I was once hurt in my vulnerability, so everyone who is ever vulnerable must feel like I did.

Amirite?

Jeez this story keeps getting weirder. So Allan drove drunk, crashed outside the house of a Justice staff member, abandoned her car halfway across the road, did a runner, and had to be tracked and located by a police dog squad, and when she was caught she refused to accompany the cops.

Sounds like a mental health breakdown. They tend to be weird.

#aroha

I dunno about that. It sounds like panicking while being almost black-out levels of intoxicated, knowing that you're about to be caught doing a whole string of things that are going to bring a mountain of negative attention your way, including losing your job.

I think it'd be perfectly normal to have a bit of a panic attack about that situation.

Did they not do any kind of breath test? Or did it show levels of alcohol that would suggest being black out drunk?

I thought it was low-range, which is why she hasn’t been charged with drunk driving?

yeah she got an infringement. over 250mcg, under 400mcg.
she decamped in a panic, knew her life was fucked, irrationally didn't follow orders(or belligerently didn't follow them). the ego her position afforded her and her downfall has fuck all to do with mental health, imo.
who the fuck gets on the sauce on a sunday night when you're on thin ice after being back in the job for a week and drives home whilst you're the cabinet minister of justice. it's not mental health. she deserves everything she gets. life's hard. deal with the consequences, nothing more, nothing less.

Media seem to have backpeddled on that bit now - a dog car was present, people heard dogs in it, but she had been located and spoken to by officers before they needed to deploy.

In a non-injury accident, you have 48 hours to contact the property owner don't you, so apart from leaving her vehicle in an unsafe position, was she compelled to remain at the scene?

Good news everyone, your favourite talentless brown gay male former Labour MP Tāmati Coffey has announced that he has been "shoulder tapped" to take over from Kiri Allan as the Rainbow Labour candidate in the East Coast electorate.

https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/07/31/t...ast-candidate/

It looks like this election is a race between who can most out neolib the other:

$24b for roads? Chump change! Check out this $45b action!

Tunnels, light rail, cycling and bus lanes - govt unveils ambitious $45b new harbour crossing plan

Makes the money we used to bail out universities recently look like a rounding error.

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2B from Blackrock. Beat that National!

FUcking muppets.

https://www.thepost.co.nz/a/nz-news/...work-economist

It doesn't matter. We're not allowed to genuinely address issues of cost of living by acknowledging escalating inequality in any case.

Best we can do is make pretend. 🤷

It's fucking bullshit. Changing GST does fuck all for any individual household, offers massive benefits to business, and does absolutely nothing about runaway inflation.

Of course.

But let's not talk about our economic model, our finance and tax laws that make it so easy for businesses to benefit, while everyone working a job for their money gets poorer every day.

How ineffective these reforms would be exposes that. But whatevs.

Good news everyone, it's an election year so COVID has magically disappeared!

As someone with a compromised immune system, I find the non-requirement of masking in health venues quite a FUCK YOU IN PARTICULAR move.

This x 1,000,000.

I'll still mask up to see the doc - because I know he's had it at least 4 times and going to see him is practically attending a superspreader event.

Yep - It will make no change to the prices of veges at the supermarket - they will find a way to inflate the prices again. "seasonal variances"

At least no change downward - the extra compliance cost will be factored into it and blam, no net gain for the consumer.

Just retarded. Will appeal to some knee jerk voters though. Will cripple some small businesses.

Im all for not GST on fruit and veges etc - in a market where there are already different GST.

Its dumb as fuck to change a system that is so simple to something that is more complicated.

burn it all to the ground.

nek minit

Yep, she wants to get in before they put more restrictions on it.

wtf. Either

- Labour knew about this and lied about how it was caring for Allan, or
- Labour did not know Allan was this unstable, or
- Allan is making this all up

I couldn't give a rats arse what her situation is, I just want her to be prosecuted equally under the law, and get the help she needs.

All this talk is just her portraying herself as a victim, which is cool, but she can be a victim in therapy, after she deals with the consequences of her actions.

Wow, she's sad, boo hoo, deal with it yourself. We don't care.

The NZ health system: destroyed

https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/35...d-te-whatu-ora

Oh well, never mind. 🤷

Yep, we’re fucked.

Kiri's going with the It WaS a SoCiAl ExPeRiMeNt defense:

Meanwhile, former PM Chris Hipkins really has no idea why he’s not PM any more.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political...flects-on-2023

Inspirational.

It's a bit awkward how good Labour would be looking now if they were in power.

Budget deficit lower than forecast, Treasury figures show

Grant Robertson retiring from Parliament to take up post of Otago Uni VC.

I didn't break it, I was testing its durability.

I didn't steal it, I was testing the security.