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Comment:Pretty Legal: SFO to Investigate Nat Donation
Date published: 3:14 pm, March 12th, 2019Alwyn,,,, ha ha ha ha ha. I predicted (but not on the Standard) that one of you right wing types would bring up the Labour Party youth camp and the sexual assault................your so predictable its hilarious. BTW Labour have dealt with their part re ...
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Comment:Pretty Legal: SFO to Investigate Nat Donation
Date published: 12:07 pm, March 12th, 2019Anne, I think you are correct. I would imagine/hope that the SFO would be very thorough in their investigations. I hope Key gets fingered. He deserves it. Apparently according to No right turn, this is the first time a political party has been investigated...
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Comment:Landlord advocates threatening rent increases if Labour wins next election
Date published: 4:12 pm, March 11th, 2019REd Logic. I didn't say I was special. I was a decent landlord though. If you have met countless landlords like yourself who are decent, why are they not speaking up saying "yes its is only right that we pay a capital gains tax like nearly every other ...
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Comment:Landlord advocates threatening rent increases if Labour wins next election
Date published: 2:41 pm, March 11th, 2019Actually red logix you are wrong. I did own a rental property once. I only owned it cause I was moving city for work and I wanted to make sure if the job didn't work out, I had a home to go back to. I have posted before about what sort of land lord I was, ...
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Comment:Landlord advocates threatening rent increases if Labour wins next election
Date published: 2:38 pm, March 11th, 2019BM I am glad you are seeing a lot of renters struggling. Lets make it so unworthwhile for landlords to be landlords that they sell up and piss off. I don't rent, but I am sick to death of these cry me a river arseholes who don't give a dam about their ...
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Comment:Landlord advocates threatening rent increases if Labour wins next election
Date published: 2:35 pm, March 11th, 2019BM I am glad you are seeing a lot of renters struggling. Lets make it so unworthwhile for landlords to be landlords that they sell up and piss off. I don't rent, but I am sick to death of these cry me a river arseholes who don't give a dam about their ...
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Comment:Landlord advocates threatening rent increases if Labour wins next election
Date published: 1:30 pm, March 11th, 2019Alan what planet are you living on.... Its not just a few landlords making this comment......Landlords have continued to up rents without a decent justification (interest rates have continued to fall). Housing is a BASIC NEED..........The idea of anyone ...
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Comment:Landlord advocates threatening rent increases if Labour wins next election
Date published: 1:21 pm, March 11th, 2019100% Al
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Comment:Landlord advocates threatening rent increases if Labour wins next election
Date published: 11:51 am, March 11th, 2019Someone needs to get the tenants organised for a massive rent strike. And if you believe that if Labour doesn't bring in a CGT rents want go up you are dreaming. These arseholes of the earth have continued to put rents up and they don't even need an excuse...
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Comment:Landlord advocates threatening rent increases if Labour wins next election
Date published: 11:49 am, March 11th, 2019Time for the State to buy up these houses and rent them out or rent to buy. Don't care how much that costs. We have to get rid of these disgusting landlords. They are a blight on our community.
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Comment:Landlord advocates threatening rent increases if Labour wins next election
Date published: 11:47 am, March 11th, 2019Time for a 5 year rent freeze, hit them with a HUGE capital gain tax and gets these bastards out of renting out property. If they are charged a CGT that means they have made a profit. What disgusting individuals.
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Comment:The tax debate - Dogwhistle time
Date published: 3:47 pm, March 7th, 2019Thanks for the clarity enough is enough. I still stand by my view of MS Ardern, having watched many many clips of her responding to Bridges. I realize there is no objective measure of this so it is my (strong ) opinion.
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Comment:The tax debate - Dogwhistle time
Date published: 1:34 pm, March 7th, 2019AB lol
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Comment:The tax debate - Dogwhistle time
Date published: 1:32 pm, March 7th, 2019I completely trust Jacinda to run this country. I think she is super smart. Question time would need to be completely restructured to prevent the juvenile behaviour you describe. So you have any suggestions enough is enough. I stand by what I said. Ms ...
