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Jb1981 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 30, 2020 8:27 am Two cases today and ranging from about 5-13 cases each day for the last week. That’s total cases so certain days have included a couple of cases picked up at the border alongside community cases in Auckland.

Election 2020: Judith Collins says she can't control husband after series of anti-Jacinda Ardern Facebook posts

“We’ve been together for 41 years I’ve never been able to get him to do anything I tell him to do,” she said.

“It’s not something I would do, but he’s an adult, he makes his own decisions I think he gets sick of people having a go at him and me.”

Shanky’s mate wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 7:35 am You don’t run away from accountability by saying you can’t control someone.

Shanky’s mate wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 8:24 am Yeah, right

You campaign for standards or you accept poor ones. You don’t run away from accountability

booji boy wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 8:38 am

Shanky’s mate wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 8:24 am Yeah, right

You campaign for standards or you accept poor ones. You don’t run away from accountability

I don't condone the posts Collin's husband has made. Pretty puerile but I like the way Crusher front foots it and says too bad

Shanky’s mate wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 8:46 am

booji boy wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 8:38 am

Shanky’s mate wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 8:24 am Yeah, right

You campaign for standards or you accept poor ones. You don’t run away from accountability

I don't condone the posts Collin's husband has made. Pretty puerile but I like the way Crusher front foots it and says too bad

You don’t condone it...but

you’re a clown, Booji. You’re so hung up on petty Left vs Right bullshit that you just miss the point all the time.

Jb1981 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 10:05 am Partners entering the political debate has been a long-standing part of US politics and is creeping in more here.

No matter how Judith Collins fronted it, I‘m sure David Wong-Tung will have had the clear message behind closed doors that making those posts wasn’t smart. We had Clarke Gayford poking fun at National at Labour’s campaign launch recently as well.

Being supportive is one thing but to me, crossing to criticising the opposition isn’t a good look.

Ted. wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 11:04 am

Jb1981 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 10:05 am Partners entering the political debate has been a long-standing part of US politics and is creeping in more here.

No matter how Judith Collins fronted it, I‘m sure David Wong-Tung will have had the clear message behind closed doors that making those posts wasn’t smart. We had Clarke Gayford poking fun at National at Labour’s campaign launch recently as well.

Being supportive is one thing but to me, crossing to criticising the opposition isn’t a good look.

Agreed. We really need to keep this sort of thing from creeping into NZ politics.

Mike Coleman wrote: I think I was naive, standing on that street corner, thinking I would hear something that was a helpful way forward for 5000 homes.

You hold affected homeowners in your heart. It’s a heavy weight. It’s justice, you’re fighting, and you’re coming from a negative stance all the time. You’re battling a government that had a massive concrete wall up. I now realise they appointed Gerry not because he was a Cantabrian, but because he could shut it down. There was no dialogue, no transparency.

As a New Zealander I’d backpacked around the world. You see some really corrupt governments, and I don’t think our government was corrupt in any sense, but you come home and go, “I’m in New Zealand. If something happens, they’re going to back me.” And lots of times, governments do.

But in this case, they got it seriously wrong.

Slarty FizzyO wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 12:58 pm

Jb1981 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 9:50 am So, what are the predictions- will National go up, down or this won’t make any difference?

National will go up. The chances of Labour governing alone just evaporated. Collins is the Anti-Jacinda and this election suddenly became very entertaining.

Judith Collins 'didn't even know' about misleading National ad

Muttonbird wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 3:13 am

Slarty FizzyO wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 12:58 pm

Jb1981 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 14, 2020 9:50 am So, what are the predictions- will National go up, down or this won’t make any difference?

National will go up. The chances of Labour governing alone just evaporated. Collins is the Anti-Jacinda and this election suddenly became very entertaining.

Yeah, they went up about 2%. Any other predictions?

Jb1981 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 10:05 am Partners entering the political debate has been a long-standing part of US politics and is creeping in more here.

No matter how Judith Collins fronted it, I‘m sure David Wong-Tung will have had the clear message behind closed doors that making those posts wasn’t smart. We had Clarke Gayford poking fun at National at Labour’s campaign launch recently as well.

