• Hipkins snubbed Maori caucus?

    From John Bowes@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 22 01:24:25 2023
    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/

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  • From Tony@21:1/5 to John Bowes on Sun Jan 22 19:04:35 2023
    John Bowes <bowesjohn02@gmail.com> wrote:
    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable to be >DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    What a crock of an article.
    The lie about what Labour campaigned on in 2017 and 2020 is outstanding - I rarely see lies that big.

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  • From JohnO@21:1/5 to Tony on Sun Jan 22 11:54:14 2023
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 08:04:37 UTC+13, Tony wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:
    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable to be
    DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    What a crock of an article.
    The lie about what Labour campaigned on in 2017 and 2020 is outstanding - I rarely see lies that big.

    It is true that the Maori caucus has been snubbed though - they would have expected Allan from their number to be the deputy. This is just the beginning. Chippie will be renamed Choppie soon as he's about to take an axe to Labour's election losing
    policies in a last gasp effort to avoid obliteration in October. Many of these policies are deeply enmeshed with the Maori caucus - the RNZ merger, 5 Waters at the top of the list. Willie and Nanaia will not be best pleased.

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  • From Crash@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 23 09:03:42 2023
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:54:14 -0800 (PST), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 08:04:37 UTC+13, Tony wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:
    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable to be
    DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    What a crock of an article.
    The lie about what Labour campaigned on in 2017 and 2020 is outstanding - I >> rarely see lies that big.

    It is true that the Maori caucus has been snubbed though - they would have expected Allan from their number to be the deputy. This is just the beginning. Chippie will be renamed Choppie soon as he's about to take an axe to Labour's election losing
    policies in a last gasp effort to avoid obliteration in October. Many of these policies are deeply enmeshed with the Maori caucus - the RNZ merger, 5 Waters at the top of the list. Willie and Nanaia will not be best pleased.

    Its too late for 5 waters - repealing legislation just passed is
    unthinkable so Labour are doomed to lose the upcoming election purely
    on this policy. The Maori caucus has been remarkably silent since
    Ardern resigned - the calm before a storm?


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  • From JohnO@21:1/5 to Crash on Sun Jan 22 12:56:19 2023
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 09:03:41 UTC+13, Crash wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:54:14 -0800 (PST), JohnO <john...@gmail.com>
    wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 08:04:37 UTC+13, Tony wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:
    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable to be
    DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    What a crock of an article.
    The lie about what Labour campaigned on in 2017 and 2020 is outstanding - I
    rarely see lies that big.

    It is true that the Maori caucus has been snubbed though - they would have expected Allan from their number to be the deputy. This is just the beginning. Chippie will be renamed Choppie soon as he's about to take an axe to Labour's election losing
    policies in a last gasp effort to avoid obliteration in October. Many of these policies are deeply enmeshed with the Maori caucus - the RNZ merger, 5 Waters at the top of the list. Willie and Nanaia will not be best pleased.
    Its too late for 5 waters - repealing legislation just passed is
    unthinkable so Labour are doomed to lose the upcoming election purely
    on this policy. The Maori caucus has been remarkably silent since
    Ardern resigned - the calm before a storm?

    The legislation can be reversed at leisure. The main thing is to drop the project like a radioactive potato and cease implementing it (or indeed spending money). However such policies are like supertankers - hard to stop once they're moving. The good
    news is that this government is so utterly hopeless at implementation that the supertanker is still in the shipyard being bolted together from mismatched parts.

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/chris-hipkins-as-prime-minister-expect-him-to-ditch-three-waters-tvnzrnz-merger-david-cunliffe/EA4DRWJW3ZC37KRUA6LN6HWKXQ/



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  • From John Bowes@21:1/5 to Crash on Sun Jan 22 12:46:37 2023
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 9:03:41 AM UTC+13, Crash wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:54:14 -0800 (PST), JohnO <john...@gmail.com>
    wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 08:04:37 UTC+13, Tony wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:
    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable to be
    DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    What a crock of an article.
    The lie about what Labour campaigned on in 2017 and 2020 is outstanding - I
    rarely see lies that big.

    It is true that the Maori caucus has been snubbed though - they would have expected Allan from their number to be the deputy. This is just the beginning. Chippie will be renamed Choppie soon as he's about to take an axe to Labour's election losing
    policies in a last gasp effort to avoid obliteration in October. Many of these policies are deeply enmeshed with the Maori caucus - the RNZ merger, 5 Waters at the top of the list. Willie and Nanaia will not be best pleased.
    Its too late for 5 waters - repealing legislation just passed is
    unthinkable so Labour are doomed to lose the upcoming election purely
    on this policy. The Maori caucus has been remarkably silent since
    Ardern resigned - the calm before a storm?


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    Or are they just sulking? :)

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  • From Gordon@21:1/5 to John Bowes on Sun Jan 22 22:05:18 2023
    On 2023-01-22, John Bowes <bowesjohn02@gmail.com> wrote:
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 9:03:41 AM UTC+13, Crash wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:54:14 -0800 (PST), JohnO <john...@gmail.com>
    wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 08:04:37 UTC+13, Tony wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:
    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable to be
    DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    What a crock of an article.
    The lie about what Labour campaigned on in 2017 and 2020 is outstanding - I
    rarely see lies that big.

    It is true that the Maori caucus has been snubbed though - they would have expected Allan from their number to be the deputy. This is just the beginning. Chippie will be renamed Choppie soon as he's about to take an axe to Labour's election losing
    policies in a last gasp effort to avoid obliteration in October. Many of these policies are deeply enmeshed with the Maori caucus - the RNZ merger, 5 Waters at the top of the list. Willie and Nanaia will not be best pleased.
    Its too late for 5 waters - repealing legislation just passed is
    unthinkable so Labour are doomed to lose the upcoming election purely
    on this policy. The Maori caucus has been remarkably silent since
    Ardern resigned - the calm before a storm?


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    Or are they just sulking? :)

    Fumming is my guess. Along with a council of war.

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  • From Gordon@21:1/5 to JohnO on Sun Jan 22 22:03:36 2023
    On 2023-01-22, JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com> wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 09:03:41 UTC+13, Crash wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 11:54:14 -0800 (PST), JohnO <john...@gmail.com>
    wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 08:04:37 UTC+13, Tony wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:
    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable to be
    DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    What a crock of an article.
    The lie about what Labour campaigned on in 2017 and 2020 is outstanding - I
    rarely see lies that big.

    It is true that the Maori caucus has been snubbed though - they would have expected Allan from their number to be the deputy. This is just the beginning. Chippie will be renamed Choppie soon as he's about to take an axe to Labour's election losing
    policies in a last gasp effort to avoid obliteration in October. Many of these policies are deeply enmeshed with the Maori caucus - the RNZ merger, 5 Waters at the top of the list. Willie and Nanaia will not be best pleased.
    Its too late for 5 waters - repealing legislation just passed is
    unthinkable so Labour are doomed to lose the upcoming election purely
    on this policy. The Maori caucus has been remarkably silent since
    Ardern resigned - the calm before a storm?

    The legislation can be reversed at leisure. The main thing is to drop the project like a radioactive potato and cease implementing it (or indeed spending money). However such policies are like supertankers - hard to stop once they're moving. The good
    news is that this government is so utterly hopeless at implementation that the supertanker is still in the shipyard being bolted together from mismatched parts.

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/chris-hipkins-as-prime-minister-expect-him-to-ditch-three-waters-tvnzrnz-merger-david-cunliffe/EA4DRWJW3ZC37KRUA6LN6HWKXQ/

    Until the legislation is reversed there is a launch pad for it to spring
    into life from. Repealing the Act is necessary to ensure that we have
    closure on this mess.

    If we have the usual tinkering around the edges it will stay dormanit only,
    not dead.

    Hipkins needs somehow defuse the situation. I can see the elittes being at
    all happy with the prize being snatched away.

    What ever the path Labour will need to move along it, so the people will
    forget about the 5 waters et al. Dragging it out will be a distraction and
    give ammunition tho the other parties.

    Every policy dumped or watered down will add to the case of Arden's
    leadership could have done better.






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  • From Mutley@21:1/5 to John Bowes on Mon Jan 23 11:37:27 2023
    John Bowes <bowesjohn02@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.

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  • From Rich80105@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 23 12:16:55 2023
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutley2000@hotmail.com>
    wrote:

    John Bowes <bowesjohn02@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.

    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at
    least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no
    indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP
    to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it
    without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.

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  • From JohnO@21:1/5 to JohnO on Sun Jan 22 16:01:18 2023
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the
    You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at
    least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP
    to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in 2013 and 2014. She is a Māori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a political commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot routinely vomits onto this NG.

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  • From JohnO@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 22 15:56:11 2023
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the

    You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else does.

    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at
    least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no
    indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP
    to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it
    without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.

    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

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  • From John Bowes@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 22 15:55:48 2023
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 12:21:13 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the
    National Party.

    So what? Or is your supposed support of opinions just limited to those that support your bullshit Rich?

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at
    least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no
    indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP
    to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it
    without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.

    So typical of you Rich! You attack the author not what has been posted. Go away and have a lie down. The demise of the undoubted worst PM we've ever had is obviously to much for woke wankers like you :)

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  • From Rich80105@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 23 13:53:31 2023
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:01:18 -0800 (PST), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the
    You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at
    least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no
    indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP
    to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it
    without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in 2013 and 2014. She is a M?ori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a political commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot routinely vomits onto this NG.

    My point was that it is just an Opinion - it is not journalism; it has
    no more validity than the response from the two Johns to this thread.

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  • From John Bowes@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 22 17:37:13 2023
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 2:18:23 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:53:31 +1300, Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:01:18 -0800 (PST), JohnO <john...@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the
    You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at
    least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no
    indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP >>> > to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it >>> > without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in 2013 and 2014. She is a M?ori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a political commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot routinely vomits onto this NG.

    My point was that it is just an Opinion - it is not journalism; it has
    no more validity than the response from the two Johns to this thread.
    And on that basis, here is another opinion: https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/23-01-2023/new-zealand-isnt-ready-for-a-maori-prime-minister

    The author is Tina Ngata - a prominent Maori name! "I am a Ngati Porou
    mother of two from the East Coast of Te Ika a Maui. My work involves
    advocacy for environmental, Indigenous and human rights. This includes
    local, national and international initiatives that highlight the role
    of settler colonialism in issues such as climate change and waste
    pollution, and promote Indigenous conservation as best practice for a globally sustainable future"

    Arguably this article is closer to the opinion of most Maori than the National party propaganda - certainly it is a well argued opinion,
    which catches the concern over the nature of political attackes from
    the far-right, including National and ACT.

    Like National party posts Tina Ngata only represents a very small percentage of Maori opinion! Besides for the umpteenth time National and ACT are far from far right in any respect apart from in what passes for your sad little disruptive mindset Rich!

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  • From Rich80105@21:1/5 to bowesjohn02@gmail.com on Mon Jan 23 14:42:24 2023
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 17:32:51 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowesjohn02@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 1:57:45 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:01:18 -0800 (PST), JohnO <john...@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the
    You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at
    least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no
    indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP
    to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it >> >> > without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in 2013 and 2014. She is a M?ori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a political commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot routinely vomits onto this NG.
    My point was that it is just an Opinion - it is not journalism; it has
    no more validity than the response from the two Johns to this thread. >However it has a lot more veracity than any of your posts Rich! Your blind and stupid attack on her suggests you secretly support the attacks Ardern rightfully received...

    Of course I have not - many of your attacks on the Prime Minister were
    based okn her being female - yes Claudette Hauiti is female, and on
    the subject of her opinion it is relevant that she has Maori
    connections, but this is overshadowed by her political connections -
    see more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Hauiti - There is
    however little in her political career that suggests her opinions are representative of most Maori.

    But as far as the sort of mysoginist attacks that you favour, read
    what I have written and ask your self would any of what I have written
    be less valid if the author had been Claude Hauiti?

