Now this is fundrais­ing and out­side the square think­ing that I can support.

Go and bid hard and sup­port the Avon­head Ven­turer unit. The only prob­lem I can see is that they may have fallen foul of the Elec­toral Finance Act as the pic­ture may be con­sid­ered an elec­tion adver­tise­ment and isn’t authorised.

As usual the coments sec­tion is brilliant.

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“National has a poofter for a leader.“

Christ only knows what they think of Het­ero Helen.

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The Labour party lap-blog The Stan­dard starts its tantrums in the face of Labour’s impend­ing defeat.

They’re blam­ing the Her­ald for Labour’s polling, or rather, fail­ure to scru­ti­nise National’s policies.

“A week out from the elec­tion, Granny Her­ald has still yet to do any proper cov­er­age of the effects on indi­vid­u­als and the econ­omy of National’s four flag­ship poli­cies: pri­vatis­ing ACC, gut­ting Kiwisaver, reduc­ing work rights, and weak­en­ing the RMA and ETS.”

Well, let’s look at it with­out blink­ers on.

- National isn’t pri­vatis­ing ACC. It’s intro­duc­ing com­pe­ti­tion, a com­pletely dif­fer­ent thing altogether.

- Kiwisaver. Of course, that’s rot as well. National is allow­ing peo­ple to reduce the amount they put in. That’s hardly gut­ting Kiwisaver, because peo­ple are still free to con­tribute more if they want to.

- Work­place law. National are giv­ing incen­tives to employ­ers to try staff. If some­one is fuck­ing up in their job in the first 90 days, it’s prob­a­bly s good thing for them to move on anyway.

- Reforms to the RMA and ditch­ing the ETS. Per­haps the appro­pri­ate response is hal­lelu­jah and about time!

In the end, Labour have only itself to blame for it’s media cov­er­age. It’s Elec­toral Finance Act, cou­pled with it’s appalling behav­iour and con­don­ing of appalling behav­iour, means that this elec­tion is being con­tested on the theme Labour wants, though for all the rea­sons Labour wouldn’t want.

This elec­tion is about trust, and the media don’t trust Labour First anymore.

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Here is the Dom­Post Edi­to­r­ial today, the best bit is in bold;

At the Vic­to­rian Office of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions a swarthy, middle-aged man is hunched over a desk work­ing his way through an enor­mous stack of doc­u­ments, The Domin­ion Post writes

In Welling­ton a pile of doc­u­ments is dropped in a Domin­ion Post reporter’s let­ter­box wrapped in a copy of the Otago Daily Times. Fur­ther doc­u­ments fol­low, deliv­ered by some­one who calls him­self Batman.

The script for an antipodean John le Carre-style thriller? Sadly no.

Le Carre would have approved of “Bat­man”. It’s a nice touch, hint­ing at a sense of self-deprecation on the part of the doc­u­ment drop­per, but if Le Carre had been writ­ing the script, the man por­ing over court records in Mel­bourne would have been a Russ­ian emi­gre with a limp, not Labour Party pres­i­dent Mike Williams, and the drop would have been wrapped in the Times Lit­er­ary Sup­ple­ment, not the ODT.

Mr Williams’ inquiries and the mys­te­ri­ous let­ter­box drops were part of a much more pro­saic affair – an attempt to link for­mer cur­rency trader, and National Party leader, John Key to a noto­ri­ous cur­rency deal that landed 1980s share­mar­ket high-flier Allan Hawkins in jail. Mr Key once worked for the finance com­pany that han­dled the transaction.

Unfor­tu­nately for Labour’s appa­ratchiks, the sig­na­ture on the crit­i­cal doc­u­ment that got them excited was not his, but that of a for­mer Aus­tralian col­league who signed his name with a sim­i­lar flourish.

How­ever, two crit­i­cal facts have been uncov­ered by doc­u­ment searches in Mel­bourne. In an inter­view last year, Mr Key wrongly stated that he left Elders Mer­chant Finance a year ear­lier than he did in 1988 and he wrongly stated that he paid for a 1988 lunch that Aus­tralian court doc­u­ments show was actu­ally paid for by a colleague.

These are mat­ters of grave import that go to the heart of Mr Key’s cred­i­bil­ity as a prime min­is­te­r­ial aspirant.

If he can­not be relied upon to remem­ber who paid for the cham­pers with which he and his col­leagues toasted his depar­ture 20 years ago, how can he be trusted to run the coun­try? Next thing he’ll be claim­ing he was unaware the crown limo in which he was being fer­ried from one place to another was trav­el­ling at twice the speed limit, sign­ing his name to art­works he did not pro­duce, rewrit­ing elec­toral laws to suit his party or pre­tend­ing not to notice that a polit­i­cal ally has been mis­lead­ing the public.

But was it really nec­es­sary for Labour’s pres­i­dent to drop every­thing in the mid­dle of an elec­tion cam­paign and fly to Mel­bourne to pore over 20-year-old court records?

