important catalyst in alerting the wider public, not just those who follow politics, into the corruption and oppression within the Labour Government.
That new awareness helped contribute to the weekends election result.
By way of karma one of his oppressors, McAnulty has been tossed out of his seat.
Guarev, a man of integrity, all the best for your future.
JAK, with due respect, you took offence at comments from me a couple of days ago saying something about you and BP being pretty wrong about TOP.
But you don't see anything wrong with a poster comparing another posters comments to a "corrupt and murderous" association. Ummm.
I find that comment from BP very distasteful, as I do with some of the unnecessary personal attacks from Balance. I wish we could all keep the standard a bit higher
My Labour insider said that Hipkins is a goner (he is damaged goods like Ardern) but they want an orderly transition to a new leader. So they are asking him to stay on in the meantime.
Problem for them is that Hipkins cannot see himself ever becoming PM again. The prospect of being Opposition leader after being in power is hardly enticing to the power hungry loser that he is.
So my insider speculates that he is most likely to quit & join Ardern (with his Toni) overseas.
Trying times ahead for Mr ‘Spray & Walk Away.”
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So were the tears for his family or for himself?
https://www.thepost.co.nz/media/imag...=/1240x700.jpg
Answer lies in whether he stays in NZ or go overseas.
Watch and observe.
Ousted Labour MP Dan Rosewarne (whose he) life going to change big time
“The biggest thing for me was, you know, going into the Koru Lounge and then the red lights of doom go off because your Koru Club has been cancelled. All about moving from champagne to lemonade," Rosewarne said on Monday.
Little has gone. Halbert back in on the list.
MMP has one of the most useless & incompetent troughers replaced by that vile bully halbert, who was soundly and rightly scrubbed by the electorate on Saturday sneek in on the list. Great system eh! The people that know him best in the Northcote electorate confirm him as a useless bully and we have to put up with him for 3 more years.
Another out of job is Anahila Kanongata'a-Suisuiki ….been list MP for 6 years
Punters are asking who was she.
When Hippocritter wakes up from his nightmare of the last few days of the election, he will realise he was beaten by a bed leg...
What kind of ****hole puts himself up for election on list only then resigns when his party gets its just rewards for (at least in part) his own incompetence.
Andrew Little should forfeit his parliamentary pension. Useless in everything he touched. An incompetent fool. As Justice Minister he wanted to introduce "guilty until proved innocent". That's right. Andrew Little thought it a good idea to reverse 1000 years of juris prudence until the law fraternity told him to pull his head in.
Maybe Cindy has a role for him at Harvard Law School to see if he can have another crack at screwing up the legal system.
And believe it or not, the little man had this to say as he left with his tail tucked between his balls:
"I know it's a cliché, but being a minister is just an extraordinary privilege. I've had a lot of portfolios, I've enjoyed every single one of them," he said.
He sure enjoyed screwing up on every portfolio, that's for sure and NZers are the ones who suffered even as he pleasured himself.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political...-from-politics
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"No health Crisis" Andrew Little
So sore that Newshub reporter was told to 'fcuk off' by Damien O'Connor - what a charmer! :t_up::D
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...on-camera.html
Hipkins was discussing with his team the party's future and his leadership. As these discussions took place, media have been allowed to wait in the corridors outside of the Labour caucus room.
However, when O'Connor left the room, he didn't appear too happy to see reporters.
"F*** off. I am just going to the toilet," he said when asked by Newshub if Hipkins was still the leader.
On his way back he said: "What are you doing here?"
I don't know much about all that, but I do know he has a very long track record of being involved in many serious screw ups, mismanagement, poor governance and down right despicable behaviours. Perhaps one of, if not the worst minister of parliament ever imo. He didn't see one single posting through to a successful positive outcome. Just made most things he touched much worse. Pike River anyone? Despicable, Labour and the public are far better off without him. Good riddance.
Here's a mugshot of soon to be former Labour Leader's very shy "Toni" at the going away Party
Someone appears to have remembered what a 'Woman" is :)
Wonder how long she'll stay around after the dust settles ..
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/the-hi...LEF4NKHTRLKSE/
I'm wondering what Hippocritter's motivation was in revealing Toni so publicly.
