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Gordon Bennett

Key publicly disliked the idea of co-governance on Te Urewera. I've tried to find any comment from any Nat MP on either Waikato or Te Urewera governance since settlement and it's hard to find anything directly relevant.

Gordon Bennett

My weekend has now been rescued. All is well with the world :D You know that had the left got up, Jordie wouldn’t have been under that ball and Ireland would have won :P :lol: Dead on analysis. I'll only believe this if the rugby results continue in this direction for, say, the next couple of weeks...

Gordon Bennett

Tons of unpredicted individual things in that outcome too. National: Simon O'Connor out (good riddance) Labour: Michael Wood, Nanaia Mahuta, Rino Tirikatene, possibly Phil Twyford Greens: Julie-Anne Genter in. Looks like Greens could be much more of an electorate spoiler for Labour if they run two-t...

Gordon Bennett

Your little birdy was drunk on berries, by the looks. :lol: Yeah it was way off. Little birdy was those on Twitter reporting the Talbot mills polls. I must admit posts like yours and other tidbits had me concerned. The left and tight blocs dead even with NZF holding the balance of power. x( Turned ...

Gordon Bennett

Explain why the criticism changes depending of if I voted green, labour, nzf or te Pati Maori Of course it does You have a vote, have the guts to say who you voted for and why So no explanation? Who the fudge are you to demand answers on who people voted for? Your whole line is bollix Well said. :t...

Gordon Bennett

brat wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2023 9:09 am
Monkey Magic wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2023 9:06 am Despite thinking the right block were going to come out on top, I'm really only just realizing that means luxon is our PM. fudge me
Best of a bad bunch.

Look at the policy over personality

Sigh. Their policy is awful too.

Gordon Bennett

Gordon Bennett wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2023 7:46 am Mt Roskill looks to be the biggest shock for me.

Actually, looks like an absolute shellacking in Auckland. New Lynn, Te Atatu, Mt Roskill, Mt Albert. Nothing out of South Auckland and potentially Central Auckland that isn't blue.

Gordon Bennett

Auckman wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2023 7:40 am Greens and Labour splitting the vote in several seats it seems. Eg: Nelson and Ilam

Mt Albert, Banks Peninsula, Ōhariu

Gordon Bennett

Mt Roskill looks to be the biggest shock for me.

Gordon Bennett

Auckman wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2023 7:31 am Nats leading in MT ALBERT (20% counted)

Menendez March has taken 20% of the vote for the Greens there whilst ACT only have ~1%. That's meaning Melissa Lee can come through the middle.

Gordon Bennett

Big queues around our voting booths today. I just grinned and went into the Cafe having voted early. The wife went and voted today, I of course was playing golf, and she said it only took three minutes, but at the other polling station in the same shopping complex there was a much bigger queue Why ...

Gordon Bennett

Fat Old Git wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2023 5:19 am
Ogre wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2023 5:13 am
Fat Old Git wrote: ↑Sat Oct 14, 2023 4:05 am

Are you calling Ted fat?
No way, that Gordon Bennett bloke is a fat old git though.
It's true. We're quite hard to tell apart when at the same gatherings.

Except you have the stench of rich landlord about you these days. That's the main way to differentiate!

Gordon Bennett

I must copy that link to use whenever I ask the bordies on this thread, especially Eugenius, a slightly technical tax question. Because that is the consistent response I get. If you ever ask me a technical tax question, I'll either reply 'I don't know' or 'I don't have the time to research that'. Y...

Gordon Bennett

jambanja wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 6:57 am
Tehui wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 6:56 am
jambanja wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 6:41 am He was just about to start his final exam in his final year at uni so I’m going to forgive him for that one
If you don't mind sharing, what and where is he studying?
Victoria and Computer science

An excellent establishment for Computer Science.

Gordon Bennett

MungoMan wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 5:46 am
Ted. wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 5:23 am Bumpity Bump.
Yes, get your shit together FFS, Wellingtonians.

Someone has to set Brisbane an example worth emulating.

Ted and I will have a lovely old time, even if no other bugger can be bothered to turn up.

Gordon Bennett

It's such a stupid question. Who gives a flying fvck what he spends on groceries each week? Who knows what his domestic arrangements are? Maybe his wife does all the shopping because he is so busy. I don't have a clue what I spend each week either because I don't really do a 'weekly' shop. I tend t...

Gordon Bennett

Auckman wrote: ↑Thu Oct 12, 2023 8:26 am I didn’t watch the debate but I saw a clip where Luxon answered a question about how much he spent on shopping. His $60 answer had the crowd laughing

I despise these ‘gotcha’ type questions. A Polly is out of touch, quelle surprise. Can’t they ask something more related to their policies?

Gordon Bennett

Bump.

Gordon Bennett

No he spent it on the likes of Kiwi Rail and then went cackling off into the darkness but not before a shot accross the bows of the incoming government he sabotaged. Kiwirail cost $690m to purchase and then all of the investment both sides of the aisle have made since to make it work. The thing is,...

Gordon Bennett

The debt level was around 5% of GDP in 2008. Guess what Cullen did with the surpluses? Hint: He didn't save them for the Nats to spend as election bribes. No he spent it on the likes of Kiwi Rail and then went cackling off into the darkness but not before a shot accross the bows of the incoming gov...

