The anonymous lap-bloggers at The Standard have been caught out.
David Farrar outlines how Pete George pointed out their and Labour’s lies regarding Peter Dunne.
He copped a ban for telling the truth about them, which Eddie later retracted.
I doubt they will retract all their numerous posts about the issue and their lies though.
It shows the clear difference between bloggers and commenters prepared to be known and public versus anonymous cowards flinging poo.
Peter Dunne goes on a rant about the Conservative Party, maybe because they are so much more popular than United Future.
United Future’s Peter Dunne has lashed out at the Conservative Party, branding it “seriously extreme and nutty”.
Then he starts putting the boot in.
“Any relationship with the Conservative Party … suggests it’s going to be dogma on one side versus pragmatism on the other side, and I think it’s a pretty unhealthy mix.”
Mr Dunne believed the party had “little tolerance” for alternative views.
“It’s a real moral jihad; it would be smacking, not just resisting any change to the abortion laws, it’s tightening the abortion law, it’s anti-prostitution, you name it, the whole suite of agenda items.”
So Colin Craig responds with a very, very subtle play, making Peter Dunne look like an intolerant bigot against the Conservative Party.
Mr Craig said he was happy to meet Mr Dunne when next in Wellington. ”He should probably get to know me and … let’s have informed comment.”
Maybe Peter objects to people who don’t take Tobacco Money.
In Queensland the Labor party does not now automatically get recognised as a political party:
Labor was reduced to only 11 seats in 1974, and on latest counting tonight appeared set to retain only nine seats. Some analysts put the figure even lower, at seven.
This would mean Labor falling short of official party status and relying on the incoming LNP government to grant it party offices, staff and resources.
We should introduce a similar rule. If you don’t have 10 MPs you don’t have a leadership budget. It is a joke to think Peter Dunne is a party, rather than just an independent MP.
Case study four in our series on James Bews-Hair, current Principal Policy Advisor to Mayor Len Brown and ‘mate’ to Conor Roberts. Still nothing from Conor…
During his time apologising for ruining families at Sky City, Bews-Hair also became a very accomplished practitioner in the, only ever very dodgy ,realm of chequebook lobbying. I am told that he came up with, and got board agreement to, a donations policy for Sky City that made the related transactions seem open and transparent, but at the same time created the framework where he could skulk around dingy political corridors in both New Zealand and Australia with a cash-flow supercharged chequebook tucked away in his crumpled cheap suits.
The thinking was that if you made all donations above the disclosure threshold, and made sure they were fully disclosed, you could never be accused of buying anything you shouldn’t. To compliment this, Bews-Hair and others within Sky City went out of their way to tell people how there was actually nothing to buy when it came to donations.
Then he set about buying things (covered by the policy that he made sure everyone knew about) through small multiple untraceable donations. Reports are murky but apparently Peter Dunne, and whatever he called the party he was pretending to lead at the time, benefited greatly for all its help. Curiously, Anderton’s make believe party also benefited healthily. As did a number of bits and pieces MPs, all at a cost and all in total contradiction of the policy he pretended to be so proud of developing.
As a result of the cash flowing into Labour’s bank account, Mike Williams was apparently summoned to talk to managing director Evan Davies and Bews-Hair on almost a weekly basis during Labour’s (largely failed) attempt to review gambling. No wonder Sky City was granted an eye-stingingly profitable monopoly through Labour’s ban on new casinos. True to form, Sky City was outraged about this ‘gift’.
In South Australia, the rattle of coins into the trays of political parties was just as effective. Insulating the family wrecking machine from savage attacks was only part of it. In Australia they have real unions with real balls, who know how to set a strategy and stick to it.
Presumably, Bews-Hair tried to find someone as dumb as Darien Fenton in Adelaide (a futile search). Instead, Bews-Hair worked out that the biggest political beneficiary of any political success for Labor in the State wasn’t actually his good mate Mike Rann but the head of the Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous union – Mark Butler (now a federal Cabinet Minister). Having become very (very ) good friends with the Labor state secretary (Tim Hunter), Bews-Hair ensured that Butler was involved in every discussion about potential donations. Surprise, surprise all the predicted Union trouble Sky City would face taking over the Adelaide casino magically disappeared. All open, all above board, all disclosed.
You have to wonder what else this sneaky, attention hating Bews-Hair is prepared to pay for.
Tina Nixon aka Busted Blonde aka Brunette posted the other day in support of heli-hunting.
