Anyone heard from him?
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Not like him to go missing like this.
Don’t think its because Te Maire isnt getting minutes either
Checked up on his activity a few days ago - he appears to still be lurking on the forum so figured he was ok.
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Perhaps he is serving a suspension 
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Measaged a while ago saying he’s busy in personal life but will be back!
That's almost close to a massage
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Seymour following the tactics of the authoritarian fascist right - the only kind of free speech for them is their own
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Anne Salmond: Victim of the Day
Dame Anne Salmond on a lame but personally intimidating campaign launched by Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour against academic critics of his Regulatory Standards Bill
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Already posted this today. Is Anne related to you?Seymour following the tactics of the authoritarian fascist right - the only kind of free speech for them is their own
Anne Salmond: Victim of the Day
Dame Anne Salmond on a lame but personally intimidating campaign launched by Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour against academic critics of his Regulatory Standards Bill
No surprises that this government want to remove obstacles to wealth extraction. Of the rich, by the rich, for the rich.
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'Nowhere to go' for more than 100,000 Kiwis: The worsening reality of homelessness
"[It] shift the mentality from homelessness being an individual problem caused by individuals to actually an understanding that homelessness is a collective responsibility," Hendry says.
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Seymour got a laugh in London – but tobacco researchers rubbish his remarks as reprehensible
Bob Edlin writes – Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour has been chided by “tobacco researchers” for making remarks about smoking which made a British audience laugh. Seymour had delivered an…
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Have to hand it to this guy, at least he doesn’t hide what a fuckwit he is. Interesting seeing on the news even Willis on the topic saying we’ll leave David to explain his sense of humour when saying labour’s smoke free proposal was quite evil but then walking it back
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You support the irrelevancy that is regional councils?
We went from them costing $30 in our rates several years ago to over $500 now. Rates are a huge contributor to the cost of living crisis and working poor - just making us all poor. Can’t tell what they even do. A great example of empire building and organisations making a job for themselves in a monopolistic position.
Auckland ditched regional councils and nobody ever complains.
Why can’t normal council do their job?
(And I clarify that by saying councils should be much bigger, covering whole regions.)
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You talk of govt creating crisis to justify changes - this is council incompetence forcing the govt to intervene.
Mate, the councils have been so excessive in their rate increases there is a real hate towards them (cost rather than services) where excessive rate increases is unable to be voted out. The pitiful turnout at election is evidence people have lost faith in the councils.
Councils are an uncontrollable money pit that have no sense of keeping costs reasonable. 20% proposed rates increase when inflation is 10% of that is outrageous. People on fixed incomes rightfully feeling victimised.
When the govt reins them in, they only have themselves to blame. They have caused a financial crisis for many ratepayers and don’t care. Prime candidate for sorting out.
It will be the councils fault and I will back the govt. No manufactured crisis here just a prime example council entitlement and excess.
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Massive pushback on local councils here in Aus. Talk of abolishment etc. Esp since we have 3 layers. Fed, state AND local. 3 sets of hands in the cookie jar
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Probably just the civil servants being forced out of working from home & back into the office. Also 13k cyclists in a month on a main intersection sounds really low still - nice trend but low bar.
the cameras also clock everything.
including me running. so 13k would be a stretch. but at least that ones being used at all. others aren’t
The return on invested capital from cycle lanes must be horrific. Ones at the top of our street cost millions, barely anyone uses them.
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i’ll add to that (if you’re not in wellington) the weather makes them unusable 25-30% of the year.
We have a bit of a problem as well. I think LTNZ gave the design contract to a 12 year old who had a $100 Lego set.
I saw a motorist hit one the other day and become cast on top of it. Rubbish collection day, the bins were stacked in the cycle lane as the truck had to broach the barriers to pick up and left no room for traffic trailing behind. Quite the joke and I believe the bill is $3m so far. I expect them to be ripped up by xmas.
Not sure about the rest of the country but you can count the numbers on one hand of kids who ride bikes to school around here or walk for that matter
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I saw a motorist hit one the other day and become cast on top of it. Rubbish collection day, the bins were stacked in the cycle lane as the truck had to broach the barriers to pick up and left no room for traffic trailing behind. Quite the joke and I believe the bill is $3m so far. I expect them to be ripped up by xmas.
Not sure about the rest of the country but you can count the numbers on one hand of kids who ride bikes to school around here or walk for that matter
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