Is set for June 18. Can't imagine that a cold winter's day will be great for turnout numbers, but hey, what you going to do... aside from staying in the position that you were voted in to do for a full term and not jump ship after less than two years possibly because you were worried that your party would win the election and that you would be the guy that would have to balance the books by slashing spending on things like health and education which would be that thing you would be remembered for and would no doubt get mentioned on the hologram news when you've passed away and they cut to grainy clips of you walking up and down the halls of the Beehive spliced with that one where your kid throws the ball at you and you drop it which makes you look hilariously uncoordinated even though you're probably not. They almost definitely won't finish the segment with that photo of you eating an ice cream with the words Simon Bridges and your birth and death years, but who knows how snarky the hologram news will be in the future?

Anyhoozle...

You'd expect that whatever potato National goes with will win, but by how much? They still have a month to pick their spud, but former deputy mayor, current real estate agent, and old white guy, Kelvin Clout is apparently keen.

The Labs are sticking with the capable List MP Jan Tinetti who managed to narrow the gap to under 2000 votes at the last election, but that might have had something to do with the trainwreck that was Judith Collins political career.

And of course there's Winston. Probably doesn't have enough clout these days to pull of an upset (and most of his previous voters have since shuffled off this mortal coil), but if he did run, that has a potential to dig into that blue/red vote.

i was loathe to put this in politics, as mr biden is not a politician, has not sought public office, and therefore a political non entity.

there actually is a laptop with more than just dwarf porn and emails to his drug counsellor.
heres the rub though. those people that reported it at the time were also telling us about barack obama and bill gates drinking plasma of dead african babies.
or hilary running a global sex and child trafficking ring out of a pizza joint in queens.
so when these histrionic nutbars come out with something with a modicum of truth to it, it gets ignored amongst the dross and nonsense they spout.
its hard to believe anything they say its so insanely fanciful.

so yeah, im red faced on this one, hunter does have a laptop with compromising information on it.
what a shame hes not an elected official and has to answer to the court of public opinion. lol.

Interesting interview, Rachel Sadler interviewing Christopher Luxon on the subject. I suspect his party won't be getting too many Maori votes; he seems to think that continuing to do what we've been doing will somehow fix things.

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/...nAwMOG3b50

XE was first detected in Britain in January.
Bloomfield said today if XE arrived in this country health chiefs would need to look at its characteristics and whether they needed to impose stricter rules such as limiting indoor gatherings to keep the numbers down to a manageable level.
If it was in Britain since January wouldn't they know the characteristics?

Bloomfield warned if it makes its way to New Zealand, stricter measures could be needed to make sure hospitals don't get overrun.
These guys have had over 2 years to make sure hospitals dont get overrun and what have they done about it, a big fat nothing.

When asked if science and politics have been too intertwined, he said the reason New Zealand had done incredibly well throughout the pandemic was because politicians had listened to the science and had been willing to take the advice.

Sorry to have to say but this is political, the labour government knows nothing else except the virus and its become Arderns political stage because she has nothing else to stand on! I voted Labour last time but I will not be voting for them again until this lot have vacated the Beehive, especially the Queen Bee.

i missed this guys appearance, looks like it would have been a giggle.
poor sod is suffering some mental shortcomings surely?
should he be in the dock or the hospital?

it goes down at at the tauranga courthouse.
what a wonderful circus phil whatshisface the ac/dc drummer, yeah him, that made great footage.
as an aside, i have been trespassed from the tauranga courthouse.


https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/3...al-to-move

   

This is typical of this bunch they probably stroke each others egos with good news stories.

Until I came across this article I'd never heard of this woman before, but she was involved in breaking the code at Bletchley park during WW2.


https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/1282560...s-aged-100

I went to one of their meetings in the weekend and learned alot.
It appears that when the united tribes of NZ was established, we were actually declared a sovereign independent republic!
Lots of history we were not taught at school, but it all makes sense now why Hone Heke was cutting down that flagpole.

Apparently because the treaty was deliberately mis-translated, its technically legally null and void, which means we are still technically a republic!

Lots of people are beginning to learn about this and thats why you might see the united tribes flag flown around the country. Even a few Maraes are flying it.

About time, seems that many cafes are happy to drop them according to the news last night.
They want the business and sick of the hassle of scanning everyone in.

Even without passes, covid has affected the industry heaps, but when i was up town last week, i was surprised to see so many restaurants and bars full of people, i expect this is because so many have had covid and gotten over it and there is much less anxiety about catching it out while dining.
Hopefully we see things bounce back.

Prime minister wears gumboots to work WoW!! what a disgrace, no wonder its newsworthy.
Who cares?

https://tinyurl.com/y8b9hp8x