The Official Aotearoa Politics Thread

[Ted.]

Until Hareaway gets off his skinny arse and makes a new one.

[Guy Smiley]

[Ata Rangi]

Ka pai Ted.

[Kiweez]

Are we “same shit, different day” in here...?

[stunt_cunt]

Are we “same shit, different day” in here...?

Always. Hopefully the 2 or 3 ultra mongs of the previous bored missed the boat on this one though.

[ASMO]

Why is the speaker sitting on a sheep?

[Auckman]

Why is the speaker sitting on a sheep?

To show who's boss!

[Ted.]

https://notplanetrugby.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=29

[Auckman]

ok, I am now at the right place.

Without looking at google.... guess the PMs names.

[Gumboot]

I can name them all the way back to Holyoake. I'd almost forgotten about Rowling, which is strange coz I'll never forget my Gran's reaction when we heard the news that Big Norm had croaked.

[stunt_cunt]

I'm fucked beyond Muldoon. I can pick out Jo Savage only because I recognise him from Bastion Point monument, or something from the past.

[Gumboot]

I'm fucked beyond Muldoon. I can pick out Jo Savage only because I recognise him from Bastion Point monument, or something from the past.

Yeah, same with Savage. Buggered if I can name any of the others though.

[stunt_cunt]

7 of them were within only 3 election cycles.

[Jb1981]

I can go back to Muldoon but then only know two others

[stunt_cunt]

Now Victoria, or parts of Melbourne have reverted back to lockdown I'm so glad we have what we have. What a nonsense that is, and you have to feel pretty bad for any business tied up in that.
Any talk of being a bit more lax around the border or shifting the goalposts away from what we have should be shunned and shouted down until at least the end of the year. You'd hope by then our system isn't so knife-edge.

[Enzedder]

Even if we don't have a reliable vaccine by the end of the year, hopefully we have a reliable "20 minute test" as that will help to contain things if we can check on ourselves (like a pregnancy kit)

[Tilly Orifice]

ok, I am now at the right place.

Without looking at google.... guess the PMs names.

Missed Forbes and the first Holyoake.Only got Fraser because they're in chronological order. The weird thing is that they pulled a fast one with an old photo of Rowling, which I didn't recognise and it totally confused me for a while.

[Guy Smiley]

Now Victoria, or parts of Melbourne have reverted back to lockdown I'm so glad we have what we have. What a nonsense that is, and you have to feel pretty bad for any business tied up in that.
Any talk of being a bit more lax around the border or shifting the goalposts away from what we have should be shunned and shouted down until at least the end of the year. You'd hope by then our system isn't so knife-edge.

It’s gonna be more or less impossible to relate to someone with that user name, I dunno why anyone would choose one like that.

[ScarfaceClaw]

I'm fucked beyond Muldoon. I can pick out Jo Savage only because I recognise him from Bastion Point monument, or something from the past.

I run into a brick wall going beyond Muldoon. Complete blank.

[Muttonbird]

Now Victoria, or parts of Melbourne have reverted back to lockdown I'm so glad we have what we have. What a nonsense that is, and you have to feel pretty bad for any business tied up in that.
Any talk of being a bit more lax around the border or shifting the goalposts away from what we have should be shunned and shouted down until at least the end of the year. You'd hope by then our system isn't so knife-edge.

It's frightful what's going on over there. We were all pretty much in agreement in NZ regardless of politics that to return to a more severe lockdown after opening up would be damaging. You don't give any individual or business a sense of certainty by constantly changing rules back and forth.

I'd say it NZ who has the actual plan. Victoria is more like Sweden really.

[stunt_cunt]

Now Victoria, or parts of Melbourne have reverted back to lockdown I'm so glad we have what we have. What a nonsense that is, and you have to feel pretty bad for any business tied up in that.
Any talk of being a bit more lax around the border or shifting the goalposts away from what we have should be shunned and shouted down until at least the end of the year. You'd hope by then our system isn't so knife-edge.

