Sat next to Judith on a flight from Auckland to Wellington about 6 months ago. We had a great chat for 45 mins. Not frightening at all.
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Yep national ,dirty players conducted by their leader.. Maybe he needs to pass his baton to Judith or Todd.
Four people charged by Serious Fraud Office over donations to National Party electorate bank account
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Lol you believe what trump says, you believe what bridges says, naive is being EXTREMELY polite.And we all now where barry plants his colours, hes so transparent, thanks B;)arry btw
You are so full of crap JT. I have never ever said I believe what Bridges says. In fact I am no great Bridges fan and will NOT be voting National if he is their leader. I think Bridges is a excrement politician and leading National down the wrong path. So it is you that are barking up the wrong tree.
What else would we expect from the most cynical government in recent NZ history? Early in her term Cindy talks of "nuclear free moments" in regard to Climate Change. Scraps planned roading projects and cripples Taranaki. Come squeaky bumtime she has an election year splurge and regurgitates National's roading plan and encourages burning of fossil fuels in the process.
But hey, it's all worth it to get re-elected. Then she can spin another 3 years of virtue signalling crap and wander off to the UN before they get booted out.
JT - I know you like to exaggerate, but if you still call yourself a democrat, then I would put to you that you do no decent person a favor by likening any of our mainstream politicians with a crook and liar like Trump.
Lucky us we don't have such monsters in our parliament ... and you shouldn't "normalize" Trumps behaviour that way. You only support this way Trumps useful idiots and apologists who claim that any other politician is as bad their favorite crook and liar.
Neither a fan of Bridges nor of Adern, but I take any of them any day over Trump!
National at it again being mischievous.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/natio...cid=spartandhp
At least Labour is up front and honest announcing the election day and immediately after announcing a lot of infrastructure projects. Not vote buying as such if the projects were going to go ahead anyway but nicely timed to pump up the feel good for labour. I only hope they didn't slow down the roading projects to time this with the election as this would have them putting their own interests ahead of the people of NZ.
But on the face of it National is starting to come across as being dishonest and underhand. National have more support than any other party but the way they are conducting themselves may not do them any favours with the electorate as Kiwis have tended to not like dishonesty in our politicians (c.f. the rest of the world)
That said the dancing Cossacks worked a treat for Robert Muldoon in 1975. Sadly if it hadn't I may not have upset so many posters discussing national superannuation on this site.
Ironic because in some ways to me the Muldoon era was the closest to state control we have ever come with wage and price freezes and think big projects etc.
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/video/dancing-cossacks
National superannuation "paid out as it comes in so not affected by inflation" nice one Rob.
Haha. You are funny Aaron. John Key introduced this announcing early of election dates and Jacinda is simply following in his footsteps. Stopping the National Roads of Significance project as soon Jacinda/Winston came to power and not starting ONE new roading project in 2 years, then dusting it off and bringing back out a few months before the election, with again no new roads starting before the election, is a cynical bribery like only Labour can do. A bit like Helen Clark did with the interest free student loans. But she can just smile and hug and all is good.
https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/natio...cid=spartandhp
Yes national are stooping in an attempt to conquer. Unfortunately it just build s on the unscrupulous way they are attempting to manipulate and dumb down the populace along with some media radio and TV stooges hosings, du please, garnish etc. Playing dirty and treating kiwis as naive and dumb is a big backfire imo and deservedly so. hang on to bridges as long as you can national, that hole is becoming "entrenched";).
Interesting to see where all the bribes/promises are going on roading. We here in Nelson/Tasman, with 2% of the population and growing fast (both population and congestion), get ZERO. Meanwhile much slower growing areas like Wairarapa, Palmerston North, Northland, Gisborne and Whanganui get lots. Of course this has nothing to do with which areas corrupt Winnie or Labour see the election being fought in ! Hand me another Tui
Com’on Iceman that is a bit harsh. They probably just started at the top divvying out the money and then found they had run out by the time they got to Wellington. I am sure it had nothing to do with the lower voter numbers down here - or the fact that Bridges doesn’t think his own Nelson - West Coast candidates could run a pissup in a brewery.