• Re: The Green co-leader

    From Pooh@3:770/3 to All on Wednesday, August 09, 2017 22:35:48
    On 8/08/2017 9:12 a.m., Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:30:26 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net
    dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 07 Aug 2017 01:37:39 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net
    dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 06 Aug 2017 22:08:52 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net >>>>> dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 06 Aug 2017 18:51:26 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net >>>>>>> dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 06 Aug 2017 16:59:02 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net >>>>>>>>> dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 05 Aug 2017 23:43:55 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net
    dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 08:09:25 +1200, george152 <gblack@hnpl.net> wrote:

    On 8/4/2017 7:48 PM, JohnO wrote:
    The David Garrett case makes an interesting comparison. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> But it's ok when a brown female lefty does it.

    John Banks got booted because of fake news and lies from the dot >>>>>>>>>>>>>> con
    and
    wife.
    The thing that she (and her 'mates') don't realise is that the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> general
    public is a mass that doesn't like the two levels of justice that
    the
    left depend upon.
    This will become evident when the ballot boxes open. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    You may be right, geroge - two levels of treeatment can indeed be
    an
    issue.

    Look for example at this article:
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/helensville/news/article.cfm?l_id=400&objectid=10008084

    Three years of being registered to vote using an address that the >>>>>>>>>>>>> voter had never lived at!

    That's more recent than the Metiria Turei case, and quite possible
    for
    a longer period - and by a person who was at the time a Member of >>>>>>>>>>>>> Parliament!

    But the worst aspect if this is that it was condoned by many of the
    very people that supported him then and are government MPs now. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Perhaps they should clean up their own before attacking others for
    lesser offences.
    Infantile nonsense.
    Regardless of what others have done (they need to be held to account)
    she
    has
    admitted to illegal activity. End of story. She should have resigned!
    Tony

    So you think Bill English and John Key need to be held to account for
    electoral fraud
    I have no idea whether that fatuous accusation is correct or not! >>>>>>>>>> irrelevant off topic shit deleted.

    Tony

    So when you said "Regardless of what others have done (they need to be
    held to account) she has admitted to illegal activity.", you didn't >>>>>>>>> really mean that others should be held to account. Both Key and >>>>>>>>> English admitted to being registered to vote at an address that they >>>>>>>>> were not living at - and in Key's case he never lived there later >>>>>>>>> either. Do you now think they do not need to be held to account? >>>>>>>> Read this with care -
    I am not talking about them you dolt, I am talking about one of the >>>>>>>> co-leaders
    of the Greens.
    The two you mention did not commit benefit fraud - she did! Not even >>>>>>>> close
    to
    a
    similar situation!
    I can recommend a remedial English teacher for you.
    Tony
    <deleted nonsense that is entirely off topic.>
    This thread is about the Green co-leader. She stole from you and I and you
    are
    trying to defend her. Shame on you, She should have resigned.
    That is all this thread is about you pitiable man.

    <snipped, off topic and deliberately diverting the discussion - as usual> >>>>>
    <snipped, off topic and deliberately diverting the discussion - as usual> >>>> https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/95542553/two-green-mps-threaten-to-quit-over-metiria-turei
    Read and weep - two honest people show you up for what you really are, a >>>> lying
    fraud!
    <snipped, off topic and deliberately diverting the discussion - as usual> >>>
    Debate is healthy, you do not debate, you simply lie!
    She should have resigned. Period!
    Tony

    Tony
    Such blinkered arrogance from you Tony - representing the worst of
    National Party authoritariansm, lack of empathy, inability to accept different points of view, deliberate deception and unwillingness to
    listen. Time both you and National went . . .

    Haha. The blinkered arrogance belongs to you, Turei and the Greens. Hell
    even Ahern is even distancing Labour from the Greens. Though looking at
    the latest Newshub poll she'll crawling to NZWinstone to give her the government. Though I'm guessing Labour will slip back unless she does
    something more dramatic than reign in her attack do.....deputy leader:)

    Pooh

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  • From Pooh@3:770/3 to All on Wednesday, August 09, 2017 22:31:33
    On 8/08/2017 8:11 a.m., Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 07 Aug 2017 01:37:39 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net
    dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 06 Aug 2017 22:08:52 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net
    dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 06 Aug 2017 18:51:26 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net >>>>> dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 06 Aug 2017 16:59:02 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net >>>>>>> dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 05 Aug 2017 23:43:55 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net >>>>>>>>> dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 08:09:25 +1200, george152 <gblack@hnpl.net> wrote:

    On 8/4/2017 7:48 PM, JohnO wrote:
    The David Garrett case makes an interesting comparison. >>>>>>>>>>>>> But it's ok when a brown female lefty does it.

