“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
Does anyone want to adopt a well used Grandma?
Son in law made some very racists remarks so I gave him a bollocking - and now I'm the bad person for speaking like that to everyone's ray of sunshine.
Think it's time I found me some new kids!
Can knit & make nice apple pie.
@CriticFromMars
@david_burns62
@MoJamster
@KTHopkins
You do realise it wasn't compulsory - no one was ordered to do it.
Also, no one was required to shed their own culture - I didn't see anyone there requiring Maori to hide their ta moko for example.
You & others carrying on this way need to calm done & stop exaggerating
Whilst we're ranting at the USA Supreme Court, do not forget the current leader of NZ's National Party, has expressed his desire to reverse our abortion laws here in NZ.
“I just wonder what’s happened to us as a country that we’ve become this paranoid and this soft.”
Kate Hawkesbury abt schools closing in the face of a killer cyclone.
HOW does this person still have a job?
WHEN will NZ stand up against rich privilege in our media?
Great convo with an antivaxxer last night who believes the vaccine contains a form of contraceptive as Govt wants to cut the number of NZers so it can import more foreigners. Which makes me wonder why vaccinating the over 60s first, was so damn important???
Just listened to
@jacindaardern
's speech, and WOW, just WOW.
Lots of comments I will make later but my thought right now is, can any of you imagine Luxon, or Bishop, or Seymour, or Willis - any of them presenting something like that, in that way, about those subjects? NEVER.
Judith Collins implying on TV that only National Party voters work and pay the taxes that keeps all the other people. (I guess saying everyone else who votes for Lab etc, are beneficiaries.)
She's a bit of a cow eh?
IRELAND - Covid deaths 7839
New Zealand - Covid deaths 1908
Population of Ireland - 5.1 million +
Population of NZ - 5,127,100
But according to NZ's media, Ardern's Govt has done a terrible job.
Isn't it great that international flights are back on. Now all those people who have been complaining about how NZ isn't good enough for them can book a flight and get the hell out of here.
Why do all these idiots blame decisions for lockdowns, vaccines/masks on Jacinda Ardern?
Once a pandemic is declared, /Chief Executer of MOH is in charge. Govt has to take his advice & use it by law. This is what happened.
We need civics taught in school too many ignorant kiwis
New Zealand was the first country in the world to give woman the vote.
Sometimes when I see how Right Wing males speak about Jacinda Ardern, it makes me realise what a massive task that must have been, and how little some NZ males have grown & matured in the last century or so.
People are amazing. At supermarket buying pet food to take to local Marae delivering to Hawkes Bay. 1 person asked if I had big dog, told them what I was buying it for. By time I got to check out 6 strangers had given me $20ea to buy more. Car was full, fur babies will be fed!
My fix for NZ, that no one would have the guts to do, is a Universal Basic Income for all thus getting rid of dole/super etc. Higher tax paid on subsequent earnings.
NZ is a perfect size to do this. But unfortunately not many understand the concept so oppose it.
It's amazing. Jacinda Ardern has become highly acclaimed world wide. She receives standing ovations everywhere she speaks.
A wonderful ambassador for NZ, and yet all the jealous little minded Nat/Act voters with their untalented PM/Mps still pretend their man is better.
Gosh I miss her.
This genuine care for the people.
Oh to have another leader that cared about someone other than himself.
#RememberingChchTerrorAttackVictims
I didn't realise the Covid Pandemic had a toxic masculinity component. The sheer vitriol aimed a Jacinda Ardern, Siouxsie Wiles etc is totally unacceptable. We've had some pretty disgusting male leaders / public personalities, but none of them get it as bad as the females
Jeez Jessica Mutch telling the Defence Force what they should be doing has to be the most embarrassing thing I've seen on TV. Someone tell her to pull her head in. The Armed Forces know a hell of a lot more about what they're doing than some journalist.
@Yoda4ever
@RexChapman
@MLopezSanMartin
No sorry, the Gulf of Mexico is on fire because of human greed and stupidity,
We know what oil does to the environment, but we still keep on keeping on.
I am becoming increasingly worried about Jacinda Ardern's safety - anyone else feeling the same?
Do our media even understand what 'conditions' they're creating?
WOW The woman spoken to on TV1 news about the damage caused by the cyclone at Muriwai didn't hold back about their disgust with Simeon Brown, who has failed to even return phone calls/correspondence
I wonder if it's starting to sink in for Luxon that his decision to go with Seymour and Peters, is not only going to damage NZ, but he is going to go down in history as one of the worst PM's NZ's ever had.
Get some Balls Luxon
I won the cake baking competition for under 7yr olds at Rutherford Primary School - how come the media haven't approached me for my instructions on what NZ should be doing about the pandemic?
