National are arguing for a delay in the election because the Virus flare up distorts the media attention onto Jacinda and not even coverage of the Opposition.
This reason as to why National are desperate to move the election is actually a fair one, because Jacinda’s response over this latest outbreak has been another masterclass in leadership & empathy.
Her courageous performance under immense pressure is a reminder to the electorate that while National was spinning dangerous conspiracy theories, Jacinda led!
If National are going to be so irresponsible as to openly insinuate a conspiracy at the same time fringe political leaders are also calling on their members to protest on the streets without masks…
…then National have lost the moral high ground to postpone the election!
Gerry is no longer some oaf yelling shit in the House, he’s the Deputy Leader of the National Party, people are frightened, they are turning to their political leaders for guidance and Gerry fucking Brownshirt is claiming a conspiracy theory!!!
Remember when National spread the UN Refugee conspiracy theory that inspired the Christchurch white supremacist terrorist?
National are not fit to govern.
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And, hasn’t Simon Bridges been on the Pandemic Response Committee?
Yep he was but he lost the job to run the country so he is having a smelt down now.
Simple Simon is sounding so good when he is (rarely) interviewed. He would make a good leader of the Opposition. He does so much better when he doesn’t have a boringly prepared script and set of answers to questions that weren’t actually asked to drone on from. Wonder what old Hoots is doing these daze?
“National are not fit to govern” Martyn?
They are not fit to look after a pet hamster.
Maybe a dead hamster?
Why are you all so defensive of this?
If it is indeed conspiracy theories (as you say) just ignore it and move on. Be kind, wash your hands and contribute as part of the team of 5 million.
The fact remains that if, as suspected as of 12.00am Saturday we move into level 4 then the election will need to be postponed as there won’t be a safe way of having polling stations nor is NZ post/the electoral commission set up to deal with postal voting papers on a large scale.
Frank you are getting worked up son have a cup of tea.
13 new cases cleangreen – strap yourself in. Could be quite a bumpy ride over the next few days.
I’m fine by the way and don’t drink tea – thanks for asking though.
Director of Health Ashley Bloomfield: “we started managed isolation halfway through the first time, this time we’re going the other direction.”
That’s code for no, there won’t be a level 4 lockdown. Corona conditions apply.
Really? we’ll see come 4pm tomorrow – all it takes is one case that can’t be tracked back to this cluster. 1 case.
Now, Merv, you have to find a fiver first. All proceeds must go to The Daily Blog for allowing me to have my way with you.
Sorry you’re not my type – don’t take it personally
Dont drink tea?… you poor person… have you not discovered the wonderful health benefits of drinking green tea?- try it, you’ll like it.
Struggle with all hot beverages. Hot chocolate is passable. I’m sure it would be beneficial just never liked the taste or smell of tea and/or coffee. Can’t even stand coffee flavored milk etc.
Cmon Berty or Sam say something witty.
Come now… don’t struggle with this, – I strongly recommend this for everyone:
1/ Big Mug
2/ green tea bag
3/ tablespoon of honey
4/ thin slices raw ginger
Use inch or less sliced fine sliced ginger, throw in the teabag ,throw in the boiled water, then throw in the honey.
Drink.
Massive aid to digestion, airways, and just damn amazingly lovely and tasty. You’ll never look at a hot drink in a dim light again.
For those so inclined, you can even make a hot totty out of it.
When my nephew was ooing and arring when he had a bad cold or summit one time I gave him that ,… he said it was amazing! Couldn’t get enough of it and said when I saw him next it really did the trick.
Oh , as for the ginger – I eat that, but you can just as soon spoon em out.
Enjoy !
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Okay Frankie, Hot Chocolate… you sexy thing.
Touche
Winston said today that he has been given in information of how the Covid 19 virus got out into the community and he said all facts on it will be released soon.
Go Winston!!!!!! ‘the elders Champion’
Frank or Merv. Cant tell the difference
What are they on about? They’ve got social media, Hoskings, du Plesis and her drop kick husband, Plunket, Grant, Armstrong, Smith, Hawkesby, Garner and his dropkick sidekick, Audrey all campaigning flat stick for the Nats. Perhaps their contributions should be costed and considered as donations to the Nats. They’d better not exceed 15K though.
… you forgot John Blanks and Pulla Benefit on ‘National’ Radio mornings.