Being supportive is one thing but to me, crossing to criticising the opposition isn’t a good look.

booji boy wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 5:02 am

Jb1981 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 10:05 am Partners entering the political debate has been a long-standing part of US politics and is creeping in more here.

No matter how Judith Collins fronted it, I‘m sure David Wong-Tung will have had the clear message behind closed doors that making those posts wasn’t smart. We had Clarke Gayford poking fun at National at Labour’s campaign launch recently as well.

Being supportive is one thing but to me, crossing to criticising the opposition isn’t a good look.

Yeah much preferable for them to stay right out of it. In the US of course they have the ridiculous premise that the 1st Lady is somehow important and has a role to play in her husband's presidency. Totally ridiculous and we are fortunate that there is nothing resembling such nonsense in our political system.

Ted. wrote: ↑Thu Sep 03, 2020 1:37 am Two new cases. One from the Auckland cluster and one via the border. Hopefully this is a good sign and not just a lull.

Ted. wrote: ↑Thu Sep 03, 2020 1:37 am Two new cases. One from the Auckland cluster and one via the border. Hopefully this is a good sign and not just a lull.

Enzedder wrote: ↑Sun Sep 06, 2020 6:23 pm Nothing to add - just trying to break up the "Steve" domination on the front page

Steve wrote: ↑Sun Sep 06, 2020 6:23 pm

Enzedder wrote: ↑Sun Sep 06, 2020 6:23 pm Nothing to add - just trying to break up the "Steve" domination on the front page

Even a blind squirrel finds the odd nut.

Enzedder wrote: ↑Sun Sep 06, 2020 6:33 pm

Steve wrote: ↑Sun Sep 06, 2020 6:23 pm

Enzedder wrote: ↑Sun Sep 06, 2020 6:23 pm Nothing to add - just trying to break up the "Steve" domination on the front page

Even a blind squirrel finds the odd nut.

Shouldn't this belong to the LGBTQFRSTFDS thread? (One to upset Ella)

Property Investors Federation spokesman Andrew King has suggested landlords hold off installing a heat pump for tenants, saying a change in government could see the law reversed, and that some tenants don’t actually want new heat pumps. He has Hayden Donnell’s attention.

New Zealand has long led the world in two shameful categories: Hobbit movies, and cold, unlivable, houses per capita. The government tried to undermine our claim to that latter record with the passage of the Healthy Homes Guarantees Act 2017, which requires landlords to insulate and ventilate their rental properties, and ensure tenants can heat their living rooms to 18℃. National has announced it’s against the bill, with leader Judith Collins arguing that while being able to heat your living room is “a good thing”, it “doesn’t pay the bills for [the] tenant”.

Andrew King, of the Property Investors Federation, yesterday welcomed Collins’ equivocation on the question of survivable living environments. In an interview with the Herald, he urged landlords to delay installing a heat pump until after the election, presumably on the off-chance they might make tenants healthier through the winter without being legally obliged to.

Enzedder wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2020 12:52 am

Property Investors Federation spokesman Andrew King has suggested landlords hold off installing a heat pump for tenants, saying a change in government could see the law reversed, and that some tenants don’t actually want new heat pumps. He has Hayden Donnell’s attention.

New Zealand has long led the world in two shameful categories: Hobbit movies, and cold, unlivable, houses per capita. The government tried to undermine our claim to that latter record with the passage of the Healthy Homes Guarantees Act 2017, which requires landlords to insulate and ventilate their rental properties, and ensure tenants can heat their living rooms to 18℃. National has announced it’s against the bill, with leader Judith Collins arguing that while being able to heat your living room is “a good thing”, it “doesn’t pay the bills for [the] tenant”.

Andrew King, of the Property Investors Federation, yesterday welcomed Collins’ equivocation on the question of survivable living environments. In an interview with the Herald, he urged landlords to delay installing a heat pump until after the election, presumably on the off-chance they might make tenants healthier through the winter without being legally obliged to.

I don't get it - it costs the Government nothing other than supplementary benefits if the rent goes up - but saves untold thousands in saved hospital bills.

Wild Beef wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2020 2:07 am Landlords can get some unfair flack but this federation is hardly helping is it?

Churches with links to the US being blamed for spreading Covid-19 misinformation