Gordon Bennett

One thing I’ll have an aneurysm about is if anyone ever proposes bringing back the PTOM that Stephen Joyce foisted on the main cities. We still have train driver shortages in the rush hour because how the poxy model encouraged operators to reduce wages and encouraged many to head to higher paying cl...

Gordon Bennett

I'd forgotten about the 2nd January thing. I didn't think it'd have that much impact. With the superannuation, the age is going to have to increase at some point. Or there'll have to be some kind of medical retirement pre-a certain age as it's hard to see how else superannuation plus the increased h...

Gordon Bennett

And National had the GFC and earthquake to account for, were I to turn up to an ER in that time however I'd be seen sooner. Stop making excuses. I think you'll find if you go back people absolutely gave National leeway for the GFC and Canterbury earthquakes and respected that they had to respond to...

Gordon Bennett

Things are very different. Look at health, housing, education, poverty all have got worse even though more money had been thrown at them. We are now in more debt and yet our services have degraded. This government's approach has not worked demonstratively so. It is time to show them the door. All t...

Gordon Bennett

We have had "far left" to use the venacular, governance of this country for the last 3 to 6 years, not that I want to give Winston any credence for the first three. Services are shit. Health down the toilet, education is a joke, that however is a long simmering situation that National didn't addres...

Gordon Bennett

:lol: Yeah it's unbelievable how many Loyal billboards there are around the countryside. For such a small, nothing party. 1% TAX!!!!! :o Love to see the costings on that? I suspect the costings look like something along the lines of a massive cow-sized dump on a keyboard where the exclamation mark ...

Gordon Bennett

What have ACT done to see their vote collapse? I doubt it's much to do with those poor quality constituency candidates getting called out. Is it simply that NZF are now being seen as a much more likely option to make the 5% threshold so there's been some migration from ACT to NZF? Has there been a ...

Gordon Bennett

What have ACT done to see their vote collapse? I doubt it's much to do with those poor quality constituency candidates getting called out. Is it simply that NZF are now being seen as a much more likely option to make the 5% threshold so there's been some migration from ACT to NZF? Has there been a ...

Gordon Bennett

What have ACT done to see their vote collapse? I doubt it's much to do with those poor quality constituency candidates getting called out. Is it simply that NZF are now being seen as a much more likely option to make the 5% threshold so there's been some migration from ACT to NZF? Has there been a d...

Gordon Bennett

Not at all. Right here, right now there's never been a greater need for pragmatic centrist influence in government. Despite the brand protection/electioneering dribbling from both the Nact and Labourishgreen blocks both will do almost anything to keep 'power'. I was referring to your comment about ...

Gordon Bennett

Looked like 21st October was the date that more people were available. Who's up for the 21st? And I think there were more takers for Petone than Wellington.

So, who can make Petone on the evening of the 21st October?

Gordon Bennett

Yeah, so when are we looking at this then?

Gordon Bennett

booji boy wrote: ↑Fri Oct 06, 2023 12:59 am
Gordon Bennett wrote: ↑Fri Oct 06, 2023 12:21 am
2003 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 11:32 pm Thought Mr Bean looked weak in the debate last night.

Shaw had some good one liners, as did WaiTitty.
Who do you mean by Mr Bean? Is booji referring to the same person?
For me Mr Bean = James Shaw.

David Seymour = Rimmer.

I think 2003 was calling Seymour Mr Bean.

Hence my confusion!

Gordon Bennett

2003 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 11:32 pm Thought Mr Bean looked weak in the debate last night.

Shaw had some good one liners, as did WaiTitty.

Who do you mean by Mr Bean? Is booji referring to the same person?

Gordon Bennett

I'm not disputing what you're saying...yet, but to make statements like you just have without providing examples of who has had it worse re lockdowns etc is also disingenuous. I’ve given examples at other times throughout this thread. TBH, if you want to carry on pretending NZ had the worst of it t...

Gordon Bennett

Looks like an exit poll from Slovakian election shows the progressives winning and not Robert Fico. If true.. good news Missed this. It is good.. if it is confirmed in the actual results. According to the BBC website, Smer-SSD is back in front with a lot of the vote counted. Of course 'a lot' ≠ all...

Gordon Bennett

It’s hard to reconcile this view that Labour saw themselves as untouchable with their unwillingness and/or inability to do anything that would change the prevailing status quo.

Gordon Bennett

and before you start going off about lives saved, which this government invariably does, that is simply a thumb suck and a totally unquantifiable comment, but what we do know is that generations to come will be paying for it Erm. It is statistically quantifiable in both excess death terms and, ther...

Gordon Bennett

and before you start going off about lives saved, which this government invariably does, that is simply a thumb suck and a totally unquantifiable comment, but what we do know is that generations to come will be paying for it Erm. It is statistically quantifiable in both excess death terms and, ther...

Gordon Bennett

Also I saw a couple for 400-500 odd quid. What do they provide that these don't? I have a more expensive one which has solar charging and OS maps on it. I tend to use those features when doing multi-day hikes or the like. Tbh, the OS maps are so small, I struggle to read them - you can zoom in and ...

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