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  • From Rich80105@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 23 14:14:09 2023
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:53:31 +1300, Rich80105 <Rich80105@hotmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:01:18 -0800 (PST), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the
    You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at
    least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no
    indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP
    to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it
    without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in 2013 and 2014. She is a M?ori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a political commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot routinely vomits onto this NG.

    My point was that it is just an Opinion - it is not journalism; it has
    no more validity than the response from the two Johns to this thread.
    And on that basis, here is another opinion: https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/23-01-2023/new-zealand-isnt-ready-for-a-maori-prime-minister

    The author is Tina Ngata - a prominent Maori name! "I am a Ngati Porou
    mother of two from the East Coast of Te Ika a Maui. My work involves
    advocacy for environmental, Indigenous and human rights. This includes
    local, national and international initiatives that highlight the role
    of settler colonialism in issues such as climate change and waste
    pollution, and promote Indigenous conservation as best practice for a
    globally sustainable future"

    Arguably this article is closer to the opinion of most Maori than the
    National party propaganda - certainly it is a well argued opinion,
    which catches the concern over the nature of political attackes from
    the far-right, including National and ACT.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From John Bowes@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 22 17:32:51 2023
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 1:57:45 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:01:18 -0800 (PST), JohnO <john...@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the
    You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at
    least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no
    indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP
    to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it
    without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in 2013 and 2014. She is a M?ori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a political commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot routinely vomits onto this NG.
    My point was that it is just an Opinion - it is not journalism; it has
    no more validity than the response from the two Johns to this thread.
    However it has a lot more veracity than any of your posts Rich! Your blind and stupid attack on her suggests you secretly support the attacks Ardern rightfully received...

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Tony@21:1/5 to Rich80105@hotmail.com on Mon Jan 23 02:21:22 2023
    Rich80105 <Rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:53:31 +1300, Rich80105 <Rich80105@hotmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:01:18 -0800 (PST), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com> >>wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable >>>> > >>to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?


    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the
    You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else >>>>does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at
    least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no
    indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP >>>> > to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it >>>> > without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the >>>>opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in >>>2013 and 2014. She is a M?ori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a political
    commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot >>>routinely vomits onto this NG.

    My point was that it is just an Opinion - it is not journalism; it has
    no more validity than the response from the two Johns to this thread.
    And on that basis, here is another opinion: >https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/23-01-2023/new-zealand-isnt-ready-for-a-maori-prime-minister

    The author is Tina Ngata - a prominent Maori name! "I am a Ngati Porou
    mother of two from the East Coast of Te Ika a Maui. My work involves
    advocacy for environmental, Indigenous and human rights. This includes
    local, national and international initiatives that highlight the role
    of settler colonialism in issues such as climate change and waste
    pollution, and promote Indigenous conservation as best practice for a >globally sustainable future"

    Arguably this article is closer to the opinion of most Maori than the >National party propaganda - certainly it is a well argued opinion,
    which catches the concern over the nature of political attackes from
    the far-right, including National and ACT.
    National and ACT are not far right you fool. Saying that they are totally discredits any opinion you might publish.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Rich80105@21:1/5 to lizandtony@orcon.net.nz on Mon Jan 23 15:23:40 2023
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 02:21:22 -0000 (UTC), Tony
    <lizandtony@orcon.net.nz> wrote:

    Rich80105 <Rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:53:31 +1300, Rich80105 <Rich80105@hotmail.com> >>wrote:

    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:01:18 -0800 (PST), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com> >>>wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable
    to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?


    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the
    You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else
    does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at >>>>> > least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no
    indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP >>>>> > to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it >>>>> > without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the >>>>>opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in >>>>2013 and 2014. She is a M?ori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a political
    commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot >>>>routinely vomits onto this NG.

    My point was that it is just an Opinion - it is not journalism; it has
    no more validity than the response from the two Johns to this thread.
    And on that basis, here is another opinion: >>https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/23-01-2023/new-zealand-isnt-ready-for-a-maori-prime-minister

    The author is Tina Ngata - a prominent Maori name! "I am a Ngati Porou >>mother of two from the East Coast of Te Ika a Maui. My work involves >>advocacy for environmental, Indigenous and human rights. This includes >>local, national and international initiatives that highlight the role
    of settler colonialism in issues such as climate change and waste >>pollution, and promote Indigenous conservation as best practice for a >>globally sustainable future"

    Arguably this article is closer to the opinion of most Maori than the >>National party propaganda - certainly it is a well argued opinion,
    which catches the concern over the nature of political attackes from
    the far-right, including National and ACT.
    National and ACT are not far right you fool. Saying that they are totally >discredits any opinion you might publish.

    You are of course entitled to your unsupported personal opinion, Tony.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From John Bowes@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 22 18:40:04 2023
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 3:27:52 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 02:21:22 -0000 (UTC), Tony
    <lizan...@orcon.net.nz> wrote:

    Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:53:31 +1300, Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com> >>wrote:

    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:01:18 -0800 (PST), JohnO <john...@gmail.com> >>>wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com> >>>>> > wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable
    to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?


    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the
    You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else
    does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at >>>>> > least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no >>>>> > indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP >>>>> > to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it >>>>> > without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the >>>>>opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in >>>>2013 and 2014. She is a M?ori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a political
    commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot >>>>routinely vomits onto this NG.

    My point was that it is just an Opinion - it is not journalism; it has >>>no more validity than the response from the two Johns to this thread. >>And on that basis, here is another opinion: >>https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/23-01-2023/new-zealand-isnt-ready-for-a-maori-prime-minister

    The author is Tina Ngata - a prominent Maori name! "I am a Ngati Porou >>mother of two from the East Coast of Te Ika a Maui. My work involves >>advocacy for environmental, Indigenous and human rights. This includes >>local, national and international initiatives that highlight the role
    of settler colonialism in issues such as climate change and waste >>pollution, and promote Indigenous conservation as best practice for a >>globally sustainable future"

    Arguably this article is closer to the opinion of most Maori than the >>National party propaganda - certainly it is a well argued opinion,
    which catches the concern over the nature of political attackes from
    the far-right, including National and ACT.
    National and ACT are not far right you fool. Saying that they are totally >discredits any opinion you might publish.
    You are of course entitled to your unsupported personal opinion, Tony.

    Don't be stupid Rich! You would love to be able to deny people like Tony, JohnO and me to be prevented from voicing any opinion that didn't agree with yours or Labour/Watermelon like the stupid little totalitarian government lickspittle you are Rich!

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Gordon@21:1/5 to Rich80105@hotmail.com on Mon Jan 23 02:52:36 2023
    On 2023-01-23, Rich80105 <Rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 17:32:51 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowesjohn02@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 1:57:45 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:01:18 -0800 (PST), JohnO <john...@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the
    You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at
    least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no
    indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP >>> >> > to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it >>> >> > without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in 2013 and 2014. She is a M?ori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a political commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot routinely vomits onto this NG.
    My point was that it is just an Opinion - it is not journalism; it has
    no more validity than the response from the two Johns to this thread. >>However it has a lot more veracity than any of your posts Rich! Your blind and stupid attack on her suggests you secretly support the attacks Ardern rightfully received...

    Of course I have not - many of your attacks on the Prime Minister were
    based okn her being female

    Here is a real problem of perception.

    In my life I have come to the view that women as as equally capable of
    being stupid as men.

    The outgoing PM got many people angry on many occassions, that is why people attacked her, and the ideas.

    - yes Claudette Hauiti is female, and on
    the subject of her opinion it is relevant that she has Maori
    connections, but this is overshadowed by her political connections -
    see more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Hauiti - There is
    however little in her political career that suggests her opinions are representative of most Maori.

    I have great problems with Maori in terms of a label for a race. They are people. Just like other races.

    The Maori person will hold views which are different from another Maori
    person. Trying to lump everyone together makes it a hell of alot easier to dislike/hate the other group. It is a great deal harder to hate a person
    with the group you hate.

    So back to the fix. Opinions are just that, an idea from a human (until AI takes over), Take the idea and a) Think about it and then either accept the idea or reject it.

    But as far as the sort of mysoginist attacks that you favour, read
    what I have written and ask your self would any of what I have written
    be less valid if the author had been Claude Hauiti?

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Tony@21:1/5 to Rich80105@hotmail.com on Mon Jan 23 03:05:24 2023
    Rich80105 <Rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 02:21:22 -0000 (UTC), Tony
    <lizandtony@orcon.net.nz> wrote:

    Rich80105 <Rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:53:31 +1300, Rich80105 <Rich80105@hotmail.com> >>>wrote:

    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:01:18 -0800 (PST), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com> >>>>wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com> >>>>>> > wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone
    suitable
    to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?



    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the
    You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone >>>>>>else
    does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at >>>>>> > least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no >>>>>> > indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP >>>>>> > to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it >>>>>> > without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the >>>>>>opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in >>>>>2013 and 2014. She is a M?ori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a >>>>>political
    commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot >>>>>routinely vomits onto this NG.

    My point was that it is just an Opinion - it is not journalism; it has >>>>no more validity than the response from the two Johns to this thread. >>>And on that basis, here is another opinion: >>>https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/23-01-2023/new-zealand-isnt-ready-for-a-maori-prime-minister

    The author is Tina Ngata - a prominent Maori name! "I am a Ngati Porou >>>mother of two from the East Coast of Te Ika a Maui. My work involves >>>advocacy for environmental, Indigenous and human rights. This includes >>>local, national and international initiatives that highlight the role
    of settler colonialism in issues such as climate change and waste >>>pollution, and promote Indigenous conservation as best practice for a >>>globally sustainable future"

    Arguably this article is closer to the opinion of most Maori than the >>>National party propaganda - certainly it is a well argued opinion,
    which catches the concern over the nature of political attackes from
    the far-right, including National and ACT.
    National and ACT are not far right you fool. Saying that they are totally >>discredits any opinion you might publish.

    You are of course entitled to your unsupported personal opinion, Tony.
    And you should provide support of outlandish claims that National and ACT are far right - so either do that or go to blazes where you belong.
    But you won't be able to provide any sensible evidence.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From John Bowes@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 22 18:18:54 2023
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 2:46:38 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 17:32:51 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 1:57:45 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:01:18 -0800 (PST), JohnO <john...@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the
    You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at >> >> > least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no
    indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP >> >> > to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it
    without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in 2013 and 2014. She is a M?ori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a political commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot routinely vomits onto this NG.
    My point was that it is just an Opinion - it is not journalism; it has
    no more validity than the response from the two Johns to this thread. >However it has a lot more veracity than any of your posts Rich! Your blind and stupid attack on her suggests you secretly support the attacks Ardern rightfully received...
    Of course I have not - many of your attacks on the Prime Minister were
    based okn her being female - yes Claudette Hauiti is female, and on
    the subject of her opinion it is relevant that she has Maori
    connections, but this is overshadowed by her political connections -
    see more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Hauiti - There is however little in her political career that suggests her opinions are representative of most Maori.

    All of my so called attacks on Ardern had nothing to do with her sex you stupid fucking imbecile! They were because like you she's a liar and bloody useless! In fact she makes Muldoon look good! Considering the author of your link is tied in with the
    anti colonialist left wing bullshit I wouldn't give any credit to her claims. But I can fully understand why you stick up for her as all Marxists need to support each other in the world today considering what a failed political belief it is!

    But as far as the sort of mysoginist attacks that you favour, read
    what I have written and ask your self would any of what I have written
    be less valid if the author had been Claude Hauiti?

    Nothing you have ever written is valid Rich! It's the typical bullshit I expect from woke far left wankers like you! Plus it wouldn't matter who authored your cite or their sex because it's a sad little piece that has racist overtones both against Maori
    and Pakeha!

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From John Bowes@21:1/5 to Tony on Sun Jan 22 18:23:16 2023
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 3:21:24 PM UTC+13, Tony wrote:
    Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:53:31 +1300, Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:01:18 -0800 (PST), JohnO <john...@gmail.com> >>wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable
    to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?