If Ardern was a man she wouldn't be as scrutinised, criticised & bullied. Never in NZ's history has any PM been treated so appallingly despite having to cope with more shocking events than any, since WWII.
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So Chris Luxon let AirNZ get into massive debt in the years building up to and including Covid & he's not to blame for that,
but Jacinda Ardern who increased NZ's debt to provide the world's best response to Covid, is to blame for NZ's economic covid dip?
Some of u are idiots
So Judith Collins voted AGAINST mandatory testing at our borders, but she and her Ministers have spent days, complaining that mandatory testing wasn't being done at the border.
@NZNationalParty
are all over the place.
Did I miss
@chrisluxonmp
's tweet congratulating Jacinda Ardern on a job very well done - achieving something Nat PM / MP's weren't able to do - by getting a free trade deal ????
So sick of NZ's journalists acting as if COVID19 came with a rule & instruction booklet & that Ashley Bloomfield & Govt just ignored them.
There was no info/advice re this pandemic. Every country was left to manage as best they could. NZ did better than most & still is.
Those gang patches are everywhere, wandering the streets, turning up at community events - intimidating people with their loud voices, threats and lies.
This group are more prolific than most, the Gang leader is threatening to take money off people, kick them out of houses etc.
Its weird knowing we now have a Prime Minister
@chrisluxonmp
who thinks Labour wasted money by protecting NZers, supplying free vaccines etc for covid to saves lives, paid wage subsidies when ppl were in lockdown etc all a waste of money,
Luxon would have preferred more died?
Dear World.
The new New Zealand PM is flooding the internet with pictures of him and his family in matching PJs.
Now he's got the deputy PM doing the same.
Please come to our aid. How do we stop this sickening behaviour. No one should have to see their PM this way 🤢🤮
You have to admire Labour for not constantly dragging Helen Clark up for support.
How many times do we have to see John Key flaunted as some kind of expert on everything. The man left NZ in a mess, didn't even finish 3 terms & was an embarrassment to many
So according to National a 16 year old is old enough to be responsible for their life, to earn an income and be 'adult' so doesn't deserve a benefit if they're unemployed
Whilst also saying a Nat Party MP as a 16 yr old wasn't old enough to know what he was doing, was just a kid?
There are 1.6 million of you to blame for the absolute mess NZ is now in ... all you who didn't vote because you were too lazy or too moody to put your country first.
These 3 leaders are giving themselves the power to destroy EVERYTHING normal Kiwis value.
WTF have you done!!!
FFS so sick of all these THICK National Supporters.
NATIONAL did NOT win the election. They did NOT get enough votes to form a Govt. They needed two other parties to make a Govt. They cannot get anything thru the house without support from others.
Finland recorded as the happiest country in the World.
Covid
Finland has 1.17m cases but has had 5,012 deaths
NZ has 1.57m cases but only 1,455 deaths
So why are NZ National/Act belittling NZ's great response that has saved many lives???
Why is it most of the newer National MP's, especially Luxon, seem like they've been raised in a bubble and are totally ignorant to how the vast majority of Kiwis live their lives? How do you get to be over 30 and not have taken any notice of the other people in your country?
Many of our ancestors left their land of birth and travelled to NZ by sea, and never returned to their place of birth or saw their parents/kin again. Seems many NZers think they've be tortured if they can't travel somewhere else in the world at least once a year.
Amazing all these people complaining about being forced to have vaccines - when they weren't.
NOT one NZer was held down against their will and injected. It was personal choice, like everything else in life, came with consequences.
What the hell is wrong with NZ?
Influences like Mike Hosking & some MP's blaming the victim, a scared female who knew that if the raving Sam got thru the door, she couldn't defend herself, and yet somehow Hoskings thinks its her fault !
How would he feel if she was his daughter?
If this doesn't make NZers unite in protest, nothing will
Govt wants to lock NZ in to paying oil companies for financial damages should a future govt put sanctions on the oil industry.
#Fight4TheFuture
#StopLuxonsGreed
Gr8 supermarket trip - fool at door insisting he doesn't have to wear a mask cos PM done away with them. Security guard 'you're not coming in here without one' whilst making the guy walk backwards until he's out the door. Another shop assistant closed auto doors Shoppers cheered
Drongo and Grumpy watch on as Te Pati Maori members sworn in.
Grumpy Winston looks very angry, Drongo looks like he's trying to remember if he put his undies on this morning.
"In another time these reversions might reflect public opinion. But does anyone believe changing “Waka Kotahi” to the “New Zealand Transport Agency” was the most pressing issue for anything more than a minority of voters? No."
I am so sick of saying this
IF John Key's Govt had trained enough nurses and doctors, they'd be qualified now, and out in the workforce. But Nat's didn't make it a priority.
