Waitangi

I was on Larry Williams Huddle last night, with Josie Pagani.

Our topics were:

• David Shearer manages to keep his job.
• The strange case where a woman was let off her drink driving charge because of the sport she plays, which I understand isn’t a mainstream sport and not something most people would have ever heard of. However because such weight was placed on her as a “sportswoman” she was let off the charge and given name suppression. Now she can go off gallivanting around in her hobby sport with no one any wiser as to her drunk driving.
• The last topic will be Waitangi….just cos it’s happening this week and there’s already a fight brewing thanks to the Harawira gang.

VIDEO: after the break

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Winston Peters on the protestors at Waitangi (video: 3:12):

Take them to the bridge and thrown them in the tide until then can learn some manners.

I missed this, but have found the link to the Marae – The Great Waitangi Debate.

Good points by Matthew Hooton, Stephen Franks, M&M and others.

Very interesting programme, deserves more widespread acknowledgment.

The media are being asked to cough up cash to cover Waitangi Day commemorations on the Lower Te Tii marae.

A Ngapuhi elder is asking reporters and cameramen to hand over hundreds of dollars to cover the celebrations.

Prime Minister John Key has been welcomed onto the marae by local iwi Ngapuhi, but news outlets are being told to stay away unless they put forward a $500 service fee.

TV1, TV3 have been asked for $500 while Maori TV has been asked for $1000, Newstalk ZB reported.

FRO, easy fixed, go elsewhere and hold commemorations if these grasping highwaymen continue to extort. It is our national day and frankly these few aren’t doing anything to help national cohesion despite the advances in recent years.