    John Banks got booted because of fake news and lies from the dot con
    and
    wife.
    The thing that she (and her 'mates') don't realise is that the >>>>>>>>>>>> general
    public is a mass that doesn't like the two levels of justice that the
    left depend upon.
    This will become evident when the ballot boxes open.

    You may be right, geroge - two levels of treeatment can indeed be an
    issue.

    Look for example at this article:
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/helensville/news/article.cfm?l_id=400&objectid=10008084

    Three years of being registered to vote using an address that the >>>>>>>>>>> voter had never lived at!

    That's more recent than the Metiria Turei case, and quite possible for
    a longer period - and by a person who was at the time a Member of >>>>>>>>>>> Parliament!

    But the worst aspect if this is that it was condoned by many of the >>>>>>>>>>> very people that supported him then and are government MPs now. >>>>>>>>>>>
    Perhaps they should clean up their own before attacking others for >>>>>>>>>>> lesser offences.
    Infantile nonsense.
    Regardless of what others have done (they need to be held to account)
    she
    has
    admitted to illegal activity. End of story. She should have resigned!
    Tony

    So you think Bill English and John Key need to be held to account for >>>>>>>>> electoral fraud
    I have no idea whether that fatuous accusation is correct or not! >>>>>>>> irrelevant off topic shit deleted.

    Tony

    So when you said "Regardless of what others have done (they need to be >>>>>>> held to account) she has admitted to illegal activity.", you didn't >>>>>>> really mean that others should be held to account. Both Key and
    English admitted to being registered to vote at an address that they >>>>>>> were not living at - and in Key's case he never lived there later >>>>>>> either. Do you now think they do not need to be held to account?
    Read this with care -
    I am not talking about them you dolt, I am talking about one of the >>>>>> co-leaders
    of the Greens.
    The two you mention did not commit benefit fraud - she did! Not even close
    to
    a
    similar situation!
    I can recommend a remedial English teacher for you.
    Tony
    <deleted nonsense that is entirely off topic.>
    This thread is about the Green co-leader. She stole from you and I and you >>>> are
    trying to defend her. Shame on you, She should have resigned.
    That is all this thread is about you pitiable man.

    Tony

    O course - material that shows you up needs to be deleted - nhext you
    will be claiming you are doing it because you are on dial-up!

    Of course it is not - you raised the issue of others being held to
    account. Since Bill English did the same, you cannot abide your own
    words being taken seriously - so how should he be held to account -
    the same way as the Green Co-Leader? If not, why not, Tony?
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/95542553/two-green-mps-threaten-to-quit-over-metiria-turei
    Read and weep - two honest people show you up for what you really are, a lying
    fraud!
    They are entitled to their opinion - they seem to have missed the
    reality that no-one condones lying to the government; except perhaps
    when it is National Ministers (specifically John Key and Bill English
    with electoral fraud and Bill English with claiming a benefit he was
    not entitled to).

    Being honest about a past wrong is somthing beyond the understanding
    of the far-right and the smug nat-supporters lacking any empathy for
    the faults of government systems.

    Not everyone sees things the same way of course. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11899875


    Debate is healthy, you do not debate, you simply lie!
    She should have resigned. Period!
    Tony

    Sheesh Rich you really are dumb with your constant support of the
    unsupportable just because they're left wing losers like you.

    Pooh

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  • From Pooh@3:770/3 to JohnO on Wednesday, August 09, 2017 22:36:39
    On 8/08/2017 9:52 a.m., JohnO wrote:
    On Tuesday, 8 August 2017 09:12:31 UTC+12, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:30:26 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net
    dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 07 Aug 2017 01:37:39 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net
    dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 06 Aug 2017 22:08:52 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net >>>>>> dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 06 Aug 2017 18:51:26 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net >>>>>>>> dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 06 Aug 2017 16:59:02 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net
    dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 05 Aug 2017 23:43:55 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net
    dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 08:09:25 +1200, george152 <gblack@hnpl.net> wrote:

    On 8/4/2017 7:48 PM, JohnO wrote:
    The David Garrett case makes an interesting comparison. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> But it's ok when a brown female lefty does it. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    John Banks got booted because of fake news and lies from the dot
    con
    and
    wife.
    The thing that she (and her 'mates') don't realise is that the >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> general
    public is a mass that doesn't like the two levels of justice that
    the
    left depend upon.
    This will become evident when the ballot boxes open. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    You may be right, geroge - two levels of treeatment can indeed be an
    issue.