It’s gonna be more or less impossible to relate to someone with that user name, I dunno why anyone would choose one like that.

Why bother responding then.
Just how relatable is someone that's so unimaginative that they have to use someone else's username.

[stunt_cunt]

Even if we don't have a reliable vaccine by the end of the year, hopefully we have a reliable "20 minute test" as that will help to contain things if we can check on ourselves (like a pregnancy kit)

Yeah I personally don't hold much hope of a vaccine for NZ anytime soon, unless our own scientists manage one themselves. I was listening to aunty Helen on the wireless this evening and she's told by her buddies at WHO any vaccine is another couple years away.

And where does NZ fit in with a vaccine created offshore? A long way down the list I bet. Easily behind all of Europe, all of North America, all of Asia.

The accurate 20min test will be terrific for everyone.

[Kiweez]

This post is embargoed until Thursday 2 July.

[Auckman]

Here we go fellas. I think Marshall and Forbes were the most elusive. Never heard of Forbes but MJ Savage lives on in history. ;)

[Guy Smiley]

This post is embargoed until Thursday 2 July.

Clark?

[stunt_cunt]

Dave Clarke falls on his sword. Good choice.

[Jambanja]

Dave Clarke falls on his sword. Good choice.

He won't be missed

[HouseofPane]

Curran a couple years back, and now Clarke. Woodhouse is tosspot too - Dunedin MPs making headlines

[Jb1981]

Dave Clarke falls on his sword. Good choice.

Fell on his sword in the same way that guy fell on the dagger in Saving Private Ryan. Drawn out, awkward to watch and probably not by choice.

It’s a good result for the Government, he was a distraction they didn’t need approaching an election.

[Enzedder]

With Clark going, National lose it's biggest asset.

Then again, Labour lost it's biggest assets with Bridges and Bennett leaving.

I see that Bridges is back in cabinet (with a low ranking). Something to do with demographics, I wonder?

[stunt_cunt]

With Clark going, National lose it's biggest asset.

Then again, Labour lost it's biggest assets with Bridges and Bennett leaving.

I see that Bridges is back in cabinet (with a low ranking). Something to do with demographics, I wonder?

My thinking is the election is going to fall almost entirely on who's trusted in this covid situation.
Labour to keep us in a fishbowl state with minimal intrusion of the virus and avoiding any lockdown at all cost.
National to be loose with the whole gig and open us up to all these tourists that want to come flooding back.

Anything else is just a sideshow. We will know in 79 days?

[Enzedder]

Nope - National have started campaigning and it is a solid wall to wall paint job of "incompetence" in every dealing with every piece of media.

It worked for ScoMo so why not

[Auckman]

Clark had to go and thankfully he has.

Cleaner than Judith dragged kicking and screaming to the scaffolds all those years ago.

[Ted.]

Dunno where to put this, so:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/12198 ... of-a-maori

[Gordon Bennett]

The young Keith Holyoake in that PMs grid looks like a combination of Jeremy Wells and Michael Woodhouse.

[Enzedder]

I could go back to Walter Nash, and then I was buggered apart from Mickey.

My girlfriend used to babysit at Holyoake's holiday home around past Acacia Bay in Taupo. I used to sneak around after the kids went to bed. (He wasn't in residence; some family member thankfully as otherwise police would patrol the place)

[Kiweez]

This post is embargoed until Thursday 2 July.

Clark?

;)

[Jambanja]

The real loser in this situation is the National party, god forbid Twyford decides to resign

[Gumboot]

Pissed off with this woman doing a runner from isolation in the Pullman Hotel in Auckland, scaling a couple of fences in the process. Selfish cow. Lock her up! Lock her up!

[Enzedder]

Pissed off with this woman doing a runner from isolation in the Pullman Hotel in Auckland, scaling a couple of fences in the process. Selfish cow. Lock her up! Lock her up!

I think that there have to be consequences to put off other attempts.