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For all those who need to remember who the real enemy is. Here is some music to lighten the load, and quietly remind you.
Well done Adam,
primus were my favourite band back in the 90s.
Caught them inadvertently as support for Jane’s addiction. I was plum tuckered before Janes hit the stage.
I actually feel a bit sorry for Andrew Little.
Done over by his caucus, then by the end of the day it’s like he never existed and Ardern is the golden child who’s going to win it for Labour.
Brutal.
You love it.
Jees BM, how nice and caring of you. You must be a really straight up sort of guy….not.
I think he will be happy the burden has gone. Jacinda looks to have picked the chalice up mid stride and is away – billshitter and his gnat cronies will be packing it – he is going to come across like the slow, dim, unimaginative plodder he is – and he will lose after all that – boo bloody hoo.
And yet lefties of all stripes have been talking about Little and his value all day.
You’re a dick.
Not a good look, Bill…..
Winston to PM: I know about your text messages to Todd Barclay staffer
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11897697
tick…tick…tick…
Yeah I’m sure Bill and Winston will work happily together in a new coalition….
They are off to a great start….
Bye bye ,Bill…
Er… Dipper.
“”Why did he send over 450 text messages to Glenys Dickson, many early in the morning and late at night, in the 12 months before she resigned on 7 February 2016?” Peters asked.”
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11897697
very good question that one winnie – why would someone send all those messages at all of those funny times of the day and night – be good to get the billshit on that one.
Four hundred and fifty!!!
Really?
No wonder Todd was excited!
Maybe Bill and Glenys had a thing….. and Todd did not like it…. with that much attention its serious stalker behaviour.
First ponytails and now textgate, have these guys not got enough to do all day.
Wow, after just seeing the Newshub news at 6 I’m reserving judgement on the effect Ardern will have. They seemed to be all over her in a positive way.
Hearing English essentially say she could be the PM in a few weeks was a bonus.
So the right wing dominants in the mainstream media are choosing Labour PMs now?
I don’t know what their angle is, but after seeing the comments on TS I wondered what the MSM take would be. No Labour is in chaos narrative, just Ardern is young and fresh and change while Bill is boring.
You-know-who was fair gushing, though he couldn’t help providing advice that Labour should go after the Greens and NZ First, like that would help them under MMP.
As noted, it could all change, but I was pretty surprised.
Ardern seems to go down well with the middleclass centrist, urban liberals. Doesn’t seem to scare the elites’ horses.
Warning.
I doubt if her honeymoon will last 24 hours. We all know the workings of the Natz dirty tricks brigade. They will be in full flight. Not to mention the bloody media as well.
It’s going to be nasty.
Blood and hair flying everywhere… and most of it will be Pullyer’s.
The motel lady they call ‘sweetie’.
Second warning.
Whilst our hopes for a change of govt have been raised today, let’s not forget that Jacinda and Kelvin are bloody neolibs.
Vote Green.
Yes , well aware of that… Adern and Robertson… didn’t want a bar of Cunliffe at the time. Or at least didnt appear to have.
However,… the theory could go like this : a coalition with the Greens will soften some of that , add NZ First and much of it will be contained. One advantage is less infighting ,… in the long game, there will need to be a significant departure from the widespread dissatisfaction with National. And perhaps that will drive Labour to make sure if they are going to pursue some sort of neo liberalism, it will be scaled right back.
+1. The trick now is how to change the govt given we have two parties we need. This is new territory.
‘Motel lady’. Lol!
They’re actually one in the same these days on some outlets.
“Bill is boring, she isn’t”. Gower sums it up in 5 words on Newshub.
‘Yawn’ ,… Bill who ?… oh you mean that guy from Dipton with the housing problem?… yeah … I remember,.. didn’t he lead National to one of its greatest defeats ever some time back ?”…
Epitaphs from the Great War.
https://twitter.com/WWInscriptions
http://ep.ita.ph/all/
This election is going answer two questions for me.
1) How much swaying power does the MSM still have?
2) How shallow is your average voter?
It’s going to be interesting to see what happens.
How shallow is your average voter? Answer….very.
I’m picking that if thousands of morons voted for the smiling assassin because he was ” da man”, then those same people will vote for a pretty face. Is that what worries you BM? I certainly hope so.
People thought Key was the man because skill wise there was light years between him and anyone else in Parliament.
Ardern is a pretty face, nothing more, having said that though Clarkula seems to have taken Ardern under her wing which could have quite an impact.
How does that work then? If Ardern becomes PM, the same average voter that voted for Key (a sensible vote according to you) will have voted for her (a shallow vote according to you). You seem to be arguing that your average voter is not shallow until presented with what you claim is just a pretty face, at which point they lose any depth they had?
