David Piper

Easter Trading changes now have royal assent, meaning bars won't have to kick out patrons at midnight tonight. ACT was the only party to have all MPs supporting this bill.

Is Luxon really dumb? Why piss off the guy that's supposedly agitating against you by taking away one of his toys (Leader of the House). If you're going to move against a threat, cut their throat entirely, or don't bother and just keep them happy. And how does promoting two safe seat MPs as ministers improve your caucus support when it's the ones scared of losing their green seat that will be the ones to vote against you.

When are some in the media going to ask Hipkins why he said that he “didn’t see the health advice” on the risks to under 18s for the vaccine, then said he did see it but “it was too late”, then said he would’ve “done things differently” if he had seen it, then is now found to have put out a press release promoting boosters for kids – after he had seen the advice. When are some in the media then going to do their job and ask themselves why have none of the responsible ministers told the inquiry they saw the advice – when it is evidenced now that all of them did. When are some in the media going to figure out that the reason why Hipkins and the other ministers didn’t want to give evidence publicly is so they couldn’t be asked all of these important questions under a spotlight publicly. This question about getting the advice from officials wasn’t put to him without notice. This was part of the inquiry, he had time, he had information, and he had the understanding of how important this question was. He still said no. They all still said no. They all instead reverted to hiding behind a keyboard being filtered by his lawyers. We were the first to show evidence in the House that they were aware of it but never shared it with the public and even continued the mandates - and in the House during question time we said that there was more coming. The March 2022 Cabinet paper, in his name, proves that he did know and that other ministers knew – and there will be even more evidence to come. It is an outrageous situation where one hundred thousand children were exposed to the known risks of having two vaccine doses yet the public, and more importantly the parents, were not told. Hipkins says the advice “came too late" – but when he received that advice there were still 30,000 kids who only had the one shot. Too late for who? It is alarming that the Inquiry did not come to this obvious and provable conclusion but instead relied upon his denials. This was an inquiry that was originally set up by Labour themselves, with inadequate terms of reference, and hand-picked people on it. How can it be that this second phase of the inquiry did not pick these important documents up when we and some journalists did. Its time the rest woke up, took their rose-tinted lenses off, and stopped believing everything that comes out of Hipkins’ mouth. To attempt to deny these facts publicly, and rely on the inept Inquiry report, points to this being a disgraceful cover up as it now seems to be.

The president is openly racist. Has been his entire life. His ‘low IQ’ slur is used very selectively and deliberately. Again and again he shows everyone: The president is openly racist.

Leavitt: "How many more Americans have to die before the Democrats end this madness?"

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