W-H-A-T??? You mean creating a common enemy & provoking protestors has only built the movement and there are more now?
On Day 2, the factions were turning on each other and they were imploding – they had failed to enter Parliament, the momentum had peaked and was collapsing.
But what did Trev do?
He poured petrol on the fire and demanded Police clear the lawn – HE provoked this!
The lengths with which some of the NZ Twitter community are going in defending Trevor today is fucking extraordinary!
LOOK AT THE LIVESTREAM – he recruited people with his temper tantrum – are you all so tribal you will not see?
He poured petrol on this!
Watching the glee many on the twitter left seem to take at watching poor people get bashed up the Police has been eye opening hasn’t it?
De-escalation by the Police & the removal of clubs from the Frontline are essential moves that will desperately turn the heat down here – the majority aren’t Nazi white supremacists threatening Parliament they are angry frightened people whipped into ignorant Frenzy at worst.
I never thought I’d ever get to the stage in NZ politics where I was holding back the Left from calling on the the State to smash their fellow citizen – I always thought that was a threat from the Right!
We need to be crueller to corporations and kinder to people.
After inciting, recruiting and prolonging this protest with his temper tantrum, the Speaker now turns on the sprinklers for spite – why is the rageaholic man child still running things?
If Key had pulled this stunt the Left would be screaming!
There is a long history of occupations on the lawns of Parliament – short of sending in Cops with clubs, we have to accept the provocation Trevor’s temper tantrum has provoked is an occupation that will leave later rather than sooner.
Let’s hope the rain can wash this away over the weekend and he doesn’t just try and bash his way out.
Great work Trev!
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Don’t, don’t Bomber use any inflammatory terms like ‘pouring petrol on things’.
We have people so highly wrought up that words may settle in what remains of their fevered brains. Just cool it, otherwise you yourself may heighten the problem.
Garden sprinklers! – they don’t know how lucky they are.
It could have been the comfy chair.
Hell, I can see some idiot lawyer from Nelson or somewhere or some dropkick dunny cleaner from Taranaki, taking him to the Human Rights Commission, the UN or some International War Crimes tribunal.
In the day parents yelled at kids, “Get in out of the bloody rain!” but kids loved it. The children at Parliament would have loved it. Including the adult ones.”
The real dumb ones who believe so much cockamamie crap about vaccines. Great for them, when their nonsense is challenged: “Do you think I came down in the last shower of rain?”
Why haven’t previous protestors been clubbed and waterboarded in front of Parliament? This sets the big precedent now, this is the new normal: beat young and old, beat their filthy thoughts into submission. Call in the bully boys when the constituents get a bit raucous, the ruling class will look down on the peasants and grin and memory hole their activist past.
The left has split into true left and Jacindas left.
Jacindas left have gone full on nasty and cruel and now even Luxon looks to be more measured and decent.
The Left have fallen so far.
I personally don’t like Trevor, but I agree with his decision to turn on the sprinklers.
Hopefully the police will soon use tear gas against the protesters. Then deal to the protesters with police batons, just like they did at the Springboks protests!
Anna I doubt that it was Trevor’s decision all by himself, he’s not an idiot. It may in fact help avert your reckless suggestion that the police deal to the protestors with batons, and use tear gas on them.
Spiteful ? Nothing’s that simple.
Gosh you’re horrible Anna.
My friends on the North Shore who all Party Vote for ACT agree with everything you say Anna. The Spingboks had every right to be here, it was a racially mixed team with Chester Williams on the Tour. Anyway, this sort of thing wouldn’t happen in South Africa for long and it shouldn’t be happening here in New Zealand either. A few rubber bullets would soon disperse these troublemakers.
But those protesting Jacinda hater right wing nutters are Act and seymore’s crowd. He must be itching to get out there to lead them. Why doesnt Acts Rodney get down there with the Natz’ Matt King.
The moment I read the Speaker’s comment about keeping the sprinklers on is the moment I started siding with the protesters. Me and probably a bunch of other people who hadn’t been too worried either way up to now. But the sprinklers is just so spiteful
The left think Mallard is a role model? What happened?