She also said that hunting on foot, in thick bush was not really hunting but flying around in a chopper was somehow “sport”. Apparently hunters who hunt on foot are “bush assassins” and it isn’t a sport as the deer has “no comeback”. She clearly was just trying to get in a cheap shot. She obviously didn’t know that I carried out those two animals on my back after field dressing them, then butchered them and took them home for the freezer. Shooting deer is the easy part, getting the meat out is the tough part, unless you are a big girls blouse who slaughters deer from helicopters. Someone the size of her though wouldn’t know hard yacker if it bit her on her enormous padded trough-fed arse.
When she wrote that blog post she forgot to tell everyone that wehe was really shilling for her son’s current business which involves flying said heli-slaughterers around.
The second part of her post was doing a big skite about how many oily, greasy, disgusting mutton birds. She uses mutton-birding as an example of her food gathering prowess. According to Wikipedia:
In New Zealand, about 250,000 mutton birds are harvested for oils, food and fats each year by the native Māori. Young birds just about to fledge are collected from the burrows, plucked and often preserved in salt.
Its numbers have been declining in recent decades, and it is presently classified as Near Threatened by the IUCN. In 2009 the harvest reported record low catches, on average a trapping cage would yield nearly 500 birds, in 2009 the number was estimated to be closer to 40 per cage.
So, me killing 3 deer which are actual pests, and carrying them out myself, butchering them myself and filling the freezer for the family to enjoy the meat in the coming months is evil, but slaughtering 250,000 baby birds per annum in an unsustainable manner of a Threatened species is honourable food gathering.
This useless cow has no concept of what hunting actually is, but given her more than 1o0kg weight about the only thing she hunts is pies in Christchurch where she is currently enjoying a government funded job at the trough.
She of course must have forgotten her stupid anti-hunter post when she posted about her own little slaughter of defenseless sheep in the aid of her enormous Christmas feast on Facebook. If I am a “bush assassin” then she is a paddock assassin. Those sheep had no comeback, no escape, herded in by a fence. At least the deer I hunt have a chance to escape my clumsy stumbling about in the bush. Pretty embarrassing considering her “bush assassins” post.
Then to cap it all off there was an article today in the Herald about her beloved mutton birds being radio active.
There are fears radioactive muttonbirds could be on their way to New Zealand after the migrating birds were found to have been feeding close to Japan’s ruptured Fukushima nuclear plant.
Niwa scientists, who in 2005 attached tracking devices to 19 muttonbirds, also known as sooty shearwaters, found nearly half of them were spending months at a time feeding off the coast of Japan.
US researchers have requested samples of dead muttonbirds so they can be analysed, with the expectation that some of them will have absorbed the radioactive isotope Caesium-137, an element that strongly increases the chances of getting cancer.
It is bad enough that Maori are slaughtering the threatened species but now the poor buggers are radio-active because of the Fukushima accident.
Only the dumbest of part-time Wellington/Wairarapa troughers would use the slaughter of a Threatened species of oily fat birds, kind of like her, and the helicopter laziness of bombing up deer exhausted by running from modern technology as the epitome of hunting, harvesting or whatever adjective she chooses to use.
No wonder members of the bro-rocracy think she is a stupid loud-mouth, ungrateful, bludging, odious, three-faced bitch.
This is a woman who bludges off “mates”, never even thanks them for the efforts that they went to on her behalf, lies to the sponsor about the charitable status of the event then only puts out the prize when forced to more than 12 months after she won the prize. Then she even provided the booze to pinkos. I refused to go to the event, for two reasons. The first is that I won’t drink with pinkos the second is because Tina Nixon is a lying, three faced, bludger who craps on her mates.
I think Peter Dunne should look very closely at banning mutton-birding. In fact I’ll let my hunting pals in the Big Game Council know about what she thinks about hunters so they too can lobby for the banning of mutton-birding, it is threatened after all, it is the least they could do in the interests of conservation.
NFWAB. Especially a real blogger not some timid faux-maori scared of her own shadow.
I see that the usual stooges and shills for Labour are already preparing the ground for David Shearer’s shellacking at Question Time by suggesting that it is not that important to perform well in the house. But if question time doesn’t matter – why did Labour make such a song and dance about it when Brash was the National Leader? This is one of many examples.
from Lianne Dalziel:
The bottom line is that Dr Brash does not like asking questions in Parliament, because he finds it demeaning. He thinks it is a bit beneath him to come to Parliament and ask questions. Here he was today in Parliament, large as life, and there was not one single question on the Order Paper from the Leader of the Opposition.