    Look for example at this article:
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/helensville/news/article.cfm?l_id=400&objectid=10008084

    Three years of being registered to vote using an address that the
    voter had never lived at!

    That's more recent than the Metiria Turei case, and quite possible
    for
    a longer period - and by a person who was at the time a Member of
    Parliament!

    But the worst aspect if this is that it was condoned by many of the
    very people that supported him then and are government MPs now. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Perhaps they should clean up their own before attacking others for
    lesser offences.
    Infantile nonsense.
    Regardless of what others have done (they need to be held to account)
    she
    has
    admitted to illegal activity. End of story. She should have resigned!
    Tony

    So you think Bill English and John Key need to be held to account for
    electoral fraud
    I have no idea whether that fatuous accusation is correct or not! >>>>>>>>>>> irrelevant off topic shit deleted.

    Tony

    So when you said "Regardless of what others have done (they need to be
    held to account) she has admitted to illegal activity.", you didn't >>>>>>>>>> really mean that others should be held to account. Both Key and >>>>>>>>>> English admitted to being registered to vote at an address that they >>>>>>>>>> were not living at - and in Key's case he never lived there later >>>>>>>>>> either. Do you now think they do not need to be held to account? >>>>>>>>> Read this with care -
    I am not talking about them you dolt, I am talking about one of the >>>>>>>>> co-leaders
    of the Greens.
    The two you mention did not commit benefit fraud - she did! Not even >>>>>>>>> close
    to
    a
    similar situation!
    I can recommend a remedial English teacher for you.
    Tony
    <deleted nonsense that is entirely off topic.>
    This thread is about the Green co-leader. She stole from you and I and you
    are
    trying to defend her. Shame on you, She should have resigned.
    That is all this thread is about you pitiable man.

    <snipped, off topic and deliberately diverting the discussion - as usual> >>>>>>
    <snipped, off topic and deliberately diverting the discussion - as usual> >>>>> https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/95542553/two-green-mps-threaten-to-quit-over-metiria-turei
    Read and weep - two honest people show you up for what you really are, a >>>>> lying
    fraud!
    <snipped, off topic and deliberately diverting the discussion - as usual> >>>>
    Debate is healthy, you do not debate, you simply lie!
    She should have resigned. Period!
    Tony

    Tony
    Such blinkered arrogance from you Tony - representing the worst of
    National Party authoritariansm, lack of empathy, inability to accept
    different points of view, deliberate deception and unwillingness to
    listen. Time both you and National went . . .

    Spooky, you'd swear Dickbot was talking about himself rather than
    mild-mannered Tony.


    It's the reflection in his monitor that does it JohnO :)

    Pooh

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  • From Pooh@3:770/3 to All on Wednesday, August 09, 2017 22:43:30
    On 8/08/2017 10:58 a.m., Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:46:05 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net
    dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 07 Aug 2017 01:37:39 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net
    dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 06 Aug 2017 22:08:52 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net >>>>> dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 06 Aug 2017 18:51:26 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net >>>>>>> dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 06 Aug 2017 16:59:02 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net >>>>>>>>> dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 05 Aug 2017 23:43:55 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net
    dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 08:09:25 +1200, george152 <gblack@hnpl.net> wrote:

    On 8/4/2017 7:48 PM, JohnO wrote:
    The David Garrett case makes an interesting comparison. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> But it's ok when a brown female lefty does it.

    John Banks got booted because of fake news and lies from the dot >>>>>>>>>>>>>> con
    and
    wife.
    The thing that she (and her 'mates') don't realise is that the >>>>>>>>>>>>>> general
    public is a mass that doesn't like the two levels of justice that
    the
    left depend upon.
    This will become evident when the ballot boxes open. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    You may be right, geroge - two levels of treeatment can indeed be
    an
    issue.

    Look for example at this article:
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/helensville/news/article.cfm?l_id=400&objectid=10008084

    Three years of being registered to vote using an address that the >>>>>>>>>>>>> voter had never lived at!

    That's more recent than the Metiria Turei case, and quite possible
    for
    a longer period - and by a person who was at the time a Member of >>>>>>>>>>>>> Parliament!

