The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday – 25th May 2016

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  1. Hi Martyn and team.
    Thanks for a great site and good read.
    Big ups to the waatea news segments.

    I wish to register a complaint: when the page seems to have loaded and I have scrolled down and read some text, the page then sends me back to the top.
    Very frustrating, I am sure there is a good reason but it gets aggravating.

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  2. I am happy to offer $5000 to any National cabinet ministers who promise NOT to come to provincial towns like Whanganui. If Paula Bennett thinks that she has come up with the solution to the housing crisis with her $5k incentive for the homeless to shift here, she’s dreaming. Real jobs would be a better idea.

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  3. Sanders leading the popular vote – if he gets to the democratic convention with a Californian win behind him – who will those delegates go for…. The people or the money….

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  4. Trolleyd has refused to consider the socially just act of wiping WINZ accommodation debt for the motel dwellers.
    And now they’re going to pay homeless people to leave Auckland! So they can be homeless somewhere else! And jobless in the provinces! Such a solution. A blind, short-sighted, shuffling of the cards.
    They’re going to give them $5000 to leave Auckland motels/streets and stay in motels/streets somewhere else!
    When they’re “on the road”, leaving Auckland, will they have an address for service? Where will they shower, eat, perform necessary ablutions, and wash their clothes so that they can turn up to “house veiwings” appropriately attired, having been homeless? Or, is the idea that once they’re out of town, they’ll probably just curl up in misery on t’ side t’ road somewhere with a bottle of meths and die of hypothermia in the night? Thereby saving the government the shitty bum hassle of dealing with “social problems”, and they’ll probably only spend $500 before dying of misery on their own somewhere, drinking in gutter, in the rain, and how cold was it last night? It only gets colder the further south you go…
    How about, instead of that, the Key government of tax speculators and foreign house buyer specialists make a law forcing those people with investment properties sitting empty, to accept all the motel-dwellers and homeless people we can throw at them! How about that! But, no, those people are speculators, they can’t be asked to do their bit to stop shredding the social fabric.

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  5. Life is cheap! now government’s firstly use our police for their own use against us as safeguarding them instead of serving to protect us eh Chooky!

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    1. oops wrong link…here is the correct one

      https://www.rt.com/news/344210-police-clash-protesters-brussels/

      “Belgian riot police deployed water cannons to disperse a major anti-austerity demonstration attended by tens of thousands of people in central Brussels. At least two policemen and several protesters have been injured.

      Brussels’ main commissioner Pierre Vandersmissen was among the injured along with another policeman, local media reports citing Brussels police department.”

      ( this follows demonstrations and protests around France for the last two months)

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