I think there is a reason for that, too. When he gets up to ask a question, he is not very good at it. Own goals are his particular forte.
They even lined up former Clark staffers to write opinion pieces in the Herald:
Dr Brash, it seemed, had everything on his side – a rallying cry over racial issues that resonated with voters, the promise of more barn-burning speeches to come, and a Government threatening to haemorrhage over the foreshore and seabed issue.
Yet in the most public face of our democracy, he was conspicuously absent.
In March, Parliament held 10 question times. During that month, and at the height of his post-Orewa prominence, Dr Brash contributed less to question time than Winston Peters, Peter Dunne, Rodney Hide or Jeanette Fitzsimmons.
He spoke less than his deputy, Gerry Brownlee, his predecessor, Bill English, or the person many pick as his successor, Simon Power.
March was a tumultuous time for the Government, but Dr Brash asked the Prime Minister only two primary questions and five supplementary questions. In total, she answered 75.
Further, since the Budget speech in May, Dr Brash has been responsible for only four of the 156 primary questions to be asked and a mere 14 of about 780 supplementary questions.
Nobody could accuse him of hogging the limelight, though some would wonder why he hasn’t.
Dr Brash’s “where’s Waldo” act is certainly not typical of other Opposition leaders in New Zealand – remember the commanding performances of Jim Bolger, David Lange and Mike Moore – or overseas.
…Dr Brash can reduce (though not eliminate) the risk of looking bad in next year’s leaders’ debates. Practice makes perfect, and he has a ready-made practice ground waiting for him in Wellington most Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
He may have to swallow some pride and take some hits from the Prime Minister, but that is the price of taking responsibility for his party’s fortunes, especially in the rough and tumble world of New Zealand’s increasingly presidential election campaigns.
If Don Brash doesn’t get used to the cut and thrust of Parliament’s question hour now, he runs a significant risk of consigning his party to three more years in opposition during the next election campaign.
And Peters used to rib Don Brash for his house performances describing him as ‘fearless’ and ‘the great debater’.
Hon. RICK BARKER: I want to know why Don Brash is not here taking the lead for the National Party in the Wednesday debate. Why was he not here today asking questions?
Madam DEPUTY SPEAKER: The member knows he is not allowed to refer to the absence of members. He will desist.
Hon Trevor Mallard: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. I ask you to clarify your ruling. I think the Minister might have made a mistake when he said that Don Brash was not here to take the lead, but it is appropriate for him to say that he is not taking the lead in this debate.
Madam DEPUTY SPEAKER: The member clearly made a reference to his not being here.
Hon RICK BARKER: I stand corrected. The point is that Dr Don Brash is not leading the debate this afternoon for the National Party. Neither was he leading question time for the National Party. It is quite obvious that the leadership of the National Party is absent. It seems that the National Party leadership has pressed the mute button, not the play button.
So when you hear from Labour this time round that Question Time and debates in the house are only for those tragics who reside literally and metaphorically inside the beltway, then know too that they are lying and their own words and history betray their lies.
Question Time and parliamentary debates are important, we know this because Labour made them important.
Russel Norman and other useful idiots are claiming that Peter Dunne doesn’t have a mandate for assets sales.
I wonder then how they reconcile this:
Can we stop with the bullshit about mandates now please?
Who got the best deal?
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Loading ...John Banks has scored a good deal for the ACT party in his negotiations with John Key:
National has reached agreements with United Future’s Peter Dunne and ACT’s John Banks, as it moves toward forming a government.
Banks has won two ministerial roles and two associate ministerial posts as part of a confidence and supply agreement with National. He will be Minister of Regulatory Reform and Minister of Small Business. He is also Associate Minister of Education and Associate Minister of Commerce.
Banks will be a minister outside of Cabinet but gets a spot on three Cabinet committees – expenditure control, economic growth and infrastructure and appointments and honours.
ACT will be very happy that they will be able to exert some influence on expenditure control and growth plans.
New Zealand’s permanent Revenue Minister, Peter Dunne, has signed up again to support National.
National has reached agreements with United Future’s Peter Dunne and ACT’s John Banks, as it moves toward forming a government.
Dunne will hold on to his revenue portfolio and has won a newly created Associate Minister of Conservation post, under a deal with National.
Dunne – a strong 1080 opponent – will also keep his Associate Minister of Health post. He will be a minister outside cabinet, which means he is not bound by collective responsibility.