He has kept his ex wife's life private, which I and most NZers accept and respect.
Why then announce a Toni, which he must have known was gender ambiguous when said without adding a she, on the heels of talking about his children?
Fortunately the gender question was sorted within a day.
Did he intend announcing a new partner to be a slap in the face for his ex?
Why, instead of say doing a story in Woman's day, go from the extreme of keeping the ex private, to the Toni being announced to a very large TV audience simulcast?
Before anyone jumps on me to say let's respect Toni's privacy, l get that.
I'm not the one who announced her on TV.
That’s Hipkins true to form - announced his wedding and shared photos with the media in 2020.
Kept his separation quiet until the Wellington rumour mills started in the beginning of the year. He then advised of it and urged the media to respect their privacy.
Now he announced Toni to the world. What happened to privacy?
Anyway, let’s wish Toni well with Mr Spray & Walk Away Hipkins.
Expect more revelations in the next year of just how incompetent, deceitful, useless and inept the Labour government had been for the last 6 years.
A good example of what some of the Labour MPs were about :
“Regarding recent comments made by outgoing Labour list MP Dan Rosewarne about the loss of his Koru Club membership Hipkins said “going from a member of parliament to a member of the public can be a significant change.”
He said the process of losing a seat was brutal and that outgoing MPs deserved a bit of space, and he did not expect them to be perfect.”
Perfect? That kind of attitude to office is not even remotely imperfect - in fact, it is downright disgusting and reflective of the arrogance and selfish attitude of Labour itself.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2023/10/election-2023-am-hosts-slam-bizarre-reactions-from-ousted-labour-mps-jan-tinetti-dan-rosewarne.html
"You might think I'm looking relaxed now because I felt a weight has been lifted off me at the same time," Tinetti, who failed to win Tauranga but might make it back into Parliament on the list ranking, said on Monday.
Those comments didn't go down well with AM co-host Laura Tupou.
"I don't know, it's such an important job... don't you want that job because you want to make a change? She's a former principal," she questioned.
AM newsreader Nicky Styris said it sounded like the job was a "burden" for Tinetti.
The two muppets are getting fired up again, chomping on the angry pills. The guttersnipe troll continues with his pathetic 'reputation' attacks even though I couldn't give a hoot. Discussion of loser Hipkins' new partner is now apparently verboten, even though he is the one shoving 'her' into the public arena.
Anyway, imagine living every day of your life as perpetually angry as those two obviously are; their beloved TOP got smoked like a kipper in the election, turning them apoplectic with rage. Ralf Manji has the charisma and trustability factor of a lawyer turned used car salesman, and voters responded accordingly - as sensible and astute people had predicted. This has turned the perpetually sour dispositions of the terrible two into out and out pathological petulance.
Food for thought: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/peter-dun...-lose-the-left
A Comment seen elsewhere:
Quote:
I can't find another democracy that has race based parliamentary seats, race based seats on local councils, race based healthcare and race based sporting teams.
It is time for us to just be New Zealanders without the need to add anything at all about our ethnicity!
Not a bad comment either :)
And then we see this:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...HWPIUGIMF7CZA/
Outrage over Māori lecturer who lined up New Zealand colonisation with Palestine - and what the university bosses had to say
Why hasn't he been sacked over this ? ;)
If this is the best that can be expected from University Talent which should know better, then a clean out of Wayward & Other Activist Talent in our Universities & Education sector seems well overdue ..
University of Canterbury should be ashamed having Lecturers onboard of such poor standard lecturing this sort of nonsense to their students
Hate speech & misinformation are freedom of expression?
Where was freedom of expression when the 7 Auckland University professors took issue with Maori ‘knowledge & wisdom’ to be taught as science and science is to be reformatted as an enabler of colonization?
Sooner that the new government takes charge and put paid to all that woke nonsense, the better for the future of education in NZ.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-z...s-science.html
Kiss my arse.
Kiss my arse twice.
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Thanks, but no thanks .. busy enough as it is .. without having to tidy up the Shambles that
Loser Chipkins has had finger in & left behind..