Labour's nurses are only abt to finish their training. Docs in a couple of yrs
Shortage is on National
Wouldn't it be nice & humane if
@chrisluxonmp
actually showed some compassion towards the very worn out Chris Hipkins. He fought family trauma with a sick daughter & then got Covid himself during campaign. He was thrown in the deep end when Jacinda left. He did good. He matters
So some of the media didn't like Ardern's Harvard speech. Not because of what she said, but because of what she is - a female, intelligent, caring but decisive.
So many females in the media clearly dislike her - it smacks of jealousy... 1/2
Who the hell was the prize prick asking for Bloomfield's resignation?
Aren't NZ's media meant to represent the voice of the people?
I don't know a single person who doesn't think Ashley Bloomfield has done a great job, especially under the circumstances.
Got a private message suggesting some of my comments were a little bit hard on Luxon.
I'm sorry about that followers - it's still morning, I will try to up my game to very hard by lunchtime.
I'm so proud of all the people in Dunedin who stood against tyranny and falsehoods, and especially stood for the majority of NZers who do not support Destiny Church and their sick anti-anything and everything followers.
Act &Seymour have been protecting the identity of a pedophile. They didn't want it known b4 election. Name suppression usually only given if it reveals the identity of victims, in this case it didn't. So suppression was given to protect a political party. HOW IS THAT APPROPRIATE?
My darling girl who watched & cared for me, making sure I was always safe, who loved me like no other living being ever has, left me yesterday after 13+yrs
She passed to the beyond guided by a vet she adores
Their is no greater love than the unconditional love of your best friend
Whilst you're all talking about who should be the next National leader, I'm questioning whether there is really a place in the world for a party with National's philosophy?
I think the world has moved on and the Right needs to adapt themselves and move with it b4 it's too late
So, it looks like NZF want to change the Treaty too.
How many of you are prepared to stand up for the TOW as it is and join arms with Maori to ensure the obligations, as they stand remain that way?
Terrorist attack on a Mosque, an eruption & killer worldwide pandemic - Ardern has guided NZers thru all these
Now the media make her out 2b a 'monster'.
If any of those events were to happen again, who would you rather have in charge, Luxon, a me man, or Ardern proven to care?
Looks like Hoskings and Hawkesbury are dragging out all their important friends to defend them. Never realised we had so many totally deranged 'toffs' here in NZ trying to defend a message to the public that could have contributed to great harm b/c their rich buddies said it.
Ashley Bloomfield is still my hero.
His only fault is trusting ppl to do the job they're paid to do & trusting
@NZNationalParty
won't play dirty politics games with NZers lives.
He got that wrong.
Those now hating on him make me sick. He saved your f**king lives - don't forget
Some of you really need to look up democracy and understand our PM was democratically elected and is doing what the job requires of her - to keep NZers as safe as possible ... especially during a killer virus
Clearly many of you aren't reading what is happening internationally
I actually spoke to someone today who is embarrassed that our PM is a 'unmarried mother'.
My life is now complete ... I have officially time traveled back to the 1800s
😊
If its true I wish
@jacindaardern
& her fab husband & their gorgeous daughter very best day of celebration They all deserve it
She fought for us, listened to experts & saved many.
Let those bitter b/c they couldn't go to pub/make profits during covid drown in their own misery
I never realised just how many racists NZ has.
Never thought I'd be so ashamed of my country.
Their delusions & rewriting of history is pathetic.
What a disgrace.
If anyone is to blame for the high numbers of Covid here at the moment it's the damn media - the vast majority for the past 6 mths have been questioning everything, posting articles about every fruitloop's covid opinion etc etc. Thus making many not do what was advised.
I simply do not understand how the Govt feeding our school kids so they are able to learn better, and therefore have more chances of growing into healthy adults, is such a problem for so many people
Vaxed twice, booster and now had the flu shot. Wear face masks & hand sanitise when out & abt in shops etc
Not quite sure there's anything else I could do, but if there was I'd add it to my list.
Saving someone else from getting ill seems like what humans should be happy to do.
Loving Clarke Gayford's answer to media when they phoned him up abt the wedding
Gayford said: “I can’t believe you thought you could call up and I’d just tell you all."
Personally I can't believe Clarke didn't tell them to F off & inform them on what a pack of jerks they all are
WOW
@chrisluxonmp
your attack of Labour in the House is a great reminder of why u are NOT suitable to be a leader of NZ. Where's your dignity? You're giving an example to all our young that being nasty & pathetic is okay. Pull yourself together & act like a decent human being
Sheesh I'm sick of our media.
