It’s been building all day. The attempt to copy their American inspiration.
Late last afternoon the leadership of the Convoy imploded with recriminations of different factions taking over the protest.
Overnight a more hardline group emerged with the plan to attempt to force their way into Parliament.
They have been attempting to goad a response from the Police all day long.
This has had to be handled carefully, a heavy handed response to provocation won’t be acceptable and could cause a worse knee jerk from the alienated, however, They. Can’t. Enter. Parliament!
If they simply stay and shout, leaving them to occupy the space might be smartest.
Thank Baby Jesus our insurrectionists are far more slack and casual than their American versions.
It would have been unacceptable in the extreme for Parliament to be invaded by these lunatic protestors.
That line must hold.
The country owes a debt of gratitude to the professionalism and courage of the Police to hold that line.
Something very ugly was avoided today.
They are now singing Johnny Farnham, ‘You’re the voice’ in a giant karaoke.
Western Civilisation has ended.
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NZs half arsed number eight mentality even effects our lunatics, I’m not sure whether to laugh or hang my head in shame…
The Rent-a-Mob were successful in a coup at Backbenchers though. Weren’t they?
Legend success for the National Party Dirty Politics Rent-a-Hater Convoy.
How does shutting down legitimate businesses sit with ACT and National and their Dirty Politics backing crew?
Aren’t ACT and National meant to be pro-business?
Why is their Dirty Politics Rental Convoy attacking and shutting down hard-working, mum-and-dad businesses?
Weren’t the convoy of hater just meant to do a Canadian Trucker Movement and shut down the capital?
Time for Luxon to tell Collins to call off the dogs and “let my people go!”
Get out on the lawn at the Beehive, give them a few petrol vouchers from the National Party coffers and send them home, “for the good of hardworking, business people of Wullungtin”
Judith’s Plan backfired. John Key’s plan backfired. Chris Luxon has no control over Judith’s Dirty Politics backers and gutter dwelling manipulaters.
The convoy weren’t allowed a “Tea Party” at Backbenchers. Maybe David Seymour and Chris Luxon should have their “Cup of Tea” over at Backbenchers, instead of Parnell or Remuera? To make up for the money that Backbenchers lost because of a failed Dirty Politics Convoy Coup.
Once you let these rent-a-crowd haters off the leash, they will be hard to control Judith, Cam, David and Chris. You have poked the bear with your dirty politics rent-a-hater convoy stick, and now you need to damage control, for the sake of legitimate hard-working business people and their employees.
And why the Trump Flags FFS? What is the link between Dirty Politics and Trump? Is it Steve Bannon infiltrating and advising Chris Luxon and David Seymour?
So many questions, about so many haters!
I had to walk past them on my way home from work. I’ve never in my life seen so much white trash, and the smell of unwashed middle aged people. And also the obvious in breeding on display. One guy with a older woman, who simultaneously would have been his sister/wife/ mother and possibly grandma.
I imagine these degenerate will go thirsty & hungry as they wouldn’t afford to eat or drink at any of the local establishments.
These degenerates are a disgrace.
It was only later that I realised I could make some money by setting up a stall selling tinfoil….
Terry. You are talking odious ignorant judgmental rubbish and are an ill-bred disgrace.
We have been heading this way since Reagan, Thatcher, and in NZ, Roger’n’Ruth, enabled more unhinged individualism as collectivism and public consensus faded away under the neo liberal onslaught. Monetised internet platforms, and post modernist “anything can mean anything” philosophy completed the scene.
But surely the 4 million odd people in AO/NZ that have been vaccinated to date have made a very strong statement in reality?
Look, Parliament is a bourgeois Parliament upholding a neo liberal consensus among the main political parties. But, it is also a wider symbolic presence that must hold and be protected so further progress can be made.
Having just witnessed a video clip of the protesters and if they are a representative of the right, the anti Jacinda, mandate and pro freedom movement of N.Z., then it explains a lot about those supporting them on this site. Apparently they like their freedoms, but just their own. Dear oh dear.
These people are all dick heads . Looking at them their signs and appearance indictates there would be extreme left and right
voters.I would not see them as National types or even Act
Trevor. But it looks as if the indescribable Bishop of Big Motorbikes’ lot might have been giving them a helping hand. Bully for Brian.