    But the worst aspect if this is that it was condoned by many of the
    very people that supported him then and are government MPs now. >>>>>>>>>>>>>
    Perhaps they should clean up their own before attacking others for
    lesser offences.
    Infantile nonsense.
    Regardless of what others have done (they need to be held to account)
    she
    has
    admitted to illegal activity. End of story. She should have resigned!
    Tony

    So you think Bill English and John Key need to be held to account for
    electoral fraud
    I have no idea whether that fatuous accusation is correct or not! >>>>>>>>>> irrelevant off topic shit deleted.

    Tony

    So when you said "Regardless of what others have done (they need to be
    held to account) she has admitted to illegal activity.", you didn't >>>>>>>>> really mean that others should be held to account. Both Key and >>>>>>>>> English admitted to being registered to vote at an address that they >>>>>>>>> were not living at - and in Key's case he never lived there later >>>>>>>>> either. Do you now think they do not need to be held to account? >>>>>>>> Read this with care -
    I am not talking about them you dolt, I am talking about one of the >>>>>>>> co-leaders
    of the Greens.
    The two you mention did not commit benefit fraud - she did! Not even >>>>>>>> close
    to
    a
    similar situation!
    I can recommend a remedial English teacher for you.
    Tony
    <deleted nonsense that is entirely off topic.>
    This thread is about the Green co-leader. She stole from you and I and you
    are
    trying to defend her. Shame on you, She should have resigned.
    That is all this thread is about you pitiable man.

    Tony

    O course - material that shows you up needs to be deleted - nhext you >>>>> will be claiming you are doing it because you are on dial-up!

    Of course it is not - you raised the issue of others being held to
    account. Since Bill English did the same, you cannot abide your own
    words being taken seriously - so how should he be held to account -
    the same way as the Green Co-Leader? If not, why not, Tony?
    You defend theft then? There can only be one reason for that!
    What defence of theft? I am asking you how you think Bill English
    should be held to account? His rongly claimed befit gave far more than Turei's, and was much more recent - and while he wwas an MP. Did you
    mean your statement that others should be held to account, or are you
    now saying that there is one rule for National MPs and another for
    everyone else?


    English has never ever committed benefit fraud. What you refer to is
    when he received an allowance for living away from his home in Dipton
    when he was living in Wellington. The investigation that such as the fat fraudster Turei screamed for found out it had been granted erroneously
    by Parliamentary Services. Besides which he paid back the sum overpaid
    which was far less than what Turei got from THREE lots of benefit fraud!

    You Rich are a typical hypocritical supercilious marxist trolling muppet
    of the dumbest kind.

    Pooh



    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/95542553/two-green-mps-threaten-to-quit-over-metiria-turei
    Read and weep - two honest people show you up for what you really are, a >>>> lying
    fraud!

    Debate is healthy, you do not debate, you simply lie!
    She should have resigned. Period!

    Tony

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  • From Pooh@3:770/3 to All on Wednesday, August 09, 2017 22:49:17
    On 8/08/2017 4:52 p.m., Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 7 Aug 2017 19:49:38 -0700 (PDT), JohnO <johno1234@gmail.com>
    wrote:

    On Tuesday, 8 August 2017 14:40:18 UTC+12, jmschri...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, August 8, 2017 at 1:59:50 PM UTC+12, jmschri...@gmail.com wrote:
    On Tuesday, August 8, 2017 at 10:58:50 AM UTC+12, Rich80105 wrote:
    On Mon, 07 Aug 2017 15:46:05 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net >>>>> dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 07 Aug 2017 01:37:39 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net >>>>>>> dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 06 Aug 2017 22:08:52 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net >>>>>>>>> dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 06 Aug 2017 18:51:26 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net
    dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 06 Aug 2017 16:59:02 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot
    net
    dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 05 Aug 2017 23:43:55 -0500, Tony <lizandtony at orcon dot net
    dot nz> wrote:

    Rich80105<rich80105@hotmail.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 5 Aug 2017 08:09:25 +1200, george152 <gblack@hnpl.net> wrote:

    On 8/4/2017 7:48 PM, JohnO wrote:
    The David Garrett case makes an interesting comparison. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> But it's ok when a brown female lefty does it. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    John Banks got booted because of fake news and lies from the
    dot
    con
    and
    wife.
    The thing that she (and her 'mates') don't realise is that the
    general
    public is a mass that doesn't like the two levels of justice
    that
    the
    left depend upon.
    This will become evident when the ballot boxes open. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
    You may be right, geroge - two levels of treeatment can indeed be an
    issue.

