I think declaring bankrupt was because he couldn't pay out or wanted to avoid paying out. He had transferred the shares in his company to his wife but that was also faced with defamation costs so went into liquidation, so far the liquidator has disclosed ...
So it's Dirty Politics deja vu. Cameron Slater posts some surveillance footage of Siouxsie Wiles on The BFD, makes extravagant claims and accusations and what appear to be false claims, but gets no traction. So he passes the DP baton to David Farrar who ...
1 News have an annoying practice of only showing results rounded to whole numbers in their news reports of polls, and Colmar Brunton don't post their more accurate poll details for about two days after 1 News. But here's a credible claim that NZF only went...
Posts of possible interest to others and conservation starters are spam? "irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent over the Internet, typically to a large number of users, for the purposes of advertising, phishing, spreading malware" - https://www.lexico....
It came out on Friday: https://twitter.com/roymorganonline/status/1291668341979877376 What is weird is that the polling was done through July (so partially pre-dates Reid research poll and more so the Colmar Brunton poll which was done late July) but took ...
It's quite common in social media for people to post links to things they think may be of interest to others. I do it a lot to provide a variety of information and to promote discussion on various things. You can obviously demand what you like here, but it...
It's not impossible that the UN or aliens are using 5G to spread Covid to take over the world either. Maybe the UN is controlled by aliens, but I believe that's unlikely.
This sort of conspiracy speculation is as nuts as those on Twitter and Kiwiblog suggesting that Ardern might deliberately stoke fear via Covid to control the population.
Most of the "political commentariat" are shills for National... Except for the most of the "political commentariat" who people at Kiwiblog claim are shills for Ardern and for Labour. I guess the "political commentariat" is people who say things you ...
Under MMP parties don't win or lose elections. Last election National won but lost, Labour lost but won, Greens came fourth and won their first stint in Government, and NZ First came third but somehow won the management of coalition negotiations and a ...
It may well be that Garner was primed, that's very common in politics. It happened to me in one of my first political interviews (a lame attempt to embarrass me on local TV by Te Reo Putake as it happens). But it really didn't make any difference. Ardern ...
Graeme Edgeler (an actual lawyer): I'm not sure that Peters has a great chance of success on the appeal - the evidential difficulties in proving who leaked the information to news media remain. There remains some hope for Peters, the High Court judge was ...
I wouldn't trust Slater on anything. I'd be very surprised if Collins would risk doing anything that could be linked back to Slater. There seems to have been quite a few possible sources of the information. This affair's been known about for months down in...
I'd be very surprised given that Collins referred the supplier of information to Ardern. And I'd be very surprised if Collins does anything that would directly connect her to Slater now. That would be political madness, and I think she's smart enough to ...
I don't know in general, but he seems to have really botched his legal action against Bennett, Tolley, Hughes, Boyle and the Ministry of Social Development. Even if he somehow manages to successfully appeal the $320k costs he can't recover what it has cost...
More like 5% or nothing.
As I understand the legal process he may struggle to use new information on an appeal. Especially as here he seems to be claiming that someone other than the five people he took to court were guilty - that effectively would confirm he got his original case...
Speaking to reporters outside the House, Seymour said Peters was simply repeating "sleazy, baseless innuendo saying things that never happened" in the House. "I categorically deny involvement in that leak – I had nothing to do with it." He said that Morton...
Speaking to reporters outside the House, Seymour said Peters was simply repeating "sleazy, baseless innuendo saying things that never happened" in the House. "I categorically deny involvement in that leak – I had nothing to do with it." He said that ...
https://twitter.com/RachelMortonNZ/status/1285791307743424512 Peters doing dirty under parliamentary privilege?
I think I have a right to be offended by whatever offends me.
I haven't seen body language, only verbal and printed reports. I'm aware that body language perceptions in politics can be affected by partisan bias.
I'm not apologising for anyone, and I have always been staunchly against tobacco use (both my parents died of smoking related illnesses, emphysema and cancer and both deterred me from smoking) so that's an offensive comment. There are a hundred ways for ...
Collins was asked a direct question? Could she have confirmed in a better way without raising further questions? Hard to see how. Or should she have lied? If it was later revealed she had been informed and lied about it publicly she would probably have ...
...her recent tweet about Helen White's unavailability to do a radio interview... "...a bit of a misinterpretation, but ok" https://twitter.com/Nof_Grant/status/1283724459342352384
... call of course. [Piss off, Pete. You've used Cindy as a...
I haven't lied as you well know so that's a pathetic threat. Labeling a New Zealand party as Tory is closer to lying,and quite deliberately. There has never been a Tory party in New Zealand as far as I'm aware. We haven't even got a credible Conservative ...
It's a bit stupid repeated referring to a UK political party that has nothing to do with our election. I know it's supposed to be some sort of smear here but all it's likely to do is confuse people who you might be trying to influence. In contrast ...
Collins said on RNZ: Collins said the National Party doesn't want to have the kind of culture described in Nicky Hager's 2014 book Dirty Politics. "The whole culture at the time wasn't one that was conducive to doing the very best we could." "You can't be ...
I agree that it's a culture that National have obviously had problems ridding themselves of. Muller tried to move on from it but the message didn't get through to all of his MPs. Time will tell whether Collins can prove she has learnt from mistakes and can...
Nicky disputes the claimed exoneration, fair enough. But he says nothing about her subsequent distancing from Slater. I haven't seen anything that suggests she has supplied Slater with any political material since 2014. She and National treated him as ...
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