Well if they ran it past Labour/Green Govt .. or even by you - most can guess the likely answer ;)
It's a sad situation when our Education Institutions are shown up on not being able to determine
beneficial contributions to courses from that of loose cannon ass wipes who shouldn't be anywhere
near with their poorly researched., poorly presented incendiary & racist screechings likely to be
offensive if not harmful to some on the receiving end ;)
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...LPYTA6P4FPP7A/
Andrew Little on his exit, Labour’s chances of avoiding an implosion in Opposition, why it lost the election and his Jacinda Ardern handover
Hopeful, Optimistic ? ;)
Brave words .. Didn't someone praise him on keeping things together before they too Lost It ? ;)
Failed Former Leader, how many further failures followed across various Portfolios before the 2023 Bloodbath ?
Run away (aka Retire) from it appears now the answer ;)
Some might term things as only option to have to fall on one's own sword after 6 years asleep
under the chair, disconnected from what was going on and at the cliff face, far away from
Wellington after playing building Empires with all the expected warts and failures and still
failing to recognise the shortcomings ;)
Joe Public knew all too well what they wanted to empty out of power, including the useless
and deadwood Talent pieces hitching along for the ride ..
When does Mallard (The Beehive Garden Expert on Vandalisation) get recalled as Ambassador
to Ireland and get made to find a new day job ? ;)
Anyone forgotten about this Fellow - living a life of luxury out of the limelight in Europe -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Mallard
David Parker to make the first strike against Hipkins, as Robbo has decided to retire within his current term :
“This potential challenge is far more advanced than Labour is publicly letting on, with some in caucus thinking Parker is already doing the numbers ahead of Labour’s constitutionally-mandated confidence vote which must be held within three months of the election.
It has been suggested he has the backing of Phil Twyford, who on the current count may not even be an MP in the next Parliament (he is 30 votes behind in his Te Atatu electorate). Neither is talking about the speculation of their colleagues.”
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...AVVPK3RDQYF6Q/
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What a wonderful candidate for selection ;)
Mr 12c a Litre on fuel would have sent cost of living and just about everything else through the ceiling
and it didn't ring any alarm bells in the space between Comrade Parker's ears ..
Mr Wealth Tax .. bound to inspirational in decimating many of the productive beans left in the Country
that Labour haven't already killed, stunted or scarred .. how many other hopeless possees has this
useless Critter pursued while Labour dug the trench ever the deeper delivering on Little ? ;)
Parker will likely be the final nail in the Labour coffin and will almost certainly guarantee they remain
a shadow of what was formerly .. stuck in opposition shadows for untold terms ahead going nowhere .. ;)
No other better clueless & useless bods floating around in the bottom of the depleted puddle of talent
that hasn't already been booted out, knifed, expelled, voted out or jumped for any variety of excuses ? ;)
Hopefully Labour make him leader yesterday ASAP .. based on his past record, infact give him a life
membership solely as Leader going ahead :)
No sense in trying to make the exiting Twyford new Leader when Comrade Parker seems so enthused
about showing all further tricks & spins along lines of the past failed & rejected Comrade's playbook
and then frequently putting his foot in it for good measure :)
Parker's love for catching the poisonous Leadership challice must be the greatest gift Labour could ever give to the new Government and to all the Splinter cling-ons riding along on Labour's coat tails, bound to become even more disillusioned on their future prospects, with Comrade destined to screw things up further with presumably in time the revised formats of clueless Communism & Socialism awaiting in the Cupboard ;)
With the backing of Phil Twyford, how could you possibly go wrong!!
Phil ‘Kiwibuild’ Twyford - he only survived because Ardern was no good.
We know how hopelessly useless & clueless Ardern was as a leader from the shenanigans of Kiri Allan, Michael Woods & Stuart Nash etc.
There’s also the gaslighting of Dr Sharma as unstable and unsound when he blew the whistle (truthfully as it has emerged) on the bullying in Labour caucus.
All pointing towards a fractious Labour Party until Hipkins is ousted as leader. And the caucus is starting to leak information to the media as the various factions try to gain advantage via the media.
Delicious!
Wonderful!
There is little point in posting paywalled articles.
