It was the petulance of Farrar's comment on Kiwiblog that struck me. He obviously knew that National were going to get a hiding. A confident commentator boosting for a big party isn't going to waste his time in childish snarks at the Greens.
Reti in trouble ... "With about 20 per cent of the vote counted in Whangārei, Labour's Emily Henderson is ahead of National's Shane 'Dr Shane' Reti by about 600 votes. It's not a huge lead so far - but it's already a massive turnaround from 2017, when Reti...
Worth noting that Mark Mitchell - if he is the next Nat leader - is very linked to Simon Lusk, Cameron Slater and the Dirty Politics crowd. They got him into politics. He owes them, they own him. Swapping like for like.
Have Labour stolen more National votes than ACT has?
Especially after reading a petulant comment from Farrar about how they always under perform their polling. I am loving that the Dirty Politics crowd finally got the leader they wanted ... and they've been steamrollered by the politician Collins used to ...
From stuff: "We've had word that National leader Judith Collins will hold a speech at around 9pm but will not be holding a press conference afterwards." Wahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Collins only 300 ahead in Papakura ... oh, please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"I always said the National leader had to get 25% ... you just misheard me and thought I said 35% ..." - Judith Collins
The Tax Payer's Alliance sent me a letter telling me the Greens had a plan to tax me more. They literally worded it so that it sounded like Chloe, James and Marama had gotten together and concocted a special tax targeting me as an individual. I suppose ...
Public acts of praying are explicitly condemned as unnecessary and possibly hypocritical by the Big Man himself. From the Sermon on the Mount: 5 And when thou prayest, be not as the hypocrites: for they love to stand and pray in the Synagogues, and in the ...
Maybe you could wait until the ashes cooled down before pointing the fingerbone. You mean this isn't a time to ask questions, but a time to offer thoughts and prayers?
I think we should be glad debates are pretty irrelevant in this race, as - with the best will possible - I'd score it 2-0 to Collins at this point. She's far better at it than Ardern, who often seems flustered, reactive and can't get her ideas out in a ...
I didn't regard Mana as scary or extreme. I voted for them.
I'm pretty sure most NZ politicians "consider NZ first." They just don't pretend it is a USP for their party.
Totally unprecedented in modern times , the sanctity of asylum was torn up The Ecuadorian embassy revoked his asylum. So the 'sanctity' was not violated. CNN reported Assange was forcibly removed There's an implication of force there despite what you say ...
Why are the left are willing throw justice for women under the bus for Assange?
Watching him on TVNZ this morning he seemed to be refusing to back up Collins and Brownlee's rantings and bout non-co-operation and dark conspiracies. Perhaps he is looking beyond the election, aware that he has a future - either in in politics or medicine...
Let's not get too complacent. If National are polling at 28% and we're all crowing about it, and they come in at 35%, that looks like Plucky-Judith-Staving-Off-Annihilation and she gets to hang about until 2023 for another crack. By which time, she'll be ...
On the one hand, I am very down with the idea of not criminalising young people and creating unnecessary hostility towards and negative associations towards the police. On the other hand, I am not happy with people being encouraged to be even less ...
You're the flip side of a Trump-MAGA clown, believing Covid is a Chinaplot or unleashed by Hilary or whatever delusion they are entertaining this moment. Proclaim the 'other side' are capable of anything. Which means 'our side' is justified in doing ...
I imagine the only thing that has stopped them doing it already is breaking the chain of traceability. FFS. What idiotic posting. Do you really think the fear of getting caught is the "only thing" stopping people unleashing Covid 19 on New Zealand? ...
We've gone from Adrian's (already preposterous) suggestion that "some RWNJ" might deliberately introduce Covid (presumably by hopping on a plane, finding someone with Covid and rubbing up against them, then returning to New Zealand, eluding quarantine and ...
Mickysavage has - of course - a long an ignoble history of being pretty much wrong about everything, so we might as well start practicing saying "Prime Minister Collins." Collins makes me nervous. She's got nothing to lose and the scruples of a rabid ...
A speedy recovery and good health to Mr Mueller. He seems like a fairly decent person and - as we will sometimes have National governments - I'd rather they were lead by fairly decent people rather than ideological hardliners and extremists. Mueller ...
Despite all the breathless hype about how many seats the Cons have lost, it looks to me like they've still got a near stranglehold on UK local politics. Or do numbers somehow work differently in the UK? Numbers don't but keep in mind that only a selection...
You may find that some who like to call themselves progressives haven't progressed very far.
There is no 'defence' in what Corbyn said. He asks why it is being painted over, and offers the vague comfort that this has happened before. There isn't a word of defence in there. He doesn't seem to know anything about the mural, or the controversy around...
So the toxic atmosphere was real then? Thanks for acknowledging that. I wasn't aware I had ever denied the existence of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party. People like Shami Chakrabarti have spent time looking at it, and said it exists and I'll take their ...
You mean this: "She found that Labour “is not overrun by anti-Semitism” but does suffer from an “occasionally toxic atmosphere” and “too much clear evidence [of] ignorant attitudes.” " https://www.vox.com/world/2018/3/29/17168320/labour-corbyn-anti-...
So when Corbyn’s 2012 Facebook post defending the anti-Semitic mural was uncovered at the end of last week, it set off the debate all over again. He didn't defend the mural. You're quoting a misleading source. No wonder your branes are rong.
The accusations were from within his own party. No-one has ever accused Corbyn of lacking internal enemies. That was one of the points Blip was making. You accept their prattling at face value. Why not accept the opinions of Shami Chakrabarti, who (after ...
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