Ah "silent T' you're the man for me!

[carbonhed]

One finds it difficult to understand how using an example of New Zealands only actually corrupt pollie bosters your case. Kindly elucidate for the peasants.

Really? You've got a lefty wanker banging on about some totally fabricated corruption ... and you can't slip in a little Taito Phillip Field??? Is he out of jail yet? Did Labour ever apologise for defending him? How about Helen Clark... before she winged off to the UN?

Yeah... nah.

[SPman]

Because you voted labour.

Not for a while.......

[SPman]

Fuck you talk endless shit. - well - this is KB - I'm not alone in that!

Donghua Liu was granted permanent residence in 2005 by Damian O'Connor who overruled his officials in doing so. Ministers have that discretion and use it in about 6% of cases.

Taito Phillip Field used it quite extensively.

Maybe you're thinking of that other Liu. Bill was it? Great mate of Dover Samuels. Wanted by Interpol, multiple identities, gave big donation to Labour prior to citizenship being granted, granted his citizenship in a special ceremony in the Labour Party caucus room!

Is that the Liu you're thinking of?

Here's an article by Chris Trotter. Don't have much time for the fuckwit but at least he's always had the balls to call himself a socialist and not whatever politically correct, cringing, phrase du jour might be fashionable amongst the latte sippers.

We're FUCKED! Every man for himself!

However, one of Mr Liu's business partners approached Mr Williamson and John Banks — the Mayor of Auckland at the time — and they wrote to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Nathan Guy, asking him to grant citizenship against the official advice...............Mr Williamson and Mr Key opened the first stage of a $70 million property development project in Newmarket in 2011, the refurbishment of the Boulevard Hotel, described as the "brainchild" of Mr Liu.
Both Mr Williamson and Mr Banks declined to comment on their support for Mr Liu's citizenship because it was a "constituency matter".

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Taito Fields and some other Labourites deserved what they got - there are a couple of others who should have been put against the wall as well, but we are talking current government here, two terms in, and they just don't stack up particularly well, by any standards! Don't they have any sense at all of public perception, or are they all so arrogant or dumb, they don't give a shit.

[carbonhed]

Taito Fields and some other Labourites deserved what they got - there are a couple of others who should have been put against the wall as well, but we are talking current government here, two terms in, and they just don't stack up particularly well, by any standards! Don't they have any sense at all of public perception, or are they all so arrogant or dumb, they don't give a shit.

So he got residence under Labour. Citizenship under National. Built a $70 million hotel..... and what? Gave a donation to the political party of his choice? Oh the horror!

[Oscar]

You use peasant as a derogatory term.......like a superior talking down to an inferior......guess that says a lot about your attitude to others.......

Actually it says more about my opinion of you.
Given that I was gently taking the piss, and you found that to be a cue to air more views about how gullable and stupid other people are, I'd say it was your attitude to others that was the problem.

[HenryDorsetCase]

So he got residence under Labour. Citizenship under National. Built a $70 million hotel..... and what? Gave a donation to the political party of his choice? Oh the horror!

If he is living more than paycheck to paycheck then CLEARLY he is a capitalist, and thus a corruptor, and in the queue to be put against the wall when the revolution comes.

Its not difficult really.

[HenryDorsetCase]

So he got residence under Labour. Citizenship under National. Built a $70 million hotel..... and what? Gave a donation to the political party of his choice? Oh the horror!

You spelt Liarbour and Nazional wrong. Incorrectly.

I love KB after I've had a few beers. Its hilarious.

[oldrider]

You spelt Liarbour and Nazional wrong. Incorrectly.

I love KB after I've had a few beers. Its hilarious.

I love KB after you have had a few beers too ....it "is" hilarious! .... Same as when you are sober too! ... Such talent!

[carbonhed]

29.5%. The man's a genius.

"Silent T" FTW

[Swoop]

Spill for those of us who try not to follow local politics?

It seems the MP hasn't declared, as required.
There is a period of time when errant person/s can "remember" certain things...
Put 1st July into your diary, as that is when time runs out.

[carbonhed]

Audrey Young on Labour

The Digipoll was conducted a couple of days after "silent T's" trust issues and covered the whole of the Judith Collins wankfest. John Key goes up 4.6% and National sits on 50.8%.

Must be time for the leftards to console themselves with how amazingly intelligent they really are and, of course, how stupid the general public is.

[R650R]

I don't know why people get so worked up about what politicians are up to. We all know they are a pack of players taking us for a ride till next election, its no shock there is some BS along the way.
BTW the whole middle class thing is just an illusion so those working a little bit harder than say factory workers think they are special. He wasn't wrong calling himself middle class as the upper class is the mega rich, the ones who buy beaches and islands, not a holiday package to visit briefly. Anything under say $400 000 a year and your still eating at the same supermarkets and restaurants as those below you, living in same suburbs and same size houses really...

[carbonhed]

He wasn't wrong calling himself middle class as the upper class is the mega rich, the ones who buy beaches and islands, not a holiday package to visit briefly. Anything under say $400 000 a year and your still eating at the same supermarkets and restaurants as those below you, living in same suburbs and same size houses really...

So where does a $2.5 million home and $500k + pa household income put you?

[skippa1]

I don't know why people get so worked up about what politicians are up to. We all know they are a pack of players taking us for a ride till next election, its no shock there is some BS along the way.
BTW the whole middle class thing is just an illusion so those working a little bit harder than say factory workers think they are special. He wasn't wrong calling himself middle class as the upper class is the mega rich, the ones who buy beaches and islands, not a holiday package to visit briefly. Anything under say $400 000 a year and your still eating at the same supermarkets and restaurants as those below you, living in same suburbs and same size houses really...

You need to get off the hallucinogenic's.......$400k pa middle class? Pfft

[R650R]

So where does a $2.5 million home and $500k + pa household income put you?

Still middle class really, the more people earn the more they borrow. The upper class is the 1% with family money and investments.
Anything below having your own personal private jet/island/waiter/butler/mistress/mechanic is middle class.
I have a mate who has held several corporate level management jobs etc... he seemed a bit put out when after blabbing on about his 90K salary and company car and posh Havelock north post code when I pointed out that he was only 20k above my current job at the time truck driving. His house was same size and quality as mine, shopped at same supermarkets, holiday at same places etc....
The media/political con of what people think the class levels are is just a distraction so we can call the poorer people names and not notice the rubbish job the govt is doing overall for everyone.