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  1. You need this send this to Dr Sharma because he is on a crusade and is not going to give up the lime light any time soon. I suspect he will bore us all to death however with his tales of woe!

    In his world the only thing that matters is Gaurav Sharma. End of story!

  2. Feeding a family reasonably nutritiously is a challenge now with fewer people in the position to grow or produce their own food. Significant price differences in basics like eg marmite, mean little when the time and means to shop around between food outlets mightn’t be available to everybody, and similarly, buying yellow-stickered food like meat or fish, isn’t possible at some supermarkets. They should be offering old bread at reduced prices when quality fresh bread is so expensive and the cheaper soft white loaves are gut wreckers. The free fruit for kids is a nice little offer from the rich supermarkets.

    The practicalities of trying to feed a family obviously escape the attention of busy politicians, and trying to tell them is a waste of time when they never listen to anybody anyway. Just look at Carmel Sepuloni flying in the face of expert advice and desperate to dump the Commissioner for Children because they’re a proven benefit to disadvantaged at-risk children.

    The health and economic implications of bad eating are also of little interest to politicians whose focus barely stretches beyond the next three years, and whose intellectual prowess peaked in their teens when they were busy belting each other up and honing their general oafishness.

  3. Suddenly the advantages of nepotism are becoming crystal clear and the practicalities of filling one’s workplace with whanau beckon very seductively indeed, unless the said relatives be Irish who eat other people for breakfast, or Nats with half a Chinese reckoning out per Indian, or standard bearers for diversity paranoid about anybody looking different, or colourless males, or Green girls using dirty words, in which case, outsource everything to a call centre in Mumbai, Jakarta or Gore, use sign language to communicate with all colleagues, and drink only with strangers.

  4. There sure are real issues to deal with. Let’s deal with the Sharma situation and get it out of the way first.

    Parliamentary Service says Gaurav Sharma’s claim of staff ‘misusing’ taxpayer money was staff travel and ‘normal practise’

    “Parliamentary Service has confirmed that one allegation raised by disgruntled Labour MP Gaurav Sharma – misspending of taxpayers money – was normal practise and within the rules.

    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/129573930/parliamentary-service-says-gaurav-sharmas-claim-of-staff-misusing-taxpayer-money-was-staff-travel-and-normal-practise

    This piece of the Sharma situation and behaviour reminds me of Trump. He’s not getting what he wants and he’s going to take down all and sundry with him. The travel expenses issue seemingly being so easily put to bed, refuted points to a serious lack of credibility and judgement of the MP.

    1. Or possibly the system is just rotten. What is normal for expenses these days in Parliament???

      1. I questioned expenditure of our MP. He gave the classic “It’s within the rules.”

        MPs accommodation and travel expenses are available to the public, other expenses not. So, how much do MPs spend for advertising met by Parliamentary Services? I reckon ours spent many thousands on party political advertisements in 2020. The powers that be did not agree with me that they were party political advertisements. I disagreed appealed, but lost. They did not think the advertising was untoward or out of the ordinary. It clearly was. In election year he’d ramped up newspaper advertising dramatically. Now when I see the MP who was elected ahead of him advertising I think “You go for it, screw it for what you can get.”

        What got me was that while the MP raved about money not being spent on things which needed doing he probably spent more than $20,000 telling people he was the MP and where we could contact him. What? You know, money for a teacher aide in our school. You know money for operations in our hospital.

  5. Tim M the previous MP for Hamilton West was very good. I bet that area would have him back very quickly.

    1. Marco B He looked absolutely terrified when John Key shouted to get some guts. Rigid with fear I thought.

    2. With all due respect, he was so very good he was voted out. Possibly due to a fatigued or failed party but still couldn’t hold his seat.

  6. Totally agree. While snowflakes are alarmed at being asked to drive their drunk boss home (bear in mind MP’s do a lot of after hours events so would assume part of any assistant job) there are actual real bullies out their inflicting violence with guns and knives.

    Apparently the police think the crime wave is normal and it’s because of their better reporting… Hmm keep telling themselves that while in therapy!

    Auckland gun violence: Doctor carjacked at gunpoint in Remuera
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-gun-violence-doctor-carjacked-at-gunpoint-in-remuera/EC6DYLEY6SH2EK6P5MU3HTBSFM/

    ‘I thought I was going to die’: Couple caught up in early morning attack in Auckland
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/i-thought-i-was-going-to-die-couple-caught-up-in-early-morning-attack-in-auckland/3T5U5N2EXUXA63T3ZXKVM5TPMU/

    Wellington man says stranger saved his life after he was attacked in central city
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellington-man-says-stranger-saved-his-life-after-he-was-attacked-in-central-city/FVYFDZJMK535TO5SBDAMN2U4JA/

    Auckland: Three people, including 14-year-old, arrested after North Shore aggravated robbery
    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-three-people-including-14-year-old-arrested-after-north-shore-aggravated-robbery/7ZEJ7WT22QH2MVSIEZL3SQW7OQ/

    1. This is hysteria designed to gain public support for things like a roll back of civil liberties, due process and the imposition of a police state. Police officers shouldnt be allowed to beat people within an inch of their life, or gun them down like dogs.

      1. There lies the disparity of opinion, on one hand the woke think that people are hysterical if they are victims of crime including victims of armed crime who woke have little sympathy for, while at the same time feeling that a worker in a paid position, was once required to move furniture and drive an MP home has been victimised and bullied (front page news).

        There are those who have the opposite view of what is victimisation and hysteria. (And in my view the if Labeen can’t pivot into the latter opinion about victims of crime, then they will not win.)

        1. Do you want to live in a society where cops are allowed to beat and kill who they like

          George Floyd was executed by a racist Trump supporting cop because of the tough on crime policies you want to impose.

          COP NEVER SHOULD BE ABOVE THE LAW.

          You are nothing but a bootlicking KKK supporter who licks their lips at the thought of cops being able to beat young Maori to within an inch of their lives and get away with it.

  7. You’re on to something Martyn. In my view, the slippery slope began with the banning of the public lolly scramble, ironically not because sugar was public enemy #1 as it should be. Meanwhile, back in the real world …

  8. did he get told to pull his head in? well he should be being told that now. This trial by social media should get him a good slapping – I’ll be first to throw a dildo from off camera.

  9. Sharma is a more moderate version of Jamie Lee Ross. JLR had mental problems and was suicidal and Labour respected this and did not play politics with it leaving the nasty Collins and Bennett to . On the other hand the NATZ nasty dirty politics team is encouraging its right wing tory trolling bloggers, MSM and keyboard nerds to exploit Sharma’s mental situation to the max.
    I was supportive of Sharma at the start as he was a Doctor and he could contribute to the fight against COVID however he has not contributed and been a failure. It is not normal and unusual for any loyal party MP to dis their party on face-book, Twitter or other media platform.
    Therefore all I can say is that he is a deadwood and should be expelled from the party. He can stay as MP for 18 months or better still go back as a Doctor.

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