Posts by Craig Young
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Hard News: The new establishment, in reply to linger,
Judging by the level of state and federal government and corporate corruption across the ditch, what do you think? (NB: Anti-Australia joke) ;)
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Hard News: The new establishment, in reply to Moz,
Well, they were settled by convicts. Problem is, their descendants are proving true to their genetic heritage and behaving in a similar manner.
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Hard News: The new establishment, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Geoff, that's needlessly insulting to beavers ;)
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Moz, you do realise that at the rate Oz is going, we’ll probably be legislating for legal recognition of polyamory by the time our western nutbars- oops, neighbours :/ eventually get around to marriage equality…? And that we’ve had two female Prime Ministers while Oz has only had one, and this may herald No.3?
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Now that's interesting. Apparently, according to Newshub this evening, there's a hefty female gender gap tilt that favours Jacinda Ardern. A predecessor of which kept Helen in power for most of the Noughties.
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to Katharine Moody,
Excellent, Katharine! Thank you. Locked and loaded in the general direction of Facebook media outlet pages.
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I'm surprised no-one on the centre-left has picked up on the most optimal way out of this situation, which is to refocus public attention on the scale and magnitude of white collar corporate crime in New Zealand, whether it is adequately policed (I suspect not) and how its scale and effects dwarf the crimes of neccessity that underpin most benefit claim infringements. If Labour and the Greens now do that, they can fight their way out of this road bump. Quite frankly, too, aren't some of the anti-Turei headlines rather over the top?
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to James Littlewood*,
I live to serve! ;) Can anyone calculate the sums involved in the cases of fiscal malfeasance in this cases I've cited above? NB: I used Wikipedia to compile the list.
Incidentally, why has no-one suggested or analysed how the probable uptick in Labour’s opinion poll ratings will impact on New Zealand First, which has historically been the beneficiary of major opposition party opinion poll softness- whether National or Labour?
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An annotated version of the above, with reasons for their departures- or nondepartures, as the case may be:
Here’s a list of centre-right National and ACT MPs who have resigned over the last nine years- and two who haven’t- and why they have done so:
1.Richard Worth- allegations of sexual harrassment
2.David Garrett- past identity theft of dead infant
3. Aaron Gilmore- harrassment and intimidation of others
4. Claudette Hauiti- misuse of parliamentary charge card, claimed expenses after announcing departure from Parliament
5. Mike Sabin- alleged assault complaint
6. Pansy Wong- misused parliamentary travel perk after her husband conducted private business on a visit to China*7. Nick Smith- contempt of court (March 2004); defamation cases (1999,2005); ACC conflict of interest (2012)
**8. Todd Barclay- employment dispute, clandestine recordings*Note that the latter is still there and hasn’t even been dumped from Cabinet despite repeated mishaps. **Yes, why is he still in Parliament? …Prime Minister??
Adds up after a while, doesn’t it?