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Comment:The tax debate - Dogwhistle time
Date published: 1:27 pm, March 7th, 2019Tuppence Shrewsbury............doing some work something that left wing ideology is averse too. FFS you really are incredibly ignorant aren't you.
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Comment:Open mike 06/03/2019
Date published: 3:48 pm, March 6th, 2019Alywin own the census stuff up as the Nats, which it was or f off
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Comment:Open mike 04/03/2019
Date published: 12:21 pm, March 4th, 2019bwagon, that is an extremely good point.
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Comment:Open mike 04/03/2019
Date published: 12:19 pm, March 4th, 2019Ha, ha ha Peter. I loved that Jacinda said she wanted to hear from people about the tax payers working group who weren't Herald columnists.........................Yes, yes yes. We've heard from Barry, Heather and Mikey to name but a few. Why their opinions...
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Comment:Ross taunts Bridges about mental health system
Date published: 6:24 pm, February 10th, 2019Shadrach, that is one person criticizing it. Means nothing.
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Comment:Ross taunts Bridges about mental health system
Date published: 6:21 pm, February 10th, 2019Grantoc, Labour promised an enquiry into mental health. Many were calling out for that. They also made sure it had a tight time frame on it. Things are progresses from there. Already as someone who works in the area, I am aware of changes afoot at Primary ...
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Comment:Ross taunts Bridges about mental health system
Date published: 2:09 pm, February 10th, 2019Well interestingly Shadrach its 2.10pm and I just checked the Heralds website, not looking for the article and there it is right under a major story about a fire man in Nelson. Front page news..........so there you go
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Comment:Ross taunts Bridges about mental health system
Date published: 2:02 pm, February 10th, 2019Shadrach, it isn't weak of Simon to keep Sarah Dowie on because she had an affair with Jamie Lee Ross. It was the text she sent Ross, where she said very nasty things about his personal appearance, told him he deserved to die and doing so would put his ...
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Comment:Ross taunts Bridges about mental health system
Date published: 1:56 pm, February 10th, 2019Trolls being organised on a flight observed by Tracey Martin.......Was that you James?
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Comment:Ross taunts Bridges about mental health system
Date published: 1:54 pm, February 10th, 2019sorry Mickey, I was the one who mentioned Kiwibuild. Will discuss on another post.
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Comment:Open Mike 24/01/2019
Date published: 3:06 pm, January 24th, 2019What does that make National then Shardrach
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Comment:Court rules that Meat Workers donning & doffing is work and must be paid minimum wage
Date published: 10:14 pm, December 18th, 2018Congratulations Darien to you and/or whoever worked so hard for this. Bloody outrage that workers had to do this in there on time.
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Comment:Open Mike 17/12/2018
Date published: 3:09 pm, December 17th, 2018I think Shane watching porn was bloody awlful as well. Worse than Simon. Jones didn't win the Labour leadership battle, Cunliffe did and Robertson came second. A lot of feminist women in the Labour Party, and I don't imagine many voting for Jonsie.
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Comment:Open Mike 17/12/2018
Date published: 1:13 pm, December 17th, 2018https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2018/12/blood-and-guts-and-sex-that-s-the-way-to-go-simon-bridges.html Is there are NZ politician who mis-judges more than Simon Bridges??????? I don't think so. What a completely inappropriate thing to say. I don't ...
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Comment:National's Sroubek fizzle
Date published: 1:56 pm, December 13th, 2018If you read the article DJ it says that Hardcore is an anti violence /social justice campaigner and that a number of MPs know him. How he got her phone number. Gee I don't know. It maybe that he had it as part of his anti violence work or that someone who ...
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Comment:National's Sroubek fizzle
Date published: 12:25 pm, December 13th, 2018https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12176246 I guess it comes down to whether you believe her or not. I believe her.
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Comment:National's Sroubek fizzle
Date published: 12:21 pm, December 13th, 2018No tsmithfield. my comment was not irony. To date Ms Ardern has shown herself to have a good understanding of how to operate in these situations. Jacinda has integrity and is very smart. I think it is highly unlikely she has made a mistake here. but you ...
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