The 2020 Election Thread

[husaberg]

Maybe someone should ask why Judith collins has still not got the title Honorable.
the only other one i recall where ot was removed was Tito philip Feild, a convicted fraudster
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=11342322

Key had removed the honorific "honourable" that all cabinet ministers and former ministers are entitled to use.

Even Pansy Wong stil has hers remember she was found to have abused her parliamentary travel to pay for her husbands business trips and was also forced to resign.

[FJRider]

Maybe someone should ask why Judith collins has still not got the title Honorable.
the only other one i recall where ot was removed was Tito philip Feild, a convicted fraudster
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=11342322


Even Pansy Wong stil has hers remember she was found to have abused her parliamentary travel to pay for her husbands business trips and was also forced to resign.

The title of “Honorable” is not automatically granted for life but needs the recommendation of the Prime Minister to become permanent.

The title "Honorable” is currently reserved for the members of the Executive (Ministers) and judges of the High Court, Appeal Court and Supreme Court. Where someone might be eligible for either title, the title of “The Right Honorable” takes precedence as it is more prestigious. References in the House of Representatives to “honourable members” do not necessarily refer to members holding the title of “The Honourable”.

[Swoop]

Has Judith appointed you as head of her Dirty Politics campaign?

That sounds like a conspiracy in the embryonic stage. Shall we see how it develops?

[husaberg]

odd all thsose nats supporters have gone rather quiet
Seems as if old Crusher wants to play dirty.

[Grumph]

odd all thsose nats supporters have gone rather quiet
Seems as if old Crusher wants to play dirty.

And she struck back quickly. I don't dispute Lees-Galloway had to go - and quickly.
But I'd like to know who told Duncan Garner to ask just that question....

Mediaworks seem to be becoming Fox News NZ. You'd have to wonder just what has been promised behind closed doors.

Post election - if the Nats get in - will the State broadcaster have to make a profit ? Mediaworks have gone quiet on future plans.

[ellipsis]

Seems as if old Crusher wants to play dirty.

...nah...she just plays politics to the max...integrity and honesty has nothing to do with it...I abhor her and don't mind calling her a cunt...

[husaberg]

And she struck back quickly. I don't dispute Lees-Galloway had to go - and quickly.
But I'd like to know who told Duncan Garner to ask just that question....

Mediaworks seem to be becoming Fox News NZ. You'd have to wonder just what has been promised behind closed doors.

Post election - if the Nats get in - will the State broadcaster have to make a profit ? Mediaworks have gone quiet on future plans.

i am not so sure if thre is a clause in the contracts that say no sex with any subordinates, or bring company into disrepute okay fair go.
but its a consensual relationship, it gets pretty murkey legally. I dont argue he was on notice after the immigration stuff.
Funny enough he was once the Labour spokesman for "Workplace Relations"

Conversely National was keen to keep JLR ones quiet and only spilled when he did these included one with a subordinate and two other affairs with married people.
You can bet money Labour knew all about the affairs then

...nah...she just plays politics to the max...integrity and honesty has nothing to do with it...I abhor her and don't mind calling her a cunt...

Its a dangerous game, one that National seems to be losing atm.
to be fair to Fallon i dont know about the other stuff but the original pic AFAIK was a singular sent to a 19 year old so to make out initially it was an underage was a bit unfair IMO.
i am not saying what he did was fine, but if it was a one off its unlikely to be harassment or illegal.

[ellipsis]

...it's the dickheadedness of these supposed, men of integrity, that riles...dickheads...and I also agree that consensuality has sweet fuck all to do with politics...

[husaberg]

...it's the dickheadedness of these supposed, men of integrity, that riles...dickheads...and I also agree that consensuality has sweet fuck all to do with politics...

Makes you laugh when you think of Trump and Boris johnsons history..............

[Swoop]

You'd have to wonder just what has been promised behind closed doors.

Lees-Galloway has been "rumoured" for over a month. Gayford for a while over that amount of time, so the tooth-monster is probably shitting bricks waiting for that to break... Probably going to play the "pity me" sympathy vote-getting approach.
I'd suspect the media outlets have had quite large promises made in return for certain favours...

[Katman]

Lees-Galloway has been "rumoured" for over a month. Gayford for a while over that amount of time, so the tooth-monster is probably shitting bricks waiting for that to break... Probably going to play the "pity me" sympathy vote-getting approach.
I'd suspect the media outlets have had quite large promises made in return for certain favours...

And you seem to be thriving on the whole sordidness of it all.

[pete376403]

Lees-Galloway has been "rumoured" for over a month. Gayford for a while over that amount of time, so the tooth-monster is probably shitting bricks waiting for that to break... Probably going to play the "pity me" sympathy vote-getting approach.
I'd suspect the media outlets have had quite large promises made in return for certain favours...

I was sent an e-mail with a pseudo-election billboard picture featuring Gayford and making reference to the nanny. Someone hasn't thought this through - Gayford is not political so there is no reflection on Labour. However if the alleged incident has taken place, then Jacinda comes out of it as the wronged party and with a young child, she wont need to play the "pity me" approach, but she sure is going to pick up a lot of sympathy votes from women. Meanwhile Gayford just looks like a typical male dumbshit.

[pritch]

I was sent an e-mail with a pseudo-election billboard picture featuring Gayford and making reference to the nanny. Someone hasn't thought this through -

This was news to me. I'm not up with who is screwing who. I had to look it up. There is the story that Gayford was screwing the nanny. To make the story even better, the nanny is now reported pregnant.

Somebody else says there was no nanny. Nanny services were supplied by Gayford's mum.

Having spent all of five minutes on this I'm none the wiser, and still not particularly interested. If genuine news does break though, at least I'll know what they are on about.

[jasonu]

If genuine news does break though, at least I'll know what they are on about.

You mean when Vanity Fair or the National Inquirer publish it.

[pritch]

You mean when Vanity Fair or the National Inquirer publish it.

I don't normally read your stuff, much less reply to it. Sometimes though people who don't usually frequent this part of the site see something you wrote and assume you know what you are talking about.

So by way of clarification, I have only seen a couple of items from Vanity Fair. The name doesn't do it any favours, but they appear to have some good writers. You should try it, you might learn something.

I've never seen the National Inquirer.

Some things I have read:
The US Constitution,
The Mueller Report.

Books about the current US administration (if indeed it can be called that) by the following authors:
Bob Woodward
James Comey
Andrew McCabe
John Bolton
Mary Trump

I subscribe to the local rag and The Washington Post. I don't much read the Harold, I'll leave that to you.

Additionally I read other news web sites daily, plus receive emails from news organisations and most days listen to news related podcasts.

If you really tried, in a year or two you might even be able to participate in an intelligent discussion.