Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Alfie,
and the deputy PM didn't bother to mention it to Bill?
Was always part of the #dirtypolitics two-track approach - so the PM can make heartfelt statements of concern, winning voters over with his firm moral compass.
National Party leader Bill English said, whoever was to blame, the privacy breach was a concern. "These are personal details of people's lives and people expect them to be treated confidentially."
Real question is which of them told Nat campaign manager and long-standing power behind the throne, Mr Joyce?
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Where did the recent leak about Winston's pension come from, you ask?
The Ministry of Social Development told its minister Anne Tolley on August 15 under the "no surprises" policy that it had met NZ First leader Winston Peters about his superannuation payments. The Prime Minister's office has confirmed English's chief of staff Wayne Eagleson was then told by Tolley's office. A spokesperson said Eagleson did not tell English or others in the office.
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Tolley would not be interviewed, but a spokeswoman said she denied the overpayment had been leaked from anyone in her office.MSD and IRD have less obvious motivations to leak this themselves. I guess that leaves Eagleson (who was in charge of the #dirtypolitics apparatus before the last election so the PM was kept at arms length)?
Gee, who knew bad behaviour might persist without any actual consequences for it?
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Hard News: Friday Music: Warming up for…, in reply to Alan Perrott,
Magnificent talent all round. Victoria Kelly's glorious orchestration. Finns popping up all over the show on various instruments. Never imagined a backing choir with James Milne, Don McGlashan and Sean Donnelly in it either.
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Rich, I was referring to this statement:
I don't understand a party employing hired guns whose underlying allegiance is to a very different party.
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
How so?
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Senior Green staffers resign.
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Speaker: Low-quality language on immigration, in reply to Farmer Green,
they think they are missing out on something that ought to be theirs by right
cos that is what all the older folk they hear from claim is so.
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to Zach Bagnall,
If you are correct then the actual election result will be significantly different than the polls before it. Let's see.
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And completing the circle, a Paralympian replaces Paul Gibson (policy expert) as our Disability Commissioner. I'm hoping for a pleasant surprise a la Susan Devoy, but have to wonder who else applied, who appointed, and what the selection criteria were?
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Inept political tactics and management by the Greens played a huge part in the defeat of the Clark government
You what? They weren't even part of that government.