    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the
    You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else
    does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at >>>> > least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no
    indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP >>>> > to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it >>>> > without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the >>>>opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in >>>2013 and 2014. She is a M?ori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a political
    commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot >>>routinely vomits onto this NG.

    My point was that it is just an Opinion - it is not journalism; it has
    no more validity than the response from the two Johns to this thread.
    And on that basis, here is another opinion: >https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/23-01-2023/new-zealand-isnt-ready-for-a-maori-prime-minister

    The author is Tina Ngata - a prominent Maori name! "I am a Ngati Porou >mother of two from the East Coast of Te Ika a Maui. My work involves >advocacy for environmental, Indigenous and human rights. This includes >local, national and international initiatives that highlight the role
    of settler colonialism in issues such as climate change and waste >pollution, and promote Indigenous conservation as best practice for a >globally sustainable future"

    Arguably this article is closer to the opinion of most Maori than the >National party propaganda - certainly it is a well argued opinion,
    which catches the concern over the nature of political attackes from
    the far-right, including National and ACT.
    National and ACT are not far right you fool. Saying that they are totally discredits any opinion you might publish.
    What do you expect from a woke wacker like Rich? Reasoned debate? :)

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  • From John Bowes@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 22 18:22:10 2023
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 2:46:38 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 17:32:51 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 1:57:45 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:01:18 -0800 (PST), JohnO <john...@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the
    You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at >> >> > least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no
    indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP >> >> > to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it
    without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in 2013 and 2014. She is a M?ori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a political commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot routinely vomits onto this NG.
    My point was that it is just an Opinion - it is not journalism; it has
    no more validity than the response from the two Johns to this thread. >However it has a lot more veracity than any of your posts Rich! Your blind and stupid attack on her suggests you secretly support the attacks Ardern rightfully received...
    Of course I have not - many of your attacks on the Prime Minister were
    based okn her being female - yes Claudette Hauiti is female, and on
    the subject of her opinion it is relevant that she has Maori
    connections, but this is overshadowed by her political connections -
    see more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Hauiti - There is however little in her political career that suggests her opinions are representative of most Maori.

    But as far as the sort of mysoginist attacks that you favour, read
    what I have written and ask your self would any of what I have written
    be less valid if the author had been Claude Hauiti?
    Besides unlike so many of your inglorious Labour MP's Hauiti had enough honour that she stepped down from parliament! But guess inconvenient facts like that don't mean shit to wankers like you Rich. Pity more of your inglorious Labour MPs don't have the
    gumption Ardern showed when she realised she was as useless as so many have been saying...

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  • From Rich80105@21:1/5 to bowesjohn02@gmail.com on Mon Jan 23 16:52:54 2023
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:22:10 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowesjohn02@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 2:46:38 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 17:32:51 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 1:57:45 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:01:18 -0800 (PST), JohnO <john...@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the
    You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at >> >> >> > least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no
    indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP >> >> >> > to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it
    without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in 2013 and 2014. She is a M?ori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a political commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot routinely vomits onto this NG.
    My point was that it is just an Opinion - it is not journalism; it has
    no more validity than the response from the two Johns to this thread.
    However it has a lot more veracity than any of your posts Rich! Your blind and stupid attack on her suggests you secretly support the attacks Ardern rightfully received...
    Of course I have not - many of your attacks on the Prime Minister were
    based okn her being female - yes Claudette Hauiti is female, and on
    the subject of her opinion it is relevant that she has Maori
    connections, but this is overshadowed by her political connections -
    see more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Hauiti - There is
    however little in her political career that suggests her opinions are
    representative of most Maori.

    But as far as the sort of mysoginist attacks that you favour, read
    what I have written and ask your self would any of what I have written
    be less valid if the author had been Claude Hauiti?
    Besides unlike so many of your inglorious Labour MP's Hauiti had enough honour that she stepped down from parliament! But guess inconvenient facts like that don't mean shit to wankers like you Rich. Pity more of your inglorious Labour MPs don't have the
    gumption Ardern showed when she realised she was as useless as so many have been saying...

    Honour is certainly desirable in an MP - from teh site above:
    "Political career
    New Zealand Parliament
    Years Term Electorate List Party
    20132014 50th List 63 National
    During the 2010 Auckland local elections, Hauiti stood for the
    Albert-Eden Local Board in the Owairaka Subdivision. Representing
    Citizens & Ratepayers, she was not elected.

    Hauiti stood in the Mangere electorate during the 2011 general
    election representing National,[12] losing to Labour's William Sio.

    Following Aaron Gilmore's resignation, Hauiti replaced him as a list
    MP on 28 May 2013.[13][14][3]

    In March 2014 she returned her parliamentary charge card to
    Parliamentary Services, after using it to pay for a Christmas trip to Australia.[15] In April 2014 she breached parliament rules by
    employing her wife as an assistant in her electorate office. She said
    she was unaware of the rule and immediately terminated the employment
    after being made aware.[16]

    Hauiti announced her resignation from politics on 22 July 2014, after
    having already been selected as the candidate for Kelston in the
    upcoming election.[17] She was replaced by Chris Penk.[18] She left
    Parliament prior to the election date to return to her private
    business.

    Post-parliament
    In December 2014 and again in January 2015 Hauiti re-appeared in media
    when she was found to have spent approximately $23,000 on MP's
    expenses despite her known decision to stand down.[19] "

    And regarding her decision not to stand for Kelston, see https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/national-mp-claudette-hauiti-calls-it-quits/BUUFQFWMOEDTQYRQ55AWQ2NPWY/

    " . . . New Zealand First leader Winston Peters called it a National
    Party cover-up.

    "That's as plain as day and night. She has had you believe that she
    has resigned. She is just not standing again at the election. That is
    not accountability.

    "She's standing down without any accountability from the National
    Party, the whips or the Prime Minister."

    He said the National Party should reveal how much money Mrs Hauiti
    misspent.

    "I don't believe it was $200 for a start. You try and have an overseas
    trip on $200.

    "They throw allegations around at everyone else. When it comes to
    themselves, there's no accountability at all. They thought they could
    do a snow-job and say nothing at all."

    Winston Peters had the measure of National then, and his comments are
    still pertinent.

    (Kelston was a new electorate in 2014, and has been held by Carmel
    Sepuloni since then, her percentage of votes being 2014 50.9% (Penk
    for National 32.8%), 2017 54.17% (Beeram for National 30.7%), and 2020
    62.8%, (Beeram 18.5%) )

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  • From Rich80105@21:1/5 to bowesjohn02@gmail.com on Mon Jan 23 17:44:45 2023
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:23:16 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowesjohn02@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 3:21:24 PM UTC+13, Tony wrote:
    Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:53:31 +1300, Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:01:18 -0800 (PST), JohnO <john...@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable
    to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?


    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the
    You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else
    does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at
    least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no
    indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP >> >>>> > to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it >> >>>> > without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the >> >>>>opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in >> >>>2013 and 2014. She is a M?ori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a political
    commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot
    routinely vomits onto this NG.

    My point was that it is just an Opinion - it is not journalism; it has
    no more validity than the response from the two Johns to this thread.
    And on that basis, here is another opinion:
    https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/23-01-2023/new-zealand-isnt-ready-for-a-maori-prime-minister

    The author is Tina Ngata - a prominent Maori name! "I am a Ngati Porou
    mother of two from the East Coast of Te Ika a Maui. My work involves
    advocacy for environmental, Indigenous and human rights. This includes
    local, national and international initiatives that highlight the role
    of settler colonialism in issues such as climate change and waste
    pollution, and promote Indigenous conservation as best practice for a
    globally sustainable future"

    Arguably this article is closer to the opinion of most Maori than the
    National party propaganda - certainly it is a well argued opinion,
    which catches the concern over the nature of political attackes from
    the far-right, including National and ACT.
    National and ACT are not far right you fool. Saying that they are totally
    discredits any opinion you might publish.
    What do you expect from a woke wacker like Rich? Reasoned debate? :)
    The far-right are often concerned that they are being accused of being extremist - it is often true of course, but still they would rather
    pretend that they are not. Consistently however they provide no
    evidence of their assertions
    See:
    https://www.politicalcompass.org/nz2020
    and the similar chart for 2017.

    From those charts, National was at +8 (out of 10) to the Right
    economically for both 2017 and 2020; Labour moved from +3 to +5.5
    (more to the right), and ACT moved from +9 to +9.5 - a very small
    change, but the big change was going from more authoritarian than
    National to nearly as libertarian as the Green Party.

    By contrast, in the USA Biden was seen at the 2020 election as being
    at +7.5 to the right, with Trump on +8.5 - the USA''s

    Now the very far-right nutters are more nutter than right wing - Chris
    Luxon supported political parties not talking to the irrational
    Wellington protestors, but Seymour, wearing his libertarian hat, was
    better able to seek votes by partially agreeing that people should be
    able to make decisions for themselves on a lot more things than
    National would tolerate.

    Individual supporters of political parties may well not assess
    themselves at the same point as the party as a whole - David Farrar
    for example identified quite a few years ago (around the time he
    stopped posting to nz.general and started Kiwiblog) his views as being
    close to where the ACT Party is now - it is not suprising that he is
    now seen as supporting both ACT and National . . .

    A pretence that the National party is not right-wing is of course a
    farcical assertion - they are much more neo-liberal than they used to
    be under Muldoon of course, but Luxon appears to want to return to the
    policies of Ruthenasia - for National, the biggest change over time
    has been that they have become a lot more authoritarian; they are
    however also slightly more right wing than they used to be (compare
    the assessments going back to 2008 for example.

    Now I predict Tony and the Johns will object; but I also predict they
    will have nothing to base that opinion on than their own opinion -
    which has in so many aspects has proved them wrong time after time . .
    .

    So I will not believe an opinion from the far-right posters to
    nz.general - I predict they will be unable to give evidence of
    National being less right wing than they have been assessed at the
    political compass - or that they willprovide any credible literature
    to support their personal views . . .

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  • From John Bowes@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 22 21:12:57 2023
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 5:48:59 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:23:16 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 3:21:24 PM UTC+13, Tony wrote:
    Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:53:31 +1300, Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:01:18 -0800 (PST), JohnO <john...@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com> >> >>>> > wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable
    to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?


    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the
    You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else
    does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at >> >>>> > least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no >> >>>> > indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP
    to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it
    without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the
    opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in
    2013 and 2014. She is a M?ori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a political
    commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot >> >>>routinely vomits onto this NG.

    My point was that it is just an Opinion - it is not journalism; it has >> >>no more validity than the response from the two Johns to this thread. >> >And on that basis, here is another opinion:
    https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/23-01-2023/new-zealand-isnt-ready-for-a-maori-prime-minister

    The author is Tina Ngata - a prominent Maori name! "I am a Ngati Porou >> >mother of two from the East Coast of Te Ika a Maui. My work involves
    advocacy for environmental, Indigenous and human rights. This includes >> >local, national and international initiatives that highlight the role
    of settler colonialism in issues such as climate change and waste
    pollution, and promote Indigenous conservation as best practice for a
    globally sustainable future"

    Arguably this article is closer to the opinion of most Maori than the
    National party propaganda - certainly it is a well argued opinion,
    which catches the concern over the nature of political attackes from
    the far-right, including National and ACT.
    National and ACT are not far right you fool. Saying that they are totally >> discredits any opinion you might publish.
    What do you expect from a woke wacker like Rich? Reasoned debate? :)
    The far-right are often concerned that they are being accused of being extremist - it is often true of course, but still they would rather
    pretend that they are not. Consistently however they provide no
    evidence of their assertions
    See:
    https://www.politicalcompass.org/nz2020
    and the similar chart for 2017.