Here's a bit of info.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/david-...4TMHIH2OBNRTU/
Parker reminds me of the pathetic Wallace Rowling.
Parker presents as a squeaky little mouse - just like Rowling.
Not much point in asking Knox.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politi...XYPSKOEMSGQOU/
Apart from the infamous five who couldn't do any more hard Labour before the election, Parker is best left on the roadside, as he has no cut through.
Big Caramello has counted herself out for full leadership on Newshub Nation.
Mahuta doesn't give a hoot.
Tamati has smelt his Coffey.
Peeni is going eeny meany miney moe.
McAnulty's electorate deemed him faulty.
Wood's lost his pecker, so it looks like a job for big Willie.
Wood did associate with the Filthy Few in government, but now he's out on his bike, he has no intention of becoming their leader.
Good forbid .. fresh from a 6 year stint of digging deep trenches what survived of the Mighty Labour
Party still look like they're on course to keep getting their asses handed back to them going forwards
and no-one has what it takes to claim ownership of the top seat ;)
A typical Labour blunder. From a Herald article today:
"NZ Upgrade
Labour unveiled the NZ Upgrade project in January 2020, when it was trailing National in the polls. The $12b scheme funded hospital and school upgrades, but the lion’s share of the funding (just under half) went to funding politically important roads.
Labour must now be regretting it. Not only did the Upgrade programme not matter a jot to the outcome of the 2020 election, but it soon became a victim of Covid-induced infrastructure cost inflation, and allegations Labour had badly mismanaged the projects.
By 2021, the cost of the roads in the scheme had nearly doubled, requiring the Government to axe some plans and tip in an additional $1.9b.
But just two years later, the projects are once again under pressure. Budget documents showed concerns about the funding of the projects, and another project warned that one road, the Ōtaki to North of Levin highway, which has already nearly doubled in cost since 2020, may need to be pared back considerably in order to be delivered within budget"
Absolutely - Labour was not better in looking after tax payers money than National and the Key government before them. I am sure, you remember the rotten hospitals and school bildings Labour had to deal with (as gift from Keys National government).
But there was more:
If you want to understand how National destroyed more than a Billion dollars in the GFC, than it is worthwhile to read "The Billion Dollar Bonfire" from Chris Lee. Interesting to learn how an absolutely clueless and out of their depth government drove SFC into bankruptcy and made sure that the only one making money from the malaisse was the liquidator. It was the Key government, which was responsible that the family silver (like e.g. SCL) form SCL was basically given away for free and the tax payer was covering the losses out of this idiocy.
No reason to point fingers from one political camp to the other. Both political camps contain roughly the same percentage of inepts and, thanks to our system of rocking the boat every three, six or nine years do they have both about roughly the same time in power to destroy tax payer funds and assets.
Expect over the next three (or how many) years a further deterioration of our infrastructure, of our health system and our education system. This is what politicians do who follow some ideology instead of common sense.
And here is NZ Herald’s woke leftist journo making all kinds of excuses for Labour being booted out of government - everything except the fact that the last Labour government was an incompetent and clueless government of announcements and consultants.
And what’s to blame for Labour’s demise according to him? Donations! Never mentioned how the CTU spent millions of dollars actively campaigning against National
& despicably, against Luxon personally.
Simon Wilson thinks that letting prisoners loose by Kelvin Davis makes him an ‘innovative’ Corrections minister!
As for his assessment that Ginny Andersen was a good police minister for the 7 months she was in that role, all one can remember about her during that time :
Backtracking on her assertion that NZers were feeling safer because Labour added more police (she forgot that many were doing paperwork rather than front line duties)
Constantly referring to her dear leader as ‘Chippie’ until it became clear that was damaging Hipkins as someone with statesman like leadership.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/simon-...HS73Y3AVLC3BY/
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It’s easy to point to the much-publicised failures of a few, but Labour’s senior ranks included many skilful politicians. Grant Robertson, Carmel Sepuloni, David Parker, Megan Woods, Andrew Little and Damien O’Connor formed a capable front bench.
Kelvin Davis went where almost every other politician has feared to tread, as a courageous and compassionate Minister of Corrections.
