Posts by Paul Campbell
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Hard News: Barclay and arrogance, in reply to Paul Campbell,
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to be fair is conceivable, but highly unlikely, that he was out of the house on each and every one of those days and had someone exercise his proxy, but if you believe that I have this bridge ....
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Hard News: Barclay and arrogance, in reply to Sacha,
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Oh for heaven’s sake – since Bill English has been in parliament he’s voted on changes to section 216B of the Crimes Act in 1997, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2009 and 2012 – how can he possibly claim he doesn’t know it exists?
Unless of course that is he regularly votes for things he doesn’t understand, and doesn't read – but that would make him an incompetent MP
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Hard News: Barclay and arrogance,
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So English is reported in today's paper as trying to excuse Barclay with "he didn't know it's illegal" of course for us plebs "ignorance of the law is no excuse" ....
However if you become an MP surely the first thing you do is sit down and wade through the entire corpus of NZ law - I know it's big and it's hard, but as an MP the law of the land is your thing, sort of a sacred thing that's now in your trust.
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Hard News: Barclay and arrogance,
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well in some sense it's a good thing, the guy obviously has a character flaw that doesn't make for being a good MP - he also has the safest seat in parliament, he could have been there for 40 years
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Hard News: Barclay and arrogance,
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I'm still wondering why Barclay wasn't kicked out a year ago? and why he wasn't kicked out today? he's a nothing, a kid with no real-world experience, in the safest National seat in the country, are there bodies buried in Dipton? does he manage the bags-of-cash drops from the tobacco companies? inherited pictures of Bill and a sheep? anyone got any other ideas?
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Up Front: What's the Big Idea?,
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also suggested elsewhere "an engorgement"
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Up Front: What's the Big Idea?,
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A friend suggests "phalanx" as the correct collective noun
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Up Front: What's the Big Idea?,
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You have to include the original source ....
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Up Front: What's the Big Idea?, in reply to Rich Lock,
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you can avoid that problem, “she threw a dildo, an then another one, then a whole ….” .... oh crap what’s the collective noun ….
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Hard News: Orcon IRL: Mummy and daddy,…,
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um something, something, something about whether we need net neutrality laws in NZ something something