    Why do you keep dragging out this thoroughly discredited piece of garbage Rich? I know it's hard for you to accept that something you rely on for your biased political posts but I'd have thought the fact it's garbage would have sunk into your imbecilic
    font of knowledge by now...

    From those charts, National was at +8 (out of 10) to the Right
    economically for both 2017 and 2020; Labour moved from +3 to +5.5
    (more to the right), and ACT moved from +9 to +9.5 - a very small
    change, but the big change was going from more authoritarian than
    National to nearly as libertarian as the Green Party.

    National are closer to centerist than either of the totalitarian party's Labour and Watermelon that you blindly support Rich as is ACT who've spoken out more for ordinary New Zealanders!
    <utter garbage snipped>


    Now the very far-right nutters are more nutter than right wing - Chris
    Luxon supported political parties not talking to the irrational
    Wellington protestors, but Seymour, wearing his libertarian hat, was
    better able to seek votes by partially agreeing that people should be
    able to make decisions for themselves on a lot more things than
    National would tolerate.

    Yet far left nutters like you are just imbecilic Marxists who want everyone marching in step with the totalitarian Labour/Watermelon far right nutters!


    Individual supporters of political parties may well not assess
    themselves at the same point as the party as a whole - David Farrar
    for example identified quite a few years ago (around the time he
    stopped posting to nz.general and started Kiwiblog) his views as being
    close to where the ACT Party is now - it is not suprising that he is
    now seen as supporting both ACT and National . . .

    He does it because unlike you and Ardern he cares for New Zealand and doesn't want to see it turned into the north Korea of the South Pacific!


    A pretence that the National party is not right-wing is of course a
    farcical assertion - they are much more neo-liberal than they used to
    be under Muldoon of course, but Luxon appears to want to return to the policies of Ruthenasia - for National, the biggest change over time
    has been that they have become a lot more authoritarian; they are
    however also slightly more right wing than they used to be (compare
    the assessments going back to 2008 for example.

    Better than continuing on the apartheid trail Labour wants to take us!

    Now I predict Tony and the Johns will object; but I also predict they
    will have nothing to base that opinion on than their own opinion -
    which has in so many aspects has proved them wrong time after time . .
    .

    Whereas in this case you've used the farcical political compass to hopefully support was in actual fact utter garbage even worse than the garbage you usually push. Just because your new glorious leader has snubbed his Maori caucus :)

    So I will not believe an opinion from the far-right posters to
    nz.general - I predict they will be unable to give evidence of
    National being less right wing than they have been assessed at the
    political compass - or that they willprovide any credible literature
    to support their personal views . . .

    It's okay Rich. I'm pretty sure that like me all the other posters in this ng just get a good belly laugh out of your biased and unsupported (even with cites) opinions :)

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  • From John Bowes@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 22 20:39:09 2023
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 4:57:11 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:22:10 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 2:46:38 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 17:32:51 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 1:57:45 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:01:18 -0800 (PST), JohnO <john...@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com> >> >> >> > wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the >> >> >> You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at
    least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no >> >> >> > indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP
    to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it
    without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in 2013 and 2014. She is a M?ori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a political commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot routinely vomits onto this NG.
    My point was that it is just an Opinion - it is not journalism; it has >> >> no more validity than the response from the two Johns to this thread. >> >However it has a lot more veracity than any of your posts Rich! Your blind and stupid attack on her suggests you secretly support the attacks Ardern rightfully received...
    Of course I have not - many of your attacks on the Prime Minister were
    based okn her being female - yes Claudette Hauiti is female, and on
    the subject of her opinion it is relevant that she has Maori
    connections, but this is overshadowed by her political connections -
    see more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Hauiti - There is
    however little in her political career that suggests her opinions are
    representative of most Maori.

    But as far as the sort of mysoginist attacks that you favour, read
    what I have written and ask your self would any of what I have written
    be less valid if the author had been Claude Hauiti?
    Besides unlike so many of your inglorious Labour MP's Hauiti had enough honour that she stepped down from parliament! But guess inconvenient facts like that don't mean shit to wankers like you Rich. Pity more of your inglorious Labour MPs don't have
    the gumption Ardern showed when she realised she was as useless as so many have been saying...
    Honour is certainly desirable in an MP - from teh site above:
    "Political career
    New Zealand Parliament
    Years Term Electorate List Party
    2013–2014 50th List 63 National
    During the 2010 Auckland local elections, Hauiti stood for the
    Albert-Eden Local Board in the Owairaka Subdivision. Representing
    Citizens & Ratepayers, she was not elected.

    Hauiti stood in the Mangere electorate during the 2011 general
    election representing National,[12] losing to Labour's William Sio.

    Following Aaron Gilmore's resignation, Hauiti replaced him as a list
    MP on 28 May 2013.[13][14][3]

    In March 2014 she returned her parliamentary charge card to
    Parliamentary Services, after using it to pay for a Christmas trip to Australia.[15] In April 2014 she breached parliament rules by
    employing her wife as an assistant in her electorate office. She said
    she was unaware of the rule and immediately terminated the employment
    after being made aware.[16]

    Hauiti announced her resignation from politics on 22 July 2014, after
    having already been selected as the candidate for Kelston in the
    upcoming election.[17] She was replaced by Chris Penk.[18] She left Parliament prior to the election date to return to her private
    business.

    Post-parliament
    In December 2014 and again in January 2015 Hauiti re-appeared in media
    when she was found to have spent approximately $23,000 on MP's
    expenses despite her known decision to stand down.[19] "

    And regarding her decision not to stand for Kelston, see https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/national-mp-claudette-hauiti-calls-it-quits/BUUFQFWMOEDTQYRQ55AWQ2NPWY/

    " . . . New Zealand First leader Winston Peters called it a National
    Party cover-up.

    "That's as plain as day and night. She has had you believe that she
    has resigned. She is just not standing again at the election. That is
    not accountability.

    "She's standing down without any accountability from the National
    Party, the whips or the Prime Minister."

    He said the National Party should reveal how much money Mrs Hauiti
    misspent.

    "I don't believe it was $200 for a start. You try and have an overseas
    trip on $200.

    "They throw allegations around at everyone else. When it comes to themselves, there's no accountability at all. They thought they could
    do a snow-job and say nothing at all."

    Winston Peters had the measure of National then, and his comments are
    still pertinent.

    Rubbish! Or are you saying we should be taking more note of Peter's claims about Labour now. Though as you well know Labours propaganda wing wouldn't print it. You'd need to look at the BFD to see it!

    (Kelston was a new electorate in 2014, and has been held by Carmel
    Sepuloni since then, her percentage of votes being 2014 50.9% (Penk
    for National 32.8%), 2017 54.17% (Beeram for National 30.7%), and 2020 62.8%, (Beeram 18.5%) )
    Try looking at the records of many Labour MPs' who've stuffed up over the years Rich and see how long the few who left were in parliament after they'd fucked up! None of your so called support of your utterly stupid post is worth shit! So typical of woke
    far left wankers like you!

    Now how about getting back on topic instead of wasting bandwidth with of topic garbage!

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  • From Rich80105@21:1/5 to bowesjohn02@gmail.com on Mon Jan 23 19:06:02 2023
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 21:12:57 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowesjohn02@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 5:48:59 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:23:16 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 3:21:24 PM UTC+13, Tony wrote:
    Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:53:31 +1300, Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:01:18 -0800 (PST), JohnO <john...@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com> >> >> >>>> > wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable
    to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?


    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the
    You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else
    does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at >> >> >>>> > least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no >> >> >>>> > indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP
    to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it
    without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the
    opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in
    2013 and 2014. She is a M?ori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a political
    commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot >> >> >>>routinely vomits onto this NG.

    My point was that it is just an Opinion - it is not journalism; it has >> >> >>no more validity than the response from the two Johns to this thread. >> >> >And on that basis, here is another opinion:
    https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/23-01-2023/new-zealand-isnt-ready-for-a-maori-prime-minister

    The author is Tina Ngata - a prominent Maori name! "I am a Ngati Porou >> >> >mother of two from the East Coast of Te Ika a Maui. My work involves
    advocacy for environmental, Indigenous and human rights. This includes >> >> >local, national and international initiatives that highlight the role
    of settler colonialism in issues such as climate change and waste
    pollution, and promote Indigenous conservation as best practice for a
    globally sustainable future"

    Arguably this article is closer to the opinion of most Maori than the
    National party propaganda - certainly it is a well argued opinion,
    which catches the concern over the nature of political attackes from
    the far-right, including National and ACT.
    National and ACT are not far right you fool. Saying that they are totally >> >> discredits any opinion you might publish.
    What do you expect from a woke wacker like Rich? Reasoned debate? :)
    The far-right are often concerned that they are being accused of being
    extremist - it is often true of course, but still they would rather
    pretend that they are not. Consistently however they provide no
    evidence of their assertions
    See:
    https://www.politicalcompass.org/nz2020
    and the similar chart for 2017.

    Why do you keep dragging out this thoroughly discredited piece of garbage Rich? I know it's hard for you to accept that something you rely on for your biased political posts but I'd have thought the fact it's garbage would have sunk into your imbecilic
    font of knowledge by now...

    So who discredited it? If you cannot give a reference then you are
    just lying yet again.


    From those charts, National was at +8 (out of 10) to the Right
    economically for both 2017 and 2020; Labour moved from +3 to +5.5
    (more to the right), and ACT moved from +9 to +9.5 - a very small
    change, but the big change was going from more authoritarian than
    National to nearly as libertarian as the Green Party.

    National are closer to centerist than either of the totalitarian party's Labour and Watermelon that you blindly support Rich as is ACT who've spoken out more for ordinary New Zealanders!
    Give a reference for that assertion - or apologise for just expressing
    a personal opinion - which is wrong as usual from your posts

    <utter garbage snipped>


    Now the very far-right nutters are more nutter than right wing - Chris
    Luxon supported political parties not talking to the irrational
    Wellington protestors, but Seymour, wearing his libertarian hat, was
    better able to seek votes by partially agreeing that people should be
    able to make decisions for themselves on a lot more things than
    National would tolerate.

    Yet far left nutters like you are just imbecilic Marxists who want everyone marching in step with the totalitarian Labour/Watermelon far right nutters!

    On the Political Compass Test, my result is about +2, +2 - closer to
    Labour than The Green Party, but slightly less right wing and more
    libertarian. It chas varied a bit over the years, but not much.

    What was your score - or were you not able to completet he test
    through not understanding the questions?



    Individual supporters of political parties may well not assess
    themselves at the same point as the party as a whole - David Farrar
    for example identified quite a few years ago (around the time he
    stopped posting to nz.general and started Kiwiblog) his views as being
    close to where the ACT Party is now - it is not suprising that he is
    now seen as supporting both ACT and National . . .

    He does it because unlike you and Ardern he cares for New Zealand and doesn't want to see it turned into the north Korea of the South Pacific!

    Understandable as National has become less popular since Key decided
    he had had enough - now they are bringing back Collins!

    A pretence that the National party is not right-wing is of course a
    farcical assertion - they are much more neo-liberal than they used to
    be under Muldoon of course, but Luxon appears to want to return to the
    policies of Ruthenasia - for National, the biggest change over time
    has been that they have become a lot more authoritarian; they are
    however also slightly more right wing than they used to be (compare
    the assessments going back to 2008 for example.

    Better than continuing on the apartheid trail Labour wants to take us!
    What rubbish - thanks to Jacinda''s actions, most New Zealanders are
    much more tolerant of different groups - her attitude following the Christchurch shooting has lot to do with that. Again you provide no
    evidence of your silly statement.


    Now I predict Tony and the Johns will object; but I also predict they
    will have nothing to base that opinion on than their own opinion -
    which has in so many aspects has proved them wrong time after time . .
    .

    Whereas in this case you've used the farcical political compass to hopefully support was in actual fact utter garbage even worse than the garbage you usually push. Just because your new glorious leader has snubbed his Maori caucus :)
    You have no alternative narrative to support your frankly silly
    assertions. You lose, John Bowes


    So I will not believe an opinion from the far-right posters to
    nz.general - I predict they will be unable to give evidence of
    National being less right wing than they have been assessed at the
    political compass - or that they willprovide any credible literature
    to support their personal views . . .