As for Ginny Anderson, for seven eventful months she displayed the makings of the best minister of police we’ve had in a very long time.
A few points to note:
1. I specifically wrote ‘paywalled’ so can’t help it if you still click and expect to read the article.
2. I know the editor personally and have asked him before about copying and pasting a whole article. It is breach of copyright to do so and therefore, they will take action if/when this is brought to their attention.
They are okay however with a written summation & some excerpts with the link to their paywalled articles. Kinda advert for them I guess in a way.
Chris Lee? Zero credibility. Zero. Zilch. Big '0'.
The Chris Lee who had his own finance companies' rating system which he abandoned and deleted from all sites/records when one after another of the finance companies he rated went under?
The Chris Lee who held Allan Hubbard in the highest esteem and put numerous clients' monies into South Canterbury Finance?
I had a bit to do with assessing South Canterbury Finance in the day and I can tell you that Allan Hubbard was totally out of his depth and treated SCF's funds like he was Santa Claus.
Too many cases and examples of how he simply doled out the money with bugger all documentation and follow up.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...JOKJRS45PQCV4/
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Excerpt :
Hubbard, whose parsimonious lifestyle - he lived in a modest home and drove a decades-old car despite being worth $650m at his peak - was in failing health and his 80s when the collapse came, with problems exacerbated by a business style later described by a High Court justice as "less than orthodox" that relied on hand-written ledgers, handshakes and shuffling financial deckchairs.
Fisk said the standout feature of SCF, compared to other failed finance companies he administered, was "a lack of records".
"When we had to go searching for things when litigation was involved, that would be the main difference with the other finance companies: You couldn't find anything to support decision-making," he said.
Hubbard faced a raft of Serious Fraud Office charges over his private investment vehicles, but died in a car crash in 2011 while the SFO was probing SCF. Its owner and chief executive was considered to be a "person of interest".
Hubbard's boardroom colleagues were left to face the SFO music by themselves in a 2014 trial that became one of the country's longest running. The defence largely pinned blame, if there was any conceded, on their dead colleague.
Maybe you misspelt 'copyright' on purpose, to cover for your willingness for others to breach the terms of use for both NZME and Sharetrader, while defending that by saying neither have "no more protection"? All this because you don't like people posting paywalled links and are too miserly yourself to take up a paid subscription of your own.
A long hard road ahead for Labour to win back the working class who were previously staunch Labour voters, come hell or high water.
Pandering to Mahuta, Jackson & the Maori cabal has cost Labour dearly and no thanks to Ardern (spineless & clueless according to Chris Trotter), Labour has ended up losing both the Maori votes as well as the Working Class votes!
https://democracyproject.nz/2023/10/...working-class/
Excerpt :
"Neither Ardern, nor her successor, Chris Hipkins, had the intellectual or ideological sophistication to argue either For or Against the revolutionary ideas contained in the He Puapua Report. Nor did they possess the courage to follow Helen Clark’s example of political intransigence.
Labour made no case for co-governance because it couldn’t. For the previous 40 years it had put “all that Treaty stuff” into the too-hard, or the too-scary, basket. When the sovereignty hand grenade finally exploded, in the second term of the Sixth Labour Government, the best Labour could manage was to blame the resulting injury to the New Zealand body politic on the “racism” of the people whose votes it would need to go on governing.
Unsurprisingly, it didn’t get them. Almost accidentally, Labour discovered what it would take to make the working-class stop voting for it. Not the Pasefika working-class, admittedly, but the “settler” working-class – made up of Pakeha New Zealanders and the children and grandchildren of immigrant workers. Making those citizens feel as though they had, somehow, to justify their right to participate in shaping their nation’s future: that was the crucial catalyst for electoral defection.
Like their European and American counterparts, the New Zealand working-class has completed its historical journey from Left to Right.
And it ain’t going back."
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As usual you are missing the point, but admittedly - you are very proficient and energetic in doing so:);
If you would have any clue what you are talking about, you would know that Chris was not supporting or covering up Alan Hubbards accounting practises. He just identified that the Key government contributed its fair share in bringing SCF into the situation they have been in, and afterwards when SCF was unable to pay its bills, it still did own a number of quite valuable items (like Scales). Instead of keeping these and selling them when the price was right, the Key government decided to firesell them for a song and get the tax payer to cover the losses.