Na, people thought Key was the man because corporate business poured truckloads into ensuring he was advised by the likes of Crosby Textor, used focus groups to design policy on the hoof run by such as Farrar and had another certain attack blog to smear the opposition, even misusing the SIS to do it , and had Stephen Joyce and his considerable media contacts arrange events to either starve opposition party’s of coverage , – or if they did receive coverage , – it was always designed to make them look weak , divided and unstable.
Any unscrupulous outfit can do that .
Such as passive dictatorships that despise democracy’s.
Always with an excuse
Just wondering what excuse Bill will have this time round after the election.
Lets see…
The MSM
Whaleoil
Rich pricks
Secret trusts
CROSBY TEXTOR
The missing million
Sir John Key
Oh sorry thats the lefts excuses isn’t it 🙂
David Parker, BM? He’s the brainiest person in this parliamentary term, Key included
IQ is only a small part of the success formula.
They thought it would be jolly to have a frigging beer with him.
I’d get on the sauce with Key anytime, lots of laughs and good times to be had, guaranteed.
Nearly as much fun as a night on the turps with David Cameron, I expect. Drinking alone suddenly appears more attractive…
Shagging pigs is more of an English thing.
and pulling their wee tails is a key and his mates thingy
“Shagging pigs is more of an English thing”
As in Bill English ?
Tell us more
Who knows what they get up to down on the farm. We’ve all heard the rumours.
Gets mighty lonely in Dipton
Something stinks in Clutha Southland and its not the cowshit.
What a revolting utterance. Drinking with Key? WTF, yeah as much fun as having a whiskey with a little piece of pooh floating in it.
He’d TELL you it was his shout, but then get bored and wander off.
BM ask Key when he is ” liquored up ” how he got away with it…..i bet he has got some good yarns after all he was the greatest storyteller we have ever had.
People thought Key was the man because skill wise there was light years between him and anyone else in Parliament.
Playing people for suckers is indeed a skill that comes in very handy in politics, but I’d prefer it if Labour leaders remained relatively unskilled in that respect.
No there wasn’t. Key had very little skill in governance – just lots on lying and deceit.
“CLARKULA”
BM that’s naughty. Funny but naughty.
This explains the problem Labour has that National and the Greens don’t:
http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2017/08/labour_leaders_and_deputies_in_last_nine_years.html
Also this seems appropriate
Here and now Chris…here and now.
Well seeing that Jacinda is supposed to have some similar qualities to Sir John Key it’ll be interesting to see how she goes
The debates should be a bit more interesting though so thats good
I see a headline on the Herald site, “Hosking: Ardern has a credibility issue.”
Naturally I didn’t click on it. If Ardern has 50 times the credibility of Hosking, she has no chance.
He must be really pissed off he has to change his game plan. After the recent stuff about TVNZ salaries it’s interesting to surmise that if he is merely in that $640,000 bracket as suggested, given the number of days he is on the job, every time he is on that 7.00pm show he earns the best part of $3,000. $15 grand a week.
L0L !
“Hosking: Ardern has a credibility issue.”
The pot calls the kettle black.
We want to know how much you get paid by the taxpayer , Hosking.
Don’t you support the ‘ no surprises government ‘ , buddy ?
Hosking hates women, and hates the socially conscious left. She’s the perfect storm for him.
“Hosking: Ardern has a credibility issue.”
Psycho Milt: Hosking has an “is a cunt” issue.
I just watched Jacinda on The Project. A pretty confident and effortless performance really (though admittedly not the most demanding of platforms). Her answers to the usual, tiresome “career versus babies” questions that women politicians face were nuanced and steered the conversation back to the plight of working women across the spectrum who make those decisions every day.
Did Jesse faint from the excitement?
Last I heard they’re still trying to chisel his pants off.
Odd that so many RWNJs are pushing Hooton’s fake news that Helen Clark is lobbying for Jacinda Ardern.
I guess that want to undermine Ardern as HC mark II
Who needs Slater when you can have Hooton and Hoskings?
Pretty much. Although I suspect their style has been cramped a bit.
Whale’s in reserve atm. He supports Collins camp. If the wind is blowing Jacinda’s way then look out behind you Bill!
A good start to an impossible task…..remembering the honeymoon will be short and the MSM and commentariat are resharpening their knives…..heres hoping JA (and KD) can perform miracles…we are overdue for one.
Finnish citizens given universal basic income report lower stress levels and greater incentive to work – suggest you turn off sound.
Can’t say that I’m surprised to find that a universal income works so bloody well.
Hoots mighty worried
Twitter
@MatthewHootonNZ
What is the plural of hagiography? Need it to describe @1NewsNZ & @NewshubNZ news reports on new @nzlabour leader tonight.
Tell that semi-literate Hooten that all he has to do is take off the ‘-y’ and add ‘-ies’. I guess he thinks it is clever to use a big word.
Undermining support for a UBI is an additional reason why National are rapidly growing our population by importing lots of people without a commensurate rise in production (GDP per capita falling). Lots of extra people makes a UBI look really, really expensive.