These people don’t give a shit about the working class, and the likes of Ani O Brein disgust me when they paint them as working class.
They don’t support unions, collective bargaining, sick leave, paid holidays, protections from unfair dismissial or anything like that ( and neither does Ani).
They are scabs, plain and simple. A lot of so called ‘working class’ are now scabs. They would sell out their comrades for a few bucks.
Good to see you are talking sense on this matter.
The Left have gone insane.
Just say it. Instead of making excuses.
I’m no die-hard righty, but the Left has had a Covid lobotomy of any of the actual beliefs it once stood for, including being for the working class, marganlised, protest, and free speech. They would rather arrogantly deem anyone who doesn’t support their line as being a fascist, racist, far-right nutjob.
We are literally one of the most highly vaxxed nations through strong arm tactics and genuine consent. Covid-19 model after model have been completely overblown. The vaxxed are freely spreading the Omicron wide and fast.
Any normal Government – like many in Europe and North America currently are – would now reassess and set a timeliness to dismantle what should be emergency powers in the face of the huge suffering and exclusion that has occurred.
Not ours. Lefties would rather anger-wank themselves stupid over two days of minor inconvenience and generally well-behaved protestors, compared to the two plus years of hurt and loss from closed borders, delayed cancer tests, mental health, lost jobs, and more.
This is Aotearoa – the new regime, not New Zealand. Let’s be honest.
The many other governments have been failures and have no tools left to try and save their citizens lives. Its normal now for them to accept deaths. The enemy has overwhelmed them and they are now surrendering, Obviously the rightwing have deserted the fight against the enemy and fled the trenches and frontline like cowards. Aotearoa under Jacinda is the only country that has put the protected their citizens and hasn’t surrendered to Covid. She has saved over 10,000 NZers lives – you should rejoice this instead of helping the NATZ dirty politics team and sick USA conspirators.
“I never thought I’d ever get to the stage in NZ politics where I was holding back the Left from calling on the the State to smash their fellow citizen”
This sadly is the state of too many Leftist in 2022. Illiberal and impulsively authoritarian. They seem to forget encourage or empower the state to crack heads of your fellow citizens and they may eventually come after you too.
We act like nefarious wrong doers are a threat to our society, but it is our own calls for banning, censoring and worse for the people we disagree with, which is the bigger danger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLJtr9PAafQ
Whatever you do dont tell the twitter activists Trev has occasionally dabble in a little racism…
“Mr Mallard jumped into the race relations fray again yesterday, accusing Mrs Turia of encouraging Maori girls as young as 13 to have babies in order to build the base for “Maori ownership of the country”.
They’ll have no choice but to cancel him and themselves for supporting him…
Democracy as we used to know it is history.
The 2023 election is going to be the election from hell.
John Key and Donald Brash styled dirty politics will be childs play.
So the person would thinks he is God makes the protestors wet underfoot and the real god sends rain from above . I wonder if the false bishop will take the weather as a sign of his displeasure.
Sprinklers? lols, that’s NZ all over.
Water canon is the way to go.
100% agree with you Martyn.
We should get on to Winnie to take Mallard to court for breaking the sprinkler ban. Pathetic and counterproductive.
Say what you like about Robert Muldoo, but he would have had the courage to face the protesters.
Mallard is a creep, turning the sprinklers on and soaking women and children, is the mark of a coward.
Surely the worst ( by quite a margin) Speaker NZ has ever known.
Deducting questions during Question Time on a whim, is not democracy. Nor is screwing questions down and down until they become nearly bloody meaningless.
But hey, The Great Man has the codes for the water option. We are in safe hands.
Maybe it’s just time for the government to cut it’s loses, deny the science, declare with the freedom loving peasantry, order the militia to start the round up of old regime loyalists and seek favour of whatever rises up next in an attempt to retain power. Or subvert. Or take the nation’s gold reserves and eff off to Miami or Portsea on the nation’s last working jet.
The vile former Minister of Education who closed several of our Grey Valley schools getting his come-uppance
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