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The Facebook take on it has been quite interesting. I no longer have any 'friends' blocked so I get to see a lot more than I probably would like. I saw maybe 2 shares of a meme showing that Turei is being discriminated worse than English because she is Maori but even then the likes were pretty minimal, mainly just my pakeha stay-at-home-mum feminist friends. One share was from a Maori activist cousin of mine which wasn't challenged, the other from an old school mate which was challenged by a few but mostly ignored.
I know not a huge sample set but the impression I'm getting is people are ready to cut the cord with Turei. Plus there is a new face to vote for who happens to have a vagina.
My prediction, much Green support moving to Labour & TOP and small loss from National to Labour due to Jacindamania. NZ First stable.
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@No-Quarter Danyl McLauchlan is a Green party member but his article is pretty accurate. His theory is that the most disengaged group are recent migrants from the non-Anglosphere (though they're only a small part of the "missing million"). This is likely to mean Chinese, Indians, Filipinos: socially conservative people who come from countries where if you don't work, you starve. They often tend to be entrepreneurial.
Certainly unlikely to vote Green. But if they, like everyone else, perceive Winston as kingmaker, they may want to continue to abstain from voting.
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Bugger
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback Yeah, I was enjoying it too.
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I feel bad now. This poor woman has lost her livelihood just because she committed a couple of frauds. And they weren't even bad frauds, they were the good kind.
How is she going to survive now? She can't work as a lawyer because of, you know, the good fraud thing, so she'll have to go on a benefit I suppose. She won't have any problems I'm sure because of her honesty in dealing with the government agencies in the past. Unless she's got benefit money to pay back, in which case she might get abated. Sad. She could always live with her Mum or something, or her baby-daddy.
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@taniwharugby said in NZ Politics:
@Chris-B. you need a better group of friends
You only need one friend in the wrong place and you get to see lots of wailing.
Actually, it's quite informative!
Meteria should have employed me as her key adviser - she'd still be there. The Donald didn't get to where he is today by folding at the first signs of adversity.
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But she said she would stay on...
And I believed her.
#faithinhumanityshattered
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