“They are now singing Johnny Farnham, ‘You’re the voice’ in a giant karaoke.”
I wonder if John will have something to say about that?
“John Farnham slams use of ‘You’re the Voice’ at Melbourne lockdown protests”
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/john-farnham-slams-use-of-you-re-the-voice-at-melbourne-lockdown-protests/3cbe85dc-eb65-4f47-8fae-0a66b5f85f7c
Or maybe Aussies just won’t be interested in s a small group of Kiwis hi-jacking and iconic Aussie song…?
The parasites need protecting so their spawn can parasite. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/new-venture-for-max-keys-13-home-business-massey-project-launched-funds-call-soon/UKP74XYZMPIAKHP4Z4PEGP6FM4/
I swear to god, that handrail on the deck of the Elstree house is as fugly as you can get. If i had to install that i would have given the job to somebody else. Anybody else. The landscapers, a neighbour, God, a passing toddler… seriously… anybody.
Some stupid woman on TV, “We just want to be listened to.”
Well, you can spout bullshit about vaccines as much as you like, it doesn’t make it true the more you repeat it. The same with the more people listening to it more often.
“Look, there’s no pandemic,” she says. Whoop-de-fucken-do. Glory in having the freedom she seeks? And to use it to expose what an idiot she is?
It is past time for the peaceful protestors to leave, they have made their point and are now only providing cover for anarchists and thugs.
To say this is a far right movement is completely disingenuous and false. The protesters are from right across the political spectrum. Old school anti vax, anti establishment hippies, to hardcore anti immigration types, plus everything in between. Tino rangatiratanga flags were flying beside Trump flags, which were flying beside peace and love to all signs. Don’t be such a partisan hack all the time Bert.
So true MB.
Yep, they were a rainbow spectrum fringe…
Spoken like a true right wing partisan hack MickeyBoyle… I said
“Having just witnessed a video clip of the protesters and if they are a representative of the right”
The important word MickeyBoyle hack is IF. You need to read things properly rather than letting your bias feed your ego.
My bias lol. Coming from the biggest Labour sycophant in history hahaha.
“Since when did the NZ right support anarchists over the police, Govt and general public of New Zealand.”
No you’re not blaming this on the right at all Bert, you’re fair and impartial. Twat.
@MickeyBoyle This is a Dirty Politics inspired Rent-a-Hater group hit-job.
Tactics used by the Tories and Republican movements needing a distraction when in opposition, National had celebrated Tories beaming in and speaking at their two day caucus retreat in QT.
And the hate has worked for the Key-Glove-Puppet Luxon, who has shot up in the polls. But, Luxon is powerless against the forces of evil that lurk just beneath the surface of National Party politics.
He sidelined Collins, but Boag and Collins and Slater are still the National Party’s Dirty Politics cockroaches, scurrying around and under the fringes of this convoy of hate. When the Dirty Politics influences on this convoy of hate comes out, as it did with Hager’s book, the National Party will be lucky to get back in before 2050.
The Dirty Politics crew have overplayed their hand with this groundswell convoy of haters. Get the beers and popcorn in, when this blows up in National and ACT’s faces, as inevitably will, the New Conservatives will be the only viable opposition party in New Zealand in 2023 to 2050, no matter how many ‘Dancing with the Stars’ competitions ACT Leaders dance in, or how many times Cur John Key touts Chris Luxon on videos to the Chinese or Kiwis.
Time to get the SIS and anti-terrorist agencies look into the funding and backers and organisers of the convoy of hate? Or Nicky Hager?
MickeyBoyle (cock)
A lot of noise from a tiny percentage of the population.
This was a protest inspired by the far, far bigger Canadian convoy protest that itself, has inspired others throughout the world to do the same. As for this mob being NZ’s version of the so-called Jan 6 insurrection. Anyone who saw that so-called insurrection would know that they just strolled right on in. heck, they even had someone amounting to a tour guide leading them around. Point being, the only things that this convoy had in common with that so-called insurrection is that they were both slack, leaderless and far from threatening (to topple the political class).
