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@jegga said in NZ Politics:
Am I the only one here who’s first thought when Golriz Ghahraman announced she had MS immediately thought of her constant claims for victim status and history of lying and exaggeration and thought “ this could be yet more bullshit “?
Sad but true. Is it insensitive to ask her to present a doctor's certificate?
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@canefan said in NZ Politics:
@jegga said in NZ Politics:
Am I the only one here who’s first thought when Golriz Ghahraman announced she had MS immediately thought of her constant claims for victim status and history of lying and exaggeration and thought “ this could be yet more bullshit “?
Sad but true. Is it insensitive to ask her to present a doctor's certificate?
It won’t happen, reporters are more likely to leave her alone for fear of being accused of bullying a woman with a sickness that might not show signs for decades . Shecan always claim down the track it was a misdiagnoses when years from now it becomes inconvenient
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@jegga said in NZ Politics:
Am I the only one here who’s first thought when Golriz Ghahraman announced she had MS immediately thought of her constant claims for victim status and history of lying and exaggeration and thought “ this could be yet more bullshit “?
Well that in theory should put her on top of the victim hierarchy...though I think her crowd still rates non-binary/trans significantly higher so maybe its legit.
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@jegga said in NZ Politics:
@canefan said in NZ Politics:
@jegga said in NZ Politics:
Am I the only one here who’s first thought when Golriz Ghahraman announced she had MS immediately thought of her constant claims for victim status and history of lying and exaggeration and thought “ this could be yet more bullshit “?
Sad but true. Is it insensitive to ask her to present a doctor's certificate?
It won’t happen, reporters are more likely to leave her alone for fear of being accused of bullying a woman with a sickness that might not show signs for decades . Shecan always claim down the track it was a misdiagnoses when years from now it becomes inconvenient
Even better reason to see her thrown out of parliament at the next election, stress is not very good for MS
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@Rembrandt said in NZ Politics:
@jegga said in NZ Politics:
Am I the only one here who’s first thought when Golriz Ghahraman announced she had MS immediately thought of her constant claims for victim status and history of lying and exaggeration and thought “ this could be yet more bullshit “?
Well that in theory should put her on top of the victim hierarchy...though I think her crowd still rates non-binary/trans significantly higher so maybe its legit.
Disabled , asylum seeker , victim of domestic violence and a WOC ? That’s like putting quiz on a triple word score in scrabble .
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@jegga said in NZ Politics:
@Rembrandt said in NZ Politics:
@jegga said in NZ Politics:
Am I the only one here who’s first thought when Golriz Ghahraman announced she had MS immediately thought of her constant claims for victim status and history of lying and exaggeration and thought “ this could be yet more bullshit “?
Well that in theory should put her on top of the victim hierarchy...though I think her crowd still rates non-binary/trans significantly higher so maybe its legit.
Disabled , asylum seeker , victim of domestic violence and a WOC ? That’s like putting quiz on a triple word score in scrabble .
It's a veritable pupu platter
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Can someone please whistle this thing back onto the ute tray before you leave?
Front page media over here today:
Australia's "tough immigration policies" (Eh? Say what?) are increasingly straining relations with New Zealand, as the deportation of long-term Australian residents to New Zealand becomes an election issue there.
New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has vowed to once again raise the policy she "fiercely disagrees with" when she meets Prime Minister Scott Morrison in Sydney today.
Meanwhile, Opposition Leader Simon Bridges has raised the stakes by threatening to reciprocate by deporting criminals to Australia if he comes to power. (Why are these amateurs both campaigning over here? Are they really that stupid?)
Australia is within their rights to do what they are doing, it doesn't mean what they are doing is right," Ms Ardern said earlier this week. (I know she is not long out of pre-school but already she has forgotten to check what the speech writer wants her to say before blundering into it).
In the last five years, Australia has deported more than 1,600 people to New Zealand under provisions in the Migration Act that allow the government to remove foreigners who are not of good character or pose a threat to the safety of Australians.
Many are convicted criminals who were born in New Zealand but have lived most of their lives in Australia and have no connections in their country of origin.
The New Zealand police association has linked the deportees with a rise in gang activity across the country.
"It is having a social impact on New Zealand, it is having an impact on gangs in New Zealand and it is impacting our relationship (with Australia)," Ms Ardern said earlier this week.
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Those last four paragraphs are of vital interest I am sure, but none of it is new and it all has nothing to do with Australia.
