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Gerry will take until Monday to decide whether he will proceed with a privileges committee hearing over the Julie Anne Genter matter - and Julie Anne has until Monday to respond to complaints made by various political parties.

Calls for Luxon to take action and stand down Winston Peters after his outrageous comments involving a "puppet of the Chinese" - concerning a respected former Australian statesman fell on deaf ears - as Luxon did his usual belly crawl, sucking up to Winston like a gutless wonder - saying the templated words - "its not something I would have said" and "he's doing an exceptionally good job".

"This is one of those cases where the pom pom team at the NZ Herald looks the other way until it goes away", said an organic punga.

"The powerlessness of Luxon means he is not in charge", said a flax bush.

"Strong and stable government", warbled a majestical Tui, before yelling "YEAH RIGHT" and flying off to peck at Shane Jones.

"This is not a strong leader but a follower", said G from G News referring to the Prime Minister. "No doubt the news media will make this story go away pretty fast, but it highlights why a three party coalition with Winston involved does not work and why this is going to be a one term government."

"Dysfunction leadership can perpetuate the misery of thousands", said Monty heading out the sliding door and disappearing into the native bush.

Former PM Helen Clark said Winston's speech yesterday was very very defensive and he was walking back his posture in the USA about "powerful reasons to join Aukus 2". In response Winston growled that Helen Clark was out of date and her conversations were in tweets.

Audrey Young took a swipe at Chris Hipkins' leadership in an opinion article today when it is the PM Christopher Luxon who is floundering - reminding people that the NZ Herald is a very right wing partisan propaganda rag and not to subscribe to it.

Chris Bishop looked like a stunned mullet on TVNZ Breakfast on two occasions as he was slammed by the facts about fast track consenting and how he had no expertise about the environment so why would he make big decisions about it?

"Um, agh, well, um", said Bishop, blinking like a blind owl in the headlights - before Kieran partially rescued him - but added he should not be by-passing proper processes and ignoring community voice.

Bishop and Jones have built up a perception that they are skirting around conflicts of interest in the process.

Thanks to recent polls - Bishop has started making noises about backing down from the three ministers making all the decisions around fast track consenting after his initial arrogance and tin ear led to a fall in support for his party.

Even the Atlas Network was telling Bishop to back off - but like Luxon and Willis - Bishop is not going to be lectured until a poll boots him up the jacksey.

David Seymour also mangled a kind of backtrack on free school lunches like a sloping snake in the shade - as his polling began to break into bits and tumble down the drain.

Notably Seymour was caught out by Guyon on RNZ 30 Minutes - when asked a question - Seymour habitually says - "a better question would be" - in order to avoid answering the original question. "I ask the questions", said Guyon.

The government is hoping live animal exports will resume next year, despite a petition by 34,000 people who are against that.

Several farmers have spoken out against the plan saying it is not possible to maintain animal welfare on shipments and that it is damaging to New Zealand's reputation.

Gerry Brownlee got the question numbers mixed up again in parliament today showing he was not really paying attention and that fact was also highlighted when he allowed Shane Jones to ramble on about the previous government in an out of order way until a point of order woke him up as he appeared to be day dreaming.

Nobody reading this is Gerry Brownlee !!!

Hooray !!!

At times today Oliver Sean Plunket had about 400 people listening to him this morning and Michael Laws had just over 100 this afternoon - which shows the audience of the Platform is pretty small. All that money invested in fat salaries, for such a small audience that is not growing.

Maybe it's the angry old man thing - ranting at dolphins, young people and focusing on identity politics and race issues 80% of the time?

Speaking of fat salaries - it is rumoured on X that three arch disinformation twats - from the gang of 12 liars - will be getting $100,000 salaries at Radio Rabbit Hole - where Peter Williams has been begging for cash recently. Wow what a grift.

More job cuts have been signalled in various Public Service agencies - and all staff at NZ Stats have been offered voluntary redundancies which runs the risk that best and brightest may up and leave - and become a statistic.

The Government has been accused of "targeting" Kāinga Ora, the public sector union says, as more than 100 roles face the axe at the public housing agency.

Kāinga Ora is proposing to cut a net 130 roles as part of the Government's cost-cutting demands, staff were told on Thursday.

The number is now 3,745 job cuts according to RNZ.

People are seriously beginning to hurt as unemployment rises - and in many families - one member of the dual income - is now risking losing their job.

Life is being pushed into turmoil for more and more kiwis - while the right wing pom pom media team help justify it all - and the rich sit safely above it all with Mike Hosking - eating pop corn, counting their millions, as if this will pass and just vote for National like Sir John indicated - cos that is all they care about.

Some defence force folk were stranded in Antarctica for 4 weeks until they finally got a ride home - which kind of tells you all you need to know about that.

Hope you are doing okay in these tough times and all is well?

Luckily Vicki and I have a kind of faith well get through whatever is thrown at us - as renters at our age - but we could do without the uncertainty as things look increasingly grim all around us - just like it does for so many of you.

Wow imagine Luxon getting $50,000 and just not needing it...cos of the politics ...when people are really struggling and they are cutting and slashing people unnecessarily.

At least we have a couch and a TV and a great cat and G News - and I must say I really appreciate all your comments.

Have a wonderful evening.

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