    Look for example at this article:
    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/helensville/news/article.cfm?l_id=400&objectid=10008084

    Three years of being registered to vote using an address that
    the
    voter had never lived at!

    That's more recent than the Metiria Turei case, and quite possible
    for
    a longer period - and by a person who was at the time a Member of
    Parliament!

    But the worst aspect if this is that it was condoned by many of the
    very people that supported him then and are government MPs now.

    Perhaps they should clean up their own before attacking others for
    lesser offences.
    Infantile nonsense.
    Regardless of what others have done (they need to be held to account)
    she
    has
    admitted to illegal activity. End of story. She should have resigned!
    Tony

    So you think Bill English and John Key need to be held to account for
    electoral fraud
    I have no idea whether that fatuous accusation is correct or not!
    irrelevant off topic shit deleted.

    Tony

    So when you said "Regardless of what others have done (they need to be
    held to account) she has admitted to illegal activity.", you didn't
    really mean that others should be held to account. Both Key and >>>>>>>>>>>>> English admitted to being registered to vote at an address that they
    were not living at - and in Key's case he never lived there later >>>>>>>>>>>>> either. Do you now think they do not need to be held to account? >>>>>>>>>>>> Read this with care -
    I am not talking about them you dolt, I am talking about one of the
    co-leaders
    of the Greens.
    The two you mention did not commit benefit fraud - she did! Not even
    close
    to
    a
    similar situation!
    I can recommend a remedial English teacher for you.
    Tony
    <deleted nonsense that is entirely off topic.>
    This thread is about the Green co-leader. She stole from you and I and you
    are
    trying to defend her. Shame on you, She should have resigned. >>>>>>>>>> That is all this thread is about you pitiable man.

    Tony

    O course - material that shows you up needs to be deleted - nhext you >>>>>>>>> will be claiming you are doing it because you are on dial-up! >>>>>>>>>
    Of course it is not - you raised the issue of others being held to >>>>>>>>> account. Since Bill English did the same, you cannot abide your own >>>>>>>>> words being taken seriously - so how should he be held to account - >>>>>>>>> the same way as the Green Co-Leader? If not, why not, Tony?
    You defend theft then? There can only be one reason for that!
    What defence of theft? I am asking you how you think Bill English
    should be held to account? His rongly claimed befit gave far more than >>>>> Turei's, and was much more recent - and while he wwas an MP.


    Perhaps you and Tony might consider that, setting aside the dry legalities
    for a moment, in terms of principles and ethics (your in-common drivers), the difference between Turei and English is that the one was a case of a need-driven defrauding by a
    (then) lowly state-succoured nobody...whereas...

    ...the other was nothing but unbridled greed on the part of an avaricious high-ranking charlatan. This rank piece of work was at the time not only living infinitely higher off his own state-funded hog than Turei, but was, of all people, also
    entrusted with the stewardship of the nation's finances - even worse, his grasping and cynically organised greed occurring at precisely the time he was urging all New Zealanders to tighten their belts.

    Just a parting thought: since our world rankings in any old parameter you care to name seem to matter so inordinately to some, in the case of English, perhaps someone out there would now kindly show how the behaviour of this ineffably shameless spiv
    - now our prime minster - has contributed to and, yes, enhanced New Zealand's reputation as the world's least, or near-least, corrupt nation?

    (If it's of any small comfort to you both, know that come September I shall be voting for neither of these parasites; the one simply because the decadence he espouses and represents disgusts me, the other because, although she's fessed up, she
    simply hasn't the qualities that effective, credible political representation demands.)

    And now, as if right on cue, this:

    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11900113

    <The guy completely and utterly misses the point.

    It's not about what she did decades ago. It's about her perception of it *now*.

    She says that it is wrong but that the system should not make it such
    a difficult decision for so many people - do you disagree with that?


    Oh ffs Rich. Turei did the fraud. The 'system' didn't force her to do
    it! She's an insult to all those beneficiary's who've played by the
    rules. Just as your an insult and an affront to all honest people!

    On the other hand, there is no such "compensating" rationale for the
    greed related incident referred to by jmsc - but "privilege" is
    supposed to deliver advantages - "right", JohnO?


    What jmsc (Keith) claims is wrong. The guy might write beautifully but a
    lot is no better than a well written fairy story.

    Pooh

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