My mate just pointed me at this site which is amazing because you can remove the Tax Payers Union/Curia poll. They give good reason to in there sources

"... As Curia refuses to agree to industry regulation membership, users have the option to turn off Curia data within the aggregate..."

We dont allow any nuclear ships in NZ because the ships are some sort of "boogyman". We dont let the ships in because you dont tell us which ones store the nuclear bombs! So we treat all the ships like they are carrying nukes and dont allow any of them.

Public service anouncment: There is going to be a test of the Emergency Alert System this Sunday. So if your phone starts making loud sounds on Sunday, dont be alarmed.

Just got back from seeing Brian Cox's new show Emergance. Bloody spectacular! A great way to spend 3 hours. Listening to a Englishman describe planc length, multi universe therory and everything inbetween, all with cool visualizations and a light show.

I have seen it described as "A fancy power point presentation." and mayby it is, but, it would be the fanciest slideshow I ever did see. A lot of really cool galaxy scapes and star scapes all compiled from really recent data from James Webb telescope, Vera Rubin Observatory and The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument "DESI". Oh and a live feed from the International Space Station during the break.

Fully recomend you go see it if you get the chance! He is in Auckland on Thursday and Wellington on Saturday, which is really late notice but i still recommend it.

A quick Christmas message from Gordon Borwn's social media team. But also Merry Christmas you cynical bunch! hope to argue with you in the new year. So stay safe, stay merry, and see you next year.

and in the leftist spirit of Lemmy. and because I couldn't resist. "All i want for Christmas is, 5 minutes of quite, No Crisis, No Phone calls and no fixing everyone else's problem." Welcome to mayoralty buddy that's the fucking job.

not neseserily just this artical but over the past few months I have noticed RNZ with a number of articles along the lines of "10 steps to change party leadership" with their target firmly on Luxon.

Not that i disagree with thier assesment. The dude is little more than an empty suit. It is funny that RNZ is trying to manufacture it, although maybe its a case of "where there is smoke there is fire"

It would be election suicide though. One of Nationals big cards are that they are not the Greens party or Te Pati Maori. Rolling Luxon would send a signal that only Labour is solid. Then again if they already think this election is a loss then rolling Luxon now is a great idea.

Back in my day toys were recalled for metabolising into drugs! Asbestos is no fun.