Public Address | Cafe | Southerly: This Week in Parliament: 2 February 2015 - 6 February 2015 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address nzlemming https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335614#post335614 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335614#post335614 Um, that’s not how I remember it, but I’m not in a position to fact check.

Ah, I see Russell has picked up on that in the latest post.

]]> Mon, 16 Feb 2015 17:45:54 +1300 nzlemming https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335613#post335613 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335613#post335613 Key is already re-writing history by claiming (RNZ this morning) that taxpayer funding for the casino was never an option. Hold on... didn't he say a few days ago that taxpayer funding for such a needy cause was likely? The man's hypocrisy is shocking.

In the Herald this morning, he tried…

]]> Mon, 16 Feb 2015 17:40:57 +1300 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335588#post335588 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335588#post335588 Like Steve, I've been expecting a pithy PAS post on the SkyCity fiasco.

And as if by magic.... !!KAPOW!!

eta Love the Armstrong piece.
;-)

]]> Mon, 16 Feb 2015 12:05:39 +1300 Alfie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335582#post335582 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335582#post335582 Like Steve, I've been expecting a pithy PAS post on the SkyCity fiasco. I enjoyed Dave Armstrong's summary in today's Dom Post.
The odds seem to be stacked against those, like SkyCity, at the bottom of the corporate heap.

I've heard that children of SkyCity executives are turning up at…

]]> Mon, 16 Feb 2015 10:46:19 +1300 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335568#post335568 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335568#post335568 It is rather sad that this is the only, albeit clever and amusing, thread pertaining to politics on Public Address at this time. A time when so much is happening, appearing in even the MSM, that we would, in the past, have been so vociferous in discussing.
The Sabin affair,…

]]> Sun, 15 Feb 2015 16:55:48 +1300 Ross Mason https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335495#post335495 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335495#post335495 it doesn't matter what JK does, he gets on swimmingly. Treacle or water.

As for the likes of sooty on the shoulder....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzT8TyvmiLM

]]> Thu, 12 Feb 2015 17:20:47 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335453#post335453 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335453#post335453 We're so pretty, oh so pretty, legal...
Eminem taking National Party to court next week
Here's hoping they aren't just 'rapped' over the knuckles...

]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:43:45 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335452#post335452 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335452#post335452 Bad news for satire...
Jon Stewart to leave The Daily Show this year
Fake news host Jon Stewart has announced plans to step away from The Daily Show later this year.
Fake news show?
I thought The Daily Show did a far better job at highlighting current affairs than many other…

]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:46:38 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335451#post335451 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335451#post335451 Cray fishing…
Just wondering if Miss Spong may have been part of the notorious Giles gang or is perhaps related to the Crays and is now in some antipodean ‘witless’ protection scheme…

the cats she has disembowelled and affixed to lamp-posts in our street in fact belong to various of…

]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:24:52 +1300 Steve Barnes https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335449#post335449 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335449#post335449 Jason Ede couldn't have wished for a more suitable successor. Who but the strong and almost silent Sooty could suggest such a perfect Party slogan, "Izzy wizzy, let's get busy!".
It encompasses all that is National and reminds us that all JK has to do is wave a magic…

]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2015 12:41:37 +1300 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335447#post335447 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335447#post335447 Oh that Zippy, I was thinking more of the pinhead variety

It seems seems to me that pairing Ms Spong with a certain Kiwisaver Mogul might be an environmentally successful strategy ….

]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2015 11:01:23 +1300 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335446#post335446 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335446#post335446 David, can you please tell Miss Spong that neither I nor any member of my family will open the door to her…

Look, I told the prison administrators that trying Miss Spong on day release was a bad idea – and now look what’s happened!

Russell, I will certainly convey…

]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2015 11:01:09 +1300 Bart Janssen https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335445#post335445 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335445#post335445 takes the time to write her own life story

Is she perhaps related to the Miss Spong who was reported to be Churchill's bodyguard during the WWII? I think those documents may have become public domain now.

]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:54:29 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335444#post335444 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335444#post335444 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:27:02 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335442#post335442 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335442#post335442 perhaps you eat a lot of fish?
Alpha and Omega...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTpUVAcvWfU
(be the 1,225,581st person to watch this annually linked 'masterpisce'...)

and I do love this pair of fish from New Brighton...

]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2015 08:47:54 +1300 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335441#post335441 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335441#post335441 Incidentally, for those of you who have been wondering how Zippy and Bungle (and George) were employed in between Rainbow and CERA, then this will explain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMHhy-mGndI

]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2015 08:11:34 +1300 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335440#post335440 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335440#post335440 Wow — 7.00am and already four comments of genius that have significantly extended the analysis of our parliamentary reporting.

Rob: what an excellent suggestion. I shall have a word with Ms Spong when she is in a better mood. It's my understanding that she has family in the church and…

]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2015 08:08:04 +1300 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335439#post335439 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335439#post335439 Wednesday's child...
Is Sooty maybe one of the ravens Huginn or Muninn?
but, but, that would make Key – Odin!
...giving truth to the old saw that in the land of the blind a one eyed man is king!
and he does have a serious 'Ass Guard' in Wayne Ravenson...…

]]> Wed, 11 Feb 2015 07:15:08 +1300 Martin Lindberg https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335438#post335438 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335438#post335438 Wed, 11 Feb 2015 01:39:03 +1300 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335437#post335437 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335437#post335437 If you have a small dark creature whispering in one ear isn't it traditional for there to be a white one whispering in the other, you know for balance, testing ones moral courage ....

Is this what's wrong with our government? our leader has lost his balanced out look on…

]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2015 23:40:49 +1300 Rob Stowell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335436#post335436 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335436#post335436 Tue, 10 Feb 2015 23:12:41 +1300 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335435#post335435 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335435#post335435 Our 88-year-old stenographer, Miss Spong, has requested a bonus for spelling “weltanschauung” correctly, and hopes that Russell Brown’s house doesn’t burn down in the event that there’s not an extra fifty in her brown envelope this week.

Unfortunately Russell has a policy of not paying at all when threatened with…

]]> Tue, 10 Feb 2015 22:10:05 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335434#post335434 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-this-week-in-parliament-2-february/?p=335434#post335434 Discussion from blog post.

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