This Week's Party Jokes

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FTW For the Win

Judith Collins repeatedly challenged Government to protest a new French law that normalize paedophilia and decriminalize sex with children. It was "false news". Nothing of the sort had occurred.Her source was Yournewswire.com whose earlier posts included:

"Did the Pope forgive 4,444 paedophile priests in Australia?"

"Did London close 500churches and open 423 mosques?"

"Is Australia using chemtrials to forcibly vaccinate its people?" Pn32

Don Brash is in the news again. He exercised his right of free speech (sic!) to take a swing at John Key who he said did little to improve the economy ( it was largely coming right by itself) and he failed to abolish Maori seats.

Mike Hoskings -- the expert on everything --  thinks "Banning plastic bags is just a PR stunt." Simon Bridges said it "won't make any real difference (and) we "don't need to be told by government what to do". Did they not know that 65,000 NZers signed a petition to ban single-use plastic bags, and that the Packaging Forum said it would take an estimated 800 million bags out of circulation?

It's anyone's guess who leaked of Simon Bridges' travel expenses. Speaker Trevor Mallard, Labour, Parliamentary Services, Bridges for publicity, or a party rival. His expenses were emailed to every National MP as part of the process for sorting out the quarterly travel declarations. What's your guess?

Business confidence lowest for years !!! or ???
Read what Gordon Campbell had to say about this. He thinks measuring business confidence has become politicized. Coalition Government= Bad, National Government= Good. And he agrees with the Governor of the Reserve Bank that we're in good shape economically.

David Seymour, ACT leader with ½ percent of votes in last year's Election and one seat in Parliament, has unveiled a "Smaller Government Bill" that will reduce parliamentary seats from 120 to 100, reduce ministers from 31 to 20, and abolish the 7 Maori seats. Here we go on the Maori again. Tangata whenua in a legally bi-cultural society, with serious social and economic problems (e.g., an annual median income of $18,000 compared to the Pakeha $86.900). But there is no reason for them to be treated differently! Some people confuse equality with sameness. 

Seymour again. On Monday, his depiction of PM Jacinda Ardern as a clueless lightweight was yet another example of the double bind face by women who attain positions of political power. -- Gordon Campbell in Werewolf.