Bigger point being, people are protesting government actions but ‘the people’ are not having a bar of it, meaning ‘the people’ will never be able to protest government actions again,meaning we are fcuked. Because when ‘the people’ can easily be influenced by the media to go against people – its game over. And I have got to say that it is my side of the political divide who are leading the charge against us people.
Government, government, government, yay, yay, yay. People, people, people, nay, nay, nay….this may as well be the rally cry of the Left. Problem being of course, government serves the ruling class before it serves the people, thus the Left, are the new acolytes of the ruling class. Who would have saw that coming, certainly not me. Thankfully, not all the Left are so easily led…..our numbers are growing
I guess they didnt have a core of CIA operatives embedded in the crowd urging them on?
Ra Henare. Yes. I don’t know why people are assuming that the protestors are leaderless, or labelling them cowards for maintaining their anonymity. There can be strategic or other reasons for not wanting to be publicly identified.
The men arrested by the police, the egg throwers, and the woman shouting death threats, may be little more than the mindless eruptions which Machiavellian organisers can count on to occur in the absence of overt leadership; it is fortunate that they were not more serious.
It’s OK Ra, Trump will pardon them all when re-elected.
Some familiar faces from the anti -1080 mob including one of the arrested ones. “What are you against–what have you got”.
Yes and the Trump woman who told a female media reporter that she was going to execute her.
What next?
Dirty politics are behind all this @bert https://www.nuremberg.nz/the-accused/
It’s disgusting. And now Chris Luxon has absolutely zero control over any of this. By sidelining Judith Collins, who was a bit more subtle with her brand of dirty politics when she was ‘inside the tent’, has gone rogue.
Now she’s ‘outside the tent’, it’s a hate-show that no-one in National or ACT wants out in the open. Give-them-back-double Collins, Boag, et al are rubbing their hands together hoping for the rent-a-hater group to storm the Beehive. Now she has been supposedly sidelined, she doesn’t give a shit about the country that spurned her, or the political party that demoted her.
It’s disgusting that this sort of hate is being manipulated by a political band of domestic terrorists and terror-sisters in National and ACT.
Silly question but does anyone know what on earth the plan was once they reached parliament?
Sorry mate, I’m just the one who was supposed to have organised the portaloos. You’ll have to ask whatsisname. You know, the bloke on the unicycle.
Close down Backbenchers it seems, because they insisted on Vaccine Passports being shown?
The Karen with the flag wanted somebody to “Come out, come out wherever you are!”
I think she was wanting people to come out of the closet, so probably part of the rainbow movement.
Trump supporters with Trump flags and MAGA hats were there wanting to hand out bleach and intra-anal ultraviolet light. Surprised not to see Todd Muller out there with his autographed MAGA hat.
There were a few teachers there who refused to get the vaccine, but it’s all good for them because they can go back to work online and persuade/indoctrinate students not to be vaccinated..
Density church was there, passing the tithe plate around.
A lot of farmers pissed off with not having cheap immigrants workers, fart tax, ute tax, but able to claim the diesel for the convoy as “business expense”
So, an eclectic mix of dirty politics inspired rent-a-haters. In the words of a previous PM who told 435 lies “Nothing to see here move along!” https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2016/06/04/435-lies-by-john-key/
435 lies on, that’s gotta hurt!
The only thing most decent kiwis want now is a CGT. If Jacinda introduces a full CGT she has my vote, if not I will never vote for Labour ever again.
Hilarious. They are dam lucky they weren’t up against the fuckin Red Squad like we were.
Those big Perspex shields would be good protection against covid, to the poor cops having to stand there and face that tirade of spittle. It must be politically expedient to make them face this drama! Yes I remember facing the red squad. 100% Agree C Boy Big pile of rotting rats!
These protesters are despicable low-lifes. Up until now I accepted their right to protest but not to the extent of denying other people their right to go about their normal lives and to make their own decisions without interference.