If she is so unhappy about the existing arrangements what has she done to change them during her time doing not much? Lord knows she has plenty of spare time to be lovely and saintly, to play mummy and huggy-huggy and illegals advocate and critic of President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (although she has no idea why).
Mind you, she shows her political immaturity by being aghast about deportations on the very day Australia has returned to you carpetbagger Hohepa Morehu-Barlow from Thames, who fleeced $17 million from his employer, Queensland Health.
I do hope this shyster flys away before the weekend.
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No ones painting murals of her over here mate , if you guys like her that much maybe you should keep her?
The daily mail and Guardian have both run stories recently about a potential end to her reign of error
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On this one I’ll back both Bridges and Ardern’s statements long before Scotty from Marketing. They’ve taken a while to warm up, and the timing might have been better... but it’s about time all the same.
Some of these deportees have had very, very tenuous connections with NZ at best, and that’s including some of the 501s who are starting to cause merry havoc shaking up the gang scene in NZ. Deporting people here with no family connections, community history/sense of place etc is a recipe for trouble, and has already added at least two gangs to NZ with a very different approach to the world - learned and refined in Australia.
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@Donsteppa Did you see that story about Scomos time here with NZ tourism?
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This is in Australia
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@jegga said in NZ Politics:
This is in Australia
Borrowing from spluttering by world leader icon Saint Jacinda (whinny, neigh) as noted in my earlier post:
"If what you say is true it will have a bilious impact on Australia and it is already impacting relationships with New Zealand's Silver Fern," Mick Gold Coast QLD said earlier this evening.
Aaaaarghhh - she just turned up on Channel 7 News!
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@Donsteppa said in NZ Politics:
On this one I’ll back both Bridges and Ardern’s statements long before Scotty from Marketing. They’ve taken a while to warm up, and the timing might have been better... but it’s about time all the same.
Some of these deportees have had very, very tenuous connections with NZ at best, and that’s including some of the 501s who are starting to cause merry havoc shaking up the gang scene in NZ. Deporting people here with no family connections, community history/sense of place etc is a recipe for trouble, and has already added at least two gangs to NZ with a very different approach to the world - learned and refined in Australia.
They threw their own " home grown" garbage over our fence.
Do we politely take it?Throw some rubbish back?
Or say"oi!"?
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But not all at Davos were impressed with the charismatic, liberal and young — Adern is just 38 — world leader.
Speaking on the condition of anonymity to Today’s WorldView, one Western fund manager with dealings in the Asia-Pacific region scoffed that Ardern "was just a less annoying Justin Trudeau with an easier country to run” — a jab both at her and the Canadian prime minister, another darling of the center left who critics argue has traded too long on his rosy image rather than actual policy achievements.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/03/19/world-is-watching-new-zealands-jacinda-ardern/ -
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Thank you Jegga for the piece by Peta Credlin, this migration arrangement is not a familiar subject for me.
Saint Jacinda certainly didn't think that stunt through before sticking her whopping big jaw out - Credlin waltzed her backwards all around the ring, just like Kostya Tszyu. Yesterday Scott Morrison dealt with her "fiercely disagrees" speech with ease, with an unspoken "so what?" and the tourist magnet Harbour and Opera House as a backdrop (a clever touch).
She's a bit of a dill deluding herself that being this week's pin up girl for the odd overseas journalist can obviate a 99,600 shortfall in promised "free stuff" housing for those back home who are "effort challenged" ... and now deeply disappointed. She has Labour rape allegations, a loose cannon deputy in name only and plenty of other inaction to cope with, I am sure. The First Mummy has left the way clear for Winston Peters to jump in and offer a subsidised Holden, and a pop up toaster, to seduce the masses and see her off. Lord knows those two deserve each other!
She's got nowhere to go here on the issue - locals (especially blue collar blokes) well remember your expats' golden age of money for nothing and were delighted when that was curtailed. "Tenuous connections in New Zealand", "gang life in New Zealand" and failure to meet well known Australian statutes and regulations are seen as their problem, not ours (Morrison is satisfying his constituents' expectations). Too many boasted back then about how clever they had been and that muddied the water for the following wave of young and industrious fellas (post the earthquakes ten odd years ago) who had to work extra hard to prove their worth.
My experience with your young blokes in civil works and construction has been very good - to their credit they work hard and with good humour (they beat hands down the attitude of our surly, entitled and work averse Australians) they value the regular good money sufficiently to stay off the drugs and to turn up on time.
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