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Kiwijoker,
No problem for the latrine rodents. Just break up the donations like they were an enormous festering turd. That way the 15k limit doesn’t get exceeded. The group you quote is utterly nauseating and all play tag team with each other against Ardern in a sickening game of “GOTCHA”. They must surely be on the National Party payroll. A huge conflict of interest if ever there was one. What a sad reflection to have them masquerading as journalists especially in the lead up to our election. It’s not fair to have Ardern holding Covid PC’s so often but it’s fair to have that maggot excrement undermining and misrepresenting everything the Government says or does. Go figure.
And most of Radio NZ too are right wing nuts, except for Kim Hill as she is still the only sane one in that bunch.
All those names Kiwijoker promoting National live on air. Can anyone tell me why National are doing so poorly?
Possibly because most people can make up their own minds about who to vote for and don’t need unqualified, opinionated, talking head no-bodies telling them. The more the likes of Hosking and Co. push the Nat’s barrow the more I think people get turned off. Not only that, but the Nat’s own ‘born to rule, holier than thou’ attitude rubs many voters up the wrong way.
Probably because their audience, 60+, are most at risk of dying from Covid-19.
Most of the swing from Natz to Labour is voters terrified that Natz want them destroyed by the virus, or failing that David will euthanise them.
These are the self interested generation, getting shot at by their own heroes, and suddenly realising that the Natz never gave one hoot about them.
The only thing interesting about this is will they turn back to their “owners”, or will they shun them for good.
Kiwijoker-Nah! They’re all worthless but think they’re priceless.
and just look at all the ferrels that are the MSM indulging them for clickbait BS that is coming from Chucky and brownstain its like they are trying to turn this into a circus and NZers will recoil in horror at this behaviour. In case they needed reminding there is a global pandemic on ffs..
My advise
1:-Do not engage or fall for any ruse by National between now and Sept 19, do so at your peril . (Remember Judith is not PM and cannot change the rules in her party favour , so use that)
2:-Win the election and take National out NOW because they will regroup and be strong again. Each day the election is delayed some unknown event may occur
So true. A great analogy to that is the 2013 Americas Cup races between Oracle Team USA and Team NZ when OTUSA used their postponement card to make modifications to their boat and go on to win the last 8 races and, as a result, win the Americas Cup.
The Government should not change the election date otherwise a similar scenario could happen. Giving National an inch could see them taking a mile.
National are not fit to be the opposition, let alone govern.
National are truly unfit to govern, when they act like two year olds who stomp their feet and demand they should be in charge.
Far too soon to know how established this is and hence what holes let it in and any degree of culpability.
Rush to worship the leadership is just as premature as the rush to condemn.
Where did all the common sense go?
Yes there is some strong fishy thing that smells bad in Denmark alright.
Delaying the election may be necessary. Be sensible regardless of what any political tosser says it really will not make any difference if the election is delayed by a month. Electoral offices says it doable. we need to give ourselves some breathing space .Ideal moment to put aside campaigning and form a united front. Brownie points all round. Collins will look petty for not suggesting unity Jacinda will rise above it all and get on with the job. What’s not to like???
It seems inevitable the election will now have to be delayed Shona. Chucky of course wants to be National Party leader for as long as possible so if the election is postponed until next year when Covid is hopefully all under control again and job losses have mounted up, it will be win-win for Collins until election day. If however it’s just postponed for several weeks the only thing that will change is desperate Collins will have more time to be Collins. That’s great news as the Latrine Rodent party will slip further into oblivion.
couldn’t agree more Jacindafan
Agreed Shona 100%
Yep. And the good Americans failed to act, for what ever real or mystical reason, and got trump.
If Labour are a genuine political party determined to do the right thing by us ( As they should…) then we’re simply plain, old fashioned lucky. It’s not as if we, the people, suddenly raged and drove out the rats from the well paid woodpile. And for that, I have to say ” Thanks virus.”
Since conspiracy’s are such a thing now-a-days here one more for you.
MMP? Was a scam dropped on us by one of the more dirty iterations of national under the steerage of Cock Nose bolger who stepped in to help cover dirty littler douglas’s tracks.
Didn’t see the internet coming though, did you jimbo?
MMP’s proved to be the mists, smoke and mirrors between good people and mean, nasty, greedy, exploitative scum righties in the natzo camp.
