Ummm, has Winnie (and by extension every boomer redneck who voted for him) gone insane?
NZ First leader Winston Peters has claimed Dame Jacinda Ardern never informed him the Christchurch terrorist sent his chilling manifesto to the Prime Minister’s Office in an email just minutes before the March 15 attack – despite it being widely reported by news mediaat the time and addressed in a press conference the next day.
In an astonishing post on social media, Peters tonight called on Ardern to give evidence at the ongoing coronial inquest into the terror attack to explain what he alleged was her “lack of transparency to the New Zealand public”.
Ummm. Winnie (and by extension every boomer redneck who voted for him) has gone insane. Everyone knew about this except Winnie apparently…
Peters, the deputy prime minister at the time, claimed this was the first occasion the public had learned the Prime Minister’s Office had received the email. However, on March 16, 2019, just a day after the attack which killed 51 people, Ardern confirmed in a press conference – reported globally – that her office had received the information in a generic inbox for the prime minister.

…is Winnie off his meds? His smear is so false that Twitter have had to point out how much of a lie it is.
When the cesspit of Twitter is correcting you, you know you have gone too far!
Winston is lying just like he lied about Harry Tam.
Winston isn’t even in Government yet and his lies are already attempting to re-write history.
It’s the sickest irony that Jacinda saved 20 000 lives with her bold Covid response, and most of those 20 000 were boomers and those same boomers then went on to vote NZ First.
How surprising that Boomers are ungrateful.
I am looking forward to the next 3 years of far right fuckwittery more than I thought possible when I see the carnage that their voters will have to desperately attempt to justify.
Their, ‘but-Jacinda-saved-us-from-a-mass-death-event-and-we-are-forever-bitter’, argument just won’t manage to justify what ACT/National and NZ First are about to cause.
I’m excited to watch NZ First, ACT and National voters slicing off their faces while screaming at us, ‘You made us do this’.
Good times. Fun times.

Said the joker to the thief
Increasingly having independent opinion in a mainstream media environment which mostly echo one another has become more important than ever, so if you value having an independent voice – please donate here.
If you can’t contribute but want to help, please always feel free to share our blogs on social media