Labour had every right, and every rea­son, to check out a tip that Mr Key had behaved improp­erly in the past. If he had, it was legit­i­mate ammu­ni­tion to fire dur­ing the final days of the elec­tion cam­paign. But by reveal­ing its hand before it had the goods, the party has made itself look des­per­ate. It is a blun­der it can­not afford.

It is up against a cyn­i­cal oppo­nent who will stoop to any level to gain power. Instead of play­ing by the time-honoured rules of the game and smear­ing his oppo­nents as viciously as they smear him, Mr Key smiles beat­if­i­cally and steps dain­tily around the snares Labour lays in his path. It’s not cricket and it’s not pol­i­tics, but he’s got Labour rattled.

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The Her­ald today has outed Mike Williams as “Batman”.

On Octo­ber 13, an anony­mous blog­ger posted to Labour Party-affiliated web­site The Stan­dard. The blog­ger, call­ing him­self Bat­man, is believed to be a senior offi­cial, most likely party pres­i­dent Mike Williams, although he has denied it was him.

“Bat­man” alleged that he had uncov­ered a story of “lies, con­spir­acy, fraud, theft, and a truly good cover up that has stood the test of time – until now.” The blog recounted Key’s firm denial of involve­ment in the H-Fee when he gave an inter­view with the Herald’s press gallery last year. It also accused the Her­ald of fail­ing to dig deeper when it reported on the issue again this year. “Eugene Bingham’s dig­ging has been with a tea­spoon,” wrote Bat­man. “Either Granny Herald’s huge polit­i­cal staff is asleep at the wheel, or this watch­dog has turned into a blue-rinsed poo­dle. Bat­man char­i­ta­bly favours the for­mer explanation.”

The Stan­dard and all the lit­tle “Robins” to Mike Williams Bat­man are thor­oughly discredited.

The funny thing is though that a Mike Williams was actu­ally involved in Bat­man the ani­mated TV series.

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Win­ston Ray­mond Peters, 63, List MP of no fixed abode and proven liar, crook and cor­rupt politi­cian is once again the head­lines and for all the wrong reasons.

Remem­ber my post about the $3 bil­lion tax-avoiders who just so hap­pened to be Winston’s mates involved in the set­ting up of the “Couch Trust”. Now look at what one of the tran­scripts pro­vided to Phil Kitchin says;

Some doc­u­ments have par­lia­men­tary let­ter­heads and include notes from a meet­ing at which Mr Peters said he had saved Vela inter­ests “mil­lions in tax liability”.

Mmmmm…not that is a happy coin­ci­dence isn’t it.

Phil Kitchin has plenty more though, that fully exposes WRP, 63, LMPONFAAPL as the cor­rupt, venal wanker that he is.

There is no way he can weasel out this one. The doc­u­ments are irrefutable. Not only did Win­ston demand cash for pol­icy he also wanted a heli­copter to swan around in.

At the very least he could claim that the heli­copter was to pro­vide a breeze to stop his exces­sive sweat­ing. Win­ston, today will be sweat­ing like a rapist with these lat­est alle­ga­tions of graft.

Helen would have spat her corn­flakes and over-milked tea across the table at Peter after read­ing these alle­ga­tions. Helen Clark is don­key deep in this because of her con­stant defence of Win­ston and also by enabling the laws and pol­icy con­ces­sions bought and paid for by Vela interests.

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It’s offi­cial!

Helen Clark has the most hor­rific face accord­ing to an online Her­ald survey.

Truly a face to haunt houses.

Per­haps that is why Labour have dropped the old crones face from their “Trust” TV ads.

Remem­ber this elec­tion is all about Trust.

Trust helen to cur­dle moth­ers milk, trust Helen Clark to lie like a flat­fish and trust Helen Clark to scare small children.

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Peter Dunne is yet to pay back the money his party nicked at the last elec­tion. He is now just days away from keep­ing his Rev­enue minister’s role and sod hasn’t yet paid us back.

If John Key’s min­istry is to have any integrity at all then surely he would be insist­ing that Peter Dunne or United Furure pay back their money before he will issue any min­is­te­r­ial warrant.

As for Win­ston Ray­mond Peters, 63 list MP of no fixed abode and proven liar, he still hasn’t paid any­thing. The prick should be behind bars.

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Claire Trevett has a use­ful arti­cle about the chill­ing effect of the Elec­toral Finance Act on polit­i­cal discourse.

This law thank­fully will be gone in just a few weeks.

Labour has under­es­ti­mated how detested this act has been, they thought they could get away with this egre­gious assault on free­dom of speech and they were so, so wrong.

make the bas­tards pay Nov. 8

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This is much bet­ter footage, it has longer, includ­ing slow motion replay!!! Also doesn’t have talk­ing over the top so you can hear the slap on the ground.

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Helen Clark says;

“I think the ques­tion about the past of any poten­tial prime min­is­ter is worth ask­ing. I think it is per­fectly fair to look at a person’s past and what they have done.”