When I watch the News, I don't expect to hear Jessica's opinion of what she thinks about the Budget. I want to hear the facts, "this this & this is in the budget" Save the opinions for later, not top billing. Terrible broadcast tonight.
@TVNZ
So if we scrap the Treaty of Waitangi.
Aotearoa is no longer part of the 'British Empire' and all you precious racist jealous greedy pakeha will have no right to be here?
So let me get this right, the experts, people highly qualified in the appropriate field say Willis is wrong.
This is Willis, with a literature degree & not financial qualifications, telling people with many years of studying & lots of qualifications, that they are wrong!!
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Was in Parl when they passed Smoke Free Legislation (which I'd worked on). There were tears of joy from many ppl in the Gallery, incl myself. Dad had died of smoking related illness so this legislation was really meaningful
My hatred of this backwards facing Govt grows each day
@RichardAOB
There is a lesson to be learned here.
How come Wombats can offer sanctuary for different species and humans don't seem to be able to do the same for their own species?
We need to start listening to the animals - their wisdom is greater than ours.
OMG.
@TovaObrien
needs to be sacked. The way she just spoke to Ashley Bloomfield in the press conference was far beyond her remit as a journalist.
Not sure who she works for, but her question regarding 'how can anyone believe a word you say' was appalling.
Having been a Probation Officer I've had a bit to do with gangs & other offenders
You know who I feared most, who treated me the worst?
The wife beaters, the rich embezzlers, the men in suits.
They're the ones who couldn't give respect.
Gangs? Nothing but respectful towards me
Duncan Garner says Jacinda Ardern's big promises have failed spectacularly.
Clearly Garner hasn't spoken to those who have had their lives improved. The winter energy payment alone has made a huge difference to both the very young & very old, allowing them to turn a heater on.
Jacinda Ardern achieves free trade deal with European Union, something the Right's God, John Key, was unable to do.
I'll just sit here and wait for NZ's corrupt & bribe accepting media to find a way to spin this negatively.
@NamasteKiaOra
@radionz
@jacindaardern
So you claim everyone has the right to free speech, except the PM?
Incidentally I'm a Kiwi and I agree with her -and judging by the people speaking up, so do many others - oh and she didn't lose, she's the Prime Minister.
David Seymour seems to have got particularly nasty about Jacinda of late. I guess jealousy is a hard thing, especially for a chauvinist. Must really peeve him that he will NEVER be thought of well by as many that think highly of Ardern. I think that jealousy is eating him up.
There are 3,585,232 NZers on the Electoral Roll.
Act & Nats got 1,077,311 votes. Not even 1/3 of NZ voters.
With NZF, they will have approx 1/3, again, not a majority of voters.
You know why we've got this useless trio?
Cos some of you dumbasses didn't vote!!!!
I'm trying to think of some way we can let Sam Uffindell's victim know we believe her, and appreciate she was so brave to come forward & that we're sorry the patriarchy that is
@NZNationalParty
is so crooked her voice was silenced. Any ideas??
WOW a National MP beats someone up with a wooden bed leg and gets away with it, becomes an MP and what do
@MutchJessica
and
@TVNZ
do - they totally leave it off the top billing spots on the news
No doubt at all - TVNZ & Mutch are right up National's butt.
John Key despite being a lying jerk, was personable.
Chris Luxon is just yuck.
National are going with the 'people will like him more, the more they see of him'. Sadly the opposite is true, the more we see him in action, the worse he gets.
So if giving struggling people an extra $30 a week for a short period to help out is bad for inflation, what the hell will Chris Luxon's tax cut to the wealthy giving some over a thousand dollars a week do???
Any NZer who tries to upset the wedding day of someone who deserves their privacy, whose child deserves safety etc should be dealt with by the most severe punishments.
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Is
@chrisluxonmp
's intention, by sending two inexperienced and mediocre MP's to the Hui, trying to continue his message that 'Maori are just not important enough'.
That's how it looks to me, and I think it's bloody disgraceful.
It is absolutely disgusting that this Govt and
@chrisluxonmp
refuse to answer questions asked of them in the House.
How are they meant to be held to account, if they are allowed to get away with this.
@GerryBrownleeMP
needs to either resign or do his job properly.
As long as National have Sam Uffindell in their party they and their supporters have absolutely no right to point fingers at other accused MP's until they are proven guilty.
A report proves Uffindell guilty, but sadly Luxon isn't honest enough to publish it.
What the hell is wrong with
@NZNationalParty
MP's making out that kids saying they want to go overseas is something new - some kind of big revelation.
The Big OE has been a NZ tradition for many decades.
Why are Nat MP's so out of touch with Kiwi life?
Damn, would have been there if I'd know they were marching on Parliament - couldn't do the car thingy, but would have happily supported Maori at the big whare.