And when Labour is elected as our government and they start inquiring into all the dark little places where corporate righties and natzo’s like to come out and play we will know that Labour is a keeper and AO/NZ will prosper more flamboyantly than anyone could imagine possible.
You stupid farmers? Putting up those natzo hoardings? You should be ashamed of yourselves.
You! Yes you! You’re in fact why AO/NZ’s slumped into a pool of cow shit and desperately trying to stay afloat.
It’s your fault, you dumb shits! Flirting with the fancy natzo’s who go to the pub and rub your ego’s until they’re erect.
The natzo’s are fucking you without the kissing. ( Although nothing would surprise me for a vote.)The natzo’s gave you a shitty dollar for your wool. Not Labour. Labour are too busy trying to plug the holes the natzo’s poked in your pockets.
Honestly? You need to wake the fuck up! NOW! TODAY!
You know why I call myself ‘Countryboy’?
Because I’m a farmer with years of experience in sheep, cattle and cropping spanning many years on variously 650 acres in Southland to 3000 acres in Canterbury, that’s fucking why! I know what I’m talking about.
The natzo’s are not your friends. They’re the enemy. Wake the fuck up!?
Your only truly trustworthy friend is yourself. What does your commonsense tell you? What does logic tell you?
Fellow farmers? You need to get out more. Go and party with them there city folk because they need you as much as you need them. Farmers need the voter numbers and city people need to eat.
Imagine the power you’d have if city people and you country people were politically as one?
( Did you hear that sound!? Like the sound the last of the dishwashing detergent makes as you squeeze it out? That was the natzo’s and their rich as fuck hangers on’s arseholes snapping shut at the thought of it. )
Agreed CB Farmers around me in Gisborne/HB are worried that Chinese are coming for their land to plant trees as it is happening here widely during National Government reign so Farmers hold the fort and kick the National Party in the bin,!!!!!! – they are not on our side as they are just foreign property agents.
Think we’ve all heard enough from these politicians – time to vote!
I don’t have an opinion on negligence around the current Covid outbreak cos we don’t have any/enough info yet, but one only has to take a quick gander at the herald to see that fishwrap is indulging in rank scaremongering.
That worthless tabloid is sabotaging the cleanup of this outbreak by scaring the living shit outta readers just to score political points. The result has been testing sites overwhelmed by neurotic herald readers who have no symptoms or connection to the cluster. That slows accurate tracing right down. Treason IOW from a mob of paid liars whose only concern is to score political points. They want the cleanup to fail & the lockdown to be extended just so they can move crusher up enough in the polls to lose by slightly less.
Read the jaapie du Plessis covid beatup today. There is zero evidence to suggest this outbreak has been established ‘for weeks’ – even her paid experts concede that is only (barely) a possibility.
Send the slapper back to Africa to answer for the generations of criminals who preceded her & murdered, robbed & raped the indigenous population.
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National and their MPs are truly CRAP. Their negativity on everything has become really tiresome and of course boring.
Why they are incapable of behaving like adults and working in cohesion with the government and the experts during this latest event in our lives shows they are not worthy of being voted for.
But now National want to do a Donald Trump and request the election be delayed perhaps because National and of course Judith Collins isn’t rating well in the Polls anyway
I think we can be well assured that if there was a National government and COVID-19 came along that National would be totally shambolic(quoting Todd Muller’s pet word)at dealing with the event. National would be out of their depth coping with COVID-19.
In fact I am sure there would be more deaths than what we have had because National would be comfortable(quoting John Key’s pet word)with the extra deaths as it would mean less votes for Winston(as he said to John Banks at Cuppagate).
Because National have requested a delay in the election I think they are yet again doing a Copy and Paste from their beloved America and of course the insane little man that is Donald Trump.
National can demand all they bloody want but a delay will not change whom I will be voting for. I have made my decision and National can go to Hades for all I care.
Has anyone heard the news of what Winston the deputy PM has said on Australian TV. Perhaps just perhaps Brownlee will be proved right . There is more to this story
I have it from an impeccable homeless source that the second round was brought in from Melbourne by an ex parte member.
Just stating facts
Jacinda should do exactly what Judith wants and delay the election 3 years.
Both win, and taxpayers are relieved of the cost of voting for more and more BS that smells exactly the same.
The outcome is exactly the same, so a no brainer.
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