I can think of a few ques­tions I would like to ask her but in the inter­ests of pub­lic ser­vice I will allow com­menters to ask the ques­tions in the com­ments sec­tion. Fill yer boots.

UPDATE: I have been emailed a list of questions;

1. 1. Were you tears on your wed­ding day tears of hap­pi­ness or sadness?
2. What do you think your con­tin­ued crime through theft of tax payer funds and note this as your role as “Prime Minister”?
3. As Min­is­ter for Arts, can you please com­ment on your paint­ing fraud?
4. Would you expect a cit­i­zen to get arrested for dri­ving at 160km/hr?
5. On anti-smacking and your views that ‘it would defy human nature’ – can you please talk us through that?
6. Do you acknowl­edge that the ETS is your design to crip­ple the business?
7. Is your true vision and plan for NZ rep­re­sents that of a true Com­mu­nist State
8. Do you believe you are Corrupt?
9. Do you still want to kill kittens?
10. Why do you “hate” business?
11. Why do you “hate” the tra­di­tional con­cept of mar­riage and “detest” families?
12. Why do you “hate” religion?
13. How (psy­cho­log­i­cally) do you oddly blame the National gov­ern­ment of the 90’s for your own total fail­ures over the last 9 years?
14. What do you feel of Michael Cullen round­ing up opin­ion and sup­port for your demise behind your back?
15. Do you feel that you’ve cleaned up crime and cor­rup­tion in the polit­i­cal sys­tem (as claimed in 1990’s)?
16. Do you still think “the role of gov­ern­ment is what gov­ern­ment (you) define it to be”?
17. Do you still detest the Maori?
18. Do you still “hate” Mid­dle class NZ?
19. What will you do when you are kicked out? (see point 15)
20. Why do you wish to see the SFO abol­ished? Should we ask Win­ston?
21. Why did you spit on War Veterans?
22. Have you enrolled your­self, three times, on the elec­toral roll this year?
23. Do you have any­more Helen Clark not Helen Clark paintings?
24. Do you still think you are a pop­u­lar and com­pe­tent Primer Minister?
25. Who is the “woman” on the billboards?
26. Why did you com­man­deer air force planes…to fly around the country…putting emis­sions into the atmosphere….when rush­ing the Emis­sions Trad­ing Scam through?
27. Why have you instructed the PSA to call fam­i­lies, over the phone…threaten and intim­i­date them into vot­ing Labour….
28. Are you aware that it is ille­gal to con­tact peo­ple who have supressed their con­tact details…?
29. Are you aware that is not good to BULLY PEOPLE OVER THE PHONE INTO VOTING FOR YOU?
30. Do you still think the US are spy­ing on you. News flash Clark…they prob­a­bly are!….
31. With all of that – do you really think peo­ple should “TRUST” a cor­rupt Helen Clark mis­led Government?

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Bob Har­vey decided to have a wee tantrum (described as an embar­rass­ing row) at an Envi­ron­men­tal Soci­ety meet­ing over National’s posi­tion on the Helensville hous­ing project. Turns out that Har­vey got it wrong and National and Har­vey were in close align­ment after all, but Har­vey didn’t realise!

Unfor­tu­nately for Mr Har­vey, the NBR reported Mr Har­vey was stone cold sober.

Maybe Mayor Bob should have just sent an angry late night email to Nick Smith instead. The National Party is quite used to get­ting them from some May­ors now.

Time for an Auck­land Region “rule” in some Out­look folders

What would such an email rule look like? I’ve had a go below

>If Con­di­tion “Sender” = “Unnamed angry Auck­land Mayor”, mark email as JUNK

ELSE

>If Con­di­tion “Sender” = “Unnamed angry Auck­land Mayor”, AND, IF Con­di­tion “Time” > 11:00pm and < 4:00am, mark email as DRUNK

THEN For­ward onto “National Auck­land Caucus”

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Like her party’s flag­ging poll rat­ings Helen Clark does a face plant.

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Helen Clark has now con­firmed that Labour paid for Mike Williams’ muck rak­ing trip to Aus­tralia. This despite claim­ing oth­er­wise yesterday.

Clark is clearly not in con­trol of her party any­more and has to resort to lying and then cor­rect­ing to try to cover for the spec­tac­u­lar deba­cle that she and mike Williams have landed on Labour.

Caught out like a pos­sum in the head­lights she lies like a flat­fish. We also find out that Labour hired an Aus­tralian Labor party lawyer to get a court order to release the 24kgs of doc­u­ments that Mike Williams brought back with him.

In this time of eco­nomic cri­sis Labour seems to be focussed on the past, Viet­nam, Spring­bok Tour, iraq and now some obscure finan­cial deal­ing 20 years ago. They are vision­less, venal, cor­rupt and unfit to gov­ern any longer.

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Jim Ander­ton has been caught on cam­era at Nel­son air­port scoff­ing down a huge chunk of cake. Clearly he isn’t prac­tis­ing what he preaches, either that or this is the new Jim’s Zone-Out Diet. Or per­haps he is a sub­scriber to the Marie Antoinette school of thought.

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