Politicians lie from both side of their faces. What’s new!
Good lord, if you needed any more evidence that Winston has lost his fucking mind here ya go I guess…
Once the dinner plates have been cleared at 4.30 in the afternoon, he gets bored and disoriented and starts randomly tweeting. He meant to say Ardern never told him he was deputy PM
Winston, trump lite?
The e-mail was sent to 70 other recipients, how many of them contacted the police? How many political offices where included? Will these details be revealed by the inquest?
Good question, to which I suspect we will get no answer.
I would just like to make it known that I was not one of the 70.
Or should I check my spam box?
Winston’s revisionist attack on Jacinda Ardern should be slapped down in the strongest terms by the Govt. and NZ Labour and anyone else that does not support MAGA style tactics being employed in NZ.
The irony is that Mr Peters’ support base, and indeed some NZF candidates, include conspiracy fruitcakes who are…lets say…no friends of muslims or non white migrants.
Winston has gone dog, it’s a regular thing for him.
What’s most disgraceful is he hasn’t blamed bad policy but he is insinuating Jacinda could have saved the lives of those lost. That is disgusting.
National are Squeaky Clean. There will be established protocols which swing into action in this type of horrendous occurrence, i.e. the PM receiving the terrorist’s manifesto, and Ardern’s office will have the receipts to show that they were followed. The deputy PM would be an obvious immediate recipient of such information, and of course, the appropriate security services. The coronial inquiry should be able to ascertain the facts.
I like your obvious optimism, Gentle Annie.
(I once had a washing machine with that name..)
But..
Ardern received the message only 9 minutes before the mosque was attacked. Even if all had instantly understood and acted immediately, an Armed Offenders Squad would not have made it anywhere near in time to prevent what happened. The terrorist was no fool: he wanted publicity, but deliberately gave insufficient warning time.
As I remember, the terrorist was actually caught very quickly by normal policemen doing their job amazingly well.
9 minutes was too short a time to set up an Armed Offenders squad at the mosque, and they would have been struggling to get to Lynwood in time.
The excellent normal coppers who caught the crim would probably have been called out of there because the Armed Offenders were going in..
I would hope that nobody suggests that Jacinda could have prevented it all.
Martyn is right: all those GSCB style intelligence groups could have prevented it, but they were too busy studying the wrong people..
He may mean that he and his colleagues were not informed of this at the time by the PM, who apparently informed the media about it at some later time. Many have not the time nor the inclination to follow the MSM.
Whatever. That’s why this muppet keeps appearing. People try and explain what the hell he is talking about. This is of course after he has sent some bullshit clarification after the initial misleading message has gone out. He’s a con artist
One can’t blame Winston Peters if Ardern told the media but didn’t tell him.
True, but only if Peter’s word is true as it wasn’t when accusing Paula Bennett for leaking his private superannation details.
One then can’t blame Labour for wanting an apology.
Liar.
For sure.
An absolute phony, always will be.
I think Winston is just pissed off because Jacinda never gave him a knighthood or ambassador to UK or US.
Poor degenerate numbnut. Those that voted for him must either be squirming in their old age nappies or grinning through their gums and dribble. Imagine those 6% pulling Luxons strings. He must be praying to his god that the special votes go against history.
I think you are correct Uncle Tom’s Brother, if it was such a big deal that Ardern didn’t inform Peters immediately, and he didn’t jump up and down at the time, yes – I bet he was keeping sweet for the old tap on the shoulder with the sword. Has a sort of ring to it – Sir Winston Peters. What a circus we have running this country.
Mama and Brother He couldn’t complain at the time if he didn’t know at the time. Labour now saying that the media knew is evasive, and is no answer.
Martyn says the warning came “just minutes before the March 15 attack” which is a tad more accurate than RNZ’s “moments before”. But how many minutes was it? 15, 20, or more? Jacinda never told us, and it seems that she didn’t even tell her Deputy Prime Minister. We still don’t have a precise answer, but we can surmise that it would have given time for the New Zealand police to intervene so as to prevent a large proportion of the casualties.
There are many other questions to which Jacinda never gave answers. For example, if the perpetrator was tracked by intelligence services from the time of his jaunt to North Korea, why did the NZ Police give him a firearms license with no scrutiny? Why did they ignore the warnings about the perpetrator’s intentions to commit acts of violence?
The government has kept the truth about the Christchurch massacre very close to its chest. Peters is right to call them out.
He pressed send eight minutes before the first killing.
It was dealt with by the PM’s office six minutes after he sent it, two minutes before the first killing.
This was investigated by the Royal Commission of Inquiry, and all the material is on its website.
Which part of the government? You might be happy to live somewhere where the politicians are actively involved in the security services (think North Korea etc) but I prefer that we rely on competent public servants to make the operating decisions that are required. Obviously, the public service failed in this tragedy but the political side of the government would usually keep out of the security decisions for the good of all of us.
Call was made within 2 minutes of email being received… I’d classify that as ‘moment’s before (although in this headline they say minutes, not moments as you’ve claimed). Here’s an article with more info: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/chch-terror/500961/christchurch-terror-attack-inquest-parliament-staffer-called-police-within-minutes-of-receiving-manifesto
Given Winston’s lack of judgement with his tweet, one can put 2 and 2 together to assume he was made aware, but I dare say not at that minute – priority would’ve been to contact police first. The Police commissioner would be the one to answer the questions about the firearms license too, why would a PM deal with something of the sort?
I would believe Uri Geller before Jacinda.
Probably why you don’t have an H after the T in your name.
Old man yells at clouds
like winebox all over again
Winston Peters is a nasty, vindictive, untrustworthy, selfish, conniving old toerag in every respect.
I’m a Boomer, having Boomer friends who absolutely love WP. They still vote for him because he “gave us” the Gold Card regardless of which party he decides to go with, for goodness sake! He’s cunning, could see a very big voting base and milked it (and the country) for all it’s worth!
I have never voted for him, nor will I ever do so, because as far as I’m concerned Peters isn’t worthy of a vote.
Well said Mary .I have had many an argument about the trustworthy nature of Peters with other people of my advanced years.
His smart appearance and smile wins with many who miss the shallowness of his party and history .Apart from the Gold Card what other runs has he on the board after 40 years.
Sounds like Brewers Millions film about a guy who doesn’t want to be a politician. Here us a clip with the mean old guy trying to upset democracy with all his money. I think he doesn’t want to be elected and goes to a big bloc to get them onside – the retirees vote. They are very understanding and can be bought.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIK5WFgH5G8
This is interesting about Tennessee which crops up in news FTTT.
Why was Brewster’s Millions banned?Brewster’s Millions (1945) was banned in Memphis, Tennessee for having “too much social equality and racial mixture,” making it an unusual case where a film was banned for not being racist enough.
Brewster’s Millions (1985) – News – IMDbimdb.comhttps://www.imdb.com › title › news
I think he is trying to keep the fringe lunatics who voted for him, on his side before he sells them out. I wonder how they will feel, when they realize that he isn’t their voice in parliament
Well said Benny…exactly what is new?!!!
Comments are closed.