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6th December 2016, 20:18 | #41 |
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His host vessel is beginning to weaken and he has to resign before his human form fails completely thus revealing his true lizard self.
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6th December 2016, 21:46 | #43 |
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Brash is a sperg of the highest order. Doesn't get people at all.
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Brash is a yesterdays man, still is, will always be.
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A well written piece by Giovanni Tiso - The man without a legacy
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7th December 2016, 12:52 | #48 | |
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I don't always agree with Tiso - he comments from a very 20th-century Italian socialist-slash-communist perspective on most things and a lot of his observations just seem alien to the New Zealand experience for me. But on this he and I seem to agree:
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7th December 2016, 13:12 | #50 |
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The beauty of a Key is that both a Brash and a Tiso are impotent.
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7th December 2016, 18:07 | #51 |
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The only thing Key seemed effective at was keeping his popularity.
His legacy is shit like the whole "academics are like lawyers" nonsense. When people feel they are on solid ground questioning stuff like climate change, vaccines, fluoride in the water, the reason is leaders making these kinds of statements.
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But it's one thing to say Key is on the right, another to say he's an ideologue. I'm guessing you're getting this from the blogs? Or are you reading too many Stuff comments? I can't say I've seen that view taken seriously very often. I've always respected him for unambiguously supporting the treaty, stating that NZ has to accept it's a multicultural society built on a bi-cultural foundation. I'm not sure where that fits on the left/right paradigm. It does have its limits I think.
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8th December 2016, 18:06 | #53 |
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Coleman's out.
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Additionally, I think that it's important to realise that the political environment in which Key increased benefit payments by less than inflation is a political environment in which wealth inequality has been becoming an increasingly important political issue. It's not an issue that any politician wanting to maintain a semblance of popularity can afford to completely ignore at the moment. Thus, arguably, we might reasonably believe that Key acted to raise benefit payments out of a sense political self-preservation much more than any belief that it was the right thing to do. The fact that he did it really tells us very little about what he would have actually wanted to do. |
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9th December 2016, 15:03 | #55 |
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fucking jews amirite |
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10th December 2016, 17:13 | #58 |
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Author: Bill Sutton, Napier Labour Electorate Committee Chair, Labour MP 1984-1990, published in the NZH last week.
Of course he looks like this |
10th December 2016, 19:53 | #59 |
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10th December 2016, 22:58 | #60 |
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Well, it's not hard to take an unflattering photo. But he only has himself to blame for being an idiot.
Still, reading the NZH? What do you expect?
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11th December 2016, 00:11 | #61 |
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What, is it the Herald's fault that the guy is anti-semitic?
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11th December 2016, 00:23 | #62 |
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There are always going to be idiots, if you want the opinion of one the NZH is clearly the place to go.
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11th December 2016, 12:02 | #63 |
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To be fair - NZ as a whole tends to turn on it's leader within it's fourth term, "The Govmint is to blame!". If any one person stays as leader for too long they leave with negative popularity, so he's done the smart thing if he wants to be remembered for his positive achievements rather than his fsckups.
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1st May 2017, 08:27 | #65 |
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Sooo, what's the government covering up exactly?
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1st May 2017, 10:06 | #66 |
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Where there's smoke . . . there's not always fire?
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5th June 2017, 10:45 | #68 |
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Wow, 6 months later and it's Sir John. It was inevitable though doing it now risks coming across as cronyism I reckon.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/poli...s-to-the-state
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5th June 2017, 11:00 | #69 |
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I was under the impression all ex-pm's get offered a knighthood if they want one.
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5th June 2017, 13:28 | #70 |
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I must say, the nutters at the Standard are taking this remarkably well:
https://thestandard.org.nz/arise-sir-john/ |
5th June 2017, 14:19 | #71 |
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Duncan Garner will be happy as the tolerant left social media swarm moves on to it's next daily victim.
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5th June 2017, 14:54 | #72 |
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Muldoon has a nighthood, Lange doesn't. 'nuff said.
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5th June 2017, 15:03 | #73 |
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Why didn't Helen Clark offer him one? Oh yeah, she abolished them.
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5th June 2017, 15:03 | #74 |
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Cmon Lange was made ONZ, that's as big as you can get.
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6th June 2017, 11:55 | #75 |
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Yeah, didn't HC only abolish the knighthoods. There were still equivalent honours.
IMO PMs should not get the honour, unless they are seen to have done something exceptional in their tenure. And Julie Christie, I cant see why she got one. |
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6th June 2017, 13:39 | #77 |
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Ordinary membership in the Order of New Zealand is our highest honour, limited to 20 living people. Current former PMs among them are: Bolger (Nat), Moore (Lab), Clark (Lab). Lange (Lab) was one until his death.
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6th June 2017, 17:19 | #78 |
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Only Jenny Shipley and Geoffrey Palmer are missing from the list of living ex-PMs. Palmer is knighted, Shipley never won an election.
I'm guessing with his knighthood, Key wouldn't be offered this as well. Or vice versa. Honour systems, eh?
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