    It's okay Rich. I'm pretty sure that like me all the other posters in this ng just get a good belly laugh out of your biased and unsupported (even with cites) opinions :)

    Your biased and usupported personal opinions (without any cites) are
    of course just rubbish.

    You lose again, John Bowes!

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  • From John Bowes@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 22 23:49:54 2023
    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 7:10:16 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 21:12:57 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 5:48:59 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:23:16 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 3:21:24 PM UTC+13, Tony wrote:
    Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:53:31 +1300, Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com> >> >> >wrote:

    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:01:18 -0800 (PST), JohnO <john...@gmail.com> >> >> >>wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote: >> >> >>>> > On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable
    to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?


    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the >> >> >>>> You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else
    does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at
    least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no
    indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP
    to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it
    without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of >> >> >>>> > National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the
    opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in
    2013 and 2014. She is a M?ori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a political
    commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot
    routinely vomits onto this NG.

    My point was that it is just an Opinion - it is not journalism; it has
    no more validity than the response from the two Johns to this thread.
    And on that basis, here is another opinion:
    https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/23-01-2023/new-zealand-isnt-ready-for-a-maori-prime-minister

    The author is Tina Ngata - a prominent Maori name! "I am a Ngati Porou
    mother of two from the East Coast of Te Ika a Maui. My work involves >> >> >advocacy for environmental, Indigenous and human rights. This includes
    local, national and international initiatives that highlight the role >> >> >of settler colonialism in issues such as climate change and waste
    pollution, and promote Indigenous conservation as best practice for a >> >> >globally sustainable future"

    Arguably this article is closer to the opinion of most Maori than the >> >> >National party propaganda - certainly it is a well argued opinion,
    which catches the concern over the nature of political attackes from >> >> >the far-right, including National and ACT.
    National and ACT are not far right you fool. Saying that they are totally
    discredits any opinion you might publish.
    What do you expect from a woke wacker like Rich? Reasoned debate? :)
    The far-right are often concerned that they are being accused of being
    extremist - it is often true of course, but still they would rather
    pretend that they are not. Consistently however they provide no
    evidence of their assertions
    See:
    https://www.politicalcompass.org/nz2020
    and the similar chart for 2017.

    Why do you keep dragging out this thoroughly discredited piece of garbage Rich? I know it's hard for you to accept that something you rely on for your biased political posts but I'd have thought the fact it's garbage would have sunk into your
    imbecilic font of knowledge by now...
    So who discredited it? If you cannot give a reference then you are
    just lying yet again.

    You know damn well who refuted the bullshit political compass Rich. Go ask JohnO or Crash or Tony about it!


    From those charts, National was at +8 (out of 10) to the Right
    economically for both 2017 and 2020; Labour moved from +3 to +5.5
    (more to the right), and ACT moved from +9 to +9.5 - a very small
    change, but the big change was going from more authoritarian than
    National to nearly as libertarian as the Green Party.

    National are closer to centerist than either of the totalitarian party's Labour and Watermelon that you blindly support Rich as is ACT who've spoken out more for ordinary New Zealanders!
    Give a reference for that assertion - or apologise for just expressing
    a personal opinion - which is wrong as usual from your posts

    Fuck off Rich. You've provided no legitimate cites for your stupidity and you know why your stupidity is being questioned!
    <utter garbage snipped>


    Now the very far-right nutters are more nutter than right wing - Chris
    Luxon supported political parties not talking to the irrational
    Wellington protestors, but Seymour, wearing his libertarian hat, was
    better able to seek votes by partially agreeing that people should be
    able to make decisions for themselves on a lot more things than
    National would tolerate.

    Yet far left nutters like you are just imbecilic Marxists who want everyone marching in step with the totalitarian Labour/Watermelon far right nutters!
    On the Political Compass Test, my result is about +2, +2 - closer to
    Labour than The Green Party, but slightly less right wing and more libertarian. It chas varied a bit over the years, but not much.

    What was your score - or were you not able to completet he test
    through not understanding the questions?

    Got better things to do with my time than waste it on garbage like the political compass Rich. I'm centrist like Tony, Crash and JohnO. Something your to fucking stupid to understand or accept!


    Individual supporters of political parties may well not assess
    themselves at the same point as the party as a whole - David Farrar
    for example identified quite a few years ago (around the time he
    stopped posting to nz.general and started Kiwiblog) his views as being
    close to where the ACT Party is now - it is not suprising that he is
    now seen as supporting both ACT and National . . .

    He does it because unlike you and Ardern he cares for New Zealand and doesn't want to see it turned into the north Korea of the South Pacific!
    Understandable as National has become less popular since Key decided
    he had had enough - now they are bringing back Collins!

    Now they're more popular than Labour/Watermelon and well on the way to being the next government with ACT!

    A pretence that the National party is not right-wing is of course a
    farcical assertion - they are much more neo-liberal than they used to
    be under Muldoon of course, but Luxon appears to want to return to the
    policies of Ruthenasia - for National, the biggest change over time
    has been that they have become a lot more authoritarian; they are
    however also slightly more right wing than they used to be (compare
    the assessments going back to 2008 for example.

    Better than continuing on the apartheid trail Labour wants to take us!
    What rubbish - thanks to Jacinda''s actions, most New Zealanders are
    much more tolerant of different groups - her attitude following the Christchurch shooting has lot to do with that. Again you provide no
    evidence of your silly statement.

    Her attitude after the Christchurch massacre was just a kneejerk reaction of a scared little Marxist!

    Now I predict Tony and the Johns will object; but I also predict they
    will have nothing to base that opinion on than their own opinion -
    which has in so many aspects has proved them wrong time after time . .
    .

    Whereas in this case you've used the farcical political compass to hopefully support was in actual fact utter garbage even worse than the garbage you usually push. Just because your new glorious leader has snubbed his Maori caucus :)
    You have no alternative narrative to support your frankly silly
    assertions. You lose, John Bowes

    You lost as soon as you dragged out the stupid political compass as you have every single time you've dragged it out. But guess we can't expect anything else from misandist fucking imbecile like you!

    So I will not believe an opinion from the far-right posters to
    nz.general - I predict they will be unable to give evidence of
    National being less right wing than they have been assessed at the
    political compass - or that they willprovide any credible literature
    to support their personal views . . .

    It's okay Rich. I'm pretty sure that like me all the other posters in this ng just get a good belly laugh out of your biased and unsupported (even with cites) opinions :)
    Your biased and usupported personal opinions (without any cites) are
    of course just rubbish.

    The only thing I need to support my opinion about you is a grizzly post like this Rich. Nothing you've posted supports your claims. It only supports my claim your a fucking imbecile without any doubt :)


    You lose again, John Bowes!

    Only in what passes for your pea sized brain Rich. In reality you've lost just like your stupid ex PM. Take a leaf out of her book and fuck off :)

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  • From Rich80105@21:1/5 to bowesjohn02@gmail.com on Mon Jan 23 23:12:03 2023
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 23:49:54 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowesjohn02@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 7:10:16 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 21:12:57 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 5:48:59 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:23:16 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 3:21:24 PM UTC+13, Tony wrote:
    Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:53:31 +1300, Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com> >> >> >> >wrote:

    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:01:18 -0800 (PST), JohnO <john...@gmail.com> >> >> >> >>wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote: >> >> >> >>>> > On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable
    to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?


    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the >> >> >> >>>> You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else
    does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at
    least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no
    indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP
    to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it
    without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of >> >> >> >>>> > National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the
    opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in
    2013 and 2014. She is a M?ori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a political
    commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot
    routinely vomits onto this NG.

    My point was that it is just an Opinion - it is not journalism; it has
    no more validity than the response from the two Johns to this thread.
    And on that basis, here is another opinion:
    https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/23-01-2023/new-zealand-isnt-ready-for-a-maori-prime-minister

    The author is Tina Ngata - a prominent Maori name! "I am a Ngati Porou
    mother of two from the East Coast of Te Ika a Maui. My work involves >> >> >> >advocacy for environmental, Indigenous and human rights. This includes
    local, national and international initiatives that highlight the role >> >> >> >of settler colonialism in issues such as climate change and waste
    pollution, and promote Indigenous conservation as best practice for a >> >> >> >globally sustainable future"

    Arguably this article is closer to the opinion of most Maori than the >> >> >> >National party propaganda - certainly it is a well argued opinion,
    which catches the concern over the nature of political attackes from >> >> >> >the far-right, including National and ACT.
    National and ACT are not far right you fool. Saying that they are totally
    discredits any opinion you might publish.
    What do you expect from a woke wacker like Rich? Reasoned debate? :)
    The far-right are often concerned that they are being accused of being
    extremist - it is often true of course, but still they would rather
    pretend that they are not. Consistently however they provide no
    evidence of their assertions
    See:
    https://www.politicalcompass.org/nz2020
    and the similar chart for 2017.

    Why do you keep dragging out this thoroughly discredited piece of garbage Rich? I know it's hard for you to accept that something you rely on for your biased political posts but I'd have thought the fact it's garbage would have sunk into your
    imbecilic font of knowledge by now...
    So who discredited it? If you cannot give a reference then you are
    just lying yet again.

    You know damn well who refuted the bullshit political compass Rich. Go ask JohnO or Crash or Tony about it!
    None of them gave any reasons not to respect the Political Compass, or identified any criticism from anyone else.

    So you cannot discredit it either. I am not surprised.



    From those charts, National was at +8 (out of 10) to the Right
    economically for both 2017 and 2020; Labour moved from +3 to +5.5
    (more to the right), and ACT moved from +9 to +9.5 - a very small
    change, but the big change was going from more authoritarian than
    National to nearly as libertarian as the Green Party.

    National are closer to centerist than either of the totalitarian party's Labour and Watermelon that you blindly support Rich as is ACT who've spoken out more for ordinary New Zealanders!
    Give a reference for that assertion - or apologise for just expressing
    a personal opinion - which is wrong as usual from your posts

    Fuck off Rich. You've provided no legitimate cites for your stupidity and you know why your stupidity is being questioned!
    Your claims are bullshit and conflict with The Political Compass,
    which you have not been able to give any criticism other than your
    unsupported and unjustified personal opinion.


    <utter garbage snipped>


    Now the very far-right nutters are more nutter than right wing - Chris
    Luxon supported political parties not talking to the irrational
    Wellington protestors, but Seymour, wearing his libertarian hat, was
    better able to seek votes by partially agreeing that people should be
    able to make decisions for themselves on a lot more things than
    National would tolerate.

    Yet far left nutters like you are just imbecilic Marxists who want everyone marching in step with the totalitarian Labour/Watermelon far right nutters!
    On the Political Compass Test, my result is about +2, +2 - closer to
    Labour than The Green Party, but slightly less right wing and more
    libertarian. It chas varied a bit over the years, but not much.

    What was your score - or were you not able to completet he test
    through not understanding the questions?

    Got better things to do with my time than waste it on garbage like the political compass Rich. I'm centrist like Tony, Crash and JohnO. Something your to fucking stupid to understand or accept!
    Just because you do not have sufficient skills to complete the test
    does not make anyone else stupid, John Bowes.



    Individual supporters of political parties may well not assess
    themselves at the same point as the party as a whole - David Farrar
    for example identified quite a few years ago (around the time he
    stopped posting to nz.general and started Kiwiblog) his views as being
    close to where the ACT Party is now - it is not suprising that he is
    now seen as supporting both ACT and National . . .

    He does it because unlike you and Ardern he cares for New Zealand and doesn't want to see it turned into the north Korea of the South Pacific!
    Understandable as National has become less popular since Key decided
    he had had enough - now they are bringing back Collins!

    Now they're more popular than Labour/Watermelon and well on the way to being the next government with ACT!
    You are entitled to hope, even when you do not understand.


