The Speaker, the MP and the US Ambassador
Parliament’s speaker Gerry Brownlee and National MP Hamish Campbell with the US ambassador at the Addington Coffee Coop this afternoon here in Christchurch – well done Ben with the penetrating questions!!!
Parliament’s speaker Gerry Brownlee and National MP Hamish Campbell with the US ambassador at the Addington Coffee Coop this afternoon here in Christchurch – well done Ben with the penetrating questions!!!

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We vote people in to represent us. They are supposed to hear our views. That is their job. A citizen delivered his views. End of story.
The NZ politicians and US ambassador are complicit in mass murder and while you might think that is ok I am glad that the people with the camera were prepared to speak the truth and ask questions.
pdm. Well said. Manners maketh the man. Accosting these persons, then making assumptions about them, is adolescent conspiracy territory, IMO.
Ok, so Brownlie drives a polluting tax-dodging National-blue Ford Ranger.
Why am I not even surprised.
Yank scum are not welcome in human countries.
Yank scum still out class your ruling Afghan Muslims. Not a great place for women or gays
Trevor The Theatre of the Absurd being played out in Addington. Yikes. In Wellington, NZ Post won’t deliver flyers it disagrees with. This country is bonkers.
If you don’t like Americans here you can fuck off
Are you joking? Surely employing irony? We should not interrupt the genocidaires while they are enjoying their morning tea?
Fancy that, they all fled their encampment in a hurry. Now where have we seen that before ?
https://www.gettyimages.co.nz/photos/children-gaza
Well done whoever Ben is .
Great stuff, call these bastards out every time you see them.
What a champ.