Pretty inept for a government which is supposed to look after tax payers money.
Just read the book - it might enlighten you - assuming not everything is lost :) ;
https://grammarist.com/usage/copyright-copywrite/
I certainly did spell it purposely. It appeals to my sense of logic. Not common anymore - but not wrong.
Yes - I am too miserable to subscribe to any publication that I don't want to read - but not beyond occasionally reading a copy in my doctors' waiting room.
I know exactly what Chris Lee was on about - writing the book 9 years after SCF collapsed in a whole heap with inadequate records, documentation and with loans/assets/investments all over the place.
Properties, investments and businesses dropped sharply in value after the GFC (NZX was down 45% at one stage and the NZ$ dropped 35%).
Chris Lee used the value of the assets realised then from the collapse of SCF and compared the increased values 9 years later!
Now since he is so smart, why did he not predict the rise and rise of the stockmarket and properties over the same period to 2019?
Better still, why did he put clients' monies into the finance companies when he could have recommended government bonds instead - think of how much the monies will be worth today!
Hindsight Charlie = Chris Lee.
Chris Lee fools the gullible into believing that SCF could be saved. It could not be as Alan Hubbard was using SCF's monies to invest recklessly in any number of companies and businesses which subsequently collapsed due to mismanagement and even, fraud.
Look - we do know that you run a personal vendetta against Chris Lee. You are a hate stricken person with an agenda.
If you would have anything material against him, why don't you sort it out with him? But clearly you don't have the guts to approach him and you prefer to smear instead his name on an anonymus forum. How cowardly.
But this is a political thread, not your personal "smear the enemies of the unbalanced poster named balance"- thread.
My point was that the past National governments wasted (as the recent Labour government) billions of tax payer money. Clearly - neither you nor anybody else was so far able to debunk Chris book ... and this is the reason you don't deal with the problem, but you try to smear the messenger.
Do you have anything worthwhile to say - or can we expect more smears?
Point towards anything I have written which is a smear on Chris Lee.
All factual :
He had a rating system for finance companies which he conveniently deleted and hastily erased off the face of the earth when the finance companies fell over.
He respected and was full of praise for Alan Hubbard (refer Provincial Finance) and put his clients’ monies into SCF.
He used hindsight to compare the values of SCF’s assets in 2010 vs 2019 to try & make a case that SCF should not be put into receivership/statutory management.
The government at the time made the decision to put SCF into statutory management at the advice of all & sundry given the shocking state of mismanagement at SCF and the systemic risks associated with an uncontrolled collapse. It was the right decision.
Again, BP, pray refer us to where the smear is vs the facts.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/nz-fir...IDZSQKF2D67ZE/
NZ First leader Winston Peters claims former PM Jacinda Ardern never told him of Christchurch terrorist’s email in bizarre post
Quote:
NZ First leader Winston Peters has claimed Dame Jacinda Ardern never informed him the Christchurch terrorist sent his chilling manifesto to the Prime Minister’s Office in an email just minutes before the March 15 attack - despite it being widely reported by news media at the time and addressed in a press conference the next day.
In an astonishing post on social media, Peters tonight called on Ardern to give evidence at the ongoing coronial inquest into the terror attack to explain what he alleged was her “lack of transparency to the New Zealand public”.
Peters’ claims come after a parliamentary staffer gave evidence at the inquest in Christchurch today and said that six minutes after soon-to-be mass murderer Brenton Tarrant sent an email to the Prime Minister’s Office, a call was made to 111 to report its “concerning” contents.
Peters, the deputy prime minister at the time, claimed this was the first occasion the public had learned the Prime Minister’s Office had received the email.
However, on March 16, 2019, just a day after the attack which killed 51 people, Ardern confirmed in a press conference - reported globally - that her office had received the information in a generic inbox for the prime minister.
“We waited until today to find out, for the first time, that the Prime Minister’s Office received information about the March 15 terrorist attack before the massacre took place,” Peters claimed in his post on X.