    A pretence that the National party is not right-wing is of course a
    farcical assertion - they are much more neo-liberal than they used to
    be under Muldoon of course, but Luxon appears to want to return to the
    policies of Ruthenasia - for National, the biggest change over time
    has been that they have become a lot more authoritarian; they are
    however also slightly more right wing than they used to be (compare
    the assessments going back to 2008 for example.

    Better than continuing on the apartheid trail Labour wants to take us!
    What rubbish - thanks to Jacinda''s actions, most New Zealanders are
    much more tolerant of different groups - her attitude following the
    Christchurch shooting has lot to do with that. Again you provide no
    evidence of your silly statement.

    Her attitude after the Christchurch massacre was just a kneejerk reaction of a scared little Marxist!
    Rubbish - your personal opinion clearly has no value.


    Now I predict Tony and the Johns will object; but I also predict they
    will have nothing to base that opinion on than their own opinion -
    which has in so many aspects has proved them wrong time after time . .
    .

    Whereas in this case you've used the farcical political compass to hopefully support was in actual fact utter garbage even worse than the garbage you usually push. Just because your new glorious leader has snubbed his Maori caucus :)
    You have no alternative narrative to support your frankly silly
    assertions. You lose, John Bowes

    You lost as soon as you dragged out the stupid political compass as you have every single time you've dragged it out. But guess we can't expect anything else from misandist fucking imbecile like you!
    You asked for it; I provided it; you do not understand it and cannot
    support your misunderstandings with any references.


    So I will not believe an opinion from the far-right posters to
    nz.general - I predict they will be unable to give evidence of
    National being less right wing than they have been assessed at the
    political compass - or that they willprovide any credible literature
    to support their personal views . . .

    It's okay Rich. I'm pretty sure that like me all the other posters in this ng just get a good belly laugh out of your biased and unsupported (even with cites) opinions :)
    Your biased and usupported personal opinions (without any cites) are
    of course just rubbish.

    The only thing I need to support my opinion about you is a grizzly post like this Rich. Nothing you've posted supports your claims. It only supports my claim your a fucking imbecile without any doubt :)
    You probably think all that means something. Sorry, it does not.



    You lose again, John Bowes!

    Only in what passes for your pea sized brain Rich. In reality you've lost just like your stupid ex PM. Take a leaf out of her book and fuck off :)
    You lose again, John Bowes

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  • From JohnO@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 23 13:22:00 2023
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 23:16:18 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 23:49:54 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 7:10:16 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 21:12:57 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 5:48:59 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:23:16 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 3:21:24 PM UTC+13, Tony wrote:
    Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:53:31 +1300, Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:01:18 -0800 (PST), JohnO <john...@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable
    to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?


    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the
    You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else
    does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at
    least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no
    indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP
    to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it
    without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the
    opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in
    2013 and 2014. She is a M?ori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a political
    commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot
    routinely vomits onto this NG.

    My point was that it is just an Opinion - it is not journalism; it has
    no more validity than the response from the two Johns to this thread.
    And on that basis, here is another opinion:
    https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/23-01-2023/new-zealand-isnt-ready-for-a-maori-prime-minister

    The author is Tina Ngata - a prominent Maori name! "I am a Ngati Porou
    mother of two from the East Coast of Te Ika a Maui. My work involves
    advocacy for environmental, Indigenous and human rights. This includes
    local, national and international initiatives that highlight the role
    of settler colonialism in issues such as climate change and waste >> >> >> >pollution, and promote Indigenous conservation as best practice for a
    globally sustainable future"

    Arguably this article is closer to the opinion of most Maori than the
    National party propaganda - certainly it is a well argued opinion, >> >> >> >which catches the concern over the nature of political attackes from
    the far-right, including National and ACT.
    National and ACT are not far right you fool. Saying that they are totally
    discredits any opinion you might publish.
    What do you expect from a woke wacker like Rich? Reasoned debate? :) >> >> The far-right are often concerned that they are being accused of being >> >> extremist - it is often true of course, but still they would rather
    pretend that they are not. Consistently however they provide no
    evidence of their assertions
    See:
    https://www.politicalcompass.org/nz2020
    and the similar chart for 2017.

    Why do you keep dragging out this thoroughly discredited piece of garbage Rich? I know it's hard for you to accept that something you rely on for your biased political posts but I'd have thought the fact it's garbage would have sunk into your
    imbecilic font of knowledge by now...
    So who discredited it? If you cannot give a reference then you are
    just lying yet again.

    You know damn well who refuted the bullshit political compass Rich. Go ask JohnO or Crash or Tony about it!
    None of them gave any reasons not to respect the Political Compass, or identified any criticism from anyone else.

    So you cannot discredit it either. I am not surprised.


    From those charts, National was at +8 (out of 10) to the Right
    economically for both 2017 and 2020; Labour moved from +3 to +5.5
    (more to the right), and ACT moved from +9 to +9.5 - a very small
    change, but the big change was going from more authoritarian than
    National to nearly as libertarian as the Green Party.

    National are closer to centerist than either of the totalitarian party's Labour and Watermelon that you blindly support Rich as is ACT who've spoken out more for ordinary New Zealanders!
    Give a reference for that assertion - or apologise for just expressing
    a personal opinion - which is wrong as usual from your posts

    Fuck off Rich. You've provided no legitimate cites for your stupidity and you know why your stupidity is being questioned!
    Your claims are bullshit and conflict with The Political Compass,
    which you have not been able to give any criticism other than your unsupported and unjustified personal opinion.
    <utter garbage snipped>


    Now the very far-right nutters are more nutter than right wing - Chris >> >> Luxon supported political parties not talking to the irrational
    Wellington protestors, but Seymour, wearing his libertarian hat, was >> >> better able to seek votes by partially agreeing that people should be >> >> able to make decisions for themselves on a lot more things than
    National would tolerate.

    Yet far left nutters like you are just imbecilic Marxists who want everyone marching in step with the totalitarian Labour/Watermelon far right nutters!
    On the Political Compass Test, my result is about +2, +2 - closer to
    Labour than The Green Party, but slightly less right wing and more
    libertarian. It chas varied a bit over the years, but not much.

    What was your score - or were you not able to completet he test
    through not understanding the questions?

    Got better things to do with my time than waste it on garbage like the political compass Rich. I'm centrist like Tony, Crash and JohnO. Something your to fucking stupid to understand or accept!
    Just because you do not have sufficient skills to complete the test
    does not make anyone else stupid, John Bowes.


    Individual supporters of political parties may well not assess
    themselves at the same point as the party as a whole - David Farrar
    for example identified quite a few years ago (around the time he
    stopped posting to nz.general and started Kiwiblog) his views as being >> >> close to where the ACT Party is now - it is not suprising that he is >> >> now seen as supporting both ACT and National . . .

    He does it because unlike you and Ardern he cares for New Zealand and doesn't want to see it turned into the north Korea of the South Pacific!
    Understandable as National has become less popular since Key decided
    he had had enough - now they are bringing back Collins!

    Now they're more popular than Labour/Watermelon and well on the way to being the next government with ACT!
    You are entitled to hope, even when you do not understand.

    A pretence that the National party is not right-wing is of course a
    farcical assertion - they are much more neo-liberal than they used to >> >> be under Muldoon of course, but Luxon appears to want to return to the >> >> policies of Ruthenasia - for National, the biggest change over time
    has been that they have become a lot more authoritarian; they are
    however also slightly more right wing than they used to be (compare
    the assessments going back to 2008 for example.

    Better than continuing on the apartheid trail Labour wants to take us! >> What rubbish - thanks to Jacinda''s actions, most New Zealanders are
    much more tolerant of different groups - her attitude following the
    Christchurch shooting has lot to do with that. Again you provide no
    evidence of your silly statement.

    Her attitude after the Christchurch massacre was just a kneejerk reaction of a scared little Marxist!
    Rubbish - your personal opinion clearly has no value.

    Now I predict Tony and the Johns will object; but I also predict they >> >> will have nothing to base that opinion on than their own opinion -
    which has in so many aspects has proved them wrong time after time . . >> >> .

    Whereas in this case you've used the farcical political compass to hopefully support was in actual fact utter garbage even worse than the garbage you usually push. Just because your new glorious leader has snubbed his Maori caucus :)
    You have no alternative narrative to support your frankly silly
    assertions. You lose, John Bowes

    You lost as soon as you dragged out the stupid political compass as you have every single time you've dragged it out. But guess we can't expect anything else from misandist fucking imbecile like you!
    You asked for it; I provided it; you do not understand it and cannot
    support your misunderstandings with any references.

    So I will not believe an opinion from the far-right posters to
    nz.general - I predict they will be unable to give evidence of
    National being less right wing than they have been assessed at the
    political compass - or that they willprovide any credible literature >> >> to support their personal views . . .

    It's okay Rich. I'm pretty sure that like me all the other posters in this ng just get a good belly laugh out of your biased and unsupported (even with cites) opinions :)
    Your biased and usupported personal opinions (without any cites) are
    of course just rubbish.

    The only thing I need to support my opinion about you is a grizzly post like this Rich. Nothing you've posted supports your claims. It only supports my claim your a fucking imbecile without any doubt :)
    You probably think all that means something. Sorry, it does not.


    You lose again, John Bowes!

    Only in what passes for your pea sized brain Rich. In reality you've lost just like your stupid ex PM. Take a leaf out of her book and fuck off :)
    You lose again, John Bowes

    Dickbot loses every time. It's a sad consequence of its fundamentally subnormal IQ.

    This guy has a clearly above normal IQ, and explains why the Political Compass is intrinsically flawed. Probably has too many big words for Dickbot though.

    https://www.spectator.com.au/2018/10/the-other-right-whats-wrong-with-the-political-compass/

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  • From John Bowes@21:1/5 to JohnO on Mon Jan 23 13:55:22 2023
    On Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 10:22:02 AM UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 23:16:18 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 23:49:54 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 7:10:16 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 21:12:57 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 5:48:59 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:23:16 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 3:21:24 PM UTC+13, Tony wrote:
    Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:53:31 +1300, Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:01:18 -0800 (PST), JohnO <john...@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable
    to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?


    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the
    You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else
    does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at
    least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no
    indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP
    to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it
    without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the
    opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in
    2013 and 2014. She is a M?ori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a political
    commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot
    routinely vomits onto this NG.

    My point was that it is just an Opinion - it is not journalism; it has
    no more validity than the response from the two Johns to this thread.
    And on that basis, here is another opinion:
    https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/23-01-2023/new-zealand-isnt-ready-for-a-maori-prime-minister

    The author is Tina Ngata - a prominent Maori name! "I am a Ngati Porou
    mother of two from the East Coast of Te Ika a Maui. My work involves
    advocacy for environmental, Indigenous and human rights. This includes
    local, national and international initiatives that highlight the role
    of settler colonialism in issues such as climate change and waste
    pollution, and promote Indigenous conservation as best practice for a
    globally sustainable future"

    Arguably this article is closer to the opinion of most Maori than the
    National party propaganda - certainly it is a well argued opinion,
    which catches the concern over the nature of political attackes from
    the far-right, including National and ACT.
    National and ACT are not far right you fool. Saying that they are totally
    discredits any opinion you might publish.
    What do you expect from a woke wacker like Rich? Reasoned debate? :)
    The far-right are often concerned that they are being accused of being
    extremist - it is often true of course, but still they would rather >> >> pretend that they are not. Consistently however they provide no
    evidence of their assertions
    See:
    https://www.politicalcompass.org/nz2020
    and the similar chart for 2017.

    Why do you keep dragging out this thoroughly discredited piece of garbage Rich? I know it's hard for you to accept that something you rely on for your biased political posts but I'd have thought the fact it's garbage would have sunk into your
    imbecilic font of knowledge by now...
    So who discredited it? If you cannot give a reference then you are
    just lying yet again.

