Hard News: Jones: The contender leaves
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Ian Dalziel, in reply to
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
; ) Full circle....
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lynne walker, in reply to
Absolutely. I am a voter who for the first time ever have felt very disillusioned with parties and really, really , really questioning voting. Reading this gave me some hope ----- these are the things I am interested in, real stuff, people's lives that need some care and attention.
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BenWilson, in reply to
Oh this is too priceless. Hat tip Virginia McMillan on Twitter. ROFLMAO!
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Kumara Republic, in reply to
Bonus points if you recognise the names in small print at the bottom. It really is NZ's answer to Australian Quadrant or the Daily Fail.
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I recognize that Mark Steyn is a pleonasm. Do I get half a point?
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Danyl writes of The Beatification of St Jonesy.
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I really like the post/link of Sacha above.
I am glad Shane Jones has gone. As a long-standing member of the LP, though on the Green side, I thoroughly disliked Shane Jones in spite some good speeches and replies in Parliament.
1. the pornagraphic films, whether or not tax-payer funded
2. a TV1 series when various MPs went to work in some field to show a "more human" side.
I was impressed by Rodney Hyde who went to a Care-Centre for Special Needs children, and truly interacted with them in class and swimming pool.. and has kept up his interest in this sector since.
Shane Jones did a fishing trip: he was late as,unapologetically, hung-over. The boat had to wait 1+ hour for him.
When arrived, re talked to the men about fishing industry policy and did no work whatsoever.
He is a climate-change denier, would fish the oceans dry using badly paid Phillipine labour so as to maximise profit for SeaLord.
Good riddance.
And since when have "blue-collar workers" been pro Labour.. only at the beginning of the Trade Union movement. -
Russell Brown, in reply to
Oh this is too priceless. Hat tip Virginia McMillan on Twitter. ROFLMAO!
I felt we really needed to get that picture up in here.
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This is a pleasing narrative though, as if a Shane Jones can be acclaimed as an ordinary bloke and every- man, there is hope for all of us who grew up in the Sticks, then went to uni in a big city and never really left!
Seems a bit like the "everyone is middle class now". Everyone is also an every-man bloke's bloke.
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Let the narcissism continue..
Shane Jones' partner, Dot Pumipi, says the MP's greatest fear in making the decision to resign was that his phone would stop ringing and he would get withdrawal symptoms from the sudden lack of attention.
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But thanks for all the fish...
As he doesn't fully complete 9 years or 3 terms as an MP, does he still qualify for the Parliamentary lifetime pension?
Or has Maneuverer McCully saved the taxpayer a bundle there?Mr E?
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Sacha, in reply to
And I have admiration for academics and geeks.
There's your undoing, see. :)
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Let the narcissism continue..
I can't believe I'm saying this, but your joke sensor might need it's firmware updated. And, yeah, it's not exactly an uncommon condition among politicians knocked down the greasy pole of status, or off it altogether. David Lange was self-deprecatingly hilarious about spending an awful lot of time as an ex-Prime Minister on the Opposition back benches wandering why nobody wanted to know what he thought any more.
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Sacha, in reply to
But I'm not joking. Consistent since my first comment above.
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linger, in reply to
willing to help irradiate pest animals
Awesome. Spotlighting them so that others can shoot? or nuking them from orbit ’cos it’s the only way to be sure?
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Spotlighting them so that others can shoot? or nuking them from orbit ’cos it’s the only way to be sure?
To be sur’, to be sur’
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PSA questions appointment. From Scoop
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HORansome, in reply to
Which, in part, proves my claim at KiwiFoo about the whole "Investigate Him/Her" format Ian Wishart has gone for.
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Russell Brown, in reply to
Which, in part, proves my claim at KiwiFoo about the whole “Investigate Him/Her” format Ian Wishart has gone for.
I thought of you when I saw it.
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tussock, in reply to
I’m also puzzled by the no frills ordinary bloke claims, I didn’t often see that in him.
It's like when estate agents sell a house. Cozy => Really f***ing small.
"No frills" just means he swears a lot. "Ordinary bloke" means he's a sexist dinosaur. Also the sort to launch a popular crusade against one of our most powerful companies, and then abandon the party for greener pastures in the middle of it because he "didn't want to work with a bunch of fucking smelly pot-smoking hippies that give him a hard time just because he says what everyone's thinking".
If you'll forgive the not-an-actual-quote. But that does seem to be about what happened, tried to find some way to both stay in parliament and not work with the greens and when that didn't work he jumped at a fake diplomatic position (but one with a real paycheck, "roving pacific ambassador" => permanent island holiday on the government dollar, mate).
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Sacha, in reply to
I did wonder what would be on the 'Her' cover..
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Sacha, in reply to
"No frills" just means he swears a lot. "Ordinary bloke" means he's a sexist dinosaur.
Bravo
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Rich Lock, in reply to
hat is ordinary bloke hood all about really?
This is my version: I hold an HT license with a forklift and dangerous goods endorsement.
I have a fabrication engineering certificate, ( Which means I can weld things)
I am construction sight savvy, a competent industrial fishing boat deckhand but I have never felled a large pine tree.
Now this is where I might come unstuck: I don’t drink and I don’t watch sport on TV. I don’t have a fire arms license, nor do I wish to get one. However, I hang out with people who watch sport on TV, I drink non alcoholic beer and I am willing to help irradiate pest animals, alongside a sensible licensed firearms owner.
And I have admiration for academics and geeks.
Well, Steven, unless you hold a class-2 endorsement for reducing people to two-dimensional easily-pigeonholed caricatures, then I'm afraid I'm going to have to confiscate your mancard.
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Rich of Observationz, in reply to
a popular crusade against one of our most powerful companies
Only slightly blunted when you realise that he was doing so on behalf of a food production industry which had, until not long ago, paid him an obscene amount of money as a CEO and will no doubt keep him employed through the old boys scheme as and when a future government tires of his ambassadorial talents.
Looking after ordinary keewees? Or roping in Labour to take the side of his mates in a corporate scrap, which will probably end up, whoever wins, with the costs being slammed on the consumer?
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