“Jacinda Ardern should be called to the hearing and asked to explain this appalling lack of transparency to the New Zealand public - let alone to the Deputy Prime Minister and government coalition partner.
Hope the winebox is firmly anchored to the ground - Winnie ;)
Make sure the prescriptions are up to date to mount box as well ..
Can never be too careful in as far as health & safety is concerned..
Never mind - JA might be preparing her head gear to rip into Palestine very soon to spread pink fluffies
if there is a gap in the program dazzling the Yanks who can be bothered around the States ;)
Might be a new experience for Hamas learning what a Dame is :)
What would have been more pertinent was the Police Response, if what has come out is anything to go by
and why her Dameliness hasn't dropped everything already to flit over to comfort the peaceloving folk of Palestine in their hours of greatest need .. in line with what was seen of her previously here ..
Grant Robertson going out in typical fashion wasting a large amount of taxpayer funds.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/sports/oth...49dacd11c&ei=9
Is there no shame or control of spending in Wellington anymore?
We know Grant has no fear of borrowing and spending our money on useless sh*t.
I guess our MPs live in a different world to us.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...aries-stack-up
You forgot to mention that the trip was endorsed by Luxon. As indicated before - looks like we are moving from the rain in the eaves. Luxon seems to be quite happy to waste our money as well.
Better should have voted for somebody with common sense instead of just rocking the boat from the left to the right ... ;) ;
Nothing wrong with the current Minister of Sports ( whoever they are) to attend the RWC final to represent New Zealand.
Once in 4 years and the last time NZ was in the semi finals was 8 years ago.
Absolutely appropriate expenditure vs the hundreds of millions of dollars pxssed down the drain on consultants with bigger all benefit for NZers.
Sports can lift a country’s morale and mood like thing else (except a huge major oil find off Taranaki perhaps) so let’s lift our sights higher.
Willie Jackson speaks of "race-based politics" fear from National.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other...fb6f3291&ei=14
Says the guy whose political career has been immersed in race-based politics. Go now Willie. The happy chappy facade wore out years ago. Go and join your mate John Tamihere and the financial cesspit of the Waipareira Trust and Te Pati Maori.
Why wasn't more heat put on Tamihere pre-election over the Te Pati Maori/Waipareira funding scandal? Couldn't be because of the $105 million media bribery from Cindy could it?
Excerpt : “But we have an immediate problem with people like David Seymour and what he’s up to and I’m not sure what Winston Peters has been up to over the past 24 hours,” he said.
We know what they are up to - negotiating with a reluctant play-safe National Party to roll back the racist policies Mahuta, the Maori cabal and you forced on a weak and clueless Ardern to implement.
Tragic & disgusting how a minority like you lot can create so much divisiveness and disharmony in NZ.
Recall how Ardern was not able to even recite the principles of the Treaty at her first Waitangi Day attendance? So easy after that to shove the ‘principles’ based upon one elitist Maori group’s interpretation down that stupid woman’s throat until she was gagging for more to stay in power.
I still don't understand why it is we the 'white' decedents, 5th, 6th and even 7th generation decedents, are the racists, according to current Maori politics? I've never felt a racist bone in my body until recently when I've been called out to be (the collective) racist for not accepting policies that favour social services for one race in NZ, over the other races that are residents or citizens here.
Can anyone explain what's actually happening here, it seems pretty farked up and driven by a minority that despite their race based policies are somehow owning the narrative that anyone who is not of their race, is racist for objecting to their perceived entitlements.
Very confusing. Very not New Zealand.
$105 million to the media to enable the narrative was a part of it. Those funds carried demands to run issues close to Labour's heart. And the cynical dear leader of the time did it all with a toothy grin. How sweet she was. How sweet the fruits are at Harvard, mingling with the Clooneys and Trudeau.
Exactly what happens when one group is able to hijack the narrative with $$$$ from taxpayers.
Ardern & her co-conspirators knew exactly what they were doing when they hijacked the msm using COVID as their cover.
Let’s be grateful that the majority of NZers saw through the hijacking and are now reclaiming the right to debate and discuss without being branded racists and worse.