    You know damn well who refuted the bullshit political compass Rich. Go ask JohnO or Crash or Tony about it!
    None of them gave any reasons not to respect the Political Compass, or identified any criticism from anyone else.

    So you cannot discredit it either. I am not surprised.


    From those charts, National was at +8 (out of 10) to the Right
    economically for both 2017 and 2020; Labour moved from +3 to +5.5
    (more to the right), and ACT moved from +9 to +9.5 - a very small
    change, but the big change was going from more authoritarian than
    National to nearly as libertarian as the Green Party.

    National are closer to centerist than either of the totalitarian party's Labour and Watermelon that you blindly support Rich as is ACT who've spoken out more for ordinary New Zealanders!
    Give a reference for that assertion - or apologise for just expressing >> a personal opinion - which is wrong as usual from your posts

    Fuck off Rich. You've provided no legitimate cites for your stupidity and you know why your stupidity is being questioned!
    Your claims are bullshit and conflict with The Political Compass,
    which you have not been able to give any criticism other than your unsupported and unjustified personal opinion.
    <utter garbage snipped>


    Now the very far-right nutters are more nutter than right wing - Chris
    Luxon supported political parties not talking to the irrational
    Wellington protestors, but Seymour, wearing his libertarian hat, was >> >> better able to seek votes by partially agreeing that people should be
    able to make decisions for themselves on a lot more things than
    National would tolerate.

    Yet far left nutters like you are just imbecilic Marxists who want everyone marching in step with the totalitarian Labour/Watermelon far right nutters!
    On the Political Compass Test, my result is about +2, +2 - closer to
    Labour than The Green Party, but slightly less right wing and more
    libertarian. It chas varied a bit over the years, but not much.

    What was your score - or were you not able to completet he test
    through not understanding the questions?

    Got better things to do with my time than waste it on garbage like the political compass Rich. I'm centrist like Tony, Crash and JohnO. Something your to fucking stupid to understand or accept!
    Just because you do not have sufficient skills to complete the test
    does not make anyone else stupid, John Bowes.


    Individual supporters of political parties may well not assess
    themselves at the same point as the party as a whole - David Farrar >> >> for example identified quite a few years ago (around the time he
    stopped posting to nz.general and started Kiwiblog) his views as being
    close to where the ACT Party is now - it is not suprising that he is >> >> now seen as supporting both ACT and National . . .

    He does it because unlike you and Ardern he cares for New Zealand and doesn't want to see it turned into the north Korea of the South Pacific!
    Understandable as National has become less popular since Key decided
    he had had enough - now they are bringing back Collins!

    Now they're more popular than Labour/Watermelon and well on the way to being the next government with ACT!
    You are entitled to hope, even when you do not understand.

    A pretence that the National party is not right-wing is of course a >> >> farcical assertion - they are much more neo-liberal than they used to
    be under Muldoon of course, but Luxon appears to want to return to the
    policies of Ruthenasia - for National, the biggest change over time >> >> has been that they have become a lot more authoritarian; they are
    however also slightly more right wing than they used to be (compare >> >> the assessments going back to 2008 for example.

    Better than continuing on the apartheid trail Labour wants to take us! >> What rubbish - thanks to Jacinda''s actions, most New Zealanders are
    much more tolerant of different groups - her attitude following the
    Christchurch shooting has lot to do with that. Again you provide no
    evidence of your silly statement.

    Her attitude after the Christchurch massacre was just a kneejerk reaction of a scared little Marxist!
    Rubbish - your personal opinion clearly has no value.

    Now I predict Tony and the Johns will object; but I also predict they
    will have nothing to base that opinion on than their own opinion - >> >> which has in so many aspects has proved them wrong time after time . .
    .

    Whereas in this case you've used the farcical political compass to hopefully support was in actual fact utter garbage even worse than the garbage you usually push. Just because your new glorious leader has snubbed his Maori caucus :)
    You have no alternative narrative to support your frankly silly
    assertions. You lose, John Bowes

    You lost as soon as you dragged out the stupid political compass as you have every single time you've dragged it out. But guess we can't expect anything else from misandist fucking imbecile like you!
    You asked for it; I provided it; you do not understand it and cannot support your misunderstandings with any references.

    So I will not believe an opinion from the far-right posters to
    nz.general - I predict they will be unable to give evidence of
    National being less right wing than they have been assessed at the >> >> political compass - or that they willprovide any credible literature >> >> to support their personal views . . .

    It's okay Rich. I'm pretty sure that like me all the other posters in this ng just get a good belly laugh out of your biased and unsupported (even with cites) opinions :)
    Your biased and usupported personal opinions (without any cites) are
    of course just rubbish.

    The only thing I need to support my opinion about you is a grizzly post like this Rich. Nothing you've posted supports your claims. It only supports my claim your a fucking imbecile without any doubt :)
    You probably think all that means something. Sorry, it does not.


    You lose again, John Bowes!

    Only in what passes for your pea sized brain Rich. In reality you've lost just like your stupid ex PM. Take a leaf out of her book and fuck off :)
    You lose again, John Bowes
    Dickbot loses every time. It's a sad consequence of its fundamentally subnormal IQ.

    This guy has a clearly above normal IQ, and explains why the Political Compass is intrinsically flawed. Probably has too many big words for Dickbot though.

    https://www.spectator.com.au/2018/10/the-other-right-whats-wrong-with-the-political-compass/

    It makes far more sense than richie's political compass :)
    Did a run through of the political compass last night. Found it interesting that you have to answer ALL the questions even though the responses limit you to four choices. Struck me as being a bit like Rich, very authoritarian...

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  • From Rich80105@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 24 12:08:02 2023
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:22:00 -0800 (PST), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 23:16:18 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 23:49:54 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 7:10:16 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 21:12:57 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 5:48:59 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:23:16 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 3:21:24 PM UTC+13, Tony wrote:
    Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:53:31 +1300, Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:01:18 -0800 (PST), JohnO <john...@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote:
    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable
    to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?


    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the
    You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else
    does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at
    least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no
    indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP
    to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it
    without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the
    opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in
    2013 and 2014. She is a M?ori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a political
    commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot
    routinely vomits onto this NG.

    My point was that it is just an Opinion - it is not journalism; it has
    no more validity than the response from the two Johns to this thread.
    And on that basis, here is another opinion:
    https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/23-01-2023/new-zealand-isnt-ready-for-a-maori-prime-minister

    The author is Tina Ngata - a prominent Maori name! "I am a Ngati Porou
    mother of two from the East Coast of Te Ika a Maui. My work involves
    advocacy for environmental, Indigenous and human rights. This includes
    local, national and international initiatives that highlight the role
    of settler colonialism in issues such as climate change and waste >> >> >> >> >pollution, and promote Indigenous conservation as best practice for a
    globally sustainable future"

    Arguably this article is closer to the opinion of most Maori than the
    National party propaganda - certainly it is a well argued opinion, >> >> >> >> >which catches the concern over the nature of political attackes from
    the far-right, including National and ACT.
    National and ACT are not far right you fool. Saying that they are totally
    discredits any opinion you might publish.
    What do you expect from a woke wacker like Rich? Reasoned debate? :) >> >> >> The far-right are often concerned that they are being accused of being >> >> >> extremist - it is often true of course, but still they would rather
    pretend that they are not. Consistently however they provide no
    evidence of their assertions
    See:
    https://www.politicalcompass.org/nz2020
    and the similar chart for 2017.

    Why do you keep dragging out this thoroughly discredited piece of garbage Rich? I know it's hard for you to accept that something you rely on for your biased political posts but I'd have thought the fact it's garbage would have sunk into your
    imbecilic font of knowledge by now...
    So who discredited it? If you cannot give a reference then you are
    just lying yet again.

    You know damn well who refuted the bullshit political compass Rich. Go ask JohnO or Crash or Tony about it!
    None of them gave any reasons not to respect the Political Compass, or
    identified any criticism from anyone else.

    So you cannot discredit it either. I am not surprised.


    From those charts, National was at +8 (out of 10) to the Right
    economically for both 2017 and 2020; Labour moved from +3 to +5.5
    (more to the right), and ACT moved from +9 to +9.5 - a very small
    change, but the big change was going from more authoritarian than
    National to nearly as libertarian as the Green Party.

    National are closer to centerist than either of the totalitarian party's Labour and Watermelon that you blindly support Rich as is ACT who've spoken out more for ordinary New Zealanders!
    Give a reference for that assertion - or apologise for just expressing
    a personal opinion - which is wrong as usual from your posts

    Fuck off Rich. You've provided no legitimate cites for your stupidity and you know why your stupidity is being questioned!
    Your claims are bullshit and conflict with The Political Compass,
    which you have not been able to give any criticism other than your
    unsupported and unjustified personal opinion.
    <utter garbage snipped>


    Now the very far-right nutters are more nutter than right wing - Chris >> >> >> Luxon supported political parties not talking to the irrational
    Wellington protestors, but Seymour, wearing his libertarian hat, was >> >> >> better able to seek votes by partially agreeing that people should be >> >> >> able to make decisions for themselves on a lot more things than
    National would tolerate.

    Yet far left nutters like you are just imbecilic Marxists who want everyone marching in step with the totalitarian Labour/Watermelon far right nutters!
    On the Political Compass Test, my result is about +2, +2 - closer to
    Labour than The Green Party, but slightly less right wing and more
    libertarian. It chas varied a bit over the years, but not much.

    What was your score - or were you not able to completet he test
    through not understanding the questions?

    Got better things to do with my time than waste it on garbage like the political compass Rich. I'm centrist like Tony, Crash and JohnO. Something your to fucking stupid to understand or accept!
    Just because you do not have sufficient skills to complete the test
    does not make anyone else stupid, John Bowes.


    Individual supporters of political parties may well not assess
    themselves at the same point as the party as a whole - David Farrar
    for example identified quite a few years ago (around the time he
    stopped posting to nz.general and started Kiwiblog) his views as being >> >> >> close to where the ACT Party is now - it is not suprising that he is >> >> >> now seen as supporting both ACT and National . . .

    He does it because unlike you and Ardern he cares for New Zealand and doesn't want to see it turned into the north Korea of the South Pacific!
    Understandable as National has become less popular since Key decided
    he had had enough - now they are bringing back Collins!

    Now they're more popular than Labour/Watermelon and well on the way to being the next government with ACT!
    You are entitled to hope, even when you do not understand.

    A pretence that the National party is not right-wing is of course a
    farcical assertion - they are much more neo-liberal than they used to >> >> >> be under Muldoon of course, but Luxon appears to want to return to the >> >> >> policies of Ruthenasia - for National, the biggest change over time
    has been that they have become a lot more authoritarian; they are
    however also slightly more right wing than they used to be (compare
    the assessments going back to 2008 for example.

    Better than continuing on the apartheid trail Labour wants to take us! >> >> What rubbish - thanks to Jacinda''s actions, most New Zealanders are
    much more tolerant of different groups - her attitude following the
    Christchurch shooting has lot to do with that. Again you provide no
    evidence of your silly statement.

    Her attitude after the Christchurch massacre was just a kneejerk reaction of a scared little Marxist!
    Rubbish - your personal opinion clearly has no value.

    Now I predict Tony and the Johns will object; but I also predict they >> >> >> will have nothing to base that opinion on than their own opinion -
    which has in so many aspects has proved them wrong time after time . . >> >> >> .

    Whereas in this case you've used the farcical political compass to hopefully support was in actual fact utter garbage even worse than the garbage you usually push. Just because your new glorious leader has snubbed his Maori caucus :)
    You have no alternative narrative to support your frankly silly
    assertions. You lose, John Bowes

    You lost as soon as you dragged out the stupid political compass as you have every single time you've dragged it out. But guess we can't expect anything else from misandist fucking imbecile like you!
    You asked for it; I provided it; you do not understand it and cannot
    support your misunderstandings with any references.