But now, these unintelligent self-entitled low-lifes abuse and throw raw eggs at a young 17 year old girl simply because she made the decision to wear a mask and go about her own business without interfering with these horrible people.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-convoy-protest-mask-wearing-17-year-old-egged-by-aggressive-convoy-protesters/WA4GVCKPH5SLC7UUFCMNOGZHXE/
These protesters demand their right to protest and they protest about their own freedoms but they ignore their responsibilities not to interfere with other people’s rights to do what they are entitled to do, including wearing masks and adapting to all the restrictions. And another glaring characteristic of this unintelligent mob is their very noticeable aggression and anger yet they talk about freedom and peace. I have no sympathy for them and they disgust me.
And as for this absolute bulls*** about trying to storm Parliament – oh dear, trying to emulate and align with the grotesque Trump supporters insurrection at Capitol Hill. How pathetic.
A message to the young 17 year old girl. You are the hero of the day. You have my support and no doubt the support of the majority of New Zealand and I absolutely understand and support you not wanting to be named but in a way I wish you would identify yourself because in doing that alone, you are standing up to a bunch of spineless ugly cowards.
A very astute and accurate analysis.
Much more astute than the person making stupid ” they are left wing protesters ” comments. I’m sure the 17 year old hero would agree.
Thanks Bert – and I also agree with and support all your comments above too. I am a fan of yours.
That was in response to you youngsuffrajet, finally a voice of reason.
Young S. No need for an innocent young woman to prove anything to anybody at all. No need for her to identify herself publicly, and risk exposing herself to more abuse with her name out there. She chose discretion. Let her be.
@Gentle Annie – I agree with you but I wasn’t saying she should identify herself. What I meant was that in a way I would like it if she did identify herself simply to show them she is not intimidated and to stare them down but yes, I totally get it that if she did, she would be subject to more abuse from the grotesque protesters who abused her and from their equally grotesque supporters.
It all appears as some bizarre emotional orgy with a pornographic fascination. While they may pride themselves as anti-establishment, they ultimately are committing a service for the establishment–entertainment to distract from far greater issues.
Well said.
The arrested men looked angry old men. In my younger days, the angry young men spawned a revolution in working class writing with plays and novels which became part of school curricula – and were also box office successes. They added to our knowledge of life at the bottom in a possibly more compelling way than Dickens did. This group seem to be signalling little more than their own failures, and they do need to accept some responsibility for this.
Hoping that the mum and dad police officers working down at Parliament are all Covid tested soon. Most of them are ok people doing a fairly thankless sort of job. Without them, it’ll be the army.
People should be aloud to protest and even enter parliament – we are a democracy – what’s the big deal? I might not agree with the protestors but many of them feel genuinely aggrieved and in a liberal, open democracy we should offer engagement and empathy (thank you John Stewart) not dismissal and sneering cynicism.
They are denying the public their democratic right to go about their daily lives. By all means protest, but when people can’t open their businesses and people are assaulted, it certainly is a big deal!
This doesn’t looking “left” or “right” to me. Just a bunch of misfits blathering on about “their rights”.
It’s very entertaining, I need more popcorn.
Most of the anti vacs and lockdown protests funding can be traced back to far right and foreign governments who want to destroy democracy in the West.
Stupid woke and right wingers are thinking this is locally organised protest…. nope.
Also more individualist nut jobs and Covid deniers arriving in NZ MIQ and NZ hospitals and being demanding to medical staff.
You have to wonder why NZ government didn’t increase the numbers of pre med doctors in NZ to supply our increasing population as well as with a pandemic in full swing.
Know of quality NZ applicants for medicine turned down as hardly any places in Medicine in NZ… still…
I guess the lawyers and commerce people are more needed for the future and they will rely on internationals turned NZ students for selection which seems to have bought new lows into NZ qualified doctors https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/411126/former-doctor-jailed-for-at-least-19-years-for-murder-of-amber-rose-rush and retaining migrant doctors also not working out as quality migrant professionals don’t last long here http://werewolf.co.nz/2014/12/public-health-the-silent-crisis/ or maybe less deserving to stay in NZ than migrant criminals https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/politics/residency-limbo-emails-reveal-pleas-of-rural-gp-while-convicted-criminals-granted-stay/ under NZ’s woke rules.
There are too many of these people shouting over TikTok so I removed it from my phone. Periscope was far more civilised
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