National - FFS!

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I'm pleased that we can agree that National has many reprobate MPs.

Given that this state of affairs has been going on for a long time, and the last review of selection processes hasn't stopped it, it is doubtful that National will be able to select more people of integrity any time soon.

And we agree on Ardern's mobs being a bunch of clueless and useless deceitful nincompoops.

I am starting to warm to you, dobby41.

You can be trained (again)!

Good boy!

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As insightful as your take on how appointments by the likes of Trump were then obviously based on merit & competence! Not family, cronies and sycophants!

How would you feel about the Luxon/Gerry duo representing us rather than the photogenic & internationally popular Ardern.

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How would you feel about the Luxon/Gerry duo representing us rather than the photogenic & internationally popular Ardern.

LOL.

As insightful as your take on how the likes of Trump make appointments based on merit and competence.

PLA leadership is appointed based on politics.. Xi would appoint his family if he could.
US appointments are still based on merit and competence.

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And talking about bullying, Ardern is showing (again) her true colours by ignoring bullying (like she did many a times with Trevor Mallard) :

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/parlia...B3HFFMKCVQZTY/

Sharma then rebuffed Fenton's criticism of not using appropriate channels to raise concerns, saying he had "made multiple complaints including to the PMO [Prime Minister's Office] over the last 1.5 years and nothing has been done".

Sharma has only been an MP since the 2020 election. This timeframe would mean he began complaining to the Prime Minister's Office about half a year after entering Parliament.

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Uffindell is just another dodgy white, male, private-school educated National MP.
I feel sorry for Luxon - he wanted candidates with integrity and the party gave him Uffindell.
He sang Uffindell's praises because he wasn't told how dodgy he was.
He said that Uffindell would bring some intelligence to the National caucus.

Was Uffindell really the best that the Tauranga selection committee could muster? What were the other candidates like you wonder?

It would be interesting to know what became of the other students involved in the attack with 16 year old Ufindell. Did they end up in responsible positions - lawyers, doctors, brain surgeons etc? Or are they adult thugs?
Do most 16 year old students eventually grow up?

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/d...aced-uffindell

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It would be interesting to know what became of the other students involved in the attack with 16 year old Ufindell. Did they end up in responsible positions - lawyers, doctors, brain surgeons etc? Or are they adult thugs?
Do most 16 year old students eventually grow up?

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/d...aced-uffindell

Whatever it is, Luxon is dealing with it.

Compare and contrast with Ardern trying to sweep bullying in her ranks under the carpet.

And Labour is unleashing its attack dogs and bitches on the bullied one!

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/pol...-gaurav-sharma

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Luxon denies there's a problem within the party selection process:

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...tion-2023.html

Then promises more of these "diverse candidates".

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Luxon denies there's a problem within the party selection process:

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...tion-2023.html

Then promises more of these "diverse candidates".

Panda, when will you learn?

You have seen what happens to the "token diversity" in the Labour Party, such as Gaurev Sharma.

And amazingly enough, you dismiss him on the Labour thread as a "random dude"

Clearly you have no respect for diversity in any party, just have them there as token random dudes & dames. just to carry the bags as necessary.

Shame and disgrace!

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Luxon does have a pechant for saying everyone he barely knows, is fantastic:

"I trust Sylvia Wood completely. I've worked with her over [the] summer as we've gone through actually trying to upgrade and improve our candidate vetting and selection processes," he said. "I think she's fantastic and she's going to bring a lot of good leadership in new leadership to the National Party."

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/polit...l-scandal.html

He's a trusting sort of person.

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It would be interesting to know what became of the other students involved in the attack with 16 year old Ufindell. Did they end up in responsible positions - lawyers, doctors, brain surgeons etc? Or are they adult thugs?
Do most 16 year old students eventually grow up?

https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/d...aced-uffindell

Chances are that expensively privately educated pupils more likely progress to the professions requiring long periods of tertiary education…or Maybe they are beneficiaries of family wealth (a good chance of this as they were king’s pupils) and can get others to do their dirty work. You can have white collar as well as blue collar bullies.

“Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man.” Aristotle