    So I will not believe an opinion from the far-right posters to
    nz.general - I predict they will be unable to give evidence of
    National being less right wing than they have been assessed at the
    political compass - or that they willprovide any credible literature >> >> >> to support their personal views . . .

    It's okay Rich. I'm pretty sure that like me all the other posters in this ng just get a good belly laugh out of your biased and unsupported (even with cites) opinions :)
    Your biased and usupported personal opinions (without any cites) are
    of course just rubbish.

    The only thing I need to support my opinion about you is a grizzly post like this Rich. Nothing you've posted supports your claims. It only supports my claim your a fucking imbecile without any doubt :)
    You probably think all that means something. Sorry, it does not.


    You lose again, John Bowes!

    Only in what passes for your pea sized brain Rich. In reality you've lost just like your stupid ex PM. Take a leaf out of her book and fuck off :)
    You lose again, John Bowes

    Dickbot loses every time. It's a sad consequence of its fundamentally subnormal IQ.

    This guy has a clearly above normal IQ, and explains why the Political Compass is intrinsically flawed. Probably has too many big words for Dickbot though.

    https://www.spectator.com.au/2018/10/the-other-right-whats-wrong-with-the-political-compass/

    The reality is that it does not allow for a right wing libertarian
    party like ACT - according to Kastelein "However, Mitchells plot
    seems flawed in a similar way to the Political Compass. My basic
    problem with them is the presence of logical no go zones. With the
    political compass, it seems clear that you cant have a far-right
    libertarian or a far-left libertarian. Neither far right nor far-left
    are achievable without being authoritarian. "

    ACT did not have the same policy platform when he did his analysis,
    and he can be forgiven for being confused - indeed he said that he was confused.

    Yes we use labels to mean different things, but if you do the test for
    the Political Compass you will realise that the questions cover a wide
    range of issues - if you miss some questions you may get a biassed
    result.

    So no, that chart does not indicate that the political compass is not
    useful - in fact quite the contrary. The problem with his chart is
    that it depends on his unclear definitions to determine where any
    person should appear - but also excludes some complex choices such as
    the policy platform of ACT.

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  • From John Bowes@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 23 16:06:54 2023
    On Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 12:12:20 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:22:00 -0800 (PST), JohnO <john...@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 23:16:18 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 23:49:54 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 7:10:16 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 21:12:57 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 5:48:59 PM UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:23:16 -0800 (PST), John Bowes
    <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Monday, January 23, 2023 at 3:21:24 PM UTC+13, Tony wrote:
    Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:53:31 +1300, Rich80105 <Rich...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Sun, 22 Jan 2023 16:01:18 -0800 (PST), JohnO <john...@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:56:13 UTC+13, JohnO wrote: >> >> >> >> >>>> On Monday, 23 January 2023 at 12:21:13 UTC+13, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 11:37:27 +1300, Mutley <mutle...@hotmail.com>
    wrote:
    John Bowes <bowes...@gmail.com> wrote:

    Or so it is claimed. But maybe if the Maori caucus had anyone suitable
    to be DPM Hipkins would have picked them surely?


    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/opinion-maori-definitely-snubbed-by-the-labour-party-leadership-reshuffle/DMYXQU47TJGYDGA735UOXHCSNM/
    Good. Maybe they'll all piss off to the Maori Party.
    It is an opinion, by a former List member of Parliament for the
    You often post opinion pieces, dickhead, so don't whinge when someone else
    does.
    National Party.

    A journalist, or even a reporter, would have sought a view from at
    least some Maori people in positions of leadership; she gives no
    indication of any such action. This is National using a forgotten MP
    to add to its propaganda - and of course The Herald readily prints it
    without acknowledging it as part of their soft sponsorship of
    National.
    It was acknowledged, you idiot. he Herald states clearly who wrote the
    opinion and states clearly that she was a National MP.

    "Claudette Hauiti is a former National Party politician and was an MP in
    2013 and 2014. She is a M?ori journalist for Radio Waatea 603 and a political
    commentator."

    Sounds like a far more educated opinion than the drivel that Dickbot
    routinely vomits onto this NG.

    My point was that it is just an Opinion - it is not journalism; it has
    no more validity than the response from the two Johns to this thread.
    And on that basis, here is another opinion:
    https://thespinoff.co.nz/atea/23-01-2023/new-zealand-isnt-ready-for-a-maori-prime-minister

    The author is Tina Ngata - a prominent Maori name! "I am a Ngati Porou
    mother of two from the East Coast of Te Ika a Maui. My work involves
    advocacy for environmental, Indigenous and human rights. This includes
    local, national and international initiatives that highlight the role
    of settler colonialism in issues such as climate change and waste
    pollution, and promote Indigenous conservation as best practice for a
    globally sustainable future"

    Arguably this article is closer to the opinion of most Maori than the
    National party propaganda - certainly it is a well argued opinion,
    which catches the concern over the nature of political attackes from
    the far-right, including National and ACT.
    National and ACT are not far right you fool. Saying that they are totally
    discredits any opinion you might publish.
    What do you expect from a woke wacker like Rich? Reasoned debate? :)
    The far-right are often concerned that they are being accused of being
    extremist - it is often true of course, but still they would rather >> >> >> pretend that they are not. Consistently however they provide no
    evidence of their assertions
    See:
    https://www.politicalcompass.org/nz2020
    and the similar chart for 2017.

    Why do you keep dragging out this thoroughly discredited piece of garbage Rich? I know it's hard for you to accept that something you rely on for your biased political posts but I'd have thought the fact it's garbage would have sunk into your
    imbecilic font of knowledge by now...
    So who discredited it? If you cannot give a reference then you are
    just lying yet again.

    You know damn well who refuted the bullshit political compass Rich. Go ask JohnO or Crash or Tony about it!
    None of them gave any reasons not to respect the Political Compass, or
    identified any criticism from anyone else.

    So you cannot discredit it either. I am not surprised.


    From those charts, National was at +8 (out of 10) to the Right
    economically for both 2017 and 2020; Labour moved from +3 to +5.5 >> >> >> (more to the right), and ACT moved from +9 to +9.5 - a very small >> >> >> change, but the big change was going from more authoritarian than >> >> >> National to nearly as libertarian as the Green Party.

    National are closer to centerist than either of the totalitarian party's Labour and Watermelon that you blindly support Rich as is ACT who've spoken out more for ordinary New Zealanders!
    Give a reference for that assertion - or apologise for just expressing >> >> a personal opinion - which is wrong as usual from your posts

    Fuck off Rich. You've provided no legitimate cites for your stupidity and you know why your stupidity is being questioned!
    Your claims are bullshit and conflict with The Political Compass,
    which you have not been able to give any criticism other than your
    unsupported and unjustified personal opinion.
    <utter garbage snipped>


    Now the very far-right nutters are more nutter than right wing - Chris
    Luxon supported political parties not talking to the irrational
    Wellington protestors, but Seymour, wearing his libertarian hat, was
    better able to seek votes by partially agreeing that people should be
    able to make decisions for themselves on a lot more things than
    National would tolerate.

    Yet far left nutters like you are just imbecilic Marxists who want everyone marching in step with the totalitarian Labour/Watermelon far right nutters!
    On the Political Compass Test, my result is about +2, +2 - closer to >> >> Labour than The Green Party, but slightly less right wing and more
    libertarian. It chas varied a bit over the years, but not much.

    What was your score - or were you not able to completet he test
    through not understanding the questions?

    Got better things to do with my time than waste it on garbage like the political compass Rich. I'm centrist like Tony, Crash and JohnO. Something your to fucking stupid to understand or accept!
    Just because you do not have sufficient skills to complete the test
    does not make anyone else stupid, John Bowes.


    Individual supporters of political parties may well not assess
    themselves at the same point as the party as a whole - David Farrar >> >> >> for example identified quite a few years ago (around the time he
    stopped posting to nz.general and started Kiwiblog) his views as being
    close to where the ACT Party is now - it is not suprising that he is
    now seen as supporting both ACT and National . . .

    He does it because unlike you and Ardern he cares for New Zealand and doesn't want to see it turned into the north Korea of the South Pacific!
    Understandable as National has become less popular since Key decided >> >> he had had enough - now they are bringing back Collins!

    Now they're more popular than Labour/Watermelon and well on the way to being the next government with ACT!
    You are entitled to hope, even when you do not understand.

    A pretence that the National party is not right-wing is of course a >> >> >> farcical assertion - they are much more neo-liberal than they used to
    be under Muldoon of course, but Luxon appears to want to return to the
    policies of Ruthenasia - for National, the biggest change over time >> >> >> has been that they have become a lot more authoritarian; they are >> >> >> however also slightly more right wing than they used to be (compare >> >> >> the assessments going back to 2008 for example.

    Better than continuing on the apartheid trail Labour wants to take us!
    What rubbish - thanks to Jacinda''s actions, most New Zealanders are >> >> much more tolerant of different groups - her attitude following the
    Christchurch shooting has lot to do with that. Again you provide no
    evidence of your silly statement.

    Her attitude after the Christchurch massacre was just a kneejerk reaction of a scared little Marxist!
    Rubbish - your personal opinion clearly has no value.

    Now I predict Tony and the Johns will object; but I also predict they
    will have nothing to base that opinion on than their own opinion - >> >> >> which has in so many aspects has proved them wrong time after time . .
    .

    Whereas in this case you've used the farcical political compass to hopefully support was in actual fact utter garbage even worse than the garbage you usually push. Just because your new glorious leader has snubbed his Maori caucus :)
    You have no alternative narrative to support your frankly silly
    assertions. You lose, John Bowes

    You lost as soon as you dragged out the stupid political compass as you have every single time you've dragged it out. But guess we can't expect anything else from misandist fucking imbecile like you!
    You asked for it; I provided it; you do not understand it and cannot
    support your misunderstandings with any references.

    So I will not believe an opinion from the far-right posters to
    nz.general - I predict they will be unable to give evidence of
    National being less right wing than they have been assessed at the >> >> >> political compass - or that they willprovide any credible literature
    to support their personal views . . .

    It's okay Rich. I'm pretty sure that like me all the other posters in this ng just get a good belly laugh out of your biased and unsupported (even with cites) opinions :)
    Your biased and usupported personal opinions (without any cites) are >> >> of course just rubbish.

    The only thing I need to support my opinion about you is a grizzly post like this Rich. Nothing you've posted supports your claims. It only supports my claim your a fucking imbecile without any doubt :)
    You probably think all that means something. Sorry, it does not.


    You lose again, John Bowes!

    Only in what passes for your pea sized brain Rich. In reality you've lost just like your stupid ex PM. Take a leaf out of her book and fuck off :)
    You lose again, John Bowes

    Dickbot loses every time. It's a sad consequence of its fundamentally subnormal IQ.

    This guy has a clearly above normal IQ, and explains why the Political Compass is intrinsically flawed. Probably has too many big words for Dickbot though.

    https://www.spectator.com.au/2018/10/the-other-right-whats-wrong-with-the-political-compass/
    The reality is that it does not allow for a right wing libertarian
    party like ACT - according to Kastelein "However, Mitchell’s plot
    seems flawed in a similar way to the Political Compass. My basic
    problem with them is the presence of logical “no go” zones. With the political compass, it seems clear that you can’t have a far-right libertarian or a far-left libertarian. Neither far right nor far-left
    are achievable without being authoritarian. "

    ACT did not have the same policy platform when he did his analysis,
    and he can be forgiven for being confused - indeed he said that he was confused.

    Yes we use labels to mean different things, but if you do the test for
    the Political Compass you will realise that the questions cover a wide
    range of issues - if you miss some questions you may get a biassed
    result.

    So no, that chart does not indicate that the political compass is not
    useful - in fact quite the contrary. The problem with his chart is
    that it depends on his unclear definitions to determine where any
    person should appear - but also excludes some complex choices such as
    the policy platform of ACT.
    So as usual you still blindly support garbage Rich. Everything that is created to keep silly little Marxists like you happy has flaws. Much like your posts Rich :)

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