Stuart Nash’s Crass Blunder: Trying to Be a Lad, Ends Up Looking Like a Prat
If he’s serious about a political comeback with NZ First, he needs to sharpen up fast. Crass jokes might fly in the pub but in politics they can sink you quicker than a lead balloon.
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Luxon Slams Jones as ‘Crass’ While Grovelling to Modi Over Doomed India FTA
Shane Jones is speaking for the forgotten Kiwis who are sick of being lectured and ignored. Luxon can keep bowing to Modi if he likes. The rest of us will watch his poll numbers do the same.
Wayne Brown’s Fundraiser Meltdown: Gangsta Mayor’s Tall Tales Exposed
Do not expect any accountability. My prediction is simple. Wayne Brown will brazen it out, bully anyone who dares speak against him and his council will roll over as usual.
The House of Temperance
We increasingly lack in public life a true sense of honour among those who are meant to serve us, not rule over us. There is nothing sober about a government that allows itself to become deformed through the tendency to tyrannical rule.
Alice in Hydrogen Land
When you see excited chats about the glories of hydrogen in the media, bear in mind that hydrogen as a fuel was created as a political response to the politically induced problem of the huge variability of solar and wind.
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The Good Oil Word of the Day
The word for today is… trammel (verb, noun) - verb 1: to catch or hold in or as if in a net : enmesh 2: to prevent or impede the free play of : confine noun 1: something impeding activity, progress, or freedom : restraint —usually used in plural 2: a net for catching
The Good Oil Daily Bible Verse
And a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the Lord.