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    Quote Originally Posted by ellipsis View Post
    ...I'm sure the irony is being overlooked or glossed over by rabid party members...keep digging you wanks, the hole can be even deeper...
    They're all wanks. The whole lot of them. You have the choice of voting for the incumbents who wouldn't know policy if it bit them on the testicle, people who are just yelling "look at me", reactionary conservatives on both left and right, and policies that punish anyone who isn't doing it the way a particular party would like them to.

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    Quote Originally Posted by James Deuce View Post
    They're all wanks. The whole lot of them. You have the choice of voting for the incumbents who wouldn't know policy if it bit them on the testicle, people who are just yelling "look at me", reactionary conservatives on both left and right, and policies that punish anyone who isn't doing it the way a particular party would like them to.

    The need to be shot, dumped in the ocean and replaced with a benevolent dictator who is addicted to kumara.
    Chappy in your avatar was quite good at that, and 'fondly remembered' by millions with his poster everywhere....clearly what we got was fake news.

    They seem to get policies thru with no issues these days.
    DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.

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    That's not the dictator himself. That's his big brother ROFL.
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    Quote Originally Posted by James Deuce View Post
    That's not the dictator himself. That's his big brother ROFL.
    Ahso....yes your right looks nothing like him.
    DeMyer's Laws - an argument that consists primarily of rambling quotes isn't worth bothering with.

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    Loved his movies.
    If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?



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    Quote Originally Posted by James Deuce View Post
    Loved his movies.
    Meanwhile back at Greens HQ

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    Quote Originally Posted by James Deuce View Post
    They're all wanks. The whole lot of them. You have the choice of voting for the incumbents who wouldn't know policy if it bit them on the testicle, people who are just yelling "look at me", reactionary conservatives on both left and right, and policies that punish anyone who isn't doing it the way a particular party would like them to.

    The need to be shot, dumped in the ocean and replaced with a benevolent dictator who is addicted to kumara.
    I'm busy.

    What we need is a mashup of policy from all of these experts. Yes, yes you can't have the greens social policy and anything else, and you can't have labour's working for, (someone else's) families and unlimited healthcare, and you can't have the nat's tax cuts and free education etc, etc. But I'm tolerably confident some of the more attractive policies aren't mutually exclusive outside of any current manifesto.

    You should do one of those meta-analysis thingies mate, to show which produce the best results. No voting, though, we don't have a real good record of getting that shit right, just present it to the collective wanks for implementation, first collection of wanks to agree get the nod.
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    No matter who or what you vote for - the only guarantee you will get for your vote is mildly variable brands of political "MEDIOCRITY!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by oldrider View Post
    No matter who or what you vote for - the only guarantee you will get for your vote is mildly variable brands of political "MEDIOCRITY!"
    Given whats happened in the UK and US that's probably a good thing.

    Being in opposition would be an ideal job, paid to say no for 3 years, once your in power you need to deliver.
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    Well, at least the Lunatic Fringe party is having its meltdown now and not at a time that they would have to form a "working" relationship with the other nut-jobs.

    If labour gets into power (fuck help us all if they do), the shitstorm that the oddball parties would cause would be hilarious if it wasn't actually serious. Greens, Winston, nutter Morgan... Fucken' hell.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ocean1 View Post
    "He added that he believed the pair's actions had brought the party into disrepute - which was against its rules for MPs - and he'd be acting on that."
    Some great irony floating around. The people who acted based out of principle have bought the party into disrepute ... but not the person who admitted benefit fraud and political 'fraud'(?).

    Also reading comments on Stuff this morning and a person said he/she is now voting Green because of Turei's honesty in describing her deceipt. I don't think you can a person being honest about previous dishonesty really counts.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ocean1 View Post
    Because the market is nowhere near free.

    This isn't a bad article, but it's still every contributing industry blaming everyone else.

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/n...ectid=11702585

    I was in Perth a few years ago, on holiday but helping a mate build an extension to his house. Bunnings were selling Gib, made in NZ for AU$11 a sheet. At the time we were paying about NZ$18. Later that year a large building co in Orks imported a few containers of Gib for a complete subdivision. Dunno what they paid, but given the local price it was obviously worth their while to import it. When they were finished the whole job they had a couple of containers left over, so they sold them for what they figured was a reasonable price. Winstone, (Fletchers) sicked the commerce commission on them for dumping cheap product onto the local market. And won.

    As far as I'm concerned the commerce commission should have pinged Winstone Wallboards for price fixing and fined them the difference between the landed cost of the imported stuff and what they'd been charging, retrospective for say 5 years.
    That's surprisingly unsurprising.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Oakie View Post
    Some great irony floating around. The people who acted based out of principle have bought the party into disrepute ... but not the person who admitted benefit fraud and political 'fraud'(?).

    Also reading comments on Stuff this morning and a person said he/she is now voting Green because of Turei's honesty in describing her deceipt. I don't think you can a person being honest about previous dishonesty really counts.
    Aye. Scary shit. I somehow doubt the comments on such represented likely voting, though.

    But even if ALL of the local fuckwits post shit like that it's an amazing level of fuckwittedness for such a wee island.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swoop View Post
    Well, at least the Lunatic Fringe party is having its meltdown now and not at a time that they would have to form a "working" relationship with the other nut-jobs.

    If labour gets into power (fuck help us all if they do), the shitstorm that the oddball parties would cause would be hilarious if it wasn't actually serious. Greens, Winston, nutter Morgan... Fucken' hell.
    It might be a great time to go on to benfit or three, like the guy whom won a Triathlon and climbed one of the tallest peaks in the world

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oakie View Post
    Some great irony floating around. The people who acted based out of principle have bought the party into disrepute ... but not the person who admitted benefit fraud and political 'fraud'(?).

    Also reading comments on Stuff this morning and a person said he/she is now voting Green because of Turei's honesty in describing her deceipt. I don't think you can a person being honest about previous dishonesty really counts.
    Plus I don't see much being made of her voter fraud. Get caught doing that here and it's a stretch in the big house...

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